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.
Chapter 6: Family Meeting, Pranks At the Table and Conversations
"You're an artist Theo, I'm into the paranormal, and I think Mary likes theology if we have all three running loose in this house right now girls." Eleanor said and the duo chuckled and nodded to that. "While I'm an architect and contractor, and when wondering around the house we all have things we can add to our thesis. Before the end of the weeks right now ladies." Luke said and Todd nodded in agreement to his remark.
"I don't believe this, just when you think you've seen everything something always ups the surprise factor, and if I didn't think that the paranormal was real than this just gave another reason to enjoy ghost and Halloween stories at the moment." Mary said to her and she smiled. "You think it's bad now, just check this out, you're going to love this." she said to her as she lead us to a carving and I got a shock. "Whoa, That's more detailed than any carving I've ever seen." Mary said and he nodded in agreement.
"Whoa this stuff is amazing." Todd said and he nodded as he looked around. "Yeah, but this guy is a heck of an artist, but with a slightly disturbed sense of humor, if I didn't know any better I'd say he's really into Greek mythology here and the occult, because half these carvings and statues are things out of the occult." She said and he nodded in agreement as Luke answered her with a smile as he set his duffle bag on the floor.
"The guy is one of the types that once he gets into it then he goes all out and to answer your question Nell, the physics in it just got dragged into it. This house has a set up of 130 years and a secondary set up, by the looks of it of the last twenty to fifty, though if she's cooking she's using hardware created in a normal restaurant kitchen than what we see in a house later, so across between Tudor, the early 1700's and the civil war."
"But the kids time frame, from the looks of this, is just before 'Huck Finn' and 'Little Women' actually, they didn't have electricity, so they used gas and oil. As to how I know that, my major was looking at this stuff and comparing it through the generations, but this house has things you don't see in nowadays and it's 130 years old, their time frame was back in the early stages. In fact I just got my degree in architecture actually, which explains my pick up, I'm getting ready to go into working at a contruction site."
"I spent ten years studying physics and this house has two different pieces of it, ours and the civil war time frame, which explains that fireplace. The job covers physical science, chemistry, stuff used for building and so forth, from what I can see this house may be 130 years old, but it's in good condition." he said and she nodded. "What are we looking at in physics in your job and created house materials Luke?" I asked him gently at that.
"The civil war, which is the time frame half the books and story's in the classics are based off of. They didn't believe in use of machines to create woodwork. But they studied in how to get a building up without it breaking. But the one support beam can be a fatal mistake, as we heard in 'Man in the Iron Mask'. So with that fact in mind here, my job covers weight, length, dealing with chemistry and building supplies needed to do repairs or fix or dealing with delapitation, and this house is in the very early stages of it."
"So for that you got to know whether something is going to collapse or cave in. In which case, I'm keeping an eye on things when we're together. So anything that is so old it can't bare your weight if it's at a section you're standing on, like say halfway up a metal staircase, if the metal rungs are so old it's going to collapse if you're standing on it, though I'm hoping that doesn't happen here, so at whatever areas we're looking at let's just not get caught off guard here, or you're going to get hurt."
"So if we're in an area that looks unstable or looks old enough to collapse while we're here stay close." he said and the girls both nodded as I hid a smile at that. "Watch out for the unexpected side turns and doors in this house, because the 'rats in a maze' remark is not an exaggeration here, we were going past the ball room, wound up in front of several mirrors, before coming out the door you were standing in front of and wound up in the hall just as you arrived Luke." Theo said to him and he nodded to that.
"Uh huh, okay secret passages, multiple mirrors, a ball room with a rotating floor I bet which explains why I heard music coming from that direction and a couple dozen other unexpected sides trips, locked doors and trap doors in certain areas of the house, the owner must have turned this place in a funhouse when he built it. Best guess he read Dumas and decided on the same thing and built secret passages into the house as well, so with that watch the side turns or something is going to come at you unexpectedly."
"With the 'rats in a maze' catch here, the halls are built into a maze and if one person is doing one wall and you're doing the other it could result in an unexpected scare. So if any of us go exploring watch it or you're going to run right into the person coming from the other direction." he said and Mary answered him. "That keeps up and we're going to scare the daylights out of each other, if we keep bumping into each other just as we're exploring the place." she said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah there's that, but with us being in sleep deprivation testing, expect several night time wanderings, just watch where you're going or you're to scare the hell out of the person you ran into, who's coming from the other direction." Theo said and Eleanor chuckled. "I think in addition to nighttime wanderings it's making sure we don't get ran down by whoever these ghosts are in billiard ball form" She added and she nodded in agreement to that remark as Luke answered that.
Just as he got ready to answer her I heard a loud crash and we exchanged looks as I ended the conversation. "That says anything, I think the Dudleys are used to this, though why choose those specific colors to greet us when the red, blue and green came in and who are they?" Mary asked and she sighed as she got ready to answer, before the green rolled up to her gently and bumped her in the foot softly and she looked at it.
"Why do I feel like I know you exactly?" she asked and he tapped a message to her gently. "My uncle, you're my grandfather's baby brother?" she repeated and it jumped once to answer her, before tapping a message to her. "I forgot, I had you, Sarah and your best friend following me around from 18 months to 17 years old. Just before I stopped coming to visit you, the last time I saw you and your friends was 15 years ago."
"But your set, before my mother retired was only 18 months old at the time now, she replaced the table and your ball forms repeatedly to keep you looking young. Alright so why are you guys choosing these colors, because they became famous in 1993 after a tv show came out." she asked, translating for us then and he tapped out his response, before he could though, a purple ball rolled in and then a burgundy one.
