Return To Hill House
Characters: David Marrow, Eleanor Vance Marrow, Theo Willis Sanderson, Luke Sanderson, Mary Lambetta Watts and Todd Watts
Warnings: Like the last story there's going to be several flashbacks to the movie as Eleanor and Marrow reflect back on things. But this time it's going to start from the family history leading into the 4th night at the house as they get to work and put the renovations and restorations into it. And with this chapter, his memories reflect on a something he'd forgotten regarding their first night.
Whats also in there is there's going to be several conversations that weren't in the first story, as he reflects on the added memories that came with it.
Disclaimers: I don't own the story or the characters, the plot line belongs to me, everything else belongs to Shirley Jackson and Jan De Bont.
Chapter 1: Playful Discussions, Billiard Ball Intrusions And The Will
My name is Dr. David Marrow, and I'm a psychiatrist, 18 months earlier I decided on a project that changed my life forever. As it not only changed my opinions on the supernatural and paranormal, but it brought me into the biggest change of my life. As I met my wife and my closest friends and the four of us went through something. And together, that tied us together forever that year as things changed directions.
As my mother in law brought us together at the time now that year by rigging the chosen group then, knowing the truth to what her mother intended for the four of us. I now realized I was who she chose for Eleanor, my love, my wife now. As Rebecca brought us together and gave her a chance at happiness at the time as I thought it over. Now realizing it was time we returned to face the memory I reflected on things that first day
Reflecting on things after dinner that night, I remembered how we were together at the time. Remembering things as they were, I remembered what happened when the haunting started going from playful to cruel practical jokes. As it was a slight circus, before things started getting out of hand as the memory things after dinner. And of what happened in the hall shot forward then, as I hid a smile as remembered that.
As things there in the house were quiet the night, I felt my heart give a painful thump when she confided her feelings to me. In over what the Websters were doing to her emotionally, and her feelings about wanting a change and better life. Just before we took time to heal their connection as my feelings for her and hers for me. They started growing out of the time spent together that night, as we spent that time together.
As I remembered our first night together, I remembered the amount of joking around during our conversation at the dinner table. Before it result after the latest scare attempt to us, turning into a case of movie jokes and other movie theory conversations between us. Remembering this, I hid a chuckle after our debate in haunted houses and possessed ventriloquist dummies came in to the conversation as it got started on movie theory.
Finding The Will And Billiard Ball Intrusions: Marrow's POV
Before she could answer though I heard a door slam shut and I got up. "That wasn't any of us David, we're in here and the Dudleys already left for the night, so with that our mysterious assailant is trying to spook us, before you tell us that legend on the house. Alright the wise guy trying to scare us, better knock it off, we're not falling for it." Todd told me as he called out to whoever or whatever did that and she looked at him.
"Alright Todd keep it together here, it's probably just a draft from an open window somewhere in the house. And anyway the wiseacre is going to keep testing our limits so we don't make it easy on him, besides I bet it's just another scene from a movie or show." Eleanor said and he nodded as she patted him on the shoulder, as Luke decided to change the subject by lightening up the mood, before he could though at that.
She looked at Todd and I could tell she was trying to find some way to keep him calm. "Remember when I said our invisible host was going for poltergeist intrusions, well this is what I meant. The six of us are together, no one else is in the house but us and we hear that. So trying to get us to start pointing fingers at each other, but what I can guarantee. It's that though I may figure it in, trying to rationalize this just makes it harder to see it."
"Aside from that I think they're trying to lighten up the mood." she said and then I heard a mental chuckle as she said it out loud as I saw the smile on her face. "What's so funny exactly Nell?" Mary asked and she smiled. "Alright we got six people in the house, one a psychiatrist and the other five are of the same personalities of the characters of a certain board game that got turned into a movie here so with that fact in mind here, now."
"But remember our conversation in the dining room over movie jokes. Alright think it over guys, what movie had both of these in the exact same scenes, we heard a gun going off, but the lights weren't out and we were at the dinner table talking about haunted houses and it turned to mystery movies and stories in the middle of the conversation." she asked, before I could answer I hear a gun go off, and following it.
It was followed by something shatter and then a scream in the hallway and they nodded bemused smiles. "If I'd hadn't seen any crime comedies I wouldn't be finding this too amusing right now if there was more than six people in the house." Todd said and she nodded as Luke looked at her then at that. "Great, Christopher Lloyd and movie jokes entering the conversation and with us being the only ones in the house..., oh great."
"Several thunks, a groan and then a gun goes off next." Todd said and Luke nodded to her at that. "Wait I know that scream, Crime comedy, crime comedy, alright I see where you're going with this, bullet one in the dining room, two in the hallway, we heard something made of porcelain shatter, and then we heard a scream and of the trio the one most recognizable was Scarlett." Luke said and she nodded smiling at him then.
"Our conversation at dinner was crime comedies and this happened to be one of the ones Lloyd played in, so what else exactly. If we were playing in a movie here the murder was in the study, the bullet missed by an ear. and even with the fire it was too dark to see anything, though the vase was destroyed when they turned on the lights. And the gun was lying on the floor next to the murder, and they started arguing over it."
"We don't a panic attack in movies jokes, so that's enough of the revolver." Todd added and she nodded as she answered him. "I think they took your remark literally on waiting till we were done eating, before they started Mary." I said and she nodded as Eleanor answered with a smile. "I would consider that going just a little too far, but we all love Christopher Lloyd moves, so what else." she asked and Luke and Theo nodded to that.
"Yeah so what movie did we hear these things in it, you said you loved any comedies that had Lloyd in them Luke, we were discusing crime comedies and serial killer cliches in movies, and then you said to wait till after dinner, before starting on the comedy hour Mary, and then we heard a what sounded like a rifle and handgun going off a minute later." Theo said and she nodded as Mary added on to her statement, bemused.
"Alright so we heard a gun going off, something made of porcelain or ceramic shatter followed by a scream a minute ago, what's going on here?" Mary asked her. "Well think it over, they were at a house this size, they were getting to know each other during dinner, and then went into the study for the reason they were brought there. And said lead actor revealed certain crude details about them, before doing a murder in the dark." I added and Eleanor nodded as she finished it with a slightly amused smile on her face.
"Yeah, said kill wound up with added injuries and then they find the cook with the dagger in the back, and in our case, there's no one else in the house, but us and again that's what I'm referring to here, after locking up the latest arrival. They reconvene in the one room that is right across the hall from where they locked up the guy. And as their searching the house, and they wind up with a multiple murder once the power goes out."
"The third of the three had a gun involved in and they heard the explosion all over the house because the hall can amplify the repercussion of the revolver when the gun goes off as well as the front door the front hall is made of most granite mixed with cement, so the repercussion of the gun blasts will be bouncing off the wall for five minutes. So first the singing telegram, then the murder and they heard the gun go off."
"And the door slamming shut, before Curry turns it back on, the third of the three had a gun and the door slamming shut, before Curry ended up in the showers, just before he did that, so what else could it be?" she asked and I thought it over before I chuckled as I got it. "Clue, someone's pulling scenes from a crime comedy and we just landed in the middle of it." I said and she nodded as she looked at the trio with a smile.
"Yes, our little wiseacres are trying to take the edge off after we just got the bejeesus scared out of us after that bottle exploded and with that fact in mind, they're choosing the scenes that had us laughing when they were going at it in the movie. And each one included the trio arguing over something till one of the girls ended the argument in the middle of it, before someone broke a wine or shot glass while doing it."
"You remember Clue, Lloyd was a psychiatrist and he was in the basement and then after two murders came the scene with the singing telegram, first they heard her, followed by a gun, followed by the front door slamming shut. With the house built like a maze, if we're right next to the front hall, and the house is practically the same size as the one they were at and we're in the next hall over. So we're going to hear these things no matter where we are in the house?" she asked and they started laughing as he answered her as he said it as the six of us were sitting on the chairs and couches.
"Yeah, and I think that's what they're trying to do now. We got a gun sounding cork and the door slamming shut, this keeps up and it's scenes from movies that we like, though Tim Curry, once he gets started, really over does the acting in the movie and their argument over the candlestick was hilarious. Does anyone else love this movie." he said smiling and we nodded in agreement with his opinion.
