3 - Visiting

Mike felt dizzy as the nurse took his blood pressure. He knew that the doctor said he had been lucky but falling through the floor and landing on his back didn't feel lucky to him. He sighed heavily as he looked over to Alison, knowing that since her own accident she found hospitals a difficult place to be. He smiled slightly as the nurse left the cubicle.

"You ok?"

"Yeah." Alison smiled slightly. "I am. Its just weird being back here. I don't know if I am talking to a ghost or a person. Not that ghosts aren't people. Well, apart from the pigeon." She sighed heavily as Mike took her hand.

"Ok, well in that case why don't you just focus on talking to me? If you see me talking to someone you can safely assume I am talking to a real life live person." He smiled as Alison smiled slightly. "Unless?"

"You didn't hit your head. You weren't resusciated. You are sore but alive. Very much alive." She kissed him, effectively silencing him. He knew she was still a little freaked out by the fact that not only could she now see ghosts but that they shared a home with them. He paused as she pulled back. "Mike?"

"Lets go." He smiled as the nurse returned with his prescription and instructions to return as soon as he felt unwell. Alison listened carefully as she was given a list of instructions as the nurse made her promise to bring her husband back if he felt more unwell. Mike tugged on Alison's hand before leading her out of the hospital.

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Kitty stood at the window watching for the little car Alison drove to return. She knew the couple was at the hospital but she had no real idea what that meant. Pat, Julian and the Captain had tried to explain but she knew they all had very different ideas of things. She wasn't sure Julian's description of what a nurse was and what they wore was entirely truthful and she was sure things had changed since they had been alive. She sighed as she watched out over driveway hoping that at some point she would see her friends returning.

"Kitty." She kept her eyes on the road as Fanny approached her. "Are you going to spend all day looking out there?"

"Yes." Kitty answered honestly. "I want to be sure we know when they are to return."

"A watched pot never boils."

"I am not watching pots." Kitty frowned as Fanny tutted. "I don't mind. Pat said I can call when I see them. You know what today is?"

"I have been dead many many years, Kitty. I tend to lose track of days." She waved her hands in the air. "Robin tells me it is Halloween. I don't see what that has anything to do what happened to Michael."

"It doesn't." Pat arrived. "The floor boards were rotten."

"But." Kitty bit her lip. "But Alison fell from the window. Then she could see us. Mike fell."

"And you think he might see us now?" Pat asked as Kitty clapped her hands and nodded. "Really? He didn't hit his head. Did he? It would be interesting if he could actually see us."

"And it would stop him looking up every single time he tries to address us." Julian appeared with Mary, Humphrey's head and Thomas.

"Exactly! You think he believes we float around in the ether!" Thomas laughed.

"We do." Robin shrugged. "We float through walls. We don't exactly stomp about." He pretended to stomp. "See, no noise. He doesn't know where our feet are!"

Kitty and Mary laughed as Fanny rolled her eyes. She knew what he was trying to say but she had no wish to continue the conversation. Just because it was Hallowe'en didn't mean that anything out of the ordinary was going to happen in Button House. Just because the building had been there since the Regency, had survived two world wars and was now the home of what she thought of as a new generations of Buttons there was no need to think that anything out of the ordinary was going to happen. Was there?

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