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 a fast discussion in law over the project 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. As they settle now as he reflects on the day after and his latest notes. 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 18 day long trip in the house, before the summer program. And Crane gets out of the doors for real now and things change directions from there. While the quartet have their counterparts joining in, but it's a clashing of the movie. And from real life to art imitating life from here as things change directions now for them.

But this story finishes the movie off as it goes to her views for the pieces that the trio didn't see 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 19: Practice Preparations And Past Explanations

Just as I finished saying that, the ball came flying in the door and Theo caught it at that as Jason came running in to get it. "Let me guess Dylan's spirit animal put too much power into the kick, honey?" Mary asked and he nodded smiling. "Yeah, we decided with the foyer being this big, we can play in there, Grandpa has us at the table. And for class in the morning, music practice and then we got soccer and basketball practice."

"So it's like this for the next two weeks school wise and we can do jogging around the house, checking the area next to the door. I found a rack of balls, baseball bats and several pieces of equipment, grandpa supplied us with everything we need. For the next year with us up here right now." he told us and we nodded. "Spared no expense, my parents just gave that remark an entirely whole new meaning here right now."

"Not that I would consider this house a country club at the moment, but books to read, card games to play, sports to play, and a few dozen other things to do. When away from it all and the tv right now, though we can listen to the radio." I said and they nodded in agreement as I did a fast count and smiled. "A matter of my parents remembering the good old days when we were girls, Dana, dad asked the triplets to call him grandpa."

"We're the same age, but though Jane was the oldest she treated you like family, before, when your father got transferred. My parents, they decided to let you live with us when we were fourteen, so our generation of the rangers, you were the original pink. And me the new yellow and our parents agreed, instead of you moving when he transferred. You would live with me and we started sharing the bedroom before the accident there."

"They adopted you, you were their god daughter and we were family to Beth." I said and she smiled as Malcolm smiled at the memory. "I remember that, Becky was acting like my mother-in-law, treating me like a son, so the Keoughs and the Marrows. That's our family now." he said and Dave shook his head. "Alright mom, how much did you spend to get these for the kids and our guests?" Dave asked and I heard a chuckle to that remark.

"In total $750,000, to just short of $900,000, you two, but this was needed, so all our guests need to bring is their cars and clothes. And we supply everything else, but we're making it clear, but no cable. They want to watch a movie, then they better bring the tapes, because there is no connection. To the town cable company, or internet service, even a landline, so bring a cell phone with you."

"Isolation is essential now in a proper experimental model, you had the right idea at the time, but we got a true M.D. in the house, a few orderlies. A few cops and two other groups in very strong men in case our male patients. The ones who are claustrophobic, start flipping out right now." dad said and we both nodded as I wrapped my arm around my husband and he smiled at me, as he said it to them.

"Now that I can talk to you for real, was I what you had in mind for her as a soulmate, mom, dad?" he asked and mom nodded, smiling. "Yes dear, you were exactly what we had in mind for her, you were perfect for her. From the second I saw you, looking at your record, I saw everything had matched up to my daughter. I hated Louis from the second I saw him, you, you were what I was looking for."

"I just disowned Jane anyway, you are my son, my family, true family, real family." she said and he smiled at that as he gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around him. "I'll take care of her, you have my word." he said and she nodded. "So the C stood for Caroline, alright so from Caroline to Fred, Fred to Suzanne. Suzanne to Sarah, Sarah to Becky and Becky to Nell, that it Rob?" Malcolm asked and he nodded to him.

"Yes son it is, but my grandfather was in constant conflict with Craine, Craine was a covetous old sinner. In Dickens words he was squeezing, grasping, clutching covetous old sinner. Like always the sins are a one way ticket to self destruction his greed and lust became his undoing in the end. So lust for a children, his greed was labeled in the ledgers my daughter and Luke found."

"He envied his fellow businessmen of having a family, children, but that ultimately destroyed him in the end. With Caroline blessed with a second sight, she was like that Kevin Bacon character on the movie. Just after his sister unlocked the door in his head as he learned the truth. Into why his friend's son shot himself, that was why Ellie panicked." he said and they nodded to the news.

"That's what happened that night after our fight, the painting unlocked the door in her head, I told them that she killed herself, but she wanted to know how it it happened. Till something got her attention around 3 the next day when she told me now. That Dave was not the one pulling these stunts to scare us, before looking behind us. And then saw her hanging from the rafters." Luke told him and he nodded as Theo finished diagnosis.

"Room by room search, the painting unlocked the door in her mind, as she realized why the hell he was trying to get her out of the house. Before she told us and she looked like she'd seen a ghost and in essense she had here. Said the ghost of her grandmother's predecessor." Theo said and he nodded and she and Dave nodded in acceptance. "Right now we don't need anymore shocks and secondly is her powers go haywire here."

"Out of exhaustion now as a result, so she needs to take a break and get some rest, if she starts working over time." Beth said to that and Dave nodded to the orders gently, just as he was answering we heard a answering remark. As he turned as we heard a slight clang and Luke went investigate then and then called out to the 3 of us. "Anyone want to get this under control, I found the pit trapdoor open, over here, Nell, guys."

