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: With this chapter it's going to start reflecting his memories from when things were pretty quiet in their trip to slightly tense to turning into a total intrusion, as this is going to show his memories of the two of them together, had they had a chance to pursue their relationship.
Chapter 9: Pranks At the Table and Conversations
"Are the 10 of you the same as Andrew, your physical appearance, the cast are your doubles, and your red is two shades deeper then your character's replacement?" she asked and he jumped once, before tapping out a sentence. "My double is the original red, Jake is the Ninjetti red." she read out and we nodded to the news. "So sun yellow and golden yellow is the original and her replacement, the Ninjetti yellow now."
"And your black has silver dots on him and his counterpart has green, he's the green ranger in the fourth and fifth season?" she asked and he jumped once to answer her. "So Austin is your physical appearance and you're, right now, dressed in red, cherry red. But you have gold and black dots all over you, so you're the gold ranger." she said and he jumped once to answer her and I went to the next question as I moved to her then.
"So Jacob, Dylan and Anne, and you are?" she asked and he tapped it out. "I called you Uncle, so you're the red. In following me around from 18 months to after I graduated from college?" she asked and he jumped once to answer her. "What about the other trio, I know you, Andrew and Sarah, how about the yellow stripe. And the darker blue and the secondary purple?" she asked and he tapped out a gentle explanation to her then softly
"Jake's younger brother is Tony, Kathy is the yellow stripe and Rosie is the purple." Luke translated and we nodded. "I take it the black with silver dots all over him has a wise guy demeanor, but at the moment. He's pressing your and Sarah's buttons just a little too far, if Andrew just smacked him. For not staying out of this and you 3 are leaders of your gang?" she asked, crouching in front of him and the trio moved to her.
"Yeah I figured alright so Robert, Uncle Rob is what I called you." she said and he jumped once to her. "You want me to go back to what I used to call you guys as a kid?" she said and he jumped a second time. "I guess as a child you didn't want to overwhelm me with all of you and at once and it was just you, Sarah and Uncle Andrew?" she asked and he jumped a third time to answer her and we nodded as she said it to him.
"Yeah alright I can take this now, that your gang is showing itself to us as one, but take it easy on the intrusions, but start going at it and one of us. Is going to end up in the crossfire and two, with the fact that technically. You're stuck at your current ages, expect us to tell you to ease up in those fights right now." she said and I nodded in agreement to that as I moved forward and went to the next question so I knew who they were.
"What's your name exactly, Frederick called you Robert, if you wanted her to call you Uncle Rob at the moment?" I asked it and twenty three more moved to its side so they could spell it's name out by making each letter as she read it out for us. "R, O, B, B, I, E, Robbie, so the nickname version, huh, alright what about you guys?" she asked as she looked at the quintet at that answer and they spelled out their names to us.
"Robbie, Sarah, Eddie, Jenny and Billy." Theo read out at that. "Who's who exactly between the trio exactly?" I asked and Robbie went first, before Sarah came next, before the blue stepped forward. "My name is Billy, this is Jenny and Eddie." he said and I nodded. "And you three are Jake, Dylan and Annie, right, as the navy blue is Tony, the purple is Rosie and the stripe is Kathy?" Luke asked them and they jumped to him.
And we nodded as Andrew rolled up. "In my case you already got my name, but with us in this decade, I'd prefer it if you called me Andy, guys." Luke read out and we nodded to his request then. "How old are you guys exactly, your brother said they left when you were eleven, how old are you exactly son, guys?" Todd asked, as he looked at the seven gently and they put themselves into the third youngest.
Of the two digit number then and I exchanged looks with the others at that. "You're twelve, but your doubles are close to 16, great we got a bunch of sixth graders in the house with us." Luke said and the next group moved to their side in answer to that. "That's thirty in Andy's group, so how old are you guys?" she asked looked at the others and 30 separated from the group and created the next number down in answer to that.
"Eleven, fifth grade, sixth grade, so the oldest is probably seventh grade I bet, that's the age when they start a trade and begin working for a living here with their parents, while being the teenage head of the household, right you guys are thirteen." she said, looking at the third age group and they jumped to answer that. "This is going to be a very long week." Luke said and Eleanor squeezed his shoulder and he smiled at her then at that.
"Alright if it's the seven of you who are going to be hanging around us the most, keep it from getting out of hand tonight okay." Mary added and they all nodded to the request then. "Just us 11, Mary, the others are just hanging out, but the twins and us 12, along with your parents Eleanor are going to be sticking around. Just get ready to duck, as Eddie is playing the original black in the rewrite here right now."
"But the story was a bit of test drive and the team just got put back together, but Robbie's character, after she told him this. Decided he was dressing in his added colors with the black and gold mixed in. To put this gently, he's my counterpart's total equal, but our characters, me and the guys. We're in a bit of an identity crisis at the moment." Luke translated through the tapping then gently.
And we nodded. "I get why, your character was stuck in an identity crisis with the fact their latest enemy killed his grandfather. So the storyline got rewritten, Trueheart is dead and the she just got off the phone with you Sunday. And you decided on this together, told the girls and the trio, before telling Robbie and Annie?" Eleanor asked and he jumped once to answer her and we gave a nod, as they looked at each other and shifted position.
And I knew they exchanged playful grins at what they were going to give us a show then as it started. And a minute later the red ball knocked one of the others into the stairs and that started a riot as I exchanged looks with the quintet at this. Just as Andy knocked it past me, as whoever the orange ball was went flying past me at three feet up. And we quickly dodged to keep from getting hit as one of the others started going at it.
