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 and the next, there's going to be a legal discussion for the project in Eleanor's POV. 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 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 22: Legal Documents, Emotional Truths And Dinner Preparations III
Legal Contracts And House Preparations II-Eleanor's POV:
"And this is goodbye Jane, from here on out, the Marrows, Watts, Sandersons and the Keoughs never want to see you again." I said for the four of us and she looked at me. "Nell, please don't do this." she said and I shook my head. "You did it to yourself, you committed a felony and got caught, long before you could get the real will. There is no going back, what's done is done and now you pay the consequences for your actions."
"But you are not my family, my side of the Craine clan, you belong to Aunt Alicia's side of the family, and I really shouldn't be surprised. That your side is like the social elitists of the 20th century when they murdered the D deck passengers at the time. Well now it's our turn and this is goodbye, I have a family, I have everything I want. And now you live my life, after the triple bypass starting now." I said as I leaned into David firmly at that.
"Tell the hotel manager to give them anything they want for dinner and breakfast, but the door stays locked, unless it's room service. Also give the owner this, to put in some upgrades on the hotel." I said and passed an envelope to Hancock and he nodded, as he checked the amount and looked at me in shock. "That's 10.5 million, Nellie!" Peterson said and I nodded. "Okay, we get it." Hancock said, bemused as he looked at Jane.
"We are placing you under full house arrest as soon as we get back to town." Hancock said sternly as he grabbed her arm and pushed her into his car. And as they took her car back to town, Peter looked at Jack. "Jack, I want an escort for her back to Boston and tell Geoffrey that my decision is she's under house arrest till the day of the trial. Richard is being home schooled starting from today till the trial." he said and Jack nodded to him.
"Do it, guys, I want her on the third floor and no balcony whatsoever, the precinct is guarding the hotel she's at till tomorrow morning. Room service is fine, but there will be no attempts to try and get fast food as the room she's getting is a suite for the night." he said and they nodded as Peterson took the car and she and Richie were in the backseat. And of their squad car, with Jane's silent tears running down her face as they left.
"Well she knows she's seeing us as far more stern then what she expected as our favorite was always Ellie when they were kids at the time. But she's Petunia, he's Dudley and Louis is Vernon, Ellie is playing the part of Lillian Evans and she found her own kind. And her soulmate in David, but if I see this as anything the first born son is likely Harry himself now." Rick said, crossing his arms and mom and dad nodded in agreement.
"Well in my eyes here is this, is we took it the next one down right now, but we're following the family line, the will for family in the matriarch. And with it now is going to be that that suitcase and the savings bond boxes are being refilled for this and given to Wilson and hidden here at the house. But with those words in mind is my daughter has my powers." I said and they nodded as Dave smile gently at the news then firmly then.
"If that's the case, then my son is the next generation for the Craine family and my daughter, if I have twins, is the keeper of the doors herself now. But until then, we go this one step at a time right now, your honor, with us going over this. We need to arange it and make it clear now here on this, but the rules were clear on this. But this is not spending a night in a haunted house without details, I'm making the rules of this now."
"I'm also making this highly clear that we're being honest here with them, that everything was detailed in the movie and further explanation in my book. So there is no reason to say they came under false pretense at the time right now. And secondly and more important, this is as close to the movie as you can get. So life imitating art, imitating life is the prognosis, and two and more importantly right now here."
"This project is drug free and there are to be absolutely no guns in this house, real or b.b. guns, none at all. They break our rules, and they're being ejected from the program and paid in full. So $2,900 a week, if they choose to stay till All Saints Day, then it's an added $2,500,000 added on to it. There will be team colors, but as my team is the original with our doubles next to us, we're assigning two members of their team now."
"Tony and Janet are with my team, Peter and Carol with our doubles and the sextet will be put with the teams as they arrive. And the kids have got their own team and Anthony Benson is joining up later on with Kimberly and a couple of their friends. But the rules are underlined three times and there is a catch 22 form that will be put into the folder. So Kiersey temperament sorter psyche, a box carrying the following items as well too."
"As my book is a hardback one, so same as the movie, but once they sign that form, they're under contract now that they know everything they do is under legal documents. Documents signed by you as the judge and D.A. prosecuting the case if they decide to sue us. And for reckless endangerment though we warned them it's not a game, but a possible repeat." Dave said and the town leadership nodded firmly in agreement then.
