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.
Chapter 6: Discussions, Video Taped Truths And Heart To Heart Talks
"I know, but we have these guys getting into repeated fights, noises in the middle of the night, the window being left open. A pot gets thrown across the room and when no one got a hold of it. Mary getting hurt, we're finding these guys in weird places, a gun sounding cork, the fireplace and now this. This is going too far, but right now it shifts from parlor tricks to cruel practical jokes." I said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"And when we were just beginning to make progress right now, she was doing fine till this happened." he said and I nodded in agreement to that. "What she tell you if she's ready to report him to the Concord police department and the judge?" I asked and he crossed his arms. "She said that no matter what she said, they were selling the apartment anyway, the guy is a real asshole here."
"Her sister, or cousin is like Petunia Dursley as a result she prefers being around us, Dana, and the girls at work. But all that says to me, we're her kind we understand and to us nothing is going to get him out of this if she has to risk death to save us right now. But all in all right now, this lead to an even bigger rant then she told us, but the shout at Webster and Jane is more serious emotionally then we thought."
"But as if that's not enough what she told us last night barely scratches the surface at the current moment right now. But she thinks he killed her mother by poisoning her through her tea." he told me and I nodded to the news as I said it, before I could though, a red ball and a pink one rolled up at that. "Well she unloaded a bit of it, but this crossed the line, was this you or the kids?" I asked and he tapped a message out to me the.
"No it wasn't us son, in fact, this was meant to scare you out of the house, like the noises and the fireplace, even the champagne bottles." Luke read out and we nodded. "So what is going on, how is it you're acting like a philanthropist?" I asked and he tapped it out gently at that. "I'm descended from a high level philanthropist, like Becky is son, same amount now here that as a result."
"Our total after 130 years is a few hundred octillion, each, and the lions share goes to you, Malcolm, Todd and the girls now." he read out and we nodded in shock to the news then. "We get everything and they only get a 10th of the amount they deserve for their behavior?!" Luke said in shock for me and they jumped once and we nodded as I answered him quickly at the news then.
Before I could though, Becky tapped a message out to me. "We chose you on purpose, but the suitcase I mentioned is meant to get you through the next year and pay for damages, before you refill the suitcase and the boxes now." she said and we nodded gently to the news at that. "Did Bill do the same with you at the time?" I asked and she jumped once to answer me and I nodded to her as I said it then.
"So what's this count for exactly, if he doesn't realize he stabbed himself in the heart, because she said she never needed to read the will to know its a fake. She said the will was a test, whoever shows everything that the opposite of the seven deadly sins and everything in the Frederick Craine clan gets everything the one who loses the test gets only 10% of the inheritance, in addition to there a trading place move here."
"And at the moment she realized what your counter clause meant as well, as to that with you're being to talk to us like this, till I can hear your voice, through her, I think it might be best, when the time comes to reveal yourselves to them. So should we just wait till the duration ends and then tell them that?" I asked her and Rob answered that firmly. "If he breaks any more rules and commits a felony in the few days, like say rigging my wife's car to kill on impact with the god damn fence."
"Than it's considered a murder/suicide rap by Jack and Jared when they investigate this, because they, Erica and Beth are going to kill him for this. But of our friends here in town, she was closest to Jack, Rick, David, Beth and Peter and to them it's no use fighting it out with them. As to why exactly, it's because David, Adam and Jared are in the medical council here in Concord."
"And in movie theory this is tantamount to the psychiatrist who landed Arquette's character in Westin Hills, by some false diagnosis. Which in her case, is getting relabeled as attempted murder by having her self destruct, if she finds out too soon. To answer your second question, yes, wait till the duration ends and let them bury themselves into the hole they created by their behavior and acts of greed." I read out and nodded as he went into it, looking between them.
"I take it you were hoping for an exact match in friendships, are Todd, Theo, Mary and I what you were looking for in her case, in friends. If the her that's showing now is what she was like in college and high school, are we the same type of people. Her friends were back then, because we hit it off last night pretty fast and she and Theo are growing close and I'm getting protective?" he asked and she jumped and tapped that out to him.
"Yes Luke, your personalities are the same as her friends when she was a kid at the time, in fact your personality. Which was like her friend Jason's, while Todd was like Dylan and the girls were like Jenny and Casey, but all in all right now. You're who I was looking into when we chose names and upon seeing you as you are now, you look like your parents when we were your age."
"But that's the reason I chose you four, you were the ones I knew could bring back who my daughter used to be now. And I've solved all three things that Jane's been taunting her with, simply by having her meet you five. And soon enough Malcolm, but with it, Malcolm, once he meets her for real, is going to react like you do and the six of you are going to be like us when together."
"First her job, she's got a job waiting for her at my office and she's taking my place at work, friends: that's you guys and finally dating and future marriage, David that's where you come in. I chose you, because you're everything my husband is and the guys are and were to her As to that, the Websters have no room to talk anymore, she's a civil servant, but she's the daughter of two people who are well known now." I read out and nodded to her request gently at that.
