Archive of Our Own ^beta

Their first few nights in the Afton house were mostly normal. A nightmare here or there, usually Michael or Terrence, and a few arguments between the siblings. But otherwise, quite normal, and quite fun for the group.

At the beginning, the Nightmares didn’t notice the new inhabitants, as they never went in many bedrooms during the night. However, a few days afterwards, Nightmare Chica stumbled across Samuel and Terrence. Her form filtered in and out of transparency, leaving a soul form behind. One of Terrence and Samuel’s closest friends from their first life, Simon. He was surprised to see the two teens, having not seen them in over 30 years. He’d known of their deaths, however they looked... alive and... different? As he kept watching, their forms both flickered, leaving their soul forms. After witnessing this, he called a meeting of all the nightmares, explaining to them what he’d seen. Each nightmare in turn flickered in and out of transparency, leaving the soul forms of each animatronic. They had yet to find out about the 3 others living in the house with Samuel and Terrence. However, they would soon realize the others were there.

“Simon, you’re absolutely sure it was Sammy and Terry and not just some random people that looked like them?” Fredrick had always been one to question everything he was told.

“I’m sure! They literally flickered from looking alive to soul forms!”

“Simon, love, it’s alright, you don’t need to yell.” Mark gave his boyfriend a comforting look. “I believe you.”

“Well good for you Mark, however I don’t believe it. How do we know for sure that it is Sammy and Terry?”

“What if I showed you them? Then you could see for yourself.”

“That sounds like a good idea.” Kai finally spoke up.

“And I’m here. I can tell you for sure if its Terrence.” CC looked up from the ground.

Fredrick shot back, “And how would you know for sure? He died when you were like 5”

“I was 6 when Isa died. Terry died when I was 11. Do your fucking research dipshit. Terry literally died a year before me.”

Fredrick rolled his eyes. “Fine. But if I’m right and it’s not Terrence and Samuel I will murder you all.”

“Already was murdered dumbass.” Mark glared at him. “We all were. Remember? By William fucking Afton.”

“How could I forget that? Thanks for reminding me jackass.”

Timothy finally spoke up. “Can we not argue for once? You lot might be close to finding some of your old friends. I think it’s be great for you to just hope a little bit.”

“Fine.”

The group of nightmares followed Simon into the room where he’d seen Samuel and Terrence. The two teens were still there, fast asleep. CC snuck over to them, looking at Terrence.

“He’s definelty Terrence. Guess you won’t get to murder us afterall Fredrick.”

“I wasn’t actually going to. I was overstating what I’d do.”

“So there was no reason to fucking bring back the memories of William? You motherfucker.”

“Mark shut up before they wake up!”

Hate to say it, but Kai said something way to late. The nightmares had woken up Terrence.

“Who’s there?!”

His yell, in turn, had woken up Samuel.

“Love? Are you alright?”

“Take a minute, look around, then ask me that again.”

“Shit.” The nightmares stared at the two, frozen in place.

Terrence turned, beginning to face CC. “CC? Is that you?”

“Yeah? Who else would it be?”

“Some really fucking weird hallucination.”

Mark sighed. “I forgot how fucking sarcastic he can be.”

Samuel scoffed. “Imagine having to deal with it for an entire second lifetime.”

“We’re still living that lifetime idiot.”

“How could I forget?” Samuel wrapped an arm around his boyfriend.

The yelling coming from their room had woken up the others. River was the first to enter the room.

“What the hell is going on?” They looked around. “Oh. It’s you idiots... wait. How the fuck are you here?”

Simon blinked. “We died? And began possessing animatronics that live here?”

Fredrick jumped in. “More specifically, we were killed by your father Isabella.”

“Its River. And welcome to the club.”

“But Afton didn’t kill you?”

“He drove me to commit, so might as well have.”

“Fair.”

Michael and Noah both entered the room soon after.

“What’s all the yelling about?” Both Michael and Noah stopped, slack-jawed, as they looked around the room and saw their old friends.

“Ok someone actually explain to me what the fuck is going on.” Michael glanced between the nightmares, Terrence and Samuel, CC, and River.

Mark was the first to speak up. “When we all died, we began to possess the Nightmares. I possess Nightmare Bonnie, Simon is Nightmare Chica, Fredrick is Nightmare Freddy, Kai, the little one over there, possesses Nightmare Fredbear, and Timothy, the tall quiet one, possesses Nighmare. I’ll let Even tell you his story.”

“Before we start, I did begin going by CC after I died. Mark just called me Even since that’s what you would know me as. But when I died after... the prank... I began to possess Golden Freddy with this girl called Cassedy. She’s alright, however I got tired of listening to her complain 24/7, so I left golden Freddy to possess Shadow Freddy.”

“CC...” Michael started. “I’m so sorry about the prank... you... you seren’t supposed to die...”

