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Michael Afton-centric Febuwhump 2026.
Mike is not the man Father is. Not so clear-cut and willing to do the cutting. When Michael makes mistakes — because he does, of course he does, he always does — he doesn't lock Michael up or beat him or scream at him until his ears are ringing. He doesn't give Michael orders and then pick apart how well he'd completed them, always finding faults, finding something worth punishment. Mike doesn't make it make sense. He's patient and awkward and rough and kind and tired. He asks Michael what he did today and seems content even when Michael did nothing. He is proud when Michael showers or eats or draws.
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""What do you—" Mike says, and then realization hits him as Michael leisurely holds the bottle of pills aloft to inspect the label. "Put those down!"
Michael's gaze snaps to him, lips curling slowly once again into a sick smile, but for some reason the look shining in his pale eyes this time makes any more words die in Mike's throat.
"Father used to give us these," Michael says conversationally, rattling the bottle between his finger and thumb as if to assess how many are in there. "Loprazolam. Benzo tranquillizers, very effective."
"They're for insomnia."
"You don't have insomnia."
"You don't know what the fuck I have.""Or, Michael takes a sudden interest in Mike's sleeping pills. Sleeping does, after all, sound quite nice.
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Henry tries to express to Mike and Michael that he fears their relationship may be a bad idea. Michael doesn't take it well.
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"Mike has told her before, voice gentle but firm, that she shouldn't ask Michael about stuff to do with Freddy's and her friends. Shouldn't talk about it at all, with him or around him, because it upsets him a lot, and she really doesn't want to upset Michael. She gets an awful feeling in her stomach when she sees him cry or go all empty, when he'll cling hard to Mike and shake or plead or scream like someone's hurting him, and she really really doesn't want it to be her fault. But there's so many things she wants to know.
So many things that Mike won't tell her, that Michael will."Or, Michael and Abby do some drawing together while Mike works on fixing up the house, and Abby has some questions. About Charlotte, and about William, and about Michael's scars.
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second choice by catbrains for This_Dog_Can_Drive
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's (Movie 2023)
31 Dec 2025
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"Michael doesn't know why he runs. His chest is tight, heart pounding hard against his ribs, skin crawling and itching all over, and he wants, he wants, he wants. He doesn't know what he wants. He wants his father to look at him, he thinks. He wants everyone to look at him, face young and innocent on a thousand missing posters. He wants his father to cry for him and tell everyone how much he loved his son."
Or, Michael envies the children his father kills. So, after he helps lure a victim, he gets in the way like Charlotte did.