An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Straightening her back, the animator searched for a work desk that wasn’t there. Instead of her office, she found herself in a strange black and sepia room with ink-stained walls. A gent recharging station rested against a wall nearby along with two iron doors, one across from her and another in the adjacent wall.
Glancing down, she found a small sleeping demon lying across her lap, using a Bendy plush as a pillow.
Oh. Right.
Update!!! WOOOoooOO!
Sorry to those still waiting on my other fics to update. I’ve been really struggling with writer’s block and this chapter happened to be easier to write that other stuff 😬
Thank you all for staying interested and for all the postitive feedback! Y’all are pretty neat 👍
This happens sometime during Cycle Joey’s conversation with Audrey in the old studio.
Enjoy!
“Audrey,” Joey said, taking on a more authoritative tone. Shameful chills ran down the animator’s spine, like a child who had been caught doing something they knew was wrong and kept doing it anyway. “You need to stay away from that monster.”
Despite the overwhelming shame she felt seconds earlier, Audrey grew defensive. “He’s my friend!” She protested loyally.
“No, it’s not,” he insisted.
“He,” The animator corrected snippily. “Not it.”
Joey gave her a sad, well-meaning and patronizing smile. “Very well. He is dangerous and incapable of caring for anything other than himself.”
Reading the obvious disagreement on her face, the man sighed, “It’s admirable that you want to believe the best in him and normally it’s a good practice to believe the best in people. But the Ink Demon is an exception. The concepts of ‘friendship’ and ‘loyalty’ mean nothing to him. He’s not capable of experiencing emotion, at least, not in the way that we do. ”
Her previous displeasure was overruled by her curiosity. “What do you mean?”
Joey stared at Audrey for a long moment. With a resigned expression, he said, “I wasn’t planning on telling you this, but I think you’ll need to hear the whole story to understand.”
Folks, I am SO EXCITED to release this next chapter. I’m probably going to post it on Saturday. It’s a little shorter than my usual chapter length but imho it has some really good Audrey - Ink Demon interactions that make up for that.
And we finally have some Joey content! As much as I love our ink siblings (siblinks hehehe), I’ve been dying to write some of the other BATIM/BATDR characters. I think Henry and Sammy are up next after this but sadly, we’re still too far out for that content. We’ll get there eventually!
