Chapter 4: A Flicker of the Light - Night 2

With the deadly restaurant a few yards away from her sight, Alikki tried to sooth her mind to the best of her ability. She told herself that she would try her best to remain calm in any given situation that was about to come her way. And she would try not to snap sat her boss, as she was his employee, and she knew that he still capable of firing her, despite what he said about her.

She approached the doors, rushing through the!. She was immediately greeted by a man standing tall in her way. He was dressed in a black suit and a red tie. His shoes were covered with dirt and there were small strands of wire sticking out of them.

"Ah, Alikki," Mr. Faz let out, surprise in his tone, "You've come."

The female forced out a smile, brushing the hair away from her face, "Yeah. I've decided it was best for me to come back."

"Glad to hear it," he gave out a small, irritable chuckle, patting Alikki's shoulder. "You're a tough cookie, you know that?"

"Thank you," she replied awkwardly. There was still a fake smile across her face, but her eyes only glared at the man, making the smile fade some. "Anyway, I should be going to the office now, don't you think?" She waved, and started walking away."

"Now wait just a minute," answered the man harshly, "You've still got some time. Why we don't we have a chat?"

Sighing with annoyance, the female turned back around, "Chat about what?"

"About anything!" He shouted, all the harshness gone. "Come, we shall go to the dining room."

Alikki grumbled, "Fine."

Mr. Faz smiled greatly, "Excellent! Come on then." Both he and the girl walked across the building, towards another hall. This one was lighter then the one to Alikki's office, and there were stains on the carpet. Some party hats were strewn along the walls, making the girl wonder if there were any janitors working. She followed the tall man to a large room, where multiple tables were strung about. There were multiple party hats located either on top of the tables or on the floor around them.

"Do you have any janitors that work here?" Alikki asked, "If so, they do a terrible job."

They settled onto one of the tables before Mr. Faz answered. "We just had a party today you know? The janitors had the day off so they weren't able to cleanup the place." He smiled, "It'll be done tomorrow."

"..anyway," The girl spoke up, looking around the large room. She saw strange pictures and paintings. "What do you want to talk about?"

"Well," the man placed his left hand over his cheek, making himself give a half smile, "What do you think of this place? Pretty magnificent huh?"

Alikki hummed, "Yeah, 'magnificent.'" She replied sarcastically. "Actually, I have something to ask." She placed her elbows onto the table and folded her hands together, "Why does this place have such a dark atmosphere? And how are those animatronic creature alive? And who's the guy on the recording?" She faked a smiled.

Mr. Faz stared at her dark eyes, giving out his own smile. "To answer your questions at once, I have on clue of what you are speaking about." He laughed in a tone that showed he was pushing something away, "Dark atmosphere? Where? I don't feel such a thing. The animatronics alive? Well, they are animatronics,they are made to play music. And whoever that recording you're talking about, I certainly haven't a clue!"

"You can't be serious, can you?" Alikki said, raising her voice, "You cannot be that oblivious. This his your restaurant, you should know what goes on in it!"

"Watch your tone with me Missy," he replied violently, "I am your boss, and I can do as I please."

Alikki breathed in, and faked another smile. "You're right, I apologize," she said through gritted teeth.

"Your apology is accepted," Mr. Faz answered.

Alikki stood up, "Anyway, if you don't mind, I've got a job to do." She awaited approval, no matter how hard she wanted to leave without it.

"Very well, you may go."

"Thank you Sir," the girl said turning around. She walked with fury in her stride. Biting down her bottom lip, she glared out in front of her, until she approached her office.

Getting situated onto her seat, she lingered over the controls, and awaited for the twelve o'clock bell to start ringing.

"That bunny better not show his ugly face to me today," Alikki said to herself, "I'll bash his metal head in with my flashlight!" She crossed her eyebrows and shook her head, thinking, 'If that's even possible to do.'

The bell suddenly rung out into the darkened room, causing her to jump back into her seat. Grumbling to herself, she readied herself, and as soon as the bell went silent, she began pressing the buttons, changing the camera view. She found that the three usual animatronics -the bear, the chicken, and the bunny- were in the back room again, just as they were the night before. They were silently standing in place, as if taunting the girl. Changing the view, she saw the the curtain to Pirate Cove was still closed, and since she had yet to see the Foxy in the night, she guessed that it was behind those curtains. Given that it had a hook for a hand and an eye patch, she classed the fox to be a pirate. And pirates must belong to pirates Cove, set concluded.

As she continued scanning through the different cameras, she heard a static erupt in the room, and a voice spoke out.

"Uhh, hello? Hello?"

"Oh great," Alikki said rolling her eyes. She pushed some more buttons, "you again."

"Uh, well, if you're hearing this and you made it to day two, uh, congrats!"

"Why thank you every so much!" The female said sarcastically, with a fake smile, which quickly turned back into a frown.

"I-I won't talk quite as long this time since Freddy and his friends tend to become more active as the week progresses. Uh, it might be a good idea to peek at choose cameras while I talk, just to make sure everyone's in their proper place. You know..."

"Um, I think I'm way ahead of you there." Alikki heard a deep, metallic groan from the hallway to her right, causing her to quickly close that desired door. "If you're that Bunny... You can fuck off!"

"Uh... Interestingly enough, Freddy himself doesn't come off the stage very often. I heard he becomes a lot more active in the dark though, so, hey, I guess that's one more reason not to run out of power, right?"

Alikki scoffed, "You're starting to bug me you annoying piece of..."

"I-I also want to emphasize the importance of using your door lights. There are blind spots in your camera views, and those blind spots happen to be right outside of your doors."

"...There's door light?" She scanned across the various button, finding two lonely ones. "How'd I not see those last night?" She pushed button and a light to the right shone, illuminating a blue face. "Oh my god!" Alikki shouted, jumping back into her chair. She glared at the bunny, pointing her broken arm towards the small window, "Fuck you." She turned off the light, and went back to the cameras.

"So if-if you can't something, or someone, on your cameras, be sure to check the door lights. Uh, you might only have a few seconds to react... Uh, not that you would be in any danger, of course. I'm not implying that."

"Dude, shut the hell up!" Shouted the girl, opening the door. She turned the light on, and saw that the animatronic was gone, "someone running away from me?"

"Also, check on the curtain in Pirate Cove from time to time. The character in there seems unique in that he becomes more active if the cameras remain off for long periods of time. I guess he doesn't like being watched."

"I wouldn't like being watched either..." Alikki scratched her head.

"I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure you have everything under control! Uh, talk to you soon!" Static was heard afterward, then the message went completely silent.

The girl shook her head, "Well he's a big help," she joked.

There's was more laughter from the hallways and the sound of shuffling echoed throughout the building. Closing both doors, she turned the hallway lights on. To the left, she saw the yellow chicken. "Well, hello. Go away."

There was nothing to her right, so she reopened the door and turned off the light, so to preserve some power. She shone her flashlight to the window in front of her, and seeing nothing, she went back to the controls. Opening the left door after the chicken left, Alikki look through the cameras once more. She discovered that both the chicken and the bunny were back in their original positions. "Wait a minute... They go back to their spots? Why?"

Pushing the thought away, she switched the camera view to Pirate Cove, where she saw the curtain open slightly, and mangled face peeping out. "Ooh my god... You stay right there."

She looked at the clock in the corner of the screen, "Only 1:30? Ugh, it's gonna be a long night."

A/N: I apologize dearly for this late update. I've run into a bit of trouble with my health, but I won't go into the details right now. This may be a short chapter, but I don't wanna make them too long. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!