The agony behind a smile by BlackstarchanX3 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Heeeeey! A picture based off of an alternate timeline in The Prequel!

Honestly, this one is probably the saddest just because of what happens.

So a quick summary:

PB (Who isn't called that in this timeline, he's called 'Vince' because he never meets the person who first calls him 'PB' but whatever.) meets Sammie's fiance Lauren. Lauren had her family murdered by PB's family. (PB didn't take part in it because, believe it or not PB was actualy AGAINST killing people at one point.) Anyway, so she finds out he's part of the clan that murdered her family and follows him home after work. Out of rage she tears out his eye and mutilates his arm that has a tattoo that is a symbol of his family. She pretty much destroys anything on him linking him to his family. And since his eye had a star on it, it had to go. Sammie had followed Lauren since he thought it was weird her car was still at Freddy's and found her trying to murder one of his best friends. So essentially from here Lauren was committed because...she lost her marbles in this timeline. PB was put into a hospital because of his injuries. After he was healed he moved in with Fred because his family's hiding place was discovered because of the incident, PB wasn't really involved due to the fact he never killed anyone and wasn't a kishin egg (Which is a person who eats human souls). After that day PB was never quite right. He didn't really like women who tried to be around Sammie. He was terrified they'd end up like Lauren and try to hurt Sammie. So one day he kidnapped Sammie and put him in Fred's basement, he wanted to keep Sammie safe from 'bad people'. You might wonder, "Did Fred know?" in fact he did. He just didn't do anything about it due to the fact he cared about PB like his own son. Sammie eventually was driven to madness because of the lack of contact with other humans outside of the obviously insane PB. He actualy tried to kill PB quite a few times but never succeeded. He never could bring himself to kill one of his best friends. Eventually he came to the conclusion his friend was insane because of him. He had introduced Lauren to PB after all. And because of that PB had been harmed. He realized, it was all his fault. So instead of trying to beg for freedom or murder his way out of the situation, he played along. He decided he'd do whatever would make PB happy because after all, it was all his fault wasn't it? He was eventually let out of the basement due to the fact he was disinterested in leaving. Contrary to what you might think, PB never harmed Sammie, never yelled never got angry, even after Sammie had tried to take his life. because all PB wanted was to keep Sammie safe and happy. Eventually PB's conscious caught up with him and he started to realize he had mentally broken the person he cared about. In trying to keep the person he loved safe, he had in turned become one of the people he had been trying to keep Sammie safe from. Both of them never showed their true feelings, so both where under the assumption the other was content. Sammie eventually worked at Freddy's again with PB, but never tried to ask people to help him. They both where together in their little bubble of madness.

Some questions you might have after this are:

Where's PB's little brother in all this?

Simple, he wasn't born yet. In the original timeline he was born after PB met Lauren. Chances are he was still born, but no one ever informed PB about it. Or if they did, PB didn't care in this timeline because all he cared about was Sammie.

PB has a sister, what happened to her?

She murdered people, she was young so she was probably put in a ward to fix her mental state. At the time there was no cure to being a kishin egg. So she was stuck as one.

If PB was mentally unstable, why wasn't he committed after being attacked?

PB hides his feelings a lot, and he probably talked to a therapist after being attacked by Lauren, but SEEMED fine, (Remember, this is also in the 80s.) so they let him go because they thought he seemed completely fine. The only one who noticed he was acting off for quite awhile was Fred. But that was only because 1. They lived together. and 2. Fred knew PB very well.

Why did Sammie stay with PB if he hated the situation?

Because, he was broken. PB never blamed him for the attack, but Sammie felt it was his own fault his friend lost his mind. PB OBVIOUSLY wasn't right in the head after what Lauren did. (Hell he wasn't right even before. She made it worse) Since Sammie thinks it's his fault, he doesn't want to leave PB. Sammie had no one to talk to outside of himself for the most part. So he slowly went mad without human contact.

Welp, honestly I do believe this is one of the saddest timelines. Both Sammie and PB aren't happy. Neither of them got what they wanted and both are stuck in this situation.

I kinda love it in a way though. XD I mean, I don't love their relationship... (Hell it's the ONLY timeline they end up together as boyfriends and well...neither of them like it... DX) but I more like the idea of these two nut balls trying to live normal lives while being completely insane. (And I kind of like the idea that at some point one of them confesses how they feel and they both get as sane as they can together...even though that probably never happens...)