Children of The Dark (An Aphmau FNAF Crossover) [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 42: What Lies Ahead

Idk why, but I love the title I picked for this one-

It just sounds so nice to say-

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"Let's be honest." Aphmau told Jin. 

It had been hours since the conversation, and while most of them had spent time in the living room bonding, (along with a few MyStreet characters fangirling at the Sky Army) Aphmau dragged Jin upstairs to her bedroom for a private chat.

Matron had no choice but to follow them, seeing as her spirit was a literal attachment to Aphmau.

"I don't know why this is happening. It seems rather out of the ordinary for the darker part of me to just suddenly appear." Aphmau told him, curling up on her bed in fetal position and hugging her cat plushie.

Jin, who had thoroughly analyzed the situation gave her a foreboding stare. "Why didn't you tell all of us while we were downstairs?" He asked, sitting on one of the hotel supplied one-seat couches.

"I don't think I'm ready for that yet. I don't think Matron's ready for that yet." Aphmau shuddered.

Aphmau could almost feel Matron's stare boring into her back, but it wasn't an angry or intense glare like she was used to, but more of a curious, 'You actually considered how I felt?' kind of stare.

If that made any sense.

"I'll admit it's...different now, calling what you used to think was a monster an actual person. But that's probably true. I can't see this 'Matron' you speak of, but if I was in her position, I'd probably be just as scared to be revealed."

"You seem rather empathetic to that." Aphmau laughed it off, but there was a note of uneasiness in her voice, which Jin took sight of.

"Because I've been in that position before." He shrugged.

"Oh yeah?" Aphmau beckoned with a hand. "Do tell." She said in her sassy girl voice.

She wasn't really expecting something too deep, but she should've expected it then again because she was literally talking to Jinbop.

"Let me tell you a story." Jin said, crossing his legs and fiddling his hands together. "After that incident with the Puppet-"

Aphmau internally winced. She wasn't entirely used to the idea of the incident being thrown out so openly. "-There was this period of time where I heard voices."

Aphmau's back stiffened into a solid brick wall. (Not a literal wall, it's a metaphor)

"And you didn't tell me because-?" Aphmau asked, debating on either listening or chewing him out for being secretive.

"Because they disappeared soon afterward. Doesn't seem like something to mention if it's gone."

Aphmau couldn't argue with that logic, but she was slightly offended she hadn't heard of this before.

"Well-"

"Hear me out." Jin held up hid hands in a surrender pose, palms facing directly to her. "The voices at first sounded like they were separate, as if multiple people were speaking at once."

"Uhhhh hmmmmmmm." Aphmau stared unimpressed at him still.

"Quit being grouchy and just listen." Jin shot her a deathly glare.

Aphmau said nothing in reply, but decided that making irritated noises wasn't going to help this conversation progress. 

"It was later did I realize that actually, the voices were one person. A single being talking at multiple times. Telling me things that I really didn't want to hear." Jin shivered at his own words, as if bad memories were already resurfacing from the grave. "Things such as how much of a failure I was, how much I hurt you and everybody else, how it was my fault."