Author Notes

Oh my goodness I cant' believe that I've hit fifty chapters. Thanks for sticking with the story this far. :)

Chapter 50

Oops…

That night Hedy arrived after Ruby was already causing nonsense. Rena and Sarah had set off every single trap that she left behind and were not happy with Hedy since she didn't get hit with one.

As she entered the building a glitter bomb went off in Toy Chica's face and Toby dived for Ruby furiously.

"Hey look! The perfect distraction!" Hedy suddenly shouted, making Toby trip and a couple other robots jump in surprise.

Ruby jumped over Toby, dropping a paint balloon on his head and ran away from him laughing. She bounced up to Hedy and held the phone out.

"Oh, Alice said thanks and apologises for any damage I may have caused." she even managed to keep a straight face as she said that.

Hedy huffed but nodded. "Did she make you memorize that little speech?"

"Yup." she grinned, not looking like she regretted anything.

"Hedy!" Toy Chica shrieked happily and ran up, making Ruby jump back so that she didn't get run over.

"Gah!" Hedy gasped as the chicken awkwardly gave her a tight hug, careful not to pull her out of her wheelchair.

Mangle scrambled forward and took her turn hugging Hedy, adding to the mechanic's surprise.

'I'm so sorry. Don't leave please.' Mangle signed, her ears back and fearful.

Teddy came in from the other room at that moment and looked very relieved to see Hedy.

"I'm not going anywhere Mags and you don't have to be sorry for anything. I shouldn't have left like that." Hedy apologized after Ruby murmured a translation to her.

She was still not used to sign language especially if Mangle signed quickly.

Mangle did her best to curl up against Hedy, shaking slightly. Ruby gave a slight wave, threw a rather rude sign over at Toby before sauntering over to the originals.

The blue rabbit was looking at Hedy with a mix of guilt, stubbornness and relief from where he was standing while BB bounced happily next to Hedy's chair.

"We were so worried!" Chi wrung her hands anxiously.

"I know. I already got the lecture from Ruby." Hedy sighed.

They blinked in surprise before all eyes turned to Ruby.

"What?" she asked defensively. "You were moping. I hate moping."

She then pulled out some movies that got the originals all excited and distracted from the mechanic.

Hedy shook her head, a small smile on her face. The night guard just couldn't say that she was worried about the Toys too.

Before anyone could really do anything, BB had latched onto Ruby's leg and was beaming up at her. She jumped and looked down in surprise and the others worried that she was going to send him flying again. After a moment she shrugged and patted the 'bots head before going back to what she was doing.

That was… shocking to say the least.

The atmosphere between Hedy and Ruby seemed to have relaxed somewhat. They still bickered over the smallest things and avoided the opposite group of 'bots but there was a diminished amount of hostility.

And BB hung onto Ruby's leg, staring at her with adoring eyes for most of the night. Strangely the night guard didn't seem bothered at all.

About halfway through the shift Ruby heard Hedy's phone ring where she left it on the table. The mechanic was somewhere else working on Mangle so Ruby answered the phone with her usual lack of concern for other's privacy.

"Hello!" she greeted cheerily.

"Uh, hi?" a confused, male voice answered. "Um, are you one of Hedy's roommates? I need to talk to her."

"Nope. I'm the night guard." Ruby answered happily. "She's somewhere fixing one of the animatronics. Can I take a message?"

For a moment Ruby was certain the man was having a heart attack on the phone as he sputtered and gasped for breath.

"ANIMATRONICS?!" exploded out of the phone and she had to jerk it away from her ear.

"Ow." She deadpanned when there was a moment of silence on the line. "Just… ow."

"What the HELL are you talking about?! Animatronics?!" the man demanded, sounding angry and… scared.

Ruby's eyes narrowed. "First maybe I should ask who the heck you are."

"I'm her brother!" his voice went up a few octaves as he panicked about everything apparently.

"Okaaaaaay." Ruby drew the word out. "So then you should know that she's working as the night mechanic at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria right?"

From the sudden hyperventilating she guessed he didn't know.

"Or not." Ruby was starting to worry about killing this guy over the phone now.

