They were talking as they drove, occasionally stealing glimpses of each other. Never had a pair been so caught up in the fear of rejection. They talked about anything and everything- except love. They were far too worried to bring it up.

Chica wanted to tell him how she felt so badly that it was breaking her inside. She felt utterly helpless. She made herself empty promises; "I'll tell him soon." "If it seems like he likes me, I'll tell him." And so on. None of them were carried out. She was just lying to herself in an effort to feel better about the way she was hiding from her emotions.

Foxy meanwhile, was seriously considering telling her, time and time again, but he'd always come up with some half-baked excuse to let him chicken out. "If she doesn't feel the same, she could totally ditch me out here." "What if I scare her off?" "If I come on too strong I'll scare her and she'll hate me." Stupid, pointless excuses- not even actual reasons; just excuses. He too was lying to himself. Both of them were caught in a web of conflicting emotions and thoughts, unable to find a way out.

"We'll get to the pizzeria in about two hours." Chica said.

"That short a time? It feels like we only just left…"

She laughed. "It does. Strange how time can fly, isn't it?"

"Sure is. Looking forward to getting home?"

"I guess. It's going to feel pretty boring after all this though."

Foxy blinked. Did she mean the situation in general, or spending it with him?

"I'll miss you, y'know. It's been fun."

Even Chica was surprised at the words coming out of her mouth.

"It has. I'll… miss you too. It's been way more interesting with you around…"

Chica smiled a small, sad smile, and shifted her attention back to the road.

"Maybe we could visit you sometimes," Foxy added. "Mangle and I."

"I'd like that," Chica beamed. "I'd say I'll visit you too, but we don't have enough money for me to go anywhere too far away."

"Do you think they're all going to hate me when we get to the pizzeria?"

Chica sighed. "It's very possible. Especially with Freddy. Once he has an opinion on something, it's very hard to change it. Bonnie might not, since I trust you."

Those three words sent Foxy's heart racing. "I trust you." He honestly thought he'd never hear those words coming out of her mouth. "Well that's better than nothing I guess."

"I suppose. Will Mangle be okay with you coming to find her like this?"

Foxy rolled his eyes. "Probably not… she might throw a lamp at me again."

"AGAIN?!" Chica laughed.

They kept talking, joking and telling stories for hours on end. It was fun, and they were truly enjoying themselves. For the longest time they forgot the harsh reality that meant they would lose each other the next day.

The next day

After driving for a few hours, Foxy ended up falling asleep, his head lolling to one side. Chica kept looking over and giggling at how different he was when asleep; so much more innocent, almost vulnerable. But eventually she had to wake him up.

"Foxy," she said. "Foxy, wake up."

"Hmm?" he mumbled, slowly coming out of dreamland.

"We'll be there in about five minutes. You should probably be conscious when we arrive."

"That would be pretty helpful, wouldn't it?"

"Yep," she laughed. "It really would."

He stretched, cracking his back and neck, and very nearly obscuring Chica's vision. She had to duck under his arm to see the road.

"Oops, sorry." He said sheepishly.

"No biggie. We didn't crash."

"We could've though…" He felt really bad about it.

"I can handle it. Really."

"I guess. So where is it?"

"Just a few blocks away. Straight line for a while, then a left."

He nodded. "How do you think Mangle's doing?"

"She'll most likely be fine. Bonnie will be taking care of her, don't worry."

"You sure?"

"Positive! Look, you can just see it now." She turned around a corner, and the first bit of the Fazbear's Pizza sign appeared. She pulled into the car park and took off her seatbelt. "I guess this is it…"

"Looks like it," Foxy said grimly. "Freddy's gonna rip me apart…"

"Nah, you took me back in one piece."

"I wouldn't say I took you back. You're the one who got us here." He said jokingly. "But really, thanks for that. You could've ditched me at pretty much any point, but you stuck with me. Thank you."

"You're trying to get to your sister. I have a sister too; I know how it feels to be worried. Once when she was sixteen she promised to be home from a party by midnight. She came home at three in the morning, crying. Some jerk got her drunk and tried to rape her. Thank god she got out of there in time, or things could've gotten really bad. It was actually Freddy's brother that saved her. He noticed she'd been gone for a while and went to find her, and I am eternally thankful he did."

