Genuinely Unhealthy about the Daycare Attendants

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It's late, you don't know why you're here so late, you should be at home, in bed. Maybe you thought it'd get you that raise you were gunning for, maybe you were just too focused to notice the time. Maybe you just didn't want to be at home. 

Either way, you're trudging through basement one with bleary eyes, darkened hallways with their red exit lights doing little to guide you. You know the path to the elevator well though, so it's just a matter of moving forward until you get to it.

Your thoughts are still racing with ideas, filled with upcoming deadlines and projects and so on. You don't know how you're going to get to them all, and honestly, you can't be bothered to care at the moment. It's a problem for tomorrow. Or wait, Monday. Tomorrow's a day off. 

You yawn, and thank god for that, you're going to need it to catch up on sleep. And with all the chores you need to do, you hope you'll pass out quick and it'll be an easy task. 

You're about halfway to the elevator when a sound hits your ears. Bells. 

You pause a moment, then shake your head, must be your imagination. Lack of sleep and all that. You keep moving. 

But then you hear it again. Down the hallway behind you, now a bit more aware and a lot more alarmed. There shouldn't be anyone else down here. Janitorial staff went by hours ago. It should just be you. Alone. 

Against your better judgement, you turn around. Nothing but the pitch black. It's just an empty hallway. 

Until it's not. 

With morbidly humorous timing, the light flickers on several yards down the hall. And you jump. 

Standing under it, is the Daycare Attendant. 

It stares at you, posture tilted, neck bent to look down in your direction. Expressionless as always. Unmoving save for the way its fingers and wrists flex at its sides. Soft twinkling sound echoing from the bells tied to red ribbons. 

You breathe in once, a stuttering breath. You don't know why, but you feel unsafe. Incredibly unsafe. It's just an animatronic, a robot. You're an employee, you're fine. And yet, you feel...

Hunted. 

It tilts its faceplate further, a few soft clicks emitting from the bot. Your palms are sweaty, your heart is racing, and every part of you is screaming to run. 

You take one step back. 

It's neck snaps to attention. You swallow. 

Another, then another. 

It just stares at you, watching as you slowly back up further and further in the direction of the elevator. 

You force yourself not to jump when you make it, instead just pressing the button. Thankfully, it's already called to your floor, and you can slip inside. 

Unthankfully, the light goes out. 

The moment it does, you hear it. Running.

And you panic. 

You frantically spam the door close button, as the attendant charges down the hall. Metal footsteps pounding in time with clattering bells, loud and grating and frightening as they get closer, and closer, and closer—

The doors shut. Pounding on the other side can be heard all throughout the car and the elevator shaft. You're trembling as you continue to hold the button, elevator starting to slowly rise. You don't let go until you're well on your way, breathing a sigh of relief. You're trembling, every movement shaky and uncertain, but it begins to wear off as you continue your ascent. 

That is, until the elevator suddenly comes to a screeching stop, just below your floor, lights flickering for a moment, then going out completely. Below, you hear another grating sound, something enters the shaft. 

Shit.

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and there we have it! day 1 done. if you havent caught on i uhhh plan to be doing a continous thing with these, to a point that is, we'll see how far we get, anywho, thanks for reading!

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