"No no no no no no no no no no no." he was muttering to himself. "What is she thinking?!"

"Uh buddy? Deep breaths. Seriously, you need to calm down before you pass out." She tried, her voice taking on that soothing tone she used on the kids when they had a nightmare.

"Wait! You said you were the night guard?!" he suddenly cried.

"Yeaaaaaaaah." She answered, drawing out the word again.

"You have to get out of there! Oh my gosh its already past midnight. You have to find Hedy and get out of there!" he near screeched.

Ruby rubbed her ringing ear before answering.

"Listen, I'm fine. I've been here for-" he cut her off.

"Why does no one ever believe me?! Why does Hedy insist on doing these things?! I'm driving down there. Just… don't die before I get there." The man hung up and Ruby was left staring at the phone, speechless.

She glanced down at BB who was looking at her curiously from his position on her leg.

"Did you know that Hedy had a brother?"

He shook his head.

"Well… I'd better go tell her that her brother is freaking out and on his way from… wherever."

She started to look for Hedy and Mangle, having already adjusted to the extra weight.

When the 'bot wasn't going crazy from batteries he was kind of cute.

"Hey… Hedy?" Ruby called when she entered the room with the mechanic.

"Yeah?" she asked, looking up from her work.

"Your brother's weird." She stated bluntly, holding the phone out to her. "He freaked out and is on his way he said.

Hedy looked at her, then to the phone and back again. This continued for a few seconds before her eyes widened in horror and she dropped her tools.

"You… uh… you didn't let it slip that I'm working here… did you?" she asked nervously.

"Yeah." The night guard answered. "He freaked out. Completely. My ear's still ringing. You didn't tell your brother that you're working here?"

Hedy, however, was on 'panicking out of her mind' planet.

"Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh. Why! Why did he have to phone now?! Ugh!" she buried her face in her hands.

Ruby tilted her head and glanced at Teddy and Mangle.

'Did you know that she had a brother?' she signed to Mangle.

The fox shook her head looking surprised and slightly hurt.

"He said he's driving down." Ruby shoved the phone in her hand. "You might want to phone him back before he has a heart attack."

Hedy groaned but dialed quickly.

"Hey listen-" she tried but the phone exploded into noise.

"Just listen-" she was cut off again. "I know-"

He yelled something that sounded final and the phone cut off.

Hedy glared at it.

"Overprotective… never listens…" she muttered sourly.

"So…" Ruby tilted her head. "You have a brother?"

"Yes." She groaned.

"Who's coming here."

"Yes."

"And knows about the animatronics."

"Yes."

"And didn't know you were working here."

"Yes."

"Can I-"

"No."

Ruby pouted. "You're no fun."

Hedy was silent for a moment.

"If he won't listen then you can."

"Yay!"

Ruby ran off with BB still on her leg.

Teddy and Mangle stared at Hedy, wondering when she started understanding Ruby-speak.

Hedy was stressing, not able to focus on anything as she kept glancing at the clock. By her estimations he would almost be here. Especially if he was driving like a frantic maniac like she expected.

She tugged on her hair worriedly.

Ruby had run off to create 'welcome traps' but Toby kept setting them off so that had started a fight between the two.

By now all the 'bots knew about Hedy's brother being on his way. The Toys were curious and the Originals were wary.

The main room was empty luckily when Hedy heard screeching tires followed by frantic footsteps.

"Hedy!" he screamed as he banged on the door.

The mechanic rolled her eyes and headed over to open the door. He was instantly checking her over while trying to drag her out the building.

"Are you alright?! Oh my gosh what are you doing here?! The night guard that was on the phone is she… did they…" he was definitely starting to have a panic attack.

"Jeremy! Stop it!" Hedy was getting annoyed as he dragged her chair towards the door.

At that moment Ruby sauntered into the room and spotted them. She raised an eyebrow and tossed a glitter bomb at them.

Hedy wasn't happy about the covering of glitter but at least it gave her the chance to back further into the restaurant while her brother looked around wildly.

"What the heck?!" his eyes eventually fell on Ruby.

"Will you just calm down Jeremy!" Hedy huffed, looking annoyed. "I'm fine. She's fine. The world's not going to implode so CALM DOWN."

