BONUS 00.28

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some new and improvedmoon has arrived ~

* angst warning *_____________________

My eyes scan over the homework in my hand. Just one more month until graduation. I needed to study for this last final, otherwise, I can kiss that diploma goodbye.

A hand pets my head of hair, and I smile softly at the paperwork in front of me. "How's it going?" Sunrise asks me.

I hadn't spoken in a while. Mostly, I had been silent at my desk with an occasional sigh of annoyance, or shifting in my seat, switching from cross legged to straight just to get comfortable again. My back hurts.

"Awful. I'm stressing out." I lean my cheek into the palm of my hand. Sun pokes his head into my line of vision, rather than towering over me from behind. His rays spin a little, and he frowns. "What can I do to help?" Sun asks. "Anything?"

Suddenly, he easily shifts into Moon. ( Something I made allot easier for them to do. Allot less painful. )

I stare wide eyed as Moon cracks his head downward at the paperwork sitting in front of me. I had made myself a practice test, and so far, I'm failing it.

Things have been a little hectic around here lately, it was hard to focus some days. With Gregory, the animatronics, a job to pay for my apartment, and school— you know how it goes. There's never enough time in the world to do the things I'd like to do.

"Can I help?" Moon asks, eyebrow raising. "Or do you need some more positivity?" The lower heightened jester jumps from foot to foot, giving jazz hands. I snort at him, spinning my chair to face him with arms crossed.

"I need some positivity." I tell him with a smirk. "But, I want to see you back later." The lunar half nods. "As you wish, starlight~"

"Don't take too long." I say.Moon gives me a little wink before shifting back into Sun, who then grabs my hands with a bright beaming smile. I look upward and smile softly.

"Do you know what I think?" he asks. I raise a brow. "What?" I ask.

"I think you'll do just fine." He states, matter of factly. I want to believe him, but I don't know, it's getting hard juggling college.

"If you've fixed us, then you can definitely beat this little exam." He pats the top of my head, and lets go of my hands. I shake my head, thinking back at the process of fixing these two.

That was not a good time for me. These two made me more stressed out and anxious than anything in the world has ever during my process of trying to fix them.

"This little exam," I emphasize sarcastically, "deciphers whether I get to walk the stage or not." I frown. "If I fail, I'm done for." My head leans back against the chair, and I let out a heavy sigh. Turning myself back to face the papers, Sun turns the spinning chair to face him again. A heavy sigh escapes me.

"Y/N?" He asks.

I look up at him, a closed off expression on my face.

"How long did it take for you fix us? You've never mentioned it before." His finger taps the bottom of his face plate. I let out another puff of air that I held in my cheeks.

"Sun, it took months. I barely made it through that year. I put myself through school just to learn how to fix you and Moon better, which still wasn't enough." I say.

"You don't give yourself enough credit, young lady." His voice comes out low, hard to decipher what the intention of his tone was trying to be. It wasn't a scolding, but it still seemed to feel that way. Turning my vision downwards to avoid his stare, I say, "It took me a year, then finally giving up. Look- I didn't want to, but I was just so over everything. Nothing I did seemed to work, even though I was doing everything right."

"Wow." Sun tilts his head slightly to the side. "I had no idea."

"The day I gave up," I look back up to him, "was the day you guys actually turned on and worked." A soft snicker escapes me. "I couldn't believe it."

"Is that why you were crying that night?" He asks me plainly. "Because we didn't work?"

I hesitate, but nod anyway. There's a still in the air now as we look at each other. And though Sun is an animatronic, his composition was still able to register like a human with emotions. Sentiment being.

"Things were just starting to get to me, you know?" I force a smile up, "I missed you guys."

Without any form of hesitation, Sun instantly wraps me into a hug. Stunned, I sit still before he pulls me forward, and holds me closer to him. "We missed you too, Y/N."

I smile, cradled by Sun as if I were some sort of child in need of attention. "Moon is actually himself again . . And that's because of you," Sun pulls away and smiles. "We only have you to thank for that."

