Sorry it's been so long guys!
I've been totally stuck with this story!
Hopefully I can make it up to you all now!
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Robert
We ended crawling out, and into a very long, and very dark corridor.
"Where are we?" Rachel wondered as we just picked a direction and started walking.
"My guess is as good as yours" I muttered as I followed her. And as long as it gets us away from those hooded guys, I don't care.
The only light we could see was generated from these green glowing sticks, placed along the length of the passage. The rest… the rest was just pitch black.
"How did we get ourselves into this?" I grumbled, stopping and looking back down the other way.
"Because we're all idiots. Here, take my hand. I really don't want us to get separated" I turned, barely seeing the outline of her hand in the eerie green light.
"Robert?"
"S-sure. Let's just find a way outta here" I muttered, taking her hand and letting her lead the way. My heart was still racing, and I was more terrified than I'd ever been in my entire life.
"I… I think I see something up ahead"
My head shot up from watching my step to see she was right. A small rectangle of light lit up a part of the corridor.
"Yeah but… what is it?" I asked cautiously.
"Let's go see" she quickened her pace, and I had to do the same to keep up with her. Each step though… I only felt dread, not hope.
I let go of Rachel's hand as we reached it, being able to see just fine now, watching as Rachel poked her head around the corner. Then her eyes widened.
"Robert! Come look at this!"
"What?" I asked, going and daring to take a peek into whatever it was myself.
It was… a small room. It had a bed, a table… blankets… and other bits and pieces.
"Someone… lives down here?" I wondered in utter shock.
"I… I guess so. Look… look at the candles!"
So, that was what had been casting the light out into the corridor. They were everywhere… and there were so many of them… well, it looked like a prayer room or something.
"What the-AHHH!" Something had moved!
I reeled back, yanking Rachel back with me as it moved again!
It was under the blankets!
"He-hellooo?" Rachel called in a shaky voice. I would have hit her if I hadn't been so scared.
Hey, you try and be in my shoes. You'd be righty freakin out by now as well!
"Uh… hello?" Came the young voice, and I relaxed about a hair. Then the blankets were pulled back… to reveal a young boy of about eight or so. His clothes were torn and grubby, and his hair looked greasy.
He looked at us with dark green eyes, his face scared and confused.
"Who… who are you?"
"Uhm… my name is Rachel, and this is Robert. How… how did you… I mean, what's your name?" she asked gently stepping forward and into the room. I reluctantly followed.
"Timothy" he said, getting up, still looking at us strangely.
"Hey there Timothy. How did you get down here?" she stopped a few feet away, kneeling down to his level.
"The… this house wouldn't let me go. I… I escaped, but… only to here. I've been living down here ever since"
"How long is that?" I asked him, and he looked almost innocently up at me. He was… surprisingly… missing a few teeth too.
He shrugged "I don't know. And… if I leave for good… they said they'd kill my puppy"
Suddenly we heard a sharp yelping, and Timothy tensed.
"It's okay boy!" he yelled "I'm still here! I won't leave you!"
"I… I think…" I couldn't bring myself to tell him to screw the dog, just run like hell and not come back. After all, this was a child, and he wouldn't understand it.
Instead… "Timothy, did you say… leave for good?"
He nodded.
"Then is there a way out of here then? I mean… out into the street or something?"
Again, he nodded. Then I guess it hit Rachel.
"Timothy, can you show us the way there?"
He nodded "All right, but… you gotta run or it'll know I'm helping you"
"Okay then" I agreed, sharing a look with Rachel. We had to get out of here… and we both knew we couldn't leave this boy to fend for himself, no matter what he thought.
He led us down the corridor, where we were going originally, fast walking as he did.
"How much further?" I asked as our pace turned into a run.
"A little bit!"
I managed to grab him in my arms, with him only protesting a little. I ran on, Rachel keeping pace with me, until…
"Stop!"
We all stopped.
"What?"
"We're here" He pointed in the dim light, and when I squinted I could see the outline of a metal ladder on the wall, leading upwards.
"Let's go then" I began to crawl up with him in my arm, waiting for him to protest. He didn't.
"Rach, you still there?"
"Yep, just hurry!" We both heard the groaning, like the house itself was moving. I reached the top, letting the boy hang off one side of the railing while I hung off the other, slamming my hand into what felt like a heavy wooden door above us.
