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 day after and his latest notes, before the trouble starts the next night when they barely survive the attack, before they return to the house a second time and things change directions from there.
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 now.
Chapter 15: Surprises, Parapsychology and Legends Unraveled
"What's going on out there you guys?" I called out and I heard Jason answer that with a chuckle. "Like Sarah, Eddie is testing her just a little too much right now Uncle Dave." he said and then we heard a warning shout. "Eddie so help me, you pull anymore pranks on me and I'm blowing you into the couch next and I mean that." Jamie snapped and Theo and Eleanor started laughing at that and I nodded as we looked at each other.
"She always like this?" Owen asked with an amused smile on his face and we nodded to him. "She's a taurus, they all are, but she's the type of taurus that once you test her temper, and light the flame, you better get out of the way. Or she's going to blow you right into the couch or, if we're at the pool right into the deep end of the swimming pool." Eleanor said and our doubles started laughing at that remark gently at that.
"Though mom was Malcolm's team partner in the job, we were close friends and we all played bridge or candy poker at my apartment every weekend. So I got the chance to see the triplets grow up, I guess you could say that to Dana. It's I was her step sister and to the triplets, I'm really their aunt, so I know everything about them." she said and the seven nodded as Dana gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around her.
"In many ways you really are my sister, and to me, it's mess with my family and I will destroy your's well the threat became true after what they did to you last year." Dana said and Malcolm nodded in agreement. "Adopted family in a lot of ways, to us, you were our family, but I hated Webster. And from the second I laid eyes on him and Jane cuts no dice with me." he added sternly and she nodded in agreement as he went further.
"So you claimed her as family after getting the truth from Dr. Craine?" Catherine asked amd they nodded. "After we saw Webster face to face finallly, and she told me the added information regarding this that day, we decided. Now, that he was out and we were the extended family, but they were screwed, because we heard and saw the tapes. That Becky set up for us, that's including me as well, but he knew he was screwed now."
"But this is like the play Annie, a couple con artists are trying to use her in a get rich quick scheme that gets found out by the girls best friends and surrogate sisters. And turns it into the possible adopted family and relatives and the said relatives. They are ready to skewer them for it, because they almost killed her, well that was us now. I took the position of her stepsister, adopted stepsister, and Becky accepted that immediately."
"To me, she was my sister and she watched the triplets grow into who they were, Becky acted like their grandmother, but we stuck to our own kind. And those two were never going to get away with this, so we were willing to go to bat. And directly to courts, just to get an extension on the apartment, before she called us up on the project. And that did it, as it unlocked the door as Becky told me what she had in mind for this now."
"And we went with her idea, as the car was to set up for murder and Jack told us to kill the car if it was rigged to kill on impact with the fence. Which turned out to be pretty accurate at the time, because not only did that kill the car. But there was gas leaking out the ignition, and one spark and it was going to turn into an inferno." Dana said and Malcolm finished that remark firmly as he crossed his arms at that remark.
Before he could say it I heard my mother in law answer that. "She's right, from the entire two years, before I passed, which was two months. Just before the movie started, Dana and Malcolm were acting as extended family. And to me it was like I had three daughters, two were just like me, and the third. She was on a get rich quick scheme, that Dana asked me if she could take over now."
"Dana's mother is my best friend in Boston, so she named her godmother, when she and Eric were on business in Europe. Say like Dave Seville in The Chipmunk Adventure, her father was an executive. I brought the girls with me here and I had them in the bedrooms that Beth gave to her and Theodora at the time. But after 20 years, she saw me as her mother and decided if Ellie needed help."
"And I said yes, then she and Malcolm made the decision that if they did try to take the apartment Eleanor could stay with them. Until she found a new apartment, but that just cut corners that dau as David decided on runnng the experiment here now. And I realized this was my chance to fix things as I created the form and told Malcolm what I had in mind that day in my office."
"So though a ghost, he knew it was me, but had to make sure as he said my name, as I gave David a copy of the photograph, this one." she said and gave her a copy of the one and Malcolm looked at it at that. And saw them and Becky together and he smiled at the image gently. "To them, I never used my real name but my nickname and they both knew this, so mom giving him that picture that was taken two years ago."
"That did it as he got what she really meant, but my signature on my study papers was Nell Craine-Vance. To everyone that didn't connect the two together thought it was one or the other till mom left that picture to them and that did it as he contacted me. And Mary and the quartet and I had a fast discussion over the phone as he confirmed what mom told him." Eleanor said and he finished that with a gentle smile at the remark then.
"Knowing that my adopted sister in law was the Eleanor Vance that he meant that did it for me, as we went over this, but her friends were all part of my team. And with her mother gone, I decided if she was rigging the test, this gave her the money. And to finish college and get into the team as the three of us and the quartet were back together. So though a member of our team, our family, was gone we were still together at the time."
"Though at the rate this is going it's easier as we had them follow us here, before meeting us at the hospital. So never gone as long as we remember everything she taught us or the good memories especially the triplets they love her like a grandmother. To her it didn't matter, she was sticking around as long as we needed her. Issues in temperament you better watch out guys, because though her mother is bad, Jamie's worse."
"Her brothers knew never to test her temper, but Tony is just like Andy in temperament, but we all knew this. And they took our advice on this, that till we get back next spring semester, to cool things down, and Jake said the same thing. So they took our advice till she saw him again, and they're either calling each other. Or writing letters to each other, but she's surrounded by her new friends here." Malcolm said and the sextet nodded.