"Whoa, heads up guys, watch it or you're going to get nailed by accident." Luke said as we quickly dodged and she said it for me. "Alright What's going on..., wait a second, Red, Green, Pink, Black, Blue, Yellow, ninety red, of the snooker balls, and 84 of the stripes, and five each purple, burgundy, and orange, in solid, five Browns and ten white cues, they're getting ready to put on a show for us." Eleanor said and I nodded to her.
"Or just one of the battles and two of their original's enemies lieutenants dressed in gold, before their original's brother and family arrived and now they're in season 4. David's character just returned to town and Jason's character found his maternal family. And Amy's character decided enough was enough of staying away and decided. Now to come home, they're testing the link with reinforcements." Luke added and we nodded to that.
"They're playing with the storyline in the rewrite, reversing the episodes, Jason's maternal family before the letter. Austin's character met Nakia and Sutherland's character that same week she decided to come home to visit. And Ashley's character told them she found Nakia's character's parents and she's with her family again." She finished and I nodded as they started practicing in new team dynamics in practice then.
Standing next to her as we watched as the sextet, and their age group, along with the ninety red balls got started as it started innocently enough then. "She said they were watching the tv show, so what the heck is this exactly?" Mary asked her and she sighed. "I'm not sure, but if I have to guess, they're doing an episode for us, just one as if Andy was the secondary leader of their team, I think if he chose his favorite power ranger."
"Then his friends and the the others did the same, and it's once a ranger, they dress in the color of their ranger color, and the seven started choosing their favorite colors here. Though that is if there's not more the seven of them and they ended up becoming eleven by the time the second series started here, though if they did. As they already gave us the Ninja trio's names and the name of the Ninjetti red's kid brother with it now here."
"So we're meeting them soon enough, once whatever integrity test this is that my grandfather mentioned is done with. Though with the way this is going, it's going to be a very long week at the moment." She said with a chuckle and I smiled at that as she finished her remark. "So your dad was red and your mom was pink and their favorite game is Snooker, I don't get that." Luke said and Theo nodded in agreement to that.
"Your's fathers favorite color and billiard game, as well as his career, why choose these two things just so he could talk to you when we got here exactly?" Theo asked and she explained that. "Dad's giving parental orders to Doctor Marrow before things start getting out of hand, though his orders are getting repeated by my parental trio, if that's who Benson and the Dudleys are to me." she said and we nodded to that explanation.
"If they are, than Webster crossed the wrong people if the chief is a marine style cop and he's not someone you want to cross. Than again, I bet if that's the reason he chose to get Benson involved, we're not going to like it. In what your medical records have to tell us if something happens later." Mary said and I nodded in agreement with her thoughts. "Yeah well that's the reason why my parents decided a change in scenery was needed."
"And as for Lou, everything he is is pretty much like the uncle in the book, my parents chose the good one, while she chose the reject, though if that was planned and mom's in trouble for playing around with my social life here." she said and we chuckled and nodded to that gently. "At the moment Malcolm is getting protective if he hears why exactly, he so much as touches you when drunk and he's having him committed for rehab, as am I." I told her and she nodded to that gently as she shifted closer to me.
"Yeah well I think mom did that on purpose, if this is some sort of family test, than she's preparing to tell Jefferson the truth regarding who she is, if he's also from here. But she just chose in advance who my bodyguards were going to be by getting to you and Malcolm now last week." she said and I nodded to that remark as Luke ended our conversation at that as his eyes narrowed at the reference then as he said it.
"I'm guessing this jerk is the reason for the fight I heard last week, because I heard a shouted warning to a Richie last week and I was standing below the window. Of a red brick apartment building, but I caught a good portion of the fight. But the sum of the conversation was the probate and a fight over selling the apartment. Tell me that wasn't you and your apartment that fight was about?" he said and she sighed then to that.
"How much did you hear if you heard that shout?" she asked and his eyes gentled. "I heard a remark of unpleasent details, followed by a scream at the remark, naming off everything that came with it. Followed by two remarks at once and then following that was a snapped remark of don't help them, they called the person Nell. Please tell me that wasn't you?" he said again and she looked down and said it softly to him at that.
"You heard us, Luke?" she repeated and he nodded to her, as his eyes narrowed in fury at the news then. "I did, so that was you, Nell Vance, you gave me your nickname, so that conversation. That I heard was between you, this Lou character and Jane and it was about your apartment, the bastard is screwed when I get through with him. Just spending twenty minutes with you now, it's enough I'm getting protective of you."
"So this Richie is her son." he said and she nodded to him gently. "Yeah Lou is her husband and Richie her son, the reason for the fight is mom left me the apartment." she said and we nodded as Mary and I exchanged furious looks as we got why Malcolm was so furious at this as he gave her a hug and she burrowed into his arms then. "He expects to get away with this and he's wrong, now that you have us it's over right now."
"But Rebecca was right, nothing is holding you back from finishing school, but you got us, the quartet at the office, Malcolm and Dana and nothing is going to change that now. But they just crossed the people that they shouldn't have." he said and she nodded as she answered him then. "Well then I can explain this tomorrow after lunch tomorrow, to put this bluntly, she suggested I live with them as I was working as a home nurse."
"But turning me into a nanny for her son, I don't think so." she said and he crossed his arms. "To answer the other question, mom paid the rent three months in advance before she passed. Which explains that portion, but I never had to read the will, because with mom being a psychiatrist. This was a test of some sort, though with what she just told us now at the moment, said grand prize is now the new executor."
"Of the family manor now, along with the entire family fortune, though, if that will was a fake it means the real one is with her lawyer, Robert Wilson. But if I'm reading this right only a true Craine knows that will is a fake the second they hear those words. But my parents are civil servants, before they died, as for the how she decided to retire, she had a heart attack and needed a triple bypass, but here's the rest of it."
