Greeting: Annnd! Back to Leslie. There is one thing that came into my mind and I'll write it before I forget it.
There's still much to do, this Act will be long. Enjoy this chapter, guys
( Leslie. Roaming the safe house)
He was so happy that he had found such a place. He had been there for three days and everyone had been nice to him.
Leslie felt safe and happy. If only his friends had been as safe as he.
Leslie had no worries though, he would get home very soon.
Klaus' plan was miraculous and so well done. It would grant Leslie a decently safe trip to the United States.
He had no time to waste, Leslie knew that. Klaus' plan was going to take some time to finish.
The plane which he wanted to use, was not at the ship just yet. Leslie had spoken to Klaus about it and he had responded to Leslie's request.
" Faster? No, my boy. This is impossible to rush. The plane is at a military base which isn't easily reached.
Those monsters have possessed soldiers as well", had Klaus responded.
Leslie understood that hijacking a plane, guarded by monsters, required planning and perfect timing. Leslie had promised to help them finish the mission.
That brought Leslie to his problem.
" Should I tell them about my powers? Being able to use them would help", thought Leslie while walking around.
Klaus' plan was both dangerous and hard to pull off. After that, the rest would be easy though.
Leslie thought that Klaus' plan was the best way of going home. Leslie had no other choice than to go with Klaus.
Leslie was walking back and forth outside his tent, thinking about his friends.
" I can't rush this. But waiting is so frustrating. I know I should be going already. This is a life and death situation, god dammit!", thought Leslie.
He wasn't worried but he was irritated.
His friends were counting on him and he was just chilling in a tent.
Or at least his friends would have been counting on him if they had known that he was alive.
Nobody knew that Leslie was coming.
He wished he could have been able to speak to them. Leslie would have wanted to tell them not to give up hope.
Not that the Fazbear crew would ever give up hope anyway.
At least that's what Leslie was thinking.
Nadia, Bonnie and Storm Jr.
With those three around, Freddy's pizza would never lack hope. As long as the kids were around, the animatronics would never give up.
Leslie was just paranoid but still. He wanted to make sure that his friends were alive and fighting back.
" Worried?", Klaus asked him.
Leslie jumped in the air and almost got a heart attack.
" Oh god!", Leslie shouted in English.
" Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you", apologized Klaus.
Leslie managed to slow his breathing.
" It's okay. I was thinking about my friends", explained Leslie.
It made Klaus smile.
" Friends? You still have friends who are alive?", he asked Leslie.
" I do. I don't know how alive they are though. If you ask me, they are alive but I can't be sure", answered Leslie.
Klaus placed his hand on Leslie's shoulder.
" If you say so, they are alive. There is a connection between you and your friends. You might not know it but you can feel it", Klaus told Leslie.
" Okay, I guess. I can't really feel anything but I know that my friends would never give up", chuckled Leslie.
" Are they good friends of yours?", asked Klaus.
Leslie nodded to him. Klaus was making conversation, which made Leslie feel good. Talking was calming.
" They are more than friends really. They are like a family to me. I haven't been talking to them recently. I miss them so much.
Bonnie is friendly, Chica makes the best pizzas. Goldie is smart", Leslie looked at the floor.
Klaus thought about it.
" They sound like the most wonderful friends you could have. Most people will never find friends in their life. You are a lucky guy, Leslie", Klaus told him and nodded.
" I don't feel that way sometimes", sighed Leslie.
" Why?", was Klaus' simple question that made Leslie gulp.
That was his chance to tell him the truth.
" Have you ever been a puppet? Like have you ever been not able to decide your future? I have. Your whole existence is being in a cage.
You exist to only fulfill your destiny", asked Leslie.
Klaus shook his head.
" I have not. But I'd imagine it's horrible", answered Klaus.
Leslie glanced at him.
" Even now, my future is set. I'm going home to do what I'm suppose to do. I know what you are thinking.
But please, do not ask if it has something to do with the monsters", pleaded Leslie.
Klaus looked into Leslie's eyes.
" You are talking about destiny, right? As far as I know, there is no such thing as a destiny. You make your own", Klaus' voice had changed.
He sounded like a wise sage.
Leslie sighed and looked away.
" You wouldn't understand. My past is not normal. I know I should tell you what I'm doing here but I can't.
It's complicated", Leslie wouldn't have wanted to confuse the old man.
