I know the wage Jade, and the previous night shift employees, gets at the pizza place is lower than what the standard minimum wage in California is. For those who don't know, the minimum wage in California, from what I saw online anyway, is 9.00 an hour. I don't have a proper explanation for why Jade's wage is lower than it's supposed to be. Thanks to ScottyBGood for pointing it out to me. And for the suggestion that it would help explain why they have problems with the position.
Anyway, this chapter starts where the last left off. Each chapter after this, as I think I've mentioned before, will be her shifts at work and will get closer to what I have intended for this fic as it goes. We will see Tori more as this goes on. You'll see what I mean at the end of the chapter.
Disclaimer: 'VicTORious' and 'Five Nights At Freddy's' aren't mine. Never were, never will be. All I own are the OC's you'll see in the beginning, Jon and Ashley. Jon is based off a friend of mine, and Ashley is based on his real-life girlfriend.
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"Hello Jon. Would you like to play a game?" Jade says, sneaking behind the waiter who told her about the opening, using an app on her phone to make her sound like the Jigsaw killer from the 'Saw' franchise.
"Don't do that." Jon says, jumping and turning to face Jade. "What was that for?" He asks, shaking his head at the Goth before him.
"I was bored. You were there." Jade says, putting her phone away. "So, show me what I'm supposed to do." She tells him, looking at him.
"Follow me." Jon says, leading her to the back office where she'll be working.
"Yeah, that doesn't sound creepy." Jade notes as she follows him down the hallway, not seeing the way the chicken animatronic, Chica, follows Jade with it's eyes.
"Anyway." Jon says, choosing to ignore Jade. "This is where you'll be working. The Pear Pad there is what you'll be using to watch the camera footage." He tells her, opening the door and pointing to an average sized Pear Pad, thankfully not one of the large ones Robbie loves to carry around, on a wooden table. Beside the Pear Pad is an office phone, one of the ones with a multitude of buttons and caller i.d. In front of the desk is a somewhat comfy looking chair, and a variety of posters, most of which showing the animatronics, a lot Jade hasn't seen before, lining the walls around the office.
"Where's the charger for it in case it runs low?" Jade asks, walking around the small office and drawers in the desk, not seeing anything other than what's on the desk, the walls, and a small notepad and pen in the top drawer of the desk.
"The boss takes it with him. Doesn't want anyone using it all night or something." Jon says, shrugging his shoulders. "From what I understand, you don't need to check the cameras all the time. Just every once in a while. If you notice anything out of the ordinary or odd, report it." He says from the doorway, eyeing a picture of a humanoid fox on the wall above where the Pear Pad is set.
"So, why do so many people quit this position?" Jade asks, sitting in the chair and spinning around, smirking at Jon. "Does it have anything to do with the stories about this place in the past? Like when a kid got part of his brain bit off?" She asks, showing a macabre interest in it.
"Something like that." Jon admits. "I don't know the full story. Just that most of the people that work this job tend to leave after a week or so, something about it starts to get to them or something." He says, shrugging his shoulders. "Anyway, like I was saying, all you need to do is keep an eye on everything and everyone."
"Everyone? What the hell does that mean?" Jade asks, cutting him off.
"The animatronics. At night, so their gears or whatever don't lock up, they're set to wander around the halls and stuff. All you need to do is keep an eye on Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy." Jon says, staying in the doorway. "Make sure they don't get stuck or something."
"Okay, who the hell is Foxy?" Jade asks, raising an eyebrow, not liking the new information Jon keeps adding on.
"Him." Jon says, pointing to the picture of Foxy hanging on the wall.
"What happened to him?" Jade asks, getting up and inspecting the image of a tall fox-like animatronic with a hook hand, an eye patch, and parts of his 'skeleton' visible. "Looks like he got stuck listening to Trina singing." She adds with a chuckle.
"Don't know. It happened before I started." Jon says as we hear a woman call his name. "That's my ride. Good luck, and I'll see you tomorrow." He says, turning to leave with a wave.
"When does my shift officially start?" Jade asks, following him to the main room.
"In a bit. You got here about a half hour early." Jon says, walking into the main room where they see a blonde, around Jade's height, standing by the counter.
"Who's she?" The blonde asks when she sees Jade.
"New girl. I was showing her the office for the night shift she'll be working." Jon tells the blonde, giving her a quick kiss on the forehead.
"Oh. Hi. I'm Ashley, Jon's girlfriend." The blonde, Ashley, says with her hand out for Jade to shake.
"Not a friendly person." Jade warns, eyeing the hand.
"Ah, okay." Jon says as Ashley slowly drops her hand, both sharing a brief awkward look. "See you tomorrow Jade." He says with another wave. "There's a machine to mark when you started to when you ended on the desk beside the phone. Punch in to start your shift. And before I forget, if any of them get too close to the door to the office or something, there's a button on the Pear Pad to lock the door so they can't get in. Be careful though, each time you check the cameras or close the doors, it takes energy from the Pear Pad as well as the building's night reserves. I'll explain that tomorrow." He calls over his shoulder as the two leave the building.