"After the heart attack and surgery 11 years ago, I was acting as at home Nurse, and the pain of seeing her change and deteriorate was too much. How much of the fight did you hear though aside from what you told me?" she asked and he sighed at that. "I heard a remark on two months of back rent, this woman saying that your mother. She possibly thought her husband was more equipped to deal with whatever probate."
"There was in that will then you were, you telling her that her husband wasn't even real family, if that's why your parents trust the doctor here so much. To them the doctor was parental approved and then a shouted remark, regarding eleven years worth of pain at her, so that's what they call this, unpleasant details. It's like dealing with a cancer patient, in level IV whatever cancer." he said and she nodded to him. "Yeah that's it exactly, after the triple bypass surgery, she contracted diabetes."
"And with it now, was Addison's disease, mom needed me taking care of her, but cooking, cleaning and the side effects of diabetes, she was a level II. Needed the insulin shots at the time, but the hospital leant us the equipment. And for a live at Home medical care, regarding the cane and the walker at the time here now. It was ripping me apart seeing my mother like this, but the duo, they don't understand, at all."
"And I've hated them ever since but that's the source of the amount of anger you heard in my voice that day. If that's what you told the doctor, Mary, you just hit the nail on the head, but..., but they're selling my apartment. And whether I agree with it or not, though with what I just heard and learned from mom. She makes that choice and she's been cut out of the will, as mom chose in advance at the moment here on who it goes to."
"And chose me and possibly the doctor as the real heir and marital heir to the entire family fortune." she said and the 3 of us nodded. "To answer the other question is if you wondered why some of the equipment in the medical department went missing. Rick and Malcolm signed it over, she's their top psychiatrist, but her getting weaker every day. Malcolm bent the rules as her medical insurance was covered by the hospital itself."
"She paid the entire fee for it in advance, total of $45,000 which was paid in full before they decided to probate the will. Mom also paid the apartment of 4 months in advance, leaving me the money to pay for food and the bills here. All of this together right now, it just sealed their fate at the moment here as they don't realize that the medical bills. And insurance was in Dana and Malcolm's hands, to her this only helped even more."
"So one of the beds and several of the gear and a few other things, they're at my apartment." she said and Mary and I nodded to the news as he said it firmly. "Well she's going to get it for that, if this is your house and we're your future, it's simple, because the trio and I are all in Boston. But he just ticked me off and he's going to get it when I get through with him." he said and she leaned into his side at that as I hid a smile.
"Well I'd hate to be the idiots when they meet us." Todd added as we exchanged looks. "Well that helps in emotional recovery and venting right now, but less then four hours and already you're opening up to us right now." Theo said and I nodded in agreement. "It's a bit too late for that my best friends in college, before this happened were like you guys, but you're both sides of my personality, but here's the thing."
"But I needed this and I really wanted to do it, but if mom decided to put us together right now. Then she knew I needed you guys, you and Luke to cheer me up and the trio to be listening ear right now. But my master's degree was focused on parapsychology, psychiatry and several added electives. So whatever this is, I'm fine with it Doctor, because I took several courses and my mother was a parapsychologist."
"Aside from that Malcolm was her boss and she was intending on me finishing school and in her department, join it. But family ran business and to repeat Akroyd's remark to Murray, out of the college in studying paranormal activities they expect real results. But if I was psychiatrist studying parapsychology, sleep and dream deprivation as well as fear and performance, I'd choose a haunted house in the week regarding it."
"And leading into the week before Halloween as a result now, that's why I chose this, mom decided to help it along and knows I'd get a real kick out of this." she said and the three of us chuckled at that. "Well now I know why I got chosen, it's to help bring you out of your shell right now Nell, but I'm glad to us meeting is helping you heal at the moment." Theo said and the duo nodded as Luke ended our conversation then.
"Alright subject..., whoa, alright guys, again take it easy or you're going to hit one of us by accident, alright." Luke said as Andy knocked a red snooker passed us and he quickly dodged as they quickly moved. "So any theories here regarding that tv show, and why the kids are acting like this right now, when you just showed up?" Theo asked her smiling and she nodded as she looked at the grouping with a gentle smile on her face.
"Yeah to answer your question if they were watching the show, they stopped watching it before whoever the second red ranger ranger's replacement arrived and it's an alternate reality of the show. From the letter, because every preteen girl loved the romantic touch to the show and they all hated the fact they ended his relationship through a letter like this and matching him up with her replacement barely weeks after her friend left."
"Though if they did that, it's the second half of the first season and the first half of the second season, but alternate reality to the dear john letter episode. Though if Malcolm and Dana's triplets figure this out, they're going to understand it better than we will." she said and we nodded as Mary, Todd and I all looked at her at that and she smiled as she answered our unasked question, before Luke said it for himself and Theo.
"Wait who is this Malcolm exactly?" Luke asked her and she smiled as she explained to him. "Head of mom's department at Riverside, what dad meant was my mother, in addition to being a parapsychologist, was a psychiatrist as well, she worked in the paranormal department. And her boss was Malcolm Keough, he was also her best friend at work, his kids are ten and he's married, but we got together to play candy poker a few times." she added and I nodded as I got it then as we watched them.
"I take it Dr. Craine was well known in the office if Malcolm decided on it being a family ran business now, once you start school again?" Todd asked and she smiled. "Yeah, in fact she's toughest parapsychologist he has, demeanor of Spengler and the sense of humor of Venkman to go with it. Retiring sooner than she would have wanted, she still watched the ghostbusters and any type of show or movie with the paranormal."