"Before we do that, it's time guys, the letter mom gave me the night we met." I said and the quintet nodded to me. "Wait what do you mean by that, Aunt Nell?" Jason asked as the triplets came back into the dining room as we were talking. And I pulled out the message mom had hidden for us in my books and gave it to Dave then. "That was passed to us after we realized this game between you girls was rigged in advanced actually."
"After realizing her parents were hanging around though we couldn't see them, I decided to ask and this was passed to me. But you, like me agreed if she got sick and gave us the deed, we'd never sell the house." Dave said as he gave it to Dana and she read it out loud. "David, you and Malcolm were the intended executors of the apartment, truthfully I rigged the test, so they didn't see this coming till it was too late.'."
"Like she just told you, Dana is my god daughter, Malcolm adopted son-in-law, I spoke to him and he gave the same answer you just did. As psychiatrists we can read between the lines and their greed just blew every dime. In their side of it, the house belongs to Eleanor, but 7 equal shares in my deposit box. And insurance, totaling over $750,500,000,000,000, for the entire team."
"That briefcase, I'm giving you tomorrow is the rest of the money that goes to the six of you and Malcolm and Dana. You were my intended suitor for my daughter.'." she read out and he looked up at me. "We get the lion's share and she gets 10% of what she deserves for her behavior, nice stab in the back Sis, that is great." Dana said as she started laughing and he nodded as the triplets crowded around us at that.
"What's the entire amount in total if we add dad to this?" Malcolm asked and he smiled. "That's the added $150,000,000,000,000 in total, Malcolm." he said and I finished it to them gently at that. "Since things shifted course that week, after I told them our history together, we already bonded like family, but prior to the test ending. And during the pre-probate, the documents handed to us said there was seven equal shares now here."
"Malcolm, the will said seven equal shares in the amount that mom left me 18 months ago, so between us and you can build your summer house up here too. And with us all together, though you are the parapsychology department in Boston. The suitcase, the deposit boxes and mom's insurance plan, totaling in amount. Of $900,000,000,000,000, I want to give your family your share now." I added and he nodded to me at the news.
"That's $250,000,000,000 each between us, before you refill both boxes and give them to Wilson, Nell!" Dana said in shock to me and I nodded to her. "That and the suitcase, but that suitcase, it's time to refill it, as I exchange gold for cash." I said and she nodded in agreement to that. "But same as my mother, I'm doing this in the way she would do it, but I know the triplets would share this, but same test." I said and she nodded in agreement to that.
"We know the point of the test, all it takes is hearing the key words we know it's a test, but though not blood, doesn't matter. We're Craines as well, we know, the first will is a fake, and the real one is given out 18 months later." Jamie said and I nodded in agreement to that. "You guys are the older of our side of the family baby, so you and my children need to discuss it when the time comes." I said and they nodded gently to me at tat.
"You're my sister Dana, you deserve your share of the inheritance finally, you guys were the good egg. Like Dave and I are, she gets 1/10th of what she deserves, you share the lions share with us now." I said and they smiled in gratitude at that as I went further as I looked between them. "Chance hazards in this family, you got to watch out for what greed does to you." Dana said in response and I nodded in agreement to that.
"The four of us never spent more then 10 million in our shares, since we left Concord 18 months ago, so it's time for the amounts to be divvied out now." I said and opened up the suitcase and divided up the piles till we each had $250,000,000,000 in amounts then. "You can use that to create your houses and the kids have got a summer home to come to every summer as we build your house." I said and they nodded smiling to me gently.
"My true family, you two were my family, but I was closer to you then I ever was to the Websters, good friends and my sister and brother in law, my nephews and niece. Look at how close it was and the second you hear what happened up here and you guys. You and Rick nearly threw him in the tank and nearly killed him at the time for my injuries. But mom chose you over them." I said and she and Malcolm nodded gently at that remark.
"We appreciate that and thank you, well that solves that and why not add a stable for a few horses and the volunteers can go horse back riding as well." Malcolm suggested and I nodded as I added that to the suggestions and the council exchanged bemused smiles. "Combination summer get away and going camping as that lake is 80 feet deep in the middle guys?" Tom asked and we nodded to him smiling as Dave said it for me then.
"We're spending $10,000,000 for upgrades, the stuff that comes with just being around the property, but that's not the courts or a swimming pool. But several jet skis and a way to enjoy being on the lake during summer, another 20 million for food. But the adult who want a break from modern conveniences, they can come here enjoy being at an adult version to summer camp, like on the movie." he said and I finished that remark gently
"Tom, my family is buying the land up here, 500 acres and there's four houses, they have a house, a mansion, half the size of my house. So we protect the town, and by making sure he never breaks out of the doors ever. But in addition to that, the area is being bought and paid for, for a new case of jobs. But do you have farrier in town, someone who is looking for a job, in a horse ranch?" I asked and he smiled at the remark gently.
