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, this one is going to be focused on the rest of the week and leading into the sudden realization, before the final attacks the next night, as this one is doing that night, the next day and leading into her realization, before the final outbreak the next night.

But from the here the story is going to finish the off in the flashbacks of the movie, before they deal with remodeling and fixing the damage. When at the house, before their summer to Thanksgiving program activates later on now.

Chapter 23: Poker Games And The Story Takes Form

"Luke you okay?" she asked and he shook his head. "I think so, but I feel like I was hanging upside down too long." he said and she froze. "There it is, everyone on the floor, so no one collapses because that's a case of screwing with your inner ear." she said and we nodded as we grabbed a couple blankets and while Theo was leaning against Luke, Eleanor was with me then. "Thank god we got that book." I said and she nodded to that.

"He's trying to screw with us here, but like I said if stunts like this won't get us out of this house, he's going to the poltergeist intrusion from hell next." she said and we nodded to the. "The damn clown doll that came to life and scared the hell out of the kid, following by the others trying to suck the kids into the void, and the others attacking the mother in an attempted rape touch?' Theo asked and she nodded to her and we both nodded to the news gently.

"I think he's taking inspiration from the book if this is going on right now, stay close right now." she said and I nodded as we sat there as the sensation started getting worse, before it stopped. "Whoa, man enough already right now, that's enough of that, and Grandpa, if you're trying to get me out of my own house. It's not going to work now can it and leave us alone already." she called out as she worked in trying to stand up she nearly fell over at that.

And I grabbed her as I also got up then. "I'm a amateur parapsychologist and even I know this is going too damn far right now, but this is too much right now." I said to this and the duo nodded as she looked at me quickly at this as we and the duo exchanged look as he said it for all of us at that. "Man, come on leave us alone already, alright this is going too far right now." Luke said as he helped her up and we exchanged looks then firmly at this.

"I thinking we're better off camping in here for the night, so we don't have another attack tonight." I said and she nodded. "Yeah I agree with you on that, just get a couple more sofas in here, as we're settled in together right now." she said and they nodded. "Leave the snacks and coffee on the table here next to us and we can play over here right now." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that remark then gently.

"Yeah good idea, we can set up a fire in here for the night to stay warm and get some blankets guys, we're camping here tonight." I said and they nodded as they both gathered some pillows and blankets and Eleanor went with me, as I chopped up some wood and got enough to light a fire that night. "It's safer to be together, then separated right now at the moment here, so we got enough to settle at the moment in this case at the current moment."

"But he's got a serious screw loose, if he's trying everything he can to scare us out of here, what's next exactly?" Theo asked and I nodded. "I don't know, but this continues before we figure out what Caroline and Becky are trying to tell us and we're leaving before the end of the week." he said and I nodded in agreement to that remark then firmly then. "I don't blame you for that." she said and I nodded in agreement to that remark then.

"I think your mother's training is coming in handy right now, because this is going a little too far right now, that you know what is going on here." I said and she nodded in agreement to that remark then. "Yeah me too, but I was used to this at the time, that after 11 years you forget these things that you don't realize or remember why it's scaring the hell out of you before you remember it." she said and I nodded to the news.

"Well if we have to, we need to call it quits before this gets even worse right now." I said and she nodded as she answered me. "I know, but if his window is closing here, then he's going to prevent you guys leaving, and I got no choice, but to shut him down. And before he kills you guys next, if he's anything like Krueger, Trantor or the Sanderson sisters." she said and we nodded to her gently at the remark as we exchanged looks.

"We both know this, that when the Dudleys leave there is no going anywhere after that guys, so we got to wait till morning, but the damage done here. That's going to get the attention of the entire town as I locked him up for the second time in 11 years after mom did it." she said and I nodded. "Well we both know none of us did it this time, you were with me the entire time we were in the greenhouse, and Luke and Theo were together."

"So not us, not the Dudleys, not the kids, so that leaves only one person, said who is trying to scare us out of the house, as his clock is ticking right now." she said and we nodded. "Craine, it's Craine pulling this." Theo said and she nodded in agreement to her thoughts and I nodded sternly. "How stupid does he think we are exactly, we all know we never did it, but if we find another one when we're all upstairs, and it's all over the carousel room."

"And I know I just been framed, but trying something stupid, we're just asking to piss him off next at the moment here now." I said and he nodded in agreement to that. "That's too late for that, I need to make him angry enough to not realize till it's too late he walked right into a trap, but you know what type of mind blow. Said that is, it's going to take a month to wake up and even then it's going to take six weeks to recover from that injury."

