Our Daughter (Slenderman x Female Reader)

A Plan in Action

~~Your Pov~~

A soft groan leaves your lips when you wake up after passing out on your way back to your cell. Everything aches and hurts but you remember Slender is here. You jerk into a sitting position, but he's no longer with you. You discreetly check for the knife meant to kill Zalgo and find it still in its place, a soft breath of relief leaving you. You settle back down on your cot and slump back against the wall. You perk when food is brought, delighted to be fed two days in a row. In the beginning you couldn't get it down, but now you're always so hungry to scarf it down anyway. It's never enough, and you worry about how your baby is doing with the restriction of food. You're going nuts. You want a damn bone and you want it now, but you've come to realize everyone thinks the magic in your system is from your baby. If you could get the chance to use it you would love to see the looks on all of their faces. You lay back down on the cot and sleep overtakes you after a little while. When you wake up again Slender is with you, his legs hanging off the bed as he's laying down with you in his arms. It looks uncomfortable, but you're happy to wake up in his arms again. It makes you forget about the hell you're in for a little while.

"It's rude to stare," He mumbles after a while of you just staring and admiring your mate.

"Not when you're my fiancé," You tease him with a grin. "I get to stare at you all I want because you're mine. It's not rude. It's me expressing my love for you."

"Is that what it means?" He chuckles softly, his voice lower than usual as if he's been screaming. You wonder what they did to him while you've been apart.

You both sit up, Slender swinging his legs off the bed and planting them on the ground. You lean against him once you're sitting, resting your head on the arm you've wrapped yourself around.

"Everyone is going to be mad they missed your fifth month of pregnancy. We have no pictures," Slender tells you as a hand rests on your belly.

"I can't believe we have three months left!" You gasp in surprise. "I've really been here for an entire month?"

"Sometimes it feels like forever, or it feels like no time has passed at all," Slender says gently.

"I'm glad I have you now," You mumble softly. "I was....."

"Starting to hit your breaking point. It's happened to all of us. It doesn't mean you're any weaker than the rest of us. The Hunters always put us through hell," Slender says gently. "It won't be for much longer though."

"I hope so," You mumble softly, grunting softly when Slender turns to you and suddenly rests a hand on your cheek. "What?"

"I can't stare back?" He asks, his thumb gently tracing your cheekbone. "You got to stare at me. It's only fair."

"Is that the story you're sticking to?" You tease him with a soft giggle. "Are you okay though? What happened after they took me away?"

"Zalgo made me watch you get tortured," Slender mumbles softly.

You grimace. Of course he did. Fucking demon.

"And after?" You ask him.

"I got a few punches in when I concentrated all of my magic and then got knocked out. Based on the bandage around my arm and how exhausted I feel they likely took a bunch of blood. They're usually able to use it in pills, but the thing is you have to take it consistently for it to work." He explains. "The magic isn't rooted in our bodies like they think. We don't just have some ball of magic energy residing in our systems."

"I wonder where it comes from," You mumble softly.

"Who's to say," He says with a shrug. "Magic is a very weird thing in this world. The forest around us is magic, but it's old and protects itself well. I have a connection to it, but I don't exactly control every part of it. When I close the borders it's more a request to the forest than it is me doing something."