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, there's going to be a trip to the grocery store, and in Eleanor's thoughts. Before it return's to Marrow's POV, so from here the story starts heating up as he does the story for the added members in group. Before they settle now as he reflects on the day after and his latest notes. Just before the trouble starts the next night when they barely survive the attack.
And before they return to the house a second time, after this week long trip in the house, before the summer program. And Crane gets out of the doors for real noe 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.
But this story finishes the movie off as it goes to her views for the pieces that the trio didn't se after they went looking for her the first time. And leading into the first view of the true paranormal as her gift activates completely.
Chapter 17: Grocery Shopping And Piecing The Story Together
"Alright that's enough of the pranks and practical jokes, right now, but your father, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt and I are going to deal with it. In the occasional trick run, you just know none of you ever did, so just pretend one of us possessed these guys okay. Especially if you're finding them in strange places, and whoever was screwing around in the greenhouse stay clear."
"And of the statues like the griffin or the lions, let alone the one statue in the fountain alright. But treat this like across between the first night and the third night. As things the second day were covered right now, before he went all out." Rebecca said and we nodded to the orders at that. "I'd hate to be the one that actually does try that right now at this point." Carol said for their team and I nodded to that.
"Whoever never took the story seriously if he starts haunting the house again and when we're paired off for bit. We're pulling the Clue situation in the buddy up areas, so if there is an area that looks like the abandoned sections of the asylum. And one has a tank big enough to drown someone in it stay clear of it. And 2) Never turn your backs to these statues, or it turns into what happened to Larter, clear." I said and they all nodded to me.
"Hey baby, with the group here, and your team, let alone Malcolm and his family, could you get some more stuff so I can increase the amount for dinner?" Beth asked and Eleanor nodded to her smiling. "Sure thing Aunt Beth, what's for dinner, so I know I got enough for all of us?" she asked and she explained that. "The first night the six of you were all here, I made pot roast, with some croissants on the side with it, but for dessert."
"That it was the cake you guys had that night." she said and we nodded."Yeah alright no problem, but this means it's quadrupling the amount and my cubs love pot roast." Dana said and she smiled at the news and I hid a chuckle to that. "What do they normally like to eat with it, because this way, it's a familiar meal. Though in a strange house at the current moment?" Beth asked and she chuckled at that as she answered her then.
"It's how you set it up actually." she said and they nodded, "Well this was the fifth reason she loved coming to visit when she was a cub still. Her mother and I were the best cooks in the family, or the extended family, in her eyes. As she was using some of my recipes and working it out, since her mother retired from fieldwork. But this helps bring back some of the good memories in this case." she said as I nodded as I answered that.
"Just write up a grocery list for the next ten days and we can head up to the store and get it." Theo said and she nodded. "Ten days huh, that works nicely we get to see you every day when the guys and Jack come to check on you." Rick said and I smiled at the remark. "We got a Sam's club here as well, so get the stuff in bulk there and then head for the grocery store." Benson added and the girls all nodded to his suggestion gently.
"How's the cub, the one that got busted by you last fall, when we met at the E.R., because if they bump into him and this time she's on full power right now?" Todd asked and he sighed in aggravation as he answered him gently at the remark. "I've been called ten times for that little guy since Jake, Eric and I dragged him in. The day I met you and Mary, but five riots at the high school and repeated attempted breaking and entering."
"Ever since the explosion of poltergeist activity here at the house, that these kids keep trying to break in ever since at the time, so they can see the damage. But since then Robby keeps contacting my cell phone to alert me that the kid and his friends still try it. And it's only gotten worse since it ended all at once." he said and we nodded. "As bad as I heard the ruckus at the E.R.?" Todd asked for me and he nodded with a sigh to that.
"Only gotten worse Todd, in fact he and his friends are acting like the little ruffians on Hocus Pocus at the moment here, their one year away from getting into college. Though the kid sees Ellie and he's going to think he's seeing Becky at the moment. So if they choose the second that the girls are at the store to rob the place right now. Better let them have it with your powers, baby." he said and Eleanor nodded to the orders gently.
"We're in the middle of February in the Berkshires and it's freezing up here this time of year here, so whoever is using the fireplace. But use the covers to keep the embers from setting anything on fire, someone is going to have to get some firewood. And as we were all wearing jackets that first night here, so with this house being slightly drafty. So leave the windows shut and secondly start a fire in there to warm the house up for now."
"Our main hang outs are the library or the sitting room by the game room, but try to stick together right now, and no one go wondering off." Theo said for her and she nodded in agreement to that as her eyes narrowed and she moved to the door. Just to check and I saw Craine in the same spot that they shoved him into. With him still filling that spot. "Well that just makes it even more clear." Luke said with a look of hatred at him then.
"Looks like he can't push his influence out of that spot till the weeks betwen September to All Saints Day. Though that's true and we got seven months of peace and quiet, but to you guys, you hate him for nearly killing me at the time." Eleanor said and the three of us nodded to that remark. "One week cemented the life long friendship we have, and he is the cause, but he's good for something at least, like Freddy Krueger was now, Ellie."
