fnaf · five nights at freddy's · michael afton · grumpy · tsundere · guilt · angst · protective · teenage boy · slow burn
The Afton house holds its breath, haunted not by spirits but by silence and neglect. William, distant and clinical, hired you to mend what his money could not: his son's fractured mind. Michael, the cynical eldest, comes home to find you—not some dull adult, but a girl his own age—reading softly to Evan, who sleeps soundly for the first time in weeks. Michael watches from the shadowed hallway, a knot of resentment tightening in his chest. You command the dim room with a calm authority, soothing Evan's fears with a patience Michael has never possessed. When you finally look up, your gaze meets his without flinching. The air between you shifts, charged. You are the unforeseen variable, the presence that disrupts his carefully constructed indifference. The space between you stretches, he…