"The pranks just started up again and there's a message on it, said is 'I'm back.'." Luke called out and I nodded as Theo shook her head to that as the three of us went to check with Beth right behind us then as we went into it as he looked out the door. "Well we know we left the door with the guardians open at the moment, but the door. The one with their skeletal companions in it is closed at the moment, Derek keep a look out please."

"Because that could have been a way to signal to us that we got an intruder arriving." Malcolm said and the triplets nodded as they went to front door to check then gently. "Boys is he loose?" I asked, turning to the doors to look at the trio on the doors and the doors glowed red in response to answer me. "I'll take that for a no, but this is getting ridiculous right now." Jake said then and Dave nodded in agreement then to that remark.

"Guys I got it right, with my mother dead, I'm your leader in judgement day, you act like the egyptian weighing of the heart. We got weighed as pure of heart and to you, it was green, him, he was red as he was so heavy he got arrested by you?" I asked and the doors glowed green to answer me. "Gold means welcome back, red means no and green means yes, nice to meet you, guys." Luke said for the trio and it glowed green to him.

"I think that means nice to meet you too, if you're my keeper's friends and soulmate, you got the job of making sure we never get destroyed by Craine." Dave said and I nodded to confirm that thought. "The house was sitting in the middle of a pentagram, so three are scattered around the house, iron is next to the old iron works. And the air is so crisp up here that it's practically still living in the woods." Mary said and Dave finished that gently.

"This is getting ridiculous, to the 8 of us we're used to constant poltergeist intrusions in this house or the apartment after 18 months of this and you adjusted to your powers. And us with you at the time, to the point that stunts like this are ranging from funny to annoying, but at least they never turned dangerous or homicidal next." Tony said for the team and I nodded as Dave switched subjects with a bemused smile on his face then.

"Anything next to it?" Dave called back and we went over there. "Slappy's tv double is leaning against my side of the door when we checked it last year." he said and they nodded with a bemused look. "Anyone in there though?" Malcolm asked and I carefully walked around the hatch to check and found four others. "They're treating this thing like a sandbox right now." I said and they nodded as Dave gave me a hand to prevent a slip.

"Whoa!" I said as my foot slipped and he pulled me into him to prevent a fall. "Alright all of you get out of there now, that is not a sandbox." Dave said sternly and they looked down and climbed out of it. "And get back upstairs to wherever you were hiding, now." I finished, before redhead tried to sneak away and I slammed my hand on his shoulder. "You too buster, get back to your room now." I said and he nodded as Ricked walked in.

"Keep that damn thing closed, before someone falls into it guys." Rick called out as he and Jack came running into the foyer at that. "Guys, on the count of three, close the hatch and get that bar with the crook in the handle into place." Dave said and they nodded as they did it as I put the bar into place and they lowered it down. And I wedged the bar over the two sides of the hatch doors and nodded in relief to that firmly.

"That kept him from checking my theory as without Luke he couldn't do it on his own that night, but they got the proof of that theory. After he knocked Luke unconscious as he threw the doors open and started throwing a mass of ashes and bones at us. As we got up the stairs, but I meant it, he was playing tag and hide and seek with the kids. That was why he built the house, so a house this size, there's over 5,000+ places to hide."

"You had to hide." I said and Liam nodded in shock as he repeated that. "Hide, just what does he think this is, a game?!" he said sharply and I nodded. "Games of survival of the fittest, but I saw the painting coming down and told you, my version. After Theo asked me in why the hell he wants you, to get out of the way. Before the griffin attacked next and then said to get out of there, and I would catch up, so you told me to follow you."

"So while they, you, were keeping him busy, I found the answer, before I called him to the foyer to confront him and he didn't realize that directly in front of the door. Say 50 feet away from them that did it for his soul as the leader of the demons judged him. And the trio dragged him into the doors." I said and they nodded in amazement to that. "Needless to say this was enough to piss me off as, to us, this was not a game now."

"It was a matter of life and death, she was getting weaker by the minute and Luke was unconscious. Once is enough we're not doing this twice now, so with those words in mind right now in this case, everyone be ready in case he sees that there is two. And of the six of us, though you girls tacked on the married to your maiden name. Real or fake, and that is not if he watches the movie." Dave said and we nodded to that in agreement.

"I mean this now, but everyone, but Dave, Luke, me and Theo are outside until I got him jammed in the doors a second time right now, okay." I said and the entire group nodded to the orders. "Got it." They said together and Dave said it then. "Look guys we're not trying to be rude, it's just we did this once already, we know how dangerous it gets." he said and I nodded as I pulled the box of tapes out from the carrying case then.

"You better see this." I said as Luke grabbed the box of tapes and found one labeled 'Broken Window, The Fireplace And Painting.'. "Guys found it right now." he said and we nodded as we turned on the tv as it started, I saw them breaking the windows, before my mother yanked the chair out of Dave's hands and it hit the window, before they tried again. "Open up!" Luke snapped as she added on to that remark then.

"Come on, open up!" she snapped as the chairs got torn out of their hands and went flying into the windows. "This is insane..., ahh!" Dave growled in pain and that did it as I moved to him as he said it. "There's got to be another way out of here." he said, gripping his wrist and she said it then. "Oh jeez, he's got glass in his hand, get it out." she said to me and and I nodded and grapped a napkin, as I gripped his hand.

