Close Calls
I don't own Five Nights at Freddy's. Scott Cawthon does.
Summary: "Well, look at that - I'm Phone Guy and you're New Guy," 50 sentences prompt about Mike Schmidt and Phone Guy.
Pairing: Microphone - Phone Guy/Mike. Mentions of past Phone Guy/OC (he's divorced, after all).
Notes: The sentences take place in various AUs, but most take place in an AU where Phone Guy survived and Mike was fired.
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1 - Air -
He rushes outside; not to get away from his would-be-murderers, but to get away from the dastardly smell of bad pizza.
2 - Apples -
"I like apples," is the only explanation Phone Guy can give when Mike asks him why he picks one from the bowl every morning.
3 - Beginning -
"Hello, hello," is called out and the door opens to reveal the blond man to the brunet; only one of them knows something has started here.
4 - Bugs -
"He's as frightened of you as you are of him," Phone Guy says gently as he cradles the cockroach in one hand and walks towards the open window; Mike is in charge of holding a very scared Cindy until it's safe.
5 - Coffee -
Mike left the house with his lips tasting of coffee - and not because he'd drank any.
6 - Dark -
Mike tries to convince a leering Freddy that it is six am, but Freddy will have none of it; Mike simply holds his middle fingers up in the direction of the glowing face, shuts his eyes and prays Phone Guy is as nice as he sounds on the phone.
7 - Despair -
Night four was one of the rare times Mike dropped his pride.
8 - Doors -
"Nope," the door cuts off Foxy's attack and Phone Guy sends an apologetic look his way, "sorry, Foxy, can't let you in!"
9 - Drink -
"Orange juice, please," Phone Guy tells the bartender, grabbing a few bills from his wallet, only to catch Mike smiling softly at him, "…what?"
10 - Duty -
"I couldn't do it, Mike," Phone Guy says, "I couldn't just leave and let someone else become a victim to Freddy - it just wouldn't have been fair."
11 - Earth -
He didn't know what the fuck those things were - whatever they were, they certainly weren't from here (most likely, he guesses, from the deepest depths of Hell).
12 - End -
"It's been an honour working with you…and I've had a lot of fun…" Phone Guy says to the bear, who holds him over his coffin.
13 - Fall -
Rain isn't the only thing that gravity grabs hold of on night four; Mike just can't stop sobbing.
14 - Fire -
He wishes he'd been the one that had started it; some other lucky bastard finally defeated Freddy and his friends (or have they?)
15 - Flexible -
"Hello, hello? Hey, you're doing great!" Mike grins, Thanks, Phone Guy.
16 - Flying -
"Oh," Mike can't help but give a little smirk as Phone Guy grips the arm rest hard, "so you are scared of something."
17 - Food -
Anyone else would've been put off by such a big appetite; Phone Guy only laughs when he comes home to find Mike raiding his fridge.
18 - Foot -
Words cannot describe the emotion in Phone Guy's eyes as he looks up at Mike from the floor; Freddy has grabbed hold of him and there is nothing Mike can do but watch as his friend is pulled back under the door.
19 - Grave -
It's made of some old wood he found in his shed; he positions the planks into a cross outside of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and etches a name into it with his pocket knife: PHONE GUY (it's the least he can do for him).
20 - Green -
"I…actually pictured brown…" Mike says awkwardly as he answers Phone Guy's question.
21 - Head -
The animatronics are crafty bastards; he has to search among the many parts before he finds the one mask attached to a full, blood-soaked Freddy suit.
22 - Hollow -
Relief spreads through his chest when he finds a Freddy suit and discovers it is empty; dread spreads when he realises the real thing is standing behind him.
23 - Honour -
Mike actually salutes to the wooden cross he has built outside the restaurant; after all, that's what you do to someone who died in the line of duty.
24 - Hope -
Mike looks desperately to the clock as it counts down the seconds until he can check the back room; just hold on, Phone Guy…
25 - Light -
Phone Guy makes it a rule to leave at least one light on in every room Mike is in; he doesn't like seeing Mike have panic attacks.