"You're kidding, in addition to your studying parapsychology you're willing to have the local teenagers come here for a summer job every day?!" Peter said in amazement and I nodded. "Yeah they got a chance to work for the summer every summer to pay for school funds, in addition to what jobs in retail they have. I know the adults never come closer then 9 miles during the day and never at night after what you heard that last night."
"Before I ended up in ICU, but Richie Rich style, I'm offering what I got to help others in need in addition to things, but my property. If there is not enough work to go around from 8 to 5, I'm offering to pay for a few members in staff and their job. That job is acting as employees at the ranch up here, further up the road, say a mile. There will be few things, but jobs a plenty for camp positions as Rick and Beth are my caretakers."
"Fishing, horse back riding and a few other things, the only thing I'm not allowing with us this far out is hunting equipment. But this is teenager, college age teenager and from young to full adult in the summer get away right now. Richie Rich style, anything they want to do if they headed for the lake in Maine or just up in Washington. Campgrounds in California and Canada over the summer, we got it." I said and Dave finished that remark.
"Hey dad, Aunt Nell you better see this." Jamie called out to me then and we went to look then at that. "Aw god not again, this one just got it to the head." Dave said to that and I nodded. "Well he certainly dead now, why would anyone want to kill him twice?" Todd asked and I nodded. "That seems so un-necessary." Theo said and I nodded as I exchanged looks with my husband and Mary at this situation.
"Well this is what we could call over kill now." Luke said and I looked at him then. "Yeah and I call this psychotic." I told him and Theo answered that. "Unless he wasn't dead before." she said and I nodded as Todd said it for all of us as the eight of us exchanged looks at this. "Yeah so what's the difference, this one is dead, so how many times do we have to kill him exactly?" he asked and Dave ended it at that as we exchanged looks.
"That's what we're trying to find out, but we can go over the who, what and where at another time, right now, but that's enough of this already." he said and I nodded in agreement. "And guys get cleaned up." I said and they nodded and headed for the showers at that. "I think they took the Clue jokes way too far, but this is ridiculous right now." Mary said and I nodded in agreement to her thoughts at that remark.
"Well someone is going to need a bath after getting doused in stage blood right now." I said and she nodded, before I heard a scream and turned. "Dad, you better see this!" Jamie shouted at us and we nodded as went to check and found the table in the parlor soaked a second time and this time a dummy was lying on it and next to it was a second who was lying by the shelf marking his study then.
"Charades on the murder/suicide job took on a new meaning, but last years mystery just took it seven steps too far right now. This must be what they were trying to tell me the night I found his ledger, but he lead me from my bed to the bookshelf which was the entrance into a secret passage. Leading into the study." I said as I decided to double check as I looked over who was lying on the table then.
"Well that's going too far right now, in the charades, but come on right now." Liam said with a chuckle and we nodded. "We know right now, but Andy was that you at the moment, or was that Robbie?" I asked and my uncle said it gently at that. "That was Joey, after I tried to get him out of the room, but first me and then him and it ended up at the bookshelf where you found our names in the ledger." he said and I nodded to the news.
"Not crossing the threshold of the fence, but rather the area around it, so with us like this our house is the size of that area, that is open to them, but passed the fence now. We're not taking chances and we seen to have noticed that this did turn into a repeater. Krueger attacked in their dreams here at the time, but this is even worse at the moment." he said and the town government nodded in agreement to that news then.
And as Peter said it to Dave and me. "The area around the house is $150,000,000, you two, so we do it now and pay Derek. And the property around the house belongs to you now, but added that much, in goodies, creating it the way you suggested. And I'm looking at $300,000,000., and in total amounts for this, but this is a way. Now to actually do philanthropy and your research now." he said and we nodded as I did that firmly then.
"As the town judge, can you get in touch with the supreme court Uncle Peter, as we made this quite clear with the fact we have a doctor here. Like Malcolm said, ethically and responsibly, so with that in mind it's taking it to legal actions now. And with those legal actions is a few renovations and updates on the house right now finally. Getting the metal works updated to carry the weight Luke, as it's supposed to here finally right now."
"So someone loses their tempers or annoys him and someone gets hurt and it's on their heads here, I warned them like Eleanor warned the duo. So this is no game and we meant it at the moment, the hill house project is undergoing a severe take. On it's last trip up here, that we need legal actions added to it, but in our eyes. Once was enough in the repeated scares and intrusions in this house." David said and the duo nodded to him.
