Friends with a Homicidal

(Katie)

When I got half through the book I set it down and saw that it was already getting dark but not to terribly dark. I decided to leave my camera behind and headed off into the forest but I didn't see anything or anyone, I didn't even hear the usual static which got me a little upset thinking that my dream was just that a dream that was until I heard the sound of someone walking behind me but unlike in my dream I didn't turn around I just stopped walking.

"Now what's a pretty girl like yourself doing in the forest at this time?"

It was a boy around my age I figured by the sound of his voice and the way he held himself when he walked but still I didn't turn around.

"Shy are we?" he held up a knife to my throat but I only snickered remembering the last time someone held a knife to my throat.

"That's not going to work." I finally said

"And why not?"

I looked down at the knife and it was gone, he let go of me and I turned to face him but I didn't pay attention to his appearence I moved my hands in a series of circles and he froze but his limbs were moving as though I was controling him like a puppet.

"Wh..what are you doing?" he asked barely able to speak

"Bending your blood."

I looked him over, he was maybe an inch or two taller then me, he had bright emerald eyes, short brown hair, and a scarf that hid most of his face. Staring at him my mind jerked as though I knew him was he another one of them?

"Who are you?" I asked

"Why should I tell you? Thought you would remember me." he said with a laugh but I tightened my grip and he screamed in pain as his blood froze.

"Are you one of them?" he looked at me confused

"What are you talking about? You are on of us too aren't you?"

"No..not anymore but who are you?"

"Maybe if you let me go I'll tell you."

"Fine but try that knife again and I'll kill you."

"Still as dangerous as ever I see."

I dropped my hands and he fell to the ground and began coughing as the blood flowed freely through his viens once more but I didn't give him enough time to recover before I had him pinned to a tree.

"I'll ask once more, who are you and why are oyu following me?"

"Name's Liu Woods. It hasn't been that long since we've last seen each other Katie."

"I don't know you how do you know my name?"

He looked confused but flung his head back against the tree and closed his eyes and I heard him call himself stupid over and over in his mind.

"What happened to you after you left you never told any of us where you were going."

"The others? Do you mean the Creepypasta's?"

"Yeah you're one of us Katie or at least I thought so but why don't you remember any of us?"

"I don't remember anything from my past except for becoming Demented Katie and that's all the doctors..."

"What doctors? Did you go back to the Asylum after you left?"

"Yeah. I don't remember much just being Demented Katie and that's all." I released him.

"Can I trust him?" I asked Desteria

He seems familiar to me especially his name, ask if he's Homicidal Liu.

"Are you Homicidal Liu?"

"Yeah so you do remember me."

"No Desteria does or at least she thinks she does but why are you here?"

"We were all worried about you so sometimes we go out searching for you it was my turn to search didn't actually think I'd find you but why are you here?"

"I live in the house just outside the forest, the tall mansion like house." His eyes grew wider when i mentioned where I lived.

"That's your house? Man, and I thought Jeff was joking about that."

Jeff. Jeff. That name sounds even more familiar.

"Hey why don't we walk a bit maybe you'll remember more."

"Can you help me remember?"

"Is that what you want?"

"Well yeah I'm trying to uncover what happened I want to know what those doctors made me forget even thought it's been a few years, I just don't like not knowing."

"Yeah our memories aren't exact;y meant to be messed with especailly the memories your missing."

I asked him what he meant and he told me that what I was missing was a huge part of my life and that it pretty much was my entire life that they had made me forget or at least back then I had said that they were and are my life and I didn't want to leave them. He also told me how upset everyone seemed to be when I left and how now they're worried about me and I asked if they knew that Hoodie was leaving behind tapes for me, he said that he was the only one to know because Hoodie could only trust him with that information.

Liu told me a lot more about the people I remembered and little by little the pieces began to fit together and a picture seemed to be coming together. My head twitched a few times while we were walking and I cursed my stupid tick but Liu only smiled and said something about me becoming like Toby and asked if I loved waffels? I think it was a joke towards another one of them but I didn't know so I only smiled and tried to stop my head from twitching which was hard since the tick was becoming more and more often. I told Liu about the boxes in my attic and some of the tapes that I thought were important and he asked if he could come over and see what I had, he said that he could help make it easier for me to remember if I really wanted his help.

"Do you think I can trust him?"

Well you did say that you need someone else to help you and he's offering help.

"Yeah but do you think I can trust him after all you remember more then me."

Yeah but I don't remember much about Liu it's up to you.

I decided to trust Liu and we walked back to my house and up to the attic where I emptied the three boxes muttering about all the junk but this made him laugh and told me that I had all that I needed right in front of me to remember my past and that nothing in these boxes was junk. He went through the few folders of pictures and seperated them out into different piles and then went through each box and seperated the objects placing them with the photo of someone.

"What are you doing?" I asked

"I'm putting these objects with the person they go with thats why I seperated the pictures when I'm done you'll see what I mean."

I sat on the window ledge again and went through some of the videos while he rummaged through the boxes, it took him about an hour to go through everything and when I looked down I saw what he had done, each individual had a small pile of very similar things.

"Ok so who do you remember so far?"

"Masky." I pointed to the picture of him, "Hoodie." I pointed towards the picture, "Slenderman." Again towards the picture, "L.J." the pile of black candy wrappers," and I sort of remember him but I don't know his name." I pointed to the photo of the guy in the bloodstained jacket next to a kitchen knife and Liu looked at the photo in dissapointment and hatred.

