Kat was curled up in a ball at the side of a building crying into her hands.
"I-I Can't do this, Casper. I can't just stand and watch you die." She said through her sobs. Casper floated over closer and stroked her hair.
"Oh, Kat..."
"Horrible, horrible..." Kat said removing her hands to look him directly in the eye. Casper wiped away a few falling tears and placed a small kiss on her cheek making Kat blush. Casper kept his head close to hers and Kat came out with words she never thought she could say. "I love you, Casper." Casper shifted his head to look her in the eye.
"Really?" He asked and Kat looked down for a split second then back up to lock eye contact.
"Really." Kat answered never looking away from his lovely blue eyes and slowly found herself moving closer and closer until they was just millimeters apart until...
Somebody shrieked which startled them looking in the direction the sound came from.
It was a woman, a fat woman holding a basket of dirty washing.
"I saw everything, you dirty mutt!" She shouted walking quickly towards her. Kat quickly stood. "They ought to send you to a convent!" The woman tightly grabbed Kat's arm and Kat loosened her grip and ran backwards. "Don't you do that to me, young lady!" She shouted as she looked at the washing she dropped. Casper grabbed Kat's hand and pulled her to safety.
"W-why did that woman grab hold of me!? Look, she has scratched my arm and it's red." Kat said holding her arm up.
"Sorry, I forgot to tell you...women have no human rights here..." Kat looked discusted.
"Why not?"
"They didn't get them till the end of world war two...I think...forty years in the future."
"Oh...Casper?"
"Yea?"
"What's a convent?"
"It's where parents send their daughters to stay...forever usually...and if they try to escape...they would shave them bald...and they wouldn t care if it cut's them..."
"That's terrible...why would they send them there?"
"Well, for a number of reasons I guess...you know that girl who fetched the tank for the frogs?" Kat thought, A pretty blonde she saw. "well I heard she was sent just because she was pretty..."
"WHAT!?" Kat was truly discussed, never in her life has she heard anything soo ridiculous.
"You know the brown haird girl sat near the front?" Kat thought but she can't picture her but she gestured him to carry on anyway. "She got raped by her cousin who sits next to her..." Kat shivered in fear.
"Casper, I'm scared..." Casper thought of something terrible.
"Kat, we have got to get you out of hear!" He said grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the mansion.
"Why, what s going to happen?" Kat's fear increased. Casper stopped and faced her.
"Kat if we don't get you out of here now then that woman might go telling everybody and they'll tell her that they seen you with me, human me, then they ll think your a...slag...and will get hold of you and ask to speak to your parents, which they can't and if you tell them the truth, if you tell them your from the future then they will think your mental and send you to a mental institute without parent promission because if they don't speak to somebody then they will think your an orphan and even if you don't say your from the future, they will still think your an orphan and send you to a convent!" Said Casper awfully fast with a great amount of fear in his eyes. Kat just stopped still, petrified, eyes as wide as Casper's, whose was petty wide.
"C-Casper, I-I'm really s-scared n-now." Kat's eyes started watering again.
"Oh, now Kat, I'll get you out of here, don't worry." Casper said in a comforting voice and a smile. She could never resist that smile.
Outside the mansion stood Kat and Casper thinking hard.
"I have an idea...one minute." Casper said going invisible and entering the mansion. He returned quickly. "The maid is upstairs cleaning, I'm in my room and dad and the butler are talking in the library. I'll open the door for you and You can get in the study without being detected and if somebody comes then I'll create a disturbance..." Said Casper leading Kat up to the door.
"Ok." she said quietly just before Casper went in and opened it for her. Kat walked in quietly and snook over to the study as Casper inspected the rooms people were in making sure they don't move out of it. Kat slowly opened the study door and walked over to the book shelf which she activated it, taking her into the tunnel again. Casper appeared and everything is running smoothly except when he said that his dad is coming. Kat and Casper hurried towards the machine and Kat spotted something. It was the bottle they used to resurrect Kat's dad It had some red formula left, it wasn t enough but there is still some.
"C'mon Kat he'll be here any second!" Casper told her and she ran inside.
"09-02-1996"
They landed back in their time, but Kat was still thinking about what she saw.
"Kat?" Casper asked looking confused.
"Yea?"
"You know...half of your conversation with me never actually happened..."
"Huh? How?" Kat asked confused.
"Well...you didn't say how your mum died for one and you never umm...hugged me." Kat's cheecks went a faint red.
"I thought your dad said you can't change the fabric of time...or something like that..."