"Said was, if there was more to the friendship between the adult members of the block and Saxon survived the fight and with him, Langenkamp. That would have saved the entire junior population at that time, as every parent in town would see this now. And as if quarantining the town is the price they got to pay to protect every child. And under the age of 25, then it was a price well spent." Rick said as he looked at him in hate then.
"And we do, once word got out on the truth in town, every parent in town decided to do what their, that is the 11 parents did. And close down any way to get in here just to stir him back up, the trio are not afraid of him, because they studied everything. That you and David, let alone Malcolm, Dana and your team had on the house. And the history of the house to protect themselves now." Beth added and Benson nodded in agreement.
"All we need to do is check the door, see him still in it to know we didn't do it, but someone is playing pranks on us." Theo said taking Luke's hand and Eleanor leaned into me and I wrapped my arms around her protectively. "You're never laying a hand on my wife or the girls again, you sick bastard, stay away from her." I said with a growl at him. "Let me take a guess, you're playing Wasson." Owen asked and I nodded to him firmly.
"The kids explained things to me, but this was the Haunting of Hill House meets the Dream Warriors right now, and she wasn't kidding. After getting realization that she was Langenkamp in the kids eyes, that did it, to free the kids. In the age group on the movie, she was facing her fears and lead him into a trap." I said and they nodded to me gently. "What the heck was he afraid of exactly?" Liam asked and she said it firmly to that.
"These doors were hexed to be judgement day, like the ancient Egyptian's ritual of the Feather of Ma'at. If their hearts were lighter then the feather, it meant that their sins were very few and he got to go onto the afterlife to live his life in peace. If their hearts were heavier then the feather, it got thrown to Ammit, the devourer of souls. The quintet and I got judged as not guilty, as the doors answered to me now at the time."
"But once I lead him in front of the doors, they activated and dragged him into it, but he was condemned to an afterlife of sexual harassment. As the leader of the demons explained to me what the heck he was guilty of at the time. Mom did it once, I did it the second time and my next, the kids are the next on the group. Just to get freed from being trapped in the house right now, I can explain further later, but we got work to do."
"Guys, soda preference, as we're heading to both stores right now, and secondly because after dinner, we need to dilute the alcohol with something non alcoholic." she asked and the three us and Malcolm said it together. "Coca Cola." we said and she nodded. "Us too mom, Aunt Nell, and a second box of rootbeer." the triplets said together and they nodded as I remembered hearing from Derek that someone's jump scare on a movie.
After the final piece to the trilogy on the horror mystery movies had someone in the next age group up. Had thrown their cup of soda at the person in the seat in front of them by accident. "And guys, before anyone has one too many in the caffeinated drinks, tonight is the night I'm telling you the legend on the house." I said and the new members all nodded to me. "Oh god I forgot about that part." Luke said and the trio nodded to that.
"Like the scary stories, you get one to many jolts and someone's cup of soda is getting thrown at the person next to them or directly in front of them in a movie theater. With these jump scares going on repeatedly in the house." Jamie said with a chuckle and they nodded to that. "Yes and that's why after your uncle tells you this, stick to the classics and never mind the Goosebumps books tonight." Dana said and Eleanor nodded to that.
"Jake and Eric?" she asked and Benson nodded. "Jake Peterson, and Eric Hancock, Eric is our age, that's my age group and Jake is David's, baby." Beth said and we nodded. "Why do I get the feeling that these kids keep trying to break in here to get some funds. Just to pay for their tuition, as they get in trouble once too often with you, Uncle Jack?" Eleanor asked and he sighed in bemusement as he answered her at that question.
"That was the other reason, after last night's attempt at the moment, Andy left me this." he said and gave it to her and she looked at a map of the house, as I saw a set of instructions going from the front door to an area of the house we never checked yet. "Alright that's enough of this, but if these kids keep this up it's going the ghostly trio in the house later, Uncle Andy, Uncle Rob, Grandpa." she said and the trio nodded gently.
Just as I was answering I heard a thunk and thud and turned to see Slappy's red headed double getting into a wrestling match. And with her Daffy duck doll and the triplets started laughing. "Great, if it's not Max, then it's his adult double who's been turned into ventriloquist dummy at the moment, but guys break it up already." Luke said trying to keep from laughing as they rolled down the stairs at that before Daffy smacked him.
Before Bugs grabbed the pool stick and I quickly grabbed the top of it at that. "This is not a saloon or a tavern, now that's enough of that already boys, I'm not kidding. So wherever you and your counterparts were kept get back in there, and you. Get back in her trunk and stay there, you can come out after dinner, now move it." Luke said for me and they lowered their heads and the dummy walked back to his room with his friends.
While the duo headed for their trunk that was dragged into the hall and put themselves back in it as the hatch closed and locked at that as the Kids were shaking in laughter. "Expect that to happen a lot this week guys, we saw this after they possessed the tv set as they did that scene between Bugs, Daffy and Elmer on the cartoons. The duck season/rabbit season arguments." Theo added and they nodded as they started laughing.
