Carnival
“Remind me why the fuck we’re here again..?”
“He needs to know how to act around normal people.”
“Normal people.”
“Yeah.”
“It’s a fucking carnival.”
“Yeah well, we make do with what we have. At least it means we won’t get lynched. Especially your cranky ass.”
Jeff scowled at the brightly lit, incredibly noisy, people-crammed field of carnival oddities. Feeling Boy get wiggly, he dug his fingers harder into the five-year old’s shoulders.
“I am going to eat so much cotton candy,” Toby cackled. The bright lights of the various rides and strings of colored bulbs glinted off his goggles. Before he could run off-
Masky grabbed him by the back of his coat. “Ground rules first.”
Toby whined.
Eyeless held up a finger, “one, no one goes off alone. Two, no killing.’
Liu exchanged a glance with BEN. They both looked at Jeff.
“Three, unless you want to explain to Slender Man why we have to move again, you won’t cause any trouble or chaos. Toby.”
“Hey!”
There was a pause among the group, as the various youths braced themselves. It was a carnival, the traveling kind with hastily set up booths and fried food.There was a reasonably sized Ferris Wheel, a mini roller coaster, some sort spinning and waving thing that looked vaguely like an octopus.
It was evening and late and people were dressed up in all sorts of weird things.. The Proxies shouldn’t stand out too badly. Hopefully.
Aaaaand there went Toby. Masky and Hoody chased after him because someone had to keep him in check and might as well be them. “COTTON CANDY!”
Boy wiggled again, tugging on Jeff’s sleeves. After considering it for a moment, Jeff sighed. “Let’s get this fucking over with.”
Yet again, Laughing Jack was the one to stay home for a handful of reasons. One, he was a seven foot tall clown and highly rememberable, for two there would be far too many small children running around with handfuls of sweets.
But that was okay. Boy had won, through some serious trial and error, a plush purple hippo for Laff to make up for not going.
Toby had cotton candy in his hair.
Jeff spent a fortune on tickets to get on the Ferris Wheel and then refused to get off. As per rule number one, he kidnapped Eyeless and they spent the rest of the evening in peace and out of reach of the crowd.
Which of course left it up to Liu and BEN to take Boy around the carnival.
Liu didn’t.. hate it. He might have even smiled. And only an asshole would refuse a gift from a small child, even if it was a goldfish trapped in a small plastic bag. He did not name it Sully.