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They all smile to the Kirby as he's welcomed into the house and then scarper to their own things. Sunny is shoving cupcakes into a tin as he walks into the kitchen, a shiver runs down her spine as he leaps onto the counter "hey there missy, what are you doing?"
She gives a shaky smile at his chipper tone "just making sure these don't go off, the boys like having them for work."
He nods with a smile, a smile nearing a sneer and leaving the wendigo feeling uneasy "So, Kirby, what was it like, on the other side?"
"It was alright, met some interesting people, it's good to be back though… So, you're a wendigo?" he says jumping off the counter and helps her reach the top shelf of cupboard
He puts the cakes away and the pink haired girl backs off "yep, long time now…"
He nods and tilts his head, letting out some sort of hissing sound with a fake expression of compassion "during the 'Trades'?"
Every bone in the girl's body freezes, taking in a sharp gasp, she can't move, barely breath as he sneaks up behind her "it must have been horrible, the things they did to your kind, you poor thing…"
She swallows hard and turns to the ghost, his sham sweetness slithering off "oh, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to upset you… I just, it must be hard, if you need someone to…"
"No, I don't, the 'Trades' are over and I'm over it!" she bites back and storms out of the room, up the stairs and slams her bedroom door, her back sliding down the door and she bites her lip to hold back the tears, her hand caressing a deep pattern scar on the right of her hip, she wants to forget, so she pretends.
When she comes back out of the room she hears crying coming from Hal's room and walks down the hall and casually walks into his room, finding his holding Eve awkwardly "she's not a bomb."
He looks over to her with a helpless look "Annie demanded I have her, could you…"
She smiles and walks over "if I take that baby off you Annie will have both our heads. You're holding her wrong, here"
She walks over and maneuvers his arms carefully around the infant "make sure you support her bum and back… there you go."
Eve's crying stops and he gives her a sheepish smile "thank you Sunny"
The pink haired girl folds her arms and beams "your welcome. Hal can I ask you a question?"
The vampire takes a seat on the couch and smiles "of course."
Her eyebrows knit together as she questions "what do you think of Kirby?"
His head shoots up at her critical tone, rocking the baby gently on his knee "he seems… nice."
"Too nice! He reminds me of Patrick Laurence" she says starting to pace slightly
A confused look comes to the vampires face, seeing this she explains "Laurence was this guy I knew before I was infected, he was one of the local farmhands, even tended to our family stables. Everyone in town liked him, hell I liked him, he was sweet. Turns out he was a fraud, killed his whole family one day, mum, dad, siblings, wife, nephew, even the damn dog, changed his name and moved"
"There is something unsettling about the man, but we can't make assumptions" Hal stands with Eve
The wendigo seemed outraged by this and said wide eyed "yeah we can, we have a baby to protect here Hal, we have to get rid of this dick, he doesn't belong here he…"
She covers her mouth as she starts to sob, Hal looking on in awkward confusion "Sunny, what did he say to you?"
She takes a seat on the bed and breathing through the tears as she mumbles "he asked me about… the 'Trades'. I'm sorry"
He watches in bafflement as she darts from the room, his eyes wide. The 'Trades' were a long time ago, he remembered them well, but obviously not the way his housemate did, she survived.
When they hear Annie scream there's a mass rampage of footsteps and they all collide in the living room "She has a bloody temperature!"
They sit around and Kirby suggests calling the GP and Tom pretending to be the dad and Sunny the mother "right because someone would believe these two are an item" Hal quips
Sunny sees the fight breaking out, watching Kirby while Annie shouts "shut up! Alright this is what we'll do, Sunny you pretend to be eve's mum, Hal you can be the dad and Tom you can be Sunny's brother."
"Why?" the two men say together as Sunny just smiles at the plan
With a roll of her eyes and a bounce of the baby on her hip the ghost answers "because Tom's like a lovable uncle and Hal has that terrified new dad look"
The vampire stands in objection but she's already leaving the room, Sunny sniggers lightly at him and he sends a glare her way. The newest addition slaps his hands together and smiles "well look at us, proper teamwork!"
When the doctor gets there its Tom that opens the door working him into the living room to find Sunny beside the baby's basket, she smiles and stands "hello, I'm Sunny, the mother of this beautiful little girl"
Annie smiles over to her with a nod, having said her line perfectly, the doctor just nods "yes, hello, so is this the father? Are you two the soul career's?"