"At the moment she's going to be, once she starts digging into it, ignore her exhaustion till she falls asleep on the couch, but with her forgetting how to use her abilities, the added problem is it's going to start going crazy. As to how and why, it's because Craine is going to be pushing so hard on her. And that while you can't see it, though, she'll be able to, but the longer you're together.
"And once the connection is complete, you'll be able to see what she's able to, aside from our souls." Rob added and we nodded to that explanation as I looked at him as I went over that. While thinking over what he told me, I looked at him. "Should I just tell them, the Websters, the truth, that you chose me as her new husband. And I'm the parental approved one, you two, because with the fact you did choose me."
"That helps now, but the first night and true day together the connection is getting stronger every hour. As to why it's because hearing I'm a psychiatrist and I'm connected to whoever Jefferson's cousin is, in Boston. And I'm now connected through her to a judge, chief of police, a medical doctor and a town mayor, they're going to realize they're never going to win this debate, if he demands that she's living with them later on."
"If she's hurt and in recovery, when we go back to Boston. Because if this means what I think it does, our week together here is going to result in a soulmate bond and I'm never letting him anywhere near her if he's beyond drunk. Let alone if he's trying to wipe out the family when I have him arrested for whatever she tells me, and I'm arresting him if he tries to kidnap her?" I asked and they both jumped once as she answered me.
"Yeah tell him the truth son, with you around, and the boys, once you tell him that, tell Rick and Malcolm, as well as your neighbor, if he's a cop, and let them know that we're having her placed under your and their protection. So if she's still recovering from what happens this week, if she suffers through my heart attack ad well and you're learning how it happened that night later."
"But Rick is Chief Richard Jared Jefferson, he's a friend of Jack's here in Concord, he's a Concord local and knows the family history. So once Jared breaks that truth to him he's going to kill Louis if she nearly kills herself to protect you guys and have him arrested when he hears the car was rigged and he tried to kill her, he's his cousin actually and with that with in mind."
"He's winding up in jail, because Jared's going to want him to run that forensic check on my bloodwork, but here's the thing, arsenic or whatever combined with my medication is like poison and she's been suspecting he killed me for the last two months. But to confirm that we have to run the bloodwork, because he's the type that would cross that line to get it all now."
"And with that, I leave her with nothing but ten percent of the family inheritance, so just wait till he reveals his true colors and he's going to lose it. In fact he's like Delancies character on that Kirk Cameron flick that came out two years ago and that's how far he's willing to go. He's a lying, cheating, conniving little bastard, that is winding up in the rehab department."
"The soul heir was the one the parents doted upon and Eleanor happens to be it, and with that fact in, mind, Jane is jealous Eleanor got this much attention from me? As to why she was right when she said I'm really into the paranormal and supernatural and my daughter is the same way. As for Louis it's regarding first impressions, so everything she told you about me and Rob it's true, we never would have approved of Louis the second we saw him and we don't."
"You on the other hand, if this was the Harry Potter series, we see you as the good one, as for your middle name that only makes it more clear, David. You're the good one, and we've chosen you as our family and executor of our family fortune. On both sides of the family, you're true family and clearly my thoughts are you more prepared to deal with these unpleasant details than Jane is. So if you intend to get Eleanor's side of the story out I got you the money.
"Anf from there it's public humiliation time 5 laters. It's turning into a trading places move and the girls are trading places with each other, as to that in my thoughts are you're more prepared to deal with these unpleasant details than Jane Emily is. You're my real family, he's a reject, you're my son, I'm not letting go, David, take care of my baby." I read out and I nodded to her request gently as I sighed in relief I had their blessing in our relationship as I answered her smiling.
"Well they just screwed with the wrong person, if both of you were connected to the town government. and her godfather happens to be the chief, than they just shot themselves in the foot now. And it's because I'm taking this to court, if they did anything else to her or he ever touched her like that. If I'm what you wanted her for her, Rebecca, I'll take care of her if you were hoping for in marital heirs, I'm now the legal executor."
"And I'm making sure they're about to lose everything and their lives are getting swapped with ours once the testing ends and we get the results from the bank back. Don't worry you two, I'll take care of her, she and I are already growing closer now at the moment. And regarding about the project, if something causes her to go into shock what next, because Malcolm said tell them, the duo, the truth if that does happen."
"And because she figured it out last night and she doesn't mind either, Rick said at times if you're too exhausted to think straight it could cause problems?" I asked and Rob answered that, his tone going stern as he looked at Luke. "Son listen to me, with the fact my daughter has been telling you the truth regarding this for days. So if she goes into shock, he tells you two the truth and you freak out, now."
"And you're in serious trouble, and it's because she's been telling you for days what he's working on, so you have no reason to be furious. You already know the truth, but if you choose to just ignore everything my daughter tells you. And later flip out out of fear and anger, because of your phobia. And it nearly kills both you and my daughter, you're the one getting arrested by the cops."
