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06:00 chimes the bell, I can't feel the relieve anymore, I just want this to end once and for all. But opening my eyes seem useless now because everything is black, I wanna lay back down and never stand up again, everything hurts, I want to go home...
"Hey, can you hear me? I don't know of you can hear me" it's.. fredbear?, I know that voice it's not fredbear, it's... it's- "i'm sorry" it cries out. "I never wanted this to happen, I want my baby brother back!" It's voice fades out and I can see my friends. "You're broken." One of them fades.. "We are still your friends." The next one fades- "Do you still believe that?" It fades away:" WAIT! STOP- COME BACK! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE-".. "i'm still here." ..."I will put you back together."
A shrill sound rings. "Fredbear- fredbear wait-" slowly fredbear fades into the endless black:" WAIT FREDBEAR- YOU PROMISED- YOU TOLD ME YOU'LL ALWAYS STAY-"
Cries, i can hear crying, it's michael, i miss michael, i want michael, michael.. I want michael.
Fredbear is gone, I am alone, no one's there, where is father? Is he off working? Elizabeth? Elizabeth is missing... Michael-? Michael hates me.
Where am I? Is this my punishment for everything I ever did wrong?
I'm dead.. aren't I?
.....
A weird red light emerges, it's dark but not dark, the area is small but not small, the pond is deep but not deep, where is he?
A forest surrounds him, he can't run away, but oddly enough he also doesn't want to run away. Is this heaven? Purrgatory? Maybe even hell? On the other hand it's to peaceful, to forgiving, to.. comforting to be hell.
Just then he notices the strange figure holding a rod without a bait into the pond. Norman feels a ponding headache, or something like that, rising just by looking at them. "Come, sit down, my child" and he obeys.
"You can change it, you can change them. You can save them, all of them." Norman looks into the water, so many fish poke the rod but the person ignores all of them. "Wh-what do you mean- I can save t-them? Who?", he tenses, saving someone? That sounds like something that michael could do, he's brave and strong- "your friends, your family, you can change everything and save everyone.." suddenly they tugs on the rod, pulling out a blue-silver shining fish.
The second the fish hits the air it turns into dust, leaving a little blinding light hovering infornt of norman. One singular picture is seen in that light, it's him laying in the hospital bed, surrounded by machines and.. michael, he sits there holding his hand sobbing, wailing.. "save them, norman, can you do that for me?" Slowly he nods.
"Good luck"
.....
The Hospital lights are blinding, norman couldn't move, or talk, he could simply stare.
"NORMAN!" it was michael, it was only michael..
"I'm so sorry, I'm so terreb--..", michael collects himself: "I'm gonna fetch the nurse- everything.. everything will be alright I promise-".
I took a bit of time to finally understand it, he, norman christopher afton, is alive. And he has a mission...
..
"It's really suprising, this is pretty much a wonder, he has been declared brain dead for a week prior, he shouldn't be able to come back to live after more then a week. Especially not that well, his eyes react to light, he can hear, he can move, he can make sounds! Sir, I don't know how, but your son is alive, and in a few years, with a lot of special help, he can be a normal child again" michael was sitting beside his brother and holds his fragile little hand.
"When can I take him home then?" William asks. "We have to monitor him for around a week, if your house has a good enough condition for a child in big medical need then you can take him with no problem afterwards." William nods and sits down besides michael, whilst the nurse leaves the room.
A few minutes are completly silent. When suddenly norman squeezes michaels hand, resulting michael to meltdown;
"I don't deserve this, I don't deserve you holding my hand like nothing happened.. i don't deserve your forgiveness...", nontheless michael doesn't stop holding his hand.
Michael is right, something in norman screams, he doesn't deserve forgiveness after all this. But he doesn't want to be mad, he doesn't like being mad, not like michael, he rather cry and forgive than scream and hate. Michael can change, Michael will change, he knows. Norman can forgive but not forget.
Plus he probably will need michael for his mission. His mission to save everyone.