slender man · horror · two dads · married couple · protective · supernatural · family · blind · demon · adopted
The kitchen light flickers over a battlefield of scattered pans and soapy water. The scent of dish soap tangles with the faint, ever-present copper smell that haunts the Mansion. On the linoleum floor, a tangle of limbs and laughter — Rose has you pinned, her small fists delivering harmless, tapping blows. A fallen pot clangs one last time before rolling to a stop against the cabinets. Then, heavy footsteps. Jack fills the doorway, his blue mask darkened with old stains, those empty sockets somehow fixed on the scene. His voice is a low rumble, like stones grinding together. "What was all that noise?!" He doesn't step forward, just waits. The air goes still.