Enjoy chappie 9!

Chapter 9: Max knows the truth…

It's the next day, and Rachel is talking to a doctor about Aidan while he lays in a bed with wires and choobs coming out of him. And he's rigged up to machines.

"So…He wasn't outside over night?" The doctor asked.

"No." Rachel said, chewing her nails nervously.

"So…were you sober when you tried to kill him?"

"Yes! I don't drink! WAIT! NO!" Rachel jumped. "I didn't try to kill him!"

"Miss Keller, trying to kill a child is severely frowned upon in this day and age…even if it means just leaving him outside for a while…"

"Are you sure you didn't spike his milk?" The doc asked suspiciously.

"Yes! He doesn't drink milk!" Rachel said, twitching. "I spiked his coffee!"

The doctor looked at him and scribbled on her clipboard.

"No!" Rachel yelled.

"You are paedophiling the court of justice!" the doc yelled.

Rachel jumped a mile. "He was…at home with me…"

"The body doesn't develop severe hypothermia overnight." The doctor said. "But whatever the cause…he's fighting it…seems to be stabilising…"

"That's…um…good, right?" Rachel asked, watching her words.

"Um…. I'm not really sure I only passed medical school for sleeping with four of my professors…and bribing one with cookies…"

Rachel frowned.

"…Anyway, has he been on any of your crazy pills?" The doctor asked.

"No." Rachel said. "What kind of mother do you think I am? I keep them securely locked away in my sock drawer. So he's still sleeping now?" She asked.

"Yes." The doctor said.

Aidan's eyelids flicker.

"He's having some kind of dream…" The doctor said.

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Rachel sat in the empty hospital restaurant. Max comes in and starts making tea.

"What's the story, Rachel?" He asked.

"The hobbit." She said. She closed her book.

"So what's the story, Rachel?" Asked Max.

"His temperature stabilised." She said.

"Wow." Max said. "Impressive words, but my brain hurts."

Rachel nodded in agreement.

"I heard about you and Aidan." Max said. "I know it's a stressful time. Maybe you should tell me."

"Or maybe I shouldn't." Rachel said. "All I ever tried to do for him was the right thing…"

"I understand." Max said. "Even if that was murder…"

"It only ever made things worse…" Rachel said.

"Murder usually does make things worse…" Max said. "So it wasn't the right thing was it?"

Rachel turned Aidan's camera towards Max.

"What do you see?" she asked.

"It's Aidan, but with a girl there…" He said, studying the photo.

"Why is she there?" She asked.

"Aidan's a reasonably attractive fellow…"

"Why is she in all of them?" Rachel asked.

Max scanned the rest.

"Her name's Samara." Rachel said.

"Ma-hu-ah?"

"Samara." Rachel said. "She was murdered by her mother – left to die at the bottom of a well."

"That would be a great idea for a movie…" He said.

"She didn't die…" Rachel said. "At least not her ghost. I kept it alive for Aidan…I let it out…it spread…"

"What?" Max asked.

"I know it sounds completely crazy, but she's here now…she's found us. I thought she wanted to hurt Aidan…"

"Well that's not so bad…" Max said.

"…But it's more than that…" Rachel said. "She wants to be him…and she wants to live for real this time…"

"Now this is more like the scary movie I bought tickets for!" The audience yelled.

Rachel started to cry.

"Eh hem…" Aidan's VO said. (In best 'mock Rachel' voice) "How do you know all this! It's creepy!"

"You tell me who can help me? Who!" Rachel yelled at Max.

"Rachel…I'm sure there's a rational explanation…" Max said.

"You take his picture and tell me why she's in it." Rachel said, pushing the camera towards Max.

"Rachel…." He said.

"You take his picture!" Rachel shouted.

"So this is an intelligent blonde conversation?" Aidan's VO said.

"And that's proof of what, Rachel? That there's a…ghost inside him!" Max demanded.

Intelligent people in audience: "Damn…why didn't we see that before Rachel told us…"

"No." Rachel said. "The proof is what will happen…"

(The people who have seen the ring 2 are starting to notice something very sinister about that last sentence…)

Rachel gets up out her chair and leaves, Max sitting looking at Aidan's camera.

Remember this chappie for what happens in the next one…I cant blend the two or the chapter will be MAJOR long (I just know I hate reading chappies that go on for hours) okay I don't hate reading them but it gets tiring. So….I feel like shit today :( so I missed my music lesson and my school fair. :( reviews might cheer me up :)