As Theo smiled at that remark gently. "Hey Jamie, come here." she called out and she walked in and looked around. "Whoa, Craine must have spent a fortune building this house, but this looks like the Titanic, in house form." she said and we chuckled. "Pretty close baby, so how did Anthony take it when you told him this. That you were spending the rest of this semester and all of next with us?" I asked and she smiled at me then.
"He's fine with it, dad's letting me use his cell phone and we can call each other when we want to, but he promised, he's trying as hard as he can to hold on to me. And with him, me, but the girls and I discussed it, we all agree this is for the best. And as is writing as much as possible, so Sarah gave me some advice and I brought my camera. So he knows that though ghosts, they're friends, my gang." she said and we nodded smiling to that.
"Sound familiar girls?" Theo asked and Mary, Dana and Eleanor nodded in agreement. "Issues in our gang, the one person just ticked off the family member everybody loves in this case, and we get overly protective of said member as a result." Mary said and we nodded in agreement. "Too late, if I wasn't sure before I am now, but you're my daughter as an adult Nell." Malcolm said in response to that with a chuckle and we nodded.
"If I wasn't sure before I am now, she and the girls are going to be acting like this all summer. As she and Sarah are like two peas in a pod, and Jason and Derek, if anything are just like Dylan and Jake. So we keep this up and once they start going at it, I get the feeling that the boys are going to be just as afraid of her as they are of Sarah." Dana said and the trio nodded smiling as Jamie went to rejoin her brothers in the hallway.
"Well there's our baby firebird, but we don't need these guys over doing it right now." Theo said and Luke nodded, "Yeah and you guys let me have it after the amount of joking around we were doing before Dave told us the legend on the house that night. Then again, he keeps this up and after the scene after she recovered enough to knock him into the wall." he said and Eleanor looked out the door at that remark at the group.
And as she said it with a bemused tone at that as she said it to them. "Eddie you better knock it off and before we have a repeater here and of you. In getting thrown across the room as a billiard ball, last year was more then enough. We don't need you going at it right now, and where are you in the show exactly." she said and I knew he nodded as he answered her, before he could though, I heard the voice of the original red ranger at that.
"It's the second movie, she contacted us from Miami and instead of my character being with her, she's coming back finally. But the team was divided, if our parents were alive, though if they were. They'd be like you in where this is concerned, as like Jamie and Tony. It's the same for Andy and Sarah at the current moment." Robbie said and we nodded to the news as we exchanged looks.
"Oh wait till your parents, if you were the team, find out that Jenny and Eddie's characters are the reason for how close the town was nearly pulverized. And it's because you took sides when they told you to stay out of it right now, not our love life we stay out of it right now. Then again, with you being pack animals I'm not surprised, but that's no excuse right now." Jamie said sternly and Sarah and Andy nodded in agreement.
"That's why I blasted him across the library last year Jamie, before Andy did it for a second time at the time last year." Sarah told her and she nodded. "Well the wise guy get this under control, hey Billy, I take you the second she told you. You took both sides immediately that week?" she asked and I heard David Yost's voice at that. "Yeah I did, Robbie, Sarah and I grew up a trio all our childhood at the time."
"What mattered most to me right now was never losing her at the time, though at the moment Eddie's girlfriend broke up with him. And he and Jenny took it out on Sarah as a result, but we just hit the letter in his case. Sarah and Andy fixed things between them, I chose to support their decision all the way. And as did Robbie, the girls, Jake and Dylan." Billy told us and we nodded to the news.
"Well someone's going to get it as the youngest of your version of the team is Joey." Jamie said to him and I hid a chuckle, but just as I was answering her. That we heard a Van Halen song start up in the hallway. "Well I know that one, that was the finale of the movie, when the sextet embraced their new partnership and lives together as a team." Luke said and Jamie nodded as Jason looked around the door jamb at that smiling.
"We brought our stereo, so we can listen to the radio while we're doing our homework Uncle Dave, Uncle Luke, but that explains this one. We all thought this, right now, we like the Ninjetti until Amy's replacement took over, and it switched tv shows now. But frankly right now, we enjoyed the love story in the show all that time, to the point. That this song was part of it right now, but we were 8 when the shows switched from to the next."
"And we stopped watching once the storyline hit the letter, we prefer the fanfiction setting to this, but honestly we like the Ninjetti over the Zeo rangers. It's like the second that they lose their powers and they forget everything that comes with it. Our friends all said the same thing they were disgusted that they decided to destroy Kim's reputation. When on the show like this at the time, that's why we prefer the first three seasons."
"We all love this song, and it made a perfect point right now, but we loved the movie, and we decided to go as the trio, as ninjas for Halloween last year." he said and we nodded with a chuckle. "Well get that jealousy under control before Jamie blasts you next." Dana said with a bemused tone and we nodded in agreement. "Sure thing and I was kidding right now, Jamie, calm down, we had enough pranks for a week."
"And after the quartet were here at the time right now in this case, to me we don't need it going overboard. But we have a couple of surprises for you guys, so give us a couple minutes, if Sarah and Andy did your parents. Well give the ten of us a couple minutes, okay." Eddie said and she nodded as she answered him. "Alright, but that's enough of the pranks." she said and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Walter Jones, well if they are borrowing the actors voices, I get the feeling we're hearing Ashley Campbell, Steve Cardenas and Johnny Bosch next guys. As that's the Ninjetti formation, followed Nakia, Catherine and Thuy next, let alone Austin and Justin, if our youngest is just like him, though he is and we got a problem." Luke said and we nodded in agreement as Theo said it for all of us at that remark gently at that remark.
