Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and Five Nights at Freddy's belongs to Scott Cawthon.
"Hello, my dear." -Golden Freddy/Rose Evens
"Hello? Hello?" -Phone Guy
'Dear Harry...' -Writing
"Hey there, Harry..." -Aya
At the border at the edge of the afterlife, a young boy waited. He had been waiting for his mother for so long after his death. Eric knew though that it was not his mommy who really killed him, but the bad men who were making his mommy do things she did not want to do. The four year old could still remember how his mother trembled and cried as she did what the bad masked men told her to. Suddenly, he shook those thoughts away and continued to wait.
It had been so long since he started to wait, but he was a good boy and his mommy always told him not to go too far away from her and that he should stay by her! So he tried to be as close to his mommy as he could. Sometimes... some times he could even hear her!
"ERIC! ERIC BABY!"
Each time though he cried a bit as he could tell she was really sad and hurting. There was once when he heard this clanging sound and his mommy screaming, which made him scream as he was scared something bad had happened. But then after a time, he could hear her call out for him every once in a while again. Some of the other spirits that passed him tried to convince him that he should continue on, only to get the same answer each time. "I'm waiting for mommy and she'll come for me! Then we'll hug each other and I can tell her that I love her and she'll tell me that she loves me as she gives me a kiss on my forehead!"
The other spirits would then sadly shake their heads and disappear. He wasn't so lonely now though. Sometimes this nice red haired woman and a black haired man walked up and sat with him! They said that they were a mommy and daddy and there were there in case their little boy came by, though they said they hoped that he didn't. All three of them would talk and Eric would ask Mister James about daddies, since it had always been him and his mommy. Not that he loved his mommy any less, but they only had each other.
Now he could sometimes feel her, as if she was really close by so he would look for her. Then he would feel a pull somewhere nearby and would follow because he knew that his mommy was nearby. All he had to do was find her and they would both be really happy and have hugs and kisses! Mommy would lift him up and twirl him as they laugh togther and smile. Just recently, he blinked and found himself in some kind of box. Eric was really tired though and his eyes closed again and he found himself back wherever he was when he first lost his mommy.
And it had just happened again! He was less tired now, but still sleepy and he could hear his mommy talking with someone. While everything felt wierd, like he was really big! He was happy though that his mommy was nearby and he could hear her and feel her! If he could stay awake longer, then he could tell her he loved her and hug her! She gave the best hugs after all! But then his eyes closed again and he seemed to go to sleep before he woke up in that wierd place again...
Veronica was startled out of her thoughts as she looked around as she was distracted from talking with Aya. 'What was that?'
If they were visible, one could see one of Aya's eyebrows raised as she crossed her arms where she sat on top of the sleeping Harry. "Something the matter, Veronica? You seem like your distracted..."
The golden fox animatronic continued to look around with a frown. "I had thought that I had heard something... like something scrapping against something..." She then turned back to Aya. "Did you hear it?"
With a frown, Aya shook her head as she thought it over. "I can't say that I did hear anything..."
Even though she was still looking around, Veronica mentally shrugged it off as her imagination. Meanwhile, inside of Shadow Foxy's crate, the glow in the animatronic's brilliant blue eyes slowly faded and the eyelids shut as it's paws relaxed from where they had moved in a clinch.
Around them, the night club's air vibrated as the three friends chatted, barely heard over the sound of the music. Finally, Michelle took a sip of her drink and turned to Erika who was a bit silent. "Something wrong?"
The girl jumped a bit before she smiled and shook her head and drank some of her beer. "Not really, just thinking for the most part."
Checking out a guy, Lisa raised an eyebrow as she gave him a once over. "About what? You're awfully quiet and usually you're joining me in commenting on the cute guys. I mean, I can understand Michelle as she has her eyes on a real nice catch in Harry, but still."
Lisa dodged the swipe from the growling Michelle as Erika smiled at their antics. "Just thinking about how my life has gone is all." After she took another sip of her beer, Erika put it down and crossed her arms and looked around. "When we all decided to come to England together for our studies, I figured that we would go to school, hit the local club scene, maybe pick up some cute guys, then head home... Not so much now."
Setting down her own drink, Michelle leaned forward some. "Oh?"
