Birds of a Feather

by Cassiun

Evan Afton never had an easy life. After his short life of fearing animatronics and promptly dying to one, he realized how awful this world could be. Though, after many changes he realized that animatronics were similar to him and so he vowed to help and take care of the ones who wanted a new life. Except, nothing is bound to go as planned.

13. Chapter 13

Authors Notes

Wrote a lot of loving scenes in this chapter. Please prepare yourself and enjoy the show.

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Bunny Hovel, Double Trouble

More than a week had passed since Bonnie, or Jeremy as some preferred calling him, woke up from what could only be called an extensive hibernation. Evan had taken a good portion of his free time cut between Bonnie's body and Foxy's shoulder, allowing for the three to spend a lot of time together and what the technician witnessed was interesting on its own.

Foxy had been acting very motherly towards the bunny animatronic to the point that it was hard not to notice. From bickering about being careful to hovering over the bunny boy with concern, Foxy was on full motherly duty with Bonnie and, surprisingly enough, Bonnie didn't hate it.

"Cmon, Mike." Whined the pirate, completely out of character and accent. "Hurry up! I'm sure Jeremy would want to go to that party tonight and like hell if I'll stand here and let him miss it!" Evan chuckled a bit, shaking his head at this ridiculous sentence.

"Bonnie simply needs some finishing touches on his feet joints then he'll be all good to go." Commented Evan, before looking up at Foxy coyly. "Wouldn't want to make Mama Foxy mad, would we?" Lillie, who had been sitting on the Foxy's shoulder, along with Bonnie giggled as the red fox huffed a bit.

"Oh, you think you're so funny. Har har har." Foxy sarcastically rolled his eyes as he said this. Bonnie looked up at the fox, who was standing above and behind him from the bunny's seat.

"So would Lillie be the father?" Asked Bonnie innocently. Evan snickered a bit while Foxy looked at him, unamused.

"No, because I can't fit in any pants to be the man in this relationship." Said Lillie, joking around about her size. "You'd just have two mothers." The fox pirate facepalmed, sighing out about the entire ordeal.

"Yer all insane…" Said Foxy, slipping back into his accent. Lillie simply patted the top of his head comfortingly as Evan stood back up.

"Okay, Bonnie. Try walking to the other side of the room." The rabbit stood up slowly, getting a bit of help from Foxy to stabilize himself on his feet before he started moving his feet, taking one small step at a time. Foxy eventually let him go slowly and the bunny started to make his way towards the other side of the workshop. In about a minute, he reached the opposite wall, allowing everyone to clap.

"Thar ya go, matey!" Said Foxy loudly. "I knew ye had it in ye!" Bonnie made a bit of a blush, shy to all the praise he was getting. Like Mangle, Bonnie didn't handle compliments well being as shy as they were. Now that Evan thought about it, he sometimes couldn't tell whether Bonnie was a boy or a girl with how he acted. Perhaps it was because he didn't have a whole lot of experience with the bunny up until now but his high pitched voice along with his very shy, lady-like way he held himself confused him. If the technician didn't know anything about him prior to, he might have made a mistake.

"So, get used to your new feet and maybe you can come with us tonight when we go see the Glamrock animatronics." Said the technician, now putting things away slowly. The bunny smiled as he started walking back across the room slowly.

"Thank you, Evan. It's… it's nice to know the people here are kind." Foxy smiled as he moved over and patted the bunny on the shoulder.

"Ayy, mate." Said Foxy in joy. "Tis be me crew 'ere. E'eryone be ta best o' ta best." As Foxy continued talking about their family, Evan's mind wandered towards Bonnie's body.

He had already been asked, mostly by Foxy, to reconstruct Bonnie's body and, while the bunny wanted for it to happen, he didn't exactly have something in mind. Perhaps this would be the most normal, and probably the easiest, animatronic body he'd have to remodel. The primary issue would be the concerning spot that Evan found inside of Bonnie's chest.

It had been a box where the Remnant in Bonnie's body had been focused the most, which wasn't abnormal for the older animatronics seeing as they were some of the oldest living models, but this one had a lot of Remnant in comparison to every other animatronic he's seen and the writing on the container had been a bit weird. MK-1: JKR… Evan thought to himself as he viewed the writing that hadn't been obvious before. Evan wondered where it came from, but it didn't seem like it was causing the bunny any harm nor did he seem to hold any ill will for anyone here so Evan ignored it for the moment being. Whatever it was could wait for now. At this particular moment, Mangle made her way down into the basement. Her eyes lit up as she saw Bonnie standing.

"Jeremy!" Said Mangle as she rushed over to the bunny with excitement. "You're walking finally! I'm so glad!" She hugged him tightly, making Bonnie smile a bit. Mangle had come down dressed in a light gray sweater with jeans. On her feet, she wore pink and black Vans with a single white shoelace matched with a pink shoelace. Evan and Mangle planned on going on out today on what Dr. Lohk had previously called 'a date'. Of course neither of them thought of it as a romantic excursion but they way Mangle asked him a few days ago to go on a date with him, he couldn't deny that it moved his heart a bit.

Luckily for him, Chara didn't seem to be jealous or anything like that which was the main issue. It was normal for the puppet to misunderstand someone's playfulness or even an entire conversation which normally led to some level of jealousy. It wasn't that she thought Evan would do something to the man, but she didn't like anyone trying to use his kindness against him. It seems that when it came to her sister, she didn't mind nearly as much if at all. In fact, the puppet seemed happy for the two of them, saying that she'd be busy making her Halloween costume while they were out.

On another relevant note, Bonnie and Mangle had seemed pretty close. From what Evan understood, the original animatronics had always been nice to her, especially Foxy and Bonnie. It made sense that the two of them would be the ones to bring Mangle in as they were apparently the ones to bring everyone in the friend group close together. While Freddy had been known as the leader of their group even before they died, Foxy and Bonnie had been the main driving force keeping them all together. At least, this was how Foxy and Mangle described it to him. Bonnie, back in the present and out of Evan's mind, had bashfully rubbed the back of his neck.

"Thanks, Mangle…" Shy said Bonnie. "You look nice by the way…" Mangle lit up even more before showing off her outfit and spinning around a bit.

"Thanks! I'm going out on a date with Evan soon!" Said Mangle before looking at Evan being covered in oil and grime. "Well… whenever he gets cleaned up." Bonnie giggled(?) a bit with Mangle as he saw Evan roll his eyes a bit.

"Well, enjoy your date. I'm going to… continue walking so I can hang out with you guys tonight." Mangle smiled, energetically cheering.

"It's gonna be so fun! The Glamrocks are sooo cool and the place they live in is so colorful and great! Man, I wish we had a place like that…" Mangle put her hands to her mouth and looked at Evan, guiltily. "I mean, I love our home, too." Evan shook his head.

"No, I get it. You have a right to feel that way." Mangle smiled and moved closer to Evan with a coy smile.

"Well, Mr. Nafto. You oughta get your butt in this shower. Don't wanna make your 'date' wait~." On the word 'date', she booped his nose before skipping off upstairs. "I'll be finishing up!" And with a wave and a few extra seconds, the pretty fox made her exit. Evan sighed a bit before looking up at Foxy, who was giving him a look.

"What?" Asked Evan to the pirate captain. He simply huffed a bit.

"Treat 'er well, boyo." Said Foxy before returning to fretting over the bunny with Lillie on his shoulder. The man was extremely confused as he continued putting his stuff away and made it up to the hallway before stopping in front of Chara's door and knocking.

"One moment!" Called Chara from the other side of the door as he heard things be moved around before the door cracked open, her body and head being the only visible things around. "Oh, hey." Her face turned into a smile and both of their hands naturally moved to the others, fingers entwined with eachothers.

"Hey, I'm gonna take a shower and leave soon." Said Evan, holding the hand of his dear puppet. "Are you going to be okay here?" She nodded.

"Of course I will. I'll make sure to feed Gregory and the others if you're not back by a reasonable time."

"There's leftovers and ground beef in the fridge. If you need anything, I'll keep my phone loud just in case." Chara nodded before pushing her upper body out the door, puckering up her lips. Evan smiled before moving in for a kiss, cupping the side of the puppet's mask. Neither of them ever got tired of the feeling of their love together nor showing it. A soft smile crept up onto Chara's face as they stared longingly into each other's eyes before she sighed.

"Have fun. My sister has been quite excited about this 'date' since you agreed to it." Evan chuckled a bit, the two of them still clasping each other's hand.

"Are you sure you're alright with this? I don't think either of us think of this as a serious date, but I expected you to get…"

"Jealous?" Evan nodded slightly. Chara cocked her head to the side a bit. "Well, if it was anyone but my dearest sister, definitely, but is it wrong to want to see my two dearest people be happy?" Evan shook his head.

"If you insist, I'll make sure to give Mangle the finest first date's kiss." Teased Evan now seeing the fire in his partner's eyes.

"Don't get too carried away, dear." Said Chara as she tightened the grip on Evan's hand by quite a bit. "Remember, you're mine!" She spoke with a big smile that had a lot of teasing feelings behind it, but he'd never forget the time she strapped himself to him when the neighbor was hitting on him, hissing anytime the puppet saw her. Perhaps it was best that Evan didn't test her patience.

"Yes, my love." Smiled Evan as he chuckled. "And you, mine." He brought her hand up to his mouth, kissing the back of it softly. Chara made a noise from her internal music box, showing how pleased she was from the sign of affection. They let go of each other's hands and she waved him off.

"Go take a shower before Mangle starts pouting." Evan waved before she shut the door, locking herself in. Evan had been happy that the situation between his two most precious companions didn't worsen because of this. In fact, they seemed to have gotten a bit closer as they spent the past few days together hanging out. They normally did their own thing usually unless they find something they can enjoy in common or it dealt with Evan, but seeing them spend a lot of quality time together was reassuring to the man. He turned around, looking at the bathroom door. Evan figured he should get a move on before Mangle actually pouts.

Briefly, he wondered about how his brother was doing. It was rare that he ever thought of Michael as his brother in a non-negative connotation, but recently a lot has happened to him. From the sounds of it, things had calmed down as the week progressed but Evan couldn't help but be worried a bit for him.

He knew the weight of an aggressive trauma coming back to haunt him and he could only hope that his brother had someone to stick to his side in his daily life.

-SB-

Michael had spent a lot of time between Roxanne and Vandana. When he wasn't at work or spending time with Roxanne, he was either asleep, hanging out with Vandana or texting her. It was very reassuring that he had two people he could trust watching his back in case he started to lose it. The night guard found himself freaking out a couple of times in the week and a half that passed by, but luckily someone was there to help him not completely lose it every time. He felt a little embarrassed and somewhat pitiful about the entire situation, but wasn't any less thankful for the amazing friends he had. Unfortunately as this problem started to settle, another one arose.

A new member of the team was added just days after he made up with Roxanne and it had been a mascot he heard a bit about from other animatronics in the Pizzaplex. At one point, Freddy had told him that they, too, had a Bonnie animatronic like previous locations but was out of order. It had to do with an accident that happened not long before they originally opened up making it seem that this Bonnie shouldn't have many memories whatsoever. Yet, as the night guard found out, that wasn't exactly the case.

It had been at this time that Michael was covering half of a shift for a coworker who had to pick up their kid from the Principal's office for something silly when he had to deal with Glamrock Bonnie.

As Mike had been making his way towards the area behind the bowling alley, he heard a beat being played behind the door, which had definitely belonged to the newest member of the cast. Once the door was opened, the night guard was blasted by the sounds of a beat being played along with a view of Glamrock Bonnie.

He had been a baby blue colored rabbit with a sweat headband and a singular ear piercing on his right ear. His suit had been a pretty skin tight red nylon onesie that looked like it was used to jog in. There was a star in the middle of his chest and he wore similar styled blue gloves and airy pant leggings like the way some of the other Glamrock did. His look gave off stoner vibes and, ironically, his personality sealed the deal. Glamrock Bonnie looked over at Michael coming in before smiling in a goofy fashion.

"Well, well, well!" Said G. Bonnie as he spotted the night guard. "If it isn't my cool rockin' friend, Mikey!" He got up from his drum set before walking nearby the man. "What can I do for you, bro?" The bunny had very long and drawn out words, in a similar fashion to how people would if they were really high and attempting to talk, making Mike give him the nickname of Weed Bunny.

"Looking for a spare pin." Said Michael, walking past the Weed Bunny while looking around.

What had used to be a clean, organized bowling closet had now become something similar to a pig's sty with a messy bed, several empty cans of Fazzy Fizz lying around and the bowling equipment was disorganized and pushed to the walls, making it a very cluttered and sloppy room. The room, in all, was an abhorrent mess and there wasn't a single bowling pin in sight.

"Oh, a bowling pin?" Said the weed bunny looking around the room slowly before digging through a pile of things next to his bed and pulling out a bowling pin with something that looked like a half eaten donut ball stuck to it. G. Bonnie held it out towards the night guard, who was extremely hesitant to take it. "Here ya go, Mikey! It's a bit dirty around the edges but nothing a bit of elbow grease won't work out, heh, ya know, man?" Michael did understand, but understanding and doing were two different things.

"There's… got to be another bowling pin around here." Michael said as he started moving things in some piles, making G. Bonnie don a worried look.

"Hey man, I don't think you wanna…-" At this moment, the pile the man is digging through starts to move and a collared raccoon pops out of there, growling a bit at the man. The weed bunny moved quickly over to scoop up the feral animal before patting its head. "There there, Munchkins. It's okay, he's a friend. Here!" The bunny picked up a half eaten piece of pizza, putting it up to the raccoon's face. "Have a snack!" Michael stood still in disbelief of what he was seeing, blinking a few times to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"Uhh… Bonnie." The hipster bunny turned to look at the man. "Is that… a raccoon?"

"Oh, is that what they're called?" Asked G. Bonnie, smiling like a goofball. "Oh man, I thought it was just a weird looking cat!" He raised the raccoon up and put him on his shoulder before petting its head with his finger. "Anyway, what were we doing?" Mike shook his head, realizing he still had a job to do.

