Darkness
Mike and Jessica continue the trail to the guest cabin after a couples' selfie. Mike figured it was best he and Jess go check out the other cabin to get some air. After that fight Jess had with Emily and that little confrontation he had with Matt, Mike decided to spend some alone time with his girlfriend. Just to have themselves away from the drama they shared in the lodge. He first had to go turn the generator before heading to the small electronic gate.
"Emily is as dumb as she is if she thinks she cut in our fun. If we're lucky, maybe she'll get eaten by a bear."
Mike chuckled. "Well, you do bring the worst out of her."
"Ultimate jealously."
Mike walked inside the small cot and started the generator by pulling on the cord three times. The lights came on lighting the gate as Mike walked outside, not aware of a mysterious figure watching him and Jessica.
"Kazam!" Mike said opening the gate by pressing the green button and moving the door knob. "The gates shall open."
Jess turned on some music on her phone to put both her and Mike in a mood. "Pretty good right?" she asked as her and Mike continued up the trail
"Yeah, totally! This is…" he trailed off, staring at her ass before looking back to her. "Awesome."
"Aww, yeah, I bring the hits!" Jess enthusiastically replied. "You psyched yet? You don't look that psyched…"
"What are you talking about, babe? I am so psyched right now!" Mike said enthusiastically with a laugh
"It's like a little adventure. A sexcapade." She responded cheerfully until her and Mike saw police tape wrapped around some trees that set their moods away
"Police tape…"
"From Hannah and Beth." Mike concluded
To which Jess muttered. "You'd think they'd clean it up by now."
"They never closed the investigation looking for the bastard who did it." Mike stated as Jess began to feel unease and worried
"Okay, I'm getting the creeps now." She said
Mike rubbed his forehead as he glanced at Jess. "It's all such a blur. What do you remember?" he asked Jess
"I remember we played a stupid half baked prank that probably Hannah and Beth killed by a psycho." She said, feeling guilty for what happened to the sisters
"Hey… it's not our fault they ran into the woods."
"Who'd expect they do a stupid thing like that." Jess replied sarcastically as they continued onwards
They were coming up ahead until they heard a scream in the distance, disturbing both of us before they found a tree blocking their path. Mike looked for another opinion when he spotted a mineshaft entrance to an abandoned mine from a separate fork in the path.
"I don't think we can get up to the cabin with blocked like this. Not unless you want to go through the mines."
Jess shook her head as she headed through the mineshaft entrance. "No way am I going back to the lodge a.k.a. wax museum to drink hot chocolate with Emily."
Jess leaned on the wooden waist barrier blocking the way as the rotting timbers broke, causing her to fall screaming
"Jess! Hey, Jessica!" Mike cried out rushing to the edge, seeing Jess unharmed but heavily breathing from the impact
"I'm okay!" she called out
Mike sighed in relief. "Holy shit, you scared the hell out of me."
"How do you think I felt?" Jess shot back brushing herself off
Mike zoomed the light on her with a worried look and asked. "You didn't hit your head or break anything, right?"
"As far as I can tell I have all seven of my limbs." Jess replied with an impish grin, pointing her thumbs at her chest
"Yeah…" he laughed at her sexual reference to her breasts, seeing a mine cart blocking the path. "I'm coming down."
Mike jumped down and gave Jess a hand as they moved the mine cart through. "This isn't what I imagined us grunting together."
Jess laughed at the remark as they were soon able to get around the cart and continue their walk through the mine. They suddenly heard a rumble and another cart came around, barreling towards Mike who moved him and Jess away from the charging mine cart.
"Whoa, Nellie. This place is giving me the willies. And not the good kind." Jess remarked
Mike gave her a smirk. "I'll offer a little comfort and reassurance for you once we reach the cabin."
Going through the mine, they spotted a cigar stub that was used recently along with a strange symbol on the wall. A map dating back to 1952 showing the mines was in danger of structural collapse, before they found a way out of the mine and back onto the path. From the path, the cabin was a distance away. It was then Jess spotted an observation telescope and hurried over to it excitedly, as she looked through it all cheerfully.
