A/N: Welcome back to chapter two of 'The Arrival' I hope you guys all enjoyed the last chapter because I wanted to make sure I cleared up a few things.

Now that I got the prologue out of the way the story can now begin; so like I said before please bare with me hear folks because I mostly work in humor and I'm going to try my best to make this story a little scary.

With that out of the way it's time to get on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything what so ever in this story they all belong to their respective owners.

"So often are we guided by our devotion, our love, our affection. A bond that pulls us down paths not bargained. And when you find yourself alone as HE casts out that bedeviling gaze...

How far will it carry you?"

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(Watchtower 8:27 pm)

"That's how my recent nightmare ended, I know you said that I shouldn't be too worried about them but the thing is they've been getting worse." Nightwing explained to Black Canary who was sitting at her desk listening to him as he laid down on the therapy sofa going over the events of his nightmare.

He's been coming to see her discussing his nightmares about Slender Man since they started about two months ago, outside of Batman, Robin, Batgirl, and Alfred she was the only one he told about the events that happened a year ago that night. He didn't bother telling anyone on the team or the league because he thought it wasn't that important, he had other things to focus on like making sure Kaldur and Artemis were safe while they were undercover infiltrating the Light and foiling the Reach's plans to invade Earth, then there was Wally's death that caused him to take a leave of absence.

Over time he pushed the whole thing to the farthest part of his mind and started to just write the whole thing off like some bad dream and nothing more, that was until two months ago when he had his first nightmare about Slender man and when he awoken he found a note next to his bed.

'Not Done Yet'

The note read and that was when the horrible memory of that night came rushing back to him, at first he thought that maybe Tim or Barbara was playing some kind of cruel joke on him; but he knew that they wouldn't do a thing like that. He knew that there was one way that note could've gotten there and the thought of it filled him with dread, and sadly that meant reliving the nightmare all over again.

"Dick." Canary said in a sad motherly tone, the more she heard about these nightmares the more she wanted to comfort the former boy wonder. She's been giving him several tips on trying to get pass this, but each of the attempts have not been successful and each dream he has afterwards was much more worse than the last.

"I know that you wish there were more you could do to help Dinah, but at this point I don't think there's much we can do. I don't even think that Zatanna and Doctor Fate could help me out with this thing, I just wish there were some way to put an end to all of this." Dick said as sought himself up right with his head held down in defeat.

"Dick listen to me, I know that you've been through a lot lately but you can't let this thing beat you, just remember that you don't have to go through this alone you do have people who care about you and will do anything they can to help you." She said with a comforting smile on her face as she gently placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks I guess I really needed to hear that, and you're right I shouldn't let this beat me, but what I really want to know is why am I having these dreams now?"

"I wish I knew why, maybe they're trying to tell you something."

"Yeah, 'run, run as fast you can, you can't escape me I'm the Slender Man!' if so then I got the message loud and clear."

"Listen, I want you to go home and try to relax for a bit and hopefully it'll take your mind off of this."

"Alright I'll try then, thanks for listening for like the 200th time now." Dick told her with a little smile on his face.

"Anytime, and Dick if you ever need to talk just remember that my door is always open if you need me."

"I will." He said before leaving her office.

(Bludhaven 8:55 pm)

After his session with Black Canary Dick took the zeta tube back home to Bludhaven, as he started to jump across a few rooftops just to clear his head a bit, he let Black Canary's words run through his head, and after a while he landed on top of his apartment building. He entered in through his window and was about to change out of his Nightwing outfit until he saw a postcard just laying there on his table.

"Where did this come from?" He asked in a suspicious tone of voice, because he knew that all of his mail would've went straight into his mailbox and plus his door was locked tight and the only ones who had a key to his room was his landlord and himself, plus his landlord would've handed him the postcard in person.

He examined it some more and on it was a picture of what looked to be a national park, the name of the place was called 'Oakside Park' he tuned it over only to find that there was no return address, but what was written on it was something that started to make his blood run cold.

'Waiting for you to come.'

The postcard said in the same writing style as those pages he found in those woods a year ago and right under that was a drawing of man that seemed to be wearing a black suite, he had no hair, and he also didn't have a face either. Dick knew what this meant for him, he was being summoned there by the Slender Man, but he couldn't for the life of himself figure out why?

(Batcave 9:27 pm)

"Master Richard you can't really be considering going through with this." Alfred asked him with concern in his voice, he knew about the ordeal that Dick went through and nightmares he was having because of it and just couldn't sit there let him put himself into that kind of danger.

"It doesn't look like I have much of a choice here Alfred, and something tells me I'm going to end up there one way or the other so I might as well get there on my own terms." Nightwing said to the butler as he used the bat computer to get the location of Oakside Park.

"At least wait until Masters Bruce and Tim to return from their mission, you could take Miss. Barbara with you or perhaps someone from your team or either some members of the league." He pleaded to the former boy wonder, he was truly concerned for the young man and didn't want to see Dick face this alone.

"Sorry Alfred but I don't want to put anybody else through this, after what I went through, I don't think I can bare to see it happen to anybody I care about." He said as he got the information he needed and proceeded to walk pass Alfred.

"Very well then, but I am going to inform Master Bruce about this as soon as possible." He said in a serious tone of voice.

"I understand." Nightwing answered back before making his way up the stairs that would lead him back to Wayne Manor.

"Pleas be careful." Alfred said to himself as he watched as Nightwing walked up the stairs hoping that what he finds out at Oakside Park won't cause the poor boy anymore pain than he has already experienced.

Unbeknownst to the both of them is that now the stage was set and Dick Grayson was about to enter into a fight for survival, one that will push him to his limits and see if he has what it takes to survive another encounter with the Slender Man.

Now the true Nightmare is about to begin and this time he might not make it out of it in one piece.

A/N: Well there you go guys chapter two, now the next chapter is where the fun begins so be ready to pray for Dick because now he's about to be put through hell, so let's hope he makes it through this.

Also to kikigraysonwest, this isn't going to be a yaoi, thought I am familar with the whole tentacle genre, but no this isn't a yaoi story.

So that should do it and like I said pray for Dick because he's sure going to need it.

One more thing, I might add Batman in this story because lets be honest here, when he finds out about this he's going to go into Daddybays mode, but we'll see later on if I might need him in this one.

Alright so read and review and I will see you guys all next time.