Return To Hill House

Characters: David Marrow, Eleanor Vance Marrow, Theo Willis Sanderson, Luke Sanderson, Mary Lambetta Watts and Todd Watts

Time-Line: eighteen months after the end of the movie and they're in Boston as the truth of the will comes to the fore.

Sypnopsis: It's been eighteen months to the day when Eleanor Vance gets the will that wasn't given to her sister saying she's the legal owner of Hill House, and deciding to return to it for a fresh start, she, her husband Dr. David Marrow and their friends, the Sanderson's and Watts, return to it, but little do they know the soul of the original has escaped his imprisonment, can they stop him a second time or will a member of the group be lost during this return trip 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.

Chapter 1: Preparation and Discussions

"I don't think it was you, but the soul of my great grandmother that called me that week, she wanted me involved in the group so I could cleanse the house, before taking possession of it, though while the Dudleys work for us, we got the house at night and we're going to keep them on till they're ready to retire, I'm just raising their salary to fifty thousand a week here." she said and I nodded to that as I answered her.

"Robert, how much was in that second box you left her?" I asked and he explained that. "My parentage had come from a Irish lord who loved to dig up certain areas and he had in total, of over quintillions in gold, jewels and silver. Though our family was rich, I was like Becky, but the amount is the same as the other box, and her insurance plan had money from both our accounts, but the total comes to $1,800,000,000,000. At the current moment, everything in total at the house and my account in Concord is twenty times that amount."

"So to suggest a way to handle this, the living allowance is $140,000 a month, for five years, and that total $900,000,000. But in order to get whatever amount you give them in the end and keep themselves out of debt with the IRS and stock markets, it's they take the test or they're screwed now. So this is the only way to keep everything they have, their house, their cars, all their stuff, they want to keep anything they need to live their probationary period."I read out and we nodded as I looked at her to go over it.

Thinking over what he just told us, she looked at me. "Alright so we make it clear, that the only way for them to stay out of tax fraud and out of debt, with them out of their tax bracket and in ours at the moment and keep everything they have is to take this option. He loses his mind, his side of the contract is terminated and he's spending five years at Riverside as an orderly in his own rehab session under Rick's supervision." she said and I nodded in agreement to that as I answered her.

"Dad how much did your family have at the time, because I'm looking at just short of $455,000,000,000,000 in this box?" she asked and he explained that. "Your grandfather was just as rich as Hugh is, though after Craine lost his mind and then died, he decided he was doing some digging into the house and and then combined the amount of gold and silver with his and the amount totaled to $500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000."

"In every currency there is, you're now the richest person on earth, because you've gained both family incomes, just remember what we taught you, money is nothing without someone to share it with, and secondly, just because you can't see us doesn't mean we're not here baby. Your training is coming along nicely, but use your knowledge in the next few coming tests, because everything that's going on is going to be needed for it next." I read out and she nodded as I looked at her with a smile then.

"Were you guys turning this into a game, because when I call them here they're going to be furious you never told us this mom." she said and she wrote down. "Yes dear I was, truth is you saw what it was I wanted you to see and like you guessed, I've been sticking around to keep you company this entire time. Aside from alone time with your friends and David, I've been around the whole time, as had your father, and though at first you couldn't see us. It didn't mean we're not here at all."

"A true Craine can see the fine print when they hear the words that have been outdated since I was your age, you saw what it was I was trying to tell you, because you're a true member of the Craine clan. You're also a psychiatrist, reverse psychology is needed for this. 'Shall have the right', you can choose to humble and compassionate, let your sibling keep their side of the inheritance or you can get greedy and start chewing up, piece by piece, of your side of the inheritance till there's nothing left of it except everything sold it for."

"Dispose of any and personal property as he shall see fit', whatever choices you make you got to live with the consequences of those actions and you chose to let them shoot themselves in the leg by holding back that information, you knew because you think like I do. As to that, everything they've done to you is getting reversed on them and here's the penalty, the counter clause is their trial sentence and with the sextet coming in a week as well."

"Peter's making sure that the sentence is carried out, there's going to be no loopholes for Louis, nothing is going to change the sentence after what he's done to you baby, David your father and I chose ourselves, he's parental approved. Louis, she went against my wishes and had an illegitimate child out of wedlock, tried to kill you twice and the fights, arguments and altercations, and the selling of our apartment and all my belongings, that sums it up, she's been officially disowned in favor of you, you won the game and she's getting only a tenth of it."

