"Mr. Fischer, I fear that Mrs. Christensen's condition is worsening." Dr. Springer told Kevin grimly.
Kevin's fists curled into balls at his side and he struggled to keep calm. "W-why? What's wrong?" he asked fearfully.
"She's been talking to herself excessively lately and has been having bad dreams which are a sign that something is neurotically wrong with her. In other words, something in her head is causing all these problems." Dr. Springer replied solemnly.
Kevin relaxed slightly. Dr. Springer must've caught her talking to a spirit and Wendy had been having bad dreams before the accident. They both had. "Oh she has bad dreams all the time and the whole talking to herself thing she's uh…praying." Kevin lied through his teeth.
Dr. Springer held up an eyebrow. "Having a lot of bad dreams isn't exactly normal Mr. Fischer. And as for her 'praying' I overheard her Mr. Fischer. She wasn't praying she was having an actual conversation with an uh 'Carrie' was it?"
Kevin paled. Wendy had talked to Carrie? Why hadn't she told him earlier?
"Mr. Fischer you all right?" the doctor inquired with a concerned frown.
Kevin immediately came back to Earth and fibbed quickly, "Uh yeah I'm fine just a bit…were you able to hear more of their conversation?"
"Well all I managed to catch were a few words. But it seemed as if she was talking about you actually, if you're the Kevin they were referring to that is."
"Oh crap… uh I mean interesting. Listen I have to go but thanks for all the information!"
Kevin ran off, leaving Dr. Springer thinking about what a strange marriage couple he was dealing with.
*** "Stop it! Stop it you fucking idiots!" Adie cried, finally pulling Joshua and Kris off each other.
They each stayed a few feet away from each other and eventually they both stood up, breathing heavily. Kris never was much of a fighter and that was kind of evident from his bloody face. Joshua on the other hand, had gotten off without as so much a scratch.
"What the hell's the matter with you two!?" she yelled, her face contorting in rage.
When they didn't answer she turned to Kris, her voice not softening. "Are you ok?"
Kris wiped a trail of blood from his nose and smeared it all over his black jacket. Suddenly, a white light passed lightly over his face and his injuries disappeared.
"The dead can heal quickly." He mumbled.
"Good thing too, you prissy." Joshua muttered.
Kris looked up, fire in his eyes. "What did you say?"
He almost pounced on Joshua once again but Adie jerked his arm away. She pinned him against the wall and when she it was safe, moved back.
"I have feelings for both of you, maybe some more for one of you." She seethed, not looking up from the floor. But it doesn't matter anymore. When you're dead you're dead. You can love but there's no point. I can love one of you but there's no point. It just can't happen. I'm sorry." She said coldly, tears welling up in her eyes.
She left, her footsteps echoing in the empty hallway. Kris and Joshua looked at each other, expressionless before each going their own separate way.
*** "Why does he need us?" Wendy inquired, straightening up in her bed.
Freddy shrugged. "Bludworth's not the most talkative person. The dude quite literally told me to get the hell over there like now."
"Then we better get moving." Wendy said.
She easily began to get off the bed when Kevin stopped her. "You're not going anywhere."
Wendy pouted. "Why? I was in a car accident big whoop. I'm better now. I don't know why they haven't let me go yet."
Oh because you possibly may have a deadly blood clot in your head that can kill you. And since you're talking to spirits the doctor thinks you've gone bonkers which really isn't helping your case, Kevin thought to himself.
But of course he didn't tell Wendy this, instead he just grinned. "You know how hospitals are. If something happens to you they get sued so they're still running their tests and all that. And until then you're going to have to stay here, babe."
Wendy scrunched her brow, suspicious. But then she relaxed. "Fine. Where's Adie?"
"I'm here." A familiar voice called out from the doorway. It was Adie who was leaning against the door, her face coldly furious. "We shouldn't keep Bludworth waiting." She said sternly.
Freddy shot her a 'how did you know that' stare and she just poked the side of her head in response.
"Guess we're all good to go then." Kevin said. He leaned in and planted a kiss on Wendy's forehead, fighting the urge to ask her about her conversation with Carrie.
Wendy waved her hand limply and rested her aching head back on her bed when they left.
*** Unbeknownst to Wendy, in the room next to hers they were installing a new monitoring system. Eric Harvey, the worker there, pushed the system a bit back to where it was underneath the television. With a long once-over look at it Eric left, satisfied. The second he left the room, the crane holding up the television began weakening under the invisible force that was now working on it. The crane screeched metallically as it lowered by itself, on top of the monitoring system.
