Midnight-Let Your Freak Flag Fly
S1 Ep2
Manny walked into the Rv and took one of his pills I shook my head
"You really need to stop that shit" I said and grabbed the flask from his hand taking a long swig.
"Look who's talking sis" I made a face at him saying fuck off basically.
"Long night?" Grandma asked from the back room.
"Go to midnight, nice small town out in the middle of nowhere, nice folk lay low make money." He took another swig.
"So that's a yes" she said.
"That house is infested grandma!" I yelled "and with whatever is under the floor growling." I paced the Rv while Manny sat on the couch. Manfred phone buzzed.
"High Tower has been calling all night." Grandma stated the obvious.
"Remember what you used to say" Manny started "When the going gets tough.."
"We live in a house on wheels" we all finished with a chuckle.
"That was before I died kids, you don't have me anymore, you need more than yourselves you need family, a place to call home a town to call home you need people."
"This is more than I was ready for" Manfred said.
"Trust me Manny I know, you know all the emotion in this town, I feel like my head is going to explode I've never felt like this." I said with almost tears in my eyes.
"I know guys but it will be worth it, Midnighter's protect each other." Grandma said
"Sure.." Manny sighed
"You just saw it with your own eyes out there." Grandma interrupted.
"I can't handle going back in there." Manfred said
"We have to Manny." Starting to understand grandma's point.
"You don't have to pretend to be normal," Grandma said "Let your freak flag fly, tell them what's up." I grabbed Manny's hand and dragged him out of the RV into the pawn shop ignoring all the voices and pain as I walked back.
"We need help" I stated walking into the pawnshop seeing Fiji, Olivia, Lem, Joe and the Rev.
"That's an understatement" Olivia
"Watch it." I growled "I'm not in the mood right now and I can feel that you aren't either"
"How-" Lem started.
"Don't ask Lem" I cut him off, they don't need to know all of me. Not yet.
"Look our house if full of ghosts and evil crap" Manfred said.
"Crap?" Fiji questioned "What kinds of crap"
"Some kind of demon entity, poltergeist," I said looking at them.
"That should be taken care of" Lem said.
"What makes you think its demonic." Joe asked
"The growling under the floor," I said to him "I can feel the evil."
"Are you sure you're not trying to weasel your way out of helping?" olivia asked looking from Manfred to me.
"We can't get answers from Aubrey with all the chaos at home" I said getting more annoyed "We need backup."
"The sun will be up shortly, I'm out" Lem said
"Whatever you need I know my way around haunts" Fiji said feeling uncertain.
"I'll go," Joe spoke up "I'm curious"
"Do you know CPR," Manny joked, and I slapped him as everyone looked at us funny "In case it doesn't go well."
"Which we won't let happen, I'm not that easy to kill." I said to Manny.
We got to the house and Manfred opened the door. The air was frigid, and you could see flies everywhere, it didn't take a medium to see that.
"You were right" Fiji said shivering in the cold.
"Some seriously bad mojo" Joe said shaking his head.
"Do you see any ghost now?" she asked looking around the house.
Both me and Manfred looked up and around.
"Yup" so many you couldn't even see the ceiling.
"Oh my" Fiji jumped as the floor glowed red.
"Wait you can see that?" I asked, its not good if regular folk can see that.
"Yeah that's definably demonic" Fiji said.
I looked around and saw Aubrey in the kitchen.
"Manny Aubrey's here" I started moving towards her.
"Wait Addy shouldn't I do this?" he asked. I know he would always rather him be possessed but sometimes its better to feel something as well as see it.
"No I think its better that I feel what she did through my own way, but hold my hand so you can see it to, and you can help me if something goes wrong." I could feel his understand and regret but he nodded his head and let me lead.
"Aubrey we need your help, Bobo's in jail, if he didn't do it we need your help." Water fell out of her mouth as she tried to talk. I grabbed Manny's hand. "Enter me Show me what happened." She turned to fog and I felt her enter me. I gagged, I hated tasting dead spirits during their entering. I felt her worry about Bobo as she set out on a walk. She was hit from behind, shot and dragged before being left for dead in the river. The last thing I remember is feeling like I was really drowning and spitting out water and I blacked out.
Manfred POV
I held Addy's hand as Aubrey entered my sister. I hated when she had to do this but she was right, and empath could understand more especially in a murder. I saw everything that happened the night she died but I was able to pull out of the vision because I wasn't the one possessed. When Aubrey drowned I head gagging and water and realized it was Addy. Joe and Fiji rushed over not really knowing what to do.
"We need to get her out of here" Joe said helping me with her as she fell towards the floor, the water just kept coming and I felt like she couldn't breathe.
"Aubrey you need to let go before you kill her get out now!" I yelled hoping Aubrey would listen and not kill my sister.
