Ghost Whisperer

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This is after the Series Finale

The following day, Emily stayed in her room, curled up in her bed, most the time. Jim, seeing as it was his day off, had to get Emily out of her room just to eat, which she wouldn't eat much anyway. Jim walked into Emily's room and sat down on the side of the bed.

"Do you want to talk?" Jim asked simply. Emily shook her head. "Emily…you can't just stay in your room all day."

"I did when my dad died."

"You weren't in your room all day." Jim pointed out.

"A good portion of it." Emily sighed.

"Are you sure you don't want to go do something?" Jim asked. Emily shook her head again. Jim stood up. "Alright." Jim headed towards the door.

"Her funeral is on Friday. I want to go." Emily said, sitting up. Jim turned.

"Alright, I'll…"

"You and Melinda both have to work." Emily said. "I found Eli's office number and I've asked Eli and he said he'd be alright bringing me."

"Alright. As long as you're back by Monday."

"I will be back Friday night." Emily said. Jim left.

Friday seemed to take forever to come. However, in Emily's mind, it came too quickly. Eli picked Emily up around 9am and they drove three hours to get to Sara's funeral. Emily was not ready for this. The whole drive she stared out the window and said nothing to Eli. They finally got to the church where the funeral was taking place. Emily and Eli got out of the car and walked towards the entrance of the church. Eli stopped Emily before going inside.

"Emily, if you ever need to talk to me about anything…like this funeral or other things, you can…" Emily didn't let Eli finish.

"I can call you." Emily said, slightly annoyed. "Did my Uncle Jim ask you to talk to me?"

"Yes." Eli said simply. "But only because he loves you." Emily looked at Eli.

"I just want to get this over with." Emily said, turning back towards the church doors. "I understand that a lot has happened to me in the last month, but I really, don't want to be reminded of all the pain right now. It's just too much." Emily sighed and they started walking towards the church doors. "But when I am ready, I'll give you a call." Eli smiled.

"And don't worry. Whatever you tell me is a total secret and Jim and Melinda don't have to know unless you want them too." Eli said. Emily opened the doors and Eli and Emily walked in. Emily walked right over to Sara's parents, David and Rose Richards, and her younger siblings, Scott, 12, and Susan, 9.

"Emily!" Susan said, giving Emily a hug. Scott hugged Emily as well. Emily didn't know what to say, but sometimes, just being there for someone is enough.

"We're glad you could come Emily." David said softly. "Sara would have appreciated this."

"She was there for me when I need her, and now I'm here for you guys." Emily said. "If there is anything I can do to help, please, let me know." Rose smiled though tears were still rolling down her cheeks.

"Thank you Emily." Rose's voice cracked. "Will you come with us to the house after the service? There are things that I boxed that I'm sure Sara would have loved for you to have." Emily felt tears welling up in her eyes now. She looked at Eli.

"Of course." Eli said with a nod. He then turned towards David and Rose. "And if you need to talk to me, I'll be here to help you." Emily left Eli to talk to Rose and David and headed over to the casket, which was closed. Scott and Susan followed.

"She was so battered up; we had to have a closed casket." Scott told Emily. Scott was trying to be brave, Emily could tell. Suzan, however, was crying. Their older sister was gone. Susan walked away, and went to sit by her aunt. Emily looked at Scott.

"You don't have to be brave, Scott." Emily said quietly, so only he would hear.

"I've got to be brave." Scott told Emily. "Mom, Dad and Susan need me to be brave." Emily shook her head.

"No, they don't." Emily stated. "Sara was your sister and you two had a special bond." Emily sighed. "I know what it's like to lose someone who you had a special bond with."

"You're dad?" Scott asked. Emily nodded.

"And I'm still trying to cope." Emily said. "It's not easy, but I found a way to make the pain not hurt as badly." Emily gave Scott a hug. "And I'm here for you. You'll just have to call me." Scott gave Emily a small smile.

"Thanks Emily." Scott said. Scott turned and went to join his sister. Emily grabbed a few Kleenexes and sat down. Eli came and joined her.

"I don't know what's going on?" Emily looked up slightly. Sara's ghost appeared in the front of the church. Emily noticed that Eli was looking around casually, but aware of something. "What happened?" Sara spotted Emily and Eli. She appeared next to them suddenly. "What's going on?" Sara didn't stick around for long. Soon the service started.

After the service, Emily realized that Sara was being cremated, so they went straight to the Richards' house where everyone from the service ate and gave their condolences. After everyone had left, David handed Emily a box that said Sara's stuff to Emily. Sara was only alive after the accident for a few hours and was able to tell her family a few things, including things to give to Emily. Emily and Eli headed back to Grandview. It was almost 9pm when Eli dropped Emily off at the house. Before leaving, Eli had given Emily his cell as well as his home number, since she found his office number. Emily walked inside with Eli and headed straight upstairs. Eli walked over to Jim and Melinda.

"Well, how is she?" Jim asked, taking a drink from his beer bottle.

"Ok, I guess." Eli said. "But I think we have a bigger problem than that." Jim and Melinda exchanged worried glances.

"What?" Jim asked, setting the beer bottle down.

"Sara is still around." Eli said. Jim and Melinda relaxed a little.

"Are you positive?"

"Well, I had a ghost sitting in my backseat trying to talk to Emily after she fell asleep listening to her music." Eli pointed out. "And it was getting quite annoying. I tried to talk to her, but she wouldn't listen to me."

"So Sara's ghost is attached to Emily." Melinda said simply.

