Sammy

Whatever frienemy status Sammy and Silver had between them long ago - had gone the way of the Studio. Corrupted and awash with sin. None of the crew mattered anymore to Sammy. Not Joey. Not Henry and certainly not this talented writer who'd chided him in the recording booth over cartoon songs. No one but Bendy mattered. Nothing but the machine and his hopeful release from his pain, prison and loneliness.

Sammy roared incoherently as Silver moved to try to get out the back door and the inked musical director began slamming himself harder and harder against the cabinet - each full body slug of Sammy's debauched but fit form making the wedged item crack the old wooden foundation. It would only be but a moment to make an escape before he'd be upon them to try to bash this undeserving man's brains in to retrieve his lord and master. "Bendy! MY LORD! I AM COMING FOR YOU!" Silver had been right - nothing he could say to this man now or ever was going to change the outcome.

And escape suddenly turned out not to be an outcome either. When Silver opened the door he would find it was not an exit but a simple broom closet full of Wally's old janitorial supplies that had long since rotted or melted into the floor. It looked deadly and corroded. Several holes having been chewed by chemicals and the pitch darkness of the floors below yearning through them.

Bendy had continued to shake on Silver's back and the pet had brought him no solace. He knew the only way to fix this and waiting for the only two outcomes that could possibly happen to come to fruition. Eventually, the little ink demon had to choose and more tears squeezed out of his eyes. He rubbed his hot round face against Silver's back and whispered out another "Sorry.." before he let go of the writer's back and dropped to the floor behind him - thankfully, not into the chemical goop Silver had nearly run into.

The cabinet finally yielded to Sammy's barrage and slammed forward and the ol Yokel jumped on top of it, ink dripping down from beneath his mask impossible to tell if it was tears, drool or sweat. "I *will* sacrifice you, sheep and re-earn my rightful place!" Sammy growled and raised that pipe above his head. Silver could have tried to fight him - maybe he'd have even gone a few rounds - but the writer had no weapon - he was cornered and Sammy was raging. This would be the end of his tale unless---

"Sammy," Bendy said, his face peering out from behind Silver's legs. He wiped the last of his ink tears away on the writer's slacks. "Sammy, stop."

And Sammy did. Halted completely where he was, towering over the both of them from his spot on top of the fallen furniture - his arm posed to strike. "M-My lord! You SPEAK to me -- a-after all these years-- I. PLEASE! Stand aside and let me prove myself to you!"

Bendy inched out from behind the human and moved forward, his lil boots tapping on the floor as he walked toward the other Ink Monster; his tail was dragging tho. He opened his arms wide in his slow approach. "S-sammy, I'm sorry."

Sammy saw the opened arms and dropped his wrench. He jumped down from his spot and dropped to his knees before the demon - a sob in his throat as he opened his own arms. "My Lord! MY LORD! I FORGIVE YOU! J-JUST LET ME HOLD YOU AGAIN."

There was a pause where the lil imp looked back toward Silver and just slowly shut his eyes at him - as if trying to will the human to understand what he was doing - but maybe no one would ever understand the horrid things that had gone down in Joey Drew Studios.

Bendy's attention went back to Sammy and he simply walked into the deranged music man's arms. Sammy immediately coiled around him; crushing the little creature to his bare chest and heaving around him. It was not unlike how Bendy had done as a monster only a while early. "T-thank you. Thank you...!" Sammy sobbed. "My lord you are all I ever want!"

"I know..." Bendy sighed raggedly. "'n' I release yew of dat."

"My Lord?" Sammy, in his broken mask, froze but he never stopped hugging the demon.

With a groan of pain Bendy began to transform IN the music man's inky arms. It was quick, agonizing and horrifying to behold. Even more so than the first time since it caused Sammy to be shoved down onto his back as the creature grew to his full height.

"M-my Lord NO!" Sammy screamed as that clawed gloved hand snagged him by the throat and picked him bodily up off the floor writhing.

"Bendy" snapped his head toward Silver and hissed out "DON'T WATCH ME!" before darting out of the broken doorway, the cabinet clatter as both he and Sammy disappeared down the hall. The Bendy mask Sammy had been wearing was shattered into several pieces by the Spade of that tail striking the broken surface before it disappeared out the door as well.

The mask laid in a puddle of ink as the sounds of screaming echo'd from down the hall before the once beautiful vocals of Sammy Lawerance were silenced forever.