"You recall the briar patch metaphor here?" she asked and we nodded to her. "That's what I got to do, make him angry enough he doesn't realize it, that he walked or floated right in front of the doors. And we spend a year's worth of said amount and even then it's going to take 1/3 the amount." she said and I nodded gently. "Well fortunately, we got the money to pay for damages, get that suitcase." Theo said and she nodded as she went to grab it then.

"Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, yeah you guessed right, it's 3/4's of a billion dollars, so that's it, so you both get $25,000,000, for damages, another $10,000.00. And for medical insurance, the next 10 to pay for a new car and we buy ourselves a penthouse with 4 master bedrooms, and three baths." she said and I smiled at that news. "How she takes this is anyone's guess once it get's to Wilson Becky gave us everything." Luke said, laughing, at that remark then.

"To run damages here in this is $50,000,000, to take care of the added catch of needing to pay for a new condo or apartment now in your case guys. Another 10 thousand here for medical bills, another $20,000 for expenses and that car is on it's last legs, so I got to pay for a new car anyway here now. So as for the rest of it, and we're arranging a case of new apartment, but as I said I lost my apartment." she said and we nodded as I said it to her gently.

"That's not a problem, because you're moving in with me after this ends, honey." I said to her gently and she nodded. "Well they never saw this coming here that in the minute you meet us, you change back from what she remembers into your being yourself from before college again here." Luke said to her and she nodded. "Yeah, but there it is, you're both like Janet and Tony so it's nice I got a way to be like my college self again here, but with it is this."

"As, with us six and the Keough's, and the night before we come back up here, if this is our own connection, we're spending the night at the penthouse." she said and we all nodded. "You know I couldn't ask for better friends, this is great, I can be myself with you guys." she said and they both smiled at the remark. "Todd and me, we're like the original Red and blue, but how anyone takes this is anyone's guess once we add your other friends to the gang."

"Then again, once we all get used to this right now, it's a matter of understanding this is just asking for trouble right now." Luke said to her. "I'd say you're more like Rocky with the wise guy demeanor at times, so I think that's where the change up was, but you to Rocky, Todd to Adam, Peter to Jason and Tony to Zack and Malcolm was Billy himself." she said and he nodded to turn gently at that news as we looked at each other then.

"Chance hazards, but I'm Aisha, Janet is Trini, so that means that Carol and Mary are Kat and Tanya and that makes you Kim." Theo and she started laughing and I chuckled at that. "Luke is obviously Rocky, Todd to Adam, Peter to Jason and Tony to Billy obviously and this mean that Malcolm is Zack." he said and she started laughing at that. "We got to get this under control before we got trouble." I said and she nodded as something appeared on the table.

"Thanks guys, so... ahh, I get it, you're going to create costumes and robes for the triplets?" she asked and Andy jumped once to answer her. "Derek's favorite ranger was Tommy, Jason was Jason himself, and Jamie loves Kim." she said and the trio jumped once to the news. "I'd like to know how they intended to create the power coins and medallions for that." Theo said and four bags landed on the floor in response to that question and I nodded to that.

And I opened them up and started it in shock. "That's 24 karat solid gold, how much is in the family name in gold exactly?" I asked and a piece of paper appeared and I read it and nodded with a bemused smile. "Honey, your maternal side, is a quadrillionaire, or possibly more then that, but there's a few hundred quadrillion in gold in the vault here on the property right now." I told her and she nodded as the duo started laughing.

"So how many per medallion, in a miniature gong is it going to take?" I asked and she quickly said it. "By that we mean one the size of a bigger version of their power coins, on the robes?" she asked and 15 gold coins each were placed in a pile per pile and I nodded. "Well there's 12 of you counting Jake's little brother, so that works, so that's 15 of these to create a medallion that size, but the normal power coin size ones we can use two of these."

"So which are you, as Derek likes green himself?" she asked and his white self jumped off the table and we nodded smiling. "So you're the falcon, and he's the dragon, okay." she said and he darkened gently and I chuckled at that response. "That's their version to blushing here, by darkening in color." she said and we nodded with a chuckle. "You guys doing that argument, that was hilarious you guys, but this should work." she said and he jumped once to that.

"So said that got melted down and turned into a power coin, that it?" she asked and Andy and Sarah both jumped once to answer her and we both nodded smiling at that response. "The trio's names are Jamie, Derek and Jason, but let me guess one of you happens to be named Kimberly?" she asked and a lighter pink jumped off the table and I nodded. "Oh boy, she sees Jason when up here, she's going to fall in love." Luke said as he started laughing at that.

"Remember that Goosebumps story, The Ghost Next Door?" she asked and he nodded to her. "That's this now, but they're the same age here right now, so though stuck at this age, they got a couple years together." she said and I shook my head at that with a chuckle. "Jamie's like me actually, so watch out, the boys gave her the nickname Firebird, so tick her off, and someone's getting blasted a second time." she said and I started laughing at that.

