Return To Hill House
Characters: David Marrow, Eleanor Vance Marrow, Theo Willis Sanderson, Luke Sanderson, Mary Lambetta Watts and Todd Watts
Time-Line: Eighteen months after the movie ended and the couple is back in Boston with their friends
Sypnopsis: It's been eighteen months to the day when Eleanor Vance gets the will that wasn't given to her sister saying she's the legal owner of Hill House, and deciding to return to it, she, her husband Dr. David Marrow and their friends return to it, but little do they know the soul of the original has escaped his imprisonment a second time, can they stop him a second time or will a member of their twelve person group be lost during this return trip to Hill House.
Warnings: Like the last story there's going to be several flashbacks to the movie as Eleanor and Marrow reflect back on things. But this time it's going to start from dinner leading into the fourth night at the house as they get to work and put the renovations and restorations into it then.
Disclaimers: I don't own the story or the characters, the plot line belongs to me, everything else belongs to Shirley Jackson and Jan De Bont.
Prologue: Legal Plans and Preparations
After explaining that to him and us discussing the fact we were getting ready to face this memory for all of us now as my assistant's husband answered me with a bemused smile on his face as he said it. "One more reason to never piss you off man, though Craine tries it again and you're going to do it. Did they let him keep that lightsaber when they made the movie?" Todd Watts asked and I nodded as I chuckled as I answered him.
"Yeah they did, and he's a really good fencer no less, so for him this just made it even more interesting. As for this added catch, I doubt they would have chosen that college, otherwise the damage would be permanent when they did the effects. Though I will say if this goes in the same direction you're looking at a repeat performance. And of the stand off, just stay out of the way this time guys." I told him and they nodded to me.
"The actors must have decided to keep in touch with us after they made these, because number two doesn't come out till next summer here and suddenly your counterpart is giving you information on a movie he got involved in after he took lead role in the movie, because I can't believe that kid went from a good, healthy nine year old and this suddenly turns him into a monster." Todd said and I chuckled as I answered him at that.
"The details they created off the story made perfect sense here, looking at it from a psychological point of view here, getting conceived by a life force like that you could go either way, if something was tampering with your morality, which the Emperor was. But the added touch is uprooting him from his old life and they expect him to adapt to it. And to not enjoying what he used to do, being separated from his friends and family."
"And to top it off, that young woman was his future wife and he knew it too at the time. Secondly they didn't see it coming, because they were stuck in the old ways, a new student means new ways to adapt and that's what killed the Jedi. The code had forbidden attachments, which to him is total blasphemy, because he had attachments in his old life, his mentor was raised in the temple, though Qui-Gon acted normal."
"And Qui-Gon had fallen in love with a fellow Jedi, if he'd trained Anakin that never would have happened at all, but that's their fatal mistake, throwing the prophecy at him repeatedly, special treatment and letting Palpatine interfere with every decision that is supposed to be made by the council. But for Anakin in his teenage point of view, I think it was something more along the lines of love, but that was his trial by fire now."
"And loss of a family member to push him over the edge finally, if he crashed when he was a young adult. As to that, once you suffer a trauma there's more going on than you'd expect, but the kid has suffered two to six traumas in the space of ten years. After getting recruited, and the next is a total brush with the darkside. For whatever reason, and that's in the books they created for this latest one that's coming out next summer."
"But that was Yoda's biggest mistake right now." I told him and he nodded to that as Luke looked at me. "Yeah well I'm glad they changed the ending for our movie, you got to finish your report, though this time it just went from the Haunting. And to the House on Haunted Hill here, only its the '99 version of it, so with that. If anyone brings a gun in the house, we, and whoever is with us as the medical doctor, got to take him down."
"At the moment if the scares result in a nervous breakdown or worse at the moment, we have to get them to the floor and sedate them. And before the gun goes off and ladies stay out of the way if that does happen, because if it happens in the control room. But if that happens and it's going to ricochet off something made of metal in there and you could get hit, so we got to do it." Luke Sanderson said and they nodded to him at that.
"I can't say I blame Baker for his reaction that night with Pridgett, when he knocked the glass out of his hands at the time, though violence was no reason for the shouting match either." Mary Lambretta Watts said to him and he nodded. "Getting plastered is no way to handle the situation anyway, and being in a locked down haunted house. And is enough to ruffle anyone's feathers, especially when it's you that's the one who locked inside it."
"If that's not enough to scare a person, you know about the house and it's history and you employer is a tycoon, that's just waiting for an accident to happen here. Let alone using guns as party favors is dangerous enough and waiting for the first person to pull the trigger. So with that fact in mind here, if it means we got to subdue the person who brings one in the house, you're the psychiatrist David, but Todd and I are back up."
