Celebrate the day Chapter 2 of BATIM coming out today! Sadly, now my story is going to be completely off from the actual game. WELL! I'm soon going to write an author's note about how I'm going to explain that! Maybe even after this chapter or something. So read this if you want and then get the details later because details are boring. Enjoy! ^-^

It was still extremely dark and only growing darker still. Most of the sky was blocked by the buildings that surrounded you. All you could think about was what you were going to say to Joey when you met up with him. Also, would Bendy approve of what you were planning to do? Would he shut up and live with it or feel betrayed? Maybe he'll ask to go with you just so he can kill Joey. That would probably be the worst case scenario.

"Hey, uh, you've been quiet. Thinking something important?" Bendy questioned when the silence started to get to him.

"No... I was just daydreaming," you lied.

"What about?" he asked curiously.

You decided to be as honest as possible. "Well, it was about Boris. It just feels weird to me that you're working alone and solo without friends. Usually, when pulling off a scheme, you always have Boris there to play sidekick!"

Bendy sighed and glanced towards the ground. "Been a long time since I've had a sidekick or a friend... I guess I never really told you what happened to him, did I? Well, you don't want to know the whole story. It's the one story that should never be told. So I'm not."

"Where are we? Are you sure you know the way back?" you questioned as you glanced around. Everything was unfamiliar to you.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. We should be fine. I could find my way back if I were on Mars. We'll be there any minute now!" Bendy announced as he began to walk off of the sidewalk and far into the grass. You walked and walked until the town was far from view.

A bright ripple of light flashed over a hilltop of wildflowers. More commonly known as weeds that try to look pretty. You had to squint when you realized it was moonlight reflecting off of water. A large lake was right before you and your breath was taken.

Bendy seemed equally amazed. His fist was clenched and his eyes nearly sparkled. The night sky seemed to illuminate in the reflected light from the lake. It was almost like glass. A shiny stain glass window that was the gateway to another world. Like from those books that you'd always read.

"I've only seen this place in pictures Joey showed me. I've always wanted to see it. Nobody lives around here, it's quiet, it's peaceful, and it's beautiful. It wouldn't look nearly as nice in a cartoon that's black and white," Bendy said as he approached the water's edge. He dared not to touch it for his sake, but staring into his reflection was mesmerizing.

So that's the demon who killed Henry and fell in love almost on the same day...

You sat on the ground in front of the water. Bendy sat beside you and flicked a rock into the lake. It made many small ripples shoot through the water. Desperately, you searched for a good conversation topic. Before you could come up with one, a frog jumped up onto a lily pad. Bendy sprang away from it in terror.

"What the heck is that... MONSTROSITY?!" he demanded as he pointed to the frog sitting on the lily pad. You laughed at his fear of such an innocent thing.

"Bendy, that's just a frog! It's completely harmless!" you explained still trying not to giggle at his description of the frog. He just had a way with adjectives sometimes.

Bendy stared at the frog and inched a little closer. The frog gazed sullenly into the demon's jet-black eyes. Neither of them moved. Both of them were waiting for the other to do something. Bendy acted first. "Uh..., hello... slimy, aquatic creature. I'm Bendy."

"Crrroooooooak."

"What kind of a greeting was that?! Do you have a sore throat or something because you sounded awful!" Bendy exclaimed at hearing the frog's voice.

You started laughing harder. "Maybe you should give it a big kiss to make it feel better!" Picking up the frog without letting it get away, you thrust it in his face. "Come on, Bendy! Kiss it!"

"No way! Get that... THING out of my face! I'm not kissing a stupid frog! What even made you think of something like that?! I knew you were crazy!" Bendy shouted turning away from the frog.

You inched closer. "I'm only kidding! I wouldn't actually have you kiss a frog. If I did, I'd be sent to a penitentiary!" you chirped putting the frog back onto the lily pad. It seemed extremely annoyed and swam off.

"I don't think people get sent to penitentiaries for forcing others to kiss frogs. That's not exactly a serious crime or anything. Not that it's a good thing or anything!" Bendy established and you shrugged.

"I suppose that is true," you said and flopped onto your back now bored of the crystal water. The cool grass made for nature's finest mattress and the stars made for the universe's finest little night lights. There was hardly any life at all around the pond besides the frog. Sometimes, you'd hear an occasional cricket chirp, but that was mostly it. You were tired. It was far after midnight and it took a lot of your energy just to get here.