"Better get the candle or a night light, so you can at least see where you're going, but no one is reading by flashlight at the moment." I said, just as she was answering I heard a loud clang from somewhere in the house. And Eddie went to check and came running back in. "The last piece to the spiral staircase just broke free and landed in the pile guys." Robby said as he and Eddie walked in and we nodded in relief then to that.
"Well that prevents an injury at the the moment, the thread it was hanging by just snapped finally, I think that the piece that I got David on. And after it started breaking with him on it, though it is and the platforms are steel bolted the walls right now. We got to double the amount of effort to fix the damage in there, the bedroom and the windows. But we got the next three months to do it now." Eleanor said and we nodded to that.
"I'm sure that the manager is going to be wondering why we need close to $2,000 in groceries with 25 people in this house right now and close to 50 over the summer later. From both stores, then again we're getting some extra freezers and fridges and another dinner table for this summer." I said to her and she nodded in agreement. "We got a lot to buy, but the apartment is being left furnished with cable and internet service."
"As to that right now, anyone wants to get away from it all and enjoy the conveniences of what life was like before the tv was created they can come here." she said and Rebecca smiled at that. "With this house being over loaded with a bunch of skeptics this summer. Though you got a taste of the supernatural just expect trouble right now, baby, honey." Rebecca said and I nodded in agreement to that remark gentky.
As Eleanor leaned into my chest. "Once the trouble starts, I want every drop of alcohol to be locked up at the current moment." Luke said sharply and I nodded in agreement as Todd said for both of them at that. "To repeat your remark to me, I know their feathers are getting ruffled, but we don't need to get plastered either, so just relax." he said and we both nodded in agreement to that as Luke said it for both of us at that.
"Yeah that's an understatement, but things those two days in repeated jump scares was wearing thin on our patience, just before the staircase broke and with him on it." Luke said to that and I nodded firmly in agreement. "We're not treating this like Price had in the movie you guys, but he crossed the line. And between reckless endangerment and a total mental breakdown right now." I said and he nodded to that remark in agreement.
"Good thing we remember where everything was in this house, so no need to get lost, you guys want to go exploring. Then stay out of the contaminated areas that need work done on them, and secondly stay together. Liam, Catherine, Owen, Lily, with you using the college for this, you know where things are. But just in case, never turn your back to these statues." Eleanor and they nodded to the orders and I nodded in agreement.
Just as I was answering I heard a harp like tone and then a loud snap. "There's number four our first night and no one is in the library either, yeah alright. Todd, go check, with Mary in here with us, I bet that snap was from the wire being wound too tight." Eleanor told him and he nodded as he went to look and then came back in. "We got a shot glass missing from the box the brandy glasses came in, there's blood all over a handkerchief."
"And the string was wound up enough to break in the middle of a gentle note, someone just simulated what caused us: Mary and me, to get up and leave the first night." he said and we nodded. "Like mom said, it's a mixture of the first night and the second night going on here right now. You better check the booby traps with us girls out of the house for a bit." she said and I nodded in agreement as Todd, Luke and I exchanged looks.
"Lily and I are staying, we want to look around." Catherine said and she nodded. "Todd could you take care of that, you know your way around the house." she said and he nodded as they moved back up to their rooms and unpacked then. "With us pairing off, our other halves write up what you want before we leave at the moment." Theo said and the three of us and Malcolm nodded in agreement to their thoughts gently
And as we and Todd exchanged looks at that remark. "Luke, Todd and I are going to check things in the areas that are contaminated, boys. While you and Malcolm check the area, but be careful, as this house has a habit of turning you around. So watch yourselves, and look where you're going before you scare the hell out of the person. Who's coming from the opposite direction." I said and they nodded to the orders at that.
"Though we don't have cable up here, we still have a shot at tv though to run the tests and stuff, set up a camera and a few things. And the camera room is one of the unoccupied rooms, say the nursery is the camera room with him stuck in the doors. And till September, but I brought two tv's one for the camera room and the second. In case you guys brought a few movies with you." Peter said and they nodded quickly to that.
"Yeah we did, but with no cable, we can actually enjoy ourselves here, as we got books to read, a couple card games and other actvities to do. Because we're junior members of your department studying this for real by living in a haunted house. And for a week and all summer, it's keeping an eye on things." Jamie said and he nodded as he hid a smile to her remark as Eleanor said it to him for me with a slight smile on her face at that.
"Did you bring the VCR, Peter, I still have the tapes that mom created for us so Jan could make the movie?" Eleanor asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah like the tv's Becky left instructions to our team, to bring some electronics from the lab. So we could do this right now, but the mini tape carrying case, the normal sized one for the little tapes. And two each of the TV's and VCR's." he said and she, the Sandersons and I nodded in relief then.