"Wow… oh my god…. Was she okay?"

"The dumb piece of crap never got past second base."

"Well at least he didn't get any further!"

"Yeah. Anyway, let's not talk about such dark things. Today's gonna be hard enough as it is."

Foxy started for a moment. What did she mean by that? Chica got out of the car, and he followed suite. It was time.

As they entered the restaurant, Chica was hit with a familiar smell. Everything was exactly as it had been when she left. For a second they just stood taking it in, when all of a sudden Bonnie walked out of the kitchen. She saw them and promptly dropped her plate. Her eyes went wide and she started stuttering. "Umm h-hi…. Hi Ch-chica…"

Freddy poked his head through the door. "You okay? I heard a smash-" Then he noticed him. "Why, the nAME OF PIZZA…"

And then Mari. He walked in, saw Chica and Foxy and instantly screamed before fainting.

Finally, JJ. She walked in, apple in hand. Noticing Chica, she raised her hand in greeting. "Hey Chica." She took a bite of her apple. "Hey Chica's friend."

Chica sighed in relief. "Hey JJ. This is Foxy."

"Hi Foxy. You're the other one's brother, right?"

"Um, yeah," he mumbled.

"She's not here." She took another bite of her apple.

"Not here as in she's out, or not here as in…" Chica trailed off.

"Not here as in Freddy told her to leave."

Chica turned to Freddy. "You told her to leave?!" she cried accusingly.

"That was a terrible choice of words! I did not tell her to leave! I'm not heartless!"

"I beg to differ," Chica muttered.

"Well he sent her to Fredrick, and that's basically as bad. He's gonna have her slaving away."

"JJ, don't exaggerate. Ted's not that bad." Chica scolded her.

"He totally is, but whatever." She flounced away to deal with Mari. "C'mon ya big softie."

Chica turned to Foxy. "She's not far away. We'll be there in about twenty minutes."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait," Freddy interrupted. "We? You're not leaving with him."

She glared at him. "That's not for you to decide." She looked to Bonnie. "I'll be back soon, maybe a couple of hours. Bye."

She dragged Foxy out the door and back to the car. "Get in."

"You don't need to do this, you know, I can get her myself." He protested, but he was getting in.

"Pfft. Fred will eat you alive. He's more of a workaholic than Freddy. He's not gonna give her up easy, and Mangle's not going to be particularly happy either, never mind the fact that Blu will have pretty much adopted her by now, and she and Chia are probably besties."

"Ahh. This may be harder than expected."

She hung her head to one side. "Ya think?"

Short driving montage

Chica wasted no time, marching straight up to the door and flinging it open.

"Welcome to Fred Fazbear's Pizza, how can I help you?" Blu said in a monotone, not looking up.

Chica sighed and rolled her eyes. "You do still have eyes, don'cha Blu?"

His head shot up instantly. "Oh thank god. Chia had been decompensating."

"Knowing you, that's an exaggeration. If she was decompensating she'd be in a permanent state of crying and curled into a ball under her bed."

"Yep. For a while now actually."

"Wait. Freddy wasn't meant to tell you guys!"

"Yeah well, he needed to tell Ted to get away with taking Mari and JJ, and eventually he had to tell Chia, and she started crying and then I found out. Basically everything went to hell. You have got to talk to her. NOW." He started dragging her away, but she pulled herself out of his grip.

"In a minute. Something a little more serious first; where's Mangle?"

"Hmm? Oh, she popped out. She'll be back in a few minutes."

"Good. I brought her brother."

Blu looked slightly confused. "How the hell did you make friends with your kidnappers?!"

Chica made a sound almost like a growl. "For the last time, they did not kidnap me!"

"Okay, okay. But still!"

"BY BEING A NICE PERSON!"

He cowered away from her. "Okay, okay, I get it!"

"What going on over here?" Ted inquired, peeking around a doorway, eyebrow raised.

