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: for this chapter, they're making a visit back to the house, for the week, before their mission, so from here the story starts heating up as he reflects on the night they barely survive the attack, before they return to the house and things change directions.
While the quartet have their counterparts joining in, but it's a clashing of the movie and real life from here as things change directions
Chapter 11: Revelations Of The Will And New Documents Created
Looking at her, I watched as she smiled. "What's that say honey?" I asked and she looked at me. "We were right, this is the post notes confirming that will they have is a fake. Mom's chosen in advance who to give the inheritance to, and we get the lion's share honey, while they get only a tenth of what they deserve for their behavior, listen to this." she said and read the message out loud to us smiling.
"To my legal heirs and executors, starting from the day you read this there's going to be several changes, before you get this probate finished. And it's because under this will, there is a clause that is being set for you, should you follow through with the words, your fate is and will be sealed in stone. As you are not a true Craine, however the heir that doesn't shall get your birthright, and her mate will become the legal executor."
'The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit', if you're a true member of the Craine family think over wording and you'll pass this test. Remember the lessons of the previous century: Charles Dickons, Mark Twain, Robert Stevenson. The books I raised you girls on, remember the dangers of the seven deadly sins and you will know."
"If you are a true member of the Frederick Craine Clan you will act as you should and your friend and associates will get everything, but should you cross the line and try to harm each other you're disqualified. And the assets go directly to the heir who carries everything in them in personality of that of your grandfather and you are getting a severe counter clause when this will runs its course later in one year to the day that you probated this."
"My heirs this is a severe brainstorm, so think carefully and make your choice, for any choice you make you got to live with the consequences of your actions. Reconvene from the day you get this probated and you will see said results in it as the truth bears it's fruit and you will have to live with the consequences of your actions, so make your choice and choose wisely." she read out and I smiled as I got it then, before she smiled as she read a gentle post note in there to her and me.
"Friends and associates, she means us?" Theo repeated and she nodded. "Nice touch well that confirms what you told us this morning, well Jane you just crossed one line, keep it up and you're losing, dime by dime, every ounce of the money your mother is leaving you. But I swear you cross the line and hurt my friend and a girl I think of a sister and you're screwed. Because first is theatrical humiliation, before getting humiliated in the court room." Luke said smiling dangerously as she read out the added note to us.
"She knows she's screwed once she meets you, because not only am I changing, but this is the me that was in college, before mom had the heart attack. And you just brought that me out by us being together Luke, the five of you and finding mom's friends, the me she knows is gone forever now and in her place. I've just taken on the mantle of the family maternal heirarchy now." she said and he smiled broadly at her declaration then.
"Well if that's not emotional therapy nothing is right now, but at the moment let's make sure nothing gets in the way of your progress now, shall we." I said and she nodded in agreement to that as she snuggled into my side and Theo hid a smile at her behavior when around me as she read out the letter's post script to us in particular then. "Whoa this sounds like she's talking to all of us when she wrote it." Luke said looking at it from behind us, as she read out this letter to us then
"My darling Eleanor, if you're reading this you know the real test just started in our family home, but the dark secret is going to be the part you must stay strong in when you learn it. Before I suffered these health problems I was watching David James, he's who I chose for you, if you're together with him and your new friends. If you're thinking the situation was rigged slightly, I'll tell you that later, but though I'm not here physically, I'm with you in spirit."
"But I chose personalities in the way he did last week for this, but your parents, you two, were old friends of mine at the time and here's something I never got around to telling them yet, though you're learning it this week. The situations have shifted from slightly playful to turning into a paranoia right now, as time goes on the situation is going to get dangerous soon enough."
"But remember what I taught you now, in a haunted house never let your guard down if there's more than gentle spirits in the house. If you're alone never turn your back on the statues or you're going to get jumped when you least expect it, secondly after eight at night best to lay off the alcohol and thirdly stick together till you go to bed for the night, as Rob already told you this."
"I'm repeating it now, because the last thing Jack needs to worry about, Halloween night, with him and his team's patrolling the streets with a bunch of high school and college hooligans running loose is one of you getting arrested for drinking or trying to break out. As to why he, that is Hugh, is going to be pushing up the scare tactics every night the next three nights till he goes all out just to scare you out of the house now, before you figure it out."
"You've passed the first test together last night by standing in front of the doors now comes the part that means your abilities come to the fore, but remember, this is your birthright and focus. This secret is something I was going to tell you, but once your ability activates you can see me, almost as if you were Winona on Beetlejuice, or Cole on the Sixth Sense, and both are very accurate now, as is your father's abilities, I chose my own kind."
"And the craft is more than simply parlor trick as well. At the moment though, your ability is going to come online soon enough, but to control it, focus and relax. Because he's going to use it to make it seem to the others you're suffering a nervous breakdown, but relax, focus and take charge. You need to focus when the evil starts bombarding you with visions, and after dark stick together and stay strong, because he's going to drive up the scare tactics."
"With three days, as you classified the situation, he's running out of time and the clock is ticking. I completed the first portion of what you have to do, but now you must do the next, the kids sticking around you, David and your friends are the younger brothers and sisters of the group you must free now. To free them remember what I taught you and on Halloween, before daybreak the next day, get 'him' in front of the doors to finish it." she read out and we exchanged looks at that. "In front of the doors, what was that theory on the doors you gave us again honey?" I asked and she explained that to the three of us then.