"We're going to have to approach this as carefully as possible if we don't want Emily to know about your gift." Jim said.

"I don't think we'll have to worry." Melinda said. "I'm just hoping I see this ghost and talk to her." Melinda said. "Help her crossover without Emily knowing."

"Ok, well when you figured that out, let me know." Eli said. Melinda chuckled.

The weekend had come and gone. Sara has not appeared around Melinda and Emily was back to collecting signatures from around town, hoping to increase her list from 6. Melinda, Delia and Ned each had a few signatures and Jim, because he was working at the hospital, had a nice chunk of names on the petition. Emily was sure the School Board had to listen to her with all the names they had. Monday came. Emily stayed at home and Melinda and Aiden went to Melinda's shop and Jim was at work. Emily was home by herself. She was up in her room looking through the box of stuff Sara had wanted her to have. A lot of the items in the box were pictures of Sara and Emily, but then there were some items that Sara absolutely loved, including a few CD's, books, jewelry, and even Sara's favorite denim jacket. However, the one thing that made her laugh was the tennis ball. Sara use to play softball while Emily played Tennis. As a joke for Christmas one year, Emily had signed a tennis ball just for Sara. Sara did the same thing with a Softball for Emily. Emily looked over towards her dresser where the softball sat. Emily grabbed the tennis ball and the stand and set it up next to the softball. She grabbed the picture of her and Sara in their sport uniforms and set it in the middle of the softball and the tennis ball.

"Emily?" Emily turned around. It wasn't Melinda, Jim, Ned, Aiden, Delia or Eli. It was Sara. "What's going on?"

"Sara." Emily said, looking towards Sara. "You don't remember what happened?" Sara shook her head. "You were in a car accident and you were only alive for a few short hours after the accident." Emily said slowly, trying not to cry. "Your mom said your aunt was drive when the crash happened."

"I remember now." Sara said slowly. "It was raining and the road was a bit slippery. We were driving slower than normal." Sara paused. "Someone was driving fast and went to pass us and ended up sliding, hitting us and rolling the car into the ditch." Emily closed her eyes to hold back the tears. "Someone called 911 and came to help us." Sara looked at Emily. "That's all I remember of the crash."

"Sara, you need to go into the light."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to leave you." Emily sighed.

"Sara, I'll be fine." Emily said simply.

"But school? You'll need a friend."

"I know." Emily said. "But you will be better off in the light. My parents are there and they are happy."

"I'm not ready to go." Sara disappeared. Emily sighed. Emily wondered how Melinda could do it so easily. Emily had to come up with a plan and fast.

The next day, Melinda left Aiden at home with Emily. After breakfast, Aiden went upstairs to play and Melinda went to work. Emily cleaned up the breakfast dishes before heading upstairs to her room. However, before she entered her room, Emily heard Aiden talking to someone. Emily walked to Aiden's room.

"Aiden, who are you ta…" Emily froze as she peered into Aiden's room. She saw a young boy, who was not that far from Aiden's age. He's body was literally blue and he was dripping wet. Aiden turned and the young boy disappeared. Emily was still confused, but focused on Aiden when he spoke.

"You can see ghost?" Aiden asked. Emily bend town and looked at Aiden.

"Yes." Emily said slowly. "But we can't let anyone know. Not even your mom or your dad."

"My mom can see ghosts and Uncle Eli can hear them." Emily looked at Aiden. Eli could hear Sara then that day at the funeral. That's why he was looking around.

"We can't tell them, alright." Emily said. "Ok?"

"Ok." Aiden said. Emily smiled.

"Now, do you know the young boys name?" Aiden shook his head. Emily sighed. "Alright. I'll be in my room if you need me." Emily went into her room and sat down at her desk and opened her computer. She went online and decided to try to figure out who the young boy is and maybe see if she can help him.

It took Emily awhile to figure out who this little boy was. As she was reading the article as she was making lunch. Louis Grayson was 8 years old and drowned in a pool. Emily wondered why no one was around watching him. Maybe she thought. I could go talk to the family. She shook her head. Bad idea.

"Stay out of this." Emily turned around and saw the boy.

"Louis." Emily said. "I can help you."

"I don't want your help. You need to stay out of this." The front door opened and Louis disappeared.

"Hello?" Emily recognized Ned's voice.

"In the kitchen." Emily said still in deep thought. Ned walked into the kitchen.

"You have the same look as Melinda when she's in deep thought." Ned said, sitting down. Emily shook her head and turned towards the stove.

"What brings you here?" Emily asked Ned as she stirred the noodles.

"Thought you could use some company." Ned said simply.

"Melinda asked you to come and see how things were going, didn't she?" Emily asked. Ned chuckled.

"Yeah." Ned smiled. Emily turned around and looked at Ned.

"Can I trust you keep a secret?" Emily asked. Ned looked at Emily.

"Yeah, of course." Emily sighed.

"Meaning you can't tell Melinda, Jim, Eli or your mom." Emily stated.

"Alright."

"I'm not ready to tell Melinda or Jim this yet, but…" Emily took a deep breath. Telling Sara was a lot easier than this. "I can see ghosts."

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I decided to put Author Notes of Stories being written up on my profile page telling you the status of the story you are reading.

Who else is confused by the whole Jim/Sam thing? I thinking that maybe I'll pretend it didn't happen because everyone see's Sam, but Delia, Eli, Melinda and Ned call him Jim. So...i mean...i might pretend that he didn't die after he got shot, but lost his memory anyway. What do you think?