"You're almost disturbingly apathetic to my sudden reappearance." Chica pointed out.

"Well I wasn't actually expecting you till tomorrow, but today is fine. Good actually; Chia is really upset."

"You were…. Expecting us?!"

"Mangle."

Foxy nodded. "That makes sense. She knows me well."

Chica raised her eyebrows. "Geez, she's good. I suppose I'll deal with my sister while we wait for yours then."

"Sounds good."

Chica smoothed her hair. "I actually like this top. Too bad it's gonna be drenched in tears in about forty seconds. Goodbye good top." And she walked towards her top's imminent destruction.

Chica poked her head through the door. "Hey sis," she said gently.

Immediately a head shaped lump poked out from under the bed, covered with blankets. "Chica?!"

"Do you have any other sisters?"

Chia flew out from under the bed and almost knocked Chica over. She would've, had there not been a wall.
"Do ya wanna push me any harder, Chia?"

"WHERE WERE YOU?!"

"Y'know, travelling, making friends."

"Making FRIENDS?!"

"Yeah…"

"WHY?!"

"Because. I know you probably have a bad impression of them, but they're actually really nice people."

Chia shook her head, utterly giving up. "I don't even care. I'm just glad you're back."

Chica patted her on the back, smiling. "In that case, am I allowed to stand up?"

"Oh," she said sheepishly and got off her. "Sorry."

"It's fine; you were worried, I get it. Now if you're okay with it, I have to go wait for Mangle. You've met her, right?"

"Oh yeah, Mangle's awesome! She's so sweet!"

"Well there you go. Her brother's just as nice."

"That's not what Mangle said."

"They parted on a bad note, now come on; I have to make sure she doesn't kill Foxy when she sees him."

She dragged Chia out of the room, with Chia hanging onto her room. By the time she made it to the front desk where Blu and Foxy were waiting, she was exhausted and Chia was still obstinately digging her feet into the ground. Foxy snickered.

"Oh shut up. I've dragged her all the way from her room; it's not my fault she doesn't want to come."

Chia gave a little "hmpf" and turned her head away from Foxy.

"Chia, don't do this." She didn't move. "For god's sake, why do you have to be so childish?" She still didn't move, or say anything. Chica shook her off of her arm and went to the door. "I think I see her!" she called after about a minute.

"Really?" Foxy gasped.

Chica gave him a withering look. "Would I have said anything if wasn't sure?"

"Probably not," he admitted.

"Well yes, I'm sure. I'm gonna go out to meet her."

"Okay, I guess I'll just wait here?"

"Unless you want her to get arrested for assault that would be wise."

She went out to see Mangle, and the second Mangle caught sight of her, she dropped everything she was holding, ran to her and hugged her.

"What're you doing here?" she asked breathless.

"Foxy got worried…"

Mangle let go. "You did not bring him here."

"Umm…" Chica didn't know what to do. Mangle would find out he was here soon enough, so surely it would be easier to just tell her, right? Then again, she looked really mad.

"Oh for God's sake. I'm gonna go deal with him, and your punishment for bringing him to me is that you're taking the shopping back in." And with that she sprinted for the pizzeria.

When Foxy saw her coming, he knew there could only be two reasons: she was mad, or she was happy. He was hoping for latter, but rather expected the former.

She burst through the doors, fuming. "You IDIOT, why would you come here? I left for a reason y'know!"

Clearly the former. "Look, I know you're mad, but-"

"NO! No buts. Go. NOW!"

"Sis, I spent days getting here, can you at least hear me out?"

"You have exactly one minute before I kick you into next Tuesday."

"I was really worried about you, you just disappeared all of a sudden with no explanation. I practically begged Chica to tell me where you went then I drove for days across whole countries to find you, only for you to not be there, and have to go somewhere else, and then you weren't even in. Do you have any idea how panicked I've been?! You're my sister, and I love you, Mangle, but you have driven me totally insane this past couple of weeks, and sure I'm happy to see you, but I'm still mad at you!" he stopped, panting.

