Chapter 1

It was a dark winter afternoon, the sun was covered by the frost clouds, the cold bitter air setting in the frost and snow, Making the ground outside almost like spiky icicles. The grey concrete used as walkways between places turned into an ice rink crowded with falling people, many of whom were running in not proper footwear for this type of weather. The trees were just twisted branches, no bright lush leaves rested there, just large piles of snow and frost which fell on unsuspecting people at any second. In the city there were many chances for people to earn money shovelling snow out of driveways and main roads, especially when large weather systems approached.

All snow at the moment was light and soft, which allowed many children to go outside and play, enjoying every moment when their bulky coats and thick mittens met the frozen substance in games. The adults preferred to stay inside as much as possible, cranking their heaters to the maximum temperature and snuggling in with warm coffee and hot chocolate.

Within the inner city, was the huge and widely known orphanage for young kids, they were only known for having a huge amount of kids between the ages of 10-16 who weren't adopted by anyone and had to leave the place to get their own jobs and buy house. The orphanage itself was very inviting, with sounds of children always giggling present with, the door a large oak wood and the building stacked high into different levels. It had the basic things kids needed;Food, water, working heat during this weather. In this small city, most kids who were adopted where between the ages of 2-8, including some infants who were dumped there and forced upon the orphanage's carer and owner, Paige Faucet.

Now Paige didn't mind the kids and their loudness, In fact she had grown to like it. Paige opened the orphanage over 15 year ago, since she opened it when she turned 26, she was now 41, she never lost her character; or her tall figure. Paige was a startling 6 foot 4, which was enough to scare men away, her legs were the longest parts of her body; as a result she had to buy long skirts and dresses to cover up her monstrously high slender legs. Paige was like a mother to all kids, babies, kids, teens, young adults, and disabled kids, she didn't care for flaws. She loved everyone who came in and out of her heart and home; even if they weren't adopted. Paige decided today was the day to bring out her navy green thick turtle neck sweater, she wore it under her long sleeved pale orange shirt and rolled down the sleeves to her beautifully thin fingertips. She also decided to wear a long pair of black pants, that was under her long coral coloured wool skirt which covered her pretty pink fuzzy boots that kept her feet toasty along with her long socks to keep her body warm.

Thought out the years, she seen every case, from baby being dropped at the doorstep, to child abuse cases coming in, to kids from other states to kids being given to her from underaged mums who weren't ready to take care of babies. But one case always stood out to her, she had never seen unusual like the two children she loved, Mike and Jeremy. Six years ago, Both Mike and Jeremy were dumped at the orphanage one hot stormy night when they were still both infants. After a while Paige heard their wails, she swung the door open and brought the two inside, she calmed them down and searched the sheet which they were left in for some type of note or identification of who the parents where. She found nothing, besides a tag on their arms saying their first names, but no second or middle name.

It always appeared to her that the two might not be brothers, because of the facial and body differences, but they had shown up together. Over the years, they only trusted each other. Which never lead to an adoption of either of them since they both wanted to be in a family together and most of the time, families were never interested in adopting in pairs. They were only after one kid.

Paige didn't have a favourite over any of them.

Mike was a little taller than Jeremy, with short brown hair and charming, sparking blue eyes that glowed like sapphires. He had a fun but an outgoing personality. He wasn't afraid to get in trouble. But Paige always made a rule to never spank children. She only broke the rule when teenagers badly misbehaved and words didn't fix the problem.

Jeremy was a little more frighten and more clingy, he liked to stay close to Mike. With his short blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. He was shuttering most of the time, Paige had reasons to believe he had a mental disorder because of his behaviour and the reason he always followed Mike like his own shadow.

It was a fine Tuesday morning when another failed adoption happened. A lovely woman with her disabled husband wanted to adopt Jeremy because they wanted someone to love because of the fact the husband couldn't have children and he couldn't give his wife what she wanted. When Jeremy heard he was going to be taken away. He flipped out and grabbed onto the bunk bed he shared with Mike. Paige tried to convince him they were a nice family who only wanted what was right for him. But he wouldn't move without his brother.

"Boys." Paige sat them both down to talk to them alone in their room. Where they sat on their bunk beds;Mike was on the top. Jeremy on the bottom. "Most couples aren't looking to adopt two kids. I know your both hopefully you'll be adopted together but they might not happen."

"Why not?" Mike asked, "If they like one of us. They can like the other."

"Mikey Dearie. It's not that simple. I wish it was. If couples are looking for two kids. They want twins usually."

"We're brothers!" Jeremy exclaimed.