As three were put in front of her and she nodded then gently. "You needed to know what ranger they like to get it right?" she asked and they jumped a second time gently. "Yeah okay, you remember the original power coins, but the trio like the same ones you guys and Robbie do." she said and they both nodded to her. "Jamie's temper is that of Firebird, you saw the episode, regarding that mutant toad?" she asked and they both jumped off the table.

"Well that's your sister when she loses her temper guys, so Edward, like Sarah, tick her off and she's going to beat the heck out of you and with the pillows, clear." she said and the black with silver dots jumped once and I started laughing at her remark as the duo chuckled at the remark as Andy tapped out something. "Yeah, yeah I know, you guys can come see your adopted nephew and me if you want." she said and they nodded happily at the news.

"Or more accurately nephew in law." I said and she chuckled at that remark and smiled at the remark. "Issues with the Keirsey temperament sorter here right now, we know we can get along fine, but you're the rational, I'm the idealist. While Theo's the artisan and Luke the guardian, and we traded Todd for you in this after the duo left." she said and I nodded. "Yeah and I'm trying to control this, before it gets worse." I said and she nodded to that gently.

"And we're half expecting trouble here at the moment right now, but Luke has the personality of a cop or soldier as he's always around. Looking after us, and he's there when we need him to protect us, then again, I'm not surprised that directly after we get two attacks in 18 hours and now this. Who's the wise guy asking for trouble as you know the second you hear that scream we got problems." Theo said to her and she nodded at that remark.

"And then there's the fact..." she started to say as we heard a meowing and I nodded. "Who let her in the house?" I asked as I went to check in where it was, as she stood up with me. "We got a stray in this house and how did she get in right now?" he asked and I shrugged. "How do you know it's a girl?" Theo asked and he smiled. "A female cat has a softer tone, and a boy has a deeper one." he said to her and she nodded to the news gently.

Before we heard a meow and looked down and I said it gently as I reached out and she pushed her head into my hand. "You from the farm we saw up the road enroute here?" she asked and the cat gave a mew to her gently at that. "How you get in, girl?" I asked and she gave me a mew. "Don't want to leave?" she asked and the cat a second mew and we chuckled and nodded. "Alright, you belong to me." I said and she purred happily at the news.

"She's my mate, but you belong to us now, baby." I said to her and she purred happily at the news then. "You guys both cat people?" Luke asked and we both nodded. "Yeah, but I'd rather have a cat or lap dog, say a Bichon or even a miniature poodle to some of the big ones that are loaded with energy here." Eleanor said and I nodded to that. "Yeah me too, but she's just right for us." I said and she mewed with a happy tone to my words then.

"How about the name Nala, sound good?" she asked and she purred happily at the name. "Alright Nala then, I'm her mate, these are our playmates, and we got adoptive kittens with one of our friends at the vet." I said to her and she purred at the news gently. "Issues in this, but this is getting ridiculous at the moment, but we got a dog getting in next and Nala's going to have a panic attack." Luke said to this and I nodded in agreement to that.

As a purple billiard ball rolled up to her, and she looked at it and it gently nudged her paw and she batted it away from her, and it came back and she did it again as it started going back and forth, as she gave a mew to it at that, that had a slight chuckle in the tone as I hid a smile at that remark. "Alright I'm not playing catch here, I want to sit in front of the fireplace with my new owners, now stop." I translated to them and Luke started laughing at that.

"Yeah that's like the books not leaving you alone till you threaten to ground them." Theo said and I nodded with a chuckle at that. "Yeah, but if not us, it's now the cat next, that they're trying to get someone to play with right now." Eleanor said to that and I nodded in agreement to that thought. "Mew, mew meow?' Nala asked and she nodded. "Yeah, they're not normal balls, they been hijacked." I said and she gave a mew of understanding.

As Andy rolled up to her and she looked at it then with a bemused smile in her eyes at that response. "Mew?" she asked and a picture of the 12 laid down in front of her and she gave a mew to that. "Mew, mew meow?" she asked and he jumped once to answer her, before a second later I heard a fast noise echo somewhere upstairs and heard the voice of the new leader. "Eleanor, guys!" he called out and I stood up then in response.

"Whoever else is here, show yourselves!" I called back and they came into the room and I froze up in shock at that. "Kids, it's okay, it's us, remember." he said and he looked at the green ball and it rolled up to her. "No, that can't be." Luke said in shock as he slowly got up at that as he and Theo moved to her and Eleanor slowly stood up at that. "Uncle Andy, this is you at your current age?" she asked and he nodded in relief she answered him that fast.

