Author's Notes:

Sorry for the sudden absence. I had some personal things happening in my life that I had to deal with. Things seem to have settled down though and Corona Pax helped me get this longer chapter done in record time. So thanks so much to her for pushing me with it. Hope you enjoy and we'll be back to the original schedule of chapters coming out on Mondays from now on.

Chapter 116

I'm Sorry

Hedy leaned on the edge of the hospital bed, staring at Ruby the same as she had for the last three mornings. The monotony was almost terrifying itself, if not for the fear and shame coursing through her veins. Monotony wasn't usually something associated with Ruby. She instinctively reached for the teen's hand but jerked back at the memory of pain and suffering. Her hand hovered for a moment, but something petrified her. She couldn't just leave Ruby to feel whatever in Hell was happening to her, but...

Hedy bowed her head and sobbed. Was she going to abandon Ruby too?

"Ruby..." she whispered. She glanced at the door where Jeremy was waiting outside in the hall.

Mike had convinced her and Jeremy to get some coffee with him again. He didn't engage either of them in banter or a normal conversation, letting Hedy have her morning silence.

Jeremy had insisted on going to the hospital with her. However, when they got to Ruby's room she asked him to give her some time alone with the teen.

"Ruby. I...I messed up. I fucked up so bad," Hedy whispered, gripping the sheets inches from Ruby's arm, her knuckles white as she remembered the aftermath.

The guys had eventually moved everyone out of the wet Toys' room to the main room. They found a bunch of towels in the cleaners closet and the three humans were frantic, trying to dry the animatronics off. It was disturbing to watch them jerk and spasm every so often.

Michael was still watching, leaning against a wall with an insufferable smugness. At least he seemed to be done talking. It was quiet for hours.

Mangle groaned, the first one who could properly even wiggle her foot as the crackling shocks slowed down. The first thing she said was, "Hey...Hedy...I'm okay. I think everyone's okay. Come on, don't cry please."

"Mangle was wrong. I wasn't going to cry," Hedy said to Ruby, still half stuck in the memory of the previous night, but she wondered if it was another lie. "I just..."

There was a moan from nearby...

"I'll take the flashing lights please," Foxy grumbled, trying to sit himself up while simultaneously checking on Bonnie beside him.

"I don't think you should be moving," Mike said.

"Fuck off kindly, Schmidt," Puppet hissed, still frozen. He had control of his voice box, at least. "We've just been paralyzed for four hours."

"So you were conscious," Jeremy said, dread clear.

"Of course they were conscious..." Hedy mumbled. She and Ruby both know that shorting out rarely knocked the bots out completely. It mostly froze them up. But it could be so painful.

Foxy didn't respond, focusing on controlling his jittery limbs to check over Bonnie, who let out a pained whine.

Chi echoed it quietly. "Everything hurts," she whined pathetically.

Toby choked out a laugh and groaned. "Hey Hedy? I think you turned the water on too soon," he joked. "You were supposed to wait for us to get out of the room. Right, Teddy?"

Teddy said nothing as he carefully sat up, trying to shake the buzz out of his head and focus his eyes.

There was silence and when Hedy didn't laugh or retort with a light scold, Toby worriedly tried to sit up to look at her, but his shoulder sparked and he cried out, forced to lay back down.

The response he got was Mangle weakly kicking a chair that sat between them so it toppled and landed on his head with a clatter.

"Ow! OW! What did I do?! What did I say?!"

"Shut up!" Mangle hissed.

Freddy sighed as he helped Chica upright.

"Plans don't always go well," he murmured.

"What happened?!"

Those that couldn't see her or move enough to see her panicked at the pained sound Hedy made.

Hedy's voice cracked. "I didn't... I didn't calculate the voltage for everyone at the same t—" She covered her mouth and tried not to sob in front of them. "Oh my god, I almost killed you." Several lights above her flickered a little but the power in the dark room still didn't come on entirely. The entire building was dark.

Had they really knocked the building and generator out? If so, Puppet was slightly impressed with the lot of them.

Jeremy grabbed Mike's arm. "Get Goldy out." He cautiously came to his sister's side and crouched down, taking her hand. "Hedy...Hedy look at me. Everyone's okay. It was an acci—"

"Get off!" she snapped, throwing his hand off and moving out of Mangle's reach. "I'm not about to lose it. Don't you dare be worrying about me right now!"