"But the amounts in the savings bond boxes, my insurance plan I set up for you and everything else it's over quintillions, but three times that, in all three metals, jewels and everything else, by your sister's decisions she getting only a tenth of this amount, for her choices and you get everything else, but the amounts in both boxes together comes to $900,000,000,000,000. in total along with another $250,000,000,000, from savings and that's enough to live off of for a while."

"By your sister's own idiocy she basically condemned herself to her fate now, if she doesn't like the verdict too bad, she should have looked at the fine print, before making a judgement call and I was in the room listening to that entire conversation as well." she read out and I nodded in agreement to her opinion then as I looked at my wife then.

"Everything she's leaving you is worth billions to trillions, in the case of the added money and jewelry, the bastard was probably hiding some stuff back when the slavery system was being run honey, there's more to the reason she contacted you, just before you phoned Mary that week. Evidently she wanted you involved in the experiment so she pointed out several things to you and the souls of those children were doing the rest by pointing out the clues to you, before you figured it out completely."

"But this entire situation was enough to worry me and Luke, because he and I debated on your necklace and he confided in me whatever information you told him and Jane and Lou, but the impact with the door could have killed you and I managed to get your heart beating again, before getting you on the couch and I was waiting for you to wake up." I told her and she nodded to that as she answered me.

"That's the problem every memory of the stories mom used to tell me had faded, I had no memory I had this ability and finally to top it off he targets me just as my abilities activate." she said and I nodded. "With the fact they're back just use that to your advantage, he's the maniac, but you're descended from Caroline, so with that focus on the good parts of your family, and treat him like the black sheep now."

"Because it's not what you are that makes a difference it's who you are and it's the systematic run in psychology sometimes the good, sometimes the bad, what's important is who you choose to be and you've already done that, you, just finish what you started and our gang is behind you every step, okay." I said and she smiled as she said it.

Before she could though I pulled her legs into my lap, knowing this worked at times to cheer her up, and with it being just us as I shifted position as I had with her between the couch and the way off it as I ran my fingers along the bottom of her thigh and she started laughing as I tickled her. "Yeah okay, okay." she said through her laughter as I wrapped my leg around her's. "You going to tell me what's really bothering you here." I said as I then moved my hand to her stomach and did it there next and she smiled.

As she pulled me down for a kiss and I tightened my arms around her as we stretched out on the couch, my leg wrapped across her's gently as I slid my hand along her stomach she tried to keep from giggling. "It's nothing really, Dave." she said and I smiled. "Nice try honey, I know that's just a cover up, what is it." I asked as I ran my fingers to the skin of her side and she started giggling as I kept it up.

"Just the possibility of you getting hurt again is what worries me baby, it was too close then and it's going to be very close now if we go back, because he's going to have it out for you guys because you're my entire family." she said and I nodded to that. "So long as we never do anything stupid and stick together, we're going to be fine honey." I said and she nodded as she refocused then as she curled into my side then.

"Caroline was his second wife as I said, but after he died, his children left Concord and moved to Boston, my great grandfather and great aunt were his first children and from there his bloodline started pouring through the age groups till it hit me finally. The necklace was given to him to by Caroline saying it was to be given to female descendants. Mom had it, before I wound up with it, but the chain changed from pearls to a chain link style necklace, which explains why he zeroed in on me that week. He recognized the necklace, because he made and gave it to her for an anniversary gift."

"That necklace is a family heirloom honey, passed down from mother to daughter for six generations, evidently mother left it in plain sight so I could find it and the children realized I was their ticket to freedom when I arrived. What the duo didn't see was I saw Renee hanging from the rafters in there, everything I saw and put together was due to her pointing out the clues to me till it wound up in the nursery and it finally hit me then."

"The stories mother told me shot through my head and I realized that getting chosen I wound up back in my family home. Caroline fought him for several years, but only a direct descendant could cleanse the house and get rid of his spirit for good. The will was altered slightly, because while I get everything, mother is only leaving a few million to Jane and Lou, but the lion's share goes to us. Because you showed everything that Lou isn't and she decided you were the true marital heir of the family."

"But I'm arranging it so they get just short of $600,000,000,000. But altogether everything else: the house, the money and everything else that was owned by the Craine family belongs to me and she chose you as the family executor now too, they're on a living allowance for five years then they get amount they sold themselves out for, but Richie is getting a nanny assigned to him for five years." she said and I nodded to that.

"Yeah okay, so whatever was in her insurance is a near priceless amount and with that, this amount and everything that was in the house has to be incalcuble, because your aunt said the amounts gong into octuplillions in amount in gold, silver and jewels, but greed can be a deadly thing too." I said and she nodded and sighed as she finished.

