Return To Hill House
Disclaimers: I don't own the story or the characters, the plot line belongs to me, everything else belongs to Shirley Jackson and Jan De Bont.
Warnings: With this chapter the preparations start to pick up, before they leave as they go to her mother's lawyer and deal with getting a court date set up, before it switches back to his memories, but from here, he starts feeling his feelings for her getting deeper as the situation starts to deteriorate before the blow out the next night at the house and he sees Craine face to face.
As the situations get worse in the house, concerns just gets even stronger at the condition she's heading into till she winds up on the stairs. Though from here his memories of the first forty eight hours of the intrusions start getting worse as he has to deal with her emotional condition.
But from here their relationship starts growing and he starts acting like her husband from here, before he admits his feelings for her.
Chapter 13: Drunken Arrests and Felonies
It was after the duo showed up that we started preparing. "I'm lucky I packed my emergency kit, but this is ridiculous. Already honey, if he shows up, stay behind Todd, I'm not risking him hurting you this time." I said as I grabbed my medical kit, filled up a syringe with 20cc's of Valium, capped the plastic syringe, put it in my syringe case and put it behind the couch as we got to work on planning.
It was around an hour, before I heard the doorbell go off. "Either that's Luke or its Lou, but either way get ready, honey, be careful when you get that door." I said and she nodded as she went to get it and I grabbed my medical bag and hid it behind the table, so whoever it was didn't see it and know we were waiting in ambush, if it was Lou and he was beyond drunk then, as I heard a furious shout then.
"What the hell are you doing here Watts?" I heard and quickly stood up at that as I saw Lou and Jane walk in. "They're here, because we called them before I started going over this and if you're here about a court date between you and your lawyer and us and Wilson, don't bother, the will is sealed in stone Jane, aside from that I just saw the paper." Eleanor said sternly as they walked in and I suddenly got a whiff of alcohol.
"Before you go looking for trouble I promise I'm writing a check for $250,000,000 and ten gold bars, you can live off that for now Lou, just cool down." she said and he looked at her and I saw a glazed look in his eyes as the smell of alcohol became even heavier and I stood up slowly as I looked at him. "Not again, girls get back now." Todd said as he stood up slowly off the couch as he stood in next to her protectively.
'Honey get behind him, I'm not risking it right now.' I told her and she moved behind Todd and he put himself in front of her gently. "Lou if you came here drunk get out right now." I said with a stern tone. 'Dear god what now?' I heard and then heard my younger brother call out. 'Theo, Luke, alright get in here quick, he's drunk.' I heard Eleanor think to them and a minute later they walked into the room as he called out sternly then.
"Webster if you're looking for trouble I suggest you get away from the girls right now!" I heard a voice call out as Luke walked in the door with Theo right behind him. "Don't try it Lou, I already said we're getting you ten percent, there's no need for violence." I said to him and he answered that coldly. "If you read the newspaper you know we lost everything, I can't support my family on what I have." he said and Eleanor answered that as the girls moved closer together as the duo and I readied ourselves for a fight.
"The arrangements are going being to be made, but you can't afford to be in that house, if you want to hold on to anything, your house, your cars, everything, it's the only option you have here Lou, you're going to have to move and deal with your probationary period, but this is just temporary for only five years, but that ten percent is, out of the amount mom left me with, is really $500,750,000,000,000,000,000. in total, but that's yours, if you go through with this probationary period and deal with it."
"For now it's a living allowance that is going to last each month and be refilled every month till it you're done than you get the entire amount, but that's the deal. It's this or you lose everything, and it's been written in stone. But I'll get the money to pay off your debt, you don't have to start a fight here Lou, calm down now." I said firmly as she finished my sentence as Theo moved next to her and Mary then.
"And I said I was getting you for the time being, in order to pay off that $300,000,000., but you don't need to start a fight here, I'll get you the money, but there's no need to start fighting over the inheritance, now leave the apartment, I'm turning the will over to Wilson this afternoon and we can get some of it out for you now." She said and Mary slammed the will back in the box and locked it, before he could grab it and leave and she grabbed both as I put myself in front of the table then as they walked forward.
"Get out of my apartment or I'm calling the cops Lou." she said a second time and he shook his head. "I don't think so, if that's the ten, than its choke change, I want the entire amount." he said with a growl. "Lou you're walking a fine in getting arrested, we'll take care of your debts, but there's need for violence now calm and leave or we're arresting you now." I said with a warning tone and he snarled at me.
"I'm not going anywhere, we came for the savings bond boxes and the will." he said and Eleanor grabbed the phone. "Put that down Nell." he snapped and I grabbed him. "Touch her and I'm having you arrested Lou, get out." I said and he yanked some thing out of his pocket and I quickly dodged as Todd grabbed him from behind. "Get him to floor he's loaded!" I snapped as she called the cops as the fight got worse between us.