"Well...urm...I dunno..." Casper sratched his head.
"Casper?" Kat asked eyeing the bottles that once held the resurrection potion.
"Yea?" Casper responded watching Kat walk over to them.
"These bottles...will the leftovers be enough to fill one?" Kat said taking hold of one and looking at the one's behind.
"Urm..." Casper's eyes widened at Kat's idea. "Quickly! grab every bottle and pour them in this one." This one being the one Casper grabbed hold of.
"Wait! What if we spill them?" Casper's eyes searched the room and came to land on one of those metal things that have a wide top which you pour something in and it curves down into a small hole at the bottom which you hold over the destination container. (What are those things called?)
"Here, use this." Casper said giving it to her.
Casper poured the liquid in the bottle while Kat held the metal thingy.
"Oh, no...one short..." Kat said searching the rack for any more.
"It's ok, Kat. Maybe I'm supposed to stay a ghost forever." Casper said foarcing a smile.
"Don't talk like that, Casper!" Kat said looking him in the eye.
"No, it's ok, maybe I'm bound to be a ghost forever, my dad was never able to use the potion on me anyway...
"Why?"
"There was a knock on the door one morning...dad was in his study that day...the butler said three gentlemen want's to speak to him..." Casper developed a few tears.
"Why? Who were they?" Kat asked with worry in her eyes.
-----Flashback-----
Three men walked into Mr. McFadden's study and Mr. Mcfadden stood up and properly greeted them by shaking their hands.
"Can I help you, gentlemen?" Asked Mr. McFadden
"Yes Mr. McFadden," Answered the man wearing black gesturing his two friends wearing white to come forward and hold him still. "You can tell me how you feel today."
Mr McFadden frowned.
"What is this!?" Asked Mr. McFadden outraged.
"Now, now Mr. McFadden, don't become mad, you will only make your condition worse." Said the man in black pulling out a surringe from his brieth case.
"What condition!? What do you mean!?"
"Let's talk about this in a safe environment, shall we?" Said the man in black calmly as he injested the fluid into him while his two friends forcefully hold him down.
"You! You Can't do this!" Shouted Mr. Mcfadden trying to avoid the injection, but it was no use...
"I'm afraid I can..." The man in black said watching Mr. McFadden fall asleep then telling his men to strap him in the white, belted jacket that he had pulled out of his brieth case...
-----End flashback-----
"That must have been awful..." Kat said hugging the young ghost. "But maybe your not supposed to be a ghost forever..." Casper looked at Kat, but not fully letting go of her.
"Why?" Kat's cheeks grew red.
"Maybe we was supposed to meet...maybe we were supposed to become friends..." Casper clocked on to what she was trying to say. "Maybe..." Kat stopped there and anxiously awaited what was about to happen. She wants him...she wants him badly...he's perfect...
"CASPER!" Shouted a formilier angry voice that practically made Kat and Casper hit the ceiling. Casper groaned and Kat smiled. He looks soo cute...he looks cute happy, sad, angry embarrassed...
"CASPER! Come hear NOW!"
"I'm sorry, Kat..." Casper said forcing a smile. He was soo cloce.
"It's not your fault." Kat smiled and Casper floated off to meat his uncles needs. Kat looked round, There just has to be a way...
Kat suddenly remembered of when she first had the idea...there's one still in the machine!
Kat quickly poured it in with the rest, pooped it into the machine and ran upstairs. We'll do it later...YAY YAY YAY!!!
Kat had the biggest grin on her face when she wen't down for lunch and gave Casper a little kiss on the cheek before she sat down. Casper stared at her, a bit confused and a bit shocked before he remembered he was cooking. Casper served Dr. Harvey first quickly and put Kat's plate down slowly taking that opportunity to stare into her eyes. Dr. Harvey was just, well ...confused. The ghostly trio wasn't there, in fact the reason why they needed Casper was because there going to some sort of haunting meeting, they would have dragged Casper along to hold their things, but he'll only embarrass them...after all, he is a friendly ghost.
"Now you two..." Dr. Harvey started, thoughts racing through his mind. "I haven t seen you all morning, I sure hope you wasn't doing anything you are not supposed to..." Kat and Casper exchanged confused glances.
"Urm...like what, dad?"
"Like...going any further than..." Dr. Harvey said slowly and looked at their faces, pressuring him to get an answer. "Never mind, what were you doing?"
"We was Checking out the lab." Kat answered calmly. Better not tell him the whole truth...
Dr. Harvey studied their faces for any sings of lies, he's on to them.