Mangle took a deep breath. "Look, maybe my leaving was immature; maybe I shouldn't have done it, maybe I should've left a better note, but I don't regret it. I have friends here, and I'm not losing that. I'm fine here; I'll have a good, safe life. I'm not a little kid anymore; I can make my own choices. Grow up and realise that. It was good to see you, now go."

"Mangle-"

"What part of "go" are you not getting?"

He knew there was no arguing with her, turned around and left.

Chica called out after him. "Foxy! Wait, how are you planning to get back?"

He either couldn't hear her or didn't want to, and just kept walking.

"For Christ's sake," she grumbled as she started after him. She found him sitting on the curb, head in his hands. She felt the same twinge of worry that she'd felt the last time she found him like this. "Oh Foxy," she said pityingly.

"She told me to go, what else could I do?"

"Waited for me? I don't know. But there still the problem that I was your ride here, and it was your money we spent. You're broke and countries away from your ship."

"I'll find a way," he sighed. "I always do."

Chica was worried about him; really worried. He was clearly upset, no matter how he tried to hide it. The worst part was knowing she had no way of going with him. "Here," she said. She dug through her purse and pulled out a large amount of money. "Take it. I already owe you this much for paying the whole way here."

"Chica, I can't accept that, it's far too much!"

"Nonsense. I insist."

He was reluctant, but Chica refused to back down and eventually he had to take it.

"I still think it's too much…"

"This is non-negotiable. Get in the car and I'll drive you to the train station."

"No, really, I'm fine. I need a walk to clear my head anyway."

"If you're sure…" Chica said, lingering.

"I'm sure."

"Then… I guess this is goodbye."

"I guess it is."

They awkwardly shook hands before laughing and giving each other a hug.

"I'll miss you," Chica admitted.

"You too. It's been nice having you around. Even if I did threaten to kill your friends if you didn't come…"

Chica giggled. "Let's let bygones be bygones," she said.

"That sounds good to me."

"I hope I see you again someday," she added, a little sadly.

"You too."

They hugged again, Chica holding back a small amount of tears.

"Goodbye," they blurted in unison. Laughing, they finally parted, Chica going to the car, Foxy going in the opposite direction. They were both thinking the exact same thing; "Why the hell didn't I tell them when I had the chance? There goes any shot I had…"

Twenty minutes later, following Chica

She walked through the doors to her home again, still unable to believe he was gone. Freddy greeted her happily.

"I'm so glad you're back," he smiled. He leaned over to whisper in her ear. "Things have kinda gone to hell without you."

"Glad to be back, Freddy." Though there was a smile on her face, inside she was dying. She felt so lonely. "I'm going to go to my room and unpack,'kay?"

"That's fine."

She went in and sat on her bed. She had no idea how she was going to re-adapt to the regular humdrum of the pizzeria after the past few weeks. Everything seemed different, including her. Feeling lost, she started to unpack, hoping that would help even a little bit. After about half an hour, Bonnie burst through the door, bubbling with excitement.

"Chica, Chica, Chica! You'll never guess what just happened!"

Chica smiled. "Did the moon crash land on your enemy's head?"

"No!"

"Are aliens descending on us to ask you for beauty tips?"

"No!" she laughed. "Take it seriously!"

"Okay, okay, I don't know. What happened?"

"FREDDY ASKED ME ON A DATE!"

Chica was honestly surprised. "Wow! I don't know what to say… that's great! I'm so happy for you! Umm…. When?"

"When's the date, or when did he ask?" Bonnie questioned, tilting her head to the side.

"When's the date?"

"Oh, tonight. Is that okay? You don't mind us rushing out on such short notice when you've only just got back, do you? Because we can reschedule-"

"Bonnie, of course I don't mind! Besides, Mari and JJ are still here, right?"

"Yes. You're sure you can handle it?"

"I'm sure! Now, do you want help getting ready?"

"Dear God, yes!" The expression in her voice was so desperate that it made them both dissolve into giggles and collapse onto Chica's bed.