"Who are you exactly?" she asked and the burgundy tapped out a message to her. "Eleanor, it's me Frederick honey, I'm your grandfather, Frederick, this used to be my house, before I moved our family to Boston. The purple ball is your great aunt Alicia, my twin and the green ball is our baby brother. But listen to me carefully now honey, because you need to be careful while here this week."
"Though some of the stuff looks new, the strings on the musical instruments are getting old, and tightening them up too tightly is going to cause them to snap. Secondly the stairs in the greenhouse are really old, so don't go further up then the seventh or eighth stair and finally if you're checking the fireplace get ready to duck, because the flue has a specific time to open itself."
"At the current moment your choosing to return on your own has changed things, but mother is who you're descended from and that necklace is a family heirloom. It belonged to my mother, honey, before she passed it to me, so I could give it to the female descendants, of my bloodline. I'm your true starting point baby, everything good in you came from your decension through me."
"Although Jane is flunking her integrity test, you're passing it beautifully at the moment, you figured out exactly what we wanted you to realize by refusing to look at the will, just keep doing that and tell the quintet. They're who your mother, father, Alicia, Andrew, mother and I chose for you to know, regarding our truth now in this, because Louis is getting arrested if anything happens."
"I have several connections here in Concord so I can get them involved, but everything he's doing and has done to you, is getting him arrested when the counter clause hits finally. As to why at the moment, you're my sole heir now baby, you're the last piece to my descension honey and Rebecca, Robert and I are sticking around to keep an eye on things in this while you're here."
"But the secret to why I moved out to Boston is about to come out, so I need you to stay strong my dear. Never mind what your sister turned you into, it's time to return to the real you, as you can see our family manor is haunted, and your expertise should be put to use now. Your mother is a parapsychologist, so use what she taught you and what your father taught you regarding message in the way I'm doing now." she read out and nodded to the request as she looked at me.
"Why choose the burgundy exactly grandpa?" she asked and the purple answered that question. "Andrew and his friends, as well as their classmates, chose the other colors honey, so the only way to get your attention is by this. Though that was Andrew's trio that rolled in, when they got into that hockey game in the hall. A bit ago, before it wound up running Daniel into the fountain in there."
"Which explains the clang you heard, he got thrown into the fountain a bit ago by my sister-in-law." she read out and the tone sounded bemused as she read it out to me. "Sarah was that really necessary to give him, whoever this kid was, a concussion by throwing him in your version of the lake with a fountain in the foyer?" she asked and she tapped out her response, before the purple ball answered her remark, bemused.
"Uh Nell, we got a couple groups of 1 inch snooker and regular billiard balls here." Theo said to her and I turned and saw what she meant. "Looks like the smaller and less likely to break a window, or get shot across the room by accident." Todd said and I nodded. "That or whoever loses their temper, never packs too much of a punch, because they get blasted across the room and it's asking to break anything made of porcelain." Luke said and I thought it over then.
As I saw a smaller version to the current set also roll out and I nodded. "So big set is young adult to adult, and tiny is preteen to teenager?" I asked and the little pink and purple gave a jump. "So which one are they, when her parents and you and Fred, Alicia, are not around?" I asked and the big one moved forward and I nodded. "In this case that's holding the soccer ball the size of a shooter marble, but this, okay so she knocked whoever it is across the room."
"Sounds like his girlfriend has an explosive temper." Luke said, walking up to stand next to Eleanor and she tapped that out to him gently. "Indeed, though they're young preteens, they act like the kids on the shows you see on tv nowadays. So if you saw the first girl on that peewee hockey movie Estevez created and the original pink on that superhero show they created for kids six years ago."
"Well, that's Sarah all over, so expect one of the boys or Daniel to get thrown across the room again later." she read out in answer to that and we nodded as we started laughing at that. "So the week with us together is going to be parental supervised, but you're with us, just in spirit at the moment?" Theo asked and a snooker red ball rolled into the room and tapped out a message to us.
"He, whoever this is, is doing this in morse code, they didn't create that till WWI, during the early 1910's and once it got started going being used for emergency calls. Or just casual conversation when on an AM/FM Radio, but the only ones that used it like that were firemen and cops. Dad had one when I was Andrew's age and I learned to translate it as I got older." Eleanor said and the ball jumped off the floor once in answer to that.
"Yes kiddo that's right, baby, your mother and I are sticking around all week. So we can talk to you in both ways, but your mother's getting her side notes for you prepared right now, she's coming during dinner though. Honey think over what you know about me when I still alive: my favorite color, my favorite billiard game, and my career, how I taught you to translate when I got messages like this at work at the time, my favorite tv and movie genre."
"Type of music, your mother and I had the same love in music, so our favorite bands, Baby, it's me honey." Luke read out as the red snooker ball turned to Eleanor and she grinned as I looked at the ball, feeling my trepidation start growing, because I wasn't expecting anyone else to know her on sight then. "Tv, book and movie genre, his favorite tv, book and movie genre was science, their favorite type of music. It was rock and roll, the Beatles, Queen, and few others back in the 60's and 70's at the time."
"Red, his favorite color was red, he was a fireman and his favorite billiard game was snooker, no it can't be, choosing a snooker ball just to make contact. And choosing a red one no less, and choosing morse code just to talk to me, he had a radio in his possession. And it was stashed in his office when he was at home, he had a red truck as well when he was still alive." I heard her thinking out loud then as she thought it over.
And she smiled in delight as she said it out loud then. "I don't believe it, alright to explain it now guys, back when he was still alive at the time, dad was working as a fireman. All fireman had an radio to contact each other, but when needed they put messages. Especially if someone was listening to conversation, into morse code and I was dad's favorite, so I was always with him and I learned to translate it as I got older."
"As for the rest of it, my father had a red pick up, his favorite color was red. That's my father's favorite color, bands, he liked the ones from our age group, and his favorite billiard game, between the traditional and other billiard games, was snooker when he and his friends were playing pool at work, while his favorite genre in movies, books and tv was science fiction, my parents were Scifi and supernatural fanatics."