"Hey guys, if you're doing that and the robes, just make it clear, we know what you're going to look like if you didn't care here. That that you had long hair in the case of the men at times, then again this was the civil war era and in that era we had more male dominated ways." She said and I nodded to that. "Man, if this house was made in the civil war, it looks close to Victorian era." Catherine said and I nodded to that remark.
"You had the time frame right actually it's the Victorian era, back then this was before King Edwards was in charge in London. So back then, the houses were more eloquent, and the bathrooms a lot bigger, but the rooms we had were his and hers, and we were sharing the bathroom between us." Eleanor said and the girls nodded as Theo finished that with a smile on her face as she looked at it then and I nodded in agreement.
"Good thing they put a bench in the bathroom, so we had a way to look into your bedroom, but it's always the big mistake. And it was going on 10:30 when he fell asleep on the job that night, as the house went berserk for three hours, before we fell asleep around 2;30. And were asleep till the Dudleys got in around 7;30 that morning, so all in all, we got around 5 hours of rest that night." I said and the sextet nodded to that.
As we looked around the bathroom then. "Anyone want to consider that instead of putting normal showers or bathtubs into these bathrooms. That they decided to separate them in the way that they do the master bathroom in a normal house?" Todd asked and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts then. "Yeah I know and I noticed that, but then someone wants a nice sized bathtub, they turned it into spa or jacuzzi right now."
"Catch 22, Victorian era bathtubs for rich aristocrats." Theo said and the girls nodded as we looked around the bathroom."If this the honeymoon suite right now, we can actually turn the house into a very modern day house. Into a luxurious bed and breakfast at the current moment here right now, there are a lot of perks to this house. The only downside is that it's haunted." Eleanor said and the six of us nodded in agreement to that remark.
And Beth chuckled to that remark as I answered that with a smile to that remark gently. "No kidding right now, and for the record, we know our way around the house after our last visit here honey, guys. So guys, ladies, pretend the house is like the college in England, you know where everything is, but rule 1) never turn your back on the statues and 2) whatever is lying around expect it to start moving around on it's own."
"And you find it in a place you never left it." I said and the sextet and Malcolm's doubles all nodded to the advice as we exchanged looks at this situation now. "I'd consider things like they were here at the house last year, that first night to get out of hand right now." Todd said and I nodded. "We keep talking like this and it will right now Todd, so again just relax right now." Eleanor said and he nodded in agreement to that gently.
"Or the next thing we hear is a..." Theo started to say and I heard a loud clang at that from downstairs. "The sound of a cooking utensil getting thrown across the room when nobody got a hold of it." Luke finished and I nodded. "I think that was the ultra sized cook pot they used at restaurants and whoever just did that threw it against the wall. So again, just relax, or these jump scares will keep up." Eleanor said and he nodded to her.
As he wrapped his arm around her back protectively at that. "Watch out for the understated practical jokes right now guys, but the parts left out of the movie. Say, like a bunch of dummies ending up in surprising spots, be on the lookout right now." I added and they nodded as Owen said it for the trio. "Anyone want to chance whatever happened here at the house to happen again?" Owen asked and I nodded to him gently.
"Yeah but everything Luke mentioned when he debriefed you was the result, after the painting..." I started to say to him then and heard a startled scream and turned around at that. "And there it is, that's exactly what I mean by finding ventriloquist dummies in surprising places and with that in mind right now." I said and Liam nodded as he said it for me as we both turned at that as I looked into my bathroom at that to check.
"What now, ladies?" Liam said for me and I heard Theo call out to us at that. "Dave I found another one in the bathtub and this one does like Slappy." she called out and I nodded and went to look. "I really hope this one didn't vandalize anything else right now, or he's ending up in the fireplace for it right now." Luke said under his breath to that. "You want to chance that happening again." I asked softly and he shook his head to that.
"Once was enough Luke, she's still recovering from that shock last year, but what she doesn't need right now is you putting yourself into a case of reckless endangerment. And because you were aggravating him for a second time, so don't over do it. Don't push it after you ticked him off last year." I said as I answered her at the call out as I said it to her at that. "Which version is it Theo, tv or book?" I asked and and she chuckled to that.
"It's the book, he's identical to his illustration in the stories, I know we had a Jacuzzi for a bathtub. But he's treating it like a miniature swimming pool with him this size." Mary said for the three of them and I nodded as I looked in the bathtub. And to see him dressed in a miniature set of swimming trunks and I nodded to this. And as Todd and Luke also came into the room to check, before we exchanged looks.
"Well this is what's considered going too far in the playful pranks and not like the practical jokes we had the following night." I said and they nodded, as she answered me at that. "Yeah first the champagne and wine bottles, the acorns and now this, so what's next right now at the current moment?" Luke asked and the girls nodded to him. "I don't know, but the jokester had better lay off the pranks and practical jokes right now."
"Or someone is going to get it." Theo said and I nodded in agreement smiling as she answered that remark. "Anyone want to consider this is like the noises and my call out to Eddie to stop with the noises, as they weren't funny anymore?" Eleanor added and we nodded. "Last trip here wasn't funny, but this is great." I said and with a chuckle. "Yeah, but first them possessing the pool table and now this, come on, right now guys."
