Behind the Mask | Aphmau Five Nights At Freddy's

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Aphmau's POV

"You have a kid!?" My father asks as he begins to pace the room.
"Yes, with two more on the way~" I tell him. "You've got to be lying, that's just a kid that a parent forgot right?" He nervously asks and I shake my head.
"Michael is my baby boy~ He looks just like you~" I smile as I look into Michael's innocent purple eyes.
"You mean he looks like me twenty-five years ago." He says.
I look at him confused.
"Twenty-five years I wasn't even five~" I say confused.
"It's been a while since my smile has been real." He tells me and I frown as I think back to when I was younger.

"Oh~..." I stare at my precious child that is giggling with no end.
"I have to ask you a favor father~" I say as I think to when my other children are born.
"When my other kids are born do you think that you can take them~?" I ask and look at him with hopeful eyes.
The room is silent as the people that are here look at me like I'm out of my mind.
"I would love to Aphy." He smiles.
"Are you sure he won't kill them~?" Jason asks as he puts a hand on my shoulder.
"If he does I'll let the kids kill him~" A smile appears on the kids' face.
"And I'll make sure the death is very slow and painful~" My dad's face becomes even more pale than it already is.
I burst out laughing and everyone soon joins.

"You should be getting home~" I tell him as I stand from my chair.
"You're right, it's pretty late."
With that he waves to me before leaving the building and locking the door.
"That was something." SF says.
"I know right? I haven't seen that old man in years." SB sighs as I give him a weird look.
"Our parents were good friends with William so we were around him a lot." He says nonchalantly.
"How come you've never met Aunty Aph then?" Joey asks.
"I was long dead before she was born." SF chuckles.
"Yeah, your dad's friend had a little diner that we died at."
My eyes finesse at this new information.
"I was the first death at the restaurant, but not the first murdered." SB tells us.
"And SF also wasn't murdered by your father." He looks down at the ground with an ashamed expression painted on his face.

"I'm so sorry." SB whispers.
Everyone looks at him with a confuses look.
"I didn't mean to." I can see tears in the corner of his eyes.
Handing Michael to Jason, I walks over to SB and place a hand on his shoulder.
"You didn't mean it~" I whisper.
His eyes go wide. "How do you know what happened!?"
My gaze goes to his eyes and stays there.
"I made Mari tell me~" A tear falls down his cheek.
"We know you didn't mean to~"
SF is now hugging him from behind.
"She's right," She mumbles into his back. "We know you didn't mean to...Leo." He's now sobbing.
"What did he do?" Denis asks.
I look at SB and he nods.
"He killed SF~" Everyone looks shocked.
"You're lying, right?" Joey asks.
I shake my head. "He didn't want to, he was going insane and his insanity took over." I say before turning back to SB and also hugging him.
"Let's get to bed~" Jason says as Michael tugs on my dress.
I let go of SB and nod.
"Goodnight kids~" I wave to them as I walk away with Michael and Jason to our boxes.

Claire's POV

Things have been going good with Izzy, James, and I. I'm so happy that they've let me back into their lives.
They could have turned me away and told me to leave when I asked to see them, but they accepted me. I've missed feeling loved over this past year.
Losing Aph hit me harder than losing Andy because I thought she was the last person I had.

"Claire?" A somewhat deep voice says from behind me.
"Hmm?" I turn around and see James standing there with a concerned look in his face.
"You okay?" He asks.
"Yeah, why?" I look around me and remember I'm sitting down in James' livingroom, waiting for Izzy to get home from school.
"You were staring off into space with a sad look." He tells me.

Should I talk to him about it?
Andy was his son too.
Andy was Izzy's twin and I don't even think she remembers him or knows he's gone.

"Does she know?" I ask, turning my body to face him.
"Know what?" He asks referring to everything. He's referring to knowing Aph and if she's gone, and knowing Andy and if he's gone.
"All of it." I say without hesitation.
"No." He tells me, his smile falling into a frown.
"She doesn't remember Andy, she doesn't know Aphmau." He says.
"We have to tell her James."
He shakes his head quickly.
"She still too young." I sigh.
"She's almost twelve. She deserves to know about her twin and her aunt."

James left me after they were born but not because he didn't want to be a father.
He had school going on and he lived far away from Phoenix.
He wanted to take the children with him because he said he didn't want to leave them.
I never wanted to let go of my children, but we went to court and he got custody of Izzy.
Her and Andy were suppose to meet each other on their seventh birthday, but then the thing happened before they got here.
So James quickly had Izzy stay with his mother while he came to look for Andy for almost a week with Aph and I.
Eventually he had to go back to work and took Izzy with him again.

"I'll tell her when the time is right." I roll my eyes and nod.
As I go to say something a small and gentle child's voice cuts me off.

"Tell me what?"

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Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I want to do a little more with Claire and what's going on with her a bit. I kind of just stopped with her a whole ago besides the Christmas chapter I wrote.
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~Galaxy