"Or supernatural, though my dad was a science fiction nut, and I don't doubt he'd have loved SG-1 or the next generation if he'd had the chance to see it. The explosion that killed him was when I was sixteen, so 1977, which explains why he dragged up Starwars, he got to see the first one. And evidently his ghost saw the other two, and this one Liam Neeson is working on and just finished." she said and he nodded as I smiled at that.
Waving her to the side I answered her explanation in a gentle tone, as she went into a huddle with me, Mary and Todd. "Yeah he told me that, but I wound up seeing her, ghost wise, at the chalkboard in her office as she was working on her side notes to give to you. Though if she's staying the entire week, I don't doubt whatever our bond is going to be like, if I was her intended choice in suitors here at the moment."
"Then I'll be able to hear her voice through you now, but both ways will come in handy now, because she knows you better than I do, and I'm going to get protective. How much did you get exactly." I said and she smiled at that as we watched them going at it then. "Maybe 20% at the current moment, but what I will say is if you told me that she's giving me a chance to put my knowledge to use. And frankly whatever you didn't tell me yet, I don't care either way, it doesn't matter now Doctor. I trust you and I think if he and mom handpicked you, you're just like me." She said to me softly and I nodded.
"Look if you're my exact match, whatever reason you chose to do it this week, I would have chosen the exact place, time frame and alibi. As to how and why, my thesis is sleep and dream deprivation and I've done fear studies myself as well, that was my thesis, dad was right when he told you that. Mom was my idol and I wanted to be her, whatever caused her to retire caused me to drop out of school and I did my disrotation at home."
"Which is the reason he dragged up Jane, she's been throwing that fact at me for months and the last eleven years, to the point that with the fact that car could have a few problems with it and I'm the named sole heir. So if that car is a booby trap, you'd have to destroy it anyway, because my godfather is going to kill him when he hears he tried to kill me for whatever reason and if he's the reason mom is gone."
"Malcolm is going to have him committed for this, losing his mind out of greed and getting him into rehab for a good five years, so every person who's life he destroyed doesn't have his on a silver platter, because every person in town knew mom by her pen name. Though if this was mom's intended therapy, it's working right now." she said and we nodded as I hid a gentle smile at the remark as we stood together, before we heard a loud crack of marble on marble as we watched the kids.
"Off the table 8 ball just took on a whole new meaning right now, but this is ridiculous." Mary said as they and Theo started laughing at this and I nodded in agreement. "Either 8 ball or off the table snooker." Todd said, before Luke answered that with an amused smile. "Or both with both sets here." he said as they started knocking each other all over the room as she gave the theory on this one with an amused look on her face at this.
Watching as Andy was suddenly surrounded by five solid red with no numbers and the quintet were suddenly surrounded by the others as it turned into a battle as they started knocking each other around the room and she chuckled as she said it. "I also think they learned martial arts here, but in ball form, but then in their case of sports winding up on the sidelines is if they get chipped or worse here, and that's going to put them out, and with that fact in mind here."
"So somebody starts the pillow fight and now it needs parental supervision, before they break something when we got what looks like ninety six preteens in ball form fooling around in here, you want to say it or should I, Doctor?" she asked and I nodded in agreement as I looked at the ninety six firmly as Andy and Robbie started knocking each other back and forth, like they were playfully sparring and she smiled at that.
"Andy and Robbie are acting like the duo when the show started out, a few weeks into his time on the team." she said and Luke crouched next to her as he answered that. "Yeah you're right, Robbie chose red and Andy chose green, Sarah is pink, Jenny is yellow, Billy blue and Eddie is black." he said and she smiled. "I think I see where this is going." she said with a chuckle and he chuckled as he got it as he answered her.
"Andy if you're playing the new leader on the team, which version did you like most?" she asked and he jumped in answer to that as she got the message. " When he was in his first color, uh huh, okay I see why you possessed the green ball here, is Robbie your co-leader?" she asked and he jumped a second time and Luke chuckled at that. "Robbie's your best friend is that it?" he asked and they jumped together in answer to that.
"Wait, if he's your co-leader than what is Sarah to you now exactly, because Alicia said she was her sister-in-law?" he asked and the thirty created a heart in answer to that. "She's your girlfriend." Eleanor said and they exchanged looks at that as she gave the diagnosis to that over her shoulder to me. "Did you guys just get together, before whatever happened?" she asked her and she jumped in answer to that.
"Andy is your boyfriend, so what is Robbie to you exactly?" she asked and they wrote out a word to her. "B, R, O, T, H, E, R, brother, he's your brother, blood or friend." she asked and they spelled out the next word to her. "F, R, I, E, N, D, friend, he's your friend, but you guys were raised together, Andy arrives and you've found your soulmate, is that it." she said and the trio jumped in answer to that question then gently.
"I'm seeing the scenario from the show here." Luke said to her and she nodded in agreement to that as she looked at me. "The quintet were raised together and Andy just joined their gang, after inviting him to join their group, it was six weeks later. And he and Sarah started getting together, but whatever happened I think it halted their futures. Just before they had the chance to and he had the chance to propose here." she said and I nodded to that as we watched them fooling around
And Luke chuckled as she said it then as he crouched next to her. "If they're playing the sextet, I think it's the first nine months after the green ranger moved to town, if this is one of two episodes if they got doubles of each other involved in it." she told him and he nodded in agreement as we watched them do a show for us. "Yeah I don't doubt that, but evidently Andy knows, like Tommy knew, that Sarah can take care of herself, though she still needs him protecting her, though Webster tries to touch you at all."
"And he's knocking him a good one if you're hurt and I'd do the same thing." Todd said to her gently and she nodded. "Yeah, he's right and I would too, though I think this was so they could re-enact that episode when the sextet had clones created of them. And as to why I'm saying that exactly, it's because we got red, green, yellow, blue and black so with that, who's missing exactly out of the original sextet of those kids, by that I mean the show came out when I was twenty four, and it's now been six years to the day of the Halloween episode of it." Luke said with a chuckle and she nodded in agreement.
