Behind Closed Doors

A Ghostly Encounter

Mike looked up at the floating figure next to him. "A-Are y-you a a a g-g-ghost?" he stuttered.

Stephanie looked down at him and rolled her eyes. "I knew it." She thought. She knew she had to be nice and happy to him and it would be fine. Probably.

She looked down and smiled at him. "Yes. I am a ghost. My name is Stephanie. What is your name?"

Mike couldn't get over the fact that there was a ghost next to him and couldn't speak.

Stephanie looked at his badge on his shirt. "Oh, OK. Hi Mike." She said. He still couldn't speak. She wanted to strangle him, but she stayed calm. "It's probably the shock of everything happening in an hour." She thought.

Mike was sure that he was going to die. There was a ghost in a place where he just learned that there were animatronics that come and try to kill you. He was sure that she will call over her animatronic friends to come kill him, or possess an animatronnic suit and kill him.

Mike eventually forgot that he had to reply to Stephanie. She got very mad and decided that she had to get out of the office before she actually strangled Mike. "Ok. I'll leave you alone." She huffed. "I won't hurt you by the way." She disappeared through the wall and went back into the kitchen.

When she left, Mike felt relived and confused. He was able to get off the ground and back onto his chair. He flipped through the security cameras and noticed that one of the animatronics was missing.

"WHAT!?" he screamed, almost falling off his chair again. "T-The b-blue o-one. The blue one.". He was looking through all the security cameras trying to find the blue bunny animatronic.

He looked backstage and saw the animatronic standing there, looking out of the open door.

"He moved! I'm going to die!" Mike panicked. He realized that maybe if he was silent the animatronics won't come after him.

He stood silent still looking at the animatronic. All of the sudden, the cameras blacked out.

"The cameras!" he whispered. He flipped through all the cameras and eventually the cameras went back. He checked backstage again and he noticed that the animatronic wasn't there. He looked through the cameras and found him in the dining room.

Mike relaxed. The animatronic was in no hurry to kill him and he was staying silent. He looked at the drawings in his office. He figured that some kids drew that and he wondered which one was his.

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Stephanie sat down in the kitchen. She had destroyed the camera in the kitchen a long time ago since she knew that if a security guard saw her, they would freak out. The audio was still there though, and she couldn't cut if off for some reason, even after she had tried the first few years. She didn't care much about that though.

She knew from the start that Mike would freak out, but she had that feeling. She knew that it was The Mother talking to her, but she didn't understand anything. Why The Mother hadn't saved her, why The Mother helped all her friends, and why she had got the feeling...

Suddenly, she felt it again. The same feeling that told her to go to the security room and talk to Mike. This time though, it came with a message.

"Explain who your friends are. Don't say anything about me. Explain what happened here eight years ago."

Stephanie understood the message and what she had to do. Maybe after this, The Mother would help her, give her a new life like she had with all her friends.

She stepped outside of the kitchen, making sure that Mike didn't see her through the cameras.

Mike though, was not looking at the cameras at all. He was standing up and looking at the pictures that the kids drew, wondering if his was still up there.

Stephanie came through the wall and saw Mike staring at one of the drawings. "Such a dork." she said out loud. She didn't mean to, it just came out.

Mike span around. He jumped back this time not falling to the floor, but almost breaking the large window near the right door. "What do you want?" he said to her, sinking back in case she was dangerous. He was surprised that he was able to talk this time, probably because he didn't fall to the floor.

"I want to talk to you." she said, surprised at the fact that Mike was able to talk.

Just then, they both heard something outside the door. Stephanie knew that sound too well. She lunged towards the door yelling, "BONNNNNNIIIIEEEE!"

Mike lunged towards the buttons and turned on the light. He saw the blue bunny animatronic that he was watching staring at him from outside the door. He fell back in surprise and shuffled to the other side of the office.

"THE DOOR! GET THE DOOR" Stephanie was screaming. She tried to push the button to close the door, but her hand passed right through. She knew that Mike was dead. He was taking to much time getting up.

Mike knew that he was too late. "I'm not going down without a fight." he thought. He rolled across the office floor and stood up. He hit the button to close the door, and shut the door right when the animatronic stepped towards the office, nearly crushing the animatronic's foot.

Mike was panting, realizing what happened. Stephanie uncovered her eyes and relaxed when she saw Mike, unharmed, standing there even though he was shaking.

"Wow. That was close." Mike panted. "So, what did you want to talk about?"

Stephanie breathed in. She still couldn't believe that that had happened. The Mother was probably right. Mike did seem to have the potential of saving them.

"Now it's your turn to not be able to talk." Mike smiled at Stephanie.

"You know that you were sooooo close to dying." Stephanie finally said.

Mike smiled even more. "Yup." He said.

"OK.I'll explain." Stephanie said. "It all happened a couple years ago.":