Fallacious Serenity

Chapter Two.

        Jack, Max, and Vince hurriedly shuffle inside and close the door behind them. They shake the snow from themselves before Jack takes off towards his boss's office, leaving Max and Vince alone in the entry hall. She looks at him, noticing how he stands tense, yet again he is in an unknown environment with people who he does not know and one that, but the name, he can nowise remember, She notices the black line that runs down the right side of his face and the red eye that accompanies the scar, she then looks to his throat where the chain lays down at the collar bones and scars litter the flesh behind and above it.

     After a minute or so, he returns her stare, he looks closer at the cracks that dispel the parts of her seemingly porcelain face, then he notices her eyes, her beautiful blue eyes, and lastly he notices her hair, the unnatural blonde hair that falls down to the middle of her waist. They look away from each other as Jack comes back.

    "He wants to see you two...individually." Jack says. Shard simply nods and gently takes Vince's hand again before leading him to Slender Man's office. She lets go outside of the door and tells him to stay there before making her way inside.

        "You wish to see me, sir?" She says as she walks in, she looks around before at the desk where he sits. Her mind seems to make the sound of television static for a moment before she hears a voice, his voice.

        "Yes, sit child." He gestures to one of the empty chairs in front of his desk and she does as he instructed. "I hear you have cut the bonds of and brought to me the one who was in the grove?" He asks.

      "Indeed I have sir, he is waiting just outside of the door." Shard replies almost instantly, he posture in the chair is that of a girl sitting against a straight boardm her legs are neatly folded into each other, and her shoulders sit comfortably tense.

       "Has he spoken? Said anything?" He questions, a small tilt of the head is the only visible indicator that he is in fact the one who is speaking to her.

        "He has not, one letter, one consonant is what I got when I asked for his name. The letter V." She answers his question once more. They talk more about how and what had occured in the forest yesterday and today for about another fifteen minutes or so.

       "Well, thank you Max, please send him in and wait outside the door until he comes back out, you know what to do from there." He ends their conversation swiftly and with another static sound she feels alone in her own head once again. Max stands up and leaves the room, once the door closes behind her she looks at Vince.

      "Go ahead in V." She says hesitantly before she watches him go inside the room.

He lets the door close behind him and looks directly at the figure sitting at the desk, as the slight noise of static enters his hearing and mind he clenches his jaw.

       "I am not going to hurt you." Rings clear in his head, he keeps his gaze fixed on Slender. "Yes, it's me. You may call me Slender or sir, would you care to tell me your name? At this question Vince's mind runs through about four different questions of his own. Who was he? Vince? That is what Max said... But what if shes lying?

        "V.." Is all he says, Slender sits back and crosses his legs before joining his hands on his desk.

       "Well V. Please, take a seat?" He gestures once again to the seats before the desk before clasping his hands again. Vince looks at the chairs for a moment or two before sitting down in one with it's back almost completely against the wall. They 'talk' for about ten more minutes before Vince comes out of the office and looks at Shard.

         "Let us go to the room." She says and slowly reaches for his hand, he pulls it away and looks at her, shaking his head a quick no. She pulls her own hand away and smiles gently. "Alright. Then please just follow me Vince." She begins to walk back to the Entry hall and within seconds Vince is following closely behind, they walk through the entry hall, to the steps, and then to the room, lastly she opens the door and walks inside. She turns around to look at him and lets out and slightly content sigh.