"Yeah it's me baby, we needed a way for you to see us and got what we needed to do it, but your parents are doing that during the next visit. Till you got your powers on full power, baby." he said and she nodded as I relaxed as she moved to them and he gave her a hug gently at that. "Whoa if there was anyway for you to make it clear to us this was really you, you just did it now, we believe every word." Theo said to him and he nodded.

"Oh man wait till the sextet see this, they're going to be in shock here." Luke added and Sarah nodded. "I know, but you're my family son, baby, so we had to be the ones you saw first, Sarah, Robbie and me." he said and they nodded to him gently at that. "Like always here, you were the first I saw when coming back up here every summer, so make it easier by not just your ball forms, but in physical form." Eleanor said to him and he nodded.

"Yes honey, but I meant it, the me you remember every summer when you came to visit, this is me in physical form, I needed a way now. For you to see us finally, and the show was the perfect way to do it." he said and we nodded. "So this is you guys, you weren't kidding when you told us this, the cast is your real appearance?" I asked and he nodded to me. "It is and we are, they're what we look like." Sarah said to us in Johnson's voice.

"You're going to want to show the Dudleys this in the morning right now, honey." I said to her and she nodded. "I want to see grandpa and Aunt Alicia." she said and he nodded as she and Andy turned and I looked up as I saw Winona Ryder and Christian Bale walk in and I sighed in relief as Fred moved to her smiling. "Baby, it's going to be okay, but until you're at full power don't over do it baby." Alicia said for him and she nodded to her at that.

"Mew?" the cat asked as her fur started standing up and they looked down as Rosie crouched in front of her gently at that. "It's okay girl, I'm the purple ball that wanted you to play with me." she said and as she looked at her ball and it rolled up to her and she looked at it and then at her and gave a mew. "I'll take that to mean, 'Alright I believe you now, but you run over my tail, you're in trouble." Luke said as Theo tried to keep from laughing.

"At least this isn't a human turned into a cat, or the issue of stepping on her tail or the door is going to be a big problem here." Theo said to this and I nodded with a bemused smile. "Before you start asking question guys, I want you to keep it slow till you get the entire thing at the moment here. But the more you dig deeper and the more shocking it gets, especially in your case, Eleanor." Robbie told us and we nodded to him.

"Think about all the movies that had the offspring of a deranged murderer scared out of their minds of what if they change and turned into that." Billy told us and we nodded. "Before this becomes too much of shock and what happens if we get the truth, before Becky can tell us this in what killed her?" Luke asked and he sighed, as Alicia answered that one with a stern tone at that remark, before she could though then firmly.

I heard the voice of the actor playing the heroine's father in the Elm Street movies answer that one. "She needs to hear that from Becky anyway Luke, but you disrupt that and she finds out, before her mother and I can explain this to her, the shock is going to be too much." he said sternly and Eleanor sighed. "Dad, nice timing to make an appearance, and you did look like Saxon when I was 15, but come on right now."

"This works well, but at least I remember you like this, but Saxon is 63, and as are you now, you and mom are both 63, if you were still alive." she said and he smiled as he hugged her. "I know princess, but this was why I needed a way so you could see me finally at last as I checked faces to match one to who I looked like and saw John and that did it as I chose him now." he said and she nodded smiling at that news gently.

"So you're my father-in-law, nice to meet you, Rob." I said to him and he smiled gently at that. "Dad, this is Theo and Luke, my friends in the group right now, and the rest of the gang is back in Boston right now, the rest of our sextet are Mary Lambretta and Todd Watts." she said and he nodded to her. "Well I meant it, there is only so much you can take in, before the truth becomes too much right now, but Fred, Alicia and I all agree here."

"And with Jack, Jared, Peter, Tom and Beth, you need to take this search very slow, there is only so much you can handle here right now. And before it becomes too much." he said and we nodded gently at the news then gently at that remark then. "Just give it one more day, but the timer is closing fast right now, it's only two days left before the window shuts on his getting you out of here." he said to us and we nodded.

"You need time to figure this out, and so far everything you see this as matches up to the kid novels that R.L. Stine created. And specifically the one on the blasted dummy, that's this now, he's trying to get you to point fingers at each other right now. But I'm just saying this and I know she already said this, how is David the one to blame, every time something happens he's here with you right now."

"He was with her in the Greenhouse the whole time the little parasite did that to the coffee table, he was with Theo when the painting. And the fireplace happened, he was checking out the house when the girls were being terrorized in the bedroom so there it is. But how is he to be blamed for any of this when you know we got a homicidal maniac haunting this house." he said and we all nodded to the news.