" Could you at least tell me if it's good or not?", pleaded Klaus.
" It's good, I promise you. But I need to get home to my friends. I need your help, Klaus. I need that plane.
I can help you on that mission but not by normal means", Leslie tried to tell him about his powers.
" What I'm saying is, I have powers which are very useful. I don't want to tell you how I got them, it's not important.
Please, don't throw me out. I'm not normal but I can help you just like you can help me", finished Leslie.
Klaus came closer to him.
" I won't. So far. I have seen some freaky stuff. There is nothing that can terrify me anymore. All I need to know is that you have those powers.
So, if I take you home, you can do something good, right?", asked Klaus.
Leslie turned around and smiled. Klaus had not freaked out.
" Yes! It will be good for all of us. I have a bone to pick with the people who caused this", Leslie told Klaus.
That made the old man smile.
" You can stop all of this? Is that what you are saying?", he was hopeful.
Now that Klaus had asked it, Leslie decided to nod.
" Well, that's the best news I've heard all week", Klaus patted Leslie on the shoulder.
Leslie's smile was huge and anyone could have seen that he was relieved.
" Thank you, Klaus", thanked Leslie.
Klaus looked at him, amused.
" For what?", he asked.
" Thank you for not freaking out and burning me", explained Leslie.
Klaus pretended to be embarrassed.
" Well, I would tell Alessandro to kill you if he wasn't so bad at fighting", joked Klaus.
He and Leslie laughed at that.
" I heard that", Alessandro said behind them.
Klaus and Leslie turned around very quickly and saw that Alessandro was standing right there.
" Speaking of the devil", Klaus glanced at Leslie.
Alessandro came closer and he didn't look happy.
" I might not be the best fighter you have ever had but I'm better than that last guy", Alessandro told Klaus.
Leslie had never heard of the last guy who had been guarding the safe house perimeter.
" What last guy?", Leslie asked Klaus.
The old man was not willing to talk about it but he wanted to be polite and answer the question.
" There was this British guy before Alessandro came along. He followed a suspicious noise and ended up in a trap", explained Klaus.
Alessandro shook his head.
" He was skinned alive, Leslie. So maybe I'm not the worst. I'm still alive", he told Leslie.
" Look! Alessandro. We were just joking. It wasn't serious. Klaus just told me a joke", sighed Leslie.
He didn't want to hurt Alessandro's feelings. Alessandro was almost shocked by that one.
" And you laughed? Wow! That is amazing. Klaus can actually tell jokes that make someone laugh. The miracle has happened", Alessandro told Leslie.
Klaus' mouth opened as he began to laugh.
Then Alessandro and Leslie started laughing as well.
" He's fine, Leslie. We didn't offend him", laughed Klaus.
After that, Leslie was relieved.
" Good. Good. So what's up, Alessandro?", smiled Leslie.
Then suddenly Alessandro recalled something.
" Oh yeah! The reason I came. I almost forgot it", Alessandro smacked his own forehead.
Klaus got interested immediately.
" What has happened, boy? Is the perimeter secure? Did they get in?", asked Klaus, worried about the safe house's security.
" No! No! It's not that serious. It's about a little girl. That unconscious one. She woke up", answered Alessandro.
Klaus was shocked.
" She's awake! How wonderful!", he exclaimed.
Alessandro wasn't finished. There was a negative side to his news.
" However, she can only speak her native tongue. I don't know what it is and none of the doctors can speak it", Alessandro said sadly.
" Damn", Klaus found that to be a big problem.
Leslie wasn't as worried as Klaus. He happened to think about it a second later than Leslie.
" So that's why you came. You need Leslie's mastery of languages", Klaus nodded to Alessandro.
The Italian guy looked at Leslie pleadingly.
" Please. I would like to know if she's fine and tell her that she is safe", pleaded Alessandro.
Leslie was not very sure.
" I can try. I'm not omnilingual but I'll help if I can", promised Leslie.
" Thank you. Your help is appreciated", smiled Alessandro.
Leslie and Klaus followed Alessandro through the camp and headed for the doctors' tent. Leslie hoped he would be able to help them.
The girl would never survive without the knowledge that she was safe. They needed a way to communicate with her and Leslie was the best shot.
" I have learned so many languages, this girl better speak one of them. She does not speak Italian, German, English nor French.
