Chapter 6
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"You could've helped", Ben said as he set Lucille's coffin down on the floor of the foyer.
"I'm delicate. I would have hurt myself", Darcy told him.
"Likely story", he said.
"Enough complaining", Darcy said, "Help me open them".
Ben helped her push the tops off the coffins.
"Coffins nowadays are much easier to get into", Darcy said.
"You sound like you speak from experience", Ben told her.
"The less you know, the better", she said.
"What do you think you're doing?" Lucille spat as Darcy spread salt all over her bones.
"Sending you to hell, bitch", Darcy said lighting a match.
Thomas appeared a Darcy's side.
Ben was shocked at seeing his ancestor standing so close to him.
"Thomas! Thomas, please!" Lucille pleaded with her brother.
"No Lucille. It's over", Thomas told her, "You deserve what you're getting".
Darcy dropped the match onto the clothes that still covered Lucille's bones and watched them go up in flames.
Lucille started shrieking as she caught on fire. Lucille's ghost faded away as the embers slowly died.
Thomas stared at the place where his sister had been standing just a few seconds ago.
They had never been apart in life and now they would spend eternity apart.
"Before you…can I have some time alone?" Thomas asked Darcy.
"Yeah, I'll go get my stuff", Darcy said, leaving Ben and Thomas alone.
"When it's all over, take care of her will you?" Thomas asked Ben.
"I will. If she'll have me", Ben told him.
"What is your name, young man?" Thomas asked.
"My name is Ben McMichael", Ben said.
"McMichael? You're a descendant of Edith?" Thomas asked.
"Edith and you", Ben told him.
"Me?" Thomas asked, "How is that possible?"
Ben chuckled and said, "I believe there was a night in the post office depot?"
"Edith conceived that night?" Thomas asked.
"A boy, named Carter McMichael. Alan knew the child was yours, but he looked so much like Edith, most people assumed it was Alan's. By some miracle, the baby survived the poison", Ben told him.
A few moments later, Darcy came down the stairs with her stuff.
It was spooky how similar the two men looked, almost like doppelgangers.
"What were you two talking about?" Darcy asked.
"Men stuff", Ben said, covering for Thomas.
"Are you ready?" she asked Thomas.
"Death didn't hurt. I imagined this won't either", Thomas told her.
She handed her stuff to Ben and hugged Thomas. "Thanks for keeping me company and protecting me. Also, thank you for being my friend", she told him.
"I'm ready to see Edith again", Thomas said.
Darcy stepped back and spread the salt on Thomas' bones. She lit the match and dropped it onto the bones.
Unlike with Lucille, a pillar of white light appeared in the foyer.
A figure appeared in the pillar and stepped out.
"Edith?" Thomas asked.
She stepped closer to the group. "Hello again Thomas", she said smiling at him.
"Oh, my love", Thomas said cupping her face in his hands, "I've missed you".
"I've been waiting for this day forever", Edith told him. Edith turned to Ben and Darcy. "I want to thank you Darcy for helping Thomas to move on", she said, "And Ben, your parents would be proud of you".
"I have so many questions I wish I could ask you", Darcy told her.
Edith giggled and said, "Start a list and hold onto it. When you cross over, I will answer every single one".
Darcy blushed and nodded.
"Ready to go, Thomas?" Edith asked him.
He put his hand in hers and said, "Absolutely darling".
Together the two entered the pillar of light and disappeared.
After a few moments, Ben turned to Darcy and said, "So what was your brilliant plan to rid me of this place?"
She took his hand and led him out of the house. She lit another match and threw it inside the foyer.
The two sat on the hill and watched the house be engulfed in flames.
Soon, Crimson Peak was no more.