The pink haired girl looks to Annie who mouth her through the line "No, there is also another within the household"
"I see the doctor has arrived…" Hal's voice comes from the stairway, everyone looking at him
The doctor raises an eyebrow and queries "who are you?"
He stands awkwardly stiff as he says "I'm the father of this beautiful little girl"
Sunny walks over and tug on Hals hand, making his hesitantly wrap it around her waist "I see so if you're the father who is this?"
Like he's reading from a script "I am the brother of Sunny, we live here together to help baby Eve grow into a happy secure family"
The doctor gives a skeptical look to each of them but just carries on examining Eve, Sunny gripping Hals hand as he tries to pull away. Tom takes the prescription and marches over to his 'sister'
"Is everything alright here? You all seem rather odd" the doctor asks
Tom can't seem to help himself "we're not odd, we're normal, a nice normal family!"
Annie buries her head in hands, Kirby just watching with that stupid smile "Excuse him, he has psychological problems, now please leave"
"I think that's best, there's some things I need to check" with that he walks out of the house, Annie running around having a breakdown
When the ambulance comes they all see it as a tragic, fortunate accident, well… not all. Hal stands at the window, the conversation he'd had with Sunny being mulled over as he watches them take the body away. Sunny is humming in the kitchen, warming up a bottle, she picks Eve up from her basinet with a smile "hello gorge, you excited for your bottle, yeah, got you this boss new formula, been on the telly and meant to be dead good for you."
She opens the door of the living room and sees the vampire and ghost "…even though you broke her heart and ate it! Dead a hundred years and still crazy about you…"
He gets up but as he turns he sees Sunny "aw, I met some of your friends to, Timmy, sweet boy, still has a soft spot for you despite the fact you ate him alive, Mary, oh now was she a firecracker, not really the forgiving type… then of cause there's the main event, Gregory!"
The takes a sharp breath, instinctively pulling baby Eve closer to her "what the fuck do you want?"
"Now, now, language… But hey look at the pair of you, reformed and all, I bet Annie wouldn't recognize you" he says casually pouring himself a drink
"She knows about our pasts" Hal states, sharing the same glazed eyes as the wendigo
He sips at his drink with that smile, that fucking irritating smile "all the gory details?"
Sunny walks round then and bites "listen to me you fashion disaster piece of shit, I don't know what you're doing here, what you want or why you seem so fucking interested in our lives but I swear if you don't fuck off I'm going to kill myself just so I can beat the shit out of you properly!"
With a backwards glance to Hal she storms back into the kitchen, needing to get away from that vicious little man…
After her shift with the baby Sunny goes into the back, taking a seat and buries her head in her hands "Sunny, you alright?"
She looks up at the werewolf with a weak smile "always Tommy, you?"
He gives that goofy happy smile "yeah and great actually, just been cleaning out the draw for baby Eve"
She looks over to the container and nods "should be nice when it's done"
He takes a seat beside her and smiles "it'll be dark soon, I haven't seen you have anything to eat today"
"Not hungry" she lied, she was hungry, starving actually, but the meat only dulled the ache and it never went away
He accepts that and stands "well I'm off to bed, night"
She watches him go with a small smile, he was so innocent and it kind of broke her heart!
That night, at 11:54, like every night, she kneels beside the window, music playing, object in her hand "are you testing me, is that it? Because I can tell you right now this is the shitest test ever. Kirby is evil, not like me or Hal, he mentioned… oh god I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, please Gregory, please help me…"
The next morning they all sit down to breakfast, speaking of the fake article about the Box Tunnel murders, Hal saying he'll snoop around, look into it when Sunny pipes "I'll go get Eve's prescription, we need some bits anyway, I'm sure she could do with some air"
None of them notice as the male ghost twists poor Tom around his finger, fucking twat!
Sunny stands in an isle looking at some tins and ranting to the baby in the pram "I hate him, I actually hate him… I mean did you see Hal's face yesterday, he looked like he was going to cry, Hal, cry. And I don't believe he's met them… well you know"
She kneels before the infant and sighs "well, I suppose we have bigger things to worry about right now don't we, so you decide, Spaghetti or Beans?"
The infant makes a gargling noise and nods "you're right, beans are the healthier option; you're going to be such a good savior, yes you are, who's the savior, you, yes you are!"