"As you deal with violent outbursts all the time, but you need the added help as we do this with Lou al the time right now." Luke said to me and I nodded in agreement to that. "That's why we weren't risking taking in any alcohol that night, when he nearly killed you guys, the stupid idiot was drunk and and was trying to plaster himself. And before he wound up dead, that's not the case anymore, as a psychiatrist, I'm not risking that."
"But if you see anything mentally wrong or see him carrying any equipment that I need to know about in with him. Then we do an enforced issue of anything that is for camping and hunting, knives, shotguns, it's geetting confiscated when they arrive, since there's a forest right next door to the house. I want to know about it, because if it takes a fight to disarm him and getting the gun out of his hand, and before the trigger gets pulled."
"As we got to do it fast, but three psychiatrists, two medical doctors and several cops and orderlies in the house. So some loses it and needs to be sedated, we got to do it fast, before it does. Alright my handbag is being loaded with fresh supplies for a fast sedation and I'm packing my emergency kit for that, but as the team psychiatrist. I'm monitoring the rest of the group, because we all know what we're doing here now."
"And the psych reports are in my bag as well, to repeat what I said Luke, if you notice anything off when we're there I want to know about it. Because I don't doubt Davis, Walker or whoever I pick is going to take it seriously. And with twelve to fourteen people in the house and the bar is loaded. And the victim is taking in one too many, especially once he reads about what happened after her reaction and he's seeing things right now."
"And it's going to take all of us, if it take four of us when the guy who loses it finally gets so drunk he pulls a weapon. We need added help to get him under control, and we need to drag him into the hospital room and into restraints. Before he does further damage to himself, though that happens and I'm having a couple orderlies added to the team as well to prevent him from hurting himself or anyone else, if he pulls a weapon on us."
"Or the girls this time, because he's paranoid and drunk right now." I said and he nodded to that as Todd looked at me at that remark as he said it. "What are the chances we got that happening in the house next?" Todd asked and we sighed. "Extremely high, we all got wound up too tight that week, because we were all dealing with her condition, not knowing she was being haunted by Craine, if she'd tried what Luke did with the gate
"And I would have had to restrain her that night right now, if she tried to break out by using the shovel against the chains on the gate. And that's what had me concerned, it switched from going into shock and right into probable suicide when I got to her. Because after getting my arms around her I could feel her shaking from the frequent jolts. And I knew I had to look into why she was going into shock and looking that pale."
"The shock had shifted courses and she was turning paler by the minute, whatever he did to her, I wasn't sure, but two severe blows to her body. And one directly to a minor artery, I didn't realize she was bleeding internally, or that he barely missed rupturing her spleen. Let alone her liver and uterus in the blows he gave her till I got her on the sofa and checked for myself, before we brought her in and by that point then."
"And when Jefferson said she was going to make a full recovery I nearly collapsed out of both relief and exhaustion, because I'd been up all night with her. Just waiting till the Dudleys got back in the morning, since things ended after she locked him in the doors at the time. But several days of gentle intrusions, as he realized nothing he did was scaring us out of the house at the time now, till he went full scale now, in the fifth day."
"Truth is it took barely three days now in that time, before our relationship reached soulmate stage and losing her would have destroyed me and if he tries it again and I'm killing him myself a second time." I said with a growl and and he nodded with a furious look on his face. "If it gets any worse we're looking at the injury that got you thrown out of the group again with someone else, so with that I'm making 5 rules here."
"Rule 1) never be alone in the room, 2), check the equipment before you start playing around with it and three nobody's having anything alcoholic to drink after dinner. I'm not risking anyone putting themselves in the hospital for drinking themselves under the table. 3) no under 21 is screwing around the toxic chemicals, and that means no drinking, no smoking in the house, and there is absolutely no drug use in our house."
"4) check the string instruments to make make sure they're not so tightened that they could snap, so no one loses an eye. or ends up getting hurt. Because they weren't paying attentio, with us being the ones who'd been there for a few day watch the new comers, because they're not paying attention to things and didn't see the dials or anything on the musical instruments moving alright." Eleanor added and they nodded to her gently.
"With the size of this house and the modifications we're turning it into hotel resort, though we're the only ones living in it till I do the blueprints for our houses Nell." Luke said to her and she nodded. "Andy said that the trouble is getting to start up again for now its mostly just the kids than in September it starts. As the real trouble starts if he chooses the weeks leading up to Halloween to start the attempts to scare us right now."
