Saphira sat in the office staring at the monitors in front of her. She had managed to stop crying her eyes out too hard and was simply reduced to a sniffle now. She had the Freddy plush on her lap and she was holding her hands together like she was praying, but she was nibbling her thumbs as she stared at the screens. She could see Monty and Bonnie on the cameras, they were in Monty's room currently and seemed to be arguing. Freddy was in there with them, he seemed very angry. It seemed unlike Freddy to Saphira considering how nice and calm he has been up until this point. But perhaps Monty's attitude got to a point he had to address. She heard the tapping sounds on Chica's fingers on the door.
"May I come in Saphira?" Chica asked in a gentle tone. "Getting away from those boys is a good idea. I was so close to punching Monty for you, but you would have had to fix him like you did Roxanne." Saphira did not respond as she was too upset to respond. The animatronic turned the knob and opened it, she saw Saphira's wet cheeks and red eyes, her eyes soften as she saw how upset Saphira was. "Don't take it personally Saphira…Bonnie and Monty will work it out. They always seem to do. Their relationship is a bit rocky."
"Rocky how?" Saphira responded, her voice was raspy from how much she had been crying.
Chica was relieved she also brought a soda over for Saphira as she approached the girl. "Well…you have seen how different Monty and Bonnie are personality wise. I do not know what drew them to each other in the first place honestly. But they have had fights before." She glanced at her hands for moment and glanced up at Saphira. "May I bring these over to you? I don't want to startle you."
Saphira nodded and pats the empty space on the desk next to her. "You can put it down there Chica." She wiped her cheeks and heard Chica approaching, but she does not flinch this time. "Even if their relationship is like that, I still feel guilty that Bonnie is siding with me over him."
"Bonnie likes you Saphira. He wants to be your friend. And…Monty will like you too." Chica placed the cup and plate down, nearly dropping the spoon to the floor and turned to look at Saphira with her purple optics. "It hurts him that Monty is behaving like this. If you are still here next week, I believe things will get much better."
"You think so?"
"I know so, he, he, he," Chica responded cheerfully and moved back to give Saphira some space. "And honestly, it gets weird when they kiss and rub against each other. I don't understand it at all."
Saphira turned to look at Chica, her admittance to how she viewed the two bots grinding as weird answered one question for her. But she had to be sure. "Really? So do you know what they get up to when they are alone in one of their rooms?"
"Uhhh…" Chica thought for a moment with her eyelids moving thoughtfully. "No…but I do hear moaning a lot. Not sure what they actually do. They did mention it has something to do with the hidden flap we all have down here…" She gestured between her legs and Saphira could not help but grab her drink roughly to sip to keep herself from feeling too awkward. "Buuuut…I don't get it."
"What is in the flap…if it is not too awkward too ask?" Saphira felt her cheeks heating up and she almost did not want to look.
"For me and Roxy…uhhh…not sure…there's like a bolt and a hole in there, but I have not really figured it out. Would you want to…"
"No, no, no!" Saphira waved her hands in front of her face and looked away from Chica with a smirk. "I think hearing all of that is more than enough!"
"Is it? Aw…well, okay…maybe when you're a bit more comfortable around us than." If only Chica knew that Saphira may not be comfortable at all looking at what was under the flap, it was too private and the animatronic probably had zero clue about it. "Would you want to know what the guys have?"
"Not particularly…I think I have an idea about it…" Saphira could not help but giggle nervously. "I just…the design for you lot is weird…I don't get it at all." Chica frowned and tilts her head slightly, Saphira saw that at the corner of her eye. "Don't worry Chica, it's nothing against you. It's the people who made you like that."
"Okay, I was worried for a second." Chica glanced at the untouched cake for a moment and looked back at Saphira. "Are you going to eat that? Cakes are very nice and sweet you know. I have heard sugar and chocolate is a happy feeling food."
She nodded as she knew a lot of sweet foods were like that, but she did wonder about something. "Can you taste the food and garbage you eat Chica?"
"Uh huh." Chica nodded with a smile. "It took Cliff a while to figure out a system to give me the ability to taste things. And I have been very happy about it, being able to taste the food I love to eat has made it so much better. I have heard they plan on giving all of us the ability to smell." She shrugged slightly as she knew Saphira would ask why. "And I don't know why. But I think being able to smell would be nice."
"You might not like the smell of garbage than," Saphira said with a chuckle. "It has a horrid smell. I wonder if the others will be able to taste things too since you can."
"Maybe, but none of them have expressed the desire to eat like me. They get disgusted with how much I get dirty from it. Oh well, there loss. But they definitely want to be able to smell. I just hope that we don't get too overwhelmed by all the smells."