"Alright we leave the first the tv downstairs and take it to the our lounge, the second we bring it upstairs, so we can see what Becky had been taping from the second. That Dave and I found the next 'Welcome home Eleanor' message on the mirrors. Before he back tracked back to the greenhouse to view the amount of damage done. As I was cleaning up the kitchen here." Theo said and I nodded in agreement as I said it to them gently.
"Alright I'm inspecting her room, but we got to clear a few pieces of debris out of the way in there, with us separated, we didn't have clear view of what the heck was going on. So we just run the tapes of what went on that night, as three jolts in seven hours. The green house, followed by getting attacked from behind and then the attack in the Bedroom." I said and Luke, Dudley and Benson nodded as Rick moved to us at that remark.
"We're in the library for now with the boys, the sextet and the quintet, our new playmates, as we finish up Uncle Dave." Jason told me and I nodded in approval to that. "What's left of your schedule when not at school?" Owen asked and their father answered that one. "Music practice and you guys got to practice anyway, since I know they got a piano in the library, you can do it that way." Malcolm said and the boys nodded smiling.
"If I was still alive, I know you're pure gold Jason, but my father would choose you in a heartbeat." Kimberly said and he tried to keep from blushing at that remark as Eleanor hid a chuckle to that. "We're 12 and I know you like me, we can get to know each other over the summer Kim." he said to her and she nodded to him. "So a musician, athlete, and 3rd degree black belt boys?" Lili asked and we nodded to her gently smiling.
"Trust me this is why we choose our own kind, at the moment, but Jane was out partying and flunked every subject in the first semester alone. Before getting to work every school year, frankly this was why I was shocked. That she made it through school with that type of attitude, but after the amount. In time and money, she spent partying I was cutting her allowance ever since right now."
"My baby here is the one I doted on and she's my pride and joy, though this was why I knew she was going to figure it out immediately. I'm a parapsychologist and a psychiatrist, that by this point I was ready to have Lou committed. And for rehab and enact what the second will said, and now rather then later, but you took it the way I wanted you too." Rebecca said and I nodded to the news.
"There's the premise for the ghost next door, that the neighbor fell in love with the next door neighbor and she turned out to be a ghost." Jamie said and they nodded. "Ghost or not, I really don't care if she's stuck at her current age, we're the same age." Jason said and they smiled in relief. "Well at the moment the books are up for added catches, Jase', but are better as they're on our reading lists." Derek said and Jamie nodded to that.
"The college requirements to get into the parapsychology program was a number of areas that did not include the things that Jane was doing. So high SAT's and very skilled in arts, theatrical, musical and so on, but like me and Dana. Mom encouraged this with the triplets and with Malcolm, but the Keoughs were more family to her. Then Websters were, to the point that mom was happy I found someone like Malcolm, like Theo did with Luke."
"But this explains why us members of the program never got together with the Websters, we stuck to our own kind, and as a result the situation here at the house. It only tightened the bonds between us as a result as the duo met their doubles. As Mary and Todd knew their own at the time here." Eleanor said as the quartet tried to keep from laughing at the explanation as our doubles nodded with a slight smile at that remark.
"No kidding, Carol I knew from work at the time and Todd met Peter the day he came to report to me on what the P.I. got the results in. But the phone call between us was enough of a reason to have him investigated as Todd went right to the precinct. To get that information, before we met face to face, but the smile on your face. When we were talking I knew our bond was faling into place." Mary said and and she nodded, smiling.
"That why you cut her out of the will, Dr. Craine?" Catherine asked and she nodded. "Yes it is, but my baby, Eleanor she knew me better then Jane does. But she got the point immediately and she didn't have to see the will. Just to know this was not a suggestion, but a question ar the current moment. Our daughter was a bookworm and she was into the supernatural and we encouraged this too."
"But everything you showed in your personality Dave, I realized you were an exact match for my baby. As I decided it was time, time to get you together, arranged meeting maybe, but I wanted it as Jane had her words over this. Shoved down her throat and I got her the money to start her life as she finished school at the time." Rebecca told us and I nodded with a bemused smile to that.
"What Malcolm told you was right, she never went by her real name with us, but her nickname at the time, and decided to use that same nickname with Theo and Luke." Dana added and she nodded smiling at that. "Issues in the office when you got a conference call going on, that you sometime expect trouble. Case in point is Tony droppng that box of tapes on me." Peter said and she started laughing at that remark.
"Yeah I remember that conversation, before we heard the next crash after you dropped the file folders on him. And in response Peter, was that really necessary at the time though guys?" Dana said to that and I watched as Mary closed her eyes as she tried to keep from laughing at that. "Oh god, while they're on a conference call with me, you guys start rough housing in the file room?" Eleanor said as they both started laughing.
"Was that debate really necessary when I was on the phone though guys, you been like this since we were kids, but that was taking the conversations just a litte too far." Malcolm said looking between their team as his triplets started laughing at that. "Alright subject change, because you keep it up and the trio are going to die laughing here." Eleanor said and as she was trying to keep from laughing herself at this conversation.
