Chapter 52- Peace (For about five seconds)
He found it hard to believe that the once powerful Bill was now merely just an endoskeleton.
Yet He found himself looking along with the rest of the Nightmares, at the skeleton that was once the fearsome yellow animatronics bear. He wondered if it was possible that he could re-use the body for good rather than the vessel of the evil tyrant it was originally held.
But those thoughts would come tomorrow, He told himself, right now, he needed to focus on today rather than tomorrow.
He rounded up his kids and looked around and saw that the children seemed to be looking up at him.
"So…you really want to be my kids?"
"Of course we do." Freddy said "You're awesome. And were a bunch of idiots for not realizing that."
He smiled at what he said and then looked back.
"Is everybody here?" He asked.
"I think," Goldie said "Hey is everybody here?" he yelled
"We are." He said "Except for Billy."
He looked to see that he wasn't with them, in fact, he was with Fritz and appeared to be pretty happy.
"Billy." Vincent said "Do you want to come with us? I mean, you are part of the family after all."
"Of course do." He said "You guys are fun but for now…I think I wanna sped some time with my brother. You know, get things off with him on a high note."
"Aw Billy, you sweet little boy…" Valarie said.
"I know I am." He grinned
He then saw Billy transform. No longer was he a green bunny, but now a human. And he had to admit that he was pretty cute. He had short brown slightly wavy hair and bright blue eyes that seemed to make the ocean look tacky and two dimensional when compared to them.
The now human Bill then looked at Fritz, who was also now a human and appeared to be….happy.
"So…." Billy said "What now?"
"Personally, I don't know." Fritz answered. "I've been wanting to Kill Vincent. You know, get my revenge and all that fun stuff, but after today, I think I'll peruse better goals."
He found it rather nice that he didn't want to rip his throat out, which was usually a good thing.
"Billy," He said
"Yes."
"I…I'm really sorry.."
"You already said that."
"I know" he added "And if there's anything that you want me to do for you, just let me know…"
"Don't worry Fritz," Billy said "It's not like you're in a rush to make it up to me, after all, we do have all eternity to be together."
It may have sounded at least a little dark, but that didn't appear to be the case with Fritz, he smiled and picked his brother up.
"Come on," Billy said "Let's go talk to mom and Dad. I've been wondering how they've been doing lately."
"Come to think about it," Fritz added "How are they doing?'
"Well, there's only one way to find out." He answered climbing on the former security guard until he was on his head in the piggy-back position. "Let's go! I can already tell that I'm looking forward to meeting them!"
"So am I Billy," Fritz added "So am I."
He started walking away with Billy, until he got in front of Vincent and Valarie where he stopped.
"Uh…Vincent?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"For what?" he said "I didn't do anything except kill you and made your afterlife miserable."
"Well…that's obvious." Fritz groaned "But you did something good."
"I did?"
"Of course you did, you got Billy from Bill."
"Oh yeah…." He said remembering what he had done earlier to the now-deceased Bill. "It was nothing; really, you should have seen the crazy shi-I mean-stuff I did when I was twenty."
"I remember that!," Valarie said "Like that one time you jumped off of a rollercoaster-"
"Some things are best left forgotten Valarie." He said not wanting Fritz to know…well, let's just say he did stuff far crazier than murder and jumping off a moving roller coaster.
"Okay then…." He said in an awkward voice "But still…thank you for getting us back together."
He personally felt like he was mooching of somebody else's hard work, but Fritz looked happy, and just like his past, he figured it was best if it was just left that way.
He saw Fritz and the green Bunny smile as they held hands. A few seconds later, he saw the two brothers vanish away down the west hall until he saw them vanish into the darkness.
"I'm really gonna miss the kid…" Goldie said "now how am I gonna play tag with?"
"Hey! Ye have the rest of us!" Maggie added.
"Oh yeah…." Bonnie said "Sorry Chica."
"Eh, I don't blame you, I've been second all of my life…."
"Well…I don't think you're second." Goldie said.
"Aw Goldie…" She said trying to hide her reddening face from him.