"And they encouraged that in me, and I grew up with a love for reading, my favorite genres in books, movies and tv. Were were Scifi, fantasy and adventure, and they're the same way, so with that fact in mind. I see why he chose to get in touch with me like this, because I'm the only one who knows him on sight. Dad, is that you?" Eleanor asked and he jumped once and she nodded smiling as he tapped his message to her in morse code.
As she crouched down at that and Mary left her hand on her shoulder. "Well this helps, I knew I had the ability to speak to the other side, but now it's case of you're possessing things my friends play around with. And till I can see you like that directly finally here right now, and I brought along your picture, though I never showed it to them yet right now." she said and he nodded with a gentle look to him and I knew he was relieved to her voice finally after 15 years then.
"And unlike the characters, they lost their chance to reconcile, but that's not it for us, whoever crashed into that stall should have put the brakes on that day. If anything and if you were listening to the entire conversation, before you put my name on the top of the list, I know you'd roast him for this anyway dad. He's a skeptic, he never knew the secret side to our family, you're a pyrokinetic, and mom had my ability, but with you possessing the only game I know."
"That's why mom got the snooker set, she was giving me a way to recognize you guys now in the second I see you, as your favorite color is red. And favorite game at the pool table was snooker, she was giving me a way to recognize you guys the second I saw you: your favorite color is red, her's was pink." she said and he jumped once as he tapped it out to her then. "Yeah honey it's me, fact of the matter with us being able to possess things."
"We decided to stick around as long as you needed us. But until your ability is at full strength best not to over do it during your investigation, though at the current most our little wiseracres are going to be pulling pranks and practical jokes. So expect tonight to be mostly be childish pranks and movie jokes all night, although our unnamed adult poltergeist is going to try to scare you."
"And remember what your mother taught you regarding this. And secondly never let your guard down, when in a haunted house. With the fact I'm a fireman, best not to push it regarding the alcohol, since that's rule two with what your mother taught you." Luke read out and she nodded. "Did you learn morse code as well Luke, if you're about to understand this like I do?" she asked him smiling.
"Yeah my father was cop and my uncle was a fireman, so both together, you can expect to hear this all the time when you're a kid no older than seven or eight years old, as to that, he chose a language we both understand." Luke said to her. "I missed you dad, so with my ability, whatever abilities I have, gaining strength, you came to visit and are staying a while?" she asked and he jumped once and tapped out a message to her.
"Yeah honey that's right, the powers that be decided your mother and I could stay as long as we wanted. And so you had us with you in spirit now, and soon enough you'll be able to see us. And in the way those kids in the movies and Luke could later in Starwars. But remember everything we taught you, Jack is not going to take it well if you had too much to drink. And one of you gets hurt tonight later, especially when the driver needs to stay sober here."
"Rick and Beth also don't realize you're one of their guests staying this week, but your mother just insured they got that information. As your files regarding Louis were stashed in your backpack, before you came. As to how and why, she was hiding them so you could have him prosecuted. Especially when you ran into our friends and inner circle here. And your godfather is the chief of police now as well, you'll know him when you see him, if there's any trouble."
"As for the Dudleys, you just ended up running into your godmother and uncle, but Jared is the chief practicioner at the hospital, David is the surgeon, Tom is the mayor and Peter is the town high judge. Louis doesn't realize just who he's screwing with here. Time to use that against him later, especially if the car is a trap." he read out and we nodded as Theo said for me. "What's he talking about exactly?" Theo asked and she explained that gently as she smiled at him then.
"He means that with the fact there's the possibility of unexpected scares tonight, and possible injury, so one of us is going to have to act as the designated driver, if that injury needs a trip to the E.R., to be seen by the doctor that treated mom. And with the possibility my godfather is the chief of the town, he's going to be told next if that does happen, so as to that, I'd rather not test his temper with Halloween in four days here."
"As to why, it's because of the usual pranksters during trick or treating, and what I do know is there's a Halloween party every Halloween and he and his team are patrolling the town with a bunch of teenagers running loose. So he's dealing with a bunch of teenagers and this town is just like Salem, so to all intents and purposes he's not going to take it well if that happens, or if he hears someone got hurt and whoever brought them in had more than two glasses of alcohol, and he's not going to take it well."
"Alright give me a second, dad, who's my godfather and is he still living around here?" she asked and he jumped once and tapped out a sentence to her and she nodded as she said it smiling dangerously. "Well Lou you're in big trouble, if you gave me that car for illegal means now, it's twenty years old and running on its last legs. If this house belongs to my mother, you're never getting away with this." she said and Todd looked at her.
"What exactly?" he asked and she explained that. "Jack Benson happens to be the police chief and he's one of dad's best friends, though if he is. I think dad grew up here, before he and mom moved to Boston and with that fact in mind, Lou just gouged his heart out, from greed. But I get the feeling tonight's going to be slightly upbeat as well as getting pretty playful later at the moment here, though considering its parental supervised."
"Even though they're not visible, but just possessing things. I think we better, once we had the single glass, not over do it with the alcohol, and secondly ease up on the wisecracks tonight." She said and I nodded in agreement to her as she looked at Alicia then with an amused smile as I moved to stand next to her. And the red ball looked up at me and I could tell he was hiding a smile and I knew he was thinking it too. That I was her exact match then as I hid mine, knowing she and I would grow close that week.
"Is Tony still going to school here or did he just graduate?" she asked and I heard a chuckle through the tapping as he answered her. "He's a senior in high school right now and his mother is your other adopted sister after Becky and I named Jack your guardian. Once Rick and Beth hear the truth they're calling him in if there is any trouble tomorrow later this week." he said, and she nodded to the remark.
