By Your Side? Always | ALWAYS #1

Chapter 29: Jealousy & Awkward Memories

ROUGE ROYAL POV
It took me a while to be able to move because of the wound in my stomach created by Zalgo, yes, the Archangels saved me, but from dying as a Marked One, not from an injury created by the King of Hell himself. The wound has slowly healed but in the end I know it's just another scar to add to the collection, most of them around my rib and stomach area.

I feel a heavy arm wrapping around my waist and I raise my sight to see Toby hugging me from behind, his orange googles reflect the light of the sun and his muzzle covers his entire face, not letting me see his facial expression, but I smile to him expecting him to be in a good mood and suddenly remember how cold I am, the snow season isn't over yet, the snow has been thickening but it hasn't disappear, which makes me shiver and snort almost sighing, which makes me exhale white steam from my mouth.

-Hey beautiful- I hear Toby's raspy voice.

I grin in response and he delicately pulls me closer to him.

-I'm fucking freezing- I say feeling the cold weather over the thin fabric of my clothes.

He nods and then I notice how from the woods, Masky and Hoodie appear wearing their regular clothes, their mustard and orange hoodies, their black and white masks, they both come closer to us.

-Slenderman has ordered us to keep watching the woods- Masky informs.

-Why? - I shake my head.

-We don't have a house where to protect ourselves, we're vulnerable and we have more enemies than allies at the moment- Masky explains.

-H-Hey Masky- Toby starts to have tics in his fingers and stutters.

-Shut up- Masky nods slowly.

-Hey don't be an asshole- I hug Toby from the back glaring at Masky.

-Oh so now you're protective with him? - Hoodie laughs.

-Heck yes- I almost completely grin.

I hear something on the woods and Masky whispers something to Toby and Hoodie which I cannot hear from how Slenderman appears right in front of us, with his tentacles pulling them out, wrapping one of them around me, I feel how he puts pressure on my stitched wound and then I have the feeling of throwing up when I see how he teleports us to the 'Safety House'.

Get out, look for the way out.

Kill them all.

Kill kill look at him kill him.

But... but that's Toby.

KILL KILL HIM.

NO.

YES.

DAMN IT NO.

There's when I realize this whole time it's been 5 minutes and my mind has caught me off guard once again, I see Toby holding my shoulders and how I feel quite dizzy as the back of my head begins to hammer once again.

-Rouge? - I can hear Toby's far away voice.

-Y-Yeah? - I try to speak but my tongue is unable to do it.

-Are you...?- I can't hear the complete phrase because my view becomes dark dots and I can feel my body loose itself in the ocean of the uncalled fainting.

(...)

Jeffrey Woods (Jeff The Killer) POV
I enter to the Safety House slowly closing the door behind me and save my knife on my hoodie pocket, Masky comes out from nowhere, which gives me shivers all over my spine and he seems to be quite hyper.