The Old Woman Under A Hill

There was on old women

Lived under a hill;

And if she's not gone, She lives there still.

There is something the town burgess never talked about, but everyone knew.

Including the Winter spirit who lived there.

You see today Jack was reflecting on the time he found out about the Women who lived under the hill and what she had done. You see the ladies home was made of nature, with solar panels for heat, home made into the ground, so there was no waist to the environment, and always used a well for her water.

He sat there zoning out and watching the burgess kids ice-skate on his lake. Of course Jamie knew he was there up in the tree watching, as well as the others. But Jamie also knew that if jack didn't want to play then something must be on his mind. So he let him be.

Its been a couple years actually 7 to be exact, Jamie is now 16. And within that time Jamie and Jack became very close friends. In a sense He thought of Jamie and Sophie as his younger siblings. Their mother even warmed up the idea of Jack being a spirit and finally came to see him as well.

As Jack sat there wondering about the past and the old women who lived under the hill on the outskirts of Burgess. He found himself drifting off to sleep.

"So that's her huh?" Jack said as he held a newspaper in his hand. Looking at the women being dragged out of her home by the police. The winter sprite did not read the newspaper much, but news spreads fast when some one dies.

News spreads even faster when the young Widow cuts the skin off her deceases husband, sews it into leather, and stuffs it, sewing in buttons, and a voice recorder in the stomach.

So you can imagine the news around the small town of the women who turned her husband into a stuffed doll.

The women did not seem mean, crazy, or psychopathic. She gave to charity, and helped out often. But she snapped, turns out her Teenage daughter passed away recently. Turned out some kid spiked her drink at the school prom, with an intention of getting lucky. But he put too much in it causing her to die of accidental drug over dose. The women's mother Passed of cancer 2 months after her daughter, so when her husband was murdered by a drunk driver 6 months later, she couldn't take it any more.

She did what she could in order to keep him around forever.

Tears streaming down her face like a waterfall"Officer, There is only so much pain the heart can take, until you snap."

"Anything you say, can and will be hold against you." spoke of the 3 police officers surrounding the women as she sat in the back of the police car.

" He will be loved, and remembered. It's What he wanted you know. My husband always wanted to be famous, didn't care how. So you see Officer, I may be Guilty of a Crime but he will be remembered, he will be cherished, and loved, never forgotten about. Oh, yeah. While I'm away, officer put his corpse in a museum. Its in the Will."

"Tell it to the Judge Mam" on officer replied

"Corpse? You mean the doll you created?"

Waking up to see that The kids were gone, and went home, all except Jamie. Who was Shaking the tree jack slept in to wake him up.

"Jack, Jack."

"heh?, oh. Hey Jamie what's wrong."

"Is it true? The the women under the hill is back in town?"

"Yea, why?"

"Well, I was wondering why she did it, Why'd she do that to her husband"

"Jamie, She was depressed, Lost her mother to Cancer, And Her daughter drugged ended up ODing, then when she lost her husband to that car crash. i just don't think she could take the pain"

"That's awful. Everyone in school is saying she's just some psychopath."

"I suspect she still has a broken heart,just found a better way to cope with it so was let out of prison."

"Strange. Hey Jack. How'd you cope?"

"Jamie, what are you talking about"

"being alone for 300+ years, that has to be rough"

"I don't know. I guess I just held onto the hope that one day I'd know why I was there, and hope one day I could have a conversation with someone. Kind of like this. Its tough, but when your immortal with nothing to do, you find ways to pass the time, trust me. "

"What about Pitch? Was he always that way? Or did he snap too?"

"Another time Jamie. For now you should probably head home it's getting dark."

"You should come with, Mom is making her home made Lasagna, and we all know its the best in town, come join us. "

"Well, if your offering how can I say no."

"Race You There!" Both kids say in unison