Return To Hill House Book I: The Will Revealed Chapter 4: 3) Arguments, Phone Tag and Preparations, a misc. movies fanfic

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: half this chapter covers the rest of their conversation, and his phone conversation with their boss and their friend, before it switches to his memories as the movie covers his point of view, before things shift directions.

And while the movie showed a slight attraction between the characters, it's going to show more than that with this story as his memories reflect the thoughts he had, if she survived the standoff and had Luke survived the blow in the fireplace, as this give a bit of an explanation as to how she saw everything, they couldn't see at the time.

Chapter 3: Arguments, Phone Tag and Preparations

"Younger brother of the male heirarchy, I know that voice, we heard four of the seven, Andy, Robbie, Sarah and Eddie, that's going to be Andy or Robbie who just showed up, unless the entire group came to visit." she said and I nodded as I looked down. "Andy was green, Robbie red, Sarah was pink and Eddie was black, alright time to double check it here." I said as I said it as I looked at the paper as I said his name, the kids were one connection I grown used to when we were there as well and if they arrived it meant we had them with us till we freed them.

"Andy that you son?" I asked and he wrote out the next message with a smile in his tone. "Yeah Doctor it's me and hey Eleanor good to see you again. To answer the unasked question I came to see you and with me are the sextet, they're here in the room, turn around, we're right behind you on the table, you remember what we looked like then, our favorite colors, and using the balls from the set."

"Well you got both sets to ensure we were back with you in the way you remember us then." he said and I nodded as I looked at the other side of the room. "Sweetie, you're all here?" she asked and he wrote it out to her with a smile. "Yeah Eleanor we're here, you remember your second night, turn around we're right here on the table, just as you remember us then." I read out and I thought it over as I looked at first our dining room table then I smiled as she looked at me with a smile.

"I had a pink ball, both versions, in solid and stripes, created for the traditional game and bought a snooker set when I bought the table, all seven members of their gang, if their here, they chose the colors we remember them by honey." I said and she grinned as we both turned to the one place that our young friends were hiding on as she said it.

"Whoops, before you got back, I just set the table so they could start playing, but real verse's clones at the moment, and turned the table into their version of a hockey rink. But I hung up the posters on the wall and the alternate reality version to the tv show, as we left the picture of you and Andy on the coffee table." I said and she smiled at me. "Pool table, they're on the pool table, they possessed the one thing now finally."

"To us that was natural for them and that made us recognize them on sight honey, same colors as they were then and we bought a set of each. Just to give them a chance to create their colors if they came to visit us and they're back in the colors. That we remember them in when we met at the time." she said and I nodded as I turned to the table that was sitting in our den as he looked at us in shock then at her remark.

"On the table, what table?" Lou said and I smiled as I looked at the one place they could be and then I saw, in the colors I remembered them in when they came to greet us when we came to the house eighteen months earlier, the seven fooling around as I saw the sextet and Sarah sitting there in their ball forms, their numbers pointed up at me and I chuckled as they put themselves into the word 'Hi' and I smiled at the group gently.

"Hi guys, good to see you too." I said to them and they put themselves into a smiley face as they looked at me. "Well we know for sure that what happened was never a dream now, that image of your favorite characters on the show. Nice way of telling us that was what you really looked like when alive, Uncle Andy." Eleanor said and a copy of that same picture, with him dressed in white sat itself down in front of her and she smiled at that.

"I missed you guys, it's great to see you again." she said in response to that. "Who are these kids?" Jane asked and she answered that. "Their the souls I freed when I was there when I got into a standoff when I was at my house, these seven were the ones I bonded to and they see me as a surrogate mother now." she said and put a hand on the table and one by one they sat themselves into it and pressed their numbers into her palm.

"Missed you too guys' it's good to see you again." she said and looked at me smiling. "Hugging billiard ball style here." she added and I chuckled, because I recognized their colors, since I bought a snooker set in addition to the traditional as Eleanor looked at them with a smile as she said it. "What's going on if you came to check on us?" she asked and a message wrote itself out then gently as this was written out at that.

"Mom and Fred sent us to tell you now that will, the real will, got probated, time to come home again." I read out and we noded as she answered him gently. "What's going on exactly if you came to see us, the judge said the trouble started." she said and they answered as the rest of them put themselves into a word as they and the second set wrote out the explanation one word at a time and I heard a sigh in the explanation.

"You freed us then, but the trouble started up again, we've been able to travel around the entire town, since you freed us and our older brothers and sisters, but he's stirring right now. We had enough time to come see you, but we need your help, we're the next age group on the list to be freed, but if you just got the will we got you returning to take care of us." I read out and we nodded to that as she answered him to switch subjects with a smile.

"So I freed you by locking him up so you can travel around the town and up to the city six hours away here, alright before you get into another hockey match that results in you getting knocked the table again, keep it from getting too rowdy over there honey." Eleanor said and I watched as he and Robbie jumped off the table at that as she grabbed one of the bigger marbles and put it on the table and watched as they started knocking it around the table as Lou looked at us in shock.