"I know they're trying to lighten up the mood our first night here that night. But now we just got one jolt too many and now it turns to practical jokes like this." Todd said with a chuckle to that and Mary and I nodded in agreement to that remark. "After the amount of times those dummies were framing each other last time I'd call this going over board. And this time I hadn't made dinner at the current moment but come on right now."
"But is this really necessary right now at the current moment." I heard Beth say as she walked into the bathroom and I nodded as Eleanor said it then. "No kidding right now, but this is where pranks and practical jokes crossed the line." she said and I nodded in agreement to that remark. "I wouldn't see this as scary, but funny right now, but this is what I call funny pranks, we know none of us did this at the moment."
"Hey guys were you the ones doing this one?" I asked looking over my shoulder as Sarah and Andy walked into the bathroom and looked into the tub. And they nodded to me, as she answered that one. "Yeah Doctor, it was us this time." she said and I nodded with a bemused smile as I tried to control my voice at this right now as I said to that. "How many days did it take for him to go full out, as the noises didn't get rid of you."
"And neither did Mary's injury, and neither did the practical jokes like this, if he went full out that night David?" Liam asked as he crossed his arms and I explained that. "It took 3 days, but she was investigating things the entire time as a result here now. But it wasn't till her power went completely active that the story started coming out. And it went berserk after that." Luke told him for me and the sextet nodded as Theo looked at me.
"Well with the memory coming out right now, let's get this under control shall we?" I said and the duo nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah, isolation maybe essential, but we got a lot to gather to get this together right now." Luke said and I nodded in agreement. "I never considered the pit to be where he burned the bodies." I said and they nodded. "I was thinking that might be where he did it, until I checked it out, before the nursery."
"And one of 3 skeletons I dug up was an adult, if Renee hung herself, he got her down and burned the body in the pit. Before, after the twins left and the kids, Caroline found the remains in the fireplace and then, realizing his secret was out. He killed her next and burned the body, sound familiar guys?" Eleanor asked and we nodded. "Freddy Krueger, he killed them and then burned the bodies." Beth said for all of us at that news sternly.
"Maybe, but trying to figure out what put her into shock was hard that as we worked on it." Luke said and Theo answered that firmly to us. "Like you said, this was a case of funny pranks right now, but no vandalism." Theo told me and I nodded. "And then comes the fact, there's nothing to indicate vandalism right now, then again. And it's last time we were here and this happened, and with the damn knife, as well as the paint."
"That was enough to make her nervous, afraid she was going to find one of these guys, in the bed with her, or next to it and with a knife in his hand at the time that night. She told me this after she was in my room with me before we went to bed that night." I said and Luke and Theo nodded to me. "Well that explains why she was a little shaken up when she arrived at my room that night, but she said she saw blood, footprints."
"As they were walking up the floor to the bed and the window was open for the second time in two nights, after our meeting in the kitchen. After the duo left the night before, but this time the trail was leading out the door, to the hall. She said she found blood or paint leading up to the bookshelf where Luke found the files." she said and I nodded as I answered her gently as we put our clothes into the dresser then at that.
And checking the closet and nodded as I put my worksuit away right then. "One dummy stabs another, and is bleeding so heavily it's leaving bloody footprints. That are on the rug and all over the floor, till she sees they stop at the bookshelf." I said and they nodded in agreement. "Well that explains the bloody footprints all over the floor right now." Luke said and I nodded as she and I exchanged looks at that firmly as she said it for me.
"Bloody footprints, one of these guys holding a knife and with blood all over the table, and it leading to the shelf..., wait a minute. I don't believe it, why didn't I see it before here, yeah alright, the footprints lead me to the bookshelf. And the album lead me to the fireplace, before Caroline lead me to the nursery next. And then I got it, she is what I look like as an adult." Eleanor said and I nodded as she said it for both of us at that.
"Looks like the dummies were going on charades." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah that's my thought as well here, the kids and Caroline were possessing the dummies to get you to realize it right now. That the one with the knife was Craine and there was blood all over the table, so with that in mind it's simple here. But the bloody footprints were possibly Andy, as he stabbed him, fatal wound here."
"As he lead you to the bookcase and the trap door, before you found the book and Caroline lead you right to the fireplace and the pit we checked the day before now. Caroline and the kids were doing this in a case of charades to get you to realize it, and before your power went to full." I said and she nodded. "Well what I didn't need to hear is your notes, before my powers went completely active that night, but it hit me."
"Around 2:30, that's when my ability went to over drive, but this was too much as the shock of what I realized hit me after he possessed the door at the time here. But like I said, though I was in shock, I was still thinking straight enough. That I knew where you guys were, so don't come looking for me, stay put and I'll come to you guys. As the blow to my abdomen was the clincher, and I was in shock from what I figured out."
"But that's the reason he was trying to scare me out of the house guys, Theo, before I realized it here, as he knew the second that I did. That I realized this and the second I decoded the message on the door that he was dead, he had to get me out now. Before I realized, that, like Arquette's friend from dream master, I was the positive gate keeper. The poem, 'Now I lay me down to sleep, the master of dreams my soul to keep.'."
"In the reflection of my mind's eye, evil will see itself, and it shall die.'." she said and we nodded. "He wants you: out of the house, before you realized this, and us with you." Luke said sharply and I nodded. "Bingo, that's the shocker, my power went active, I was now the girls in the movie protecting you guys. But you knew exactly what do to, and you were right it's no good talking about it when you're trying to help me stay calm."