"We will talk about that thing later, Bonnie, but as long as it's not causing trouble I don't see a problem." Mike picked up the messy bowling pin with a napkin that was lying on the desk. "Also, clean up your room! When we move you to your official room, you can not have a messy living space." The weed bunny nodded a bit, smiling.

"Uh, yes sir, dude!" Michael rolled his eyes as he walked out of the room and headed towards the nearest bathroom. G. Bonnie was a very interesting character to say the least with a pretty unique personality that really separated himself from the rest of the crew. Hell, even though he originally was supposed to be the back-up guitarist and bassist, he also played drums which was a big difference to the others who play string instruments.

It took a few minutes to get the bowling pin washed and sanitized before he made it back towards the bowling alley before his phone went off, ringing out with a call. Michael guessed who it might have been and, after taking a look at the caller ID, he was right. He pressed the answer button on his phone and put it up to his ear before his mouth opened.

"Hey Vanny." Said Michael, leaning against the wall.

"Hey Mike!" Responded Vandana, voice coming through the phone. "You said you'll be free in an hour, right?" The man nodded a bit.

"Yeah. The person I'm covering for should be back within the hour. What's up?"

"Oh, just wanted to see if you wanted to spend some time together." She sounded a bit shy, but it wasn't the first time she had called to ask him about spending time together.

"While I don't mind, I will probably be grocery shopping and making dinner before taking a nap. We have a bit of a gathering tonight between everyone here and Evan's family." The woman got excited hearing this.

"Oooh! That sounds like fun! Uh…" She hesitated a bit, but Mike spoke before she could.

"Well if you really think so, feel free to join. After all, you're our friend, too." Vanny's cheeks warmed up a bit as she thought about Mike's fond feelings for her.

"Definitely, but I'll also take you up on that shopping trip. Perhaps I could make some dinner for you?" Michael smiled a bit as he heard something nice.

"Sounds wonderful. I'll meet you at my house?"

"Sure!" They proceeded to say their short farewells before Michael hung up and continued to walk, only to find Roxanne around the corner with her arms crossed and an amused but sassy look.

"...Rox?" Asked Michael as she continued to stare down at him, tapping her foot.

"Was that Vandana?" Asked Roxanne in a monotone voice. The man nodded, confused.

"Yeah… wait, were you spying in on my phone call?"

"Mike, answer the question."

"What? Why does it matter?" Roxanne huffs in response.

"Because I want to know." Mike stares at her with accusing eyes.

"..."

"... Okay, fine. I did listen, alright? Happy now?"

"You could just ask me next time or say hello to her with me." Roxanne huffed again, looking away. "What?"

"Why did you invite her to the party tonight?" Complained Roxanne with her arms crossed.

"What- Rox, Vandana is my friend, too." The wolf huffed once more before grabbing his arm and dragging him off.

"Whatever, come with me."

"Wait bu-"

"Shut up, Mike." The night guard sighed as he was dragged off towards Freddy knows where.

Michael hoped the family waiting for their bowling pin would forgive him. Roxanne seemed determined to have him now and, by Freddy, would she have him.

It's not like Roxanne would tell her night guard to stop hanging out with Vanny, but she'd be crazy to stand around and let someone else take her night guard from her.

-SB-

Evan and Mangle had been sitting in the car as they drove to the adjacent town nearby, making small talk as they got closer to their destination. Mangle had been holding Evan's hand like the way Chara normally did, but with a lot less confidence. It had been very cute how she was clinging to him today and, even though it wasn't anything serious, watching her bounce around with energy and being excited for their date was an absolute pleasure for him.

"... and the movie we'll watch later is one I've been so excited to see!" Said Mangle as the technician started focusing back in on her excited rant as she looked over to see him smiling brightly as he drove. "What?"

"Oh nothing." Evan said as he softly squeezed her hand. "Just was thinking how much cuter you get when you're excited like this." Her face blushed heavily, meekly looking away from him.

"I-I mean… It's wonderful being able to go out and have this date with you." Said Mangle shyly, her hand squeezing onto Evan's a bit tighter. "I mean, when was the last time we truly went out together with just us?" Evan glanced over to her very briefly.

"Didn't we spend time together shopping before we went to the pizzaplex right before we found Gregory?" Evan teased her, knowing what she meant. She leaned over towards him with a slightly pouting face.

"Evan!" The pink fox cried out. "You know that doesn't count. It wasn't just us the entire time and, besides, I… I just wanted to make you smile again…" Evan smiled softly, remembering how hard of a day it was for everyone.

"Yeah… I'm sorry about that, Mangle, I…" Evan grew quiet and eventually sighed loudly. "I just…" Both of his girls knew how much he loved kids. Perhaps it was because he never truly had a childhood, he made sure to try and make them smile while spoiling them when he could. They both knew he was an amazing fatherly figure and that his dream was to have a child.

The issue is that he knew he couldn't have kids. Even if he wasn't with a puppet, he wasn't sure if his undead body would be capable of getting anyone pregnant. On top of this, it's really difficult to adopt a kid when you're a single 'mid to late 20's aged' man with 0 background history. Nobody was going to allow a child to live with someone so sketchy. Mangle brought up Evan's hand to her cheek, smiling at him.

"Don't worry, Evan! Gregory is safe now and everything is fine and even if it wasn't, we have each other." Evan smiled warmly at her words before moving her hand to his face, kissing the back of her hand and making her blush even more.

"I'm so glad I met you two. I don't know what I would do without y'all…" Mangle smiled meekly.

"You think so? We couldn't even live in society without you and that's not even mentioning how much we emotionally rely on you…" Evan shook his head.

"I think even without me here, you two would have somehow pulled it off. I mean, Chara is such a smart and resourceful person while you're creative and smart in your own ways, too. Not to mention you're both so gentle that the moment someone was willing to give you a chance, I know you two would be able to make something happen from it." Mangle shook her head.

"No, Evan-" The pretty fox sighed a bit, shaking her head again. "You're the only person who truly sees us as people. Even if we were, somehow, able to find someone else trustworthy, could they really love us and care for us the way you do?" The fox spoke in such an irritated way, as if Evan hit some nerve. "Don't discredit yourself, Evan. You're more than just some fellow victim or even a family member. I really don't think any of us could stand being away from each other for too long… Me included…" The drive became a bit quiet as they continued to hold hands and Evan pondered on what Mangle said.

Is this something I should worry about? Evan thought. Even though he felt completely the same way and never thought anything wrong about it until this moment. What if one of them dies? It was never a thought he had until he 'lost' Gregory. Perhaps his quick attachment with the child along with losing and grieving over him had really put things in a new perspective. While the man himself didn't really have to worry a whole lot about his own demise, nothing sounded worse than living a life without the two of them. Though, on another side of things, was it healthy to be this co-dependent on one another?

As far as he understood, they had lived happily and comfortably for the last 10 years of their life with relatively no issues between the three of them, but would it always stay that way? If Chara or Mangle were to leave for somewhere far away for whatever reason, would they all be able to recover from being with one another? The thought alone bothered the man to no end and he decided he wanted to hear the pretty pink fox's opinion on this.

"Mangle…" Said Evan, leaving off in the sentence. She looked at him, attention fully given.

"Mhm?" Hummed Mangle.

"Do you ever think about leaving Chara and I?" The fox blinked in surprise, taken aback by the question.

"What, no!" Said Mangle a bit loudly, extremely confused until an idea dawned on her. "Wait, you don't want me to leave, do you?" Mangle started to look a bit sad and panicky as she opened her mouth only to be cut off by Evan.

"No, no no." Evan responded quickly. "No, I was just thinking about… how I don't think I could live without all of you either so if you guys were to go somewhere, I don't know how any three of us would cope with a part of our heart missing." Evan flustered a bit as he realized what he said and quickly tried to recover. "I mean, I know we three are a family more than anything else so one of us leaving would break our hearts." Mangle smiled widely, feeling her tail wanting to move in her lap.

"I- We love you, too, Evan." Mangle said through her smile, her fingers wrapping tighter around his hand. "And if I can't be by you guy's side, I wouldn't want to be anywhere."

"Don't say it like that, Mangle." Evan said, relieved to hear. "What about when I go to work?"

"Just take me with you. I'm sure I could help you like old times!" Evan thought again.

"What about if we moved away from here?"

"Home is where the heart is. My heart's with you two."

"Even if we go across the world?" She nodded vigorously.

"Even if you guys were to go to Hell on a two person boat, they'd need to create a third seat because I'm coming with you." Mangle said passionately, making Evan laugh.

"Well, it would be difficult to get you two airplane tickets to get outside of the country especially with how bad TSA had restricted their policy since I was a child."

"Then I'll just hide in your bag and take me with you." Evan laughed again, smiling widely. Her dedication to go anywhere he and Chara went was phenomenal. They all were truly one of the same heart and he'd do anything to make sure they'd all stay happy. On that note, Evan remembered something.

"Say, how would you like to go clothes shopping before we hit the movie theater?" A gasp could be heard from his right, making him smile.

"Yes!" Cried Mangle, both hands on his one as she bounced up and down excitedly. "Oh, I so love going dress shopping! Where are we going?" Evan chuckled a bit.

"Why don't we start in the mall? I'm sure there'll be plenty of cute things to choose from." Mangle was so excited to get to the mall now and shop to her heart's content until she paused for a moment. Her ears went down to her head as she looked at Evan.

"Uh… you don't mind, do you?" Evan glanced over to her briefly once again, feeling that something was wrong. He saw her ears down and felt something was amiss.

"What do you mean?" Evan inquired softly.

"I mean… I feel bad that you always spend money on us and never ask for anything in return. I just don't know if it's okay…" Evan understood and, as they stopped at a light, he looked at her.

"It is okay. All things considered, you guys make sure that the house is always cleaned and cook sometimes along with taking care of anything else that happens at the house." Evan smiled at her, making her ears come back up and her smile came back. He looked back towards the front, the light only now turning green. "Besides, if I asked you to work, where would you work? I mean, I suppose you could come with me to my job but having more people for the kind of work I do, especially ones without the know-how, becomes a bit… burdensome. Though, I'm sure there are other things you could do."

"Like what?" Evan thought about it for a bit, the car becoming quiet for a few moments.

"Well, I suppose you could always be our mascot if you really wanted. I mean, who would pass up such a pretty and unique lady like yourself to be the face of our company?" Mangle blushed madly, whining a bit.

"Evaaaaaaaan!~" The pink fox whined at her human, making him laugh.

"Okay, I'm sorry… but I was only partially teasing you. You really are beautiful and we definitely don't have a mascot." Mangle smiled as a thought came into her head.

"Well, I could always work in entertainment." This threw the technician off as he heard her speak. Mangle and Chara had mentioned how they would like to go back to entertaining children, but never had it been a serious thought. Besides, the only one of the two who did any actual entertaining was Mangle and very scarcely in comparison to the others.

"Wait, really?" Said Evan, sounding surprised.

"I thought about it for a long time and I realized after talking with Chica and Freddy back at the party when we first met Gregory that I really wanted to do it." Evan sat there for a time, thinking while he drove, with his right hand still holding Mangle's left. He wondered who else in the family had felt the same way.

"Have you talked to Chara about it?" Evan asked.

"She… she doesn't mind it, though that was as far as I got. Every time I brought it up, she'd give a positive, brief answer before changing the subject. Even when asking about it, she denied that there was any real reason for it." Evan hummed, thinking that was out of the ordinary for the very honest puppet.

"I can always try asking her when we get home later and… if that's what you really want to do, Mangle, then I support you fully. I don't know how or where we will do this, but if this really is your dream, I will make it happen." Mangle smiled brightly and warmly at the man, squeezing his hand with affection.

"Thank you, Evan. It means so much to hear you say that."

"It's nice to hear you guys wanting to do things with your lives. You know, I was worried you guys would struggle to find or do things you like and stay holed up in the house."

"Would you still love us even if we did?" Ask Mangle curiously. Evan nodded.

"I would. I thought about doing the same for a time when we first began to work our asses off for the dream of a house together. The constant nightmares along with the semi-constant reminders that I'm the child of a monster and now an immortal undead cyborg haunted me. If it wasn't for you two and Trevor always picking me up when I was down, I may have given up."

Mangle hadn't been shocked to hear about this as she listened to Evan and Chara talk about this kind of stuff years ago when they thought she was asleep or wasn't there. It was obvious how much the man was struggling and, while it was much better than it used to be, he still struggled. Luckily, the pink fox rarely had dreams about the past and never had any glimpse of her death or before she died. She didn't care who she was before she became Mangle, she only cared about who she was now and her loved ones.

"We'll always have your back, Evan." Evan smiled but Mangle wasn't finished speaking, only taking a small pause to see his reactions. "Also, what do you mean by immortal?" Evan thought about how to word it for a moment before speaking.

"Well, technically we would live forever. The thing is, if you feel like moving on and your soul no longer has strong attachments to the mortal world, you'll move on to the afterlife. Of course, in the case you won't ever feel like that, your body runs as long as you have the things giving you capabilities to do so. In this case, it would be Remnant."

"Wait, but not everyone like us has Remnant in their bodies, right?" Said Mangle, thinking about the Glamrock animatronics. Evan nodded, remembering him telling them about their lack of Remnant inside their bodies.

"While you're correct, I don't know enough about the Glamrocks to say much about it. Just about everyone else in the business who walks and talks just like you has had Remnant inside their body. With that being said, let me briefly explain how Remnant works." Evan cleared his throat before continuing on.

"Remnant is basically emotion-laced energy made from souls poured into metal. Now, to take on the form it does, it comes out as a metallic substance that melts and stays liquid around body temperature and is used to fuel whatever body it's powering to keep it running. Like any other energy, it will be expended back outside of your body, but at an exceptionally slow level since Remnant itself is a very, very dense mass of energy and emotion. To make this a bit easier to understand, tell me, why do normal humans die over time?" Mangle pondered very briefly about this.

"Is it because they get sick?" Mangle answered innocently, unsure herself.