"And when you end up in Jared's care, for whatever it was, and you're hearing my words spoken in Jack's voice next, tonight. So if the duo get him up here, but at the moment she's needing a confirmation. But calm down and don't do anything stupid, and with the fact that the fireplace nearly mowed you down. Stay out of the damn thing when it's at whatever duration it is at the moment."
"This situation is not turning into a lawsuit however, we have the money, and spared no expense too now, and with that fact in mind here. If she's got to risk death just to save the three of you, and it's because her ability is fully active. And in fact my daughter is not suffering a mental illness at the current moment, but if her ability is going to activate, and in the next forty eight hours."
"It's enough that three jolts in five hours enough to make a medical psychiatrist concerned and as to why. It's because she's not able to control it and he's pushing her so hard at this rate right now. That the result is it's going to have something a going to get thrown at the window at the time here. Exhaustion caused it to berserk, so if shes on autopilot and getting by one too many."
"And he's going to make you think she lost her mind, but he tells you the truth, and you lose your temper. And enough that it nearly kills both yourself and my daughter. And you're in serious trouble with her godparents, Rick, David and Jared when they find out." I read out and nodded as he nodded as he exchanged looks with me then as I said it firmly as I said it to him then gently at that.
"Though first we got to patch up your bond and I need to talk to her, so she can vent the rest of her anger to me." I said to him and he nodded with a sigh to that. "Great just when things were going fine, this happens, what now exactly?" he asked me and I sighed. "I'm giving her a chance to cool down, and then I'm going to go see her myself, but if she and I need a chance to talk at the moment right now, because if I am."
"It's only more necessary, but than I'm her soulmate, but I'm a wolf at heart, and this is probably the first stage of it. She needs me now to help her recover emotionally right now, though she gets hit by a shock that's enoufh to cause her to quit. It's shes needing to be in emotional therapy from the trauma this caused. But what I didn't tell you yet was just as I was getting this arranged, her mother was at the department, at work."
"And finishing her paperwork, so she could take over, I told you that she was at her office, but she and I wrote out the added side notes. And clause to this project with Mary, it's a counter clause catch 22 volunteer status your seeing here. But you lose your temper and it nearly kills you the volunteer status gets revoked. And the Vance's gave me the money to pay you the fees for this." I told him and he looked at me in shock.
"She said she wanted to be a psychiatrist, but her specialty was close to what yours is and dream and sleep deprivation, but why would she be getting everything ready for that?" he asked and I explained that to him. "Because we were the intended therapy Rebecca has in mind for her, she's had no friends and a chance to really live her life up until she met us. Though I think Rebecca was really preparing her for her future now, first bringing her here, her meeting us and then seeing everything that belongs to her."
"Though if that's the case the intention was once the testing time ran its course, the savings bond boxes were being given to the rightful heir along with the deed, the key to the house and the will. And she got the chance to move out of Boston and really live her life, though if I've been had myself, it means she, Rebecca March and Rebecca Craine are really all the same woman and I've been handpicked by her parents for her."
"One thing is certain though and that is she needs a chance to really vent what she's feeling right now where she's concerned and get what she wanted to say where the Websters are concerned off her chest. Though if Rebecca is paying damages and something happens you're getting compensation, to prevent you from suing the hospital if she's paying twice or three times what you want from the hospital, and me later."
"But from here on and tomorrow, if her ability, if it's a family trait, kicks in I want to know about it, because the ability is going to be like a nervous breakdown. And the shock is enough she's going to have a panic attack till something. Anything, does get thrown and breaks a window or a mirror." I told him and he nodded to the orders. "If truth of what she's not telling us comes forward and I find any injuries that weren't there before."
"And I'm going to kill that sick son of a..." he said dangerously as he trailed off and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "Yeah me too right now, but for now we got to look into this right now at the moment. But to sum this now, possessed billiard balls, the painting, the fireplace, the noises, the harp gets knocked over, Mary gets hurt. And a pot gets thrown across the kitchen when none of us got a hold of it, and you're next to me."
"So come on, we better get back to the library, we got to go over this." I said and he nodded to that as we headed for the library and I saw what she meant. "The dial was tightened enough for the chord to snap, alright Rebecca if you're hanging around for a while than who does this house really belong to now exactly?" I asked and I watched as a pen and paper were picked up as a message wrote itself down then.
As Theo came back out then and I looked at her. "You okay now?" Luke asked and she nodded. "Whatever she saw, that has me worried, but first this and then we get into a fight, just what the hell is going on here exactly?" she asked and I sighed. "I wish I knew right now, but now the question who is her mother really, if this house belongs to her. And what is the truth, regarding Craine." I said and she nodded as a message read out.
"My maiden name is the owner of the house David, legally the sole heir was to be the executor of the properties and everything in the family name. Like I told you, my full name is Rebecca Sarah March/Craine-Vance. My grandfather, Frederick is the owner of this house, but he moved us to Boston. But in line, it's, youngest to oldest, her, me, her grandmother, Suzanne, Frederick and Carolyn."
