Afton: Mommy

She hung up. Walked to the bathroom. Sat on the cold tile floor and did not scream, because screaming would mean accepting it.

He never came after her. Years later.

Eleanor Afton outlived her husband. She read about the fire at Fazbear’s Fright. She read about the trial in absentia. She read the witness testimony of her own son, Michael, who spoke of scooped bodies and robotic voices and a father who simply would not die. afton mommy

Her name was Eleanor Afton, though the town only remembered her as “that poor woman” or, later, “the Afton mother.” The one who left before the worst of it. The one who tried to take the children but only managed to keep Michael—and only because he was old enough to refuse his father’s house. She hung up