Why Me? *Rewrite*

Chapter 18

Saphira sighed as she had just checked the side door in the loading dock and made her way into the kitchen. She did check the dish washing room to make sure there was no water on the floor, and luckily, there was not. She wiped her cheeks with the back of her hand as she walked over to the kitchen side door with a light sniffle. She was still feeling a lot of emotion after Springtrap had decided to come and talk to her. She still didn't know what he was truly feeling, aside from the pain and hurt he was feeling. She didn't know if he truly didn't want to be her friend anymore, but she hoped that it was just something he said out of pain. Saphira still had hope for things to change.

She turned away from the side door after checking it and jumped with a gasp as she wasn't expecting Bonnie to be standing by the counter. He was smiling, but that faded when he immediately noticed Saphira had been crying. "Is everything okay, Saphira?" Saphira just shrugged and turned to keep walking, and Bonnie quickly walked over to her. "What happened?"

Saphira sighed with a slight frown as she kept walking. "Well...Springtrap decided to come and talk to me..."

Bonnie was a little surprised. "Oh...well, it looks like he didn't hurt you physically. Did he hurt your feelings or something? Or was he angry? Did you tell him about what happened to you ten years ago?"

"I gave him a brief description, but no...Springtrap was asking me why I wasn't afraid of him like other people are. He doesn't seem to understand that his appearance has never bothered me. But I understand..." Saphira looked at Bonnie as she forced a smile. "I think I am average in appearance myself. But my appearance never was the point of how I felt. I have always been the odd one out, so...Springtrap was relatable to me straight away."

Bonnie placed his hand on her shoulder gently and opened the door for her, which Saphira appreciated. "I am not sure why you believe yourself to be average in appearance, Saphira. You might doubt yourself, and that's fair. But I think you are not giving yourself enough credit. You might not be tall, nor are you muscular..." She rolled her eyes at him and glanced at the freezer, cool room and dry storage to make sure that the doors were closed properly. "But you are beautiful, Saphira. Just because someone tells you otherwise, or treats you otherwise, doesn't mean you aren't beautiful." Saphira didn't respond to him as she still felt like she was average in appearance. "As for Springtrap, I personally think people overreact to him as well. And I never knew you related to Springtrap as well."

"I never knew you guys were alive at the time, so I couldn't really talk about it. But considering I was always the strange person at home and school, no matter who I interacted with, I have always felt like I was on the outside. Even when Lucas was alive. I actually do believe my parents did favor him over me, though I can't remember anything that would indicate it." Saphira rubbed her wrist gently as it was still aching a little from the tight grasp from Springtrap before. "When Springtrap was introduced, I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. Even as a kid. Now I feel it even more, though in this case, every animatronic here makes me feel like I am more at home in this attraction than with my parents. Though, to be honest, they're kicking me out in a few days anyway."

"Wait, what? I thought it wouldn't happen this soon." Saphira just shrugged and opened the door into the hallway, looking towards Chica's Chapel and began making her way towards the doors with Bonnie. "I am so sorry...I wish I could help, but..." Saphira stopped suddenly and looked towards the wall as she heard the knocking sound again and Bonnie went silent too as he heard the sound. "Huh...never heard that before."

"I heard it last night, but I didn't think much of it. I actually told Mike, because I thought it might be a leak. But it actually sounds like knocking." Saphira walked over to the walk, placing her hands on the bricks for a moment and leaned in, placing her head on the bricks and listened. She hummed softly with a frown. "Odd...it sounds like there's an echo behind these bricks...though the knocking doesn't actually sound like a human fist knocking, but rather a piece of metal or something."