"I chose in advance who the property was to belong to once I'm gone and my husband, Rob, chose in advance as well. Eleanor is the sole owner of everything in the family name, on both sides of it, and I left out everything. Everything from the original will regarding the prize at the current moment. Because this was a test in advance of where the girls virtues laid, Ellie passed the test."
"Because what I put into the testing will was meant to be a test of integrity, to see what the girls would do at the moment. and Eleanor is doing wonderfully at the moment, but that anger was not directed at you two. She's furious at the Websters, because they took away our apartment from her. And secondly, because I'm gone, and she's had suspicions he's the reason I'm dead."
"If you plan to press charges later for that in her case, if anything happens, I'm paying the legal fees. Because my lawyer has ten times that in funds, so spared no expense. And young man, before you lose your temper remember everything she said here last night, though if something happens. He's not the one being charged for damages if you lose control of your tempers. And my daughter winds up in the hospital, because you guys nearly killed yourselves out of fear."
"My best friend is the chief of police here and my entire inner circle lives here in Concord, Rob's best friends were Jack, Adam, Jared and Rick. So if she winds up in the hospital for whatever reason and you're the reason for that. Then it's cause enough that Jack is going to sue you for nearly killing her. Out of your anger and fear, when he gave specific orders to David, parental orders as well."
"We can talk to you like this, but these are parental orders, as she told you the imprint of a soul sticks around as long as their loved ones need them, at at the moment she's not ready to let me go yet. So whatever reason you lose it out of fear, and 'he's' scared you enough to break something or worse, I'm the one trying to keep you alive, because when he created the house."
"And the greenhouse has a door built into it at the back of the room. And the front door is the only way out of the house, as to that, the fence is made of iron, it would take bulldozer to break it down. So with those facts in mind here son, you lose your temper out of fear, and this results in nearly killing her. But David is the one with legal rights to my daughter as of now, you two, and with that."
"He's the legal executor of my house and all my property as to that and with that in mind, you're getting your money, but it's triple what you're expecting. You've seen that the house is haunted, but so far it's been only playful intrusions aside from the pounding on the walls, Mary and the clavichord. Let alone the fireplace and now the painting, but here's my point right now."
"But consider why she'd order you to think straight, if she gets a triple scare in just short of three by tomorrow night or just further forward right now. She knows everything she knows, because what memories of those stories. I taught her are breaking down the front door now and with that fact in mind. But I'm making it very clear here now, what money you're getting from them."
"For this project, I'm tripling it when the results go through. So listen to me very carefully here: my family trait is the ability to see the afterlife, like in the movies that you watched on tv, but, we can speak to the souls. Once in a haunted house if the homidical ghost starts driving up the scare tactics that ability starts going haywire, if she's beyond exhausted and is going into shock."
"David you're hearing my words come from Jack and Rob next, but if she's going into shock pull the plug and get her to lay down, the window of opportunity is from from sundown to sunrise, that's twelve hours. The ability is going to have her going into shock along with whatever else happened, before you pull that plug, but keep her warm and horizontal and wait it out."
"With Todd having the spare key back into the house, you're going to have to wait it out till morning. So don't do anything till Rick and Beth get back up here, that fence is made of iron and it would take a bulldozer to break it down. And I'm sticking around so whatever attempts you're planning. And if 'he' reveals himself to you, are not going to work young man, as to why now in this."
"The damages being paid are coming from me, so don't bothering suing the hospital, because he brought you under false pretenses. And I'm paying three times what you're suing them for when, if you destroyed my car. And some of my property, that you'd normally get from any normal person. But this is not turning into a scandal later, is that clear?!" I read out to them and he nodded.
"Yikes, when she's in business mode, her tone is pretty scary." he said and I hid a chuckle, as her tone gentled as it turned to me. "I understand, David, with you being the one her father and I chose, you're the one running the show. At the moment she's at a very sensitive stage, I've been gone two months. But it's been hard on her and she needs you the most now, that's reason number two here."
"Her necklace, I was going to give it to her later on, but it's a family heirloom and part of the reason for this was because I was setting up her future. The house belongs to my great grandfather and was handed from member to member for the last four generations. But until now, it's that she never had the chance to live her life and I chose to get it arranged in advance, kids."
"You're parental approved, Rob and I chose you from the very beginning at the time. But starting from today and forward, you're the legal executor and my chosen marital heir of the family. Lou was a reject, you're the one I'd want as my son-in-law, you're my real family. As to that, you've got total access to my lawyer and my friends and my friends are the town council, aside from Rick."
"And his wife, but it's the chief of police, the head of the medical council and the judicial leadership here in Concord. So he tries to press charges let him know you're connected to the town judge and the chief of police. And both they and the others are all parental friends of the family, and all my daughter has left of me and her father, as to that, they hear who I'm really connected to."
"And in truth of my family descension and who that descension is connected to here, they're going to know. They're completely screwed after this, because they broke the rules in the game and they lose everything. This will test is really a contest, a game, you play by the rules and you get everything. Cheating and your attitudes, and you get only a 10th of what you deserve, for your behavior."