After making sure that no one was around to listen in, Erika let out a breath as she softly smiled. "Then we somehow got involved with the whole Fazbear thing. I mean, hearing the stories from your dad when he was drunk was one thing, but actually seeing with my own eyes? And then having the mysteries behind it ripped away to reveal how tragic it all really is? It really... put things in perspective. Now? I can't see myself abandoning them... especially Olive."
With a nod, Lisa's eyes sparkled at the thought of her "Niece" and her own interactions. "They really do make one change their priorities, don't they?" Her smile became a sly grin with her next words. "Though I am surprised at how good of a mother you make to Olive."
Shaking her head, Erika chuckled some. "Surprises me as well..." She then looked into her bottle of beer as if it held the answers that she was seeking within it. "From someone whose a bit of a party girl in her late teens to someone helping out a group of unfortunate children and becoming a mother... Well, mom and dad always wanted me to become more responsible."
Michelle's lips twitched a bit. "Though I don't think that they were thinking about this when they told you that."
As her shoulders shook in soft laughter, Erika nodded. "Yeah, they'd be shocked..." She then drank the rest of her beer and set the bottle down on the top of the table. "But you know what?" Erika closed her eyes as various memories played in her mind. Fixing the animatronics, listening to their stories. Her times with Olive like when the animatronic was cuddled up into Erika's body in bed as the human read her a bedtime story. Or when they were taking a bath and gave each other bubble beards and hairdos as they laughed. Another being when they were in the backyard and Olive brought up a flower that she had picked for her mommy. Then, Erika's eyes opened as her smile softened. "I wouldn't trade any of this for the world."
On either side of her, Michelle and Lisa finished their own drinks off before they nodded as Michelle stated what they were both thinking. "Agreed."
Then Lisa leapt off her stool somewhat shakily and then turned around with a grin. "Well... anyways, we didn't come here to be deep in thought! We came here to have fun!" She then winked at Michelle who groaned as said woman knew what was coming next. "Well, that and tease Chelly here over Harry and try to convince her to bring along Harry next time." Lisa then grabbed their hands and pulled them out toward the dance floor. "COME ON! THIS IS OUR DAY OF RELAXATION!"
Laughing, the two young women let her pull them onto the dance floor where they proceeded to just let the beat of the music take over and leave all their worries and cares fall away.
The door to the backstage area slowly opened and Freddy stepped into the room with a frown. He watched as Harry walked up to one of the costume heads on the shelf and grabbed it then, after a moment, tilted it back. There was silence while Harry did this two more times before Freddy cleared his throat. "Harry? Is there something the matter?"
Harry froze for a moment, then he sighed and leaned back against the table as he continued to look at the heads. "... You know, Phone Guy asked me to check the heads back here in his phone calls during that first week. I never really did, I had reasons why I never bothered to do so."
Slowly, Freddy nodded as he walked up beside Harry and sat down on the table. "Because you disliked him?"
With a frown, Harry climbed up on the table and sat beside the animatronic bear as he put his elbows on his knees. "I'd be lying if I said that I didn't dislike him due to his phone calls. The others about the hidden room only solidified it." A sigh escaped him a bit as he now seemed to stare through the heads. "The guy knew all about what was going on and kept trying to convince the guards that there was nothing to worry about. In fact, he almost didn't seem to care all that much except to give a warning to the guards after him... I don't know, maybe it's wrong for me to not really care for him all that much. Especially as he's likely a part of the Black Mass. And I guess that he tried to help, even a little. But..." The wizard paused for a moment before he continued. "Did... did any of you know his name or who he was?"
As he also leaned forward and stared at the heads, Freddy shook his head. "Not really... but then, me and the others tried not to know who the night guards really were it. We hoped that by doing so, it would make things easier for us. We could try to pretend that they were just strangers..."
His head tilted to the side, Harry glanced up at him as he whispered. "Did it ever really help any?"