"The kids are busy with the tv show, and mom and dad are leading me in the right direction, and as is grandma and grandpa, so that's it right now. It's not us, my parents, the kids or my grandparents and the Dudleys, Craine's haunting the house, and he's trying to scare us out of here." she said and I nodded to that. "The doors, it has to be, he knows I get him in position, he's being sentenced for another eternity in those doors right now here."

"But we got two more nights of peace and it's about to start getting out of control here on Friday, the timer is ticking here and he knows he's running out of time." she said and we nodded as the cat looked up at us and she looked at the painting on the wall of Eleanor's grandmother and Craine and started growling at it, as she moved to us at that as she leaned her head against Eleanor's leg, before we sat back down and ended the conversation at that.

As she leaned against Eleanor's side and as she ran her hand through her fur and she purred happily at that as she watched the game between us gently. "With the temperature dropping this low, I'm not surprised she wants to stay in here like we are, as we're safe together, but separated now. Well that's when it gets more dangerous, it's like every time we're alone, he attacks." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that remark gently at that.

"Well keep it under control at the moment, but this is too much right now, but how stupid does he think we are right now in this case at the moment. But come on, how many attempts is it going to take, before he gets the point, we're not stopping till he leaves the kids alone right now?" she asked and we nodded. "Well so far we're making progress, but that attack is one clue, so where was it supposed to be headed?" Luke asked and I nodded to that.

"I'm not sure, but if it's not charades, we got them lying a path for us, to discover the real names of these kids later, so we know this." Eleanor said to him and he nodded. "And what happens if your powers start going berserk in the next two days as the Dudleys said your powers start going crazy out of exhaustion." I said and they nodded. "I don't know, but if anything, its calling in an insanity case to make you think that the effects are getting to me."

"And to the point where I look so in shock, that I possibly need a trip to the E. R., the next morning, but if that's his plan, it won't work right now. To protect everyone, I may have to do what mom did, but that's true and that's why mom got you the money to pay for medical bills and a hotel in range. So this way, instead of staying here for a few days we move it to the hotel and you're with me in the hospital." she said and I nodded to that remark.

"But two groups of four, we just added the cubs and we're good to go." Theo said to her smiling and she smiled. "Well at least this isn't turning into that letter, but they want to screw with you, and they're going to get it right now in this case, but this is ridiculous, and what you want to bet. That the second we realize we got the right couple, he realizes he's screwed himself over when we get back to Boston?" he asked and I crossed my arms at that.

"No bet, in fact the heart monitor tells us everything we need to know once I get a smell of ethanol off his clothes." I said and she nodded. "And you're my fiance, he's going to get his head handed to him as you guys start dealing with this for over a year starting now, before the test results come back." she said to me and I nodded to that remark as she smiled at me as I answered her smiling gently at the remark then.

"Well your mother approved of me, I love your parents, though I never met them face to face, I couldn't ask for better in laws in the parents, either real or adopted." I told her and she smiled at that as we ended the conversation at that remark then gently...

The Kitchen-Eleanor's POV:

"Honey did you get it?" Beth asked and I nodded as I unloaded several bags worth of the chocolate chips she used for baking and candy making and she smiled. "Issues in the surplus, but I got these from Sam's club, and I got enough to last six months for baking, but I bought 15 bags worth of these so you got enough for everything you plan to make, and with the raisins added to it." I said and she nodded smiling at that news gently at that.

"Anyone asks why you need this much you knew I at times did the home made candy so you never ransacked the pantry before dinner, when growing up baby. Then again with a full house and it being only us, you know what my cooking is like here right now." she said and we nodded gently at that. "Yeah, but the kids, the boys are bottomless pits, so expect Derek or Jason ransacking the raisins Aunt Beth." Dana said to her and she nodded smiling.

"Well with 30 people in this house counting us, that's your uncle and me, it's turning into a case of pranks and practical jokes right now." she said, and I nodded, just as I was answering I heard a startled scream, and then a pillow fight break out. "Eddie did it again." Theo said laughing and I nodded with a chuckle at that. "Alright young man that's enough of that and baby calm down!" I heard Malcolm call out and we all started laughing at that.

"What the heck is going on in there, honey?" Beth asked as Rick came into the kitchen with a smile on his face and Rick said it with a laugh. "Eddie's case for practical jokes, you remember the gorilla costume that Jones used on Johnson in that episode?" he asked and she nodded. "He just did that, and she let him have it with the pillows, before Sarah, Rosie, Kathy and Anna got involved." he said and she started laughing at that as I smiled.

"Issues in this house, cases of we know we can handle this, but the case for pranks and practical jokes is going a little too far here." Dana said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah that's an understatement, but we got 3 hours, so let's get to work, because you know we always leave at 6." Rick said and she nodded as we ended the conversation at that and started working on dinner and the added snack then gently at that...

