dont_turn_around | Hunting Slenderman

Hunting Slenderman

In the mist and fog and silence, there is a cave. There is darkness within darkness there and nothing more and the faint whiff of something ... not right.

But there's a drawing stuck to the rocks that frame the opening, a childish grouping of trees and a tall, thin man, with the words TAMAN SHUD.

Here is the end.

"I think we should go here," says Jack.

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Steve scrabbles at the chocolate covering Bucky's face.

It's thinner there than anywhere else; a mere candy-coated shell compared to the thick block that surrounds the rest of him.

Bucky's eyes are closed, but he rasps something urgent-sounding under his breath.

... it's probably a good sign that he's able to draw air enough to breathe, at that.

"Is he conscious?" Ambriel asks, approaching quickly. The angel kneels opposite Steve and starts to peel away thick blocks of the chocolate surrounding Bucky's torso.

Momiji stares at where Slenderman no longer is. "He... he's just... gone." The young boy is completely shaken. Enzo had mentioned 'deleting' him, but in some corner of Momiji's mind he had thought that maybe he could be redeemed.

But, he was just... gone.

He shakes himself, and looks over to Steve. He seems to be doing alright, so Momiji looks around. Maybe there was someone else he can help?

His eyes fall on the huddled bleeding person. Slowly, Momiji moves slowly towards him and kneels down. "Are you okay?"

Hat's breathing is shallow and rasping. He winces at the sound and proximity of Momiji's voice.

Enzo is quite as stunned as Momiji. That is certainly not what he was expecting. Effective, though.

After a moment he shakes himself and, like Momiji, gravitates toward the person most in needs of assistance.

"I know first aid..."

Looks like a bit more than that will be needed, though.

Dani follows after Momiji and her boyfriend, hanging back a little because she feels there's not much she can do right now.

"Does the bar have a place to help people who are hurt?"

Momiji is looking closely at the wound, and his eyes get bigger.

"I don't think Mr. Creepy did this... this looks like a gun wound."

"He's breathing," Steve says, sagging with relief. "Oh, God, buddy, keep breathing." He clears the chocolate away from Bucky's nose and mouth.

"They wouldn't have wanted him dead. That's one blessing at least."

Ambriel wrenches at the chocolate, breaking it in two over Bucky's chest with a snap. Next is freeing his right arm.

He gasps in a deeper breath as the chocolate's torn from him, giving his ribcage room to expand.

His eyes are still closed when his right hand lashes out, reaching blindly for a target.

"Oh -"

Asami keeps a small distance so as to avoid being struck, and shines her flashlight on his chest, away from his eyes.

Her voice calm again (after that finale, even she needed a moment of recovery), "Hey, it's okay."

"Bucky," Steve says, holding Bucky's shoulders to calm him. "It's me. It's your friends."

"Wake up, James Barnes. You are free."

Well. Mostly. Ambriel tears off another block of chocolate, cracking it down Bucky's right side and loosing him down to the right knee.

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Steve's able to restrain him with no difficulty at all, in fact.

("James Barnes. Bucky. I give you--")

Bucky blinks, then blinks again, clearing the last of the cocoa dust from his eyes, and looks around at the three of them.

"... this is getting to be a habit."

His voice is hoarse yet, but his words are clear.

"Really?"

She glances at Steve. Asami has to say, this has all been pretty much brand new to her.

Flashing her light around to give Bucky a better view of his surroundings, "This happens to you a lot?"

"I've had to rescue him before," Steve says quietly as he helps Bucky sit upright.

"I am very sorry, Bucky. I should have known something like this would happen."

Maybe not just like this.

"I promised to give you protection, and I failed." Ambriel carefully frees his other leg.

He lets himself lean on Steve for support, even as he flashes the pretty girl the best smile he can manage under the circumstances.

"I hope not a lot," he says, wryly. "Twice is plenty, thanks."

Ambriel's observation gets his attention fast, though.

"Hey. Not from where I'm sitting, you didn't."

He sounds sincere about it, too.

"I'm still alive, aren't I?"

Asami feels a little embarrassed, for a moment, but it only lasts until Bucky smiles at her.

(He seems less strange than the guy from earlier, anyway.)

"Looks like it," she answers, flashing the light back to him.

"That - tree god? - is gone."

Beat. "The one who was doing all this."

Not the good one!

"Something--wild--came out of nowhere," Steve says. "They took him away.

"Can you walk?"

He can carry Bucky, and will if needed.

Ambriel gives Bucky a quelling stare. "You have very low expectations of 'protection'." And we do not approve, apparently.

"The Slenderman is gone. His influence over this place has ended."

Pause.

"We should leave. Just in case."

"He didn't eat me. And I've had worse nightmares," Bucky argues back, quelling stare or not. "So I'm calling it good."

"But leaving -- yeah, let's do that. Get me on my feet, and sure, I can walk."

Or at least, he's stubborn enough to try.

"Smart of you to bring a light," he tells Asami.

She steps back slightly, out of their way.

"I don't think bringing a weapon would've helped me much," she answers, with a small shrug.

Steve flashes a smile at her and puts his shield on his back. He stands and holds out a hand to Bucky to help him up.

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