"Whatever Luke told you was right though: Jane and Lou were going to sell the apartment whether I wanted to or not and, well, to put this gently, it's like the Christmas Carol, she's barely been gone a few weeks and already their ransacking everything that is worth a few thousand dollars. I always had more respect for death and anything to do with the afterlife, my expertise was covering paranormal and studying theology, but they've been acting like gold diggers, waiting for the elderly relatives to die so they can harvest everything that is worth taking, which explains the will."

"This one though just made it clear, I'm the family heir to the house and everything she left me is worth billions, to trillions in cash, gold and jewelry and stocks and bonds in the textile revenues, I can run a job as a half psychiatrist, half parapsychologist and half archeologist and do research. We can fund our research and create the house anew now and if he's back its time to finish it for good. The message was written specifically to me and you're the marital heir of the family fortune now." she said and I smiled at that as I answered her.

"Caroline and Rebecca brought us together and she's telling us it's time to finish the job now. I just hope you don't wind up with another injury, you had a third degree concussion and it did some damage to your organs with that impact with the doors that night and Luke was unconscious while we had you resting on the couch in our sitting room I got him stretched out on the sofa in the library. But needless to say this scared the hell out of me when I thought he killed you guys." I said and she sighed as she answered me.

"As for Jane she's still hounding me about acting as a housekeeper and I'm ready to rebel at this rate. Though with the fact I decided to get my masters in psychiatry and I'm a partial nurse, I say enough is enough here, we're leaving Boston and heading for Concord." she said and I nodded in agreement to that. Concord Massachusetts was where we met and it was time to return to our meeting place now.

"If this means getting away from them I say we do it, because I'm getting sick of the them treating you this way. Though I'm away from the office I can work as a town psychiatrist there and we can work at the town general hospital, while we do our research and give it to Malcolm." I said and she nodded with a smile.

Before she could answer that the doorbell went off and she went to get it and we found several members of the team that we worked with at the department standing there. "Hey guys, what's up?" I asked and Robert Daniels sighed. " Your situation of poltergeist intrusions just hit the desk at work guys. Jefferson just got this message when it landed on his desk and sent us over to see you." he said and passed the letter to us.

'Eleanor, David, with the fact you passed the tests it's time to take the mantle now, the testing is done and you've passed every part of it. I'm getting things set up, but the stocks crashed a second time for Lou Webster, he's in debt and and needs funds, so whatever amount you give them I leave it to you."

"But it's only ten percent of the money they deserve for the attitudes they shown to you, Theodora, Luke, Mary and Todd. I'm arranging things so that when you return your friends can live within range and you're not separated after this honey. Baby, I know you're ready for this, with you fully recovered now it's time for you to take my place as the matriarch to the family and finish what I started."

"I was getting ready to tell you, before I gave you the necklace, but the heart attack ended that, truth is that though we, that is your great grandmother, your grandmother and myself, but though we're descended from him, we choose to show who we are by doing and showing the good in us, you've done that by showing selflessness when he had you trapped in the house at the time. As far as us Craines are concerned our true starting point is through Grandfather."

"Though Hugh is our grandfather we don't see it that way and treat him like an enemy now, he's everything you hated about Vader and Palpatine at the time on the movies and others of his caliber. So with that, if you're facing off against him a second time. Just give the label, you're nothing like him, remember you're a Concord Craine and it's time you returned to your position too."

"Keep the tradition running in your family and use it for every generation for years to come. This is who you are and who you're meant to be now, it's time to go home now, those key words in the letter and will were really a test for them to see if they would take me at my word and when they do, they flunked the test completely. Here's the real will in your hands now if Jack gave you the box, everything said is what needs to be said now where your sister is concerned."

"You're an only child, she's not blood, so it's time she learns the truth, her parents put her up for adoption at birth, her real name is Jane Emily Peterson. You're the true heir of the Craine family now and she's only getting a tenth of the amount for her behavior. As for Lou Webster, boys, be on stand by, if he attacks with a weapon, it's time to pull the plug."

"Soon enough the information is winding up in the papers all over town, so expect a bit of a riot and here's the other catch too. Whatever you found in my bloodwork when the coroner ran it is probably what caused the heart attack and I was on Diletazem and when combined with anything else it'll kill. That is if he didn't dump arsenic in my tea, when I was with my daughter."

"Run the test results again, because the bastard really married her because I was rich, he's after the money in my insurance plan I set up for my daughter and that's his nail in the coffin, so be ready. Son you just finish what you started, but I've been making arrangements for your return to the house, though I'm gone, I can still communicate this way to you."