"Though that happens and I'm dodging them yanking him into the wall at the last minute." she said to him and he nodded to that as she answered her at that. "You told us everything and Jefferson was beyond pissed that the bastard tried to kill her. Just what caused that look on his face, let alone Beth and Rick. If Rick was that furious let alone Jack that day after you met up with us Dave?" Mary asked and Wilson answered that.
"He ran a blood test, before he ran the surgery and discovered she was his direct descendant, and decided he was doing whatever it took to make sure she survived it. Though learning he'd just found her as an adult after Jack and Rick told him the truth he was beyond furious at that. But with it came the fact I faxed Jared the field notes Jane sold her apartment and everything she had is gone." he said and I finished it firmly then.
"Reason number two is because he knew from my behavior, that not only had we developed a bond that was grown into soulmates. And she was my future wife, that if she didn't survive this he'd never be able to look me in the eyes. And it's because he knew we just claimed each other as our mates, the day of the painting. As she and I talked things over and he was determined to ensure she survived the procedure."
"ICU maybe, but it was enough he decided to forgo the protocols, because I wasn't leaving her at all at the time. I also decided to drop the act, if it meant claiming I was her husband early I was doing that, because there was no way in hell now. That I was leaving her side when she was in near critical condition at the time. But to Theo and me we saw the close call that night, but Luke was as relieved as she was now."
"That the other was fine, but back here in Boston now, she was healing with the fact she had us now. Though when Lou grabbed her when they came to the hospital three days into us getting back, that pissed me off, because by yanking free of him. But she pulled too hard and it just caused her pain to jump from a two to a nine that day. And that's what really pissed me off then after what we just went through six weeks earlier."
"As to that we were more than furious, because she told us a few things before, but hearing is one thing, seeing it is another and we were all ready to kill him for that, as to why we got all the details two weeks after she woke up and I spent most of that time in the room with her, to keep her company. I'm not a man who takes abuse like this lightly and I'm a medical psychiatrist specializing in substance abuse as well."
"Its enough when I barely miss losing her that night and we got to wait ten days for her to come out of it and she tells us the real reason she wanted him arrested, but this as well and I'm ready to kill, because he's the catalyst that nearly kills my mate and then getting physical in her recovery room and she's surrounded by the five of us. Three weeks into her recovery and we're all back here in Boston."
"At the time we're playing several rounds of poker, and she's leaning against me, because I'm halfway sitting on the bed next to her, before they come in and I can tell from her tone that she knows who they are, before she tells us who they are and you lose your temper. I could also tell he was drunk when he walked in, though how the security squad couldn't see this is beyond me." I said and he nodded as he answered me.
As he looked at her he nodded as he said his thoughts out loud at that as Wilson said it for both of them. "Yeah well what she said was right, only you, Rick and Jared have rights to make the calls here Dave, she's in recovery and these types of blows are not to be taken lightly and he just aggravates her condition when you say to leave. And with that fact in mind, just what part of 'I don't want to talk about it anymore' remark."
"But what part of that doesn't he understand, because this is illegal, what he did was illegal, and he just met the rest of Rebecca's friends, along with Dave and the quartet. Eleanor decided to stick it with me as her lawyer. As she figured it out pretty fast regarding this as decided to let him just stab himself in the foot. As the test results came back and they blew the entire half around aside from the amount they have left."
"And what the hell happened if the orderlies heard the outburst and while I'm at it what happened if Rick had to give her a second dose. And what caused the need for it if you guys had to arrest him and get him in the hospital drunk tank till it wore off completely?" Robert Wilson, my mother in law's lawyer and accountant, asked and Luke answered that, his tone dangerous as he answered him and I knew he was still pissed at that.
"We were playing poker and when he walked into the room her tone went from relaxed and playful with me to irritated annoyance and I knew something was up, before he asked who we were and David answered that. Before she said to him that if it had anything to do with the apartment and the will probate she didn't want to hear it. And hearing that I knew what was going on, because she told me a few things over this."
"After breakfast, I was with her in the foyer examining the carvings, when we were there for the first 2 days, and our bond was already snapping into place. As I looked at him and demanded his name, before she explained who they were to us. And then said it a second time which as it turned out was why they dropped by. They were dropping off her check and she told them she was moving in with David, and staying with us.,
"She also wasn't letting go of a friendship that got forged in one night and she found her soulmate at the same time as well to, so to her now at the time. It was screw their thoughts over us, we mattered more to her and she wasn't giving us up for them. Which to them was a shock and he said he wasn't allowing that and they were taking her to live with them." he said and Chief Jack Benson crossed his arms as he answered him.
As Malcolm crossed his arms and I knew he was irritated at the memory. "To them it's a shock, why, because she changed, was in love with a psychiatrist. And had friends she made in the space of week, and now could have a happy life. And be her own person without them treating her like this. She could what she wanted because she had us now at the time there, she had us back and you?" he asked and she nodded to him gently.
