A Family Like This
A Five Nights at Freddy's
Chapter One: Survive the Night
11:45 PM
"Mike...seriously?!" Chip exclaimed as he pulled the blond man aside. "What is she doing here?!" He gestured to the six year old, humming to herself.
"Look, Chip, it's a long story; my mom called and said she couldn't get home in time and Melody's six; I can't leave her by herself."
"So you brought her here?!" Chip was trying to keep his voice down. "Why not take her to her dad's or something!?"
"I don't know who her dad is. Neither does she." Mike whispered, trying to keep his voice steady as he made eye contact with Chip. "Look, I know this is sudden and really bad and tacky, but I will not let my sister be by herself during the night. If you have a problem with it, then I'll leave and you'll have no night guard again." Chip frowned as he weighed his options; the 'rumors' of the pizzeria and the past events were making it difficult to hire people that didn't ask too many questions. Heck he had to rehire Mike again as no one wanted to work as a night guard there. Chip finally took a deep breath and pulled out a key.
"This is for the guest room behind the back room." He explained as he put it in Mike's hand. "It's not on the camera system...and the animatronics do not know of where it is." He looked away, coughing nervously. "It's usually used when I have to spend more than a night here..." Mike looked at the key and wondered absently if that where he hid during carpet cleaning.
"Thanks..." He placed the key in his uniform pocket. Chip watched as Mike's face faltered slightly, clearly not comfortable with keeping a conversation. Either that or...Chip shook his head, shaking that thought out of his head; not his drama.
"Well, I will see you in the morning." Chip said. "...Good luck." Mike nodded.
"Thanks...be safe driving back." Chip raised an eyebrow. "The snow's picking up,"
"O-Oh..." Chip laughed embarrassed, remembering that he had been inside all day. "Right...Bye." With that, he left and Mike looked at his little sister, who was yawning slightly.
"Are you getting tired?" He joked. "I thought you wanted to be a night guard someday, Mel." His sister went pink before she hopped off the bench.
"And that day is today!" She yelled as Mike and her entered the pizzeria as Mike steadied himself, his older brother instincts kicking in; none of the robotic animals were going to get to the office tonight.
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2 AM
"That thing in the office is annoying." Bonnie said as he stayed on the stage with Freddy; Chica decided to try and get to the office.
"Agreed." Freddy said as he glared at the security camera; while the little red light wasn't on, it didn't take too long before it did before turning off. "It's been going much faster than the past few days..."
"Maybe it's learning?" Freddy scoffed.
"Yeah right...Chica? What's wrong with you?" Freddy and Bonnie looked as the bird walked in.
"T-T-Th-There-" She stammered before she clucked and her head movement glitched several times; her nervous habit.
"Breathe, Chica," Bonnie said. "In, out, In, out..." Chica huffed several times before managing to go back to normal. "There...now once again..."
"There's a child in the office!" You could've heard a pin drop as the animatronics looked at each other before looking at the where the office was.
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"Man...other than that bird getting close, this is really boring..." Melody whined as she flipped through the tablet, while her brother was carefully manning the lights and doors. "I mean like really really boring..."
"Yeah..." Mike said slowly, deciding to just humor her instead of telling her the truth. "Ah-A-Ahcoo!" Melody jumped and looked at her brother.
"Mikey! I thought you said you went to the doctor's for that cold!" Mike rolled his eyes and sighed.
"I'm fine, Melody." She looked at him and rolled her eyes. "Really, I am."
"Uh...huh..." Mike sighed.
"Is there any movement now?" Melody looked at the cameras and raised an eyebrow.
"Uh...There's nobody on stage...hmm...Oh! The bird is in the dining room..." Mike frowned as he closed both doors.
"We'll just camp out here..." He said as he took the tablet from Melody. "And in a...an hour," He shook his head. "We'll see if they go back to the stage..."
"Mike..." Mike winced as his head began to throb.
"I'm fine...I'm..." Despite how hard Mike was trying, his eyes rolled back into his head and he slumped over, blacking out.
"Mike...? Mike?! Mikey?!" She shook his shoulders, trying to wake him up. "Mike!" She leaned onto his chest and listened, letting out a breath when she heard his heart beating. She sighed quietly before there was banging at the door. She jumped before hitting the light button warily, lighting up the face of the bird and the confused face of a bear.