"What's going on here?" Lou asked and I smiled. "These are the kids who were at the house. To repeat what I said though, you got too ambitious and finally crossed the line here. Think it over, you rigged the car, tried to set her up for a murder/suicide wrap, have treated me and our friends with a cruelty beyond anything a normal person can take without getting cold hearted and stole everything that belong to her and sold the apartment, but that's your fatal mistake, because if you looked at the fine print."

"You'd see the added consequence for that decision: 'The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit', you can choose to be merciful and let the other heir keep their half of it and show compassion or you can, piece by piece, destroy your side of it by liquidating everything that belongs to Jane and with her side of it Eleanor, well you made your choice and here's the consequence now."

"Think it over Lou, how much did you sell this apartment for exactly, the insurance on the apartment, and selling everything Rebecca left to Jane, huh what was it. Well if you don't remember here's the fine print on that declaration in the will: every asset liquidated removes your claim to her half of the Inheritence, dwindling it down till there is nothing left in her share of the fortune, but the amount you sold it for at the time."

"David Walker already told us the fine print and that's your fatal mistake, you see she didn't have to see the will to know there was a hidden catch in it, and said hidden catch is that this original will was really a test, and with every decision and act you pulled in your behavior the last eighteen months, you just shot yourself in the foot now. As to how, by getting greedy you lose everything. It's the same as working in the trade market."

"You invest in the right stock and if it pans out you make a fortune, if you don't sell your souls when doing it, but you get greedy and the stocks crash you lose every dime you made from it and here's the penalty now, by your own hand you just stabbed yourself in the heart by getting greedy and not showing mercy and compassion to a family member."

"Kind of serves you right though Lou, you took her home away from her and this is turn about is fair play now, as far as her mother is concerned and where I'm concerned at the moment after your confrontation with our friends and Rebecca would have been displeased you started an altercation in the hospital when she was barely ten days recovered with our friends and I surrounding her and you get into a fight with Luke and Todd, let alone my having to arrest you at the time as well."

"That attitude is not acceptable where she's concerned, so men acting like yourself she sets certain tests for the female members of the family, and when Eleanor met me and the quartet that did it, she didn't have to worry about her, because she had friends, a place to live and a future now and with that, she'd be disgusted with your attitudes as the older sister and brother-in-law at the moment and let me name it off now."

"Let me see when she was determined to not lose her home, you ripped it away from her and suggest she work for you and in return you leave her a Hugo that was killed in the impact of the gates of our house, she ended up in the hospital for three weeks because she risked her life protecting me and our friends from that bastard and after she was released I was the one taking care of her and brought her home with me."

"She filled us in on what was going on when she ended up in the hospital recovering from the sonic blast to the doors and she was determined to protect us and it nearly kills her in the process. You're a lawyer, I'm a psychiatrist, I'm everything Rebecca wanted for Eleanor and if she met the rest of our group she'd agree that this was fine, because our lives were one from the day you slammed her with the first will, well we got the correct one and it's going straight to her mother's lawyer and you're only getting a tenth of what money you deserve for this, as to why she's everything you're not Jane."

"She didn't get greedy, and you sold the apartment and she moved in with me while she was recovering and I was taking care of her that entire time, because she was recovering from the jolt to her head and body when she exorcised the bastard out of the house and with him all the children he murdered. We've been together for over a year and she told me everything, your attitudes, her sleep deprivation and everything else."

"So as far as Rebecca is concerned you don't deserve the money or the property let alone the $375,000,000,000,000 in cash, and $200,000,000,000,000, jewelry, gold and silver, and probably even more than that and I even bought her a sable to get around town and she and I are working as a team in psychiatry so her mother is giving her a chance to start over now, by getting away from the city and you." I said coolly and he snapped back at me at that. "If you mean Sanderson and Watts they had it coming." he said coldly and I crossed my arms as I answered that remark.

Looking at him coldly I decided to let him know just who was in charge now with the admissions in the will Rebecca just gave then. "At the time had I been who she was looking for, before she and got together, I'd have you committed for putting her in that condition, and our friends all thought the same when we learned the extent of your emotional abuse on her, but just one week and things change for us."

"They saw what I did where she was concerned and got protective of her after what happened the month before and let me tell you, if you had so much as crossed the line and attacked her for real I would have sedated you myself, which I did when you grabbed her at the time when I called the security into the room along with her medical doctor, because I smelled alcohol on you that afternoon when you came to the hospital. We'd already been through enough and were relieved that our quartet got out in one piece, and a fist fight in her recovery room is going too far."

"And I doubt Rebecca would have approved of a fist fight in a hospital, let alone when said victim barely survived the fight a month earlier and to top it off said victim is surrounded by the friends she made when you ripped her life apart, before she made said friends. That letter is now the will meant to reveal who's the heiress of the family and Rebecca chose the person who was willing to give her life to protect others." I said to him sternly and she added onto my sentence with a firm look on her face.