The Present-Marrow's POV:

Listening to the piano, I heard a familiar tune and the Lily and Eleanor both smiled at that. "Nice choice in songs guys, that fits in now right now, for the first time, and she's happy for the first time in years now." I said and the girls smiled gently at that as she leaned against me and I wrapped both arms around her. "That was the tune that we put in there during the time she found Becky's necklace." Owen said and the girls both nodded gently at that.

"At times it has a double meaning to it, during the first 15 minutes it was sad, as she missed Becky, but now it's a happy melody here, and symbolizes a change. Case in point now, it symbolizes a chance at a new life now and a chance for happiness now." Theo said to him and he nodded to her smiling gently. "Well the girls are happy for the first time, but we're their best friends here." Todd said and Eleanor nodded in agreement at that.

"Hey, hey hey, alright watch it would you, and guys come on, we're trying to play here." I heard and started laughing as I saw the chess pieces moving around on their own and I started laughing at that. "Like when they hijacked our pool game?" I asked and Luke nodded with a chuckle at that. "Yeah, and as a result the pawns are getting into a fight and the king just smacked them in the head to get them to focus." Hatchett said with a chuckle and I nodded.

It was after 5 that we all settled in that night as we were talking. "Man, just a few hours and already it feels like it did when we were here the first time." Luke said and we nodded to that. "Anyone else suffering from nightmares since we did this movie or sleep deprivation?" I asked and the quartet nodded to me. "Yeah we're still having nightmares after Craine's ghost scared the hell out of Catherine, me and Liam." Lily told me and I nodded to her.

"Well nobody do anything stupid." Bruce said to that, and we nodded, just as we were answering I heard an explosion and stood up. "They're at it again, and Jack, you better look at this at this." Luke called out and Bentley went to check on it and we saw a busted champagne bottle lying on the floor. "Another scare so 5, 4, 3, 2,1..., 0, I am, your singing telegram." Theo said and we heard in a fast follow up a gun go off and a door slamming shut.

"Thank guys, we needed that." Todd said as we heard it a second time as we heard the door slamming shut for real and Liam nodded with a chuckle at that. "Issues with the Clue jokes, but that's what's going too far right now." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that. "That what happen directly after we were talking about monster movies and scare tactics?" Catherine asked and she nodded to her as I answered at that remark then gently.

"Hey mom, what are these?" Jason asked and she smiled. "Home made versions to Raisinettes, Nana makes these." Dana said to her and he smiled as he grabbed a handful and took a bite out of the first and then smiled as he dug in then at that. "Aunt Beth uses Ghiradelli chocolates for these." Eleanor said and cast of the movie nodded with a chuckle. "Well that's some rich chocolate right now." Liam said smiling and we nodded in agreement.

"Man these are good, I could get used to this." Derek said as he grabbed a handful and I nodded bemused. "Wise guy, you're not overdoing it on the sweets before dinner young man, so save room for both that and dessert, your aunt's making you guys chocolate chip cookies." Dana said to him and he nodded. "One of the good things about being up here, as a need to get away from the tv for once, is we got plenty to do right now, stuff now here."

"That doesn't count for connections to the internet, our way of life was more simple then the next generation." Jamie said and I nodded smiling. "True, but this was our age group and your's that had the better life, a life that was away from movies that rot a person's brain and video games with it. So no tv and phone, fine, don't need them, we got a games, books, and a few others things to keep ourselves entertained here." Malcolm said with a chuckle at that.

"Well it was directly after this that the following night resulted in the real trouble as a result, but you better check this out, Theo, Dave, guys, come with me, and girls, Liam, you too, come on." Eleanor said and the five of us nodded as she lead us directly to the the bookshelf then. "I hope they kept the file folders and the textile mill record." Theo said to that remark and we nodded in agreement to that remark then as she pulled a book.

And I heard a clink then as the door opened and she pulled it back as she lead us into his study and she smiled. "Well there you go, the blood remarks now makes sense, Andy lead you right to his office." Liam said to Lilly and she nodded to him. "We were trying to create the story to what killed the kids, but when I discovered their bones in the fireplace that did it, finally, I realized how they died and this was from a single time and place."

"Luke's remark of his being a maniac made sense, but he was pedophile and child murderer." she said and Liam nodded to her and as she lead us into the room as Todd followed us down there. "Watch your step after the staircase caved in on you baby." she said and I nodded. "Yeah no kidding once was enough in my eyes, I'm not going up there unless it's bolted to the ceiling and a steel bar bolted to the staircase itself." Liam said for both of us at that.