"With doors like this, some are just for decoration others are like more supernatural and this is the second though I don't know yet if that theory is true till we put it to the test on Halloween that night, though if I'm right I'm the one who has to." she told me as she went further as she explained that to us gently. "Nice touch, well that's one way to arrest him right now in this case." Luke said and I nodded, as Rob and Becky exchanged knowing looks at that remark.
"There was a supposed legend that Rodin had a wizard put a spell on a set of doors that were meant to catch cruel and evil souls. So being trapped in the doors was purgatory and their souls were sent straight to hell to undergo the type of eternal torment that they did when they were alive. The demons on the doors were the gate keepers like the quartet that arrested Patrick's murderers on Ghost and that's what you're looking at now."
"The doors acted as a reverse of what the condemned did when they were alive, so say they were like Jack the Ripper, the demons turned into a homicidal maniacs. You killed and took multiple lives now, than once dead and judged by the doors you suffer eternal damnation by undergoing it by the demons that are on that door once they they get their hands on you. Which, to a damned soul, is enough to scare the daylights out of them here, as to why."
"It's because they're being sentenced to life imprisonment and these demons are the inmates in that prison. And it turned into a never ending cycle of dismemberment, for rapists, the demons turned the tables on him and he was subjected to sexual harassment and worse in his after life and so on, but to judge these things the soul, if he was a ghost, when he was doing it and came directly in front of them, had to stand directly in front of them."
"The person owning the doors were never named off, but he put a message on those doors, 'All ye who stand before these doors shall be judged', so that any person who came into range them were judged by God and heaven as a pure soul, like we did yesterday, and we were judged innocent, as for the children, those souls are waiting to be released once the true owner of the house and the keeper of the doors arrived."
"The doors act like the weighing of the feather ceremony in the ancient Egyptian culture, if the person was completely pure of heart and never broke the laws their souls could move on to the afterlife without repercussions, but if they didn't their souls got eaten by Ammit, which is where this comes into it, because it's a purgatory now. While the keeper of the doors was a descendant of his bloodline. Which if I happen to be, he's toast if I figure that out."
"So the descendant that had every bit of his son and wife's abilities would be able to control the doors and the demons on it saw that descendant as their equal and lord and when standing in front of them come to life, to do the descendants bidding right as they're getting said soul in front of it, which is what the message meant, stand in front of the doors and you're getting judged by heaven and the demons, in the afterlife of where you're ending up."
"If the victim, or victims, were pure of heart than once in death they were judged innocent and free to return to heaven, but if the soul was a total monster, by that I mean men like Krueger, or some of the other homicides they talk about on Tv, than once he floats in front of it the door comes to life and the demons judge him guilty and to an eternity spent in hell and drag him into it. To spend the rest of his days dealing with being in eternal damnation and whatever he did as the demons do to him whatever he did to his chosen victims when he was still alive." she said and I nodded as Theo grabbed the book.
"She's right, it's right in here, that door was the second or third of its kind that was created, but it was based on the Gates of Hell by Rodin like I said last night and the guy that hexed it was probably a wizard. But if they're pulling supernatural shows into the woodworks it's going to be like that supernatural horror flick that came out last year. Final Destination combined with the haunting of hill house part one, alright nobody do anything stupid this week." she said and I nodded as he said it for me with a bemused look on his face.
"Nice, it's going to be a long week this week, but if this keeps up one of us is going to have a nervous breakdown out of the amount of heart stopping attacks if he's goes from dangerous to down right homicidal next." Luke said and I answered that. "Well to repeat what you said stay out of the areas he's likely to boobytrap after he just scared the hell out of us in the fireplace. Tomorrow we got to map the place out, before one of us gets turned around." I said to him and Eleanor answered that as she looked at the three of us
"If I'm the specific target here, he's going to make you think I'm going into shock once you break the truth to them David. Because my research was meant to cover a added room by room search, so if I come in here looking like I'd seen a ghost then you'll know I just discovered the darkside portions of that legend you told us about last night." she said and I nodded to her as I said it then, looking at her and feeling our relationship growing.
"Yeah well if this is the beginning our relationship he'd better watch it." I said and she smiled. "Somebody had better stop screwing around with the dominoes here, I've been finding pieces all over the foyer all day going in every hall you can think of here." I heard and hid a chuckle. "Don't blame us, it's the kids screwing around with the pool tables and the dominoes as well as the books mam." I said to Mrs Dudley and she nodded smiling.
"Son there's a bunch of snacks and other items in the pantry there for you and ones that you'd like so whoever has a severe sweet-tooth can help yourself here tonight, because we get in seven every morning." she said and I chuckled. "The kids ransacked the cookies you left us, but left us the chocolate, Chocalate cake for dessert last night, along with everything else." I said and she nodded as I looked at Eleanor then to go into it.
"If it's enough you're ready to pass out from exhaustion, if you've done and are doing several all nighters here and you collapse. the research is on a hold till you had a chance to sleep that jolt off, because I'm not having you pass out from driving yourself into the ground. Especially if he's possessing things and you take a hit to a vital organ in the search and that happens and I'm really going to be pissed." I said to her and she nodded, before she could answer a pen was picked up and wrote out the next message.
"That's my father's handwriting, David, he's speaking to you when he's saying this." she said and I nodded as I read the message that was written out to me. 'David, with you being who her mother and I chose, you're the legal executor for everything in the family name, on both sides of the family. Jane married a man I would rather vaporize than consider my son-in-law, you are parental approved and with that fact in mind here, as Becky said everything regarding damages is spared no expense now with the amount she just gave you and that amount is nothing."
