The night was going pretty fast at Freddy Fazbears. It was already nearing 3AM. For the past few hours, Sam had been watching the cameras. But he hadn't been alone. Mari had been keeping him company. After their rather interesting meeting with the others, they had sat in the office chatting. Most of it was general questions, how the pizzeria had fared since he had grown up and how she had been since then. All and all, it had been a rather peaceful night.

"So, how much did you miss your apparent favourite customer?"

Hearing this, Mari frowned. "Favourite customer? Sam, for the others and especially me, you were our favourite person and friend. You weren't just a customer to us. While the other kids would just come to me for prizes, go to the others to watch them perform or just come to the place for pizza and then leave, you actually took the time to come round to us all with your parent to say hello. Even if we couldn't reply properly back then, we still remember it. I'm not sure that we should remember those times, all things considered, but we do. And we remember how much effort you put into making sure that we all had at least SOME company apart from each other. You were never rude to us, you never caused trouble. Hell, even Mangle liked you a lot."

Sam looked confused at the last sentence. "Wait...Mangle? Man...Oh wait! I remember her now! Why wasn't didn't she meet me when the others did? And wasn't she the one who bit Jeremy?"

Mari looked down and sighed, nodding, still sat on the desk in front of him, her lanky legs stretching to the floor. "She wasn't feeling great. We told her and admittedly, hearing that you were taking the position as the night guard did cheer her up, but she wanted to wait until she was ready to come and talk to you. And about the whole Jeremy situation..."

She leaned in closer to his ear, making him visibly nervous. "Don't say anything about it near her, please? She gets really down when she remembers that day."

He rubbed his chin and nodded. "Of course I won't mention it around her. I guess I'll see her eve..."

"How about right now?"

They both jumped in surprised and looked towards the door. The animatronic who was just known as "Mangle" was now stood there. But there's something Sam noticed that his mind was slowly piecing together.

"Wait...Mangle? Didn't you used to be...well...a Mangle of parts?"

Mangle was stood at the doorway, but not how he remembered her. No longer was she a mismash of wires. She just looked...normal. Well, how she was intended to look, he assumed. Just a female version of Foxy with pink and white colours. She currently had a grin on her face.

"I used to be, yes. But not anymore. They stopped letting kids take me apart and actually fixed me when they upgraded us all. Now, my parts don't come off as easily, so any kids that try to still do it are...well, told to not do so again. Otherwise, they won't be let in. Guess Mr Fazbear actually cared enough to stop the trouble making kids from taking me apart all the time."

Sam smiled, nodding. "I'm glad that he actually did something. From what I remember, I couldn't even bring myself at the time to do that. I always felt bad for you whenever I saw the idiot kids take you apart and run off with some of your parts."

Mangle smiled and blushed. "Heh. Thank you. You always were a sweetheart. You're lucky, Mari."

Mari looked at her and glared, a blush forming. This caused Sam to shoot them both a confused look. "Erm...mind telling me why she's lucky?"

The now giggling white fox just backed off and grinned. "Oh, no reason. Anyway, bye for now, you two. Was nice to see you again, Sam. I'll make sure to come talk to you some time so we can catch up~"

And with that, she walked off, closing the door on the way out. Sam looked at Mari, who was still annoyed and blushing.

"Mind telling me what that was all about?"

Mari's expression softened when she realised that he was talking to her, shooting him a warm smile. "Oh, it's nothing, dear. Don't worry about it. She just loves to tease me is all."

Her answer didn't convince him, but he decided not to press it any further. "I see. Anyway, guess we should go and check on the others. See what they're up to. You can stay here, if you want?"

She nodded and smiled. "I think I'll stay here. Just so you can talk to them by yourself. If you need anything though, don't hesistate to come back here, okay? And don't be too long."

Sam chuckled, feeling like he was actually cared for. Which wasn't a usual case for him. "Thanks, Mari."

And with that, he went off to go and see the others.

Sam was venturing around the pizzeria, exploring the rebuilt building with interest.

"Wow, it really is just like I remember it."

Upon saying this, he realised that he'd just walked past kid's cove. He figured Mangle would no doubt be in there, so he decided to make her his first visit of the night. He was about to opne the door when he figured that it'd be rude to just barge in (maybe she'd be getting ready...wait, since when do robots wear clothes?). He stopped that line of thinking before it got any more weird and decided to come to a compromise instead.

He would knock.

And that's exactly what he did. "Hello, Mangle? Are you in there?"

It took a second before someone responded. "Sam? Yeah, I'm here. Come in!"

Yep, judging by the voice, certainly mangle.