"Good idea that issue is like the 'friends with benefits' catch on Richie Rich, and though the house is haunted, our local town legend is locked up in the doors. And till after school starts for the fall semester, I can bring that flyer up to at the next town board meeting. And teenagers who wants a job over the summer to pay for their tuition in school, come sign up after that." Luke said and Peter, Tom and Jack smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Good idea son, that works nicely, here let me read that, I just have to make one change and take this to the governor, as once in our state. Then it works nicely as technically we're in the state of Massacheusetts, we can just take this to the supreme court. But court and have them and the governor sign off on this now, or take this to the congress. As it was right there in catch 22." Peter said and made one change and then read it to us.
"Volunteers for this project if you found my ad in the events of the movie, then you know that this is an attempt. An attempt to being truthful, legal and completely responsible, during this visit up in the Berkshires. My wife, my friends, my boss as you saw his double in the movie. We decided this will simulate a Bed&Breakfast and a nice trip up to the campgrounds in Maine.'."
"My in-laws are very on board with the matter of charity to the point that this will be like living like the quartet of kids who connected to Richie Rich. As we live just outside of town, this matter of you doing this for research. If you need money and running low on funds in your scholarship is a critical element. If that is the case I must be blunt now and we prepared the following clause for you.'."
"As with the fact we made it clear when my mother in law gave this paper to my wife and our friends, this is critical. Catch 22: anyone loses their temper and someone gets hurt, because of that, your volunteer status gets revoked. And you are being paid 10x's what was offered on the volunteer status.'. Research subjects, $2,900 a week, room and board during testing in experiment.'."
"If you wish to stay until after Halloween there will be a bonus of $2,500,000, for any who need the extra money. When as young adults in college and doing this project, but all you need to bring with you is clothes and transportation. Everything else will be provided, once you sign this form, than the contract begins and with it, this is being honest, we have a lawyer involved here.'."
"Standard form of contract and this is part of the program my team is running now, so whoever signs this contract, must understand this. As you saw from the side effects of my not telling my wife and friends the truth. It just barely killed her and my younger brother, that is not what this is now. I am being honest that this is a sleep deprivation study and mixed with it is fear studies.'."
"You saw what happened on the movie and read the book, but this time I am being straight forward with you in volunteer status now and volunteers. My wife and team are making this highly clear, this is not a game. But serious, so you sign this contract and you are in this and being paid. Whatever happens because you never controlled your temper is on your head, and not ours now in this."
"Standard reading, before and for previous trip here is in the package we sent you for this project. I am assigning team groups for each of you, so your group is the four or five members you are in. My wife and I are leading the original team with our friends, so us, our movie doubles and our teams. When in the parapsychology department, so in total 50 people are in this house right now.'."
"Once you arrive, your color team is marked by the color on your bedroom door now, in each team's cases here. With volunteer status in this is this now, but there will be six items in this package for you, among them are these items. Spare key to the chains on the fence, a copy of my book on my original trip to the house, a map of the areas that are open to all volunteers in the house."
"Directions to the house as there will be a several cops and a medical doctor here and his team. Any hunting equipment is confiscated and lastly and most important, there will be a mandatory rules. All guests are to be in groups or pairs when running the tests here now. The object of this now is testing sleep deprivation when in a haunted house, but I will not allow a gun in this house."
"As my boss and his family are here, we have children in this house, so no guns, I will allow fishing equipment, or target practice in the bows and arrows. But absolutely no firearms, you bring a firearm it will be confiscated. And by my cop friends in the program, aside from medically assigned drugs. This is also a drug free program, so any contraband will be confiscated at once, people.'."
"To repeat that remark, but I am making this highly clear that the books are non negotiable. And neither is bring guns or drugs, recreational drugs into the house, again as to why. As we got children younger then 18 in this house, my boss and his family are here, once you sign up amd sign that form. You're in on the objective, but you lose your temper your contract is terminated now.'."
"And you're being paid in full, before I let you leave this house now, good luck and I expect to hear from you, after you make your choice. My phone number is my office number in Boston until my group moves it up here after that. Thank you, and I look forward to having you in the group now.'." he read out and I nodded smiling as I said it then firmly at that remark then as I looked at Dave.
Marrow's POV:
"Yeah that sound about right, we send them out in April, after we start preparing for this, but we got members coming and going. Though the six of us are taking a chance in staying for the Halloween special right now." Liam said and I nodded gently to that. "Nice name for it Liam as that is for the big one in outbreaks." Theo said with a chuckle and Eleanor nodded with a smile in agreement to her thoughts at that remark.
