Ch. 12 Hidden Lights
"So, you're going out?" Eden asked. The young girl laid upright on her mother's queen size bed, a small pocket-sized thesaurus in her hands. "Unfortunately. Fedele has planned a surprise girl's not out." Leona muttered combing her blond curls. Eden's ears twitched from her mother's tone the girl could tell she didn't want to go. She watched Leona mask herself in perfume and make-up before speaking. "Mother." Eden began. "I can tell you don't want to go, then why do you?" Leona smiled her daughter was brilliant trait she inherited from both her and Freddy.
She gently stroked Eden's golden strands. "I will go because it will make Fedele happy." Leona said walking to her closet. Eden smiled," How altruistic!" the girl squealed. Leona giggled, her a daughter learned another new word. At least, she could say that Eden used the words to compliment and not ridicule. The woman pulled out two dresses. The first was a dark red wine dress with thin straps and ruffles, the second was a midnight purple.
Both dresses were faltering. Personally, Leona preferred the color red, but the length was two inches above her knees. That was a crime especially for a single mother like her, besides it resembled too much of Fedele's tastes. She was a social butterfly and a major flirt, a dress like this was stunning in her book.
The midnight purple was lovely and the length was longer, but last time Leona wore that dress was the day before she was raped. A shiver went down her spine at the memory, her breathing increased toward a panic attack." Mom?" The woman looked to her child innocent blue eyes gazed in worry. Leona nearly forgot Eden could easily sense her distress through scent.
It was a rare ability, but at one point Freddy revealed that he was able to know what his subordinates were feeling just by a single whiff.
Leona expelled her distress and replaced her frown with a smile. "I'm alright my cub, just a headache." She said bringing the two dresses close to the girl. "Which one should mommy wear tonight?" Eden looked between the two articles of clothing. Leona noticed her daughter's nose twisted in distaste at the red dress as the girl pointed to it. "Bad idea." Eden stated turning to the other dress. "Good idea."
Leona nodded in agreement and went into the bathroom to change. "Hey Uncle Mike is here!" the guard yelled bursting into the room. He saw Eden on Leona's bed and sat down, bouncing it to make the girl giggle. He then crushed her in his hold while placing kisses on her cheeks. "So where is mom?" Mike asked. "Right here." Leona said emerging from the bathroom.
Mike was stunned when he saw how great Leona looked in her midnight dress. "Well, well, well. What's with the dress?" he said wiggling his eyebrows. "Its girl's night out with Fedele." Leona said placing her hair into a ponytail. "While, I'm gone Golden Freddy is babysitting Eden. You have fun at your shift and give my regards to Foxy, Bonnie, and Chica." Leona expressed as the doorbell rang.
The three retreated to open it. There stood Fedele, her hair was braided and she wore a short green emerald dress that exposed her thighs. "Ready?" the woman asked as her friend gave her a saddened smile. "As I'll ever be." Leona muttered.
She moved to Eden giving her a kiss to her cheek and forehead. "Be in bed by 10:00 and don't annoy your Uncle Fred too much alright?" With this Leona left with Fedele down the stairs to the car.
Eden moved to her Uncle Mike a sly smirk on his lips. "I'm going with you to the pizzeria aren't I?" Mike nodded and the two walked to the girl's room. Eden grabbed her backpack and filled it with a few toys and drawing materials.
"What about Uncle Goldie he's supposed to be watching me." Mike waved off her question. "Your favorite uncle will handle Goldie!" He shouted proudly just as the animatronic of the conversation appeared. The golden bear stood tall, his arms crossed and a small growl on his lips.
The security guard gulped. Between the brothers, the irrational and ill-tempered was Freddy. Goldie was rarely angry and when he was, it was bad news. "Goldie! I-I." Mike stuttered as the bear walked next to Eden. He gently patted the girl's head then turned to glare at Mike. "I heard everything Michael and I'm not mad. In fact, I arrived because I need to talk to you in private." Goldie stated. Mike nodded. "S-so where do you w-want to talk? The hall, kitchen, dining room…you name it!
Goldie stood next to the man. "Actually, I prefer another setting." He grabbed Mike by the back of his shirt and teleported to another location. Mike yelled, closing his eyes. He only opened them, when the world around him stopped spinning. They were on top of a tall odd building, fireworks lit the sky and he saw below streets filled with people in traditional Asian clothing. Mike nearly lost his marbles, "Dude are we in China?!" Goldie nodded feeling a bit guilty, he actually didn't mean to travel this far.
"I can finally get eggrolls from the original source!" Mike yelled in excitement. Goldie frowned hitting the man's arm. "Off topic, I brought you here so Eden wouldn't hear our conversation!" The bear animatronic said as Mike moved his attention back to the topic. "I know you took Eden to the pizzeria, even when Leona said not to! You are lucky my brother didn't see the resemblance between Leona and Eden!" The bear explained his head twitching from stress. "I'm sorry, Mike but don't bring Eden back there unless you want Leona to find out."
