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The Forgotten house

Chapter 10.

Dennis found himself wandering the village of Hollyoaks. He walked up to the Deli shop window and looked into the window. He saw his refection staring back at him and it scared him. He knew it wasn't really completely himself looking back, the terrifying spirit they'd seen at The Forgotten house was inside him, it crawled through his every pore, and shone red through his eyes. It had been a couple of weeks now since they escaped the house and driven back home. He had begun to be able to control the entity now, fighting with it.

It gave him the most gruesome nightmares, the things it put inside Dennis mind were so bad they made him sleepwalk every night. Dennis would wake up walking around the village late at night. This time though he wasn't alone. A shuffle behind shocked him to spin around quickly. There was no one there when he glanced around but his heart beat quicker as he backed off. A drink can rolled noisily towards him from the alleyway next to the club, and heavy footsteps echoed down it. Dennis hitched a breath and continued to back off slowly.

Something woke up Ste from his sleep. He jolted awake and flicked open his eyelids. His mouth was wet with dribble, the patch of it felt slimy as he prised apart from Brendan's chest. He wiped it off for him and placed a chased kiss there instead, moving Brendan's arm from around his shoulder and sat up. It was dark in their bedroom; the light from the lamppost out side could be seen just above the top of the curtains in the window. Outside, a bustling of older students could be heard walking past from a late night at the club, singing loud and drunk.

Ste looked back towards Brendan thinking they'd have woken him, but instead he was snoring lightly. He looked at him fondly smiling and sighing contently until something caught his attention. A bright light appeared at the bottom of the bedroom door, Ste's hairs stood up on the back of his neck, and down across his arms making him shudder inciting a moan from his lips.

It shone brighter as Ste's eyes widened; he looked at Brendan and opened his mouth to tell him, then had a change of heart. Watching the door he swung out his legs over the bed and put on some jogging bottoms that were thrown on the floor. Walking around the bed he stubbed his toe on it and silently screamed wincing holding onto his sore toe and hopping around the bottom of the bed like a demented frog.

'JE_SUS!' He cried quietly to himself, a tear rolled down his cheek as he looked back at Brendan who was still curled up asleep, shaking his head and lowering his foot Ste opened the door, and of course it creaked loudly, worse when he tried to slow the motion down, in the end he gave up swinging it towards him as the light moved away into the lounge.

Ste took a deep breath and walked into the lounge and gasped sitting down on his sofa. It was the little girl spirit he had first encountered at the house. Her bright white aura strobed around her as she floated there, she was smiling at Ste.

"I, I can't believe it, how did you get here?" "Wait stupid question, you obviously floated! Um what is it you want?" The spirit girl said nothing just looked at Ste smiling

"Hey, you my guardian angel now, is that it?"

The little girl moved around to the kitchen as Ste stood up and curiously followed behind her. She pointed up to the wall where there were some children's drawings.

"Oh there pictures my kids drew for me, you like them?" The girl smiled and nodded, but kept pointing towards the wall. Ste moved closer to the wall, and scrunched his mouth up puzzled.

"What? I don't know what you are showing me?" There was a gust of wind that surrounded him in the kitchen making Ste's eyes widen and body shiver. A small piece of card that had been tucked behind one of the drawings fell down to his feet.

"You were the one doing the wind?! I can't believe that, I'll have to tell Nate!"

"You'll have to tell Nate what?"

"AARRGGHH!" Ste screamed as he turned around to see a shocked wide eyed Brendan stood there in the buff.

"Brendan! Cover up there's a little girl here!"

"What the heck ye on about there is no one here besides us,you've never complained before when I am naked Steven" Brendan winks and saunters over to Ste smirking.

"Stop it, look she is right there!" Ste gestures to the spirit girl who now has her eyes covered. Ste grabs a tee towel and covers Brendan, and it barely touches the sides but still it'll do for now as he turns to the little girl.

"Sorry about Bren, he didn't know you were visiting" Ste feels Brendan's hand curl around his arm and turn him to face him.