"We didn't need a panic attack, but the story took a more serious turn and I knew it then, as you realized we had to pull the plug. But with Todd having the only key out of the house of the house, we were stuck til my godmother and uncle got back. But right now, we had to take a break and stick together and until they get back. But what neither of us: Theo, Dave and I needed was you continuing to point the finger at him."
"And it was because I was in shock of what I knew, but to get on with this and Dave was beginning to hear my parents through me, and we had three level connection. But this was something we were both considering as we discussed this the night before. And after we separated that night, but only he knew this as we discussed it that night. That's why he shouted that out to me that night, he knew what I was doing right then."
"But he knew, mom very nearly being fatal, and he knew that if he didn't get my heart pumping again and he was going to lose me." she said and the duo nodded, and I crossed my arms at that. "Well we got five to six months, before we have to do this again right now, but one thing is for sure right now in this case. And it's you're just like your mother, you never want anyone to tick you off right now at this point."
"But this is one area where your abilities match your mother right now." I said and she nodded in agreement to that remark. "But we knew there was more to this then we knew though at the time that night. As you were continuing on the academic bait and switch situation the team was split in half. And this is what we considered that night, he and I were discussing things and we decided to double check the legend of Hill House.
"That's why he put that into his notes on my record, remains unclear, as we tried to figure out who the culprit was that did this. And even then there were more the secrets hidden in the walls of this out house now. But we found the culprit with the knife, you disarmed him, just before he grabbed a carving knife. And stabbed his partner in the chest, Luke, but that's what they were simulating that night after the painting."
"Charades in the case of ventriloquist dummies and when we're together and have the Dudleys and Uncle Jack with us. But we find red paint all over the table and I catch sight of the culprit and you disarm him. But I would say that the other dummies are representing the kids and the one with the knife is the killer. Before someone, possibly another adult attacked him." she said and I nodded in agreement as I said it to her.
"And while the other went to blunt forced trauma by hitting him repeatedly with the frying pan." I said and they nodded. "Yep, and this means it went clear, he stabbed them repeatedly, before chopping up their bodies." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Well this is the rumor they gave on Robin Williams character, he killed him, chopped him up and burned the remains." Theo said and I nodded in agreement.
"Was that really necessary though that they were trying to beat the crap out of each other though?" Luke asked and the girls started laughing at that. "Well you headed off the latest attack as he trying to get up to the duo who were hanging from the chandelier that night. Before you disarmed him, but then we hear the next one in the kitchen as his tv double beat the crap out of him, before throwing him into the boxes in the corner."
"But come on is that really necessary in making movies." Beth said through her's and we nodded. "Anyone want to chance that happening again right now?" I asked and they nodded. "They keep it up like this and we might right now, but if this is turning into a cross between all three books. And the kids get blamed, I'm not taking it well, the triplets know this house belongs to you." Dana said and we nodded in agreement to that
As I answered her at the remark then. "Well we have to check into this, before we do anything, but leading into the night of All Hallows Eve. And we have to make sure we have everything and make sure she's not alone here." Malcolm said and I nodded. "And whatever you do, don't tick him off." I said and they nodded in agreement. "What about the quartet, since you started working at the hospital at the time now, Nell."
"It's you got two versions of the very same group of friends, same personalities?" Luke asked and she smiled and I hid a chuckle to that as she answered him. "Yeah and it's because nothing changed, you guys were with me, and this time, you're both here for this. So if you and Theo, let alone Mary and Todd aren't with me, I got them keeping me company as we investigate." she said and Malcolm and Dana nodded in agreement.
"Someone want to get this under control and before you scare us into a real heart attack next?" Dana asked to that and she nodded. "Tell me about it, the ending left both of us traumatized by the end of it, but two members of our team were dead. And we were also grieving as she was our best friend, if she survived, we were a trio now." Catherine said and we nodded in agreement as Eleanor took my hand and Theo moved to us at that.
"You should have seen Becky once she's like this, once she gets started she never stops." Beth said leaning against the door and Malcolm tried to keep from laughing at that. "Don't chance that happening twice, but for a parapsychologist, this is heaven to them." Malcolm said and I nodded as we exchanged looks at this situation. "Hitting him with the frying pan?" Catherine repeated and we nodded as we tried to keep from laughing.
"Yeah these guys were doing a top billing motif and one of them took it to the chest while the other attack was in the kitchen. And Jack went to check and found the next had trashed the kitchen, his: Slappy's tv double had a frying pan in his hand and hit him repeatedly in the head, before throwing him into a stack of boxes." Beth said and the sextet nodded bemused as I looked at our young house-mates with a gentle look then.
"Well that leaves Andy and how he died though, what happened exactly?" Mary asked and I nodded. "That's the piece we got to crack, if he didn't want to let the kids grow up, then he was trying to keep them as children. But at 12 to 14, you're not thinking like a child anymore, but a young adult, who in the civil war had to think about things. Getting a trade, providing for the family, courtship and getting married at that age now."
"Son you said that your father never wanted you to grow up, did I guess right, you were on the edge of choosing who you wanted to marry?" Rick asked as he walked into the room and Andy nodded to him. "No he didn't Rick, but I was old enough in your way I could be out till 10:30 at night and I was dating Sarah, but for him. It's I grew up and got married and he'd lose me as I joined the twins in Boston."
"To keep the three of us together, as Robbie, and the rest gang, joined us there and we set things up for you. And as I loved your grandmother like a sister in my eyes at the time, Fred's first born in your side of the family. As a result this is a case of lose his last and youngest son, and soon enough. There are no children left in the house." he said and we nodded as I said it for the four of us.