"Looks like our remarks at dinner and the fact that our seating arrangements caused them to figure we needed a tension breaker." Todd added to him and he nodded. "Alright if I remember right during the issue with the gun, Mustard ended up in the dining room and was checking under the table, while Green ended up in the closet as they were checking the house. After the telegram Curry ended up in the shower, before the lights back on." she said before the power went out then as Mary sighed in amusement.
"Anyone consider that the linoleum and granite stairs and fireplace are good amplifiers for the repercussion if someone if firing off a gun, be it real or a toy one, or even a B.B. gun in the foyer, let alone we don't have a doorbell on the front door?" Mary asked him and he nodded, before we heard a loud knocking, and it started as I heard the front door open as we heard the piano do the opening chords to the scene.
"I am, your singing telegram." Theo sung out, as we heard in a quick follow up, the sound of a gun going off and then by the front door slamming shut and they started laughing at that as she said it with a smile as the lights went back a minute later and we started laughing. "Great, the first explosion hit the vase first and now it just the chandelier, what's next?" Todd asked and we got the answer to that a minute later as we heard a second one, followed by the front door slamming shut and he chuckled.
"Well the murderer's just left the building." Luke said and that did it for the girls as Todd answered him through his laughter at that. "Whoever's firing that gun better check the gauge if it's a revolver." he said to him laughing. "Yeah and if it's always a wine glass, what's next to come landing on top of him." Luke said to him smiling and he grinned at him as I looked at Mary at that and saw the bemused look on her face at this.
"I don't believe this, alright guys cool it already, it's not enough we got a big jolt and they're doing sound effects we don't need it turning into a circus tonight." Eleanor said and they exchange grins and I hid a smile, already seeing the possibility of another movie joke then. 'Alright I see where this is heading here, guys enough already, you two, cool it alright.' I saw Mary thinking with a smile as the duo exchanged grins then.
'What now exactly, because this is getting ridiculous.' I thought to myself smiling as I looked at Mary, who had an amused look on her face at this.'Guys come on, she's already ready to break down laughing here, enough already here.' I saw Mary thinking and I turned to her at that as I went to question number two as I looked at Eleanor, who was trying to hold it in, as I hid a smile as I sat next to her.
Mary what's going on with those two?' I asked her and she hid a smile. 'They're about to do the argument in the hallway over the overkill comment when they found the added injuries on him. Though in her case, I think if this keeps up, one of us is going to die laughing at this rate. She's ready to crack from holding it in and that's what they're trying to do now.' she thought to me. 'Guys come on, enough already, I can't take this.' I saw Eleanor thinking as she tried to get it under control as they got started then.
"He's got new injuries, well he's certainly dead now, but why would anyone want to kill him twice?" he asked as Theo tried to keep from laughing at that as she made a dead pan remark to the duo, as I looked at the quartet I knew the duo were trying to make her laugh at this rate as I hid mine as I looked at them. 'Come on guys, enough already, it's been jokes and gags all evening, now enough already.' I heard her think, hearing her laughter, as I thought the same thing as I tried to hold in mine as I watched the quartet.
'Movie re-enactments, they're doing re-enactments of that scene in the movie, come on guys enough already here, you keep this up she's going to die laughing and honey pull yourself together here, okay.' I thought as I watched them joking around as I thought it a second time to the quartet. "For gods sakes, come on enough already you guys, honey pull yourself together here.' I thought again to Eleanor as I looked at her smiling then
'Standard pranks and practical jokes dinner conversations and now the act of re-enactments here at the moment, but come on you guys, don't over do it right now."' Mary added as she looked at the wise guy demeanor in the trio, before looking at Eleanor who was trying to keep from laughing as the trio exchanged smiles at this. As Theo answered his remark then as she tried to hide a smile then as she said it.
"That seems so un-necessary." Theo said and the duo tried to keep from snickering as he answered her with a smile. "Well that's what we call over kill now." he said and I answered that with a bemused look. "Yeah and I call it psychotic at this rate." I told him as Eleanor started laughing at that. "Unless he wasn't dead before." Todd said and he looked at him, as I watched the girls snickering at this as he answered him.
"Yeah so what's the difference exactly, the guy's dead, how many times do we have to kill him exactly?" he asked him and that did it for the girls as he looked at them as Eleanor said it to her through her laughter at this conversation. 'With the trio it's one of thing, but my friends it's another thing altogether, but this is getting ridiculous.' I heard her thinking as she tried to pull herself together, before the punchline then.
'I don't believe this, I know we all loved that movie, but is this really necessary, that movie was made that a crime comedy in the first place. To take the edge off after several explosions, but this is going too far right now, guys that's enough of that already.' I thought to myself in response to her mental remark as Mary answered her mental remark and mine with one of her own as the girls tried to pull themselves together.
'Does it really matter here, God you guys enough already, it's been jokes and gags between you guys all night, this keeps up and one of us is going to choke on something as we're getting a drink, now cool it.' I saw Mary thinking with a bemused look on her face as it hit the punchline. "That's what we're trying to find out, we're trying to find out who killed him, and where and with what!" he said and Todd looked at him smiling.
As I tried to hold in mine as he responded to his remark as he tried to keep from laughing. "There's no need to shout." he said as the girls tried to get it together. "I'm not shouting!" he said. "Alright I am, I'm shouting, I'm shouting, I'm shout" He started to say as a pillow hit him in the head and he landed on the couch and that did it for the girls as they started laughing at this as Mary said it for me to the two wiseacres gently.
"Alright that's enough of that you guys, pull yourselves together here." Mary said, speaking my thoughts out loud at that remark gently. As I finished that mentally then. 'For crying out loud, I knew putting them together was going to help her heal, but going about it like this is going to far right now. She's healing, but if this is what her quintet were like in getting her to open up and get her to start laughing, they just over did it.'
'God this keeps up and one of us really is going to die laughing here, alright pull yourselves together you guys, enough already here?' I thought as I tried to hold it in as I looked at her as she was shaking with laughter as Luke said it for me. "Alright pull yourself together Nell." Luke said smiling and she nodded as she looked at Theo smiling. "To repeat that, does anyone else love this movie?" Eleanor asked and they nodded.
"Who's the wise guy who started this act of jokes and gags, because they're getting hit with a pillow when I get my hands on them." she added and Theo started laughing at that. "What is this, movie re-enactments, because this keeps up we're going to have one of us choke on a drink through our laughter if this keeps up?" Theo asked laughing and I shrugged to answer her as Eleanor answered that as she tried to get hers under control.
Before she could say it we heard it a second time and the duo lost it completely as she tried to get the words out as I heard her thoughts on this through her laughter. Are they trying to over do it right now, the guys already did that re-enactment. Once is enough tonight, now enough already here." she said laughing and he chuckled as he looked at me to comment on that as Luke looked at her with a smile at that remark as he said it.
"Sis, you need pull yourself together here alright." he said and Todd added onto that as he looked at me then to comment on this as she looked at him at that with a smile and leaned her shoulder against his. 'I never thought I'd hear that from a total stranger, these bonds are getting stronger every minute.' I heard her think with a smile as she leaned against him and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and she leaned into it.
"Sis, come on, pull yourself together here alright." he said again and Todd added onto that as he looked at me then to comment on this. 'It's only been six hours and already they're calling me that, I just found my closest friends faster then I expected tonight.' I heard Eleanor thinking with a smile as she leaned against his shoulder and he smiled at her, as Todd looked at me with an amused smile then as he said it.
"Alright time to call it now here David, she's going to die laughing if this keeps up." Todd said with a smile and I nodded as I called out to our invisible friends a second time. "Alright the wiseacres firing that gun had better put the safety on it right now, now enough already here!" I called out to our invisible house-mates then as I heard her thoughts through a giggle as I hid a smile at her.
'I don't believe this, the wiseacres are going to have one of us die laughing with the amount of pranks they're pulling tonight if this keeps up.' I heard Eleanor think through her laughter as she looked at Theo with a smile as she said it. "I know they said laughter makes a good remedy, but at this rate it's going to turn lethal if this keeps up." she said with a giggle and I chuckled as I answered her at that with a smile.
