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Control

Chapter 9: The Ghost Must Go

Tom's P.O.V

It was a little while after Sophie had gone grocery shopping leaving, Hal, Annie, Kirby and I with Eve. Annie had become very worried about the baby as she had a fever and was not eating her food, the only problem was that we didn't have any paperwork nor could we risk them taking the baby off of our hands. The only solution we could come up with is to have a doctor come out to us…but they wouldn't be able to see Kirby or Annie and with Sophie out of the house it meant that Hal and I were the only visible carers of Eve. The doctor arrived shortly after we had called and began to check on the baby.

"You look after the baby on your own do you?" he asked, I looked over at Annie who began signalling wildly for Hal to enter the room. I couldn't mess this up and get Eve taken off of us.

"Umm..." I mumbled the doctor raised an eyebrow.

"Hal! Get down here now!" Annie shouted, but still Hal did not appear.

"Are you the baby's sole carer?" the doctor asked once more.

"Nope, it's not just me." I replied, well it was an honest reply even if he couldn't see Annie.

"There's the baby's mother?" he asked he still eyed me as if I had brought out a dead bird or something like that.

"Sort of, yeah." I answered; well Annie was like a mother to Eve since Nina was killed. But the doctor wouldn't be able to see her.

"Is everything all right here? Because you seem rather odd." The doctor questioned as he began to write things down onto a piece of paper.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked was he trying to insult me. By this time Hal had entered the room.

"Who are you?" the doctor asked Hal as we turned to look towards him. He had borrowed one of my tops, but Hal being Hal had tucked the top into his trousers, always trying to look smart.

"I'm, um..." he began looking rather uncomfortable, he was from a time where it was not acceptable for men to be together, but for someone who was born nearly six hundred years ago he didn't seem to care whether men liked men or women liked women.

"Say it." Annie whispered as he looked over towards her, even though she couldn't be heard or seen by the doctor she still felt that she had to whisper.

"I'm his... boyfriend." Hal ground out as he walked over to us. Eve began gurgling.

"Yeah, me and him, we've..." I began before I was cut off by Hal.

"When you said rather odd, what were you implying?" Hal asked glaring at the doctor as I put an arm around his waist making him more uncomfortable.

"That's he's a halfwit." The doctor replied as he continued to write things down on the paper.

"No you weren't, you were implying that he was gay. You were being homophobic." Hal stated as he continued to glare at the man. The doctor finished writing down things on the paper before handing it over to us and explaining what was wrong and how we could cure it.

"I had no idea you were gay. Most of the gay couples I know have taste." He said before he left, this didn't go well with Annie.

"It's rented!" she yelled, Kirby disappeared a couple of minutes after the doctor had left and just before Sophie entered the house with the groceries she immediately spotted Hal in his tank-top.

"What did I miss?"

Hal's P.O.V

I can't believe I had made a fool of myself! Wearing that stupid top and pretending I was with Tom…why couldn't have Tom gone for groceries instead of Sophie? Sophie and I could have pretended to be Eve's parents like we had pretended to be Hettie's all those years ago.

"You look really good you know." Sophie whispered as she slid her arms around my neck, nuzzling the side of my neck. I turned my head slightly kissing her, before pulling back slightly leaving her with a grin on her face. The moment was rudely interrupted by Kirby.

"What would Annie think?" he asked a sly smile on his face making the both of us frown. There was something about this ghost…something not right at all.

"What would Annie think about what?" Sophie questioned this made Kirby smile even more…he certainly looked like a serial killer…and we'd been around when Jack the Ripper bloodied the streets of London.

"About all the things you and Hal have done. All those women, children and men killed for your own pleasure." He replied as he began making drinks from the liquor behind the bar. "All the terrible bloody things you've both done, what would she think of you?"

He continued to list of names of the people that we had taken the lives of, people that haunted dreams of ours. The children, the women, the men that got in the way, Annie knew what we were capable of…knew that in the past we had killed people…she didn't know what had happened, but we weren't like that anymore. But he wasn't going to let this go, he was blackmailing us. Finally he stopped tormenting us disappearing most likely to find Annie, I looked back finding Sophie with tears streaming down her face and that's when I felt myself crying.