"Sunny?" a voice asks and she looks up to see someone he hoped she never would
"Mick" she stands putting the beans in the basket
He looks to the pram and his eyebrows reach his hairline "that was quick!"
She rolls her eyes and starts to push the pram away "Sunny, wait!"
She turns and says with her hand on her hip, suddenly very happy she was wearing her best floral dress and make-up "what do you want?"
"Look I was a knobhead, I miss you" he says sincerely, for a moment her hardened expression softens but not for long
"Are you taking the piss?" she asks in an annoyed and angry tone
He stands there for a minute and shrugs "come on babe, come home"
She smiles sweetly; taking a step closer to him "I would rather and happily slice my own fanny off before I ever went back to you"
"Why are you being like this?" he asks like a complete Muppet
She looks at him wide eyed and is about to yell when…. "Michael"
They look down the way and see a chubby, baked blonde walking down, Mick runs a hand over his face as the girl puts her hand round him "Sunny hey how you been, oh look a baba, you didn't waste any time"
"Neither did you, wow" she goes to walk away with a shake of her head
However that idea is crushed by the orange girls comment "you'll get over him love"
She turns with a raised brow "I'll get over him? What exactly has he told you?"
The blonde smiles triumphantly, Mick looking anywhere but at them "we were going to tell you sooner, but well, I guess in the end he just never got over me. Don't blame us for following our hearts, I know how hard being dumped can be"
A snorting laugh comes from the pink haired girl and the chav girls face falls "what's so funny?"
"He told you he dumped me? Oh sweetheart, no, I fucked him off" she says with a smile
Jess looks at her boyfriend with a shake of her head "that's not true, Michael?"
"Sunny you need to just get over me…" he states in a shrug, hoping not to get in trouble
She just laughs again "oh bless, you think I still give the slightest shit about you?"
They look at her for a moment and she tilts her head in amusement "leaving you was the best thing I've ever done, because now you see I have a life, friends and even a decent boyfriend, yep, this is his daughter, me and him live together with some mates, not in the loft of his mums, but an actual house, he's got a job and isn't some scrounger like you"
She lies with a smile on her face, Mick looks less than happy and Jess just scoffs "yeah right, what's his name, where does he work… I bet he doesn't even exist and you've nicked someone's kid!"
Just then, before the wendigo can stop herself her voice answers "Hal, his names Hal and he works at the Corner Café"
She tilts her head and walks away, loving the irritated look on Jess's face and the angry one on her ex's.
She walks into the house, just as Annie and Kirby come down the stairs "where have you been? I was worried"
The ghost takes her surrogate daughter from the pram and Sunny explains "sorry, I took her the park"
She doesn't get a reply as they walk back up the stairs, except Kirby, who just gives her that sickly smile "let me help with the shopping"
"I'm fine thanks" she snarls and pushes the pram through to the kitchen and starts packing away
"You seem awfully tense" the interfering ghost suggests
She doesn't look at him, doesn't want to "well I don't like you"
"That's a shame, I like you, but then again people who like you don't tend to last long do they?" he stares at the girl, that sweet tone hiding something truly bitter
She turns and looks him in the eye, determined to hold her ground "you don't know anything about me!"
He just shrugs and reply's "of cause I do. I know your favorite color is pink, obviously, I know you hate fish, any type, you just never liked it, I even know all about Gregory…"
Her lip quivers at the name "he's never forgiven you, not ever, I remember while I was speaking to him he said 'when I was told she was in the 'Trades' I thought finally some justice'"
"You're a fucking Liar! He's never say that, never ever" she screams at him
He just nods as she grabs his collar "it's true, he hates you"
When he suddenly disappears then pops up into the living room she chases him, down stairs, into the cellar, but as she runs at him he vanishes, and she hears the clank of the door being locked from outside, she feels it, the heat of the boiler and starts banging and screaming against the metal door "Annie! Hal! Tom! Help me!"
"Sorry my dear but they can't hear you, not in here…" the ghost smirks
She turns to him and questions "why are you doing all of this? What do you want?"
He doesn't answer her, just watches as the flames of the furnace grow, he's put the heating on full and the room was becomes so hot "I remember, during the 'Trades' this was one of the things they did, to keep you people in check, after all your such a savage lot."