"Along with a trading places move, my baby girl got it right on target, she's a true Craine, so with that fact in mind. It's the entire fortune goes to you and my daughter, David, and you're hearing the fight in reverse later. David check my car, it's fine, but there's a camera I hidden away behind several figurines in our apartment." I read out and we nodded as we went to the car and checked at that news.
"Can't find it..., Wait I got it Doctor, it's a big camera, I got a nice size tv set camera in my truck, hold on." Luke said and we nodded as we dragged both into the house and dragged them into the library at that as we activated the camera. "That's the piece that got my attention that morning, I could hear the argument from below the window, you two." Luke said as he sat on the sofa then as we heard a severe debate going on.
"The camera must be hidden in the bookcase right now because we got a clear view of the entire fight this way." Luke added in realization and a message wrote itself out. "We did, and Luke here's the rest of it, but this was so you can see this from her point of view. Before and after the fight, David, but that's in added tapes, so this one marks the fight, the next is when she found my necklace now."
"The phone call, and Andy simulated your voice to get her out of town, as she saw what the prize really was now. If they did this and finally here, finding my notes on haunted housing, and sleep deprivation. You have everything you need to have him sued right now, if they try kill to her by using my car to do it." Theo read out to us and we nodded as I smiled dangerously at that remark in relief.
"Now I'm telling you we can't afford to keep you here any longer, you already owe two months worth of back rent." I heard from a woman and I looked at him. "Didn't you say that you paid 4 months ahead, before you died, Rebecca?" Theo asked and a message wrote itself out. "Yes Theo, I did, but that's why she didn't have to pay, it was already paid in advance, all of it." She read out and I nodded to that.
"That's got to be Jane, she doesn't look anything like Nell." Theo said and I nodded in agreement as I answered her gently at the remark then as I watched it at that. "Yeah, alright if Winona was what Alicia looks like then she gained, not just her temper, but her complexion, but that's true. Then Eleanor just gained Fred's personality traits, he can control his temper unless provoked."
"And I can guess this conversation was the provocation." I said as they nodded as she sat between us. "It is, that's Jane, but if she is not my sister at all that helps right now, but I was good at keeping my temper, until a remark what she's about to give me. And honestly, though I never realized mom and dad were taping the entire conversation, it was enough, that they just stabbed themselves in the leg here at the moment."
"She's like Jo, I got Laurie's personality traits, but you're like me, and neither of us tolerate stunts like that. In Jo's words, 'we'd kill each other, neither of us can keep our temper, all we would do is fight, and hell you can't even propose without fighting. We're both stupidly stubborn', that's her and Lou altogether, they broke up twice. Before they got married after he got her pregnant out of wedlock." she said and I hid a chuckle then.
"That was the funny part of the conversation between them in the movie, but if he never killed her younger sister before, vocally, nothing will cause it ever. But she's Joe, I'm Laurie, so don't stab me in the heart here, but if I was her best friend. I would have killed her by this point, it's no wonder they say opposites attract, but you are my soulmate. But I was saying your fight with you, as was Theo." I told her and she nodded smiling to me.
"It's mine, and you're not taking it away." I heard from my soulmate and I heard her sister's next remark. "Read the will Neill, 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 and I saw Eleanor grabbing the dishes off the table. "He is not even real family." she said and her sister snapped at her at that remark then.
"Yeah well maybe not, but clearly, Mother thought Lou would much better equipped to deal with these unpleasant details then you." she said and that did it. "Unpleasant details?, What I have been dealing with for the past 11 years? I cooked, I cleaned, I mopped up her urine, and you call that an unpleasant detail." she screamed at her, hearing that he put it on pause and we nodded firmly.
"Two years sick, she's been holding it in so long, that's what caused that right now, don't worry baby, it's going to be alright. You can stay with me once we end the trip up here now, but he's never coming near you again." I said, sighing to that remark as he turned it back on as we heard two remarks at once. "Hey your sister didn't write the will." I heard a male voice say, followed by an added add on from her sister then at that.
"We all know what you done, but we're trying to help." she said and I echoed the remark my love said as I said it with her. "Do not help me." I said forcefully to that remark in unison with my fiancee. "Mom, don't worry, I'll take care of this." I told Rebecca and and then I saw a little 8 year old boy knock a figureine off the tv set. Before her sister grabbed it and put it back as she said sternly, but gently to him at that.
"I see why she hates that kid, he's come close to breaking her stuff more then once." Luke said sternly to that and we both nodded. "I'd put that kid in a time out, if I was Nell." Theo added and I nodded as I crossed my arms, as I was starting to see her family in the way she saw them as I saw a photograph in the box and looked at it. Seeing her, I started seeing her in the way Eleanor did as I watched the tape carefully at that.
"Oh Richie, just go sit on the couch." she told him and I heard the man say it then. "Anyway once probate closes, we can put this apartment on the market, and we all might be able to make a few bucks." he said and Luke nodded as he grabbed our notes from the night before as he circled the original remark. "Take advantage of the admission and you just blew every dime you had." Theo said in response to that remark.