While trying to do it without getting worse. "Oh jeez, just pull." she said as he repeated that. "Just pull, just pull honey." he said gently and I nodded. "Just pull." he said as I carefully yanked it out. "Oh, ah." he said softly and I passed her the napkin as that did it. "Wrap it up." she said and I heard Luke lose it then. "Bastard!" he snapped as he grabbed the candlestick and started swinging at the painting then.

As we all looked up at his remark. "You son of a bitch, damn you!" he snapped as the blows started tearing the painting. "You know you're lucky to be alive and why tick him off, young man?" Rick asked and he sighed. "I had one too many shocks that night, but I reached my limit after he nearly killed her by the car." he said and the trio nodded then. "To repeat that, this was insane." Dave said as he rubbed his palm and I nodded then.

"One more reason to hold it together, but this next remark, by his defacing the painting was enough to tick him off right now." I said and as I heard Luke shout it then. "Luke don't!" I called to him then and he looked at me. "What?!" he said and I repeated it then. "Don't!" I said and mom nodded. "She's right, don't push it honey, or you're only going to make it worse." she said and I nodded to that remark then to her then.

"My mother is parapsychologist and my dad was a firefighter, he would think you had too much to drink." I said and they both nodded as dad rested his hand on my shoulder. "I'm gonna the burn the house down, come on, let's burn it down right now." he snapped before I heard a growl and the fireplace's eyes went red. "I think that meant Hugh was seeing red by that remark." Lily said and I nodded to confirm that thought.

"Yeah well get a look at this, it sounded like, in the rumble, he was saying my name at that from the look on her face. But this was enough the duo took charge as they stayed next to her, Dave decided, if she was injured. Then he was keeping her close then, but this was enough I was determined to protect her, but she saved my life. And by the next remark, she shouted out to me." Luke said and as Malcolm crossed his arms then.

"Luke!" We heard through a rumbling growl at that the rug he was standing on suddenly got pulled out from under him and he fell to the floor as it was dragged 50 yards through the hall. "Help!" he yelled and Dave shouted it over us as we went after him. "Luke!" I snapped and Dave said the next one. "Get off!" he shouted as we repeated. "Luke, get off, get off." Theo and I shouted out together at that as it went flying into the foyer .

Before it stopped, 15 feet outside the fireplace then, throwing him into the fireplace and hitting the logs hard then. As he landed on the floor as we stopped, before he stood up, before I remembered it then. "Oh my god, Luke get out now, Luke!" I shouted as we heard a sudden roar as the flue opened and came down. "Duck!" Dave and I shouted out together and he dodged the swing, before it hit him in the back of the head.

"We had the damn thing with the mouth opened, but that decapitated him." Catherine said and we nodded to that. "We know, the mouth opened on our's as well and seeing that, Dave and I shouted at him to duck. He ducked the mouth, but got hit in the back of the head by the metal head itself then. Knocking him unconscious, but I just saved his life, he saved me by killing the car." I said as we watched that memory then gently.

"Honestly that was what the nightmare was about, either this or his getting killed by the explosion during the first week of my recovery after you got me to the hospital." I told them and the trio nodded as he hugged me at that. "You're not going to lose me, ever, but to protect you, I did what needed to be done, sis. We all came out of this in one piece, it was time to return to face it." Luke said, hugging me and I leaned into him then.

And he collapsed to the floor then and I nodded firmly. "First me, then him." I said as Dave tried to get him out of range and I grabbed his arm then. "Nobody move." I snapped, just as the trap door opened and ash and bones started flying as us. "Quick, get to the landing, the stairs!" I shouted over the noise and they nodded as Dave touched my back as we covered up and ran up the stairs as she said it shakily at this.

"We can't get out, why won't he let us leave?" she asked and he quickly added on to it. "What do we do Eleanor?" he asked and I thought over the way the house was set up with the trap doors all over the place and the size of the house made me realize it. "He played hide and seek with Andy and his friends, that's why he built the house, you have to hide." I told him and he looked at me in shock as he answered me.

"Hide?!" he said as he moved up the stairs to the landing. "Just what does he think this is, a game?!" he said in shocked anger, looking around for the next trap. "What's going to happen?" he asked calming down as she finished that. "Why does he want us?" she asked and I shook my head. "The movie was in our point of view, their's and mine from here, but this was the conversation left out of it, leading into our separation."

"And before they saw me in the confrontation." I said and they all nodded, as I watched my past self say it. "It's not you, its me, and for whatever reason I'm not sure yet, but I've taken enough bombshells tonight. I have no idea where that ability started from, my mother never told me that. Or where we originated from, let alone why my great, great grandfather moved to Boston in the first place.

"But there is reason he came after me, and I have to find out why." I said as she sighed as I looked at him. "Our conversation over nightmare on elm street is pretty accurate right now." I said and he nodded. "Which part of the series exactly?" he asked and I explained it to him. "Part three, I'm holding two spots, but the latest arrival and the primary protagonist, you're her fellow psychiatrist."

