Based on The Loud House show by Chris Savino.

THE HAUNTED WALLS OF AVERYVILLE.

Story by Oswald Flow and Bridget Rogers. Note: This is Oswald, I'm putting Bridget's name here since she's still a present influence in the writing of this fic, she's pitching me ideas and handles the romance parts better than I do. But most of this fic will be written by me, so I'm sort of back from the hiatus. Bridget is still writing fully Making it Work, so stay tuned for more chapters. About this fic, this is a spin-off/sequel to the Making it Work fic. The story takes place four years after the events of that story, but there will be no spoilers of that fic here, don't worry. There will be a couple of characters that are going to be the main villains of this story, these are original characters and intellectual property of mine. Hope you guys enjoy this, happy halloween.

Chapter 01: Our new Home.

There's something moving through the walls... I've seen it. Sliding in a very frightening way, taunting me... As long as I stay away from the walls, it won't reach me. I think, please Lord I hope that I'm right.

The sound of a car stopping was heard, it was Luan's and Maggie's. They've had just arrived to their new home. They stepped out of the car. They were 21 and 20 respectively.

The house was big and old, it had a rather omnious look but it was mostly the impression it gave because of the season. Everything was so orange and yellow at this time of the year.

The houses on the block already with the gloomy theme of the festivity. Pumpkins, bats, ghosts, cats.

But the house that stood out the most was that, it looked a bit eerie from the outside, it had been abandoned for sometime now. However, that was going to change.

When Maggie stepped out of the car, she adjusted her glasses, she recalled a few memories of being in this place before, but they were so foggy. By now, she was a 20 year old adult. She still has her long raven hair, obviously she was older, not that taller however. She wore a black t-shirt, with the cover of one her favourite bands, Disturbed from the album; Asylum. Other than that she wore a light purple skirt and shoes.

Suddenly, Luan's voice broke the silence, wrapping her arm around Maggie's shoulder. "So this is our new home, huh?"

"Looks different from what I remember, it used to be... brighter."

Chuckling softly, Luan went to get the bags from the back of the car. She's 21 now and still taller than Maggie. She still has long brown hair, she doesn't wear it in a pony tail anymore nowadays, letting her nice wavy hair to slide down her shoulders. She wears a yellow shirt, wearing some short pants and brown boots with a pink flower on their side of each boot.

"Shall we, then?" Luan asked as she grabbed the bags on her side. The truck would come with their furniture later on the day.

"Ok." Maggie said as she pulled the keys on her purse which Luan handed from one of the bags.

Walking down to the door, Maggie felt a bit of unease, but as soon as she walked into the house, that was thrown away. She could see that hallway... so beautifully decorated with drawings and paintings on the walls. Making her smile. Luan noticed and she felt like there was more history to her girlfriend than what she knew.

They both walked down the hallway and into the living room, it was large and they could see even more paintings and drawings, mostly cartoons. Maggie walked down to one of the walls, a picture of the iconic rabbit that she remembered, it wasn't her aunt's, the character was emblematic from the Dwaltz Animation Studios which her aunt worked for.

"It's Oddette, your aunt was fan of Dwaltz, I see." Luan admired the piece as she settled the bags down.

"Well, she worked there, for them I mean."

"She worked for Dwaltz Animation Studios?! Why didn't you told me this?" Luan felt a bit hurt that she was hearing this from Maggie now, when they're moving to this house.

"To be honest, we don't talk about my great aunt much, because, well... she went mad."

"Oh." Luan said as she watched Maggie gently running her hand along the drawing.

It was the cartoonish drawing of a rabbit, in black and white, old fashion cartoon from the short Steampunk Billie. Oddette Rabbit is a female rabbit with long ears, wearing a tomboyish outfit.

"It's ok if you don't want to talk about it, but... y'know... we're moving in here and I'm just hearing this now."

"Oh, sorry." Maggie smiled and adjusted her glasses. "Well, what do you want to know?"

"Like... I dunno, tell me something about her?" Luan gave a smile.

"Well, she died somewhere else, she... had to be treated for her mental illness. She... left me this house, because she had no one else. I still find it hard to beleive she let me have this house, I thought she was going to give it charity. She was really nice to everyone. She wanted nothing more than..." Maggie then realized that her aunt remembered her of someone.

"A smile?" Luan completed the sentence.

"Heh, yeah." Maggie adjusted her glasses again and then walked down to the room, looking at all the beautiful paintings and cartoons that her aunt made.

Walking behind her, and looking at the walls, then Luan wrapped her arms from behind her and gently embraced her, making Maggie to blush but smile warmly.

"You were close to her?" Luan asked as she placed a small kiss on her neck.

"Hardly, I visited her sometimes... before dad... y'know." Then Luan hold her tightier, being always protective of her girlfriend whenever she began to recall old sad memories.

"So, she's from your dad's side?"

"Yeah..." Maggie said and gently rubbed the hands wrapped around her waist.

"Yet... she still left you this house, why did you take it?" Luan asked, rather ecceptic about the whole situation, if she was from her father's side then she would feel uncomfortable knowing that Maggie would not feel happy at this place.