"Trust me, when she says it's the very tip of the iceberg, that's not an exaggeration either, it is. In fact I'm descended from a philanthropist who was in Hugh's economic class, in total you're looking at a beyond incalcuble number, but her gift of second sight, once it activates is enough you're going to get worried, because exhaustion causes it to start going crazy here."
"If it means acting as her husband now, you're going to have to make decisions for both of us, if the lunatic starts driving up the scare tactics and you're going to have to get her to rest if she nearly passes out in front of you as a result of triple whammy jolt in less than three hours. You're a medical psychiatrist you covered medical training, so with what she just told you treat her shock and if she's hurt make sure she stays horizontal, warm and wait it out till morning."
"With us out of the picture and Louis pushing one too many buttons and crossing one too many lines right now at the moment with the fire and police departments. It's enough that everything she tells you and Malcolm, as well as Rick is under the Doctor/patient privacy act, with her telling it to you, him and the boys as to that, you're who've we chosen to act as our version of our inner circle now for my daughter of today, you're in the early stages of it."
"But Halloween night it's not only judgement day for him, but your quartet, time to put your friendship to the test, you son are the only one who is going to realize this and act accordingly, like I used to with her. Once back in Boston she needs you now, with the loss of her apartment, she's got no where to go now, and it's best if you stick together, she need the five of you more than you know now, and with that, it's up to you on All Saints Day: choose to stay or go."
"So once you're back insure that's she's got a way to get to you, and we got a trust fund set up for her now that the hardest portion is over. So with that its not a problem, but Rick and Tom are not going to take it well with what she just told you here. Her mother and I are friends with the caretakers, the head doctor, the surgeon, mayor, police chief and the judge and with that."
"However they learn the extent of what she's got to tell you, if you have her medical records, they're going to kill Louis and have him committed for rehab for five years till he's clean completely, and they're her new family now. The fine print in that will is going to be a nail in their coffin once the truth gets out next year, because I've already chosen my daughter as my legal heir now."
"Once or if the final show down results in her ending up in the hospital, they're giving you the truth of how Becky had to retire from her job and what caused it. But she needs to learn this truth from us rather than finding it out on her own, because this secret is one that explains that necklace, and why Andy is always hanging around you." I read out and nodded to that as she looked at me.
"Andy are you family if you're always hanging around us? Which side of the Craine clan are you from, if my pendant had a 'C' on it exactly" she asked and he explained that. "Yeah I am, to answer your second question: mother is the initial on your pendant, your decension started with Fred, but mother is who your grandmother is, Eleanor. But until you're able to see Rebecca, don't push the investigation, it only gets worse from here, it's a horror story as well."
"And I'll explain that truth to how I died this young, at a later time, after the fight in the foyer this afternoon. But not till you can see me, my soul, but until then just relax and don't over do it, you're not ready yet to know that truth. Because Robert's right when he said this truth is like learning Fred Krueger or Darth Vader are your grandfather and learning what he did, and finding it out, on your own, before someone who knows the most about it can tell you."
"As for your realization of the will, that was very fast thinking, but what you read out to the trio this morning about the will was what we wanted you to realize, you are a Craine, and our rightful heir. The property and everything in the family name belongs to you now. But as you heard, father made a fortune off the parents of my friends in his textile mills, but that's where the truth becomes obscured now here, you got the truth, from a certain point of view."
"So when we saw you arrive, we decided to come see who the rest of your group was, because with your pendant we knew you were our new maternal protector now that Rebecca was gone and decided on that greeting. As to why I figured you'd need a connection and the guys, Sarah, Annie, Jenny and Rose decided to stick around like I am at the moment. But Robert is right, David is parental approved both by Rebecca, him and the caretakers and Jonathan, your friends are what we were looking for as well too, to know that truth."
"But as Robert said, Louis does anything else and nothing is saving him from ending up in rehab if he touches you when inebriated and I mean that, though you can't see us, we can still help you take him down if he crosses the line guys. Just do us a favor and get a pool table so we can come visit you that way when you return to Boston." Luke read out and I looked at her as she smiled then.
"Well at least I'm not alone if I've got my family, though invisible, dropping into the room every other hour, I guess they're giving us some private time tonight during dinner and our group time before we go to bed later." she said and I chuckled at that as I nodded. "So that's my great uncle, should have seen that coming, I think your bedroom was Andy's old room Luke, while whoever's bedroom I ended up is probably my great aunt."
"And if she was my grandfather's twin, I think they lived in adjoining rooms with the bathroom right between them Theo, which explains why your room has that type of set up. Though if they're all the children to Craine's second wife I think I just ended up back in my ancestral home here. Though with what mom just told me I just did now, but now the question is this, though what is the dark secret in the walls of this house and does this explain why Renee died at the time." she said and I nodded to that in agreement.
"Let alone why is there no indication in the house of a second wife, why create the statues as markers to add on to the riddle and, aside from my mother, why are we the first ever guests that the house had since Craine died. If this like like the Sanderson house or 1428 Elm Street, the truth lays buried in the walls. Just who is Craine making himself out to be now, that's the riddle we have to solve here." she told me and I nodded in agreement to that remark gently as she finished as she leaned against me.
"If she approves of you than she approves of the quartet as well and with that, if they're trying to turn this into a murder/suicide rap it's attempted murder either way, and sabotage is against the rules here in the game. Though they want to play hardball they better watch out if one of mom's friends was the county judge connected to the Supreme Court." she said and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Peter is the highest ranked judge in town baby, but once he hears that though planning for everything is David's situation these situations result in a 20/20 hindsight issue. But with the fact your mother left you and David that, it's enough the scandal here at the house is getting swept under the rug now. So with two to three days left till Halloween hits, just be careful, okay." Benson said and we nodded as he gave my shoulder a gentle squeeze and I smiled as Mrs. Dudley smiled at us as she said it gently.