" Steven, ye are scaring me, there is no one else here, I see no little girl" Ste looks at Brendan in confusion

"Brendan, she is right there...Oh, wait she's disappeared you really couldn't see her?" Ste bent down and picked up the little piece of card off the floor.

"No Steven, I couldn't. It's been two weeks since the house, why are you still talking about it?" Brendan strokes down over Ste's face and cups his cheek in his palm.

"Ghostbusters!" Ste exclaims making Brendan sigh and stomp over to the sofa. "Brendan, stop getting moody with me, look" Ste walks over and sits besides Brendan and shows him the card they had got from Jim, Darren and Dennis.

"I don't get moody Steven" Ste smirks at him as he glances at the card. "Right, so I am listening to ye, the little spirit girl was just here? And what she gave you this?"

"Well kind of, she appeared here and pointed to the wall, a gust of wind happened and this card fell down in front of me. I think she is trying to tell me something" Ste looks at Brendan who sighs and hugs tight around Ste. Ste curls his arms back around Brendan sighing contently into his strong hold.

"What do ye think she wants? And Steven, why couldn't I see her?"

"Maybe you don't have an open mind...No can't be that, you saw the other spirits! Oh my god, why does she only appear to me?"

"Maybe because it's you Steven, ye have a pure heart, she obviously can see that" Brendan smiles shrugging his shoulders.

"Aw Bren, thanks, I dunno if my heart is pure, but I swear she was really here"

"I believe ye Steven, I'm sorry I was just tired before, and I hate waking up and ye not being there next to me" Brendan licks a kiss into Ste's mouth and they hum into it together.

"Sorry Bren, something just woke me up, and then a light appeared at the bottom of our door, bloody weird, like the haunting has followed us eh?" Ste shuddered again and stood up holding a hand out to Brendan.

"Come on handsome; let's go back to bed eh? Try and get a few more hours sleep, then we will pay our old friends a visit" Ste waved the little card to Brendan as he nodded standing up,the tee towel fell on the floor, leaving Ste looking down and beaming wide at Brendan's very naked body.

Darren crept up the alleyway, cursing to himself for kicking the drink can and not being able to grab it quickly enough. He winced as he heard it roll loudly out of the alleyway and in the direction of Dennis. He had been keeping a close eye on him since he saw his face change to a demon in front of his very eyes.

It scared him, not just because he was a self proclaimed scaredy cat, but because he cared for his friend and wanted to help him. Problem was, Darren had no idea what to do, he didn't know where Ste lived as he knew he too had been possessed by the spirit and it had left him. He also worried it had been a lot longer inside of him. Then he felt the hairs stand up on his back, someone was stood behind him.

Darren turned around and saw Dennis there head tilted to the side and eyes shining red, he grinned menacingly at him and lunged his face quickly forward stopping short of touching both their noses.

Darren whimpered as Dennis growled at him loud. "You, YOU! Always following me! Why...?"

"No, Nothing I mean no, I am not following, um I couldn't sleep so..."

"LIAR, you need to go home Darren" Dennis seethed into Darren's ear, "you wouldn't want to meet with an accident would you?"

"Dennis! Stop that, I am your friend, remember? Please, just fight the thing inside you and come back" Dennis closed his eyes and circled his neck stumbling back against the wall.

"Darren...?"

"Hey, It's Ok, I will take you home yeah? Come on, you look tired"

"Why are you always there when I end up waking outside?"

"You know why Dennis, you remember what happened at the house? I think its becoming such a part of you; you're just blanking the memories out"

"Did I hurt you this time?" Dennis closes his eyes and holds his forehead, pain is raging through it.

"Not this time no" Darren covers up his arm that is covered in deep scratches and takes Dennis home again, just another nightly routine they've now followed for the last fortnight.

Two weeks earlier

Ste looked at the golden key as it seemed to shine over in his hand, he hitched a breath, as Brendan sat up to see what was wrong.

"Steven?"

"Brendan, the package has a golden box in it, and look, I still have the gold key we found in the locket!" Ste's eyes widened at Brendan as he swallowed hard.