"Take care kids, I love you, Rebecca." I read out and we nodded. " Why do I feel like Webster is going to lose it when he realizes that not only did he get caught in the act, he just lost everything?" Jenkins asked and she answered that with a growl. "Because he's just been had, you're friends of the family and your team is the one we work with the most Jake, aside from Rick, but to repeat that, you better run forensics a second time."

"I've spent close to twenty months suspecting he was the one who killed her and I need proof of that now. Diletazem reacts to blood thinners or anything that can cause a toxic reaction in a drug cocktail, and she was on five different medications by the time I was twenty six. Arsenic or anything along those lines, dumped into it and it's going to kill when it hits the blood stream and Lou..., while he offered to bring her-her cup of tea..., son of a..." she said with a growl as she looked at him.

"Run the test results again, if they confirm what I'm thinking he just killed my mother and nearly killed me in the process, by a death by murder/suicide rap last year so they could have the entire family fortune. I'm the last remaining member of the Craine family, and the family income was very mild, but the apartment was owned by us and he sold that and everything that was worth thousands to a hundred thousands in her property."

"Everything mom left to me was in the duffle bags that were in my luggage when we were at the house, but I got a shot to start over now and I'm tying up some unfinished business, before we leave Boston. Webster is a greedy, arrogant, evil little Masoschist and he's getting taken down a few pegs, before he winds up in jail or just spending six years in Riverside for this, so be on stand by and I'll let you know soon enough, okay."

"I'll call you if we need you." she said and he nodded. "What's left in the savings bond box, if you found that letter?" he asked and She smiled. "The amount come to $65,000,000,000 and that's just a two percent of the amount the rest is with Wilson in mom's insurance plan for me and the lion's share is at my house. Essentially mom turned me into the richest person the planet, because everything was from the family."

"The Craines are the richest family on the planet and we're also the most well respected set of philanthropists and parapsychologists as well, so with that, we just made the family anew and I'm the one taking up the mantle now." she said and he nodded with a smile. "He decides to cross the line and comes back and is hit with ten charges within twenty minutes and that is the end of the line, because the plug is getting pulled here." I added and they all nodded to that.

"Yeah alright we're all stand by, just give us the call when you're ready to let us know." Riley said and we nodded. "Thanks Jeff." she said and he nodded to that as they left. "Alright let's see here $65,000,000,000. Mom how much was in the box when grandpa moved to Boston exactly, because this looks it's just been removed or added to the amount?" she asked and a message wrote itself down as she read it out to me.

'In the beginning your grandmother had removed $450,000,000,000,000. each, in gold, silver and jewels and put it into two savings bond boxes for your great aunt and grandfather. After four generations this is the amount that is left, but while your cousins had the other, you got the one connected to our family, and whoever in your cousins it is probably spent the entire thing within eight years too. As I said greed is dangerous and it can get you killed so be careful.'

'With the amount at the house and at Wilson's office you've got, in gold, a total of $950,000,000,000,000 for the return trip and everything at the house is ten times that amount, after 80 years, as is the savings bonds from the textile mills, but it's a nicely accumulated amount to the point you've can support your family for ten to thirty generations, as long as they choose wisely.'

'For this to work, you better read out the key words to them, because I'm as disgusted as I could be with those two, her choices effectively got her disowned in my opinion, because they very well could have killed you last year at the time. Baby you're who I choose in terms of my heirs, that last will was a fake and they probated it by getting done when you're with the others at the house.'

"Rick, Jack and Jared were beyond furious at that, but having the tables turned on Lou, that's what really pisses them off, and his hurting you, that's what really pisses me off, you're everything she isn't, our family was kind, compassionate, gave charity and were selfless. So with that she's got none of these qualities, because she doesn't have my genes, and she never took the stories I used to tell you seriously either, and with that had she gone to the house and encountered him that would have killed her at the time."

"What you did is exactly what you should have done, I understand that suddenly having your abilities go crazy was beginning to scare you, but to control them you have to focus, though there were three others in connection to that and one is Telepathy, so between that and your soulmate bond, that's what locked it into place with David, and with time you can do your entire sextet as time goes on, but the abilities get stronger every year."

"I actually had that bond of telepathy with you and your father when you were a cub, it helped with our bond and your father was my soulmate, the connection searches out the exact match and then when found it connects automatically. So it chose David, and I'm glad you found him he was the one I was hoping you'd choose baby and choose your friendship with the quartet as well."