"Okay guys dinner's ready we'll see you in the morning." Mrs. Dudley said and we nodded. "See you tomorrow." I said and they nodded and left as we decided to stay put on the couch for a bit longer then as we talked. "This is the information on the textile mills and Rebecca signed the forms to my name, the house belongs to us now. Jane you just screwed yourself over, so attempted sabotage, try that and you're disqualified here." I said to sternly to her and she grinned as she looked at me.
"You're part of the family in their eyes and you're true family David, with that I don't care what she says, you're my future husband and my boyfriend, and with those words. If she wants to cross you guys, she better be ready for the consequences here." she said and I smiled at that in amusement then as I answered that. "At the moment, I'm the one person he's not going to want to screw with at this rate." I said to her, smiling gently
"If she approves of you than she approves of the quartet as well and with that, if they're trying to turn this into a murder/suicide rap it's attempted murder either way, and sabotage is against the rules here in the game. Though they want to play hardball they better watch out if one of mom's friends was the county judge connected to the Supreme Court." she said and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Which your Uncle Peter is baby, fact of the matter is to him, they cross that line and nothing is saving them from getting put in jail and losing everything at the moment, you're the legal heir to the family fortune, but they don't know that. Now again you two, I'm making it very clear here you two, you lose your tempers when he tells you the truth, you're in serious trouble, especially you, Luke. The seven deadly sins are considered in this case, anger if left unchecked is going to kill here."
"And Anger and fear together is going to get you killed if you don't get it under control if he shows himself to you, and not only is it going to get you killed, but it could get her killed while doing it, she's in enough emotional problems already. But she doesn't need another loss on top of it, because you nearly kill yourselves out of fear, when she says calm down and pull yourselves together, before she deals with him, do it." Dudley said to them sternly and and we jumped as I turned around and looked at him.
"Whoa, I thought you left already?" Luke said and they smiled. "Just looking into group dynamics, I've never seen three totally different personalities get that playful when just meeting the night before." Benson said and I chuckled. "Yeah Todd said the same thing last night. But things are getting off to a good start here, and our bonds as friends are getting deeper now." I said and he nodded to that smiling as he looked at us gently.
Looking at her, she shifted positioned and leaned into my side and he smiled at that and I hid a smile at that as I looked at him. "I know what you're thinking and no I'm not the type to push further till she's ready. But unofficial patient and I'm her future husband, so I'm acting like it now rather than later, so we're giving that demonstration here. But to change the subject, and regarding the structural work in the greenhouse, because I was getting worried when she started climbing up the staircase, but to go into that."
"Rick, where do those ramps lead on the spiral staircase exactly?" I asked and he explained that to me as the duo listened to this as well. "The ramp platforms lead in two different directions: the one on the first half of the spiral staircase on the right leads into the south wing. That one goes into the back of the house and the kitchen and areas you were exploring yesterday ladies. Though the staircase is extremely old at the moment."
"While the one on the left side leads into the north wing directly into the hall connecting into the girls bedrooms. The set of stairs on the right connects to the left ramp and the one on the left connects to the right ramp, but those stairs can't handle a fully grown man's weight after 90 years, the suspension is so old it could give if you're at the halfway point fifteen feet above the floor the floor and as to why.
"That staircase can't hold any weight in the middle of it though." he said and Luke shifted position on the couch. "How rusted and old is that staircase, I'm studying to be a contractor and builder Mr. Dudley, I've studied physics, what are the chances of that staircase collapsing if someone gets stuck up there, if our Fred Krueger poltergeist scares someone up there? And while I'm on the subject, how much weight can that thing take before it breaks?" he asked and he sighed as he answered him gently.
"No more than 280lbs at the top of it, but in the middle that's going to cause it to start falling apart. Though there's steel suspenders keeping the stairs supported, that's not enough, the platforms are bolted to the wall and the several metal pillars standing ten feet off the floor. But Frederick never got them repaired after he returned to the house. But the top of the platforms are twenty feet of the ground." he said and we both nodded as he waved me into the corner to finish that statement in an undertone.
"If he starts pushing up the scare tactics and she sees a piece of what we never got around to telling her yet and then scares her enough she winds up there for whatever reason, and you get her down from there. 'If' she's in shock and is stuck up there. But whatever she sees prior to that has her so in shock that she can't move, take the one on the left and get her back into bed, before she passes out from shock and exhaustion."
"With us seeing her this is more than once it's enough, but she needs to hear to from either us, or her mother how her mother had the heart attack and retired. And at the moment she's not ready to know that, but the added stuff is, when in digging into it, if she can start seeing what you can't, and she gets hit by three at once. But get her to rest, because the adrenaline surge is going to crash and she's going to collapse especially is she was up all night trying to figure this out."
"But he lands her in the emergency room, because this situation is enough that when we hear what the hell happened that night and we're just insuring that inns get worked out. But it means delaying your return to Boston till she's three quarters recovered, so the six of us, Dave, Eric, Erica and Dillon can get to know you and know your features on sight if they try forgery next, which is not going to work either." Benson said and Dudley finished it gently as he looked at us firmly, as he said it.
"And we: Jack, Beth and me, it's enough we're going to be furious if these kids don't listen to orders when she gave them clues for three days running. Academic bait and switch if you know what the switch is, and she's been giving them clues, before they start arguing for three days straight, but the shock is enough I want her in bed, though if she's starts suffering a panic attack you're going to have to stick close." he told me and I nodded.
