Return To Hill House
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.
Warnings: With this Chapter it's going to show more than just a simple attraction to each other than in the movie, but a what if they had the chance to get together and fall in love, before the attack the following night. As we see her change from her old personality and into a different than she was in the movie, as just meeting the quintet is changing her now.
So some of her feelings are going to reduced here, from her shy self and into a more self confident individual now as the week continues. As the week continues now. But from here we see their relationship growing as things change directions as we see what things would have been like if the duo survived past the last fifteen minutes of the movie
So for this chapter we see their relationship as it's going to be their first night together, which is when the soulmate activates and they act like they known each other for years, before things start shifting directions the next day, before he tells them the truth and they find her in the greenhouse which is the next chapter, before they see the truth for themselves.
But his memories are going to show the portions leading into their return to the house, before it starts getting out of hand, as theirs going to be a few added scares in the middle of the story, as the paranormal attacks start up again, as they get frequent visitors from her family and get ready for the return trip.
The chapter is going to cover her conversation with Luke, before flipping back to his point of view as they check into it and the painting. So they try to figure it out as this continues now.
Sorry for this, but I lost 80% of the chapter I had to fix this right now, before it went back up right now...
Chapter 5: Conversations, Bonds And Practical Jokes
As we got into a gentle debate. "Yeah that too, though with the amount of pranks with the pool table and the water fight, it felt like things were turning into a circus in the library last night." Theo said, though just as I reached for the pepper it shifted to the left and I reached out again and it moved to the right, before he went to grab it. "Here we go again the table pranks just started a second time." Theo said with a slight smile at that.
And as it hid behind the jug of orange juice. "Alright wise guy, I need to use you now, so hold still." I said and it moved out from being the jug. "I think they're giving us some group time together now, if that was one of the kids who just did that." I said and she smiled as he reached for the butter and it shifted position to the right, he reached out a second time and it moved to the left and he looked at it, with a bemused smile
"Hold still would you please, I just need a small amount for my buscuits here." he said and she started laughing at that as she answered him. "I think that's the 11 year old group that just did that, if they're trying to irritate the heck out of us. By disappearing acts when it comes to the table staples and the silverware." Theo said, before the fork that was on the plate of breakfast sausage moved out of range and Eleanor's chuckled.
"Well at least it's not the books that are doing this at the moment after they started requesting for attention from me. But I've never seen books that get that desperate to be read now, because last decade's generation has started in high school this semester. While these kids are now fooling around with things that we, as adults and psychological experts, see as mentally unhealthy, that's probably why there's no tv in the house."
"If the March family matriarch chose to abolish tv in the house and chose items to make the kids put their minds to something else. Like board games, reading, pool tables, card games, table tennis, music instruments. So it's to strengthen up their minds to make them more creative." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Half these video games are loaded with gore and violence and between that and the slasher flicks now."
"Then I understand why, but if we have any children in the house after we decide to come back right now. And the media: in books and music is under R after that, gut we just keep the language clean in this house. This year's generation is winding up with some seriously sick media for teenagers 15 and older. And aside from the Harry Potter books and movies they just created, but Starwars, Harry Potter and several others."
"Any teenage psychiatrist is going to say that to prevent their minds from getting warped, if they're into the extreme violence, then to put it towards something else. Instead of scary movies, give them something to read, instead of video games keeping them on the couch, give them a place too fool around. And as for the pool table, or tables if there's more than one, it just gives them something to fool around with."
"Though if Rebecca reacted like that with your figuring out whatever that means is probably connected to why these kids are trying to get your attention. Though if you're the owner of the house now, it means that with a house this size we can turn and update it into an updated version of a community center for them, if it's raining they got plenty to do later." Theo said and she nodded as she answered her smiling at that remark.
Turning to look at the door then, I saw something missing and Luke said it for me then. "That spot was filled last night, who was in that part of the door?" he asked and I nodded in agreement. "Well this may explain why we had the noises, and the pot get thrown across the room, the harp, whoever was there now. They must be dangerous, if he's trying to scare us out of the house." Theo said and I nodded in agreement to her thoughts.
"Hey Nell, you know who filled the space on this door, because it looks one of the demons escaped here." Luke said and she nodded as she checked her mother's notes and nodded. "Mom left some information to me, but that was where Craine himself was." she said and I nodded in shock. "What the hell was he doing in the doors?" Theo said for me and she explained that to us gently at the remark.
"These doors on one side were meant to contain dangerous spirits say homicidal maniacs of Krueger's caliber. And the innocent souls of children to young adults on the other, but why he was trapped in these doors was never specified. That must be part of the story mom wanted me to figure out right now, though this must be why he's trying to scare us out of the house right now."
"And before I figure that out, though that's why she got you involved Dave, you're playing the part of Wasson's character, the movie. Right after he got the entire story, but same difference right now, I tell you and we do it together, but with it now. This could go in the same direction now, if I have to do what she did and get into a face off with this lunatic if he's anything like Krueger." she said and I nodded with a bemused look at that news then.
"Great I'm playing their psychiatrist, and my love interest is the grand daughter of the son of a possible homicidal maniac. Though that's true and it just got even more campfire storyish then it needs to be." I said and she nodded as we headed back to the table as she filled me in. "I only got a some parts, but the parts left out where the parts that they were not ready till the kids until they were teenagers now."
"Which is why Andy is sounding more then 12 but going on 50 here with us right now, he's my uncle, so to him, lead us in the right direction. But get ready, if this is the part that put mom in the hospital for cardiac arrest and the surgery, we're possibly looking at the reason, but grandpa. The sole heir ran judgement, before the condemned got yanked into those doors." she said and we nodded as I knew this was going to get dangerous.
"Didn't you say that if they didn't do morse code, to go to handwriting?" Theo asked and she nodded. "Mom what the heck was he doing in the doors for exactly?" Eleanor asked and a message wrote itself out. "It's for the same reason that the parents of every kid on the block cooked Krueger." I read out and we exchanged looks at that remark. "As bad as all that?" she asked and I heard a sigh at that.
