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Chapter 6: No Fear
"Frank, look at how cute they all were." Lyn cooed looking at a picture of her older four kids when they were younger.
"If I didn't know any better I would say that they looked sweet and innocent." Frank chuckled he was holding Gus who had just woke up to be fed. In the picture Maria, Bianca, Oriana, and Chase were all sitting on the couch. They were about eight, seven, four, and three.
"But you do know better and so do I. Everything was fine until I had Chase and then all hell broke loose because B gained a follower. That kid used to trail around after her like he was her shadow." Lyn chuckled shaking her head.
"I thank God every day that she isn't working for my brother anymore or Chase would be doing it too." Frank sighed.
"Frank, you have to understand that I threatened that girl with a dire number of things if she got back on the bottle or started working for Mickey again." Paige informed him.
Henry went through the box of pictures that was in front of him and chuckled when he pulled one out. "I told that boy that I was going to blackmail him with this picture one day and the time has come."
"Is that the picture that I think it is?" Paige asked him shaking her head.
"Yeah, it's the one where he is sleeping with a piece of toast in his mouth." Henry laughed.
"Let me see that." Phoebe said taking it from him. "What the hell was the boy thinking?" she asked.
"This was after he worked his first week of last outs. He insisted that he wasn't tired and he just needed something to eat. I left the room for a minute I come back and he is passed out with a piece of toast in his mouth." Henry chuckled.
"Melinda was a real joy to be around when she first started working that damn shift." Piper commented dryly.
"Huckleberry was a real joy to be around when she first started working that shift. He was not happy at all that he didn't get to see her as much." Jimmy said rolling his eyes.
"Jimmy, you sound like a little old red neck when you call that boy by that name." Nicole knew that that would get him going.
"Kiss my grits, Nicky." Jimmy shot back playfully.
"Don't you two start now," Derek more or less ordered them.
Billie had a confused look on her face. "What exactly is a grit?" she asked.
"I was wondering the same thing." Phoebe admitted.
"Jimmy's breakfast food of choice." Eva said rolling her eyes.
"The only thing that Roman cooks that is not fit for human consumption. I don't have the heart to tell him this, but he can't make grits to save his life." Piper gave another answer.
"Seriously, what is a grit?" Billie asked again she really wanted to know.
"It's ground up corn that you boil, butter, and salt. When cooked right they are really good." Jimmy answered seriously.
"Jimmy, will you ever eat normal people food?" Eva asked her former husband.
"You got a kerosene cat in hell with gasoline drawers chance of getting a southern man to change his ways." Nicole said the southerner in her coming out with the use of that expression.
"Nicole, that is as southern as you have sounded in a long time. I must say that I am mighty proud of you." Jimmy teased her.
"I cover my accent up very well unless I'm tired, stressed, or drunk. I have to with bein' a lawyer, the judges out here can't understand me. Hell, my own kids can't understand me sometimes. They'll look at me like I'm crazy if I say a word in a way that they don't understand." Nicole laughed.
"Savannah has quite the little accent on her most of the time. She'll say something to Alan and he'll tell her that he doesn't speak southern that she'll have to speak English if she wants him to understand her." Paige couldn't help laughing only one of her children would say something like that.
"I'll tell y'all who has a really southern accent on him, Hank. I'm amazed when that boy opens his mouth to talk sometimes. He's got that deep south accent on him too." Nicole informed them.
"Hank does not have a southern accent." Henry protested.
"Henry, yes the boy does. I don't know where he got it from either unless he picked it up from Nicole." Paige corrected her husband.
"Pheebs, I have to ask exactly what you plan on doing with these pictures." Prue asked her little sister.
"I'm actually making a slideshow for Hank and B's wedding. They just don't know about that little fact yet. If I can manage it I don't want them to find out until it is too late to do anything about it." Phoebe answered her.
"Marie, I have to tell you that you're barking up the wrong tree messing with the two of them." Coop warned his wife using her middle name.
"If they haven't killed her yet then they won't." Frank assured him.
"I can't believe that my daughter let her fiancé pick out the colors." Lyn still couldn't wrap her head around the fact that Hank had done such a good job.
"Lyn, that was one hell of a fight with those two trying to get them to pick their colors. Finally B just told him to do it because she could give two shits less as long as it wasn't pink." Phoebe replied.
"With those two we're lucky that they didn't pick black." Andy laughed.
"Bianca Lyn was threatened with her life if she even thought about picking dark colors. That is really all I have to say about that." Lyn had pretty much put her foot down on that one.
"It doesn't seem real does it?" Paige asked her friend.
"No, it doesn't. It seems like yesterday they were all still little and now they are grown up enough to be getting married." Lyn replied knowing damn well what Paige had been talking about.
"They really aren't babies anymore, no matter how much it pains us to admit that. I still can't believe that Val is leaving at the end of the summer." Coop said tearing up a little.
"Where is Val going?" Leo asked.
"She is transferring to NYU." Phoebe said she was proud but she was still a little sad.
"I feel sorry for that school, they are going to have to put up with an unsupervised Val and Carly." Henry said shaking his head.
"I should probably put my child on homicide watch. There will without a doubt be dead elders because she didn't get to go away to school." Piper groaned putting her head in her hands. She knew that there was no way that Mel was going to take this well. Henry didn't make it obvious but he looked everywhere but at Piper when she mentioned Mel and school together in the same sentence.
"I think Henry Victor pretty much has that covered all on his own. He isn't feeling too kindly to anything elder related these days." Paige said being playfully dismissive. She knew that if her sister knew what her daughter had been up to lately she would freak the fuck out.
"I can't say that I blame him, I work with them and they don't always keep me in the loop." Leo threw out there.
"What his Billy Bob decided to do about school?" Phoebe asked Billie.
Billie shrugged. "Your guess is as good as mine on that one. I don't think he even knows what he plans on doing."
"God help the world he will more than likely follow his two cousins off to the east coast." JD commented rolling his eyes.
"He already said that he can't wait to go away to school to get away from me. I don't think he meant that, but with him I can't be sure." Billie knew that her son had just been playing when he said that though.
"Ricky finally got the acceptance letters that he was waiting on for his football, right now he is stuck between the Crimson Tide and the Gators." Derek reported proudly.
"Well, Paige, your daughter is going to either Alabama or Florida." Henry comment dryly. He knew that his daughter would go wherever her boyfriend went.
"Henry, she's had her acceptance letters to both those schools for months now. I bet she goes to Florida, they have the best softball program and they have a good academic program." Paige replied she knew when to pick and choose her battles with their kids.
