Belinda and Kevin spun around to see someone in the front doorway, in the shadow, "But look at me Belinda, look at what you did to me."

Sam walked into the light, what Kevin saw made him sick. Her skin was pale green, there was blood in her hair, her eyes were tinted yellow, and black around the sockets. Belinda started to shiver uncontrollably next to him.

Sam started to move closer, "Why did you take my locket Belinda? You knew we needed it, it is the only way to leave; the only way to go back home. We are almost out of time. Give it back to us Belinda, give it back or we will have to take it from you."

"K…Kevin," Belinda said, taking his hand, still shaking, "Don't let them get me Kevin. As soon as they have the locket they're going to kill me."

"Belinda," Kevin responded, "What have you done?"

"You don't want to know Kevin. That's why she's in trouble. She stole the locket and knows things she shouldn't know. I tried to give her a memory potion in the graveyard and she did this to me," Sam said, touching the palm of her hand to her head and showed him her hand with blood on it, "Now the both of you know, and only one memory potion is here right now. You've ruined your chance to live, Belinda, you will be the one to die."

"No!" Kevin shouted throwing his arms out to protect Belinda, "No one's going to die, not again!"

"Oh Kevin," Sam said sadly, "I'm sorry. I know this must be hard for you, but don't worry. She won't feel a thing. Besides once you take the memory eraser, you won't remember a thing about her or me. Please step aside, we don't want you to get hurt, none of us do."

"We? Us? Who are you talking about?" Kevin said.

"Why, all of us of course," said the werewolf that they thought was a prop. The goblin hanging from the basketball hoop came to life, the vampires hanging from the ceiling began to move, and a mummy stepped out of the shadow behind Sam. The werewolf reached out to grab Belinda. But before he could get her, Belinda pulled out a knife and held it to Kevin's back.

"Any closer and he dies," Belinda said gravely. The werewolf snarled viciously and backed away. Kevin was speechless; he began to tremble and stared at Sam.

Sam growled in anger, "Belinda don't do anything stupid. You're surrounded. You know what you have to do to make us go away Belinda. You have my locket and potions in your pocket."

Belinda smiled and pulled out the potions and a small piece of paper, "Oh I have the potions Shock. But I hid you're little locket and only I know where it is. So I'll make a deal with you and you're friends."

"What would that be?" Shock sneered.

"Kevin and I are going to walk toward the door, when we get there I'll put the potions and this little piece of paper with the location of the locket in Kevin's sweatshirt pocket, I leave, you won't come after me, and know one finds out about this. But if you do come after me I might just tell the police that I saw someone drag a dead body down into the catacombs in the graveyard. Heaven knows what they'll find down there. Do we have a deal?"

Shock clenched her fists and shook with anger, "Deal."

Belinda pulled Kevin by the shoulder towards the back door, keeping the knife poised firmly at his back. She whispered to him, "I'm sorry about this, really. But look on the bright side we both get out of this alive. And about what I said before, about hating you when Barrel died. I meant it. You remember how you were before it happened, what a rotten kid you were. Barrel was the nicest person I've ever met, when he saved you that night it proved to me just how nice he was. Saving someone like you and all. By the way, I think you have the right to know before you forget everything. Barrel is still alive, just ask Shock over there, she knows. She just might tell you. Well this is my end of the agreement."

Belinda pushed opened the back door and slipped the potions and the piece of paper in Kevin's pocket, "If you really want to see him, death is in the purple bottle. Say hi to Barrel for me."

She removed the knife from his back and ran. Kevin took a few shaky steps forward and collapsed to his knees. Shock started to go to him.

"You lied to me," Kevin said before she got to him, "You were like that all along weren't you?"

Shock stopped, "What are you talking about?"

"The cold shiver down my spine every other time we meet, never being out of breath no matter how hard we run a P.E., animals hate you, and the only thing I know about you're past is your two friends you left behind. One of them was Barrel wasn't it?"

"Belinda," Shock grumbled angrily, "she gets away and still causes a big mess."

"Shock, tell me."

Shock started quietly, "You're right Kevin I've been this way for a long time."

"How long?"

"Just about as long as Barrel, eight years, nine tomorrow night."

"How did it happen?"

"I ate all the Halloween candy that was supposed to be given to the trick-or-treaters. I got sick and had to stay home. I was so upset I didn't get out of my costume when I went to sleep," Shock's voice became thick, "When I woke up, I was dead. Half my house was destroyed in a fire, I was destroyed with it."

"And Barrel, what about him?"

"He woke up when I did. Except he didn't remember anything, the crash did that to him. He asked me when I last saw him to find out who he was."

"Where Shock? Where is he?"

Protests came from all of the other creatures around them; Shock spoke up, "We can't tell you. No one can know. Dead men tell no tales for a reason Kevin. All it makes is more dead men."

Kevin laughed shakily, "What if I don't want to live anymore?"

"Don't say that Kevin!" Shock snapped, "If you die then what Barrel did for you will be a waste. No one here chose to die, I know I've checked. Even if you did die, there's no guarantee that you you'll end up like us."

Kevin was quiet for a second, "It's no different either way, no one remembers Barrel like Belinda and I do, his memory dies with us. Even if I don't end up like you, I want to die. I've wanted to die for eight years. Then, I met you. You were the only one who really listened to me, you understood me. I felt like everything was going to be ok. But from the start, I knew you were going to leave me, just like my family did."

Shock walked over and crouched next to him, "I can never change what has already happened. But, what if I said that I can make all those bad feelings go away for good? All I have to do is make some changes to the potion."

"Really?"

"Of course, all that sadness, all the pain will go away forever. You won't forget you family, just what happened tonight."

"Promise? Swear it."

Shock said with a smirk, "I swear by my slow-beating heart that I will make a potion to make those feelings disappear. Promise. But first things first, the potions and piece of paper."

Kevin reached into his pocket and pulled out the contents. Shock read the slip of paper, "How fortunate, my locket is on the way home. Let's go."

She helped Kevin up and led him to the door. As he walked out Shock whispered to Tut, "Follow her. Get Goblin to shadow her, report to the graveyard in half and hour."

"What about the deal?"

"A witches' word means nothing until she swears. Besides, in all honesty, none of you are my friends."

Tut smiled, "Now there's the Shock we remember."

Author's Note:

Loophole! I love loopholes! Comment or you will never see the end of this Fan Fiction! Muah hah hah hah hah! *cough*