There was silence from Freddy before he shook his head, his eyes staring off at something in the past. "No... it never really helped. But all we could do was continue on the best that we could, promising ourselves that we would try and make it up and redeem ourselves in the future. We did take some comfort in how we didn't want to, but were being controlled. It's... strange really that being stuck in your head and internally screaming and trying to fight, even if it failed, helped a little. But only Foxy and I had any real success with that... the Marionette was just too strong for Chica and Bonnie. With Foxy, he would try to fight him off and then run to try as if it would let him escape from the Marionette's voice. And me? I... could hold him off by focusing on one spot and the light. But after a few days of being chipped away at... or if the lights turned off as he was much stronger in the dark..."
Beside him, Harry just nodded. "You know, you're all stronger then you think."
Sadness was on Freddy's face as he let out a shuddering breath as memories of screams and pleading drifted through his mind before he shook it off. "Not strong enough though..." After a few moments, he shook it off. "As to your question... I only know a bit about him and that is mostly from Olive and Veronica, they actually knew who he was though only by his voice, not name." That caught Harry's attention and he turned to Freddy. "I... let them listen to his recording one night and they recognized the voice. According to Olive, he worked at FredBears as a busboy. Veronica also met him a few times and said he was a guard and then a head guard..." Shaking off some of the darker feelings, Freddy turned to Harry. "Why? What happened?"
After a few moments, Harry grimaced. "I was talking with Ashley before she left today, asked me to come in a little early... she, um, promoted me to Head Guard as it seems the pizzeria is supposed to have one."
That caused Freddy to blink in surprise. "Well... congradulations then? Though aren't you leaving for Hogwarts in a few weeks?"
While he chuckled, Harry nodded. "Yeah, but since I'm currently the longest serving guard here with some of the employees pulling double duty as the day guard... turns out that as the senior guard, I become the head guard..." His face then fell. "It also came with... a new uniform, which had been placed in a sealed bag in storage. Ashley could not understand why it was still untouched by time since it was put away in 1978... and it still had a name tag on it from the last head guard who she said disappeared on the night shift..."
Once more silence descended on them before Freddy cleared his throat. "I... see. And the name?" Reaching into his pocket, Harry pulled out a name tag from his uniform and handed it to Freddy who read it. "'Scott'... Hmm, I see..." The animatronic bear considered Harry for a moment. "It bothers you to be wearing it, after everything you've felt about him, huh?"
There was a grimace on Harry's face as he tugged at his light purple shirt. "This is the uniform that he died in, of course it does."
Freddy frowned for a moment before he attempted to inject some humor into the conversation. "Well, not the same uniform as that would be ripped and torn with patches missing... Well, Tony's sister was a witch I suppose." At the unamused look Harry gave him, he rubbed the back of his head, a habit he had picked up from Harry. "Right... not that funny..."
With a dry tone to his voice, Harry shook his head. "Not funny at all. I really do not want to give that a moment's thought." A shudder went through him as he looked at his shirt and then quickly unbuttoned it and took it off. "Now I can't stop thinking about that, thanks."
As he winced, Freddy nodded. "Noted." He then watched as Harry hopped off the table and walked to the head next to the last one he picked up. "So that is why you're back here? It just makes you want to..."
Slowly, Harry gave a nod as he picked the head and flipped it so that he could look into it. "Yeah... though there's more to it then that." Having seen the confusion on Freddy's face, Harry gave a sigh. "I... have you ever wondered what happened to the bodies? Obviously they got rid of them somehow but... did they dump them out there somewhere? Or did Tony's sister use magic to just... make them vanish."
Just watching as Harry went to another head, Freddy frowned. "I... never really thought about it to be honest, never actually wanted to. And it's probably the same with the others. But... I never did see the cleaning crew bring anything from back here out in a large bag or anything of the sort. And Tony always walked back here with his sister so..."
Pausing, Harry looked around as he could just barely hear audiable whispers reach his ears. "Not even the false dignity of a shallow grave..."
The animatronic bear watched as Harry reached the final head and grasped it. "Rather sad, really..."
With a nod, Harry gulped as his hands shook. "Yeah..." He then flipped the head over...
And found that it was empty, just like all the others.
"Sad doesn't begin to describe it..."
The car jolted to a stop as Harry woke up in the back. "Wassthat?"
A giggle next to him caused him to blink and raise his head to see a smirking Michelle. "Comfy much?"