"In that case my daughter is going to have to be put on suicide watch." Piper sighed. She was really worried about Mel.
"Why are you worried about Mel this time?" Frank asked her. He knew that she worried about her only daughter more than she did her boys.
"Because, lately she just hasn't been acting like herself. If she isn't at school or at work then she is sleeping. I hardly even see her anymore and we are very close. That leads me to believe that there has to be a reason she is avoiding me." Piper stressed out.
"Piper, I'm sure that she is fine. She is just probably trying to sort some things out right now." Paige assured her sister. She knew what her niece had been doing with her time when she should have been in class. She wasn't going to be the one to tell her sister that though, she did not want to have to deal with the violent explosion of Piper's temper that was sure to occur.
"I'm fine is that girl's theme song. Which of course means that she is anything but fine and she doesn't want to talk about what is really bothering her. I swear she hasn't been the same since that thing with Ken." Phoebe was so not helping matters any but she still had to throw her two cents in on the matter.
"I align myself with what Phoebe just said. I know that she isn't fine, but I can't get her to talk about what is bothering her. At this point I don't even know if trying to get through to her is worth having her pissed off at me." Piper put her head in her hands.
"She is a lot like B, you know that those two don't know how to deal with their feelings well. Everything will work out though, Mel is too damn stubborn to stay down for long." Lyn tried to reassure her.
"Forgive me if I don't take much comfort in that thought. I miss the times when I could fix what was bothering her." Piper lamented.
"I think we all miss those times. They have a tendency to make you feel pretty useless sometimes." Coop readily agreed with her.
"What the hell are you guys doing?" Wyatt asked his little brother and oldest male cousin with a confused look on his face. Chris and Henry were both going through a bag and they were pulling out assorted weapons.
Chris pulled out a sawed off shotgun and he broke it down so that he could look down the barrels before answering his older brother. "We are gathering ghost hunting materials." He answered like it was no big deal.
"You two have ghost hunting materials?" Liz asked them with an arched eyebrow. Really nothing that those two did should surprise anyone.
"Yeah, in our line of work you never know when this stuff is going to come in handy." Henry replied like she should have thought of that. He pulled out a container of salt and checked to make sure that it wasn't empty.
"It's really a sound way to operate, as witches our powers don't work against ghosts so we have to do something to level the playing field." Paige spoke up in support of her father and uncle.
"Somehow it just doesn't surprise me that you're on board with this." Bianca said shaking her head.
"What's with the salt?" Lilly asked looking mildly confused.
"In the event that you want to kill a ghost you need to salt and burn their bones." Chris explained.
"If only me and the guys that I worked with before I came home were this prepared then the whole Mexico incident wouldn't have happened." Troy mused thoughtfully.
"As much as we like to rag on you about the whole cursed temple thing I'm glad that it happened. I don't think we would have come together as a team so quickly if it hadn't been for that." Henry said absentmindedly. He pulled out a box full of shotgun shells.
"Cursed temple?" Maria asked looking at her oldest sister.
"Sophie, trust me when I say you don't want to know." Bianca said she really did not want to talk about the things that she had seen when she had been in that temple.
"I know more than I want to know about that little adventure, Grams was pissed about it." Oriana chimed in.
"It figures you and Grams would be big buddies. You both like getting on my nerves." Henry muttered while he continued to check over their gear.
"So what is with the shotgun shells?" Mikey asked them mildly curious.
"They are filled with pure iron pellets. They won't kill a ghost but they will dispel it." Chris answered his question.
"You two have put way too much thought into this." Parker commented. Nothing his nieces and nephews did shocked him anymore.
"You know us, Parks, we get bored sometimes." Henry chuckled at him.
"When you two get bored all hell has a tendency to break loose." Chuck spoke honestly.
"Is this why you two have all the weapons that you have?" Prue asked them seriously. She had often wondered why they had so many guns and other things that witches didn't typically use.
"That would be right on the money. Like we've said before there are times when a potion, a spell, or our powers won't work. That is why we have all these things as backup." Chris confirmed for his cousin.
"Hey Paige, for the record that is what you sound like when you say some of the things that you say." Dom told his fiancé with a grin.
"You trying to go for the world's fastest breakup?" Paige asked him with her hands on her hips.
"No, I was merely stating facts, dear." Dom replied rolling his eyes.
"I almost hate to ask this question, but have you two thought of the fact that that mental hospital is supposed to be off limits?" Jason asked his two friends.
"It's not exactly off limits they just don't want homeless people sleeping in there. Trust me it will be fine, Jay, just make sure that you have your badge on you just in case." Mel said she couldn't help being a little excited. It wasn't often that the older kids wanted them to go off on one of their adventures.
"What exactly is the plan?" Tyler asked he wanted to know what he was getting himself into.
"There really isn't a plan we're just going to go in there and check things out. We're not sure if the place really is haunted or not. We are just trying to prepare for anything that we might encounter." Henry informed his soon to be brother-in-law.
"You mentioned something about this being a competition." Hailey reminded her cousin.
"That is if there is anything in there. The deal goes whichever group last longer wins bragging rights. It doesn't have to be a whole group it just has to be whichever group has more people stick around the longest." Jack replied. He really knew how his cousin's and his brother's minds worked.
"You guys should listen to my baby brother he really knows what he is talking about." Chris said smiling brightly at the younger man.
"Come on, Chris, I'm not a baby technically I'm only eight months younger than you are." Jack whined making him sound like a little boy.
"As long as we're getting technical about things, I'm only five months younger than Uncle Hank." Paige chimed in. As long as they were on this subject she was going to get her say in the matter.
"Ok, that is one of those things that I don't need pointed out to me." Bianca said staring at her daughter intently.
"Hank, I don't know that this is such a good idea." Patty told her older brother.
"We'll be fine, there is nothing to worry about. There is more than likely nothing out there anyway and if there is we will be prepared." Henry swore to her. His little sister had a tendency to worry entirely too much.
"Look, I even have the plans for the hospital." Chris said unrolling a piece of paper and spreading it out across the floor.
"I think that we all may be in need of professional help, but those are just my thoughts on the matter." Calleigh said. She couldn't believe that they would put this much planning into something so damn stupid.
" I couldn't agree with you more, Cal." Jake said laughing. Honestly he didn't know where Chris and Henry came up with some of their shit sometimes.
"I'm just asking that we don't have a repeat of the Mexico incident. I don't know about anyone else, but that wasn't very much fun for me." Roman threw out there.