"Timothy, how do we open it!" I yelled as the groaning got louder.
"There's a latch, here" he grabbed my hand, forcing it over to a cold metal area, and I fingered the latch. As soon as I figured it out, I unlatched it, then punching the door with all my might seeing it fly upwards, then start to come back down. I grabbed it before it could shut, forcing it up, and at the same time crawling up the rest of the way, pulling the boy up with me. I made sure he was out, then threw the door back on its hinges, crawling out all the way. I turned, grabbing Rachel's hand as she held it up, pulling her up and out of it as well. When she was out I grabbed the door, shutting it and finding a lock there, locking it just in time it seemed.
"Robert, we're out!"
I jerked my head to look at Rachel in the moonlight, and…
And then I looked up, just as the night breeze swept past, cooling the heat on my skin.
I looked around, realising we were on the front lawn of the house. Not far from us were the tents Dean and his goon had put up. Then I looked at the house, so dark and terrifying, despite the bright white of the moon playing across its roof.
I turned back to the tents, rage filling my body.
"Bastards!" I hissed, getting up and walking over, my fists clenched.
"Robert!"
"I'm gonna kill them!" I yelled, yanking back the flap of the tent.
What I saw made me gag.
"Oh god" I whispered, stumbling back a little.
"What? What's…" then Rachel looked, and she screamed.
Inside were the bodies of Dean and his goons. Rotting… like they'd been there for weeks, with holes in the eyes and worms and larvae wriggling around their bodies.
"How… what…but…" Rachel gaped at me, her face white.
Then… we heard a shrill laughter, and both of us jumped up, turning to see Timothy laughing into the sky, a gleeful look on his face.
"Timothy?"
"You actually believed me! Ahahahahahaaa! How gullible…" he shook his head, grinning at us. It wasn't a nice grin either.
"What? What happened to them!" I snapped, balling my hands into fists.
"Don't you get it? It's not the house that is the problem… it's the very ground it was built on!"
"But… but you said…" Rachel was still in a state of disbelief.
"You don't really believe that it would let anyone get away, would you? I was taken almost a century ago…" he laughed again, and that just fuelled my anger for this boy.
"You-"
"Yes. Me"
"ROBERT LOOKOUT!"
I stopped just before vines shot out of the ground, blocking the path between me and the boy. I snarled, focusing on-
"AHH!"
I spun to see a vine had her ankle!
"No!" I dove, grabbing her ankle and yanking the vine, pulling it apart. The ground under us suddenly started shaking…the boy was laughing again…
He was doing this!
"RUN FOR IT!" I yelled, but was suddenly overcome with fast growing vines. I kicked and wrenched myself free, grabbing Rachel's wrist blindly and running away from the house and onto the street.
Somehow landed face first onto the pavement, hearing Rachel scream and tires screeching as I barely was aware of headlights coming towards us…
Then the headlights stopped, and a door slammed.
"Jesus! What the fuck do you think you kids are doing out on the street!" Some guy yelled as I felt myself being helped up. I looked around, noticing Rachel and the guy had helped me up. Then…
My head shot around to look at the house…
All was silent. The tents were still there, but… but Timothy and the dangerous vines were gone. I managed to turn to the guy, who looked angry and concerned all at once.
"Uh… sorry sir" I managed to smile, not giving any real reason. A few minutes later he left, and Rachel and I went onto the other side of the street, both of us looking at the house, then at each other.
"We can't just leave the others" I said.
"Oh, and what do you spose we do Robert? Run in there as elephants and knock the place down? That whole area is cursed!"
I looked at her again "We need an exorcist or something"
She just screamed at me, walking away.
"RACHEL!"
"ROBERT WE CAN'T GO BACK IN THERE! We were lucky to escape the first time! And… we'll, I…"
"I think we got out too easily" I said, stopping her train of thought. She stopped, turning to look back at me, then up at the house.
"Fuck" she whispered.
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Sorry if this chapter wasn't the best! As I said, I've been really stuck with this story!
So, if any of you have any ideas, I'd be happy to listen!
Oh, and the next chapter might just be narrated by Jake… I don't know yet, but we'll see how it goes, okay?
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