As Luke grabbed him by the arm and I yanked his arm behind his back as I disarmed him as he shouted a warning to him then. "He has a Switchblade." I snapped and Todd yanked his arm behind his back as he yanked something else and working together we yanked the second one out of his grip and he snapped at him sternly, before the next jolt threw me into the wall as and the duo shoved him against the other as he said it.
"Alright that's enough, calm down Lou, you're not going anywhere here, girls get back and get those off the table, there's more than one, he's drunk and this an armed robbery, we need back up!" Todd shouted over the noise as Eleanor grabbed it and set it on the bookshelf as I called out to the person walking past the door. "God damn it, Alright Mary get the boxes, I have to help them." Eleanor said and she nodded.
Grabbing an added ampoule from my bag she grabbed the syringe I loaded and took 6cc's and added to it. "Yeahs that works, it's going to counteract the whatever drug this is. Here, get the cops up here now, he's armed and its code 1325, Tom, we need back up." I shouted out to him as he was walking past the door and tossed the disarmed switchblade to him and he quickly charged in at that as he called out orders to his wife.
"Jane call the guys code 1325, we got a drunken domestic disturbance and I need back up. Repeat that as code 1325 at the Apt. 207 drunken arrest!" I heard Tom call out as he ran into the apartment as he helped us as the fight threw him into the couch as Luke said it again as he struggled to get him to the floor, before he kicked his legs out from under him and they forced him to his knees Hen.
"What the hell, has he lost it completely?" he said and I answered that. "He's drunk and probably on speed, we need to get him to the floor, I've got a syringe with 26cc's of anesthesia and I'm putting him under, because he's beyond drunk, give them a hand. I'm knocking him out, before he hurts himself." I said and he grabbed him and knocked his legs out from under him as Luke shouted it out again.
"Calm down Webster!" Luke shouted over the struggle as he wrestled him away from the table and Todd grabbed him by the shoulder as he hit the wall and he struggled to get free as he answered that with a growl, and I knew the greed had taken over as he snarled at him. "I want that will!" he growled as he struggled to get a hold of everything in it as Todd yanked him away from the table and helped me wrestle him to the floor.
"Honey the case now, Tom, guys, hold him down!" I snapped and she threw the case I kept the instruments needed for a fast sedation in case a fight broke out in the building, since I usually dealt with a lot of drug addicts and alcoholics, at me and I caught it and opened it up as I heard the sirens as we struggled to get him under control as I heard pounding on the door. "Lou stop, calm down now!" I snapped sternly as he struggled to get free as Luke and Todd had him pinned to the floor as Todd looked at Mary.
Looking at Tom, he nodded. "The guys just arrived. Times up Webster, you just crossed the line here there's no getting out of this. Mary answer it, it's my team." he said and she nodded, before he caught her by the ankle and she fell to the floor. "Let her go." I snapped and something came flying and sliced his hand at that. "What the hell was that?" Tom asked her and she explained that. "Eddie, if that's you, put it down alright."
"And to answer your question that was a carving knife Tom, alright whoever did that, thank you for the help." she said and Mary jerked free as an unseen person pulled her to her feet as a message wrote itself out in a beyond furious teenage male tone. 'Listen you bastard, you keeps your hands off my protectors.' I read out in red ink as I watched as the knife suddenly shifted directions and was aimed at his throat.
"Alright kid, there's no need for violence, put the knife down." Luke quickly said and I repeated the order. "Robert enough already, calm down now. Let it go, put it down.' I snapped and the knife fell to the floor as she finished my sentence. "Thanks Robbie. Mary get up." Eleanor said to her quickly and she jerked free and quickly went to the door as she quickly grabbed the and Tom looked at us then.
"Just who was that exactly." Tom asked and she explained that. "It's Robbie, their timeline was when men got overly protective of their mothers and mates, I think he thinks of me and the girls as an adoptive mother and aunt, because they were hanging around me when we were at the house." she said and Mary grabbed the door and pulled it open. "Guys hurry up, get in here!" Todd shouted and the cops came charging in.
"Alright calm down now, you're under arrest Webster!" Officer Reinhold shouted and working together they and Tom helped us as we got the cuffs on him and they held him to the floor as he struggled to get free and I finished up with the syringe as I said it with a stern tone to him. "That's enough Lou, you're under arrest, guys hold him down and get an ambulance up here, he's in the tank indefinitely for the next two months here, till the trio now." I said and they forced him to the floor.
As I sedated him he snapped at me. "You're not taking me alive Marrow!" he snapped and I answered that with a stern tone in my voice. "I just did Lou, you crossed the line and point of no return, you're spending twenty years in the care of my boss and you're under arrest as of now. Your wife is raising your son on her own, because you crossed the line and I'm making sure they're well taken care of, but there's no going back now."