"Don't open it"

"What? Are you joking? There might be something in it that..."

"Steven, I am kidding open it for goodness sake!"

Ste gulped and put the key into the lock which fitted perfectly, it turned and clicked unlocked. He moved his hands over the lid and it played soothing music as the lid settled back on its small hinges.

Inside he saw a large golden charm, a flat oval shaped piece with a spiral on the front, and ruby placed in the middle, and it was tied off with a thick black cord around it. A piece of blonde hair tied off with a rid ribbon. There was a tatty old leather backed black diary and some old coins lay in the bottom on top of the red satin backed box.

Ste grabbed out the diary and looked at it, opened up at the middle and read it to Brendan. The writing was written on plain paper in black ink and blotchy, some spelling mistakes and scrawled writing.

'I saw it again today, it's seems to look right at me, why wont it go away?'

'Mother says it's her fault, I hear them fighting, they don't know I sit and hear'

'He gets mad with me, why I wish I knew. My arms hurt now, they have red burn on them, I will run faster next time'

' I went into the maze, there will be shouting again. I saw the black thing go there, I follow it, I hide'

'I hate him, I scratch his face now, see how he likes that'

Ste closes the diary and hands it over to Brendan. "Who wrote all that? The little girl? One of the women?"

"And what does it all mean?" Steven we need to just put it all back in the box and forget we saw this. Look do ye really want to go back there?"

"That's just it Bren, I fear we may have to"

Brendan woke up and smoothed his hands over Ste's chest his fingers caressed over Ste's nipples waking him up smiling. Brendan moved up onto his elbow and turned Ste to face him;moved down and grabbed his bottom lip into his teeth tugging slightly. Ste kissed Brendan deeply moving his hand to the back of his neck pulling him in closer.

"Morning gorgeous" Ste lapped into Brendan's mouth again.

"Morning Sexy" Brendan beamed back at Ste. "So, what are we doing today, I hope ye agree with me and say we can stay in bed all day, right?"

Ste moaned as Brendan pushed his hand over his groin. "We can't, we need to see, you know who, get to the bottom of what's going on?"

"I think I need to get to the bottom of ye first!" Brendan grabbed hold of Ste quickly flipping him over like a pro onto his stomach inciting a yelp from him.

"Yep, this will need a thorough investigation Steven" Brendan grins licking his lips and making Ste giggle loudly.

After collapsing onto the bed afterwards, Ste is still giddy after Brendan manhandled him into submission. They share a long loving kiss before crawling out of bed, getting dressed ready to visit Jim, Darren and Dennis, or The Ghost busters as they so favourably like to be called. Brendan hums the theme tune to himself while shaking his head over the irony of it all.

"Are you gonna tell Chez?" Ste asks putting a mouthful of cereal into his mouth, the milk drizzles down his chin,Brendan wipes it away shaking his head.

"Don't speak with your mouth full Steven, basic rule that" He smirks when Steven shoots back a surprised look.

"Says you, the man who shoves in as much of his food as inhumanly possible? I actually cannot watch you eat a cream éclair any more!"

"Ye love what I do with my mouth Steven, so don't even go down that route."

"And to answer your question, tell Chez what exactly? That we need to go back to, her words, 'The pit of hell?' I may be crazy Steven but not certifiable!" They both look at each other momentarily and nod in agreement, There's no way Chez would go back there again.

"Nate" said in unison they smiled.

"He probably would help us out; he never really seemed fazed by the place eh?" Brendan shrugged thinking how he could contact Nate without letting on to Cheryl. Finishing up their breakfast they walked outside the flat and paused, looking at each other.

"No car!" They said this in unison again which made them laugh, when did they become so in tune with each other, made them feel a bit fuzzy. Brendan had returned to the flat briefly and retrieved a spare set of car keys deciding to 'borrow' and not GTA Cheryl's car off her. Brendan grabbed hold of Ste's hand pulling him close and they walked into Hollyoaks village.