"In slow increments yes it helps, but in this case, the wiseacres need to take it down several notches before one of us chokes on something. Though I think your mother chose to help you by getting a few wiseacres into the group. And just who dragged in the crime comedies and regular comedies into the conversation at dinner, because this is getting ridiculous here?" I asked and she chuckled as Theo answered that question smiling.
"Luke did, but the question of whether or not there are going to be anymore pranks over this is another question altogether." Theo said, before I heard another explosion in answer to that. "I think that answers your question Theo." Mary said as we heard it a third time. "That seems so un-necessary right now, so what's next exactly, the gun hitting the chandelier?" Theo asked and in answer to that we heard a third explosion.
And they started laughing as she answered her question through her laughter as Eleanor said it smiling. 'Under normal circumstances I would call a halt on the repeated movie jokes, but this is going just a little too far right now.' I thought as she locked gazes with me. 'Someone want to get this under control and before the next joke causes someone to break a rib from holding it in?' Mary said in response and I nodded.
"You had to ask, nice touch Theo, that really adds on to the effect." Eleanor said through her laughter and she smiled at her and Todd followed that up with the next remark as he tried to get his under control as Mary started laughing at this. "These wiseacres keep this up one of us is going to choke on something, pull yourselves together girls." she said smiling and they nodded, before we heard a fourth one and the door slamming shut.
"Again enough already, pull yourselves together girls." Mary said smiling as I answered that as I called out a second time at this. "Alright the wise guy firing that gun better cool it now." I called out, before we heard it a third time and the door slammed shut. "Yeah I think the murderer just left the building alright." Todd said to me smiling and I answered that as I tried to keep from laughing at that as I answered him his remark.
"Alright two explosions in one night they better be doing that in the foyer, there's more room in there, alright this is getting ridiculous, and if this keeps up one of us is going to die laughing at this rate." I said and he chuckled as he looked at her as she curled up against him and he leaned his shoulder against hers as she answered my remark smiling.
"Yeah well with two wiseacres in this group it's we got enough comedians in this group." Eleanor said and he grinned at her at that. "Yeah well it's comedians are one thing, but watch the teasing or you're in big trouble beautiful." Luke said to her smiling and I hid a smile at that as he looked at her playfully. 'I wonder, well best to find out later.' I saw him thinking with a smile and I knew where his thoughts went then.
'The big brother mode just kicked in now, alright watch it baby, you keep teasing them like this, their going to let you have it.' I thought as I hid a smile as he answered his remark. "I know we decided on acting like the comedians, but comedy only goes so far here, and they're now trying to take it a little too far, but this is ridiculous." he said and Luke chuckled at that as he answered him with a playful smile.
"Yeah so what's next exactly, the fight over the gun on how many bullets are in it?" Luke asked and he started laughing as he answered him at that. "No more than likely they're doing the bullets in reverse order, but they keep this up one of us is going to die laughing, before the evening is done here." he said to him and she nodded in agreement to that as he answered his remark. Before he could though I heard another gun going off as I then heard it bounce off the door as I looked at the trio smiling.
"Wasn't one of them shooting at the door to break the lock to get them out of the lounge in that movie?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah why?" he asked, before I could answer I heard a third explosion as the makeshift bullet slammed into the door. "I think that answers your question Todd, but if they're doing the scenes in reverse order the next one is hitting the chandelier next." Luke said to him laughing as I heard a fourth explosion in answer to that as he answered him through his laughter at that.
"Well at least it's not the locked into the lounge scene or the candlestick falling on top of him, but that was hilarious." Todd said and he nodded as he tried to get his laughter under control as he said it. "Yup you're right, they're trying to get us away from that original thought here Nell." Luke said smiling as she looked at them smiling then. "Well don't give them any more ideas otherwise they are going to try that next guys."
"And till we're going to die laughing here." Theo said through her laughter and she nodded as she looked at Todd.Before she could say it I heard the piano do 'Shave and a Haircut' next, before I heard another explosion from the dining room in answer to that and she started laughing at that. "You had to say that Theo. Hey Luke what's the one talking cartoon animal that, once they see slap stick, they can't stop laughing at it here."
"And it's another movie Chistopher Lloyd played in that came out six years later and it's another crime comedy, that included Hoskins. And before he did Hook with Williams and Hoffman?" she said though her laughter and Luke started laughing as he got it and Mary looked at them. "Bob Hoskins, Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman?" Theo repeated and they both nodded as Mary she said it for the four of us at that remark bemused.
"Alright so what movie is that from exactly?" Mary asked her and he chuckled. "Roger Rabbit, Lloyd said that no toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Haircut' trick as he tapped it against the wall, before Roger finally broke and busted through the wall to finish the song." Luke said smiling and it tapped it out a second time and I heard a fifth explosion in answer to that as we started laughing as whatever song they chose next started up.
"Alright what's going on here, this keeps up and one of us really 'is' going to die laughing at this rate?" Todd asked and she chuckled. "If they were kids who'd been born in the 80's they're choosing movies that, as teenagers, they're going to love later, especially mixed animation with live action, and this happens to be one of them, though this has areas most kids wouldn't find too amusing if they looked at it as adults later."
"Though they've done it four times in thirty years, two from Disney, one from Warner Bros. and the last is mixed which is what this one is, though I don't remember this scene in the movie, Luke do you?" she asked him. "Yeah I think so, give me a minute." he said as we heard the tune and he smiled. "Yeah, he came to the club, gave the password and went into the main room, the music had a familiar ring to it as well." he said to her.
"That sounds like the fight over the piano between Donald and Daffy and I've seen this movie too no less, before..." he started to say as the tone hit some sort of point as I heard a sixth explosion from the dining room and they started laughing as he said it. "Yeah okay that's what I thought, the Ducks were having a fight over the piano, trying to out do each other, before Donald blew up his piano during the finale." he said and we nodded as we started laughing as she added on to his remark through her laughter.
As he sat next to her she leaned against his shoulder and he looked at her smiling, 'Either our connection is getting stronger or I'm meant to protect her, don't worry sis, I'm here if you need me.' I saw him thinking as I saw the same look on Todd's face and I knew whatever she told us about Webster, if it was as bad as I thought, we were doing what needed to be done to protect her then as she answered his question, smiling.
"As I said, I think they're choosing movies from the last decade that are crime comedies to lighten up the mood after we just had the bejeesus scared out of us." she added as the song of whatever it was started a second time and we heard a seventh explosion. "If there's a winery in the house their using the champagne and not the red wine for this, because that's the only way to get the pressure high enough to get that type of explosion, and Ford already proved that on the Temple of Doom." Luke said and she nodded to that.
Hearing this we tried to get our laughter under control then, before someone started another song and it started getting out of hand and I looked at the piano. "Alright guys, enough already tonight, I know you're trying to lighten up the mood, but leave the wine bottles alone, and choose one song and go with it." Luke said and it started playing a theme song and she chuckled. "Tiny toon adventures, alright I think they've been watching the cartoons that came out the last nine years here." she said and he chuckled.
"Yeah so what's next exactly anyway?" he asked and I heard the theme song to Looney Tunes start playing in answer to that. "You had to ask Luke, first a preteen action show this afternoon, disappearing acts with our food, fights and sparring matches with the added staples on the table and a water fight in the kitchen, this is getting ridiculous right now. You remember Bug's remark, 'Ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer'."
"The rhetorical questions are going to result in several more pranks if this keeps up tonight here." Todd said smiling and it started playing a new song as I tried to keep the smile off my face at this, already knowing what song it was and why it was playing when she was sitting that close to me as Theo looked at her. "That sounds like the love song on the Lion King now, and who's it pointed at exactly anyway?" Theo asked and Eleanor looked at me and I smiled at her as she gave one to me and then answered her.
"I think that was just another subtle hint here that this was rigged actually and whoever rigged it is playing matchmaker." she told her and Mary hid a smile at that remark. "And your face is turning red as well, alright pull it together you two, and whoever is doing that ease back please." Mary called out firmly. "Whoever's trying to play matchmaker for us had better take it down several notches, wise guy, enough already tonight." I added and it started playing another song as she looked at Todd to go into conversation with him.