"Gonna look at the trees…" Jess moved the telescope to the sky. "Gonna look at the clouds..." she then looked to the cabin. "Gonna look at the cabin-" she stopped when she looked shocked at something she saw. "Whoa. Mike?"
Mike looked concerned as Jess backed away from the telescope. "You alright?"
"I just saw someone at the cabin." She said biting her lip as Mike took a peek through the telescope before looking back to Jess with a reassuring look
"It's nothing. Don't worry about it, babe."
They headed through the nearby gate and onwards down another trail. Aside from a bird suddenly jumping out at them starling Mike, they hadn't gone that far as they went onwards.
"Couldn't you have at least cleared up the path before sending us here, Josh?" Mike complained in a frustrated tone
"I didn't figure you for the glass half-empty type, Michael." Jess remarked incredulously
Mike quirked his eyebrow at her. "You got a better idea?"
Jessica's response was to take a couple of steps back, then run up to the tree and vaulted up the fallen tree trunk. "That's how it's done, Debbie Downer." She said throwing a snowball directly at Mike's face
"Boom!" she cried out while Mike rubbed the snow off his face as he prepared to make a snowball of his own
"Okay, okay? Well, if that's how it's gonna be." He turned around, ready to throw only to find Jess gone from the tree trunk. "Jess?" he suddenly heard recognizing it to be from Jessica. "Jess?!"
Back in the lodge, Sam and David were upstairs bathroom, adjusting the taps at the bathtub as Sam shook her head. Sighing, Sam checked the water with her hand and adjusted the taps again.
"Baby, the hot water isn't working."
Sam smiled seductively. "And here I was going to strip for you with a warm bath. But since all we're getting is cold water… "
"I think I know a way to remedy that."
Sam walked closely to David with her lips close to each other. "I'm all ears."
"Sammy?" shouted a voice they recognized as Josh causing David to mutter under his breath
"Whaaaat?" Sam shouted back
"You and Davey wanna help me get this fire going?" he asked
"I'm just getting into the bath."
"Oh! Would Davey be helping you with that?" Josh replied teasingly
"Real funny, smartass!" David shot back before staring at Sam. "Look, I'll help you out by getting some hot water on the way."
Sam smiled coyly. "And what do I get out of this proposal?"
"A hot bath, some music, and champagne."
Sam gave him a long kiss. "Proposal accepted."
They turned and left the bathroom; pausing briefly as they heard something echo from outside. David shrugged it off while Sam walked inside Hannah's room. it hadn't been touched since their deaths as Sam noticed a few things. A postcard, a card from a tattoo shop Hannah got her butterfly tattoo. A whole noticeboard on her wall, with everything being about Mike including a picture of the man pinned to it.
"Gee… crush much, Hannah?" Sam muttered shaking her head, picking up a piece of paper on the floor. The paper being a romance compatibility test with unsatisfying results that told Hannah and Mike were not compatible in a relationship. "Could did be more about Mike?"
Gathering her thoughts, Sam left Hannah's room hurrying to head downstairs with David as they walked down the stairs. Chris and Ashely were teasing Josh on not starting a fire. He stood up from the fireplace, turning to them and Francesca who stood beside him talk about a spirit board.
"Are you saying we should have a seance?" Ashely incredulously asked
Chris scoffed. "Those things don't work, man." he said in disbelief
"Yes, they do. We do it all the time. Me and-" they knew he was talking about his sisters before David stopped Josh in order to avoid bringing back bad memories
"Yo, Josh." he called out. "We need some heat in this house, man."
"And hot water's kind of a major oversight." Sam added
"Right, no problem." Josh smiled and gestured. "Just gotta fire up the boiler in the basement. David knows where it is, he's been there before." He then turned to Chris and Ashely. "Why don't you two go find the spirit board?"
Ashely stood up enthusiastically as she turned to Chris. "Come on, Chris. Let's go find it, it'll be like a scavenger hunt."