"I couldn't just leave you. I felt like I really needed you guys here." I tell him. Sun fidgets with his hands out of nervous habit, but still stands in front of me.

I turn away and tuck a h/c lock of hair behind my ear. "It was so hard without you guys." Tears weld my eyes, but I can't help it. I know that it's over with now, but I still can't help but get upset to think about loosing them again. If something malfunctions.

"Like," my voice wobbles, but I continue on, "I don't think you guys understand how bad it hurt me when you weren't around anymore . . In that fire," I shake my head softly, then shrug my shoulders. "I lost you. And, I wasn't okay for a long time. I just don't want that to happen again." I sniffle my nose, turning to look back at the paperwork on the desk. It was better than making eye contact. I feel too awkward right now.

Sun straightens, listening intently and hanging on to each word with a tilt of the head. After a moment of preparation in his own head, he leans against the desk. "We felt that way when you left. I just wanted you to get out and be safe." His warm hand sets on top of my wrist, giving it a soft pat. I look to my arm and nod softly. "If Freddy didn't grab me, I wouldn't have left." I say in a sort of nonchalant kind of way.

The animatronic before me stiffens, mulling over each word. "I'm glad he did." Sun furrows his brows slightly. Though his smile was mostly permanent, I knew he was frowning. But not in a sad sort of way— no, more of a straightened expression. Concerned, even.

"I'm glad now, but I wasn't at the time." I say in a quiet voice. Sun nudges his head toward me, as if trying to get a better look at my emotion, and what was going on inside of my head. He scanned over and through me in silence. I think he processed it well enough to know that I was depressed at the time. Though, depression wasn't really the right word.

Carefully, Sun chooses his words before speaking them. Finally, he speaks up with tapping fingers. "You wanted to stay in the fire with us?"

I clear my throat softly and tap my pen against the desk without a rhythm. "Yeah." The words slip out of my mouth with little to no hesitation. Sun stands straight, arms now crossed over his chest plate. "What?" He sounded concerned. It was a straight forward question, laced with a heaviness in his tone.

I cringe inwardly at his negative thoughts about me. Turning to face him, I say, "Look, everything's fine now, I swear." A smile redirects to my lips but I don't think he buys it. "That was awhile ago. But, you know, you guys really do make me that happy . . just saying." I turn back to my work and circle off the next answer. His head clicks as he turns it.

"So, you can't leave me." I then smirk, catching him a little off guard by my change of attitude.

The celestial duo lets out a sort of sigh, now slumping over with little amusement. "Darn, there goes that plan." Sun speaks sarcastically while snapping his fingers at the missed opportunity.

I crack a wider smile up at him.

"Y/N, I don't think we could leave you, even if we wanted to." He says, "But trust me, neither Moon or I, want to leave you."

There's a flutter in my chest as he says those words. It felt like I was genuinely being loved for me. I lean my hand to my cheek, and look over at him with a soft smile glowing across my features. "Good thing." I say. "Can I see him?" My voice asks softly. Sun nods. "Sure," He tucks a lock of h/c hair behind my ear, then caresses my cheek with gentle hands. "I'll see you soon."

I smile with soft features up at him. His rays retract, and a night cap falls onto his now darker shaded head. His face plate shifts, circling once, twice, until fully clicking into its rightful place. The red clothing now switching over to blue with stars. Blue eyes meet mine, and I catch amusement at the lunar animatronic.

"Hi." I say, a little chipper. Moon gives me a soft wave and takes a step closer to my seated position. "Hello again," he cranes his head down to the papers on my desk and smiles. "Are you going to finish this?"

I let out a sigh and smile. "Eventually." Turning my sight back to the paper, I feel a frustration bubbling up again. It needed to be done, but I have no intention of actually wanting to do it.

"I'll help you." He states, turning to look at my expression. "Unless you'd rather take a break."

Curious, I look him over with an amused expression. It was fascinating how Moon was really himself again. Less mean, less . . strict. If anything, Sun was the strict one now, in comparison. But not in an . . unhinged way.

