Chapter 9
"What's going on? Why would they tell you to lie to us?" demanded Theo upset still. The man paused, but soon continued…
"It's about the house…"
Within ten minutes Theo and Mary raced to the house, to find the towns people around shouting to tear the home down. Everyone was crazed and things seemed as though they were going to get worse. Theo and Mary had sent the old man to tell the others- and he was going to do so.
"Oh my god- things have gotten out of hand" Theo got out of the car. The mayor or whatever was at the home's front gate. He was making a speech over a microphone- it was odd that they hadn't heard the whole situation.
"Theo, this isn't good" Mary warned her as they broke though the crowd.
"Theo… Theo!" Mary kept trying to stop her but she almost lost her, so she stopped and just followed. When Theo reached the front the major was getting crazy himself and threw a lit match to the ground. Theo jumped out from the crowd, in between the mayor himself and the line of where the crowd stood. She stomped on the small fire that was starting quickly.
"Are you crazy?" You can't start a fire here!" Theo shouted as Mary watched from the front of the crowd.
"Have you all lost it? Look at what you're doing!" Theo stepped up next to the mayor.
"Look at yourselves" Theo told them in a whine almost. Some of the crowd that could hear her, paused in their shouts and froze in their steps.
"Yes there was something here, but nothing now. It's just a home!" Theo was making an influence as other crowd embers quieted down. Theo smiled at Mary as people started to realize others quieted down totally. Mary looked around here, and smiled back at Theo as the people looked more homely now.
"…your Theo" a voice called from the crowd.
"You're Theo from two years ago. Let me remind all you that she caused us this. This home is evil. She's evil" a man stood next to her.
"This woman holds the evil to this house- the household be destroyed- and so should she" the man glared. Mary watched Theo as her smile dropped away, as Theo watched Mary's smile do the same. Before they knew it the crowd was fired up again- but this time worse. Theo had two men grab her, as this anonymous other guy told them what to do to her. He orderd the same lady that Theo had seen two years ago, open the gate. They quickly threw Theo on to the courtyard floor, and closed the gate again quickly.
"This woman should die—die with this home, and die with her evil" the man shouted as the crowed roared. He took an oil fluid can that one of his men had gone all around the home with. He threw it around the front of the gate and stepped back.
"With this match" he held up one, as Mary got more frightened.
"I will kill these memories and history of this house- along with that witch!" he shouted again about to lit the match.
"No!" Mary came out.
"Stop!" Mary yelled. The man looked her in the eyes devilishly as his two men grabbed her.
"Here's with number two!" he lightly touched her cheek, then slapped her. The other two men threw her in the courtyard with Theo. Mary was scared- as was Theo, as the man held up the match and threw it upon the lighter fluid.