"Worse baby, truth is this why your grandfather exorcised him into the doors when I was your age, but dodged at the last minute. But I missed the shot and I got hit by the blast into the wall knocking me unconscious, before the test results came back from the cardiologist. And Jared told me I couldn't do this anymore." she read out and I nodded to the news in shock.
"Your grandfather is a priest, are we talking along Bowdern's caliber?" I asked and Eleanor nodded. "Yeah and this happens a lot, but if mom missed the shot this explains why she retired. The movie had it right actually at times talking to the other side leaves a door open that should have remained locked. And the parapsychology and catholic church, the Jesuits, have to take charge." she said and sighed as she said it then.
"Grandpa was a Jesuit priest at the time, he died in the line of duty when I was 25." she said and I nodded in amazement. "There is going to be a lot I learn about your family this week it seems, but we better keep the personal surprises under control, shall we." I said and they nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah no kidding, so you're parapsychologist, your mother was a psychiatrist, grandfather a priest and with it now, we got a maniac in the family."
"Are you trying to scare the hell out of us, Becky?" Luke asked and a message wrote itself out at that. "No honey, but this was to give you a warning, he's not going to stop till you make a close to fatal mistake right now guys. So try to control that fear and before you it puts you headlong in danger, say the fireplace, that's set to a certain time, stay out of there." she read out and we nodded to the orders then.
"And you can call me by my nickname if you want kids, that's fine, I go by my nickname with our team at work." she read out in an add on and the three of us nodded to that news with a smile. "I take it they saw you as surrogate mother as well?" I asked and I heard a chuckle in the writing as she read it out. "Yes honey, they did, I was mother bear of the team." she said and I nodded with a smile at that.
"This is mom when she was fully healthy, but trust me you never want to piss her off, you remember Spengler's reaction. And after the guy from the EPA shut them down?" Eleanor asked and I nodded. "Well that's her when dealing with a student who was acting out if they were Tony's age, till she had to go to sedation and trust me, she was close to it with Lou a few times." she told me and I nodded to the news sternly at that remark.
"Great, he touches you at all or the girls and I'm acting like Fishburne when he had to arrest the kid after he freaked out the morning. Just after the murder in this one, but they created those rules for a reason to keep these kids alive, and the idiots who were supposed to be on duty. Let the kid walk right out the front door and I mean every word of that." Luke said sternly and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah well he just pissed me off after what she told us last night, but if he's as bad as she told us. And nothing is saving him if he comes into the room when drunk and I got a cop on my floor, as well." I said and she nodded in relief to the news. "Rick is also from here." she said and I nodded in shock. "Jefferson?" I repeated and she nodded. "Yeah his cousin is the head M.D. here." she said and I nodded to the news in amazement.
"Well if something happens this week I can go to him if he was the one who did the surgery at the time." I said and she nodded to that remark then. "Maybe, but whatever caused it, I think she's waiting to tell me, but if this explains Craine missing from his spot in the door. Then he's a dead man if he's the one trying to scare us out of the house right now." she said and I nodded in agreement that remark.
"Well at least it's not the books that are doing this at the moment after they started requesting for attention from me, but I've never seen books. And ones that get that desperate to be read now, because last decade's generation has started in high school this semester. While these kids are now fooling around with things that we, as adults and psychological experts, see as mentally unhealthy, that's probably why there's no tv in the house."
"If the March family matriarch chose to abolish tv in the house and chose items to make the kids put their minds to something else. And like board games, reading, pool tables, card games, table tennis, music instruments it's to strengthen up their minds. Just to make them more creative, but this comes from a scholar and psychiatric point of view." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah good point right now, we know what our tastes are here, and every single one of us has something to keep us occupied. And while we're searching the house, though what for is the next question if this is turning into a scavenger hunt, as we had those carvings. His spot in the doors is empty for some reason, we have your necklace being a clue, Andy is now telling us who he is related to now."
"A message on the doors, the kids coming to us, so what is your mother trying to tell us right now?" I asked and she nodded to that in agreement. "He's right there has to be a reason for all the anomalies right but what is the connection. Why was he put in the door in the first place, why is he trying to scare us out of the house and why did the kids want to listen to the legend anyway?" Theo asked and she sighed as she answered her.
"I'm not sure, but I bet it's the reason he turned into a recluse at the moment, and now mom, like you, has given me the clue. I just got to create the theory and once done, that gives your model a way to come to life right now, though if it's as bad as I think. And get ready, he's about to lose it as nothing he's done so far has managed to scare us out of the house yet." she said and I nodded to the remark as Theo said it for me.
"To get back to the original conversation, before we got side tracked by this, with us dealing with the type of psyche tests right now. We're looking at what this could turn into, dangerous or not, that's the question right now, but the house abolished all the rated R crap as this was more simple time." Eleanor said and she and I nodded in agreement as that returned to the original conversation as we all relaxed then.
"Half these video games are loaded with gore and violence and between that and the slasher flicks I understand why. This year's generation is winding up with some seriously sick media for teenagers fifteen and older, aside from the Harry Potter books and movies. That they just created, there is alot of violence in cinema at the moment that for an adult get these kids off violence and focus on something worth while."
"Any teenage psychiatrist is going to say that to prevent their minds from getting warped, if they're into the extreme violence to put it towards something else. Instead of scary movies, give them something to read, instead of video games keeping them on the couch, give them a place too fool around and as for the pool table, or tables if there's more than one, it just gives them something to fool around with."
"Though if Rebecca reacted like that with your figuring out whatever that means is probably connected to why these kids are trying to get your attention. Though if you're the owner of the house now, it means that with a house this size we can turn and update it into an updated version of a community center for them, if it's raining they got plenty to do later." Theo said and she nodded as she answered her.