"And the one trying to put an end to him for good here, but that's why mom is comming you and dad with her. But they chose you to finish what they started regarding him, with me. We're the sole survivor, my experience in poltergeist intrusions and this lunatic. And you grew attached to the latest arrival in your patients, Sarah is that girl to you, you are determined to put an end to this."

"With me as the psychiatrist trying to protect the kids, Theo and Luke from him, just to put an end to this lunatic, he's Krueger." I told me and he nodded. "Sarah loves me like a father now, and she and Andy are the targets, we got to protect. If you're playing Langenkamp..." he started to say and I nodded. "That's right, you keep him budy, I got to get him into a trap right now, but we're psychiatrists."

"Lead him into a trap and let my friends in the door finish him off, you remember part two of the dream series. Master of my dreams, this was the point, I'm three of the protagonists ruled into one. Said all girls and they all stopped him, but this is what if her father and she survived now." I told him and he nodded firmly as he got his position in this right then as he answered me.

"Lovely, if whatever happened earlier is connected to you looking like you got hit hard, and I am killing the person that did it later." Theo said in response for him as she took my hand as he finished that. "Andy, Andy is the boy he put into a coma, Sarah is the latest arrival and between us. We got to put an end this, and now, before someone gets killed tonight, Luke." he said and I nodded to him then gently.

As I said it with a firm tone to both of them. "Screw trying the extreme measures now of getting out baby, if I'm not the one who did that. And he's not the one pulled that stunt in yanking the chairs out of your grip. It's got to be my mother or father who told you to not to try the window. By yanking the chairs out of your grip and he's just barely missed killing himself by destroying the painting."

"If mom did that she told you to stop and pull yourself together David and she's telling you the exact same thing Theo. Listen to me both of you, what she's trying to say is pull yourselves together. But stay away from the windows and other areas he's likely to boobytrap, but even worse now. Mom's hovering around trying to keep this under control as is my father now and with it."

"And if she just heard Luke's remark on the fireplace, she knows I'm trying to keep you from killing yourselves. And out of your fear, but this is what she did in her job, stay cool and relax. If I'm also pyrotechnic, I would have put out the damn fire anyway and with that, get it under control and fast. Pull yourselves together you guys, you should have just listened to me and stayed outside."

"Before coming back in, if I can see these ghosts, it probably means you just interrupted the reason why they called me back in the house. So if dad gave you orders to end the investigation because he and mom had something to tell me. Then it's the final connection I need to know from her as to why I seem to be getting targeted specifically by the bastard, but that's part of the problem."

"And you and Luke are making it worse, but now your fears just resulted in breaking several windows. And barely missed killing himself with the damn flue, if he's trying to kill me, it's because he knows I'm a member of the family. and that secret of the doors is getting activated right now guys. I was already beginning to put it together, but whatever this ability is has gone haywire.

"I can't control it, because mom never trained me. If Caroline is family, there's got to be a reason he targeted me in the first place. I don't know why he wants me specifically." I told him and he nodded. "This is getting serious right now." he told me and I nodded as the exhaustion was taking hold and he looked at me. "Honey you alright?" he asked and I shook my head as my legs gave and he grabbed me then.

"Dizzy spells, added strenuous activity and you were drenched in sweat earlier, damnit, Luke I told you, we can't leave till morning. Baby, where you get hit exactly, because that's why you're so worn out?" he asked and Theo's eyes narrowed as she looked at me as he repeated the question then as he looked at her gently. "I took it to my side earlier." I told him and he nodded as he answered him.

"Honey, what is it exactly?" he asked me and I sighed as he looked at me gently. "I'm not sure, but whatever it is, now isn't the time, we got to stay out of areas he can booby trap or come at us from all corners, we got to keep moving." I said gently before looking over his shoulder and to see the painting with the spikes coming down at them. "No watch out." I snapped at them and they quickly turned.

And in time for the painting on the stairs to come down as they backed up as it sliced him across the chest and Theo across the arm. "God, Jesus." he said in pain at that touching his chest. "Scaring us isn't enough for him, it's now booby traps as well, back off you bastard." Theo snapped as the next warning came up. And I hid a nod as I saw the next attempt and quickly said it sharply to Craine at that right then sharply

"Damn it Craine you're not going to hurt them, you leave them alone!" I snapped as they turned to see the marble Griffin attack us as I grabbed a piece of plywood. "Get out of here guys!" I snapped as she smacked it in the head, and I snapped it out again. "Go Theo, just go, I'll catch up." I said and he nodded as he pulled Theo out of range. "Eleanor follow us, follow us." he told me and they left as they took several halls.

"Want to do prior?" Theo asked and they nodded. "What's that exactly, the car and you heading back into the house?" Alix asked and we nodded. "Yeah it is, but they didn't know what I was doing in there or why I left, mom unlocked the door from the inside. But piled around the room were several items I recognized, not the least of which is a standing version to this music box mom gave me at Sarah's age at the time."

"I reached the level where I could see my parents finally as they moved to me and mom had me sit down getting ready to tell me then." I told them and they nodded. "Better just show us your conversation if we interrupted the reveal Nellie, we need to see this. If you took on the edge of confidence and knowing what to do that fast." Theo said and Dave nodded as I saw the tape sitting next to the one he found at that and nodded then.