"You know what their first thought was when you grabbed me and they saw the bruises all over my side and torso, three weeks, before they brought me to Riverside so Rick could be my medical doctor and treat me when the altercation in my room started that day Lou?" she growled and he shook his head and I crossed my arms as I said it with a furious look on my face as I remembered the fight in her recovery room that day.

"We thought you abused her Lou, emotional damage, physical abuse, you have no clue how pissed we were when we found those injuries at the time. Let alone when Jefferson told us you attacked her five times in six years when getting into a face off with Rebecca, you don't approve of me well to bad, she loves me because I'm everything she remembers in Robert, our bond is a soulmate bond and she's happy now."

"You obviously don't give a damn about anything but money, and at the time I had legal rights, as her doctor and psychiatrist, Rick and I, we call the shots, and you pissed us off because she wasn't leaving the medical ward for another month. With that you forfeited any shot you got to the fortune now, and you lost everything, because you got greedy." I said it dangerously to him and she finished my sentence.

"Before you say it Lou, I'm giving, you, through a penchant plan, a living allowance of whatever amount the 10% Is of an incalcuble amount of money, to you and Jane, you can live off that, but everything else is mine now. But said amount is worth more than you'd expect, but everything else mom and dad left us goes to me this was his intention as well, dad never approved of you and neither did mom. So to them from this day forward its you're living our lives as you see what being with a medium sized income is like and have to take care of others, the elderly and people in rehab."

"I'm warning you now, you try anything, before the trial hits and you're the ones ending up in the hospital, if this results in an altercation. You see mother chose me as the heir, because I'm directly descended from Caroline Craine, which was where my middle name came from. I didn't get greedy and I had more respect of the stories she told me for bedtime when we were Richie's age, I learned quite a bit from her and I loved her."

"Her stories were great and I chose to take up my legacy, by following in her footsteps, and here's a truth you should have looked into, but said stories about her raids and everything are really her job, she's a parapsychologist, with an attitude like two of the male leads in ghostbusters and Tangina, that's her life, and I wanted to to live it. Turns out they're not stories at all but family history and I got evidence to that when I called David for patient selections and I dropped my deepest emotions to him, Luke, Todd, Mary and Theo, they understand me in a way nobody in your circle does and with that."

"I'm not the same woman I was then and I'm going home now back to my real life and living with my husband and we can start over." she said firmly and I finished it. "You're a couple of gold diggers and I'm the one acting as her psychiatrist, and with what I've seen you don't deserve more then a hundred million in stocks and bonds, let alone gold. So Rebecca had every right to do this and we're getting the lions share of everything she and Caroline are leaving us." I stated and he slammed his hand on the table.

"Oh please that story was just a scary story and rumor, none of it was true." Jane snapped at me and she smiled. "Actually it is, our family is descended from the Concord Craines of Massachusetts. When I got that phone call I found Grandmother's necklace and bingo, I wind up in the adventure of my life and it's all thanks to your acting like a couple grave and gold diggers and this will just made it clear."

"Only family can fight against a spirit as evil as Hugh Craine, you left at the earliest opportunity to go college, I stayed and mom and I went over certain details as the stories became more clear to me. The bastard was haunting the house and nearly kills my husband, friends and me that week, and you are too much of a coward to handle something like this, mother left me the necklace, because she was saying it was time to take up the mantle now."

"I'm now the family executor and I say enough is enough, I'm not putting up with your attitudes and walking all over me anymore, that ship has sailed and I'm remaking who I am starting now. You and Lou have no rights to family owned property here and for the record, though we grew up in the sixties, her generation saw your choices as blasphemy and if mom was alive right now, she say you've been disowned in favor of your younger sister, meaning me now and I'm everything you're not Jane."

"I get the properties and everything else, you're only being left with a quarter of hundred million and that's enough to last forty years, but we're leaving town in three weeks after this." she said and I smiled. " Go ahead and gripe all you want, it's been written in stone and there's no changing the facts every story and theory is proven correct and we're going to look into it and see what it is that the legends are hiding and we're never coming back to Boston." I said and that did it as he shouted at me at that.

"Oh what David, just because she decides to take off on us, you're going with her choices." Lou shouted at me and I looked at him firmly as I answered him. "Yes actually, compared to you, I don't take advantage of her, our relationship started when we were at Concord, and we're returning to where things began for us. You've taken everything she has, before she met me and I say I'm giving her a better life."

"That house we were at is a family owned property, therefore we're repairing it to get it ready for when we have our own children. You ever consider the reason Rebecca left the house to her instead of you and Jane?" I asked and he shook his head. "It's because she's a blood relative, Jane isn't and with that, her great grandmother chose her as the new owner of that house. I made her very happy and our friends are coming to visit for six months to eight months as a result of this." I said and Jane looked at me in disgust.

"Blood relative, I am a blood relative!" she snapped and Eleanor stood up smiling dangerously. "Actually no you're not Jane, you were adopted when mother thought she couldn't have children, she met dad and bingo I'm conceived and and I'm her legal heir with both him and mother gone. My friends are going to agree when I say this, but starting now I'm not taking any more of your crap, I'm a psychiatrist and I'm finishing what we set out to do and our friends are coming to visit for several months." she said and Jane snapped at her at that and I got ready for a fight.