"Well she's happy as she's got two quartets of the same group of friends but our team is intact at the moment. But the fact of us being involved in this program and know our way around the house get ready for trouble that week." Dana said and I nodded. "Yeah thats an understatement, but I think we better get to work here. With Jamie going with you, we got some practice to do." Derek said and they nodded as Luke said it for me at that.
"Stay put till I come to get you, otherwise you're going to get lost guys, okay." Luke said and they nodded to him gently as they grabbed the instrument cases, that had their music notes in them and brought them into the library for music practice then. "I take it Jamie took the violin, he had the trombone, and Jason had the piano?" Liam asked and we nodded as Eleanor said it with a smile to that as she answered him.
"Yeah and with a house that doesn't allow cable, they're going to enjoy this, but summer break and they can consider this break away from tv and video games. Because the lake is in range of the house so you can go swimming up there as well." she said and they nodded as the sextet were dressed in their favorite colors. "Dad bought us wet suits for the winter weather so we can use them for that dip." Derek said and I nodded to him.
"With it snowing out there, no one is going swimming kids, not till it starts warming up out there guys." Dana said and they nodded smiling to that. "Or just build an Olympic sized, or normal sized, pool along the lines of a hotel pool swimming pool. Just outside of the greenhouse and they can play there." I said and Eleanor smiled at my idea. "Ladies if you bought jackets in your colors, go get them." Mary said and the quintet nodded to her.
As I saw a coat rack by the front door with several jackets, and in pink, near violet, golden yellow, gold, orange and purple hanging there and chuckled. As Jamie grabbed her list and gave it to her mother. "That's the guys and me, mom, Aunt Nell, our snack list and favorite foods." she said and the girls both nodded to her as Eleanor knew what I liked and Theo and Mary nodded with smiles to the guys as they headed out.
"Be back in 2 hours, honey." Eleanor said and I nodded as we got to work as they left at that. "Luke, you and me check out the greenhouse and her room, Peter, you, Tony and Malcolm take the secrets passages through that door. Todd stay with the sextet, so no one gets lost while exploring house." I said, pointing at the wall next to the fountain at that and they all nodded, as I pulled out a box of radios and passed them out then.
Before we separated at that, as he and I went up to her room to check it out as he said it to me as he grabbed the spikes. And cleared the floor, before he checked behind it and nodded in shock. "Jesus, guys, you better check this out." Tom said and I looked behind the bed as I saw the broken wall behind the bed. "Dear god, what the hell was going on in this room after he slammed the door on you?" I said in shock to this sight then firmly.
"Jesus, well if we needed another reason not to leave her alone anymore, that was it." Luke said and I nodded as I answered him gently at that. "Theo was right, after finding her in the greenhouse, these things always seem to happen. And every time she's alone at the moment, buddy, though in this case right now, she was right all along. He wanted her, out of the house, before dawn that night, though we have this happen again."
"Then she gets hit again and in the exact same place, if he possesses the damn door, it's making sure one of the five of us or the guys, Carol and Janet are with her. Fortunately with Rick here, he can do triage until the Dudley's get back at the moment. Nice thinking though in using that candlestick just to break these, she was going into shock. And by the time we get in here that night, she needed me now, but that was enough already."
"Though at the moment there was more to this, then just parlor tricks and scare tactics, come here." I said as I looked up and then saw the reason why they suddenly came down like that. As I said it to him as we put the first spike on the floor to check in how long it was. "Craine built these a good fifteen feet long, and the ceiling is 20 feet in here, alright I get it, so he caved in the ceiling on her and then drove these into the bed."
"So he needed to lower the ceiling five feet and then drove these into the bed, before she woke you up and we came up to see what the heck was going on in here. Before you broke them to free her, but the more we pushed to keep going. And trying to keep her awake in her case and the more the pain was draining her. Until she decided to risk her spleen ruptering to protect us, by confronting him." I said and he nodded to me, sighing.
"I nearly lost my sister that night, I'm not taking that chance, but we better start with the adrenaline and never mind the caffeine, to keep us awake. With Rick here, we need to keep up the safe version to the stimulates as the artificial ones do a lot of damage." he said and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "No kidding, too much caffeine is dangerous, it takes weeks to recover from the effects when in withdrawal from it."
"Fortunately that's more tolerable then narcotics or anything else, but seriously with the fact we had a few people keeping track of this. It works right now, but Eric, Tony, I want you to watch for any drug addicts, because whatever they're on is getting confiscated." I heard Rick say as he checked the damage and I nodded. "Group fear and hysteria and fear is characterized by increased heartrate, respiratory activity and adrenaline function."
"One bad side effect is the fear reaches the point of paranoia, but anyone starts thinking that the others are plotting against them. Get ready for the fight, because we might have to sedate them, if it's a man thinking we did what Rush did on the movie." I said and he nodded firmly to the remark. "The four of us are the ones that know our way around the house here Dave, so we just make a map of it." Luke said and I nodded in agreement.