"If you had the chance to meet Fred's wife, to you she was like a sister, and you loved her and Alicia?" Eleanor asked and he nodded. "What about Annie, you ever get the chance to see her, before Becky took her place?" Beth asked and he nodded. "Yes I did, but Fred, though my big brother, I was playing favorites. In our descendants, Nellie, she's my baby." he said and we nodded as we exchanged looks with each other.
And the Dudley's, at that remark. "Baby, you remember the green ball following you around the house, and with it, the purple and red?" Beth said quickly and she nodded in shock. "That was Andy, Sarah and Robbie." I said in shock and they nodded. "I knew the house was haunted back then, but I forgot this part of it back then. My last visit to see the trio and Uncles Peter and Jared was before dad was killed in the explosion."
"But he, Andy, saw me up here every summer that's the piece I forgot, little me, from 2 to 17 and like you guys. I was your favorite in mom's family, like I was to him, to you, I was your baby, he saw me. And in the very same way you, and Uncles Jack, Jared and Peter saw me. Your baby girl, he saw me as his baby niece, and guided me into cracking the code now." Eleanor said and the Dudleys nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Well then I can think of only person who the footprints belong to now..." I said and the trio all nodded in agreement. "My great uncle, he is the person that lead me to the bookshelf, before Caroline lead me right to the fireplace. And the kids all lead me right to the nursery, he was a young adult on the edge of courting a young girl. And before giving her the engagement ring." she said and I nodded in agreement to that one gently.
"Mom wanted us to know he was her favorite uncle, though he wasn't alive." I added and she nodded in agreement as I said it for both of us at that remark as I said. "Yeah and mom loves you though she never got the chance to meet you, and dad with her." she said and I nodded as I answered her gently at that. "Well this makes perfect sense, if Andy was still alive she saw him in the way she sees your grandfather Bill as well."
"Before they and Anna passed at the time right now, he was around us from the second we got here last year. And he was leading you in the right direction all this time till you went to full power. Treating you like the favorite baby niece he has, to him, he was determined to lead you into realizing it. That he was the set of footprints leading into the office, and the bookcase you found." I said and she nodded as I looked at the duo then.
"Andy were the bloody footprints you?" I asked and he quickly answered me at that. "Yeah it was me alright Doctor, I was the first to find out what the heck happened here, and he stabbed me. As I was in Alicia's room and ran to his office, that was the bookcase, before he cornered me there. And killed me, before he did exactly as you thought, but what she told you on that now."
"Well that's what happened." he said and I nodded as I exchanged looks with Eleanor at that news then. "Am I your favorite, like mom treated me like I was, it's the same for you and Aunt Sarah?" he asked and they nodded. "I may not have had the chance to watch you grow up, but you show everything I remember in your mother. You're my baby, you always were Eleanor." Andy said and she nodded softly.
"I love you too Uncle Andy, Aunt Sarah." she said and the two walked over to her and she hugged them tightly as he pressed his forehead to her's. "You're everything I ever wanted you to be, I never been more proud of you. You made us proud like you made Rebecca proud you made us and Fred beyond proud of you honey. I love you baby, I always will princess." he said and she nodded as she smiled at him.
"The first night here was fine, second, that's when the paranoia started growing in the group and now we hit this. But come on right now, before her power goes to full blast and she's in shock she sees Renee hanging from the rafters. And before it starts getting worse that night, and from there it went to the office, then the pit in the fireplace. And finally to the nursery, before she get hits hard enough from one to many visions."
"Before we all saw for ourselves that the speculation was true and saw him for real." Theo said and I nodded as Luke said it for all of us. "I'd say that the images on Gozer and whatever those demon dogs are the same here, but this crossed the line. And between this and going to overload, but the apartment building started going berserk. And the night before Gozer showed up and this is along that line of dealing in my last remark."
"But we have reason to believe there is something very strange going on inside this house right now." Eleanor said for me and him and I nodded in agreement as Luke said it for both of us. "Does anyone else feel like this is the legend on Gozer in the movie right now?" Luke asked me at that and Eleanor nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah, but you're the architect and contractor Luke, we have to do some digging right now."
"But fortunately I made calls to the quartet they're coming as well, so first weekend and it's turning into the issue of sick jokes and pranks. So before anyone starts pointing fingers at each other look at the fact. Now, we're not alone or separated for more then 10 minutes." Malcolm said and I nodded. "Great, that's great, they're going to love this." Eleanor said smiling and I hid a chuckle as we exchanged smiles at this right now.
"Alright that makes 20 people in the house during the day and 15 at night, that's including three preteens at the current moment. So during the months leading into the night I got to do it again, we got a reference from the original. And once we hit a night where he's making you feel overly dizzy or is screwing with your head. Then we hunker down in a single room together and go to a campfire setting for the night."
"But the sounds of children remark was the annoying piece that was driving every parapsychologist insane right now, till I cracked it myself that week. Although that was still enough to leave us all battle scarred that week." Eleanor said and I nodded as we exchanged looks as I answered her at that remark as I said it then. I knew this was likely to get their attention as I said it, as she and I exchanged looks at this.
"And though getting the story created, as you were meant right now, the results were some theories and before the said theories turned fact, so legend is based on fact. Like the head elf, in Lord Of The Rings said, history became legend, legend became myth. And things that were not supposed to be forgotten in memories fell into disarray after that." I said and he nodded in agreement just as he was saying it, I heard a new voice.