*** Adie knocked fearlessly on the huge chained doors leading inside Bludworth's morgue. Usually, she would've just telekinetically forced it open but she had no energy inside her. No feeling. Her insides were numb and icy and it reflected in her actions.
"Open up, it's us." Adie demanded.
The door creaked open and the massive frame of Bludworth appeared. His frequently amused spark was gone and he didn't even bother to ask why she hadn't opened the door herself. He moved aside and Adie, Kevin, and Freddy walked in.
The morgue was as foggy and depressing as the last time they had visited. It reeked of death and Adie wanted badly to just walk into his cupboard of an office and she did-but not before catching a glimpse of a cot that harbored Nicki's corpse. She winced and entered Bludworth's office. With a huff, she sat in the tiny chair that had been pushed aside.
When they were all seated Bludworth cleared his throat. "Such a shame that Nicki couldn't make it, we need all the help we could get. Now going back to the reason I asked you to come her on this lovely day; our dearest pal Death just killed my wife today." He announced.
They all stared at him. His eyes, always blank were livid and his fists were rolled into balls.
"I-we're sorry." Kevin said uncomfortably.
Bludworth looked up and grinded his teeth angrily when he spoke, "I don't need your apologies! What I need is your help!" he snarled.
"How can we help?" Freddy offered.
Bludworth was less tense as he leaned back in his old swivel chair. "I assume you all know that Death is once again up to his old tricks but this time he's going after all the survivors. And that is why my wife was mysteriously killed at the gas station today as we are survivors. This time Death won't be stopped by any of the usual obstacles so we need to take him on. The only way to do that is by recruiting some spirits help and then showing up at his domain." He explained like if it was the easiest thing in the world.
Maybe it was but Adie knew more than that to believe that they could beat Death that simply. There had to be a catch.
"Um this sounds way too easy for comfort. What's the catch?"
Bludworth got up from his seat and glowered at her. "You think it's simple? If it was simple I would've done this crap a long time ago!" he cried heatedly, making a dent in his less than sturdy ancient desk. "You have to summon the spirits first and then convince them to help you, which is extremely difficult because Death is holding them back and no one wants to mess with that bastard. I tried summoning a few spirits but apparently they thought I was too intimidating or something."
Freddy let out a stifled chuckle. "Imagine that."
Bludworth grabbed him by the shirt collar and lifted him off his feet but definitely not in the romantic comedy kinda way. "You think this is funny Mohawk boy? You have no fucking idea what you're dealing with!"
Kevin and Adie came to the aid of the terrified eccentric and Bludworth unwillingly put him down.
Freddy defiantly glared at Bludworth before he shrank down onto his seat. Thankfully, Bludworth dismissed it.
When they didn't leave he eyed them. "Well? Don't you have work to do?"
"How do we know when we've convinced enough spirits and what do we do when we have?" Kevin questioned.
"You'll know when you feel Death's pissed off presence and when you do report back to me." Bludworth answered.
"But-"
"Go!" Bludworth roared.
They all scampered away from the irate man's office. Bludworth scowled and thought to himself, knowing that Adie would read his mind, Watch out for Wendy.
*** "Again? My god what's wrong with this world!" Wendy cried out after flipping through channels the second time that day and not finding any decent shows again.
"Wendy! Watch out!" rang Peter Pan's voice from the television.
Wendy changed the channel not giving the line another thought.
"Try our new Baconator now at Wendy's!" a voice announced in a commercial of the popular fast-food franchise.
This time Wendy felt a twinge of paranoia. Once could be considered a coincidence but twice? No way, something was up. She hit the red button on the control next to her bed and almost immediately a nurse appeared. Her name tag read 'Jennings'.
"Mrs. Fischer? Are you all right?"
Wendy flinched self-consciously. She wasn't used to being called 'Mrs. Fischer' even the doctor didn't call her that.
"I'm good I just need to get out of this room. Now."
*** The crane finally reached its limit and collapsed. The television impacted the silver shiny bar from the monitoring system and it bended to the right. Then the crane fell on it and the bar went right through the wall to Wendy's room.
Author's Note: So Wendy might die, Bludworth's quest is revealed, and now they're off to get spirits on their side. Sounds fun. Forgive me if the planned accident was stupid I wasn't feeling very creative. Now the next chapter will be mainly about spirits which is why I'm sorry that I didn't include any requests for spirits in this chapter. What you can do now though is make a request of what spirits you want to join the little quest thing and make a request of the ones who you want to appear but say no to going. I'll figure out a way to even it all out. Thanks for reading and please review!