"Take her to my house the dead cant enter" Fiji said. Joe grabbed her from me as she continued to spit out water and ran across to Fiji's, I saw Aubrey leave her body at the door but I also wasn't seeing her breathe. Joe laid her on the floor and started compressions.
"Addy fight this, don't die on me now I'm not ready for you to haunt me." After a minute I heard her take a deep breath, and the rest of the water came out of her mouth.
"She's good, she should wake up soon" Joe said checking her pulse.
"Ill Watch her you guys go to Davy tell them what you saw." Fiji said putting a blanket over her on the couch
"I hope it's enough to help"
"They will believe you over her right now you led them to the gun." I nodded following Joe out of the house.
Addy's POV Again
I woke up my head pounding almost screaming the emotions Aubrey had felt. Then I remembered the drowning. I bolted up from where I was laying looking around not knowing where I was.
"Woah calm down Adelynn your ok" Fiji said sitting down next to me on the couch. She handed me a mug of something, but it was nice and warm. "Drink this it will help you feel better." She said
"Where's Manfred?" I asked after taking a few sips, man that felt so good, I felt it helping my head already.
"he went with Joe to Davy to talk to the police, we figured since he lead them to the gun they would believe him better." I nodded, and she looked at me curiously.
"Why is it better for ghosts to enter you what do you see that your brother doesn't?" she asked. I felt that one coming. I felt nothing but peace from her right now, so I knew I could trust her.
"I'm more than just a gypsy like Manny, I have visions like My grandmother did but I'm also an Empath. I feel everyone's emotions no matter what, but I also feel ghost's emotions and possessed objects emotions too. Here is quiet though except I still hear your emotions."
"Well my house is inhospitable to the dead, I cant believe being a medium in midnight is easy for either of you especially you with the feelings."
"The pawn shop isn't my favorite place." She chuckled
"I bet not, would you like to help me set up for the exorcism at your house?" I nodded my head it would give me something to do. I helped Fiji carry things over and it started to get dark.
"Hey Addy!" I heard Manfred call to me as I walked back in the house with a few more jars from her house.
"Manny!" I gave him a hug.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Better than I was, Fiji cave me some tea when I woke up, that was scary I don't think we have ever been that close before huh?" I said holding him tight.
"I never want to see that again Addy I almost thought I lost you, joe had to preform CPR cause she wouldn't leave you until we got to Fiji's"
"I know I felt it. I kept trying to get her out but I couldn't gather enough energy to will her out, it was almost like she was trying to kill me." I let him go and patted his chest, "Can you bring in that mirror for Fiji." He did and set it up in the living you,
"Are you sure you want to use a mirror?" he asked, looking over at Fiji as he put it down. "Mirror and seances can get messy."
"You two don't need them because you can see the dead, I need to be able to see to the spirit realm." She said hanging the devils net in the doorway to the bedroom. "Oh powerful" she pointed out the talisman.
"Yeah it belongs to out grandmother, from our ancestors who used to fight all sorts of demonic stuff" I said. "She kept a bunch of stuff being the packrat that she was."
"Probably all illegal too." Manfred said, and I laughed.
"Lets start this exorcism" Fiji said. She opened the door to the bedroom letting all the spirits out. She looked to me and Manfred "Bad as before?"
"worse" Manfred said for the both of us looking at more coming out. She banged the triangle trying to gather the attention of the spirits but they did really seem in the listening mood.
I nudged my brother "Maybe we should go, they aren't really listening right now"
He nodded as Fiji spoke up, "Well you are the ride back to the living, its better if you two go" we nodded and walked out to the porch. We walked outside and I looked around feeling a sense of dread but not close to me.
"Manny im going to go for a walk."
"In the dark?" he looked at me like I was crazy
"Well the sun would be better but the dark will have to do." I commented and walked down the street heading away from the church further into the little town. I saw the sheffis car but didn't see her anywhere but as I walked past it, I felt pain, pain that was so intense it only meant death. I looked across the street and that's when I saw it. A dead body hoisted up in a tree. I screamed and I heard Manfred come up behind me.
"Addy What-" I cut him off and he looked at the tree. He grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the street and into the restaurant. He walked up to Madonna and I didn't catch what he said to her, as I was trying to control the emotions coming onto me, the pain from her death I felt like it was me being sctratched by whatever that was. I looked down under my shirt and saw a faint red mark that looked like a tiger's claw before it faded once again. Manfred turned around and pushed me back towards the door.
"Addy Creek is working at the gas station I'm going to go get her." He said "Go to the RV and wait for us there."
"You don't know what's out there im going with you we are stronger together." He looked like he wanted to argue with me but I wasn't letting him he turned around and took off running and I followed him. He yelled her name as we got closer but she was playing music and didn't hear him. As we got closer to the gas station I got there before Manny did and looked around
"Manny!" I yelled and he looked back at me and we saw a Tiger running towards us. He ran right through the middle missing me but I heard Manny yell and felt the pain and I knew the tiger got him. Nothing major but damn that hurt. He grabbed his side and we both ran into the gas and go.