"Any chance you had of rationalizing this is at an end, I'm having you committed for this, you're in rehab for the next five years." I said and Sergeant Jackson looked at me then. "What's going on Dr. Marrow?" he asked and I sighed. "We just got the proper will back from the bank yesterday and they're pissed that her parents left her the entire fortune, of both sides of the family in those boxes and everything that belonged to her family, both sides of it, out in Concord." I said and he nodded as Officer Jenkins looked at him.
"Nobody's holding a knife, so why is there a carving knife, covered in his blood, lying on the floor exactly?" he asked and a message appeared in front of him, it's tone sheepish as he read it out. "I did that officer, my name is Robbie, as to what happened before you arrived, he attacked her and I grabbed a carving knife and sliced his hand, he's lost it completely. Eleanor was the one who freed us, and we were doing her a favor to protect her and her female friends, I'm one of seven that was trying to get her attention in the movie when they were at the house at the time."
"At the moment though we're sticking around in here for a while, while the sextet are going over this, but that explains that message over there, I wrote that and frankly this is more than attempted murder he could have broken her ankle when he grabbed her, but DUI, attempted forgery, breaking and entering, attempted murder, he's lost his mind completely and needs serious help right now." Jenkins read out and he nodded as he answered that out loud as the team exchanged bemused looks at the message as they looked at the other one.
"Thank you son, alright you can tell me who you kids are later, but what the hell is going on around here exactly?" he asked and I explained that. " After getting the tests results back from the bank they over reacted to the counter clause and decided on armed robbery with a switchblade." I said, before a member of his team answered that with a furious look on his face as he checked his pockets then as he answered me, while loooking at him.
"Found a hunting knife in his back pocket Jack, attempted armed robbery and DUI, that's two in one shot and we've arrested him six times in seven months here, well his reputation as a hotshot lawyer is destroyed when the judge and jury hear this." Officer O'neill said and he nodded in agreement to that one. "He yanked a switchblade on me and we disarmed him, before I passed it to Tom, before he had his wife get you up here guys." Luke said to him and he nodded to that as I looked at him. "DUI, that's the eighth one in six months, how he's able to get around with a driver's license is beyond me."
"Do a breathalyzer test, I want to know what his numbers, because this is enough to land him in the hospital when I get through with him, he's either on a heavy dose of ethanol or he's on speed, but either way, he's going into rehab for withdrawal and recovery for life when I give the final recommendation to the judge." I said and he nodded as they did and Jenkins read it out in shock.
"It's at .59 that's twenty units in barely three hours guys, he's in danger of alcohol poisoning here." he said and Eleanor gave the order. "Yeah alright take him to the hospital, full restraints and tell Dr. Redford, he's under arrest till the trial at the hospital. As to why he's furious enough that Lou was interfering in my recovery from the fiasco at the house last year and this is enough to put him in the tank for ten years straight."
"Well this just screwed it completely Jane, you're getting a fifth of the amount now, you can live off that and take care of Richie, our decision was going to be getting you 2.5 billion to live off of and twenty gold bars the size of remote control, and that would be enough for you guy to live on till you got back on your feet, you didn't have to resort to this, but now that you have the money goes to you and that's it for him."
"But Lou is going to jail and spending ten to fifteen years in the psychiatric ward when we take this to court for attempted murder, DUI, breaking and entering and armed robbery, as I said there's no debating the integrity test and Lou just screwed his shot at redemption he's spending five years in the psychiatric hospital. You just condemned yourselves to your fate you two, there's no changing what's written into that will, it's mom's decision and it's our admission now, it's over." she snapped and I finished it.
"Malcolm is not going to take it well when he hears this, when he finds out why we had him committed in the first place. We read the paper, I know you need money but trying to pass yourself off as us is not going to work and that's illegal as well, do you really think you can get away with this Lou. I warned you of the circumstances and there's no changing what's coming, and if your plan was forgery, it's not going to work."
"The Dudleys know David and me on sight, they're not going to let you into the house now for this, and even if they did, you don't know the layout like we do, and you'd get lost and die of starvation long before you found the vault. So with that, I'm writing a check for $2,500,000,000 and having the gold I'm giving you melted into twenty gold bars the size of a remote control car, and that total comes to another $350,000,000 and you can use that to live off of, but this is now going too far." Eleanor added and she nodded in resignation then as I looked at the eight officers standing there.
"What's that amount come to exactly if you say it like that Doctor?" Jenkins asked her and she explained that. "It comes to $11,550,000,000. That includes the gold, my account revenues are ten times that now, but in total, I've got $900,000,000,000,000,000,000 in cash and $900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in gold, silver and jewelry, because the gold and silver is 24 carat solid gold and solid silver and bronze coins and the jewelry is the pure stuff of the type that the social society classes were dressed in and wore back in the days before the titanic sank." she said and they nodded in shock at that as he said it for all of them.