Hedy forced herself to be still for a moment as she let the memories play out. She shut her eyes tightly. "I messed up tonight, Ruby. I had this plan. I... thought maybe I could cut the night short. If I could physically stop the bots' bodies, then the ghosts couldn't do anything and everyone would be safe for the rest of the night. I was going to turn on the fire sprinklers and short out the Originals and Spring. I did the calculations. All the voltage from them combined still wouldn't be enough to seriously damage anything. It would be a little painful, but nothing I couldn't fix. They'd be able to walk it off in the morning. The plan..."

Hedy rubbed the front of her neck in self comfort. "BB..." her voice cracked. "Oh god. BB." She trailed off and almost broke down right then but pushed through with the story. "BB would help me lure Michael into the Toys' room while the Toys' and the guys would piss off the kids and get them into the room before they suspected anything. Then I..." Her voice cracked again. "Your stupid flamethrower. I don't even know why you keep it at the restaurant. I-I was... I used the flamethrower to trigger the sprinkler system. I even..." Hedy laughed a little weakly. "I can't believe I did this but the building even helped a little. I asked it to only let the water get to the Toys' room. I can't believe that worked."

Hedy sobered quickly, and it was silent as she tried to explain what happened next.

"I panicked."

There was no answer but the steady beep of that stupid heart monitor

Hedy wanted a response. She wanted any response even if it was Ruby screaming at her. The silence was suffocating. Like that trick Jeremy used during interrogations where he'd just sit silently after someone answered a question. People would usually just try to fill the silence to escape it.

"I didn't wait. Michael was there. Right in front of me and I just... He was far enough away, Ruby. I could have waited a few seconds more. I could have let him get closer." She didn't realize she was picking at her slightly sore stitches from the previous morning. She laughed weakly. "I even looked at Puppet right before..."

Hedy let out a pained noise as she tried to force a bitter laugh but her voice cracked again. "I don't think I've ever seen Puppet scared. Not like that. And it was me he was scared of... or at least, something close enough."

She pulled her hands away and buried her face in them as she tried to breathe properly. "That shock could have killed Mangle. Or Spring. Maybe even Puppet. And the Toys' chips. I could smell the burning, Ruby. And the Originals. I could smell the wiring burning."

It was so fucking quiet. Ruby didn't move.

"Say something!" Hedy begged. "Ruby, please. You...I hurt the bots. Don't you want to yell at me? You'll probably hate me when you wake up, but at least you'll be awake. Please. You don't have to forgive me for what I've done. I don't want you to if it means you'll come back. Everyone…"

Hedy almost, almost, forgot herself and grabbed Ruby's hand. At the last second she dug her dirty and torn fingernails into the bedsheets again, centimeters from Ruby's skin.

"Everyone...thinks that I hold you back, Ruby," Hedy said. "That...that I keep you from going off the rails. I saw what you did to Springtrap. To Michael. After he hurt me. I know that some part of you...you enjoyed it. I know there's some little part of you that's dark. Darker than anyone realises. But we all love you, regardless. It's a part of you and you control it. I'm not you, Ruby. It's not…"

Hedy trailed off as she tried to explain it to herself as much as to Ruby. "I'm going insane. Every moment in the building I feel like a bit of what makes me a living human slips away if I'm not careful. It's not the building doing it on purpose. It just is what it is. I think me being a ghost or some hybrid of a ghost isn't just... lights and salt and coldness. It's in my head. In my soul. And it's always been there since I was little. But actually being in the building and being so close to what my death was supposed to be I...my thoughts leave me and… and I can't think all the way." She felt the lump in her throat swell. "I can't care all the way."

Hedy bowed her head and finally sobbed. "Please wake up, Ruby. I need you to hold me back. I need you to take the violence. Because if you don't, it's just me and I can't control myself when I'm scared like you can. I can't shove it away. It sits right under my skin. I'll take it too far. It's not fair to you. I know. And you'll hate me for it. But please, I can't be in a position to hurt the bots if it means protecting myself from Michael. I need you to fight him for me or else I'll hurt someone. Just like the kids did. I'm lucky it took me so long to come back to Freddy's. If I had stayed around, even alive, I would have ended up as broken as them. And that could still happen. I could have a mental snap at 35."

She tried to imagine Ruby's reaction. Anytime it was even hinted at that the bots would be hurt, the teen flew off the handle. It was one of the best ways to make her angry. And it was that cruel anger of hers that she used to cut deep and terrify.

Remembering what she'd said when she found Hedy and Jeremy interfering during her night against Springtrap... it still hurt a little. Ruby was good at finding the best buttons to push and the best injuries to dig at and reopen.