“I know. And I forgive you. Mark and Simon explained the whole thing to me after we realized we were inhabiting animatronics together.”

“You do? Really?”

“Of course. You’re my brother.”

“Hen, what the hell are you doing?”

William stared at his boyfriend, concerned. The taller man was standing near the old kitchens, staring into space like he was staring at someone.

“Simple love, I’m looking for Charlie.”

“But she’s dead?”

“I’m very much aware of that Will, I mean I’m looking for her animatronic.”

“How does that work exactly?”

“I’m not sure. I’m just hoping that maybe an image of the animatronic she possesses will pop into my head as I do this.” Henry shrugged, continuing to look off into space.

William walked over to his boyfriend wrapping an arm around him. “Maybe I could help, I know which of the animatronics at Freddy’s are possessed, and I actually know who possesses some of them. I wish that would work so I could find Terry and Mikey and Chris... I don’t think Isa would want to see me again.”

“She might love, you never know. And yeah, I tried doing it for Sammy, but nothing ever came up... Anyways, I’d love your help.”

“Why of course I’ll help. So, all the animatronics at the original are possessed, Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and Golden Freddy by the missing kids... which means Charlie has to possess Puppet.”

Henry kissed William on the cheek. “And why couldn’t you have told me this sooner?”

William raised his hands with an innocent expression. “You never asked!”

Henry just rolled his eyes, sitting down on the ground. William followed suit, his soul form glitching slightly.

“You alright love?”

“Just great, I’ve just got a glitching problem after that damn rabbit. Its great.”

“Sarcasm is unnecessary my dear. I was asking a simple question.”

“And I was giving a simple answer.” William smiled, obviously pleased with himself.

“A simple sarcastic answer.”

“You love me”

“I suppose so. Even if you are a sarcastic idiot.”

William gasped, mock offended. “I’m sure I don’t know what you speak of Hen. I’m never sarcastic and most certainly not an idiot.”

“Both those claims can be debated.”

“With who? It’s only you and me here.”

“If Funtime Freddy were here he’d be on my side.”

“That’s unfair Hen. He’s always on your side.”

“Exactly.”

Henry pulled the other man into a hug, lightly kissing his cheek. “I win.”

“You always win” William grumbled, smiling up at his boyfriend.

“This place looks just as shitty as the original.”

“Again. I fucking burned it Terry.”

“I’m still mad that you idiots went without me.”

“Boo hoo Chris.”

“Shut the fuck up Mike.”

“Why don’t all three of you shut up? We’re here for one reason.” River rolled their eyes, glaring at their siblings. “Or I’ll leave you lot out here while Sammy, Charlie, and I will go look for William and Henry on our own.”

Terrence dramatically gasped. “You wouldn’t”

Michael matched his energy. “That would be torture.”

“Then shut up. And oh hell yes I would. Also, both of you are damn idiots.”

The twins rolled their eyes, moving forward to enter the pizzaria. Charlie and Samuel followed, with River and CC bringing up the rear of the group. As Samuel and Terrence entered, their forms flickered from alive to souls, their wings expanding and their animatronic features becoming pronounced. As the group explored, they saw no animatronics, not even a sign of any. None of them were sure which animatronics they needed to look for specifically, only knowing William’s animatronic of Springtrap. Eventually, the group split, Terrence and Samuel going one way, Michael and Charlie another, and River and CC the final way.

Terrence and Samuel walked down a darkish passage, looking for any sign of an animatronic or other being. Neither of them saw anything till they reached a room, fully intact, which was different from the run-down, burned interior of the rest of the pizzaria.

“Hello? Anyone here?” Terrence looked around, looking for any sign of an animatronic. Samuel gripped his hand, doing the same.

“Dad? Uncle William?”

“Uncle Henry? Father?”

Two soul forms looked up from where they were seated on the ground, one with purple hair and rabbit ears and the other with brown hair and bear ears. The latter, taller one stood up, turning towards the two teens.

“S-Sammy? Terrence?” He shook the man sitting beside him, whispering in his ear. The other stood up, turning to look at the teens.

‘Terry?”

Both men ran towards the teens, each enveloping his son in a hug. William was crying, appologizing rapidly to Terrence, while Henry just enveloped Samuel into a hug, comforting his crying son.

“It’s alright Sammy, dad’s here.”

A few minutes passed, and the two broke away from their sons. William spoke first.

“So... is it just you two here?”

Samuel looked at Terrence, nodding. Terrence took a breath, anwsering. “No, Mike and Charlie are here, along with River and CC.”

William and Henry looked confused, Henry voicing the cause of their confusion. “Who are CC and River?”

“It’s Isabella-Rose and Even dad. River’s non-binary, so they changed their name, and CC decided to go by CC after his death.” Terrence nodded, corroborating Samuel’s statement.