"Man if this was that comic strip I'd say I'm the twilight zone here, alright what happened to result in this exactly if he came back with a weapon?" Reinhold asked her and she sighed. "When we, the quintet and me, first met the Websters and I were going over my mother's will, but that first will was a test, at the same time their stocks crashed, David was choosing applicants for the research project he was running and I'm one of his chosen applicants and the project involved my house as well."
"After spending a week at my family mansion, I evidently passed whatever tests our mother set for us and I gained the second will she wrote out to me and inherited the entire family fortune, because of it. When I told the Websters that, they lost their tempers and we threw them out of the apartment, though I was giving a tenth of what money they deserve for that attitude, the lion's share belongs to me and David." she said and he nodded to that as he looked at the amount in the box, and then at her.
"And that's just a piece of it Dr. Vance?" Jenkins asked and pointed at the savings bond boxes and she nodded to him to answer that. "That's just a very small portion of the amount Jake, my great grandfather brought back close to five hundred billion and put it in this box, and after four generations, here's the amount I've got along with the amount back at the mansion and everything mom passed to me as a result."
"Fact of the matter is this is what caused him to lose it, and he comes back and decides on armed robbery with a switchblade, as we're minding our own business. The fight wasn't provoked and David gave him one warning and he still attacked him, after two warnings to cool down he attacked him and it took them five minutes to get him to the floor, when Tom arrived, before you showed up to help us." she said and he nodded as he looked at Lou with a firm look as Reinhold said it for him sternly.
"Alright attempted robbery with a weapon, DUI, attempted murder, attempted forgery, and breaking and entering, and you're a lawyer, well I'd say this is the end of the line for you buddy boy." Reinhold said with a stern growl and I looked at him and Jenkins and gave the order to them. "Get them out of our house, I'm setting up a restraining order till we leave Jack." I said and they nodded as Reinhold looked at us.
"You got the will if he went berserk, I want to see the reason for why we had to arrest him." he asked and she nodded as she passed it to him and he nodded dangerously as he read it and I knew he was beyond furious at this information and why he attacked us. "Well there's no changing this admission to the will you two. What you put her through still pisses off the chief and everyone connected to Dr. Craine, if these are her orders, they're getting activated and there's no changing it."
"How long Doctor, before you probate this will, because Jefferson is going to have us tailing them both, if he hadn't just landed himself in the hospital for a nervous breakdown and multiple felonies?" he asked and she answered that. "Once the court date hits the probate is going to take another week and we leave two weeks after that, because we're all moving to Concord and back to my family mansion." she said and they nodded to that and dragged them out of the room, before we ended that.
"Well that just blew their chances of getting anything out of this aside from the .5 billion dollars in both versions." Mary said as I heard Luke sigh as he looked at us."What caused him to lose it, because I was just getting ready to knock when I heard the argument, and figured you needed the help?" Luke asked and she sighed as she answered him. "You okay sis?" he added and she nodded with a smile as she hugged him and he tightened his arms around her and I hid a smile. Their bond had grown into a brother/sister bond in the eighteen months since we found each other.
"After our last trip the house, I went to the bank and found that savings box, evidently this was test to see who got the entire fortune. The will mom gave them was a testing one to see what she'd do once mom was gone." she said and he nodded to that as they walked over to the table and she opened up the box. "They came to get this, jeez that's more than I was expecting, let me guess he had a knife or gun on him when he tried to grab this stuff?" Theo asked as she looked at the coins she picked up and she nodded to her as they grabbed the spare chairs in the corner pulled them over.
"Yeah and I got the reason for all the hallucinations, before you got a look at him yourself that night, here read this." she said and passed her the letter. "Our family has the ability..., of second sight, whoa, you mean you can see the souls of the dead, that's amazing, alright that explains the panic attack, before you went into shock, David said Renee killed herself, was she what you saw that night, before the repeated paranormal phone calls and attacks on you. The ability started going crazy, before we all got a good look at the bastard ourselves." Luke said and she nodded to that as she answered him.
"Yeah fact of the matter is that the entire situation when we were there was a test, when the six of us were standing in front of the doors we were judged innocent, second was my ability activating all at once, but having it start going crazy on me was enough that it explains the shock I was in when David told us the truth, right after you left the room, Theo, he started pushing the hallucinations even harder and I was trying to sort through it with him coming at me from one direction and the kids from the other, before he caved the room in on me." she said and her eyes narrowed in anger at that.