"In a way, you're correct. Basically, your body starts to deteriorate, specifically your cells and DNA, and give you illnesses that eventually take your life. In fact, if your body never deteriorated, it would be possible to have eternal life and that's where Remnant comes in. Basically, Remnant acts as a 'cure-all' medicine for the body making it to where it prevents deterioration along with repairing any that happens. In exchange, it uses a portion of the energy it holds to fuel the regenerative and preventative properties, making us live for a very long time. I would say with the amount of Remnant in our bodies… we'd live upwards to 300+ years with ease."

"Wow!" Said Mangle, fascinated about her own biology. "That's much longer than a human's lifespan." Evan nodded.

"Well, mine is probably much longer than that due to the amount of Remnant I've absorbed but that's besides the point. In essence, we could technically reinfuse you guys with more Remnant in order for you to live longer." Mangle felt briefly excited at first, but something bothered her.

"Uh, isn't Remnant made with souls? So, wouldn't we have to…" Evan shook his head vigorously.

"No no no, nothing like that. While it's possible and was originally done with human children's souls, there have been imitation souls made to make Remnant."

"I hope so… I don't want to see any more children hurt but… I don't want to leave you alone… " Evan smiled thinly before stroking her hand with his thumb.

"We've got plenty of time to figure it out, sweetheart. Just worry about being happy right now and let me do the heavy lifting." Mangle smiled at this comment.

"Make sure to let us know if you need help, please. You're not alone." Evan smiled as well.

"Yes, of course. Thank you." The car became silent once again as they sat there, enjoying time together as they got closer to their destination. Evan was happy to have this conversation about their lifespans. They weren't exactly immortal, but if they could do anything about it, they would stay together as long as they wanted.

This gave the phrase 'together forever' a whole new meaning and Evan was all for it. The issue was Remnant, but he had a sneaking suspicion his brother knew where to find some.

-SB-

Katherine sighed as she was watching the time tick down on the clock as her last class of the day was passing by exceptionally slowly when all she wanted to do was go home. Due to the severity, or the lack thereof, of her wounded ribs, she was able to come to school normally. The issue was that they were supposed to be doing a project in a group and one of the people had been someone she hated the most.

"Okay, class." Said the lady at front, the teacher of the class, as she clapped her hands together. "With the little remaining time left, please split off into your groups and discuss your project with your partners. Make sure everything is off the floor and, once the bell rings, you may have a nice day." Everyone started to stand up, taking their bags with them as they shifted into their groupings. The bag next to Katherine moved, being picked up by a hand of a familiar girl.

"C'mon, Kat." Said the girl known as Amanda, her best friend. "Let's go see that idiot before he causes any more trouble." The young girl rolled her eyes as she slowly pushed herself back onto her feet, moving towards one of the desks in the back. Sitting in the desk had been this tan skinned boy with black curly hair and one hell of a resting bitch face. He leaned his head against his fist, looking extremely bored.

"Mati." Called out Amanda, who wore purple hair and her blue eyes were magnified by the round lensed glasses she wore. She was a thicker girl with a decent amount of colorful makeup highlighting her face and stood a bit shorter than Katherine. "Why do you always look so angry?" The boy huffed as he looked at the both of them, eyes training on Amanda.

"Why do you care?" The girl simply shrugged, sitting in a seat nearby. Katherine disliked this boy, but the groups had been chosen by random chance. At least she was paired with her best friend who knew how to deal with people like this a bit better. Katherine sat down alongside Amanda before she started talking.

"So, what is your guy's idea?" Asked Katherine, looking around at the two in her team. Neither of them reacted much, showing that they hadn't much idea what they should do for their class project.

"I mean, what would we do?" Said Amanda, looking at her phone as she typed very quickly to whoever the recipient(s) may be. "I mean, scary things are more your forte, Kat." Mati scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Oh no, do not get me tied up in your looney train this time!" Said Mati with utter annoyance. "There's a reason everyone calls you Katty in the first place." At a first glance, Katty seems like a pretty normal nickname but people at her school started using it because they thought she was crazy, or batty, which was pretty close to Katty. It's not like the girl cared too much because it was a name her beloved grandfather called her first and she'd let no one ruin it, but the connotation behind it here wasn't all that great. The young girl shook her head, brushing the insult off.

"Look, I still think we should research Fazbear Entertainment and their locations for things like souls and paranormal activities. I mean, we all know that there were kid killings years ago by one of the workers there and that they were acting weird once all that stuff went down. There's gotta be something going on!" Mati sighed again, rolling his eyes and Amanda didn't look up from her phone, continuing to text. Neither of her partner's seemed to be very interested in this idea.

"Well…" Said the girl next to Kat, putting her phone down briefly enough to look at her. "I suppose that doesn't sound horrible, but you'll have to lead the project." Katherine brightened up as she heard that and Mati sat up in disbelief.

"Wait, you actually want to do this?!" Said the boy incredulously.

"Do you have any better ideas, idiot?" Mati's mouth opened only to shut again and he sank into his chair, defeated. "Great. We'll just follow your lead, hun, and we'll help you with the work. On that note, do you have any idea of how we're going to do this? It's not exactly like the old locations are something we can just walk inside of now that the police have been investigating it and the only current location nearby is the Pizzaplex. I don't think any of us have enough money to afford that place just for some research." Katherine smiled a bit.

"I think that can be arranged… I happen to know someone who is close with the company and I'm sure they'll do something soon with the animatronics more than likely." Mati seemed to be extremely bored of the conversation, but Amanda was curious.

"Who would you be friends that could possibly help us out?" She asked, staring intently at the young girl. A smug look jumped onto Katherine's face.

"Do you guys know the famous technician, Evan Nafto?" The stylish girl gasped as she dropped her phone.

"You mean the guy who fixes just about anything and everything along with having those super cool animatronics with him?" Kat nodded proudly and Mati started really listening to the conversation. "Oh, that's amazing! I especially love Chara. I remember seeing the puppet girl a lot when I was a kid. She's always so sweet."

"Wait…" Mati said, sitting back up. "You mean that perverted man with the busty freak of nature?" Amanda's eyes snapped over to the boy, her face looking hateful.

"Don't you talk about Chara that way!" Katherine agreed with the sentiment but it wasn't normal that Mati would've seen Chara as they seemed to stay inside almost always nowadays and Mati wasn't exactly from around here.

"Wait, how do you know them anyways?" Mati scoffed, inching away from Amanda. She could be quite scary when she was angry.

"They came to my uncle's diner and were holdin' hands n' stuff. I mean, it's gross how lovey dovey he was being with a hunk of metal and to think he gave it tits and an ass…" Amanda slammed on the table, standing up to look down at the boy. The nearby tables started to look at the group with odd looks, attracting more attention from nearby. Katherine patted the bigger girl's leg, grabbing her attention.

"Hey, you're gonna cause a scene…" The girl huffed and sat down, allowing the surrounding groups to go back to their own business. "Mati, Evan and his two animatronics were most people's friends growing up around here. If you wanna get your ass beaten, then you should keep talking shit about them the way you just did."

"Oh, so there's more freaks just like that puppet thing?" It took a lot out of Katherine to keep Amanda from hopping the table and getting to the boy. As much as both girls agreed they didn't like Mati, they didn't want to get in trouble because he was ignorant.

"On top of that, Evan may have given her the body she has, but Chara was the one who chose it." Said the stylish girl, daggers practically shooting from her eyes towards the curly haired boy.

"Yeah yeah, whatever. It's still weird no matter how you look at it." Katherine would have to agree with it. When she first heard about it, it was something that disgusted her to no end. A human in love with the same thing that ruined her grandfather's life was all she thought of them as, but after getting closer to the family she could see they weren't just animatronics and that her grandfather was right. They were people stuck inside metal suits just trying to live a normal life though how Evan fit into all of this wasn't something she understood too well.

"Regardless, there's no need to be rude about it." Said Kat, lecturing the boy. "They aren't just animatronics anyways. I believe they're a lot more and I'm sure most people in this town would agree with me when I say that they're wonderful." At this moment, the bell rang and everyone started quickly heading towards the classroom door, some running to be first on their respective buses. "Anyways, I'll keep you guys posted about how that goes and, if everything goes south, I'm sure we could always sneak in." With that, the group parted ways with Amanda and Katherine walking towards the parking lot.

"Are you sure he's going to help us out?" Asked the girl with colorful hair, staring at her phone as she spoke to the injured girl.

"It'll be fiiiine. Besides, me and one of his animatronics are good friends." This grabbed Amanda's attention.

"I thought you didn't like Chara or Mangle?"

"I… got to know them in the past few weeks and neither of them are the friend I'm talking about." This confused the colorful haired girl.

"Then who is it?"

"Oh, maybe I'll have to introduce you to Foxy at some point. I thought pirates were a bit corny until I met him, but he's a pretty cool pirate captain." The girl smiled as she thought about Foxy and Lillie. It would've been unimaginable if you told her 2 months ago that she was going to befriend an animatronic, but now she was glad she met them. It still felt weird and a bit wrong, but it was a special relationship she made with them and perhaps it was an insight on her studies. They didn't really freak her out anymore.

Though she could never forget how freaky spider Chara could be. Nothing in this world terrified Katherine as much as that did.

-SB-

It had taken a while longer for the lady that Michael was covering for to come back to work and, in that time, it felt a lot less like he was working and more so that he was being Roxanne's helper. Well, 'helper' being a nice word for the slaving he was doing for her as he was running around with her, meeting kids and eventually helping kids learn to operate a go-kart.

All in all, it was a fun experience and seeing the wolf's smiling face as a kid successfully makes their way around the track with their friend's. It had been a side of her that the night guard didn't see often but it was a pleasure nonetheless. Of course, it had been originally spawned by what Michael could only call a fit of jealousy from the wolf, but he didn't quite understand it too well. All's well that ends well. He thought to himself.

Eventually it was time to go and, after texting Vandana he was leaving his work, he made his way home. As happy as he was to spend time with Roxanne some more, he was nearly as excited spending time with his new friend. They both had a lot they could talk about and, for once, it was nice having a human friend he could hang out and feel like a normal person with. It wasn't that he hated being surrounded by animatronics, namely Roxanne, all the time, but it was nice to just feel… normal for once.

The man had wondered before what it would've been like to have grown up without all the murder and death plaguing his life. Perhaps he would've been married to some cute girl, settled down with a few children and they'd already have their own kids about now. After all, Michael was nearly in his 60's despite his middle to late 20's look he had and, while the 'if' situations were interesting to think about at times, his reality right now was pretty damn good.

Now that he thought about it, he never had any interest in women before, not to say he was into men either, but relationships weren't exactly something you'd think about when you're trying to absolve children's souls. It had been even less of a concern of his once he died, especially since he wanted no one, absolutely no one, to know he was just a corpse walking. With that being said, his life was no longer a struggle to survive and a fight against his father's creations.

While the fake pizzeria didn't set everyone's souls free, it did vanquish the one monster that he set his eyes upon to begin with: his father. Normally, this would have been a terrible thing to have happened, the ones that he knew survived seemed to be trying to live normal, everyday lives. Chara had been living with a man who, ironically, shared his brother's name and other lost animatronics lived with him, too. Even his sister had been said to be pretty close with the boy living with Evan, the kid she saved while getting rid of a long time murderer. Not everything was terrible about Baby being alive.

Mike's mind wandered back to the thought of being close with Roxanne and getting pretty close with Vandana. Neither of them truly knew who he was and, while he felt a bit guilty that he had to hide stuff from his best friend, he didn't want anything getting out anymore than it had already. To think they could get along with an insufferable corpse like myself. Thought Michael as he realized how lucky he was.

To be frank, how often can someone say they spend day in and day out going back and forth between two beautiful girls? It felt weird when the night guard presented it like this in his own head, but it had been primarily true on any occasion. Michael had seen exactly how beautiful both of them could be, especially when they were dressing to impress. Though, even in their day to day outfits they both looked comparable to superstars, ignoring the one is actually one. It was then a thought popped up into his mind.

Two good looking girls, regardless of one being an animatronic or not, had spent a lot of time with him specifically and always requested to do things with him one-on-one. Things like watching romantic movies, cuddling and even going out on dates. Is it possible, just vaguely possible, that either of them, or both of them, like him? The thought made a lot of things make sense to Michael, but even then the night guard denied it. There's no way such beauties could ever like a guy like me. Thought Mike as he made his way closer towards his home. Perhaps I'm just an easy person to hang out with. I've heard horror stories about people taking advantage of the opposite gender in a TV show…

To Michael, it had been quite impossible to think of someone genuinely liking him at all. In his mind, how could anyone? He was a child murderer by association and quite literally a younger brother killer. A man like him who led his father to kill dozens more children than he possibly could have along with endangering many, many others was not something he could easily be forgiven for even after all these years and work. Even if they did somehow like him, the one in a billion chance (in Mike's perspective), he didn't deserve their love. They oughta know what it means to be around a guy who finds death and havoc no matter where he goes.

Luckily, that was as far as the self-degrading thoughts had gotten because, very soon after, Michael was parked at his home with a familiar vehicle in front. Vandana climbed out of her car, waving at the man. She wore a black long sleeved turtle neck along with a pair of skin tight skinny jeans with a smile so bright it might as well have been the summer sun. A smile crept up on Michael's face seeing his friend come out towards him, excited as she normally did. Weirdly enough, Vandana reminded him of a pet dog at times, but it felt sorta wrong. It was more like a pet rabbit and even with his biased dislike for bunnies and rabbits alike, he didn't feel bad about this one.

"Hey, Mike!" Said the chipper Vandana who moved inches away from him. She had a habit of getting very close to the man, even touchy at times. He'd heard that people were like this with close friends and it did match a lot with how he and Roxanne have been so he took her affection with stride, hoping to be good friends with the blonde girl, too.

"Hey." Said Michael simply. "You look nice." The woman smiled, a bright show of her teeth nearly blinding the man.

"Thank you! I came here straight from work, doing some overtime until I knew you were ready. I hope you can forgive me if I have any weird smells. I may have spilled a bit of coffee on myself while working earlier." Michael nodded.

"That's okay. Why don't we go inside?" Vanny nodded and they both headed inside of Michael's house, getting themselves out of the frigid air. They made their way inside of the night guard's house, taking their shoes and getting comfortable immediately. Since Michael went on a date with Vandana, they had gotten quite close in many ways.