My wife, Dr. Eleanor Craine-Vance Marrow, was the new owner of the house she inherited from her mother Dr. Rebecca Craine-Vance, who was the sole heir of Frederick Craine. Frederick was the son of the house builder, Hugh Craine who, through Eleanor, I later learned was a child molestor and killer and he built the house for the family. That he didn't have, before the rest of the story came out now as we got the shock of our lives.
After meeting her parents after they possessed the billiard game they liked the most, along with several clear indicators as that did it. As I met her godparents and her mother's friends who were the chief of police, the caretakers of the house. The town judge, the chief practitioner at the hospital the surgeon and one of the orderlies there. As the visit was meant to run both of our thesis' and instead added several shocks here."
As the visit to the house 18 months prior to this, and we were getting ready to go back and face the memories now. The last trip resulted in several unexpected shocks as her feelings changed directions, and she was free to be her own person. As she answered his question I tried to hid a smile at her smile. "Yeah that's it exactly, I found happiness for the first time in ten years since my father died and it was because of the experiment."
"David and I were soulmates and I found my best friends and had made several others in the form of Malcolm and his wife. And several members of the staff there in the hospital, and the to top it off I had all of you back in my life now. So this changed me from that sensitive, quiet young woman they knew and turned me into someone who was willing to risk death just to protect my friends and the man I love and standing up for myself."
"To them it was a shock, because they never expected me to stand up for myself, let alone, I fell in love with a man who was everything Lou wasn't. and he'd be there protecting me when I needed him to, Luke and Todd were my brothers and Theo and Mary were sisters. We all shared a connection they couldn't understand and then when he said it was ending then I told him he wasn't taking anything else from me."
"And I was engaged to my psychiatrist to really throw them off." she said and Luke finished it. "After she told them that, he went to grab her and I stepped forward and told them he touched her at all and I was beating the crap out of him, she was in no condition to be leaving the hospital by that point. As she added that she wasn't being separated from us either at the time and that did it for him as he moved towards her."
"And as he grabbed her arm and I shoved him away from her as she yanked out of his grip, but that pulled the muscles in her abdomen and she fell back into the bed." he said and Todd finished his explanation. "And that did it for us as we grabbed him and shoved him away from the bed as David tried to get her to relax. And because she had curled into a ball, before he turned and looked at him and demanded he leave the room then."
"And before he arrested him now, his tone a beyond furious alpha male as well and I knew he was ready to kill him for that. When he refused Luke grabbed him and shoved him out the door, before he decked him and we knew he was drunk. And David yanked a ready made dose of Valium out of the handbag he had sitting on the floor. And called the guys for assistance as the fight got worse and it threw Luke into the couch."
"As they came running in, he told them to restrain him, while he got Rick in there and and while Rick took care of her with the girls next to him, Luke, David and I helped the quintet restrain him and he jabbed him in the shoulder with the syringe, but it took the ten of us to subdue him at the time. Test results came back as ten to twelve units and Malcolm decided on three days of detox to get that level out of him."
"While he and the five of us decided on nobody, but us in the room with her." he said and Eleanor finished it with the next sentence. "After that altercation I told Rick that nobody, but the quintet and Malcolm, if the Websters came back, were allowed to see me at that point, I didn't want to risk tearing anything, since I had another six weeks recovery. And that injury was enough I had to stay in bed for three more weeks at the time now."
"And Rick put me on Nitroglycerin and a blood pressure medication while I was recovering from this." she finished and he nodded to that. "At that state I was beyond furious when he reported on his paper when he brought you to the hospital at the time, but when you said what happened wasn't his fault. I decided to hear your side of the story and believe me when I say now I never expected that the theories at the house."
"That Rebecca's was serious jefe or that her theories on the house would be proven correct. Let alone that the damn house was haunted either, but hearing what happened up there from her was enough of a shocker. That amount was enough to get our patients a chance to heal by getting them stuff to recover emotionally here. Though someone over does it we got to take charge here." Malcolm said to her and she nodded to that.
"Yeah well mom was paying damages to prevent the hospital from being sued at the time, let alone we we had enough do it three times over right now. Look guys, if you'd been paying closer attention to the way we were together. You'd know I already knew what the project was, because I intended to run dream testing. And in a haunted house myself, he read my thesis and decided to shift it slightly to fear and performance."
"He thinks the way I do, but a psychiatrist doesn't have to tell his patients everything as long as they can figure it out on their own." Eleanor said to them gently. "I kind of figured you were going to get it, and with that fact in mind Nell. And when you dragged up your thesis and compared it to his experiment at the time here that night. I knew you saw the ulterior motive here, but the look in your eyes when looking at him."