And she held a grudge for ages. Hedy was still pretty sure the teen hadn't forgiven Jeremy for that mess, and she'd only forgiven Hedy because of the attack later.

If Michael hadn't nearly killed her, Hedy figured Ruby would still be at her throat these days. Ruby didn't even trust her to begin with. When they first met... Ruby even threatened her.

"You don't mess with my bots. Ever."

Hedy basically did exactly what Ruby hated her so venomously for that night. She didn't even feel like she deserved to say "sorry," no matter the pain that was twisting in her throat. She hurt them. She hurt their bots, and she hated herself, probably as much as Ruby did.

"Everyone..." Hedy murmured, repeating herself. "Everyone thinks I hold you back, Ruby. That I'm the voice of the reason." Hedy lifted her eyes, barely. "The sane one..."

The teen didn't move, still and pale with an oxygen mask over her face. She looked so different from how Hedy imagined she'd be when she found out about this.

When she woke up.

No one ever seemed to remember that from the beginning it had been Ruby holding Hedy and Jeremy back from taking more drastic actions with Springtrap. Ruby seemed to have an invisible line that she refused to cross, and she always ended up stopping others from crossing that line too.

"We're... so fucked up, Ruby. Relying on each other like this. I'm supposed to be some kind of measure for you. But do you even know how much you hold me back? I didn't even know... I don't know if it's me or if I'm losing myself like a ghost. Am I turning into them..."

Hedy swallowed. "I... I almost wish that was the case, then it doesn't have to be me that hurt everyone like that."

Things were quiet for a moment.

"Even after what I did, everyone was more worried about me." She scoffed weakly. "Foxy even called my 'Lass'. He rarely even calls me by my name. I snapped at him. And Jeremy..."

The silence was suffocating and infuriating. It wasn't fair. None of this was…

Jeremy hung back, still a little shocked at her yelling at him. "Hedy, I'm allowed to worry about you. And it doesn't always mean I'm ignoring everyone else. "

"He's your brother," Mangle insisted. "You're his priority."

"I'm not hurt," Hedy retorted in a harsh whisper.

There was a faint giggle.

"Oh, you're still here," Mike said from the doorway as he came back, looking at Michael like he was a weird shaped piece of dirt on the wall.

Michael switched the giggles for a full-blown laugh.

Mike ignored the man except for a sneer.

The rest of the bots also glared at him while Hedy couldn't even look up.

"Pathetic how he only laughs when he feels safe," Mangle bit out harshly.

"Oh, this entire week has been one whole candy store for me," Michael corrected. "So many fresh surprises. What's pathetic is just how much Wiggy fucked up! I'm actually shocked." He smirked at Mike viciously as he stole the pun. "Never in a million years would I think Wiggy would resort to frying her precious bots." He lowered his voice and tsked. "What will Ruby say, Wiggy? If she ever comes back, that is."

"Stop..." Spring begged quietly. "Hedy, don't listen to him."

"When Ruby gets back," Goldy's quiet voice cut into the conversation. "She's going to beat the fuck out of you Michael."

Hedy cracked a weak smile. "Goldy said 'fuck,' by the way." The pained smile faded as she remembered what Michael said next.

"Does someone want to cry?" Michael asked with fake concern. "Come on, Wiggy. Let it all out. Careful. Don't get any tears on anyone's wiring."

Michael knew his time for taunting Hedy was running out quickly with Goldy there. "Remember what I said earlier?"

Hedy shut her eyes. She remembered. She had been staring at Springtrap through the camera early in the night as he held BB by the neck.

Michael had looked right at the camera, knowing she was watching as BB struggled in his grip.

"There's a list of things I want you to relive when you're dead, Wiggy," he had said. "This is one of them." Then he...

She needed to find BB.

Michael chuckled, deciding to remind her anyway.

"When I kill you, tomorrow, we'll have some..." he laughed like the sick fuck he was. "Fun. Then I'm going to make you relive all your worst memories and this is going on the list, sweetheart."

Hedy, even curled away, still felt Goldy's rage and disgust flare violently at those words. She knew what he was implying.

Puppet snarled a cuss at him, but Michael had already disappeared. Puppet felt very sure that he would kill Michael if the man was still alive, and Jeremy looked like he would help.

Mike looked equally pissed and horrified, but wisely focused on bringing Hedy her bag, his knuckles white.

The others' expressions weren't much different. Mangle was growling loudly, even if the sound was a little glitchy.

Strangely, Hedy wasn't as bothered by Michael's threatening implication as she expected. Or maybe she was just numb. She trusted Puppet to protect her if she died, so it oddly felt like a none issue.