"I don't blame you for that, but the ramp you were on was the one leading into the hall that lead to our rooms, the other lead to the kitchen. So taking a guess you got it right after you got up there and onto the ramp." Eleanor said and he nodded to her gently at that. "Issues where you need a map to map these rooms out, but this house is so big it turned into a case of being a rats in a maze catch here." I said and he nodded gently at that remark.

"And we also became the rats as a result, but at least your uncle and his friends are following us around so we don't get lost here." Liam said to that and she nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah alright what we got down here." Malcolm said as he came down with us to get a look at as she searched and I heard a thunk. "Yeah I just found it guys, this is the book she mean, the picture album." Catherine said and we nodded to her.

"Uh girls, you recall the moving picture album in IT?" Eleanor and they nodded. "That's this now, after a fast case of moving pictures she pointed me at the staircase, till I realized it then. But that wasn't Caroline I was staring at when the skeleton jumped out of the fireplace, that was Renee, after he got her down. He burned the body and hid it in the fireplace." she said and we nodded in shock to that as Theo found the said book and then said it to her.

"It's like the photo album in it, it says everything we need here." Theo said as she and Eleanor showed the way Caroline pointed us towards the nursery door and we nodded in amazement. "Was this when you got hit in the side, he hit you hard enough to nail a vein and nerve?" I said and they nodded in agreement. "Yeah I was checking to see why there was smell of carrion in that room, and he knocked me away from the door." she said to me and we nodded.

"Wait a damn minute, I had you in white dressing gown, but if the blow hit you hard enough to cut you, we never would have saw it with your skirt color. As that's the same tinge as our blood." Theo said to her and she nodded. "Before you changed clothes and then you see it in clear view with a white nightgown, that's as close to hospital gown as you can get here right now." Malcolm said to that and I nodded as she showed us the registers.

"I already had you prepped for a trip to the hospital, before we left the following morning, but the blow knocked you unconscious here now as a result." I said to that and Theo nodded to that. "Good thing you're medical psychiatrist, the only thing I needed was someone to talk to, but you're my husband it works. But we're both psychiatrists, and parapsychologists and you got your PH.D. in parapsychology now." she said and I nodded as Theo chuckled at that.

"Everything we talked about started taking form, before I turned my back to that fountain by accident." I said and she nodded to that. "Like I said never turn your backs on these statues, or you're going to get a nasty surprise, case in point is the damn thing trying to drown you. And splashing you with human blood, but he was pushing you into making a mistake, but it was close, but I made it and you three made it." she said and I nodded as I hugged her then.

"My love, my Eleanor, I'm never letting you go, my soulmate." I said and she pressed her forehead to mine in response gently and the quartet smiled. "As we drained your abdomen of the blood, and I did the same surgery on you I did with Becky while you recovered, but two weeks for this in MIC. Before you came back here, grabbed your stuff and ran a fast check for everything, one last picture and said was of you and Andy on the couch."

"As a way to remember the good times on this trip, before you came back to see us as you face the memories now." Jared said to her and she nodded smiling, as she answered him gently at that remark then. "Yeah, but supposedly an orphan, but not, I had you guys still so only child and so call orphan, I had a family here, so what best way to make a new life then be back with my adoptive relatives." she said and the quartet smiled at the remark.

"Whoa, oh my god, these names are all crossed out, Fred Krueger anyone?" Liam said and I nodded in agreement to that in disgust at that remark. "Crossing out names, it's like he's trying to make sure no one realized the double meaning to these at the time here now. But was this when you realized it, that it started making sense?" I asked and Eleanor nodded to me and we both nodded as, Catherine, Theo and Malcolm exchanged looks.

"Uh girls you better see this." Malcolm said and I looked at the flip through as I saw Caroline point towards the fireplace and I nodded slowly. "First it directed her here, her second sight activates, she sees Renee hanging from the rafters behind us, she comes back in here to check on it. And she realizes it now, and then Caroline pointed her to the fireplace, before whoever's skeleton jumped out at her." I said and he nodded as she finished that.

"And the ability started going berserk, after that, so that helps now at the moment here." Eleanor said and I nodded. "Well things were quiet for another night, before I got commed again, and this time, I saw a trail of blood across my bedroom rug." she said and they nodded to the news. "You recall this, after you found this, you came to me first, before you told Theo on this?" I asked and she nodded to me gently at that remark then at that.

"Under normal circumstances here, I'd find what cause you to find that ledger strange and on any number of levels at the moment, but that particular night, the act of you finding it, by someone leaving bloody footprints all over the floor is strange enough already." Theo said to that remark and they nodded. "So what happened next." Catherine asked and she nodded. "Well..." she said as she explained it to us gently at that remark then...