"You know," I take a stand, allowing Moon to back up an inch. "I think I need one."

He nods with understanding at my request, and holds out a hand for me. I raise a brow and take it, letting him guide me to where it was that he had thoughtfully planned out in the mere of minuets.

Where he takes me, I don't halt with confusion for once. This lunar side of him did things that always kept me guessing. But not today. It was the window. He opens it, and lets a hand hang in the air as if gesturing something. "Ladies first."

I smirk, and carefully climb myself out of the window. As I reach up, I pull myself to the roof with ease, and wait for Moon to soon meet me at my side. He crawls his way up, no struggle to him. As I take a seat on my worn spot, I give the celestial duo a soft look. Moon sits beside me, and looks out at the view ahead.

The sun had been setting. And normally, this would be a time where the two of them would be out, sort of at once. This time of day would be sort of an odd time frame for their system settings to handle, a trigger resulting with Sun's rays sticking out halfway, and Moon's nightcap hanging on— their voices combining and glitching. But since I've changed their system to swap bodies when they want, it had become allot easier for the two to manage life. They weren't stuck to a constant light or dark schedule, where maybe Moon would like to experience the sun, and Sunny would have liked to live in the dark for once.

They were grateful to say the least.

I look out at the pale blue sky shifting into yellows and pink above the horizon. Small stars just begin to dot the sky around us, and if I turn behind me, there was the moon low in the sky.

"Better?" Moondrop shifts me from my thoughts. I look to him and nod. "Allot." I say. "Thank you." My smile stretches as I gaze up at him. He chuckles, wrapping an arm around my torso. "Anything for our precious star."

I lean my head against his upper arm, and stare out at the world below us. It was quiet up here. "How have you been feeling lately?" I ask him, taking a quick glance up. "Anything feel out of sorts? Pain? Any internal glitching?"

Moon shakes his head. As he tries to think back, something in me worries. I was positive that his virus was beaten for good, but the slim, rare possibility of anything else coming back to trap him still worried me. After all, Moon had hurt me a great handful of times, though I know it wasn't his best intentions.

"None. Everything is fine." He tells me. I nod and let out a sigh. "Okay, good."

His gaze flickers over to me curiously. I feel his eyes study my s/t features, then work their way up to my h/l hair. "I'll let you know if anything changes." He then returns his gaze back to the view below us. I nod with a smile. "Hopefully there won't be a need for that."

Moon's head now rests atop of mine, and I giggle up at him as the pressure of his metal rests its weight on me. "There won't be." He says.

Curiously, I ask, "How does Sun feel?"

"Jealous." His face plate shifts into a smirk. I start laughing. "That wasn't what I meant," I speak through fits of giggles. "I mean, how is his system handling the changes? Good?"

The lunar half nods again. "He feels fine."

Amusement works it's way into my features as I smile. "Alright, good." Then, I turn to look up at Moon, patting his shoulder softly. "Sorry, Sun~" a fit of laughter escapes me again as Moon creaks his head.

"He's really mad." Moon lets out a metallic chuckle. I shift to lay on my back, staring up at the sky. The pale colors were now shifting to a darker canvas; The stars being more prominent now.

"Aww, he's had his chance all day to spend time with me." My lips curl to a smirk as I look up at Moon.He stares down at me and shrugs. "That still isn't enough time." His voice speaks up, "for either or us."

I gaze up at him, and catch his sight straining to view my scars and old wound markings. I didn't think much of them now, as Sun and Moon were completely fine after the fire, but I know it was something they often stare at without talking about it much.

"You're always so busy." He speaks in a lower tone. I nod. "I know . . I'm sorry."

"It's okay. We understand." He says.

"Work is tough to handle sometimes." I sigh, "I'm really sorry if it ever seems like I don't want to talk to you guys. I've just been really stressed out. And now I'm fully responsible for Gregory, so you know how it is with kids."