"It will be alright." I whispered pulling her into a hug and brushing her hair lightly.

Sophie's P.O.V

It had been a couple of hours since we had, had to lie to Annie saying that Kirby was a great guy and that he should stay with us for a while. Even though inside I wished we could just rip him apart to make sure he could never come back again. Hal didn't like to leave me alone in a room with him, which is how I found myself with him in our room looking after Eve.

"Who's a good little girl?" I cooed as I rocked her from side to side, she gurgled and began giggling. She held onto my finger with her tiny hand, I really felt sorry for her she'd lost her mother without even knowing her, and I felt sorry for Nina who could not look after her only child, her first child. I shook my head smiling down at the baby before looking over at Hal who was having fun reading a book; he looked over and smiled at me. However Tom soon ruined the moment as he burst in, yelling about something, I held the baby closer knowing that this was going to upset her…well if the yelling didn't the fight surely would.

"Stop it! Both of you!" Annie yelled as she and Kirby materialised, Tom and Hal finally stopped but unfortunately for Hal some of Tom's toxic blood had managed to get onto his skin and it began burning him. Tom ran out of the house banging the door as he went out, I looked towards Hal who immediately went back into our room to change shirts and see what damage had been done. Annie took the baby off of me and went back downstairs, followed closely by Kirby who I swear smirked at me before he disappeared down the stairs.

"Are you ok?" I asked as I went back into our room to find him dabbing at his arms, luckily for him I had a first aid kit…never know when you need one.

"I'll be fine…damn mutt." He muttered as I gently began to wrap his arm with bandages…however he didn't seem fine, he didn't look as though he was in much pain he just seemed to be thinking of something. "Do you think, I'm the one with the burnt arm? The one who will end the God Child?"

"Hal, no I don't think so. You won't harm Eve." I reassured him as I finally finished bandaging him up. We briefly kissed before we went back downstairs, finding Annie without the baby and no sign of Kirby, Tom still hadn't returned. Hal immediately ran upstairs; Annie followed him with me close behind. Once Annie and I had caught up with Hal…it wasn't good, his face was transformed his eyes that tell-tale black with his fangs out. Annie immediately made us leave…we weren't safe, but she didn't see that it was all Kirby.

"What can we do Hal?" I asked as he began to drive away. "We can't leave her and the baby with that psychopath!"

"She doesn't want us there! What can we do when she doesn't want our help?" he yelled it dawned on me that we had nowhere else to go, no one to help us. But that ghost had to go…but I couldn't do it alone. Hal seemed to feel the same way as he didn't drive out of the road, we sat there for a while before Tom finally came back. Tom was the first to go into the house followed by Hal and I we found Kirby holding a butcher's knife over Eve and no sign what so ever of Annie.

"Step away from the baby." I growled only making him chuckle more as he began ranting about his plan and his life as a serial killer. Maybe he shouldn't have ranted otherwise he would have been able to go through with his plan, Annie appeared in all her blue glory and vaporized Kirby, once he was gone Annie immediately picked up the baby.

"Thank god that's over." I sighed placing my head on Hal's shoulder, hopefully there wouldn't be another ghost who would try to kill the baby, and vampires were easier to deal with and less easy to trust.

"Is it me, or do I have the worst taste in men... ever?" Annie asked jokingly as she rocked the baby from side to side. Well we would have been able to tell her earlier if we hadn't been blackmailed.

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!" Annie sang I joined in as we presented Tom with a birthday cake, even if it was a day later. "Come on Hal."

"I don't sing."


Author's Notes:

Hi! Hope you enjoyed this is four episodes down woo! Another four to go and we've completed the series! Another eleven chapters to go and the fanfic is complete! Well after this there are ten left with two already written so there are eight more to finish writing! Sorry again for the slow updating and thanks for all the support it really means a lot! Ciao for now! =D