"I agree, what happened in Mexico was very traumatizing, but I think it is about time to get over it." Lilly said.
"Do you think that maybe we should check on our son before we go skipping off?" Val asked Troy.
"I'm sure that he's fine, Val. You just saw him last night." Troy assured her.
"It wouldn't be a very good idea for Dodge to disappear right now." Alan cautioned them. He really didn't want his nephew to blow his cover that would be very bad for all of them.
"I agree he needs to stay under for as long as he can. We don't really know what they will do to them if they find out that he has been playing them." Brady agreed with his cousin.
"Do you think that we'll need holy water for this?" Chris consulted his partner in crime.
"I think we should be good without the holy water. It's not like we're dealing with a possessor demon." Henry dismissed his concerns.
"I can't believe that those two have conversations that include the terms holy water and possessor demon. I think that we should be worried about them." Carly said arching her eyebrow.
"Leigh, we should probably worry more about you than about them." Hailey pointed out to her gently.
"You've got that shit right, Carly can find trouble when there is no trouble to be found." Ricky commented.
"Ricky, don't get into it with your sister-in-law right now." Emily teased her brother.
"You're really funny, Em. The boy hasn't even made it to college yet let's not be marrying him off." Chuck told his little sister. He sounded a lot like his dad when he said that, but then again he had raised Ricky and Emily so he was entitled to sound like a parent when talking to them.
"Chip, you sounded like your dad when you said that." Prue informed her husband.
Chuck sighed and ran his hands through his hair. "Holy shit, I'm turning into Derek Bradford and that is not a good thing."
"It could be worse, you could behave like my mother." Chase said hoping to cheer him up.
"Don't wish that on anyone, Oriana already acts enough like mom for all of us." Maria begged her little brother.
"Shut up, Maria, I don't think you're fucking funny." Oriana huffed crossing her arms over her chest.
"Way to piss her off Sophie," Lindsey commented dryly.
"Lindsey, I'm not going to save your ass when Maria gets a hold of you." Rachel told her baby sister.
"Thanks, for sticking up for me, sis." Lindsey replied sarcastically.
"Hey, now I would really rather that you girls didn't start fighting." Tyler said rubbing his temples.
"Ty, you know as well as I do how they are. I don't know why you even try not to get them to fight." Bianca reasoned with him.
"I can't help but harboring the vain hope that they will one day grow out of this." Tyler replied.
"Tyler Justin, you are aware that it isn't prudent to piss me off under normal circumstances. That is made so much worse when I'm pregnant." Maria warned him.
"Yeah, I really need to think about using protection from now on." Tyler joked.
"You are an ass when you want to be." Maria glared at him.
"Maria, really cut him some slack." Bianca said rolling her eyes at her sister.
"Where is this slack when you're pissed at me?" Henry asked his fiancé.
"You know better than to piss me off." Bianca replied simply.
"What did I get myself into?" Dom asked rhetorically throwing his hands up in the air.
"I warned you I don't know how many times about this very thing, so I have no sympathy for you." Savannah chuckled at the face her brother was making.
"Dominic, are your insinuating that I am like my mother?" Paige asked him with a fake grin plastered on her face.
"Dom, a smart man wouldn't answer that question." Brady advised him. He knew how bad his niece could get when she was pissed off.
"A man who likes living would though." Paige glared between her uncle and her fiancé.
"From here on out I have no further comment and I will only be answering yes or no questions that can't get me into any trouble." Dom said and the he pretended to zip his mouth shut.
"Little brother, that doesn't work either." Chord pointed out to him.
Dom just shrugged in response he was really taking that not talking thing seriously.
"How many of us are there?" Chris asked Henry ignoring the idiots that they called their family.
"There are thirty-nine of us and I'm not sure that I want to know why you're asking that question." Henry replied looking at his cousin like he was crazy.
"Because I thought that we could spilt down into groups within our groups. I know that you understand what I'm talking about so don't look at me like I have lost my mind." Chris replied seriously.
"I get what you're saying. That hospital is a big place and we need to cover the whole thing. So there are twenty of us guys and then nineteen girls. So I guess we can split up into five groups four or four groups of five and then the girls will have five groups of three and one group of four." Henry said doing some really quick mental calculations.
"I have a better idea we should spilt up into four groups of three and two groups of four. The girls should stay split up just the way that you have them. We'll be able to cover more ground that way." Chris pointed out to him. Really those two shared a brain.
"Before we go anywhere we are settling who is in what group." Chuck said putting his foot down he really didn't want to deal with that bullshit once they got there.
"Alan, Dom, and I will stick together." Jack volunteered.
"Thanks a lot Jackie, just leave poor old Phil out in the cold." Brady mock pouted.
"We honestly can't have you and Dom feeding off of each other." Alan replied.
"I think it goes without saying that Hank and I are in a group and I guess that Tyler and Jason can be with us." Chris said settling that matter.
"Chuck, Troy, Coop, and I will stick together." Wyatt said not that that surprised anyone.
"I guess I'll be with Wilma and the Smurf." Parker was of course referring to Chord and Roman.
"Park, that was seriously a good one I have never thought to call him a Smurf." Val was suitably impressed by her uncle.
"I'll go with Huck and Brady." Ricky said he really didn't want to be stuck with Chase and Billy those two together made him want to shoot himself.
"That leaves me and Billy with Mikey." Chase said resigned to his fate. He really rather not be in a group with his cousin but he wasn't left with much of a choice in the matter.
"Dude, I'm sorry but I was not going to be in a group with Mikey." Ricky chuckled at the look that Chase gave him.
"Mels, what do you say you and I partner up?" Paige asked her aunt hopefully.
"You, Charlie, and I can be in a group we all work very well together." Mel agreed.
"I'm totally in." Patty agreed.
"I guess that leaves me with Rach and Maria beings that they are the only ones who know how to stay on task." Bianca mused.
"That works for me." Rachel said she was just afraid that she would get stuck with her sister.
"I guess I'll go with Lizzie." Calleigh said.
"That'll work, Savannah can be with us. That way I can keep an eye on her." Liz agreed.
"Oh joy, just what I wanted." Savannah commented rolling her eyes.
"Oriana, Lilly, and I will be together." Prue said that one pretty much went without saying.
"Sophie, do you think that one of us should supervise our baby sister?" Bianca asked she really wasn't that keen on having her baby sister running around alone.
"B, I'm a big girl I'm pretty sure that I can take care of myself." Oriana objected.
