This is it....

A pile of rocks.....

That's what Stonehenge is to me, and I haven't a damn clue what Paul was hoping to find over there... he didn't explain to me at first what he went there for... but he came back with answers... chilling answers....

"Assuming I'm alive by then... I'm going to die again on the 12/21/12"

I looked at him like he was fucking daft... How can anyone say that with such certainly is beyond me at this point... but then he continued...

"But I'm going to do something, die for something, important beyond all of us"

Again he said this with such certainty, it was chilling... he didn't say why he felt this way, or what he encountered while he was out there... but he looked more "alive" than he had in the entire time he had been back with us.....

Well... if he's right... then were going to make the best we can in what time we have yet.... Once our business is done, were going to go get married.


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Well in other news at least, Antonio came through again, he examined that... goop... that he had found at some of Paul's teleporting sites... and well... Paul's not leaving it behind... When Paul left for Stonehenge, he didn't leave any of it behind.

So Antonio figured something else was leaving it at the scene... and we got our answer...

It's because it was being left behind by spYder... Yeah... He was stalking Paul this whole time.....

Antonio thinks he has enough to tie it down to Ryan's psychic signature... with a few little gadgets he had picked up... we tracked him down to a location, we might be able to storm there hideout and take down all three of them at once, if were very very lucky.

Were not being stupid about this... We are actually about to head out to do the deed now... if any of us survives.. we should report back in a couple days... if this is our last post... then well... you know the rest of the story...

Best of luck to all of you... in case we don't see you again.

Botched Ambush

As a team, we work well together, if we could stay as a team all the time we should be okay..

I don't think that asshole with the sickles realized we were all in the hotel tonight, at least when he, shadow-teleported out of the closet, as best as we can tell, cold clocked Antonio and went for the kill on me, he didn't see Paul dash out of the bathroom, grab him with one hand, and slam him head first into the wall.

This happened about 30 minutes ago, so I think they thought they would catch us sleeping... They were wrong...

Then Paul demonstrated some of the strength of his, by lifting him up by his *face* with one arm and shoved him out the third story window... the only problem was, Paul went out the window with him... Antonio was quick to leap out after the pair... I.. well I personally opted for the elevator, I'm still not at 100 percent.

Paul and Antonio describe it best from here, Paul slammed the bastard into the roof of a car, and was honestly, well, Antonio seems to think Paul was trying to tear his face off or something before getting kicked off, Antonio jumped in and kicked the car in a way to roll it over with telekinesis, the proxy melted into the shadow formed by the car and barely avoided being crushed by it (Paul described that as being pretty badass)

The guy then tried to take out Antonio by leaping out of his shadow and stab him in the back with both Sickles.. he didn't mange to do so, Paul was on him fast.. like blink and you miss it fast, he started by punching him out of his swing, then reached into the guys outfit, and brought out that horrid Bokken... that evil thing Paul wields... He tried to bring it down in the Proxy's face  (Again with the face!) and only struck floor, so help me god it looked like the asphalt cracked a bit.

Then the guy steps out of the hotel Lobby, and bull-rush's Paul, Paul charges back and swings at the Proxy, who parries Paul's strike, with great effort, then ducks low swinging for Paul's legs, Paul leaps up over the swing, and uses the downward momentum to bring the Bokken down on the Proxy, who at this point, was, you guessed it in a shadow... he dropped out of sight, and didn't reemerge...

Meanwhile, I found out that spYder seems to have a second Henchmen, some little girl about my sized in go-go girl clothes swinging a sledge hammer at me the second I come out of the elevator, I barely got down below the attack, I sweep her legs out of her, and try to kick her in her the head, she rolls away from me avoiding my attack, I'm slower than normal, because of my wound.. and she tries to capitalize on it, thrusting the head of the Sledge at me, which I side step and counter with a kick to her ribs, which she just *tanks* her way through (I swear I felt something come loose) rather than defend, she swings the sledge hammer at me catching me, not with the head but the handle in the left shoulder, it was still enough to cause me to go down.

So I'm on the ground, and she tries to overhead smash me with that sledge, rather than roll out of the way, I give her with both feet in the stomach, ruining her momentum and causing her to tumble... her Shadowy cohort then runs in and grabs her, before making a hasty retreat just as the boys are coming in...

In the end, none of us are really hurt, just tired... it was a hard 15 minutes of fighting... and now to make things worse, Paul says he has to make a short trip... to god damn Stonehenge... how the fuck is that supposed to be short? Well he says he plans on going there via the Sanctuary, and he'll be back in a day or two...

He doesn't explain why either.. he just up's and leaves Antonio and myself hanging, I mean at this point I think we drove them off, but it makes no god damn sense... what the hell could possibly be there?

Antonio says that he also has to talk to me about something, but he won't say what that is... Ugh.. were great as a team, but we need to work on our teamwork I say.

Back in the real world

So it's been a while since I've posted, sorry to keep everyone worried about me.

It's Maya by the way, I'm back from my temporary stop in the worlds worst out-patient center.

Nothing against Paul, my stomach feels like he actually made my wound worse somehow... even if it's fully stitched up like a professional did it... That raises questions really. I guess I can't stay mad at him for what happened.. I mean I kinda get it now, why he's doing what he's doing.