"Tony?" I asked and she smiled. "The son of my other best friend, he's Jack's grandson, their, that's his age group, was born in 1983, the one our little friends are doing. Are 1986, so with us in 1999, the kids are pretending to be 13 to 14 years old. Dad just told my adoptive nephew is in his last year of high school and he's going to college in Boston next year." she told me and we all nodded to the news as I answered her explanation.
Before I could answer, Robert tapped a sentence out and she nodded. "Amy is still living with her father and she's dating a man like Malcolm or the trio here. Tony's younger brother is 12 and just entered middle school, but Tony and his friends. They got another year left and his plans are to get into the parapsychology program. At Riverside, Amy knows I was coming back this week." she translated and I nodded to the news gently.
"Why tell us that?" Luke asked and she explained that to him. "Amy's a E.R. nurse at the hospital here right now, flexible hours, something happens this week. And she's helping Uncle Jared as whoever gets hurt recovers, but they're telling you the entire story. But like he said, Jack is my godfather, my last family left, before I met you, is them. So now I got all you as I deal with her loss and this." she said and I nodded gently to that remark.
As Rob tapped out a remark. "Yeah you never approved of Lou either, and like mom and me, know he only married her for the family money. Though if you're just as financially secure in amounts, he's just screwed himself over. I'd hate to be the idiot once he realizes that Dave is the parental approved one and he's the reject here." she said and I chuckled at the remark as he jumped off the floor once in agreement to that remark.
"So what's the deal with the sister and this Lou character, aside from what you told us and what Malcolm explained to us?" Mary asked and she explained that. "Mom warned her that she gets married to him and she was disowning her at the time. Dad said the same after she brought him home, but though they were supposed to wait. Till after they got married, he got her pregnant, so they had to marry anyway, out of wedlock."
"For me, and the girls: Dana and Amy, our parents were satisfied with our choices at a later age, my ex was a bit a like you, Luke, when I was in high school. But we broke it off because he was headed for UCLA, I stayed and was training at the time. Just to get into mom's department, right guy maybe, but they wanted an exact match in my case." she explained and we nodded to the new information then gently at that remark then.
"Well just wait for you to throw her words back in her face, but whatever was said, she's about to get her words shoved down her throat right now." I said and she nodded. "And we and Dana get the lion's share and she gets 1/10th of what she deserves for that right now." she said smiling sternly and I also smiled. "And it's because we knew from the very beginning that will is a fake." Mary said for her and Todd and we both nodded as Theo and Luke also smiled sternly.
"Do I even want to know what said words are, as she used this to shove it in your face, till your mother fixes all three?" Theo asked her and she nodded. "A single sentence, if you were standing outside of my apartment door listening Luke you know what I mean." she said and he nodded. "And said words being, 'you have no idea how hard it is out there', well news flash, she doesn't understand how hard it was on you after she got sick." he said sternly and we nodded.
"I'm starting to wish, after she slammed the door to check on it myself, as you and I had a fast talk, before the phone goes off, and we find that in the paper." he said to her and she nodded. "Yeah and though not boyfriend, you're two years younger, but more surrogate brother here right now." she said and he chuckled as I hid a smile at that.. "Our bond is that of brother and sister here, and I understand you perfectly." he said and she nodded smiling as she said it.
"Like I said, you're so much like Tony it's ridiculous, every time he heard something like this, he was ready to lay into her." she said and he smiled. "Not that I blame him, but with me with you, and hearing the entire conversation, I know when I see the bastard for real, he's a dead man right now. Though I may not need to, if you said he's a chronic drunk, and all I need is for the heart monitor to start spiking, to know we got the right guy." he said and I nodded to that.
"I'm starting to wish, once you heard this, you and pretended to be a family friend, you make clear in what the hell that was about." she said and he nodded. "If I had, he knows this gets back to the quartet, he's finished once we pretend we know each other at work." he said and she smiled. "Well now we get that chance right now, I got two versions of the same group of friends, and though they never met you, not yet, you're like Tony." she said and he chuckled at that.
"Malcolm?" Luke asked and she nodded. "Mom's boss at the university and hospital, Luke, his name is Malcolm Keough, his wife is my best friend and adoptive twin sister." she said and he nodded. "Which explains this." she said and passing me copy of the photo that Malcolm had and I smiled at that. "Yeah he showed me that photo, so age Ronee a few years and she looks like your mother." Mary said to that and I nodded and she nodded smiling at that remark then.
"If Michael's mother was anyone at our current age, she's mom when she goes into business mode, but start getting smart, you're asking to get it here now. And on both barrels." she said and I started laughing at her remark and he nodded with a bemused smile. "I didn't get a good look at your father's picture, when we were kids so what's his appearance?" I asked and she chuckled. "Let's just say after the life imitating art, that's him." she said and we nodded.
"Uh oh, the him being John Saxon?" Theo asked and she nodded. "Bingo Theo, so if you ever not wanted my father beyond irritated, don't start getting smart, and there was a case of prank phone calls, you're asking to get the telling off from hell if said prank phone call results in a murder." she said and we nodded. "Well this time, we're not in chapter 1, but chapter 3 and the town psychiatrics just came into the conversation here, but your parents set us up now."
"Looks like I'm said match, this was meant to get us together." I said and she nodded. "And this was before we start calling each other by name right now, that you know things on my family life no one else does." she said and I nodded. "Such as the fact we know that will's a fake the second I hear it now at the moment, but you take advantage of the admission in the will you blow every dime, in gold and silver there is." I said and he gave a jump to confirm that.
"And unlike Saxon's character when he made that movie, I'm not likely to get apprehensive, David." Luke read out and I nodded. "No kidding, but without knowing what you sound like in person is the next question and with those words in mind, so what do you sound like if you were standing here?" I asked and he tapped it out. "If you've seen Saxon's first take on the Nightmare films, that's me as a firefighter." he read out and I nodded.
