Title: House On Haunted Hill

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Lita was ahead of him when they had started, though he was now in the lead, pulling her hand to the direction he thought the sound came from.

"I think I heard the scream coming from this way." Matt pointed to the left side of the hallway.

Lita shook her head disagreeing, "No way, I swear I heard the scream coming from the opposite direction." She gestured to the right side.

Another scream rung out, coming clearly from the right. "Sorry." Matt gave a sheepish grin.

Lita laughed despite what they might be coming across, "I make mistakes too, let's just go check this out to make sure no one's hurt."

The sight they came across in the room across from the door near the end of the hallway shocked them.

Molly Regal, who had been upstairs only minutes before was now lying on a surgeon's chair, her body shaking with the electric currents flowing through her.

William Regal was trying desperately to try to save his wife, pulling the plug that connected the chair but found it was no use. He couldn't find any other plugs or switch that was left on. When he was almost about to give up hope, he saw from the corner of his eye a lever. He pushed it down, sagging with relief when he saw that the electric currents had stopped.

Molly lay sprawled on the surgeon's chair, still graceful, even in death.

Willliam Regal neared the surgeon's chair, touching his wife's beautiful blonde hair that she had so cherished. "What happened to you Molly…" He whispered, remembering every detail of how her face looked just then.

Molly's mouth had been slightly open, deep red blood trailing down past the side of her cheek.

William took a handkerchief from his suit, folding the white material, using it to wipe the blood from her mouth. His shoulders shook with unreleased tears.

Lita stepped forward to try to see if he was all right, backing away when he straightened his back, once again regaining his posture.

"I know one of you did this, and once I find out who I'm going to bloody well make you pay for it." Regal pushed past Lita and Matt, leaving the room.

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A man stepped out from the shadows, creeping slowly to the surgeon's chair. He grazed his eyes throughout Molly's whole body, his hands touching her face.

He leaned in to kiss the dead corpse of what used to be a beautiful woman, with prestige, with honor.

He recoiled in horror when Molly's corpse came to life, gripping his arm with a deathly strength.

Molly's face twisted into a cruel smile, bounding off the chair. "What's with the look?"

Raven gave an amused smile, "Just making sure none of those idiots had come back to the room."

"Good thinking." She got her shoes from where she had hidden them from behind the counter, putting them on.

"Why do you want to go through all this trouble just to scare Regal?"

"Why?" Molly moved toward where Raven was, closing the space between them, making Raven begin to breathe heavily, her lips brushed against his ear. "Because he's a bastard, I want him to know what real fear is."

"What next?" His brown eyes rested on her lips, afixed.

"You're going to help me scare him some more." She touched his chest, kissing his neck.

He didn't step away, closing his eyes instead to savour the smell of her hair.

"By doing this." Molly brought from behind her the scissors she had been hiding all along, plunging the scissors into his abdomen.

Raven fell to the floor in pain, clutching his stomach, feeling the blood seeping through his shirt and onto the ground.

Molly didn't release the hold from the scissors, descending to the floor, flush with his body. "You see Raven, I wouldn't have had to kill you at all," She paused to withdraw the scissors sharply from his stomach. "If only the Torrie girl would have been found dead with her body. Without her body, we have no proof that she's dead, she could still be alive, isn't that right?"

Raven cringed, trying to go along, trying to nod but found the pain was too great to bear.

Molly placed a soothing hand on his forehead, quieting him. "Don't try to talk, you'll hurt yourself more that way."

Molly sat down placing the bloody scissors beside her, wrapping her arms around her legs, resting her head gently on her legs.

"You see Raven, William was scared when he saw what he thought, was me dying, though just one death isn't going to shake him up real good, you know?"

Raven was still holding his stomach, trying to slow the blood flow down, in his mind, thoughts were going through his head to whether sit here and die or to try to get the scissors away from Molly. He hadn't realized that his eyes were fastened to the scissors, never faltering his gaze.

Molly became aware of it also, following his gaze back to the scissors. She picked it up, putting it safely in the back of her skirt pocket, waving one finger in the air. "Raven, it's not good to try to escape, because there isn't any. You wouldn't want to make me mad, you know what happens when I'm mad." She made a thrusting motion with an invisible object.

Raven shrink backed, there wasn't any way he could get out now. He had lost all hope. He decided to play along, and to hope for the best. "If…if you think he's a bastard, why'd you marry him?"

Molly's eyebrow lifted, suspicious at Raven's sudden interest. "I would have thought someone as bright as you would have figured it out by now. It's all about the money. He's one of the richest men in the world, he can buy me anything my heart desires."

"He..He can't buy you love."

Molly's eyes darkened, no longer resembling the hazy blue of her natural eye color. "You're right." Her eyes brightened again, her smile widening, "But as they always say, money is the next best thing."

"Sure…sure…" Raven could feel himself getting drowsy, he found it hard to keep his eyes open.

Molly reached over, lightly slapping Raven's face. "Don't go to sleep on me now." She giggled. "At least not until I'm done talking."

Raven tried to wave Molly away from him, leaving droplets of blood on her dress as he did so.

"You stupid silly boy! You've ruined my dress." She brushed them off as best as she could, covering the spots so they were no where in sight.

Raven slumped back, he had thought leaving the blood on her dress would have been a sure fire way to let the others know who had hurt him, though now she had covered it up, no one would know.

"So anyway.."

Raven couldn't take it anymore, the pain in his lower abdomen was killing him, eating away at him. "For fucking sakes, if you're going to kill me, then kill me!"

Molly put a hand to her heart, looking deeply hurt. "If that's the way you feel about it." Her eyes sharpened, her cruel smile diminishing, "Then I'll leave you to fend for yourself."

Raven tried to move to stop her, though he felt he was paralyzed from the waist down. "Please…don't..go.."

He watched her disappear, his eyes were getting heavy. He crawled to the edge of the chair trying to hoist himself up on the chair, halfway through, he fell unconscious.

His blood kept flowing, swirling into the sink that lay at the corner of the room.

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Please R&R