Mike breathed in the night air, before addressing the animatronic. "Eden snuck in my car, that's how she got into the pizzeria. I could have taken her home, but I didn't want Leona to punish her. Eden's just a kid, she knows about being half-animatronic, but hasn't experienced any bonding except with you. As a kid, I was raised by a single Mom too and my Dad was and still is in prison. I never had a bond with him, Eden doesn't know that Freddy is her old man, but just let her be around him and the others to bond. It's for the best."
Golden Freddy took of his top hat and rubbed his head. "Fine, but don't let Eden catch you and don't tell Freddy. Also if this goes south, I knew nothing." Goldie said grabbing Mike once again. "Let's go." Goldie muttered, but Mike stopped him. "Wait! Can we get some eggrolls, while we are here?"
An hour later…
"Mmm, these are tasty!" Mike licked his fingers savoring the flavor of his eggrolls. His legs positioned on the desk as he watched the pizzeria cameras. Eden was onstage drawing with colored pencils beside her were Foxy and Chica. Foxy watched her drawing admiring the handiwork, while Chica attempted a drawing of her own.
Bonnie was in the storage room playing his guitar once again, he always did this when he thought of Leona. He missed her so much, a part of him wondered what her life was like now? Was she married, did she have any children? All these questions buzzed in his head.
The thought of her being married to another didn't sit right with him, as Bonnie in the past proposed to Leona. "Impossible, they say you never forget your first proposal. Well, that is what I hear the parents during the day say." Bonnie paused when he heard laughter outside the room.
It was obviously Chica's laugh accompanied with another voice. He set the guitar aside and walked out, seeing the little girl from before. The bunny smiled, although Leona had left this girl brought light back into the pizzeria, in a way she reminded him of Leona.
"Bonnie! Come see what we did!" Bonnie with a smile walked over to the chicken as she showed him her drawing. "Great you drew a…uh….blob?" the animatronic questioned as the chicken whined. "No! It's my cupcake!" she yelled as Bonnie gave her a thumbs up. "Here's mine!" Eden yelled as all three animatronics gasped at her drawing. The picture was of all four animatronics and Mike standing on stage, it was almost a real portrait.
"Argh, the little lass has talent!" Foxy complimented making the little girl smile. "It's truly beautiful!" Chica said just as Freddy began to walk pass them. "Freddy! Eden drew a picture of us come see!" the bear groaned, but walked over to his comrades. His face showing great surprise when he saw the picture, Freddy hasn't seen such good drawing since Leona had been there.
"Well captain, what do ye think of the lassie's picture?" Foxy asked setting Eden on his lap. "Your drawing is astonishing. I was dumbfounded that someone so young would have this talent." Freddy said as the girl's eyes lit up. "You use big words too!" Eden shouted happily pulling out her small thesaurus. "I look up bigger and better words in here to enhance vocabulary." She gave the book to Freddy who looked at it shocked, like him the girl read dictionaries.
"Oh, no another nerd!" Bonnie laughed causing both Freddy and Eden to glare at the animatronic. "Bonnie that's not nice!" Chica stated just as Eden's body hardened into metal, her eyes changed to black before them. The animatronics screeched, Bonnie jumped back, until he fell to the ground. Chica and Foxy's mouths hung open and Freddy stood motionless.
In the office, Mike nearly spit out his eggrolls. "S-She how is that possible, the kid's human!" Bonnie yelled. Freddy walked close to Eden, her eyes having returned to their blue hues. He gently grasped her metal appendage. "Half, I am a mixture of human and animatronic." Eden said retuning her skin back to flesh.
Freddy released her arm, pacing a bit. This was a new discovery for the animatronics. Eden was a hybrid mixture of animatronic and human, this meant they were able to mate with humans, which should have been impossible. "Little one, is your mother an animatronic?" Freddy asked careful not to intimidate the child. "My mom is human, my dad is apparently an animatronic, but I never met him." Eden explained as the animatronic bear nodded.
What the girl said interested him, the bear needed to do his own research on this. Maybe, his library contained a book about this bizarre occurrence. But, in the meantime he had to make sure his subordinates didn't try anything, especially Bonnie. Now with this new discovery, He could see his second in command smooth-talking women and eventually bringing a hybrid into the world.
As leader, Fazbear would not be having that not, until he figured out who Eden's father is. "Hey…um it's getting late and this stinker needs to be in bed by ten. So, I'm taking her back early." Mike said taking Eden from Foxy's lap. She yawned laying her head on her uncle's shoulder, as the animatronics whispered their goodbyes.
"Wait, Mike what about her drawing?" Chica asked "You keep." Eden mumbled before falling asleep. Mike smiled, edging toward the pizzeria doors. "Say Mike?" The security guard looked back seeing Freddy tip his hat. "She is welcomed anytime." He declared as the guard hurried to his car.