"I knew you didn't mind that you were brought under false pretenses, because in your eyes, you knew what this was. And we chose do it in the same time frame and way you would at the time, as your mother left her thesis out for us. And we combined it together with yours and that's why we had your name was at the top of it. Though it brought us into your life finally that was enough to help and I knew you needed someone to talk to."
"And as you said if you looked at the way the house seemed to be throwing out vague hints every few minutes, our conversations at dinner, the music in the library that the kids were playing with it being just days before Hallween, and then to top it off our conversations over haunted houses and movies. A scientist and professor of these things looks at the indications and with that fact in mind you guys you should have seen it."
"You'd see what it was that was really going on here you guys, if you'd paid closer attention to the way she was going into professor mode. Mary and I knew the ulterior motive of why we were there, Nell figured it out during our joking around in the library. But then we're one side of her and you're the other guys and with that in mind now, that's why she and I were growing closer all night, I was the brother she needed then."
"The one that understood her feelings regarding Webster at the times, and I knew what the side panel to her theories and they were headed thst were going. So if you'd just pay and paid closer attention to her going into professor mode when she gave the rules. And to being in a haunted house and the fact that David was furious at the bastard. And for screwing with her recovery, emotionally, at the time when it was just the four of you."
"You'd know just what the heck was going on in the house and it took paying $1,500,000., split in half between you. Just to prevent you from suing us by bring you there under false pretenses and this was arranged by Rebecca on purpose. Rebecca paid the damages to prevent you from suing the hospital, because the house. It belonged to her." Todd added and she finished his remark as she looked at the five of us gently.
"You and Mary are the same age as me, but our bonds are pretty strong and the fact remained that if he's always around us when the more sinister phenomenons in the house are happening, for example: Mary getting hurt, he's on the fireplace in the room with us. When they started screwing around with the champagne bottles he moved closer to me to protect me. When Craine started trying to scare the hell out of us."
"He's checking out the house, but heard our screams and came to investigate, he's with you Theo when Craine hijacked the fireplace and then was standing next to me when you found that on the painting, if you looked at this with a clear head you'd see it. As to why it's because while we're upstairs, someone else is scrawling messages on the walls and the paintings of 'Welcome Home Eleanor's' all over the mirrors in the ball room."
"And he's alone when the bastard attacks him in the greenhouse with his back turned, before you hear my scream and things get worse. Simple common sense, you have to look at every indicator, before acting. While Craine destroys the staircase when he's trying to get to me and barely misses killing him while doing it, while my ability was active now and the shock of seeing my mother and grandmother, looking like me at 32."
"And it was going from bad and was getting even worse by the hour that fourth night and he had to get there, before the dizzy spell hit and I lost my grip on the railing. What he told you was right though, with the shock and physical problems. I needed to be in bed and we had to wait till morning to leave, Uncle Jack gave specific orders to him. But that's why I trying to focus that, but the shock was getting worse every minute here."
"Here's the bad news now though, but he knew the minute he saw that the five of you were surrounding me. In Lou's case and their attempts and the fact you were suing them for trying to kill me, it was going to mean they lost everything anyway. Once you heard why I was in the condition I was in Malcolm, half of it was attempted murder. When they rigged the car, but a murder/suicide rap when my adopted uncles and aunt heard this."
"What did mom go by with you exactly, she said your department took this seriously, though you're the head of the hospital?" she asked and he smiled at her. "With the fact she was working the parapsychology department she went by the name Rebecca Craine at work, had I realized who you were when he brought you to the hospital I would have realized you're her daughter. Whatever Jefferson and Benson told you was right."
"You're mother was the top parapsychologist in the upper old colonies and this was a shot at having the job run as a family business when you told me that you were taking the classes she had at the time." he said and she nodded with a smile. "Well my thesis is now focused on dealing with the paranormal and dream and sleep deprivation. And with it, Fear and Performance, so both together, the plan is really going to be Sleep studies."
"Combined with living get in a haunted house and it's a study of things as if you had a ghost like Krueger haunting you in the house. And from Semptember to All Saints day and that's where it shifts from normal sleep studies and it's both that and combined with Fear and Performance. So if he decides to pull a Fred Krueger on us, or just the Geoffrey Rush version to house on haunted Jill and get into one of our patients heads."
"What donation mom gave you I'm tripling it Malcolm, so for the kids who've been hospitalized get them some toys and stuff to play around with in their area of the hospital, air hockey, pool, N64 and so on, that's going to lift their spirits up till their released." She said and he smiled at the suggestion and nodded as he looked at her gently, seeing the flow of confidence in her that just meeting us did in her.