"I think that's the intention, aside from music the only tv allowed in this house is mid teens and younger if I have children of my own and I'm updating the added stuff, so with that I know mom is Rebecca March this helps, I'm probably who she chose as the next owner of the house. Though with what the Dudleys just said, the only kids allowed in it are our children later, as they're used to this type of thing at the moment right now."
"But the twins now, I think they would enjoy this, as our little playmates are their age, so this gives them someone their own age to play with. As to that, if she's trying to play matchmaker with you as well, I think my mother is toying with the entire group, by matching us to our mates and friends. And in one week, things change so fast, so why let go at all right now, when we're all situated to the same town now."
"Though if this was to indicate who the true owner of the house is, it means she never told Lou she owned the house, or everything that belongs to the Craine family here in Concord along with everything else that is hidden away, I find the necklace and whatever testing she had in mind for us starts. I passed the first by the doors in the foyer, but whatever's next I'm not entirely sure about." she said and we nodded to that.
"Amounts like this I'm not surprised, whatever amount Rebecca had hidden away for you with the second will it's got to be worth billions or maybe trillions. But if this was part of her secret life that sums it up and she's combining all three lives together as one now, for you." I said and she nodded in agreement to that. Before she could say it the salt shaker shoved the pepper and they started knocking each other back and forth then.
"Alright guys cool it, we gone over this already, you knock yourselves off the table you're going to make a mess now enough already." she said and they settled at that, before I caught sight of the biscuit basket edging itself off the table and I grabbed it before it could get away. "Nice try you little wiseacres, you're not going anywhere." I added as she chuckled as we ended that.
Before she could say it, the butter plate started edging away from the rolls and he grabbed it and put it in front of the four of us as she smiled at that, as I saw the bowl of strawberries start edging itself off the table. and I grabbed that, before the plate that had the sausage on it did the same thing and that did it for Luke. " Alright guys we're not doing this all morning, now enough already." Luke said and the three of us started laughing at that.
And as we went over things of went on between us the night before. "I never thought six completely different personalities could get along this easily right now, but with that reaction, I think your takes on my college friends. That over did it right now, as he's who mom had in mind, as the six of us became a single group at the moment." she said and they nodded with a smile at that remark as she answered her.
"So you said that Luke and I were like who again?" she asked and Luke smiled as she answered her. "Luke's Tony, and you're like Janet, but trust me, what happened last night was the norm between us at the time. As we grew close, but when Tony heard one of us he came running to check to see what the heck was going on, case in point was what happened last night right now."
"One night together and here's the result right now, it's feeling beyond normal right between us." She said and he nodded in agreement. "I know, but though Todd is not here, you and me are acting like brother and sister, but the three of us are a trio now." he said and she and Theo nodded. "You guys ever have fight between you, before you made up?" Theo asked and she nodded as she answered her then.
"Yeah every once in a while, but she's just like you, that the fight starts it's takes an hour or so for us to cool down and then make up. But whoever is trying to test us, and as I said last night, that if the noises were not going to get us out of the house then what makes him think. Now, that whatever he pulls next would at the moment?" she asked and I nodded in agreement to her thoughts gently at that.
"Yeah I agree with you, but you said if you were active you would choose a possibly haunted house the week before or of Halloween as the time. And location for this experiment honey?" I asked and she nodded to me at that question then. "Yeah and so would mom, but why choose my house and the week of the probate, he's going to have you guys on his head if that car is trap." she said and I nodded in agreement to that remark.
"If she chose me, that's fine right now, but your godparents, and Rick, what about the others of your mother's circle?" I asked and she smiled at that. "We're not going to mind at all son, you're who we wanted for her anyway, I never liked that little bastard. When her mother told me who Jane Emily was dating at the time and Jack is going to say the same right now." Rick called out from the kitchen and she started laughing at that.
"Are you listening in on this conversation?" she called back and I heard a chuckle as Beth answered that one. "Yes baby we are, but your mother chose for you by getting you together, but she just left a message for us. And we're waiting for your father to make contact with us next, but we're getting Jack, Peter and Jared up here tonight in case of trouble later." she called back and we nodded to the news.
"Nice reunion tonight, I can see my adopted family this soon after coming home right now, if Amy is still here and she is. Then Tony never left yet at the time, as Dana comes back for a visit herself as you see the three of us together next, guys." she said and we nodded gently to her. "So what were the previous trips up here like if you knew where everything was here?" Luke asked and she smiled as she answered him.
"Same thing every summer that the area around the house was up for exploring right now, but there was the occasional scare, at the time. What you saw last night was normal to us, though at this rate, I forgot that part, after 15 years at the moment but I think whoever filled that space. If that was Craine's spot, then it lead to us being on our guard if he's anything like the lunatic on The Frighteners."
"Though that's true and this turned into a cross between that, IT and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, and the kids decided enough already. They're trying to be free of him and finally go to making a stand against him now, but through us, as we get rid of him for the second time. In 11 years right now, but like Krueger's daughter, get him out of her head and he turns human completely." she said and we nodded sternly to that.
"Meaning that twice in six movies a psychiatrist had to put an end to this, and no matter how many times we do this. He keeps coming back, but how many times do we need to kill him or lock him up exactly?" I asked and she nodded as she answered me. "A psychiatrist or a priest, and one who deals with demons, but this just made it clear, there really is life after death, but at times it's not dangerous."
"And other times it is, but this took the act of haunted houses and scare tactics way too far, and for all I know this is holy ground. So if that is on the door, but to answer your question, on how many times we got to do this right now. Going by this, it's repeatedly, but the doors must our version to the spiritual nexus honey, so we keep the house and it's grounded in good." she said and I nodded to the news then as he said it for me.