"So what do you look like as a human?" Mary asked and a picture of an actor appeared and we nodded. "So you've got the personality and appearance of Saxon, okay got it, so Nell is Heather when she played Nancy?" Todd asked and he jumped once to him and we chuckled. "Does this remind you of anything?" she asked me and I nodded as Todd and Mary started laughing. "You're a psychiatrist and I'm training to be one, well there it is." she said and I chuckled then.
"Yeah I get the point, dad." I said and he moved gently, and I knew he nodded and if he had a face he would be smiling at us. "My friends just got involved in our personal family history, and Dana, Malcolm, and the quartet know all about this dad, but the quintet just got started here." she said and he jumped once. "That's why I came to check on you guys, and your mother looks like Ronee when she played her mother." Luke read out and we nodded gently.
"You're currently 62 in age, so mom, as she passed 2 months ago, would look like she was if she was 62." she said and I nodded. "Well you're the only one that knows what I sounded like, you're all born in 1966, Ellie." he said and she nodded. "That's my nickname with my parents and their friends." she said and we nodded. "And to answer the other remark, if you remember what John sounded like with Heather, that's me." he added and I nodded.
"We were all 15 in the time this movie was supposed to be set in." Todd told her and she nodded. "You were 15, I'm 21." I said in response and they both nodded in agreement. "At least dating an older man is not a problem, but you were in their eyes just what they wanted for me right now in this case, while Lou is not real family. To my parents and their friends, you are and to them, you're the parental approved one." she said and I nodded smiling at that news then.
"In which case, if Ronee was alive in the movie, she'd approve of Craig immediately." I said and she nodded. "The only ones that saw your mother at their current age is me and Mary." I said and she nodded in agreement. "Before she shows herself to Todd, Luke and me next." Theo said to that in response. "Yeah and if mom was an archaeologist, instead of psychiatrist herself, you're asking to get on both barrels for being a smart alec." she said and I started laughing.
"And in some aspects, the act of artistry goes into forensic archaeology as well, Nell." Todd said to that. "Yeah I know, and that's why he's got himself set to between 58 to 62 in appearance, mom is and was 58 as well." she said to him and he nodded. "So three years later we're all 18, Luke is 16 and there it is, but our age group grew up in the time horror movies switched off the basic monsters and psychological horrors and went right to profanity and violence."
"We were 18 when that one came out Mary, Theo, Todd, and Luke is 31, with the personality of 33 year old here, so with that in mind, what movies came out when we were kids and borderline young adults?" she asked and they all nodded. "That would be The Nightmare On Elm Street series, the first one came out when we were all 16 to 18." Todd said and she nodded. "So with that in mind, that's their physical appearance at that age." she said and we all nodded.
"So you said 15 years ago, that's..., that's the year the first film came out, that's what you looked like at that age?" Theo asked and he jumped once. "Yeah and when Tony got in trouble once too often, he was annoyed enough after someone did something in the lab and the bunson burner exploded. And he had to put it out." she said and I started laughing at that. "Well now I get your annoyance, Rob." Luke said laughing and I knew he'd have a bemused smile at that.
"And somethings never change, no matter you're here or not dad, but I miss that, but at times, I still put that on to hear your voice like it would be now." she said and he nodded gently. "I get why honey, I know you miss me, but once we make a couple changes, you're seeing me walking around the flesh again. As it is, that would be us, if I was around now, with your mother gone at the current moment here." he read out then and I nodded.
"So though ghosts, you just use the cosmetics to having you standing around, clothes and cosmetics?" I asked and he jumped once. "Yeah, and though I'm a fireman, I'm also a skilled scientist as a parapsychologist myself son, but with this your first time visiting the house. When in your case, and her just returning in her's I got to talk to Rick to let them know, certain spots are still off limits, as for the other area, you already know this."
"My age group was born in the great depression, and if Don and Morgan got involved in this, if I was medical doctor same thing applies here. I know you guys got the tendency to do something stupid or worse, and I'm making it clear here, with you carrying the only one here. In cell phones between you and Jack, Rick and Jared are going to say the same here, with what I say next at the moment you guys, and with that."
"You guys are my responsibility kids, but keep in mind though we're not here physically after repeated jump scares in the house here now. Is you're still getting parental supervision, so keep it clean and I mean it." he read out and we nodded as she and I exchanged bemused looks. "I think he means Don S. Davis, he's a science fiction nut." she said and I chuckled and nodded. "Stargate SG-1, he's Hammond." I said and she nodded to me then.
"We're in season 3 of that tv show, and Rick's persona, he's now getting more arrogant as for Michael's right now, to him in Rick's eyes it's his way now. Or the highway, I'm not surprised he's close to quitting right now." Todd said and he gave a jump at that. "Who wouldn't with the NID involved now." Mary said to that. "Well that's a parent for you right now, no matter how old we get, it's nothing changes." Theo said and he jumped once as he looked into her eyes then.
"And you're like Janie young lady, so keep the wise responses under control." he read out and she nodded. "Yes Sir." she said and he nodded. "That's Janet's nickname, Janie, just like Theo is short for Theodora." she said and we nodded. "So who's matched to who in us if we're like your friends?" Todd asked her. "You and Mary are like Carrie and Peter and Theo and Luke are Tony and Janet." she said and we nodded. "That's Carol?" I asked and she nodded to me.
"Just add the added 15 years to what Ronee looked like on the first movie to now, David." he said and I nodded. "Nice touch, so we just age..., wait a minute, the picture Malcolm showed me of you guys, that's her, before her system started weakening, Nell." Mary said for the both of us and she nodded. "Yeah that was last Christmas, but that's her, before she started getting worse right now, Mary." she said and we nodded to her gently at that news then.