"Yeah well the primary targets, as you and Dave got out alive in the movie and with you, Mary and Todd, are me and Luke, both versions. So he sees that Luke and I, both versions, are still alive, then he's going for the level scare that whoever the lunatic ghost in poltergeist was went for." she said and I nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "The younger brother/protector as he never left your side when we paired off at the time."
"I would consider that as you being her bodyguard now, but Todd and I are the ones pairing off with you when the four of us are on duty." Mary said and she nodded. "Yeah no kidding right now, if we have to pair up in our group then we have one us guys. With the girls right now to protect you." I said and she nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Well that settles it, we got everything we need now, but we got one room in the house that is loaded up with supplies now. For our guests now, that room is loaded with toiletries, all they need to bring is their clothes. We provide everything else now for this situation now, but after dinner whoever wants a drink it's mixed, after the second drink and not half/half." Luke said and we nodded in agreement to that remark.
"So we don't have someone freaking out right now, but we got a few months worth of work to do on this house to clean it up and get it ready." Eleanor said and I nodded in agreement to that remark. "Well do you remember what happened that night after we separated a third time, and what direction our, you and me, but our thoughts lead to." I asked and she nodded to me as I reflected on our conversation then gently at that.
"Yeah I do, but we both know what would have happened if we made that choice, and decided to wait at the moment." she said and I nodded in agreement as Todd covered his eyes as he said it. "You mean to tell me if she switched rooms and you would have..." he asked and we both nodded to him. "Yeah, we were already close to letting it slide, she was who I loved, and we both realized what this was."
"It turned into A Nightmare On Elm Street 3, but we both know we were not ready to break that barrier, and knowing if we did. That was it, as if she got pregnant with my children, before we got married, this would have left me broken after she risked her life protecting us." I said and they nodded gently to the news then. "We get why and we understand son." Jack said and I nodded with a sigh at the choice we made that night.
"Before we went with just staying awake a little longer, that night, before bunking in the same room as the sudden vertigo sensation. The book described started up that night, followed by the dog getting in, her finding Hugh's study the next night and then the all out paranormal attack. Said from hell as the fourth night here was All Hallows Eve, and we barely missed being killed here." I said and he nodded as Theo said it to me at the news.
"Anyone feels like that week felt like a month up here right now?" Luke asked and we all nodded. "Yeah we had three of the four situations from the book, but everything else was authentic. And by just going for the poltergeist act to scaring the hell out of someone by turning this into a severely deranged haunted house right now." I said and the girls both nodded in agreement as the four of exchanged looks at the memory of this then.
"So the big one was the night of All Hallows Eve, but we had repeated scares through out the entire week, and none of us are getting any rest, that the big one was the night before, I tell her she doesn't get some rest she's going to collapse on us the next night results in an injury and the scare of a lifetime for the three of us, and we end up in the hospital the next morning." Theo said and I nodded to that remark gently then at that.
"Well all that says is she knows you better then we do to know why you were like this together the next two days, before he went all out that night." Theo said and we nodded to her. "Fact of the matter is this was why, when we came into our sitting room that night, before the quintet arrived that night. We admitted it, she was who I was waiting for and vice versa, but our personalities were not only like Laurie and Meg."
"We were also like Wasson and Langenkamp in the third film, a few years younger then me, but so what, we didn't care about that. I love her with everything in me, that I was willing to risk death to save her right now and vice versa as she did it. The link had snapped into place that everything we talked about the night before had left the door open completely right now." I said and she nodded to the news gently at that.
"Well that explains the argument between us right now, you were pissed I could even think that about you right now. As you found the evidence needed to clear you after you checked the mirror room and then comes the attack in the greenhouse and before he attacked her in the bedroom." Luke said and we nodded gently to him and he and Theo nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Yeah that's the reason exactly, in fact I knew it was never him, he's always with one of us every time there was an attack right now. But think about it, he was outside, when we ran into each other in the parlor, he was at the table when the bottle exploded in the landing. Sitting at the fireplace when the cord snapped and hit Mary, exploring the house when the noises had us holing up in her room."
"The window was left open, he was standing next to me, the pot, you're sitting next to the stove, and he's next to her. The next morning we're all grouped together as Jake demonstrates my remark on why this house gives the impression of walking up the wall. The fireplace, he's with Theo, and I would have seen or heard him if he tried to do that on the painting, he's standing next to me when we find that on the painting and Slappy sitting there."