"Anybody home?" I heard a voice shout out, and I quickly answered him at that. "Yeah Peter, we're up here, north wing, fifth hallway." I shouted out and turned to the duo. "Sarah, Andy go meet the quartet so you can lead them in here." I said and they nodded and left the room. "Anyone want to chance having a repeater of our first night here, only without the harp breaking?" I asked and they nodded in agreement to that remark.
And as she said it to that. "So long as you don't push it with the acorn exploding in the fireplace again, because that was one jolt too far that night." Mary said and I hid a chuckle as Eleanor smiled at that. "We can drag in a couple good reminders of the first night here, with him locked in the doors until August." Luke said and she nodded in agreement to that remark as she answered her at that remark firmly.
"First night here and he's stuck in the doors till August Mary, but you guys are helping me track it down, so you and the quartet are with me. And Dave's going over the psych reports, but we're turning this into the way Montague had it." she said and I nodded in agreement. "Our department is parapsychology and he was getting his first training lessons through you, Nellie." I heard and turned to see Peter Jenkins and Tony Randolph.
As they walked in and behind them were Janet Peterson and Carol Hancock and they nodded. "Well we got a bunch of parapsychologists living in this house for the next week and all summer. Before things start getting out of hand Peter, and with that." I said and Eleanor nodded as I tried to keep from laughing as she said it for me. "Alright we split the team down the middle when we do it, we got 12, plus Deke, Amy, Jo and Dillon."
"And Malcolm, Dana, Dave and me with that in mind right right now, you guys unload your stuff from the vans, and we get everything that was meant to help investigate things. But guys did you bring the equipment in the lab?" she asked and the quartet nodded as four members of their team arrived. "Alright we go from there. So while you unload the van with our equipment, we keep the camera room in our dorms up here."
"But it's best that we girls go get the groceries, while you guys do the heavy lifting right now." she said and the guys and I nodded. "Whoever starts getting into places they shouldn't be is getting smacked upside the head here. And after all the jolts in the first night alone that night." Theo said and she, Mary, Amy, Jo, Carol and Janet all started laughing at that as I answered that remark as I exchanged smiles with my team.
"Added idea, we treat this in the same way, mixture of Poltergeist, Sphere and House on Haunted Hill, we change out the tapes, so though the cameras get destroyed. We have the results and evidence in the truck and van, but this is what Akroyd meant. You never been out of college, you don't know what it's like, I worked in the private sector. And they expect results, but this is like the documentary on the first recorded exorcism."
"But anyone that saw that movie is considered being a smart ass right now after his partner got dragged into his superior's office." Malcolm said sharply and she nodded in agreement. "You want to get the boss ticked at you, just continue with the smart alec statements." I said and they nodded to that. "That's what the dummies are trying to tell us, when you disarmed the one standing on the table, there was blood all over the table."
"She said she smelled a scent of carrion in the nursery and he did it there, before chopping up their bodies, and moving them to the fireplace, and into the pit we found. And burned their bodies, every child that died was given that treatment, but Caroline found it and he killed her next." I said and they both nodded in amazement to that. "Every descendant of Caroline knew this, and they only got that news here."
"And from the previous generation now, while you were dealing with me and getting me out of the car. She was getting ready to tell her everything, but we interrupted Becky from telling her this, before the house started going berserk that night." Luke said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah exactly, Becky was going to tell her, but we interrupted that, as we cracked the case." I said and she nodded as Eleanor said it to me at that.
"Well we just have to guarantee that theory, but we got a lot of digging to do, and we can work it out, but every piece of the story. But these legends are based on fact, you unlock every piece to it and it turns a non believer into a true believer. After you see there is more to the storyline then ever you thought possible. Then again, at times the truth is the scariest thing you can ever learn and truth is far scarier then fiction right now."
"We got to do alot of digging right now, but we set up the cameras so we can keep an eye on things." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement as we exchanged looks at this situation as I decoded it then. "So why the hell was he after you exactly, Nell?" Owen asked and she explained it. "I'm descended from Caroline, but the female side, it's we controlled the doors, the demons." she told him and the sextet nodded to the news then.
"Don't you think that once was enough in these kinds of practical jokes?" Luke asked and I nodded as the four of us exchanged bemused smiles at this. "Yeah, but there is practical jokes where they make the person more paranoid by the minute. And then the ones where they do damage and hurt feelings in the process, then again we can take a joke, the cousin couldn't at the moment." I said and he nodded in agreement to that
As the four of us went into a tight huddle. "Great, first the intrusion in the hall, the doors answering to her return and now this, what's next, the week just started. And now this starts right now, come on we don't need to over do it right now?" Theo asked and I nodded. "Before you go to the rhetorical questions don't over do it." I said and our counterparts looked at us. "Why exactly." Catherine asked and before I could answer.
I heard the next one from the front hall as I heard the piano at the same time then. "Alright whoever is playing with the piano better can it already right now, you little wiseacres!" Peter called out and Eleanor started laughing at that. "Like you said, at times you find this funny well in this case, it's being parapsychologists. That this job goes from nuts to downright insane." Tony said and she nodded as he gripped her hand smiling.
"Come on like I said, once was enough, we don't need it starting for a second time this soon right after we get here." Theo asked and we nodded to that in agreement. "Anyone want to get a handle of repeated reminders of our first night in this house, after our conversation at the table that night?" Mary asked and we all nodded to that. "I don't know about you, but that's fine, but doing it twice is going a little too far here."