Firstly, Vandana had been over to Mike's house just about every single day up to this point. It had been a good thing for the night guard because there had been times he did freak out once his mind wandered back to Baby a bit too much or a dream that showcased her sent him reeling. Of course, none of these had been to the severity of the one he had at dinner with her but Vanny's help was thoroughly appreciated.

Another way is that they ate dinner together and sometimes rested together before he went to work. While they didn't cuddle like he and Roxanne did, it had been nice to know someone was nearby. It had been a strangely freeing sense of security that he felt with Roxanne as well, but in a different way. Other than the wolf and the other Glamrock animatronics, he never really had friends and it was a wonderful change of pace to have Vandana around the way she was.

"You know," Michael said, starting a conversation as he made his way past the living room and into his room to change his uniform, "it's impressive all on its own that you can work on all sorts of equipment without getting all messy."

"I could say the same thing to you, Mr. Afton." Teased Vanny from the other room as she laid on his couch. "You're surrounded by children all day, who are more than likely running around with cake, ice cream and whatever other sticky unhealthy thing you guys sell in your establishment yet here you are without so much as a stain on your clothes."

"It takes practice." Called out Mike as he slipped into another shirt. He came out of his room dressed in a pair of black sweatpants with white drawstrings and a shirt that was merchandise from the Pizzaplex, making Vanny raise an eyebrow in amusement. It had been a purple shirt with Roxanne's face on it, her shoulders dressed up in a leather jacket and her face donned with shades making her look badass.

"I see your fondness for Roxanne knows no limits." Teased the woman again, making the man roll his eyes.

"It was a gift she had gotten me a while back and, weirdly enough, it's comfortable." A grin showed up on the woman's face as she propped her head on her hand as she laid down, looking at the night guard as he sat next to her on the couch.

"It's okay, it suits you. You're an absolute cutie in purple."

"I still don't understand your point of view with calling me 'cute'." Vandana giggled a bit, taking a finger and messing around with the hem of his shirt.

"Everything about you so far has been cute minus your freak outs but that's okay. We all have our moments in time."

"That doesn't answer the question, Vanny." The woman huffed and sat up, her eyebrows furrowed.

"You're too hard on yourself, mister." She said, poking him in the chest. "You are quite a handsome fellow, even when you're frowning… like you are now!" She smiled as Mike realized he was frowning a bit, sighing as he realized she was right.

"Well, thanks anyways. You're much more beautiful than me. I don't even compare." Vanny blushed a bit.

"...You're such a smooth talker, Mike…" Said Vanny shyly. The man was confused because all he did was point out the obvious. The woman scooted forward and laid her head in his lap, looking up at him with a smile. The woman seemed to enjoy teasing Mike a lot and he didn't mind her laying in his lap necessarily either. "You know, I feel at peace when I'm around you. I cannot thank you enough for always being here for me." The man scoffed at the thanks.

"You've been here for me since we had dinner that night and you still are here, helping me through my trauma. If anything, I'm grateful for you."

"That doesn't mean I'm any less grateful for you. Maybe you don't know, but you do just about the same thing for me."

"What could I possibly be helping you with, Vanny?" The woman thought for a moment, thinking about how to word her next sentence without sounding like an absolute nutcase.

"You see, I work a lot. I usually give myself projects not just because I enjoy creating things, but to keep the negative thoughts in my head silent. Frankly, they have gotten worse recently. More aggressive and while I'd love to say there's something wrong with me, I've been told it's just my ADHD."

"Don't people take medicine for that normally?" The girl nodded.

"I just didn't like how it felt taking the medicine, so I never took it again. It has been fine up until lately and I've thought about talking to someone about it, but then I met you. The moments I have spent with you always make me feel better and my head doesn't feel so populated. I feel so… comfortable around you." Michael chuckled as he looked down at her.

"I've noticed. You really should protect yourself a bit more. You sneak into a man's bed that you barely know and fall asleep next to him. Aren't you afraid I'd take advantage of you?" She shook her head.

"I know you're not that kind of guy. I'm an amazing judge of character, mind you."

"Vanny, I murdered my little brother for the sake of spite against my father. Do you really think I wouldn't lower myself to doing things to you?"

"Nope!" Vanny said with a smile. "I trust you, Michael. You're a good person at heart and even though you grew up with such unfortunate circumstances and maybe did something bad before, we all grow up and learn from our mistakes. That is what makes us who we are as people." The man shook his head.

"I don't think you understand, Vandana, but I didn't do it by accident. I killed him with my own two hands, shoving his head inside of a golden animatronic bear until the jaws crushed the life out of his small head. I am not someone who can be forgiven for that." A hand reached up and cupped the man's cheek, making him look down to Vanny who had a soft smile.

"Michael, I understand that you can't forget what happened. I won't lie if I told you that what you did was a good thing. It was horrible, but the difference between you and some murderer is that you felt guilty about it, never did anything like this again and have been and still are actively improving yourself. That's no small feat, Mike. I love that about you." Something turned inside of his chest at these words, but they weren't enough to convince him.

His one time massive fuck up not only affected his family's life, but many, many others as his father's response was to lure children that reminded him of Michael and kill them which, in turn, those lost souls started killing others as well. It started to become this never ending cycle of pain and misery that started with him. While he wasn't solely to blame, he knew that if he didn't kill his brother, his innocent kid brother, that so many people would've been spared. His sin was unforgivable, but it wasn't like he could tell the woman that.

"Vanny, I…" Michael started to say before stopping himself, unable to find the right words. "I don't agree with you. I may not be a monster like-... I may not be a monster, but my sin was unforgivable but… if you really think I'm worth the time, I won't stop you. I enjoy you being around and I'm happy I can be of use to you." Vanny could only sigh. She knew it wouldn't be that easy, but she didn't really understand it.

While the woman didn't like sneaking around behind others backs, she wanted to learn more about the man so she did some google searches. Come to find out, there had only been one recorded instance of a child dying from being stuffed inside the mouth of an animatronic was in 1983. Weirdly enough, it had matched just about everything she had heard from fragmented conversations about this same instance time and time again along with the most compelling evidence up to date: the animatronic was a 'golden bear'.

As far as her search went, there had been only two golden animatronics in the entire history of the company and both were present during the same bite that killed a child in 1983 only for both to either become useless or disappear. The other most compelling piece of info she found was that the owner, and father of the child, was named 'William Afton'. The same last name of the man's lap she was laying her head in. It all had started to come together… except the timeline did not make sense.

Michael, as far as she knew, was no older than his mid 20's, about the same age as her, meaning that there was no conceivable way that he could have been there 30-40 years before both of them were even born. Michael would have had to be at least 55-60+ years old in order for him to have been present on that day. Yet that was what made this entire situation even more crazy: Michael's trauma was real.

Vanny knew that Michael's trauma was very real. The story he said to her never changed and his reactions and personality had seemed to be shaped by the events that happened to him. While it wasn't his full trauma, she could see that this meant so much to him. On top of this, she could tell that Michael wasn't lying. One thing that the woman was good at was calling out a lie and while it seemed the night guard would sometimes not fully tell all the information, he very rarely would lie. The further down the rabbit hole she went, the more crazy and unbelievable it became, yet she started to believe it so much more. The information was all online and, perhaps with a bit more digging, she'd find something.

Speaking of the information, this wasn't something you could freely search up before the investigation launched by the police in the past months hadn't happened. Just about all the evidence they ended up finding became public, records being released on everything including a timeline of sorts when they thought children and adults disappeared, never to be seen again and none of the bodies ever being found. Though, another name popped out that really interested Vanny: Elizabeth Afton.

Michael said that he had his freak out over his sister and, while he never said her name, it wasn't difficult to figure out who it could've been after asking about his family members a bit during dinner. Elizabeth Afton could have been his sister, which made sense seeing as it was a younger sister of his. The craziest part was that she also went missing before the youngest child died. The craziness didn't stop there as it was believed that the father had been the one to create animatronics which killed the young girl, the father who would go to kidnap and kill many children until suddenly he disappeared.

At one point, Vandana wanted to believe this was all a hoax, some scheme created by a lunatic until one last thing pointed out to her. The name of the young boy who died in the 'Bite of '83' as they call it was named Evan Afton. A lot of things started to click together once she started to think about her boss, Evan Nafto.

First off, she met the guy when she was a teen wandering around with two animatronics that didn't exactly look the friendliest. Evan helped out a lot and looked nearly the same as he does today, nearly 10 years later, and had once gone by the name of 'Afton'. Even the company that he owned had the name in it, making it seem that he was Michael's younger brother… but this is where things really stop making sense.

They're both men in their mid 20's who are perfectly alive and well that didn't know of each other until a few months prior to. They both look sorta similar, minus the hair color, but Evan's hair had been dyed and, somehow, stayed that color since that time. On top of this, Evan never mentioned he had any brothers or sisters but this was due to not having memories of them. So much had been suspicious here but not only did Vanny not have a solid claim but she also wasn't sure how she could explain both of them still being young and alive many years later.

Perhaps they were vampires or some immortal creatures, but the woman didn't believe in the superstitious. While ghost stories were cool, they weren't exactly all too credible and fictional creatures were just that, fictional creatures. Though there was something undeniably weird going on between Evan, Michael and Fazbear Entertainment along with all of the animatronics. Perhaps she should have been scared, but she just ended up being all the more interested.

That and Michael was too handsome and attractive to let go of. Perhaps it would come back to bite her one day, but she was too deep before she even realized it.

Vandana had eventually been knocked out of her thoughts by a hand touching her head, petting her hair. It had been Michael, who seemed to be doing it subconsciously as he watched the show on the TV. It felt quite nice to the woman, but the need to tease the man had overpowered the feeling.

"I love the way you stroke my head." Called out Vandana, breaking the man's focus from the TV and down towards her head where he saw his fingers full of her hair. He moved his hand and looked a bit apologetic.

"I'm sorry." Said Michael as he looked down at her. "I'm used to doing this with Rox and she loves it when I do it." On the outside, the woman smiled but, on the inside, she seethed a bit. Roxanne this, Roxanne that. Thought Vanny with a bitter tone before calming herself down. She was angry that she had the man she cared for stolen by an animatronic before, but to think that it may happen again made her angry. She'd just have to try harder and make the man see her charm over the wolf's.

"It's okay. You didn't have to stop." Michael looked at her with a blank face before sighing, going back to petting her head. The woman was in bliss as she enjoyed the full attention of the night guard's hand in her hair. Perhaps she'd have to try extra hard for dinner tonight. She thought about the train of thought she had before.

Vanny wanted to ask Michael more about all the things she learned, but she was afraid that she'd ruin their trust. For now, she'd watch closely and, if something happened, help the man out. For now, she'd…

Vandana grabbed the man's hand and hugged it to her face as she looked up to him cutely.

"What would you like for dinner?"

-SB-

Mangle had spent a lot of time out with Evan, but this had been, by far, the best time they'd spent together in a very long time. She knew that her 'date' out with her favorite human would be fun, but this had knocked it out of the park for her. First, they went to the mall and Mangle tried out multiple different colored dresses, most of them matching colors of the fall. At this point in time, Mangle came out of the changing room, twirling her body in a silky, maroon red dress. It had holes in the shoulders with slight frilling on the collar and shoulder holes making it a very simple yet elegant dress. She stopped spinning for a moment to look at Evan, her smile big as ever.

"How do I look?" It had such a lovely color on Mangle's pink and white fur, which was much better in contrast to a lot of the fall colored dresses in the store.

"You look so god damn gorgeous, Mangle." Said Evan with a loving smile. "And the dress looks good, too." Mangle rolled her eyes, smiling uncontrollably. The amount of attention and affection she had been getting from the man had made her heart skip a beat several times already making her face seem comparable to the red on a tomato. The pink fox shrinked into herself, acting very meek.

"Thank you, Evan…" Said Mangle quietly. The man smiled as watched her run back behind the covers of the changing booth. It wasn't like she needed them, but if it made her feel better then he'd oblige with her wants.

Evan, too, was having fun with Mangle in this outing. Perhaps it was because he was with one of the two most favorite people but seeing the pink fox get excited over dressing up in clothes that complimented her beauty really gave the man a lot of enjoyment. He looked at his phone, seeing that they needed to wrap it up soon in order to get to their movie.

Mangle now had six new dresses that were all wonderful to wear through the year, some being beautiful autumn colors that she wanted to make sure to show off while it was still in fashion. After putting the boxes in the vehicle, they made their way across the mall towards the Cinema, checking in their tickets before buying nothing but popcorn and drinks as Evan had a bag of candy he snuck into the theater.

They both sat down at the back row, seeing that there weren't many people here for the viewing of the movie. It had been out for at least a week and it seemed that not many had been late to the party like the two of them. To the pair, they preferred it this way, giving them more space to enjoy the movie together. They sat down next to each other as Mangle spoke up.

"I'm so excited to see this in 3D!" Said the fox with a squeal of excitement. "The last two movies were good!" Evan smiled, looking at her with amusement.

"Is that so?" Said the technician as he took out some bags of candy and put one on Mangle's lap. "I'm surprised you could see the movie at all with your hands covering your eyes." The fox pouted, giving Evan a fake angry look.

"Hey! It was scary, okay?" The man chuckled as he opened up a bag of sour gummy worms.

"Yes yes, I know. I remember it vividly." The man physically mimic'd Mangle, looking scary and hugging against her arm. "'He's going to get her, Evan! Oh no, I don't wanna look! Tell me when it's over, I'm scared!'" The man laughed as the pink fox lightly hit him on her shoulder and chest, smiling too much to act frustrated.

"You're such a jerk!" Evan caught one of her hands and pulled her closer, making her yelp out.

"It's okay to be scared, Mangle." Said Evan through a soft smile. "Just hug me if you get scared, okay?" Mangle blushed madly, luckily covered up by how dark it was. She nodded meekly at the man as he let go of her hand only for her to grab it again and entwine their fingers.

"As punishment for startling and making fun of me, I'll be taking this hand of yours." Evan teasingly rolled his eyes.