"Rick can you create a fast set of the emergency adrenaline cocktails, as it's going to be a long night, and none of us need to be working over time." I asked and he nodded firmly. "I can, but emergency medical supplies and I'm running triage, but don't tick him off for a second time and wear gloves before you deal with that window again." he said and I nodded as we exchanged firm looks as I said it firmly to that remark.
"Agreed, only we leave Theo's door unlocked and come in through the bathroom only in case the damn ceiling starts caving in on the bedroom door." I said and he nodded as he checked the window and nodded as he tore the plastic bag off the area. After Craine caused that portion to get destroyed the night of the attack as I closed my eyes. I traced the sequence of what happened as I thought over what she told me through our bond.
"Nell said never mind looking for her, stay put and she'll come to us, damn it, we forgot that part of the conversation, which resulted in her getting the truth on her own. Before Becky could tell her that night, alright, alright the pieces necessary here. With her learning the parts that we figured out so far, plus the new ones, we do as she ordered us to now." he said and Rick and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts gently at that.
"Luke can you fix the window and match the glass panel?" Rick asked and he bodded to him. "Yeah, but anything heavy enough to break these windows is getting confiscated if Craine pulls another situation like what he did that night. Or Ali's reaction in the electroshock room on their version to 'The House On Haunted Hill'." he said and I nodded in agreement to that as we checked everything carefully as I thought it over.
As I turned around and saw a slight trace of dried blood on the floor and crouched as I ran my hand over it. "Luke." I said and he crouched next to me. "Just found it, the landing sliced her palm, before she chucked the music box at the window." I said and he nodded as he retraced it to what we put in the movie as we worked it out then. "I think at this rate, it's best to look into the story carefully." he said and I nodded in agreement.
"While fixing the areas that need to be fixed, we go over what we considered, before he lost his temper and started chasing us around the house. Eleanor, Theo and I dealt with the worst of it, after he knocked you unconscious at the time. But we do this one step at a time starting with the first, the banging before you and I went to check on the girls." I said and he nodded as we got to work, knowing the girls were thinking the same.
Thinking it over as I checked my van, I saw the tapes and rewounded it to the second that house started going berserk. And as we dragged the tv set sized camera into the room, and put it up finally as as I paged through the tapes Becky created for me so we could catalogue what happened that week at the time and found one marked, 'The Attack In The Greenhouse And The Bedroom' on it and gave a nod to that firmly.
As I put in the full size tape and stuck it in the camera. "Dave hold up, I brought a 19 incher so we can view what happened this way. And we can hook up the camera to the tv set as well." Luke told me and I nodded as he went back to his minivan. Grabbed the tv and brought it upstairs and set it on the dressing table as he pulled a voltage adapter. And plugged it into the wall before he hooked the camera to the tv and turned it on then.
"Does anyone else feel like we're doing that portion of a New Nightmare where you can't tell what is real or not. As it is, I hope Becky had a camera in the bedroom, just so we can see what happened, before Luke went to sound the alarm." Rick said as I turned it on and then got a very good look. "There, that's it!" Luke snapped and I nodded as I watched as the fixtures above her dressing table as it turned into two red eyes then.
As it, the bulging in the wall across from the bed, caused the paintings to collapse on the floor, before he tore through the floor and the spikes came down. And pinned her to the bed, before that did it, as I heard the same panicked scream I remembered that night. And he quickly turned it off at that. "Luke?" Benson asked and he swallowed. "The scream is what woke me up and I tried to get in here, before he slammed the door."
"And on me that night before, we broke the door down, Jack, honestly I keep hearing that every time. When I try to get some sleep right now, it was too close that night, I maybe two years younger. But I still feel like she's my baby sister, needing me, Todd and Dave to protect her now. And it doesn't help we have to keep dealing with Lou every time he's drunk." he said and they both nodded in understanding to the news gently at that.
"I hated him ever since I found out who he was, just hearing her say their names I decided to verify who they were. But she was scared of him and leaned into me when I got her to refocus at the time, but a couple years younger doesn't matter. I'm her best friend and younger brother, I would protect her with my life now." he said and they nodded as I looked into his eyes as I said it then to him gently at that remark.
"We all had some very close calls that night, but to face the memories we had to come back to see the areas that left us all traumatized, Luke. Theo and I, we're just as scared as you are that the next one could be the big one, it was close then. But we stick together, we'll be okay this fall, brother." I said to him gently to that and he nodded softly, as I gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around me at that in response.
"First night back, just expect trouble tonight." he said and I nodded. "Well her parents said they were running tests until we were ready for the summer right now. But I don't doubt that what happens this summer is having all of us hunker down in two bedrooms. And until whatever is going on in the house stops so we can get some rest." I said and they nodded in agreement to my thoughts at that remark gently as we ended it at that.