26 - Lost -
"Don't you ever hang up on me again, Michael Schmidt," Phone Guy yells (actually yells) through his tears at his partner once Mike returns home from work, "what would I have done if you'd died there?!"
27 - Metal -
Hurts like a bitch when it goes through your head; not that Freddy cares.
28 - New -
"Well, look at that - I'm Phone Guy and you're New Guy," Phone Guy chirps; Mike gives him a deadpanned look, "We sound like the crappiest superheroes ever."
29 - Old -
Nowadays, Phone Guy looks at himself and wonders why; Mike makes it a common rule to tell him.
30 - Peace -
Eating ice cream from the tub; good movie on TV tonight; sitting in his underwear; resting his head on the shoulder of the best boyfriend in the world - Mike swears this is the good life.
31 - Poison -
Phone Guy always casts a worried look at Mike whenever the younger male gets out a cigarette; he really wishes he wouldn't…
32 - Pretty -
Funnily enough, it isn't Phone Guy who sheds the first tears when Cindy first shows everyone what she looks like in her wedding dress.
33 - Rain -
When Phone Guy turns up on his doorstep at three am, he is soaked and cold, yet fully ready to comfort Mike from his nightmare.
34 - Regret -
Even after everything he's been through, there was none; after all, if he hadn't taken that job, how would he have met Phone Guy?
35 - Roses -
"You stereotypical bastard," Mike says, deadpanned, as Phone Guy grins sheepishly and continues to hold out his gift.
36 - Secret -
"Not that anyone died; t-that's not what I'm implying…" Phone Guy tries to remedy; Mike really wishes he'd stop kissing Fazbear Entertainment's arse.
37 - Snakes -
"Huh," Phone Guy observes as Mike turns horribly pale at the sight of the thing behind the enclosure's glass, "so…bears aren't the only animal that can freak the great Mike Schmidt out."
38 - Snow -
"C'mon, Mikey," Cindy calls over her shoulder as she runs out into the white blanket; Mike runs after her with a grin, almost ignoring Phone Guy's plea for him to put on a coat in his excitement.
39 - Solid -
"It's really not that bad," Phone Guy says with a smile as the straw is placed in his mouth; Mike blanches and is relieved that he doesn't have to drink his food like Phone Guy (and that he wasn't stuffed into a suit like him either).
40 - Spring -
Mike can't help but cringe at the bunny suited man before him; he can't imagine how much that must've hurt (then again, the bastard deserves it)
41 - Stable -
Mike listens to Phone Guy speak of the robots as though they are his friends; he wonders if he should get the man's brain checked.
42 - Strange -
A friend of his mother's asks him why he speaks to the red phone on his desk; he snaps at her and tells her he doesn't, then retreats to his room and murmurs to the red phone, "You're not an object, Phone Guy - you're a human being."
43 - Summer -
It isn't the heat that turns Mike's face unbearably red as Phone Guy steps out of the house in his swimming trunks.
44 - Taboo -
They force themselves not to hold hands in public and to not act too chummy toward each other; people could really be judgemental pricks.
45 - Ugly -
Mike returns home, ashamed and anxious, his right eye swollen shut after the fight he had promised him he wouldn't get into; Phone Guy takes his hands, kisses the wound gently and forgives him straight away.
46 - War -
'All is fair' goes the old saying; he scoffs because that doesn't apply when one works at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
47 - Water -
Mike curls up into a ball in the shower; not even the hot spray can take away the pain he feels after his fourth night at Freddy's.
48 - Welcome -
"Hello? Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night."
49 - Winter -
One good thing comes out of it, he thinks as Phone Guy holds him close.
50 - Wood -
"I'm just saying," Mike waves the newspaper at him, "they should make the next ones out of wood - might hurt less."
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Author's note:
I admit: I got writer's block, which is ironic considering this is the thing I turn to when I want to cure my writer's block. Also, thanks to everyone who has reviewed thus far! Glad you're enjoying it!
I'm pretty sure I didn't mention this before, so I'll mention it now: some of these sentences are based off of things that I plan to include in that Microphone story I'm setting up. Some of the others, however, are just random things that came to mind.
I won't tell you which ones are which.