"So how is it you know the doctor exactly?" she asked Todd and he smiled. "I've known him five years and Mary and I've known each other since high school. So in addition to you three, I got chosen to keep her company. I'm also running studies on this and took a course in architecture and theology, which explains my remark on the doors." he said and she nodded as Luke looked at her with a playful smile on his face as he said it.
"What's your PH.D in exactly, if you're bringing that up?" she asked and he smiled. "Theology, demonology, architecture and parapsychology actually, I was studying the architecture at a few churches and applied it to my major, but this was to give me a chance to study a house of this magnitude. And for some reason I'm seeing more than basic theological points of view, but Greek mythology mixed in with it." he said gently.
"So possible study of parapsychology, theology and architecture huh, that's makes a good fit in bonds of friendship, I'd like to know who rigged this, because it feels like everything you three like seems to be fitting what I like." she said and he nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well the wiseacre better take it down several notches right now, because these bonds are growing five times faster than normal at the moment."
"At least we're all localized to the same town with Luke heading for Boston in three months." he said and she grinned as she answered him. "If it's rigged I can see where the person who rigged it chose people from both personalities, the wise guy section and the slightly serious, and both in the case of whoever my future husband is. Though it's got an added parental touch to it for some reason right now, if it hit the table just as the will gets probated and your project, Doctor, activates at the exact same time."
"As to how that could be, it's because somebody's toying with the chessboard to ensure I find the right people in friends and soulmate bonds and I'm sure we're finding out later though if mom was the one who rigged this I think she knew finding you guys would help now, because it's now doing gentle psychology here." she said and Luke looked at her, before he could say it she smiled. "Yeah okay mom I get what you're doing here, but take it down a notch please." she said and I looked at her at that as Todd said it for me.
"What's up exactly?" he asked and she explained that. "With the will getting probated right now, you find it a little strange, that just as that's happening. I'm suddenly one of the top ten choices on the volunteers for the project, the house gets chosen at the exact same moment. And suddenly we meet and the bonds are growing faster than normal, and we're acting like a bunch of teenagers or young adults with each other right now."
"But in total truth I think mom wanted it like this, because I could get you guys involved now at the moment. But our bonds are growing even faster right now ?"she asked him and he nodded in agreement then as he answered her at that. "Yeah so where do I fall into this exactly, if our parents knew each other?" Luke asked and she smiled. "Possible twin brother actually, if we're like this around each other at the moment."
"If Todd's the other side of your personality traits, I think you were chosen to be my brothers now, in addition to my best guy friends." she said and he smiled at that possibility as they looked at each other and she hid a smile as she looked into his eyes as Todd chuckled at that. "As a psychiatrist she'd go for a Keirsey temperament sorter in projects like, but both sides of my personality while doing it, at the moment."
"And just to bring out the me that she and my father remember, but if she's now doing psychology. And from beyond the grave and it has to do with the house I think that sums it up now. But here's the thing from a spiritual sense and that is the imprint of the person's soul sticks around as long as it needs to, though if mom is, she's staying as long as I need her." she said and Theo answered her at that gently at the remark.
"If Rebecca is the one toying with us to help you heal since she's been gone, if this was part of your emotional recovery from her passing two months ago, though if this has to do with the house, why select a slightly haunted for a sleep deprivation study project?" Theo asked and she explained that. " I'm not entirely sure, but what I do know if this town has any type of connection of my background origins, it's got to do with why I feel so comfortable around it, let alone I understand the Dudleys concern a bit too much right now as well when she said no one gets closer the nine miles at night."
"Mom had this necklace for years, but whoever the initial stood for, I don't know, though if she said my middle was the initial. Then I think my grandmother was possibly the second wife of the owner of the house, before he died at the time. But the question to why my grandfather moved from Concord, that I don't know right now. Let alone why give me the necklace and set up that test during the probate at the time."
"But what I do know is that's not a coincidence that the project is run just as the probate is getting done, if mom's been following me around, she was probably at work getting the last minute details done just as you and Dr. Marrow are preparing for this Mary. While secondly mom always took it far more seriously with me, because I was her favorite of the two of us, because I shared everything she loved with her and my father."
"If she had an alias or two it explains why the kids recognize my necklace, one alias for work, another here, and her married name with everyone else, but if that's the case, and it has to do with the will. I bet the second alias is the one doing most of the work here, and I don't have to hear her voice to know that if her work alias is the descendant of the person who built this house and I'm descended from his second wife, if he had one."
"I don't know what my mother's pen-name on her psychological reports of parapsychology were, but this has to be connected to it and with that, the pieces of that puzzle are coming together pretty quickly here." she said, before seeing the amused smile on Luke's face and hid hers as I heard thoughts as she looked at him. 'Somehow this kid fits the mold a bit too much with me, because it feels like it's supposed to a brother/sister bond.' I heard her think then as he answered that thought.
'No more like we knew each other in another life, but it feels like I'm your surrogate brother when we were too young to remember that.' I saw him think back to her and she smiled as he answered her with a playful smile as he said it. 'Come on Luke, you really want to start this now, we're getting into a enough playful bickering matches as it is.' She thought back to him as she hid a smile as he answered that remark and I knew it was about to get started.
"So you expecting any math tests here Nell?" Luke asked and she smacked him with the pillow laying on the foot of the couch as he covered up. "Right sorry, drop high school remarks." he said smiling and the duo started laughing at that as Todd looked at him with a smile as he answered that remark as I tried to keep from laughing as I watched the duo joking around on the couches across from where I was standing.
'God this is getting ridiculous between them, after what happened at dinner, guys take it easy. A week together maybe, but you're acting like a bunch of teenagers on a camping trip without parental supervision here.' I thought, hiding a smile as I listened to this as I tried to keep from laughing as I unloaded my suitcase for the tests I packed as Todd looked at them with a chuckle as he said my thoughts out loud.
"You keep that up and the girls are going to beat you senseless man, now take it down a notch." Todd said to him with a smile and he smiled. "I'm the wise guy, you're the straight guy, why don't we use that later this week." he said and Mary hid a smile as she answered that as Theo looked at Eleanor with a bemused smile. "You already did, you wiseacre, now enough already." she said as she grabbed the pillow and hit him a second time.
"Don't look now, but I think they started something here Nell." Theo said and she chuckled at that as I hid a smile. "You get the feeling with us just being here for a week, the guys are are about to start acting like overgrown teenagers now?" Eleanor asked her and she chuckled as she nodded as Mary answered that with a smile. "I'm used to that with Todd, he was like this with Ricky when we were kids, but at this age now."
"You think it's bad now just wait girls, once he finds someone of the alternate personality he starts acting like the two are doing right now, and as to how I know that. We've been friends since high school and he had a friend who was like Luke and I had to break it up a lot when they started fooling around like this. And Luke you keep that up and she's going to beat you senseless, you better cool it now." Mary said to them and they nodded.
"So where being an artist is concerned you look at styles from different cultures right, if you're saying it like that Theo?" Mary asked and she nodded. "Yeah, for an artist we study every way to be one and that includes stuff like landscapes or just architecture, and we look into cultural histories of what would be best here. For the moment the reason I recognized the doors is because I studied one similar to it when I was going into my major, but the statues are a bit of over kill, they're made of marble."
"If this guy is as rich as I think he decided to get the most expensive pieces of wood and marble to create the statues and carvings and marble's not easy to break, not without a jack hammer if you're sculpting it. So the added statues and carvings are going a bit too far here." she said and Mary nodded in agreement to that. "If the kids know this March person, I bet this is connected to it then." Todd said to them and she nodded to that.
"If mom was descended from the second wife it explains why they recognize my necklace, but if it's connected to this legend it means it's going through right on schedule now. That is if she chose to not only get me out of Boston for a week, but she just..., my thesis, she's giving me a chance to get my thesis done and I think it might be connected to yours Doctor, because though I never got the chance to finish college, I've been working on my disrotation and it's on haunted houses and Dream deprivation."