"I don't believe that Nell, I am a blood relative." she said and she smiled as she turned it to the next page. "The reason I didn't choose you Jane Emily, is because you're not a blood relative, only true family can battle the evils of the dead and exorcise the threats of souls in the house. Whatever she saw proved she was the true heir of the family, and she did my job for me by finishing things."

"The reason my heart got weaker is because I tried to do whatever it was she did and it caused a triple bypass, and she's thirty years younger than I am, so she had a chance to survive the fight where I didn't. And secondly she never got greedy or tried to steal things away from you, she's everything you're not when you left for college and this is my final statement and will."

"I'm leaving only ten Percent of the amount to you, along with every dime that you got out of selling my belongings, before she went to the house." she read out and then finished with the next. "Wait she did what?" I repeated and Eleanor sighed. "I figured there was a reason for all the flashbacks and the heart medication, but she tried to do what I did and she needed a triple bypass, when she was my age or a little younger, not knowing her heart was getting weaker and it nearly killed her at the time, but the added information in this explains that." she said and I nodded to that.

"You stood up to him and lured him in front of those doors and she gets hit with a jolt strong enough to cause a triple bypass surgery like we had to do with you at the time. If she's the older version of you, I see where you get your strength and wisdom from and with that. If he forces you to do that again, I'm making sure we got a medic or a doctor to get your heart going again, in case we got to do this again baby."

"As to why I'm lucky you survived that impact with the door, but you still took some damage, so let's not have any more excitement than usual here, shall we." I said and she nodded in agreement to that. "There's four more wills in here as well." she added and I looked at her. "Who from exactly?" I asked and she opened it and smiled. "Caroline, Frederick, Minerva and grandma as well as mom actually, listen to this. Caroline was leaving her mark in the truth, before mom left me the necklace, before I left, everything that happened was right on schedules as the Dudleys said."

"I was right about that too, she had left me the necklace as her right of passage, so I could take her place once she was gone, the entire situation was rigged so I find you, meet their friends and finish what she started." she said and I nodded. "So read the first, what's this say about why how you and I met, if it took a repeat performance?" I asked her and she opened it up.

"To my youngest heir, if you're reading this letter and you passed the tests and you found my necklace, than you are my legal heir of the Craine family, the traits from me you gain from this are a gift of second sight, telepathy, understanding of the supernatural and a powerful gift you can use once you practice it. Though I was descended from a powerful witch, her abilities were used for good, they were transferred from me to you through my son, and your mother or father, but they are helpful at times.'

'All of my descendants starting from the day you leave Hill House and Concord it is time to change our family name for the better, my son is the new male hierarchy in our family, he's your real father and grandfather. Hugh is a monster that needs to be vanquished, but it's going to take time, with every generation your abilities get stronger, those abilities are the gift of supernatural, use them against the evils of the world, both in the living and in the dead, and you can communicate to the netherworld by use of this.'

'My darlings, one day you'll be facing returning to your ancestral home to do battle, but my request is before you do so, study all areas that have to do with theology, demonology and everything with the supernatural. They will insure survival, remake our family name and always remember, though you are descended from Hugh Craine, it's not the name at all, your descended from a true good man and that is my son, as to that my dears."

'It it not how you are alike in blood and genes, it's how you are not, Hugh is a unstable man, a monster and a threat to children only you can stop him, but remember if these abilities activate all at once you will be able to fill in the plotholes from what legends the residents of Concord create about Hill House and Hugh. With this knowledge everything that wasn't explained will be downloaded into your head and you will know where everything is.'

'You will see everything that someone who is a skeptic can not, but remember in order to control it, you have to practice, or it's going to get out of control, my painting is in the hall if you see that it's the final piece of that puzzle needed if your memories fade my darling. Do not worry, your soul will point out your true path and it will be connected to the house, but it will bring you the happiness you deserve finally when it does. Remember these words: we all have light and dark inside of us, but what part we choose to act on is who we are.'

'And just because you are descended from an evil doesn't mean you are yourself, you can fight the evil, but you must never give up. Your friends and loved ones are your strength, use that strength and be who you are meant to. I will see again my dear, just remember the key to fighting the dark is love, friendship and strength of heart, everything you embody is the strength of a true member of the family, and use it to defeat him.' she read out and I smiled at that.

"What's the one from Frederick say if it explains why you wound up with the knowledge of how to defeat him when we were there honey?" I asked and she opened it amd smiled as she read it out loud. 'To whoever gains possession of this savings bond box, I, Frederick Charles Craine, have decided that for every generation in the Craine family, the first will created by the deceased member of the family is to run a integrity test for the next generation at adulthood.'

"To my legal heir, my youngest of my female heirs, if you found my mother's necklace than you know who you are as a Craine, you showed the attributes of the Craine family. That door you found was a test of spirit and if you passed it, it was the beginning of your testing, till you gained possession of this box and the letter and I hereby leave you with everything that belongs to the Craine family."