"What was that?" Creek asked flabbergasted.
"Well if im not mistaken it looks like a tiger, so it must be a Tiger." Manny gave me a look like really?
"Follow me" we both followed Creek through the service bay, but the tiger was already coming from the far side.
"Not this way" Manny said and pushed me back the way we came. The tiger followed and as we ran out Creek hit the bay button dropping the car on the animal. Well at least I felt no pain from that.
"Why is there a tiger?" Creek asked.
"I think it's the Rev" Manny stated looking at the car.
"Oh my is he ok?" she asked sounding concerned but still feeling much needed fear. The car then moved as the tiger tried to get out.
"Yeah he is fine how about we run now!" I yelled taking the lead. I ran as fast as I could back to the RV getting inside letting everyone else in behind me.
"How's your side Manfred?" I asked as he lifted it and Creek looked at it as I went to get a towel. I hear her gasp and I felt the fear intensify,
"Never play poker" he said to her.
"Now isn't the time to be flirting, I can feel how bad it is Manny" I said throwing the towel over to her and she applied pressure. Just then the whole RV shook as the tiger made claw marks in the top.
"Any idea's Grandma?" Manfred asked looking at her in the driver seat.
"Grandma?" Creek sounded so confused, oh you poor girl.
"She's dead we can see her" I said in a matter of fact way.
"Stop bickering a run!" she said and then we heard gunshots, we exited the RV seeing Olivia and Lem standing at the sidewalk.
"One of you let him out didn't you" she accused.
"No she did" Manfred said pointing at the cop in the tree.
"So if it bites you?" Manfred started to ask.
"You're born a were dimwit" Olivia snapped
"Not exactly common knowledge" I said, "First one I've seen" Lem snapped his neck over looking at my brother.
"Your bleeding aren't you?"
"Just a little" he said still holding his side.
"More than a little"
"I got it uncle Lem" Creek said and brought him over to the restaurant. I sighed following the two lover birds who were making me sick.
While she stitched up my brother I grabbed a bottle of Rum and sat down the Midnighter's room. I drank about half the bottle before I felt the emotion dull down enough so I didn't feel like it was being killed by them.
"Maybe you shouldn't be drinking so much" Creek said sitting down with me. I looked over at Manny seeing he was almost done.
"You don't know what I am, what I feel here, this sometimes is the only way I can function, some days are better than others, today has been a very hard day" I got up and saw she was finishing his last stitch.
I looked out the window and saw our house glowing almost.
"Uh Manny" I nodded towards the house. "I'm going to go check on Fiji" he quickly said goodbye to Creek and followed me over. When I opened the door the lights were all flashing and fire was coming out of the fireplace in spurts and then like nothing was wrong it all stopped and Manny stood behind me feeling what I was feeling. Like WTF was that. Fiji was sitting on the floor and she opened her eyes with a smile.
"Exorcism complete. Your house is now inhospitable to the dead, thank you very much" Manfred helped her up and I looked around and saw the devils net by the door covered in demon residue.
"Uh Fiji" I motioned her to turn around.
"Something real evil is still in here" she said, "Do either of you see or feel anything" she asked looking at me.
"No I don't see anything" Manfred said.
"but I can feel it Manny." I said and I looked down at the floor seeing it glow red, "It's still here.
"Who are you what do you want!" Fiji yelled looking around.
"Fiji what-" I was cut off when the door to the house flew open and me and Manfred got tossed out of the house landing in the dirt and the door closed and locked. Manny was quick to get up and started banging down the door and when he got it open we saw that Fiji was bent and then dragged across the floor. The evil I felt in the room was over whelming. Manny tried to pull her off the wall but whatever had her there had her good.
"I need more power" Manny said and ran out of the house. I felt powerless at that moment trying to help Fiji when this demon wouldn't let me. Manny ran back in holding one of our ancestors' skulls.
"Addy help me" we both put our hand on the skull and Manny said.
"Demon, satanic power what ever you are let her go" we looked at each other and nodded.
"We call to you our ancestors, we summon you help us condemn this demon BACK TO HELL!" we yelled looking away as the skull flashed a bright light. Once the light went away the skull was nothing more than ash on the floor, and Fiji fell to the ground. Manny ran over to the mirror and broke it breaking the connection to the spirit world.
"He's gone" Manfred said looking in the glass.
"are you hurt?" I asked helping her up.
"I don't think so" she said her voice shaking and I could feel the uncertainty in her voice. "It's gone your house is cleansed now, that was not good, I need to go home, and take a bath."
