Claw My Heart Out

The Flipside

Baby awoke feeling groggy and kinda out of it, not having the best sleep because of her head buzzing so much since her scream at the food fight. Even though it's been two days, she was still held up about it, and had not left the tent since. Looking down, she saw she had a blanket over her, and internally smiled lightly.

Which made her realise her two friends were MIA. Most likely thing was they were just going to get breakfast for them, least likely was they went to go on a simple walk. Both options means they both would run into the others at some point, and get caught up with awkward conversations.

Baby sighed and rubbed her hand over her face, remembering how yesterday after Bonnie and Molten got all three of them lunch, the wire amalgam complained that people were constantly stopping them just so they could ask how Scrapy was doing. Baby moaned at the memory and turned her body so her feet were on the floor.

She had a headache starting to form, and sighed heavily as her shoulders slumped. Her eyes remained closed as she just dealt with her busy and clouded mind, taking slow, deep breaths to steady her pretty much always higher than normal blood pressure.

"I'm a mess..." She whispered to herself, looking upwards. She blinked slowly, and looked back down again. "Get a grip, Baby. It'll be okay. You've got Molten and Bonnie backing you up! Sure, you already screamed at someone not even a week in, but that's just because you're adjusting. Everything will be okay- AAHH!"

When she tried to stand up, her legs got tangled in the blanket, and she fell onto the floor as a result. Luckily, the blankets and pillows below saved her. She huffed and lifted her upper body, a disgruntled look on her face. She kicked the blanket away, and stood up properly this time.

"Okay, now everything will be okay", she said quietly, taking a few deep breaths. "You. Just tripped, that's all. Just relax, Baby. You're okay..."

She stood there for a while, then whined and sat back down on the couch. "Oh who am I kidding, I'm a walking disaster. This place has been nothing but torture on me!"

She slumped in sadness, staying silent. The only sound there was to fill the void was the sound of the AC going off. But soon it was joined by a quiet song, one Baby recognised. Lifting her head up, she felt some sort of shaking in her body, and she gasped. She reached inside her body and pulled out her phone, looking at the screen to see she was getting a call.

When she saw who it was she answered instantly, and pulled the phone up to her ear.

"Caleb?" She asked, wondering if this was just a dream.

"Hey Baby!" That familiar voice she missed so much called out, filling her with relief. "I'm just checking up on you, since it has been a few days... I miss you and everyone else."

Baby's mechanical heart broke. "I miss you so much too, Caleb. Same with Laney, and Iz, and Majima, and Zomboss... Man, I could do for a coffee, too..."

"Why don't you come over then?" Caleb asked innocently. "Some of the others have popped over already, heck Steve is coming over later. We could do a Mario Kart game or something!"

"I'd love that so much, but I just can't right now..." She said quietly. "See... I'm in an afterlife of sorts. I don't know what else to call it."

"So that fire really left its mark, huh?"

"Actually, it's because Golden Freddy, aka the golden shower brat", that got a choked laugh, "Made up this whole place where we all live and stuff. But come midnight, we have to do a night shift to torture Afton."

"Wait... he's there?" The boy sounded panicked.

"Yes", Baby spat. "And now every midnight to six AM is a randomly selected number of us being forced to be forced to attack him like what night guards of the past had to put up with."