My great grandfather was involved in the Gold rush and father had taken possession of the amount after he died and with both that amount and the money from the textile mills, he created the house and built it to certain specifications. Not long after he passed, I added the doors, if you, my young heir, found the doors, they were a test of spirit and integrity and that was one of several tests set for each generation of the Craine family."

"Test number two was seeing what others could not, our family was gifted with the gift of sight of seeing souls, and test number three, if you passed that, was standing in front of the door as the door came alive and took the guilty into it. If you passed all three tests and and found my mother's necklace than you are a Craine and the rightful owner of our family manor."

"The attributes for the members of my side of the Craine family were kindness, offering charity and helping others and if you've chosen to follow in my great grand-daughter's footsteps, acts of bravery by protecting whoever was with you when you returned to our family home. After father died I remade our name and turned it into something we could be proud of and if my young heir has passed the tests they have earned the right to our entire family fortune."

"The Family fortune is hidden in the deepest bowels of our ancestral home now and to find it there are several tests you must go through. You've passed the first three, but now these tests are going into puzzles and tests that take a intellect that a nonmember of the family can not see and when you go through those you've gained possession of the fortune and everything that was in our family account that had been in there since father passed away."

"The amount of these coins in the box after such time as I or my first and second heir has passed is worth far more than you think. These metals are of the highest grained quality and are worth after such time has gone by when you, whichever of my heirs found it, of over $900,000,000,000,000,000,000. As time goes on the quality is only going to gain more wealth and with both this treasure and the textile mill accounts, the total is approximately $700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000."

"My heirs, every generation has a choice of what they want do with their life, but those choices dictate who you are and who you are to become, so choose wisely. For these choices are the deciding factor in who gets chosen and who doesn't for the next generation to gain possession of the family fortune and if you chosen wisely it is time to return to you what is yours now."

"To my future descendants as the legal head of our family, from this day forward the Craine family is running these integrity tests when the generation that created their will is close to death, so when you create the wills there are to be two, and run these tests, the rules are put to create two wills and one goes to the family lawyer and the other is hidden inside this box till such time as the next generation passes the tests and gains possession of it."

"Well that sums it up he was looking through his heirs till he found the right one and Rebecca chose you as the owner of the house." I said and she nodded as she looked at the duo firmly. "Theo is an artist and Luke is an architect, so I'm getting them involved and we're spending the next eight to nine months there at the manor, along with Todd and Mary for a private getaway for a while." she said and she answered that as she tried to place the names of our friends then.

Watching her I could tell she was trying to figure out which of our friends chose this decision as she snapped at her "Who, that bitch Theo and her husband Sanderson, are they ones who decided on this, because you can't do this." she said with a sneer and Eleanor smacked her in the face for that and I didn't blame her for reaction. Theo and Luke had married ten months earlier and to us that was good news, because they were an exact match like Eleanor and I or Todd and Mary were.

"You have no room to talk Jane, you're dating this jackass and you had an illegitimate child, that's like the pot calling the kettle black. I'm finishing what I set out to do and I'm running my paranormal studies in my house, and we're getting away from the stress of city life and starting over. And to answer that remark we can actually, you've dodged the bullet for years, this is as much your probationary period as its Lou's now."

"You acted like a spoiled brat ever since you started college. I was too shy to come out and say what I wanted and you dictated everything I did back then, well no more, the reason I changed is because I found them and my true heritage, and mom is right you don't deserve anything if you act like this. Luke and Theo are my best friends and they, the Watts, and we, are spending seven to nine months together at my house."

"Don't bother contacting us either, there's no telephone service out there, that means no land line, you need a cellphone to stay connected to the outside world, no tv and and the Dudleys lock the gate every night. We can spend the time together like we used to and live our lives without you and your bastard of a husband treating us like this. As of now it's a parting of the ways." she snapped at her and I ended it with the next sentence.

"You're spending the next five years living my life Jane, before I met David and our friends. Things have changed and you're seeing it from the other end of the line, you're a couple of spoiled assed rich kids and are thinking like those brats in the kids novel, and it's time for you to see it from the point of view of the person who's life was completely destroyed. If you'd see things from my perspective you'd see why I'd changed."

"All you care about is Richie and getting money, well let me tell you something, I was chosen, because I did what you can't, I'm selfless, I show compassion, I show integrity, and I help people and finally I'm a blood descendant. Your parents are the Petersons, I'm a direct descendent and therefore everything that belongs to the Craine family belongs to me now." she said and I finished it with the next sentence.

"At least I treat her far better than you and that jackass of a husband of yours do, and our friends see her the same way I do. If you think I'd ever let you get away with touching her like that guess again, I'd already legalized our marriage certificate when you started the altercation, and she needed me the most at the time, because your cruelty hurt her more than you'd expect at the time."

"Everything she told us was because she was recovering emotionally from losing Rebecca and you're taking everything away from her. She's got the heart of the kindest and most caring person we've met and yet you take advantage of that anytime you can, well that's no longer the case anymore. We're leaving and spending the next eight months out there as a group for the reunion with Rebecca's friends and summer plans we got together."

