A/N: Welp, here's Chapter 2. Oh, and feel free to correct me if I get any facts wrong, but do me a favor and be nice about it. There's just no reason to be rude. Thank you very much for your support!
That night, Cody was working at his desk in the living room, while Bailey and Alice were watching TV. Every night, he made sure to take some time to work on poetry. Bailey still loved reading his poems. Alice yawned, but quickly tried to hide it. Bailey saw it anyway.
"Come on, young lady. Off to bed. Go on, go on." She led Alice to her room, and tucked her into bed.
"But Mommy, I'm not sleepy..." Alice said, yawning. Bailey smiled, and began to sing in a soft voice.
Hush now, quiet now its time to lay your sleepy head,
Hush now, quiet now its time to go to bed.
Drift off to sleep leave the exciting day behind you,
Drift off to sleep and let the joys of Dreamland find you.
Hush now, quiet now its time to lay your sleepy head,
Hush now, quiet now its time to go to bed.
Bailey kept sofly singing. In the living room, Cody heard her and paused in his writing, and allowed himself a small smile, then continued writing as her heard her finish.
"Sound asleep." Bailey said as she walked back into the room.
"For now, at least." They both smiled and laughed quietly. Silence filled the room, only interrupted by Cody's pen marking across the page.
"I saw another one today. It was at her school." Cody said, without looking up from the page. Bailey looked at him, startled.
"Another LURK? Was it..." Bailey trailed off, and Cody shook his head.
"No, it was a good one. But still, I've been seeing them more and more, lately. I don't know what's got them so riled up that they'd come out in so many numbers..." Cody stopped writing and looked up as Alice walked into the room.
"What are you doing out of bed, young lady?" He said to her, starting to smile but stopped when he saw the look on Alice's face.
"Daddy, there's a shadow man outside my window..." She said to him, frightened. Cody ran into her room, and saw a black, vaguely man shaped shadow sitting in the tree outside her bedroom window. The figure threw back its head and cackled, then disappeared. Cody walked back into the living room.
"I think we all better sleep in here tonight." Bailey looked at him and started to ask a question, but he silenced her with a slight shake of his head. Alice skipped happily to the couch and jumped onto it, giggling. Cody walked over to a switch on the wall and flipped it. A slight hum sang through the air as the device he had invented to keep away LURKs turned on. A distant scream of rage told him that it worked perfectly. He grimaced.
"Yeah...we better sleep in here tonight..." He said, trailing off, looking worriedly at Bailey.
A/N: So it was short... Sorry about that...I've had a lot on my mind recently, and not a lot of time to write. But regardless, hope you guys enjoyed it, even if it WAS short.