"But remarks like that, possibly the fight between you and the books and next comes them arguing. After running into the library door, as we were checking things out at the time, before you told us the legend on the house." Theo said in response. "Yeah so what else new right now, I mean, first the movie jokes then we get caught in the middle. Of pillow fight, while the books are fighting me to read at the time that night, but come on."
"Hey guys, remember this one?" Eleanor asked and we all smiled as we recognized the tune. "Five hours too early, but that's alright, if you want to start playing like this, that's fine, but don't over do it." I called out and in answer to that Slappy nodded to me and Theo started laughing at that. "So what's this one that's about to start playing if you said that?" Owen asked and I hold up my hand as we heard the tune start up at that.
As the girls tried to hold it in then as he went over that gently as they exchanged smile. "Da da, da, da, da, I am, your singing telegram." Theo said, as she hummed it out as I heard in a quick follow up the sound of a gun going off and then the front door slammed shut as the sextet started laughing at that response. "That's why right now, Catherine, we heard jokes like this all night that first night, till I made it clear."
"That they keep this up and one of us is going to die laughing at the moment." Eleanor said through her's and she and Lily nodded as they smiled. "Pranks and practical jokes in this house are going just a little too far right now. But doing repeaters is going to have someone die laughing if this keeps up." Carol said to that and Eleanor nodded smiling. "You think it's bad now, just wait, Carrie, but two versions of the team I had."
"And this turned into once one of us starts it, I have to end it, before it starts a second time right now." she said as we heard another gunshot and the door slammed. "Well the murderer just left the building." Tony said and we started laughing at that as Luke answered him with a bemused smile on his face at that remark as he said it to that. "I don't believe this right now, come guys, stop playing with the wine, soda pop."
"Or the champagne bottles would you please." Luke said through his, at that, as I heard the next one, as we heard several notes and he did that one. "Shave, and a haircut..." he said and then we heard a loud blast at that. "Two bits!" Theo finished and we nodded. "Oh my god, this keeps up and one of us is going to die laughing at this rate." Liam said as he started laughing at this and I nodded with a chuckle to that remark..
"And that's exactly what they're trying to do right now after repeated scares, they take the edge off by movie jokes next right now." I said and they nodded as the quartet smiled. "Don't over do it with the movies, guys, come on right now. I mean, I know we're parapsychologists, but we can only handle so much, right now. And before you have one of us die laughing or chokes on something while getting something to drink."
"So cool it already." Janet said to that as she tried to control her voice at that as Todd answered that remark as he and Luke exchanged bemused smiles at this. And as he said it to that response. "Well the Clue jokes are back with a vengeance right now, as are the comedy crime movies, and both of these are movies that Christopher Lloyd played in. Though at the moment, it's getting this under control right now at the current moment."
"And before us adults die laughing at this right now, as for him how did he get in here?" he asked and we all nodded in agreement as she said it. "Look like he was taking a shower in the Jacuzzi at the moment." Eleanor said and she nodded as the girls tried to keep from laughing at this. "Well with him stuck in the doors, I'd say your parents are trying to prepare us for this if it happens for a second time leading into Halloween."
"But we have things moving on their own, falling on their own, the door slams and nobody touched. And now we got a pot being thrown across the kitchen, and when nobody got a hold of it." Todd said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah and again, whoever is doing those type of pranks, had better can it already." Owen said and I nodded in agreement to that as we exchanged at that remark gently at that as Luke said it.
"Whoever ransacked the tree for acorns get ready at the moment, because we had an acorn explode in the fireplace as we ended the legend. But so far it resulted in the usual case of jokes and scaring pranks until the harp snapped that night." he told him and they nodded as we went over that as I answered him. "Well we got seven months till he attempts to get out of the doors, but this helps, as this time you knew it was me.
"But in the next it's he's trying to scare everyone out of the house right now." I said and they smiled at that as he answered me at that idea. "Alright so we do your modules for real, fear and performance, we can just run trial runs right now, but once it turns real, no one is pointing fingers at each other?" Malcolm asked and I nodded to him. "Yeah that is exactly what I mean right now." I said and they nodded to that remark bemused.
"Well as she said if trying to scare us out of the house by strange noises and explosions won't work. Well then what makes him think that vandalism and pranks like this will at the moment, because right now its funny. But that funny can turn dangerous and destructive after a while." Catherine said and I nodded to that in agreement. And as the Dudleys and Benson walked in, in time to hear that remark as Rick answered that.
"Yeah and everyone is in here, in the adults, discussing this while the kids are playing soccer in the hall with the twelve right now. So if it wasn't us or them, then who did it exactly, because everything that is worth anything was already damaged. And before you came back son." Rick said to me and I nodded in agreement. "I know and this is going just a little too far at the current moment after we did this once already."
"But starting things like this right after we get here to visit you guys, is going to far right now." I said and the trio nodded. "Yeah and I would consider this funny, if it wasn't for the fact that we had this happen last year." Beth added as Benson finished that remark with a bemused smile at that. "Alright who's the wise guy who did it this time?" Benson asked, coming into the bathroom and seeing Slappy's double half dressed.
And in the water with soap on him. "Miniature pool in his case, he's decided to act like it's the bathtub in Harry Potter right now." Luke said and he and the Dudleys' started laughing at that. "Well pranks like this are fine, but vandalism is not, so whoever did it, chill." Mrs. Dudley said and before I could answer I heard a shout. "Uh oh, well someone tested my little firebird now." Eleanor said and I nodded as I listened to Jamie at that.