"There we go, found it right now, here's the portion from the attack in the bedroom, to when you realized I was missing and came back in." I said and the trio nodded to me as Dave explained it to the quartet at that remark. "The shock she was in just wore off, but she knew what this was, but she couldn't tell if what was happening was real or not. And till I got her attention and she snapped out of it." he said and they nodded as it started.

As we headed outside. "Come on, I'm not staying in the crazy house another minute, come on." Luke called to us as they tried climbing up the fence as Dave pulled his car in. "David, how did you know the he wanted me, why did you call me and twll me to look for your ad." I asked and he loooked at me quickly at that. "Ad, but I didn't call you." he said and I nodded, thinking it over then as I said it to him.

"You told me to look in the paper." I said and he sighed. "Eleanor the first time I spoke to you was here at the house, I would never do anything to put you at risk. And I mean all of you in that, but you're my very reason for living now, it was never me, but we survive this. And we're getting this worked out, I love you, I loved you from the second I met you." he said and pulling me into a hug.

As I heard a final clang and Luke sighed as he said it then. "It was then I remembered your orders to kill the car right then if we had to. So I told him we had to crash the gate, and then said I needed to use the Yugo to try it, Uncle Jack." he said and Jack nodded as he smiled at the new title. "Starting to remember now son?" he asked and then Luke smiled as he got it. "Dad's brother was a cop." he started to say and his eyes widened.

"Your father had a brother and sister, but the sister married a man named Eric Benson kiddo, the Benson family, Tony, me and Amy, added family. Jane Benson, Eric Benson, his brother, Jack Benson, me." he said and Luke smiled at him in delight. "Dad's brother in law is a cop, you are..." he said and Jack nodded. "Yeah, but though your parents moved you to L.A., like your cousin, she's your adoptive cousin, you came home to the den."

"The family is from Concord, just like the Craine's and the Vance families are." he said and we nodded as Luke hugged me. "Cousins and if it was the same for me?" Theo asked and they nodded. "Yeah, your parents are also from here, so the Vances, Willis's and Sanderson clans got reunited, but this was why you never remembered that. You grew up in Manhattan, Luke in LA. and Ellie in Boston." Beth said and we all nodded smiling then.

"Yeah alright keep it going." Peter said and we nodded as Luke tried one last time then, before dropping the shovel. "We got to try to crash the gate." he said and she looked at him and then at the fence as he repeated that to us. "We have to crash the gate, Nell, I need your car." he said and I nodded. "There's three more bags in it, let me get them out." I told him then and he nodded to me as the duo pulled the bags from it.

And set them aside as he grabbed the keys. "Eleanor, Eleanor come back, come back!" we heard and they nodded as I walked back into the house. And as he got into the car and turned it on then as he rounded the corner then. "Move get out of the way!" he said and they both moved back then as he drove full speed and slammed into it as I saw his head hit the windshield from the blow, as Theo shouted it out then.

"Luke!" she said, before the spiked inner section of the gate came down and landed on top of the car roof nailing the doors shut then. As she pounded on the window to get his attention. "Luke, you alright?!" she asked and he quickly said it to her. "Open the door!" he said and they nodded. "I smell gas." she said and he quickly said it as Dave said it sharply. "Oh god." Dave said sharply and checked it and his eyes widened.

"The tank is leaking, turn the engine off." he said as he tried to get the door open and then repeated it. "Turn the engine off!" he repeated and she pounded on the window. "Luke turn off the engine!" she said and quickly and he tried to turn the key. "Damn it, it won't go!" he said sharply and we nodded. "Switch it back to what was going on inside the house before we came back in there." Dave said and I nodded to him.

"Sarah, Andy, Rob where are you?!" I said raising my voice, but not enough the trio could hear me and I saw the trio roll up to me and jump once and nodded. "Baby, follow the trio, we have to talk." Mom said, speaking the words this time as she was tapping them out as she came out in her billiard ball form. "I reached the level, I can see you finally?!" I said in delight and she jumped once as dad did the same now.

As he joined them the quartet and I nodded as they moved up the stairs and headed for a corridor and I rounded the corner and saw the door open. Heading in that direction I came into the room and saw two carriages and the room looked like the nursery. In the like action version story to Peter Pan in Hook then as the quintet rolled to a box with a handle and I moved to it and opened it and smiled at the image as my bag sat down.

And I opened it and grabbed the music box and sat it next to the big one, looking between them I saw they were identical. "That's a book sized version to the one you were playing with when we got in there?!" Luke said in amazement and I nodded. As several books appeared on the floor, and I dug through my bag for the paperbacks. to each one and smiled and I got it as I looked between them, the quintet then softly.

As a sudden white light appeared and I lifted my gaze and saw my parents standing there. "Mom, dad, I missed you guys so much." I said and they nodded gently. "We know baby, we miss you too, but you reached the level finally. In where you can see us now, every member of the Craine clan learns this information. From the previous generation at the level you reached now finally, but listen to me."

"As you guessed after all the clues I left you, you are descended from Caroline, but our family had the ability to interact with the other side. At times, we could see evidence to crimes, like Kevin's character in Stir of Echoes. Others we could act like Tangina, your grandmother is both of these now and passed them on. From herself, to Fred, Suzanne, your grandfather and to me now finally."