It took Harry's sleepy mind a moment to realize that he had fallen asleep during the car ride on Michelle's shoulder in the backseat of the car. He jerked away from her and gulped a bit. "Uh, um, s-sorry about that, Michelle..."
With a very slight amount of redness on her cheeks, Michelle's smirk became a soft smile as she shook her head. "It's... okay, Harry. I can imagine that you're tired from your night shift so I don't mind you sleeping on the drive." Her blush deepened as she noted the looks from her two friends in the rearview mirror. "Anyways... we're here."
Grateful for the distraction, Harry looked out the window to see the used vehicle lot that they had gone to. "Huh... more variety then I expected, though I hope that they have what we need..." It was then that he noted that Lisa did not look at all that well. "You okay, Lisa?"
As she waved him off, the young woman sighed. "Yeah... just a bit hungover..." She then smiled at him in the mirror. "Anyways, you gave any more thought to what we asked you about?"
Harry blinked and frowned some as he rubbed the back of his head. "Well... I thought about it and if everything works out, then I guess I can head to a night club with you... though it might take some work to set things up so that they're taken care of for that night..."
While she stepped out of her door, Erika raised an eyebrow a bit as she looked over the roof of the car where Harry got out. "You really do worry a lot about them, don't you?"
However, Harry just shrugged a bit with a smile. "Yeah, well... they're family, you know? Or about the closest that I come to an actually family in reality." He didn't notice how Erika shared a look with both Lisa and Michelle at that as he looked around the lot. "Anyways... we should probably look around some."
The four of them walked around looking at the various vehicles before Lisa asked the question that was on the three women's minds. "So... why are we looking at caravans anyways? Especially used ones?"
Smiling, Harry glanced at them from where he had been looking into the window of one. "Well... remember how Erika said that there would not be the room at her house for all the animatronics?"
Erika nodded as she stuck her hands in her pockets. "Yeah, it's pretty crowded as is with the Toys and the ones we rescued from London in the house. Thankfully, the attic is pretty roomy and so is the basement, but still. I don't think that I can take in any more..." She then frowned thoughtfully as she looked around at the used trailer homes. "Wait, isn't one of the things that wizards can do is expand spaces?"
With a grin on his face, Harry nodded. "Among other things, yes." He then tapped the trailer that he had been looking at. "I talked with both Sirius and Remus about it and they also talked with Mr. Weasley about enchanting. Turned out that there's actually a bit that's allowed because they count as a normal motor vehicle. Expanded insides, climate charms for comfort, and the whole thing." Then Harry's grin became a grimace. "Turned out that for all their hate for muggles, families like the Malfoys pushed for those laws so that they could have fancy, enchanted cars..."
Knowing who he was talking about even if the others didn't, Erika nodded. "So... what are you doing with these?"
The young wizard shook his head. "Mainly, expanding the inside into something like a small home, should be big enough for all of us and the animatronics really... along with some magical appliances such as stoves and that. Also, a bunch of protections on it as well."
Despite the odd look that Erika gave him, it was Michelle who spoke up. "Whoa, why would it need to be big enough for all of us? And if you did all that, wouldn't there be some kind of... I don't know, stuff about not letting anyone without magic from being inside or being able to notice?"
Several moments passed before Harry turned toward them and made sure that there was no one around in hearing distance. "With... Voldemort being active, I figured that besides having a place for the animatronics, it would be best to have one for us as well to hide out in just in case. Being as Sally-Ann is a muggleborn, she'll be near the top of the list for the Death Eaters to go after. I'm not going to have you girls without a way to get away and hide..."
He blinked though as he found himself being hugged by the three young women before they pulled away, Lisa giving him a smile. "Thanks..." She then smirked as she glanced at Michelle. "You really landed one hell of a guy here, Michelle, if it was not for you then I would try to snatch him up."
Sputtering, Michelle's face was nearly as red as Harry's as she glared at her friend. "We're just friends!" Now ignoring the identicle teasing grins on her friends' faces, she turned to Harry to change the subject. "Wha-what about that other stuff? Hiding the inside from non-magicals and stuff."
Grateful, Harry smiled at her though it was ruined a bit by his red face. "Well... as it turns out, once it's all done, I can key people without magic into it so the spells to normally prevent them from noticing or entering won't affect them." He then reached out and tapped the side of the used trailer. "Anyways, according to Remus and Sirius, these older models are easier to enchant."