"I've dealt with several panic attacks due to a patient on LSD or PCP, but if the shock is that bad, I'm going to have to treat her like I do with one of my own patients. Just ensuring she doesn't collapse when we're that high off the floor is my first concern. But I'm not leaving her alone if he starts pushing up the scare tactics every few hours and five in four hours is enough she's going into shock." I told him in an undertone and he nodded to that
"You two are growing really close David?" Benson asked and I nodded as she looked at me with a smile and I smiled back at her. "Yeah our soulmate bonds snapped into place, she means everything to me, I'm not giving her up now. I'll take care of her, I promise Chief." I told him and he nodded to me. "With you being the chosen marital heir, he's screwed now, whatever else she tell you we want to know about it." he said and I nodded to him.
"She's given us a small bit of it, while you were checking things out upstairs, but so far we've had several instances of the book coming to the fore, and the wall got replaced by the painting in this case. And it's not the revolving room making you feel like you're walking up a wall either, thankfully, but if this keeps up and it's we got a stray getting into the house to separate us next, before I find her on that staircase."
"Does this house have a way turning you around when you're so in shock that you can't see where you're going till the person runs right into you from the other direction?" I asked and he nodded. "If he starts with your head he can, but sleep deprivation just makes it worse, as to that, if she's so exhausted that her power goes crazy it's going to get whatever's on the make up table thrown out at the window. So be on the alert for that." Benson said gently.
"Okay guys dinner's ready we'll see you in the morning." Mrs. Dudley said and we nodded. "See you tomorrow." I said and they nodded and left as we grabbed dinner and sat at the table and started talking over things. "This is the information on the textile mills and Rebecca signed the forms to my name, the house belongs to us now. Jane you just screwed yourself over, so attempted sabotage, try that and you're disqualified here." I said sternly to her, though she was not in sight and Eleanor smiled at me then.
"You're part of the family in their eyes and you're true family David, with that I don't care what she says, you're my future husband and my boyfriend, and with those words. If she wants to cross you guys, she better be ready for the consequences here." she said and I smiled at that in amusement then as I answered that. "Yes well unfortunately for her, we got the money, your parents chose me as the executor, the joke's on them, guys just remember what they wrote down." I said and then saw an added note in the envelope and looked at it.
"Well whatever you guessed at was right on the money, honey, as to why, I just found this. Here's the real will, she made a copy and put it into the envelope along with the letter she put into the briefcase." I told and passed it to her and she smiled with a firm look. "She left me the house and the family Inheritance. In fact that will she gave Tom Wilson is a fake, guys listen to this. Oh my god, well Lou you just shot yourself in the hear here." she said and read it out loud then to the three of us then.
"As the writer of the first will, this will is to state that the first was a test to see how my daughters would respond to it. If they saw the admission for what it was acted accordingly. Or they took advantage of it and ignored the lessons of all the classics I raised them on, classics stemming from Dickens and every other author of the 20th century and now, one year to the day."
"The truth of the will you hold in your hands then is out and I will tell you the truth of what this will really is and was now. This will was a Craine family test of integrity to see if once the writer of the will had passed away, that they'd act civil and be kind to the family living with the writer or start harvesting the entire living quarters for anything that was worth a lot of money."
"Girls this will may seem genuine, but think over why I wrote that. Because the full amount in totals in the inheritance comes to approximately 955.5 duodecllion in all kinds of currency there is my dears, you must think about your actions now. And its because if you don't the counter clause is going to strip all that away from you and you'll be left with a 10% of what you deserve for your behavior. So make your choice and choose wisely my dears."
"As this will is the test results if you're reading it now my dear, than my sole heir has realized that it's a test of integrity and goodwill, remembered the lessons of Dickens and has acted on it accordingly now. All choices chosen will be sealed in stone and passed to Tom Wilson and Jack Parker and once the duration is up, you get this will with your father and my savings bond boxes containing the deed to the family manor and the keys to it."
"Had the heirs passed the test they split the amount down the middle, but had one of the heirs passed it and the other flunked it, the entire family fortune goes to the heir that passed the test, while only a tenth of the amount went to the heir who flunked the test. So if my youngest has found this letter and my necklace and knows her true family history it is time to activate this will."
"As to that I, Rebecca Diane March, née, Vance, hereby leave our family manor and all of my jewelry, my account, and the box of gold and silver in the savings bond box that this will was found in to my rightful heir Eleanor Caroline Vance, my daughter is the owner of Hill House and all properties that are owned by my great, great grandfather Hugh Craine, creator and builder of Hill House."
"My darling Eleanor, our family history I never told you about till now, because it explains the necklace you always saw me with, but everything that happened was predestined. As you are the keeper of the doors, it's your birth rite to prevent Hugh from taking the lives of anymore children, I'm passing my legacy to you now and remember everything I taught you now, my baby girl."
"But there is more to your name than you think baby, back when the house was created Hugh had been collecting children from the mills. And though he loved children he and his wife couldn't have them and it turned him into a possessive maniac till it kills his first wife Renee. And your great, grandmother died as she was fighting him, we were waiting for you to find that necklace."
"Because you were meant to finish what she started and if you've done that, you're the true heir of the house and every property he owned. And you have showed what you remember since you discovered your true lineage and fix our family home to make it a nice place to have children. There's more money from these properties than you'll ever know, because Hugh Craine has the savings bonds and textile modules in his study, buried in a trunk in the house."