"Well is he trying to piss us off right now, after putting her in the hospital?" Luke asked and I nodded. "He's trying to push you, and me, into a making a fatal mistake right now guys, don't let him get to you. Like Pennywise was trying to hit them with both barrels, both as kids and as adults, and till they decided. Finally that enough was enough, we're in the same situation here." she said and I nodded as we exchanged looks at that.
"Great this is going to be a long week if he's trying to scare the hell out of us right now, but enough of the practical jokes already." Theo said and we nodded in agreement to that remark. "Well for now, we can just relax at the moment as check a few things now, as this continues, but get ready to dodge. As we got the kids following us around right now, and like that." Eleanor said as we heard a thunk and turned to see them roll into the wall.
"Guys slow it down after you slammed into the library door last night." Luke added with a chuckle and they jumped once to answer him. "You're the acting older brother Luke, Depp's character." she said and he nodded with a bemused smile at that. "Let me guess you're Langenkamp?" he asked and she nodded to him and we nodded with a chuckle as we ended the conversation as we finished it off and then cleaned the table.
As we went over what we figured out so far then. "Going by this, I think he was acting like Betelgeuse just to scare the hell out of us. But if it never worked last night, then what makes him think he can get us out of the house by cruel practical jokes exactly. Because I'm now a mouse trapped in a maze here at the moment." I said and she nodded with a bemused smile at that remark as Theo hid a chuckle to that.
"I'm not sure, but this is turning into parlor tricks and then comes the more cruel practical jokes that do damage to property and hurt feelings." she said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Great, so what's next, as we all decided it was the plumbing as this house is 130 years, the plumbing. It needs to get a tune up and as does the mechanics and power." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that remark.
"We ever decide to come back here for a second interim at the moment, and we know what needs to get repaired and where. But whatever was destroyed needs to have work done on it, before we have anyone getting too close to it and it falling apart on them like it did us." I said and she nodded to that. "Uh guys, you better check this out right now." Eleanor called out and we nodded and went to check as we saw it then.
"Ookay, so why is the door glowing gold right now?" Theo asked and she sighed. "That's got to mean something I wish I knew what..., uh, were you waiting for me to come back after mom passed?" she asked and they glowed green in answer to that. "You know who I am?" she asked and it glowed green a second time and she said it for all of us. "We passed your test, but we're here to get rid of him?" she asked and it glowed green a third time.
And that did it finally. "Why do you want us to get him back in you?" I asked and the message on the door high-lighted at that and I nodded. "Till we figure out why, you're answering us like this till my power goes to full?" she asked for me, and it glowed green at that. "So one of you can talk to me mentally, and I act as the weigher of souls, is that it?" she asked and it glowed green to answer her and I nodded to that information.
"The afterlife, this is the Egyptian weighing of the souls." she said and I nodded to her at that news. "This better not be what put Becky in the hospital or the bastard, if he's the reason for that, is going to get it." Luke said for me and I nodded in agreement as she leaned against my chest. "Me too, but if I have to, if it means protecting you guys from this lunatic, you're all that matter to me." she said and we nodded to that remark.
As we headed for the library, seeing it immediately then, I knew what was happening between us, and I knew our relationship was growing by the minute. But knowing I would never hurt them, and she knew this as well, as I tried to figure this out, but she knew already. I was sitting at the table when the bottle exploded, at the fireplace when the string in the clavichord broke.
And wandering the house when the noises started, so that made me innocent as I tried to figure out in what the hell was trying to frame me then. "Hey guys, if we're going over the arrangements for the rest of the week as we didn't have time to do this last night, we better do it now." she said and we nodded. "You expecting anymore pranks?" he asked and she nodded as we were sitting on the stairs then gently.
"Yeah, but you better cool it with the wise cracks and jokes or you're really going to get it, and I mean that." she said and I chuckled at the remark. "Hey guys you notice that the set up is the same as the Harlaxton Manor in England?" Theo asked and we nodded. "Yeah and it explains why it has the feeling of walking up the wall right now, but this is going too far." she said and I nodded as I saw something trying to keep from rolling backwards.
"You had to say that, check this out." Luke said and we saw the saw said ball trying to push itself forward till whatever it was caught up with it. And it rolled backwards and right into the fireplace, before it quickly rolled out of it. "Afraid of the fireplace?" she asked him and he looked down and I nodded. "Not that I blame you if that was a piece to it right now, but you doing illustrations in my explanations." she said and Luke finished that with a chuckle.
"Nice work with the demonstration, but you don't need to punctuate that remark kids." Luke said and she started laughing at that remark then as we exchanged amused looks."We had two each of the reds, blacks and yellows, so which one are you?" she asked and he turned so we could see the big blue dot on his side and I nodded. "Jake?" she asked and he jumped once and we nodded, smiling to that.
"So with you in the start of the second show focused on them, you needed a way to for us tell you apart, and decided to paint a single dot to mark who you are to us?" I asked and he jumped a second time to us and we nodded. "So Robbie has black and gold dots on him, Dillon with green dots on him when like this, Rose has a several purple dots on her, Jenny with orange dots, and Eddie with silver on him?" Luke asked and he nodded to him.
"Where are you in the show exactly if you turned it alternate reality, son?" I asked and he looked down and then tapped 18 times and we nodded. "Right after she told you and Andy's character just found his long lost family?" Luke said and he jumped once and we nodded. "Great, first that, and then comes the fact his best friend comes home for good now." she said and he nodded in agreement to that remark.
Sitting there next to him I could see a gentle glow of happiness and I knew their bonds were growing from a normal friendship and into a brother/sister bond then. After breakfast we all headed back to the library, as I heard a clack and clunk and saw the quintet come rolling past us and right into the wall. "I know we said they weren't supposed to be fighting, but this is getting ridiculous." Eleanor said to me and I nodded with a chuckle.
"Guys you keep running into walls like this, you're going to get chipped, so slow it down." I said and they jumped to answer me, as we heard a few gentle thumps as whatever they were playing with started up as I saw the dominoes go past us. As they moved passed us, then a thunk as the poker collapsed and sent the top to the box to go flying across the room and land in a basket and nodded with a smile.