"See!?" The bird said. "Just like how he was...before you know..." Melody wasn't sure what she was talking about but she needed to help her brother.
"H-H-Hey!" She yelled, hoping to get their attention. "C-Can you help my brother?" The bird and bear looked at her. "H-He blacked out, and I'm worried." Melody lifted the keys that Mike had given to her, making her promise to run for that backroom if things went 'fubar'. "Mike said that the Mr. Manager Guy gave him the keys for like a bed room...or something..." Freddy raised an eyebrow. "Can you help carry him there?"
"What are you talking about? That endoskeleton..." He trailed off as his jaw dropped. "Wait..." He quickly shook his head, much to the confusion of the bird. "Open the door!"
"Not until you promise to help my brother!" Melody demanded. "You've got to promise to help him!" She stood definately as she glared at the bear, praying that she was asserting herself like how her mother did when suited men would come over. She watched the bear look at the bird and seemed to be having a silent conversation. After a few minutes, the bear turned back to her.
"Fine, we promise to help your brother out..." Melody nodded slowly and pressed the door button and opened the door, before stepping closer to her brother and taking his hand. The large bear stepped into the office, followed by the bird.
"Thank you..." Melody said as she kept a tight grip on her brother's hand. "Mikey said that that bedroom thing was behind the stage or something..." Freddy nodded slowly as he picked up Mike, who barely let out a groan, surprising the bear, who looked at Melody. "He's been dealing with a cold for a while...Momma said that it just might be a flu bug, but Mikey's never done well with getting sick...I think Momma said he's got some immuny-immunity-getting better issues..." Freddy had no idea what she was talking about, and he knew that, under normal circumstances, he should be stuffing the night guard into a suit, but the little girl had a tight grip on his hand, and he did make a promise to her, after all.
"O-Ok...Chica, lead the way to backstage...ok?" The bird nodded slowly with Freddy and Melody following behind.
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Later
"M-M-Mr. Marionette?" Freddy asked, looking at the gift box that was sitting under the camera for the kitchen. "I-I'm ready to play the song for you...I-if you want me to of course..." A few moments later, the box open, the resident, despite the smiling mask, looked annoyed.
"You're late."
"I k-know sir...S-Something came up with the...guard, sir..."
"Did you punish him?" Freddy took a deep breath, his gears creaking and groaning in protest.
"No sir..." The masked animatronic raised a painted eyebrow. "T-There was-H-h-He brought a child with him, a little girl...she claims to be his sister…" Whatever the reaction the animatronic was having, Freddy wasn't able to read it, making him even more nervous.
"And where is...this child?"
"The spare room in the back that the manager uses...the en-the night guard, ah-erm...I think the word she used was 'blacked out'..." Freddy watched as the animatronic furrowed his brows, deep in thought. The animatronic quickly got up and out of his box and seemingly floated out of the kitchen. Freddy quickly followed the animatronic to the back room, and easily opened the door, despite Freddy knowing that he watched and heard the girl lock it. Freddy followed and watched as the puppet-like creature stand and looked at the scene before him, graceful suspended in midair, like a puppet waiting for its cue. Apparently the girl, who Freddy remembered that he didn't get to catch her name, a completely unacceptable practice for him to continue he realized, has fallen asleep while keeping an eye on the night guard. Freddy started to become worried; what was the animatronic thinking or planning? "M-m-Mr. Marionette?" The animatronic looked behind him, as if he had forgotten that he was being followed. "Sir...are you alright?" The animatronic looked back at the sleeping duo before looking back at the much larger bear.
"I am fine...I would like to have my music now." Freddy smiled as the marionette walked past him, back to his box. Freddy quickly followed as he started up his music box for the marionette as the pale figure of a four year old boy in a black and white striped shirt faded in, watching carefully as Mike stirred and held Melody closer. The child sighed sadly before he heard the faint tune of the 'Toreador March' and he vanished from view.
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What's this? A long(ish) chapter? Some hints at FNAF 4 characters? A New AU? Melody and Mike being bad ass double teaming? (Course Mike was out of commission for the last half, but we'll let that one slide for now)
All that and more in this (admittedly a remake but I digress)
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