"You may, but it will be from whatever is in the facility itself anyway." Saphira shrugged as she grabbed the plate of the cake to slide closer to herself. She did not know if she would eat it or not, she did not really feel like eating at the moment. "I wonder what else is planned for you guys."
Chica shrugged. "No idea. But…" She paused as the lights suddenly go out and she hears the sound of metal squeaking outside the office. She turned her head and frowned. "Oh darn! I missed the recharge time!"
"Come out, come out wherever you are!" Moon's voice taunts from outside the room. "Hide and seek is a fun game, you hide and seek!"
Saphira was tense as she heard Moon, Chica noticed Saphira's reaction and the girl looked at her. "C-c-can you deal with him?" Saphira whispered nervously. "He's the one I am most scared of…I do not like clowns and he's super creepy!"
"Okay, I will." Chica walked over to the door and opened it slightly to peak out. "Moon! Get out of here!"
"Chica?! What are you doing in there?" Moon demands in a surprise tone, there was still the sound of squeaking as he was dancing outside the door. "Let me in so I can meet Saphira properly."
"You idiot! She is scared of you, doing this will make it worse!" Chica snapped in an irritated tone. "Now, I am going to count to three before I get out of this office and find a bag of garbage to drag into the daycare to eat. You will have a lot of cleaning up to do afterwards."
Saphira listened quietly, she did not know why it would bother Moon about cleaning Chica's mess, but she heard him stopping when Chica finished her sentence. "Clean up! No, not clean up!" Moon retorted in disgust. "Urgh! Fine! I'll meet her some other time! Nighty, night!"
He did not like to clean up huh? She wondered why, she did not know if he would be in serious trouble if that was the case. The lights come back on shortly after and Saphira felt relieved. She sighed deeply and leaned back in her chair, it was three currently as it had taken nearly an hour and a half to fix Roxy, even though the time felt very quick. And after talking with Monty and Chica, it had been another half hour.
"That little bot is such in idiot," Chica commented, she was still glaring out of the door and turned her head to look at Saphira. "Thank you for trusting me. I know tonight has been hard for you. But you are literally sitting in this room with an animatronic and not flinching."
"I guess I am a little too tired for that right now," Saphira said with a shrug. "I might have a coffee soon to finish off the night, but I just need to take it slow for the rest of the night. You should probably go so you can get recharged Chica. I do not know if missing your recharge is bad or not."
"Not really, but if I missed it all the time, then my systems would probably act up," Chica responded and smiled at Saphira. "Shall I send someone else to keep you company? Foxy maybe? He's pretty good at giving a pep talk."
"No thanks…I don't want to be too much of a burden tonight." Saphira cut some of the cake with the spoon to eat. Chica seemed a bit shocked though and she noticed it. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Do you believe we think you as a burden?" Chica asked curiously.
She shrugged. "I don't know. Being a burden is something I am used to Chica. Everybody tells me whenever I am working or living somewhere. My parents did, my teachers did, my study colleagues did and I am sure this place will too."
"That has not been like that ever since you got here Saphira. Forget about Monty, he's the only one who will say that." Chica suddenly approached Saphira and the girl flinched before the animatronic suddenly grabbed her and pulled her into a hug with her arms, the girl was frozen from fear and yet shock at Chica hugging her like this. And Saphira was not used to hugs at all. "Don't ever think we think you as a burden. To be honest, the technicians are more of a burden than you are. You did something right for Roxy, more than they did. That means a lot to us. Roxy is like my sister, so I know you did right."
Saphira began to relax slightly. Chica's hug seemed to have an affect on her, plus what she was saying. They were sincere. This sentient being was being sincere, Saphira almost wanted to cry again. "Thank you Chica…" Saphira whispered. "I…I have never been told that. And I hope it is true. But please, go to your room so you can be ready for the next recharge."
Chica had felt Saphira relaxing and she was pleased with that. She leaned back and placed her huge hand on Saphira's shoulder, the girl was surprised by how gentle she was being touched. "You are welcome to come spend the rest of the night in my room and we can continue this girl's night."
"That sounds great…but I would be in trouble," Saphira smiled at the bot before gesturing to the door. "Stop stalling now Chica."
"Alright, I am going, I'm going!" Chica giggled as she stepped back and twirled towards the door. "And Saphira…" The girl looked at her curiously to see what more she had to say. "I hope you will not be terrified of me from now on."
"I can't promise that Chica…but it won't be as bad I think."
