Its eyes glowed through the darkness like floating white orbs. Another flash of lightning and its whole figure was shown. The animatronic just stood there, every joint of its body twitched as it looked back at Nick, the heavy rain and the bursts of lightning never seemed to bother it. Its remaining leather skin was soaked by the droplets of water with thick dark blood oozing from the decaying cadaver inside. Springtrap tilted its head to one side and waved at him.

A loud thunderclap caused a power surge, putting out the lights of the hospital and the streetlights outside for a short period of time. He looked back outside and the animatronic was gone.

He was torn between reality and imagination... Is it really alive? Is it coming for me? Am I going crazy?

The poor man was going insane, he does not know what to do but to escape this place. His whole body ached as he tried to get out of his bed, he was not yet allowed to move as the burns haven't completely healed yet, but staying in his room like a sitting duck is much worse.

He yanked out the IV cord from his arm, opening the fresh and deep wound where his blood began to flow from. He then removed the heart rate monitor from his chest then dropped to the floor with the impact sending surges of pain through his body. The burns on his legs made contact with the cold tiles and created friction as he dragged himself towards a pair of crutches near the door. He was screaming while he struggled to reach for it.

Nick was able to reach the crutches, he forced himself to stand up, trembling as he stood up on both his legs which haven't fully healed. He hobbled slowly towards the door and reached for the knob. Nick's heart pumped like it was going to burst out of his chest as he felt the cold metal ball with his fingers. The door budged open and he peeked out: the hallway was dead silent and the place was dimly lit, the fluorescent lights were faulty. He got out of his room and turned left, at the far end of the corridor was a dark grey door with the label:

SURVEILLANCE ROOM

He hurriedly limped towards the room, every hop shocked his body, he was staining his white hospital gown with his own blood. He was half blind, a large bandage was covering a portion of his left eye. He swayed side to side as he made his way to the room.

Then his knees gave way and he slumped next to a wall, it felt like everything would collapse on him.

The cries for help he was hearing in his dreams came back.

"Help us... Help us..."

He shut his eyes and covered his ears, "Stop." Nick cried, grasping his his hair and tugging on it as tears were flowing uncontrollably down his face.

He was losing it.

But Nick managed to force himself to standing up and continuing to go to the room but he was still terrorized by the pleas for help.

"Leave me alone! Please!" He whimpered.

Help us...

The storm never stopped, instead, it poured harder, muffling his screams for help. He managed to get into the room, shoving the door open and collapsing on the floor. He pulled his numb legs inside then locked the door behind him.

In front of him were four monitors that displayed various places of the hospital: camera one had the footage of the parking lot, pointed at the main entrance for the cars. Camera two had a video feed of the second floor hallway and its dim faulty lights. The third monitor showed the hallway where he was earlier, and the last screen had the video of the area near the door of the surveillance room. All of the feeds were dark, as only a few lights were turned on.

He pulled himself up the chair, he sat on it and watched the cameras, monitoring every section of the place...

It was happening all over again.

Fear took the best of him, he nervously checked the first monitor but as soon as he laid his eyes on the it, its display went static. Nick knew what it might be, that by the time the display returns that it could be standing there.

The video returned, he was expecting the worst but instead it showed the parking lot and nothing else, neither a silhouette of the dreaded monster nor even a glimpse of its limb. He pressed a button that switched to another part of the hospital, it displayed the main lobby of the place but there was no sign of it. He checked monitor two: still the same hallway and no signs of Springtrap. Next was camera three: not a trace. His heart pounded as he slowly turned his attention to the last monitor that had the feed of the place just outside the room. To his surprise, the corridor in the video was spotless, it was peaceful, there was no figure standing there.

Nick was relieved, he laid back on the chair and took a deep breath. It was just all in his head. His eyes slowly closed, letting his exhaustion conquer him, never caring when will the nurses notice that he had left his room. But something caught his attention: a small button beside each monitor was glowing. His smile disappeared and the drowsiness was shocked out of him as he looked on the video feed, there was a text on the upper right corner of every screen:

PAUSED

"No. No." He gasped, reaching out a trembling hand towards the button of the first screen and pressed it. He prepared himself of what ghastly image he might see...

But lobby was still untouched, not a single furniture out of place, same goes for cameras two and three, it was still peaceful. He turned to the last screen and unpaused it, there was nothing there, only darkness as it was pointed to the dark grey door.

He looked back at the monitors to double check, checking one to four and he smiled while was doing it, nothing odd or scary. He laid back on the chair, let out a weak chuckle and exhaled. Everything was fine.

It was until a pair of glowing eyes pierced through the darkness of the last screen.

Nick jumped, it was there, just outside the door and staring back at the camera with its frightening glare.

"Oh God." He dropped on the floor and reached for his crutches as the fourth monitor went static again, "No." He pulled himself across the floor.

Nick looked up the door where there was a small glass window: A deteriorating grinning face of a rabbit was peeking through the glass, it was already there watching his every move.

He screamed and Springtrap smashed the glass window and reached for the lock. "SHIT!" Nick pulled himself on the floor as the animatronic desperately tried to get him with the burning with desire to kill its latest victim.

Nick saw a rack beside the door and without any hesitation, he reached for it and began shaking it. The monster pounded on the door as it stretched out its arm to claw for him. "NO!" Nick wailed. His efforts to shake the rack was not enough, he used his feet and began kicking the foot of the shelf. The pain around his broken leg was excruciating as the cast around it cracked open as he kicked the shelf.