"Uh, okay." Jade calls out, heading back to the office to clock in. "What are you looking at?" She asks, raising an eyebrow at the large yellow chicken. "Can't believe Cat wants their autographs." She says to herself as she heads down the hall, making a mental note to interrogate Jon about what he said about the door and the energy reserves tomorrow while keeping a mental note on what he told her before and what he just told her, comparing them for any possible inconstincies.
After clocking in, Jade relaxes in the chair, grabbing the Pear Pad and looking through it, seeing the main three animatronics on the stage and Foxy's head peaking out of a curtain Jade didn't pay attention to earlier.
Every few minutes, Jade would check on the animatronics, finally seeing them slowly start to move, before shutting the Pear Pad off so as to not waist energy. As the night goes on, she notices that each animatronic seems to have a set path. Bonnie wanders around the main room, the hallways leading to the bathrooms, and the hallway to the office. Chick wanders around the main room, kitchen, and hallway to the office. Freddy, the leader of the group, wanders around almost the entire building, and like the other two, seems to walk slower down the hallway with the office.
The odd one is Foxy. Each time Jade checks where he is, she notices him stick his head back behind the curtain when he realizes the camera is focused on him. "How does he know the camera's watching him? Is there a light or something to signify which camera I'm using?" Jade asks herself when Foxy seems frustrated when he hides behind the curtain again.
A few times, she catches Chica and Bonnie stopping at the door to the office, only to leave when they seem to notice the camera's on them and she closes the door.
"I'm watching you." Jade says when she seem Chica walk away.
At five to six, when her shift is supposed to end, she checks the cameras again, noting how the battery is down to less than five percent, she smirks when Foxy hides back behind the curtain and notes how the rest of the animatronics are making their way to the stage.
At six, when her alarm goes off, Jade clocks out and leaves, noting how the three animatronics are in place and seem to be watching her. Leaving the building after unlocking it, she sees what she guesses is part of the morning janitor's crew to clean up before they open, and a few employees.
"How was your first night?" A tall, surfer looking guy with obvious dyed blonde hair, asks with a smirk as he nears Jade.
"Pretty good. Little sore. Those animatronics sure know how to fuck. Especially Foxy." Jade counters with a smirk of her own, laughing when the surfer stops in his tracks, stunned by Jade's words. "Jackass." She says, walking to her car.
As she starts her car and gets ready to pull away, she hears her ringtone for Tori, Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl'. "How was your first night?" A tired Tori asks before Jade can say anything.
"Pretty good. Kinda boring." Jade says, attaching her phone to the Blue Tooth in her car to speak as she drives. "You just wake up or something?" She asks, pulling away.
"Yeah. Trina woke me up and wants us to meet up at Beck's." Tori says, letting out a yawn.
"And you had to wake up because…?" Jade asks as she drives to Tori's house.
"She thinks I can convince Beck to give her a try." Tori says, sighing.
"Too bad. You're staying home. I'll be there in a bit." Jade says, driving casually towards the Vega house.
"Fine by me. You don't need to sleep though?" Tori asks, sitting up on her bed, her back resting against her pillows.
"Yeah, but I'll just use you as a pillow." Jade says as she drives. "Oh, some douchebag surfer guy that works there in the mornings gave me an odd look a moment ago." She adds, starting to laugh again.
"For what?" Tori asks, concerned with how Jade's laughing.
"He asked me how my first night was, and stood stiller than a statue when I told him I fucked the animatronics." Jade says, laughing.
"Why?" Tori asks, groaning a bit.
"Something to say. Wanted to fuck with him." Jade says, calming herself down.
"You didn't really fuck the animatronics, right?" Tori asks after a few moments as Jade lets out some chuckles.
"Hell no." Jade says, shaking her head as Tori sighs in relief. "The only way I'll fuck a bunny, bear, chicken, or fox is if you dress up as one and we do some animal role play or something." She adds, pulling into Tori's street. "Is your window unlocked?" She asks, parking beside Trina's car.
"Yes. Stop trying to climb in through my window. Use the front door like a normal person." Tori says with another sigh.
"If I'm normal, you're boring in bed." Jade says, opening the door and locking the doors after closing them. "I'll be up there in a minute. You better be naked and ready to scream." She says, hanging up.
And this is where I'm ending this chapter. Like StakeTheHeart did, I believe it was them (don't know their gender, sorry) who did this first, Jade and Tori will spend their days together after each shift.
Sorry this wasn't too interesting.
Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, especially Jade's comment to the dumbass she saw on her way out of the restaurant. That was my favorite part of this chapter, to be honest.
Next chapter will hopefully be out by Thursday. I want to try for Monday and Thursday updates for this each week.
Thank you for reading, and please review.
Blessed Be.