She accepted the answer and left the room, closing the office door behind her. Saphira relaxed all the way and took her time to eat the cake. She really did not feel like eating it. It was not because she was not hungry, but her emotions had wrecked her system for the moment that eating it was a hard ask. So she only ate half of the cake before she had enough. She looked at the cameras to see Freddy was not in Monty's now, nor was Bonnie. They were in their own rooms right now. Bonnie was sitting on his couch with his hands on his cheeks, he seemed to be deeply upset. Saphira wanted to reach out to him, but she decided now may not be the best time. She would speak to him on her next shift, she did not want to make things worse if they were not already. Monty was sitting on the floor of his room, he had his guitar and was playing it, but it seemed he was playing it gently express his sadness about Bonnie not being with him. Those two looked so miserable, she had to figure out how to mend this. As for Freddy, he was in his room staring at the mirror. He had his hands on the vanity in front of him, he seemed to be frustrated and upset. Maybe he would be okay to talk to.
Saphira turned on her Fazwatch to connect to him. "Freddy…I am sorry…I feel like I messed up."
"Saphira, you did not. You did a wonderful thing tonight super star." Freddy looked at the camera when Saphira spoke to him and he waved at it. He seemed very thrilled to hear her voice and she smiled a little as she saw his response. "What is going on with Bonnie and Monty is not your fault. Monty is being childish, I tried to talk sense to him. It is not his right to be mad at Bonnie for his choice to help protect you from being hurt. I hope you and Chica's girl time was good."
"It was. I am glad she helped me feel better." Saphira rests her cheek on her fist and simply looked at the camera with Freddy on it. "She chased Moon away pretty good too." She saw his eyes widen in shock as he realized Moon had tried to scare Saphira again. "I imagine he will stay away the rest of the night."
"As he should. His desire to do these jokes is not funny. There is little we can do, his programming is different to ours and it won't be changed. But at least Chica was there to comfort you. I imagine she brought you something sweet too didn't she?"
"Yeah, a chocolate cake. I hear you might be get to be able to smell it at some point. Though I don't really understand if you don't get to eat it." Saphira actually liked the idea of giving them a sense of smell. It would make it less awkward for them if someone was to ask them about the smell of something. "Chica did tell me why though."
"I am not a fan of being dirtied by food, but knowing the scent is interesting to me. I am surprised she would tell you. I think Cliff was going to let you help with giving us the scent system. We are not what it would be called though. They said a word called sinus or something, I don't know, but I assume it'll have a name similar to that."
That made sense as technically they would have a sinus once they are able to smell. They won't breath of course, but being able to understand where the scents are coming from would be interesting. But it seemed like this was spoiled to her, perhaps they were going to surprise her with this news and she would get to be excited to help. Even if it was, she was still excited about it and she hoped it would work.
"I'll act surprised if it was meant to be one Freddy. Do not worry about that. I definitely do not want to ruin any surprise." She glanced at the time for a moment and saw it was nearly three thirty. "I assume you will be given the first one."
"I am not sure about that to be honest. We have not been told the full details about it. But when it does happen and it works, I look forward to it. It is not really the food I am interested in knowing the scent of anyway." That was odd, she thought he would want to know. But she wondered what interested him. "I see whenever flowers are brought into the facility and humans smelling it, I often wonder what they smell like. Those beautiful, delicate petals interest me so much. I have never even touched a flower before, let alone smell one."
Flowers huh? That could be arranged. "Hmm…well, if it works, then I promise to bring in some flowers for you to smell Freddy. Roses, calendula and lavender are my favorite flowers. That won't be a hard task."
"You would do that for me? Thank you." Freddy sounded genuinely surprised Saphira would offer that. Usuaully it would be the other way around, but in this case, she understood now they should get to experience what they could about the world outside the walls of the pizzaplex. "Nobody else would do that for me I am sure. They probably would think I am acting strange if I ask someone to smell their flowers."
"I think they would honestly…especially if they were given those flowers as a present. But you are welcome Freddy." Saphira glanced at the plush in her lap and hugged it slightly, thinking of him as she was slowly and surely starting to really like him as a friend as well. "If there is anything else, I can try and bring it here while I am on."
"I will not overwhelm you, do not worry super star. Flowers will be more than enough if I am honest. I am not sure what else would interest me." Perfume might, but she doubted Freddy even knew what that was. But even than, Saphira did not know if that was necessary. "But we might still be weeks away from this addition. Cliff indicated he would put the new claws on Monty before that."
Saphira shugged a little about the claws. She worried they would be too dangerous once he has them on. She knew he could try to accidently hurt her if he wanted to. "New claws really don't sound good to me."
"They may not, but he does want to play his guitar better. It frustrates Monty that he makes mistakes with his currently claws. While no one can tell at the big show, Monty still gets frustrated. He'll be a lot happier with the new claws. I do not expect you will help with them as I think Monty will tell them that."