"What are you talking about exactly here guys?" Theo asked and Eleanor smiled as she looked over her shoulder to answer her. Before she could say it the pink joined the quintet of solid colored balls and they lined up together as she chuckled, before a second ensemble was created just with the white cue, and she nodded as she said it for him smiling, knowing he understood exactly what she was thinking.
"The white cue ball has black spots all over it, alright that's during the second half of season two, when their new friends joined the team and before they got the third upgrade." she said and Andy jumped to answer her as they assembled in both ways then. "I think that sums up your assumption Nell, we now got the entire cast, both versions, in front of us of here Luke." Todd said to him with a chuckle smiling
And Eleanor finished his remark with an amused smile then. "Alright Red, Pink, Green, Yellow, Black and blue in one pile, and white, red, pink, blue, black and yellow in the other, and the added eighty four are the rest of the group." she said, before she realized it then as finished that. "Wait a second, I count 90 solid, no number, red balls, and multiple versions of the others, aside from my father he's with the twins."
"And two each, also no number, of the yellow, green, blue and black, Luke, what was that episode where they had added trouble just after he joined the team." she said and he looked at the groupings then. "Season one was Dino powers, season two thunderzord and season three was Ninjetti and that's when the movie came out. But this look like the end of season one, before their next villain showed up."
"Luke, wasn't the couple episodes where we saw two copies of each of them. As to why I'm asking that, it's because one had to do with a mirror image and the other was when he just rejoined the team after losing his powers and getting back. And they had the enemy troops who took their appearances in combat mode. Though if that's what we're seeing get ready to dodge here guys, which is it?" Todd asked him and he looked at me.
"Yeah you're right man, I'm looking at a full blown warzone, alright guys get out of range, before they start going at it. If they do and we get caught in the middle of it and to answer your question. Todd, it's the second of two alter ego clone episodes running loose in front of us here, as to why, we're seeing the first year the team was together in ball form here." he said and she nodded in agreement as she looked at the girls.
"Yeah you're right Luke. Theo what was every preteen's desire back in '95' once said tv show got turned into a movie, and it resulted in a bunch of eight to twelve years olds dressed as Ninjas that Halloween, because I wound up with thirty trick or treaters dressed as that-that year and mom and I were watching the old fashioned monster movies all night that night." she said and Todd and Mary both chuckled as they got it.
"Robbie and his sextet are playing the original sextet, while the others are playing their counterparts when Andy's character changed colors. I think the kids were watching the original show the first three years, before Sarah's character got replaced by the new pink and they chose to end their relationship through a 'Dear John' letter. In fact they just chose their favorite rangers here if they're enacting an episode for us." Luke said with a smile and she nodded in agreement as she scanned the group then.
"Alright I think I get it here, the ones with the numbers are the cast and the solid ones with no numbers are the clones here guys, aside from the two pinks, but the others, they got multiple versions of themselves and the snooker sets have them as solids with no numbers on them. So solids with no numbers are the clones and numbers are our cast of the show and our little friends are playing the cast. Which is why they chose to do an episode for us." Eleanor said and he nodded in agreement to her opinion.
As Theo looked at at her at that. "That's what these kids are trying to assimilate, their first year once the new leader of the sextet got added to the group, and the second of the sextet, when they created the movie, and the first one is supposed to be the leader's' starting point?" Theo asked and the duo nodded to her as the quintet were facing off against their counterparts as they started knocking each other all over the room.
as she answered his remark with an amused look as he was watching this carefully in case we wound up in the middle of it. "The second grouping is just about when they made the movie and the first is after he got hijacked and brainwashed here. What we're looking at is the second one and as for the added colors in the third group, it's the enemy troops, that's what the red balls are trying to assimilate here." she said to her.
"Are you kidding me, we never seen any alter ego episodes or movies till they created Vader in the Starwars movies." she said and Mary finished her remark, before Eleanor answered her smiling. "Yup, and in this case, I think Andy is Anakin, when he was still just a child, my grandfather is him as a young adult, and whoever my descension started with is Anakin when he was ten years into his life as Vader and lost his mind completely."
"Though if that's the case, I'm looking at psychology 101 of a homicidal maniac and alter ego here." She said and Mary finished that gently. "Yeah and that's exactly what we're talking about here Theo and this was just before their abilities got boosted up even further. What we're seeing is here this is the first eighteen months before the ninja trio joined the team, and she ended up in the hospital, again, for over doing it."
"Alright they were going over flaws and it was a classic alter ego episode here by having six of the troops take on their fighting skills and two of said troops attacked the lead couple at the park, before the battle and..., Oh boy I see where you're going with this Nell, Luke, alright get out of range before we get caught in the crossfire." Mary said as the orange rolled it's way around us, before heading back to its friends.
"But yeah I think you're right and I think so, but what 1860 preteen and teenage ghosts gets into a preteen tv show that has issues in it like this, because this is ridiculous. As to why this keeps up and the other non named kids in ball form are getting into fights with a cue stick next if this keeps up. Though they start going at it and Sarah is just like the girl, in temperament, get ready to duck." Eleanor said to him and he nodded to her.
As we both looked at her at her remark and her eyes widened as Theo answered her. "This was probably the first ten months, before the first upgrade and..., uh oh, yeah she's right everyone get ready to duck, because with them being made of marble your remark just came to the fore Luke, get ready to duck." she said and he nodded as I watched a Orange ball come at her and Sarah slammed into him.
