Hello Sweeties and welcome to chapter 9! The number of chapters is steadily growing with each week and I find it slightly exciting. As I type this up, as I didn't bother to type it up when I typed up chapter 8... I was out and about n a vehicle for most of the day. As I ended up having to go to the funeral for a distant family member. Anyways, being in a vehicle for several hours both ways meant plenty of time to work on this story. So I actually do have chapter 10 already written up, I will just have to type it up for next week.

Also exciting news as I type this up, I noticed that I had gotten up to 403 views. It's so incredible to see that number rising each week. Though I really wish people would send me reviews saying if they like my story or not... But I will let you get to the chapter now. Please Enjoy!

He let out a soft chuckle at the statement of what I had gotten from his words. "Yes. One per night until the finally one. Loretta was disappointed in me when she found out. Matthew was upset over it, apparently he had forgiven them. What did I care though? I finally sated the hunger that had been growing since a week after my brother died. It felt good to feed the hunger I had denied for years." he told me and I could hear a mixture of emotions in his voice, a little too tangled up for me to figure them all out. Though the smile on his lips was definitely unmistakable.

Of course him explaining that to me left me with a fresh question before I moved on to the original next one I had been planning on asking him. "How did the children end up possessing the suits?" I asked him, curious to no end, as the Lore wasn't truly specific about the matter, it only hinted and that isn't the same.

He starts lightly tapping a finger on his arm, a small sign of a touch of annoyance. "That was Matthew's doing. He found out the souls had gotten stuck in their bodies. So he gave them the power to operate the suits when the suits are not in performance mode. It annoyed me that he did that, so I convinced the five of them that Night Guards were evil and needed to be put in a suit." he told me, his eyes gleaming with glee a bit at the end of what he said.

I gaped at him for a few seconds before I got myself composed once more. "You didn't worry about them hurting you?" I managed to ask him in a neutral tone. It seemed so bizarre to me that he didn't appear to have been worried in the least.

He shakes his head and grins a bit at me. "Naw. They knew me and they knew it was my last night as a Night Guard. So I didn't worry one little bit. Especially since I knew it would take them more than just a couple hours to figure out how to move around efficiently in the suits." he told me, as if it made perfect sense, and to his logic it certainly did make sense.

Being the nosy thing that I am with a mind that seemed to change itself often, I put aside my next question again for a different one. I was really curious about the different locations and wanted to know whatever information he was willing to give me about his time in them. "What did you do during your day shifts the following week?" I asked as I leaned forward a bit, my attention focuses back on him fully.

He looks off for a moment as he let's the memories surface once again. "Well. As I was permanently on the day shift at that point, over the course of about a month I lured kids away. Since my Uncle had me put my suit in storage, it was easy enough to slip into it. All the kids knew Bonnie the Bunny, but not Spring Bonnie. Their own curiosity made it simple to snatch them away." he answered my question, grinning slightly the entire time he spoke about it.

I shook my head slightly in amazement that he got away with it. But then a thought occurred to me that made complete sense. "I imagine your Uncle covered it all up once again." I said in a rather flat tone as I realized I had been dumb at first.

He shrugs nonchalantly and continued to grin at me, his eyes gleaming a bit. "I could always count on him. It wasn't until the first set of kids started to become more decomposed that things changed at the restaurant. A few parents got wise to a stench coming from somewhere. It had taken awhile because no one was allowed too close to the animatronics after Fredbear. Plus we had the air conditioning going which kept it cooler." he explained to me, continuing on his own about the events that unfolded.

I nodded slightly after he finished speaking, understanding what he was getting at. "That was when that location got closed." I said before another thought came to me. "And you had a brand new batch of kids to entertain you as you waited for your Uncle to open the next location up." I continued saying before giggling softly.

He nods slightly, his happiness growing slightly. "Yup. Though he had noticed towards the end how the others seemed a bit more lifelike towards the end. So he ended up wanting my help with getting the newest crop of animatronics to look the same way. It was rather enjoyable to work side by side with him as he built the Toy versions of the other four standard animatronics. Out of that crop I would have to say my favourite was the Fox. Even though my Uncle designed him more pink and white than red. He looked more natural than the other three. Then of course there was the Marionette. It was my second favourite." he told me before pausing briefly. "Anyways. I waited until all of the animatronics were completed and the opening day was fast approaching before revealing to my Uncle the secret behind the life-likeness." he continued with telling me after a few minutes, though pauses again as he looks off at nothing once more. "It was quite amusing to me as I had taken enough children for all of the Toys. All but the Marionette of course. As I hadn't been anticipating needing them, plus I had run out of time." he eventually finished explaining to me.

I made sure he was finished speaking, what with the two pauses already. "But how did you manage to duplicate what had happened?" I asked him, so enraptured by the details of his explanation.

He let out a soft sigh before he began to answer my latest question, "That was going to be the hardest part, but I was determined." He shook his head slightly as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other. "I took some of the nights before opening to do what I had done with the first five. On the last night, as usual for when I spent several nights alone in the restaurant, Loretta appeared for a chat. And as I had hoped would be the case, Matthew was with her. We talked for a few hours before I confessed to my 'relapse' episode. The boy wasted no time at all in going to see the kids and giving them the same 'gift' he had given the other five. Which was exactly what I wanted him to do. Except I still had one little problem." he told me, he wasn't smiling anymore, instead his expression was a bit closed off.

It didn't take my brain long at all to figure out what the problem was that he said he had had. "How to give the Marionette the same lifelike quality as the others." I said into the silence, making it a statement of fact as I knew that was what he had been not quite referring to.

He nods slightly, his eyes still holding the far off look that meant that even though he heard me his mind was also in the past. "Exactly. Since I hadn't had the time to kidnap enough children, I had to think of something else instead. I had to think quickly as I didn't have the time required to correct that. Plus Loretta might have gotten wise to what I had done." he answered me, frowning slightly now.