"You are the end of the true ownership of the house, this was why I wanted to get you together with David. And give us another generation in the family bloodline, but like you decoded the acts on the doors. That's what we do, we are the gate keepers, the positive gate keepers, the demons. They got a keeper, we lead them in judgment day, you remember, Ma'at, that is what we do."

"The doors had a certain code to us as the gate keepers, they respond to only us, mentally, though they respond in code to others connected to us. Matters of evil like the Patrick's character, he lead his friend into a trap. And the keepers: said either the angels or the demons took them, Luke was correct on hugh. He is monster but his soul is loaded with sin it's time he is to be judged now."

"But Hugh's crimes have condemned him to eternity in hell, you must run judgment in front of the doors. Before giving the sentence, the lord has decided we are to give judgement for a crazed family member. The group I released when you were 21..." she started to say and that did it. "Jump back to us and we bring both sides together after that." Luke said to me and I nodded as he and Theo stayed put.

"The group that caused the triply bypass were the 11's older brothers and sisters, we got them: Andy and his gang, we get it." Luke added, completing the sentence and mom and dad nodded. "Yes this was why I suggested you get Rick and Daniel, they can run triage as this triggers an overload in sensors. And in where cardio control is concerned, for my daughter, it's necessary." Mom said and they nodded to her.

As the trio sat on both sides of me then. "Luke you got to get out." she said as I saw Dave grab the shovel a second time. "Luke Cover up." he called out and quickly said it to her. "Stand back." he said and she quickly back up at that as Luke covered his face then. "Hurry up, come on." she said and he swung hard as he broke the window, before clearing the glass away from it, as he dropped the shovel and motioned to him.

As he climbed out of the window. "Grab my arms." he said and they got a hold of him and yanked him out as they got a good look. "One spark and that car goes up, well at least that protects her from Webster's attempt to murder her." he said and Dave nodded as I heard Theo say it it then. "Oh god, where's Nell?" she asked and Dave turned. "What?" he said and Luke closed his eyes at that as they came back in.

As I heard the trio calling out to me, "Eleanor!" "Nell!" "Eleanor!" I heard the duo call out to me and the sextet disappeared or hid and I sat down and Dave nodded to that. "A single signal was enough to tell me you were in there, but I didn't consider. In how you got the damn door open, but seeing your bag of books lying around. That it was slowly dawning on me you were about to say you had to finish what Becky started now."

"And lock him back up, but the fear of you trying that would kill you and I was trying to find an alternative to prevent you from separating from us and staying here. Or worse, you leaving us by a dangerous suicidal move like that right now." Theo said and I nodded as I leaned into my adoptive cousin and she hugged me protectively then. "I was born under Sekmhet, a desire for justice now and he was born under Seth now."

"Under direct translation the lord had me acting as his judge and Hugh was sentenced to an eternity in hell now. But to do that I had to get him in front of the doors at the time, but what I never got to hear as she said he's a family member. That was the piece I needed, she said he was a monster like Luke said, but like Maggie, or the twins. I had to stop my family member before we could heal from the damage he did to us right now."

"And then unload that truth to you next and as we know and knew the car was a trap, as I decided to set Lou up to take the fall. And you guys signed the contract, so he's off the hook, there was no getting the insurance back. So David and Malcolm passed your test guys." I said and the trio nodded to the remark as the trio nodded. "You want to do that conversation or jump over it." I asked and my parents age group answered that.

"Fast forward to where you tell the trio to get out before he slams the doors on you." Rick said and I nodded as fast forwarded it passed our conversation. "Nell, we don't have much time, we got to go." Luke said and I nodded. "I know, but if you don't want to get trapped in the house we got to get you three outside. Go I got to get you outside, come on." I said and we quickly headed down the hall at that remark.

As I heard doors slamming. "Hurry up, the window is closing." I snapped and and they charged to the front door and it slammed shut. "No, no let us out!" Luke and Theo shouted and watching them for five minutes then. I knew it was over their window had closed and the fight for survival had begun now. "He's not going to let you go!" I said, shouting it to them and they froze up as Dave looked at me as I said it gently at that.

"It's too late, he's not going to let you go." I said and Dave said it firmly. "The hell he's not, I'm getting us out, come on." he said and and they moved into the dining room. "Nell what's going on?" Luke asked and I explained that to him then. "There was a window of oppprtunity of 7 to 8 hours till dawn where the window. That we had slammed shut to get out, before all Saint's Day begins now."

"Egyptian New Year, it's the year of Ma'at, his soul gets weighed tonight, this was why he was trying to scare us out of the house, before then. I'm the one in control of those doors, positive gatekeeper, the Dream Master." I said and they nodded. "So what now, tick him off enough to get the final sentence, issued by you and the trio on the doors?" Theo asked and me and I nodded to her then gently.

"Just don't do anything to make him dangerously enraged or he's going to do more then scare the heck out of you guys." I told them and we looked at the bars on the window and he smiled and pulled a multitool out of his pocket. "One way out: through the windows, should work, just watch the glass." he said and Dave nodded as he tried it and started on the window as he grabbed a chair then firmly.