The intense heat of the room becomes too much for the girl and she slumps against the door lightly "you Wendigo's don't really like the heat do you? no, can't stand it, much prefer the cold. I heard that if you heat up a wendigo they just shut down, your bodies can't take it, your bloods to cold, so you turn into living mummies!"
He smiles at her as she crashes to the floor, sweat pouring off her "Someone help me!"
He just chuckles lightly and vanishes from the room, leaving the poor girl the bang helplessly and call for help, but it never comes
"Whys it so hot?" Annie questions, looking at the thermostat, but as she tries to turn it its stuck
Hal walks out of his room and asks "something the matter?"
"Bloody things stuck and the house is turning into a sauna, we'll have to get some out tomorrow" just then the door goes and Tom's voice echo's through the house, Annie sighs, grabbing some washing and heading down stairs. Hal goes to head back into his room but his eyes lock with Kirby's, he's smiling still, that bloody smile, the vampire just turns and rushes back into his room
Later when he's attacked by his work and house mate he doesn't understand, but he knows, Kirby did this. He walks to Sunny's room and knocks on the door, but when he gets no answer he opens it, she should be here, her coat was by the door, the one he'd seen her leave in and he wondered where she was…
He walks into the kitchen, knowing full well that this man was to blame, he seems to just want it to be him, Annie and Eve, but Hal has this feeling, this sickening feeling. He doesn't get a chance to warn Annie, he's been set up and there's nothing he can do, nowhere he can go so he just sits in his car, at the end of the street, feeling lost…
Meanwhile Sunny bangs weakly against the door, her skin turning crimson from the heat, black veins pulsing, boiling, her body screaming but voice is less than a whisper, she collapses to the floor. When Tom knocks on Hal's car window he finds out the truth about his friend Kirby and the two run for the house "Annie? Sunny?"
Hey hear a crash and run up to the nursery, finding the 'toy man' and asking about their friends "you killed them…"
"They were already dead, and well, not quite…" he smirks, playing with them and then heading down stairs to Eve
They chase after him, but he has a blade to the baby's small body, before they can do anything the lights go out and there's Annie, in all her dark poltergeist glory, as she obliterates Kirby's very being.
The men watch in wonderment as she picks up the baby and jokes "is it just me or do I have the worst taste in men ever?"
They share an awkward laugh and then Annie asks "has anyone seen Sunny?"
"No, but can I smell bacon?" Tom asks innocently
Hal's eyes widen, him being old enough to know a Wendigo's weakness "oh god, Sunny!"
He shouts and runs down to the cellar, opening the door and her body falls out and Annie cries "my god he killed her!"
Hal picks her up and says "Tom run up stairs and open all the windows in her room, get me ice, anything's that's cold"
The werewolf runs as told while Hal and Annie also rush upstairs and he explains "a wendigo can't survive in heat, it desiccates them but it can't kill them"
He lays her down on her bed, the windows wide open and quickly starts to undress her, Annie's eyes widen "What the bloody hell are you doing?"
"We need to get her as cold as possible, if we had a decent size freezer I could just put her in but right now we have to make do!" he explains while shimmying her dress off, leaving the voluptuous girl in her mismatched underwear
Tom walks in with a hand full of stuff "I got ice, peas, carrots chips, ice-cream… why's she naked?"
"We have to get her cold" Annie explains with a worried expression
While Hal starts coving her with the frozen goods, he sighs and nods "she should be fine"
An hour later the girls head snaps up and she finds herself half naked and coved in the freezer content and three concerned faces looking at her "hey… could I get some coverage please"
They laugh and the men leave, Sunny changing into some short and a Pluto vest top, she tells her about everything that happened and Sunny listens, a smile to her face at the word of Kirby's demise, but when she hears its Tom's birthday she nods and heads out of the house, because everyone deserves a present on their birthday
When she gets back Annie smiles to her, she's making a cake for Tom and Hal's distracting him, but then she screams for help and the pink haired girl has to stifle her giggle, they sing to him and smile gleefully then Sunny says "would you like your present?"
His eyes brighten as she goes behind the bar and puts his gift on the counter top "Happy Birthday!"
Hal and Annie look at her odd, but Tom smiles "It's a fish!"
Yes, sitting there was a bowl, with sand, a treasure chest and a goldfish "yeah, I remember you said you'd never had a pet… well, now you do!"
