Chapter 16 Let The Truth Be Told
Vincent looked back and forth from the devil and the angel. All three of them held their smirks. The man knew that he was fed up with his oldest sons ignorance. Just as he was about to let Jeremy have it, Jeremy turned around and looked up at his father with a look on his face that was a combination of concern and confusion. He asked, "What are you doing dad?" The devil and angel vanished.
Vincent had to drum up a lie and fast, "um, nothing, it's just that I thought I saw a spider on your head. I was wrong. There's nothing there." He chuckled nervously as he lowered his hand. Looking over tword the Show Stage, Vincent simply said, "I'm gonna go and inspect the robots. Carry on with whatever it is you're doing." The guard then sprinted off.
As soon as he got there, the devil and angel reappeared. "Vincent, I am surprised at you." The angel replied.
"I am too, I thought you were going to let him have it. I mean we both persuaded you and talked you into doing it and then you don't do it? What is the hell is the matter with you?! Most people wouldn't agree with me, but you did!" The devil snapped, raising his pitchfork above his head, ready to take a stab at the man.
Vincent looked back and forth at them both with compassionate eyes, "I'm sorry, it's just that Jeremy asked what I was doing, and I didn't want to let him know that I was going to hit him. But, I'm fairly sure that I'll do it eventually ." He responded as truthfully as he possibly could.
Narrowing their eyes, the devil and angel said, "Well, alright, but just remember: we'll be in touch." Both of the fantasy creatures nodded at the man and then disappeared once again.
Jeremy walked back and regrouped with his friends. The three of them could sense an idea was brewing in their friends brain, cause he always had a certain look on his face whenever he was thinking of an idea. Following behind, they walked over to Vincent, "Hey dad?"
"Yes son, what is it?"
"You know I was just thinking, instead of waiting until the twelfth, why don't I bring Mike over here and show him the diner? You know since he's never been here before?" The guard was shocked to be hearing a question like that from Jeremy.
Vincent stood their gaping at him with his mouth hanging wide open and his lavender eyes wide. Finally he slapped himself across the face and snapped himself back to reality. He replied with, "Well, I think that's a wonderful idea, but don't you think about spoiling his present. When he's here on his actual birthday, I'm gonna introduce it to him and everyone else."
"Relax dad, I don't even care about his present, so how could I spoil anything? Besides you said it yourself that you weren't going to tell me what it was. Remember? Hello, how could I spoil anything when I don't know anything?" Jeremy asked, shrugging his shoulders.
"Right, and also, what's with the sudden change in your additude?"
"I don't know. Mom did say she wanted me to be nicer to him. She also expected my additude to change by the time the party comes around. If it didn't change she said she would ground me for a long time."
Vincent couldn't argue there, "I see, well I can't argue with the wife."
"So I may as well do what she says. Come boys, back to my house we go. Bye dad, see you at home, if not sooner." With that Jeremy waved goodbye to everyone and set off out the doors. James, Tyler and Sean following behind.
"Dude, Jeremy, did you really mean all that?" Sean asked surprised, buckling his helmet up and hopping on his board. After they were geared up, they started off.
Jeremy looked over his shoulder but still kept one eye trained on the sidewalk in front of them, "Did I mean all that? Heck no! You know me guys. Snarkish and sarcastic."
"That's the Jeremy we know." James replied, breathing in a sigh of releif.
"True dat." Tyler said.
The four boys made it back to where they started and walked inside, scilently closing the door behind them. Jeremy gave them the signal to be quiet. Mike and Mable were focused on a cartoon on the t.v. Their toys from the diner were on one side of the couch, and Mable and Mike on the other. FredBear and the rest of the plush toys just laid together in a pile.
Sneaking up behind them, Jeremy just stood there, looming over the two, he tapped the ginger on her shoulder and waited. Mable gasped, she got the sense that something was wrong. "Mike." She whispered.
"Something wrong Mable?" He whispered back. The two of them looked up above them only to meet Mike's brother. Blue eyes locked onto them with a gaze powerful enough to peirce right through them.