Finding Craine's Study-Eleanor's POV:

After another night of peace, I was asleep in my bed, when I heard it again. "Eleanor. Eleanor!" I heard and quickly hit the lights. "Sarah?" I asked and then heard it again and looked down. "Eleanor, find us." she said softly to me. "Eleanor." I heard from a boy's voice and I quickly said it then. "Hmm?" I said half asleep before I heard it then. "Eleanor, the ledger, in the ledger." she said and I quickly woke up at that as I refocused at that.

"What?" I asked and then looked down and saw footsteps created in blood and nodded as I got up and followed them and to something. As I saw they stopped at a bookshelf, as I realized something and tried to find a switch, before I found a book and yanked it, And before I opened up a wall there. And went downstairs then as I looked around the room I realized what I ended up in as I said it aloud then to myself at this then.

"It's Craine's study." I said softly as I looked around and found a book. "Concord." I read and then smiled as I realized what it was as I said it then to myself at this. "Oh, his textile mills." I said as I opened it as I saw several lines on it under grouping. "Man. Woman. Child." I said in shock and chose child. "Child." I said and saw the number. "Twelve years." "Eleven years." "Twelve years." I read out and nodded as I said it softly then to this.

"There's so many of them." I said as I continued reading each one carefully. "Ten years, twelve years." I read out as the possibility starting form as I started to realize it then. "They died so young." I thought out loud as I continued checking names then. "Guys, who's who, you gave us your nicknames, who's who, I know you're my uncle Andy, but what about your friends." I asked and I saw a red line go under one name, a green under the next.

A purple under the next, and line under each name for the group's new colors and I nodded. "So that's all of you, okay got it, so this is what you needed me to see, how old are your counterparts, and their names?" I asked and several new colors underlined the names of the other 30 and I nodded. ""Eleven years." I said and then sighed as I said it to them. "What happened to you?" I thought softly at this, before making a decision then to this.

"Dave." I said and quickly grabbed it and headed for his room then as I knocked. "Dave, it's me honey." I said and he quickly opened up the door. "Just got another hit here, the kids lead me right to his study, the story just took another turn here, it's leading like the legend on Freddy Krueger." I told him and he nodded in shock to that news. "What you find exactly?" he asked me and I passed him the book as I said it to that question gently at that.

"You're not going to believe me when I tell you this, but looks like Andy and his friends lead me right to his father's study." I said and he nodded in shock to the news at that remark. "Anything else with it?" he asked and I nodded to him at that. "Yeah the kids are trying to tell us something, but why is everyone so afraid of this recluse?" he asked and I nodded as I crossed my arms then as I said it, knowing he could keep up with me then as I said it.

"The charades took a new turn here, that wasn't some prank here, like the kid that was constantly pulling practical jokes on his younger brother here. I don't care for pranks for practical jokes but this one crossed a line too far, but what if someone gets shot, supposedly and they're covered in blood. As that prank ended with a near fatal punchline, this one, what if someone gets shot, did they ever consider that." he asked sternly and I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, there was blood or stage blood all over the floor, in child sized footprints." I said and he nodded in amazement to that news. "How Theo or Luke take this is anyone's guess, but we're both working in the parapsychology department at work, and this is part of the job." he said and I nodded. "Hazard a guess, and this keeps up, and it's my ability is about to start going berserk by tomorrow night." I said and he nodded in agreement to that.

"Great that's all we need right now, instead of telling them and we both know I have nothing to do with these anomalies you keep finding right now. How about you show me where you found this and we can do some digging, just keep it down." he said and I nodded in agreement as we headed back downstairs at that and I lead him right to the bookshelf and opened it at that and he pulled the door open then as we checked it out at that.

"You to be kidding me, Caroline, what is this, what are you trying to tell us now exactly?" he asked and I nodded. "I don't know whatever this is, the duo find out and the story is taking a turn for sounding like what killed Krueger in the first place." I said and he nodded. "If Theo doesn't listen, you better get Luke down here, he needs to see this." he said and I nodded. "I'll tell her later on this, but Luke needs to know this even more right now in this case."

"He considered he was a lunatic." I said and he nodded, as I went to tell her what I told him then gently at this as I knocked on her door. "What's up Nell?" he asked and I said it. "You better see this, but I found a secret room in the library, it's Craine's study, but the story took a more interesting turn here." I told him and he quickly grabbed his sweater, put it on and followed me out the door as we headed down there and we checked it over then quickly at that.

"Find anything Doctor?" he asked and Dave nodded, his eyes narrowed sternly. "Yeah I did, it seems that Craine was marking off names, in the same way that Krueger had pictures of his targets, before the town parents burned him at the stake." he said and he nodded in shock at that news. "I think this is what Rob, Jack and Rick meant by taking it slowly here, as the more we learn and the more the ability is about to start going crazy." I said and he nodded to that.