Glad most of you weren't expecting Ashton to die & tbh, I don't think you're expecting what's about to happen either bc I wasn't expecting it to turn out the way it did either haha. But, I will say it turned out better than I'd planned ;)

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Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN R5, THE VAMPS, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER OR THE GAME "FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S" ALL RIGHTS GO TO HOLLYWOOD, MERCURY/VIRGIN EMI, CAPITOL RECORDS & SCOTT CAWTHON! I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THEIR ORIGINAL OWNERS.

Chapter 20
It's Me

Ashton had been laid on the floor in the pizza restaurant for a few minutes now, curled up into a ball sobbing. He hadn't moved and he knew it was after 6 a.m., but only by a couple of minutes. He was expecting Bonnie to walk by, having Brad inside him, but he hadn't. So either Bonnie's animatronic finally broke like Chica, Foxy and Freddy's or he was slowly making his way back to the Show Stage.

After a short while, Ashton heard the sound of slow clapping coming from behind him. He got out of the position he was in on the floor and knelt, looking where the clapping was coming from where Samael was. He was the one clapping "Congratulations," Samael said, getting closer to him "you did it. I knew you would."

Ashton's face was tear stained and he was so confused right now. He slowly got up off the floor, almost falling back over again. "How does it feel?" Samael asked.

"How does it feel?" Ashton questioned "I just lost four of my best friends, how do you think I fucking feel?! It was 6 a.m.! 6 fucking a.m. and Brad got killed! I thought they switched off then! All the others had already deactivated after 3 a.m., why didn't the bunny?!"

Samael shrugged "I don't know. They're old animatronics. This restaurants been running for years and years, even before 1987. They were bound to break sooner or later."

"That's near enough what Brad said."

Again, Samael shrugged "Well the boy had common sense. You guys should have left sooner. I mean, they all wanted too, right? But... you wouldn't let them, is that correct? Cos apparently it wasn't fair to Rocky who had died on the third night, but he didn't care about leaving or not. Why didn't you let them leave earlier, Ashton?" Samael asked.

"B-b-because... it wasn't fair..."

"To who?" Samael asked "the brave people who had died protecting you because you kept staying in the security office to watch the camera's? You left the night Rocky got killed by Foxy to watch out for Foxy so he didn't get killed by him, but you failed. I mean, Foxy's footsteps are pretty heavy. How did you not hear him leave the stage?" Samael asked, continuing to question Ashton as he circled him "and what about poor Luke? Huh? Weren't you supposed to get killed by Chica? Not him? You told him to go the long way round to get to Chica, didn't you? And to think, if you hadn't had done that, Foxy wouldn't have wounded him, and he would have been just fine. Do you realise now that if Luke would have stayed in the security room with you a little bit longer that night Chica would have been gone from the door and he could have avoided that fate with Foxy?" Samael asked.

"Why are you doing this?" Ashton asked, his voice cracking as he stood still, letting Samael circle him.

Samael stopped walking "Because, Ashton, I'm trying to make you realise something," He said, before starting to circle him again "Ross. Common sense should have told you that air vents aren't strong enough to hold two people put together. Regardless if you think one's light enough and it'll hold. Again, you suggested it and they followed it because they were frightened for their life's ending, and it did. Moving onto Brad. You finally moved out of the security office to try and find a way out, but you told him to stay in the office. Why didn't you ask him to go with you? Wouldn't two people have been better than one at trying to find an exit?"

"What are you trying to say?"

"I'm trying to show you that you killed your best friends!" Samael said, raising his voice "yes, it could be argued you never, but you led them to their deaths. They wanted to leave! Why didn't you want them leave?" Samael asked.

This time, Ashton didn't have an answer. He couldn't think of a good enough reason as to why he didn't want to stop the five nights after Rocky had died, or better yet when they found the bodies of the other guys who had previously attempted this.

It was true. Ashton killed them.

"Oh my, God."

Samael sighed "But, I shouldn't be surprised. It's not the first time you've led people to their deaths."

"What?" Ashton asked, now being confused "what do you mean? How have I led other people to their deaths?"

"Oh, you were like... eight years old, Ashton. You were here with your friends, or a few of them, and you started talking to Riker, Ellington, James, Connor and Mike because they started talking to you and you ended up talking them into doing the five nights because they weren't sure whether or not to do it." Samael explained.

"What..?"

Samael smiled in disbelief "You really don't remember that do you..."

Ashton shook his head.

"Hey, kid," Riker said, getting the attention of the little boy walking by their table. He looked slightly scared that teenagers had started speaking to him. "Don't be scared, we just want to ask your opinion on something."

"Riker!" Ellington said, trying not to draw attention "he's just a kid he doesn't know anything. You'll scar him."

Riker rolled his eyes "Then I'll put it in a nice, friendly way then," Riker turned to the kid "how would you feel if you were given the opportunity to spend five nights with all these lovely animatronics," he said, pointing to Bonnie, Chica and Freddy who were on the stage or walking about and playing with the kids "does that sound fun?"

The little kid nodded. James sighed "Riker, if he knew what we were supposedly in for, do you honestly think he would want to?"

"Oh quit your whining," Riker said quickly. He turned back to the little kid "Alright. But, what if... the characters weren't who they appeared to be. What if they were mean and nasty and tried to hurt you?" Riker asked "would you take the risk?"