Lisa then became thoughtful as she looked over the trailer homes and the office. "Hmm... some of these would even fit in the garage at Erika's... How are you paying?"
There was a moment as Harry shuffled a bit. "Well... turns out that Gringotts does some nice exchange rates and Sirius has been exchanging money from his vault. So, we can make payments in cash."
Her hands in her pockets, Michelle smiled some. "Well... let's go and have a look around then."
Just as he was passing the Black Family Library, Remus paused as he heard sounds coming from inside and poked his head in. To his utter surprise, there was Sirius at a desk with a number of books open around him as he looked in one before he scribbled something onto a sheet of parchment. "Er, Padfoot? What... are you doing?"
The dog animagus jerked a bit before he turned toward Moony and grinned. "Just some research and refresher work."
With a raised eyebrow, Remus walked in and picked up one of the books and read the cover. "'Protections for the mobile vehicle and you'..." He then picked up another and read that title as well as the title to a book on the table. "'So you want to enchant a muggle vehicle', 'How to make a magical tent'... Padfoot, what is all this about?"
Leaning back with a grin, Sirius just stretched some. "You know how Harry is getting that trailer thing?" Slowly Remus nodded. "Well, Harry was wondering what could be done for it, so I offered to look up my old notes for my motorcycle and some of the books I got on enchanting." He then waved at the parchment. "Once that's done, I'll enchant it and place some protections on it..."
As he sat down and looked over some of the notes, Remus nodded as he glanced over at Sirius. 'He looks... happier, wanted...' Slowly, a smile spread across his face. 'Seems that Harry giving him something has really helped him.' Pulling up a chair, Remus sat down beside him and continued to look over the notes. "Some of these might be a bit much at the moment, Padfoot..." Then he spotted something else and looked at it. "What the bloody hell is this..."
Sirius looked at what he had spotted and his face fell a bit. "It's... something that Lily worked on, I managed to salvage it from their home that night and hid it until now."
While it felt like a fist was clinched around his heart, Remus picked up the notebook to read it better. "I never knew that Lily was working on enchantments so that muggles can ignore anti-muggle spells... or a protection against obliviation enchanted into a necklace..."
There was a fond look of remembrance on his face as Sirius stared at the book. "Remember how Lily hated that she could never bring her parents to Hogwarts? Because the wards there would prevent them no matter how they were brought there?" Remus nodded as he remembered that. "Then there was poor Sam's mother, remember that? How the Obliviators went and Obliviated all knowledge of magic from her without even thinking that she should know? Sam was heartbroken by how his mother couldn't remember anything past his eleventh birthday... She wanted to prevent it from happening again."
With a fond smile of his own, the werewolf nodded. "That sounds like her... and I can see her doing research into that..." He then looked over the notes and slowly frowned. "I take it that you are planning to give this to Harry for Michelle and the others?"
Now there was a serious expression on the current Head of the Black Family's face. "Those three are in danger from various corners and this would help them. I got a few spells that I can also place on any enchanted jewellry that would be a nasty surprise for anyone attempting to remove them without authorization. Family spells..."
After a glance, Remus mumbled a bit. "I can imagine what those surprises might be..."
Shrugging, Sirius gestured at the books and notes. "Well, it's something that can help other then spend all my time cleaning the place..."
Whistling, Erika pulled the soldering iron away from the small animatronic. "Hmm..."
Vicky leaned in some and examined it. "Er... is there something the matter with it?" Another glance let her see some of the small bird bones that were visible here and there within the endoskeleton's machinery. "You've been working on Polly quite a bit..."
As she leaned back, Erika glanced at Vicky with a smile as Olive followed something on the floor. "Polly is... well, the smaller an animatronic sometimes the harder it is to repair and work with. Especially with ones like Polly who don't have your usual shape." She then frowned as she took a pair of tweezers and went back to work. "Especially these old animatronics, there's only so much that I can do by adding modern stuff and with the rest of it..."
There was a moment of pause as Vicky glanced to where Laika was testing out some of the new work done on her. "You really don't want to take away something and then it turns out to have been needed..."
