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Chapter 7:

Getting to Know You

Pulling her chin from Spots grasp she stuck the camera memory card into a slot on the side of her computer and pulled up the music player on her screen. Turn it on to any random song she went back to opening the camera photos.

"Youse call that music?" Spot as scrunching up his nose in displeasure.

She just nodded not really in the mood to laugh. Seeing this Spot scratched his neck and thought.

Pulling up the photos from the dock she showed him a few. "I found a few of the carvings your boys did some were cut off because the board was replaced or broken."

Looking from her to the computer he nodded his head firmly at his thought and grabbed her wrist. "Ise know I asked but we ain't lookin' at these right now." Pulling her off the chair he pushed her towards her bed and sat on the computer chair himself. He was only doing this to make her feel better. He hated opening up to people, it made him feel vulnerable. 'This just ta get her mind off of what happened down stairs.' He reminded himself before he started talking. "I think if we'se goin' ta be workin' togetheh on this we'se should get ta know each udder a bit betteh don't ya think?"

Slightly shocked Allison shrugged and fixed her glasses and sat up on the edge of the bed Indian style. "I suppose."

"Alright, we'll do this in questions. I'll ask one and you'll ask one, got it?" He stated his leader tone coming into play. "First question, what's yer favorite color?"

"Purple." She stated looking from Spot to her purple walls. "Yours?"

"Blue. But come on ask a real question." He urged crossing his arms over his chest as he leaned back on the chair.

"Why are we playing this?" She grumbled in frustration she just wanted to solve his case and get him out of here.

"I already told ya that." Grabbing the gold tip of his cane he sighed. "I think we should get ta know each ud-"

"Your just doing this to make me feel better aren't you?"

Giving her a look that told her never to interrupt him, he nodded anyway.

They sat there talking and sometimes laughing for about 2 hours. Talking about their favorite animals, foods, what they had planned to do with their life. Spot went from sitting to pacing to using his cane like a sword as they went along. Allison was lying on her stomach watching him as he parried and thrust the tip of it into an invisible partner. Laughing grabbed her pillow and bunched it up so she can be comfortable.

"Ok, lets see… what did yo-" Her question was cut off with a sharp knock on her door. Getting up she walked to the door and unlocked it. Opening the door she saw Nancy standing there with a red, white, and black plaid dress and a white collared shirt to go under it.

"Your uniform. The Nun's said you also have to wear either black nylons or white knee high socks. And you can't wear your converse I asked; it has to be nice dress shoes." She said. "It's not a bad school sweetie, I graduated from there." Seeing Allison's not so enthusiastic look.

"Thanks." Taking it, she smiled a weakly and closed her door as Nancy walked away. Sighing she glared at that offending clothing. Tossing it on her bed she sat down again. "Where was I?"

"Yer question." Spot reminded her waving his hand a bit.

"What did you do here by yourself for 109 years?"

"Honestly? A whole lota nuttin," Making a face he looked towards his window. "I sat there and watched everything change. My turn; why did ya move down here from Maine?"

Looking at the music box on her dresser she bit her bottom lip. "My mother died from lung cancer. She wasn't a smoker or anything but a lot of the guys she dated, after her and my dad got divorced, were. But I don't know if that had anything to do with it."

Nodding he waited for her question. "What's it like to die?" She asked quietly.

Stopping his imaginary sword fight he put the cane on the ground and leaned on it. "Hard ta say. Don't really remember. It was…" Sighing, his tapped his cane in the hardwood floor. "Sorta painful though." Looking at the uniform on her bed he pointed to it with a smirk. "Aren't you going to try it on?"

"Aha no." She said shaking her head her nose pinched up in distaste.

"Why not?"

"It's horrible."

"I'm sure it ain't that bad."

"Have you seen it?" She asked lifting it up.

"Yeah I see it. Come on go put it on."

"Yeah, not happening." Shaking her head she turned back to her computer. "Okay, so do you wanna know what I found or not?"

Sighing Spot nodded and leaned on the back of the chair looking over her shoulder. "Whatcha got?"

"Like I said before we started playing 20 questions was I found a few of the carvings but they where either broken off or replaced with new boards." Pulling up the pictures she showed him. "I also found what to me looks like a blood stain." Clicking on a picture she looked over her shoulder at Spot.

"That's me blood ain't it?" He asked distractedly.

"I think so," She nodded. "How it lasted 109 years is amazing to me."

"Allie… Time for dinner," Roberts voice drifted through her closed door.

Looking at the clock on her computer she was surprised at the time. "I'm not hungry Dad."

"Can I come in?"

Closing the pictures she turned in her chair and moved around Spot going to the door she opened it to see her father standing there with a plate of cheese pizza in one hand and a soda in the other. "I'm really not hungry."

"Are you really? Or do you just want to avoid your brother?"

Sighing she pushed her hand through her hair and leaned against the door frame. "A little of both I guess."

Nodding he handed her the plate and the can of soda. "You can eat in hear tonight just bring the plate down when your finished. How can you be a vegetarian? Pepperoni is so good." Shaking his head he wondered down the stairs mumbling to himself.

Closing the door with her hip she walked back to the computer setting her food and drink aside. "Okay," she mumbled pulling up more pictures.

"Vege- what-ian?"

"Vegetarian. It means I don't eat meat."

"Why not?" Spot ask thoroughly confused.

"I don't like it." She shrugged. Grabbing the slice of pizza she took a bite out of it. Smirking at Spot she turned back to the computer.

"I have a question Ise forgot to ask earlier."

Groaning she turned around. "I thought we were done with the questions."

"Why do you have to different colored eyes?"

Sighing she swiveled in the chair and faced him. "Because it's how you can tell that I can see ghosts. My Grandmother on my mom's side was able to see them but my mom couldn't, I guess it skipped a generation." She shrugged. "Grandma Joanne, my mother's mother," She explained to him. "Had one green eye one brown, because my great grandmother had brown eyes and my great grandfather had green. But because my mother had green eyes and my father has blue I got one green one blue. In some way it's a bunch of screwed up genetics. Same thing goes for others, sometimes you'll see people with eyes like 20 shades lighter then they normally would have. It shows you have a gift is basically what I'm saying."

Nodding his head he ran his hand through his hair. "So your eyes show you have a gift?"

"Yeah, that pretty much sums it up."

"Okay," Nodding his looked back at the computer.

"I see it as a curse really." She mumbled and finished her pizza. Taking her plate down stairs she returned in less then 2 minutes. Yawning she sat on her bed not even bothering to change and laid down.

"Sleeping already?" He asked humor dripping in his voice.

"Running from the Cops can't take a lot out of you." Snuggling into the blankets she fell asleep quickly.

Gathering up energy Spot turned out the lights so the only light in the room was the glow of the full moon. Brushing hair out of her face he leaned down hesitating only a moment before pecking the corner of her lips. Smirking he spoke in her ear in a whisper. "I'm glad you have this gift."

(A/N): I can honestly say, I hate this chapter. No action or anything, all in all I say it was pretty boring and I apologize for that. I've been struggling with this chapter since I started writing it and there is really no excuse for why it took so long to put it up but I will tell you I was avoiding it. I'm sorry =[ . Anyway, THANK YOU TO ALL MY REVIEWERS!! You have no idea how happy I am that you like the story. Hopefully chapter 8 will be up sooner. Once again I Apologize for the long wait.