He bit his fist hard as the pain soared, the plaster had shattered exposing his injured leg, he kept kicking all while Springtrap tried ripping the door open. He pushed himself to kick harder and caused a foot of the shelf to break and fall over, blocking the door.

It might've bought him some time but it wasn't stopping it from getting him. Nick grabbed one of his crutches and hurriedly rose up and dragged his still broken foot as he hopped to another exit. He glanced back, his pursuer was gone, leaving only a large hole in the door.

BANG! The partially destroyed door began cracking at the center.

BANG! Another loud punch was thrown.

Adrenaline pumped inside him and he ripped the other open the same time the other gave way. "FUCK!" He pulled the door close and locked it, sealing Springtrap inside the surveillance room. Nick continued moving away from the place as the monster inside started to punch the door. He limped along a dark corridor, he was bleeding profusely, leaving trails of blood on the white marble floor.

The pounding on the door went away and everything fell silent once again. He could be anywhere by now, Nick thought.

Then there was a sound of something moving in the vents.

It wasn't over. "Shit." He resumed hobbling as the sounds became louder. Mind racing and body trembling from the wounds, he was running for his life, but being seriously injured was making it hard for him.

"Nick!" Someone called out, he turned around and it was the same nurse who had been with him earlier. She was with a fellow male nurse. "Oh God! What happened?!" They saw his terrible condition and rushed towards him then grabbed his arms.

"Please let me go!" He cried, trying to break free from the two nurses' grip, but he had grown weaker from the past encounter.

"Why did you leave your room?" Scolded the male nurse. "It's dangerous for you to be here."

"No please, you don't understand!" He struggled, "He's coming." Nick desperately attempted to get away. He limped but they had him firmly in their grasp. His knees buckled and he fell to the floor but still with the intention of escaping.

The female nurse held his face in her hands, "What's the matter?" She asked. Nick stared back into her eyes that seemed to show concern towards him.

"H-he's coming." Nick stuttered then caught a glimpse of her name tag:

Jodi Bronson

"Who?" Jodi asked. Another flash of lightning and the lights went out, and after a few seconds the power returned.

And they were no longer alone.

It was standing behind the nurse.

Nick screamed as the animatronic grabbed the male nurse's head. Jodi looked back and saw the entire thing: the deteriorating face, bleeding joints and menacing eyes. She watched in horror as the creature lifted up her colleague, and in one swift movement, Springtrap violently twisted the poor man's head around then snapped his neck, sprouting blood at Jodi.

"NOOOOO!" She shrieked as the rusting animatronic slowly turned its head towards her. Nick hurriedly stumbled to his feet as Springtrap slammed the dead nurse's corpse on the ground like a ragdoll, shattering the bones in its body.

Jodi placed Nick's arm around her shoulder and helped him run to the elevator.

She pressed the button anxiously waiting for the doors to open while Springtrap hobbled after them. Her heart raced, her fingers kept pressing the button as it drew closer, "Come on!" She cried.

Nick banged on the metal doors, "COME ON!" They heard the metal footsteps growing louder.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Along with the metal noises was the sound of bones cracking. It was only a few feet from them.

"SHIIIIT! SHIIIIIT!" She screamed. Then the doors finally slid open. Springtrap lunged at Nick but Jodi managed to pull him away the second the animatronic pounced.

They ran away from it and decided to find another way out. Nick groaned as he skipped on one leg while dragging the other. The nurse pushed open a door and locked it behind them, "Down here!" She whispered as in front of them were a flight of stairs.

Then the door from the floor below opened and a rabbit silhouette appeared by the doorway, it began making its way up the landing.

Jodi gasped and pulled Nick back out of the stairwell, they ran back to the hallway and went past the headless body of the nurse swimming in a puddle of blood. The two went around an oval counter which was for the nurses' station. Jodi laid Nick beside the counter and crouched down with him as metal footsteps echoed through the corridors.

Nick was pale, wounded and exhausted, he was catching his breath.

"W-what is that thing?" Jodi whispered, she was weeping over her dead friend.

He quickly covered her mouth, "Be quiet." He breathed, "Whatever that is is that it's hunting me down and wants to kill me."

The girl's eyes widened, she whimpered under his palm, tears were streaming down her face ruining her mascara, she looked down and saw her all white uniform stained with crimson.

Nick held her chin up, "It wants me." He looked into her frightened eyes, "I'm gonna lead him away and you run for help."

"No, you'll get killed!" She mumbled. Then all the lights went out. Only the emergency lights were left, dimly illuminating the place with its yellow hue.

"Do as I say." Nick held her hand and squeezed it. Jodi hesitantly nodded. He pulled himself out of the counter, his wounds were stinging at every budge he made. He supported his weight on the table, "Go." He whispered her to go. Nick went back into the hallway as soon as he heard her heels cluttering on the floor.

"I'm here." He weakly said before leaning on one of the walls. Then he heard the same metal footsteps.

There was silence, only his heavy breaths were echoing through the corridors. Nick was terrified, he felt a knot in his throat, cold sweat trickled down his face and warm blood flowed on his arm.

He slowly backed away until he felt his back lean against a wall when he heard heavy strangled breaths behind him.