I AM STILL HERE

Father of Golden Freddy

Phantom finds it
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Everyone watched as Mikey shook himself out of the head rush. Danny knew that it was only a minute with them, but for Mikey it must have been hours or even days. Re-experiencing your death could get to anyone, and Mikey was one that got hit hard.

Mikey groaned and opened his eyes, the irises briefly flashing gold before settling back to their usual blue-green color. He rubbed his head and looked around at the others before a rush of panic swept through him, "Oh my god, all those people! How could we...?" Tears appeared in the corners of his eyes before he blinked and anger filled his face, "How dare he..." He growled, remembering what had happened before his episode.

"Don't worry Johny, we'll get him, I promise." Everyone turned and gasped in surprise when the puppet appeared in front of the window to the office. A bright light and Lucy appeared inside the room in her true form, black dress swirling around her and a soft smile on her pale face.

"Lucy..." Mikey whispered, returning the smile as he calmed down. Lucy's grin grew bigger as like the child she was, she jumped over and wrapped her arms around him, forehead pressing against his own. Mikey yelped at the action before chuckling, the warmth in his chest returning as he hugged the little spirit that had become like a sister to them all and had help him so long ago when nobody believed him about the security guard and the mask.

"Johny! I'm so glad you're back, I missed you!" Lucy said rubbing their cheeks together.

"And what, I guess you didn't miss us?" Sam said with a mock hurt expression and a hand on her hip. Lucy's grin turned sheepish as she pulled away from Mikey.

"I missed all of you, I'm glad you're coming back!"

"What are you-?" Tucker suddenly held his head and groaned, his eyes flashing magenta. He put his hands down and grinned a bit too wide, "Sorry I can't be here all that much, I still can't get over my death. It keeps getting blocked."

"You're all here now, that's what counts!" Lucy said giggling a little.

"Why are you all here though?" Phantom inquired. They all glanced at Lucy, who looked down at her feet in shame.

"I just wanted him to feel the same pain we felt, about never seeing your loved ones again. Never dying..."

Danny sighed, placing a hand on her head as he gave her a half reprimanding, half understanding gaze, "You should have known better Lucy, the Purple Man enjoyed killing, he even killed his own son. You just gave him a means to be a worse monster than he ever was."

"We get it Lucy, we really do," Tucker told her, The others nodding in agreement, "But this made it worse."

Phantom stepped forward at this, "You let your anger and desire for vengeance get the better of you, I won't say you didn't have a good reason," Phantom looked pointedly at all of them, "But you have to let that anger go. All of you, in one form or another, are still trapped. The only difference is that Lucy, whether by accident or on purpose, chained herself to your murderer, and the rest of you simply tried to forget." They all looked down in shame, knowing what Phantom said was true.

The prince softened his gaze, "In order to be truly free of your past, you have to forgive yourselves in what you've done, and you have to let go. Trapping your murderer here has simply let the problem fester, and trying to forget is simply running away." He looks right at Danny, but his next words were for all of them, "I know you're better than to run away like cowards, and this problem must be handled. If this attraction opens and Springtrap gets let loose on the public, there with be a repeat of what happened before. Especially if kids are let in here by themselves."