Title: Watch out and be careful
"Mommy, I need your help. He won't leave me alone" Aiden yelled in the morning as a ghost appeared next to his bed. Melinda stood up and went to his bedroom.
"What do you want?" she asked sleepy.
"That doesn't matter… Your son needs to know…" a male ghost in his late forties said.
"Know what?"
"That he has to protect you…"
"Are you kidding me? He is five. How can he protect me? And from what?"
"You'll find out soon enough. All I can tell you is that you are in danger and your son is the key. He knows how to find and protect you!" the ghost said and disappeared.
Aiden started to cry.
"Honey, why are you crying?" Melinda asked.
"Didn't you hear what he said? You are in danger. Something will happen to you. Mommy I need you. You are the only one who knows how it feels to see them and to experience what the ghosts do. I know that daddy understands but he can't help me. At least not the way you can" he couldn't stop crying. He was very mature for a 5-year-old. Melinda and Jim were very proud of him. He accepted his gift right away and was curious about it. He always wanted to know more. Unfortunately Melinda and Jim still didn't know what he could do. It was obvious that he could see ghosts but Melinda couldn't forget what Carl told her in the tunnels during her pregnancy. (Episode 4x23 'Book Of Changes')
"Honey… Look, before you were born many ghosts came here and made threads about my safety… And our gift brings us sometimes in danger but as you can see I'm still okay. Nothing will happen to me. Maybe the ghost just got it wrong?!"
"Alright. But I want to stay with you. I just want to get sure that you are safe."
"That's cute of you… But it's Saturday and I need to work in the store and you wanted to play baseball with daddy."
"I don't want to play anymore…" he still had tears in his eyes.
"What don't you want to play anymore?" Jim came into Aiden's room just wearing his boxers. He went over to him and kissed his forehead. "Morning honey" he hugged Melinda and kissed her tenderly.
"Morning Jim… We just had a visitor… He made threads about my safety and that Aiden should protect me and so on… Now he wants to come with me to the store instead of playing baseball with you."
"Sorry daddy" Aiden whispered.
"No, it's fine. If you want to be with you mother its okay. You know what? If my mom was as sexy as yours I would do the same" Jim told Aiden.
"Jim… Don't you think he's way too young to talk about girls??" Melinda asked.
"Oh, right. Sorry I forgot that for a sec but that doesn't change the fact that you are sexy" he kissed her passionately.
"Pfew… Could you please stop it? That's awful…" Aiden said. Melinda and Jim looked at each other and laughed.
"Okay, we will stop. You see he's too young…" Melinda said to Jim then she turned to Aiden. "Well, I won't work that long today. If you want you can help me a bit in the store. I need to tidy up the basement."
"I love your basement… It's like a big mystery" Aiden smiled because he got his will.
"So get dressed and eat something. Then we can go" Melinda said and Aiden went to the bathroom. "I guess you'll be here alone, sweetheart. What will you do?"
"Don't know, maybe I'll meet Ned and play a bit basketball with him."
"Ouh I married a sport addicted man" Melinda smiled and kissed Jim. They lay back on Aiden's bed and started making out. Right in that moment Aiden came back in his room because he forgot to take his socks to the bathroom.
"That's disgusting. Don't you have your own bed?"
"Oh, sorry honey, but I love your mom so much that the way to the bedroom was too far for us to go."
"Just stop it, okay?" he said and went to the bathroom again.
"That was embarrassing" Melinda said getting red.
"You know if we hadn't done this before we'd never have had Aiden. I can't think of a life without him anymore. It's like he changed our marriage. Like it got more intense. Like my love to you grew if that's even possible…"
"I love you more than everything. You and our son are my world" Melinda said. "But that doesn't change my way of thinking about sex when our son could come in every second. I don't want him to feel strange about it because he saw us together. Do you understand this?"
"Sure I do" he kissed her cheek, stood up and held his hand out for Melinda. "Come on. Let's have some breakfast." Melinda took his hand and went down with him where Aiden was already sitting, having his breakfast.
"Honey, I'm so sorry about what you saw. But, you know, daddy and I love each other very much and sometimes we can't express in words what we're feeling and then happens that…" Melinda explained to her son.
"Okay mommy."
"I have an idea" Jim said. "When mommy and daddy want to show each other what they are feeling they put a hat on the doorknob. Then you know not to come in the room, okay?"
"Okay daddy."
"Great, so give a high-five" Jim held out his right hand and Aiden gave him a high-five.
"Fine boys. Aiden we got to go. I don't want Delia to be in the store alone for too long" she said as she got up. "I love you Jim" she kissed him while Aiden put on his shoes.
When they arrived at the store they went in.
"Hey you two, what's up?" Delia asked.
"Hey Delia, everything's fine, why?" Melinda answered while Aiden went to the basement.
"Well, what is Aiden doing here? Didn't you tell me that he wanted to play baseball with Jim today?!"
"Yeah, he had a weird ghost today which told him that he should protect me and now he doesn't want to play baseball anymore because he is afraid that something could happen to me. That's cute, isn't it?"
"Sure it is. But what does he want to do here all day?"
"We'll be downstairs tidying up the basement. He loves the basement. Call me if you need any help."
"Sure I will" Delia said. Melinda turned around and went to the basement.
"Why do you always tell me to tidy-up my room when your basement looks like this, mommy?" Aiden wanted to know.
"Because I don't want that your room looks like this" she answered.
"Okay… Where do we start?"
"I think we should clean them up. Could you please go upstairs and get some water?"
"Sure" he said and ran up the stairs.
Suddenly Melinda heard something knocking. It came from the tunnels. She went closer to the hole in the wall. She saw a body moving. Then she grabbed her flashlight and went into the tunnels. There she saw him. He put a bag on Melinda's head, lifted her and took her away. She screamed but of course no one heard her.