"Jeff." he muttered

"What?"

"His name if Jeff he's…he was my brother, he did this to me." he pulled off his scarf and I saw stitches along his checks that formed a scared smile and there was stitches going down his face at an angle from the top left of his head and down to the right cheek. "His real name; Jeffery Woods but he's better known now as Jeff the Killer."

Jeff the Killer. The name was enough to jar my memory and I saw the killer more clearly in my mind as we hide in a warehouse, I stood in the shadows as he killed someone carving a smile into their face.

"He's best known for his line that he always says before he kills; " .Sleep."

That sentence gave the image a voice, it was deep and gruff sort of but also gentle. I saw the second-floor landing, saw blood staining my hands, saw missing pill bottles and razors gone missing. My mind was in a daze and I started to feel dizzy and sick from all the memories suddenly flooding back and I fell over almost blacking out but my vision cleared and I saw Liu at my side right away.

"You ok?" he asked

"Yeah I just remembered more about Jeff then any of the others."

"Well I guess that would make him happy."

"Why?"

"He cared about you greatly what did you see?"

I told him about the pills, the razor blades, the warehouse, and in turn he told me why I saw those things. Jeff had protected me at the party and was the reason I got out of there alive, he was the one that hide the pills and the blades becaus ehe didn't want me to die or to hurt myself any more then I had already done. Apparently I had also joined him in killing but left becoming Demented Katie, that I had attacked him on the landing in my house but that was all he was willing to share with me he didn't want to tell me more until I remembered a little bit more of the others. Liu elaborated a little bit more about the iteams he had seperated and more about those that I remembered except for Jeff who he seemed to have had enough of talking about so I didn't pressure him into telling me more but I remember feeling happy with Jeff and I liked the thought of someone being that protective about me and caring about me that much.

I hope that with Liu's help I'll be able to remember the others soon and hopefully break through whatever the doctors had done to me and uncover all of my memories. The days passed by but with each passing day I was remembering more and more, Liu would explain the signifcance of each object and he would tell me more about the people they went with, also whenever I had a dream about something that I thought could be of use he always explained that what I was seeing were actually memories of my past. Hoodie began to leave tapes around the forest again and sometimes they would be on my back porch. There also usually was a note addressed to Liu whenever I asked him what it said he just told me not to worry that it was just Hoodie being Hoodie whatever that meant.

"Liu why wont you tell me more about Jeff?" I asked more out of boredom then curiosity

"I don't really want to talk about him." there was anger in his voice but sadness in his eyes.

"Your eyes say different." he looked at me confused "I know you hate Jeff for what you did but he still feels bad about that night and he's glad your still alive."

"You don't know that." he said turning away from me to look at the picture of Jeff next to the knife that was also next to a picture of Liu.

"I may not remember much Liu but I do remember Jeff telling me about you he seemed really happy but when he got to the night he attacked you...He regrets hurting you Liu he really does that much I know for a fact that's not something you can easily fake."

"He tried to kill me! Look at what he did to me!"

He ripped his scarf away from his face showing me the many scars lift from Jeff's attack but that didn't catch my attention what did was the sudden change in his voice and his eyes got darker.

"He doesn't regret that night he was just lying trying to get sympathy! He could never..." he stopped and shock his head trying to clear it and when he opened his eyes they were back to normal and he seemed calmer. "Sorry." he said his voice wasn't as deep as before.

I asked him what happened and he told me about Sully how he was much like Desteria, he protected him, helped him, told him who to trust, what to say, everything that Desteria did for me in the Asylum Sully did for Liu. However Liu didn't have as much control over Sully as I did over Des, they were much like us back when I first made a pact with the demon but once I was admitted back into the Asylum she turned around and swore she would protect me no matter what and so far she's done a great job she's even helped me remember even though I had originally asked her not to. She would tell me some things that she remembered that Liu didn't tell me which helped a lot. It seems that ever since I let Liu help me remember I've been remembering more and more about my past much faster then hunting down tapes trying to make sense of them.

"Why can't they just like come up to me and explain these things to me? Seems strange that they've been sending me on hunts just for the answers and then they leave me tapes that don't make any sense."

"I don't know if Slenderman actually knows what they're doing so I think that's why they haven't approached you. This is the best they can do without making Slender suspicious."

"Are they always hiding tapes?"

"Well they make a lot of tapes so I think Slender doesn't think anything of it."

We were staring out the attic window towards the forest."

"What's the mansion like?" I asked

"Well it's big, white, thousands of rooms.."

"Pretty much what any mansion is like?"

"Yeah pretty much it's the family that's inside that makes it different."

"I bet, a mansion full of killers does sound different..."

"That's not what I meant." he cut in "We're a real family, we look after each other and have each others backs no matter what. We might be a bunch of killers but..we're all we have left in our lives many of us don't have family left, we don't want to go back to our lives we had before, and even if we did there wouldn't be anything for us to live for."

"I know I remember feeling safe. Whenever I dream of the mansion I get this feeling of safety and comfort, I also feel happy and I don't want to wake up I just want to stay asleep in that mansion because I feel like it's where I belong."

Liu smiled at this and told me that it was good that I was starting to remember my true home, I was remembering where I'm meant to be. I hope he's right it would be nice to be able to remember this place that I was seeing and why I felt so safe there but only time will tell if I ever remember anything more then what I know or think I know now.