"If the manor belongs to me, I'm doing as mom suggested thought. Whatever the added side project is, might connected to why I feel so comfortable in this room, though if this was the family manor and where both sides of the family came from, than mom got me involved at the right time now." Eleanor said to him, before a book pushed itself out of the shelf slightly in answer to that as Eleanor stood up to look at the bookshelves then and was scanning the books, as it nudged itself out further to get her attention then.
Watching I knew it was waiting till she looked at it to yank it from the shelf then, before her eyes landed on the one that got pushed out then and she smiled as she looked at the duo as she pushed it in, and it pushed itself out and we exchanged looks at this. As she pushed it back in, it pushed itself out a second time as she did it a third time and it pushed itself out again as she hid a chuckle as she answered the unspoken request.
" I'm not going to read you right now." she said and pushed it back in a second time and it pushed itself out again. "Well somebody's persistent over this, I never seen books that were begging to be read for once here, especially not the classics" Todd said with an amused looked at she pushed it in for a third time and it pushed itself out and she pushed it back in and it pushed itself out. "Alright now this is trying my patience." she said firmly as she did it again and it pushed itself out as it started going back and forth.
As she pushed it back in, it pushed it self out and she pushed in again and left her hand against the spine of it this time and it turned into a fight as it pushed itself against her hand, like it was saying to 'let me out, just look at my title page please', as she shook her head as she answered that request with an amused look as she said it. "Whatever this is about whoever is trying to get my attention right now.
"They're trying to send me a message and it's through this book." she said and I nodded as Todd said it for the five of us at that with a bemused look. "Just what is the fight about here exactly, if that ones trying to get your attention?" Todd asked and she shrugged as she looked at it and she pulled her hand away from it and it pushed itself off the shelf and into her hands and she sighed in resignation as she said it.
As she put it back on the shelf and it pushed itself out slightly. ""Alright fine, I'll see what story you are, alright." she said as she removed it and opened it and then grinned as she saw the title as she looked at the others as her eyes lit up. 'Mom, that you, yeah okay, I'll look.' I heard her think as she looked at the it and then looked at the others firmly as I heard a gentle voice answer her statement, the voice sounding maternal as it said it.
'Baby come on, just have a look, everything you had and loved to read as a little and as a teenager is right here in the room, and I did that on purpose sweetheart, the house belongs to you. Every book in the room has a connection to your childhood baby, remember, the feeling of comfort. That you have in this house, it's because this house belongs to you, honey, in fact."
"It's your abilities are coming out now, this is just the start of it now. Don't keep holding it in baby, you got a shot at happiness now, just let go now baby, you found your quintet and mate, and you found your aunt and uncle, just keep digging and your memories are going to come forward, I love you my baby. I did this for you, every book on the bookshelves were from your childhood."
"So just have a look around and you'll see baby girl.' I heard the voice I heard earlier say to her softly as I thought this over, whoever this voice was sounded maternal, and I figured it was her mother who was sticking around to keep her company as she looked at the others. "Nell something fell out of that book there." Mary said and she nodded as she picked it up at that she read the message and looked at the books.
As I saw something in her eyes firm up as she looked at the one in her hands as I heard her say it in a gently spoken whisper as I heard her amazement then as another book shifted position and dropped something on the floor and she picked it up as she read whatever was on it and her eyes widened. "March, mom, it can't be, mom is that really you?" I heard her whisper as she looked at the books carefully.
"What's on that message exactly?" I asked and she said it while scanning the books. "It's a list of the authors I liked growing up and with it several numbers next to the names. They, she or whoever dropped this on the floor, is telling me that the books are on the shelf, but these are hardback books without the dust jackets. Alright guys I need, if you're listening to this conversation, I need a little help regarding this."
"As I read out the names of each author, show what books are on the shelves here." she said and the pillow off the couch jumped off it in answer to that. "You hit me with that and you're grounded kiddo." Luke said looking at the pillow with a bemused look on his face as she hid a smile. "Was that really necessary Luke?" she asked and and he looked at her. "Trying to prevent a pillow fight from breaking out at the moment, Nell."
"Though in this case if one does get started, get ready to duck." he said and she nodded with a chuckle as she refocused. "Robert Stevenson?" she said and five pushed themselves out of the shelf next to me. "Dumas?" she asked and four came out at that gently. "Verne?" she asked and seven came out at that. "Dickens?" she asked and six came out at that. "Twain." she asked and four pushed themselves out as she read the last name on the list. "Tolkien?" she said and seven pushed themselves out at that.
"Man that's quite a collection here, regarding childhood novels at the moment." Theo said and she nodded to her as she explained it to the two of us then. "I get the feeling whoever decided on this was, they're running a bit of a scavenger hunt here regarding these books, because I have no clue what the stories are. With the fact that the books are now in paper back and the have the titles on them regarding the stories."
"Though everything I had brough with me was in the car and the paper back copies of these stories, whatever they are, are in the back seat of it. If these books are familiar and she was leaving me a clue here here that this house does belong to me. It's she's packed it with the books I read when I was a kid." she said as she opened up the one she was holding and read the name of it. "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea."
"You're kidding, but if that's the one you wanted to show me first than how..." she started to say as she read the list again and nodded softly as she said it quietly. "Mom, is that really you, mom how could you know what books these are, my favorite authors, these books are really every book that you bought me when I was nine to thirteen. Yeah okay I get it, time to start back on the old classics you raised me on back then."
"While I'm here now for the week." I heard her say softly to herself then as I looked at Mary and she nodded gently as her eyes said it softly to me. 'Name Comparisions here, if her mother was the previous owner of the house you just selected their family manor David I think her mother is sending her a message right now, we just begun whatever emotional healing her mother wanted for her.'
"And by us coming here for the week, we're the intended therapy for her and the other is giving her a link by to Rebecca by showing her that list of books she read out.' she said to me with her eyes and I nodded as I looked at Luke and he nodded as he called her name out gently. "Any idea why that one was trying to get your attention Nell?" Luke asked to get her attention gently then and she nodded.
"Yeah it's one of the ones mom had on my book collection when we were kids, I loved action stories like Treasure Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and about thirty others. I had about five favorite authors and twelve favorite books from each one were involved in their works that were on my library bookshelf in my bedroom, my parents decided to limit tv and encourage my love for reading."
"The numbers indicated the books I loved growing up, that's what she was trying to tell me by dropping the message to me. With the amount of books scattered on the shelf. She's got the categories scattered by genre, but the ones she chose first to get my attention were the ones she raised me on, which in this case I was like the narrator of the Princess Bride as an adult, enjoying being a bookworm at the time."
"Though when you get into college, you have a certain booklist to read and the names of the authors are the names on the list here. Whatever ability my grandmother had though, and I think it's the ability to see the souls of the deceased. But at the moment my ability hasn't reached full power so they're getting our attention by possessing inanimate objects like the billiard balls to get my attention, as for the other."
"Evidently whoever owned this house, the next generation or two after he died decided to add books that were meant to encourage a child's love for reading and with that fact in mind, mom, and I know that's you. But I get the message here, if you want me to read the books you raised me on, I'll do that." she added as I chuckled at that as she looked at the titles, before looking at Todd with a smile as she got his attention then.
Before she could say it the one next to her pushed itself out then and she sighed as she pushed it back in and then the one above her did the same thing and she pushed that one in, before the next one did the same thing as she put that one in and three more pushed themselves out and she looked at the book trio sternly. "Uh oh, alright you wiseacres, you better cool it now." Todd said as he tried to keep from laughing
"Alright wise guy, whoever's doing this better cool it." she said and the books pulled themselves back in at that. "Well that's one way to get the books to leave you alone here." Luke said and I started laughing at this, as she answered that, before she could though one of them got removed and moved itself into a recliner in the back of the room, before another song started and she smiled as she said it.
"Mom's favorite music from this time frame is a couple bands, one being the Beatles and the other was Queen." she said and he smiled at that. "Yeah well this one sounds like one of the Bette Midler songs but what exactly?" he asked and she listened to it and then chuckled. "It's her hit from that Halloween movie she made six years ago, though if that's another subtle hint this a nice way to lead it into whatever legend this is."
