Touched By An Angel

The Real Alice

*YOUR POV*

I slowly opened my eyes, quickly realizing that I wasn't where I'd fallen asleep. The events of earlier came back to me. The Bendy car, seeing mangled Boris, fighting him, winning, and seeing Alice get stabbed by... I sat up. I was in a sort of cell, in a part of the workshop I didn't recognize. I heard humming and walked over to the door, looking through a space at Alice. I rubbed my eyes, but she was still standing there. Ok... So I didn't imagine Alice getting stabbed by herself. There were two. Great. I decided to speak to her. "I know that song." She responded, her voice much softer and more similar to music than the other Alice.

"Everyone knows that song. Who are you? Why are you here?"

"I was invited by an old friend... And now I can't leave."

"Then you know more than we do."

"What do you know?" Alice turned to face me and stepped towards the cell. The light hit her face and it struck me how beautiful she was, especially when she wasn't trying to kill me.

"All I know is that the thing I stabbed back there was a creation of the ink demon. Not the real Alice. I'm the true Alice, the one who came alive from your animations." I shook my head.

"This doesn't make any sense. What do you mean the ink demon? How did you come alive from a few animations? If that thing was just the demon's creation, then what happened to Suzie?" She sighed, tucking a stray piece of hair behind her ear.

"I wish I knew. The only thing I do know is that the ink demon takes the workers here and changes them into creatures like that other Alice. Suzie was Alice's voice, right?" I nodded. "Then I'd bet anything that the ink demon turned her into the monster that I got rid of." I felt my throat close as I considered what that meant for me getting a note from Joey.

"So... Does that mean..." Alice smiled sadly.

"Yes. I don't think your friend invited you here. I think it was the ink demon. And you're his next victim."