His eyes were darting all over the place now, taking in the building, his sister and the girl standing with an improvised night guard cap on her head.

She couldn't have been eighteen. There was no way.

"This place is hiring kids now?!" his voice rose in pitch again.

Ruby scowled. "I'm not a KID buddy. And I'm perfectly capable."

"Listen Jer. It's difficult to explain. I know you don't like it here but-" Hedy was speaking gently now.

"Like it?!" the man glared at her. "I HATE it! This place is dangerous! You of all people should know that!"

"Jeremy!" Hedy's tone turned sharp again.

Her brother did have that annoying tendency to baby her. Which was why she didn't tell him about this job in the first place. Among other reasons.

His mouth snapped shut and he looked at her.

"Things have changed." She assured him.

His glare darkened.

"Are you TRYING to get killed Hedy?!" he demanded, looking furious.

The sentient bowling ball decided that that was a good time to barrel into the room and latch onto Ruby's leg again.

It was still weird how he'd grown so attached to the teenager suddenly.

Jeremy let out a (rather girly in Ruby's opinion) scream and yanked on Hedy's chair again, to try and escape.

She wasn't going anywhere though as BB looked at him, cocked his head and said "Hi."

Jeremy screamed again.

"What is with all the screaming?!" Toby demanded, sticking his head into the room.

Jeremy froze, staring at the blue rabbit in fear. Hedy facepalmed.

Toby stared at Jeremy for a good minute before he screamed.

"What the heck?! You're supposed to be dead!" he pointed at the terrified man.

"Toby what are you yelling about now?" Teddy asked but stopped dead as he entered the room and spotted Jeremy.

His jaw dropped, apparently thinking the same thing.

"Dead?" Ruby asked curiously, patting a… purring(?) BB on the head.

Hedy was massaging her temples.

The rest of the 'bots trickled in and had similar reactions. Even Puppet was watching from the doorway. All eyes turned to Hedy for an explanation as Jeremy backed up against the wall. He looked like he was ready to bolt but didn't want to leave his sister there.

Hedy sighed as she caught Ruby's expectant look.

"First off. Jeremy, you can relax. They don't do… that, anymore." She started.

"Not by choice." Toby muttered.

Teddy hit him over the head.

"Shut up." She snapped at the rabbit, having no patience for him at the moment. "Anyway, yeah. Stop freaking out. Second, this is Jeremy. He's my brother and used to be a night guard."

"Really?" Ruby looked interested.

"But… he was dead!" Toby repeated.

"Shut up Toby!" everyone responded.

"He faked his death. To get you guys to leave him alone on night six." She explained.

Ruby whistled while the others gaped at him.

"Wow. You made it to night six?"

"What the hell is going on here?!" the poor man cried, still looking torn between running away from them and protecting Hedy.

The mechanic sighed again.

"They won't hurt you. They can't really."

"They're tricking you! What kind of sick ploy are they pulling now?!" he demanded.

Hedy rolled her eyes before turning to Ruby.

"I think he needs a demonstration." She admitted.

Ruby's grin had them all scrambling backwards for cover as she pounced on Toby. He shrieked as she got a hold on him and attached a chocolate bomb. Jumping away she set it off and dodged his furious blows, laughing all the while.

"Gonna have to try harder than that cotton butt!" she sing songed and skipped out of range again.

"I'll kill you!" he screeched.

"Like I haven't heard that before." She rolled her eyes before whacking him over the head with Betty.

"Good enough demonstration?" she asked with a sadistic grin, looking back at Hedy while Toby groaned at her feet.

The mechanic nodded.

"She's the one you've got to be afraid of when you're here." She deadpanned while the 'bots nodded.

Ruby skipped over to the Originals.

"How do you swing that hard with only one arm?" Bonnie asked curiously.

"I'm that good." She smirked.

Jeremy dropped in a dead faint at that point.

They stared at him silently before Ruby spoke up.

"Well. I'm bored. Who wants to play?"

The 'bots scattered with squeaks of fear.

Author Notes

So hope you enjoyed. :P This chapter was really fun to write. It went through a rewrite though so sorry about it being a day late.