At the blow we heard a loud thud as the jolt sent him flying passed us as we all ducked as he collided with the wall with a loud clang and I nodded as we exchanged amused looks as Frederick rolled to the edge of their circle at that, as he tapped and his tone sounded stern as she looked at him gently as I said what the six of us were all thinking with a bemused look. "Yup, she's just like her in temperament, so watch yourselves."
"And before you lose your temper young lady, don't do it when we're in the room with you, okay." I said and she jumped to answer me, though just as I finished saying that Frederick tapped a message out to her and she jumped to answer him as Luke translated it for us with an amused look on his face. "Sarah, would you take it easy. I know you're good at sports, but getting that aggressive when we have guests in this house is going to wind up with someone getting caught in the middle."
"As for Daniel, take it easy or you're going to hurt him if he gets chipped if he gets thrown into the fireplace, and watch it or you're going to hit one of them in the head, if they get caught in the middle, now calm down will you please." Luke read out and we nodded in agreement to his request as they were fooling around then. "Yeah I agree with him at the moment, to prevent us from winding up in the line of fire."
"Alright, best stay at the edge of the group. Red and green, if there was a pink one in there." Mary said and I answered that, before I could though I heard a loud crack of marble against the metal grate as the fight started getting out of hand, as I watched as Sarah joined Robbie and Andy as she looked at him as he, if he had arms, would have one wrapped around her shoulders as Robbie stood on her other side contentedly.
"Luke you notice anything about the bond between the red and pink rangers when they were together, like brother and sister?" Eleanor asked him and he nodded. " Yeah with the red he saw their relationship like any big brother would and was happy they were so happy together. Though if this is the early stages of their relationship when he just got released from the spell, if that's why he's so furious at the duo, the orange, if that's Daniel,
"Is and was playing that little punk when he doesn't know when to quit." he said as the pink stood next to the two and she chuckled as she answered the unspoken remark. "Yeah I get the message you're with them." She said and Theo looked at her with an amused look. "Yeah you're right, I'm seeing the entire cast of the original group when the show came out six years ago, before he changed colors at the time."
"Then it's color is the exact green that his vehicle was too, but a we may have minimum knowledge." Theo said and I nodded. "But this results in fight next and someone is in big trouble if these guys are like the little hooligans before they became cops. "I said and she nodded as Eddie and Billy went into a huddle then with the rest of their quartet, before it resulted in a fight as the burgundy one knocked Jennifer out of the way with a violent jolt.
The amount of force at the blow threw her into the stairs and had her spinning in circles for a minute, before the number pointed itself down and Robbie and Eddie went after it for that, as Robbie knocked him into the wall so hard I heard a loud clang at the blow. While Eddie moved to her side and pointed his number down as well. "Eddie's checking on her to if she's okay." Mary said and I nodded to that and Theo looked at us.
"What was that about?" Theo asked and I answered that. "If the kids, in ball form, are imitating anyone here they're imitating teenage boys who get territorial with their girlfriends here and that burgundy one just pissed off Robbie by knocking his mate across the room, though Andy and Billy, I'm not too sure of." I said and the orange turned to the pink and it was suddenly flanked by the green and blue ones.
"Yeah but their timeline was when they went alpha male with their mates, Robbie's furious he just hit her hard enough to need a trip to the hospital and knocked him, whoever he is, into the wall. If that orange crosses Andy, I'm sure he's going to react like Tommy did and act like he's still under that spell if he goes so far as..., oh boy that's why they flanked her that kid, the orange, is like the little punk who doesn't know when to quit." Eleanor said and Luke looked at her at that as he looked at them.
"Oh boy yeah you're right, I think the fight and scenario here just hit that episode now when he and the girl just met and this is about to get nasty, because he's reacting like like Sarah is his mate. In the way the kid and the girl were in the show. If he and Sarah are together, I think if that orange does cross him it's going to result in a major fight or he's just going to make him see stars for a few days if he's like that punk who doesn't take no for an answer." he said and she nodded to that as we watched them.
"White and pink in the second half of the show and green and pink in the first half and the green is acting like the pink is its mate now and the blue like his sister." Theo said and he nodded in agreement, as the orange touched Sarah and Andy charged and knocked him into the wall with a loud clang as he was spinning in circles for a few minutes before stopping as it leaned sideways. "Andy just gave him a concussion for getting crude like that." Todd said firmly and he nodded to that as he answered him.
"He just hit him hard enough to give him a concussion." Luke added with an irritated look and I answered that. "If that was a touch to a forbidden region Andy just went alpha male and punched him hard enough for him, whoever the Orange ball was if they grew up in our timeline, but he hit him hard enough to see stars for a while here." I said as Andy looked at Sarah gently as the orange rolled sideways into the wall, before stopping. "Assault and battery anyone?" Theo said and I nodded as I said it sternly to them.
"I think that was Daniel he knocked across the room, if she threw him into the fountain earlier like Alicia said a bit ago here." Luke said and he nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well Alicia was right, in our time we'd consider a fight like this tantamount to winding up in detention if he'd given him a bloody nose or even broke his nose at the time. Though with the fact they're billiard balls, he's just knocked him a good one." Todd said and I nodded in agreement as I got ready to let the duo have it for that.
Before I could say it, her tone turned firm as she took charge then. "Alright hold it right there guys, that's enough already." Eleanor said sternly and they froze and turned their numbers, which I figured was their heads, to us slowly as I said it for her, before I could though her tone went firm then as she looked at the eight sternly. "Look I know you're furious at whoever it was that touched your friend like that, but this is ending right now." she said and I finished off her sentence with a stern look and firm tone.