"B, I think that we can trust her to be on her own just this once." Maria replied. She knew why Bianca was so leery about their sister going off on her own, but they needed to let her spread her wings a little bit. "And don't be guilty of calling me Sophie again." She added as a side note.
"I guess that Val, Lindsey, and I will stick this one out together." Carly said. That was really not a good idea, but no one was going to stop them.
"Pens and I are together that's all I know." Emily said that wasn't a good idea either.
"I'm with you two." Mia said. She really didn't have a choice in the matter.
"I guess that leaves me with you guys too." Hailey said resigned to her fate.
"Look at that, I never thought I would see the day when we settled something like that in such an adult manner." Bianca said her tone was bordering on sarcastic.
"B, we're all growing up. The arguments are even getting to be fewer and farther in between if you haven't noticed lately." Liz pointed out to her.
"If you two want to be grownups you can do it some other time. Tonight is about holding on to our childhood for just a little while longer." Wyatt spoke with an air of authority.
"Wow, I never knew that Wyatt actually had a brain." Carly joked.
"The same thing can be said about you. No one would have ever thought that you were smart enough to get into NYU." Henry deadpanned.
"I don't like you very much sometimes, Junior." Carly told her brother while crossing her arms over her chest.
"I seem to have that effect on you, and don't call me Junior, you know that I don't like it." Henry replied.
"I don't think that anyone in this room actually goes by their given name." Mel observed.
"I do," Hailey said she was just about the only one.
"And so do I." Lindsey chimed in.
"You are the only ones." Mel commented rolling her eyes.
"Hey, I answer to my given name too." Wyatt said the thought had just occurred to him.
"I do too," Troy wasn't very quick on the draw sometimes.
"I kinda do." Emily said. She would answer to Emily but most of the time she went by Em.
"I can't believe that we're having this conversation." Chris said shaking his head.
"Come on, let's go over the plans for the hospital that way we're prepared." Henry said with a slight grin on his face.
"Do I want to know what's going on that Sam and I had to be called away from our poker game?" Victor asked when he orbed into the living room of the manor with Sam.
"Really, you should all know better than to call us away from our adventures in gambling." Sam agreed with his friend.
"I really rather not hear about the two of you gambling. I have more than I can say grace over with my two sons." Nicole said. Really her boys had a sickness when it came to gambling.
"Dad, Sam, we thought that you guys might enjoying coming over and looking through old pictures of the kids with us." Piper explained to the two men.
"I find that to be a perfectly acceptable reason to interrupt our gambling." Victor said his clear blue eyes twinkling.
"How often is my father over there losing his ass off?" Frank asked. He knew that Victor and his dad were big buddies.
"I see Brennan at least four times a week. He only loses if Sam isn't around, but then again an infant would make a better poker player than Sam." Victor replied.
"Shut up, Vic, I'm not that bad at playing poker and you know it." Sam said sounding defensive.
"Tell yourself whatever you have to so you feel better." Victor said with a smirk.
"If you two juveniles are done now." Paige said looking in between the two of them.
"Where are our grandchildren tonight?" Sam asked taking a seat.
"The boys are at my house and I shudder when I think about the things that they could be doing and the girls are at Ricky's again I'm not really sure I want to know what they're doing. And then the babies are all upstairs sleeping." Henry answered him. He was really clueless if he thought the older kids would be content to sit around and mostly behave.
"In other words they are up to no good like usual." Victor chuckled. He knew his grandchildren very well. Hell he was an accomplice to a lot of their little charades. He had covered for them more times than he cared to count. But he had done because he knew that they had to be able to stand on their own two feet sooner or later.
"I don't know how you could say something like that about them. They would never dream of doing anything to get in trouble." Leo said rolling his eyes. He knew that those kids could find trouble even when there was no trouble to be found.
"Leo, if you think that then there is no way in hell that we're all talking about the same kids right now. I'm pretty sure that they have all been up to something since the womb." Coop pointed out to him like he was dense. Actually that would make a lot of sense if he was then they would be able to tell where Wyatt got it from.
"With Oriana the things that she is up to always involve shopping." Lyn commented sarcastically. Where her daughter got her addiction to shopping from she would never know.
"Her and my son should get along just fine they are both battling an addiction with O it's shopping and with Chord it's gambling. I can't say that they make the best couple in the world though, because they would never have any money." Nicole mused in a teasing manner.
"Don't you and Lyn even think about marrying those two off yet. Let me get through giving B away and then we'll talk." Frank said tearing up a little. The thought of letting his little girl go pained the hell out of him.
"Frank, is someone having trouble letting go of his little buddy?" Billie asked him. For some reason she enjoyed teasing the hell out of Frank.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Frank sniffled.
"I know that it's hard, buddy, but we'll get through it. At least Henry and B are marrying each other. We know that they're not going to change." Henry offered him helpfully.
"That is so wrong on so many levels." Prue said shaking her head.
"I don't know what else you expect. Frank is a child stuck in the body of a grown man." Derek reminded her.
"You're one to talk Derek Caleb, you don't even want to go there not after you spent hours constructing a bridge out of blocks with our grandson." Eva said staring him down.
"Hey, I had to make sure that he was doing it the right way. I didn't want him to build something that wasn't structurally sound." Derek defended himself.
"I don't even want to know so I'm not going to ask." Andy said.
"Says the man who spent twenty minutes lecturing his grandson on the art of throwing a football." Prue pointed out to him.
"I had to make sure that Colt knew what he was doing. Besides that we were bonding and you were supposed to be bonding with Hayden." Andy said sticking his bottom lip out in a mock pout.
"Hayden and I were bonding, we were just spying on you and Colt." Prue informed him.
"JD, I don't know that we should leave our children alone with my crazy ass parents anymore." Billie told her husband.
"Oh, let them have their fun. I like having a place to send the kids when we get tired of them." JD joked. He loved his kids they just knew how to be a handful when they wanted to.
"You can send them my way if they ever get to be too much to handle. I haven't really had a chance to spoil them rotten yet." Victor offered.
"Just say no, you've all seen how badly he spoiled, Chris, Hank, and Prue. I don't think we can deal with anyone else being like those three." Paige said shaking her head violently from side to side.
"There is nothing wrong with those three, I don't know how you could suggest that there is." Victor said pretending to be offended. He knew for a fact that those three happened to be just about the worst of their generation.
"Dad, don't be stupid." Piper said flatly. She knew that the man couldn't be dense enough to think that those three were innocent.