"You did five years of your PH.D's when you arrived, but you never got the chance to use your masters till the last twelve months right?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah that's right Malcolm and Jane's been throwing that in my face ever since. But here's why I was driving myself into the ground, she's been rubbing my face. Now, in the fact that she had a job, was married and had friends, and I was stuck at home taking care of mom."
"But that was fine, because to me mom came first, it didn't matter I set things on hold, for eleven years, my parents were all that mattered to me. But that's because they're like me, they've seen some interesting paranormal activity over the years. And I just found out two or three other things of to why I was their favorite. And when her real genes started up, greed." she said and he nodded to that one, smiling gently at her.
As she switched positions she leaned against me and I wrapped my arms around her and Malcolm smiled as he looked at us together then. "I figured you were waiting till you found your soulmate to change jobs, but I never expected it to happen when you chose to do this project David. So not working with the usual string of patients, but you're continuing your research starting now here?" he asked and I nodded to him gently.
"Yeah, I can work from my house and do research this summer over this, but the advanced project involved is running a sort of summer long get away in the house. The guys and I are running the household, but the six of us are in charge if we got more than ten people running around the house. Radio links, an advanced version of a medical hospital and though it's quiet, I'm organizing for a few things there on the property."
"And for our kids, so they got their own version of rec center right there in the house at the time. But for now, this is going to cross between the movie they made about us and the new version of House on Haunted Hill. Only I'm not turning it into what Rush did when he made that, because one of them loses it. and pulls a gun, we got to take him down and sedate them, before they fire a shot." I told him and he nodded to that gently.
"That happens and you're really going to have to sedate them, because he or she probably has her gift. If the hallucinations hit the point they actually pull a weapon on you, and you guys are going to have to put them in the hospital room till he cools off and relaxes by that point." he said and she answered that gently. "I didn't reach that point, but it was enough that if I'd gone past that point, I probably would have panicked here."
"And when he attacked me in the bedroom because every time I was alone he started pushing even harder. And having you guys thinking that just made it even worse, my powers activated all a once and suddenly I'm getting messages. And from beyond the grave and to top it off, the plot-holes in the story got my attention. And I was digging into it, after finding the blood all over the floor as they lead me to his office."
"But that's from two months anxiety, exhaustion and to top it off dealing with those two, but I don't get a full night's sleep and my ability is going to go berserk right now. As you guys saw the side effects of that, but it's 18 months later and I can control it finally now. But if we anyone who's my powers and can see the other side or hear their voices, and get ready, because whoever it is, is going to have their powers going crazy here."
"Though if I can't concentrate it starts getting out of control and I'm going to have to explain this. And to whoever our M.D. on the team, but the six of us, and whoever the doctor is in charge The first clear up was because whatever he was bombarding me with broke the window and my mind cleared when he tried to kill David. And yanked him on to the stairs leading on to the ramp and again when I realized what it was now."
"And she was telling me at the time, but had mom just told me, before you interrupted us it would've worked at the time. That's why dad ordered him to end that investigation and pull the plug, because I was asleep on my feet. And they knew I had to take a break and fast, and, before they, Hugh puts me in the hospital for tearing something. But after seeing what I had with the painting, my necklace and hearing mom at the time."
"It left one option left and I risked a fatal injury to make sure we got out alive, though he tries anything else and I'm making it clear the reason he didn't attack us all at once is because we were just getting used to being there, he pushed up the shocks every night till he decided it was time to go all out at once. As to why it's because every day getting closer to his death and burial, or just his jail sentence every Halloween."
"What you're looking at here is not the rotten core here, but a demented soul who is as close to Fred Krueger as you can get for him. But he knew if anyone realized he's haunting the house and he was toast once David put it together here. Now, that mom is both Craine and March, but she's using Craine on her pen name for her thesis. At work Malcolm, while she's March in Concord and with me now, she's both, so with that."
"I'm doing the same, as my research is under my pen name and that's my maternal family name and I'm a going by my maiden name at home. But my married name with everyone here, so chosen psychiatrist aside, we get a couple added men involved, aside from you guys, you all dealt with this, several cops. Or guys who've dealt with any type of outburst and are strong enough to restrain the victim, especially if he's drunk."
"So with that, we stick together, don't wonder off alone and ignore the noises or anything else he does to try and scare us. This time at the moment here, and it's because we're not falling for it this time at the moment. Secondly Luke, you pull yourself together, Uncle Jack is still furious, we're getting a full scale hospital set up at the house, there's no need to freak out so pull yourself together." she said and we nodded in agreement.
