Sorry about the wait everybody! Lots of tests this week! But now that I'm done, I may update again! So, Yaaayyy!
Anyway…back to your story.
Chapter 10- Confronting the killer
She really just wanted this to be over with.
But then again, her son's killer was the man who was blocking the door, so it would be pretty hard to actually call the cops on him without her going down with him. And she defiantly wasn't going back to the people who wanted her in an asylum.
But if everything went through as she planned, she would be able to avoid both the asylum and bring the killer to justice.
Katherina looked behind her. She didn't really know how much time she had left before Vincent barged into the room, but she figured that it wasn't much time.
She looked over the room until she found a vent just above her head. She stood on her toes in order to take the vent off, and then proceeded to climb into the vent, which was fortunately large enough to crawl into (Seriously, did the designers of this building intentionally made the vents that big?) and just like the other vents that she had crawled into the night before, she found herself surrounded by a whole lot of gunk and other stuff that she didn't even know could be in an air vent.
Just keep going… she told herself, reminding her that climbing in a vent was the least craziest thing that she had done so far. (She was still feeling some sore wounds from her little rosebush incident.)
She continued to crawl through the cold metal vent, and actually felt the cold breeze send chills down her spine as she crawled above and beyond the spare parts room. She actullay looked down the grate when she was passing over Vincent and saw that he was actually sticking to his word, or whatever remnant of his word he had left.
She wanted to hurt him. She wanted revenge.
Easy Katherina… She told herself. You'll have all the time in the world later. Right now, you need to catch him off guard.
She continued on as silent she could be (Which was an occasional soft thump) until she was at an intersection between two other vents. One that continued onward in front of her, and one that made a right and had a light at the end of that vent.
Shoot! She thought I'm lost!
She panicked for a few moments since she had no idea how the ventilation system worked and almost wanted to kick down the flimsy steel that was keeping her a good ten feet above the ground
"Just calm down…." Katherina told herself "The ventilation system isn't that much different from the layout, right?"
The thought created a calming relief through her. If she could at least get her bearings on where she was, she could go to the office and get a call to the police.
She remembered climbing up from the spare parts room, which was left to the office and down a long straightaway. So by using that logic, she would have to go right if she was on ground floor….
She went on the vent to the right as quiet as any person could be when they were turning in a hollow metal vent, which still made a lot of noise.
Just go slow… she told herself. But was instantly met with a contradicting reminder that she didn't in fact have all the time in the world.
On second thought… She thought maybe I should speed up a little…
She started wiggling through the vents, or at least, some kind of weak flail to speed up the turn, which actually worked for the most part and a few seconds later, she was facing the vent she wanted to go through.
Almost there… she thought as she continued to crawl again, her elbows and knees getting rather irritated from crawling on a cold metal surface that would occasionally bruise or cut her.
She continued this crawl until she was directly above the grate, which was right above the office that had a phone.
Without further wait, she then kicked the vent and jumped out of the shaft, looking around just in case somebody had seen what had just happened. To her luck, nobody was in the small office.
She scanned the cluttered desk of posters, reports and an occasional disposable plate to find to her luck a tan bulky phone.
She picked it up and proceeded to call her husband (Or any of his associates who happened to share the same number). A few seconds after dialing, she heard the familiar low and monotone beeeeepppp of the phone dialing the station
"Come one…pick up already…" She said looking around hoping that Vincent had noticed her absence.
A few seconds later, a voice was heard.
"Nine-one-one, what is your emergency?" A female voice said on the other end of the line.
"I….there's a man and he…."
What do I say? She thought would they be alright if I had just told them?
"He what?" the person on the other end of the line asked. "And don't you dare say and his name is John Cena!"
After debating about it for a few seconds, she came to a conclusion.
Just tell her, She said He is going to be arrested after all, right?
"The man in the building is a killer," She said
The woman on the other end of the line was silent for a few moments before she heard her voice again.
"Where is your current location?" The female continued.
"Freddy Fazbear's pizzeria." She said.
Silence once again breeched the conversation.
"Just remain where you are ma'am, and stay away from the man, we'll be there in two minutes."
The woman on the end of the line then hung up.
Katherina breathed a sigh of relief.
That's good… She thought Just got to hold him off for a few minutes and we'll be good to go-
She was about to turn around and try to delay Vincent when to her surprise, the man was right in the door frame.
Oh no…
There, Vincent stood looking at her with a rather upset expression.
"Just what exactly are you doing here?" He asked "This is employees only,"
"Um…." She said trying to think of a stalling technique to get him to stay for another two minutes where he'll hopefully e arrested and have her child brought to rest.
She then saw Vincent's eyes dart to the phone that she was holding.
"Who were you calling?" he snapped.
She knew from her son that this man had killed before, and most likely, she could be next if she didn't do something.
So she decided to tell the truth.
"I was calling my husband," She answered "I told him that I didn't find my son,"
"Oh…." Vincent said relaxing his gaze and almost letting out a bit of a sad voice "I…I didn't know if you were calling the police or not…but that's okay."
"What's wrong with the police?" She asked
"Oh nothing," Vincent answered "It's just that whenever those coparoos show up, some investigation occurs, and the last thing this place needs is another investigation. That'll pretty much be the final nail in the coffin for this place…. And I'd really hate to see this restaurant close."
This man seemed almost innocent. Almost like a man who was just trying to do his job. He almost seemed like he actually like this place.
Almost.