"Though two months, I'm still on the automatic response when she calls out to me for help." she said softly and I nodded Mary and I exchanged looks as Todd rubbed her back and she leaned against him. "Like I said she really wants to do this, and there's the other reason, but now several doors are about to be broken down and it gets us involved here next." she said and I nodded. "Well this is going to be a long week right now in this case." Luke said and I nodded.
"Dad, was this your idea, get me involved with him, before you nail Lou right to the damn wall?" she asked and he jumped once and Luke covered his eyes. "Jack, Peter and Rick, as well as Jared are in position, Amy's here and Tony and she want to see you." he read out as he gave several taps. "Becky named a Rick and Beth, is that the caretakers?" I asked and he jumped once and tapped it out. "Yeah son, it's the Dudleys." he read out and I nodded.
"Well that makes perfect sense, I'm considered the perfect match if Becky chose me on purpose like you did Rob?" I asked and he gave a jump. "If they never put that into our own personal back history if we turn this trip into a movie, it's to you, I'm your exact match and now like he was scared to lose her. It's the same with you, as after a week together, the connection got placed, and not letting go now." she said to me and I nodded as he gave a jump to confirm that.
"Well unlike them, it's we're not on opposite sides of the town right now." I said to her at that and she nodded. "That and you're ready to perform triage at a moment's notice." she said and Theo and Luke nodded in agreement to that remark. "Well whoever is haunting this house, he wants to tick us off, it's by whatever goes on in the final run through on this movie." Luke said crossing his arms, and Theo nodded in agreement as Eleanor and I switched subjects then.
"And I think they chose me if you and I have that much in common with each other." I said and he jumped once to answer my remark and she shook her head smiling. "Mom rigged the proceedings by bringing you into my life, you're the parental approved one." she said and Mary chuckled at the remark and I nodded smiling to that news then. "The usual case of rigging the proceedings, mom had all the bases covered here now."
"But if they taped the entire conversation in the living room, then mom was setting Lou up to take the fall at the time. I made it clear to Jane that Lou wasn't even real family, to me Malcolm was as was Dana at the time. Everything Malcolm told you was just that when you called me at my apartment last week." she said and Mary and I nodded. "That's why he was ready to kill him?" I asked as Todd crossed his arms and she nodded.
"Yeah it is, as a result, if the amount is enough he would try to commit murder, everything I tell you later is a nail. So if something happens this and you're off the hook, though Jack hears this and he's going to kill him." she said and I nodded to the explanation at that. "Alright let me take a guess, once the sextet choose to introduce themselves to us, it's going to be figuring out who's who and what color they are."
"Original pink, super hero..., oh you got to be kidding, they were watching the first four seasons of the power rangers on tv? You mean my uncle and his friends are watching the tv shows we created for the kids from last decade to ours now. That's why you, Uncle Andrew and Rob are in this color, that tv show, so you can communicate in the way we do now?" Eleanor asked her and she jumped once to answer her gently and she smiled.
"Alright to make this easier for me, just do one tap yes, two taps no and with it just tap it out in morse code or we can go to written hand writing. As to why it's because I brought several batches of paper and my notepad and several pencil sized markers in the colors your brother and his friends like for this, Aunt Alicia. And leave your colors in stars next to the messages as well okay." she said and they both jumped to answer her request
"Sarah was that what you meant, to communicate with us, like we are now, you've been watching movies and tv shows from my nephews and niece's age group." she asked and Sarah jumped once to answer her. "We did, but just watch out for the added trouble that comes with it. I'm playing the original pink and you know her temper on that tv show, so watch yourselves here, especially in Eddie's case."
"Eddie is the wiseacre of my gang and unfortunately his choices are the reason his character is on such thin ice with me, your uncle and our friend Billy. Reason being as it's just after Billy's character just got back at the moment. Think about it: what happened next on that show after Yost just got back home." she said and we nodded. "The break up letter." Luke said and she jumped once to answer him.
"Either they're playing the storyline, since they started watching that tv show or 2) they decided to rewrite the entire series from the letter till their new replacements took over. And if they did, then it's an alternate reality of the rest of the show." Theo said and he nodded and Andrew tapped twice. "It's the second one." I said and she nodded to me gently. "Well if Eddie got thrown across the room, it's because of this." Eleanor said and I nodded bemused.
"You told us about that, already Nell." Todd said to her at that and I nodded. "And I meant it, so whatever you do, they start losing their tempers, gets ready to hit the deck, if someone gets blown off the table, and across the room." she said and the three of us all nodded. "Them like this that goes without saying, and take it down a notch, before you break another window guys, come on." I said for the three of us and Theo and Luke both looked at us at that.
"What?" Luke said to her and the girls started laughing. "I reminded Dana of the last time we had Sarah blasting him across the room and he broke the window, when like this. Then again, he pisses her off, and get ready to duck, with them made of either marble or marble cut with concrete." she said and the guys nodded as we tried to keep from laughing at that. "This is going to be a long week this week." I said to that and she nodded with a smile at that.
"With the four of you just arriving here, it's going to take time, but the prize is for the entire family fortune and the house itself, this was what said letter really meant." she said and we all nodded. "Got a lot of perks, and one downside, the place is haunted." Theo said and I nodded as Mary started laughing as Todd switched subjects as he moved to her side as well. "How many tables are in this house, if the sets are getting hijacked?" Todd asked and she explained that.
"Rebecca bought four tables and four to five sets of each: traditional and snooker, Todd, so while the kids have copies to start screwing around. Fred and I can communicate to you like this, your age group. But our brother's grouping is next year, while the age groups are going in line, the one coming up this Halloween is thirteen, and their the older brothers and sisters to his friends."