"And covered in paint and he and I are together when we find that mess on the table and the dummies all over the place. So if it wasn't you, and it wasn't us, as Mary and Todd are at the hospital still, the kids are playing the tv show to their interpretations. And my godmother and uncle were busy cleaning up the mess this lunatic left in the house as Uncles Jack, Jared and Peter just arrived to meet up with us."
"Mom and dad are leaving me the clues to put this story together so we can crack what the hell happened in this house. As I prepare to do it this time right now, and the quintet are leaving orders to Dave, regarding that as well, so with those words, who does that leave. But the sole deranged ghost haunting this house right now and the kids are trying to get me to crack what happened?" she asked and I nodded in agreement to that remark.
"You trying to crack it, and me getting the information needed to treat you in case he scares you into shock right now." I added and she nodded. "Yeah the story was entirely beyond comprehension right now as he's like the dangerous side of Anakin when he was a young adult right now. So grandpa is Anakin when as his normal self, Craine when his anger is pushed to the limit his eyes change color at the moment." she said and we nodded to the metaphor.
"Nice work with the metaphor Nell and you're right, if not us, the duo or you, let alone your godparents and extended family, let alone Andy and the kids. Well then who does that leave right now, answer: it's the single deranged ghost haunting this house, getting desperate enough to get us out of here. And by scaring the hell out of us right now." Theo said and I nodded in agreement to that remark then.
"And said is doing it and by his possessing the dummies to scare the hell out of us right now." she said and he nodded gently to her then. "And that's enough of the practical jokes, this ends here and now." Rick said sternly and we nodded to that remark at that. "With us yes, him, don't count on that." Catherine said and he nodded to that in agreement to that remark.
"Bruce, I think we better stop the all out fights before this does scare everyone into shock here." we heard from the woman playing Beth at this. "I thought you guys weren't coming?" Eleanor asked and she smiled. "We're staying for dinner and the legend on the house, but not in case he chooses to make his guest appearance honey." she said and we nodded smiling gently at the news then at that remark then.
"Two versions of all of us, man he's going to think he's seeing double with a copy of his targets right now." I said and they nodded in agreement. "Before he realizes that this entire thing was based at a copy of the outside of the house and on stage instead of a copy of this house." Bruce said and we nodded. "And before he realizes the real one is the one not afraid of him here." Theo said and Luke, Eleanor and I nodded in agreement to that.
"Guys you remember what happened that night after we discovered that on the painting?" Eleanor asked and we all nodded. "Yeah I do, but if your questioning that as soon as you in there, that was suspicious to say the least, as you're acting off innocent." Luke told Theo and she nodded. "Wasn't trying to baby." she said and he nodded with a chuckle. "Then again, your reaction was too, after that." I said in response to that at that remark.
"Well you recall the dummy dressed in a hockey mask and with it holding a knife over the cousin?" she asked and we nodded. "Yeah why?" Mary asked and she swallowed as she answered that. "I woke up to that the night after the painting was vandalized and Luke and Dave heard my scream that night. And came running to check on it, but this is the reason, we nearly decided on that." she said and they nodded in shock to the news.
"You just had the life scared out of you, and now to protect you in case this was a message, you nearly decided on sleeping in his room that night?" Jack repeated and we nodded to him. "Yeah and first this and now we have a dog getting in at the same time we have the kids leading her into his study right now the following night." Theo said and he nodded gently as we exchanged looks.
"The week had shifted from us acting as a team. to my taking the second place psychiatrist position that this the interactions acting like. Now, Langenkamp and Wasson after they went out for dinner one night and he was falling for her, but a few years age difference same situation. That he just about had it right now with the amount of intrusions at the time right now, from Craine himself that week."
"That he decided to look into what I just discovered in that fireplace now, and was doing my investigation for me after this had laid me out." she said and he nodded. "And this time I'm not leaving you alone once he tries that a third time right now, but he wants you he better try harder." I said and they nodded in agreement as she and I exchanged looks of the memory of that scenario then firmly then.
Remembering then in how close we chose to throwing caution to the winds, I nearly let her decide switching rooms so we could be together. But knowing where that would lead and we were not ready for that yet, I decided to just keep it at where we were for another night or two then...
The Next Attack, Card Games And Talks - Marrow's POV:
That night as we were working, our talks took another turn, before we all went to bed that night, it was around 11 that night, I heard a scream and quickly got up then to take a look as I arrived at the same time that Luke did as he opened up the door as we saw Eleanor frozen in shock and I moved to her as he said it angrily. "Alright who the hell did this exactly?" he asked and I turned to see what it was and saw another one.