"Don't raise your voice Jeremy. Listen. If you boys don't get adopted before you turn 10 it's going to become harder to get adopted. Being six. It should be easy. But yet. You boys are scared of letting each other go. That might happen later when your forced out of here when you turn 18."

"Why don't people like both of us?" Mike asked.

"You're both a handful. Some times I struggle. Especially with 40 other kids in this place. Look. They are very lovely people out there who are unlucky in the sense they start a family from their own blood. So they search for kids like you. Because they want a family. You might stay in contact with each other by a phone or email."

"No!" Jeremy yelled, "I want my brother face to face with me! I don't want him to leave!"

"I don't want to see either of you get hurt. But if you keep ruining the interviews. The board is going to forcefully seperate you." Paige pleaded.

"The board are mean people."

"They want to get older kids out so we can make room for the babies."

"But the babies always get adopted!" Mike moaned.

"That's not true. You came here when you were babies and they didn't want you two to be adopted until you were at lease two years old. Because they thought you should learn to fend for yourselves if you end up in a horrible home." Paige told them.

"I don't want a new home! I like the one I have!" Jeremy squealed.

"Fine. There's no point." Paige lowered her head and walked away. She went on with the rest of her day. The day for her ended at four pm when a couple came to adopt one of the four year old boys.

"Bye Harry!" She waved her hand at the child who was being carried by his new foster parents to their car. All background checks were done and they were deemed to be fit enough to adopt a child. Seeing this boy made their heart melt and they lifted him away. Of course he was excited to get a new home with loving parents, he had everything packed by her into a bag and the parents placed him into the back of the car. Where they buckled him into a car seat. The friendly parents waved back at her in thanks. They drove off just as it started to snow heavier.

She was happy today. She looked over the list again. Five adoptions today. It was a good number. Even a 13 was adopted, which was considered to be very uncommon these days. She was happy when a disabled baby (who was born with a deformed arm then surrender to Paige by her mother) was adopted by a female nurse and a lawyer who promised to pay for the medical bills and her physical training so she had the best shot at life. Of course Paige requested to see updates on the little girl to see how she was going.

She always however felt a sight tinge of disappointment when Mike and Jeremy didn't get adopted. She felt like she always failed to give them what they wanted and what the foster parents excepted. It was a losing battle most of the time. She worried about when they turned 13. It would become harder for them to be separated. Then when they officially turned 18, they would be forced out of the orphanage by the board and forced to get a job and living arrangements for themselves.

She looked at the time. It was still 3 hours until dinner for the six and ten year old boys. She had to spit her time a lot.

At 6PM, she would go down to the baby nursery where all the babies and newborns were. She'd help the volunteers to feed them all and change their diapers and their clothes to get ready for bed. Then the 2 to 5 year old children would have dinner.

At 7PM, she had to put all the babies to sleep. Once they were asleep; It was time for the six and ten year old children to have dinner. She'd have them all place their dishes in the sink so they could be cleaned. Then they could go for down time to either have a bath or a shower or wind down before bedtime.

At 8PM, all the six, seven, and eight years olds would go down to bed. Half hour later, the nine and ten years old kids would be excepted to be in bed by then. The 11 and 12 year olds along with teenagers would then come for dinner. Then they would wash their own dishes and clean up a little around the space before bed at 10PM.

The volunteers left at 11PM, there was only nine full time workers who stayed all night with Paige. Of course Paige went to bed around 11:45 since they would always be kids up so she's go into every room to make sure they were asleep. Of course in the orphanage, they had three kids who had sleep issues where they couldn't sleep, Paige gave strict rules for them to not disturb other children's sleep.

But there was always children who would get up to disturb Paige's sleep. Some nights, she didn't mind. Especially since it might be babies who were crying for a diaper change that had to be addressed. Other nights she was in a crabby mood and hissed at the children.

So Paige went about her afternoon. Picking up toys from the hallways and walkways, until she heard a pouncing fist hit the door. She turned and heard another knock, thinking it was strange since she wasn't excepting anyone at this time of day. The groundskeeper didn't work today and all the adoptions were done for the day.

Once the toys were neatly back into a box, she walked to answer the door. She opened it to see a rather colourful group of people. Four people stood there. Looking soaked from the snow which settled on them and melted.

"Hello there! Do you run this place? We'd like to adopt a child. We'd like one between 4 and 8."

New story for you guys! Hope you like it! I've been working on it for over five months (mainly because I got some patches of Writer's block here and there.) I will explain this AU later on as the story develops more. Let's get some basics down anyway:

*Yes this is a human AU where all the animatronics are humans who run their own pizzerias

*Yes you will see all the animatronics in the story (including the regular, toys, nightmares, the sister location)

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