*Thoughts*

"Speech"

".Plushtrap Speak."

Let's Play a Game

Nightmare stepped out of Fredbear's room, quietly shutting the door.

The baby had fallen asleep soon after dinner, so Nightmare had tucked him in, kissed him goodnight, and made his exit.

As he made his way down the hallway, Bonnie's voice caught his attention.

"Hey, Nightmare!"

Stopping, the bear turned around to find the bunny quickly approaching.

"Hey, Bonnie. What's up?"

The bunny pointed his thumb over his shoulder.

"Okay, this might sound a little strange, but apparently there's this giant room--well, maybe a little more than a room, 'cause it's kinda like another building, an' it's a got a buncha different floors an' stuff--with a bunch of books."

Nightmare's ears twitched.

"A Library?"

He blinked.

*How did I know that word?*

However, he shrugged it off as curtesy of his Pool Knowledge.

...Which was a little strange, considering he didn't know what a fridge was until several hours ago.

"Yeah, that's what Freddy called it, I think. Anyhow, he went kinda nuts, and it was absolutely hilarious--like, he was runnin' all over the floors and shrieking and flippin' books open and stuff. When 'e was done, we looked around, and we found some pretty cozy spots."

Nightmare, while intrigued, still wondered what that had to do with him.

"So after a while, Mangle's like, "Hey we could play games back here", and I'm like, "Hey that's a good idea", and Freddy's like "That would be a good blah blah blah I don't actually remember what he said but I know it was super long about getting to know each other". So, yeah, we decided to see who else was in. Wanna play?"

Nightmare blinked.

"Oh, sure. Sounds fun!"

When the two entered the Library, Nightmare's eyes bugged out.

"Woah."

"I know, right?"

Indeed, it was extremely grand; multiple floors with carpeted staircases that were easy to locate from the bottom floor, books lining every shelf as far as the eye could see, rugs and carpets in different decorated areas of the wooden floors, cozy lighting that was dim, but still plenty enough to see, and the walls and stairwells nice shades of gold and red.

"How many floors are there?!"

"I dunno, eight? Nine? Maybe seven. Freddy might know."

"Huh."

A crash came from a higher floor, followed by yelling.

They looked at each other.

"BB."

"Mangle."

They stared at each other, challenges issued in their narrowed eyes.

They then sprinted for the stairs.

Mangle was currently rolling around on the floor, laughing her ass off.

BB lay dazed on the floor, eyes spinning in different directions.

Freddy, the Twins, Chica, and Foxy were trying to stop a shelf from falling on them, Freddy's head snapping around at the two.

"WILL YOU TWO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DESTROYING MY NEW FAVORITE LOCATION ON OUR FIRST DAY FINDING IT?!"

Foxy looked at him.

"Wha's "refrain" mean? Ye keep sayin' it."

Freddy sighed.

"In simple terms, it means to not do something."

With a final push, they got the shelf back up straight--not without a few terrifying wobbles, of course.

Nightmare and Bonnie burst into their little abode, panting and sweating.

When all eyes looked at them, they explained their reasoning in a few simple words:

"WHO WAS IT?!"

While the others were a little confused, Freddy jabbed a finger in Mangle and BB's direction.

The bunny and the bear looked at each other.

"...Guess we were both right?"

Bonnie shrugged, heading over to the table.

The table was a decent size, nice and square, surrounded by pillows in place of chairs.

As they began getting seated, Foxy's ear twitched.

"When'd Marion an' Plus'trap say they'd be back?"

The others gave pause.

"Where'd they go?" Nightmare asked.

"Bathrooms," Chica replied. "Haven't seen them in in--"

As if on cue, the two came around the corner.

"--ten minutes..."

"S-Sorry..." Nightmarionne fiddled with its claws. "W-We g-got k-kinda l-lost..."

They took their seats, Plushtrap by Mangle and Nightmarionne by Foxy.

"So...what're we playing?" Nightmare asked, adjusting on his pillow.

"Boardgames?" BB asked.

"Cards?" Jack-o-Chica piped up.

"Well," Mangle began, rubbing her hands together. "Maybe we can do those later. But we were thinking more..."

She and Bonnie grinned at each other.

"Older-people games."

Silence reigned for a moment.

"...Y'know, Old Man Consequences taught me how t' play bingo--"

"Not that kind of old people, Jack," Bonnie replied.

Jack-o-Bonnie snorted.

"Is there a difference?"

"Kinda," Mangle replied. "Like, think about it this way: We're at a different age level than Fredbear, right?"

Nods all around.

"Then that means there are things more appropriate for us to do than him, right?" Bonnie added.

Nightmare shot a glare in Jack-o-Bonnie's direction.

She gave the impression that she was rolling her eyes, albeit not having any.

"So we figured," Mangle continued, "since we don't really know each other as well as we could, we could all bond a little over games that we could enjoy!"

After a moment of pondering and muttering, the others agreed.

"So what will we be playing?" Freddy asked.

Mangle grinned.

"First, we thought we'd try a little game we found called "Truth or Dare"."