“If you want I could call them...” Terrence offered, waiting for an answer from either man.

William nodded, answering for both of them. “Of course we want you to call them Terrence, I mean, if Mike and Is-River won’t hate me.”

“I can’t make that decision for them, but if anything we’ve talked about over the past few weeks is conformation, they don’t.”

Terrence stepped out of the room for a minute, returning with River, Michael, CC, and Charlie. Samuel, Charlie, and Henry embraced; CC, Mike, and River basically tackling William. As Terrence had said, all three forgave him. They’d all had years to think about everything, River even watching him for around 20 years, seeing how he’d changed. Even Charlie had forgiven William, realizing that she would now be able to live with her brother and father indefinitely from that point on.

A singular animatronic stood outside the room, watching the interaction. Funtime Bonnie stood their, River reminding him of someone. His form eventually flickered, leaving the soul form of Vanny Smith. She walked into the room, tapping River on the shoulder.

“Hey Love...”

“V-Vans?” Their voice shook, slowly turning to face the 20-year-old behind them. Their eyes welled up as they wrapped her in a hug, pulling her close as if they’d never let her go again. Well, they might not actually. After both of their deaths, River hadn’t seen or heard anything of Vanny. All they knew was that there was someone who possessed Funtime Bonnie. Vanny hugged back, the others watching the interaction. William smiled at his oldest, holding Henry’s hand.

“Yes Riv?”

River couldn’t even answer, they just buried their face in her shoulder.

The others watched on, Henry and William looking over all the kids as if they had all been one happy family all along. No one thought about why they were where they were or how they got there. All that was in their minds was they’d found everyone. Well, not exactly everyone, but those that mattered most. Those that loved the others, not abused the others, not acted overly entitled and better than the others. All that mattered now were Michael, Terrence, River, Vanny, Noah, Charlie, Samuel, CC, William, and Henry. That was it. That was their family.

“Holy shit how do we do this?” River and William were both attempting to organize the house so that everyone semi-had their own space. “There’s so many people.”

“I know that Dad, but we can put couples in a room together and that’ll be fine. Plus we’ve got a shit ton of rooms in this house. You and Uncle Henry can stay in your old room like you did before, Vans and I will be in my room, CC in his, Sammy and Terry in Terry’s, Mike and Noah in Mike’s, and then we’ve got a bunch of other rooms. Don’t forget we live in a fucking mansion.”

“Riv, I know. However we are going to most likely fill all the bedrooms. And we still need offices for you, me, Mike, and Henry. Plus we’re forgetting Kai, Timothy, Fredrick, Mark, Simon, and Charlie.”

River rolled their eyes, turning back to the paper the two were writing on. “Mark and Simon will share a room, then we only need 4 more bedrooms.”

CC and Kai walked into the room, laughing and talking. CC jumped up and hovered behind River and William. “Whatcha doing?”

William sighed. “Trying to figure out how to get everyone their own rooms. And yes, I’m aware we live in a mansion and it shouldn’t be that hard. However, there are 16 people living in this house, and probably more since Riv wants to adopt one of the missing kids.”

“What? He’s adorable. And a bunny.”

“But really? One of the kids I killed?”

“Fuck yes.”

CC piped up. “What if we found a bigger house? Mike’s still registered as alive, so theoretically we could buy a bigger one and put it under Mike’s name.”

William and River stopped bickering, turning towards CC. William spoke slowely. “That might actually work. Go get your brother please.”

CC smiled. “On it Dad.”

River looked up. “I’ll start looking at nearby houses. Or we could just have one custom built.”

William nodded. “We could, but that could take a while.”

“It’s worth the wait if we’re spending all of eternity in said house Dad. Besides, we could fit everyone in here until it’s finished. And it’s probably the best option if we want a house near the Pizzaplex.”

“Yeah Riv, I suppose you have a point.”

Michael entered the room with CC. “You wanted me Dad?”

“Yes Mike, well, River and I were discussing how to fit everyone in the house, and since you’re registered as alive we could have a house built to fit all of us or we could buy one. I still have a shit-ton in one of my old savings accounts, which should have gone to you. Plus Hen’s got a bunch hidden away somewhere in his old house.”

Michael tapped his foot, thinking for a minute. “Yeah that’s a good idea. And uh since we’re talking about houses and stuff, I feel like now is the time to tell you that I have a kid.”

“What?!”

“I have a kid. I adopted him after I died when I found him wandering the Pizzaplex at night. And technically speaking, I did adopt one of the missing kids... not like legally or anything, but when I burned down the Originals, I met him, and I did go visit him a few times before Riv, Sammy, Terry, Noah, and I reunited.”

“Oh my fucking god. What is it with my children and adopting kids that I killed?”