Overall Vincent felt pretty happy about how the whole situation turned out: Fritz got to be with his Brother, He and Valarie managed to get the children with them, Jack seemed to finally get off with good terms with them (In a surprisingly non-bloody and rather painless way) and Katharina had finally found her son.
It really left only one person who did't say something yet. And that was the tall bear who seemed to be kind of sad.
He could also see that the man seemed to have something on his mind given that he was pacing around in a strange way.
"Uh...Rubin," Jack asked
"What?" He spat.
"Don't you have to tell something to Vincent?" he suggested.
"Do I really have to?"
"Do you want to rest in peace, right?"
Rubin sighed.
"Fine…." He moaned as he walked over to Vincent, with his footsteps causing the building to shake with each footstep.
The nine-foot bear was then in front of Vincent and then shrank to the fat butcher that he remembered his father to be.
He saw his father look at him and Valarie for some time and then coughed a little.
He didn't know what to say, so he looked to Valarie, who also seemed unable to talk to the man.
"So…" Vincent said "Here we are."
"So we are…" he said scratching his head.
He didn't know what to say to him. Not like he had a list (Actually he did, it was in his car) He just didn't have the guts for some reason. Somehow, the old man still seemed to make him stand on his nerves end.
"Dad." He found himself rather difficult to say "I…I don't know what to say."
"That's okay," he said "Given the current events; I'd be surprised if you could say something."
He groaned. He was in a situation where he wanted to say something to the distant father, yet he had no way to communicate to him.
He struggled to come up with something and found himself nibbling on his lip to get something, but then, his father spoke up.
"Listen." Rubin said "Don't beat yourself up about this."
"But I need-"
"Vincent," he sighed "I'm in the same situation too. I've been waiting a long time to talk with you, yet I can't think a single damn thing to say…."
He wanted to remind him that he was being hypocritical, since he was saying stuff when he said he couldn't say anything, but he decided to stay out of his father's way.
"Vincent," he said putting his arm on his shoulder "Personally I don't expect you to just roll over and forgive somebody like me." He said
"You don't?"
"Of course not." he continued with a sad voice "But that's okay. I deserve it and should burn in Hell, but if it means staying a bit longer to make up for punishment, then so be it."
In a strange way, it pained him to hear him say that even though in his youth, he wanted him to say that stuff.
"Dad-"
"It's okay if you don't have anything right now." He said "I'll wait. If it takes, years, I'll still wait. But the day you figure out what you wanna say to me. And when that happens I'll be waiting. Just let me know when you want to talk. Or you could just yell my name in some random room. I'll listen, and I'll come."
As much as he didn't want to, there wasn't a whole lot he could do.
"I'll…I'll remember."
"Good…" Rubin said "Come to think of it, I think I'll work at this place while you take care of the children."
"Why?" He said "This place looks like a dump."
"Well it is fun to do until some brat is all like 'where's my lollipop?! And I need another slice!'"
"I know right?!" Freddy said
"Aside from that, I really do like it here, and besides, somebody's gotta haunt the suits and harass the night guard." He said
He let out a little chuckle about what he said.
"Oh and Vincent, one more thing." He continued
"Yes?"
"Take care of them." He gestured towards the small children. "And please, don't repeat what I did."
"Didn't plan on it."
For the first (and possibly last) time, he heard the old man laugh a little.
"Good…" he chuckled as he walked down the east hall and just like the two spirits before him, vanish into nothingness.
There was only the former trio of murderers and the children in the empty room.
"So…. Anybody up for drinks?" Jack suggested.
"Why would you suggest that?" Valarie snapped.
"Don't know. Kind of wanted to break the ice.…"
"Can't you just teleport to some liquor store and pillage it?"
"Valarie, don't-"
"Oh yeah…" he said smiling wickedly "I can."
He smacked his forehead. He guessed in a few minutes, there would be a traumatized bartender and the sound of police sirens everywhere.
"I'll be back, and with some drinks if anybody wants some."
He then saw Jack transform into a bright red and rather toothy fox and dash out the door and out of the restaurant, leaving the location empty except for him, Valarie, and the children.
"So…" He said
"Do you wanna catch some sleep?" She said "I mean tonight was pretty crazy…"
"Yeah." He said "Speaking of that, do you think we should move?"