"That you're telling us here, though if she's also saying something here and I think the storyline genre for books in here are romance, science fiction, horror, fantasy and adventure. The collection is highly eclectic here, so whoever loves to read can come in here, borrow the book and take it to their room so they can read at night." she said to me and I chuckled as the books started up a second time and she sighed in aggravation.
"What's next exactly here, because this is getting ridiculous right now, and Luke say it and you're getting smacked here, buster." she added and and ten pushed themselves out in answer to that. "If that's not desperate nothing is right now, I've never seen books that desperate to be read before." Todd said and she nodded though I could tell she was trying to keep from laughing at his remark as she looked at them firmly.
"Alright the wiseacre doing this better knock it off, I'll read you but I'm not doing it tonight, now enough already, anymore pranks like this and you're all grounded this week, now cool it." she said sternly and they quickly pulled themselves back into position at that as Luke and I started laughing at this and she looked at Todd with a smile. "Nice touch Nell, that helps." Theo said smiling, before a pillow smacked Luke in the head.
"Hey, alright who threw that at me exactly?" he said and before she could answer, someone started toying with the piano next to add more music to the room. "I'm not sure, but the wiseacre is trying to start a pillow fight here and we can't even see them." Todd said and after dodging the next swing and I ducked the pillow that got thrown across the room. "Alright guys enough already, if another pillow gets thrown and you're in big trouble." I called out and the pillows put themselves back on the couch.
After looking at me she tried to keep from laughing at that."Our wiseacres are now getting a bit too playful here." she said and I nodded. "I'm lucky I love kids or these kids would be in big trouble." Luke said and I chuckled. "Aside from my nephew, I'm the same way Luke." she said and I sighed. " Let me guess I'm looking at the Dursley family in terms of relatives here Nell?" Mary asked and she nodded as she answered her.
"Yeah, he's like the cousin, and they're letting him get away with anything you can think of. To put this bluntly Jane's the odd one out, we're all dark mousy brown in hair color and she's blond with blue eyes. If your chairman said I looked like the head of the team if she was thirty two years old, it's genetic. But mom had the surgery when she was fifty three, so an added eleven years and that explains the photo." she said and she nodded
"As for Jane's she's got the attitude the sister had when the kid's mother got her letter and the parents were showing their pride in the fact that their daughter was different. And was going to school to learn something that they considered intriguing, that's my parents all over though and to them I'm everything she isn't. To her, if she was saying that the will was a fake, it's a family integrity test at the moment."
"And if the house was part of the test, she's telling me that the prize is the house and the billions or whatever number there is in monetary values that comes with it. But if Dickens was part of the list that's the clue she's trying to give me a clue now, because she's showing me what's to gain from this test. And with that if I'd been the kid's mother or just his surrogate twin sister, I'd cut myself off and get into my new life then."
"The jealousy is so bad she's been taking her resentment out on me for eleven years since the heart attack, but if this is the needed payback during the will. Then there's more than meets the eyes here, because if she showed me what's to gain now. The test has begun, the painting you found is one clue, my necklace the other and this list of book authors is the third, but the clues are pointing out a riddle to me."
"Said riddle is what the will is and it's saying I figure it out first and I act in the attitude according to my station I get everything. And she gets only 10% for her attitude and that's there's a proviso in the will. But what you have to figure out later, but if you're mom's chosen suitor, we do it together." she said and he and I nodded. "We're better off you telling us about that will tomorrow here." Theo said to her and he nodded in agreement to that as he looked at her.
Looking down at the floor after she said that gently, I saw a piece of folded up paper with Eleanor's name on it and I nodded. "Eleanor, who was your favorite author growing up exactly right now, out of the books?" I asked and she turned to me at that. There were two, one was Stevenson and the other Dickens, why exactly?" she asked and Todd looked down as he got the point to that question as he answered her then.
"What's the book exactly?" he asked and she explained it. "That was the Christmas Carol." she said and he nodded. "Hey Nell, there was more than one message in that book, get a look at this." Todd said as he picked up the paper and opened it and she sat down next to him at that. "That's a copy of the will mom wrote up, uh yes okay, Mary, Theo, Luke, check this out right now, she had the key words are underlined 3 times."
"Read the will, it states in plain language the executor shall have the right to dispose of any and personal property as he shall see fit.' If she was smart she'd have see that the words were underlined 3 times at the moment. This will was never the real one in fact it was a fake, as to how and why right now. It's getting into cracking a code only a true Craine knows, and I mean any Craine heir, knows the second they hear these words."
"They know it's a fake the second they hear them right now, okay..., the executor shall have the right to dispose of any and personal property as he he shall see it. That's not a proclamation, it's reverse psychology, she's into law, I'm psychology. And I'm also the daughter of a psychiatrist right now in addition to parapsychologist." she said as she thought it over and then smiled as she looked between us then gently.
"Forgot to tell you this, if Malcolm didn't already guys, but my mother is Dana's godmother." she told me and Mary and I nodded in shock to that news. "That explains the photo he showed me, family get together, he decided to invite you to live with them. If they ever pulled a stunt like this?" I asked her and she nodded. "In a way Dana was my sister, a twin, that I knew the triplets well, my family, mom was gone now, Dave."
"Test of the family executors, he blew his shot, Malcolm would let me with them, as we decided to put the house up for rent until when the deadline ends. So what would you do if we met before we did today and I was dating you when mom wrote up that will?" she asked and I smiled as I told her the truth then. "I would let you move in with me and like him I would put it up for rent, all of the things Rebecca left for us now, safely."
"They would be put into storage, until the day the deadline ends and the results came back from her lawyer and the bank. But I would never sell the apartment your mother left to us." I told her as she saw a secondary paper in it and I saw a smaller note. "David, you and Malcolm were the intended executors of the apartment, truthfully I rigged the test, so they didn't see this coming till it was too late.'."
"Like she just told you, Dana is my god daughter, Malcolm adopted son-in-law, I spoke to him and he gave the same answer you just did. As psychiatrists we can read between the lines and their greed just blew every dime. In their side of it, the house belongs to Eleanor, but 7 equal shares in my deposit box. And insurance, totaling over $750,500,000,000,000, for the entire team."
"That briefcase, I'm giving you tomorrow is the rest of the money that goes to the six of you and Malcolm and Dana. You were my intended suitor for my daughter.'." she read out and Todd and I hid a smile at the news. "We were right, we were set up from the get go, this was meant to get us as her new friends. Next to the quartet that were talking to you over the speaker." Mary said as she started laughing.
"The quartet are my quintet, but they are you guys in personality, as such, this was why Theo, Luke and I hit it off so easily. But Janet and Tony are them when we were fooling around, the expected playful kick for teasing us a bit or the pillow right to the head. That's them when he was teasing us till we both let him have it." she said and the duo started laughing as Theo and Luke exchanged smiles at the reveal then as she said it.
"So think it over, why choose now to drop that copy in front of you guys as you're about to tell us who my grandfather's father really is, Dave, this house belongs to me now. The house and the family fortune is the prize right now, I'm descended from a billionaire. Alicia's heirs chewed up their side of the Inheritence before they could blink, so why would he be this determined to sell the apartment right now, if it wasn't for the fact."
"That he doesn't realize that the will is a fake, it's a financial bait and switch, they take the bait in the admissions in the will. And the real will is with Rob Wilson, my mother's lawyer and accountant." she said to me smiling and I started laughing as I read it out then. "Oh that's too good right now, they just shot themselves in the leg, the prize is the entire family fortune and the house itself." I said and she nodded to me gently at that.
"Yeah and she and dad already chose the family executor of the entire family fortune, she chose you, Dave, if you're hearing my mom's voice, through me. Then that means that the connection has already made, she chose you." she said and I nodded to her. "Well we've been had right now, she's decided to help your relationship along and with it, you figured this out, before we could tell you Nell." Mary said and she nodded to her.
"Yeah and it's because if I was completely active I'd choose to do this inside a haunted house in the weeks leading into the end of October. And as for everything else and the repeated comments, but 'life is really hard out there. You have no idea how hard it is out there, don't have a real job, you can't afford to pay the bills.'. But everything she's said is a case of she's about to eat her words right now, when you're the witnesses now."
