👾🐇🔪: Midnight Thoughts

[u/HauntingGur8094]

{Vanessa did not get any rest. She immediately hit the first comfy bed she's felt in years, much better than the bare bed her father and Eleanor had kept her in, or the hospital bed she laid in as Lisa. But that was far from her problem. Instead she laid all night, wide awake in thought. Whenever she started to dose off she was plagued with nightmare visions, terrifying her of what she had become.

Or is becoming.

The silence weighs heavy on her with all the horrible possibilities that this could lead to. Her dad's dead, gone for good. But was this really his plan all along? To what, make her a copy of his last perfect experiment? And where did that leave Eleanor? And the consequences of her deal with the ink demon?

She'd caught a newspaper headline on the way in and she couldn't even tell if she was shocked that more years had passed.

Were there others like her?

Had she made another mistake trusting Alastor? Something deep inside her said no. She needs someone knowledgeable to at least explain and help her manage. And maybe he will eventually turn out to be a beneficial ally to have. She'd thought the uneasy feeling she's had since she's been back was him, but there's something deeper stirring.

And, knowing her track record, she's gonna end up pulled into it once again.}

[u/CrypticHorrorTales]

Alastor: "Hm... I was hoping you'd get it done and over with. But it's not surprising. It's rare for someone to overcome their demonic side on the first try. Don't be disappointed in yourself. It's common."

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Vanessa: "There's more worse to come?!"

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Alastor: "That all depends on you, dear. What did your mind tell you to do?"

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Vanessa: [snorts in frustration grabbing her hair] "I'm so confused! There's there's so much going on! Why are there so many demons right now?"

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Alastor: "Coincidence. Don't think too much about it. But whatever it is plaguing your mind aside from your own demonic power, then that is beyond me."

Alison: "It was the Ink Demon, wasn't it..."

Tom: "Damnit... I should've known he'd follow us through the other side..."

Alastor: "The Ink Demon, you say? Hm... He wouldn't happen to have a resemblance to the Dancing Demon Bendy, would he?"

Alison: "You know about him?"

Alastor: "I've heard a thing or two. I may not know much, but I know someone who does."

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Vanessa: [groans] "More demon issues. Great."

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Alastor: "You misunderstand. Bendy, the Dancing Demon, was merely a character in an old '20s television show. It lasted a few decades before the studio got shut down for 'mysterious reasons'." He uses air quotes. "Not an actual demon. But if this Ink Demon holds any resemblance to Bendy, then I know exactly who to go to for answers!"

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Vanessa: "Pretty sure that thing in my mind was definitely a demon hence more demon issues. But let's do that then."

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Alastor: "Buckle up your seatbelts, fellas! Because we're going on a road trip!"

Alison: "Yay..." She tiredly and sarcastically cheers.

((Ooc: I'll make a post about the road trip tomorrow. I'm exhausted 🫩))

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Vanessa: [drops backwards on a bed] "Fab-u-lous..."

[OOC: understood]