"What happened exactly, because the shock kept getting worse before the attack in the bedroom?" Theo asked and she explained that. "After seeing her hanging there I decided to check his study for any information to why I was seeing this when you weren't, only to find her painting hanging on the wall and she was in a set of photo albums, before flipping through them revealed she was pointing me to the fireplace and I went to check on it, and found at least fifty skeletons buried in the ash and he possessed one of them."
"After causing it to practically jump at me I backed up automatically and they turned me to the nursery door next and that's when it went from simple haunting to being terrorized by him, before Dave realized what the heck was going on. The shock I was in was from the blow I took at the nursery door, and if you checked my side when you took me the hospital the next day you probably found the bruise, but he punched me and knocked me away from the door. By that point the shock kicked in and I was on the verge of collapsing in the hallway then, before I came to our sitting room that night."
"I'd put it together and knew what every clue pointed to then, but the Welcome home, that was the part I didn't get till he ran me into the ballroom and I realized what it meant then. My great grandmother looked like me at this age as did her grandmother and what it meant was they were telling me I was their blood relative, everything she was telling me was really saying I was our only chance to make it out of the house in one piece and survive till morning." she said and his eyes narrowed dangerously.
"That explains why you turned so pale, you probably got hit in either the uterus or the solar plexus, I knew he had the right idea of taking you to the hospital, but I didn't think it was because of this. You were trying to fight through what they were doing to you and to top it off, you were in physical pain from that blow to your side that night, I'm going to kill that asshole a second time for this and as to why, I thought it was physical abuse."
"We saw the bruise alright, and I thought it was Webster who did that, I was ready to kill when we checked your side to see how much damage he did to you after you fell to the floor when they dropped you and though I was unconscious, I'd rather have him deal with you first than me, because we weren't losing you to that bastard. I knew I was right, I just never expected him to try and kill you to prevent us from finding out he was there haunting the house, or you were our only chance of making it out alive."
"After getting you to the hospital the following morning and I woke up at around two that night, Theo and I went to check on you and found David asleep next to you, he hadn't left your side all night. Blood tests came back you were going to have to be on nitroglycerin for the following five years, and you lost a close to two units of blood, because the blow ruptured a artery, you were bleeding eternally after the stand off. Altogether you scared the hell out of us when we thought we lost you that night." he said and she nodded as Theo finished his sentence as her eyes narrowed in hatred.
"David what was the discussion you had with Benson that night, after the fight over the painting?" she asked and I explained that. " If there was a possibility of a full scale intrusion and she took damage, before it, pull the plug on the investigation and get her to rest if she was going into shock. He said not to leave and wait till morning till the Dudleys got back. Luke I was following medical and police orders, you're lucky not to have killed yourself, but this could have gotten you arrested, because you violated the orders I'd taken by a medical doctor and the chief of police." I told him and he nodded.
"That bastard, that entire time he was really after you and then nearly kills you that night, it took David fifteen minutes to get your heart beating again when they dropped you, once we were sure you were stabilized it took us another fifteen minutes to check the damage on you, because we didn't know why your heart stopped beating that fast at the time and ended up finding a bruise directly over your uterus, and another to your left side and you wound up with a head injury as well, so loss of eighteen ounces of blood and internal injuries and repeated tranfusion for a week at the time."
"In total there was damage to three organs and a third degree concussion, that was enough to piss us all off at the time, but what made it even worse it took you a week to wake up and you were in bed for a month, Jefferson took half of it, before we brought you back to Boston and the MD at Riverside took the rest at the time. Having Webster lose it when you three weeks into your recovery was what pissed me off at the time."
"If we're going back this time we're bringing back the proper medical equipment with us in order to do it." she said and Eleanor nodded in agreement. "Unconscious for week and six weeks in bed and to top it off, Webster chooses to not see what we're really doing and all he's thinking about is money right at the moment, I was ready to beat the crap out of him and then he makes your pain even worse when he grabs you like that."
"That's when I chose I was not going back to New York, you needed me more, our frienship was all that mattered and if it meant getting away from New York for life than fine, I was ready to leave the hustle and bustle of the big city and Luke and I already connected, the situation changed our lives forever. You though, you changed things for both of us and our friendship had snapped into place in just three days back then."
"I could start life here and live with Luke, since we're both artists and he's a architect and contractor, while I work here." she added to her and she answered her. "I was actually relieved you were sticking around when you told me that, you guys are my best friends, and that was actually enough to really irk the duo off, because all five in one city and we were in range of each other. I'd rather spend my time with you than being around them." she said and they smiled at her as Theo finished her sentence.
"You're my best friend, Andy didn't have what you did in personality, we connected from day one and we went through something together she didn't. In fact none of our former friends went through what we did and came out of it changing us forever. Caroline gave us the best and biggest gift of all, and that was each other: our friends and our soulmates, the six of us chose each other to our former friends and it was worth it."