"We, that is every adult member who knew Rebecca, and we haven't seen each other in sixteen months, since we separated that month at the time and we're spending our lives where they matter to get out of this city, because we're sick of you treating us and our friends like you're better than we are and with that. Get out of our home right now Jane or I'm going to do something I'm going to regret later." I told her and she added on to it.

"The will is getting probated and the testing is at an end and you flunked it, I won the contest between us and for years you've acted like a couple spoiled ass rich kids, well how the mighty have fallen now. Starting next month it's Trading Places, we're living your lives, just without the attitude and more compassionate and caring of others, and you're living ours as you get to see our lives from the other end of the line." she said to her firmly.

"I'm not taking that truth at all Nell, this will is a damn fake, the other is the real one." Lou said and I smiled as I quoted his words back to him with the cocky smile with it. "Suit yourselves, if you don't want to accept this than we'll let the courts handle it." I told him and she smiled as she added the parting shot with an icy smile. "Come live with us us Jane, you have no idea how hard it is out there." she said and without another word they got up and left the room and slammed the door shut and I looked at her with a smile.

"Better bag the cellphones honey in case of emergencies, this way we do a run in case of trouble and this time, if Rebecca gave the added spare key to the gates we got a way in or out if we didn't put 'him' away completely, though he tries that twice and I'm killing him for a second time." I told her and she chuckled at that. "I'm not sure what got me on the stair case and the platform, but the kids were trying to tell me something, we just got to make some improvement to the stairs and do some repair work in certain areas of the house." she said and I sighed as I remembered that.

"Yes well if they drag you up there a second time and I'm going up after you, you had me worried sick that entire time. Whatever he was doing was resulted in multiple cases of shock and one panic attack at the time, before he attacked you in your room that night honey. I can't lose you and I won't, if it takes us working together it's going to be done, because I'm not losing you again that way." I told her and she hugged me and I tightened my arms around her gently.

"Hang on I'm writing the Dudleys a letter telling them we are returning to the mansion and I'm now the new owner of it." she said and I smiled at the look of confidence and strength in my beautiful wife as she got to work on writing it to the caretakers of our house, knowing life was going to change for us, for the better.

After getting on the line with my boss I told him what was up. "Malcolm, there's been a change in plans here for sleep deprivation studies, Eleanor and I are heading back up to Concord, we selected a new study here and we're running paranormal studies on the house. In case we didn't get rid of the bastard." I told him and his tone turned shocked. "Concord, you're going back to Hill House?" he repeated and I nodded.

"Yes that's what I mean, it's her property now and I'm keeping in touch by cell phone and sending the files by the mail or through the fax machine, we're moving to Concord, so I'm your extended branch out in the country now. She, our friends, the Watts and I are running a extended trip on paranormal studies and architecture and art up there. If we find what we're looking for, it looks like the trouble just started up again."

"As to that, she and I are getting out of Boston and moving to the country and starting our research on this. Sort of a summer get away for us and we're going to be up there all summer and fall to." I told him and he answered me at that. "Alright, just keep in touch and bring the added equipment this time, the house's wiring may be old but it's strong enough to handle a fax machine and landline connected to it, so with that just get whatever information you found and send it to me."

"And this time, let's keep it from getting out of control here shall we." he said and she answered that. "Not our fault Malcolm, my great, great, great grandfather hijacked the entire house and destroyed our only link out of the house. But this time we're all bringing cellphones in case of a repeat performance." she said and I heard a chuckle.

"Good idea Nell alright you choose anyone else for this, and make sure they all bring cellphones to the house, there's not a cell tower nearby, but the phones are pretty strong." he said and we nodded to that. "Alright we'll call you back on this see you soon." I said and hung it up as I dialed Luke then.

"Sanderson here." he said and I answered that with a smile. "Hey Luke, it's Dave, listen to head off a repeat performance this time while we're up there, you and Theo better get a set of cellphones when you come up." I said and I heard a chuckle. " One phone gets pulverized in the fall, well with six to eight that won't happen twice. Yeah okay, so what do we got, if you're calling me?" he asked and I explained that to him.

"With the fact the bastard hijacked our last trip, and the fact we cleansed the house of all the ghosts in it, we're going over added ideas, and you and Theo can run your majors while we're there this time and we can get some repair work done while running paranormal studies on the house, but summer retreat this time and we can treat this trip a like summer long get away and probably up to Thanksgiving as well and her mother just gave us the map layout to the house, so three weeks give or take, okay." I said and I knew he nodded as he answered that.

"Yeah alright see you in two hours then, she and I are coming over, so what's the plan this time, because we're likely going to deal with one thing or another, is it just us or we got the entire gang in on it this time." he asked and I nodded. "Yes, it's the entire group this time, but we're adding two more, or maybe a bigger group this time, but we're getting everything we need and they can arrive a month later, so while the four of us know what it is that we're dealing with we better make sure no one does anything stupid this time. So I'm getting someone with medical training or just a medical doctor for this."