"To the fact I found that post note to the fact that the will she has is the fake, and I've got a copy of the remarks reading that I have the real one. And second it's a need to do a bit of research, in the family history and the studies of being a philanthropist now. And She mentioned Charles Dickens and..., that's it, it's a fake, that will is a fake. This is copy of that will, this is test on what we looked into and I found my mother's necklace."
"So if I'm reading this right, the chosen heir knows that will is a fake the second they see these words and if it's a girl. Then the previous heir passes the necklace to the next one, I'm the chosen heir and she's leaving everything to me, and if she and dad like you, Dave. Then you're the marital heir now, and now the family executor of the entire family fortune and everything else." she said and I nodded as I left my hand on her arm then.
"Read the will, it states in plain language, ' the executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit.'." she said again in annoyed undertone as she read it out as she grabbed a red pen and circled the key words as she looked at us. "They stopped talking like this in 1945, only a true heir of the Craine family knows this will is a fake the second they hear these words and I never had to see it."
"I'm the sole owner of the property of the house now." she said and before turning around looking at the books on the shelf. "Guys, I need Treasure Island and Oliver Twist, time for a little research." she said and they pushed themselves out and she took them off the shelf at and brought them to me as we looked through it. And I saw several pages marked and smiled as Todd grinned as we, Mary and Luke exchanged smiles.
"She was intending on us decoding this, so I know the message in the will, but they don't, but that's why she got us together. Because while they left to have a party we're the ones working our tails off just to get a job done. And aside from being study of sleep disorders and possible fear studies, it's so you and I can decode this. If she decided you were my exact match then she wanted you to make contact with my parents friends."
"Well if the Dudleys are friends of the family, I'm showing this to them first thing in the morning later after they get here tomorrow." she told me and I nodded. "Good idea, if she and Rob chose me, then I think this trip was meant to become a chance courting. Because if I'm your exact match and soulmate, then the guys and the duo are your quintet, and what was the remarks she threw at you?" I asked and she explained that.
"Life is really hard out there, you have no idea how hard it is out there, you have a real job, you can't afford to pay the bills.'. Unfortunately for her, mom tended to pay them three to four months in advamce to give me four months to prepare. And I snagged everything that's worth taking that mom gave to me it's in the car." She told me and I nodded as Luke and Theo moved to us as Mary said it for me then gently at that
"Okay so read the second copy, what's that paper say if there's more to it then, because if she chose like we did in the Kiersey temperament sorter right now. She chose us as the people that reminded you of your closest friends in college now. And as if that's not enough, everything she said, she's about to eat her words. But job: you got one waiting for you at the hospital as you continue your research, friends now: you have us."
"And Malcolm and finally future husband: and she brought you and David together, but this week was supposed to be a double motive, by bringing you together now. In addition to helping you answer the questions on the rumors on the house. And in why everyone refuses to come here after dark, but at least you have us now. So go ahead and read this to us." she said and Eleanor nodded as the five of us crowded around her then.
"As the writer of the first will, this will is to state that the first was a test to see how my daughters would respond to it. This will was a Craine family test of integrity to see if once the writer of the will had passed away. That they'd act civil and be kind to the family living with the writer or start harvesting. In amounts the entire living quarters for anything that was worth a lot of money."
"But the full amount in totals in the inheritance comes to approximately 955.5 duodecllion. And in all kinds of currency there is my dears, you must think about your actions now. And its because if you don't the counter clause is going to strip all that away from you and you'll be left with a 10. And of what you deserve for your behavior, so make your choice and choose wisely my dears."
"As this will is the test results if you're reading it now my dear, than my sole heir has realized that it's a test of integrity and goodwill. Remembered the lessons of Dickens and has acted on it accordingly now. All choices chosen will be sealed in stone and passed to Tom Wilson and Jack Parker. And once the duration is up, you get this will with your father's will included it in now."
"As you remember, he too was a descendant of a very wealthy lord and philanthropist. And my savings bond boxes containing the deed to the family manor and the keys to it. The family manor is Hill House, which is up in the Berkshires and our family was originally from Concord. And both sides of our family are from there, for the heirs, if there was more then one now."
"Had the heirs passed the test they split the amount down the middle, but had one of the heirs passed it. And the other flunked it, the entire family fortune goes to the heir that passed the test. While only a tenth of the amount went to the heir who flunked the test, so if my youngest has found this letter. And my necklace and knows her true family history it is time to activate this will."
"As to that I, Rebecca Diane March, née, Vance, hereby leave our family manor and all of my jewelry, my account, and the box of gold and silver in the savings bond box that this will was found in to my rightful heir Eleanor Caroline Vance, my daughter is the owner of Hill House and all properties. That are owned by my great, great grandfather Hugh Craine, creator and builder of Hill House."
"My darling Eleanor, our family history I never told you about till now, because it explains the necklace. That you always saw me with, but everything that happened was predestined. As you are the keeper of the doors, it's your birth rite to prevent Hugh from taking the lives of anymore children. I'm passing my legacy to you now and remember everything I taught you now my baby girl."
"The story David is going to tell you, there were several things left out of it, but as the right of passage ordains this now. And you passed judgement when you six were standing in front if the doors now leading into the foyer. But the secrets hidden in the house take time to decipher now, but take your time. Once you hear the story that you're about to hear right now, baby, listen to me."
"But there is more to your name than you think baby, back when the house was created, Hugh had been collecting children from the mills. And though he loved children he and his wife couldn't have them and it turned him. Psychologically into a possessive maniac till it kills his first wife Renee. And your great, grandmother died as she was fighting him, and we were waiting for you."
"Just to find that necklace." she read out and then looked at me. "Well that answers two questions right now, the builder was Hugh Craine and his first wife was Renee. Next question is what are the secrets hidden in the walls of this house right now. Why did the kids know me on sight and what happened to Renee exactly. What are the true secrets hidden in the walls of this house." she said and I nodded as she read further then to me.
"I think this was the secondary copy to the one in the savings bond boxes, because I bet the wording is slightly different. Because we have the letter that it was a fake, and it's being read out to you guys as I'm doing it. So no matter what Lou says, mom's decisions are final, and I'll explain that last remark in this to you guys tomorrow." she added and we nodded as Luke Theo and I exchanged annoyed looks at what Webster pulled then.
"Concord 130 years ago was part of the Berkshires." I said and she nodded. "Yeah and that's why it was so easy for us to keep returning every summer. Mom brought me up here every summer to visit my godparents and her inner circle. And brought Dana with us, Aunt Beth and mom were beyond close and this was perfect as I got to see them. And the others every year." she said and I nodded to the news smiling at that remark.
"Because you were meant to finish what she started and if you've done that, you're the true heir of the house. And every property he owned, you showed what you remember since you discovered your true lineage. And fix our family home to make it a nice place to have children later on now. There's more money from these properties than you'll ever know, because Hugh Craine. He has the savings bonds and textile modules in his study, buried in a trunk in the house."
"My daughter, there's trillions in gold and silver buried with this money and everything you learned about yourself. If you learned the true history of the house, it's time to return it to its beauty and magestic states again. I hereby leave the house to you, every property owned by Hugh Craine. And the money that I was setting aside, in case I didn't survive to tell you this myself."
"If you find your future it's going to be connected to the house and everything I never told you my darling, you're my daughter. My heir and it's time to return you to what rightfully belongs to you, I'm sorry baby. I was hard on you, because you weren't ready, till now for the burden you face. Our family is one of the powerful and rich families when he created the house. As everything that is worth billions is at the family manor, and I'll give you the map to it soon."
"What you showed is the heart of your station that night you met him face to face, it's time to finish the job. But if he's still hanging out in the manor it's time to get rid of him forever. The message on the doors was all 'ye who stands before these doors shall be judged.', and you and your friends. You had been judged innocent and spiritually strong, you showed everything you needed to."
