Aly: Well, we could try exorcism, but I'm afraid even the church would be completely at a loss, faced with these problems ;)

LiveLoveLaughLife: What happened to Jane? Huh... see below. I hope it explains itself that Jane was already... "gone".

Thank you all very much for your reviews. And I hope you won't kill me for the ending (solution)... but, just in case I will be gone the moment the epilogue is posted *g*

Epilogue

With a lot effort Lisbon managed to stop the stranger from biting her. He was in the much better position, and he was a lot stronger than her. All she could think of was saving her neck, in the true sense of the word. The picture blurred and turned to black when she struggled and tried to free herself from the vampire's grip. And when she opened her eyes the next time, the scenery had changed.

"What... where am I?" Lisbon asked, utterly confused, when she woke up and realized that she wasn't in the old mansion with a vampire as her company.

"You're in a hospital. Everything's alright now; you've just been dreaming," Jane, who was sitting at her bedside, told her, and gently caressed her face.

"Why am I in a hospital?" she asked the most obvious question and sat up, causing Jane to return to the chair that stood beside her bed.

"We all are; most of the people who attended the Halloween party last night. Obviously the punch had been... enriched with some psychedelic substance. I don't know about you, but my dreams this night had been rather lively," the consultant explained, and Lisbon needed some moments to let his words sink in. So this whole spooky mansion adventure had only been a product of her mind and fantasy? She didn't know she even had such fantasies.

"I... I've dreamt about a case of a murder in a spooky mansion. It was quite confusing and... a bit frightening. Seems like my mind just found the right hallucination for this time of the year." She smiled helplessly, but only looked at Jane when she had finished her short description. She was met by wide eyes with a shocked expression in them.

"An old mansion with a dungeon, frightening laughter from an unknown source, ghosts and vampires?"

"Yes... how do you...?"

"I've dreamt the same. As have Van Pelt, Rigsby and Cho. Well, kind of, they've been there, too, although their stories are slightly different; while Rigsby and Van Pelt had been teamed up and experienced their own story in the lower level of the mansion, Cho tells another completely different story from outside. But they've all been where you've told them to go to in the beginning. Just like us..." He trailed off and blushed when the realization of what she must have seen and experienced sank in. After all they had been together in this dream. And they had done... things.

A look at Lisbon told him that she also knew and understood.

And suddenly, they heard a well-known, horrific laughter.

This isn't over yet!

The END

In memory of Michael Jackson. I don't know what kind of person he was, but I know for sure that he was a great musician.