After the successful car borrowing mission they drove to the address on the card and pulled up outside a medium sized building. They both laughed seeing the decor sign, large red and white lettering with cartoon looking 'ghosts' floating around it. It had copyright written all over it, but they enjoyed the sentiment. Getting out of the car, they glanced about making sure no one they knew would see them entering such a place.

"Well I never did!" Jim cries as he bounds over to them smiling.

"What didn't you do?" Ste asks incredulous.

"Err, no it means...actually never mind" Jim raises his eyebrows to Brendan who is holding his shaking head in his palm.

"Well, what brings you to here? More ghosts making you jump?"
"Kind of" Ste begins taking Jim over to some sofas nearby "The spirit girl visited me"

"In your dreams?" Jim replied

"No, she really did visit me!" Ste snapped

"WOW. Ok Ste, I mean, did the spirit visit you in a dream?"

"OH! Yeah course, yeah I knew that. It wasn't in a dream, she came to my flat."

"I didn't see her either, only Steven can" Brendan interjected sliding up against Ste on the too small for two people chair. Ste smirked snaking his arm around Brendan's waist holding him there.

"Hmm, interesting you can only see her, I have to ask, had you been drinking, drugs? Sorry."

"he takes happy pills sometimes I'm sure of it" Brendan laughs as Ste pokes him in the ribs

"Bloody hilare ain't you Brendan? No, Jim I hadn't been drinking or taken narcotics of any kind. I saw her at the house as well, a few times!" Ste grumbled slightly now feeling no one believed the little girl was real. He had defiantly seen her.

The air suddenly turned cold around Ste, it made him shiver through his body as he stood up quickly and Brendan fell to the floor wincing. Ste looked over to Dennis as he walked into the room, Ste noticed his eyes had been a shade of red then quickly returned to normal colouring when he'd seen Ste.

"Oh my god!It's in you!" Ste pointed at Dennis and strode over to him as Darren quickly placed himself in between them

"Don't! He will hurt you" Darren cried looking back at Dennis as he'd changed into the demon again. Darren moved backwards with Ste as Brendan and Jim had joined them. Brendan's eyes had widened seeing Dennis the same way he'd once seen Ste, he grabbed Ste into a protective hold subconsciously. Blackened thick veins spread through Dennis on his face arms and hands, his eyes reddened as he snarled at them tilting his head and manically grinning at them.

Ste moved forward and had to jolt himself from Brendan's tight grip to look at Dennis.

"Why didn't you tell us!? It's been in you two weeks? I know you can hear me Dennis, please listen to my voice, you have to fight it."

Dennis lunged towards Ste throwing him on his back on the floor, Brendan rushed to help but Dennis grabbed him by his collar and threw him with great strength to land heavy on his arm, he moaned loudly as the sound of a crack could be heard, his bone breaking. Ste winced hearing the noise,and looked up to Dennis as he started to laugh.

"Fight it, come back to us." Ste looked over to Jim and Darren who where white with fear. Dennis moved his hands close around Ste's neck.

"Jim, Darren, who is important in Dennis' life?" Ste starts to cough and squirm as the pressure around his neck begins to make him feel sick.

"He has family, and a girlfriend, Leanne, but she's not here,and he's going to kill you!" Jim starts panicking looking at Darren who is now surprisingly calm. He walks over to Dennis and touches him on the shoulder.

"Dennis. It's Darren again, your daft mate, who always is there each night you wake up wandering the streets,remember? Come on mate, I need you to listen to my voice now, fight this"

Ste sees darkness cover over his eyes as his breathing shallows under Dennis' grip, he is now back at The Forgotten House, Ste wonders over to the front door as it opens for him. The house is brightly shone with beams of sunlight through the open curtains; the rays are warm over his body as he passes through them.

The stairs greet his feet, climbing up them he looks around wondering where everyone is. As he reaches the top hallway he makes a few steps as the corridor begins to stretch out longer and longer in front of him, Ste quickens his steps to try and keep up with it.

The light flickers under the study door in the distance. The urge to get there pulses through his body, legs now running faster and faster, but the hall just expands wider, faster in front, no matter how hard the effort is Ste cant catch up to the door in front of him.