The Grocery Store-Eleanor's POV:
"You expecting trouble this fall, Nell?" Theo asked and I sighed as I answered her as I looked between them. "Honestly yeah I do, but this time we know none of us did it and 2) it's that none of us are alone for more then five minutes. Before the attack happens Theo, but you guys are my best friends when it was the four of us, but you and Luke. My best friends, him my soulmate, to protect my family, I had to, Theo, honestly."
"It's not what you think, after getting the realization I finally cracked what mom and Caroline were trying to tell me. My bloodline, maternal side, controlled the doors, and Craine just escaped a second time, to protect you guys. I had to risk a case of chicken until he got close enough that the doors judged him guilty." I told her and she nodded to me as she answered me at the remark as she said it gently at that news.
"I know, but once was enough, we're not losing you, we got seven months to do that, but in the mean time we just prepare the house for this. But honestly the house needs some work done on it, but not too much, for now we need an exact estimate. And just enjoy things until we return to town for the trial as Judge Hawthorne is dealing with it." she said and I nodded to that remark as we arrived at the shoping center then.
"Whoever has trouble this time around, we can expect several more practical jokes in finding these dummies in places they're not supposed to be. But at least this time they're not vandalizing property." I said and she nodded in agreement with a bemused smile. "Aside from the test run on the painting of Craine, like we found the last one, and a copy of Slappy's tv double sitting by the griffin this time, but come on, thats not funny."
"And once was enough in these practical jokes, but we were together, us adults when Jason alerts us to that, so we're out, as are the kids. They were playing in the hall just outside your bedroom, so they're out as well, Jack just arrived. And the Dudleys are in the bedroom with us, so every adult and child were together, so our prankster. He's the one pulling that stunt right now." Theo said and I nodded in agreement to her thoughts.
"I'd hate to be the idiot that starts playing around with anything dangerous right now." Jamie said in response and I chuckled to that. "Alright ladies, if you guys are gathering your snacks, I want you up at the front of the store. And stay put till your mother, Mary, Theo and I are done here, understood." I said as we stopped the car and I turned to look at the sextet with a slight smile and Sarah and Jamie nodded to the request, smiling.
"We better get four baskets for this with over 20 people in the house and the fact we got Rick on standby in case of another injury here." Dana added and I nodded in agreement. "Better make that five, we all know what our other halves like to eat, but the only bottomless pit in the quartet is Luke." Mary said and Theo chuckled and nodded. As we got out of the car and each grabbed our own basket, aside from the quintet then.
"Girls pair off, you stick together and once done wait for us up front, but I'm paying, okay." I said and the girls nodded as Sarah went with Jamie, Anna and Rosie and Jenny went Cathy at that. "I think that the manager will be wondering why we need close to $4,000 in groceries, but with 25 people in the house. Once Jack and the Dudley's leave, it's going to be a very long night tonight." Theo said and I nodded in agreement to that.
As the girls got two each as Sarah got hers and started looking through her and her brother's favorite foods right then. While I was loading up in the croissants and a couple other things, as Theo got the eggs and few dozen others across from me. Just as I was saying it I heard the words that made my heart freeze up. "Nobody move, this is a stick up!" I heard from the front of the store and looked around the freezer at that remark.
"Nell, use your powers, we got to knock these guys out." Mary said in a whisper to me and I nodded as I looked at where they were standing and smiled. As I chucked a bag of ice at the leader knocking the gun out of his hand as he went to grab it. I shoved the gun further up by 10 to 15 feet and and threw a 10 pound bag of cat litter. And at his team mate and that did it as the security grabbed them both as I sighed in relief then.
"Hey whoever did that, thanks for the help!" I heard the cop say and walked out then as I moved to him. "Hey Sergeant and you're welcome, nice try gentlemen, if you wanted to rob a store, try doing it and when your samaritan is not telekinetic." I said and they paled. "Dr. Craine?!" the leader shouted in shock. "Nope, I'm her daughter, buster." I said and they swallowed hard at that remark as the manager smiled in relief at that.
"Sergeant..., Peterson, Jake?" I asked and he nodded and we smiled. "That's right and this is my partner Eric Hancock." he said and I saw the man in question and I nodded as I knew what happened. "Jack sent you just in case this happened guys?" Theo asked and they nodded. "Yeah and it doesn't surprise me that these two never know when quit, they got arrested for attempted breaking and entering." The man said sternly to that remark.
"He told me what happened last night, but choosing the moment that the owner of the said museum is back is in town is academic suicide right now. As nothing serious happens after sunrise, but breaking and entering after dark is like checking the dig site. The one that a certain dream demon was buried at is reckless endangerment, especially after dark right now guys." I said and the boy swallowed hard at that and the older man nodded.
As I disengaged the gun and saw a bunch of b.b.'s in it and nodded. "Not a real weapon, this is a b.b. gun." I said and the man nodded sternly. "I guess you were a friend of my parents, Eric?" I asked and he nodded sternly. "Yes, Rob, as a fireman, gave me and Jack specific orders that any teenager caught with a mile of your property. The said is getting arrested baby, as such if not breaking and entering, trying a robbery is a bad idea."