I think there was a Swede in here so it can't be Swedish either", thought Leslie.
" Why did that girl have to be special? Couldn't she be just a normal German who speaks German? Obviously not", he added.
" Believe in yourself", Ornica's gentle voice told Leslie.
He decided to do just that.
" I can do it. It can't be anything too weird. Maybe it's just Arabic. It could be", he thought optimistically.
In truth, there was only one way to find out. Leslie had to talk to her and see if he could speak back. He could already see the tent.
" Hurry. I think the girl is panicking. She is scared and could become one of them", hurried Alessandro.
Leslie did not need a reminder of what Alessandro meant by them. The girl was at risk of becoming a monster.
Leslie did not want to have a monster, running around the camp.
He, Klaus and Alessandro sped up. The girl was scared around random strangers who were talking in weird languages.
She did not have a mother with her.
According to Klaus, they had just found the girl from under a car. She had hit her head on something.
The girl was awake, which was a true miracle. She was barely as old as Nina had been.
Her skin was neither black nor white, it was something in between. She looked like she had come from a hot place, Africa perhaps.
She had to be from the north since she was not black.
The girl was wearing a big jacket, which was why Leslie thought she was from a hot place.
The doctors were all around her and trying their best to calm her down.
" Merda! The girl is in a worse condition than when I left", cursed Alessandro.
Leslie, Klaus and Alessandro arrived at the tent and the doctors glanced at them.
" She won't calm down. This is bad", one doctor told Klaus.
The old man glanced at Leslie.
" So it's your turn now. Good luck, Leslie", Klaus gave him a pat on the back.
Leslie needed that. The girl wasn't saying anything so Leslie wasn't sure what the language was.
He tried Arabic.
" Hi there. Can you understand me?", asked Leslie.
The girl remained silent and looked scared.
" God damn. What can I do? I need to make her speak up", thought Leslie.
The girl was definitely old enough to speak. Leslie tried to use gestures to make her speak.
" You. Speak. To. Me", said Leslie as he made the gestures.
He pointed at the girl and mimicked a talking mouth with his hand.
The girl looked at him.
Leslie was not sure if the girl had actually understood what he wanted her to do.
She might have been too scared to speak up. If so, Leslie had an enormous problem.
Then the girl said one simple word.
" She greeted me in a language, I can understand", Leslie was relieved.
He smiled at the girl and greeted her back.
The girl smiled, knowing that Leslie understood her.
Leslie made sure she was fine and told her to calm down since she was safe. Then Leslie glanced at Klaus, relieved.
" She speaks Egyptian Arabic, a language which I can speak quite well", he told the old man.
Klaus was so relieved to hear that. He wouldn't have known what to do in the other case.
If Leslie had not been able to speak with her, the girl would have been dead in no time at all.
Leslie was a lifesaver. The doctors were almost as relieved as Klaus.
They started to talk with the girl, using Leslie as an interpreter.
The girl was unwilling to speak with all those random people whom she had never met before.
It was hard without the girl's mother but Leslie could manage. Her own language was a relief to the girl.
She found it easier to listen to what Leslie said. The doctors could have used gestures but the girl did not trust them then.
Leslie thought that the doctors may have been able to communicate with the girl themselves.
Speaking Egyptian Arabic was useful as the girl trusted the ones who could speak it.
" She wants you to back away a little bit. You are strangers", Leslie told the doctors.
One of them was curious.
" Hmm. Aren't you a stranger as well?", she asked Leslie.
" I speak her language so I'm not as bad as you", answered Leslie.
" So can you please back off?", he added.
One French doctor did not like it.
" But we need to check her out for any possible infections", he told Leslie.
That was a problem. The girl was afraid but she was in danger.
Leslie glanced at the girl and smiled.
" My friends here want to make sure you are fine. Let them take a look. They want to help you just like I do", Leslie told the girl who was not sure about that.
Having waked up in a weird place, the girl hardly trusted anyone.
" Will it hurt? I don't want to get hurt", the girl shook her head.
Leslie grabbed her hand gently and calmed her down.
" I'll be here with you. I know I'm not your mother but please. Let them help you", Leslie pleaded.
The girl was shy but she trusted Leslie. There was something about him, he was different. Leslie was trustworthy.
" Okay. If I'll be okay, I'll let them help me. But please be by my side alright", begged the girl.