"My daughter, there's trillions in gold and silver buried with this money and everything you learned about yourself, if you learned the true history of the house, it's time to return it to its beauty and magestic states again. I hereby leave the house to you, every property owned by Hugh Craine and the money that I was setting aside, in case I didn't survive to tell you this myself."
"If you find your future it's going to be connected to the house and everything I never told you my darling, you're my daughter, my heir and it's time to return you to what rightfully belongs to you. I'm sorry my baby, I was hard on you, because you weren't ready, till now for the burden you face. Our family is one of the powerful and rich families when he created the house, everything that is worth billions is at the family manor, and I'll give you the map to it soon."
"What you showed is the heart of your station that night you met him face to face, it's time to finish the job, if he's still hanging out in the manor it's time to get rid of him forever. The message on the doors was all 'ye who stands before these doors shall be judged.', and you and your friends had been judged innocent and spiritually strong, you showed everything you needed to."
"That's the act of true member of the Craine family, we were philanthropists once Hugh died, we showed compassion and helped people. You showed all that and more and you did exactly what you were supposed to do when you found Grandma's necklace. To destroy the evil you had to get him in front of the doors and let the demons judge him, that door was like the waying of the souls ritual of the Ancient Egyptians, that's what it was meant for."
"When you arrived and were standing in front of the door with your new friends, you were judged and passed the tests and you passed every test that the situation gave you. And this will is the deciding factor and you've inherited the entire family fortune now with what you've gone through Eleanor. You, my dear, are now the maternal heirarchy of the family and the Marrow/Vance clan are the next limb down in the family tree as of today."
"As for you Jane Emily, with the act of marrying Lou out of wedlock and having a child with him, before marrying and you probably removed everything that is worth taking in my apartment all I leave to you is a tenth of what is in the family fortune and the money that you stole from my daughter by selling our apartment and everything that was worth thousands in my property."
"The first will was a test Jane Emily, the will had several key points written into it. 'The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all person property as he shall see fit.' But whether you did was up to you young lady. It was you leave her the apartment and everything in it, or you liquidate the assets and and you lose everything this will concluded to you, and you flunked the test."
"Your sister showed the compassion of doing what a true member of the Craine clan would and she is exactly what an heir to a true dynasty should be and she, though is quiet, has more strength than you ever will. Her husband, if he was involved in her path has his own rights to the truth and he is my legal executor of the properties I'm leaving to your sister. Whoever she married was meant to be involved as is their friends if they all got chosen to cleanse our family home."
"To my favorite son-in-law, if you met my daughter in her self discovering mission and used the knowledge of your expertise. The truth is I chose you, because you're everything she remembers in her father, my husband, Robert. And with that in mind it's time to put it and your bonds to use if she chose to be involved in what job you have, and you can further your studies by this too."
"Though the house is impressive on the inside, there's a few things you probably figured out, but Hugh turned it into a maze and funhouse when he created it. The house has a horror story and haunted house look to it, that you discovered or are discovering now, but the true history lays buried in the walls of it. Every spot that you couldn't see is really a hidden passage if you wound up downstairs for some reason while checking it out last night at the time."
"I'm pleased that she found you and you and your family are hereby the legal owners of every property of the Concord mining industries and Hill House. With this will is buried the map to the layout of the house, my grandmother gave me a way to map it out and now I give it to you and my daughter if you plan to run your studies further in what module you created at the time."
"I was hoping for an exact match in my daughter's case and she found it when she found you, you, if I met you, before I passed. I would have approved automatically, she deserves a chance at happiness and you're it. You're the true marital heir to the properties that I'm leaving to my daughter and with that son, you're the legal executor of the family fortune and house now."
"You and Eleanor are the executors of every family property that is owned by the Craine family my dear, and if Hill House is safe now, work at taking care of it, I leave that property to you along with our entire family fortune. Which comes to forty five billion dollars in textile models and seven hundred million in gold and jewelry, while everything in the stocks and bonds comes to three hundred trillion, my darling Eleanor, it's time to finish what you started."
"The amounts that I gave you, the $150,000,000 when you arrived last night, that's just 1% of a very priceless amount, in fact my insurance plan, this amount and the boxes total $600,000,000,000,000,000 altogether, and that's the very tip of the ice berg. Because the total in the house and on the property, the textile mills, the gold, silver and the jewelry and jewels."
"What you're looking at in totals is the exact same number as the treasure chest in Treasure island, but 500 times that amount. But this amount must be kept secret from your sister now. So she and Louis don't realize they just gouged out their hearts regarding funds now, as to why the amount I just listed to you now, is going to make these amounts look like choke change. You, my dear, are the sole executor of the family estate as to that now."
"When compiled to everything I set aside for you, the amount of this, my insurance plan and the amount I listed below this remark. You're looking at 500 times the amount that the Addams family clan had on their house, as you guessed right Luke, it's comparable to those Addams family mansion. As to that, my wish is when you set this up for your own children."
"Do this as I do it and did it for you, the amount above, in your insurance plan and setting aside the suitcase are just a very tiny amount, when compared to the entire total. As to why, this is a game and it's like wheel of Fortune. Every generation, because you're standing on a gold mine that makes Fort Knox and the federal reserves look like a walk in the park for tourists. The official amount that I leave to you with this letter you're reading now, and the house comes to a total of 955.5 Trudecillion in every currency you can think of my dears."
"Eleanor, you became me and my great grandmother by taking on the mantle my dear and with that, if he escapes whatever purgatory or hell you put him in, it's time to finish the job and destroy his soul forever. Whatever clues you gathered when visiting the house, you're correct, it happened in exactly the way you described it to your friends and husband at the time my dear."
