Disbelief

Frankly, I'm at a loss for what to say. There's just been too much death in these last two months...too much misery. I knew that Ai could cope with losing his siblings and his parents before them because of Brennon. Now though...now that Brennon's gone...what will he do? What can I do to help him cope?

I cannot pretend to understand what it feels like to lose someone...especially not someone I cherish as much as Aiden did Brennon. I know that there's nothing I can say that will make this any easier on him.

He hasn't left his room since he came home. I walked past the door once and it was open just enough for me to glimpse him sobbing. His tentacles were flailing violently from his back and there were many broken objects on the floor along with glass from the shattered mirror next to the bed. I suppose he heard my thoughts, because he looked up at me after a few moments even though I hadn't made a sound. His face was full of anguish and I had to shut off my mind from his to keep out the overwhelming flood of emotion. We looked at each other for awhile, but eventually he shut the door with a flick of a tentacle.

I don't know how to help. I feel absolutely useless. I should have been there to help him...I could have fought off Andromeda long enough for Aiden to get Brennon out. I should have known that Slender Man would do something like this. If only I'd had the foresight to know this was coming. I would've helped Aiden watch over Brennon. Together we could have stopped this. I let Aiden guard him all by himself and I didn't even stop to think that any danger could still exist.

If anything...I share responsibility for Brennon's death. Now, because of my thoughtlessness, I don't know if my friend will ever recover. All I want to do right now is rip Andromeda into little pieces, but she isn't the root of the problem. She's just another pawn. The real enemy is Slender Man, and if I'm not careful, he'll murder Chastin too.

I don't care what it takes. Slender Man isn't coming anywhere near Chastin or Aiden if I can help it. I'm not going to sit by any longer. I know I'm just a Revenant. I'm not a hatchling like Ai. I don't know if I have the power to fend off Slender Man...but I'm certainly going to try. Right now, fighting back is all I can do to help Ai.

I can hear Aiden smashing things in his room again. I'm not sure if I should go in and try to talk to him. No doubt he wants to be left alone. Normally, I would think that the best cure would be for him to be around his friends and the comfort of their sympathy. Sometimes, however, it's best to confront the reality of one's situation on one's own. 

If he needs a friend to be with him, I'll be there, all he needs to do is ask. For now, however, I'm going to stay out of it for his own sake. Right now I've got important business to take care of.

Escape

Thank goodness...Slendy finally left. I actually got a good night's sleep for once! I feel so much better and I think I can keep holding out against slendderp for a little while longer. I can still feel slendy trying to get inside my head, but its not nearly as strong as it was the other day. I think its because of the distance between us.

Thanks Taben and Aiden for calling him away! You are awesome. I hope slendy doesn't realize you guys are trying to help his "prey"....I don't want you guys to get in trouble for our sake.

Its a relief to be alone. As soon as he left, I waited for about an hour to see if he would come back but he never did. I looked out into the hallway outside the apartment and he wasn't there either. So, I grabbed my stuff and booked it to the car. Yeah, I did get the car fixed btw. I guess I forgot to mention that. Anyway, I'm sure you can all guess where I went. This is the first time in a long time I've been able to leave the house and Chas seems to be in a lot of trouble. I drove straight to his new loft place.

When I got there, I looked cautiously around outside the car and, to my relief, there was no sign of the Slender Man anywhere. I dashed up the stairs and went into the building, hoping slendy would stay away. I found Chas' apartment and banged on the door. When no one answered, I tried opening it and, thankfully, it was unlocked.

The place is a mess...there are bullet holes everywhere just like Chas said in his last post. I had been hoping slendy had just been screwing with his head and that everything Chas described had been an illusion, but that isn't the case. It was terrifying to say the least...Chas is lucky he isn't dead.

I found him lying on the couch. I screamed and started crying, to be honest. I had been so worried about him that it all kind of rushed out of me in a flood when I saw him. He looked terrible...his hair was matted and there was blood it in, along with another trickle of it running down his face from his hairline.

The bandages that usually cover the shoulder slendy messed up awhile ago were off, exposing a very raw looking wound. His shoulder should at least be a little better by now...but it looked like it had only just been hurt. Parts of it were still blackened and burnt while others were blistered terribly. To make matters worse, the tentacle mark I remember slendy giving him that runs all down his arm looked worse in places. It had faded not even a day after slendy first attacked Chastin, but now its back and there's a ton of scarring along it from his shoulder to his elbow. The rest from his elbow to his hand is blistered.

His hands were...covered in dried blood. I think it was his own though. There was a bullet wound in his leg and it looked like he did a very botched job trying to take care of it. He had wrapped it in a bandage and, since there was hydrogen peroxide and some bloody cloths on the table next to him, he had tried to clean it, too.

Thankfully, it looked like he had only just gotten the wound not an hour before or else he would've bled to death. I sat him up as best I could and took the bandages off the wound in his leg. I tore off Chastin's dirty, bloodstained clothes and did my best to clean up the bullet hole and bandaged it tightly. Then, I put him in clean clothes and cleaned the blood out of his hair and off of his face.

As I was fixing him up, however, Chastin woke up suddenly and cried out. He grabbed my hand as I was washing his face and glared at me angrily.

Me: "Chastin! Thank God you're ok!"

I tried to hug him but he pushed me back violently. The angry, crazed glare never left his eyes.

Chas: "What the fuck are you doing here?!"

Me: "I...came to help you. I was so worried."

Chas: "I don't need your help. I left for a reason."

Me: "Look at you! You're going to kill yourself if you don't let me back into your life! I know you don't believe me when I say we're both in danger but please, I need you to trust me."

Chas: "Oh, more of your Slender Man shit again? I told you already. HE. ISN'T. REAL. This doesn't concern you and you're making it worse with your stupid delusions."

Me: "Chas, please. I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm asking you to trust me like you used to and come home with me. I want to help you..."

Chas: "I'm not going back until I fix this." He shakily stood up.

Me: "Chas, wait, you can't be standing yet. You're really hurt! We need to go to the hospital now or you're either going to bleed to death or die from infection."

Chas: "Get out." He pointed to the door.

Me: "But..."

Chas: "GET. OUT." He started yelling at that point. His eyes took on a crazed, cruel light that I had never seen in him before and that I never want to see ever again. He picked up a gun that had been next to him on the couch and pointed it at me.

Me: "Fine. I'll go. We'll see how willing you are to listen to reason when Aiden and Taben come to save us. Then you'll see that I'm right." I turned on my heel and left the apartment, tears streaming down my face.

God dammit...please hurry Aiden and Taben.