I looked at him, hope in my eyes. It soon started to fade as I realized that he was some random old guy Matt meet at the hospital, probably dellusional too." Matt, how can some person that we barely even know help us?" He forced himself to sit up, the pain of it evident on his face. The red skin around his neck was swelling to a point where it felt painful for me to even look at it.

" He just can. Trust me on this, please, for our family." My hand went down to my stomach.

" Fine, but if creepy old guy does one thing-"

" Would you stop calling him that, its rude. He is reverend Popescu."

" Fine, if Pops does anything, i`ll break his fingers and make sure he never gets out of that hospital." Matt looked at me some what stunned.

" What has gotten into you?" I shrugged.

" I`m sorry, I just have these wicked mood swings now." He started to pull something out his sweater pocket. I strained my eyes to see a small, white piece of paper." Whats that?" He stuck it out to me and I took it, reading it." This guy gave you his buisness card?" I looked at Matt.

" Ya and im calling him over, he might be able to tell us whats in the box." My eyes went wide.

" Are you nuts? Sara with flip!" He looked unconcerned.

" I don`t care, atleast we`ll know." He stood from the bed and walked up the stairs. I flopped down on the bed, letting out a groan.

I heard a low creak come from behind me on the other side of the room. I tilted my head sideways a bit, in order to see the tiny room of death. I dubbed it that after I learned what happened in there. His skin made a soft crunching sound as he walked to stand beside the bed. I sat up and crossed my legs, looking at him fully." Im really sorry about what I said yesterday. You loved her very much and I pretty much just made you feel even worse about it." He just nodded his head at me." Do you forgive me?" Another nod. I smiled at him." You know, you have beautiful eyes. What happened to you?" He motioned toward the bed, but I idnt understand. He reached out his arm and gently pushed me until I was laying flat on the bed. He placed his han over my eyes, forcing them to close." Oh, I get it, you want me to sleep." But I didnt even make it that far before a gruesome scene flashed inside my head.

I stood in the room, gazing at the five people sitting at the table and the gentlean that just stood watchig. Jonah was one of the five people, shaking and looking at each of the people in the room. I wacthed as they all called for him to begin. I looked behind me in time to see her make her way down to the basement. I turned and opened my mouth to speak, but no sound came out. I tried to grab her arm, but I just went right through her. I was the only thing in the room that wasn`t real. Gasps from the people made me turn my gaze back to Jonah, and I watched horrified as this giant ball of what looked like smoke, formed from his mouth. Then a giant fireball shot forth, burning everyone there and the other gentleman. Jonah, rushed over to him." They`ll come for you as well." He ran from the room and up the stairs, me following him every step of the way. He scrambled, looking for a place to hide, and his eyes landed on the dumb waiter. Quickly crawling inside he pushed himself down, reaching the bottom and finding himself trapped. He saw that the heater was open and went inside. The door slammed shut and the fire started, Jonah screaming inside.

I opened my eyes and forced myself into a sitting position. I was sweating like mad and I felt the tears in my eyes." Are you still in there?" My voice was low, sort of whisperish. When he nodded his head, I leaped from the bed ran up the stairs, tears falling quickly down my cheeks. Sara was standing in the kitchen, looking through the window above the sink into the backyard." Wheres Matt, I need to talk to him." I could hear how frantic I sounded and she turned and looked at me.

" Whats wrong? are you ok?" She began to advance toward me.

" Sara I need Matt." She gave me a gentle hug, one that I returned.

" He`s out back, your shaking like a leaf." She let go of me and I dashed out the back door. Matt and Wendy were sitting under a giant willow tree. I ran over to them and collapsed on my knees. Wendy looked at me with concern filled eyes, Matt looked frightened.

" What happened?" He grabbed onto my shaking hands.

" Matt he`s in the furnace!" He looked at me confused.

" What do you mean, who`s in the furnace?"

" Jonah! Jonah`s in the furnace, thats where he died. 5 other people died here too, he showed me."

" Wendy take her and calm her down, i`m calling Popescu." Wendy grabbed my hands and pulled me up.

" Come on, im going to take you upstairs and your going to take a nice long bath. It should help settle your nerves." She grabbed me around my shoulder and pulled me inside and up to the bathroom." Mabye you should stay up here until this guy leaves, it might rattle you up again." She went over to the cabinet and pulled out a bottle of bubble bath. She drew a me a steaming bath, with bubbles over flowing the tub. I stripped from my clothes and stepped in." Is it to hot?" I shook my head at her and she left.

Soon the bubbles were disappearing and I pulled the plug. I must have been in here for about an hour. I had relaxed a whole lot compared to how I was before. I had no idea if the Reverend was here yet, not that I really cared. I towel dried myself and wrapped it around me, walking to Wendy`s room. I went through her drawers and pulled out one of her night gowns. I laid down on her be and almost immediatly fell asleep.

Matts P.O.V

Popescu examined the box I had set in front of him." These are eyelids." He then looked to the paper clippings." Well they probably buried some of the bodies outside as watchers of the house. According to this one, hundreds of bodies went missing, all of them pobably in your backyard." Then I remembered what Cheyenne had said.

" You see this boy? Well me and my girlfriend have been seeing him alot, he died here. She told me that he was in the furnace." He stood from the table and went downstairs. I followed him into the morgue room. He opened the furnace and reached inside, emerging with what looked like a mask.

" What in gods name is that?" He turned and showed it to me.

" This would be the young boy`s face." I quickly backed away.

" What are you doing with it?" He walked back upstairs and out to his car.

" Im going to take it far away so all of your troubles can stop." I walked back inside, feeling relieaved that we could finally go back to our normal lives. I rubbed my eyes and went downstairs. I laid on my bed and looked to my basement window. Jonah stood there, staring at me for awhile, then disappearing. I roled over on my side falling asleep.

I awoke with a tremendous pain all over my body. I slowly sat up in my bed and glanced down. I had what looked to be writting all over my body, and I was bleeding. I stood from the bed and walked up into the kitchen, my mom was sitting at the table reading a book. She glanced up at me, her eyes going wide, horrified. She stood and came over to me, holding her hands out in front of her, looking me over." What have you done to yourself?"

" I didn`t do this." She grabbed her keys and headed for the door.

" We have to get you to the hospital!" I followed her out to the car, the pain escalating with ever tiny movement I made. Then it came to me. Jonah was trying to protect us from these things, and they werent outside of our house, they were inside.