"I know that it might be a little late for this now, but I don't think that this is such a good idea." Hailey said looking up at the huge wrought iron fence that guarded the entrance to the mental hospital. It was about the only thing that still looked presentable, the grounds were over grown with weeds and grass that came up to the knee. The hospital itself was in even worse shape, some of the barred windows were broken out and the white pain was grungy and peeling.
"Live a little, Hails, there is nothing here that is going to hurt you." Patty said patting her cousin on the back.
"How the fuck are we supposed to get in there?" Mel asked turning to her brother and her cousin. This was their show so she and everyone else looked to them for answers.
"Leave that one to me." Paige said as she took a running start and began climbing over the fence.
"Paige, get off of the fence before you hurt yourself." Bianca told her with a hint of resignation in her voice. It was a miracle that the child hadn't gotten herself seriously hurt already.
Paige jumped down. "Well, that was a thought but I don't think that it is going to work." She said looking up at the fence. Honestly that wasn't one of the best ideas that she had ever had.
"Child, I wonder about your sanity sometimes." Chris said looking at her like she had lost her mind.
"We have bolt cutters. Really I know that scaling fences is cool, but doing things the easy way tends to keep us from getting hurt." Henry said pulling a pair of bolt cutters out of his bag.
"Huh, imagine that there is an easy way to do something." Paige said with a thoughtful look on her face.
"She gets that shit from you, I just want you to know that." Chris said turning to Bianca.
"I don't think she gets that from either of us, that is her own personal brand of insanity." Bianca replied.
"Ok, we're in," Henry announced putting the bolt cutters back in his bag.
"B, I think it should scare the hell out of you that you're marrying someone who is so much like you." Maria commented to her sister.
"Yeah, I know and I really don't want to think about that right now." Bianca replied.
"Alright, I'm sure that everyone remembers going over the floor plans. Just go in there and spread out we'll see if we come up with anything." Chris said taking charge.
"Ty, come help us get this damn gate open." Henry called to his future brother-in-law. It took a moment but Tyler, Henry, and Chris managed to get it open and they went strolling onto the property.
"Anyone wants to back out now is the time." Wyatt said once they walked up to the door of the hospital.
"In for a penny in for a pound." Prue replied. Not that she was really sure of what that meant but it sounded good to her.
"The only thing I ask is that you guys try not to get yourselves hurt because I will be the one who has to explain how it happened." Henry begged them.
"I can't make any promises on that front." Paige chimed in on that one. She didn't know the meaning of the word careful.
"He wasn't talking about you, there is no doubt in my mind that you can find new and unique ways to get hurt." Bianca said rolling her eyes.
"Let's just go in and get started." Troy begged. He was chomping at the bit on this one. He hadn't been on a good adventure in a long time.
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Jason turned on his flashlight and scanned the beam along the empty corridor that they were headed down. "So, where are we going to start this little goose chase?" he asked out of curiosity.
"I was thinking that we should start by checking out the records room, but that is just a thought." Henry replied he had a shotgun slung over his left shoulder like he was a hunter.
"That sounds good to me, if we know which patients were problematic then we know where to start looking for ghosts." Chris agreed with his partner. The flashlight he had in his hand was scanning every surface of the hall they were walking down. He didn't want to be caught by surprise.
"You guys are having entirely too much fun with this already." Tyler commented shaking his head.
"If you're going to complain we will kick your ass out of the group." Henry informed him.
"I'm not complaining, I'm just making conversation." Tyler replied.
"What the hell possessed you two to want to do something like this?" Jason directed the question at Chris and Henry.
"Do you want to tell him or should I?" Chris asked his cousin.
"I'll let you tell him." Henry retorted. He was keeping his eyes peeled as they walked along.
"Grandpa acquired the rights to start building on this place and as it turns out everyone that he is sent in here has been chased off. So the question isn't is there a ghost the question is how many are there and how do we get rid of them?" Chris informed his group.
"Does anybody else know about this?" Tyler asked.
"No, but we figured that we wouldn't be able to get them all in here if they knew that something was really going on. This is totally safe we just need to find out who is behind all of this so we can clear up the issue." Henry replied.
"Come on, if I remember the blueprint correctly the record's room is this way." Chris said hooking a quick left.
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"If you ask me this place is more than just a tad bit creepy." Maria said she was clutching a flashlight in her right hand and she had a death grip on Rachel with the other.
"I've seen a lot worse." Bianca commented. She had her shotgun cradled in the crook of her arm and her flashlight beam was bouncing all over the place as she inspected things.
"B, somehow that doesn't surprise me." Rachel muttered shaking her head.
"Hey, when you're an assassin you go in a lot of places that aren't very savory." Bianca defended herself. The hallways were empty and hallow so their voices were echoing. The walls were marked with graffiti and they were dirty.
"So, are you nervous about marrying Hank?" Maria figured that she might as well get her sister talking while she couldn't escape.
"No, I love him and I know that he loves me. There is nothing for me to be nervous about." Bianca replied.
"We just have to make sure. With you we never know what you are thinking." Rachel said giving her a smile.
"I'm not going to run, if that is what you guys are worried about. I wouldn't hurt him like that. I know that I'm not the best at facing my feelings, but there is no reason for me to ignore what I feel for Hank." Bianca assured them. She knew what they were thinking because the truth of the matter was she had thought about running.
"Like Rach said we never know with you. I'm not saying this to piss you off I just want to make sure that you're happy." Maria said gently.
"I'm happier than I have been in a long time. I promise you that everything is fine and this is the one time that you have nothing to worry about." Bianca swore to her. She liked that her older sister was concerned but she didn't need to be.
"So, where are we going?" Rachel asked. She would like it better if they weren't wandering around aimlessly.
"I don't know about you guys but I took a really good look at those blueprints and I saw that there was an infirmary. I figure that a bunch of shit must have gone down in there and that would be an ideal spot for some ghosts to be camped out." Bianca replied turning right down a really dark hallway.
"Sure, that sounds good there is always a reason to do all kind of shit to crazy people. I just had to come with these two, I should have known that they were going to put us right in the middle of the action." Maria muttered to herself.
"Don't worry so much Sophie, I promise that nothing is going to happen to you." Rachel teased her cousin.
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"Whoa, Troy, slow down some man. I know that you are excited but the rest of us are having a hard time keeping up with you." Wyatt told his brother-in-law. The only way he was keeping track of him was by watching the beam of his flashlight.