"I'm sorry about your son," Vincent said in a sad and gentle voice, "I…I don't know why somebody would do this. I mean, I love children. And I just don't know who would do such a thing…"
Katherina then saw something…scary? She wasn't really sure. But behind the purple man stood a tall purple bunny and a bright red fox with a pirate costume.
She looked behind her and saw that she too had something behind her. There was a bright yellow costume on the right door with a tall brown bear that both were looking at Vincent with their cold mechanical eyes.
Although the eyes were plastered and laminated to be friendly, they gave a aura of hatred from their bodies. And a few seconds after locking eyes oto the man, their eys changed from the once human-like eyes into black -and-pinprick-like duplicates.
Vincent also noticed this; in fact, he turned around to see the two robots blocking him from the exit of the door. Both the fox and bunny had also taken up the black eyes and white pinpricks like their counterparts to the right of the office.
He clearly looked like he was panicking, so she decided to push him a little more.
Maybe even break her like he broke her son or her mind.
"Are you scared of something?" She asked.
"Uh…n-no…." he stammered. "It's just…uh…I don't know what's going on here…"
They seemed to loom over Vincent, causing the guard to start pulling at his collar and look around.
A few seconds later, he grabbed a phone and started talking into it.
"Fritz!" he called "The robots are acting up again! Come to the office so you can de-activate them!"
Then one of them, the fox, entered the tiny office and cut the wire that was connecting the phone from the rest of the building with his hook.
No phone to send for help.
Nobody to stop these beasts from dishing their wrath on their killer. Nothing to stop him from receiving his justice.
"Thanks," She said to the fox.
"It'd be me pleasure madam," He said in an old and slightly warbled voice.
Vincent now looked like he was in panic mode, given that he was tugging at his collar more and was looking around in desperation.
"W-what are you doing!?" he asked "How did you control that robot?!"
Katherina then approached the quivering man not planning on answering any of his questions but planned on asking of her own.
"I know what you did," She said
"What?" Vincent asked.
"Are you deaf? I said I know what you did," She continued turning around and facing her son's killer "You….You took my son from me."
Vincent then let out a face of confusion and slight shock.
"Are you accusing me!?" He said "I didn't do anything!"
"Oh, we beg to differ." Said the chicken behind Katherina. She didn't sound like an adult, rather, an upset child who was just about ready to throw a tantrum.
"You know exactly what you did to us!" The purple bunny commented behind him. In a smilar voice, only with it sounding more masculine than the chicken's.
If the man hadn't lost his cool before, he defiantly did now when he had heard the children. His face contorted with shock and grimace into some sort of expression of fear which Katherina didn't think was possible considering his rather cheery character.
"But…." He gashed "How is this? How can this be?! How is this possible!?" he stammered.
"You ended the lives of my child and these children." She said through tears of anger "So maybe it seems fair that they should get back at you."
The children certainly seemed happy with that. At this point, the four robots had basically surrounded Vincent in the small office. Nowhere to run, Nowhere to hide, and nowhere to fight.
She saw the children have some sort of giddy expression as they ganged up on the their killer, ready to end his rather pathetic life.
"Come on guys," the tall bear with the tophat said "Let's get this over with,"
"I'll have ye know what it's like to lose a hand!" the fox chimed as he sharpened his hook on the nearest wall.
But as the robots loomed in she wondered if killing this man was really all that good. Despite his crime, what good would one more murder do in this place? Would children think whenever they walked in this building and remembered this place more as the place where a ton of murders happened rather than a restaurant for children?
So it left her wondering, was taking the life of this man, despite him taking her son's life, really worth it? Was spilling blood over the fact of previously spilt blood really going to clean up the giant bloodstain left over from all the blood.
Well… She thought seeing Vincent let out a terrified screech as he was cornered by his victims.
Deep down she knew what she had to do.
And she really hoped this didn't come back to bite her in the but.
"Stop!"
"Can't you see that your no better than him!"
"Y-your gonna spare me?" The blocked voice of Vincent asked in disbelief.
"Yes," She sighed.
"I thought ye wanted revenge," Foxy asked.
"I do…" She said "It's just….I just don't think….I don't killing him is the right way to bring him to justice.
The faces of the robots were confused for a few moments as they thought about Katherina's suggestion.
"So…what do ye want us to do with him?"
"I'll tell you what you can do," She said as the robots cleared their way to make room for her to see the man curled up in a ball on the floor protecting his face.
"Get up!" she snapped.
Vincent then stood up trembling.
"W-what do you want?" Vincent asked "I'll give you money! If you want somebody dead, I'll kill them, just ask anything and I'll do it!"
Katherina thought about his suggestion.
"Anything?"
"Yes! Anything!" Vincent said.
She scratched her chin and smiled.
She had him right where she wanted him.
"Alright, you've convinced me. Kids, release him."
"But he-"
She then gave a look that said "do it or no candy or any fun things." Although she was a bit usure if it would work on large, child-possesed robots, but it seemed to have results given that the robots stepped out of the room, leaving only her and Vincent in the room.
The killer stood up and looked around.
"Oh thank you ma'am," he gasphed. "So…what do you want me to do?"
"What I want you to do?" She asked "Why, it's simple really,"
"What?"
She let out a smile.
"Why, your going to be a good boy and turn yourself in, that's what your gonna do."
End of chapter.
Like I said, sorry about the wait, and extra sorry to leave this on a cliff (The chapter was just soooooooo long) Anyway, see you next time! Bye :)
