Author's notes: Ok, people, chapter 3 is up, sorry it has taken a while. School, you know. Thanks for the reviews, but unfortunatley, no trio in ths chapter. Fell free to write what you''d like more for the plot, I could need a few ideas.
Part III
Three days later, Kat once again went up to the attic, but this time she didn't go to Casper's room. Instead she searched the floor untill she found the crates with his parents' things. She didn't really know what she was looking for, just something that could throw a light over Whipstaff and the McFadden family.
After having searched through several crates containing nothing but clothes and books, Kat found, in the darkest corner of the attic, a trunk with Casper's mother Elisabeth's personal things. It contained framed pictures of her parents, Casper and her husband, her weddingpicture, some jewellery and letters, her favourite books and three diaries.
Kat didn't like it, but if she wanted answers to her questions, reading Elisabeth's diaries was probably the best way to find them.
Kat brought the diaries into Casper's room and sat down in the armchair and began to read.
It was late evening when Kat finally finished the last diary. No dark secrets had been revealed, the books had simply told of every day life at Whipstaff, but every page had screamed out Elisabeth's love for her husband and her son, her warm feelings, and her concern, towards her brothers-in-law, and her grief beyond words when Casper had passed away.
Kat still felt a little ashamed for reading such a personal thing as a diary, but she didn't think Elisabeth would have minded.
Kat was about to close the book when a piece of folded paper fell out. No, not again, Kat thought, remembering last time she'd picked up a paper in this room.
But she was too curious to care, and she picked up the paper and unfolded it. It wasn't written in Elisabeth's handwriting, and when Kat read the headline, a big smile spred across her face.
It was the recipe for the Lazarus-liquid!
Kat ran down the stairs to the library's second floor. She sat down in the armchair and pulled the string of the lamp. The chair started moving backwards, and in less than no time she found herself in the big cave that was Mr. McFadden's underground laboratory. It looked exactly as she remembered it from the night when Carrigan had "passed on" and her father had been brought back.
As soon as the chair stopped in front of the desk, Kat jumped out and ran over to the shelves with chemicals. She began searching for the ingredients needed to make the Lazarus-liquid. They all seemed to be there, and Kat felt her heart race with the excitement. I've got the recipe, she thought. Now I can make this potion and... She suddenly went cold inside. And what? To what use would she make it? Casper was gone. He'd flewn out of her life years ago, and she didn't know where he was.
Kat slowly walked over to the desk. She folded the paper she was still holding and tucked it inside Frankenstien's Monster. Then she sat down in the chair and put her head in her hands, suddenly without strength. She felt her eyes fill with tears, and she was almost giving in, but then her stubborn side took over. He wasn't worth it. She angrily lifted her head out of her hands, pressed a button and zoomed out of the cave.