"Nice one guys, that's creative." she said and they darkened gently and she chuckled. "I think that was a blush in the boys case." I said and she nodded, before she could answer me, I saw the orange knock Jake down the stairs and the quintet surrounded him at that. "Hold it guys." she said sternly and they looked up at her. "We already talked about this, so start a fight, and you're back on the table right now."
"But the next getting rough act between you and your rivals, if Daniel and Joey are that, is getting both you and them put in a time out." I said as I finished her sentence and they nodded as he shoved him back and they started a game of off the table soccer with a marble the size of a jawbreaker. "Looks like mom added marbles to the games, if they're playing with the single big one." she said and I nodded as I looked at the group gently.
Doing a color count I saw red, green, blue, yellow and hot pink and nodded. "The Zeo formation, so where's Robbie?" Luke asked and a black with gold dots on him rolled up in answer to that and she and Luke nodded with a smile. "They got the colors in reverse of the year he activated and joined the team, but I never could figure this out, that if he was the gold ranger, why is he dressed in black right now." he said and she nodded in agreement.
"The gold, based on the kids opinion, was the symbol of the equally as powerful and total equal to the red ranger for the first two series right now. But 6 years the show entered the Lost Galaxy now, but for any kid younger then 13 this makes more sense the it does for us." she said and he nodded as we sat down on the couches, and I went to check to the clavichord and saw what happened.
"The string was wound so tightly that the chord she did last night caused it to snap." I said and Luke and Theo nodded to the news. "Well all that tells us, is he was trying to get us to call it by hurting her and doing this. But how many tries is it going to take, before he gets the message that were alot stronger then he thinks and he's not about to scare us out of the house?" she asked and Eleanor crossed her arms then firmly.
"Yeah I know right now, but I'm making five rules after the amount of scares we had last night, as I said this is going to get extremely confusing. That trying to rationalize it, is going to make it harder to see right now, so 1) we stick together or pair up when not like this 2) Check whatever you're going to be playing with, before you do it, in case it's close to giving out, or it's wound so tight it could snap now."
"So 3) you want something to drink, alcoholic to drink after dinner after the second glass, it's getting mixed with non alcoholic. 4) Watch where you're going and pay attention or you're going to scare the hell out of the person coming from the opposite direction right now." she said and I finished that firmly. "And 5) you guys watch each other in case something in the house is getting to someone right now, okay."
"And if it is, and I want to know about it, as for all I know our invisible assailant could be after someone for some reason. And with what they just told us, her ability could go berserk out of exhaustion and it does I need to know that right now." I said and they all nodded. "Not that I blame you for saying that right now son, but you're getting why I had to tell you that right now." I heard and turned to see Dudley walk in then in time to hear me.
"Yeah I got it, but this gets worse, and something happens I need all the information if she's your niece, where her mother's family ability comes into it." I said and he nodded to me as he took a seat then firmly. "I get why, but it's been years since I saw my baby girl." he said and we nodded. "Well when was the last time you saw me and Dana?" she asked and he smiled gently as he said it then.
"The very last visit was the summer before the accident when your mother had the heart attack." he said and she nodded. "Well add the 13 years to me now, since you saw me when I was 20." she said and he looked at her and he smiled in delight at that. "God I never thought we'd see you again baby, it's great to see you again." he said and she nodded smiling at that remark then.
"Well with what we figured out right now, it's enough to make an impression right now at the moment here. But we ended up running into my grandfather's younger brother and his gang, But the story is now getting weird at the moment here now. That we're going with the buddy system starting now." she said and he nodded as we heard something come rolling in and the 11 rolled in and ran right into the bookshelf at that.
"Are these the kids you mean?" he asked and she nodded and he nodded with a chuckle then at the news. "Yeah and this is them when they want to listen in right now, but one prank or another." I said and he nodded with a chuckle. "I managed at least 1/3 to what mom told me, regarding the doors and what they were for, let alone how he was in the doors, but why is the next question." she said and he nodded sternly as he answered her.
"Before you get the rest of it from me, Jared, Peter and Jack you need to let your ability go to full force right now. As you find out too soon, it could result in the reaction Skywalker had when he found out about his father." he told her and she nodded. "We're taking it slow, but it's been a crazy night last night." she said and he nodded. "Now do you understand why we keep the gate locked?" he asked and she nodded to him gently.
"Yeah we do, but we're still waiting for the rest of our group to get back up here right now." she said and he nodded. "Well we're calling up the guys so you can see them finally, but if there's any more trouble we're doing a room by room search next baby." he said and she nodded as they ended the conversation at that as we got to work on what we had to do then...
Present Day- Eleanor's POV:
"Theo, remember our conversation on holding something back from others, because you were afraid of what the reaction was going to be?" I asked and she nodded. "Well this is the said situation, I wasn't sure how you were going to take that I'm descended from a mad man." I said and she nodded as she pulled me into a hug at that as I tightened my arms around who I loved like a sister.
"Yeah like the twins couldn't take the fact they never knew what caused their father to crash here. Same difference right now, but the bloodline is so obscured now that you're the one good egg in your family next to your mother, baby." Jared said gently and I nodded. "Yeah and this is something only a select few of people know about, before it went all over the globe, personal reasons now here now."
"My parents maybe gone, but you're alive, my only family, before I found the quintet now at the time here. But did he expect you not to kill him when you found out at the time that after 18 years I returned to you by signing up for this?" I asked and the sextet nodded gently. "No, but then this was good for something at least, as the ending was altered, but it was worth it right now." Rick said and I nodded gently to that remark.
"You know, just getting into this that day, I was half expecting trouble when we decided to pair off at the moment, as I'm barely alone for five minutes then the trouble starts, the rest of the paint is out of reach for any of us, and why would I vandalize my own house?" I asked and they nodded to that. "And when we all know this as parapsychologists?" Dana added and I nodded as Malcolm, Dave and the quartet exchanged looks.