As her sister finished that. "Also we know how much you love mom's car so we're giving it to you." she said and I looked at her in shock as Theo said it for all of us. "You're taking her house and giving her a 20 year old car." she said in disgust as I heard my wife repeat that in shocked disgust. "You're taking my home and giving me a 20 year old car." She said in shocked disbelief and I crossed my arms at that remark.
As I heard a flippant tone of dismissal in his voice. "Oh absolutely, we'll deduct the value from the proceeds of the apartment." he said and I heard her say it forcefully as I repeated that. "Who are you, do you understand that she has no where to go." I said slowly as her voice joined with mine. "Who are you, do you understand that I have no where to go." she said and I watched her sister rest her hand on his shoulder.
"We've been talking, Lou and I are very busy, and we could use someone to help us wity the cleaning and the cooking, looking after Richie." she said nodding her head to him as I saw him banging on the wall with a four pronged cane. "Eleanor help me, I gotta pee." he sneered and Luke said it with a growl. "Why you little brat, you better stay clear of me or so help me, you're getting the spanking of a lifetime."
"I see why she hates her nephew this much." he said and I nodded in agreement to that and I nodded as the kid's father snapped at him. "Richie not now!" he said as I saw her come to a decision. "Get out of my home." she said and he stood up. "Well suit yourself, we'll let the courts handle it." he said and and I looked at the pink ball. "Mom, you said your friend was a judge?" I asked her and another message wrote out.
"Yeah it's Peter Walters, Judge Walters, he's the high judge in Concord, the Berkshires, he hears this and he can over rule this, but he activates the probate on the second will. And he's screwed David, but judge over rules lawyer any day of the week, I've also got a friend who's a prosecutor." Theo read out and we nodded to the news we turned back to the tape as she repeated it in a warning tone.
"Get out of my home." she repeated and her sister quickly pulled her son of to her father, as I heard the final remark. "Come live with us Nell, you have no idea how hard it is out there." she said and Eleajor said it in finality. "No Jane, you have no idea how hard it was in here, watching your mother fade away after losing one parent and you're an orphan, so no." she said coldly and her sister left at that.
"If Andy wanted us to hate him, or her, he just got his wish, right now, because wait till Todd and Mary see this tape deck right now." Theo said as Luke checked the camera and pulled out a hollowed full size videotape as we saw it and then looked at the miniature onesand I nodded. "I take this to Malcolm and he sees this in our security camera room, Malcolm was her mother's boss." I said and they both nodded to the news gently at that.
"Yes that's what the added tape was for, so you can show these to Malcolm, but camera and your back up camera. Well they were meant so you can show these to my friends and I understand why you would say that son. Luke, but to repeat that remark Jane gave in reverse npw, but clearly, I thought you, David. But you would be much better equipped to deal with these unpleasant details."
"And these truths, then Louis would be, you understand my daughter and to me he's not even real family, however you're real family to me. And my favorite son in law, but if I was still alive what would you do, do if I got diagnosed?" she asked and I smiled. "I'd offer to let you live with us and we'd take care of you until the end mom." I said and another one wrote out, the tone doting and proud as she said it.
"And that is why you're my favorite son David, kind, courageous, caring, true, you're everything I want for her. You understand the admisions in the will, but they don't and they're chewing up her side of the Inheritence faster than they can blink right now. Just wait till the results come back from my banker, and Jack and my lawyer are telling you the legal details, before this goes to court."
"The idiot boy is a chronic drunk and is as sadistic as you can get in the courtroom and its going to be my pleasure to bring him down. And off the mountain and high horse once you and my daughter reveal the truth of the first will to him and Jane." I read out and she smiled dangerously at that information. "So you're the legal executor, oh I can't wait to see the look on his face when you tell him."
"That the shift in rights and parental approved marital heir happens to be you." he said smiling. "Well if I'm the chosen marital heir, I don't have to worry now, because our relationship is already forming here and if this is the start of our lives together, I'm being who she needs me to be now. She said the necklace belonged to her mother, but it looks like it's 130 years old." I said and he nodded as he answered me gently at that.
"Alright lets check the rest of this." Theo said to and I nodded as, not noticing there was a secondary camera hidden in the picture frame, or the hole in there, I quickly realized it. "Someone drilled and cut a hole into the wall of the kichen wall there, it's got a perfect angle to look into Rebecca's bedroom." I said and they nodded as I watched her walk into her mother's room then as I saw the medical equipment around the room now.
And as she walked into the room and looked at the cane. "She said that Keough leant her the equipment to take care of her there. But the other cane is by the tv set, this one was on the bed, the box for spent needles, the tv tray, and the bed pan. There's the heart monitor, if their family was well off, then Rebecca paid everything in full at the time."Theo said and I nodded in agreement as I answered her remark at that statement.
