let's restart?

catching up.

"is vanessa still the security guard?" gregory say down on the couch.

"yes. but she is not as strict as she was when you were here," freddy says as he sits beside gregory.

"oh."

"we also have a new owner of the company. her father was the owner, but he passed a few years ago. her name is alice. real sweet woman. she's definitely better than the old owner. he was rude, and only cared about the money. he never really cared about the health of his guests." freddy sighed.

"really? do you ever get to see her?"

"oh all the time!" freddy said, "she's in college but whenever she can, she comes to visit."

"oh okay." 'she's my age' gregory thought.

"we have more human staff now, each bot has a caretaker to walk around with them. make sure no one does anything they are not supposed to."

"ah i see. how have the others been? do they remember..?"

"i... i think so? i am.. not sure. they never knew that i was helping you. they thought i was helping them find you."

"so.. what do you think they'd do if they saw me?"

"oh gregory, i am not so sure. i do not think they would recognize you."

"and vanessa?"

"she would. vanessa has very good memory. she would remember you. i do not know how she would feel about you being here. even now! it is after hours!"

"i know, i know. if she catches me, well, i'm not a ten year old boy anymore. it'll be fine."

they sat in comfortable silence for a while, gregory was looking at all the new drawings from kids and plushies around freddy's room.

"i.. kept this." freddy turns his head to look down at gregory and watches as he pulls something out of his pocket and hands it to freddy.

"your fazwatch.." freddy gasps.

"yeah. i would re-read our conversations all the time if i got bored or lonely. sometimes i thought about messaging you again. i also would look at the cameras, occasionally."

"gregory!" freddy said, turning towards gregory.

"what?! it's fine!" he laughed.

freddy inspected the watch a little more, reading the messages. he slowly handed it back to gregory.

"would you like to go meet bonnie?" he asked gregory. he looked up at the bear from his watch.

"i can? i mean, sure!" gregory said as he jumped up and grabbed freddy's hand, pulling him up before heading towards the door. they walked out of freddy's room, and had to walk all the way to the opposite side of rockstar row.

gregory looked around the room, the security bots weren't there.. yet. "thank god i don't have to worry about those dumb security bots tryna find me. or vanny." freddy cringed at the name. "or three huge animatronics.  or anyone in that matter." they reached bonnies room when they heard a yell from behind them.

"hey!" yelled the very familiar, feminine voice. "what are you doing?"

vanessa.

freddy turned around, "vanessa.."

"no! don't 'vanessa' me, who is that??"

gregory turned around. she looked him up and down. the man had brown hair, very familiar eyes and face shape... "gregory?!"

"hiya, vanessa—"

"what're you doing back here!?" she yelled, walking towards the pair. the blonde always scared gregory, still did. "why are you here? last time you were here, you left us with hundreds of thousands of dollars of repairs to do! not to mention the destroyed animatronics!! you shouldn't have come back!!" she was fuming. last time gregory was here, he had caused the poor woman to have a terrible night. he felt bad. because of him, she had to stay at the pizzaplex all night, looking for him. she never even had any luck.

"vanessa.. i— i'm sorry. i was scared. i was only ten and i was being chased around this whole place by three animatronics, each twice the size of me, a killer bunny thing, and you! oh and that moon thing that would come out every hour!!"

vanessa suddenly felt bad. that night was bad for her, but it was worse, a lot worse, for gregory. the poor boy was only ten and had to go through that. "look, i'm sorry kid. but you really shouldn't be here—"

"please, vanessa." freddy cut in. "please? i bet alice wouldn't mind."

the door beside freddy opened, "whatever it is, alice probably won't mind." they said with a chuckle.