"That if the eerie noises don't scare the hell out of someone, why would cruel practical jokes would exactly. As I said this time and time again, that looking at this rationally makes it harder to see it right now, and we start pointing fingers at each other. You remember we found those dummies scattered all over the house at the time?" I asked and the trio nodded to that remark as Theo answered me at that.
"Yeah and our bond was only deepening by the minute now, that I reached my limit by this point, he pissed me off at the time. That why target you at the moment, till you told us the entire story here, he's trying to get us out of the house, before you realized what you had to do." Mary said and she nodded. "Yeah I had it by this point that he pissed us all off once she told me everything here, but this was too much."
"Before it starts getting out of control in the scares till the last one ends up in the green house and you're so in shock. That one of us ends up on watch in case the next one hits as you're also hurt at the moment." she said and Dave nodded to that remark. "And before we all see this for ourselves as I look over my shoulder and see it for real this time right now." he said and I nodded to that gently as I answered him then.
"The six of us were the ones that know our way around the house she remembers as her memories of visiting them were now back. So this means facing the memories as we deal with what was destroyed and fix it, stay clear of the statues and whatever you do. Never turn your backs to the stone double or that's going to happen again." I said and they nodded sternly to my remark then.
"And I wasn't expecting that for him to try and drown me in the fountain, as it finally hit me now, why this was putting you in shock. He reached his limit of practical scares and was ready to start going all out now, as first was this, then we heard your scream and went to check." Dave told me and I nodded to him gently at that. "Yeah the door was closing he was trying to get you out of the house, me with you."
"As you destroy the car, and then comes the fact I got to get you out of range of anymore booby traps here. And before I realize why mom gave me the necklace, I was the end of the bloodline in our side of the family here now, so with that. It meant I had to risk the same injuries that put mom in the hospital, as this time I wasn't alone, you were with me and it's done now." I said and he nodded gently to me at the news then.
"It's our job to keep him from destroying the doors, you lead the demons in judgement and our job, now, of keeping those doors from being destroyed. We own the house and the extended family is the sextet, as we're all either in range of or living inside the house. Charmed all over again, as the house was built in the center of a pentagram, same thing." Beth said for him and I nodded to her gently at that remark.
"Yeah and one good thing is you get me back for good this way, I knew the stories, I knew the history on the house and town. Time to come home for good, as my life was in Concord now, so time to return to my ancestral roots now, and take mom's place with you as the head of our family." I said and she nodded in agreement as she hugged me. "And we're glad you came home baby, we missed you." Rick said and I nodded smiling at him.
"You up for this baby, as at times, trying to face the memories is harder then you think now?" Jared asked and I nodded to him then. "Yeah I am, but time to come home now, my place is there, but the eight of us are moving to town, to get away from the Websters now." I said and he nodded gently to me."At least you chose a man who is just like your father and us." he said and I nodded with a smile at that remark.
"Yeah forgot that part, a woman chooses the man most like her father, that once you find the right now, and time to let go." Todd said and I nodded. "Yeah maybe, but my best friends, I got two groups of the same group of friends here right now. So why let go at all we're moving at the secondary probate comes to an end finally here." I said and they all nodded gently to that remark as I remember my conversation with Luke then...
The Conversation And The Next Incursion- Eleanor's POV:
Sitting there in the parlor, I was working on each paper, when I heard a noise and then Luke came to join me, as he took a look at the carvings. "These carvings are really creepy." he told me and I nodded. "All these fat little cherubs and angels with furry animals is really bizarre, I think." he told me and I nodded in agreement as I tried to figure this out then as I answered him.
"I think they were the children that Hugh Craine built the house for." I said and he scoffed at that. "I don't buy that for a second right now, if what we saw in your mother's notes is any indication. That Hugh Craine was this lovable old tycoon with a soft spot for children, the guy was obviously running a sweat shop, having children do 16 hours a day, and then builds all this as propaganda." he said and I thought that over then gently.
"You could be closer then you think, but I won't know until I search the place right now." I said and he nodded to the remark. "It's like those Teletubbies those things freak me out also, then they sing. So they're actually kind of scary if you think about it." he said and I hid a chuckle, seeing my surrogate brother was a kid at heart as he went further then. "Yeah." I said, hiding a chuckle as he sat down on the ottoman in front of me.
"How are you coming along?" he asked and I said it gently. "I can't get this one, how about you?" I asked and he said it gently as he saw the one I was working on as he said it then. "I did alright, but that's another thing, these tests, it's like why do we have to be here, why do we have to be in this weird old house?" he said and I said it gently to that remark, as I knew what I forgot then.
As I realized my inner child had resurfaced, times of better memories when I was a kid visiting my adoptive family as I realized I was home. "I like this house, I think it's a beautiful house." I told him and he nodded with a sigh. "I guess, I don't know, I just think Dr. Marrow's up to something, I'll tell you another thing. I'm going to get them bottom of it, after I check on Theo that is." he said and I nodded as I hid a chuckle at that.
'Yeah that's what I thought, he's got a crush on her right now, but after 10 years, it's the same for Janet and Tony. They been skirting around it so long that Peter, Carol and I knew all along, but we don't need repeated fights right now.' I thought as he said it then as he got up. "See how my old pal Theo's doing." he said and I said with a smirk to that. "Doing or wearing?" I asked suggestively and he chuckled as he answered me.
"Yeah no kidding, you see what she had on yesterday." he said and I nodded as he said it smiling. "Wow, yeah I definitely have a soft for Theo." he said and I nodded. "Remember what I said last night, I was going to tell you why I want him arrested?" I asked and he nodded to me. "What you heard between us was over the apartment like I said, but it didn't matter what I said they were selling it and whether or not I agree with it or not."
