Chapter 3: Parental Guidance
"Alright. What happened? Why weren't you able to visit anymore?" Foxy questioned the night guard.
"Well..." He cleared his throat before beginning to tell the animatronic about his reasons to not coming to this restaurant he was so fond of.
"My dad... He just wanted to make sure nothing would harm me after my mother passed away, after all I was the last reminder he had of her so he made sure to avoid every danger he could for my safety."
"Oh..." Foxy sighed as she knew what danger Anthony was talking about.
"Yeah, that meant no more coming to Freddy's. Heck, he even tried to get this place closed a couple of times." Anthony stated.
"What a horrible person…" Foxy muttered but Anthony was still able to hear her.
"Yeah. He is. He always say things about making sure that he would protect me for the rest of his life and that he´d always be there for me when I needed him." Anthony explained.
"Then what happened?" Foxy questioned.
"He did his best for a long time. But as soon as I turned 18, poof. He left a note and a bank account to my name." Anthony glanced away from Foxy, not wanting her to see the tears in his eyes.
"He left you?" Foxy asked as she made sense of what he had just confessed to her.
"It turned out that since I was an adult now, he didn´t have to fulfill his parental duty anymore and decided that it was fine to leave with his girlfriend and leave me alone but with enough money for college and rent." Anthony said as the mere thought of what his father had done to him.
"I´m so sorry…" Foxy said as she moved over to where Anthony was sitting and wrapped her arms around him in an affectionate embrace.
"The good thing is that I managed to survive without the help of that hypocrite bastard and graduate top of my class." He added as he felt comforted by the hug the animatronic fox was giving him.
"I´m glad you came back. I´m even more happy that you´re going to be working here." Foxy said as a smile started to form on her face.
"I´m glad too! But there is one thing I´d like for you to explain to me." Anthony said to the gleeful fox.
"What do you want to know?" Foxy answered as she looked at the serious guard.
"Why were you and Freddy wanting to kill me?" Foxy was shocked as she wasn´t sure on what to tell him since she didn´t know why they did this either.
"The truth is… I don´t know either. I just know that this is what we´ve been doing with the guards for the last few years with a few exceptions." She explained as she remembered the previous guard and how he was the only one to survive their attacks.
"Does that mean you´re going to kill me?" Foxy was shocked by the questioned.
"Heavens no! I would never do that! The only reason I was going to attack is because I didn´t know it was you, I swear!" She did her possible to make sure that Anthony would trust her.
"Well you did defend me… But what about Freddy?" Anthony hesitated but was still worried about being killed by Freddy since he didn´t seem to like the idea of leaving him alive.
"Don´t worry about him. I´ll make sure that him and the others don´t bother you." Foxy reassured him.
"Maybe they might remember you and everything will be alright."
Meanwhile Freddy, Chica and Bonnie were waiting at the main stage for Foxy and Anthony to come out of Pirate Cove.
"I can´t believe it!" Bonnie exclaimed.
"I know! It´s amazing that he actually came back and as a night guard." Chica added as they watched Freddy pace back and forth in.
"For all we know he could be someone else and is just claiming he is this kid so Foxy or any of us don´t kill him." Freddy said in an angered voice as he still didn´t believe Anthony.
"Why are you worried Freddy?" Bonnie said.
"Who better to tell who he is than Foxy?" Chica added to which the bear just ignored the two of them and continued to guard the stage of Pirate Cove, waiting for them to exit.
As the night progressed, Foxy and Anthony continued to question one another about personal things and what had happened in the restaurant for the last few years.
"Tell me about this Mike guy. How did he get away?" Anthony asked as he was intrigued about the previous guard and how he managed to get away from being slayed.
"He was just really lucky I guess. It surprised me since I was always really aggressive towards him." Foxy said, shrugging at the thought of how he was always able to survive.
"What did you have against the guy?" The question left Foxy speechless as she tried to figure out the reasoning behind the need to get rid of the guards.
"You okay?" Anthony said as he observed the thinking fox trying to make sense of what her and her friends were doing.
"I´m not sure I can answer that question." She said in a serious tone.
"Why not?" Anthony said, baffled at the fact that she wouldn´t answer.
"Because I don´t know what the reason is…" She responded to which Anthony didn´t say anything but was left thinking about why she didn´t know if she had been doing this for a while.
Just before either of them could continue with any questions, the sound of an alarm coming from the restaurant startled the both of them since it signified that it was 6 am and it was the end of Anthony´s shift.
"Well. I guess that´s all the time we have for today." Anthony commented as both him and Foxy stood up.
"W-Will you be back tonight?" Foxy asked him shyly.
"You know. Even though I was about to be murdered and found out that some of my childhood idols are more sentient than I would ever imagine…" Anthony said, reminding Foxy about her attempt of murder.
"Yeah. I´m really sorry about that…" She said as she grabbed her arm with her hand as a sign of embarrassment.
"I think I´m going to love it here." Anthony finished his sentence which really surprised the animatronic.
"Really! You´re coming back!" Foxy said in a really excited voice.
"Of course! Beats every other job I´ve had before." Anthony added, causing the happy fox to jump over to where he was and give him a tight hug.
"That´s great! I´ll see you tonight than?" She asked as she let go of him.
"Twelve o´clock sharp." He answered.
"Alright! I´ll look forward to seeing you!" She said as Anthony waved goodbye as he left the stage.
Foxy was more than happy, heck, this was the happiest she´s been in years. She thought about everything she had learned about him that night, the good and the bad like him graduating from college, what career? She didn´t know but she was happy about it. She also thought about what he said about his father but she immediately thought about something else since she didn´t like him, even if she never met him, the single thought about what he did to Anthony and what he wanted to do to this place made her angry.
"Foxy." Her train of thought was interrupted as she heard a voice call for her. She turned around to see Freddy standing a few feet away from her.
"We need to talk."
Author´s Note: I´d like to apologize for the less than stellar quality of this chapter but part of it was written why I was on vacation so I just wanted to finish this up as soon as possible since my last update was two weeks ago. I´d also like to thank everyone who´s liked this story so far. You guys are awesome!