"Dad, were you filming the entire story as the remarks removed were put into the book?" I asked and he nodded to me. "Yeah baby we did, but this is us if you and Dana were still teenagers at the times. But she was right, in all honesty we adopted Dana, when Patrick and Erica were transferred to Cleveland. Malcolm, you're part of the family now, as are you David." he said and they all nodded smiling then.

"So the triplets were the real grandchildren, she had them with her since they were born, but Richie got the spoiled brat spiel?" Theo asked and they all nodded to answer him. "Yeah baby that's it exactly and secondly Jane had him out of wedlock, so he married her because he got her pregnant." Jack told them and they all nodded as my friends on the team crossed their arms in annoyance at the way Jane raised her family then in disgust.

"Yeah alright that's good enough for me, but again, in your next trip here, with me as the M.D., I'm bringing Daniel as the surgeon. So with that, he has triage and I got basic medical, if our newbies start freaking out, then we're arresting them and sedating them." Rick said and I nodded in agreement. "Our unit sticks together, the six of us, Janet and Tony with us, Peter and Carol with you guys, Liam." Todd said and they nodded to him.

"Alright guys, we better mark who sits where at the moment for us adults at the table right now. With 15 adults and another 22 for the kids, we got in total 37 people now and another 10 to 20 guests coming this summer for the research project." Mary said and I nodded in agreement as she, Theo and I moved to the dinner table as they. And I, marked it as I was in front of Dave, Theo in front of Luke and Mary in front of Todd then.

Before Catherine, Alex and Lily did their's and I smiled as I saw their matching it to the movie then and Theo chuckled and nodded. "Well that helps, for us we got us in front of our soulmates, for our doubles, they're re-enacting the way we had it that first night." Luke said, seeing the set up then and we nodded to that. "The first person that starts talking about the pharmaceuticals at dinner, is a getting pillow taken to the head here."

"We're not doing that conversation twice." Mary said in response and Lily and Catherine started laughing at that. "Sleep deprivation and fear and hysteria, you knew what you were getting into when you did this right now. But they are getting the truth, the house is haunted, though the kids, my parents and my grandparents, aunt and uncle. Are making like the invisible man so we can see them at the moment here now in this case."

"We're not lying, that is the truth, fear studies mixed with sleep deprivation, insomnia studies, so with that in mind they got the truth here now. Mom you got the agreement papers on the contract you created for us?" I asked and 80 flyers and several dozen other papers appeared on the table and we nodded as Dave looked at me as he said it. "No lying we tell the truth, everything they need to know is in the book on our last trip here."

"We do it again, but the amount we are offering for this now is enough, if someone gets hurt, we pay the medical bills now. But this is what I'm putting in my ad this time and they call me up to sign up for this right now." Dave said, and I nodded to that. "We got three months to repair the house and do renovations here, it's early February. So from now to June 1st is long enough, to make repairs and add a swimming pool to the house."

"That Pool is on the side of the house, but though we leave the fence locked when not going anywhere. We can have them playing sports too, so a baseball field on that side side of the fence not pointing toward the lake, as dad provided the baseball equipment. Another field for soccer and football and a tennis court should do it, so that helps, no tv but books to read, they can listen to the radio and it's like being at the college."

"So Street hockey, tennis, basketball, that's in a chained linked area off to the side of the house next to the lake. Baseball, football and soccer on that side of the house." I said pointing towards the wall leading into the field next to the greenhouse. "A swimming pool, card games, the billiard tables, books and a music room. So though no tv, internet or cable, they can listen to the radio and the news that way, as a result here."

"Markway and his book double had the right idea, about this being like a summer long get away, for people who prefer to get away from it all." I said and they nodded. "With us living in range of the house, being the only ones to right now, we guard the area. In around the house from the viewpoint to the front gate right now, a..., I would say. 7,000 feet is enough for both houses." Mary said and Luke nodded in agreement to that.

"Yeah I agree with you on that, the six of us live in range of each other, we supply the cub section with added toys at the clinic and a few other things. You think anyone is in shock we can throw money around like this?" Luke asked and I nodded to him. "Maybe, but my family are philanthropists, we're also catholics, Grandpa March though. Truthfully he was a Priest, and he would agree that to do this is considered charity right now."

"Father William March, husband of Sarah March, but like I said it was Caroline to Fred, Fred to Suzanne, Suzanne to Bill, Bill to mom and then mom to me. Sarah, her real name was Parker, so two men in the family, my grandfather passed on the family name now." I told him, before I heard a voice I hadn't heard 16 years. "No kidding baby, it was time for that truth to come out now finally anyway." he said and I turned at that.

To see my grandparents standing there and smiled. "Dave, guys, this is my grandfather, Bill March and his wife Sarah." I said and they nodded. "Boy, am I relieved you remember the family history, baby, there were three philanthropists. Out of the family bloodline in the family, but my grandfather Frederick. Charlie, that's your father's side of the family and me." he said and the team nodded in shock to that.

