Tuesday, October 28th 2025
9:00pm
"I ain't doing that." Vannessa replied flatly. The purple projected haze let out an echoey chuckle in amusement at the reply. "Why not? The boy is utterly and completely under your spell is he not?" The grinning entity floated around her like a mass of purple mist before settling in front of the bathroom mirror. In Vannessa's life, she never had many friends. At the current moment she really only had two friends she actively spoke to and hung around. This creature, this horrible beast happened to be one of them. His name was Will and he was Vannessa's best and newest friend. She had met Will a year ago after testing a VR title that upper management wanted to put out to the public. Unbeknownst to those corporate hacks, an entity dwelled inside. That entity was Will. he was trapped, lonely and longing for an escape from the drab world he was stuck in. In a sense he and Vannessa were not so different from one another. A lonely and miserable existence trapped in a life of endless boredom and milktoast misery with no escape except for the escape friendship and by extension, companionship offered. Will had always given Vannessa complicated reasons for doing the things they did and requesting the things he did but truthfully, Vannessa was pretty sure the brooding creature deep down was secretly a softie who wanted companionship. "Vanny dear, your mind is wandering once again." The creature said softly with a tinge of amusement in his voice.Vannessa shook her head and snapped back into the present situation. "Oh right, uh where were we?" Will floated through Vannessa passing right through her as he did. Once he reached the other side he motioned towards the locked bathroom door. "We were discussing the fate of that boy out there."
Vannessa pointed at Will. "oh, right! Well as I was about to say, we are not going to lay a finger on that guy you hear me mister?" She proclaimed in a mock scolding tone. Vannessa cracked her neck and leaned over the sink before glancing at her reflection. "Not yet at least." Vannessa scratched at her itching snake bite piercings before turning to Will. "I still need to grease the goober up a little." Will cocked his head. "But the boy already shows great interest in you. I'd say now is a better time than ever to make your move dear." Vannessa rolled her eyes at the statement. "He likes me as a work friend, Will. If this whole shindig of your's is gonna work we're going to need Luis out there to be a little more than a friend. But with the help of our bartender friend and a special "medication", our friend Luis will be a lot more receptive." Will floated next to her and turned his wavering Will floated next to her and turned his wavering and glitching head towards Vannessa. "You make quite the point don't you?" the creature placed a hand tenderly on her shoulder. "I admire the initiative you've shown for our mission. You have proven that you have what it takes to free me." Vannessa turned and smirked at the perpetually grinning purple entity. "Y'know, if I didn't know any better I'd say you seem a tad interested in landing a date with me." The entity chuckled and shrugged. "My, my, now what would give off that impression? Is it my admiration for your abilities? Or my devilish charm perhaps?" Vannessa snort laughed and playfully punched at the arm of the transparent entity. "Okay, okay, that's enough flirting from you mister fancypants." Vannessa rinsed her pale hands and adjusted her short blonde hair. "Good talk Will. But if you excuse me, I have some drinking and charming to do." Vannessa removed a tube of pastel magenta lipstick and began to color it over her soft pink lips. "Of course you do." Will responded punctually. Vannessa adjusted her round purple shaded glasses and dusted off nonexistent dust from her red tube dress. "Alright Will, I'll talk with you when I get home from this whole thing. Feel free to watch and take notes though." She smirked. Will laughed in response and slowly began to fade as he did so. "Likewise dear. Now, go and make me proud." Soon the entity had disappeared leaving Vannessa alone to finally put her plans into action.
Vannessa unlocked the bathroom door, loud electronic music and flashing lights exploding outwards towards Vannessa as she made her way out into the main floor. She turned and slowly walked through the packed crowd of people all dancing only a shoulder's length from each other. Weaving between the drunken and sober patrons alike who danced in a bobbing wave against one another. Eventually breaking through to the other side of the dance floor, Vannessa reached the bar where her two coworkers sat. "jeez girl, I thought you fell in! You got here just in time though, we're about to do a round of vodka!" Vannessa rolled her eyes and sat down. "Y'know Janet everytime you call me "girl" it makes me wish I fell into that toilet." Janet laughed out loud at the mildly humorous remark, no doubt a product of her being beyond hammered already. "Alright, alright whatever you say." Janet slurred out. "Oh hey, Vannessa. Took you long enough." On the other side of Vannessa spoke the portly and soft-faced Luis. Her only other friend in this mundane prison of a life who wasn't comprised of a purple projected haze. Vannessa had met Luis after being transferred into the VR testing team to work on Fazbear Entertainment's newest piece of branded propaganda. It was there that after an incident involving a spilled cup of coffee that she met the dorky klutz that was Luis Cabrera. For the past two years they have clung to each other and rode out the boring everyday life they shared. Although recently a kink in the steady flow of the water hose that was their work life appeared. Luis was to get a promotion for his hard work that would transfer him to corporate in the form of the marketing department. Vannessa had an end goal with the boy, and the chance to carry out that goal was being pried away from her every minute she waited. It wouldn't be long before this plan of her's would get a whole lot harder. To combat that little issue Vannessa had suggested a small celebration for Luis's promotion as her last ditch effort which put her where she was now, sitting next to Luis and about to enact the very plan that had been months in the making.
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Fnaf DarkSide short: Vanny & Lewis
Short StoryCaught between two of her best friends, Vanessa must decide to either go through with a horrible plot to abduct and her work friend Luis, or hesitate and betray the one man who supports and truly understands her, the entity known as Will.