"Ahhhh!" They rolled off the seat onto the floor gasping for breath. Both Mike and Mable felt as if they had just had a heart attack.
"Oh that's what he was getting at." Sean said, now fully understanding.
Mike picked himself up and helped Mable before they both faced the older boys. "Not funny Jeremy!" He snapped. "I'm telling mom and dad when they get home!"
"Come on pipsqueak, let's go, you to Mable." The teen ordered.
"Where are we going?" The confused youths asked.
"We're going to the diner, now move it." Jeremy grabbed them by their wrists and drug them off. His friends just kept quiet and followed along.
Scilence draped over the Smith siblings and Scott like a velvet curtain. Fritz stayed silent along with his sister who's mouth was hanging wide open. Scott just laid there, twiddling his fingers and thinking in his mind how his old friend would react to that shocking news. Finally, Fritz spoke. "Really Scott, you only cared about me?" He sat up along with his old companion.
"Yes, I mean, nobody else cared about you to help you out. I figured I'd save you, since nobody else was going to even try and make an effort to. I'm not the kind of person who stands by and watches others suffer. Especially since nobody else befriended you on your first day. I would never flake out or leave you to get hurt. I hate watching others suffer."
Tears started to form in Fritz's eyes, pretty soon here come the waterworks."Scott...I..." He didn't even finish his response, instead, Fritz wrapped his arms around the red head and started sobbing on his old friends shoulder. Scott just patted him on the back and comforted him.
"There, there it's alright, and since I've got you in this position, there's something I've wanted to tell you ever since we met."
Frisk closed her mouth and shook her head before pouring herself another cup of tea, only to find the pot empty."Oh geez, we're out of tea, I'm gonna go make some more, don't leave you two." She excused herself and went back to the kitchen, leaving the two alone.
Fritz didn't even notice his sibling left, he was more intrested by what his old friend was saying. Pulling back, he looked into a second set of emerald eyes, "Ok, what do you want to tell me Scott?"
"You don't wanna wait till your sister gets back?" The ginger shook his head no as he wiped away the tears.
"No, just spit it out Scott, what is you're trying to say here?"
Scott thought very carefully about how he was going to say this, before finally deciding to just break the ice. "Ok, I'm not gonna sugercoat this, I'm just going to say it. Fritz, I love you. I've loved you ever since we met."
Even though she was in the kitchen, Frisk overheard their conversation, she snuck over to the door and listened in. 'Didn't see that coming' The girl thought.
Fritz's eyes widened with shock, a warm blush came over him, he never expected to hear that from his old friend. "Really, you love me, do you really mean that, or are you just saying that?"
"Yes, I really mean it. I'm not lying. I mean would anyone lie when they said 'I love you?' Smith shook his head no. "I completely understand if you don't feel the same about me. You were just so greatful to me after I saved you from Benny. Look when I held you in my arms for the first time, comforting you after I saved you, I knew that you needed me right by your side. I never should have left you."
Fritz rested his head on Scott's shoulder and whimpered softly, "I thought I had everything when I became rich, but the one thing I'm missing in my life...is you. Because of that misunderstanding back in high school, I've been unable to think of anything else except finding you and seeking revenge." He broke down in tears again. I'm so sorry for trying to kill you!" Scott simply smiled and patted his head, running his hands through curly, ginger hair just as he did nineteen years ago.
"Fritz, it's alright. I forgive you. I can't stay mad at you, and I know that you love me too much to keep holding this grudge against me. Right?"
"R-right." Smith managed to say through choked tears.
Pretty soon, Scott thought of something. Something that involved seeking revenge. "Come on Fritz, let's go."
"Go where?" The ginger asked.
"I know how I can make this grudge go away permenatly." He got up off the couch and stood up, holding out a hand for his old companion. "Come on, we have an old enemy to track down."
Fritz complied and followed behind Scott, "Bye dear sister." Getting only halfway to the door, Frisk called him to the kitchen.