"You're the new executor of the family as is David, you're the ones leading the family now, and she's been banished from the family name and I'm also beyond furious at the fact they started an altercation with Luke and Todd in your recovery room at the time and that's another reason for dismissal here. Everything you tell them make it clear I'm beyond furious at them for it."

"You're my favorite in children, my baby, my blood, and you're making that clear to her, she wants to get greedy and treat you, your husband and friends this, they should look at the facts, before jumping the gun. They've been effectively cut out of the will. It's in the box with the other five wills that the rest of the family put in there and Frederick left a final message to his heirs too as did Caroline, she was watching you, and the last message was to you."

"Frederick was scanning his heirs every time the test started and the keys and map to the house are in the box with the will. With the fact you're the last of the family bloodline, the keys are being returned to you, it's time to return home baby. Just finish what you set out to do, be who you're meant to be, take care sweetheart, I love you." she read out and smiled as she looked at me.

"Mom, dad, what do you recommend here for their next integrity test now, because I passed everything you thought up for us?" she asked and he answered that as he wrote a new message out then. "Like Maggie Smith thought up when Whoopi finally pissed her off the table they're spending five years fasting from their current lives. Though Richard needs a babysitter at this age he's not spending his childhood having everything given to him and needs a serious lesson."

"Though with the fact that he destroyed your mother's favorite figurine and he was mocking you with your mother's condition that's getting him a month of restriction, of no toys and tv. And he's spending five years living in a three bedroom apartment of the type that Haley Joel Osment lived in the Sixth Sense, he's being expelled from his private school and put into public schooling."

" And we're arranging a babysitter that is like your mother in tempermanent, so he's not getting away with anything anymore. As for your sister, she's being fired from her job and working at a nursing home, being the companion to an elderly woman with your mother's condition. Like Winona's character in Little Women, that's her future for the next five years as she learns what it's like to see and care for a woman that is slowly fading from who you know her as-as her heart finally gives out. Being the companion of a woman like this results in growing very close to her so losing her finally is going to hurt."

"Louis is getting the big one though, with him working at the psychiatric hospital living your life David, as he deals with a bunch of alcoholics and junkies and sees what it's like to be a psychiatrist dealing with this type of thing. He's on prohibition from the week after the trial to when it ends and by him being in the hospital he's getting his own brand of punishment in case the withdrawal hits him when he's working there in the rehab ward."

"No matter what they say, our decision is final baby, use the exact words she used in the argument over the apartment and twist it to your wording, everything she owns that is worth thousand and millions is getting confiscated and put into storage for five years." I read out and she nodded as added information was written down on the paper and I smiled as I said it then with a dangerous smile.

"Alright so we just give them a serious wake up call by bringing her back down to what our childhood gave us, by putting us back at the beginning in Richie's case, mom and dad never let us get away with away, and though I was their favorite, I idolized them both, because they're who I wanted to be. Lou is getting an adult version of juvenile hall by being tailed by his parole officer when off duty and surrounded by security and orderlies at the hospital in case of trouble and as for Jane she's living my adult life."

"Mom should we set a few guards at the front of the apartment so they don't try to escape for the first six months of their extended probation, because they're going to lose it once they realize that this was arranged eighteen months in advance to the day they decided to probate the last will. As to that, David discussed this with Uncles Jared and Peter and they both agree with this right now and they, Uncle Rick and Uncle Jack are all furious at that." she said and a fifth message wrote itself out.

"Yes baby, Rick is going to be involved in this as well and they are going to be monitoring things and are passing the information to you and Peter from here, while you're in Concord. Fact of the matter is this was set up as a back up plan in case she put you in the condition you were in and your friends had to piece you back together." she read out as the next remark was said with a sigh.

"Truthfully I was going to tell you when the kids got you back in the house, that room you were in was the family nursery. Had they given us twenty minutes privacy I would have told you myself and shown myself to you, before you learned this on your own, but though we're descended from Hugh, it's not blood or genes that's makes you who you are, we've all got good and bad in us, but what part we choose to act on is most important and who we really are."

"You shown you're everything that made up the newly created Craine name, and though he's your grandfather, it's not him, but Frederick you're most like. Everything in you came from your father and me. He's the beginning but six years of descension has your blood purity at completely good magic and abilities. As you considered he's your Darth Vader, but now it's time to face that fear and deal with him, just be careful and stay out of areas that could cause you to get hurt a second time."

"Number two is, David, with the fence locked and only one key to it, since Todd had the spare, my suggestion is creating your own medical room set up in the house choose a room closest to where you're all bunked together. The rooms are are the size of the entire apartment together, because the house was built to the same size as the college in England they shot the movie at."