Meanwhile, following Foxy

Foxy scuffed his shoes along the ground. He'd left behind everyone he loved. First his sister, now Chica. The regret was welling up inside him like a volcano; violent and unexpected. What was left for him now? Nothing, as far as he could see. He was so deep in self-pity that he didn't hear the footsteps until Mangle was right behind him.

"Hey doofus," she said, hand on hip.

"Mangle!" he gasped spinning around.

"Don't get too excited. I'm not exactly here to be sweet. I'm more here to tell you to just man up already and tell her before she's gone."

He blushed. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Mangle rolled her eyes. "Puh-lease. Blu and Chia have been gossiping about you guys' crushes on each other since you left."

"What?!" he exclaimed. "That's-that's ridiculous! I don't like her like that!"

"Foxy. I've known you since the day I was born; I know when you've got a crush. Now go get her before she gives up on you. Chica can get with pretty much any boy she wants, you however are gonna have a waaayyyy harder time. Now go. Get. Her! NOW!"

"Okay, okay! Fine!"

"Good. Toodles!" she waved, and took off running again.

"Oh geez. What do I do now?"

"Thank god we came to help him. He's completely useless with this!" he heard behind him again.

He turned to them. "What is with people coming up behind me today?! Just come to my face like a sane person!"

"Sweetie," Chia said, totally seriously. "I am not sane, and neither is Blu. Don't even try to make us act sane."

"Oh dear God." He groaned.

Two hours later (back to Chica)

"Bye guys!" she called. Freddy and Bonnie were leaving for their date and while she was happy for them, she was a little stressed from having to throw a performance together in next to no time, and from having to order around others too. Chica had never been good at being in control, but they'd gotten there. Since it was Burns day, they decided to put up some decorations and hold a little Burns supper since it served a set menu and had a vague plan to it already, therefore taking off a lot of the stress from Chica. This had all been planned beforehand, but had really come in useful.

She was wearing a full length red dress, tightly fitted, but not to the point of uncomfortableness, with little black heels. Her hair was down, and she had mascara, a little eyeshadow and blusher on, as well as her signature orange lipstick. All she had to do was introduce pieces read by children whose parents had been previously contacted to arrange it and sing one song. By herself. As the closing piece. Oh crap.

The whole thing would be about an hour long in total, probably a little over. It was currently six o'clock, and she'd be on around ten past seven. She took a deep breath and went up to the stage to introduce the child doing Address to a Haggis.

An hour later (Foxy's Turn)

"Are you guys done yet?" he snarled.

Chia took a step back and admired her work. Foxy was in a tailored suit that somehow managed to be not totally formal. In fact, it looked quite casual. He was more cleaned up than usual, and he certainly wasn't as casual as he'd have liked, but he was in a suit.

"I think that's it," she nodded.

Foxy grumbled and resisted the urge to ruffle his hair back to the way he liked it. "She already knows what I look like. She's seen me when I wake up."

"This is a SPECIAL OCCASION, Foxy!" she groaned, utterly exasperated. "You're meant to try too hard, that's the whole point!"

"Okay, whatever. Wait. so why was he here? He didn't do anything." he asked, pointing to Blu.

"To make sure she didn't go too overboard," Blu grinned. "You look great, now we'd better go about five minutes ago. They're going to shut soon, we can't be late."

Five minutes later (Both)

Chica was taking the stage once again for the final performance of the night; her song; My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. She introduced her piece, took a big breath and started singing.

"O my luve is like the red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June:

O my luve is like the melodie,

That's sweetly play'd in tune."

Foxy appeared at the window though Chica didn't see him. He caught sight of her and gasped. She was truly breath taking.

"As fair art thou, my only love,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my Jove,

Till a' the seas gang dry."

She had noticed him now, and almost slipped up with the song. She was so shocked she didn't even think, and if JJ hadn't hissed at her from the side if the stage she would have stopped completely.

"Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,

Till a' the seas gang dry,

And I will love thee still, my love,

Till a' the seas gang dry."

She was looking right at him, and he right back. They were lost in their own world and couldn't even hear the cheers from the crowd.

"Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi' the sun;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o' life shall run."

Foxy finally went in, still string at her. While neither of them heard her, everyone else heard JJ yell out between the verses: "JUST KISS ALREADY!"