"Move?"
"To a bigger house," He said "After all, it's going to get crowded."
She chuckled a little.
"I guess we can." She said looking over to the children, who were now goofing off and running around all silly-like "Come on kids, were leaving. And Is everybody here?"
"Eh..sort of." Goldie said "Maggie and Foxy had the bright idea to play tag."
"Oh goodness…" he said as he walked around "Maggie? Foxy? Where are you?"
His answer was then met by the sound of laugher and the quick flutter of footsteps into the room. A few seconds later, Foxy and Maggie burst through the door and were in the corner with the endoskeleton.
"I'm gonna get ya!" Maggie said.
"No ye won't!"
He then saw something. For some reason, the endoskeleton was a pitch black color. And appeared to be…translucent?
Suddenly, he saw the endoskeleton's razor sharp claws moving.
Uh-oh…
"Foxy!" he screamed
He saw the two stop playing and look to see that the endoskeleton, which everybody thought was dead, was standing up and no longer appeared to be an endoskeleton, but a huge and (translucent?) bear.
Maggie and Foxy stood in petrified in terror as the bear raised one of its large claws to slash them.
"Maggie! Run!" He screamed
They were still stuck and cornered by the large bear.
He looked for some options, and saw nothing.
So he did the only thing he could do.
He sprinted and shoved Maggie and Foxy aside, keeping them safe from the skeleton's razor sharp claws.
Unfortunately, he wasn't so lucky.
He felt a horrible and hollow SQUELCH! Come from his body. He looked down to see three of the bear's claws had impaled him.
He let out a groan as he was lifted up and raised to eye level of the endoskeleton, which was pure white with a single black iris.
For some odd reason those eyes were familiar.
And then, he remembered.
He did see those eyes.
Those eyes belonged to…
No…. he thought It….It can't be!
"Oh Vincent," The black, almost translucent bear said in the voice of the now dead voice of Jeff "I told you I'd get you back didn't I?"
Jeff started moving his hand to the right, causing a whole new world of pain for Vincent to enter as he cried in pain.
"You…" he quivered.
"Goodbye Vincent," Jeff said with a ludicrous smile "I want you to know that whatever's waiting for you soon you had it coming."
Jeff then tore his claws out of Vincent's side.
A dark crimson liquid splashed out on the floor and the wall from his side. He fell over on the dirty floor. Putting his hand on his bleeding side trying to stop the blood that was flowing out from it.
He saw that Jeff too had fallen, only he was beginning to mist away just like Bill before him and was laughing at the mess he had created.
He saw the ends of his eyes grow fuzzier, details becoming more diluted and his thoughts and movements thick and congested like the world had suddenly been plunged into maple syrup.
"Kids…" He coughed up feeling the metallic taste of his blood in his mouth.
He wanted them, he wanted some part of him to be with them. After all, who would guide them? (no offense Jack) Who would help them if they fell down and cried in pain?
He held their hands. And they his.
His vision and hearing started getting bad. Most of what he did see was fuzzy and almost alien to him, and noise was beginning to have a long and rather loud buzz, canceling out other sounds.
However he could feel their tiny bodies hug him. He wanted to tell them that they probably shouldn't since he was covered in blood and that they would have to get a bath after the hug, but they didn't seem to care.
"Daddy…" Foxy said cried "I'm...I'm so sorry... please don't…don't go…"
"Don't cry…" he groaned "Y...you're suppose to be brave..."
"I'll…..I'll try…" He sobbed.
"Kids….." he groaned "Stick together….no matter what…..promise?"
"P-p-pinky promise?" Maggie sobbed raising her pinky.
He raised his numb finger and shook her finger, and felt the others do the same.
"Kids…." He said taking as much breath as he could for his possible last words
"….I love you…"
He didn't know what they were saying, since his hearing was shot from blood loss, but he did manage to pick out the fuzzy words of "So do we.
He leaned back and closed his eyes. And found the world dissolving away around him.
So this….is what peace feels like….
Vincent then let out a weak laugh and felt the world around him vanish into nothingness.
End of chapter.
I…..I don't know what to say…. ;-; (I cried like, eight times writing this…)
