Hello. I've decided that, as my other story: Which Camp Should I belong to? will have finished in a few chapters (not too sure of the numbers), I'll give my next Camp Camp update a sneak peek of the story I'll be posting after that finishes. I'm quite excited about it, so if you could give me your thoughts?

"Son of a bitch?!" Max exclaimed, backing away steadily. "Jasper, what-"

"Shut up Max!" Jasper snapped. "And shut your fellow livings up too, because they are REALLY starting to annoy me!" The ghost drifted upwards from the floor, looking past Max at Nurf, Nerris, Harrison and Preston, who were looking worried and confused, muttering amongst themselves.

"Max, what the heck's going on?" Harrison asked nervously, as all he could see was Max talking to thin air. Nerris clutched his hand.

"Just show yourself Jasper." Max muttered. "That'll shut them up."

Jasper rolled his eyes, then as lightning flashed across the abandoned summer home's abandoned laboratory, he became visible to the other campers. Preston gave a scream as he saw the angry ghost hovering three feet in the air.

"Is that-"

"Yep." Max muttered. "Meet Jasper, who appears to have gone a little phsyco."

"Jen was right to tell us not to come over here!" Nerris muttered in wonder. "A real live ghost!"

"Be quiet!" Jasper snarled, floating right up to Nerris. "Or do I have to make you?"

Instinctively, Preston and Harrison stepped in front of her, bumping their shoulders in an annoyed way. They scowled at each other.

"Leave her alone Jasper." Max stepped forwards. "I thought it was me you wanted?"

And so, yep, I'm not giving away too much, but that's a snippet of a later chapter for 'Jasper's Curse'. It will contain some VERY harsh topics though (no sex though, don't worry), so read at your own risk :) All th necessary warnings will be included in the author notes of the first chapter.

And on with what you all came for:

"OK kids, Gwen's just in the office, but I have to run an errand downstairs." David said in his usual cheery tone. "Nerris, do you mind coming with me? We need to carry some stuff and you seem the best person to help out."

Nerris gave a sort of gloomy nod and followed David out. Max expected another boring morning, but instead, Harrison jumped out of bed and stuck his head round the office door. He nodded, and then went back into the main ward.

"OK everyone, listen up please?" The kids fell gradually silent and Harrison cleared his throat.

"It's Nerris's birthday today." Harrison said. "And I told David to take her out for an hour or so we could get a surprise ready. He thinks we're making a card or something, but I have bigger plans." He gave a wild grin, and pulled a flyer from Nerris's bedside table. "Nerris was going to go here today, this amazing LARPing course thingy, I don't really know much, but she's still recovering from having her appendix out, so I thought," He took a deep breath. "We make a similar type thing, here."

Everyone stared at Harrison like he should be in the psychiatric ward.

"OK." Neil shifted himself upwards a little so he could talk better. "So you're suggesting that we, nine kid patients, half of which can't even get out of bed, build a LARPing course. Out of what?"

"Well, I know that they keep a LOT of cardboard in the loading bay downstairs." Harrison said. "And we have our beds. And moving isn't everything. Nurf can use his upper body, Dolph can walk, kind of, and you're probably the smartest people our age I've ever met, Neil. You can figure out the scientific details."

Praising Neil was obviously the right way to go. His sceptical face broke into a grin.

"Right." He rubbed his hands together. "Who can walk, Nikki, Max, Harrison, Space Kid, so... Harrison, Nikki, Max go get the cardboard, we'll start preparing, this is gonna be awesome!"

"Yeah!" Space kid cheered. Even Ered looked excited. This was going to be the most fun any of them had ever had in the hospital.

"We only have an hour!" Preston reminded them. "I'll design the props, Dolph, you draw a flag..."

Harrison came over to join Nikki and Max as they slid out of their beds.

"This is gonna be so COOL!" Nikki giggled, and Max was glad there was someone to break the, what would be, awkward silence. Max barely knew Harrison, but he seemed OK. Seemed.

"Let's go then." Max said, and Nikki lead the way into the corridor. It was deserted.

"Where to now?" Max asked Harrison. Harrison scratched his head, lifting his hat up slightly.

"Um, not too sure. I've only seen the loading bay once, err, I think we need a key?"

"Well this was well thought out then, wasn't it?" Max sneered. Harrison scowled.

"There's one in the nurse's office, down at the other end of the second children's ward." The three of them looked at the door that none of them had ever passed through.

"Do you think we should knock?" Harrison asked Max.

"What's the deal? It's just kids." Nikki started towards the door.

"No, Nikki, wait, what if-" But Nikki had already thrown the door open. Harrison and Max had no other choice but to pass through.

It was a ward, much like their own, only smaller, only eight beds. Six were occupied, two boys and two girls. An auburn haired boy with terrible acne and a broken leg was playing cards with another boy who had a bandage over his eye, sucking at a candy cane. Another boy was reading a porn magazine and reminded Max of Nurf. He shoved it hastily under the covers, but when seeing that it wasn't an adult, brought it out again. The three girls were all gossiping and looking at things on their phones, doing each other's hair. One had a drip, another had a bandage over her eye and the third, with blue hair, looked more or less unharmed.

"Oh thank God." The red haired girl with the drip sighed in relief. "I thought Jeremy was back already."

"He is SO gross!" The girl with the bandage over her eye nodded in agreement.

"So who are they then." The auburn haired boy said with a distrusting frown. "Intruders?"

