I had a lot more fun writing this one then I did the last one! Hope you all enjoy it!

After Alice had taken Bendy from the circle almost two weeks ago, things started to go from down hill to out right hell at the studio.

Bendy could barely keep himself together and couldn't even touch a drop of ink made from the machine or… well… Alice wasn't 100% sure what exactly would happen… but from what she understands it would take the dancing demon she knew away. So she's been trying her best to find ink that wasn't made by the machine to see if that would help.

It would for a bit with the small amounts she had found… but it wouldn't last long.

Then there were the increasing amounts of leaks she had to worry about. Thankfully she got a few large rain coats from both Sammy and Wally to keep Bendy from touching them… but for how long? Especially since just the other day a pipe broke and a few of the workers nearly drowned in the stuff. Sammy himself seemed to be throwing it up from being so close to it.

A lot of employee's quit after that. No one wanted to be drowned in ink after all. Alice only wishes Susie was one of them, especially with the voice actress's declining health. But the woman was stubborn, and despite passing out multiple times a day she kept coming back. The toon angel was growing more and more worried for her voice actress each day as the human's health declined more and more.

There was also the fact she only ran into Boris once… and he didn't completely seem like himself. He was drained of energy, his eyes didn't seem to focus on anything and he seemed more like he was going through the motions of the day. Worst was he didn't seem to recognize her at all… or even pay any attention to her.

Next was probably the worst of it all, Joey himself. The man was actively looking for the toon Demon, making Alice have to be extra careful and do her best to carry Bendy to safe locations for the mornings. What also scared her was that he seemed to be more determined to get her to alone. She was scared to find out what for and Alice was slowly starting to run out of excuses.

But the final thing made her nervous about the nights as well. Since Henry left nearly a year ago now no one came into the studio at night… leaving the toons to their own devices for their own part… but recently she swore she saw something moving through the halls.

It could be from her own paranoia of being caught or found, but she swore one night she saw something crawling down one of the halls, almost like it was searching for something. The angel had avoided that hallway for the rest of the night after that.

"I… I really wish we could leave this place," She muttered while giving Bendy one of the bottles of "outside" ink, provided to her from Wally. The janitor was one of the most helpful people to her for the entire week as he would distract Joey with complaints about pipes and ink overflows so she could sneak away.

"... but we can't… 'else we end up worse then I am right now…" Bendy replied, taking slow sips of the ink from the confines of his coat cocoon. Alice looked away from the toon, guilt about not being able to do anything else to help him raising up in her chest.

Bendy was more stable now, but small parts of his head still dripped and connected to his body, some of his ink threatened to cover his eyes again with how low it dripped onto his white face, and his arms had a slow drip to them. She couldn't tell what his legs were like with them being within the raincoat-coon but she knew he was still far from walking normally again.

"I'm sorry…" Alice whispered not looking at the demon still.

It's all my fault. That thought echoed in her head, making tears of ink start to form in the corners of her pie cut eyes. Her thoughts cut off when she felt a hand on her arm. She turned to look at Bendy, wanting to push his hand back into the cloth that kept him from the ink leaks.

"You're not the one who should be apologizing to me toots," the demon had smiled weakly as he tried to comfort her a little.

Alice whipped one of the tears from her face and was about to pull the demon in for a hug when they both turned in surprise at the sound of music playing. It was faint, clearly at a distance from their location but they could still tell it was the tune to "The Lighter Side of Hell."

"Who-" Bendy started only for Alice to cut him off by gently pushing his arm back into the confines of the raincoats wrapped around him.

"Stay here..." Alice ordered only to have her hand immediately grabbed and for her to see the fearful look on Bendy's face.

"D-Don't… Don't go!"

Alice bit at her lower lip, she wanted to check out just what was playing the music… but from the look on Bendy's face she also didn't want to leave the scared little toon. It was almost the same for every morning when she would leave him for a bit… she was scared to leave him alone just as much as he seemed to be scared of being alone now.

However the thought of Joey finding him again and finishing whatever he was doing to the toon caused her worry to dissolve into determination.

"Someone has to check it out… It could have been something falling that turned it on after all."

"Alice…."

"I'll be back soon… just… just stay put alright?" She smiled gently and had her own hand wrap around Bendy's and squeezing it gently, the feeling of his gloved hand still not being 100% stable under her own was very clear. Where it in the past she would have avoided doing anything like that out of her own petty feelings towards the demon stealing her spotlight often… but with what he had gone through her guilt outweighed anything else.

Bendy looked down, returning the gentle squeeze back to the angel… then looked up to her with a strained grin.

"Staying put isn't for me toots…"

Alice gave her best deadpanned look to Bendy.

"I'm not carrying you with me."

"I promise not to complain about how slow we're going this time!"

"You're the main reason I've gotta go slow."

"I… Won't struggle as much?"

"Was that a question or a shaky promise?"

"Uh…. um… Please?" Bendy gave his best puppy dog eyes as a last resort. Alice for a little bit didn't seem to be phased by it but did actually think it over for a bit.

"... Fine, but no complaining."

She had picked the demon up, struggling a little with his weight but recovering kinda quick as she adjusted herself better. Bendy however frowned at the fact he was faced behind her instead of riding on her back like usual. He was about to say something about it when Alice reminded him to "Not complain about it."

Bendy still wasn't a fan of the speed they were going at as they got closer to where the music was playing. He did grimace as they passed a few ink leaks and surprisingly large puddles, pulling the coats around him a little tighter at the sight of them… but something caught his eye as they slowly approached their destination.

"Hey Alice…."

"You said you wouldn't complain Bendy."

"Yeah I know… I just got a question for ya."

"Hm?"

"Do ink puddles usually make people torsos that move on their own?"

"... What?" Alice stopped and turned her attention behind her… only to see the very thing Bendy mentioned. It was pulling itself out of one of the larger ink puddles, making groaning noises and it seemed to focus on them.

Her heart pounded in her chest as she stared at the… the thing. The tune of "Lighter Side of Hell" seemed to increase in volume in that moment, and it seemed to make the thing struggle more to get itself going and eventually pull it's half formed body along to go after the toons.

Alice quickly turned on her heels and dashed as fast as she could with Bendy in her arms away from the thing. She couldn't risk setting Bendy down there to hit the thing…. But even then she had no idea just what that thing was. All she knew was that she needed to get Bendy and herself away from it.

As she ran, she never noticed Sammy himself stepping out of one of the hall corridors with a dazed look and ink dripping down from the corner of his mouth and stare after them.