since I have a prolonged weekend, I had time to make another chapter. something I am sure you guys really like.
to GhoticBunny99 and Dragon Of The Ecplising Moon: thank you, I am really happy you like this fanfiction
to Thedyingjokepastaway: yeah, sorry that I forgot but as you said, it was some time ago you wrote that comment. as for your question about the Mediums in this universe. I, unfortunately, cannot tell much as it might spoil a certain plot in my story. all I can tell that Eric (Marion), Vincent and Hope are born as Mediums and are in theory stronger than those such as Soren who became a Medium through his near-death experience. there is a third way to create a Medium, one way more powerful than the others. but that I will keep quiet about for now.
I got the idea to this chapter from having watched too many Reddit Entitled Parents on youtube.
enjoy!
Most of their costumes like the Halloween show and that is good since they really needed the extra money in order to truly recover from the attack Vincent did to the place a year back.
Of course, there are those people who can see offence in everything, and since Mike, Jeremy and Scott all returned their ownership of the restaurant back to him, well now Sean has to deal with the more annoying people who refuses to speak with anyone but the manager. This particularly woman keeps complaining that the show is too scary for her precious angel, even though that kid said how much he enjoyed it after he got over the scare. "Ma'am, both our website and the sign outside clearly state that this show is not for the faint of heart." Sean explains the woman the third time during their 'convisation' and honestly is getting tired of dealing with this thickheaded mother. Of course the mother refuses to hear reason and keeps on demanding. "You need to pay for the physics trauma you caused on my poor child! This horrible show will give him nightmares for life!"
Sean bites down a loud groan of this stupid demand. "I will not pay such things."
"You will or I will be calling the police-!"
"Ma'am, please leave, you are causing an unessarily scene and ruining the day for the rest of our costumes." Sean interrupts her, both annoyed and tried from having argued this for ten minutes straight. He can almost feel her draining his battery by mere precence. Of course, this woman refuses to leave and repeats her demands. Oh, the joy of being the man in charge...
At the door leading to the storage room, Theo is watching the currently human disguised Freddy argue with a woman. A scene that gives him strong flashbacks to back when his own body wasn't out of metal and wires. He remembers his own mother cause such a scene towards some man, using him for her argument. He remembers he did what he was told by saying what she wanted him to say, and was so confused to why the man didn't give them what they wanted and it made his mother so mad that she yelled at him on the way back home.
That was the only attention he could ever get from her. He remembers how lonely he was and it made him so angry. An anger he is still dealing with and it does not help that the next person he thought would care for him… ended up not only being his killer but more horrible than his mother.
Theo is angry, at himself for keep doing the same mistake but he's mostly angry at the people who pretends they care for him, only to tear it all down when he's most vulnerable.
The only one he knows won't hurt him is Molly.
Theo returns back downstairs and is greeted by his beloved cat. He picks up Molly and puts her on his shoulders where she will cuddle up against his head. He pets the purring cat, wondering if he would be better off if he just ran away? Doubts he will, he still remembers how scared people are of a talking robot bear…
The sound of the door, followed by footsteps and moments later, Chiara appears in the room. "Have you seen the cape?" She asks.
Theo merely shrugs, he has seen it but does not really care to tell her that.
Letting out a small sigh that Theo is once again in his angry mode, Chiara begins to look for the cape she made from the fabric Mike gave her last Christmas. She finds it on a chair, grabs it and is about to leave but stop when she notices that Theo does look quite sad. "You alright?" She asks him, wondering what might've hurt his feelings.
"I'm fine." Theo huffs back, wishing she just will leave him alone.
Chiara didn't get the hint though, she hasn't yet learned to read those subtle signs an adult would be able to pick up. "Okay, well BonBon is not doing so great. He's still in pain but at least Mike is there to help him through it."
"Yeah right." Theo grumbles.
Chiara gives him an annoyed look but also confused to why Theo is like this to Mike. "What is your problem anyway? Mike has been nothing but nice to us." She jerks backward when Theo snaps angrily back. "You are too stupid to understand!" She does quickly recover and barely react on the insult, she has more or less gotten used to it but that does not mean she needs to stay around and get insulted. "whatever." She leaves but stops dead in her track when Theo has the ordacity to insult BonBon. "Yeah, go and tend to the crybaby, he wouldn't know how to do anything without his babysitter."
She shoots him a glare. "Don't call him that!" She snaps back, starting to see red, but Theo, always the one who pushes ones buttons does not back down. "Only babies cry all the time. Does he want his mommy? Oh wait, he can't get her because we are all—" Chiara slaps him hard over the face before he could finish that horrible sentence, did startle the cat but fortunately, she didn't hit Molly.
Theo stares dumbfounded at her action, and before he recovers, she gives him a piece of her mind. "Don't you EVER insult my little brother again Theodore!" He can insult her all he likes, but no one, repeat, NO ONE should bully her younger brother.
Little brother? Theo blinks in confusion. Shouldn't she consider Chica a sibling? "He's not your brother." He argues. "He's not a bird" So imaged his surprise by Chiara's retort back. "Leo is my real little brother you stupid idiot! And… and…" Tears begin to fall from her eyes, startling him further, before he can say anything, she starts yelling again, this time with tears falling. "and I broke my promise to our parents! I couldn't protect him against that monster!" She collapses onto the bed, still crying. "Now we can never see mommy and daddy again…"
Theo can only stand and watch Chiara cry into the bed, he is shocked to hear what she told him through her anger and sadness. Not only does she remember like him but BonBon is her real family and… she thinks that it was her fault she couldn't protect him against Vincent. No wonder why she is so clingy to him.