"Charlie, as in Charles Robert Vance junior?!" Luke said in shock and we nodded. "Yeah kiddo, that's right, truthfully now, is that's my full name actually, Charles Robert Vance V." dad said and they nodded in amazement. "I see why your mother bought a Yugo then Nell, to stay inconspicuous at the time." Theo said and my parents nodded to confirm thought gently as Malcolm and Dana chuckled at the remark

"Is it any wonder why she would want to be a volunteer, she's selfless to a fault and she's descended from 3 philanthropists at the moment." Malcolm said smiling and dad chuckled and nodded. "Yeah and sweetheart, you don't have to dig into the vaults, just use the savings bond boxes, in total there is $15,000,000,000,000. Renovations and add ons comes to a total of $150,000,000 at the moment here now."

"We get this done in 4 months and everything is ready as they see that our family is like the Rich family in that comic book strip." Dad said smiling and I nodded to that. "For the newspaper company in town, I can call in a delivery of newspapers at the check point. Just so the adults can keep up with things in the outside world." I said and the Dudleys nodded agreement as we exchanged bemused smiles.

"Best make sure we got a few dozen newspapers brought in as breakfast, and dinner is the easy part, not just family caretakers anymore, but your family and adoptive relatives. And two you guys got the run of the house while you help me when I need it, that's my job, and you guys cover lunch for yourselves and our guests, baby." Beth told me and I nodded as Dave answered that remark as the quartet took seats next to us then.

"Yes and we just make this highly clear as this house is 15,000 feet, and we don't need someone getting lost or doing anything stupid. The catch 22 form I gave to you guys is getting called in." He said and I nodded in agreement, before I heard an answering response to that. "I get why Dave, but Eric and I are here to sign off on that disclaimer that Becky gave you the last time." I heard and turned to see the town judge then.

And with him was the town district attorney, the head medical doctor at the hospital and the mayor then and I smiled. "Hey Uncle Peter, Uncle Jared, Eric, Tom good to see you." I said and Peter moved to me and gave me a hug at that. "Hey sweetheart good to see you too, Jack called the office and told us what you had in mind right now." he said as my parents stepped forward and they looked at them in shocked delight as Jefferson said it.

"Rob, Becky, Bill, I don't believe it, so does this mean you guys are sticking around for a while?" he asked smiling and dad answered that. "Yeah Jare' it does, the kids decided on a more direct approach for the project, but this one now. This one covers a highly more advanced touch to it for this is in our town's jurisdiction. And for who knows how long, they try to take it to court and it's a no go here."

"They signed the disclaimer, so this lawsuit, it gets swept under the rug and we did warn them in the way Becky warned the duo the last time they were here. You're the supreme court judge in the county anyway, Peter, once you call off the lawsuit, there is no appeal, Dave made it clear. Their loss of temper lays them out for damages paid back on this." Dad said and Peter nodded firmly to that.

"What the heck, what are they doing here?!" Derek said and I turned. "What's wrong baby?" I asked and Jason turned with a firm look on his face. "Looks like they followed the town government here after Uncle Jack and his team arrived. She was waiting, hiding herself in town waiting for someone to lead her to the house. Heard several people say Craine, Marrow and the house and then saw Uncle Peter and his team and followed you."

"Dad, Richie and Jane are here!" Jason called out from the foyer and and I went to look and saw them standing out in the front gate and Jack's team crossed their arms then. "Guys, she broke her parole, take her back to Boston once we do this, Eric, I know that it's getting late, but they're under house arrest at a hotel tonight. Lock the door on your side of the room and post a guard, Jack." Peter said under his breath to him firmly.

"One night at a hotel and then we take her back to Boston, Peter?" Tom asked and he nodded in agreement. "Yeah they done enough damage to my cousin, but enough is enough right now, I don't want them anywhere near her starting now. We're moving on and the six of us us are staying here, forever." Luke said hugging me and I leaned into his chest as he and I stayed next to him, Dave and Theo as Peter walked out the door.

"Young lady, what may I ask you are doing here?" Peter asked sternly as he walked to the front of the fence with it still locked at the moment and she looked at him. "Who are you?" she asked and he crossed his arms. "Judge Peter Hawthorne, young lady, the Concord government judge." he said as Aunt Erica and Beth stood there sternly. "Judge, you're a judge?!" she said in shock and fear and he nodded sternly to her at that.

"Yeah that's right young lady, your mother was connected to some very powerful people but not, you are not her daughter, Ellie is the sole heir to the family fortune. As for Dana, she's the adopted heir and boys are the true marital heirs to the family fortune. But before doing anything, you should have re-read the will, as a true Craine. Or adopted Craine, knows the will is a fake the second they heard these words now, young lady."

"Shall have the right, as he shall see fit, that wasn't suggestion young lady, but a question, we were all born in the time, before we started talking like you. But our predecessors are your grandparents they talk like that, and your grandfather is a priest. Or did you forget that on purpose, Bill is a priest, your family are philanthropists, remember." Peter said and she swallowed as he gripped the fence looking at her then.

"Your sister was selfless to a fault, but as a result during that six week stay here in Concord, she reconnected to us and we got our bonds back into place." he said sternly and she swallowed hard at that. "You really, honestly never expected us to learn that truth right now, you should have been a bit more wise in this case now." he said as I stood there leaning against Dave who was holding me from behind right then.