"Alright enough already, get back on that table, we'll use you later alright, we have any more fights like this you're staying on that table and we're not using you at all." I said and they rolled into whatever room the tables were in and I looked at the quintet as I saw the girls who were trying to keep from laughing at this as I finished my sentence with an amused look as Luke said it for all of us then smiling.
"Well there's our first taste of haunted houses, but hopefully it's not going to be like that all week." Luke said and I nodded in agreement to that as I answered him. "Yeah no kidding, but we better get used to it if it's going to be like this all week. I don't doubt this Halloween it's going from childish pranks and straight to full blown Nightmare On Elm Street Poltergeist intrusions later." I said and she nodded in agreement to that thought.
"Yeah well if it does, whoever the primary target is, we're not leaving alone and we stick together." Theo said with a firm tone. "I'm going to have to figure this out, before we do anything, but tonight. I think we're better off with just enjoying it, because it's a night of fun. And we can't get to know each other and to repeat what grandpa and my father said regarding the music instruments. When playing with the instruments, check the strings."
"And before you start fooling around with it, because if we got a dangerous one in this house, he's going to tactics meant to scare us out of the house. So if jump scares. And parlor tricks don't work, then it's injuries next, as a result we been searching this house all afternoon since we all arrived. As we got settled, but this must be why they said no one comes after dark as the scares get worse." Eleanor said and we nodded to her gently.
"What are the chances of trouble this week, so far it's been mostly childish pranks, and sudden scares by running each other right now?" Luke asked and she smiled gently as she answered him then gently at that. "Small, but if we do have any dangerous ones in this house, we go on the buddy system, 2) we're together. And like this, or in pairs, and whatever you do don't be alone in the room right now."
"Three) check what you're playing with, before you start playing with it, 4) keep focus and don't let your mind wander when wandering around the house. Or you're going to run into someone coming from the opposite direction till you run into each other 5) no one is taking in more then 2 of any type of alcohol. In case of an injury, and 6) things are going to get strange to downright confusing." she said and we all nodded to the advice then.
Before I could say it though Robbie rolled up to her gently. "Whatever's going on I'll find out later Robbie, but you better do what he says now, or it's getting you and your friends detention if this keeps up like this." she added and he jumped and left the room as the duo started laughing at that, before Andy rolled in as well. "Again get back on that table or you're getting grounded wise guy." I added and he rolled out of the room at that.
" Possessed items that we, as adults, use here, for gods sakes this is getting ridiculous right now." She said as she tried to hold it in as Luke and Todd looked at her in bemusement. "What were they asking for exactly, to be used?" Luke asked and she nodded and I could tell she was trying to keep from laughing as she answered his question as the girls started laughing at this as she answered his question.
"Yeah I think they decided to get our attention to let you know there's a few pool tables in the house. And they wanted to be played with, though if this keeps up its going to be constant requests for attention, 'Play with me, play with me' is what their really trying to say here and and I don't doubt the pool tables are going to be getting hijacked when we use them if they're choosing now to get our attention with stunts like that."
"If it is though, than expect it to be parlor tricks like this or we just got a poltergeist in this house." Eleanor said and I took over from there as I looked at them. "Alright we better get settled, so dinner at six thirty, if they got pot warmers that's going to work in getting and keeping it heated." I said and Luke and Todd nodded in agreement to that. "I'm with her and we're going to check out the rest of the house." Theo said and I nodded as we headed upstairs after two hours it was time for dinner.
"Wait a second right now, Doctor, does their reaction seem familiar to you, as this is considered 4 years younger then the town being haunted by a dead homicidal maniac and one every teenager is afraid of?" she asked and I nodded sternly at that. "Yeah I see it alright, but if that's the reason you're here and I'm not taking it well right now." I said and she nodded as I finally looked at the painting and felt a chill run up my spine.
"Theo wait on that, I got to talk to the trio in private right now, they're from my mother's department, so it's personal." she said to her and Theo nodded as I smiled at the remark, knowing she knew what we were doing then at her remark. "Mary, Todd, meet us in his room, academic meeting and psychological battery." she said and the duo nodded to the request as she followed me into my room then at that.
"If you're the one haunting this house, stay away from the girls Craine, I mean it." I said sternly as she followed me to my room and I took a look around my room and nodded. "Nice, half forest green, and the other burgundy right now, if I wasn't one for understanding this, I would consider this as your counterpart ended up in a fight to the death right now." she said and I hid a chuckle to her remark and nodded in agreement to that.
"Or holly and holly berries at the moment, but too much of those is dangerous and more then one berry can kill." I said and she nodded. "Mom left some instructions you needed to know, I found this sitting on my make up table in my room." she told me and I nodded as I took the paper then. "Yeah alright, well this helps right now." I said and she nodded in agreement as she said it to me at this now that we could talk in private.
"Whatever mom told you was true, I took a version to this type of set up when I was no older then 22, but my thesis was pattern nightmares. Fear and performance mixed into sleep studies, but you chose the project I would have run if I was fully active." she said and I nodded to her gently at the news. "Not holding back, you know what I'm doing right now." I said to her and she nodded smiling to that news and remark then.
"Yes I know, but whether they take it seriously or not is the next question, but research into who is haunting this house and figuring out the rumors. That is the big one right now, we got a lot of work to do this week, but someone gets hurts tonight and Todd also leaves. It's us only now, and I'm taking your second in command position as we work this out." she said an I nodded to her gently at the remark then.
"How much did mom tell you?" she asked and I explained that to her gently. "Enough to tick me off where Webster's concerned, Malcolm changed your real name to your nickname on your application for this as he told me everything. So your mother paid four months in advance every-time and the rent was paid for, before the probate went through?" I asked and she nodded sternly at the remark and I nodded as she explained it to me
"Yeah she did it, so I could get a job, before you put this up and I figured this was the next best thing, but I meant it, between jobs right now. But the last one I had just ended two months ago." she said and I nodded to the news. "After your mother died, I understand, alright whatever reason these guys had it against you is getting addressed right now." I heard as Todd and Mary came in then and she nodded to the remark.
