Disclaimer: If I owned FNAF, I'd be able to pay off my student loans -_-

Things had gotten…different since Tricia broke out of Melody's control and started helping me and Mike. I didn't know if I liked it or not.

I mean yeah, I liked having one of my friends back, but she was acting really weird. She barely spoke to either of us except to say when the others were coming. It was really weird to see her this way when she had been so full of energy when we were alive. The first day we'd met back in kindergarten, she introduced herself and Travis right away, and asked if I wanted to play tag with them. I wanted to ask her what was wrong, but I decided that maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

"H-how are things at home?" I asked Mike, trying to make it so it wasn't so quiet.

"Okay." Mike answered, checking the screens. "Still no paradise, but it's better now."

"That's good." I tried to smile.

"Travis is coming." Tricia said without emotion. Mike sprang up and locked him out. When Tricia said he was gone, he opened the door again, and went to sit back down.

"So, I've been meaning to ask you guys a question." I looked at him in surprise.

"Yeah, Mike?"

"Do either of you remember what your killer looked like?" Mike asked. "I've been thinking, maybe if I can find him…" I felt a cold feeling go through my soul.

"I…I don't remember." I admitted. "I was the first one he k-killed." I looked down at the floor.

"I was the last one." Tricia cut in. "The whole thing was so fast…all I remember was that he was wearing a purple shirt."

"You don't remember anything else?" Mike asked.

"No, I DON'T!" Tricia snapped, going into the office and getting right up in his face.

"Tricia!" I gasped.

"…sorry." Mike said quietly. "You were scared. I shouldn't have asked."

Suddenly, the clock chimed. Mike sighed, standing up.

"Don't worry, guys. We'll figure this out."

I didn't know if he was trying to assure us, or himself.

Once I was sure Mike was gone, I glared at Tricia.

"Y-you didn't have to yell at him like that." I said. "He's trying to help us, you know."

"Whatever." She started down the hall, and I suddenly got angry.

"Hey!" I protested. "Wait a moment!" I reached out to try and stop her with my hook. She turned…just in time to get slashed along the left side of her mouth. My anger suddenly turned to fear as Tricia reached up to feel her new scar. She glared at me, and I started wondering if I could die TWICE.

"T-that was an accident."

"Ian…"

"AUGGGGHHHHH!" And like that, I took off down the hall, ducking around a corner. Tricia didn't even try to follow me.

"I wasn't even going to do anything!" She called after me. She then let out a sigh. "Wow, you haven't changed at all. You were a scaredy-cat when you were alive, and now that you're dead, you've turned into a scaredy-fox!"

"Have not!" I argued. "And even if I was, can you really blame me?! You already tried to tear me apart before!" Tricia started to open her mouth, then stopped herself.

"I've been ALONE in here for fifteen years!" I shouted before I could stop myself. "I'm alone during the day in Pirates' Cove, and until a few nights ago, I was alone at night and trying to protect the night guards from my own friends! My crazy, scary friends who hurt people and try to hurt me when I get in their way! All I want to do most of the time is cry, but I have to protect Mike! Because he's the only friend I've had for a long time, and I don't want what happened to the other night guards to happen to him!" I couldn't stop my voice from choking, as much as I wanted to. I saw a silvery glow on myself, meaning that my soul, the real me, was outside of Foxy.

"And even though he won't say anything, I know that inside Mike really hates me for hurting his sister and ruining his life!" I sank down against the wall, hugging myself as I started to cry.

"I haven't seen my mom, my brother, or my sister in forever, Tricia." I said, my voice weak. "All I want is to go home. Except I can't even do that, because I'm thisnow!" I hugged myself tighter, still crying. But I couldn't even really CRY anymore, being in a robot.

"And you think it's been easy for me?"

"H-huh?" I looked up at Tricia. Her soul was outside Freddy. She looked mad, but also like she was about to cry too.

"My birthday, Ian. I was killed on my BIRTHDAY." Tricia clenched her hands into fists. "What was supposedto be the happiest day of my life! And I had to see my friends AND my twin brother killed in front of me first! How do you think it's been for me?! I just got back to normal, and now I'm helping some weird guy, my friend's Foxy, and…and…this whole thing is just really weird, okay?!" She sniffed, and my mouth fell open.

"I'm not even a girl anymore! Not to mention my brother's still all mindless, and I have to protect Mike from him and Hope and…and I…I want to go home too!"

Both Freddy and Tricia sank to their knees and covered their faces with their hands, starting to cry. I don't know which surprised me more. And I don't know which of us went to hug the other one first. That probably looked really weird-Freddy Fazbear and Foxy crying. Except we weren't Freddy and Foxy, not really. We were KIDS, and we were both trapped in this nightmare.

Suddenly, a pair of yellow arms wrapped around us. I froze.

"Don't cry. Please, don't cry anymore!"

That wasn't Chica's voice.

Tricia and I both looked up at the same time.

"Hope?" Tricia asked. "Is that reallyyou?" I remembered the last time I'd tried to talk to Hope, and for a moment I was scared. But when I looked up, the chicken's eyes were yellow, not black. And Hope's soul was outside of her. She looked like she was about to cry, seeing us so sad. But she smiled a little at Tricia's question, and nodded.

Before I knew what happened, I was standing up again, laughing uncontrollably as I hugged her.

"You're back! You're really back!" I laughed. Hope giggled a little herself and started to hug me back before Tricia joined in on the hug, almost knocking all of us to the floor. The next thing I knew, all three of us were laughing.

Click.

Oh, right. The pizzeria was opening. I let go of the girls, all three of our souls disappearing.

"We should probably go now." Hope said in a quiet voice.

"Yeah." Tricia added. "Before he sees us." All three of us started down the hall, and I almost skipped.

Another one of my friends was back to normal! I had Hope back! Now we just needed to get Travis back to normal, and maybe then all four of us could find a way out of here once and for all.

For the first time ever, I didn't feel so lonely as I sat down by myself in Pirates' Cove.

A/N: Another one of the kids is free! :D Now they just need to figure out how to get Travis back...don't get your hopes up, though. I can promise it won't be that easy...and things are going to get worse before they get better. But until then...how's about leaving me some reviews? Thank you :)