Hey there, so anyway, this is going to be a short but good chapter (I've been bugging myself to write this one for a while.)
Hope you enjoy it,
Apologies for any misspelling and punctuation errors.
Chapter 10- A bedtime story
8:15 PM
Vincent looked outside and saw that the sun had set. From a poet's point of view the life that the day had once seemed to vanish and be replaced by the cold night. From an optimist's point of view, it meant that tomorrow had to be a better day, from a pessimist's view, it meant that a good day was over for all of eternity.
And from Vincent's point of view, it was just time to get the animatronics to sleep, and hopefully think of a plan to get him out of this mess. Hopefully in the quietest and quickest way possible.
He stepped back inside, and saw Goldie and Chica playing their weird tumble-game in the middle of the living room. Foxy was also standing on a couch and sparring with Freddy and Bonnie….like and actual pirate captain.
As cute as this all was, They had broken a rule.
Specifically a rule about no roughhousing in the living room.
Where there were Lots of fragile and breakable things.
"Kids!" he said in a rather loud voice. Causing them to stop their playtime in a second.
"What did I tell you about playing in the living room?"
They seemed a bit sad, and then Foxy then jumped off of the couch along with Freddy and Bonnie.
"Not to do it?" He asked
"And what exactly did you guys do?"
"Played in it." He said sadly
"Exactly, now go to sleep." He said
"But It's only-"
"It's bedtime when I say it is."
Foxy as a bit quiet, and then hung his head low and walked into Vincent's room. Soon, Goldie, and the other animatronics followed after him.
"What about baths?"
"You don't smell bad, so you don't need one." he said
Foxy shrugged and kept walking. In reality, Vincent was just too lazy to clean them, also he didn't feel like he was willing to actually bathe them.
He looked in the room and saw that they were all in bed and looked rather snugly together.
Vincent turned off the lights, and saw that their eyes lit up.
He turned them on, then back off again. Their eyes still lit up.
"Daddy, are you okay?" Chica asked
"Um….yeah. Goodnight." he said as he walked away from the room and closed the door.
"Can you tuck us into bed?" Foxy asked
He sighed and went back into their bed and then proceeded to tuck them under the covers. He then left the room, only for Chica to say something.
"What about a bedtime story?" She asked
He sighed.
Of all the things on planet earth that these…..Kids wanted, why a bedtime story? Why not a movie or some other kind of entertainment that would make them fall asleep?
"Well….um."
He tried to find a way to squirm out of this one, he looked on the little bookshelf in his room, and found that it was mostly filled with adult, economic novels, and a few For Dummies books.
"I don't have anything to read to you." he said "Unless you want to be bored to death by economics."
"I don't know what that means," Chica said "But, took on that thingy near that other thingy."
He saw that she was pointing with her wing towards his nightstand, where there, there was a large, yet skinny book.
On the title in large font and color, it read The giving Tree.
Vincent was really lost, he never even owned a book like that in his entire life, yet bought one, yet here was one that Chica was begging him to read.
He sighed, he didn't know much about his books, except from the title, it probably had tons of rhymes and had illustrations. He sat down near them and opened the book up.
Do I read it or something? He thought.
"Um…. The giving tree by Shel Silverstein." he said, feeling like he had reached the pinnacle of all idiocy and dorkness in his entire life. He opened the book and found that the first page had an enormous picture, and only one sentence on the entire two pages.
"Once there was a tree…" he said as he turned the page.
"Can't you do once upon a time?" She asked
"That's only for princesses stories!" Foxy rebuked
"I will only read what Shel intended for this book to be read!" Vincent shouted, causing them to be quiet.
"And she loved a little boy…." he read, feeling like this story needed to be more deeper and preferably have more illustrations. "And every day, the boy would come and he would gather her leaves, and make them into crowns and play king of the forest…"
"Why the forest?" Foxy asked "Wouldn't it be better if he was king of the world?"
"Don't question the logic of the book." He said flatly "Anyway, He would climb up her trunk, and swing from her branches, and eat apples."
He made a brief pause to make sure that none of the animatronics had any comments to say about the story, they didn't.
"And they would play Hide-and-go-seek, and when he was tired, he would sleep under her shade."
They were still quiet.
"And the boy loved the tree…"
Suddenly, Vincent felt something wrong, like he had been touched in his chest or his belly button or other sensitive areas of his body.
But he kept reading.
"Very much, and the tree was happy."
They were still quiet.
"But then time went by, and the boy grew older. And the tree was often alone."
Suddenly, Vincent felt…..sad for the tree. I mean, what kind of douchebag would abandon a friend like her? and especially one that would play with him all the time. Then, he had felt another part of his body hurt.
His heart.
He remembered that one day, not so long ago, he was that boy. And he too had done the same.
Only, his friend wasn't a girl, or a tree.
His friend was a tall redhead, who would stay with him until the very end.
Or at least until he had was assigned the job at Freddy Fazbears to attempt to shut down the restaurant. Overall, he did more than just abandoning him.
He killed him.
He also left enough evidence for people to believe that Jack was the suspect, and as a result, he was able to get away.
He closed the book.
He felt something wet on his nose.
At first he thought it was some kind of booger, or sweat. But when he had traced it, the droplet had lead directly to a tear duct.
It took him a few seconds to realize that he had shed a tear.
He was about to see if the kids were wondering why he had stopped reading, when they were still quiet.
He saw that they were fast asleep, almost to the point where he thought they dropped faster than an alcoholic after his tenth drink.
He got off of the bed and turned the light off.
But he brought the giving tree with him.
He was about to leave when he had heard a whisper
"I'm still awake," Chica said "You can read to me."
Vincent then sat down next to her and read the story.
But about four pages more, He saw that Chica had fallen asleep.
Which was good, since she didn't see Vincent cry a bit more.
He had left the room and sat on his couch, with The Giving Tree next to him on the arm part of the couch.
There was some part of him that said Go on, finish the book.
He sighed and picked it up and continued reading. In a nutshell, he saw that the little boy grew, each time taking a part of the tree until the once magnificent-yet-simply-drawn tree was nothing more than a stump. And when the boy was an old man, he had sat on her.
But for some reason, she was happy.
He had felt like, some part of his old self, some part that once had been all but forgotten, was found again.
He closed the book almost screamed.
For on the back, he saw that there was some kind of hobo there that would come up to him in the middle of the night rape him.
It took him a few seconds to calm down and lower his blood pressure, but eventually he learned that it was just a picture of the author.
It's okay, He told himself He can't hurt you...He then put it aside and tried to think of something else, but he was lost in his own thoughts at this point, almost wondering if it was actually a good thing that he had managed to kill those children.
He sighed.
It would be best if I thought of this tomorrow.
He then got into the couch and yawned, not caring about what would happen if Valarie somehow managed to escape, or that he was burdened with the children he had killed, and then after what felt like hours of dozing off, fell asleep.
End of Chapter.
Well….that was an interesting Chapter, but I hoped you guys liked it.
Can't wait to see you next time, Bye!