"Sorry, I just know this really prime spot to check out and I don't want the others to beat us to it." Troy apologized but he didn't sound contrite in the least bit.
"Where is this spot?" Jake asked him. At the moment he was questioning his little sister's sanity for willingly dating him.
"The basement, there looked like there could be a lab of some sort. And you know that means some pretty cruel experiments probably went down." Troy was acting like a kid in a candy store.
Chuck scoped out his surroundings with the eye of a trained professional. He had his shotgun in his hands and at the ready should he need to use it. "Violence equals ghosts big time." He agreed.
"Honestly, how do we know who they are to get rid of them?" Wyatt asked. It was a very valid question.
"Well, there has to be a record's room around here somewhere. We can check that out after we see if there is anything big going down in here." Troy replied. He thought of everything when he was on one of his little adventures. But that was just how his brain had been wired to work.
"I swear to God, he is going to go off on one his little adventures one of these days and we are never going to find his body." Chuck muttered in resigned disgust.
"For the sake of my wife I hope that doesn't happen. For reasons that I can't imagine she seems to be rather attached to him." Wyatt commented dryly.
"Ok, boys, let's just take it down a notch nobody is dying here." Jake said trying to calm them down.
"Coop, I don't pay any attention to them. I know what I'm doing, I'm not going to do anything to get myself killed." Troy assured them.
"Troy, I will feel a lot better if this wasn't coming from the man who thought it would be a good idea to go tomb raiding." Wyatt told him sarcastically.
Troy chuckled and shook his head. He didn't think they were ever going to get over that. "One of these days I am going to live that down. And then you're all going to be sorry that you gave me such a hard time about it for so long."
"I'm thinking that's not going to happen, but lead on anyway." Jake said patting him on the back.
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"Paige, tell me that you have a plan and we're not just going to wander around here aimlessly." Mel begged her niece. She had gotten stuck with the shotgun since she was the only other one who knew how to use it and because it freed Paige up to pull dangerous stunts.
"I was thinking that we would check out the wing where all the total crazies were kept in isolation." Paige replied scanning the beam of her flashlight on the ground to keep from tripping over anything.
"That sounds good to me, nothing says haunted like the complete loony ward." Patty agreed.
"Paige, something tells me that you are going to manage to get us into trouble." Mel told her seriously.
"God, I hope so. It has been so long since I've gotten to do something like this just for fun." Paige said. Aside from Troy she was the only one who would be this excited about doing something like this.
"I worry about you, child." Patty said shaking her head.
"There is nothing to worry about. Like I tell Dom all of the time, my father is obsessive compulsive and my mother is anal retentive, a little bit of crazy was bound to rub off on me." Paige replied like it was no big deal.
"I can't believe you went from being broke up with Dom to being engaged again." Mel said is disbelief.
"Well, our relationship has never worked on a normal time table. I figure we're just setting things back to where they were before we took a break. I never said that I didn't want to marry him I just said that we needed time apart." Paige informed them. Only in her mind did that type of logic wash.
"Only you could make sense out of that using that type of logic." Patty mumbled. She loved the girl but she was one hell of a pill when she wanted to be.
"I am extremely gifted, stick around long enough and I will teach you a thing or two." Paige replied with a huge grin on her face.
"And then they are all always worried about me. I say that I'm normal when compared to you." Mel scoffed.
"Mels, don't be like that, you should be excited right now. We have no one around to tell us not to do dangerous stuff. I think that we can have a little bit of fun." Paige said excitedly causing the other two to shake their heads at her.
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"So how did things go with Paige this afternoon?" Jack asked his friend. They were in what appeared to be the cafeteria area of the hospital.
"Things went very well." Dom replied with a smile that was almost bright enough to light up the dark room.
"Define very well, with Paige that could just mean that she didn't attempt to punch you out." Alan commented sarcastically. He knew how his niece operated so he didn't believe Dom when he said things went well.
"Not only are we back together but we are engaged again." Dom reported happily.
"I give it six months before she decides that you guys need more space." Jack bet. It wasn't that he didn't want to see them work out he just knew that Paige was stubborn as a damn mule.
"Hell, you're an optimist, I give it six weeks." Alan bargained with a gleam of mirth in his eyes.
"You two are a couple of dick heads when you want to be." Dom said flipping them off.
Jack however had stopped paying attention and he was staring at a transparent form dressed like a lunch lady. He brought his shotgun up to his right shoulder and leveled it on the figure. "Tell me that you two see what I'm seeing." He begged them.
"We see it too," Alan confirmed.
"Jackie, don't pull the trigger I don't think that she wants to hurt us." Dom reasoned with him.
"As long as she doesn't try to make ghost kibble out of me I'm not going to pull the trigger. The minute she makes a move all bets are off." Jack said trying to keep his voice calm.
"Let's just move slowly out of here." Alan suggested.
"I'm with Al on this one." Dom agreed nodding his head vigorously.
"Alan," Jack said and his cousin instantly knew what he meant. He pressed up against Jack so that his back was to his and he grabbed him by one of his belt loops. "Ok, Dom, you're on point let's move." He ordered. As they moved on Jack kept a sharp eye out for more malevolent spirits.
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"Of all places for us to explore you chose the showers?" Liz asked her baby sister with a tone of disbelief in her voice.
"When you're the one with the gun then you get to pick where we explore." Savannah replied patiently.
"I think someone spent a little too much time with her big brother when she was growing up." Calleigh said fighting off a smirk.
"I have hung around Troy a little too long so I'm not going to argue with you about that one." Savannah said with a shrug.
"Cal, please don't encourage her." Liz begged her friend.
"Lizzie, you need to relax everything is going to be fine. I picked the showers for a reason. We have the least chance of seeing anything weird in here." Savannah rolled her eyes at her older sister.
"Spoken like someone who actually has active powers to defend herself with." Liz grumbled.
"What are we supposed to be looking for here?" Calleigh asked casually.
"Anything that looks remotely ghostlike. Why do you ask?" Savannah asked in reply.
"Oh, because of that." Calleigh pointing at a message that appeared to be writing itself on the shower wall.
"Warning, turn back now." Liz read the message as it was written. "We're not by chance going to listen for a change are we?" she asked hopefully.
"Not a chance, I'm not giving Paige something else to use against me." Savannah scoffed at her sister like she had lost her mind.
"You really are Troy's sister." Liz glared at her.
"From what I understand this is some of the stupid shit he does." Calleigh agreed with Liz. She hadn't been around for the temple incident but she had heard about it numerous times.