"Every batch of equipment that we didn't bring then is being brought this time, so our expertise, and everything we ought to get this time around, so long as we don't have a repeat performance if he starts getting into her head this time, after she somehow wound up on the stairs outside the platform. Though if we get a spare key to the chains and the lock that's enough we can get in and out without breaking down the fence this time." I told him and I knew he nodded to that.

"Good idea, if we can't get out at night we got a capable medical doctor and a nurse or two on hand and everything we didn't bring last trip is being brought for this one, including our added equipment for the job. I'm an architect, and Theo is artist, while Nell and you are psychiatrists doing studies on fear, sleep deprivation and we just added another case study and it's the paranormal research so with that we just get a massive batch of medical supplies and drugs in case of emergencies while we're there."

"I can't believe I'm considering this right now, but if one of them has a full blown panic attack, you're going to have to put them under this time, evidently the constant scares was pushing her to a panic attack and then he laid out all the stops, if this happens twice and you're going to have to put her under. Though considering we know what to expect, we're not getting caught off guard this time and with that we're finishing it."

"Whatever the bastard was doing to her though, is the reason we had to be on watch that night, but if he does it again and we are going to have to get her to lay down and rest. What are we calling the side plans for this trip exactly?" he asked and I explained that. "A combination sleep study and paranormal investigations, but it's a summer long get away for whoever signs up and for us, that is you, me, Todd and the girls, a six to eight month get together from April till Thanksgiving and we all need this right now."

"We know the layout of the house better than whoever signs up does, but this is not turning into a who dunnit with the amount of poltergeist intrusions we had last time, and stay out of the fireplace if he hijacks the flue a second time alright." I said and I knew he nodded as he answered that. " I wind up with a second degree concussion and she gets hit with a third degree and damage to her organs in the blast and with that, if he does more damage than necessary, the MD better bring his equipment and equipment bag."

"Considering our last trip there, let's not go looking for trouble here, because if Theo starts restoring the paintings that took damage to them like the one on the stairs and the one I did damage to, I don't doubt he's likely to show up a second time just as we're getting comfortable in the house this time. I can fix the spiral staircase no problem, but I'm making it stronger than it was before. So I'm bagging my equipment and Theo's bringing hers so that covers it, but with eight to ten people running around the house it's going to get hectic." he said and I nodded in agreement to that opinion then.

"What the will say exactly, if Rebecca left her entirely family fortune to Nell anyway?" he asked and I smiled. "Evidently what happened was supposed to happen, Caroline masqueraded as me to get her involved in the experiment, as to why, it was so the true heir could exorcise the bastard out of the house finally and with him every child he murdered. She said that everything she told us played out exactly as she said it did."

"if for whatever reason the trouble starts, we're looking into digging even deeper into the house, because we wound up finding several secret passages that we weren't expecting at the time. But every ounce of the money he had hidden in the house is buried deeper into it. So while we working our decided plans we can do a bit more digging, because when she found the study, it wound up leading her directly into a secret passage that night, but she said she saw Renee, that's what she was looking at, before you told me what was up." I said and he answered that gently.

"So what was the reaction when Webster heard this?" he asked and I smiled. " He was pissed at it, but it gets even better now, the account Rebecca created had was containing an amount in the case of some hidden treasure trove in the lower sections of the house of over $750,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in gold, silver, jewelry, and other gems and items you find a treasure hunt, along with $800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in stocks and bonds from the textile mill records and accounts, and we just gained Robert' box as well, but this is where it just keeps getting better and better, because her parents just told us everything on this and the amount calculations is 100 times what Benson told us last year."

"With the amount of inflation the total is worth five times more in gold and silver than they were 130 years ago, and it's all buried somewhere in the house. We got a way to lay out the house, but I'm buying several key locks to the chains, give one key to the Dudleys and we got the other in case of emergencies. But this trip isn't going to be total confinement, we need food or anything and we're going to town." I said to him and I knew he nodded as I heard a call out from someone in the background.

"See you in a few hours bro." he said and I smiled as I answered him. "You too Luke." I said and hung the phone as I looked at the photo of the six of us. 'Lord if you can hear me, keep our group in one piece, I can't take a repeat performance of our previous trip to the house. It was way too close as it was, I can't lose my darling Eleanor, or my friends, so protect us from any more trouble.' I thought to myself softly then.

"Okay so our regular supplies in the house and added supplies in the trailer hooked to the car and you just bought the explorer a month ago, so our luggage is in the car and everything else is in the trailer and we bring everything we have in our apartment to the house." she said and I nodded in agreement. This time we weren't taking chances and coming completely prepared, because last time we hadn't known what to expect and this time we did and we were ensuring nobody in our group got hurt.

As I remembered the day we got married I was thrilled that we and the quartet were able to get together every chance we got and it was going to be nice to see each other again finally and spend the next six to eight months together. As the memory of the close call hit me I remembered the week we all arrived and the amount of trouble we had as I refocused as I turned to her as we moved back to the couch.

