Chapter Six

I'm at the Start

The siblings looked at each other wearily; the woman in front of them looked very little like the beautiful happy woman in the photograph they had found. She let them in and sat down on her couch. A cat with matted fur wound its way around Magenta's legs and slunk into another room of the house, "Are you Janet Weiss?" Riff Raff edged forward carefully leaving Magenta alone just inside the doorway.

The woman laughed a high pitched laugh, "No one has bothered to call me that for years. No one has bothered to visit me for years though either," She sighed, "I am who you're looking for. I suppose your parents tossed you out hm?"

They nodded and her stone cold face twisted into what could've been a smirk, "Figures. It's in your blood you know?" When they looked confused she added, "You know what I'm talking about of course?"

"No," Magenta stammered, "No we don't."

Janet's face took on a look of shock, "You haven't spoken to the doctor yet?" They shook their heads, "Well you'd best get on that as soon as possible. I don't know much about the situation you're in but I do know that the more you remember the less time you have to sort things out. I'd tell you what I know, but I fear that would speed up the process. All I can tell you, is that if you don't succeed you'll both end up dead. Someone somewhere doesn't is trying to prevent that by giving you another chance," She noted the look of horror on Magenta's face as she looked to her brother.

"Here," Janet pulled a notepad from her drawer and lit another cigarette as she scrawled down an address on a piece of paper, "Right here," She stood and pointed to a spot in her directions, "It mentions a fork in the road. Do NOT turn left if you do you'll find the ruins of Castle Frank N' Furter and you'll never want to leave. Just follow my instructions and you'll get there fine."

Janet sent them out the door with a bag of food and her directions. She stood at her window and waved as they pulled out of her driveway and headed in the direction she had pointed them, "I'd better call Dr. Scott. They'll be there soon," She muttered.

The woman retreated back into the shadows of her house and made her way past photographs and newspaper clippings that were hung from the walls. All of them held memories of her time in the castle, from the moment they'd arrived, to the moment they had been ordered out. She knew more about that night then she let on, she just didn't want to end up like Brad, locked up somewhere in a mental home, awaiting someone who would believe him.

Magenta read over the directions again and again aloud to her brother as they drove along the old dirt roads of Denton. When they got to the highway in the forest she locked the doors on the van and pulled a sandwich from the sack, "It was awfully nice of her to give us all this," She muttered looking around. Riff Raff nodded but kept his eyes on the road, "Something wrong brother?"

"Oh I was just thinking about that Janet woman. It's strange don't you think? That she went into that castle a perfectly innocent young woman with dreams and a fiancé. Then when she left she was scarred for life and ready to let go of the man she had previously wanted to marry," He looked over to his sister for a moment, "Doesn't it make you wonder what they were like?"

"Magenta and Riff Raff you mean?" He nodded, "I suppose you're right, anyone who could do that can't have been a very good person."

"But we don't know what 'it' is."

The red head looked at her brother curiously then reached out and grabbed his arm, "Riff look!" He slowed the car and she pointed out the window through the trees. They could just make out a clear area behind some brush; there was dust and dirt everywhere, piles of stones strewn about the grounds and a charred flag attached to a tree. As they passed the gate they noted that the sign said "Enter at Your Own Risk."

"You think that's the castle ruins?" She asked in a hushed voice.

Her brother stared in awe for a moment, "What else could it be?"

"I want to go look."

"She warned us not to Mags you know you can't."

"But I want to," The red head pouted and rested her chin in the palm of her hand on the dashboard, "Our parents could've been here Riff Raff you can't tell me you're not curious."

"Of course I'm curious I just know when something isn't a good idea," Reluctantly he turned his gaze from the rubble and kept his eyes on the road. Magenta kept pointing things out in the forest until finally she spotted a wrought iron gate that housed a small home. Smoke spiraled out of the chimney and great bunches of vines crawled up the stone house. The siblings stepped from the car and walked to the fence; it swung open easily to reveal the sound of birds chirping and a small fountain somewhere close by. It was as if they had walked into a fairy tale.

As they approached the house they began to hear the faint sound of someone humming, it was a tune they both recognized but neither of them could quite pick out what it was. The pair rounded the corner to the side of the house and stopped. An elderly man in a wheel chair was sitting at an old wooden table with his back to them. He was in a wheel chair crushing berries with a small hammer. The girls eyes widened and she looked to her brother, she remembered this man. Then it struck her, she had remembered, "Dr. Scott!" She had tried to call to him in time but it was too late.

Her hair became frizzier her brother grew a touch and slumped over a little more and the doctors hair became darker, more of a brownish grey, "Dammit!" He shouted and Magenta jumped, "I had hoped you wouldn't remember me when you saw me so that this wouldn't happen."

Riff Raff and Magenta exchanged looks as the man turned his chair around to face them. He folded his hands in his lap and frowned, "Janet said you were coming."

Dr. Scott led them into his home via the back door and the siblings were astounded at what they saw. There were movie posters everywhere, all for something they had never heard of before, "Rocky Horror," photos of lips lined the counters and pictures of people in strange clothing covered all the space on the walls.

As the doctor took them into his study the pair became more and more convinced that he was insane, "First things first," Everett stopped and pulled some files from bookshelves, "I am Doctor Everett Scott, ex-tutor of Janet Weiss and Brad Majors and friend to the local criminologist. When he died he left everything he had on your case to me and I've been studying it carefully ever since," He extracted a box from beneath his desk and opened it, pulling out a large green, leather bound book.

The title was printed in faded gold script across the cover, "The Denton Affair." Dr. Scott flipped through the pages of the book until he came to a collection of photographs. He turned the volume to face the siblings and they looked down to see photos of people at a party, "I saw this in my dream," Magenta whispered, "These are the people I saw in my dream."

The girl pointed to one picture of a group of four people. One was perched on a throne, a man whose face was covered in lipstick and dressed in fish nets and a corset. To his right was a woman with a gold top hat and bright pink hair. Behind him was a woman who looked a lot like Magenta, and to his left was a man who looked identical to Riff Raff.

Dr. Scott sighed and took a deep breath, flipping the page to show a photo of only the maid and butler. He looked from the siblings before them to the siblings in the picture and sighed. Riff Raff looked up at him, "What is it doctor?"

"These two," He said pointing to the pair, "Are you."

TBC