Knight Terrors

chapter seven. (winter)

The Knight nursery had seen many staff members join and leave, whether they had quit, been fired or had moved on to newer, better opportunities with more money. Roger didn't care about the staff and never took much notice as to who was working for him, as long as money was flowing he was completely unfazed. It wasn't until November that he had no choice but to acknowledge one of the newer members of staff, a man called Winter. The monster had never really understood why men would want to work in a nursery specifically if they just worked in the rooms, he believed men should be working in labour or business. Making money and being a provider, the man was traditional.

He became aware of Winters existence after hearing that he and Autumn had gotten together at the halloween party and were now in a secret relationship, they hadn't hid it well considering Roger had found out only a few days after the party. He was however aware he was the only person that knew aside from who had told him of course. Roger wasn't happy about this, his daughter dating below her economic status was shameful to the family, well to Roger. He called Autumn and began to question her as to why she hadn't told him herself, acting as though he was happy for her.

Autumn knew her dad and knew that this phone call wasn't coming from a father who had love to give to her and her new partner but to berate her in a seemingly sweet way. Aut knew this was one of the monsters many forms of manipulation so chose to play along, acting as though she had planned to tell him the next time they met in person. Roger seemed satisfied by the end of the phone call, clueless that he had in-fact been foolishly played at his own game.

It wasn't long before Autumn and Winters relationship was public, they were in love and happy from what Roger had heard. The monster was full of rage, Aut had near enough completely cut him off at this point only seeing him at the families mandatory dinners he had lost full control over his daughter and it was slowly driving him to mild insanity. He had lost his insider, something needed to be done as soon as possible.

The monster went into his office and began plotting, the same way he had done when designing exactly how he wanted his only daughter's prom night to go.