"I think our first night together got a little out of hand." she said and I chuckled. "I'll say, meet and greets don't usually have the guests getting that playful with each other, let alone being able to act normal with each other. Our relationship snapped itself into place right after you told me that, and our soulmate connection snapped itself into place when we went into the greenhouse." I said and she smiled as she looked at me.

"I think mom did that on purpose: pick the people that brought this version of me you saw in me when we were together out, once I vented that portion of we had the chance to talk and our connection started snapping itself into place every hour, the reason I moved closer to you when the bottle exploded was because my heart was telling me you were it. By the project it just brought back the me she knew, and you guys finished it by becoming the friends I needed, and then to top it off, I find my godfather and aunts and uncles."

"With the first night things were going fine, but it's during the next that had me worried, because just as I'm beginning able to relax and be normal with you guys, the connection is getting tampered with." she said and I nodded smiling, as we then heard a thunk and I turned to see the quartet fooling around and I chuckled. "Okay you guys, are you sticking around till we get back up there, or did you just planned to come see us for today?" she asked and they put themselves into a word in answer to that.

"Today, alright, with the fact we got both sets of balls, try to keep things from getting out of hand here okay." she said and they jumped to answer her as she looked at me. "Well this certainly helps, we get an idea of what to look for with the fact we've got a bunch of preteens living with us till October. Since we're acting parental guardians till I free them next fall. What I will say though is that he's probably going to wait till September, before he tries it again, so six weeks leading up to his recapture." she said and I nodded.

"So we got six months of non violent intrusions and the situation starts getting a bit out of hand by the end of the summer and then goes all out in seven months..., for gods sakes, alright in order to do this we got to get every bit of medical supplies and everything needed for it. The quartet and we are going to have to close the apartments and they can live with us while he's building their houses in range of ours."

"And thirdly the ones in charge of the household are the six of us, if we got more the ten to fourteen people running around in the house." I said and she nodded. " I'm looking at eighty billion to pay for everything in the medical department, but our best shot is getting a ready made medical room that has everything is in the E.R. for it and create a second one in case we got someone to drink to think straight." she said and I nodded to that.

"So what's that will say about the doors and and everything we saw honey?" I asked as we were sitting on the couch as she read each will and she smiled and read out the message. "To whoever gains possession of this savings bond box, I, Frederick Charles Craine, have decided that for every generation in the Craine family, the first will created by the deceased member of the family is to run a integrity test for the next generation at adulthood, once the previous generation has passed.'

"After my father Hugh Craine turned into a recluse and a unstable man, I decided to leave my home and come here to Boston, and the amount in this box was from the treasure father had in the lower sections of our house, these metals of are high quality that after such time as my own heirs have gained possession of it, the amount has grown with every year that goes by."

"My great grandfather was involved in the Gold rush and father had taken possession of the amount after he died and with both that amount and the money from the textile mills, he created the house and built it to certain specifications. Not long after he passed, I added the doors, if you, my young heir, found the doors, they were a test of spirit and integrity and that was one of several tests set for each generation of the Craine family."

"As such the exact amounts are, if one of my heirs married the heir of another Irish lord as rich and powerful as our family, than the amounts are doubled or tripled in amounts. My young heir, or heiress, remember this, that though you're descended from my father, I am your true starting point my children, you're my legacy and from this point forward remember these words as well."

"We all have good or evil in us, but the part that we choose to act on is most important, that is who we really are', you were descended from me my children, the qualities in our family now are compassion, kindness, we are humble, we give charity and we never, ever treat others with the kind of cruelty that Ebenezer Scrooge had done, before he changed."

"As a Craine the will is going to be a test, a game, there will be rules to it, but the key words in the will when you create it are 'The executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property as he shall see fit', every heir, if you have more than one, shall hear the true message within the will. As you did my dear. A true member of the Craine clan, once they hear the words."

"They will see the will for what it is and act on our new station in life, my request is that during your coming of age as you grow up and mature into who you are, you read the works of Charles Dickens, you will see what the true messages in the stories are and you will see that there is more to the will than you think, you act on your station you are the chosen heir, to continue our legacy."

"Add the words and statement above, if the heir sees the true message they are a Craine, but the heir who does not and takes advantage of it, and with them the marital heir, they lose their side of the inheritance and get only a tenth of what they deserve for their behavior. In closing to you my youngest heiress."

Reading that I exchanged looks with her then. "Alright if that's a game, what's Caroline got to say about these games and test results, because your nearly getting killed last year was not what I had in mind when I chose your family manor as the site for the project. Though I'm lucky neither of you were killed, but the over reactions were enough that Luke could have killed you both out of his stupidity and his temper at the time?" I asked and she opened up the second paper in the box about it and smiled.

"If he'd kept his temper and not lost it completely when I was in shock from that blow to my side he wouldn't have nearly gotten himself killed, anger is of the seven deadly sins, you were acting like you were supposed at the time. Our conversation when I told you my thesis was I knew you were going to see I'd already seen through the alibi at the time. To answer your second question, it's the added information regarding the will's and the added truth to why we were moved out here, listen to this." she said and read it out to me.