The thrilling follow-up chapter to my originally intended one-shot!
Still not Jonathan Stroud- unfortunately.
Kipps and Lockwood talked for a while, about random things; like their respective agencies and stories of ghosts. They seemed to have settled their differences, buried the hatchet. It wasn't long until Kipps yawned. "Is there anywhere other than your bed where I can sleep?" Lockwood nodded.
"You'll have to sleep in my room still but that sofa in the corner is a fold out bed." He pointed to the sofa across the room.
"That'll do, thanks Antony." Kipps smiled. He stood up from the bed and crossed the room towards the sofa.
"Goodnight Antony." Kipps grinned, flicking the light switch. The room plummeted into darkness.
"Goodnight Kipps." Lockwood smiled at the ceiling, He heard Kipps snoring not long after. He rolled over in his bed, so his face was in the pillow. He fell asleep…
When Lockwood awoke the next morning he checked the sofa, Kipps was still soundly sleeping, he exited the bedroom and hurried down the stairs. The answer phone receiver was beeping loudly. A very angry Kat Godwin was the only message. "Antony would you care to tell me why 'My Boyfriend' is at your house!" Lockwood cringed and dialled the number quickly. She picked up. (A/N Lockwood "-" Kat '-') 'Antony!' "Katherine." 'Why is my boyfriend at your house‽(A/N It's an interrobang.) "How Did you know he was at my house? Also he is not your boyfriend." 'I have my sources Antony. And he IS my boyfriend he just doesn't know it yet' "You're a crazy bitch Katherine. Goodbye." 'God dammit A-' He hung up on her.
Kipps stumbled down the stairs. "Who were you having a shouting match with?" He asked groggily. "Katherine." Lockwood replied. Side eying the phone. It rang again. He held the receiver away from his ear. 'LOCKWOOD I DEMAND TO SPEAK WITH MY BOYFRIEND!' He handed the phone to Kipps. "It's for you." He stated, before gingerly passing the phone over to Kipps. Kipps and Kat argued for a while, He slammed down the phone angrily. "I need to go. Kat wants me back at the agency" "That crazy bitch." He added under his breath. Lockwood just nodded. "You know where we are if you would like to come back Kipps." He waved Kipps out the door. Kipps sprinted down the path waving back at Lockwood. Lucy entered the hallway. "Is Kipps only just leaving? I thought he left last night." Lockwood shook his head. "He would have stayed for breakfast if Katherine hadn't called him back to the office." He said, whilst shutting the door.
After breakfast Lockwood retreated into the basement. He sat at his desk and mulled over George's words. 'Do I have a new gay friend?' Lockwood really wasn't sure. He spent so much time on the job that he'd never really stopped to think. He had a thing with a girl a while ago but it never really worked out. He had just about had enough of thinking, then Lucy appeared from the stairs. "Lockwood we have a client upstairs." She spun round and he stood up. They went upstairs to the living room…
The client was a man around fifty. Cold and uncaring, with a thin white moustache. It was a relatively simple case. A type one in his house. He wanted it gone. It was perfectly acceptable to want it gone. So they took it. The way the man had described the ghost made it seem gentle and just a pain. But what they got was a powerful type three. So here they were now. In the attic of a house. Lucy swishing her rapier around madly, George ducking and diving past streams of ectoplasm trying to find the source and poor Lockwood was pinned to a wall by the insane ghost. It was the ghost of a teenage boy in late 1800's upper class getup. Lockwood had a strong sight and wasn't that bad in the hearing field either. So to say he was disturbed when the ghost started whispering to him would be an understatement. The ghost suddenly started screaming. Lucy covered her ears, but poor Lockwood couldn't move. The scream was so loud that his ears started to bleed. Lucy watched as his eyes rolled backwards into his head and the ghost drop his limp body. The ghost disappeared then, George must have found the source. Lucy ran over to Lockwood. They called paramedics. Who scalded them for going on a case only about four days after the ghost touching incident.
Lockwood was in the hospital unconscious for two days. Kipps who had come to visit was the only one there when he awoke. "Kipps, why is this situation familiar to me?" He asked his voice scratchy. "I wouldn't worry about it Antony. I quit Fittes agency." He smiled.
"I don't have to deal with Katherine anymore. Isn't that great!" Lockwood smiled. "Yeah, Kipps it is. Jesus my head hurts what the heck did that ghost do to me?" He yawned. Lucy entered the room. "It screamed at you." She shook her head.
"You were ghost locked so you couldn't cover your ears. You passed out. That was two days ago." She stated. Lockwood shook his head. "I cannot believe I was out that long."
This will probably become a three parter at some point but whatever. All will be revealed. The reason I'm writing a lot at the moment is because of stress. It's kind of become a coping mechanism for me. A creative release.