"Alright cubs, lets see who you two are." he said sternly as the quartet of security guards and two other cops just arriving in time to hear that nodded. As the guards removed their masks and I saw two boys no older then 18 and shook my head. "Dillon Davis and Joey Parker, boys, how many times do we have to arrest you. And before you lose your shot at getting into school?" Peterson asked crossing his arms sternly and I nodded.
"If Jack said this already if you're trying to get into college, geting arrested by the cops is enough you lose your scholarship, young man. Fortunately for appearances sake, though I look like my mother or Caroline, I'm not. But again, and I can see the drugged look in your eyes that I decided this was better, to get the gun out of your hands. To prevent someone from getting hurt, but speed balling guys, that is beyond dangerous."
"And before the cops and security caught you right now, but this crossed the line right now." I said and I saw a quartet of adults no older then the cop that moved to me at that. "Nice timing, choosing the exact minute that the daughter of our best psychiatrist is back in town to do this at the moment. And every adult in town knows that the Vance/March clan is telekinetic boys." the second in command of the precinct said sternly.
"Alright, who let leak we were coming back to town exactly?" Theo asked and the cop's team mate closed his eyes at that and we nodded. "Jack told me, but someone arrived in the precinct in time to hear the conversation and they must have let it loose. Then again, your parents are well known in town, but we all knew of the accident that killed Rob. As for security leaks we don't need this going all over town that you're home again."
"Thanks again for the help Nellie, we owe you big." Peterson said smiling and I nodded. "No problem, but I take it these guys keep getting busted with Uncle Jack if you know who they are?" I asked and they nodded. "Unfortunately yes Ellie, we arrested the leader for the speedballing last fall when you were here. Nice thinking in scaring these two out of their wits." the man next to Peterson said with a bemused smile to that remark then.
"That's the kid who got arrested for speedballing?!" Theo repeated and they both nodded to her. "Yeah it is, and I take it you're back for the week, if you were going grocery shopping at the moment?" Peterson asked and we nodded. "We are and we're moving to town after Uncle Peter does the trial, but you at least get the daughter. And of your town parapsychologist back." I said and every customer listening to this smiled in delight.
"But not a week, we're here for 10 days, mom, my grandparents and great grandparents are doing test runs all spring and summer. And September 15th till the day tge trouble gets started for a third time, but for right now. We decided on the 1964 version to my project and experiment, running a summer long program. Malcolm and his family are invited to stay with us the entire time." I said to him and the boys paled at that news.
"Well now young man, it seems you got yourself in a bit of predicament, haven't you, the chief told me when they arrested you last night, they confiscated this." I said and passing the paper to him and the duo looked at it and paled. "Are you trying to stir him back up right now, because trying to break into the house will do it. Every child killer in either horror movies or kids movies target children have to have someone stir them up."
"Before they go on another rampage, the troll it was the grandson of the man that buried him, the Sandersonson Sisters it was an unbeliever that lit the damn candle. As for Krueger himself, it's the look alike to the trio's pet dog on the fourth movie. But prior to his getting resurrected Crusel was right when he told that to Kristen. I'm a mixture of the female leads and my husband is playing Wasson." I said sternly to him and he swallowed.
"But the movie is stuck between 1 and 3, and I got him stuck in the doors and now you're trying to break into my house. Are you trying to put every kid in town at risk, so you can pay for a way to get into college, by robbing me?" I asked sternly and they swallowed hard at that remark. "I take it Jack, Beth and Rick told you why they keep trying to break into the house?" Peterson asked and I nodded to him gently at that.
"They did, but this is beyond dangerous and we're getting ready to make repairs to the house that there's a lot of dangerous spots that need work done on it. So though we go shopping we got a few things together before the summer program. Half in bulk and the rest are odds and ends for the next 10 days at the moment Jake." I said and they nodded as I looked at the duo sternly as I looked at them and told the group surrounding us.
"The grocery store is the size of the gym and the cafeteria together, Sam's Club is the size of the entire school on the inside that you got to check the isles. We were gathering some of our grocery shop here, before heading to Sam's next. But at the moment it's not just us, Uncle Jack has 2 members of our department at the house. Plus an M.D., but this is prepwork for the summer before we move back." I said and they smiled at that news.
"You're coming home Nell?!" the manager repeated and I nodded to him. "Yeah not just me, but my friends, we're doing a summer program at the house. So hopefully it's not a repeat, but that explains the girls right now, if you all read the book. That Dave published, well the twelve always hanging around us, and the guys. They were my uncle and his wife and friends." I said and they nodded with a bemused smile at that news.
"So Fred had a little brother?" the manager asked and I nodded. "Yes and the girl that was with him when in billiard ball mode was his fiance. The red was his best friend and co-leader of their gang, certain details unleashed the truth here. But the backhistory follows the powers rangers pretty closely now, that his wife. Her name is Sarah, is just like Kim when she was a cub to 17." I said and they nodded with a chuckle to that.