" Of course", smiled Leslie.
" Well?", the French doctor asked Leslie.
He looked at the doctor and helped the girl get up.
" She agrees to let you help her. But please be careful", answered Leslie.
The doctor nodded to him.
" We are doctors, we know what we are doing", assured the doctor.
The girl was placed on a mattress. Leslie assured her that everything would turn out to be okay.
The doctors were smiling and they even gave her a plush to hug. Leslie's assurance was the thing that truly helped the girl.
While the doctors were examining the girl, Leslie decided to speak with her.
The girl would need to focus on something else than the doctors. Leslie got an idea when staring at the plush.
" Do you like stuffed animals?", he asked the girl.
" I do. They help me not to be afraid of the dark", answered the girl.
Leslie smiled at the answer, it was what he had hoped for.
" Do you know any animatronics? Like those big, talking animals who are in pizzerias or other restaurants", asked Leslie.
The girl shook her head.
" Well, I have some animatronics friends. I bet you would like them. They can't speak your language but you would love them anyway", said Leslie.
The girl seemed to be interested.
" Are they.. friendly?", she asked him in a scared but excited tone.
" Yea. They are so friendly. You'd understand if you saw them. My friends play instruments and sing songs.
Freddy is really good at singing, he's a bear. He makes up new songs everyday and then he sings them to you", explained Leslie.
The girl had forgotten the doctors at that point.
They were checking her legs but she ignored them.
" Bonnie is a bunny and she loves Freddy. You know that because every time Freddy says something adorable about her, she blushes.
She likes to play her guitar and have fun. When she comes to play with you, she is always smiling", explained Leslie.
The girl was smiling.
" She sounds nice", the girl told Leslie.
" But that's only two of them. You haven't even heard of Chica, Foxy, Fang, Scarlett or Storm Jr.
They are really nice and I am sure that if they met you, they would love you", smiled Leslie.
" Do they hug? Do they enjoy being hugged like stuffed animals?", the girl asked Leslie.
" They all do. They are so big and so warm. Sometimes you wonder if they will ever let go of you.
They are covered in soft fur and they make everyone smile", Leslie described it to the girl.
She liked the idea.
" It sounds good. I would love to get a hug from them", smiled the girl.
" They will give you lots of hugs. Except Chica. Sometimes she is distracted by the smell of pizza. Then she must eat a slice.
Nom, nom, nom", Leslie mimicked Chica, eating pizza.
The girl giggled at him.
" When you eat pizza, Chica will be peeking around the edge of your table.
She wants to get some of that pizza but she won't steal yours because she is a good girl", said Leslie.
" How about the rest of them? Who's Foxy?", the girl's questions never ended.
" Foxy? Everyone should know him. He's a brave pirate who has a huge ship. There's so much to do on it.
He has a wife called Vixey and a daughter called Crystal. They can easily play with you all day long.
Foxy might look scary with his hook on but I promise he won't bite. He is just eager to take you to the seven seas", Leslie told the girl about Foxy.
By all accounts, the girl had never heard of animatronics nor been in a pizzeria. Leslie would have wanted to take her there immediately.
The girl needed those hugs.
Leslie was about to continue but then the French doctor spoke to him.
" We are finished now. Thank you, Leslie. We couldn't have done this without you", thanked the doctor.
" Oh", said Leslie.
" So is she fine or not?", he asked the doctor.
" She is perfectly fine and we can take her to her tent", smiled the doctor.
Leslie glanced at the girl.
" You did well. They are done now. It wasn't so bad, was it?", chuckled Leslie.
The girl got up and grabbed his hand.
" It wasn't bad at all", replied the girl.
" Come! Let's take you to your tent", Leslie beckoned her to follow.
He and the girl walked forward.
" Can you please take me to your friends? I would love to meet them", asked the girl.
Leslie smiled at her.
" I will", he answered.
" Do you swear?", asked the girl.
Leslie stopped and bent down.
" I will take you there for sure. I swear you'll see and hug them", promised Leslie.
The girl was innocent. Leslie would never give up. He would take that girl to Freddy's no matter what.
Farewell: A calm chapter. Now Klaus knows that Leslie is more than he seems.
The Egyptian girl will become Leslie's protege. Let's see if the girl will ever reach Freddy's.
THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