Moon nods. "Don't worry, Y/N. We know you're stressed. You've been acting different lately, and it's been worrying Sun and I. But, we know you don't act out on purpose."

"I promise everything will get better soon." I say. As hard as it was to believe sometimes, I still needed to say it.

Moon's hand gently takes my arm, and pulls it into his view. I lay still, my smile threatening to falter. The small bunches of scars from his once unhinged self remained on my skin, and he curiously stared at it. Though, his gaze was accompanied by a look of culpability. After a minuet or so of looking around me, a sun ray pops up. Then another, and another. Moon slowly shifts back into his brighter form, and I look to him with confusion at the sudden transformation. "Sun? Why did Moon go?"

Sun sighs, letting go of my wrist that his other half was still holding onto. "He felt guilty."

I sit up, frowning. "Why? About what?"

Sun hesitates, turning to look away briefly. As I sit and wait for his response, my head hangs slightly. "Did I do something wrong?"

Sun whips his head, looking at me with shock. "No no no!" His hands wave in gesture, as he shakes his head to decline. "It wasn't your fault at all! H-he just," Sun hangs his head and stares at the roof we sit on. "We, feel bad. About . . what happened to you." He mumbled. I look at the celestial duo and stare in silence.

This had happened so long ago— I wasn't even bothered by it anymore! The marks were so easily coverable with a jacket, I never had to think twice when I happened to catch a glimpse in the mirror, because I don't let those things get to me anymore. What happened had happened, there was no changing that. I know it wasn't Moon's fault. So why would I blame him?

"Sun, no." I frown, "Don't. It wasn't your guys' fault!" I speak with honesty.

"I know what happened. I saw all of it." Sun sits cross crossed. There's a distance in my features as I look to him warily. I bring my knees up to my chest, and I hug them loosely. "You did?" Something in me cringes.

That one night: when Moon had pinned me to the floor of the daycare, and left bruises and gashes on me for the next week. Sun saw it happen? He must have felt horrible having to watch through it all, but not able to do anything to stop it from progressing further.

Sun nods, a soft look gleaming over his features. As we exchange looks, I get lost in thought. "Moon tells me all the time how sorry he is. Some days it's so bad, he has trouble looking at you because he's . . afraid. He just doesn't want to hurt you again." Sun says.

I deflate, mood lingering closer to low by the minuet. I had no idea he felt that way. It's been just about a year. Why hasn't this ever come up before?

"He won't. I scrapped that virus for good." I let out a heavy sigh and shake my head. "Afton. That piece of shit."

Sun steals a glance at me and stills his emotions momentarily. We sit in an uncomfortable silence for a brief time period.

"Are you okay?" Sun finally says something to break our silence. I look to him and feel something in me hesitate. "Yeah, I mean, I've been a little under the weather these past couple of weeks, but I'm fine."

The bright animatronic outstretches his arms in his seated position. There was no hesitation. I look to his gesture and give in with a soft sigh. I scoot closer, and let myself fall into his embrace. His warm body cradles me gently as we both look off of the rooftop where we sat. "You never have to put on a brave face for us, Y/N." Sun mumbles into the top of my head. "You can always talk to us when you need something."

Tears threaten to flood my eyes but I refuse to let them. Instead, I sniffle my nose quietly and force up a smile. "I know. Thank you."

As I lean my back against his chest, I smile softly. His comfort was enough to lift my mood again. "Can you let Moon know that I forgive him?" I ask. "I thought he already did know that, but, you know. Thought I'd say it again."

Sun looks down at me and nods.After a short battle inside of his own head, Sunny pats the top of my shoulder. "He's grateful."

I smile. "Good."

"Hang on, Doll." Sun scoots back, allowing room between us for him to switch. I glance curiously in his direction.

His rays sink back into his head, the nightcap soon falling over the side. Moon fully turns, and he looks to me. The sky was now darkening, as if accepting him in the night. Blue eyes beam onto me, and I squint through it slightly.