"He touches you at all and I really am going to kill him again, if it takes that at the moment Eleanor and with that in mind." I said to her and she nodded. "Yeah the first person to lose it is getting sedated, if he pulls a gun. Or grabs a carving knife or anything, because a broken window was bad enough. I thought she did that to actually try and kill herself at the time when you told us." Luke said to me and she sighed gently.
"The Websters didn't even remotely push me far enough to try that, the mental shock resulted in breaking the window and it kept getting worse from there." she said to him and he nodded to that as we finished up then. "It wasn't the Websters, or his telling us the truth, I already knew the whole story he told me the day before. But if you saw me leaning into his arms it's because I needed him then because he's my soulmate."
"So the shock was from the trauma to my torso Luke, I figured out what the hell was going on and the realizations. They kept getting worse every minute and the sudden collapse was because the shock hit me all at once." she said and he nodded gently. "He does it again and I'm not leaving you alone at all at this rate, so this just went from old memories to making sure you don't get hit hard enough here this time at the moment."
"Just to cause that in the first place now too, or your powers go haywire when you're dealing with it." he said and she nodded in agreement to that. "Yes well if she chose the doctor who's a skeptic and we could have that problem, but this kind of Doctor. It's we got to tell them that portion of, before they think that. And I'm having a breakdown, because my abilities have gone berserk, but that's part of the problem right now."
"I heard the latest recording when you left the room, what I told you was the amount of the venting I was holding in at the Websters. But it wasn't enough for me to really try it, but I found the recorder sitting on the table as I was coming to talk to you. And I knew you weren't the one doing all that David, fact of the matter was my thoughts. And over Craine haunting the house were growing with everything that was going on at the time."
"I was looking at this logically and seeing a single pattern from it, but the entire pattern showed that you weren't the cuplprit all that that time here. And I mean ten crashes in the kitchen, Mary gets hurt, the flue, the painting and everything else. But we're either in groups of two or just as a single group and he's doing anything to scare us. And till he decides to focus his attention on me and my ability kicks in that night."
"Whatever reason was enough that if my abilities kicked in that afternoon and that did it finally, I was getting to the bottom of this and from there, it finally crossed the line of simple parlor tricks to being terrorized by a deranged spirit that week, till you saw what I could see, because our relationship had activated the night before and then you suddenly get your own views of him finally." she said to me and I nodded to that one gently.
Looking at her I gently answered that remark. "Your conversation with Benson and the Dudleys was what had me worried honey. The way you described things in that much detail, like you were turning into one of them and getting deeper into what truths the legends had. As for reason number two, it was Janet that made me really worried, it was like you were possessed of the determination to prove you were as good as she was."
"But all this together, but we weren't seeing what she was, because we didn't have that ability at the time now at the time. It wasn't until I get attacked when my back is turned and I hear your scream. Followed by Luke calling out to me that it hits me like a train wreck what the hell s going on inside that house at the time." I told her and she nodded as she leaned her head against my chest, as my boss Malcolm Keough answered me.
"You learn anything else David?" Malcolm asked and I nodded. "The reason for why they gave her the car that fast was because that was an ulterior motive Malcolm, said ulterior motive is they were hoping the drive was going to destroy the car if she tried to break out by breaking the fence down. By Luke trying it, before she could try it, he just saved her life and if I hadn't done immediate CPR she'd have died of that heart attack."
"So two murder attempts here and she ordered them to double check her med reports again." I told him and then before he could answer there as a knock on the door and he got it and the Chief of police came into the room. "Hey Rick, what you find out exactly?" Theo asked and his eyes narrowed. "Your suspicions were confirmed Nell, the cup of tea was laced with arsenic, evidently he ground up the plant the night before she died."
"And mixed it into the tea leaves themselves and suggested he bring it to her." he said and we nodded to that. "One case murder, two attempted, repeated DUI's, assault with a deadly weapon, assault and battery, breaking and entering, and forgery. Alright enough is enough, Malcolm he's getting committed for six years after the trial. And than once it's done, he's lost his license as a lawyer." She said and I finished that remark firmly.
"And he's working there at the hospital to serve his probation, for the next five years right now at the moment here. Also Rick spread the word to every bar, liquor store and the grocery store in town, he's not touching another glass. And of alcohol for the rest of his life now." I told him and he nodded to that. "Yeah I agree with you, he's destroying his liver with the amount going through his system as for the Liam right now."
"And looking at the story from your point of view it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you're not the one pulling those stunts honey. Because every time there's trouble you're investigating it and our book shows that as well. The look on you face when you saw the painting I could tell you were furious at this. As if you needed someone screwing with my emotional therapy by that point in the middle of it and that was a setback."