"Oh yeah, this right here is classic Troy." Liz said nodding her head. She couldn't believe that it was her rotten luck to have her only sister turn out a lot like her older brother.
"Don't be a baby, let's go see what else there is to be found." Savannah said pulling her sister along by her arm.
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"Tell me again why we had to be the ones to take the outside." Roman demanded of Parker and Chord.
"Because, some the most interesting things you're going to find are going to be because you searched the grounds first." Chord explained to him patiently.
"I for one happen to think that this is a great idea." Parker said. He was just excited to be out from under the watchful eye of his oldest nephew.
"Good, then you can be the one to explain to Mel how I died." Roman was just being dramatic now.
"Ro, I hate to break this to you but spirits don't normally want to hurt you." Chord tried to pacify him.
"Tell that to someone who wasn't drug down to Mexico by your older brother." Parker scoffed. He still had nightmares about that shit.
"No shit, we all almost got killed that night." Roman did not want to relive that experience anytime soon.
"Park, take the gun I think I've found something of interest." Chord handed the shotgun to Parker and he turned on his flashlight.
"Chord, what the hell are you looking at?" Parker asked him sounding slightly confused.
"Well, best friend of mine, I happened to notice that not only doesn't this window have bars on it, but it's also blacked out. Nothing good could have happened in this room." Chord explained as if he were talking to a couple of children.
"So, you just want to fucking break in?" Roman asked him incredulously.
"We already broke in, now I'm more interested in breaking this window so we can see what's inside." Chord corrected him. It was not hard to tell that he was raised by a lawyer with the way that he had twisted those words around.
"Dude, you are totally your mother's son." Parker pointed out to him.
"Just do me a favor and don't tell my mom that. She will frown upon the fact that I have decided not to be a lawyer." Chord replied sarcastically. He went in the bag he had with him and pulled out a crowbar. "Let's crack this puppy open gentlemen." He said with a grin. He was really having way too much fun.
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"I can't believe that Henry willingly gave you a gun and he refused to give it to me." Oriana pouted. Henry had given Prue the shotgun for their group figuring that she would do the least amount of damage with it.
"With any luck we won't have to use this damn gun." Prue replied. She didn't know if she would be able to shoot it if she had to but she was keeping that little tidbit to herself for the moment.
"We're in the fucking break room, I don't think that we are going to encounter anything in here that needs shooting." Lilly replied rolling her eyes.
"It's a damn shame that there isn't a store in here because we could totally check that shit out." Oriana said confidently. It always came back to shopping with those three.
"You know, that you are the reason that they call us the Trinity of the Shopaholics don't you?" Prue asked her dryly.
"I'm well aware of the reason that they call us that I just can't bring myself to care." Oriana replied with a huge smirk.
"O, I don't remember you being such a smartass before you died." Lilly observed.
"I wasn't until I was forced to spend like four years with Grams. That would be enough to turn anyone into a smartass. It was even worse once Aunt Prue left at least I had her to keep me sane before that." Oriana acted like talking about the after life was the most normal thing in the world.
"This conversation can't even be grouped in the same category as normal." Prue grumbled. She didn't know how they got on some of the topics that they got on but they really needed to think about not talking about some things.
"Neither can the size of that rat." Lilly said pointing to a rat that was hunkered down in the corner of the room gnawing on what looked to be a piece of bread.
Prue turned her shotgun on it and lead started flying of course it just caused the rat to scamper off because she hadn't been close to hitting it. "I don't think I can move my legs right now." she stammered. She still had that deathly fear of mice and rats.
"Really, Prue?" Oriana asked her with her mouth hanging open.
"You guys know that I am terrified of all rodents and don't you dare think about laughing either, this is not fucking funny." Prue said doing a full body shake.
"Come on, we'll go somewhere else where rodents aren't likely to hang out." Lilly said taking her sister-in-law by the arm.
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"Really Phil, of all the prime spots that we could have investigated you wanted to check out the guard's cage?" Huck asked his girlfriend's brother as he picked up a broken radio.
"Hey, don't knock it buddy. Sometimes you can find out the most information by checking out what doesn't seem to be important." Brady defended himself.
Ricky was looking through the contents that were laid out on a folding table. "Maybe there is a file here about the more problematic prisoners and that could help us determine where we need to start looking." He pointed out logically. Huck and Brady had let him be the one to lug that damn shotgun around.
"That would be in the record's room and more than likely Chris and Hank went there first." Brady dismissed that idea. He knew his cousins a little too well.
"Still there has to be something around here that could be helpful." Ricky said with a resigned sigh.
"If this place is haunted I think that it is more likely that one of the inmates is doing the haunting rather than a guard." Huck voiced his opinion on the matter.
"That is fine in theory, but it is entirely possible that the guards got caught up in something with the inmates so they are forever linked." Brady pointed out logically.
"I really wish I knew where Chris and Hank get all their bright ideas from. We are more than likely on a wild goose chase right now. Not that I mind because I have to admit this is fun, but seriously they may need professional help." Ricky bitched.
"Lookie there boys, it turns out Phil Halliwell does know a thing or two." Brady said pointing to a figure dressed in the blue uniform of a guard walked by.
"Should I shoot?" Ricky asked bringing the shotgun up just in case.
"No, let it him be." Brady replied. He didn't want to start shooting unless they were in danger.
"I wonder what the hell the deal with this place is. Honestly it would have been nice to have a little bit of background information before we brought our asses all the way out here." Huck complained. It wasn't that he wasn't having fun it was just that he would have liked to known what they were looking for.
"Well there is one way to find out." Brady said and he went on when he saw that he had the boys' attention. "Let's follow him."
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"You know that there is something sincerely wrong with the fact that we are using the fucking shrink's office to get high." Carly commented as she puffed on the joint that Lindsey had supplied.
"Well then I guess it happens to be a damn good thing that none of us ever claimed to be normal." Lindsey said taking the joint from Carly.
"Linds, that is seriously some good shit, where did you get it?" Val asked her friend.
"Chase and I grew that, that is pretty much the last of what we had though. Aunt Lyn found out about it and it was not pretty at all." Lindsey replied cringing at the thought of how her Aunt Lyn had gone through the roof on her and Chase.
"Val, we really need to have my brother and our cousin checked out mentally. They are just about the only two people I know who would do something like this for fun." Carly stated.
"My boyfriend is probably getting off on this right now. You know what he gets like when it comes to exploring things." Val reminded her. Not that anyone had to be reminded about the way that Troy acted.