"So you got plenty of room, everything that you packed can be put in one room while you got all your luggage and things in the other and the bathroom is connecting the two rooms together, so there's twelve to thirty rooms like that. And you've got three like that for you, the Sandersons and the Watts."

"Thirdly when you move back, and your father and I are giving you our notes on this, including a piece of information that we never got the chance to tell you yet, but that's getting rectified soon enough. Though at the moment what happened that night is not happening twice baby, when he says take a break no more arguments." she read out and she sighed. " Is this why you tried to put a hold on things, because getting that information from the kids is one thing, suddenly seeing her hanging there is another thing altogether." she said and I answered that.

" Yes, and if I hadn't pulled the plug your spleen would have ruptured long before I got you to the hospital the following morning. Just what caused that exactly anyway, because I thought you had a nervous breakdown when you didn't want to stop digging into it?" I asked her and she sighed as she answered me at that.

"You left the recorder sitting on the table honey, I heard your latest diagnosis on what my opinions to this situation with messages on the painting and why my feelings over Jane were getting redirected into it." she told me and I nodded with a sigh. 'Lovely, she thought I thought she lost her mind out of stress, damn it Webster you just made it next to impossible for her to live a normal life you idiot.' I thought to myself with a growl.

"Emotional instability is thanks to her actually, I wanted a shot to put my knowledge to use finally, but I didn't mind about being in a haunted house, but the parts that were bringing back every memory of the stories mom used to tell me were getting out of control here. Whatever mom told you was true, like that Stargate character I got short sided, because I was the daughter of a world renowned scientist."

"And my rival is so jealous she's throwing barbs and cruel statements at me, because she's sick of coming in at second best, but while I had the blood of a real good witch in me that had the gift of seeing the souls of the dead, she's working a job at a major company as another lawyer at a firm and office as an accountant. I set aside my future for eleven years for mom's sake, I'm holding in thirteen years worth of grief and the loss of both my parents, they take my house away from me and to top it off I learn that a lunatic with a Darth Vader like complex is really the beginning of my bloodline."

"And my namesake is his wife, I can't control my abilities and they start going haywire and I'm trying to learn why I feel so comfortable in a haunted house, and suddenly every single question gets answered in one night and then to top that one off said homicidal ghosts tries to kill you, a man I love like a brother twice in one night till I see the damn painting and I'm ready to put Lou behind bars, because he's the reason for the explosion when my car crashed into the fence." she said and I nodded to that

"Well it's time to break it to them now." I said and she nodded in agreement to that. "Jane could you come to the apartment we got something we got to discuss here." she said and I smiled dangerously, I was so looking forward to this and that they were getting a serious wake up call, before the move. "Say one hour and leave Richie out of it, because it's between us and you right now." she said and then hung the phone.

As I looked at her I could tell she was holding in her laughter as I moved my hand to her side. "What's so funny?" I asked and she looked at me. "Nothing really." she said and I smiled at her. "Nice try, come on." I said and she tried to keep from laughing as I lightly brushed my hand against her side. "No really it's nothing." she said and I smiled. "You going to answer or am I going to have to get it out of you." I said as I went for her sides and she started laughing as she answered me.

"Yeah alright, alright, I was just remembering our first night together in the house when you told us that story, come on." she said and I gently stopped as I pulled her into a hug then. "Chance to start over, new life, this is great we can start our family and live our lives anew now with them out of it, because I'd rather they have and see the quartet as aunts and uncles now instead of the Websters." I told her and she nodded in agreement.

Knowing we both needed a chance to heal then if it meant facing up against these memories it was going to be worth a repeater then...

Telling the Websters:

As we called her family to the apartment, she'd moved in with me, after the attack and recovery, and we got started and went over it. "What's going on here Nell?" Lou Webster asked and she smiled. "You recall our fight over the apartment, before I went to Concord and you asked me to read the will?" she asked and they nodded to her. "Well I read that will and the key words in it were underlined twice, you remember the keywords here."

"The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit', it wasn't any normal declaration or imperative it was a question of whether or not you were going to follow through with it or not, that question was really a test to see if you'd take her at her word and follow through with it or not, that's your fatal mistake now, it was really a test." she said and I watched his face carefully at that.

"You recall your decisions over this, that no matter what I said you were selling it anyway, now why were you in such a rush to rush the probate huh. I saw the look on your face Lou, you wanted the money out of this and yet had you stopped and thought about it, before you made that decision or looked at the fine print for yourself, you'd see a key thing in the words written into it. Now focus here, why would the words be underlined twice if this was the real one, when Wilson gave it to you, after she died."