"She mentioned a banging of the cane against the wall, but what type I don't know." I said and then got the answer to that as Luke said it then. "That must be the cane she mentioned, brass handle, and there's a walker next to it." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts as I saw the grief come into her eyes. Just before I saw the necklace and she picked it up, before seeing the inscription on the wall and nodded.
"A place for everything, and everything in it's place', I like that, being scientists and psychiatrists we had a filing system here. That must be why she kept a miniature dewey decimal system and why our rooms were set up like this." I said and she smiled and he nodded to that. "No joke, if this was why she vented that to us last night, she's still in mourning right now at the moment here, she needs us now at the moment."
"Alright last tape now." Theo said and I activated it as I saw her put the necklace on then, before the phone went off. And she picked it up. "Hello." she said, before her eyes narrowed in shock. "Yeah this is Eleanor..., where?" she asked and grabbed up the paper and opened it as I saw my ad and I nodded in shock. "That wasn't me that called her that day, the first time I spoke to her was here at the house yesterday."
"So I'd say someone impersonated me to get her out of town, just to prevent another injury if he's that abusive when he's drunk." I said and they nodded to me at the news. "Research subjects, $900..." she said softly her tone going hopeful then. "Mom how much was the rent exactly?" I asked and she exaplined thet to me. "The apartment was owned by me, but $500 a month, and utilities came to another $300."
"So to her, that's why she was doing this, not just a desire to be a volunteer, but so she could keep our apartment by being a volunteer now. But you just hit the nail on the head son, Rob impersonated you to get her out of the house. As we set the trap and they walked right into it, we're waiting for him to make that mistake, but probate ends on All Saints Day." Theo read out and we nodded to that.
Watching the tape, I watched her think it over. "Where's this house exactly?" she asked and I heard a voice answer her. "It's in Concord and the Berkshires." he said and she nodded as she said it then and smiled. "What's the thesis exactly, because if you're choosing this, I did my own research paper in college. And my own disrotation focused on fear and performance and sleep deprivation."
"So I'd gladly volunteer for this, when's the meet and greet?" she asked and the voice explained that as I smiled at her eagerness to get involved. "In ten days, we are meeting at the house." he said and she nodded. "Alright, what's your assistant's name exactly?" she asked and he explained that to her. "Mary Lambretta, and our office number is (617) 523-4255." he said and she nodded as she said it then.
"Alright thank you and see you soon, Doctor." she said and hung up as she went back into her mother's room, and pulled something out as I saw the title of the folder. Seeing the name on it, she smiled. "Experiment, second chance to put my own model to use finally, mom if this was your idea, I owe you big right now. But those two, if this was a test, are getting their's once I speak to Malcolm."
"Though how Malcolm is going to take this is anyone's guess or who his subordinate is now, though if said subordinate is the man who just called me. Then all the better right now, there's more then meets the eye, but that will has words that were stopped being used by the mid 30's. So if this was a test, I'm going to pass it for you, but time to start over, I need to save the apartment."
"Our home, and I won't fail you mom, I promise." she said and we ended it at that. "Well that sums up everything we need to know now, first she got called by you, she finds her mother's disrotation on the haunted house cliche. And then calls Mary, not realizing your boss in common with each other is Keough. But she's right, the second he hears this, the duo are dead meat." Theo said and I nodded as Luke answered that.
"Now I see why she named this to the Harry Potter book series right now, but she is Lilly and Jane is Petunia. Her husband is Dursley himself and her son happens to be the little brat of a nephew Petunia had. While your son, if you had one would be a mixture of you and Nell, while I'm Ron, Theo is Ginny, Mary is Hermione and Todd would be Neville. But that must be what pendent is for, it signifies the maternal heritege in the family."
"And I think it is, because that chain, looks like it was newly created for it, if the pendent itself is that old. The necklace she was wearing, she said it's a family heirloom and last night when we ran into each other I found a painting of a woman wearing it or a copy with her initial on it." he said and I nodded as I answered. "Alright, I need to see that painting." I said and he lead me to it and I saw a woman in her mid to late forties.
And with a mysterious look in her eyes and, wrapped in her pearls around her neck, was the pendant with 'C' on it. "That's the real one, that necklace is a family heirloom, I think that if it's a girl the heir gets the necklace and passes it to the next generation, once their of age. Though if she's the second wife, then if she learns this, before Rebecca tells her, in her emotional state at the moment it just got worse here right now."
"Though this results in an all nighter and she's going to drive herself into the ground here just to solves this case." I said to him as I went further. "Luke whatever suspicions you're having at the moment, before you start pointing fingers at me, keep in mind. I was in the library with you and exploring the house, before the attacks on the girls happened. And I was standing next to her when you found that on the painting at the moment."
"Her remarks over haunted houses, take that into account and think over why'd she say to look at it from a new angle, before you lose your temper. And if this results in my needing to tell you guys the real reason I brought you here." I added firmly and they sighed and nodded. "Alright whatever schematics of the house he created I'm going to go find it, because this house has to have several secret passes, but I'm an architect."