While she grimaced, the young woman nodded and tapped a piece of paper which showed the parrot's schematics. "I'm having to get some of these machined to the specifications mentioned, which... are raising some eyebrows needless to say. Only good thing is that with all the major repairs for you guys complete, I only have the minor ones and those repairs for your costumes, which can wait until Steph comes through with her work on those..."
Swinging her feet under the stool she sat on, Vicky continued to watch in interest as Erika continued her work as she pulled another illuminated magnifying glass over to see more detail. "I've noticed that you're bringing a couple of people..."
Already knowing what she had meant, Erika smiled some as she teased a wire back into place. "There's really only so much that even I can do for you guys. Steph is top in the class at making costumes for animatronics, Richard is great at programming, and Lauren as well as Davis are great at machining. They all bring something to what we need and... well..." Explosively sighing, Erika looked over at Vicky who had turned all her attention onto her. "If Harry manages to fully revive Fazbear Entertainment, and if anyone could it's him, then he's going need a crew specifically for at least upkeep and upgrades for all of you. And if he later expands, then he's going to need a core group who can train others for other branches or be in charge of said groups."
Her eyes widening some, Vicky somehow sucked in a breath as it all clicked. "You're getting ready in case Fazbear expands again..."
There was a moment while Erika turned back to her work. "It makes sense since Fazbear's has risen from the ashes once before... But there's a bit more to it then that. All the people that I mentioned? They're also like me in that none of us could really expect much work once we graduate except for maybe interning with various animatronic companies. It would be years before anyone would even trust us beyond the most basic of things... But with Harry? We could all gain experience and if everything works out? There's not a one of us who could not look back and grin triumphantly at our accomplishments."
As Vicky nodded, it was then that she noticed that Olive was walking up with something in her paws. "What have you got there, Olive?"
With a blink, the otter animatronic grinned and held out her paws. "A frog!"
Laughing, Erika nodded as she saw the animatronic frog that was in Olive's paws. "Well, Hopper is something fun to play with, I'll admit."
Olive pulled her paws down some and looked over the much smaller animatronic as it tried to get out of her hold. "He's really cool, Mommy... did you make him?" At Erika's nod, her eyes got wide. "Wow... you're really good at this, Mommy!"
Another laugh escaped Erika as she picked up Olive and set the otter in her lap. "Thank you, honey." She gave the giggling animatronic a kiss on the head before she looked down at the robotic frog. "Hopper was actually one of the first animatronics I ever made using a kit my godfather gave me. Did all the work on him myself over the years and I am pretty proud of him."
Having stuck her tongue between her lips, Olive set the small animatronic on the table and watched as it hopped around like a real frog. "He's so cool... like a real frog!"
If anything, Olive's smile widened as she felt the rumble in her mother's chest from laughter. "He's certainly that, Olive, he's certainly that..."
A soft squeal escaped from Olive as Erika's finger tickled her some. "Mommy!" Suddenly, she felt the weight of something and looked up to see Hopper on her head much to the amusement of both Erika and Vicky who smothered their laughter. "HEY! GET OFF MY HEAD!" Erika barely kept from falling from her chair laughing as Hopper jumped from Olive's head and began to race around the basement workshop with Olive in hot persuit. "GET BACK HERE!"
While he gestured with his hands, Harry gave a sigh toward the older woman. "You see, Ashley, I got an invite out for a trip with some friends and it's only for a single night that I won't be a guard here for."
Biting her lip, Ashley frowned as she thought over her options. "I really don't want to say no to you, Harry. You've been pretty much the best guard we've had here in my memory anyways... But the issue is finding someone who is willing to take over the night shift, even if it's for just one night. The rumours you see..."
Suddenly, a voice piped up. "I can do the night shift if you want!" Both of them turned to see Susan already in her waitress uniform as she blushed. "Um... I was just walking by when I overheard..."
Harry crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. If his friends were there, or someone else who closely knew him, they would have spotted the mischiviousness that sparkled in his eyes. "It's not an easy job, Susan..."
The red head just placed her hands on her fist. "So? I can handle it easy!"
After a moment, both Harry and Ashley shared a look before they shrugged as the older woman turned toward Susan. "Well, if you really want to do this..."