"Because your tone when you're furious is enough no sane person wants to mess with you when you're going into alpha male mode at the time. You were with me all night just before he hijacked the house, with Theo when he hijacked the fireplace, exploring the house when he was trying to scare us on our arrival and standing next to me when Luke found that on the painting." she said and I nodded in agreement as I answered her.
"Yeah and I was pissed at that, we were making progress and now some wiseacre is screwing with your progress, but the added jolts were making me worried by that point, what with the flue nearly mowing us down in the fireplace. Followed by the painting and I wasn't sure if that was red paint or someone had written in human blood all over the painting when they started arguing about as I moved to get a better look at it."
"Though seeing it through my eyes was enough to tell any person with a PH.D that I'm not the one causing things to go haywire in the house, but our connection was in place. Though nobody could hear your mother's voice, I could, through you, to know what the hell was going on in the house, before he attacked me when my back was turned. The added messages from your mother were enough I had to get you out of the house."
"But I said I wasn't the one pulling these stunts to scare you guys though and suddenly the bastard pushes you past the limit of your control, your added ability kicks in all at once and then to top it off you've taken internal injuries and collapse from the shock, which explains the look on your face before we got you to sit down on the couch. Aside from shock the lethargy was getting worse when you nearly fell asleep in front of me."
"Putting your head on my shoulder was enough to tell me you were beyond exhausted by this point, and at least ten diagnosis's for why you'd gone into shock shot through my head, but your ability wasn't it at all, though internal injuries were though and that's why I was furious, I had to see where you got hit, knowing he probably hit a vein or artery in the blow." I said and Theo answered that as she looked at me and Luke gently.
"That's why I said to cool it with the fights, we had more important things to think about, mainly making sure nothing else happened, before the Dudleys got back, though at this rate, now that we know, we're falling for it this time, because this time we're all sticking together, and when on the job we're making sure you're never alone either." she said and I nodded in agreement as Eleanor leaned against me gently.
"What I will say if that the idiot who decides to plaster himself followed by going berserk is getting arrested here. Uncle Jack, the cops and the paramedics never get closer than five miles during the day and town at night. Because of the sounds of children story. And to answer the unasked question, my little friends are the reason for that sounds of children in the house theory." she said and Malcolm looked at her, before he could say it the gold bars started stacking themselves and I looked at the person doing it.
"Don't stack them any higher then four feet guys, otherwise they're going to land on someone's foot." I said and the others rearranged themselves into becoming a pyramid at that and I nodded with a smile at that. "Well that's one way to prevent a broken ankle or foot. How heavy is that gold bar exactly?" Malcom asked and he smiled. "1.5lbs each, but you got eight of those and you're looking $75,000,000 altogether, at the moment."
"But both saving boxes together total $900,000,000,000,000, plus the insurance plan. And the total comes to $750,000,000,000,000,000. But that amount is enough to cause anyone to lose their minds right now." he said and she nodded to to that. "The amount at my house is enough it's like you're in a treasure hunt right, but if this turns into Adams Family and we got someone trying to get into the vault at the moment here now."
"And guys, you better start scaring them, because I'm making it clear that the house is haunted, before they wind up getting hurt, okay." she said and the bars put themselves into a 'K' and she smiled at that. "Well this upcoming trip should be good, you remember our conversation after dinner that night. And just before we had the kids come knocking on the door when we were getting ready to do this?" Mary asked and we nodded smiling.
"Yeah but whatever they, mom, dad, grandpa and Alicia have in mind this time, it should be interesting now, but we faced it together and it's enough to help. But this time it's never mind going untreated, for now it's a weekend off and then we get to work on the house." Eleanor said as Malcolm came to a decision. "Is there a way to get a fax machine here or should we, before head go to their teachers for the next two weeks now."
"And have their assignments drawn up, because I'm considering taking three weeks vacation and we can join you for the next three weeks as we get your house restored. If your father is acting a tutor your mother and I can run over the original findings. When she was in the house and it's we got both generations working over this now. So three weeks vacation, and the kids have plenty to do there, us adults now though."
"Everything is configured to our own tastes in the house too now, but library, games and a few other things, no tv or phone, but that's okay. It's just slight vacation away from civilization and up in the bershires right now." he said and she nodded. "Go with the second idea and I'm sure dad can act as a coach and tutor for the kids here." she said and two of the bars jumped off the floor to comfirm that thought and he smiled.
As we ended the conversation at that gently as we exchanged smiles, knowing this trip was going to be way better then the last one. And knowing that the next three months as we were in the middle of February at the time was going to be great. "Hey Malcolm you better go it from now to till spring break this way the kids can get comfortable as they know their way around the house." Luke said and he nodded to him gently at that.