"Makes me glad that Chara isn't here or I'd never get to my Gummi Worms."

"I'm telling Chara you said that."

"Please don't." Mangle giggled at the response.

The movie started not all too much later and, especially with the 3D, it had been a spectacle to see. Despite the dislike for watching blood be spilled, Evan, Chara and Mangle absolutely adored scary movies. It had been one of their favorite things to watch as a pastime and they religiously made sure to watch all of the ones, even the ones that are said to be terrible, when they came out. Fortunately for them, this movie series was especially good.

There had been several times during the movie that Mangle ended up hiding her face in Evan's shoulder as someone was getting brutally murdered after being dragged away or a jump scare would happen. To Evan, this had not been all that scary, but it was entertaining in many ways with one being the fox taking shelter close to his side, making small noises as things happened on screen. Eventually, Mangle left her head leaned up against the technician's shoulder as they watched a more peaceful part of the movie and that's when it happened.

They knew that this movie had lots of adult content in it, but it was more expected to be graphic gore and suggestive scenes. Yet here they both were, staring up at the screen as the two main characters stripped fully naked and started going at it in bed like two seals fighting over a grape. Evan found his face flushing up at the scene and, on his right, he felt Mangle grip his hand a bit tighter.

With a glance, he could see that she was flustered, but couldn't take her eyes off of the scene as they were trained on the screen. Evan moved his hand and brushed her cheek with the back of his head, getting her attention.

"Are you okay?" Asked the man quietly, sounds of moans coming from the screen in front of them. "You can hide your face on my shoulder and I'll let you know when it's done." The fox quickly shook her head, a blush faintly being made out from the light casted by the screen.

"N-no…" Said Mangle meekly, her eyes unsure where to continue looking. "I'll be fine, I think." The man smiled and nodded, rubbing the back of her hand with his free one. While he looked down at their hands, embarrassed himself, Mangle realized she couldn't take her eyes off the man next to her.

Mangle always admired Evan, believing he had been the most handsome man she'd ever seen in her life. Not even actors or models had been comparable to her human and, even if they were, none of them could possibly have been as kind as he was. Even with this in mind, she looked at his softly lit face in awe as he realized her heart was skipping a beat from the look of something of his in particular: his lips.

Being a witness of both Evan and Chara kissing numerous times, before and after their breakup, and had always wondered how it felt. She knew it was something that only lovers did together and hadn't been too interested in the details about it nor the experience. Well, at least until now where her eyes couldn't part with his face.

The fox wondered how soft a kiss had truly been, hearing it in so much detail when she read her romance novels online. The feeling of two people in love pressing their lips together was apparently something so addictive that everyone who was in love seemed to be eager to do it. She reached her free hand out to touch Evan's lips and-

"Oh, it's over." Said Evan quietly, shocking the fox and making her feel her hand back as quickly as possible. What the hell was that?! Mangle thought to herself as she finally snapped out of her trance. Evan looked at her with a bit of worry. "Mangle?"

"Oh, sorry!" Whispered Mangle a bit louder than she originally intended. "I, uh, just saw something on your face. A bit of candy stuck to the corner of your mouth." Evan wiped his mouth with his thumb before finding it and smiling at the fox.

"Oh, thank you. Maybe I should go slower on the candy." Mangle let out a small laugh, but was caught up in her own head. She had no idea what overcame her, but it was something that confused her more than anything did. Mangle put Evan's hand in her lap and rested her head on his shoulder. She felt a bit tired, but wanted to continue on with their date so she rested against her human, enjoying the warmth radiating from him.

They spent the rest of the time watching the movie just like that, with a few interventions as Evan got out more candy and even fed Mangle a few pieces. The movie was just as great as the other two before it, with the ending allowing the killer to finally be put to rest and the couple to have a child at the end. Of course, there had been a bit at the end making it seem like there could be more, but even if they did it wouldn't be for a while. As they both walked out, Evan smiled as he saw the soft smile Mangle was wearing.

"Did you enjoy yourself?" Asked Evan, grabbing the pink fox's attention. She nodded, smiling a bit brighter at him.

"It was great and I always enjoy spending time with you." Said Mangle who meant every word of it.

"Good, but don't get too satisfied because we still have one more stop left." Mangle knew that they'd have dinner saved for last, but where would be a surprise. The fox had been excited to see where they'd finally go.

It had been a nice, quiet drive with a few words placed here and there between the two. Mangle eventually ended up taking the man's hand again as she realized that this was their day and she could be as spoiled as she wanted to be. Physical affection with Evan had been one of her favorite things, but normally she held back to prevent making her older sister too jealous.

Eventually they made it to the front of Dan's Diner, a place Mangle thought was strange to be. She loved their food and the owner was a very kind and funny person, making this one of her favorite places to eat at, but it had been quite packed and not exactly where she thought their date would end.

The fox slapped herself mentally, giving herself a wake up call. The point of a date is to enjoy yourself with the person you're with. Said Mangle to herself, feeling bad that she wasn't happy with this result. She knew that Evan always did what he thought was best and surprised both her and Chara numerous times, so even if this wasn't the ideal place to eat at, she'd make sure to enjoy the night to its fullest. As she attempted to unbuckle her seatbelt, Evan stopped her.

"Stay here, I'm gonna keep the car running." The man said quickly. "I'll be back before you know it." Mangle smiled, nodding at him. As the man left, she felt even more guilty about how she thought about Evan's decision. Perhaps he saw her face and decided to go inside to call off whatever he had planned? No, Evan wasn't like that. Whatever it was, she'd ride it out all the way.

Inside, Evan had made his way towards the counter before being seen by the owner, Dan, who was calling out orders towards the back. The place had been packed as all hell, but he knew exactly who would make him the best dinner for their date. The man saw Evan coming and smiled.

"Just on time!" Said Dan, shaking Evan's hand across the counter. "We just packaged it ta way ya wanted. I hope ya enjoy it on ya date with ta special girl." He winked, making Evan chuckle with a bit of fluster.

"Thanks, Dan." Said Evan sincerely. "I really do appreciate it." The owner diner shook his head.

"It's ta least I could do for ya after all the things my nephew did ta other day." A woman came to the counter and dropped two warm baskets on the counter in front of the technician. Quickly, Evan paid for them and thanked the diner owner once more before swiftly moving out the door with both baskets in hand. He opened the back driver's side door up, secured the baskets on the floor before closing the door and getting back inside. The smell of the food waffed towards Mangle, making her realize how hungry she was.

"Are we taking this home?" Ask Mangle innocently. Evan shook his head.

"I promised you a wonderful date and that's exactly what I'll give you." Mangle's heart raced as they made their way down the road. It had gotten late enough that she could see the stars in the well lit sky, night time having dawned on them long ago. It was hard to try and predict where they were going as she wasn't used to seeing the streets at night, but she had a feeling that she knew where they were headed. It wasn't until they arrived, parking next to a large rock they used to play on, that her suspicions were confirmed.

They arrived at her favorite place to be, the cliffside they all grew to love. The scenery from here had been magnificent and, even now, this held true. As they got out of the car and Evan grabbed the baskets, Mangle stared up at the sky with awe as the night sky was riddled with gleaming gems and smattered with different shades of blue. The moon had been full on this night, so they didn't even need light to see. As Mangle soaked in the beautiful scenery, a coat shrouded her shoulders with Evan right close behind her.

"Can't allow my pretty fox to get sick, can I?" Tease Evan, making Mangle blush at the compliment.

"You know very well I can't get sick." Whined Mangle, making the man smile. He moved to pick up the baskets he set on the ground and moved out towards the cliff while looking back at Mangle.

"C'mon, let's get set up." Normally when they came out here, they would bring the vehicle closer and lay in the back of it while relaxing in each other's company, but it seemed Evan had a different idea this time. He laid down a large white and red checkered cloth before putting rocks in the corners and mid edges of each side, securing down enough for the wind not to blow it away. It seems they were to have a night time picnic, complete with baskets of food and candles.

They both sat down and Evan started dealing with the baskets of food, pulling out many of Mangle's favorite dishes, like 4 cheese macaroni, steak, ribs, and potato salad, along with desserts, like peach cobbler, vanilla ice cream and even some Halloween themed cheesecake. All of it had looked so good to the point Mangle had practically been drooling, catching herself before Evan noticed. Yet she couldn't completely save herself from embarrassment.

After getting another whiff of the delicious food assaulting her nostrils, her stomach growled in outrage as if to say, 'Why aren't you eating it? I'm hungry!'. Both Evan and Mangle looked at each other with Mangle looking embarrassed and meek while Evan looked at her in amusement. Evan cracked up in laughter, soon making Mangle do the same.

"It's alright, Mangle." Said Evan, calming down from his laughter spat. "Everything should be ready to dig in so let's get eating." And so they did just that.

During the dinner, there had been some conversation happening, mostly about silly things like small moments in their date that happened earlier that day or talking about Bonnie, who seemed to be a bit goofy before they all were shut down and separated. Evan had felt his heart melt as he watched Mangle smile with this genuine warm smile, knowing very well she had been enjoying herself a lot more than she ever thought she would today. The technician did whatever he could to meet the fox's expectations of a wonderful first 'date' and it seemed that he was able to do just exactly that this time around.

After about half an hour or so of eating and small talk, both of them finally had their fill with Mangle having eaten more than half of the food present, the pink fox had a question that she had asked a few times before but always forgot the answer to it.

"Where does the food go in our bodies when we eat?" Asked Mangle. Evan knew that they had discussed this several times in the past, but he was always glad to explain something again to his favorite fox.

"Well…" Started Evan, leaning back while propping himself up with his arms and hands. "The remnant in our body actually disintegrates it, turning it into energy. Of course, it's quite negligible in comparison to the energy made up from our Remnant but it's still a good supplement." Mangle smiled as she heard the man talking about nerdy things. She was smart and loved to learn, too, but she felt that she'd never be as good as Evan when it came to knowledge about animatronics and the mystical workings behind why she and her family were all still alive and well.

"Thanks for your explanation." Said Mangle as she helped Evan stack up the finishings of dinner. "I love hearing you explain complicated things and make them easier to understand."

"I'm glad to be of help. Anything else you want me to help you with?"

"Anything?" Teased Mangle, getting a chuckle out of the man.

"You'd be hard pressed to find something I wouldn't do for you, Mangle." Finally everything had been in a pile to the side and now both of them were much closer together, with Mangle on her hands and knees in front of the sitting Evan as he cleaned off crumbs from the cloth they sat on and suddenly her eyes focused on another place he had crumbs at: his lips.

The moonlight radiated off his face, highlighting the man's lips the same way they had been in the movie theater. Something compelled Mangle to move closer, to see his lips closer, to touch them, to bring her own to them and-

Mangle shook her head, yet the thoughts didn't go away this time. If anything, they were just as bad. Evan's question rang out in her head and suddenly she knew an answer to it. Before she could stop herself, the answer slipped out of her mouth.

"Can I kiss you?" Said Mangle suddenly, surprising both of them despite the words coming from the fox's mouth. Mangle quickly covered her own mouth before uncovering it. "I-I mean, I saw that couple kissing in the movie earlier and realized I don't know how it feels. I'm… I'm just curious how it feels." Evan stared at pink fox in shock, saying nothing for a moment as his mind ran through many things. The girl started to feel extremely embarrassed and, as much as she wanted to say to forget it, she couldn't seem to make herself do it.

"Uhm…" Said Evan as he thought of all the possibilities of answering this question.

On one hand, he could say yes. It was understandable that eventually Mangle was going to get curious or interested in things lovers do and, while she didn't seem to have anyone in particular she was infatuated with, he wouldn't mind being a test partner for one of his two people he treasured. Evan knew he was a great kisser and sometimes used it to soften up Chara.

On another hand, he oughta say no. Perhaps he wasn't strictly dating anyone, but his one true love was Chara and no one else. Mangle was so important to him, but cheating on his puppet partner came with the risk of breaking years upon years of built trust and it wasn't something he wanted to do to that sweet, loving girl of his.

"I'm… sorry, Mangle. I can't." Said Evan as he finally gave an answer. "I don't think Chara would be okay with me kissing her sister like we're lovers. I care so much about you, but I can't do that to her. I'm so sorry." Mangle's ears dropped down to her head in disappointment and sadness.

"I… understand. I'm sorry I asked for something like that from you in the first place." The air between them immediately became awkward as they were deadly quiet. Evan cursed himself internally, not having a way to satisfy both parties at the same time. He didn't want Mangle to feel sad or feel as if she did something wrong. There was never any harm in asking a question as long as you're polite about it. Evan sighed and thought of something.

"Mangle, come here." Said Evan softly. Mangle felt as if she was in trouble and moved slowly with her tail and ears down. She sat in front of the man and looked towards the ground, downtrodden from feeling like she ruined their date because she couldn't control her mouth. It was then that Mangle became surprised.

Evan pulled her into him, leaning close into him and inches away from her face before he kissed her on the top of the snout while cupping her cheek. Her heart did flips in her chest, making her blush madly as she was caught speechless by the sudden display of affection.

"I… can't kiss you on the lips but I hope that sorta makes up for it." Evan said softly as he was inches from her face. "You can also touch my lips as much as you want just as long as you do so responsibly." Mangle stayed in her state of shock for a bit longer before moving her hand up to cup his cheek as well and place a thumb against his lips.

They had been soft, as soft as they always had been when he pecked her on the head, and they seemed very lovely. Her thumb pad pressed into his lips, feeling the smoothness and softness that was his lips. There had been a reason her sister was so obsessed with locking lips with him and now she was starting to understand why.

Evan was also enjoying himself as Mangle's soft paw pad brushed across his lips. He savored the unique softness he never experienced before, staring down at the pink fox as she continued to play with his lips, looking entranced.

Mangle seemed to only have innocent reasons for touching his lips in the first place, which was a relief for him. He wouldn't want to drive a stake between her and Chara ever. Though, he could understand Mangle's fascination with his lips.

He had been told they were incredibly soft before by Chara and he felt the same way when touching Chara's smooth mask or Mangle's well kept fur. It was addictive to a scary degree, especially Mangle's fur. Perhaps the pink fox felt the same way.