"But this explains the shout of anger you heard from me that day, while they left to have a party, I was taking care of mom. If she's not my real family, blood family, I have nothing left to go back to." I told him and he nodded firmly to the news. "You need me I'm right here, I promise." he said and I nodded as he pulled me into a hug I tightened my arms around him then
Before he got to the door. "Nell, I'm going to shut this door, give you a little privacy." he said and I nodded as he closed the door, it was maybe five minutes after he left, that I got my first indication I had company as there was a slight clinking coming from the fireplace. 'Here we go again, I'm not falling for it this time, so leave me alone.' I thought, looking up then at the sound at that.
Looking up, I saw the chains waving as the temperature dropped for the second time, and I froze, before I saw something swing passed the chains and stood up and quickly stood up. Before whatever it was suddenly slammed into the chains as I saw a wooden figurine that looked like a gargoyle and I quickly left the room to rejoin the trio, knowing after the last attack the night before, Dave was not going to like this right now...
Present Day-Marrow's POV:
"But you remember what happened next at the time, he leaves me alone for barely 10 minutes and the attack hits." Eleanor said to me and I nodded. "Well you were right this was bound to get very confusing that I'm now the one trying to talk it over with you. Before something else happens next, but then it does and this turned into a cruel practical joke that crossed the line." I said and the trio nodded in agreement to that.
"But we both agreed that we have no clue what it was we saw in the fireplace, or who truly defaced the painting, as we all knew it wasn't us. So who does that leave, the kids are playing around with the tv show concepts, and your godmother is busy working on dinner and cleaning up the kitchen. While Rick is making sure things are where they're supposed to be right now." I said and she nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Before we have the dummies ending up in places they're not supposed to be right now." Luke said and she nodded. "Before they pulled a Top Billing motif, just to get first prize in scaring the hell out of us as they were leading us in a game of charades." Theo added and we both nodded in agreement to that. "But we all agree none of us had anything to do with this." she said and I nodded in agreement as Todd and Mary nodded to that.
"While Mary and I are still in town right now, and I'm waiting for the medical report so we can get back to you now. But this is going too. damn far right now in scares and practical jokes, but that's enough of this already." Todd added and we nodded in agreement to that. "We know, we all saw this the same way, but the fight took it so close that this nearly resulted in the fight we saw between her and Lou and Jane." I said and they nodded sternly at that.
"Yeah till I managed to cool down and then told you why I was so furious as what I told Luke was the very tip of the iceberg. And you got the rest of it, as mom left the tapes for you, so you could get them arrested for stealing my house from me, before we took charge." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah before we decided to discuss this, but you knew what I was doing." I said and she nodded to me then.
"Yeah and how could I not, I'm a psychiatrist and my thesis is also fear and performance mixed into sleep disorders." she said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah and you understand me, but we share the same connection, but what you had to do still scared hell out of us." I said and she nodded gently to the remark as she hugged me as I remembered what happened next then at the time...
The Fireplace, The Painting And The Fight-Marrow's POV:
It was a slightly quiet morning, till around 3, that I heard a slight clinking now, then a loud crash from the chains on the fireplace and I stood up at that. "What now exactly?" Theo asked and I shook my head as Eleanor came running in then as Luke also stood up at that. "Whatever attacked us last night, just happened again and this time from the fireplace." she said and we nodded firmly to the news.
"Well it's either Craine, or we got a paranormal stalker in this house, but leave her alone you bastard." he said sternly and I nodded in agreement to that. "You get a good look?" I asked and she nodded to me. "Yeah whatever it was he possessed this time was some sort of Gargoyle, but it happened directly after he left me alone, and no more then five minutes after now." she said and we nodded as we went to check on it then.
"What the hell is he trying to do here, scare us into heart attack right now?" she asked and Eleanor said it with a growl. "The bastard is trying to separate us, he chooses the second the guys leave us alone to attack every time. But as a result he's pushing us into making a mistake, but how could one of us lift these characters?" she asked pointing at the carvings, and I nodded as I got the point at that.
"She's right I could barely move it when I got a look at the others right now." Luke said and I nodded as I got it then. "Well whoever it is obviously trying to push us into pointing fingers at each other right now, I was with Theo after lunch." I said and she nodded to me gently. "You were with Theo, Luke was with me, and the second he leaves then comes the attack, so what does this say to you?" she asked and I nodded to the remark then.
"It says that whoever is targeting and screwing with us right now, is choosing the moment we leave you girls alone to attack. But if there is someone in there, and we'll find them." I said as I felt my fury growing at this. 'Damn it, whoever you are, leave her alone, and you touch the girls and I'm going to kill you myself, so back off.' I thought sternly at that as I heard Luke say it then firmly.
"You just saw something move, but we either have a madman on the grounds or some paranormal mass murder. And one that is determined to scare the girls out of their wits right now, but how could he get in, these fences are 9 feet off the ground. And so is the damn wall right now so this took the scares way too far right now, but that's enough of this crap already." he said and I nodded in agreement as I heard the girls talking then.
"I saw something moving." I heard from her, and then heard Theo answer her. "Okay just relax." she said and I nodded. 'Yeah, with the way this is going we're likely bound for a few more scares this afternoon, before we can take break.' I thought as I reached the fireplace and shifted the chains slightly. "I know I did." I heard and nodded as I hid a sigh. 'This lunatic is making her question her sanity right now.' I thought firmly to that remark.
'Alright that's enough of this crap, if you're thinking you can get me out of the way like this, better think again right now.' I thought sternly to that remark, as I looked at her gently. "You were here alone?" I asked and she nodded. "Yeah, Luke had just left." she said and he quickly said it. "I didn't see anything though." he said and I nodded. "Luke can you help me." I said and he nodded as he grabbed the other side of the chains.
