Broken - (Reader X BEN Drowned)

Laughter 26

    Sitting on the couch with BEN is comforting. He has his arm around me with my head on his shoulder and his head on my head. I hate the atmosphere now. Knowing something is coming after me is driving BEN insane, I can tell. He hasn't said a word since we left Slender's office and is just staring off into space. I have tried multiple times to get him to talk to me. I even tried to get him to play a game and he refused. Somethings off and I am more uncomfortable with the silence than the actual situation.

"BEN. Please say something. Anything." I simply state.

        A moment goes by before I feel him move a bit away from me. He looks down at me with a slight frown. His red pupils sparkle with sadness as he continues to just look at me. A headache comes on again, much worse as it occurs more often. He removes my hand that I put on my face and finally speaks after what feels like an eternity.

"One day." He speaks with remorse in his voice.

"What?" I ask him, my headache pulsating.

"Zalgo controlled me for about a day. Remember how I made you be my slave for a day?" He said with a hint of playfulness in his eyes, but it disappeared as fast as it came. "But I don't think you can handle it."

"So... Are you calling me weak?" I ask him, trying to lighten the mood.

"Of course........ not." He says looking at me sideways.

        He seems to sigh and look down at his hand while removing his arm from me. He turns to face me fully as I turn to look at him front on too. He sighs again as he looks at me. "Your eyes are changing colors." I tilt my head in confusion. "My eyes also turned colors when I was under Zalgo's control. Remember?" I nod at his words. "It will not be long until he comes for you. And... And I fear that we can't save you."

        I look down at my hands and a single tear escapes my eye. I hated crying, especially in front of BEN. Do I not have a single day to spare to give to BEN? He extends his right hand and touches my cheek. His thumb finds its way under my chin and tilts my head up to look at him. He gives me a small smile. "Your eyes are back to {Y/E/C}." He says. I look around the room, thinking of what we should do.

"Take me somewhere." I tell him.

"Huh?" He says while wrinkling his eyebrows.

"If we don't have long, then let's make the best out of what time we have now." I say. He agrees after looking at me strangely and telling Slendy.

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                                                                                                               BEN's POV
         We walk in the human world, side by side enjoying the view. We stop by her old job and I order a coffee while I get {Y/N} a hot chocolate. We then walk to a nearby bench and sit. This is the place we sat together before. I wish I could rewind time so that I would have more time with her. I hate to admit it, but not knowing what's going to happen later scares me. I look over to {Y/N} and see her distress. I wonder if she remembers that this was our landmark. She probably doesn't, considering that it is only a special place to me. This is the place I found out that I had feelings for her. Whatever feelings they were, I had them... Bad. I need to cheer her up somehow, be the bigger person. So far I haven't been the best person to lean on. I look around to see a mall a couple blocks down. I stand up and turn to the gloomy girl behind me.

"Let's go." I tell her. She looks up at me and stands up, nodding her head. We walk about three blocks down and enter in the mall. I'm not sure if she is a shopper or not, but I sure like to make fun of others, so it's the perfect place! I pick a place where it is crowded, but not too much so that we can hear each other if and when we talk. I sit her down around the indoor water fountain and laugh a little to lighten up the mood. She looks up to me to see what I am laughing about, so I improvise. I point to a random person out in the crowd and turn to her as she follows my finger to a guy working at a pretzel stand.

"He might be wearing white and red stripes now for his job, but he's actually an undercover hipster." I tell her.

"What?" She giggles as she looks to me with questioningly playful eyes. "You mean there is someone exactly like you?" She teases.

        Now it was my turn to ask "What?" I'm totally not a hipster. She points to my outfit and I look down. I forgot that I changed into my human form to fit in. I am wearing a green triforce shirt with jeans today along with a beanie while holding a coffee. So, I might have SOME hipster looks, but it doesn't qualify me as so. Besides... It's too mainstream. I look back up at her smiling form and want to say something sarcastic, but nothing comes out. Instead, I flick my wrist as her eyes widen and the water fountain 'malfunctions' and sprays her with water. Some people look at us and I ignore them.

"What was that for!?" She half-yells at me, not wanting to draw anymore attention than we are already getting.

"What can I say? I'm a perfect aim." I say laughing. She hits me on my arm and I hit her back, softly of course. Some people might think domestic abuse is occurring and that is the last thing I need right now.

        I turn my attention back to the 'undercover hipster' and decide to play around a little to test to see if my powers are still working. I haven't used them in a while and I need to practice before Zalgo comes. I motion for {Y/N} to look at the guy. He is making a smoothie and turns it on. He turns around to get a cup and goes back over to the machine. He stops it and takes the lid off instead of taking it off of the machine. He was planning on just pouring it to save time and effort. His mistake. I turn on the machine and smoothie sprays everywhere on the stand and on him and the customer. I try to hide my laugh, but I can't. I burst out laughing and hide my face in {Y/N}'s hair. She had covered her mouth and turned to me at the same time, hiding her face with my neck. We stay in that position until our laughter subsides and we pull away and look at each other with red eyes. She starts to burst out laughing again and people look over to us, even the pretzel boy. I reach out my arms and pull her into a hug so she can calm down again.

        The mall trip continued like this, messing with people and talking about them, until we started to get hungry. We left that part of the mall to go to a restaurant close by. We had lunch and then decided to walk for a while before heading back to Slender mansion. As we walk out of the restaurant, I grab her hand and lead her to the sidewalk. We walk for a block until I stop her and pull her to an alley. She looks up at me with her sparkling {Y/E/C} orbs. I place one hand on her waist and another to tuck a stray piece of hair behind her ear. A thought crosses my mind, 'What's going on?' I don't know how to answer this. I have never felt this way toward anyone before. I don't know exactly what happened to get here, but one thing is for sure. I lean in a little and she follows my lead. Nobody is going to hurt her. I pull her closer to me while closing the gap between us. Nobody can have her but me. I gently kiss her, not wanting to make a bad move, then she kisses me back, a little harder than I had anticipated. This sparked a flame that had been growing inside of me for a while. I kiss back passionately as tension grows. I later pull back and kiss her forehead, not wanting anything to get far in an alleyway. She rests her head on my chest listening to my heartbeat. This to me is odd, because even in my human form my heart usually doesn't beat. I put my chin on the top of her head and close my eyes.

I love {Y/N}.               

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(A/N)

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