This time wearing a hockey mask and holding a butcher's knife. "Alright whoever is doing this, that's enough of the practical jokes as this is not a game anymore." I snapped at that in shock and he nodded in agreement. "I woke up to finding him standing over me like this." she said shaking and we nodded as I pulled her into my arms and she buried her head into my shoulder as I felt her shaking in shock then.
"What's going on..., oh my god, what the hell is this?" Theo said as she came in and froze in shock to that. "I think we got a ghost in this house, impersonating Slappy the dummy right now, but first the painting, then the table and kitchen and now this. Come on, that's enough of this crap already, alright whoever is doing this, leave her alone, you bastard." Luke shouted out as they moved to us then as we exchanged looks at this.
"Anyone else feel like sleeping right now, because at this rate, I'm just waiting for that to happen again, and this time with a machete or a chainsaw." Eleanor asked and we nodded in agreement. "Anyone up for a few hands of poker?" Luke suggested and we all nodded. "Good idea." the girls said together as we all headed downstairs and turned on the lights then as we checked the pool table and found the kids laying on it.
As the lights came on, and Andy and Sarah both looked up. "Guys was that you?" I asked and they tapped twice and we nodded. "Not you, so whoever is impersonating a sadistic dummy is getting more deranged by the minute right now, but if that's not desperate, nothing is here." Theo said and we nodded in agreement to that remark as Eleanor said it to her.
"I'm making a pot of coffee, it's going to be a very long night tonight." she said and we nodded to her as I went with her as she leaned against the table shaking and I moved to her and said it. "Honey you okay?" I asked and she turned to me as she said it to me then gently. "At this rate, I don't want to be alone tonight after that." she said and I nodded as I hugged her and I made my decision then.
"I know that wasn't you honey, you would never do this, but trying to translate what they're trying to tell me is getting harder by the minute here. Whatever Andy is trying to tell me is only becoming more clear, but whatever Hugh really is, is the next question but why did she kill herself. Why would my grandfather and aunt leave, and how did my uncle die, that's the next question." she told me and I nodded gently to her thoughts then.
"After that I don't blame you right now, but we're better off sticking together tonight after that one." I told her and she nodded in agreement. "Does this feel like that second movie, waking up in the middle of the night, go downstairs and getting something to drink. Opening up the fridge and having something get thrown at you right now?" she asked and I nodded in agreement to that remark as we made a pot of straight black coffee.
A couple batches of cookies and we headed back to the duo so we could settle in there. "After one too many shocks, looks like none of us are getting any rest tonight, but first this and what's next exactly after the pounding on the walls last night. That tonight, so what the hell is next exactly right now, because if he's pushing up scare tactics, what the hell is this?" Luke asked me and I said it firmly at the question.
"I don't know, but I'm not waiting around to find out." I told him and he nodded in agreement. 'Alright, anymore scares before the end of the week and I'm calling it quits in this case.' I thought to this as I said it to them. "Guys remember what I said this morning if these scares start getting to someone I want to know about it and fast right now." I told them and they all nodded to me as we started the game then quickly.
"At this rate he's pushing us into leaving too soon, but he knows he's running out of time." Eleanor told us and we nodded. "Or at least till I decided to call it quits right now if the next one scares you into paralysis here." I said and she nodded in agreement to that. "This search is driving me nuts and just what the hell is mom and the trio trying to tell me here." Eleanor asked and they nodded in agreement to that remark then.
"Well whatever it is, if this is coming close to scaring you into shock after you find what Fred is trying to tell you, I'm hoping to god your power doesn't go online, and before we figure out what the hell happened in this house." Luke told her and Theo and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "Shock or just a nervous breakdown out of exhaustion here." Theo said and we nodded to that remark in agreement then.
Just as I was answering, I heard a clang and crash as something went flying across the room and landed on the piano then. "Alright who was it this time?" Theo asked and we turned and I saw a red snooker lying on the floor with a bemused look in the movements. And as it shook it's head at us and we nodded. "The high school student body elections, you're the puttie she knocked over and stepped on?" Luke asked and he nodded and we nodded to that.
"So where are they?" I asked and he turned his head to the left as I saw Andy and Sarah surrounded by a light gold, and the quartet there and I nodded. "That's the rest of the team and Goldar, alright, before the one next of you gets thrown, watch where you're aiming before we get hit please." Eleanor said and they nodded as we exchanged looks. "Well that show is going too far." Luke said and Eleanor nodded in agreement to that remark.