She was given a huge cheer from the crowd, and looked quite proud of herself.

"And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!

And fare-thee-weel, a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!

Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile, my love,

Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile,

And I will come again, my love,

Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile,"

Foxy walked up the stage throughout the verse, and joined her up there as she was ending the song.

"I will come again my love,

Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!"

Then he finally took JJ's unheard advice, and just kissed her already. The crowd was cheering so loudly you couldn't hear anything else. JJ and Mari stood at the side of the stage and waved to Chia and Blu, who were leaning against the doorway. Chia's was smiling, but all of a sudden her eyes flashed black and her grin disappeared.

"If he hurts her, I'll kill him." In the blink of an eye she was back to normal, as if it never happened.

Blu shook his head, laughing. "Sure you will, you little cinnamon roll."

"Shut up!" she cried, pushing him.

JJ saw what was happening. "Hey! You too!"

They turned around confused. "Huh?"

"My advice. You two too."

Blu laughed and Chia blushed furiously. "SHUT UP JJ!"

"This kid is so direct!" Blue giggled. "You wanna~?" Chia shoved him again, so hard he nearly fell over.

On stage, Foxy and Chica finally stop kissing. Chica blushed, suddenly remembering where she was. Foxy put his arm around her, and she simply laughed her nerves away. "That's all for tonight folks. Come back tomorrow for more Fazbear Fun!" she announced over the microphone. She set it back in its holder and practically dragged Foxy backstage.

"What're you doing here?!" she gasped.

"I had to come back," he replied with a shrug.

"Why? You seemed so prepared to leave!"

"Well… your sister gave me a little push. Literally. Into a salon. And a tailors. And even then I was still too scared to come alone."

Chica laughed. "Trust my sister, the girl who can never be happy with anyone and never gets into long lasting relationships, to force my crush to kiss me. She's totally nuts."

Foxy laughed along, but in his head he was screaming: "CRUSH? WHAT!" He couldn't say that out loud of course, so instead he just tried to act calm. "So where is everyone?"

"They went on a date," she said nonchalantly.

"Wow," he said. "And you said they would never admit it."

"I didn't think they would. Didn't exactly think you would either," she said coyly.

He blushed. "H-hey! That's not fair, it felt like you hated me!"

"Still," she insisted. "You weren't exactly nice y'know. I'm not even sure why I like you."

"Science says that if you don't know why you like someone, it's love."

"That explains a lot." She replied.

JJ leaned into the room. "I said it once, I'll say it again. JUST. KISS. HER."

Laughing, they did what she said.

"Geez," she muttered, walking off. "It's not hard."

MINI EPILOGUE. TRUE EPILOGUE IS NEXT CHAPTER. THIS IS TO GET YOU UP TO SPEED FOR WHERE THE EPILOGUE IS GOING TO START

Freddy was reluctant to let Foxy be near them, but after a while they became friends and he accepted it. After only a few months, he offered him a job and a place to stay, which Foxy accepted. They are now great friends.

Bonnie was a little nervous around Foxy for the first week or two, but after seeing how calm and relaxed Chica was with him, she decided he could be trusted. They get along well, and the four of them now go on double dates.

Mangle stayed on with Fredrick and his bunch. She is friends with all of them, especially Chia. She runs her own pirate show and often helps out in the band.

Chia still hasn't picked a boy, and is besties with Mangle.

Fredrick still hasn't asked Chia out.

Blu still hasn't asked Chia out.

Mari has a massive crush on Mangle, but hasn't said anything.

JJ and BB are dating, and it's gone smoothly so far. Trust the children to be he happiest and most stable.

Chica and Foxy are married with four kids; Chix is the oldest, then there's Brendon, Brian and Brad; the triplets. Their relationship is going well.

Bonnie and Freddy are planning their wedding and had a child who has since been kidnapped without a trace.

Shafreddy is having a whale of a time with his nephew. Shabonnie loves playing about with him too.

And there you go. That's the main story. The epilogue is pretty dumb, but you can probably get a few laughs out of it. Have fun.