"But as Rebecca said the house belongs to her now, and at the moment she's still working on her field notes for you baby." she said and I stopped her at that. "Field notes, she was at the office last Wednesday, when I was getting this organized. Are you telling me she had records on this house and was getting ready to pass it to Eleanor, so she could take over Alicia?" I asked and she jumped once to answer me, as she tapped an explanation to me and Eleanor translated it for me.
"Yes that's it exactly David, it's a rite of passage for Eleanor right now and that's why she was at the hospital, to prepare for it. But she's coming tonight while you're telling them the first half the legends, but the rest of the story. It is part of the reason we decided to stick around, because it's part two of your space saga. And you, baby are not ready to know that yet right now honey, so as to that just use what she taught you so far, before she retired at the time."
"But you're going to have to investigate, before doing anything here, and again be careful. Though the house looks safe, there's still a few dangerous points you need to watch out for dears." she read out and we nodded and Eleanor took the last question. "Aunt Alicia, how old were you when you and grandpa left Concord and moved to Boston exactly?" she asked and they tapped out the message though I could hear a sigh in it, knowing they were debating how to explain this to us then.
"We left when Andrew was eleven honey, this was just before things got worse and he passed at the time. But this version of us are in our 60's, like you consider loss of your soulmate. But our twin bond is this same as if you lost half of yourself at the time. So we decided to set ourselves to this age and talk like this as you do, with us at the right age to act like your grandfather and aunt. Just so you get some information in that, but as you're our sole heir now."
"What that means is that this house belongs to you, and it's going to results in some shocking truths. That to come to the fore, because until you're ready, we can't tell you exactly why we left. Your mother was my last heir before you were born, and you've shown everything that is the heart. And of what I created in values of our family, but you're my last female heir, in my side of the family."
"And Jane is not part of our side of the family, but Alicia's, she's turned into everything that the sister in your book series. And turned into and to be honest at the current moment, you're my favorite. At this age she's not worthy of my abilities, the abilities, passed down from me to you. And through your mother, you have the maturity to use it wisely and are used to the supernatural."
"And I get you're having a tough time, Baby I understand what you're going through, but what's coming is going to test your strength. But you must not give up, once you learn the truth, to why I left in the first place. Let alone who my mother was, because mother is his second wife and this is enough. To make you want to go into denial and that's why she chose David in the first place."
"So Becky decided clean start and being able to move on now." Frederick said to her softly and I answered that as I looked at him then gently. "Why exactly, if Rebecca chose us as the specific treatment plan for her. And if anyone aside from her godfather is living into town and why did she drag up the quartet?" I asked and Robert looked at me and tapped out a firm message to me then, his tone going stern then as he said it.
"David you've seen what traumas like this can do to the victim, especially when their training is just starting. But put yourself into your counterpart's place on that movie, the third movie in The Nightmare On Elm Street series. Him or the second half of the series, when Krueger's missing and long lost daughter. And realizes she's Krueger's daughter and he's a mass murderer, a dead one."
"And she's got his bloodline in her or just the surrogate uncle and father of Vader's son. The man he learns is really his father's best friend, and in his eyes he's trying to prevent the truth from coming out too soon to the kid. His Jedi mentors of the original trilogy's chosen one, as the series started with him. Yes, okay, as your counterpart created the back history of that story this year."
"As they're now creating the truth to how Vader turned into that and why exactly. But Vader's Jedi mentors chose to hold it back and train his son, so he could fight Vader, but had he'd stayed put on Dagobah. He wouldn't have just suffered a trauma enough to make him quit by that point. Now would you want to risk making her worse, especially when she's got a serious hatred."
"And of the man her sister is married to, the three of us hates her husband with a passion, she dismissed what we told her about him. Because he's like the boy's uncle in the Harry Potter series and he's everything you're not in principles, and you're a good man, but you'd never hurt her like that. I can see that, and like her mother, Alicia, Andrew, Frederick and I approve of you."
"It's been nine years and she's at the kid's level, so hearing the truth from Becky is much safer than learning it on her own at the current moment. Jane has been throwing this on her head for eleven years and it's because she's jealous that Becky and I doted on her. As to why, aside from being a fireman half those theories regarding the supernatural and paranormal are true."
"And though I've been gone for fifteen years and losing me hit her hard, but she had her mother for another fifteen. And at the current moment my daughter is not going to take it well once she learns why she had to drop out. And never finish school, so hearing it from her mother is the best way to go. At the current moment, rather than finding it out on her own and just when in stage one."
"Especially when it's as series as a paranormal situation, so with that it's best to learn that truth by your own parents or mentors. Todd, son, I'm turning this to you, if you were Luke, but which would you prefer here. If you were the great, great, great, grandson of a man who could possibly be the reason. Your parent, mother or father had to retire and why the legends have some holes."
"Said holes are you're descended from a possible homicidal maniac, before you learn that on your own and who and how a member of your family died. You just lost your apartment and have second chance by meeting who are to be your new friends. And your paranormal abilities are beginning to gain strength every day now, but you're still not fully able to see your relatives ghost."
"Which is where you have to be at, in strength, so you can hear the truth from your recently lost parent and how she ended up retiring earlier than she wanted, what caused you to wind up not getting a chance to finish school in the first place. Which in an essense is as close to what Skywalker himself went through at the moment, his uncle was holding him back at the timr."
"And she's in the same boat now as well, at the moment chapter one of that trilogy just started. Obi-wan thought he should get the truth from him or Yoda, he gave him the truth, but by a certain level in that truth. And I did see that movie, the accident was right after the second movie came out. My wife is a psychiatrist, but I'm an emergency paramedic as a firemen here, so with that."