Yeah, she was probably in numb denial...

She was still in denial.

His sick glee at the situation, at Ruby's absence and their pain, was disgusting.

And they couldn't do anything about it. The only one who could go after Michael was Goldy, but he was too good at upsetting her with his access to Spring so she couldn't really. The only one never really affected by his words, who he was actually scared of, was Ruby...

Jeremy crashed on her couch almost immediately when they got to her house after leaving the hospital.

How was he even managing to sleep with everything happening? Was it a cop thing?

Hedy almost wished she had passed out in her bed. She was nursing a third cup of tea after plastering on a fake smile for Rena and Sarah before they left for school or work when the Manager called.

"Ms. Fitzgerald." He sounded pissed.

"Hm," she acknowledged through a sip of her tea. She knew there would be consequences after last night and all the damage. The anxiety was building, and she had to remind herself that whatever the Manager did to her, she would work the problem out when she knew what it was. There would be a solution. Somewhere. She hoped.

"Explain to me why there's several thousand dollars' worth of damage in my restaurant and why we're not opening on time today." The man was seething.

"There was an electrical fire in the To-"

He didn't even let her finish. "Let me make one thing abundantly clear, Ms. Fitzgerald!"

Hedy had to yank the phone away from her ear as he suddenly shouted at her.

"YOU WORK FOR ME! This concept seems to be something that you and Miss Stone seemed to struggle with, so I will make this easy to understand. The animatronics do not belong to you! You are an employee and as an employee there are rules to be followed. Company property was damaged on yours and Mr. Schmidt's watch and so help me I will personally make sure neither of you will be able to find your next job anywhere near this city and the company will sue you to hell and back for every single penny you've cost us. How dare you-"

Didn't he know how to take a breath?

Hedy was tense as she listened to the barrage. She heard a bird in the phone's background and the faint sound of cars parking.

Was this coward screaming at her over the phone outside where none of the bots could hear his verbal abuse? She wouldn't put it past him. What else would he say without needing to look her in the eye?

Wherever he was, he was willing to cuss at her.

She hung up.

He was going to have to yell at her in person. She was planning on heading back to the pizzeria anyway after picking up some tools from her workshop. She needed to take care of BB...

It wouldn't help much if the bots heard this anyway... if they tried anything then he'd just target them.

How the hell did Ruby manage him so effortlessly?

Then again he feared her. She had blackmail on him and she didn't care about whatever strings in the community he could pull against her.

Hedy didn't really have the connections or the utter disregard for society that Ruby had. Not to mention it was terrible the Manager needed physical threats to his person to stay in line.

To be honest, she could probably deal with him. But she didn't have the energy.

It was just his blatant willingness to treat her like trash without Ruby around that was shocking.

She felt bad that the Manager put some blame on Mike too. True, technically as the night guard, property was his responsibility, but the Manager had to know it was her who really did something.

Of course, explaining the ghosts would just be met with the Manager's denial and ridicule.

The man knew something weird was happening at the restaurant, but he completely ignored it. And blamed the employees instead.

And right now she was his target.

She wouldn't be surprised if he was shoveling his hatred for Ruby on top of her too.

Hedy shook her head and tried to rub the headache out of her eyes as she grabbed her keys, sneaking out without waking Jeremy. He still might have heard the vehicle leave though. He was still recovering from getting knocked out the previous day, so she'd rather her brother sleep than subject him to another one of her problems..

He was already stressed enough, worried about Ruby and keeping his boss off his back about being absent again.

There was a small group of customers outside the pizzeria when she got to Freddy's, all talking or arguing with the poor employee that was on duty to tell them they were closed for a bit.

"We drove an hour for lunch here!" one parent said. "What do you mean you're closed?"

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience, sir," Jerry said placatingly. "Hopefully it's only for a couple of hours."

Hedy winced as she got in hearing range, but perhaps it was for the best. She did tell the cleaners about the damage as much as she could and they had been surprisingly understanding about it, despite not knowing what happened. They were still probably closing off the room and trying to clean up the damage in the rest of the building..

The Manager was going to open today; she didn't doubt that. But even he had to see that the bots were severely damaged. He wasn't stupid enough to put Bonnie in front of kids with a frightening-looking twitch... Maybe.

"If you're looking to pass the time, there's a laser-tag place right down the street and around the corner that your kids will love," Jerry said, plastering his 'customer service face' on with a happy attitude that Hedy would struggle to pull off on a good day. "I'm sure they'll work up an appetite and you folks can come right back."