"Though if the asshole does comes back, I'm not falling for it this time, alright so with that this explains everything that we need to know, but if we got a medical doctor involved, this information that is being kept between us. As if sudden jolts like this are not bad enough, you're afraid of enclosed spaces and for David it resulted with one heck of a jolt after the stairs collapsed on him that night. Though I didn't think the bastard would know what you guys were afraid of." she said to her and I answered that.
"Thirty feet and a solid floor I can take, but not a rickety staircase twenty feet off the ground, I'm acrophobic, I hate heights like being on a bridge with a two hundred foot drop, and then to top it off, she needs to pull me up, if he forces me up there again and I'm killing him a second time." I said to her and she nodded in agreement. "Did you put that into the script on purpose Dave, Liam took your appeals to it in the exact same way, I didn't think he was afraid of heights?" Luke asked and I nodded as I explained that.
"Yeah I did, with my being a psychiatrist I had to get him to treat this as if he were really me when we made the movie last year, though the ending was enough, that he did me that was the me if I had lost her. So my research was set to being focused on being a tribute to what happened there in the house, when we lost you guys, Theo, if she lost you, would be just as heart broken as I was at the time. Though if he does it again, and I really am killing him a second time for nearly killing her." I said and he nodded to that.
"Killing him though he's dead already there's got to be a joke in there somewhere, but this is turning into a case overkill now, we killed him once and he just barely misses killing Nell and me that day, well if we're up there again, we're going over everything that is needed, before we do it. What's the total coming to in the boxes, if Webster came here with a switchblade?" Luke asked and I sighed as I answered him.
"$400,000,000,000,000 in gold, silver and jewelry, but there's trillions in the house somewhere, Rebecca's been liquidating some of it to get the funds needed and wrote a check just before she died to get us the money to move to Concord. You better read that will and the one from Frederick, because you're going to get a shock at the amount here." I said and he read it and responded in shock. "Whoa, that's suddenly more money than you guys need right now." he said and she chuckled as she answered him.
"Yeah that was my thought when I read that myself, but this is what caused Lou to go off the deep end, I'm the legal heiress and David's the family executor now. The purpose of the first will was a test to ascertain the good eggs from the bad eggs and what happened was I passed every single test and she flunked the test mom set for her while I passed the others. The argument you heard was the debate over the apartment Luke."
"The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit', what she was really doing was seeing if he'd take her up on that or not, and when he did and was suddenly talking about money and disregarding the fact I had no home after that, they failed the test and my getting involved in the project well that changed things forever and as to why, mom figured my life was going to be connected to the house, we just didn't know how right she was, barely a week later we meet and our lives change forever." she said and he nodded to that as Theo smiled at her.
"That's an understatement, the will and the necklace resulted in you meeting me first because I arrived right after you did, following me is Mary and the guys, we get judged innocent by the doors, and your powers resulted in you putting him in the doors finally and it nearly kills you while protecting us in the process. Well how's our safety plan running this time exactly?" Theo asked and she smiled as she answered her.
"Well for starters, this time we're carrying a set of radios when in the house, we each have one, secondly instead of a single key to the gates, we're buying ten to twelve key locks and give the Dudleys one and we got the other. We're creating a hospital room inside the house, so if we can't get out at least we got a competent medical set up right there in the house, and the medical supplies needed for every situation."
"We lock and bolt the doors to our old rooms, after Luke fixes the damage he did to mine and while we each got our own cellphone we keep a cellphone pouch on us and the radios hooked to our belts or they're in our equipment bags." she said and they nodded to that in agreement. "I'm lucky I became an architect and a contractor, but the upper sections of the bedroom I can't repair like the areas above the bed, though I can fix the floor and the window and the walls and I can repaint the room as well."
"With a seven to eight month stay this time, we can head for town and spend the evenings together like we used to." Luke said to her and she smiled at that. "You better rent a nice sized moving truck though guys, because with you out there, the rents going to be on hold at your apartment." she said and he nodded to that. "Good point, we both make $30,000 a year and that's plenty to live off of, so our stuff in a truck the size of a freight liner truck trailer and our equipment in it till we get a bigger apartment."
" Alright so two or three trucks that size along with a massive amount of medical supplies and get the hospital room set up, alright my suggestion is we caravan up there first and get ourselves settled, before whoever else joins the group joins us. This way we got a chance at some group time together, and though we're not completely cut off, we deal with setting up our spots, before we deal with our studies and things get started with the six people not in the involved in the first one." Luke said to her and she nodded.
"Alright, Robbie, I know you're in here, but where this is concerned I'm not allowing it to go further than what you told him, get that temper under control and secondly you're twelve young man, swearing isn't allowed when you're under eighteen understood?" she said and the pen wrote something out to her. "Sorry Eleanor, like you said, in my timeline, if father was never in the house, the next in command was the first born son. I'm the first born, and I'm Hebrew, it was our job to run the household, so home schooled and helping mother with the chores."