Molly, sensing Chiara is sad, jumps onto the bed and with a somber 'miav' strokes her head and body against the crying girl.
Chiara pets the cat, then slowly she gets up, dries away the tears and tells the frozen on his spot Theo. "You are a jerk, you know that." She remarks darkly, takes the cape and leaves. She does not get far though, for right at the door stands Bonnie. Both freeze up, for the adult rabbit does not look happy at all.
"See to your brother." Bonnie tells Chiara softly, she leaves and Bonnie turns his full attention on Theo, kid knows he's in trouble yet is unable to hide his anger, anger against pretty much the whole world. Bonnie's not sure why but Theo's behavior reminds him about himself. Back when he was young in mind, he was also angry all the gosh darn time. Thanks to his friends and the golden two, his anger faded into a more snarky but friendlier nature. It's clear the kid needs help. Problem is; Theo does not trust any human to get near him, Mike did tell them about that problem, but Bonnie isn't exactly human anymore. "You going to tell me what made you lash out this time?" He asks the kid and isn't really surprised he gots no answer, only that look of fear and defiance. Well, good thing Spring taught him by experience a good way to loosen up that lock. "Alright, have it your way." Bonnie crosses his arms and tells the young bear in a tone this is not up for debate. "Let's start with cleaning up this room. After closing, you and I will be doing some work outside." Theo argues but when he realizes he won't escape from this, the young animatronics slowly begins to clean up the room. Bonnie leaves the room with: "I'll be back in an hour and there better be a difference from how it looks now."
He walks over to where Chica is entertaining some children and after have gotten her away from unwanted ears, he explains her the situation and wanting to give Theo the same treatment he got all those years back. When he was a brat and Spring and Goldie gave him a timeout by doing chores every time he went through a temper tantrum. He knows that after some hard work, his mind was more receptive to hear the adults out and talk out what made him angry in the first place.
Chica simply nods, figuring that Bonnie, who also dealt with anger issues like Theo, might get through that wall the young bear has built up around himself. "Alright, let's hope this will return the sweet boy we saw before Vincent ruined it all again." Bonnie nods in agreement.
Fortunately, Theo did not slack off but did what he was told by cleaning the room downstairs, Bonnie helped him drying off dust and when the last customer and employee have left, Bonnie then takes Theo outside. He gives the bear a rag and tells him. "Now we are going to brush all the leaves into one pile" Theo looks ready to argue but Bonnie stops him. "No buts, now let's get started." And so they did, Bonnie did help, not only to make sure Theo did not slack off but also give the bear a sense of teamwork. He remembers that Spring gave him that sense when the hare helped him clean the restaurant as his chore for bad behavior. It won't give fruit right away, for if Theo is anything like him: well, it will first get worse before it gets better.
While Bonnie handles Theodore, Chica decides to get a talk with Chiara and as they suspected, the young chicken does remember her human past and Chica must say to the child. "You are a very strong girl, Chiara." She tells her, not many children can keep up the responsibility Chiara put on herself by taking care of BonBon. One who really has trouble dealing with being back in his robot body. Even with her own issues, Chiara still takes care of him. "Not many children in your age can take on such responsibility while having deep issues like you."
Chiara dries away a tear, doing a small smile of the praise but Chica will remind the young girl. "But don't forget there are a lot of people that are willing to help you. This responsibility can be shared and it's okay to say you need help."
"I will remember it." Chiara replies, just knowing she is stronger than she thought and can get help if it gets too much makes the pain she feels of not being able to go home because of her mistake less painful. She hugs Chica who returns it.
Does leave her with one gloomy thought through. "What about Theo?" She does really not want to face him again, but at one point has to since they live under the same roof and also in the near future have to perform together.
Chica hums her thoughts for a moment before she answers. "Well, Theo pretends he is tough but deep inside, he is scared."
This confuses the young chicken. "Scared of what?" He does not look scared of anything, just… angry all the time.
Chica strokes her wings over her back, explaining softly. "He is scared to get hurt. Boys have a silly tendency hiding their pain behind anger. They think this anger will protect them and in some ways it does as it pushes people away they fear will hurt them, but they cannot do anything against the loneliness."
That does make Chiara wonder since none of the Toys really wants anything to do with Theo when he began picking fights with them for no reason. "Is he lonely?"
"Yes, but he refuses to admit it." Chica replies and knowing Chiara has it in her nature to try and help people, she warns the young one not to try and approach Theo at the moment. "Theo needs time to realize why he is so angry though. So it's best to leave him alone for a bit, be friendly but don't try too hard to get on his good side."
Chiara is not entirely sure what Chica means but for her, it sounds like it's best she keeps her distance to the bear, at least until he stops being so angry all the time. Fine by her. Although she does feels bad for Theo that he is in some ways hurting himself without even knowing.
bit of character development for Chiara and Theodore. I am planning on touching a bit more on the two but right now I have my mind on another person. so if you have ideas for what you would like to see with the Toys, feel free to comment. who knows, it might become a chapter.
till next time.