AN: Okies...if you watch ghost whisperer you'll know that it doesn't fit with the DPS timeline, but this idea was bugging me for a while, so I decided to write it. The timeline is that it's 1964, 5 years after Neil died...and Melinda from ghost whisperer lives in '64 too...

If you don't watch ghost whisperer (and you don't have to, really to understand this), I started with the intro that plays at the beginning of the show..

Names: Melinda Gordon – The ghost whisperer

Jim Clancy - her husband. He's a paramedic

They live in a town called Grandview, which to fit with the story I've moved to very near to Welton Academy. I think that's enough for this to make sense...if it doesn't, tell me!

Unfinished Business

My name is Melinda Gordon. I'm married, I live in a small town and I own an antiques shop. I might be just like you, but from the time I was a little girl I knew I could talk to the dead. Earthbound spirits, my grandmother called them. In order to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs

"Thou speak'st aright!
I am that merry wanderer of the night!"

Melinda frowns. On the stage, she can see two Pucks. One, the made up, exuberant actor, the other a skinny, dark-haired boy wearing nothing but stage leggings. Nobody else seems to have noticed him, which, for her, usually means one thing. Nobody else can see him.

As the play goes on, the 'ghost Puck' continues to follow the actor around the stage, speaking his lines, mimicking his actions.

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends."

As both Pucks speak their last lines, Melinda sees the ghost looking towards the back of the theatre, as though expecting to see someone there. And when the curtain falls, she's certain she sees a tear make its way slowly down the boy's cheek.

"So what did you think?" Jim asks as they make their way out of the theatre. When she doesn't reply, he tries again "Mel?"

Melinda shakes her head, to clear her thoughts. "It was great. Really great Jim" She smiles at him, but continues looking around the foyer. "But I saw...there was a ghost following Puck around the stage,"

"Is he here now?" Jim asks. He follows Melinda's eyes as she scans the foyer for the ghost.

"Yeah. He's right..." She walks towards a seemingly empty corner of the foyer. Jim sighs, smiles slightly, and follows her

Neil watches the people come out of the theatre. They're talking, he knows they're talking about the play, the acting. The way they talked about him, when he performed five years ago...

Then he sees a woman, young, pretty, walking towards his corner, purposefully. She looks straight at him, meets his eyes.

She can see me! But how? I'm...

AN: So...what did you think? Should I carry on? Does it make any sense at all...Reviews make me happy

Smiles

--CBT