Some parents were placated, but others were stubborn in their annoyance. For a moment, Hedy longed for Ruby's expert handling of the parents. Somehow she just got them to listen to her and even if they weren't happy, they usually conceded defeat.

And she was usually polite when she did it too.

Jerry shifted to open the door for her and let her in.

"Excuse me," Hedy said so the customers would get out of the way of her chair.

"Wait in line."

"It's closed," a couple people rattled off distractedly.

"She works here," Jerry said automatically, still blocking the door so that they wouldn't try to follow in after Hedy. "I really am sorry. This is only a temporary closure. We should be up and running for lunch."

He shot a hopeful look at Hedy when he said that. He was looking a bit frazzled.

Did the manager go off at him and the others too? Did the staff see the bots' states yet?

Hedy bobbed a small nod and slipped inside.

All the bots were twitchy, but technically some of them could work if they were careful. Not that she wanted them too. But she got enough done that no one would be accidentally shocking any kids. She was most worried about the Toys with how many more sensitive electronics they had.

Unless Teddy went blind or Chi's arm motors fritzed out, her concern was BB today.

If she could avoid the Manager. That was another thing. With just the other staff there and no customers, what would he dare say or do?

She didn't go through the main room to get to Parts and Services, somehow getting the feeling the Manager was waiting to ambush her there.

"Thanks," she murmured.

She got the distinct feeling of sympathy from the building.

Hedy went around a corner and froze in confusion at the door to Parts and Services right in front of her. That wasn't right. This was the wrong place for it and not even the right hallway. She had further to go.

The building nudged her gently. Did it move Parts and Services closer? Did it shift the hall she was in somehow? It gave her a little headache.

It could move objects around, like when it took Jeremy's gun and made them all play Hide-n-Seek, but she did not know it could shift whole rooms around.

She patted the wall next to the door gratefully, still bemused as she went inside.

The room was dark and silent. Some scattered tools suggested that someone had been in here in a hurry.

Hedy had done the best she could when she and Jeremy finally found BB.

Mike had stayed behind to help the others after Hedy finally had everyone stabilized, and it seemed like Michael wasn't coming back.

Michael had dragged BB's body out of view of any camera.

Every second Hedy and Jeremy spent searching felt like hours.

The small bot was still conscious when they found him. Every time he tried to cry out sent sparks that made Hedy afraid the oil was going to catch on fire.

She flipped on the light in Parts and Services.

BB was offline just as she left him. He had been in pain as Jeremy carried him to Parts and Services, and she shut him off the first chance she got.

She couldn't imagine how terrified he had been those last couple hours, screaming for help but with no sound coming out and in too much pain to move after Michael stomped in the joints of his knees.

That's why Hedy left before she could fix him. She didn't have the tools. She didn't leave her small welding machine at the restaurant.

She had already disconnected most of the wiring and she needed him awake to properly look him over.

"BB? Can you hear me?" she asked softly as the eye lights flickered on.

Balloon Boy turned his head slightly to look at her. He brightened at seeing it was her and tried to greet her but all that came out from his torn out throat was a grinding sound and sparks as electricity tried to make a speaker that no longer existed work. His eyes widened in panic and he reached up to claw at the oily mess of casing and wiring.

"Try luring me around now, you little fucker," Michael had said with glee as he used all of Spring's strength to stomp and tear into the bot, cracking open his lower jaw and neck to get to the devices. "Where's that taser of yours? Just try it again."

BB shut his eyes tightly against the memory. He messed up his job. His voice sounded like a kid. He was supposed to make Michael follow him around with that dumb bit of Spring's code Michael didn't know how to control. He liked messing with Michael. He didn't think Michael would actually catch him...

He had a good hiding spot. How did Michael find him?

He tensed at the realization. He forgot about his eyes glowing...

Michael saw him in the dark

How could I be so stupid?

Why didn't it hurt anymore? Did Hedy fix it? No, he still couldn't move much.

It was hard watching the little bot panic. She had to catch his hands gently and stop him from doing any more damage.

I messed up! Hedy I messed up so bad. I'm so sorry. He tried to say, struggling against her.

His "voice" didn't even sound like Mangle used to. There were no crackles or distinct static. Just nothing. He couldn't even whine or click o-or anything!

Mangle's problem had been electrical damage and delicate transistors and similar devices burning out or snapping. This was just brutal, intentional crushing and ripping.

The code and data for his voice was still there, in his hard drive. But there was nothing to transmit it anymore.