"If you're reading this before your powers reached full strength, than I haven't told you that truth yet, so wait till you do, before you dig further. As to how I know that and why I'm saying this baby, my mother, your grandmother, told me the entire story my baby girl. And at the current moment you're not ready yet so until you can see me and I tell you this truth just hang in there."
"But if you're reading this at the manor it's been exactly the two month waiting period regarding the will, but if you never read the will she tried to pass you, and I was in the room for that, I heard the entire conversation. Than you know without needing to see it that will is a fake, you guessed right, you're in your testing period and you're doing wonderfully right now in this."
"But the parts on that in how you had to drop out of college, before your junior year, when I was a few years younger than I am now when you're reading this, me as you remember me at the time at the time back then. They're the pieces I never had the chance to tell you, but what I will tell you is this, though he may have seemed the type you're thinking, Luke has it correct, but it gets darker."
"Our family is descended from the Craine family and your great grandmother was the initial on the necklace you found, everything she is was duplicated into you, I was really preparing you to face off against him. He's haunted the house for years, if you finished what I started, it's time to return home again and you'll find the family fortune in the lower levels of the house and in the study he had with anything else you found in there."
"If you go to my lawyer you'll learn certain details here, but everything that you found out that week was supposed to play out the way it should and you and your husband connected during that trip as well. I approve of your mate if he's who I was really hoping you'd choose my darling, if your mate is David James, than you found who I was hoping you'd choose baby. I was really preparing you for what you found in your life and if you found it than, I know you're happy."
"David take care of my daughter and make her happy, you can start over and your friends can live close to each other, because this was also meant to help her find true happiness since her father passed. If you and the duo or quartet, or even sextet, have finished what I set out to do for her than you've fulfilled my wishes for her, what amount is with Wilson they too get a piece of it."
"With this being the rest of your recovery it's time to finish it and go back. With him stuck in the doors, just see this return visit and trip as a chance to enjoy yourselves baby. You have the money to do repair work and enjoy a weekend at the house. So just enjoy yourselves for now." she read out and smiled as she looked at us as she said it. "That sums it up, she and Rob chose in advance who to give the entire inheritance and this is beyond ridiclous in amounts as well too."
"This one is the will she gave us, before she gives us the real one, but this holds everything regarding our trip here honey." she said and I nodded to that. "David James, she knows who I am and with that if I'm the chosen marital heir, I'm taking custody of the situation now, before things get out of hand. Though with my being your future husband, best to just work this to our advantage if the information gets worse."
"Nice though, we know the contents of the wills, before the test ends and we get the good on the Websters. Thanks mom, dad." I said smiling and the salt and pepper shakers started up as they jumped off the table three times to answer to the new titles I just gave them and she chuckled at that as she looked at me. "Well if you're my future, Lou just pisssed off the wrong man, I have legal rights to my patients at work."
"And secondly you and I are engaged and I'm the legal marital heir to the house now and the entire family fortune now. The amount mom left you is enough to pay for legal fees, getting a new apartment big enough for us and one that has a better set up, and if there's trouble this week, the amount for damages, in your case guys, I can write down along with whatever the medical bills are." I said and she nodded to me smiling.
"Oh and get this as well, what I told you this morning I had it right regarding the counter clause as well." she said and we smiled as she read that out to us. "If one of my heirs passed the test, they were to continue the family traditions of helping people and continue making the family names as they were, a revered and renowned family name and they gained everything the names gave them: that includes everything in my insurance plans for said sole heir who passed the test, the amounts in both savings bond boxes and everything together in amounts that are owned by my husband and I have, together, in finances."
"But if one heir had passed the test and the other flunked it and had one of my heirs only saw the previous will as a way to further their greed, and started helping their mate destroy the lives of everyone of the lower bracket, and liquidated everything I left to the heir who passed it, than this will initiates a new test to that heir and it's that it switches the roles that the heirs had."
"While the heir that passed the test that the first will gave, she gets everything and has the rights to reverse the situation completely that put the said heir in the condition and had the life, before she met her mate and whatever friends she made, as she's now allowed and is activating a new integrity test and this admission is turned on the heir that took everything that the first will initiated."
"My heirs, the amount you're forfeiting, if you start trying to sabotage each other is a figure in the octuplillions to decillions. This amount is in gold, silver jewelry, jewels and gold bars and all of that's stored in the house, and the trillions with jewelry, gold, silver and billions more in the savings boxes that belong to your father and me ladies, and marital heirs."
"You come from a very high birthright, but now you must exercise it carefully anf with those words in mind. As to that, you, if you take advantage of the clause in the first will, lose everything but a 10th of the amount you deserve, and while you're sister gets everything else, you lose everything but 10% of the amount listed above, so keep that in mind now ladies."
"Regarding that admission and as of now the legal and marital heirs to the family names have the right to liquidate any and all personal property of the heir as he shall see fit till their testing time is completed. Chosen before hand, both sole heir and marital heir, if she found him, right after she got the notations of that first will, and they're spending a week in our family manor with the rest of their group."
"And with those words, I suggest you think wisely here, because if you don't and take advantage of that clause, your fate is signed and sealed and everything goes to the chosen heir, her mate and the following connected to her. Before you start fighting with me over this, it's too late, this will is signed and sealed in Jack's vault and my dear Eleanor, if you're reading this now you found the copy in the suitcase, to pay for damages and anything regarding things the week you're staying there."
