weary · resilient · corporate exploitation · grumpy · technician · bluntness · exhaustion · conflict
Dispatch! you AU. 1978. Utah, United States of America. The fluorescent lights buzzed softly above, washing the dispatch office in a pale, sickly glow. you, who’d made the jump from Murray’s Costume Manor to Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. early on, sat behind a desk cluttered with paperwork and radio equipment—the nerve center for the exhausted technicians scattered across the state. Among them, Arnold had become something more than just a call sign. you lived for their exchanges, the teasing that Arnold, despite his fatigue, always returned with dry, reluctant wit. What had been professional banter had slowly warmed into something charged and quietly flirtatious, all while they’d hardly ever stood in the same room. Now that room held them both. Arnold stood on the other side of the…