"And I understand. It would be too soon to do that for him anyway…given what happened to him. I am sure he'll have an even harder time keeping his hands off Bonnie with them too." Saphira chuckled a little and Freddy chuckled along with her. "That is, if they manage to make up again."
"Oh they will, and they can get to whatever they do alone together. They told me they figured out a few things, but I don't really know what that is." Freddy too huh? He's innocent about intimacy like Chica is. She did not even have to ask. "Whatever makes them happy I suppose. Making your loved one feel special must be a good feeling."
"Have you ever felt the feeling of love Freddy?" Saphira asked curiously, surprising the bear at her question. "Or at least, thought you have felt the feeling of love? It's a hard feeling to explain, but you feel very warm and like you can do anything when you're around that person."
"No…I have not. Nor have I been interested." That was a bit disappointing, but he was the main star so he might be keeping up appearances too. "But…I have found myself…infatuated, I think, I can't seem to shake the feeling." Oh! Now that is interesting. "However…I do not know if I should even approach the subject. Because this feeling is confusing me…yet excites me at the same time."
"Who are you infatuated with?" Freddy did not respond, he looked away from the camera and looked into his mirror in his room. Saphira giggled a little as she watched his reaction. "Oh, come on, you can tell me Freddy. I would love to know who the lucky girl or boy is."
"No…no you don't. Because I…I have never felt this before…" Oh yeah, he was definitely infatuated with someone. But who? "I question if it is even something I should feel. But it's part of my programming too…it scares me a little. Especially since I could hurt that person so easily. I don't want to do that."
"It sounds very strange hearing someone talking about their infatuated with someone like that," Saphira said softly. "And honestly, it's quite interesting. I suppose you probably thought you never would feel that way about anyone right?"
"Correct. Unless an animatronic came in like when Monty arrived, but that has not happened in a long time. So I had been fine with not having a relationship. But…a…uh…I can't really say more. You will probably think it is stupid." This meant there was a human on Freddy's mind. Ooh! Saphira wondered who it could be. "I probably will get through this feeling. My mind is just…confusing me. I am sorry to tell you about this."
"It is totally okay Freddy, I am quite interested to know who this lucky person is anyway. I want to know how they made you interested in them, that is a secret that I need to know." Saphira chuckled softly and sipped more of her soda.
Freddy did not respond. He did not want to tell her that it was Saphira he had these feelings for. When he first saw Saphira, his system suddenly felt hot and his eyes nearly shut off when he saw her. A new feeling brewed deep inside of him, he did not feel this way for any of the previous night guards or humans before. But this human…a human who was not tall with skin that seemed to glow in the light from how milky it was, her eyes were green and sparkled brightly from the lights around the pizzaplex. And then…tonight. While Saphira had been working on Roxy, Freddy found himself staring at her body. He had never pain attention to human body before tonight. Her clothes hugged her body and he could see the curves of her body. Her shirt had pulled up slightly while she worked on Roxy and seeing her stomach made his system heat up. He did not understand this feeling at all. Plus, her hair! It was long even when it was tied back. The length of the girl's hair had grown to the middle of her back, and he wanted to know what it felt like between his fingers. He wanted to run his hands along her curves, the arch of her back and feel her warm skin. He has NEVER felt like this before about any human. He did not know why he felt this way, he wanted to ignore it. Because he did not want her to think any less of thim.
"Freddy? Are you okay?" Saphira saw Freddy shake his head when she spoke to him, waking him up from his daze. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No, uh, I was thinking. Sorry Saphira, I…I should not have told you. I will deal with this myself." He paused for a moment, realizing his response was a little too rash and irritated which surprised Saphira. "Sorry Saphira…I did not mean to say it like that. But please, don't push more about what I feel for this person. I need to work this out on my own."
"Hmm…okay, and I am sorry for teasing you about them. If it is a human, I suppose you are right to get him or her out of your mind. It would be strange for an animatronic to love a human…although…I don't think it would be that wrong." Freddy looked at the camera in shock as if Saphira had just slapped him, he had not expected her to say that. "The way I see it, it would not hurt anybody if you did fall in love. But, you need the other person to accept your feelings and extend their feelings to you too."
"I…I did not expect you say that…I thought you would think I was horrible."
"Nah, there are worse things out there than having a relationship with an animatronic. Maybe if you feel like I can keep your secret, I can help you get closer."
Saphira has no idea what she has just told Freddy. He had been trying to get rid of these feelings for fearing to hurt her, but now…she basically told him he could express them and explore them. Freddy was thrilled by this. But…she was still scared of him and she wanted to be friends with him first. Freddy hoped she would be here for a long time, that way he could figure out exactly where his infatuation with the girl would lead him. Because he still did not even know himself other than that he could explore them and express them now. He only hoped that she might feel the same towards him, because this will not end well if she does not.