I've seen what the Sanctuary is, and I'm being told it's okay to spill the beans on what I know about it.

I woke up about a day or two ago, I was out for... shit days now.. Paul was sitting in his reading chair thumbing through some E-book on his tablet, when he noticed I was up he set the tablet down and just looked at me through his one good eye, he wasn't wearing the bandages at the time, I could see the scar where his eye was, his arm was still slinged but he was able to hold the tablet in his arm, which was impressive considering his arm was broken a few days before.

"I'm glad to see you awake hon..." He says, not smiling.

I had a hard time replying, he felt... just so frankly unreal, I know Manic had posted about how... freaky and unreal he seems, but experiencing it was something different.

"Yeah.. I... Ow..." I winced... I guess I was still recovering

"You still need to rest Maya, that weapon almost went clean through you, we barely got you put back together"

"Who's we?"

"Don't worry about it."

I didn't push at that one, Paul must of had access to someone with some medical skills needed to fix me up.

"Paul.... Where are we?" At this point, the layout of the room was the exact same as the layout of his apartment, down to the finest details, but looking out the window I only saw a sort of mist, like a perpetual grey fog that stretched out as far as I could see, no end in sight.

"This is my Sanctuary. My resting place when I'm not out in the real world, where we are at, is basically side-steeped between Planes of existence, in the mist between worlds... I guess a good way of explaining it is the Astral Plane, though I'm not sure that fits. I know here's safe, here my needs are met, I can rest, and rejuvenate, for my trips to the real world, so I can get what I want from there"

"You mean like revenge? I mean that's why you ended up in Pittsburgh right? because of Ryan?"

Paul smiles and sits by me in bed  "Actually, I wanted to go somewhere safe when I left the path, yes I wanted revenge, I wanted it so bad that I actually ached for it in my very soul... but at that point, I wanted to be safe.. and here I am, I'm outside of our own world, I'm beyond even the Slenderman's reach, a tiny world, created by my own will alone"

"That just happens to look like your apartment"

"Well I did feel comfortable there" He half smiles and hands me a bottled water

"Paul this place isn't real, this isn't your real apartment, this is a mock up, a set, like some kind of stage play, you may feel safe here, and I do too, but Antonio's still out there, and he's alone now, we need to go back there and find him, bring him here, regroup and decide how were going to stop Ryan and-" Paul cuts me off sighing

 "Maya, here we don't have to worry about it, not right now, I wish I could bring Antonio here, but he's a proxy, he's far to tied to the Slenderman to live here, hell my weapon can't even be here because, this place is Antithesis to the weapon, and Proxies as well" He stands up and paces back and forth waiving his good arm about. "Besides why the hell should I go back there except to kill Ryan, that world *Killed* me, I *Died* in that world... at this point the whole damn world can go to hell as long as I can keep the two of us safe"

I pulled myself to my feet, and slaped Paul hard "Fuck you Paul!, Fuck you! Antonio is our friend, and what of Lucia, and Manic, I will *Not* Abandon the two of them, or anyone we know, to stay in this... Dollhouse you made for yourself."

I give him the sternest look I can muster grabbing my guts in extreme pain "Send me back... you can have your so called 'Sanctuary', I'll take the real world any fucking day of the week"

Paul guides me back to bed, and gets me comfortable, I can tell he's deeply hurt... he just says one more thing that day, before he steps out... I later find out this was to talk to Manic... I guess now that I'm caught up that Manic explained how tired and worn out he was, I guess I know why, I mean he must not have slept at all while watching over me.

He got back a few hours later, he sat back down in the chair, I pretended to be sleeping at this point, I just didn't want to deal with his selfish ass, I felt like a prisoner at this point... I was wrong of course...

All he did was sit back down in the chair and started reading that book again... A while later I fell back to asleep

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I woke up the "Next" day, to a scream, Paul had fallen asleep at some point, and he apparently didn't have a great dream... I woke up, looking around Paul was no longer in the room... I got up. much easier this time, my wound healed a shocking amount over night, and found splashing water on his face in the bathroom... his arm was out of the sling, he noticed me in the mirror... with his one eye and he just said one thing...

"Bad dreams...."

I just nodded and went to the kitchen to get something to eat.. I was pretty damn hungry by that point...

Paul joined me later and sat down... he had severe bags under his eyes and I could tell he only went to sleep, not because he wanted too, but probably because his body forced the issue...

"I thought about what you said last night Maya" He looked at my sternly "Maybe I do need to spend more time out there, Ryan won't kill himself while I hide in here... I need you to rest one more day, then I'll send you back,  and this time.... I'll be there as well..."

I smile at him, even if he still creeps me the fuck out with that "I'm real but not real" shit about him.

"Okay Paul, we'll do this together... the three of us, we'll beat Ryan.... together"

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Paul is behind me, his arm heals unnaturally fast, though his eye is not healing at all, he told me it was the price he paid for being able to do what he can now do, I'm just about to call Antonio... were getting the team back together... and maybe.... Just maybe, we'll win this fight. I know Lucia sent me the invite to crash over at Antithesis, although Paul seems inclined to pass on it, something about how he has no place there.... I'm tempted to take her up on it, even if I'm not a proxy....