Snorting, Susan crossed her arms across her chest. "I do!"
With a sigh, Ashley shook her head. "Well, I don't see any problem with it, do you, Harry?"
Humming, the wizard shook his head as his mind started to roll around an idea with which to get back at Susan for what happened with her aunt. "No, I don't really see a problem with it. I'll still leave you a phone message so that you know the basics of the job among other things."
As she frowned, Ashley tapped her chin. "Are you sure that you want to do this Susan? I've heard stories about the night shift and I have rarely seen a guard last long before they leave..."
However, Susan just rolled her eyes as she sniffed. "I've just got to do patrols and watch cameras here... how hard could it be?" Then she blinked and turned to Harry with confusion. "Why... are you laughing?"
There was another laugh that boomed through the place and caused them to turn to the stage where Ashley shivered some. "And why the bloody hell is Freddy laughing...?"
Susan shook it off though. 'It's nothing to worry about, Susan... nothing at all..."
Having walked out of his relatives' house with the best clothing he owned on, Harry smiled as he noticed Erika's car pull up to the curb with Michelle and Lisa in the backseat. "Hey there."
Once he got inside, Michelle grinned at him as he buckled up. "Excited yet?"
All Harry did was nod as he leaned back into the seat. "You kidding? This is the first time that I have ever been to a night club..." He then frowned a bit as he rubbed the back of his head. "So... um... what's the plan?"
The three young women shared a look before Erika smiled at him through the rearview mirror. "Well, first thing we're doing is choosing a designated driver... which is going to be me. So if I have anything, it might be a beer." Erika waited until Harry nodded and continued. "Once we're at the club, just a few rules. One, don't trust any drinks that comes from anyone but us or the bartender, not that you will be able to drink alcohol while we're out anyways, but we don't want someone slipping you or us anything..."
With a smile, Harry just shrugged. "Maybe another time."
Lisa then snapped her fingers. "Hey, you know we could continue once we get home or something, have Harry stay the night. Private residence and all that."
They all turned to him and all Harry did was shrug. "Honestly? I was going to ask if you had somewhere to sleep as I know that the Dursleys would not want me slipping into the house at like three in the morning..."
Having shared a look, all three young women grinned as they pulled out onto the road. "Anyways... next rule is to stay close to us. We don't go anywhere except in pairs just in case." Seeing the expression on his face, Erika shook her head. "It's to prevent trouble from happening. Whoever is with you when you do your business will just stay outside the doors. Third rule is that we keep an eye on our and each others drinks to make sure no one slips something in without us seeing. Fourth rule... we always have something to eat before we head out so that we have something in our stomachs."
As he frowned, Harry sighed. "Shame that I can't take you all into the Leaky Cauldron then, you'd like the food there and I could pay you back."
Michelle tapped her chin in thought. "Hmm... any idea if they do take out? Because then you and Erika could go in and grab some food and come back out and we eat in here. The two of you could go in after all..." Realizing how it sounded, she waved her hands in the air. "Not that I'm telling you to! Oh, I, uh... crap."
To her surprise, Harry just chuckled some. "Honestly, I don't mind..." He didn't finish the rest of his sentence. 'After all, I was going to send home some wizarding sweets for you as well as Chica and the others...'
While she waited for a light to change, Erika slowly nodded. "That sounds like a good idea, and it would help... Okay then, we got a plan!"
Meanwhile, Lisa looked into the rearview mirror where she watched Harry chatting with Michelle. 'Phase one of "Get Michelle a nice boyfriend" is complete! Now for phase two!'
Sighing, Susan rolled her eyes at her aunt. "Auntie, I'll be perfectly fine, there's no need to worry!"
After a few moments, Amelia slowly nodded. "If your sure... I'll pick you up in the morning."
With a nod, Susan started toward the pizzeria as she adjusted the cap on her head. Amelia waited until her niece was inside to leave. Inside, Susan walked over to the stage and looked up. "Kind of feel sorry for you, I'm not authorized to place you on free roam after all..." She then glanced at Pirate's Cove before she walked to the security office. After an hour, the clock struck midnight as she leaned back in her chair bored. "Ugh, told Harry that it wouldn't be that bad, this is utterly boring..."
It was at that moment that the phone rang...
