Harry By Proxy

Chapter 10: Of Exploration And Enragment

Chapter 10: Of Exploration and Enragement

Hello everyone! Please enjoy this long chapter!

This features some of the recent changes to Harry's life along with backgrounds to several pastas.

Finally, there is a small section that establishes an important bit of headcanon.

-Crow

The black-haired boy sat in a meditative position on his bed. Slenderman had him started on small exercises to help him keep calm and organize his thoughts. His father figure told him it would help control his frea- gift.

Despite his new family's insistence that it was not a bad thing, he still flinched, winced, or ticced whenever he heard any synonym for "abnormal". He supposed he was getting better, but it was a gradual process, as Doctor Halloway assured him.

He felt the energy in him swirl around his chest like a small whirlpool. His hair ruffled around him as he felt a now-familiar breeze that tended to swirl in the same direction as the energy whenever he focused like this. He liked to imagine it was like his Naruto manga's "chakra" and he could imagine the coils flowing around his body. Though, he tried "tree-walking" earlier in the week and fell flat on his back each time, so he didn't get his hopes up about a 'Rasengan' anytime soon.

He let the breeze continue for a few minutes before he got himself out of it. When he opened his eyes, his room was still in one piece. He remembered the first time he tried this while sitting on the floor, the "breeze" was a tornado and by the time he came to, his bed was embedded in the wall and his desk was out the shattered remains of the window.

He kept apologizing to Slendy and essentially punishing himself by sleeping on the floor in the drafty window (during Winter none-the-less), but Slendy had him stay in a spare room and do his meditation practices in an empty grove nearby until he was able to get the hurricane force down to a mildly strong wind.

Somehow, Slendy knew a few others who got the room back to the way it was before the week was over.

Back in the present, he looked around his room and clicked his tongue in annoyance to find a stack of papers fell on the floor. He picked up the sheet music and started organizing it by movement and page number.

After Christmas, he'd taken up Slendy's offer of piano lessons and even asked Jeff for some guitar lessons. Laughing Jack eagerly offered accordion lessons, but Harry politely declined (which led to the clown sulking in a corner, playing a sad piece on his instrument).

He finished organizing the works and set it in a neat stack on the desk. He walked over to the bed and sat down.

"Pika-chu!"

He looked down at the small, yellow cat-like being as it jumped onto his lap. He pet his companion on the head and felt the familiar tingle of static that always seemed to generate from the little guy. He found out from Toshio, who was ecstatic when he heard that his friend had a real-live pokemon, that Pikachus generated electricity for some really cool lightning attacks.

He thought back to the first time he found BRVR outside his game.

*flashback*

BEN woke up groggily the morning of December 26th. He'd pretended to sleep when Slendy caught him the night before and as soon as he was sure the entity was also in bed, he got up and stayed up till 2 AM playing a new online game he got for Christmas earlier. Now, it was 7 AM and, naturally, he'd wake up and be unable to fall back asleep. He stumbled his way downstairs, surprised that not even Slendy was awake.