…..

Mangle did not stop touching his lips and, with a soft chuckle, he wrapped his arms around her and prepared to stay like this for a while. This was fine. Spending time with the fox had been wonderful.

"Let's do this again." Said Mangle suddenly. Evan nodded gently as he tried to stay still for her. He'd gladly do this again, but next time they'd bring Chara. They should get going soon so they can make their way over to the Pizzaplex as well.

…..

Whenever Mangle got her fill of touching Evan's lips.

-SB-

It had been a bit after midnight once everyone came together, the nearby practice room filled with a few people and more animatronics more than normal. It seemed that just about everyone wanted to get onto the action tonight, including Sun. He had been standing next to Chara, who felt very weird about talking to Sun himself. The solar boy wasn't a bad guy, but combining his tendency to ask touchy questions and Moon speaking in his head, begging to have a talk with the female animatronic, Chara quickly got tired of him and tied him up to one of the support beams on the roof.

"I would like it if you didn't…" Freddy said before stopping and looking up, "did you tape him to the rafters?!" Chara nodded innocently.

"He was annoying me!" The puppet said simply as Freddy facepalmed. The bear could tell he was going to regret having everyone here tonight.

"Where is your human?" Asked Freddy.

"He was showing Bonnie and Foxy around with Michael as it was their first time here. They should be here any moment." At this exact moment, a group with Evan and Michael in it came through the door and, for the first time, Freddy noticed someone that made his heart skip.

Could it be…?

-SB-

A few minutes prior to Freddy and Chara talking, a group consisting of Evan, Mangle, Michael, Foxy and Bonnie made it through the halls while Michael and Evan showed the 3 animatronics around. The Pizzaplex had been filled with many neon lights with a lot of them being some shade of purple. While Mangle had been here before, she allowed herself to take the journey again and experience it with her bunny friend. Both Foxy and Bonnie looked around in awe, their eyes filled with the blinding glow of neon lights surrounding them like they were in a thick forest full of luminous and radiant signs that welcomed them at every corner promising their dreams to come true.

"Pull me down ta Davey Jones' Locker n' blow me full 'o holes…" Said Foxy as he looked around with a gaze of awe. "'Ow much do ye tink they spent on this 'ere place, Jeremy me boy?" Bonnie had been walking next to him, staring wonderstruck at the bright lights that he was engulfed in.

"I couldn't tell you… You could always ask Mr. Night Guard, though!" Said Bonnie brightly. The pirate fox made a disgusted noise.

"I'd have a better time askin' a thief ta carry me loot." Foxy shot daggers at Michael with his eyes before Mangle slapped him on the back of his head. "Ack- lass, why?" The pink fox looked at him disapprovingly.

"I believe Evan asked us to be polite to Michael." Said Mangle to the fox pirate as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Arright, geez… I apologize, 'Mr. Afton'." Mangle hit him again, knowing very well that the fox wasn't being sincere, but it wasn't like the pink fox didn't understand. None of them liked the night guard very much and, while Evan did ask them to all be polite, they waited for the moment he slipped up and hurt Evan again. Mangle would love to rip Michael apart personally.

Michael could feel the bloodlust behind him, keeping him on high alert. It would've been nice to walk with someone he felt more comfortable with so he could ignore them, but Roxanne took Vandana and ran off, saying that they needed to have a talk. Then Michael had a horrifying thought.

"You didn't bring Baby with you, did you?" The night guard asked in horror. Evan looked at him weirdly.

"Yes." Evan said with heavy amounts of sarcasm. "Just to watch you flip out and throw up all over the place. Let me tell you, Mike, that's what I'd consider to be the highlight of my day." The older man sighed, relieved and a bit annoyed.

"You could just say no, asshole…" Said Michael, receiving a growl from Mangle behind him. Evan shook his head at the pink fox, making her calm down some before resuming their conversation.

"Gregory wanted to stay home with Baby as well, but everyone else should be here." Lillie climbed up from Mangle's pocket up to her shoulder and leaped to Foxy's, who greeted her with a soft touch with his finger.

"Well, we're almost to the meeting place. I'm sure all of you know about the Glamrock animatronics… but we recently had a new addition to our crew here. A very ironic one since Bonnie is here." They made their way through the lifted gate and into the practice room, Evan and Mangle seeing Chara and Freddy talking as they came in. Foxy thought the Glamrock Freddy had looked nice and realistic like he and his sister did, but he wasn't the only one staring at Freddy.

Bonnie's eyes were stuck on the bear, who was standing under a lone light that acted like a spotlight. His body glowed underneath the hue of the luminous bulb, accentuating every fine detail on his body. The pale and orange-tinted fur covering Freddy's body illuminated under the light along with the baby blue and red highlights standing out. Freddy's eyes met Bonnie's, showing his big sapphire eyes that sparkled like diamonds in the night sky. The bear smiled warmly, making the bunny's heart race like a kart on Roxanne's race track. His dapper yet punk-like way he dressed up was so fitting and sexy on him. It was only then Bonnie realized what was going through his mind.

What am I thinking about?! Bonnie thought to himself as he put a hand over his 'heart'. Bonnie had never felt an emotion like this run through his body before. What could it have been? While the bunny attempted to think it through, Freddy moved up to him quickly making the bunny squeak in surprise.

"Are you okay, friend?" Asked Freddy, getting a bit closer to inspect him, making them inches apart. Bonnie's heart pounded quickly as he attempted to step back before falling down on his butt. Freddy's worried look increased as he came over to help Bonnie back up. "Here, I'll help you."

Freddy moved down, crouching next to the bunny before wrapping his arms around his back and under his legs before Freddy picked him up in bridal style before setting him back on his face, their bodies an inch away from the other. Time stopped as Bonnie looked up at Freddy, who was looking down at him with a soft smile. Finally, the smaller animatronic finally opened his mouth.

"W-what's your name?" Asked Bonnie shyly, their hands still holding as Freddy didn't want to see him fall again.

"Freddy." Said the bear with a low rumbling tone that made the bunny feel safe. "I am Glamrock Freddy, at your service. May I ask, are you okay?" Bonnie nodded rapidly, still in a trance.

"I… I think so!" Freddy smiled widely, making the bunny's heart jump for joy.

"I'm glad to hear. I don't know your name. Perhaps you're a friend of Evan's?"

"Yeah, uh… I live with him. My name's Bonny, I mean… Bonnie. You can call me whatever you want, though."

From afar, the rest of the occupants of the room had been watching this scene go down like it was some sort of soap opera and, if there had been any present at the time, someone would've made popcorn for everyone to watch this play out. It had been pretty obvious to Chara and Mangle what was going on, unlike half of the others inside the room. Both of the girls looked at each other with this knowing look before nodding. They'd help Bonnie get Freddy if they could.

Both Chara and Mangle enjoyed a good love story, especially when it was something like love at first sight. They could both tell that Bonnie had, indeed, been infatuated by the big, muscular bear and, from previous experience, knew that Freddy had been a sweetheart by nature. If anyone could get it to work, it would be Mangle and Chara. Though as shocking as it may have been to anyone else watching the scene, like Foxy who looked like he watched someone eat the last bite of his favorite food, they figured Bonnie had swung for the other team. After spending a lot of time with him, they figured he had a small crush on Original Freddy but it didn't exactly go anywhere as soon after finding out they were all discontinued anyways.

Evan smiled as he saw the 'show' go on in front of them before he felt something particular. In an instant, his head snapped to the opposite side of the room where he felt something at and, there it was, the new addition to the Glamrock crew. It had been a lighter shaded blue Bonnie with a bass guitar and a headband on. He had some small creature in his lap he was playing with and, even at a glance, the bunny dressed like a pretty stereotypical hippie. Evan activated his special sight and was taken aback.

The hippie bunny had been filled with massive amounts of Remnant, especially in the chest region where there was a solid cube of what it seemed was Remnant there. Though, it couldn't have been solid. Solid Remnant was a difficult thing to keep out in the 'open' along with the reaction he got from it. It seemed as if something was going on here but he'd have to ask Michael when they got alone. For now, he moved up slowly towards the bunny getting a few feet away before he lifted his head. The thing in his hands seemed to resemble a raccoon, except it had a collar on it.

"Her name is Munchkins. Isn't she just a cutie patootey, bro?" Said Glamrock Bonnie as he held out the relatively clean raccoon, who proceeded to hiss at him. Evan nodded, not wanting to get any closer.

"Uh, yeah." Said Evan hesitantly. "She has a sort of… charm." The hippie bunny nodded his head.

"Hey, man! Now you're getting it! I'm glad someone has a radical nature mindset like me, bro." Evan was getting even bigger hippie vibes from the bunny and, if the man didn't know any better, he would say that he was more than likely high out of his mind. Whoever was inside that bunny animatronic really was really chill by default, but the thought of another person's soul being stuck inside of an animatronic hurt Evan's heart.

"I'm glad. Uh, hey. You're new here, right?" The bunny nodded his head.

"Yeah, man. I was here before, I guess, but I don't remember any of those memories. I've been awake about…" The bunny thought for a few moments before speaking, "a week and a half?" Evan thought this was weird because that was roughly about when their Bonnie had finally woken up and, now that he thought about it, they had very similar structuring including a cube shaped metal box in their chest that held Remnant.

"Well, my name is Evan. I house all the animatronics here that you normally don't see and they're my family." The man wanted to extend a hand but being reminded that there was an angry looking raccoon between the two of them made him think twice. "I also repair, remodel and help animatronics out in need so, if you need some sort of help please let me know and I'll see what I can do." Glamrock Bonnie smiled before holding out his fist towards the man.

"Thanks, dude! You give off sweet vibes, my man! I'll remember you just in case." Evan smiled before bumping the bunnies fist lightly.

"Thanks. You don't seem to be too bad yourself." It was now that they realized the people crowded to watch Bonnie and Freddy had moved their separate ways with a few of them coming in this direction. Mangle, Chara, Bonnie and Foxy moved over in Evan's direction. Chara slipped to Evan, hugging him tightly, which Mangle smiled as she watched them. On the other side of the group, Foxy had been talking with Bonnie while the bunny was in a trance thinking about Freddy.

"Jeremy, I didn't know you liked guys." Said Foxy without his accent, too shocked to even try to maintain it. "I mean, I'm happy that you like someone but it's just, uh, a shock is all." Bonnie was shy about this as he didn't quite fully understand the feelings he had either, but he knew that he had feelings suddenly for Freddy.

"I, uh… had an idea about it, but…" Bonnie covered his face as they both walked slowly towards the three, blushing as he thought about Freddy's manly strong body. It was then, as he stepped one foot closer than something clicked inside of his chest and head, snapping his eyes towards the animatronic he could now feel the presence of. In front of him, staring with the same knowing eyes, was Glamrock Bonnie. Something, somewhere, in their souls had snapped together and suddenly they realized that they were close not physically, but spiritually. It was almost like they could read each other's emotions just by thinking of the other. The two of them stood there and stared at each other, making Foxy look at them weirdly.

Perhaps it was weird to see another bunny? Thought Foxy. It had been weird when he met Mangle long ago, but they were barely conscious at all due to the amount of rage in their body. Perhaps this was what it felt like to meet a brother after a long time.

Weirdly enough, Foxy may have been a bit more on the nose than he thought.

-SB-

In Rockstar Row, specifically Roxanne's room, Vandana had been sitting on the couch as she watched the wolf apply make up. Suddenly the woman was swept away by the animatronic, saying something about needing to talk but since they had gotten into the room neither of them spoke much of anything. When Vanny tried, Roxanne would tell her to shut up so instead she waited patiently, hoping that they'd quickly get back to the party. After setting down her makeup with a sigh, Roxanne turned around on her bar stool, giving the woman a look.

"Look, Vandy or whatever your name is-" Started the wolf before getting interrupted immediately.

"It's Vandana." Said the woman with a smile. "Though, my friends just call me Vanny." Roxanne rolled her eyes.

"Well, Vandana, I just wanted to…" She hesitated and briefly looked away before sighing once again. "I just wanted to thank you for looking out for my night guard, okay?" The wolf huffed and crossed her arms, looking away. "He's my best friend and I can't always be there wherever he goes, so I'm glad someone else can help him." Vanny smiled at the words.

"Awwh, of course! I think of Michael as a good friend, personally, and I'd do whatever I can to help out my friends." Roxanne got up and moved closer to the woman.

"Sure, but let me remind you of something…" Roxanne pushed Vanny down and stepped close enough to hover over while jabbing a finger directly into the woman's chest. "He. Is. Mine!" It became clear exactly what was happening here and it sorta amused Vanny but, at the same time, it ticked her off. There's no way I'm getting chosen over a fucking animatronic this time. Thought the woman as she had a plot come to her mind.

"Oh, I know." Said Vanny simply, surprising Roxanne. "All he ever does is talk about you. 'Rox this, Rox that'. I love listening to Michael but imagine liking a man and he constantly talks about another woman. It could drive a woman insane." The wolf faltered as she wasn't expecting this reaction out of the woman. She wanted to have a reason to throw Vanny out and, if she were to fight with Roxanne, perhaps it was doable. Yet, the things the blonde woman said made sense because she felt the exact same way.

"...He does the same thing to you?" Said Roxanne as she backed off Vanny, giving a semi-grossed look. "Ugh, all I ever hear is 'Vanny, Vanny, Vanny'. It pisses me off because I've been his friend for the longest and now he talks so much about you that-"

"It makes you jealous?" Said the woman, hitting the nail on the head. Rox huffed, hiding her embarrassed face as she turned away from the woman.

"What would you know?" Vanny smiled as she realized that she had a perfect idea to provoke the wolf. She stood up and moved with a smug look on her face towards the other woman.

"Well, I know I could easily steal Mike from you." Said the blonde woman, making the wolf's eyes and head snap back to her, her face twisted between confusion and rage.

"Wha-?!"

"Wait wait, I don't think I said that correctly. I'm just saying that I want to be Mike's number one woman and, while I'm so happy he has a wonderful friend like you, I want more than to just be his friend. With that being said, let's make a deal." Roxanne watched the woman on high alert, but didn't do anything sudden.