"Why would there be an admission to it, mom wrote out a few specific details into the letter, but her wish was for you to take care of me, keep up the traditions that make up our family name and finally, never let greed get in the way of doing the right thing. If you'd focused carefully on the words in the letter and then listened carefully to her words in the will you'd hear a clear message of what she was trying to say here."

"You'd see that the wording was addressed in a test like manner, and not just any test, but a test of two things, economics and law and in a spiritual sense as well, 'The executor shall have the rights to dispose of any and all personal property, as he shall see fit', if you reversed the way it's being declared you'd hear a true example of testing, from a theological point of of view now when where what we learned in church comes into it."

"Said declaration being the seven deadly sins, for starters, greed, you allowed your greed to get in the way, so what is the reverse of that, secondly gluttony, what is the reverse of that, and finally anger, what's the reverse that and why she asked you to take care of me in her will at the time, let alone it brings back everything mom used to teach us Jane." she said and I watched him think it over, before his eyes widened at that.

'Follow through with it what is she talking about..., dear god no it can't be, please say that's not a fake will, it's the real one, it's got to be the real one.' I saw him thinking then as I crossed my arms as she answered his unspoken thoughts then. "Mother knew what she was doing when she wrote that will, she knew you were going to sell the apartment and everything that belonged to her and me and that's where it gets worse for you."

"That decision just cut you out the will Jane, fact of the matter is when I was in Concord with my husband and our friends, I wound up learning certain information about mother and who I really am, how mom had the triple bypass and how we ended up with the funds I didn't need to pay off my therapy and medical bills at the time and they're all printed into these papers as the truth hurts, both emotionally and financially."

"The will was designed to test the reactions of the bearer's children, whether they acted with kindness and compassion to the loss of a family member or they get greedy and act like a couple grave diggers when the will was opened. You see while I acted like I was supposed to, you start acting like couple grave diggers and that's your fatal mistake."

"As to why there's been a slight change of rights here now Lou, truth is that will mother gave you was a test to see the response of what Jane and I would do to respond to it, and the final tests results just came back from the bank, the test is over and you flunked it." she said and Jane answered her. "What are you talking about, what test?" she asked and Eleanor pulled the papers out of the box and set them on the table.

"Mom time to make your presence known now, what was the truth about the will, and about the fine print." she said and placed a piece of paper on the table and a pen next to it and I watched as my mother in law wrote out a message to them then as the pen sat itself down. "How!" Lou said in shock and she smiled. "The family abilities include a sixth sense and talking to the netherworld Lou. Mom has been leading my actions since, truth is the added six sense is really a gift of second sight and I can see and speak to the spirits, directly translating that I'm like Winona Ryder's character on Beetlejuice."

"You ever wonder why mom favored me, well it's because I had her ability to see and speak to the netherworld, she was training me to take her place and gave me the necklace so I could take up the mantle. I didn't have to read that to know mom was trying to test us, because I think like she does, I'm a thirty three year old her and she knows I'd never take advantage of fake will and I'd do everything that was reverse of the seven deadly sins and with that, this is her real remarks to the fact both of you did."

"Here's her remark to that now though, 'Louis that will was really a fake, you see I've known ever since I saw you that you were a gold digger, your family is a family I'd rather cross the street to get away from then allow my daughter to marry into. And yet you, as a hotshot lawyer, should be able to read the fine print when it has the words 'shall have the right, as he shall see fit'. If you'd bothered to focus on why those words would be written in there you'd hear my voice saying choose wisely you two."

"Directly translating the sentence structures, it means you can show compassion and be a true member of the family, or you can get greedy and start destroying, piece by piece, every dime I left to Jane Emily. And with that, the fact you sold my apartment and everything I left to her, didn't care that Eleanor had no place to go, rushed the probate, and finally you set her up for a murder/suicide rap last year, my judgement, is that everything you did has just cut you out of the will entirely."

"Lawyers respect the law, they show compassion for other lives and they stay focused on what's more important, mainly their families, including extended family. Also a gentleman never strikes a lady, they don't drink enough to do so and they would never touch a woman when they're recovering from a near fatal injury. My family is from Ireland, we grew up a different way than you did."

"In fact everything that David shows is actually based off her father and grandfather, and I handpicked him myself for her, and with that. You see you think you're above the law and you are not. That order to have you arrested, questioned and under investigation didn't come from David, it came from me. My best friends at Concord are the town judge, the mayor and the town chief."