He never got hurt. He didn't get in the way where he would get hurt. He had never even killed anyone. He annoyed people into leaving him along and ignoring him. He didn't want this.

The foxes were the fighters. Everyone else was willing to take risks. He just wanted to be underestimated and left alone.

But he had wanted to help. He needed to help the others this time, and he thought he could do it.

He wanted to cry. But animatronics don't really cry. He couldn't even make sounds like crying.

"Hey. Hey," Hedy said gently. "BB. It's going to be okay."

He pried his hands away frantically and jabbed both his robotic pointer fingers together.

Pain.

Hedy wasn't even surprised he had been paying attention to Mangle and Ruby's sign language. She always knew he was smarter and better at noticing things than he liked to pretend.

The mechanic nodded. "Okay." She took one of his smaller metal hands. "Squeeze when I touch where it hurts, okay?"

She carefully pinched the shredded wires one by one.

BB spasmed and almost broke her hand when she pinched one that connected to the motor that was used for opening and closing his mouth.

"Alright, I got it. Hold still," Hedy said as she took a screwdriver and disconnected the wire from its circuit board. "Better?"

The relief was immediate and BB nodded without the pain from moving his head.

He made a fist and clumsily rubbed his chest.

Hedy looked mad. "You have nothing to be sorry for, you weirdo. I'm sorry I was making you get so close to Michael." She looked pained. "I didn't think he'd actually attack you."

Seeing the normally energetic bot so down and miserable made her angry with the situation all over again.

"I'll fix this," she promised. "You'll be fine."

He sadly nodded. It frustrated her a little, knowing that he was most likely trying to appease her.

She looked into his eyes for a moment before getting back to work.

"Where's my freaking—" she muttered to herself, digging through her bag.

A moment later, the socket wrench she was looking for clattered on the table, startling both of them.

BB was extra jumpy after everything. The building rumbled a little in apology.

Hedy worked quietly for about an hour, only pausing to talk gently to BB and calm him down when he fidgeted and got visibly anxious.

He didn't really like her talking to him like a child in this situation, even if he was used to being treated like one. But her voice was calming, so he barely cared. Even as she prattled, Hedy looked like she was concentrating hard.

"Building," Hedy suddenly said, addressing it directly and out loud for possibly the first time.

BB startled a little and looked at her in confusion.

"If I asked you to help me during the night shift, would you? Are you able to?"

There was nothing for a moment, and then the building rumbled. She got a curious and agreeable feeling from it.

It already had. It had redirected the sprinkler water for her. But she was considering something that was maybe a little more complicated.

There were limits, but not as many as she had subconsciously assumed without question. She somehow understood what it could and couldn't do for her.

On its own, it could really only react to someone's tiny and specific needs within how much it understood about the world. It shifted that bullet Sally shot at Ruby because it reacted to the millisecond of Ruby realising she was about to die, even if she didn't care. It didn't care about Sally so it wasn't paying a lot of attention to what she was thinking, but it did have a connection with Jeremy, which explained why it took his gun away that one time and not Sally's. It was messing with Jeremy, but with Sally, Ruby wasn't showing any signs of fear or danger until the very last moment.

Hedy shuddered, not liking the feeling of her own thoughts explaining something to her. Being "told" Ruby's thoughts during that debacle wasn't pleasant either.

If she wanted something, she had to be specific about it. Okay. She could do that.

She got a nudge of curiosity again.

"BB, how do your legs feel?" Hedy asked.

BB nodded and hopped off the table before she could stop him. He winced and looked a little unsteady, but caught his balance quickly.

"Are you going to be okay for today?" Hedy asked, pulling him closer so she could put some duct tape over his throat so the wiring wasn't as noticeable. It wasn't pretty, but it would do.

His nod was hesitant and he glanced at the walls a little frightened, but it was still a nod.

"Okay. I have a little job for you. It shouldn't be dangerous, but you don't have to if you don't want to." She looked him in the eye seriously. "Can you break into the Manager's office when he's not looking and get me the blueprints for the building? I know Ruby taught you how to pick locks."

BB weakly smirked, but he pointed at her questioningly. Why did she need a map? She knew the place like the back of her hand.

The building rumbled in anticipation, freaking some bots out and making the ghosts look around in confusion.

Elsewhere, Michael stiffened from where he was idly leaning against the inside of a vent in Fazbear's Fright. He glared at nothing. He wasn't great at sensing anything. Hedy. The brats. Even the fucking building was vague to him, but if he didn't know better, the damned thing seemed pleased.