Close Calls

Last night was surprisingly easy for Cordelia Lowell. She had an unexpected visitor and literally had to run for her life, but after that the animatronics were practically unmoving. Other than Foxy who she easily got rid of with the flashlight while she wound the music box.

Today, however, she feared it would be the exact opposite. Since they were rather inactive the day before, they probably were raring to go, and that boy had openly insulted them, more or less. He even took Chica's head off.

Her right leg and arm were aching horrible from the run she had to do the day before. It had been that way since her accident. Her mom had doctors and scientist looking into ways to 'fix' her. Cordelia was almost positive most of their methods were illegal, but she wasn't going to fuss.

To be honest, her mom was loaded and this job held no real importance to her. Her mom just wanted Cordelia to get a job to experience it, and she wanted her to get this one because it was kid friendly and therefore held no possible harm to Cordelia; she was wrong on that part. Her mom had another comment on the fact she is 'like them.'

She glanced at the animatronics as she made her way to the office. They stared at her through their mechanic eyes at her, and she looked for similarities. They were big vibrant animals while she is a tiny girl wrapped in several layers of clothes. She knew what her mother meant but wasn't ready to admit it to herself.

"I wonder who will visit me first today," she mused darkly to herself as she made it to her office behind her desk. "I bet it will be Toy Bonnie. Well other than Foxy being in the hall."

She glared from under the bill of her hat at the hall once the clock struck twelve. She started the cycle. First she checked every camera. Toy Bonnie had moved. Wind up the music box. Flash the light at Foxy in the hall because, of course, he is there.

Then strictly go in the pattern of check the vents, wind the music box, flash the hall, and repeat. After doing this multiple times she heard the sound of someone in the vent. She didn't even check the camera; she just continued her pattern until she saw wide green eyes staring at her from a vent to which she slammed on her Freddy mask that she had previously lent to the boy from yesterday.

Toy Bonnie slowly went by her with an intense stare as the lights flicker. His pupils were small in the bright green pools of his irises and his bucktoothed grin shook Cordelia a little on the inside. After what seemed to be an eternity, Toy Bonnie left.

By the time five came around, Toy Bonnie had been in the office five times. Foxy had forced her to use more than half of her battery. Toy Chica and Balloon Boy had been in the office twice while Toy Freddy and Mangle only had once. She also broke routine and saw the old Bonnie or, Withered Bonnie, had moved.

She internally groaned as she put the camera down from winding the music box to see Foxy in the hall accompanied by the purple Bonnie. She rapidly flashed her flashlight at them, and almost got caught by the nice blue bunny waiting in her vent.

Again she went to wind the box and when she put it down, there stood the faceless animatronic. She stared in horror at it as red beady eyes glared at her. She narrowly missed his hand latching to her throat as she dashed down the hall to find a place to hide. In his launch at her Bonnie had effective face planted, or faceless planted, the floor.

She decided aptly to hide under a table in the party room. She couldn't have that much time left. She had just wound up the box so he should be okay as it takes him a few minutes to get out of the box.

Her ears picked out the noise of them walking around and she even thought she heard someone ask, "Where did she go?" From under the table, she looked into the hall and saw an outline of Foxy trotting away from the office with the old Bonnie following him slowly. Across the hall she made out the figure of Toy Chica getting out of the vent and also retreated back to her normal spot.

Cordelia watched her anxiously. She had no clue the chicken was in the vent. Normally she would heard. Her right arm and leg were now aching from the sudden movements she had done, but she kept quite. She had learned to keep quiet no matter how bad it hurt; she did not want the animatronics to hear her.

In that moment a thought popped into her frantic and pained mind, If the chicken was in the vent and I didn't know, what if someone else was, too? Her head turned to the vent in the room at a painfully slow rate. There was nothing in the vent.

But there was someone nose to nose with her. Toy Bonnie let out a screech as he wrapped his arms around her with a crushing force. She heard several joints pop inside her as she started to struggle while he pulled them from under the table.

Right when he started to carry her off the bell rang. 6 am had arrived. The bunny sat her down softly; she looked confused but relieved as she looked up at him. Before he began to walk back to his station, she heard him clearly say, "Almost. But next time I will not mess up. Don't worry."

Those words struck her core with fright and made her inside shiver while her brown eyes widened in fear. The animatronic had spoken to her and delivered a threat with a gleeful grin.

Now we have a night with Cordelia. I hope you like Liam and her. Again, they are the only thing I own.

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