"Let's see who Mike will like more. Will it be his best friend or the beautiful woman who came into his life?" Roxanne thought about this for a moment, but felt hesitant.

She was confident with almost everything in life from being everyone's favorite to having the best attraction in the Pizzaplex. She knew that Mike was hers and she wouldn't let anyone have him, but something had been telling her that Mike would soon leave. Perhaps the wolf should take this bet to chase off the woman, or at least make it to where she can't make any advances on Mike.

"What's wrong, Roxy?" Asked Vanny with a sly voice. "Is the big, bad and beautiful Roxanne too afraid that she'll get her man stolen from her?"

"H-he's mine!" Stammered Roxanne, embarrassed. She couldn't believe she said that in front of anyone but Mike himself, but here she was.

"Then prove it, wolfie." Taunted the woman, a smug look on her face. "There's no need for two chickens to be living in the Pizzaplex." That taunt triggered something inside of the wolf and she steeled herself, believing she could do exactly that.

"Fine," Spat Roxanne, "but the moment you lose, you better stop making your advances on him, get me?" The woman nodded, smiling brightly.

"Of course, but if I win I want him all for myself. Of course, you can still be his friend but I don't want you claiming him." Roxanne nodded, keeping her heart steeled as she reminded herself there was nothing to worry about. "But… can we agree on one thing at least for today?"

"What?"

"I… just think we should have a pact for the day. I mean, it's the first time we've both hung out with him since he's had his bad episode so I want to make sure he feels loved, okay?" The wolf was about to argue but realized she was right. Perhaps it was best to make sure Michael was taken care of today. Roxanne nodded grumpily.

"Sure, whatever…" Vandana smiled and waved, moving towards the door.

"I'll be going now. Thanks for the talk!" And with that, Vanny disappeared from the room and the wolf sat down at the desk with a long, hard sigh. She realized the mess she just got herself in and, for the first time in a very long time, felt that she may actually lose the bet she made.

Roxy didn't want to lose Mike. She knew that she could still be friends with him, but something inside her wanted more even though she wasn't fully sure what that would entail. All she could think about is that her gut feeling of Mike leaving her wasn't gone, but it didn't mean she could give up.

She'd fight for what was hers and she'd have it. At this thought, a bit of purple showed in her eyes before disappearing as she sighed. This was going to be a long night.

-SB-

The rest of the night actually went by quite quickly with a lot of different and interesting interactions. People from both Evan's and Michael's side got closer to each other, like Chica hanging out with Mangle while they tried to get the bunny to wear a dress, or one that no one would've guessed, Evan and Monty.

Michael seemed to have brought a gaming system from his home since Monty and Vandana enjoyed playing games on his laptop and in his home. It had been Evan's turn and the game they were to play was an old school one with a red and green italian. Monty seemed to like it and since neither Chara, who was content on hugging and resting pressed up against the back of the technician, nor Michael wanted to play, it was the gator's turn as well.

At first, it was going smoothly as they took turns going from level to level on the map. It was about when they reached the sandy second world that things started to go wrong. Monty had hovered over Evan's character and realized he could make an action here for them to fight each other in a one on one match where they also have to dodge or use enemies that are on the level.

Both of them struggled to kill each other as they jumped around, attempting to hit one another with projectiles. It was only when the entire screen shook and Monty's character got stunned did someone lose with the gator getting hit by a flying shell.

"D'awwh, ya got me, Evan!" Said Monty, ringing out with joyous, loud laughter. He smacked the shoulder of the technician, who winced as he made sure to keep the puppet out of harm's way.

"Well, I did play this a lot so I'm not exactly going to go down easy." The gator nodded, understanding.

"I figured as much! Why don't we try another one?" Evan obliged, moving forward while Chara was still latching to him like a backpack and started sorting through game cartridges. "So, how did ya and Mike-a-Like end up meeting?"

"Well, I was tasked to fix things around here and the person who was supposed to lead me around the Pizzaplex was Michael." Monty hummed as he heard about it.

"That's right. I remember findin' ya in one of our staff only areas. Why were you there?" The gater asked curiously. Evan hesitated to answer, knowing very well he couldn't just say, 'I saw my dead brother, the same one who killed me, working here and freaked out'.

"Uh, he reminded me of someone and I guess I just… lost it." Michael was listening and assumed he meant William, the night guard's father. "Luckily, they're not the same people and everything turned out alright."

"Oh? Well, that's great. Michael is such a good guy and I know he wouldn't hurt a soul, ain't that right, Mike-a-Like?"

"What could I possibly gain from hurting someone?" Said Michael, knowing he was technically lying. The gator chuckled in his deep bassy voice.

"Mighty fine reasoning there, Mikey. Though, I was asking because I figured you two were close."

"Well, as close as business partners can be, I suppose." Responded the night guard.

"I mean… you two look like brothers is all." The muscles in Evan's body suddenly tensed as he heard the sentence and a nerve was hit in Michael's head. The group had been quiet for a moment and Chara thought about trying to get them out of this conversation as Vandana and Roxanne came back from grabbing drinks for the group, the woman handing a FizzyFaz to the night guard.

"Hey, whatchu guys talking about?" Asked Vanny curiously. Monty turned around and smiled at the two of them.

"Oh, I was just talkin' about how these two look very similar and since they were pretty close I wondered if they were related." Roxanne scoffed.

"Good luck trying to get information about his family out of him." Said the wolf as she sat next to Michael, cracking open her own purple FizzyFaz. "You'd have an easier time getting Trudge to stop eating food from his pockets." Monty had obviously loved that joke as he slapped his knee, belting out a deep laugh. Vandana sat on the other side of Michael, who had been frozen up in his own thoughts. She poked him, breaking him from his train of thoughts.

"Hey, you okay?" Whispered Vanny. He nodded, his mind having gone blank. Evan also finally snapped out of it, remembering he had something he made up in case someone asked this question.

"Sorry, Monty, but I don't have any sort of siblings and I'd prefer to keep it that way." Evan said, quieting the crowd. "I mean, it might be okay if it was Michael but who would be so understanding over my loving relationship with Chara?" Chara made a loving noise into his neck, hugging the man harder while making kissing noises while her face was pressed against his neck. "H-hey! That tickles!" As both of them started to play-fight, Monty seemed content with the answer and admitted he was wrong. The night guard sighed as he started to think about Evan as a child.

"Anyways," Said Evan as he calmed down the puppet somewhat, who was attempting to hold both of his hands from behind him, he sat back down with a new game in the console and controller in his lap, "let's see how well we do with this one. From what I remember, it's pretty difficult and unforgiving."

Everything got back on track as they started to play, sometimes getting to a point where they would need to restart because they both died. Eventually they got to the first boss and everything was okay until this point. Monty made his way to the highest platform on the top left of the map and stayed there as Evan attempted to move more right, unable to because Monty prohibited the movement. The boss dipped in and out of the right edge of the screen, making it look like a game of Whack-A-Mole.

"Monty?" Evan asked, wondering if the gator was okay. Monty had been staring at the screen before he simply looked at Evan and said one thing.

"Gettem, Evan." Said the gator, quickly. The technician was confused as he didn't understand.

"Monty, we can attack him together if you move over a bit."

"Yeah, I understand." Monty still didn't move.

"Uh… Monty?"

"Gettem.

"Wha-?"

"Gettem, Evan."

"I can't, Monty!"

"Gettem."

"At least move over just a little bit-"

"Gwttem, Evan, gettem!" The technician sighed as he looked back at the night guard who was trying his best to hold in laughter. It seems Michael had to deal with this exact same thing at least once before and is now enjoying himself. The man simply turned around and attempted to kill the boss.

Michael had the time of his life watching as Evan attempted to solo every boss they met due to Monty's shenanigans. At least the night guard wasn't alone in this aspect anymore.

-SB-

In a distant corner, Mangle, Chica, Trudge, Friendo and Bonnie had been huddled together with Bonnie being the main subject of interest. After Chara went to spend time with their human, Mangle decided it was time to help Bonnie make the first move. After all, the fox wanted Bonnie to be happy and if his heart was set on the bear then she'd help him.

"Okay, you remember the plan, right?" Asked Chica, prompting the bunny to nod his head vigorously. "Good. Just remember what we talked about and we'll attempt to help you with the rest!" Bonnie got up and walked towards the direction of the bear while Friendo gave his signature double thumbs up in encouragement.

Luckily enough, Freddy had seemed to be sitting at something like a small bar by himself, looking out of sorts. Chica did mention that Freddy had been feeling 'under the weather' and had been spending a lot of time staring off into the distance instead of working on projects or practicing stuff like he normally did. While this in itself was all sorts of concerning, the bear had swore he was fine.

Bonnie made his way up to the bear, sitting down next to him but Freddy didn't notice. In his hand was an open FizzyFaz and he had been staring off in the direction of where everyone was playing near the opposite side of the room, but not at the group itself. The bear's eyes seemed to be a bit unfocused as he looked deep in thought. It wasn't until Bonnie cleared his throat that he snapped out of his thoughts, looking at the bunny startled.

"O-oh, Bonnie!" Said Freddy in surprise. "I'm extremely sorry, Bonnie, I didn't see you there!" The bunny giggled softly, nervously looking at the bear.

"Oh, I just got here so don't you worry yourself. What were you thinking about, Freddy?" The bear sighed before taking a small drink of his soda.

"I… I've been thinking about…" Freddy hesitated and sighed again before sipping on his soda. "I apologize. Maybe this isn't the greatest time to talk about this." Bonnie rubbed the bear on the shoulder, feeling his muscular arm and trying to comfort him.

"There there. If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to but know I'm right here to listen to your issues, okay?" Freddy nodded gratefully.

"Thank you, Bonnie but I just don't know you well enough to talk about such a personal matter… I-... I'm sorry once again." The bunny understood but was sad all the same, nodding his head understandingly.

"I get that. The offer is still up in any case, but if that's what you're afraid of then why don't we get to know each other?" Freddy lit up a bit, not much but it was something, at the idea and his solemn face turned into a smile.

"Oh, that's a great idea! I'll go first, then." Freddy clears his throat before continuing on. "I am Glamrock Freddy, the leader of the Glamrock crew. I am the main vocalist for our band and I tinker with technology as a passion." Bonnie clapped a bit, trying to bring up the bear's spirit and it seemed to work as he smiled and did a mini-bow after he finished.

"That was great! I think I like you even more than I did before." The bunny smiled at the bear sweetly before catching what he said, gasping a bit. "I-I mean, you're a really cool person, Freddy! Yeah, haha…" Luckily enough, Freddy didn't seem to catch on as he smiled warmly back at Bonnie.

"I like you, too, Bonnie. Perhaps I will like you more after you introduce yourself to me again."

"O-oh, right… I'm Bonnie, the original Bonnie animatronic created by Fazbear Entertainment many years ago and I was the guitarist and bassist in our small group. I, uh, really like pretty things and enjoy good stories. Oh, and jamming out. I loooove jamming out on my guitar!" Freddy chuckled as he watched the excited bunny talk about his passions though something in the introduction caught the bear's attention.

"You're the original Bonnie?" Asked Freddy incredulously.

"Well, there was a golden bunny before me called Spring Bonnie but… I think it's best that we don't talk about him…"

"That's perfectly fine. I am glad to meet one of the original animatronics that built this wonderful company from the ground up! I must ask, what was the original Fazbear crew like?"

"Well, they were all my best friends. Freddy had been a stand up, caring leader along with a great vocalist. He made sure that we were all taken care of before anything else, even himself. Chica had been a loving free spirit. Of course, it had been a bit difficult for her to be so at first, but she regained her love for all things and was a great cook. Foxy also had been there as a sort of side show. He sang sea shanties and told stories about his travels as the captain of his ship as they sailed the seven seas. He's my favorite out of the group if you couldn't tell and my best friend in the whole wide world." Freddy nodded, pleased to hear about this.

"They all sound like wonderful friends. Perhaps, are they still around? I'd love to meet them." Bonnie paused for a moment before solemnly shaking his head.

"Ah, no… Foxy is still here as you can see but Freddy and Chica both moved on. I… I miss them sometimes." The bear realized that he struck a nerve in his new companion as the bunny started to tear up a bit. Freddy panicked a bit, getting closer and putting his hand on the bunny's back.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't know." Bonnie shook his head as he wiped a tear away from his eye, sniffling a bit.

"It's not your fault, Freddy. I just woke up not too long ago to find out that me and Foxy were the only ones left." Freddy felt bad for what he did and immediately had a nice idea. He stood up and held his hand out towards Bonnie.

"Would you like to tour our Pizzaplex with me?" Asked Freddy. "I mean, it's the least I could do after making you sad." Bonnie smiled as he looked up at the bear, taking his hand before being led out of the room. On the way out, Mangle, Chica, Friendo and Trudge gave the bunny thumbs up with Mangle practically bouncing in excitement.

For the next while, Bonnie and Freddy simply walked around talking about many things ranging from the old and new locations to the music that they play and even their human friends, which both seemed to be hiding many secrets. Along the way, Bonnie was able to see plenty of things going on including DJ Music Man, who was an incredibly kind soul with a big heart to match his big body, a massive arcade room which Bonnie made sure to partake in a few games as arcade games were some of the few things the bunny really got competitive with, and even the green rooms as Freddy liked to call them. They had been relaxing inside of Freddy's room as he looked for something in the corner, making Bonnie's heart pound in excitement.

"Ah-ha!" Cried out Freddy in triumph as he turned back around with a thin rectangular thing clasped between two fingers. The bear moved over to the couch, where Bonnie was sitting, before sitting close next to him and held out the thing in his hand for both of them to see. "This is the first photo we ever took together as a band. Even Glamrock Bonnie is in this one." It had been a photo of them all close together, smiling for the camera as Freddy had an arm over Glamrock Bonnie's shoulder, who had a different feeling to what the current Glamrock Bonnie did.

"Oh, you guys are all so cute together. I didn't know you and Glamrock Bonnie were close." Freddy sighed, his face looking at the photo with a bittersweet smile.