"I wanted them to know you were the reason she nearly gave up, so they, Walker, Adam and the Dudleys could be there for her now that I'm gone, and with that here's the real truth, baby go ahead, tell him about the family tradition, it's time Jane Emily learns the secrets of the Craine clan." she read out and he swallowed at that as she looked at him and smiled dangerously.

"Were you listening to the entire conversation when we were going over the will at the time mother?" Jane asked and she set the paper back down and it wrote down the next remark. "Yes Jane I was, like Patrick Swayze did in Ghost, I was actually listening to that entire conversation and I've never been so disappointed in my life with you young lady. Everything that had to do with your sister, I was in the room for, I've been following her everywhere she went, aside from private time with her friends and husband, they needed alone time together."

"While you can't see me, she's able to communicate to me this way, simply by asking questions and I write everything down so I can talk to her. Or I can come to see her and she's able to speak to me like Skywalker did with Obi-wan Kenobi in Starwars. As to that, it's the reason I chose favorites between you girls, she's a younger version of me and if the roles were reversed she'd never take her resentment out on you for that and treat you like crap, and that's why I'm so disappointed in you young lady."

"You obviously learned nothing from my lessons, the most specific ones here being: just because you can't see something it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, number two never just assume something when reading a document and never, ever ignore the fact that the person I'd choose to run my finances is really just after my insurance policy and your sister knew all of this because she thinks like me, and this is a family testing time and you flunked every piece to it."

"Eleanor however didn't, but she passed every piece to it and while doing so risked killing herself to save David and their friends and she happens to be the one recovering still from the amount of damage you and your husband did to her. Because though I'm a ghost I can move things around, you can't see me, but I'm here and she's got the abilities that can do that, she's able to see me."

"Because our family gift is seeing the souls of the dead, as for David, he was handpicked by me, and you went against my wishes about marrying him, had illegitimate child, out of wedlock and you're letting him get away with hurting your sister, well that's it for me young lady and that's another reason I'm so disappointed in you, if your father learned that he had touched her like that sexually or brutally and he'd castrate him for it." she read out and they swallowed at that, knowing they were screwed now, before another message wrote itself out.

"And believe me I would do so in a heart beat Louis, had you crossed the line, she's my baby girl, my daughter deserved better and she found it with David James. Eleanor, my baby, now that you have the will and money, you can leave Boston forever and you, David and your friends can change things for life here, because between the Craine finances and the Vance finances you got a beyond incalcuble amount here, but my family account is stationed in Concord."

"So it's time to activate the true points in your bloodline sweetheart, I'm also from Concord, before I moved to Boston and met your mother, you've grown into exactly what I hoped you grow into. Make yourself happy and son, take care of her, you have my approval and blessings, we may not have met face to face, but I approve of you completely as does her mother, take care of our daughter and grandchildren, as of now you're the next limb on our family tree now."

"Time to refurbish the Vance/Craine bloodline and you're the new addition to the family. The amount in my savings bond box for you was the exact same amount kids, but that's where the secrets get worse for you Jane Emily, baby go ahead." she read out and pulled the second box out and I saw what looked several trillion dollars in the exact style as the Craine family box as she looked at them.

"They heard the entire conversation, why would she have those words written like that in there?" he asked and she crossed her arms as I answered that. "Think it over Lou, the sentence structure, the wording, words underlined, were you even paying attention to the key words when Wilson gave you the will at the time?" I asked and he swallowed as he shook his head. "You didn't, but I did Lou, I didn't have to see it to know it was fake."

"Mom decided to get me out of town for a week so I could see her friends and finish what she started, I ended up learning a secret that explains the mystery of the 'C' on the necklace she was wearing, and you can see I'm now wearing that necklace, and I have the second will and the savings bond boxes." she said as another message wrote itself out with a gentle smile at that in its tone as I read out what it said then.

"Jane if you'd paid attention to the way the remark was read you'd hear your mother saying choose wisely young lady, fact of the matter is during that trip she took, she, David and their friends got into a debate over the will and they heard the truth of what it meant from Rick, Beth and David. She doesn't have to see it to hear that it was family testing time and you flunked that test by doing what you did."

"If I'd been alive when the will had been probated I would have just let you have enough rope to hang yourselves at the time out of your greed, but your sister decided to just let you make your grave and waited eighteen months to the day that will got probated and my savings bond box is in the same vault that was in a secret account with your mother's. You flunked every single test she and I set for you, so to us you've been disowned in favor your sister now." I read out and her eyes widened in shock at who the voice in the words belonged to then.