Before we yanked both sides back and took a look around, as, not seeing anything I gave a gentle shrug, before he tapped on the floor, hearing a echoing clang in response, we grabbed it and pulled it up then. "Whoa, this is a fire pit." he said as he took a look and nodded. "Jesus this guy really went for barbecues." he said and I nodded as he said it to her then. "Just ashes and charcoal." he said and looked behind us then quickly.
Just to make sure he didn't get the drop on us then as she moved closer to us. "Watch out, let it go." he said and I nodded in agreement. "Yep." I said as we carefully lowered it and let it go, as it landed with a loud clang that startled all of us then. "Hello, Santa!" he called out and up the chimney, before she thought it over. "Wait a minute, mom and grandpa said this had some sort of a..." she started to say and then shouted it out to me.
"Oh god, guys get out of there now!" she snapped and I quickly looked at her, before I heard a loud growl and shoved him out of the way just as something swung passed me and I quickly backed up. "Whoa!" "Jesus!" the girls said at once, as Theo called out to me. "God, god are you alright?" she asked and I nodded as I tried to slow my heart down at that. "What is that?" Luke said for me at that remark as we saw it.
"A flue." Eleanor said and we looked at her then. "A what?" he repeated and she explained that. "It's an old flue, back in those days they didn't have the release valve to open up the chimney, but a timer for the flue to open up on it's own. We just hit it's timer right now, but this is why mom and grandpa said to stay out of there, or you could get nailed if the maul was open." she said and we nodded to the news firmly at that.
"God, is this what you saw?" she asked and Eleanor thought it over, before she answered her and looked between us. "No, that's not what I saw, it's not what I saw." she said and I nodded as I looked at her gently as I carefully side stepped the damn thing and moved out of the chimney, as I heard her talk to to Luke then. "Luke, you alright?" she asked and when she got no answer she said it again.
"Luke are you alright?" she asked and he snapped at her. "No I'm not alright, did you see that thing, it almost crushed me." he snapped at her and she snapped back at him. "Yeah I saw it, jeez I was only asking." she said sternly at that, as I pulled Eleanor aside then as I tried to say it gently. "That's what it was, of course you were scared, it scared the hell out of me too." I said and she said it firmly to me."
"I know what I saw." she told me and I hid a sigh. 'Honey, I get it, but whatever it was I didn't see it, but we're doing well in your progress, since you got that out to us, that we don't need them screwing with your emotional recovery.' I thought as I answered her then gently at that. "Eleanor, this is a very confusing house, you said it yourself, nothing is what it seems." I said and she sighed as she answered me then.
"Well look at me, I'm not confused, I saw something and that wasn't it right now, there was something in there." she said and then sighed as she got it. "Damn it, this happens all the time, bait and switch, get my attention so I can get you, then exchange it for something else." she said and Theo and I nodded as Theo said it for me at that. "Well what was it exactly, before he switched it?" she asked and just as she was answering, Luke called out to us.
"Hey guys you should take a look at this." Luke called out to us and we moved to him. "What's wrong now?" she asked and he crossed his arms. "Whoever just attacked you, just made it worse, because this is a really sick joke now." he said as we climbed the stairs and I saw what he meant. 'Sick joke alright, this is going too far right now, we're just making progress in her case and now this, that's enough.' I thought in shock in and anger at that remark.
Because someone had taken what looked like red paint and painted a message across the painting of a life size version to Craine then. "Uh guys, it gets better right now, because I found another one over here, and he's drenched in red." Theo said and we turned and I saw the tv show version to the damn dummy sitting by the griffin and his hands were covered in paint then and I looked from it to the painting then.
"Welcome home Eleanor', what does that mean?" he said and Theo nodded. "His face." she said as Eleanor said it that. "That's my name, who did this?" she said and turned to us. "Who wrote this?' she asked and Theo looked at Luke. "Is this one of your sick jokes, Luke?" she asked and he looked at her. "What, come on, give a little credit, I got a better then that, you really think I wrote that?" he said and as I decided to get a better look at it.
"You found it, you could have." she said and he crossed his arms. "Oh what with the 20 foot ladder that I keep in my back pocket, well then maybe you wrote Theo, you're the artist. This maybe your idea of art." he said and she said it firmly at that as I moved closer to get a better look then. 'Somebody better fess up right now, as this is going too far right now, we're just making progress and now this.'
'And the fireplace whoever is doing this better stop right now.' I thought sternly as I got a look at it. 'Not blood, but red paint, alright tell me right now, as this beyond cruel, who was it?' I thought sternly to this as I heard the fight start. "That's ridiculous Luke, I would never do that to her." she said and he crossed his arms as he answered her then, as I could tell he reached his limit in the practical jokes now.
"Well neither would I, but someone had to have done it, and frankly this is screwing with her emotional recovery but seriously. If it wasn't you and it wasn't me then who did it, when we're just starting to make progress right now, and now this happens." he said and she nodded as she answered. "Well it could have Todd or the kids for all I know, but I know I didn't do it." she said and as Eleanor looked between them at that.
"I want to know right now, who did this." she said as her tone started raising. "Did you write this, Theo?" she asked and Theo said it firmly. "No of course not, maybe it was you." she said and I knew that was the wrong thing to say as Eleanor said it in anger at that. "How dare you accuse me of writing this." she said and Theo said it firmly to that. "Maybe you like being the center of attention." she said and I decided to end it at that remark then.
"What are you talking about, if this was your house would I do this to you, no, and I'm hurt that you would even think this. Is 20 hours not enough to make a point, we're just getting used to each other's personalities right now, and suddenly we have someone. In trying to get us pointing fingers at each other or did you not get the message?" she said firmly and I ended it at that remark then.
"Let's stop this now, come on, who was it?" I asked sternly looking between them and she sighed. "Whoever wrote this, it's cruel." she said as she left, and I heard a soft mutter. "You don't know me." she said as she left the group and Theo left in the other direction as Luke said it with a sigh. "I didn't do it, but the question is who did?" he said and I nodded in agreement to his remark as I said it then.