"You want to join your friends at the college and suddenly a setback reveals a new course in life, and this results in you training yourself. Not long after some maniac dismantles your life and you're just beginning to rebuild it. And everything is changing now, you're getting false information about it. Who your mentor is and they're the person you idol, and my wife happens to be both."
"She needs to hear this truth from her mother, before she finds out on her own and with the fact you just met me now. It's going to become known to you soon enough that these truths are enough to make her want to quit. And when he leads her into finding it, if he's scared her into going into shock. And he's terrorizing you guys just to get you out of the house, before sunrise."
"So as the previous head of the family, she's her mentor, get it from your mentor or get the second hand information on your own and it causes you to finally self destruct when you learn how your mother ended up in this condition, which would you choose exactly?" he asked and Todd covered his eyes as he answered that question as I got it as he answered the question for me.
"You're a psychiatrist yourself, specializing in sleep deprivation David, with her another and with you and Mary they had to tell us this. Before it got worse, but frankly none of us need her learning too soon on this at the moment here. Especially, if there is time limit on this guy's clock." he said quickly and Luke nodded in agreement to his thoughts and I knew this was going to cause a problem, seeing my job was about to get harder.
"If I was any of these characters or her, I'd rather hear that truth from my surviving parent, or the people that know the most about this, and if my parent is not around, I'm going into council with my adoptive parents, my parents friends and inner circle, if they're are also here and are the caretakers of my property, before I find out on my own, and with the amount of anger and hate me at the man who destroyed my life."
"Though with the fact I'm holding in a lot of anger at the catalyst, I'd rather tell my new friends and enjoy a week away from said catalyst. And I'd rather destroy his life just to prevent him from destroying my new one, when my new one. It brought me a second chance at happiness and my new friends are part of the new life. I'm building for myself with my last parent gone." He said and they both jumped in answer to that remark.
"Yeah same here, I'd rather get the truth from a family member, or the soul of my lost parent in why they had to retire at the time. But two months after their loss at the moment, and the reason I left where I came from was to get away from my catalyst for a few weeks right now." Luke said and the girls both nodded in agreement as Frederick answered him gently as he said it then as he shifted position, in looking between us.
"Yes precisely, that's what I'm trying to prevent, right now she's in chapter one, and it's going to get worse as the week gets closer. To All Hallows' Eve here, or Halloween in this case, we're not in Salem, but the same rules apply. As to that, that was the Skywalker's fatal mistake in Starwars, if he'd stayed there. Long enough to complete his training and then studied further at the time now.
"He'd be able to hear that truth from the Jedi masters that trained him rather than learning it on his own. By his impatience, it just threw him a truth he wasn't ready for it. And in why he barely self destructs just to prevent his soul from being destroyed here. Alternate reality, is if he'd waited and stayed put, he'd learn it from his father's best friend and his older mentor."
"Rather than going after his twin and then barely into self destruction later and attempt to kill himself, just to save his soul from being destroyed. And by the evil that took his father." he said as looked at me gently. "Why is that such a much needed lesson here, well it's because you rushed the training. And seeing the truth, or hear it from your own relative as he tells you, who he really is."
"And you learn that truth from him instead of learning it from your mentor, the duo who trained you in their craft, or from your parents, so these stories were also used here. The reason I know this truth is because I happen to be from here and I know who Craine really is. As to why, it's because that truth, if you learn it on your own is going to be enough now in us as family and friends."
"That you're going to blame the person who caused it, what you're about to learn baby, is like learning your father is the Villain in Starwars or you got targeted by Fred Krueger, because your parents were the ones to kill him and he's taking it out on you by killing every child in town. Which is why you heard all those rumors and why the gate has so many chains on it the last few years."
"As to why, it's to prevent any more kids Andrew's age or older from breaking and Richard, as well as Robert and Jared, are going to repeat this, but it's best she's hearing the truth from them or her mother, than learning it too soon and she's been hurt when it happens son. So trust me, we know what we doing." he said and I nodded as his tone gentled as he looked at her as he said it gently to her.
"But listen to me carefully baby, until you're at full strength and can see us, our souls, you're not ready. So you must take it slowly in investigating this. Believe me, hearing that truth from your mother is much safer than finding it out on your own. Or you learn it from your godparents, Rebecca's entire circle lives in town, they know what happened and why your mother retired that spring."
"So just hearing it from them or Rebecca is much better than learning it on your own baby. Just trust me, and listen to Jack and Beth, take your investigation slowly, and just tell them the truth to Lou and your problem with him. You got a week to ten days to figure it out, no rush right now, honey." she read out and we both nodded as she looked at me, as she explained how she translated that.
"That the side effect, of this ability, she's able to see you, like Luke could see Ben on the movie, but we can't, but we can communicate to you like this?" Mary asked and he jumped once as he explained that. "Yes, it's hereditary, but until it reaches full power she's stuck with communicating to us this way. Or by handwritten messages, so though you can't see us, we're with you in spirit now."
"But there are things you need to take slow in the research here." he said and she nodded to that as she looked at Frederick then gently. "You mind if we just call you Fred now though, instead of your full name?" Theo asked him and he jumped twice and tapped out a message for us. "No it's fine, but the five of us, your mother, father, the three of us and mother are sticking around to monitor things this week."
"Honey, Robert's right, at the moment till you're able to see Becky you're not ready. Becky's showing up tonight after you get settled and her side notes are going to be sitting on top of the table in the library. And for you once you get settled and David tells you the first half of the story. But our portion is like the supposed dream stalker legend after a quarter, and of their block was gone."
"And only the trio was left here, so get ready, because you're not going to like the reason why mother chose to get you involved now. Let alone the real reason why Alicia and I moved our entire family out to Boston. Because it's as close to these legends focused on the movies." Luke read out and we nodded as she finished that as her eyes widened and she smiled at the news as she said it to me.