"Oh, I wouldn't leave, The Rev escaped" Manfred said, and she looked to me and I nodded.
"What?" the worry and fear came off her in waves, Ugggh I need more to drink.
Currently we were in Fiji's car looking out by the ranches for the Rev.
"What do we do if we see him?" my brother asked.
I spoke before Fiji could, "We bring him home Manny" I felt it then, dread. "Stop"
"Do you see him?" Fiji asked stopping the car
"No but I can feel him." She nodded and we got out of the car I walked ahead trying to follow my feelings to find him.
"Shouldn't we wait for the others" Manny said grabbing my shoulder.
"They will be here any second" Fiji said. And that's when I spotted him I saw the tiger but deep down I felt the Rev almost like a tiny piece of the tiger too little to control the tigers' action and I could feel the Rev scared. Just then a little dot appeared on the ground and the tiger chased it almost like a house cat. We saw olivia with the gun before I heard her chamber a bullet, a silver bullet. In a flash Lem came up beside us.
"Anyone hurt? He asked
"No" I stated coldly. The emotions from the 4 people and the tiger were beginning to hurt.
"Emilio, we have been friends for a long time" Lem said circling the beast.
"Its not the Rev" olivia said on the verge of tears.
"Its still him I can feel him in there but he's fighting the beast. He's scared he has less control over him than he normally does" I yelled not wanting Olivia to shoot. That when the tiger charged at Lem trying to bite. Lem didn't let him and threw him off.
"I'm ok" Lem said as Manfred went to go check on him
"This has to end" Olivia cried.
"No you cant!" Fiji cried at her
"He would want this" Olivia counteracted.
"No" I yelled at the same time Lem stood in front of the tiger I felt something different in my body, I felt hope, healing, peace and calm and I saw a white light project outward from my body. Almost like pouring all the emotions I was currently feeling towards the Rev. the light diminished and I fell to the ground feel all my energy gone.
"Addy?" I felt Manfred grab me and I heard the tiger breathing steady almost in a sleep. "Addy I'm right here" he said grabbing me closer to him. I nodded weakly feeling the whole crowd and my brother looking at me confused. I opened my eyes and Lem spoke next.
"What was that?"
"I don't know" I said in all honesty that had never happened before. We got everyone back in the car and headed back to town. Manfred carried me because I couldn't seem to move, I felt completely drained. The sun came up and I sat on the ground next to the tiger knowing he as going to change back into his form. I left my hand on him and I started to feel the transformation started and as the wind blew we were left with the man we knew better, Emilio. Manfred covered him with his jacket and he looked into my eyes.
"Its ok now Emilio" I said but I felt the regret and agony from him.
"No its not I know what I did" he said starting to feel shame as well.
"No I felt you fighting, you felt something different but a mouse cant tame a horse Emilio, that tiny mouse cant fight a demon" I said.
Later that afternoon I sat outside the house on the front steps drinking some tea Fiji made me to help me get my strength back up. Manfred came out and sat down next to me.
"What happened last night Addy, what did you do to the Rev?"
"Manny I wish I had the answer for you, I don't know what happened, all I remember is being overwhelmed with everyone's emotions but I felt peace from someone, I think it was the rev being at peace of being killed or something, so I focused on that, that sense of peace, calm and healing and I felt it build to a point I couldn't contain it anymore and I felt it leave my body, almost like I was leaving my body to hold the Rev down and give him that peace." I sighed, "Then the next thing I know I'm on the ground with you holding me, everyone looking and the Rev sleeping" I looked at Manny, "Maybe we should talk to grandma, Tomorrow" I finished after a pause. He nodded and walked back in the house and I took another sip of my tea seeing Olivia go over and talk to the Rev. I felt my heart almost jump, could I be feeling something towards the Rev or picking up on something from someone else. As the sun began to set I saw Bobo walk over holding a sign.
"Hey Bobo you got out" I said with a smile, I could feel the relief coming from him.
"Yeah I brought this for you guys, a thank for saving my ass gift" he said and I opened the door for him seeing Manny get up from the couch. He put it above the fireplace.
"Fiji told me what your two did" I could feel the regret and pain.
"Bobo" I placed a hand on his shoulder "Aubrey did love you I felt it, she was so scared to loose you she tried everything to protect you, she fell for you Bobo that was real."
He put his hand up
"The woman I loved, didn't exist" he said "but thanks."
Then Creek knocked on the door and I felt where this was going
"Im going to the RV" I said walking out the door hearing my brother yell something behind me but I ignored him. Their lovey dovey bull shit made me sick. I climbed on the RV making my way into the backroom when I felt grandma.
"I don't want to talk now Grandma, but trust me we are going to have along conversation tomorrow." I looked at the bed and saw her nod and I climbed in next to her falling into a deep sleep dreaming on the tiger man down the street.