"When Father was attending to the farm, after my brother and sisters were born, I took care of my brother and sisters, and my mother, had a man like Louis Webster assaulted mother like that I'd risk getting arrested for assault and battery to protect her." I read out and she nodded to that with a sigh. "Thank you for helping though Robbie." Mary said and second message wrote itself out to her gently.
"You're welcome Mrs. Watts, though I'm invisible at the moment, Andy, Billy, Jenny, Rose, Sarah, Eddie and I are sticking around, but we're just going to be playing one of your board games, so don't mind us." I read out and we nodded as I looked at her gently as we looked at the game in question as it cleaned itself up and then restarted itself, with seven positions instead of four this time as Theo looked at me. "Why do I feel like that's just a taste of what we can expect if some idiot gets too plastered to think straight while we're there, and while I'm the subject, I wasn't expecting invisible help by them suddenly getting involved in this during that altercation."
"What are the chances of added trouble exactly with what happened?" Theo asked and she sighed. "Pretty high by the looks of it. Just before Lou and Jane arrived my grandmother dropped by and flipped to a article focused on why he lost it in the first place. So if he's haunting the house, yet again, don't do anything stupid and I'm facing off against him a second time, just stay out of the way." she said and she nodded to that one gently.
"And I thought getting trapped in purgatory was bad enough, those doors are the gateway to hell, you're the only one who can see these guys. Well this brings back our conversation when you showed me the doors." she said and Eleanor started laughing at that. "Whoever brought or brings a laptop make sure you bring a very strong satellite to a Internet connection, because our research options are going to be needed here."
"That is if he doesn't decide to possess the statues this time, after what happened before." she said and she smiled. "Cleaning and restorations are easy, it's just the making sure the damn thing isn't possessed that I'm worried about here." Theo said to her and she nodded to that. "That's an understatement and if you're fooling around with the instruments check the dials, or you're going to get hurt a second time Mary." Luke said and she nodded to that.
"That was my mistake at the time that night, he evidently wound it up too tight and one chord and breaks a string, I hope whoever had knowledge of old fashioned musical instruments knows a thing or two about repairing them. What you find out about the books and stuff we found?" she asked and I answered that. "The Dudleys added the pool table and the game cards and his grandfather added the books, with the fact we got several games on the shelves we can add several more, during our nightly gatherings."
"A house this size means our kids are going to get one heck of place to hide if we got rain, but an indoor swimming pool and a basketball court and I can do a recommendation for our own ice rink, but six of ten sports on the property is enough to give the kids something to do, but that chronicles of Narnia tale had better not be true, otherwise I'm locking up the first wardrobe I can find when I see it." I said and they chuckled at that as she answered me.
"That is very intense fabrication, it's Rabbit Season" I heard and looked at the two standing on the couch. "Uh oh, here we go again, guys watch this." I said as they turned to the couch. "Duck Season" "Rabbit Season" "Duck Season" "Rabbit Season" "Duck Season" "Rabbit Season" "Rabbit Season" "Duck Season" "Rabbit Season" "I say it's duck season, and I say fire!" I heard from the TV, followed by the gun going off and Daffy got knocked off the couch from the blast and they started laughing at that.
"What are you waiting for, shoot him now, shoot him now." "You keep out of this, he's doesn't have to shoot you now." "Aw hold it right there, pronoun trouble, it's not he doesn't have to shoot you now, it's he's doesn't have to shoot me now, well I say he does have to shoot me now and I say fire!" I heard before the next rifle blast resulted in him hitting the wall before he got up a third time and walked over to the couch.
"God this is hilarious, but I think we better take a break now, Luke looks like he's going to die laughing at this." Todd said through his laughter and she nodded in agreement to that as she looked at the duo as they started getting into a wrestling match on the couch and she interrupted it at that with an amused smile on her face,
"Nice touch guys, you plan to do puppet shows at the house, with my toys, lets keep it from getting too real, shall we." she said through her laughter and they nodded to that. "Well if that's as real as it gets with the fact they're just toys at least we got the tv doing most of the sound effects from this, but I'm keeping the real violence out of the house till they're fifteen." I added and she nodded in agreement to that.
"So what caused him to flip out exactly?" He asked and she sighed as she answered him. "When I checked the added admission in the will I saw that it said that if the one of us took advantage of the original admission in the will and liquidated what mom left to us, and forcefully liquidated everything she left to either of us, this gave a new admission and it was a turnabout is fair play move where my parents are concerned."
