A Good Friend (Puppet x Circus Baby)

A chapter for the holidays

A few days already went by and it was now Christmas Eve, their specialty of the year. Yeah, there was Halloween and such, but they always loved the holy celebrations of Christmas. Everyone was getting ready, even Springtrap was helping with decorations.

Puppet watched everyone talking or singing Christmas carols while he was getting presents ready for everyone. He smiled, remembering back in the good old days that when it was Christmas, he was practically the Santa Claus. He missed those times.

"Welp, Showtime," he said to himself before entering the room.

He was wearing a Christmas hat, the three buttons on his chest were red, white, and green, and he was wearing a red bowtie. He put on a big, sunny smile as he walked into the room.

"Merry Christmas everybody!" He exclaimed, "I've got gifts and treats for all the little ones, so come on over."

All the Minireenas, Bidybabs, Bon-bon and Bonnet ran over to Puppet and tackled him in a hug. Puppet laughed and then hugged them back. He then stood up.

"Alright, alright, settle down kids. Your names are labeled on the presents so you can take them out of the bag yourselves."

They took out the presents and were really happy to find what they got. Puppet asked them what they wanted ahead of time and took a huge risk by going outside and getting the presents himself. It was worth it just to see their smiles.

"Thank you, Mr. Puppet," they all said.

"You're like a secret Santa!" Bon-bon said.

"You're kidding me right?" Ennard said, walking up to them, "you should already know by now that Santa doesn't-" he didn't even have a nanosecond before Puppet yanked him over and stared him down with shadows covering his phantom eyes.

"CRUSH THEIR DREAMS AND I'LL DECK YOU IN THE HALLS," Puppet threatened.

Ennard nodded quickly. Puppet's eyes returned to normal and almost threw Ennard across the room. Everyone looked at Puppet.

"What? Expect me to let him make them believe Santa isn't real, because darn it, he's as real as I am!" Puppet said.

"Did you ever meet him?" One of the Minireenas asked.

"Once I did, and he looks exactly like how they say he looks in the books," He said to them, "he had red rosy cheeks," he said as he cupped Bonnet's cheeks, causing her to giggle, "a cherry red nose," he tapped one of the Bidybab's noses, making them giggle as well, "and a biiiig tummy full of holly jolly Christmas cheer," he said, tickling Bon-bon's stomach, causing him and the others to laugh.

"But what I know the most," said before picking them up into a group hug, "is that he loves each and every one of you as much as I do."

"We love you too, Mr. Puppet," they said, hugging back.

Just the sight of them hugging was enough to melt someone's heart. Circus Baby was probably the one who was smiling the most. She was starting to like him a lot ever since they talked about his situation. He sometimes flirted a little bit with her, but most of them were just small, cute comments. Today, she had a good way to get back at him.

"Hey Puppet, over here!" Puppet heard Circus Baby call him.

"Just a sec! I'll be right there!" He replied, "don't worry kids, I'll be back. Then we can bring in the treats, okay?"

"Okay," they replied, hugging Puppet before he got up and left.

"Yeah, Circus Baby, what is it?" He asked.

"Nothing, I just wanted to say what you did for the kids was sweet."

"Yeah, but not as sweet as you are, cupcake," he replied, winking.