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Don't look back!
Kiera thought to herself, gushes of wind zipping her jet black hair, and howling in her ears. Her muddy feet aching as she tried helplessly to get through the maze of trees desperate to find civilization and help. Dark clouds hovered over her, making down pours of rain her polka-dotted pajama's soaked to the skin. Until she saw a gate up ahead, well it looked like one anyways it was hard to tell against the blur that filled her vision. Her shivering hands grasped the cold bars that she was trying desperately to open but wouldn't budge. With all her strength she had left in her she gave one final shove, and the gate swung open creakily. She limped inside, relief flooding her as she saw an old mansion come into clear sight. She began running towards it screaming, "SOMEBODY HELP MEEE-"Kiera didn't quite finish, she tripped over a rock just as she was about to reach the porch steps. Which she smacked her forehead against, blacking out, her frail body lay still.
A few minutes before
A tall violet eyed ghost was lying in his bed, the letters of his name carved into the wooden head board reading STRETCH who was looking up at the ceiling and listening to the sounds of the heavy rain and snores coming from his brothers one who was very large, and the other who stunk so bad you don't even want to know. Stretch glared, "Ya guys sound like a lawn mower." He mustered. Sighing, he decided to go and see if the doc was awake at this hour knowing he's always up probably scribbling on notecards, and clipboards about each therapy session he has with the non-living. He floated down the hallway, poking his transparent head through Casper's room seeing the small ghost curled up next to a girl named Kat whom Casper had deep feelings for and maybe involving love. He knew what it was like be in love back when he was alive, but since he had no beating heart after death he was left with just an empty soul who couldn't stand the word, it just made him disgusted. (So he thought) He'd rather scare fleshies and stirs up mischief all day then listen to all that romance bullshit. Now Stretch was making his way down the endless spiral staircase which took him to the main entrance of Whipstaff, and hovering on toward Doctor Harveys work station. He saw the Doctor passed out on the nearby couch his brown hair scuffed, and a slight beard sprouting on his chin. A lamp was showering him with light. He was in his usual business attire, damn don't he eva change his clothes? He also had a bunch of paperwork sprawled out on his lap. Well, so much for company he's dead sleep he grunted to himself before hearing a shriek that sounded more like a banshee from outside, causing Stretch to flinch and the Doctor to rise up in alarm, "I wasn't asleep!" Stretch narrowed his eyes, shushing James
"What da hell was dat?"
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"What was what?"
James asked groggily putting on his round glasses that slipped off his face,
"Is someone at the door?"
Stretch flew through the entry turning invisible so he couldn't be seen. Probably another one of those damn kids playing another one of them pranks. He scanned through the murkiness for a few moments before turning on the front light, his eyes stopped at the figure before him. He drifted closer, noticing a huge gash on the girl's head that dripped blood from it, her skin as pale as the moonlight, and her hair stuck to her face from the rain.
Ah shit!
Stretch was now seeable, and he turned back to yell for the doctor but he was already behind him. James hurried to the corpse and carried her in his arms back inside Stretch following close after. Then placing her gently on a velvet pull out chair, putting a palm on her forehead to see if she had a fever she did of course.
"I need you to wake up Kat and tell her to get a pair of clothes."
"But Doc-
"NOW!"
James commanded grabbing blankets from the closet to wrap around her so she doesn't get hyperthermia. Stretch getting ready to protest, held is tongue for once, in anger he went back up the stairs to do as he said, great another stupid skin bag to deal with.
"And I need a first aid kit!"
Stretch heard him cry from afar, Stretch's lips curled in dislike this is gonna be a loooong night.
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The next morning Keira woke up her bandaged head throbbing with pain, where was she? And why was she even here in the first place? Her memories from the following night were blank, she couldn't remember a thing! "Whats my name again?" She thoughtfully asked herself, "Oh right, Keira I believe."
"You feeling better?"
Came a man's voice who was standing a few feet away from her holding a cup of coffee and taking a slow sip.
"I'm doing okay, though my body aches like hell. But the question is who are you?"
"James, doctor James Harvey."He cleared his throat, "What happened to me?"
Kiera questioned, noticing a bunched up ball of soggy pajama's on the floor and eyeing at her now dry shorts, and baggy dinosaur t-shirt.
"Well you seemed to have been caught in a storm, and slipped and fell on an object you banged your head up pretty good. You also had a really high temperature of 110 degrees when we brought you in." He explained,
"We?
"Oh uh nevermind, anyways Kat my daughter helped change you into new clothes, since I didn't want you to get fatally ill." He finished,
"Where is this Kat?"
"Hi." A thirteen year old now stood next to her dad, briefly waving and smiling. Her dark brunette hair was in a high pony tail, and she was wearing a gray sweatshirt, with jeans and her usual black hiker boots. She went forward to greet Keira holding out a hand which Keira shook grinning ear to ear. "I'm Keira, I think?"
"You think?" Kat raised an eyebrow,
"W-well I'm sure that's right."
"Do you recall what were you doing out so late last night?" James spoke up, Keira thought for moment, tears slipping from her emerald green eyes,
"I don't remember, I don't remember anything! I don't even know where I live, or who my parents are NOTHING!" She wailed, Dr. Harvey sighing afraid of the answer. While Kat tried calming Keira down, until Casper glided into the room a chef hat on the young spirits head.
"Hey everyone I just wanted to say that breakfast is-?" He gulped realizing that he gave away his cover to wanting to break the news that there are ghosts living with Kat and Dr. Harvey slowly and carefully, "Ready?" His blue eyes looked over at Keira, her pupils growing wide with fear, he squinted his eyes shut. Waiting for the girl to scream,
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