It has been quite a few months since you saw the man, he never came back to the playground, but you continued to make drawings of him, letting your imagination go where it wanted as you drew and wrote about your adventures with him. The weather got colder, leaves changed into blazing fires before dropping down to the earth, muted and dead. You had made a pile of leaves one day and jumped in, giggling happily as leaves flew everywhere. As you laid there, you were sure you had seen him again, out of the corner of your eye! But when you sat up to look at him and greet him, there was nothing but an empty backyard.

Now, it was getting close to Christmas! Your favorite time of the year! Presents being given, snow falling! You knew all the words to every Christmas song, you were sure of it!

"Y/n! It's time to go visit Grandpa and Grammy!" Your mother called to you from the entryway of your home and quickly, you put on your red peacoat and rushed to your smiling parents.

"Mommy, Daddy, can we play Christmas music the whole way there?! It's only four days away! Pretty please, I love all of those songs!" You twirled in a circle, earning a few chuckles from your parents, "Why, of course, anything for you, my little angel!" Your dad exclaimed as you all headed to the car. You quickly buckled, excited to see your grandparents and show them how many Christmas songs you knew by heart! You were singing your heart out to one of the songs when your father was driving through an intersection, and suddenly, the car was spinning and hit something before stopping.

It took a moment before you realized what happened and you started screaming and crying, "Mommy! Daddy!!" There was no reply, they looked like they were asleep. You tugged on your seatbelt, trying to get it undone but your hands were shaking so badly!! Suddenly, the car door next to you ripped off, making you scream again and there was Mr. Roger! "Mr. Roger! Please, help me and my parents! I-i don't know what happened but we are all trapped!" He sliced the seatbelt and quickly picked you up in his arms before sprinting away.

You could see that the car was badly injured and that another car was next to your mom's side of the car, the front of it destroyed. You wailed, "Mr. Roger! No!! Please, my parents! Please, save them!" But your voice fell on deaf ears as Slender continued running into some woods, easily avoiding trees as you cried yourself to sleep in his arms, your tears cold on your face.

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"Slender?!" EyelessJack exclaimed as Slender ran into the mansion, causing everyone to stop and look at him with worry, noticing the child in his arms. 'She is hurt, Toby, Masky, Hoodie, come with me!' He exclaimed and the three proxies hurried after him as he ran into his room.

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Slowly, you woke up, feeling very groggy and sore... what happened? As you looked around, you saw.... Mr. Roger? "Mr. Roger?" You whispered, feeling weak as Slender looked at you, gently stroking your hair, 'Shhh, my child. You must rest. You were in a very bad accident, but don't worry, we have bandaged your wounds and you will be okay. My name is Slenderman, but you can call me Slender, alright?'

You nod slowly, causing a wave of dizziness to wash over you, "Owww... Mr. Slender? Where are we? Are my parents okay? What do you mean by we, are there more people here?" You were so confused and had so many questions to ask. 'We are in my mansion, I brought you here to help take care of your wounds. I'm sorry... but your parents, they are gone, Y/n. I wouldn't have been able to save them even if I wished to. You will meet the others who live here later, but for now you must rest.'

He left the room to let you rest, and you waited until he had left before crying, "M-my parents are gone? But... now I will be all alone... maybe I can stay with Mr. Slender if he lets me? But... what will happen to all my stuffed animals? My parents... they really are gone?" You cried yourself to sleep again into the pillow, hugging some of the comforter to you.

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"Slender, we can't keep a human child here," Hoodie spoke up, everyone quietly nodding in agreement around the living room as Slender sighed, 'So what, we will put her in an orphanage? I have seen the ones around here, it will break her.'

"But Slender... we don't know how to raise a kid, we aren't exactly the most qualified group..." protested Clockwork, "Quite a few of us EAT people, she would be terrified of us!"
He was quiet, thinking while the others exchanged nervous glances among themselves before he spoke, 'Alright... I understand there are many concerns and worries about this, but... I let my guard down and have grown attached to this little girl. She wasn't afraid of me and if you give her a chance, I am sure she will like all of you as well. She could help us hunt by acting as bait for other humans to make it easier for us to get more food for our cannibals. Maybe we can learn more about sane humans, how they work if we keep her."

Sally was the first to speak up, "I would love a sister! Even if she isn't like us, I'm sure she would still love to play!" A bright smile from Sally seemed to convince the others to give the idea a chance, mainly because they didn't want to see her cry.

"F-fine... your human girl c-can stay..." Toby muttered and with that, Y/n was a part of the Slender Mansion family.