The little boy nodded "Yeah. But, why would they hurt you? They can't hurt you."

Riker pointed to the little kid and looked back to Ellington, James, Connor and Mike "There we go. Right there. They can't hurt us because they're programmed not to. Thanks little guy. What's your name?" Riker asked.

"Ashton."

"Thanks Ashton, you've been most helpful." Riker watched as Ashton walked away to the friends he was with. He turned back seeing everyone staring at him "What?!"

"A little boy? Really? We're doing this over advice from an eight year old?" Connor asked.

Riker nodded "It's been a while since we were kids. Maybe we should listen to one. I'm doing it anyway, whether or not you guys do it. I know I'm not going to do anything productive in the summer anyway, so..."

"I'll do it too. For the same reasons as you said." James said.

Connor sighed "I might as well do it, you'll only go on and do it without me and call me a wimp for the rest of my life if I don't."

"Or you'll leave in a casket in a Freddy suit," Mike said, letting out a soft laugh. He turned his head to Ellington "What about you, Ell? Are you up for it?"

Ellington moved uneasily "I don't know..." He said, only for the others to groan and glare at him "But... I could be doing stuff this week. And I might not get to do it because fucking, Chica the fucking Chic shoved me up her ass."

James rolled his eyes "What are you doing this week that you could possibly miss out on?" James asked.

Ellington folded his arms "Fuck you. Fine, I'll do it."

Ashton stepped back from Samael "Oh my, God. How... how did I let that slip my mind?" Ashton asked "th-that's what I did wrong... there—there was this phone call tonight... telling me... that I'd done something and that I was unaware of..."

"Wasn't there even a little voice in your head throughout these past few nights saying 'it's me whose done this'?" Samael asked.

"What does that mean?!"

"What?"

"It's me! I've been seeing it everywhere and people have been saying it unintentionally, even Brad said it before he died, I saw it on the walls, I saw it flash on the screen of the camera's and I saw it in Pirate Cove on that sign that says 'sorry out of order' but instead it said 'it's me' after Foxy left the stage and killed Rocky. Nobody else saw it and it was in front of them, staring them in the face."

"I've basically just explained it to you, were you not listening?" Samael asked "it means it was you who did this. You who caused all this to happen to them. It's you who was making them do it. It's you who could stop it at any time. Or, if we're seeing it from your point of view... It's Me who caused this to happen. It's me who's making them do this. It's me who could stop this at any time I like. And, my personal favourite, It's Me who killed them," Samael paused, watching Ashton process this all through his mind "now how do you feel?"

Ashton tried to speak but nothing would come out. He felt like crying and screaming all over again. Samael sighed "Look, you wanna know why the animatronics broke?" Samael asked, Ashton nodded "they are old, they were breaking anyway. This place is shutting down so it doesn't matter, and we're getting a new place with the same name. We're even getting new animatronics to replace the old ones, heck even a few extra ones so there's more on offer for the kids and they're not just fighting over three animatronics. We might even get a new version of Foxy instead of shutting him off all the time."

"W-what are you gonna do with the old ones?"

Samael shrugged "I don't know. Keep them in the back room? Use them for spare parts in case some things break?"

"Okay, next question, what are you gonna do with Ross, Luke and Brad? Leave them in the suits?" Ashton asked, getting defensive.

Samael scoffed "Well, I don't see you wanting to take their dead bodies out of the suits. Do you know how many cross beams, wires and god knows what else will be sticking into them?" he asked, only for Ashton to grab hold of him and shove him against the wall "alright, calm down! What I meant was that it'll be nearly impossible to get them out."

Ashton let go of him and sighed. He rubbed his head as all sorts of thoughts started to flow through his mind. He faced Samael again with a small smile "Say, Samael. If Foxy gets reactivated, will he still be a killer animatronic or be nice? You know, seen as though it's not after hours any more."

"Considering he malfunctioned and ripped someone's frontal lobe out when he was last activated during the day, I'm gonna say killer..." Samael said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world "why..?" he asked, becoming suspicious.

"Because... his suits the only one that's empty and hasn't got a body in. It would be a shame to leave him out, right?"

The time soon came for the restaurant to open, but people were still queuing outside 30 minutes later because the doors weren't open and nobody was letting them in. Not even the employees could get in because they had no key. They were beginning to wonder what the hell was going on.

That was until Ashton came to the front door of the pizza restaurant where everybody was and unlocked the door. He showed no emotion what so ever, even though you could tell by his eyes he looked worn out, tired and depressed. Before anybody could step foot over the door and get by Ashton, he shut both doors and locked them with the key he had.

After locking the door, he turned to everyone queuing up "Sorry guys, it's shut and will be for a very long time." he said, beginning to walk away. He turned his head where he saw a trash can full of rubbish and he wasted no time in throwing the keys to the restaurant in them. Luckily, they fell through gaps between the trash so that nobody could get them or dare go in to retrieve the keys at all.

"Why is the place shut?" He heard a parent ask.

Ashton stopped walking and turned around "There was an accident, and I've just finished cleaning it up."

"What happened?"

Ashton turned around and began walking away again so that he could go home.

"Lets just say, Foxy finally got a bite to eat."

Finally: Epilogue

Well... that took an unexpected turn... Ashton turned killer... I never in my mind thought that was how the 5th night was gonna end... Oh well.

Hope you're ALL excited for the epilogue which is also the final chapter of the story! :D

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