We sit in silence as I await for him to say something to me. Turning to sit on my knees, I tilt my head slightly, watching Moon fidget nervously with his hands. He wrings them, eyes faced downward to the roof floor.

"Moon?" I ask.

His eyes shift to me. When he stands at his full height, I always seemed to be surprised. Sometimes I forget just how tall they are.

"Y/N," he mimics, kneeling down beside me. I only stare. Clinks and clanks of metal is heard as he makes himself comfortable in the position beside me. Taking my hand softly with his own, he looks it over. "I'm sorry."

I smile. It's soft, sympathetic. "You don't have to be sorry. It's okay," I tell him, "It wasn't your fault. It never was."

His eyes flicker back to the shingles on the roof, which weren't exactly the most comfortable to sit on. A sort of metallic sigh escapes him. "I do have to be sorry. I did this to you." He pulls the sleeve of my arm up further. I look down to the marks and retrieve my arm back from his grasp.

"But that wasn't really you." My voice comes out as a whisper. Crickets hum off in the distance now as the nightfall comes fast. "I'm not mad at you. I never have been! It's been almost a year now, anyway. Why should I be?"

He looks to me again, this time, a face filled with guilt past that stained smile. His head cranes to the side, then shakes 'no'."Because I hurt you." His voice growls.

"I'm not hurt anymore." I reach to his arm and hold it softly. "Promise."

His gaze softens as it shifts between my hand on his arm, then to my eyes. I reach forward and pull the lunar animatronic into a hug. A tight one. I want to let him know that nothing could ever infect him the way he once was, again.

"I hide away for a reason." He states. "Let Sun have all the control."

I nod slowly, keeping him wrapped in the hug. He had finally brought his arms up to return the gesture. "You don't have to hide anymore." My voice comes out soft. "There's no need."

His grip tenses around me. Once I would have been frightened at that feeling. Him, holding me. But now, I can feel at ease knowing that there was nothing he'd be able to do to actually purposely hurt me.

"It worries me."

I let go and caress his faceplate in my hand. "Don't be worried." Then, my mind begins to wander. Slowly, I drop my hand from him."Is there something that feels wrong?"

He shakes his head no. "No. Just anxiety."

"I can debug that from your system if you want." I reply. He shrugs, and I sigh.

"Memory erase?" I ask.

A shake of the head. Now I pout up at him. "Don't be stubborn."

Moon's smile cracks. His head clicks to the side and I smile. "I can't be as stubborn as you are, Brat."

"Yeah, yeah." My lips now curl to a smirk. "Look, I wouldn't have kept you around if I didn't think it would be safe. I promise."

"If you're sure." Moon mumbles, regaining somewhat of his confidence back. "I'm sure." My hand reaches out and pats him on the cheek. "Come on, I don't want any more gloom and doom for the rest of the night." I stand to my feet. Taking my hands, I brush off any dirt from my shorts, and begin my steady walk back to the bedroom window.

"Sun is worried about the height you're standing at." Moon says, taking position by my side. His hands hold out for me to take, and I roll my eyes. "Oh, Sunny~ you don't have to watch everything I do." I huff playfully.

"Sort of hard not to, starshine." Sun's voice bickers back to me through Moon's body. I stare at Moon with wide eyes. He shrugs.

As Moon helps me back inside the bedroom, I wait for him to hop down to me. I shut the window behind him, and curl up on my bed. Moon stands still at the edge of where I lay, a rather deadpanned expression on his still face. Patting the spot beside me, I smile a little.

He takes the seat beside me and I lean my head to his lap. His eyes glance down at me curiously and I look up to him. "I've decided I don't want to finish the practice test tonight." I say.

Moon cocks his head. "No?"

"Nope." I continue to smile up at him. "I think tonight should be a night for just us. It's been so long since we've gotten to spend time together, and I think it's best."

The lunar smiles softer. "Good idea."

I grab the remote for my tv, and throw on a movie. Getting comfortable against the pillows, I lay with Moon beside me. "Marathon?"

He nods, patting my head. "Couldn't imagine anything better to do."

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