"Pikeman, this isn't World War Three." The blue haired girl rolled her eyes, then got up out of her bed and came over to them. Max saw that her torso was tightly wrapped in bandages and she had a slight limp. "Hey, I'm Erin. She's Sasha," Sasha gave them a nod. "And Tabii"

"Spelt with two eyes!" Tabii said sharply. Erin rolled her eyes again. "And the boys are Pikeman, Stephen (Van Petrol, if you remember) and Billy."

"Snake." Billy corrected. He gave them a brief nod, then turned his attention back to his cards.

"That's Nikki, Max and I'm Harrison." Harrison told them. "We're from the ward next door. We need the key for the loading bay."

"The what now?"

"It's in the office."

"Miss Priss is in there." Tabii with two 'I's and one eye, told them. "But she'll be passed out drunk. You'll be fine."

"Unless Mr Woodscout's in there." Snake muttered. "Then you'll be fucked."

"Oh let them go, their funeral." Pikeman snapped. "Two sevens."

"Bullshit.

"Shite."

Snake laughed. Max looked from Nikki, to Harrison, and then to the door at the end of the ward. There were two of them there, one marked office, and once marked...

Max gasped slightly.

"You two grab the key." He muttered.

"Max?"

"Gotta check something out." Harrison shrugged and he and Nikki went into the office. The kids in the ward seemed to return to their normal routines. Max edged nearer to the door. The door marked with a word that was familiar.

Not a word. A name.

Max went inside.

A room. A small, clean, hospital room, with a bed and that bed had a person in it.

An oxygen mask over their face. A drip in their arm. The slight rise and fall of his chest.

Max had never met him, but he knew exactly who it was, from the label on the door.

Chucky.

He gasped, and felt light headed again. The body, in the bed, hoping that he would wake up, learning that he wouldn't...

Max stumbled away and grabbed the doorknob, turning it and almost falling out of the room. He slammed the door on the unconscious body, breathing hard.

"What was in there?" Nikki asked. "A crypt. Ooh..."

"No, nothing." Max tried to slow his breathing. "You get the key?"

"Sure did!" Nikki exclaimed, as Harrison held it up. "Now let's go build a castle!"

...

Nerris didn't feel like she was having the worst birthday ever. She should be atop of the tallest peak of the castle in 'LARPer world!'. Not in a dumb kid's ward in a dumb hospital, carting a few packets of food around with the most annoying doctor in the history of doctors. It was abad day, and worse, all she had with her parents was a phone call, no special outing, not even a temporary hospital discharge. Assholes. She was fine. She felt fine.

"Well, that's the last of them." David said cheerily, rubbing his back. "Good job Nerris!"

"Yeah." Nerris muttered. "Whatever."

"Well, back to the ward now." David said. "Are you enjoying your birthday?"

"Yeah, it's been a lot of laughs." Nerris said, but David, being an idiot, didn't catch the sarcasm.

"That's great! And, just so you know, there could be a little surprise waiting for you back at the ward!" Nerris rolled her eyes. A cheap birthday cake probably, and electric candles. Whoopee!

As they approached the ward, Nerris heard whispers and shuffling. David knocked.

"You guys ready in there?" He called, with a mysterious wink at Nerris.

"Almost." Harrison called back. "OK, yeah, send her in first David."

"What-" Nerris began, but David grinned mysteriously, opened the door and sent Nerris through. Nerris was immediately grasped by some hands, and a blindfold shoved roughly over her eyes.

"What the hell-" She exclaimed, but was pulled forwards and the door slammed behind her.

"Lock it quick!" She heard someone shout, Neil?

"Got it!" Someone else, Nikki?

"OK, everyone ready?"

"Harrison, what is this?" Nerris exclaimed, but then the blindfold was whisked off her face and her mouth dropped open.

A castle. Exactly like the one in LARPer world, only a lot smaller and roughly crafted from cardboard and mattresses. The ward was a mess, but there were sword and monster props and Nerris's special LARPing dice were littered everywhere.

"Welcome to LARPer world, Nerris!" Harrison said with a grin.

"Wow!" Nerris gasped. "You guys DID this?!"

"Sure did." Nikki said with a smile. "It was Harrison's idea though." She turned to Harrison, who grinned sheepishly.

"I thought, if you can't go to LARPer world on your birthday, we'd bring it to you."

"Oh my god, thank you so much!" Nerris gasped, grinning wildly. "But how did you get David and Gwen's permission for this?"

"Oh we, err, kind of didn't." Preston said with a cheeky smile.

"Guys, am I allowed in yet?" David called, oblivious to the conversation.

"Never!" Nikki cried. "This is LARPer world and no adults allowed!"

"What?" David gasped.

"For the next three hours, the ward is OURS, David!" Harrison called joyfully. "Go sit in the doctor's lounge or something, while Nerris gets the birthday she deserves!"

"Harrison, open this door, this instant! Is Gwen in there? Gwen?"

"She's already gone that way." Max called to him. "Join her, unless you want to get fired for letting this stunt happen?"

David sighed.

"Fine. As long as you're careful."

"No one's careful at LARPer world. Now AWAY!"

They waited until they were sure David was gone, then cheered.

"Now, fair lady Nerris, the cute." Harrison said with a smile. "What do you decree that we do?"

Nerris grinned.

"I say we GO and kick some monster ASS!"

I know it's a bit surreal, but my fic, my rules :)

Please let me know your opinions on the sneak peak, I could really use that :)