"So and it's going to take hours to scope it out, but we just had one batch of damage to the house, this gets any worse were looking at a few million to it next Doctor." he said and I nodded to him as I sighed at that. "Well broken equipment and vandalism of private property, that's one catch though if the vandalism results. Now, in destroying $300,000,000 worth of private property and the caretakers are going to be pissed."
"But so far these jump scares are beginning to get out of hand and it's like we're in the middle of that collection. Of Steven King movies, Creepshow, where the statues and things get possessed now. This keeps up and she's going into shock if anything happens tomorrow night." I told him and he nodded as he looked at me. "What now exactly?" he asked and I sighed as I said it to him, knowing he wasn't going to take it well.
"If her ability activates by tomorrow and she starts seeing things you can't I want to know about it, because three scares in under two hours, she's going to be in shock and if she took an injury, she's going to collapse." I said as I moved to the wall and grabbed the book and read through it. "Alright two out of five at the moment, we got the pounding on the walls and the painting, that just leaves out the clavichord harp."
"And the fireplace, but we got unexpected jumps cares in the house, doors closing on their own, things falling over on their own. Only difference here is that the bastard was haunting the entire property, so with those words in mind, he's going all out by Halloween night. That is if he's really haunting the house here, though I'm hoping to god I'm wrong, but the next one, if it keep up like this, is we find her in the greenhouse."
"And on the staircase next." I told him and he nodded with a worried look as he answered. "What's your phobia exactly, if you're saying that?" he asked and I growled. "I'm acrophobic actually, though while we're on the subject, what is yours exactly, because that's my thesis, phobias and fear and performance?" I asked and he sighed as he answered me gently at that as I turned and looked down the hall then.
"Our discussion over being locked into rooms or trapped with no way out." he said and went further as I listened to this as he said it as he explained it to me. "When I was in college some jerk locked me into the closet, and being stuck in there, alone, and the door was braced shut was enough to scare me out of my wits. It took breaking the window to get out of the room and I got the chair out of the way, as I broke the door down."
"Just before I went after the asshole who did that, he ended up getting expelled for that, kidnapping and attempted rape. And because he was going after my girlfriend and I barely prevented him from raping her." he said and I nodded in disgusted shock at the news. "Whatever she's afraid I'm sure we're finding out soon, but if he's pulling jump scares like this, it's enough that if he's attacking when we're separated now."
"And he's going all out every time we're not together, so to repeat what she said this morning, we're always together after its five till we go to bed for the night. Though at this point I'm taking my position as the intended mate, because. And I'm pretty sure her ability activated when she and I were talking last night." I said to him and he nodded. "We better get that off the painting and get some information on that now."
"And in regarding the contraptions in this house, I'm going to see if I can find any hidden trapdoors or hidden passageways around here." he said and I nodded as we separated as I grabbed the papers off the table and I went to find the Dudleys. After five minutes I found both of them in the kitchen. "Hey son..., what's wrong now, what happened?" Mr. Dudley asked quickly and I sighed as I said it, to him knowing he wouldn't.
"Our unknown assailant just attacked us again, from the fireplace and there's a very sick message on that painting at the top of the stairs Sir. So if you could take care of it, I'd appreciate, but this gave me a setback I don't need, where she's concerned at the moment." I told him and she stood up. "What's the message exactly, and what are those?" she asked and I sighed. "The message was 'Welcome Home Eleanor'."
"To answer your second question, these were a communique from Rebecca, she's now getting in touch by messages to us and I spoke to her last week. At the hospital, but Malcolm changed the name to Nell Vance and with it now here. Is the fact during the communique was she passed me this picture." I said and gave it to them. "That was last Christmas, before she got worse here." she asked and I nodded to her as I said it then.
"Yeah it was, but when I set this up, because she was at her office when we were arranging this, getting the added file work done for Eleanor. But now I'm wondering if she and Rebecca Craine are the exact same woman. As to why, she seems more like she's knows what the hell is going on in the house. And the way around it at the moment and more than anyone else I know right now." I said and he nodded to that news gently.
"The reason is because Becky brought her up every summer to see us, we had every summer together. The last trip up to see us, the guys and Amy was before the accident that killed Rob, to explain that. A drunk driver in a freight liner crashed into one of the pumps and the damn thing caught fire, Rob's team was sent. But before he could do anything the entire gas station exploded at the time." she explained and I nodded to her.
"Fifteen years, the accident was after she started college at the time." he added and I nodded to him gently. "When was the last time she saw Benson's grandson?" I asked and she sighed gently. "Also 15 years, Anthony graduates next summer, but if necessary if something happens during the trip you can extend it. Before going back, a couple weeks prior to the second semester." she said and I nodded as he completed that gently then.
"Let me read those." he added and I passed them to him and he read through it and his eyes narrowed as he said it. "Yeah she's right, Rob's my best friend, with the fact she made contact now with us regarding this, what was her supposed plan. Just to prevent a lawsuit, if we have a repeat performance with the fact she's my daughter now, with her parents gone?" he asked and in answer to that a red snooker ball rolled into the room.
