Sam walked down the hallway with Mari, ready to greet the other animatronics. She turned her head to look at him and gave him a warm smile. "Are you okay?"

He nodded, taking a deep breathe. "Yeah...my head is being a bit more calm and logical now, after our little talk."

She kept smiling and pointed in front of her. "The other animatronics will meet you through there on the main stage in the dining area. We won't be in there long. Just want them to know that you're not trouble like the last 3 guards that we had."

Sam nodded. "What did they do?"

Mari stopped, causing him to stop, suddenly noticing that they'd made it to the door. "I'll have to tell you when we get back to your office. Time to meet the others."

He looked towards her, confused. "We?"

She smirked. "Of course. Even if this place is safe now, I'm still not letting my favourite human out of my sight."

Sam looked away, blushing slightly. "R-right..."

Mari giggled. "Come on, hun."

He turned back to look at her and nodded, walking through the door with her. When he entered, he immediately noticed the animatronics on the main stage. All of them were there, now staring at him and Mari. Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle, Balloon Boy and the original 4. They all made their way towards them, making him slightly nervous and back off slightly. Mari noticed this and put her long, thin hand on his shoulder, smiling at him.

"You'll be fine, they won't hurt you. I promise."

He gulped, but nodded in the end. They all stood in front of him, staring him down. The first one to come forward and speak was Chica. He remembered all of them. Wonder if they remembered him. Mari said they did if he remembered correctly.

Chica looked at him and started smiling, warmly. "Hello, Sam. Do you remember me?"

He nodded.

She continued smiling, tilting her head slightly. "Good. We sure remember you. We all appreciated you, how nice you were to us all, even though back then...we didn't have our free will and we weren't...working correctly. All of us still appreciate you. Admittedly, some of us..."

She glared at Toy Chica, who looked down in shame. "Thought that you might have turned out like the last 3 who worked here, as you've grown up and all. But...I couldn't see that happening and nor could the others. Heck, even Freddy, who's never really been friendly with many adults, remembers you and would like to say a few words."

Sam nodded nervously. Freddy walked up to him, a stoic expression on his face. He then smirked and held out his fist for what Sam assumed to be a fist bump. His assumption was correct as he too held out his fist and Freddy very softly bumped his fist.

"I indeed remember you, Sam. I'm not friendly to a ton of people, except the kids and my friends obviously, but I classed you as a friend and I see no reason as of yet to not still do so. But...I guess we'll see. I hope that I'm right."

His eyes suddenly started glowing white, causing Sam to gulp. "For your sake."

Sam nodded rapidly, trying to smile. "Of course, Freddy! Wouldn't ever think of hurting any of you!"

Freddy's eyes returned to normal and he started slowly chuckling. "Don't worry, Sam. I'm only poking fun at you. We couldn't hurt you. Not if you're still indeed the same. You were friendly to a lot of us and I can't say the same for a lot of the kids and parents who came when we were...defective."

Freddy nodded to him in respect and walked back to the stage. The others came by and introduced themselves, all remembering Sam and vice versa. Toy Chica must have apologised at least 10 times for thinking otherwise before she had even met him again. He, of course, told her that it was no problem and not to worry.

After all of the introductions were done, everyone bid him and Mari farewell as they both went back to his office. As they were walking back, he looked towards her. "So...they're not bothered that you're the only one coming back with me to the office?"

She giggled. "No. They know that we always had a special bond when you were a child. They all know that you enjoyed their company as well and they all appreciate that you treated them so well, but they also know that you and me were always closer than you were with any of them. And they don't mind one bit."

He nodded and smiled. "That's nice of them. And it's nice that I get to spend most of my days here, well hopefully, with you and the others. It's like I'm a kid again."

He felt arms wrap around him as Mari hugged him, causing him to blush slightly. "You're still an absolute sweetheart, you know that?"

Sam stuttered and blushed harder, causing her to giggle like a schoolgirl. "You're so easily flustered...I'm going to enjoy spending time with you."

He rolled his eyes as they made it to his office. She let go of him as he opened the door. "Oh, fantastic. I'm looking forward to you embarassing me constantly on purpose."

Another giggle. "You love it."

That got a smile out of him. "I do."

And with that, they entered the office. Sam sat down on his chair as Mari proceeded to sit on his desk. She smiled and giggled. "So...what do you want to talk about?"

He put a finger to his chin and thought. "Hmm...well, I wanted to reminisce on old times, back when I spent all that time with you as a kid."

Her smile got warmer as she crossed her incredibly long legs. "They were good times indeed. I always looked forward to you coming to visit me. And whenever you didn't...I felt so lonely, even when I wasn't the only one in the room. Which is weird, considering I didn't have my free will at the time. But I do remember feeling...sad, if I look into..."

Sam grinned, "your memory banks?", finishing her sentence for her.

She slapped his shoulder lightly, causing him to feign ow, making the pair giggle. "Yeah. Those. I'm just glad that I get to see you again, honestly. And this time, I can actually speak to you instead of just saying pre-programmed lines."

He nodded and then remembered the question that he asked earlier. "Earlier, when I asked about those 3 guards and what they did...what did they do?"

She scoffed and looked away. "What didn't they do, you mean. They treated us like we were just hunks of garbage to be played around with, talked to us like dirt...and this was after we gained our free will. The guards who died due to our glitchy programming came before that. Those last 3 are lucky that we had free will at that point...Anyway, the last one to work here tried to...touch me in an...inappropriate way."

Sam looked confused for a second. "But...you're robots...you don't have stuff like that, do you?"

Mari looked away, embarassed. "When we got upgraded, they did provide us...sythentic parts what are basically the same as a human's."

Sam blushed heavily, confused and flustered at the same time. "Synthetic...wait, how does that even..."

She shrugged. "I couldn't tell you, honestly. But it felt...weird when we got them. Sometimes I wonder if the upgrades were even needed. But, one upgrade I am glad for is the free will. If it wasn't for that, we wouldn't be able to talk right now."

He smiled. "Yeah, that's true...so, what do you want to do for the rest of the night?"

Mari got up and sat on his lap, causing him to blush again.

"Mari?! What are you..."

She shushed him with her long, spindily finger. "Shush...you need to do your job and look at the cameras. And I will join you."

He looked away, trying to hide his blush. "Why did she have to sit on top of there?" He shook his head, clearing the stupid thoughts. "Yeah, I forgot, I still need to actually do my job. So...let's have a look here..."