"That's the act of true member of the Craine family, we were philanthropists once Hugh died, we showed compassion and helped people. You showed all that and more and you did exactly what you were supposed to do when you found Grandma's necklace. To destroy the evil you had to get him in front of the doors and let the demons judge him, that door now though. It was like the waying of the souls ritual of the Ancient Egyptians, that's what it was meant for."
"When you arrived and were standing in front of the door with your new friends, you were judged. and passed the tests and you passed every test that the situation gave you. And this will is the deciding factor and you've inherited the entire family fortune now with what you've gone through Eleanor. You, my dear, are now the maternal heirarchy of the family, and your side of it. Now, is the Marrow/Vance clan are the next limb down in the family tree as of today."
"As for you Jane Emily, with the act of marrying Lou out of wedlock and having a child with him. And before marrying and you probably removed everything that is worth taking in my apartment. All I leave to you is a 10th of what is in the family fortune and the money that you stole from my daughter. By selling our apartment and everything that was worth thousands in my property."
"The first will was a test Jane Emily, the will had several key points written into it. 'The executor shall have the right to dispose of any. And all person property as he shall see fit.' But whether you did was up to you young lady. It was you leave her the apartment and everything in it, or you liquidate the assets. And you lose everything this will concluded to you, and you flunked the test."
"Your sister showed the compassion of doing what a true member of the Craine clan would. And she is exactly what an heir to a true dynasty should be and she, though is quiet, has more strength than you ever will. Her husband, if he was involved in her path has his own rights to the truth. And he is my legal executor of the properties I'm leaving to your sister. Whoever she married was meant to be involved as is their friends if they all got chosen to cleanse our family home."
"To my favorite son-in-law, if you met my daughter in her self discovering mission and used the knowledge of your expertise. The truth is I chose you, because you're everything she remembers in her father, my husband, Robert. And with that in mind it's time to put it and your bonds to use if she chose to be involved in what job you have, and you can further your studies by this too."
"Though the house is impressive on the inside, there's a few things you probably figured out, but Hugh turned it into a maze. And funhouse when he created it, the house has a horror story and haunted house look to it. That you discovered or are discovering now, but the true history lays buried in the walls of it. Every spot that you couldn't see is really a hidden passage if you wound up downstairs for some reason while checking it out last night at the time."
"I'm pleased that she found you and you and your family are hereby the legal owners of every property of the Concord mining industries and Hill House. With this will is buried the map to the layout of the house, my grandmother gave me a way to map it out and now I give it to you and my daughter if you plan to run your studies further in what module you created at the time."
"I was hoping for an exact match in my daughter's case and she found it when she found you, you, if I met you, before I passed, I would have approved automatically, she deserves a chance at happiness and you're it. You're the true marital heir to the properties that I'm leaving to my daughter and with that son, you're the legal executor of the family fortune and house now."
" You and Eleanor are the executors of every family property that is owned by the Craine family my dear, and if Hill House is safe now. Then start work at taking care of it, I leave that property to you along with our entire family fortune. Which comes to $500,000,000,000 in textile models and 7 hundred million in gold and jewelry, while everything in the stocks and bonds. It comes to 300 trillion, my darling Eleanor, it's time to finish what you started."
"The amounts that I gave you, the $150,000,000 when you arrived last night, that's just 1% of a very priceless amount, in fact my insurance plan, this amount and the boxes total $600,000,000,000,000,000 altogether, and that's the very tip of the ice berg. Because the total in the house and on the property, the textile mills, the gold, silver and the jewelry and jewels."
"What you're looking at in totals is the exact same number as the treasure chest in Treasure island, but 500 times that amount. But this amount must be kept secret from your sister now. So she and Louis don't realize they just gouged out their hearts regarding funds now, as to why the I just listed to you now, is going to make these amounts look like choke change. You my dear are the sole executor of the family estate as to that now."
"When compiled to everything I set aside for you, the amount of this, my insurance plan and the amount I listed below this remark. You're looking at 500 times the amount that the Addams family clan had on their house, as you guessed right Luke, it's comparable to those Addams family mansion. As to that, my wish is when you set this up for your own children."
"Do this as I do it and did it for you, the amount above, in your insurance plan and setting aside the suitcase are just a very tiny amount, when compared to the entire total. As to why, this is a game and it's like wheel of Fortune. Every generation, because you're standing on a gold mine that makes Fort Knox and the federal reserves look like a walk in the park for tourists at the moment.
"The official amount that I leave to you with this letter you're reading now, and the house comes to a total of 955.5 Trudecillion in every currency you can think of my dears. And kids, if you're reading this letter over my daughter's shoulder, the catch 22 buries the lawsuit, because you're getting 10 times the amount. That you would have on volunteer status right now, and with that now."
"Eleanor, you became me and my great grandmother by taking on the mantle my dear and with that, if he escapes whatever purgatory or hell you put him in, it's time to finish the job and destroy his soul forever. Whatever clues you gathered when visiting the house, you're correct, it happened in exactly. And the way you described it to your friends and husband at the time my dear."
"If you're reading this before your powers reached full strength, than I haven't told you that truth yet, so wait till you do, before you dig further. As to how I know that and why I'm saying this baby, my mother, your grandmother. She told me the entire story my baby girl. And at the current moment you're not ready yet so until you can see me and I tell you this truth just hang in there."
"But if you're reading this at the manor it's been exactly the two month waiting period regarding the will, but if you never read the will she tried pass you, and I was in the room for that, I heard the entire conversation. Than you know without needing to see it that will is a fake, you guessed right, you're in your testing period and you're doing wonderfully right now in this."
"But the parts on that in how you had to drop out of college, before your junior year, when I was a few years younger than I am now when you're reading this, me as you remember me at the time at the time back then. They're the pieces I never had the chance to tell you, but what I will tell you is this, though he may have seemed the type you're thinking, Luke has it correct, but it gets darker."
"Our family is descended from the Craine family and your great grandmother was the initial on the necklace you found. And everything she is was duplicated into you, like it was in me now, I was really preparing you to face off against him. He's haunted the house for years, if you finished what I started, it's time to return home again and you'll find the family fortune in the lower levels. And of the house and in the study he had with anything else you found in there."
"If you go to my lawyer you'll learn certain details here, but everything that you found out that week was supposed to play out the way it should. And you and your husband connected during that trip as well. I approve of your mate if he's who I was really hoping you'd choose my darling. If your mate is David James, than you found who I was hoping you'd choose baby. I was really preparing you for what you found in your life and if you found it than, I know you're happy."
"David take care of my daughter and make her happy, you can start over and your friends can live close to each other. because this was also meant to help her find true happiness since her father passed. If you and the duo or quartet, or even sextet, have finished what I set out to do for her than you've fulfilled my wishes for her, what amount is with Wilson they too get a piece of it." she read out and we nodded to that explanation then as she read it then to us at that.
"Well that sums it up in what we need to know, if that car is a trap and he's getting arrested for attempted murder. That car is 20 years old, but I say that our agents do business in with your lawyer Nell, the six of us connected to your lawyer. As this was half research and half possible matchmaking and courting this week guys." Theo said and I nodded in agreement as she shook her head smiling as she said it then to me.
"Life is really hard out there', 'you have no idea how hard it is out there', 'you don't have a real job', 'you can't afford to pay the bills.'. But no job, didn't finish college, no friends and no soulmate. Mom just fixed all of that by bringing you into my life, but I think this week is to cement that, Dave." she said and I nodded as, in response, she leaned her head against my shoulder and I rubbed her back as Todd answered her at that gently.
"That's the case they screwed themselves over if Wilson has the real will, he's having a nervous breakdown, but I need the truth. Why would you need three bodyguards exactly if she brought Luke and me into your life and David is a psychiatrist?" he asked and she sighed. "The bastard is a chronic drunk, you've seen people that constantly try speedballing, right Dave?" she asked and I nodded before the meaning hit me.
"He's that kind of drunk, and between that and your mother's condition, you've hated your sister and Webster ever since?" Theo said and she nodded to her. "We can discuss this tomorrow, but tonight we need a night off. Especially as you tell us who Craine is before my grandfather gave it to my mother. If you're my match, I think you were what she wanted for me now." she said and I nodded to her softly as he said it softly.