Chris had a uncertain expression on his face as he replied. "Ummm… okay…"
"I'll get more firewood." Francesca said heading to get more firewood for the fireplace
"I'll come with." Josh said following her
"Follow me, love." David said in an English accent. "The salvation to your warm relaxation and my esteemed pleasure."
The two of them fumbled around for a while. On the while talking about Chris and Ashely, to which David joked Chris would hook up with her and get it over with instead of calling it off for the last second. About how Josh is feeling after Hannah and Beth died. They dismissed those thought as they headed down the basement, flashlight in hand.
"It sure is dark down here." Sam remarked shivering
"Well we are in a dark basement." David quipped. "Besides there's no such thing as well-lit basements."
"I'm glad you remember this place." Sam said shivering
David sighed. "I wish I didn't. I'd rather not think about it, try to think of the positives."
"Like a hot bath." Sam moaned
"And that proposal I suggested." David added with a grin on his face
Sam smiled. "Let's find this boiler."
Not long after, they found the boiler cabinet as David opened it and peered inside. "Sorry you had to be dragged down here."
"Just get me some hot water, and I'll be super fine."
"And the sudden pleasure of my company added to keep you even more warm." David remarked as Sam smiled at his response before noticing something peculiar
"What's this doing here?" she queried getting a nice grip from it
David glanced at the baseball bat. "That must be Josh's." he handed the flashlight to Sam. "Can you hold this for me? I need two hands."
"Sure." Sam held the flashlight beam onto the cabinet and allowed David to work, noting his hand working on the cabinet. "Here you go."
"Now all we need to do is pull the lever when the light turns on. Pretty easy." David did his thing while Sam did hers as she pulled the lever once the light came on, causing the boiler to rumble. "Nicely done."
"Thanks for the help."
David placed his hands on her cheeks. "You can thank me in the bathroom."
"As long as you bring me the champagne you promised."
"I always keep my promises." David said
He then pulled Sam into a kiss as her hands cupped his cheeks. His hands behind her back as they snaked down about to give her ass a gentle squeeze. Her hand swatted his as he pulled back.
"Save it for later. I don't want to do our lovely embrace in the basement." she said
David laughed. "I won't argue."
Sam and David suddenly heard a rumbling sound which caught the two completely off guard. David took a step forward, listening to the rumble going in a rhythmic sound coming from further down.
"You hear that, right?"
"I do." David said in a troubled look. "What the hell is it?"
Sam walked toward David with a worried look. "Maybe we should go check it out." Sam said as her and David slowly walked the corridor. "It could be a drainage or a pipe about to burst. I'm just saying if this was my house, I wouldn't want it burning down on my watch."
"Not unless somebody's gonna pour gasoline on the-"
Two hooded figures wearing hockey masks suddenly jumped out, scaring both of us as David kicked one in the gut to collide with the other while Sam bolted. Before David ran to follow Sam, he noticed the two figures groaning.
"Ow, ow!" Sam stopped and looked at the downed figure. "Damn that hurts."
"What the hell?"
The hooded figures reveal themselves to be Josh and Chris, with the former helping the latter up off the ground while Josh rubbed his aching head.
Josh groaned. "Seriously, like what the hell?"
David rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Motherfuckers."
Sam glared at them and demanded. "What would you two do this?"
"Especially since I could fuck the two of you up." David added
"You were there in the Air Force for like two years before you got discharged. You didn't even get to fly a jet." Chris stated, rubbing his stomach. "Plus there was all this old movie crap down here. Were we not suppose to take in the advantage?"
"I don't know, maybe… YES!" Sam shot back. "Are you two serious?"
"You two really didn't think this through."
"No, we really didn't. But it was a good idea at the time."
"I see a hot bath waiting for me upstairs. You guys have fun."
"Wait for me." David said following her
With the two of them gone, Josh looked at Chris. "You found the board."
"Along with a broken rib maybe." Chris replied as another camera zoomed in on him and Josh
"He didn't kick you that hard if you weren't able to get up." Josh said patting Chris on the shoulder. "Let's go get Ash and Fran for a one-way ticket to the spirit realm."