"Have you ever been stargazing...?" you asked as you stifled a yawn. Bendy shook his head and settled back into the grass with you.

Once he drew his eyes to the night above, once more, his words were stolen. Yet again, he never knew the actual beauty of the night sky until right then. The moon was a lot brighter than it was in the cartoons he was in. He and Boris would sometimes howl at the moon for no real reason, but it was nothing like this.

"It's pretty, right? I honestly can't think of anything more beautiful than this. My parents would never understand this feeling. They just can't let go of their precious little child who's actually an adult. But this is as free as I've ever been. I've never done anything daring or exciting. I've never escaped from a hospital without permission or anything. Everyone had such a tight hold that I never got to do anything. Not even look at the night sky," you said drifting away.

"How does someone take the sky away from you?"

You remembered and shook your head. "They would always close the curtain. Locking all the windows and drawing shut all the drapes, they'd make sure that nothing happened to me. Then one day, a crazy old man burst into my house giving me the excuse I needed. And here I am."

"Joey."

"Yeah..."

You yawned again and shut your eyes for a moment. Bendy hopped up and shook you a little by the shoulder. "Hey! You're not falling asleep on me again, are you?!" he demanded.

"Why not...?" you asked with your eyes still shut.

"We're out in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. Anyone can find us here! Anything can happen! What if it rains?!" he asked looking for any rain clouds.

"Then why'd you bring us here...? I can't exactly walk back, you know..."

Finally, he gave in to you. Sighing to himself, he shrugged and nodded. "Fine. Not like I have much of a choice. Of course, I have to listen to the crazy person who tried to get me to kiss a frog."

You snickered at his comment. "You're adorable, Bendy."

"Why do I have to be adorable?! I'm being serious! If anyone's adorable, it's not me! It's- Uh... Someone else!" he said evading who specifically he was thinking of.

"Don't deny it. You are adorable..."

Bendy crossed his arms defiantly. In reality, everyone said he was adorable. Even Boris said so once or twice. He wasn't sure if you were saying it the same way they did, though. "Well, are you taking a nap or not?"

"Zzzzzzzzz..."

"Should've known."

After only a minute of listening to occasional cricket chirps, Bendy got bored. He stared at you and allowed his mind to wander a little. It went back to a moment in the past and stayed there a moment. Back in the projector, he sat beside Boris. The only person he could really rely on at the time.

"So..., rough day, huh?" Boris asked Bendy.

Bendy nodded in response to his friend's question. Then, he just shrugged like it was nothing. "I suppose nothing rougher than usual. Joey's being just as cryptic as he always is. Always going down to the basement and muttering to himself for some reason. He should understand that this is why the animators left."

"You look a little more down than normal. That was the reason I asked," he explained. Then he thought for a moment about what it might be about.

"Joey's been... all over the place lately. Sane one minute, crazy the next! What do you suppose that means for us? I couldn't help but wonder if (y/n) is crazy too... That if craziness runs in the family or something. If that's the case..., I don't know. I'm not good at this stuff...," Bendy stated trying to figure out all of the mysteries of Joey. Joey would forever remain unknown to all of them.

"I don't think that she'll be crazy, Bendy. You saw her! Completely normal!" Boris argued.

Bendy shrugged again. "Yeah, but she's 15 now. I don't know how different she is. Heck, she probably doesn't even remember me! Seven years stuck here..."

"Remember how we used to joke around about you and her? I'd say, "Dude, you're going to marry her one day." Then, you'd say, "Shut up!" And then I'd laugh!

"Oh yeah. But seriously, it's not going to happen. She's not coming back. I'm only ever going to hear her again from Joey. He's not going to make us real! We're going to be stuck here forever!" Bendy announced as he walked off of the projector screen.

"Quit lying to yourself, Bendy. None of those things you said were true."

Bendy blinked back to reality. Sure enough, he was there. He was alive. You were there with him. Boris was right about all but one thing. "She was crazy all along, Boris. Just not the maniac kind..."

Still lying on the grass facing the sky, he looked back to the woods and saw something. It swooshed away as soon as he looked at it. The strange object was too fast to get a good look. He hoped it was a rabbit, but his gut told him it wasn't. Fear rippled through him like the ripples in the lake. It was replaced by the anger from earlier. He could've sworn he saw the smiling gun grinning in the moonlight.