Then the study door opens, and the little girl runs out screaming, fear covers her face, her hair whipping out behind her as she turns back frequently watching for her pursuer. Ste gasps and stops dead, waiting for her to catch up to him, he sees it then, a figure running behind her, it's the man, the man with the moustashe, her father he reaches out and grabs hold of her arm hurting her, Ste then tries to help stretching out a hand...

"Steven! Please can ye hear me?" Ste opens his eyes as he sees he's back in the building again, his throat is sore when he touches it, it burns, making him jolt back screwing up his eyes. Brendan strokes through Ste's hair and guides him to sit up kissing him softly and pulling him up with his good arm. Dennis is sat on the floor rocking head in his hands, as Darren talks to him.

"What has been going on? Jim cries trying to make sense of everything "Is everyone now just possessed?"

"No Jim, only Dennis. We need to get him back to the house,the demon wanted to escape, it's why it tried to get inside me,and with Dennis it's succeeded."

"The spirit girl was warning me it was out, that's why she showed me your card" Ste gestured to Jim, Dennis and Darren.

"What happened to ye before, after Darren stopped Dennis hurting ye, ye seemed in a dreamlike state?" Brendan stroked down Ste's face as he brings up his hand to hold him.

"I went back to the house, Bren her Dad was hurting the little girl, the one who has your moustashe? I don't know what's happened in that house, with the deaths and that, but one thing I am sure of, we need to get the black swirly thing back to the house, I think its trapped in the house, and why it was desperate to find any means to leave"

Brendan pulls Ste into a warm hug and strokes through his hair. "Ye are so wise Steven, and I think you are the key to everything going back to normal, why else would the little girl only appear to you?"

Darren walked up to Brendan and Ste and looked at them.
"Ste, how did you get the spirit out?"

"Ah, you will have to ask Brendan about that Darren" Ste winks to Brendan

"I kissed Ste and asked him to come back to me, that's it"

"A bit more to it than that! Basically his love saved me, and the kisses, it brought me back and I fought the spirit till it left my body. It was evil, and the thoughts it put in my mind were terrifying, this is why we need to save Dennis"

"I ain't snogging him!" Brendan exclaimed eyes wide.

"You won't need to silly! It will have to be someone close to him, Darren?" Darren's eyes widened as he shuffled nervously." I love my mate, but I am not kissing him! Maybe on the forehead...But that's it!"

Ste throws his hands into the air and feels frustrated.

"Oh god, and you all think I am daft! Brendan only kissed me because he is my lover, but as my soul mate he was only one who could save me, Darren you have been a great friend to Dennis, your strength has helped him fight it, and your friendship will now help him rid it completely"

They all decide its time they went back and if they were honest it was the last thing they wanted. Dennis was worried, he didn't know if he'd be able to go as the spirit inside him may stop it happening. Darren came up with the idea of sleeping tablets for Dennis on the trip back,that way the demon couldn't do anything. They decide on a milder herbal version for him to take at the right time. First Brendan and Ste need to get Nate on board.

They drive back up to Cheryl's flat as she is stood outside her arms crossed and maddening expression. Ste looked sheepish as he climbs out of the drivers seat and apologises to her. Ste quickly hugged her and asks if Nate is in the flat,Cheryl agrees and Ste rushes past her up the stairs and knocks on the flat door.
Nate eventually answers as Ste barges past shocking Nate and almost pushing him over. He went to close the door but then Brendan barges past and Nate really does go on his arse then.

"What the?! Come in why don't you? Are you two in a bloody rush or something? I'm only stood here you know!" Nate slams the door closed in case anybody else feels the need to come in.

"Sorry! Sorry,my bad,but NATE, Omg you won't believe it!" Ste gestures his hands in front of him quickly

"Yeah,Nate,seriously,we need your help,but ye can't tell Chez" Brendan added sitting down trying to look really serious

Nate sits down on the sofa and crosses his legs slowly,folds his arms and closes his eyes momentarily."Good god,now what?"

"We need to go back to the house!" Brendan and Ste speak in unison

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