"Hold it big brother, can I see you for a moment?" Her sibling came into the room, a look of confusion on his face. "Did I just hear those three little words, "I love you?" The older of the two nodded."Alright, just double checking, I hold nothing against it. Be off with you now." She waved goodbye. Fritz nodded and went to retreive his bike from beside the door.
"Ready?"
"All ready to go, so let's set off."
"Away we go." Scott gestured down the street. "Come on." He started walking and Fritz simply peddled behind, wondering where they were headed.
Jennifer came back into the living room with a sandwhich and a glass of milk for her husband, "Here you go Craig, enjoy!" She chirped, setting the plate on a table.
"You seem so much more relaxed than normal ever since you set eyes on our new daughter. And when you're happy then I'm happy. And to be one hundred percent honest with you Jen, I'm just the tiniest bit scared of you when you're angry and mad. No offense." When came to honesty, Craig Fitzgerald could not lie, or sugercoat anything. He was a truthful, and trusting man.
The wife just glanced up at him. "No offense taken." She pulled out a chair, and took her place at the table across from Craig.
"Yeah, I just like it so much more when you're not yelling at me and swatting tea out of my hands. As I was telling Fritz today, sometimes I wonder why I married you in the first place?" The man tried to recall why he made that descision, but nothing came to him. Craig just simply ate his food with no complaints.
Concern was written all over the wife's face. Jennifer raised an eyebrow and asked, "Really Craig, you wonder why you married me in the first place? Was it my personality, my good looks, what was it?" Her husband froze, he knew very well that Jennifer was a very sensitive and delicate woman, one wrong move and she would probably break his arm, she hated lying.
Gathering his thoughts together and clearing his throat, Craig spoke, "Well, it was your beauty and, um...your...ok scratch that, it was just your good looks, which is the same thing as your beauty." He gave his own honest to goodness opinion.
"Well you did marry a good looking woman, namely me. Thank you for your honesty."
Her husband smiled and looked at their daughter, "No problem." Wiping his mouth and scooting his chair back, Craig walked over and picked up the baby girl, he had never really gotten a good look at her since Fritz brought her over. "Katherine is really adorable, I'm so glad Fritz found her and gave her to us. I think it was destined to be, since we've never been able to have kids before." He enveloped her in a hug.
"You got that right. Our lives are a million times better." Jennifer said with joy.
"For sure, and I'm gonna go remake that tea that I tried to offer you yesterday. Remember, the one you swatted out of my hands?"
Jennifer nodded, "Yeah sorry about that, I was just mad and wondering about Fritz that's all. So yes. Tea me." Craig handed the baby girl back to her mother and went to boil the water, breathing in a long sigh of happiness as he went.
A/N
Howdy Doody fellow fanfic and FnaF lovers. :P IT'S ME! I'm back again. I'll give anyone a cookie if you can guess which show on Disney XD Howdy Doody comes from and who said it first. ;) Also I changed the title of the entire story XD I'm also thinking of making this tale into a possible trilogy. (Which will probably look something like this: Requiem For a Fractured Family/Requiem For My Son/Requiem For the Young. Yes I'm gonna retitle this tale.) The one thing I have on my bucket list is to write a trilogy, but I'm not sure about doing it with this tale yet. I tried once to collab with Felicty the Pirate, but then I deleted it, I couldn't do it. Also I just didn't want to throw away all the work that I've already put into this tale XD I also said that I was going to get the therapy session done in this chapter and I did. Thearapy done, crack pairing time! WOO! :P
This chapter alone had so many curve balls and the chapter title itself was inspired by the lyrics to the song Off the Ground by The Record Company. Also, everytime I think of my pairing and flashback withScott and Fritz from chapter 4 Welcome to the Family, I always think of the song Come With Me Now by the Kongos. One other thing, Jeremy's attitude is the same as Axl Heck's from The Middle. And Jennifer and Craig's personalities are the same as Jessie and James from Team Rocket from Pokemon. Alright guys, longest authors note. R&R and keep smiling!