"My legal and marital heirs in the letter and will are Eleanor Caroline Vance and David James Marrow. My chosen and handpicked members that were to be her new life long friends and future husband, the chosen quintet for the ownership of the manor. I hereby leave everything to my daughter, her husband and their friends. As they passed the tests the first will set they are now my new legal executors of the family fortune and properties and have the right to make decisions."
"My son-in-law, David James as the family executor you have the right to make decisions to the entire family fortune, and had you also decided on this decision than I hereby give you permission to do so my dear. You are the exact match to my daughter, and this decision was a new form of therapy and learning experience for my disappointment in my oldest heir and her husband."
"As to that, if you've chosen the same as I have here where the next integrity test is concerned now than activate it, you remember the key words of the first will, use that as your case study and do what should be done. Jane Emily and Louis are to have the exact same treatment they've treated my daughter with, so with that activate this portion of the will now along with the added piece."
"Because had they focused on what the first will said in what was admissible to them, they wouldn't be facing my wrath now, though I'm gone now. This was the secret nobody but my friends and loved ones knew. But here's the catch, that first will was really a test as David and Jack told you, but what it leads to is for the heir who flunked, if they took advantage of the fact that the bearer was dead and everything the fake will said in it, is that it leads to a new form of restriction and probation from beyond the grave."
"My disappointment in the heir who flunked my test is that my decision is they're now suffering a new form of punishment for their treatment of the heir who passed it. As you're the executor you get to exact the punishment on them and it's that it's now a total role reversal, think of this as that Dan Akroyd movie in which they switched places for a few months."
"Well this is going to be just like that, but you're going to have it directed from Concord, and everyone who was in league with us is getting involved in it. Sweetheart as the executor treat this in the same way here that they did, no matter the argument the decision stays the same. It's time for them to take a dose of their own medicine, if they took everything away from my baby."
"Sweethearts if you've gotten and spoken to Judge Hawthorne than he's already agreed to activate this will and it's to be probated a month to six weeks before you choose to return to Concord' the keys and everything belongs to the March/Craine/Vance family is in the boxes that we left for you baby."she read out and we exchange looks of shock at the News then.
"She's leaving everything to us, she barely knows the duo and the doctor, let alone us!" Theo said and the salt shaker jumped off the table twice. "Mom that you?" Eleanor asked and it jumped once." Okay, so how do you know the quintet?" she asked and it jumped in series of taps and she smiled. " Well, did your parents mention a Rebecca March by any chance guys?" she asked and they both nodded. " Yeah my parents were good friends with her." Theo said and she nodded smiling as she answered her.
"Than its we'd been had Theo, I was supposed to find you this week, and you're the first to arrive and we spent the next hour checking the place out yesterday. The title aunt in your case was maternal friend, I'm your surrogate sister, but cousins, no, and you're my best friends as well. As to that, whatever happens this week just resulted in you becoming my permanent quintet now." she said and they smiled at that.
"Well that certainly explains why we've grown this close in twenty four hours here, life long friends and I think she's playing matchmaker for us as well if we're like this around each other." he said to Theo and she chuckled at that. "Well it's going to be a long night if they keep this up at the moment." Eleanor said to him and the bottle started moving off the table and I looked at it with a bemused look as I said to my invisible thief.
"Alright you wiseacres, you're too young to be drinking, put that back right now, or you're grounded for the rest of this week." I said to whoever grabbed the bottle then. "I think these kids are keeping us company if their older brothers and sisters are the next group on the list, though they are and they're going to be waiting till next Halloween, before things change direction as their next after I deal with this." she said to me. "Yeah you're probably right Eleanor." I said and she sighed as she finished her remark.
"There's got to be set of records regarding who they are, I just wish I knew where, because we keep this up and the book is getting 50% thrown in there." she added and I nodded to that in agreement then. "Well if this is your house it's got to be hidden and she said that only a Craine can find it and the other hidden spots have to be what we haven't seen yet. Since we mostly stationed ourselves in the game room and our sitting room, as well as the library." Luke said to her and she nodded to that, smiling.
"Good point, but no telephone and no tv, we get to enjoy each other's company and at the moment I'm not on a dead line til tomorrow later, we just get a night off to relax as things take a break." she said to him and he nodded to that in agreement. "Wait a second here I'm in the red room, she's in the burgundy, so where you guys end up?" she asked and he smiled. "Blue." he said and I answered that. " I got green." I told her.
"Well that just shifted position and that's a relief, because if this book is beginning to play itself out now, the painting replaced the wall, pounding on the walls, things falling over on their own, doors and Windows opening and closing on their own. And inanimate objects have suddenly developed a mind of their own, so what's next exactly tonight if this keeps up?" she said and Theo nodded as she got it.
"He tries to separate us by having a dog break into the house next, but to name it off by the occurrences in the book: the place is a maze, strange noises, things moving on their own, doors and windows closing or opening on their own, the painting replaced the wall. And it's not my clothes that get destroyed, but the canvas on that painting and it's covered in red paint or human blood. And if this keeps up the next one is the dog, before they, or he, whoever he is, is going to start screwing with your head next."
"Though if your ability activates by tomorrow night it means we got trouble by Friday. So today's the 28th, we got three days and with that the house she going to get slightly jumpy by that point." she said to her and she chuckled. "So what do we got tonight exactly guys?" Luke asked and she smiled as I answered him.
"With the fact we got several boxes of poker chips, why not play poker tonight guys, we can just gather what it is we want to snack on then and bring it into the game room, tonight is our night off. So before the real trouble gets started we can enjoy some peace and quiet tonight, though our sextet up is incomplete it's just us right now." I told him and he nodded as we settled into discussing the what went on that day as we ate.
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