"We once were but… Well, I suppose I can tell you now." Freddy put down the photo on the table nearby before looking directly at Bonnie, both of them still sitting extremely close together making the bunny blush a bit.

"I-I'd love to hear." Stammered out the nervous bunny.

"Well, before the Pizzaplex opened, Glamrock Bonnie and I were the best of pals. We went everywhere together and jammed out every chance we got. Some of the highest scores in the Pizzaplex were from the times we spent together, competing to see who was the best gamer. It wasn't until Glamrock Bonnie had an accident did things change…"

-SB-

Freddy had panicked as he saw Bonnie lying on the ground, twitching after the fall from the highest place in the Pizzaplex down to the ground floor. It was obvious that there was damage but, Freddy not being an expert at this sort of thing he called for the only people he could think of to contact: Arin and Cooper.

At this time, Cooper had been just as easy to contact but tended to not get his own hands dirty if possible. On top of this, Freddy realized they would need as much help as possible to save his friend. Within the hour, both men were here and the damage had been assessed.

"Hmm…" Said Cooper, looking down at the bunny's caved-in chest cavity. "Myeap, that's a dead bunny."

"Cooper, I think it wouldn't be a great idea to talk like that about Freddy's friend and one of our precious crew members like that." Said Arin as he assessed the well being of Glamrock Bonnie a bit closer. "Well, I don't think he will be in any pain because he seemed to have fainted before impact but… we will have to call in our technicians in the morning to get them to work quickly on him. Luckily, we won't open for another couple of weeks so we have time to get him back up and running."

"So, will he be okay?" Asked Freddy with the most worried look ever, his eyes fresh with tears. Arin scratched the back of his head.

"He… should be after some repairs." Cooper moved to Arin for a moment.

"Let me call my guy. I think he could fix him up pretty quickly." Said Cooper to the younger man.

"You mean the guy that put him together in the first place?" The older man nodded with a smile.

"Yeah, exactly. Nothing to worry about. Thank you for letting us know, Freddy. Try to get some rest and we'll take care of the rest." The bear nodded, trying to not worry too much about his friend. He walked back towards their temporary sleeping quarters as the green rooms weren't done completely at this time.

Little did Freddy know that he would never see the same best friend he knew even after he woke back up.

-SB-

"Even when Glamrock Bonnie woke up, he wasn't the same person." Continued Freddy after recalling the memories of the past. "The best friend I knew was an outgoing, stunt loving daredevil that enjoyed a thrill or two and made sure that everyone was happy before himself… but now he's… They're not the same person. I'm convinced of it." Bonnie had a lot of questions, but one came to his mind when he thought about how both him and Glamrock Bonnie connected earlier.

"Did he… ever say he remembered something before his accident?" Freddy shook his head.

"He doesn't have any sort of memories at all. He… doesn't even remember me…" Bonnie watched as the bear lowered his ears, looking sad. It was unbearable for the bunny to deal with so he threw himself towards Freddy, hugging him tightly.

"It's okay, my sweet bear." Said Bonnie softly, rubbing the bear's back. "Things happen and people change. Perhaps if you give him some time, he'll come back to be the same Bonnie you knew and loved?"

"I hope so, Bonnie…" Freddy hugged back, dropping his head on the bunny's shoulder. "I hope so." They stayed in the hug for a while, Bonnie tracing his fingers through the fur on the bear's back and feeling his warmth. Bonnie hadn't realized, but he was blushing madly as he enjoyed himself a bit more than he probably should have as Freddy was having a time of need. Eventually, they pulled apart from each other.

"Feel any better, big guy?" Said Bonnie with a sweet tone. Freddy nodded and glanced at the window briefly.

"I think our friends are here to check on us!" Bonnie looked back in time to see a bit of pink fur duck out of the way and Bonnie became a bit more flustered.

"O-oh! We should get headed back, t-then." Bonnie stood straight up before quickly moving out the door, where he met the group of them. Mangle smiled smugly at him, her eyes looking at him knowingly.

"Did you have fun, Bonnie Boy?" Teased Mangle, making the bunny blush even harder. Bonnie wanted to respond, but Freddy stepped out from his room immediately with a happy smile.

"Thank you for becoming my friend, Bonnie." Said the bear with a large smile, making the bunny's heart skip a few times. Luckily enough, Bonnie was not human so he wasn't likely to faint but, at this rate, it may still happen.

"L-let's get back to the others." Said Bonnie before moving towards a direction at a rapid pace. Freddy looked confused.

"Should we tell him that he's going the wrong way?" Mangle laughed, enjoying the scene she saw.

It was a wonderful night to be Mangle.

-SB-

Like all good things, the night had come to an end. Everyone had started feeling the late night hitting them hard along with most of them having some sort of work they needed to do the next day. Freddy, finding someone he really enjoyed talking to, gave Bonnie one of the Faz-Watches he tended to keep spare. It wasn't long before everyone went their separate ways.

Getting home felt great to the Nafto family as Foxy, Bonnie and Lillie made their way directly downstairs heading to bed while Gregory and Baby seemed to already be asleep. It had been when Mangle left to get ready to go to bed that Chara approached Evan.

"How did that date go?" Chara asked with a very teasing tone. Evan smiled tiredly at the puppet.

"I think I made her first ever date one of the best memories she'd ever have." Said Evan. Chara made a slightly smug face.

"Oh? Did you kiss her?" Evan stopped for a moment as he was changing shirts in their room before clearing his throat.

"Uhm, no. No I didn't." Chara felt a bit relieved by this, but also disappointed.

"Why not? Did neither of you feel the spark?"

"It's not like the idea wasn't there but…" Evan sighed before looking her in the face. "I just don't want to betray your trust, my love." Chara's heart jumped as she was excited but still felt odd. She wrapped her arms around him, both of them hugging for a while until Chara finally pulled back.

"Why don't you sleep here with her alone tonight?" Suggested the puppet, surprising the man.

"Are you sure? I mean, we had all day to ourselves." Chara nodded with a smile.

"Of course I'm sure. I told her today would be her day with you and I wasn't going to get in her way." The man nodded, tiredly understanding. "But remember! You're mine, got it?" Evan smiled before pulling her into a gentle but long and passionate kiss.

"I always have been, Chara. My heart is yours and yours alone." The puppet made happy noises from her mouth and her internal music box together, sounding like a garble of lovely noises.

"Yes, I know." Both of them rested their foreheads against each other's for a moment before Chara pulled back and made her way to the door. "Well, I'm gonna take Mangle's bed for the night. Just call out to me if you need me. I'm just around the corner." Chara blew a kiss to her human before he made a gesture of grabbing it and holding it to his heart. With that, she left and Evan finished getting dressed before, a few minutes later, a knock echoed from the door before it was opened by Mangle who peered in.

"Uhm, you're not naked, are you?" Said Mangle. Evan chuckled a bit as he opened the door fully.

"Why would you ask that after looking in?" The pink fox had been wearing nothing but a pair of soft shorts, yawning into her hand before coming over to the man and hugging him tightly.

"I just wanna go to bed." Evan chuckled before scooping Mangle up and climbing into bed with her, laying her on his side before he wrapped his own arms around her. Mangle looked up before pecking the man on his cheek and snuggling into him. "...Thank you for the best date ever… I love you, Evan." Evan smiled, feeling himself fall asleep.

"I love you, too, Mangle." Soon enough, both of them drifted off to sleep before long, leaving the puppet outside of their door smiling.

Chara loved both of them more than anything in the world and, while she wouldn't want to ever give up Evan to anyone, she didn't mind seeing her younger sister be happy for one day. This had been the perfect timing for it, too, as the puppet didn't believe that their days were going to stay too peaceful too much longer. After figuring out that both Bonnie's had woken up at the same time and both were filled with Remnant, it could mean that there were more animatronics waking up just waiting to come out of the woodworks and not all of them would be kind.

Chara laid in her sister's bed, pulling the covers over herself before dreading one last thought by herself. She was told by Bonnie that he had some sort of connection with Glamrock Bonnie, but what he didn't know is that the puppet could feel another soul's connection faintly with theirs and it wasn't nearly as peaceful as the animatronics in their family.

Perhaps in the past they could skate away from the jaws of danger but now, it's just a matter of time.

-SB-

Michael had been laying down with Roxanne, who was clinging onto him more than usual. It's not that he was bothered by it, but the fact that she was doing so more than likely meant something happened earlier and he wasn't sure how he was going to ask without starting a fight first. Luckily for him, Roxanne was the first one to speak.

"Mike." Said Roxanne in a sleepy voice.

"Hmm?" Hummed the night guard who was being used like a body pillow.

"If you dated some other woman, would you stop hanging out with me?" It had been another one of those 'what if' situations the wolf loved so much. Perhaps she was worried that Vanny was going to take her place as his best friend.

"I have no intention of dating anyone, Rox."

"But what if you did?" The man was silent for a moment, thinking due to the fact he really had no other choice.

"No, I think you'd have a new friend though. I wouldn't give up my friendship with you for anything or anyone." Roxanne felt a smile creep up on her face, but felt the same dread as before. She hugged the man tighter, nuzzling into him.

"You bette…" Like that, Roxanne drifted off into sleep as Michael waited for her to finish her sentence. Obviously something had been bothering the wolf, but he couldn't put his finger on it. From what he was told by Vandana before she left, it could be that she felt territorial over him since he was super important to her but even after all the reassurances, she was still in a mood.

Michael looked down at her sleeping face and realized how beautiful she looked today. It wasn't often he thought about things like this but they were popping up more in his mind when he was around Roxanne or Vandana. Perhaps he was getting sick.

The night guard got himself as comfortable as he could and closed his weary eyes, hoping for a peaceful night of sleep.

Little did he know it would be the last one he'd get for a while.

-SB-

Bonnie quickly figured out how to use the Faz-Watch as he stayed up texting not just Freddy, but Glamrock Bonnie. They both didn't get a chance to discuss the phenomenon between them earlier due to being overwhelmed by the new sense, but they could still slightly feel the direction of each other at all times. There had been so many questions that Bonnie had and he was sure Glamrock Bonnie did too.

Bonnie: Do you really not have any memories?

Glamrock Bonnie: Who told you that?

Bonnie: Freddy did earlier. He was very sad that you couldn't remember him, but you don't seem to be a clean slate like most newly awakening animatronics do.

Glamrock Bonnie: I didn't lie earlier when I told him I couldn't remember much. At least, I can't remember anything about being here in the Pizzaplex up to the moment I woke up.

Bonnie: Then, you have memories of the time you were alive?

The texting had stopped for a bit and, right when Bonnie figured he may have pried too far, a message showed up on his Faz-Watch.

Glamrock Bonnie: I have memories of another place I was housed at as an animatronic and very few glimpses as from the time I was alive. As a child, I had two twinned siblings, we were triplets for clarification, who were practically all I had in life because our parents died once they hit the age of 6. Unfortunately, we weren't able to be fostered to the same parents this making us all lose touch with each other.

Bonnie: Wow, being a triplet sounds like fun, but I'm sorry to hear you were pulled away from them. Did you ever grow up and find them?

Glamrock Bonnie: I do not know but all I know is that when I think about them, I become very sad.

Bonnie had been very surprised about the way Glamrock Bonnie spoke when on text. The few glimpses of how they acted in the Pizzaplex had made the bunny believe the Weed Bunny, as someone accurately referred to him as, was a chill guy with not many thoughts on his head and enjoyed being alone. Perhaps there was more behind this facade than he expected.

Bonnie: I apologize. I don't want to make you sad.

Glamrock Bonnie: Then let me ask you a question. Do you feel the other connection?

Bonnie did, indeed, feel another connection that was much thinner than Glamrock Bonnie's, but it had a chilling and sinister feeling to it.

Bonnie: I do, but it doesn't feel okay.

Glamrock Bonnie: I feel that, too. I was thinking: What if there's another Bonnie out there somewhere like us? Suddenly, I felt the connection attach to my soul when I did, but it was anything but relieving.

Whatever they both felt at the end of the connection had not been something good. Whatever it had been, seemed to be either in a lot of pain and agony or was purely evil.

Bonnie hoped they never would have to meet it. Two Bonnies are enough.

-SB-

Sun had been hanging from the rafters once again after pissing off the powerful puppet once again. Perhaps it was fate and at least the Sun had the Moon with him.

I guess we'll be here… hanging out together. The solar boy chuckled at his own joke before feeling lonely.

He needed some friends.

-SB-

Finally, it's finished! Thought Vandana as she held up her suit she had been working so hard on. In her eyes, it had been perfect despite how patchy it was. Something made her feel like she had to get the suit done tonight and, as she had plenty of practice with the last one, she knew it was possible. It was then her head started to pound.

In an instant, Vandana fell to her knees with her hands on her head, moaning out in pain as it felt like her head was splitting into two. Her vision started to become spotty as the pain grew rapidly, going to a point that she could no longer see. Vanny screamed out, but couldn't hear herself and, soon, could no longer feel herself. Everything went dark for her.

The woman stood up slowly, slightly staggering as if she wasn't used to her own two feet. Without even a trace of the previous pain she had before, she moved with a bit of trouble towards the bathroom with her finished suit in hand. Moving up to the sink, her face had been twisted into one of madness.

A wide, chilling smile was worn on her face, one that might have belonged to Joker if he was a woman. Her breathing was erratic and her pulse was shooting through the roof as if she had just finished a marathon. Her eyes glowed red, as if there were two stop lights in her face. Whatever was happening, it was happening to Vanny's body and it was just happening to her body as the thing in control was not the owner. There had only been one thought itself of the woman's mind as she gripped the suit with ecstasy, anticipating the fun that would soon start.

It is time to play.

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Authors Notes

THE GAY BUNNY HAS BEEN WRITTEN WOOOOOOO. I cannot exclaim how long I've been waiting to write Original Bonnie being gay asf for Glamrock Freddy. Oh boy and as all the people try to live their lives and love to their best, shit starts hitting the fan.

I will now be releasing chapters much slower now since I'm in school, but do not fret for I am still going to be writing. I love you all for staying with me as far as I have been and please do join our discord server.

I hope yall enjoy the read and I'll see yall in the next one.