'You guys are from my mother's department, and I heard about you Todd, as in Todd Hatchett you're a research historian on old legends and so on?" she asked and he nodded smiling to her. "Yeah I am, but after Mary told me this, I decided to run a research battery on what this guy really is like, but she's obviously a non believer, so what do you think this was if you know already and busted them?" he asked and she smiled as she said it then.
"Studies of fear and performance, and another word for that is fear studies, so combining his thesis with mine by doing it here. That works as we combine both together right now, but what I just told you downstairs I mean if, with the spare key in his, your, hands right now. Someone between us gets hurt and we have to wait for my godmother, as the last time I was here was 15 years ago now."
"The medical triage situation got called into question right now, and he's got a medical degree as well right now as well, but what you got me acting like now, is what I was like before the triple bypass." she said and we all nodded to her gently at the news. "So you said Tony, Peter, Carol and Janet are matched to us?" Mary asked and she nodded smiling at the remark then as she answered her then.
"My best friends, but now I got two versions with the same personality traits, but if mom did that purpose, she wanted me with someone just like me, and rigged it to bring us together." she said and I chuckled. "We been had, she put you at the top of the list, I'm your total equal in everything?" I asked and she nodded smiling. "Yeah exactly, but you're the one who can hear her voice, through me now." she said and I nodded to her then.
"Issues of the Kiersey temperament sorter, but you're the rational, Idealist, artist and warrior and that's Luke, so watch it, before someone scares you into a heart attack, after one too many scares tonight." she said and I nodded to that remark. "After what I just saw, if that's playful intrusions, who's the maniac haunting this house exactly?" she asked and I sighed as Eleanor answered that question for me then.
"If it's my great grandfather, the man lost his mind completely though why if my pendant says anything, he's afraid of my great grandmother, though why I'm not sure yet." she said and we all nodded. "Caroline was his second wife, but there are things I don't know on the family history, but my grandfather was a priest." she said and I nodded to the news as it hit me. "House version of an exorcism?" I asked and she nodded to me gently at that.
"Yeah exactly, but this was why if he starts to lose it, he's afraid of ending up back in those doors, but that's death for the dead, if you're a ghost." she told me and I nodded. "I see why, if he starts trying to scare us out of the house, he knows nothing is stopping you from getting him back in those doors before he kills one of us." Todd said for me and she nodded in agreement to that remark then sternly at that.
"You remember the remark, of purgatory, well the kids he's holding hostage are in purgatory, and it's coming to an end, but that's just it. I'm too much like my mother when she was alive to realize I'm not stopping till I got him locked up to protect you if he targets you guys, as such. Halloween is the big one, he doesn't get us out by morning and his window slammed shut." she told me and I nodded to the news sternly.
"Hocus Pocus?" Mary said for me and she nodded. "That's the magic that brought them back only works one night, but by sun up they're toast, they had to get that book back, same difference in this case. He doesn't get us out, or me out and I do it before dawn and he's screwed right now, if he's acting like Krueger, buried and consecrated, or in this case, locked back up in those doors." she said and we all nodded sternly at the news.
"There are things I told you now, that they don't know, but this is what it is now, but I know a small amount of family history. But whoever was killed in this house was the key, though if Andy and his friends were my responsibility they're the next group to get freed. But an 1869 version to the Dream Master now, I'm the said one meant to do it now." she said and we nodded slowly to the news as I realized why her mother chose her.
"You know this, but the duo don't, but his remark was the punchline, whatever Hugh really is right now, that I don't know right now. But whatever he was and did back then is about to be his undoing, but he targets you guys and he pissed me off right now." she said and I nodded to that. "We get why right now, but if you're anything like Langenkamp and I'm going to kill him right now." I told her and she nodded to me smiling then gently.
"Issues with the job hazards in this case it's about to get worse right now, but whatever mom told you, she's not kidding." she told me and we nodded to the news then. "We both know what we get out of this, but you guys are my kind, and the Websters are unbelievers at the moment, after what we just saw, mom probably had out fight taped last week and she did and there's your evidence." she told me and I nodded in agreement to that.
"I really would like to know what these idiots expect to get out of this by taking the apartment away from you, and why check that will?" Todd asked and she crossed her arms as she explained it to him. "There's a double meaning in the words and those words are ones that were spoken in only one time and place, 19th century literature." she said and I nodded in shock to the news as she read it out to us as she explained it then.
"Rebecca knows you're a book-worm, so who's your favorite author?" Mary asked her and she explained that. "Charles Dickens, but it's a mixture of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, but these two are so arrogant they think they're not going to catch it with you. Let alone the rest of mom's friends right now, as such, get ready once we reveal it's a fake, because he's going to lose his mind from the amount left to us."
"But the amount is not billions or trillions, but over 30 zero digits in the numbers here, all kinds of currency there is." she said and we nodded smiling sternly at the news. "And the lion's share goes to us and Malcolm and Dana." she said and I smiled dangerously at the news. "Best way to get back at people for hurting you is by turning them in to poor people and Becky is about to do that." Todd said and she nodded smiling and I chuckled.
"That's the subtext, I never needed to read the will when it has words we stopped using 90 years ago right now." she said and we nodded "The 1860's to 1930?" I asked and she nodded to me gently. "She likes you, so she chose you, and brought us together." she added and I nodded smiling gently at the news. "Don't look now, but looks like your parents are playing matchmaker with you." Mary said and I nodded smiling at the remark.