"The fact she's from my dad's side doesn't mean I didn't had good memories here. She was really nice, we painted a few of these... obviously mostly her, but... she liked to include me in her paintings, and I can see that she hasn't erased any of the ones I worked with." She smiled and then looked all the way to left side, the wall next to the large window.

There was this picture of a woman, a cartoonish woman wearing a large white hat, and a large white dress, she was in a sitting position, her legs crossed and her hands placed on her thighs, with her eyes closed, with long blonde hair, and a large wide smile.

"That's new." Maggie said.

"Hmm?" Luan looked at the picture, it was sort of different, a different style. Not the one implemented in Dwaltz Animation Studios.

"Nothing, it's just, I don't recall that one." Maggie says and then Luan chuckles softly. "So, shall we look at the rest of the place or you wanna order some pizza before the truck arrives?"

"Meh, let's take a look. I prefer to eat peacefully."

"Ok then." Maggie said and walked alongside Luan, they made their way to the kitchen, it looked empty of course, but there were still some paintings on the walls, there was some black paint smeared all over the corner of the room and that sort of made them raise an eyebrow.

However, they ignored it and then made their way to the backside of the house, the little yard behind the home, they would have to hire a gardener, since it was all covered in grass.

Then they head down the hall and up the stairs towards the bedroom, there were a few guest rooms on each side of the hallway, there was a studio. A bathroom. And finally the bedroom where they walked in and then they stared at the walls, the floor, the ceiling. It was all... black.

There was a rope, a broken rope hanging from the ceiling, whatever was attached to it might had been pretty heavy. They remained in silence, everything was literally black. So that painting on the kitchen... was foreshadowing what they were witnessing at the moment.

Luan pointed out at the corner where there was a visible frame, there used to be a window there, it was all black aswell.

"The window. Look at the window." Luan said.

"Looking at it." Maggie said a little bit frightened aswell.

"Look at it, Maggie, the window." Luan said with a smile but clearly her eyes were telling Maggie that she was disturbed aswell.

"Yeah, I looked at it."

"Seriously, the window, look at it." Luan kept teasing, obviously she was messing with her.

"Stop, seriously." Maggie crossed her arms and watched as Luan laughed.

"Wow... so this is the place where we're going to die, huh?" Luan said, obviously joking with this new cruel adult sense of humor.

Sighing and rolling her eyes, Maggie just watched as Luan looked around the room.

"What happened here?" Luan asked.

"Well, I guess this explains the behaviour of my great aunt, doesn't it?"

"Damn, did she slept here? What about the rope hanging from up there?" Looking up, both of them just scratched their heads trying to think what used to be hanging from up there.

"It's giving me the creeps, to be honest. I did heard that she was sort of... squizofrenic, she had some sort of phobia towards the open, so she liked to work on closed spaces. However, one day she just... flipped out, she started to be scared of closed spaces aswell. Heard that she... would be found always, in the middle of the room, away from the walls."

"Now that sounds comforting."

"Either way, I feel bad for her, heard all this during our second break, remember? When... our relationship was in shambles?"

"Yeah I do. I'm sorry to hear you went through all that alone."

"She died shortly, but I didn't know how to react." Maggie said, feeling tears building in her eyes.

"Hey, c'mon." Luan said and wrapped her arms around her, and then Maggie buried her face in Luan's shoulder and sniffed, trying her best to hold down the tears. It was so painful to hear what was going on with her, and not being able to do anything.

Luan rubbed her back gently as Maggie calmed down shortly and took her glasses off to clean her face.

"Ugh, sorry."

"It's ok, love." Luan kissed her cheek.

Putting her glasses back on, Maggie smiled at Luan and embraced her again.

The silence and the comforting moment was broken when Luan pointed out. "It's a little weird that we're having this moment here... on the slaughter room." Luan laughed.

"And... you ruined it. Of course." Maggie said frowning.

"Just look at this room, you'll see, we'll scratch all this black away, settle a nice colorful theme on the walls. A nice comfy bed, in which we'll have so much lovely evenings." She raised her eyebrows teasingly, making Maggie blush. "And you'll see, this will be a nice place to live in in no time!" Luan look around for a second and then added. "But for now... we're not sleeping here."

"Obviously." Maggie chuckled.

Some time later, the truck arrived, their furniture was placed in the house, and by the end of the night, they settled down on the sofa. It turned into a bed.

They laid down, they didn't do anything else, they just cuddled. Luan kissed Maggie a few times, it didn't went anything past that. They smiled and silently closed their eyes, ready to sleep.

It was peaceful. Maggie however, felt a little bit of unease. She felt a little observed, so this strong sense of paranoia kept waking her up during the night. She thought that maybe it was Luan who couldn't sleep, but she just wouldn't wake up.

There was one time, where she felt like she was having a vivid dream, something flashed from the corner of her eye, like something slid from the walls.

When she wake up the next morning. She wondered, if she had imagined that. It was a blurr, but she could tell it was some odd figure.

However, she decided not to pay any attention to what her brain was trying to give meaning to, and just tried her best that this gloomy house was not getting into her head.