He opened the door gently and looked inside. Kid's cove hadn't changed much. The table was still there along with the gifts, balloons and posters that the kids had drawn. Mangle was currently sat on a chair in the middle of the room, next to the gifts. Her eyes sparked with happiness when she saw him enter.

"I'm glad to see you again, Sam! What made you come here? Am I already charming you?~"

He chuckled and waved her off. "Pfft, no. I mean, you're all very charming, really. Specially..."

The animatronic fox stood up and smirked. "Mari?"

He gulped and nodded, visibly blushing. She giggled.

"God, why is she just as cute as Mari?!" He snapped himself out of thoughts and rubbed the back of his neck. "Heh, yeah. She's certainly something. This place brings back so many memories."

She smiled and walked over, hugging him, causing his blush to get worse. "Thank you. For treating me like an actual person back then rather than just a piece of junk to take apart and then put back together over and over again."

He patted her back and smiled. "No problem, Mangle. Always here for you guys."

They pulled apart and laughed, thoroughly enjoying each other's company. Then he remembered something that she'd said earlier. "Mangle...you said earlier that Mari was lucky. What did you mean?"

Mangle giggled and grinned. "Oh, don't worry about it. I just love teasing her is all."

He looked confused. "But that still doesn't answer my que..."

She giggled again, cutting him off. "It doesn't need to be answered. It was just a tease. Nothing more."

This seemed to satisfy him somewhat, but not completely.

"Alright. Anyway, I better go see the others. I'll see ya later, Mangle."

She smiled and waved as he went to exit. "No problem, sweetie. Take care! See ya later!"

As he left, she giggled and turned around from the door. "He's so sweet, but so dense. Cute. Mari really is lucky."

Sam continued his night venture, walking towards the main stage area. As he entered, all of the animatronics were there, talking about something. They all turned around when they heard the door close and walked up to him, smiling. Freddy was the first to greet him. "Heyo, Sam. What brings you here?"

He shook freddy's hand (paw?) and grinned. "Oh, you know, just getting used to my new job. Wanted to say hello to everyone. Why is everyone grouped up here, anyway?"

Bonnie and Toy Bonnie walked up to him, smiling. "Hey, Sam. We're just discussing what to do for the night. Me and TB are going to go and play guitar. Freddy is going to just chill for the night, Chica and TC are just going to stay in the kitchen doing whatever and the rest, idk."

Foxy came up and shook his hand with his actual hand, not his hook and grinned. "Yar, how are yer doin, me lad?"

Sam chuckled, remembering his pirate accent. "I'm good, thank you, Foxy. Good to see you again."

He smiled. "Aye, good to see you again too, lad. Always appreciated you as the others did."

Sam smiled in response and turned around, noticing that BB and the others were coming towards him, all smiling. They all asked how he was and asked if he was enjoying it so far. After a bit of a talk with everyone where they sat down for about an hour, they all went their seperate ways. Freddy and TF went backstage and took a seat, Bonnie and TB went up on stage, TC and Chica went into the kitchen, Mangle was still in Kid's cove, Foxy went towards kid's cove and BB went somewhere down the hallway. He promised that he'd have a one on one talk with all of them at some point in the week. For now, he was going to go back and see how Mari was doing. It was already 4:30AM, so he only had an hour and a half left. A few minutes later and he was just outside the office. The door was still open. He peeked in and saw Mari looking at the tablet, watching the cameras. He chuckled as he walked in, alerting her to his presence. She smiled.

"Oh, hello again, Sam. What have you been doing?"

"Not much. Just been looking around, talking to the others."

God, her smile was so warm.

"How did it go?"

He grinned and sat down, Mari still sitting on the desk. "Good. They all seem to remember me, which I'm glad for."

She nodded. "I told you they'd enjoy you being here. Y ou really are special, Sam."

He blushed and waved it off. "Awh shucks, I ain't anything special. If anything, you guys are. Especially you, my favourite animatronic."

She blushed in response and giggled.

That giggle was like heaven itself.

He berated himself mentally. "Goddamn it man, get ahold of yourself!"

"You're too kind, sweetheart. Hey, want to chat for a bit longer before you have to finish tonight?"

He smiled and nodded. "Sure."

And so they did. They chatted until 6AM, where Sam said goodbye to Mari and the rest of the animatronics, locked up and went home. As he got home, his parents and sister were still in bed, understandably. Being silent so that he didn't wake them, he went into his room quietly.

"Gee, what a night. This is going to be a great week."

He got into bed and laid his head down onto his pillow, instantly falling asleep and heading off to dream land.