"Your boyfriend is one fine piece of ass, is he any good in bed?" Lindsey asked out of curiosity.
"He is damn good as a matter of fact. What ever happened to that sexy ass older brother of yours?" Val asked in reply.
"Sean is about the same as Troy when it comes to being a nomad I figure he'll come home when he needs something." Lindsey shrugged.
"We should probably get moving so it looks like we are actually doing something." Carly suggested. She knew that they would be in deep shit if they got caught getting high when they were supposed to be ghost hunting.
"I think we have a few minutes, it's not like we're actually going to find anything." Val rolled her eyes. She could honestly give two shits less if they got caught.
"Alright, just a few more minutes and then we have to go. We really don't want to get lectured." Carly relented.
"No worries, it's not like we're going to get caught." Lindsey assured her. It was probably a damn good thing that she didn't come around more. Carly and Val got into enough trouble on their own.
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"Come on you guys are going to have to go search somewhere else we were here first." Hailey protest when her group ran into Chase's group.
"Don't be that way Tinker Bell, there is nothing wrong with us searching together." Chase said giving her a charming smile.
"You know she would be a lot more likely to agree with you if you didn't call her Tinker Bell." Mia pointed out to him.
"Mia, don't even bother trying with him, he is brain damaged." Penny said rolling her eyes.
"Hey now, there is no need for the name calling, we can just keep each other company." Billy said sliding closer to Mia. He shot a cocky smirk in Chase's direction.
"Really, this could be a whole lot more fun if we joined forces." Mikey suggested stepping close to Emily.
"Mikey, my boyfriend will kick your ass if he finds out you were trying to put the moves on me and that is after I get done with you. I don't think I would risk that if I were you." Emily warned him.
"Hails, let's go check out that guard tower." Chase said. He still harbored the vain hope that if he couldn't get Mia then maybe he could get Hailey.
"Nothing of any use is going to be in the guard tower. We're more likely to find something useful inside." Hailey pointed out to him logically.
"That is a pretty good point, but you know all the older kids have probably already gotten to the good stuff that is inside." Billy whined. He hated being younger than everyone else because they liked to tell them what to do.
"We're out in the yard, there had to be a least some good fights out here." Mikey said hopefully.
"Mikey, this is a mental hospital not a prison. You have watched one too many movies." Penny corrected him.
"He has a point, crazy people can get into fights too." Chase said thoughtfully.
"This is true, I mean I've seen Chase in action before." Hailey scoffed at the man. She really enjoyed giving him a hard time.
"I believe it after being in the foster system for so long." Mia agreed.
"Oh great, they are all going to get into it while we are supposed to be hunting. At this rate the older kids are never going to trust us to go out alone." Billy murmured to himself.
"I actually agree with you on that one, Billy." Penny said taking his side.
"That is nothing new Penny, you Halliwells almost always side with each other." Emily joked with her friend.
"Need I remind you that you are dating a Halliwell?" Penny asked her in jest.
"This is totally getting us nowhere." Mia bitched. Then again she was always bitching. That girl couldn't see the bright side of the sun.
"Alright, I say we check out the grounds some more and see if there is anything that could be a clue around." Mikey suggested. He actually had a good idea for a change normally he was the one spouting bullshit.
"That sounds damn good to me." Hailey agreed quickly.
"There should be a cemetery or something out here, that would be one of the best places to start looking." Chase said thoughtfully. He could be serious when he wanted to be he just didn't want to be all that often.
"Ok, you and Hailey can take point since you are the ones with the shotguns." Emily told him. She wasn't going to be on point if she didn't have to and she wasn't going to bring up the rear either. She preferred to stay in the middle where things were nice and safe.
"Somehow I knew this was going to end with me putting my neck on the line." Hailey commented dryly. Not that anything any of them did could surprise her anymore.
"You know that we love you Hails," Penny said grinning at her.
"I don't like any of you anymore, I just want you to know that." Hailey grumbled.
"It'll be ok Hails, I'll protect you. You have to remember who my sisters are. I might not act like it but I do know what I'm doing." Chase said pulling her close to him.
"Chase, just this one time I'm going to forgive the fact that you put your hands on me. Just don't be guilty of doing it again." Hailey said as they went off in search of something useful.
"I wonder what those kids are up to." Piper said. She couldn't help worrying about them because they had a knack for getting into trouble.
"Piper, I'm sure they're fine and there is nothing to worried about." Leo assured his wife. He had their infant son in his arms and he was feeding him a bottle.
"They better be fine, lord knows that I need them. Chris and Hank are supposed to be getting a team together and checking out something for me." Victor said.
"You're getting them to check out the investment property?" Derek asked him out of curiosity.
"Yeah, I mean they have to be useful sometimes I let them live in their apartments for next to nothing." Victor replied.
"Is this that old mental hospital you just bought?" Sam asked him.
"That would be the one." Victor answered with a smile.
"What the hell are you talking about dad?" Paige asked the man she thought of as her father.
"I'm going to level that old mental hospital and put up more apartments. That only problem is every work crew I have to go in there gets chased off. I'm thinking that it might be haunted so I asked the boys to check it out for me." Victor explained.
"You gave them a job to do they will love you forever." Phoebe commented sarcastically.
"Knowing them it'll be an in and out job. I just want to see if there is anything to the rumors." Victor replied like it wasn't a big deal.
"That sounds like something that is right up their alley." Prue agreed.
"You guys don't think?" Nicole asked she knew that she didn't have to tack on the last part of the question.
"I do think, as a matter of fact I know that they did. I'm pretty sure if we were to walk down the street right now that we wouldn't be able to find a trace of any of them." Lyn answered her.
"I'm sure that they're not getting into any trouble." Frank said but he didn't believe that for a second.
"We shouldn't worry about them until we have to. For all we know there is nothing going on that should concern us." Henry spoke calmly and rationally.
"Henry, you really have way too much trust in that group of people." Eva told him. She trusted none of those kids to stay out of trouble.
"They are all big boys and girls I say that they can take care of themselves if this is what they wanted to do." Billie took up for them.
"Sweetie, I wouldn't be so calm if I were you, I'm pretty sure your son is into this mess with them." Andy reminded her.
"He'll be fine, the older kids won't let anything happen to him." Billie replied. Really they couldn't get into that much trouble ghost hunting, could they?
A/N: Here is the next chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it. I'm just giving you a head's up I'm going to be out of town for the next week so it might be a little while until I can get the last chapter up. I promise I'll make it extra long because of the wait though. Until next time please review.