"Everything you guys discussed when we ran this secondary trial, she'd already put it into the will and named David and me her legal executors, and gave us instructions that we can do a trading places move here. Hearing this they freaked out, and he went into a tangent." she said and he nodded. "Exact words used from the argument I heard between you huh?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah everything she said to me at the time, our conversation on the movie, when you got a look at it finally, I reversed the wording and she lost her temper when I told her we were moving after the trial and you with us at the time, because dad's entire family fortune he left to me as well."
"And she demanded to know if you guys were in on this as well, but she's trying to throw her anger out on us, because everything mom favored me for is because both of my folks had several supernatural gifts to them and I was like them, and she was jealous, which explains why she was shoving her resentment out on me. But altogether, this was enough to piss them both off." she said and he nodded to her.
"You got the will I want to see why they lost it." he said and she gave it to him and he read through it and smiled slightly. "Nice touch Rebecca, I'll say it's turnabout is fair play here, honey you better check this out, we didn't have to think up their trial sentences she already decided on the same." he said and she read it out to him then. "Ha, ha, yeah way to go, Rebecca, okay..." she said and read out out the entire thing to him.
"If one of my heirs passed the test, they were to continue the family traditions of helping people and continue making the family names as they were, a revered and renowned family name and they gained everything the names gave them: that includes everything in my insurance plans for said heir who passed the test, the amounts in both savings bond boxes and everything together that my husband and I have together in finances."
"But if one heir had passed the test and the other flunked it and had one of my heirs only saw the previous will as a way to further their greed, and started helping their mate destroy the lives of everyone of the lower bracket, and liquidated everything I left to the heir who passed it, than this will initiates a new test to that heir and it's that it switches the roles that the heirs had."
"While the heir that passed the test that the first will gave, she gets everything and has the rights to reverse the situation completely that put the said heir in the condition and had the life, before she met her mate and whatever friends she made, as she's now allowed and is activating a new integrity test and this admission is turned on the heir that took everything that the first will iniated."
"Regarding that admission and as of now the legal and marital heirs to the family names have the right to liquidate any and all personal property of the heir as he shall see fit till their testing time is completed. My legal and marital heirs in the letter and will are Eleanor Caroline Vance and David James Marrow. As they passed the tests the first will set they are now my new legal executors of the family fortune and properties and have the right to make decisions."
"My son-in-law, David James as the family executor you have the right to make decisions to the entire family fortune, and had you also decided on this decision than I hereby give you permission to do so my dear. You are the exact match to my daughter, and this decision was a new form of therapy and learning experience for my disappointment in my oldest heir and her husband."
"As to that, if you've chosen the same as I have here where the next integrity test is concerned now than activate it, you remember the key words of the first will, use that as your case study and do what should be done. Jane Emily and Louis are to have the exact same treatment they've treated my daughter with, so with that activate this portion of the will now along with the added piece."
"Because had they focused on what the first will said in what was admissible to them, they wouldn't be facing my wrath now, though I'm gone now. This was the secret nobody but my friends and loved ones knew. But here's the catch, that first will was really a test as David and Jack told you, but what it leads to is for the heir who flunked, if they took advantage of the fact that the bearer was dead and everything the fake said in it, is that it leads to a new form of restriction and probation from beyond the grave."
"My disappointment in the heir who flunked my test is that my decision is they're now suffering a new form of punishment for their treatment of the heir who passed it. As you're the executor you get to exact the punishment on them and it's that it's now a total role reversal, think of this as that Dan Akroyd movie in which they switched places for a few months."
"Well this is going to be just like that, but you're going to have it directed from Concord, and everyone who was in league with us is getting involved in it. Sweetheart as the executor treat this in the same way here that they did, no matter the argument the decision stays the same. It's time for them to take a dose of their own medicine, if they took everything away from my baby."
"Sweethearts if you've gotten and spoken to Judge Hawthorne than he's already agreed to activate this will and it's to be probated a month to six weeks before you choose to return to Concord' the keys and everything belongs to the March/Craine/Vance family is in the boxes that we left for you baby." she read out and smiled as she looked at us with a grin.
"Well there no changing what's coming you two, you just screwed your chances there's no going back now, that admission is happening whether you like it or not." she said smiling and I nodded in agreement. "Alright so both parents left you something and now she's completely lost her temper, because not only did we humiliate her on the big screen, but your parents decided on a Trading Places move here."
"Well too bad Jane you had this coming for twelve years since Robert died, you shouldn't have taken out your temper on her, and you married a man like Dursley, well you're getting the consequences for the amount of pain you put her through and we had to pick up the pieces, well it's your turn now." she said and Eleanor smiled as she answered. "I'm glad our friendship grew this strong, but you're going to love this."
"Our entire meeting and the situation was completely rigged, she wanted me to find all of you, because you're the friends she wanted me to find, while they handpicked David for me themselves at the time. Everything that happened had been rigged from the get so she could ensure I could have a shot at happiness now." she said and they smiled at that as she gave her a hug then.