As she and Luke started laughing at that response. "That was the funny part, but us adults never seen a teenage couple act like this out of getting competitive but that was going too far in the debate." I said as I also started laughing at that remark. "Alright you guys, come on, knock it off already, we can agree to disagree, but you don't need to kill each other." Eleanor said and the duo jumped once at her remark as Theo started laughing at that.
"Yeah alright five card draw, Jacks are wild." Luke said and we nodded as he dished out and we started playing as a package of something pushed itself into position on my left and I opened it to find ten packs of candy. "Candy poker?" Eleanor asked and they nodded and we nodded. "That's the next round after this one, guys." she said and Sarah jumped at that as the packages opened as we exchanged smiles then.
And started divvying out for the four of us then. "Like I said I play candy poker all the time with the Keoughs and my mother, so they decided if we were playing tonight make it more interesting with Halloween around the corner." she said and we nodded with a chuckle to her remark. "And I recognize the images, they, or rather Becky, ransacked the Halloween candy aisle." Theo said as she started laughing at this and I nodded.
"Looks like she knows what each of us likes, because she chose ones that we all like and share." Luke said and she nodded. "Mom does that all the time when the four of us are playing poker, so she chooses ones that have no sugar but we still like. For us she gets ones that can be taken home for the triplets, the kids all love the chocolate covered fruit." she said and we nodded as I looked sideways and saw a bowlful of something.
"Yeah so what are these?" Theo asked and she tried one, and smiled. "Chocolate covered raisins, the other one is a home-made version to a Baby Ruth, just without the nougat and these are chocolate covered cherries." she said and we nodded to the news. "Beth at times does home made candy, so they did one for snacking on and the other is for the next round." she said and I nodded to the news then smiling as we exchanged looks.
"Beth and mom do this all the time, she must have spent the last three hours in the kitchen making these." she said and I got up to take a look as I saw a small pile in the sink and the dishes being washed one by one and put into a rack that was meant for the pile and nodded. "Yeah you're right honey, after doing these and letting them cool, your mother's ghost is cleaning up what she used on them." I said and she nodded to me smiling.
"Well so far the shocks are not quite serious enough to cause someone to go into shock at the moment right now in this case, though this choice scare. I think that says enough we got the adrenaline going through us, at the moment, but caffeine and adrenaline don't mix." I said at that remark and she nodded. "And neither does sugar at the moment, then again, this was why the kids on the movie were so wired, they had too much of all three in them."
"So by the time they had to wean themselves off of it, it took months for their bodies to return to normal before the next one started." she said and I nodded to that in agreement to that remark. "Yeah and the second movie was one year after, they're just starting to get over the events, but the boys want to be normal, not so easy, you're marked, got to live with this." Luke said and she nodded in agreement to that remark gently at that.
"At least these guys can't eat sweets or they're going to be bouncing off the walls later on, but this is getting ridiculous right now." Theo said and I nodded in agreement, before Eleanor's eyes narrowed. "Hold that thought a second." she said and we nodded as she went to get the book and checked something at this. "Well we had reason to be worried right now, but think about what came next after the canvas or your clothes."
"Because if I woke up to that right now, we got a couple more choice connections from the book to our current situation right now." she said and I nodded as I realized what she was saying. "We all went on alert, and chose to not separate for the night, you think they're going to pull that vertigo thing and we're holing up in the same room so no one collapses out of what the heck it was?" Luke asked and she nodded to him and I nodded.
"Anyone consider this about to get worse from here and the repeated scares right now?" I asked and they nodded in agreement to that remark. "Yeah and I agree with you on that one right now at the moment here right now. But this is getting ridiculous right now in this case, we had several scares, getting things thrown across the room. The painting, the fireplace, the table, the kitchen, and now this, come on enough already."
"We had one injury so far, but what if there is another injury and this next one puts one of us in the ICU and the others in the E.R., so what then exactly?" Eleanor asked and I nodded in agreement. "Our invisible assailant is getting desperate to get us out of the house and trying to scare the day lights of our entire group, but that's enough of this crap already." I said to her and she nodded to that in agreement to that remark then
"Alright whoever is doing this just can it already as nothing you do is getting us out of this house yet, and I will find out what it is mom is telling me. But I'm warning you, come near my friends or my boyfriend and I'll kill you again, you bastard." she said sternly and I nodded in agreement, before I could say it as I saw the look on Luke then, as he tried to keep from falling over then as she said it for me at that.