He looks at the fish with his child like smile ad round the bar, pulling Sunny into a long and tight embrace "thank you Sunny"
"Oh I forgot the plates." Annie states and Tom jumps into the kitchen
While he's their they speak about the prophesy and Annie hugs Hal, then Sunny, saying she now knows they could never hurt Eve. He leaves for a moment and when he comes back hey eat cake and talk about what Tom's going to call his fish, debating if it's a boy or a girl, in the end he chose Terry, not wanting to offend the fish because he didn't know its gender… sweet kid
Later that night Hal knocks on Sunny's open door, she smiles over to him and smiles "you wanted to see me?"
She'd asked him to see her when everyone was in bed and she stands "yep, I have something for you"
She walks over to the ben and pulls out a large box and hands it to him "Model 1765 Battle Ship; for all your creative needs"
He gives her a questioning look and she just shrugs "I know you like to keep busy and I asked the fella in the shop what's a good gift and he suggested this"
He gives her a coy smile and asks "what's the occasion?"
"I have a small confession and thought softening you up would be good" she bites her lip before telling him
"What have you done?" he raises an eyebrow in question
She looks away, at the floor, the bed, anything other than him "I saw my ex 'prick' Mick in the shops today with that rat-faced Wotsit Jess, they were driving me mad so I had to say something so I just sort of maybe told a small fib!"
He tilts his head and sighs "I'm assuming I'm involved in this fib?"
"I may have told them you were my boyfriend and Eve was your daughter and we were happily ever after!" she quickly rambles out
His eyes widen and he laughs bitterly, but that laugh dies as he sees her vest has risen up, a burn on her him, the mark "oh, Sunny…"
She looks down and quickly covers it "I'm sorry"
She shrugs and slaps on a smile "don't be, I'm not…"
He gives her a confused look but her eyes just fall to the music box "Hal I'm two hundred and thirty years old, I've done a lot of bad stuff, I guess the 'Trades' where my punishment"
He quickly puts the box on the bed and shakes his head "that's not true, the things done… no one deserves that"
She scoffs lightly and goes to the box, opening it and pulling out her precious object, it was a ring, old and beautiful and glistening with diamonds "I had a good life, I was happy, I had Gregory… he gave this to me, we were going to get married, but then I got poisoned. He was there, tending to me every day, but I didn't notice, all I could hear was the drumming, his heart racing in his chest, it jumped whenever he looked at me… I was so hungry"
Hal watches her as she looks to the ring, a tear falling down her cheek "he loved me with all his heart… then I ripped it out and ate it! I don't even remember it, but I remember after, those big green eyes looking up at me, the taste of the meat sliding down my throat and you know what… when I backed away realizing what I'd done, he actually reached out for me"
Her eyes rise to meet his and she gives a bitter chuckle "the 'Trades' where horrific, but they were deserved"
He goes to her side and shake his head "No, we kidnaped you, sold you, boiled you, fought you, rapped you, tortured and massacred you. It was barbaric and wrong, and I am so sorry that you had to endure it. If Gregory loved you as much as you say then I know he's on the other side, he understands and he forgives you. You deserve to be happy Sunny, because despite all the odds here you are… living your life, free"
Her eyes fall closed and her arms fling around his neck, the small girl on her tiptoes and he hesitantly hugs her back, it's not as awkward as it was with Annie but he's still not comfortable, in fact he's very uncomfortable but he understands, she needs this, he just kind of wishes it wasn't him. She gives a tight squeeze and then kisses his check, leaning into the side of his face as she says "thanks Hal, you're a good friend"
Meanwhile in a room just up the hall a werewolf sits smiling at his new, first pet and thinking of Sunny, Sunny was nice, sweet, funny and she made him feel happy, plus she listened to him and got him a Terry, yeah, he liked Sunny….
The next morning their watching Bargain Hunt with a cup of tea each before Eve walks up, at the sound of the letter box Annie goes and gets the Sunday post "that's odd"
"What?" Tom chirps
She looks to see all of them have turned to her "it's a postcard, they must have wrote the address wrong"
Hal swallows his tea and asks "well what does it say?"
She takes a seat on the couch and reads "Dear Myrtle, I've been working on forming a Family Reunion, my search for lost family has led me to you and I do very much hope you can attend. It will be at the family manor in Gittisham, Devon on the 14th, hope to see you there, your cousin Olivia… maybe Myrtle used to live here?"
"Nope… I'm Myrtle!" they all look to Sunny who spoke in an annoyed tone