I could sort of picture it in my minds eye, him back then with racing thoughts as he puzzled out the predicament. Though I couldn't quite see what solution he had come up with. "What did you end up doing?" I asked after giving up trying to figure it out on my own.

He let out a low chuckle that almost seemed dark in nature. "Simple. I tricked Matthew into possessing the Marionette. Once he was inside it, I trapped him there." he told me, a hard edge in his voice.

I shook my head feeling silly that I hadn't thought of such an obvious thing. But then I realized it had apparently not occurred to him immediately either. "That completed your set. Though I bet Loretta wasn't particularly happy about it." I commented.

He lifts his shoulders into a shrug before letting them drop. His eyes refocus on the present as he speaks again, "Probably not. But she didn't exactly stick around. As far as I understand it she went back to the small Fredbear plush my brother gave her."

At hearing the last sentence he spoke I shot up off my seat. "Oh My Word!" I suddenly exclaimed, causing him to jump in startlement.

"What?" he asked me with a hint of annoyance at my sudden outburst.

I couldn't hold in my excitement as I moved a bit closer to him. "Psychic Friend Fredbear! Holy cow!" I say before letting out a soft squeal from my excitement.

His expression changed to that of dumbfoundedness as he apparently had no clue what I was going on about. "Psychic... Friend... Fredbear... What in hell is that?" he asked after slowly repeating the name I had said. His eyebrows were furrowed so deeply that it looked kind of weird to me.

Even with my excitement I feel a slight blush creep over my cheeks at his reaction. "Oh sorry, I'm getting into Lore speak. Back where I come from, in the tellings of Matthew, who is known as the Crying Child. Anyhoo, in the tellings of what he went through after the bite, there was a stuffed bear. It was described as a little plushy version of Fredbear. Everyone just referred to it as Psychic Friend Fredbear. So this makes so much more sense now." I explained, jabbering on a bit. I get a sort of handle on myself before I start talking about, "Oh, though though how did the grand opening go?"

He started at me for a moment longer, still slightly dumbfounded, no doubt over how I had acted over the situation. "Oh. Well. The opening went great. Everything was a big hit. All of the Toy versions were a huge success." he eventually said after getting his expression back under control.

I bit my lip in thought as one of the questions I had planned came back to the forefront of my mind. I was a little nervous about asking this particular question, as I wasn't sure how he was going to react to it. "How did you end up stuck in the suit?" I asked, taking the plunge and hoping for the best.

I wasn't quite sure what reaction I was expecting, but the heavy sigh that I got was not it. "That was my own fault and stupidity." he told me a little on the weary side, along with a lopsided bitter grin.

I tilted my head to the side curiously, as I didn't understand how it was his own fault. Especially given how much he knew his suit, she couldn't see how he had been stupid in regard to it. "How so? You can't leave me with that!" I say to him both curious and flustered at the mini cliffhanger.

He gives a light chuckle at my statement before he gives me eye contact as he starts speaking, "Well first off, I didn't spend as much time with the second batch of kids as I would have liked. So they weren't as conditioned and instead more resentful when it came to me. When the new location opened I was smart enough to stick to day shifts." He paused there as his expression changed slightly before he began speaking again, "Except for one day. The Night Guard called in sick and there was no one else who could cover in such short notice. I hadn't realized just how active they were at night and I knew not having a door would be a bit of a problem."

His expression turned briefly wistful before he shakes his head and let's out another sigh. "I remembered the hidden safe room that most of the regular employees weren't aware of that my Uncle had put in when the location was being built. I exerted quite a bit of energy dodging the animatronics as I went from one end of the building to the other to get to the safe room. I figured I would be safe in there, as the suits did have some programming. One of the core programs kept the kids from being able to take the suits into the safe room." he told me, his voice lowered slightly.

I listened to him with my eyes just slightly wider than normal and moved to sit next to him, my full attention on his story once more. "What happened then?" I asked him in a soft voice, feeling it was appropriate to be quiet.

He let's out a soft snort at my question before he started answering it, "I thought if I climbed into my old suit I could activate one of the other core programs. The one that kept them from attacking other animatronics. But I had forgotten about the hazard of perspiring when inside a Spring Lock suit. Normally it wouldn't have been to great a danger, except for how stiff and neglected the Spring Locks were. It only took a few minutes before catastrophic simultaneous Spring Lock failure. It was slow and agonizing. I finally knew what my brother had gone through all those years before."

I sat there in silence for several minutes after he finished talking, able to picture the scene unfold in my minds eye. Then a fresh question popped into my mind and I couldn't resist asking it hesitantly, " There's something else I have been curious about. Why, when you died, did the kids not move on?"

He glanced sideways at me and gave me another grin, his mood lifting again. "Oh that's easy. I had them all believing they had a power here while in the suits. And why would they want to give it up for something unknown. I imagine they weren't trapped in the animatronic bodies anymore." he explained to me.

I smiled back at him, happy that I had all the questions I could currently come up with answered. "That actually makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure anyone who follows the Lore would think of that. Thank you for answering my questions." I say to him as I hop off the table.

He inclines his head to me before he responds, "Not a problem. It was actually quite fun talking to you about it. You are the first person I have told my story to, dead or alive." His confession at the end made me smile more before I turned away from him to go back to my bench.

Well there you have it guys. The end of my extremely long bit about the past. I thought some of it could be interesting versions of the events that makes sense... at least in my head lol. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Feel free to leave me a review to tell me how I'm doing with it. I will have chapter 10 up for you guys next week so look forward to that. Until then, stay safe!

PS. This is officially my longest chapter so far.