Heart Made Of Ink! •BATIM X READER•

Escape (Part 01)

( I think this is a slight lime? Idk lmao)

I woke up to my side and sat up, looking around. I seemed to be caged up, a familiar melody whistled in the air. F/N woke up soon enough and looked around in a slight panic. I got up and went to check the opening.

"I know that song..." I mumbled.

"Everyone knows that song." She responded.

She turned to face me and F/N slightly. "Who are you two?.. Why are you here?"

I hesitated to answer.

"... We were invited by an old friend... Now we can't leave."

"Then you know more than we do." She responded.

"Like one, we don't even exist. Just... Thoughts. And the next minute, this place." She continued.

"Are you gonna let us out of here??" F/N said with a slight panic in their voice.

"Down here, strangers aren't good things. How can we trust you?" She responded sternly. "Besides, we don't even know what you two are."

"My name is Y/N, this is F/N. We used to work here." I said.

"I... I honestly don't know my name." She mumbled.

I felt a slight guilt for her. "So, they call me Alice." Alice responded, interrupting my little thought.

"But I'm no angel."

"You go back and rest. We'll talk again later." She said.

I nodded and looked at F/N. They seemed to be spaced out of thought, a slight bit of sweat dripping down their forehead. I shook their shoulder slightly and they perk up to meet my eyes. I gestured my head to the bed and F/N said no. They decided to stay awake for a little longer, so I headed off to bed myself.

~Time Skip~

I was woken up by F/N shaking my arm slightly. More panic written on their face. Clearly they saw more than I did, and it seemed they were drawing for the past time I was unconscious.

"Hey you two. Here, you guys must be hungry." Alice's voice interrupted my thoughts as she came near the opening and set down two bowls of what looked like bacon soup. I slightly looked away in disgust at the bowl.

"Sorry, It's all we have." She murmured.

"It's alright!" F/N said cheerily. Alice smiled and walked away as the robot-armed Boris walked towards us. I went to grab the bowl but he blocked it with his robot arm. F/N perked up in a slightly pissed aura as he knocked both bowls down and sent an angry look at us. F/N swore under their breath as this version of Boris sent an angry gesture at us, threatening to basically kill us.

~Few Hours Later~

I walked up to the opening out of boredom, F/N following behind me.

"I know you're watching me... It's just... A little creepy." Alice suddenly commented. My head shot up to meet her dark, inky ponytail, her eyes just barely visible on the side, looking at us.

"You're the one writing on the walls." I confidently replied.

"We all do." She said. "For some poor souls, it's the only way they can be heard.

That escalated.

Alice continued to ramble about something with the ink.

"That's how I met Tom."

My train of thought was interrupted by that sentence, and she continued to talk about how she met him.

"Why do you call him Tom?" F/N suddenly spoke up.

"He just seems to respond to it."

"Well, I don't think he's very fond of us." F/N spat quite upsettingly.

She continued to show us two mirror like tablet items. She gave both to us and told us to look into it, etc.

I looked up and around the little room, there were stars, written notes, and even a halo above Alice's head.

More speech. She made us sound like cooped up lifesavers. After asking us to head to bed, we obeyed.

~More Time Skips, Past Some Dialogue~

Me and F/N ran up to the opening in a panic, as we heard Alice talking to Tom, with eerie, loud noises in the background.

After being explained of the situation, and attempted to being let out, Alice looked at us in despair, she looks like she was about to cry.

"I'm sorry." She said sadly, before running out the door, Tom following behind her soon after.

I ran for my mirror on the bed in a panic and turned it on, F/N doing so as well. We both kept searching, and soon found a note pointing at the spoon. SECRET DOORS! I'M A SPY! We tilted the spoon and the wall opened to a... Toilet. We turned on our 'Bendy IPads' (If you get the reference I love you and I'll be ur best friend) and found another hint. We lifted the lid and found two pipes. We both grabbed one of each and ran to the opening and broke the planks and bolted for the exit. We continued to bolt, dodging a few ink searchers and took a quick stop to notice the large pipe-like cave. Alice and Boris were on the boat, already going inside the dark opening.

F/N and I soon boarded on a boat and went into the cave like opening.  This already didn't go well, because after we were in an opening inside, something got jammed into the paddlewheel and looked back at it. Out of nowhere, a large amount of movement caught our attention. We turned around and spotted a large gloved hand hovering over one of the abandoned boats. It soon drowned and swallowed the boat in ink. F/N and I turned into a state of panic as we turned back around and tried to free the paddlewheel. Another hand soon emerged from the ink, hovering above our boat. I squeaked slightly as it neared me, F/N on their knees trying to fix the paddlewheel.

'Don't kill me, don't kill me, don't kill US! DON'T KILL US!' I thought to myself in panic as it neared me even more. The gloved hand, or claw, came down and used one of it's fingers and tugged on the collar of my shirt. My face heated up quickly as F/N yelled that they successfully fixed the paddlewheel and started it up, I pushed it away, soon leaving the dangerous zone.

(lol part two coming soon. there was a delay bc I was forced to go to church so I wasn't able to publish it. my leg is still in pain ;) thank you for all the get well wishes in the previous a/n, I love u all!)