A/N: I'm updating? On my birthday? Oh yeah, I forgot I don't have a social life… In other news, my mild writer's block was cured by McFly's álbum, Wonderland! I knew I could do it. Expect another chapter soon, and thank you for the reviews, especially LottiePoynterr, who has also helped me with ideas for prompt tables. Enjoy!
By the way, the new cover image is my drawing of Lilith. If you cover the left side of the drawing, the other part is Lilit when she was alive, the one that appeared as Tom's reflex in his computer. The left side of her face is her as a ghost, the one that Tom sees in his dreams. It's not finished yet, but I decided to post it anyway.
Everyone stared, horrified expression on their faces, as they observed what had been Lilith's body.
Tom did not even care how it had survived all those years- 79, to be exact - but he knew one thing: he could try therapy, hypnosis, brain wash- but he would never forget the sight in front of him. It was a little deteriorated, but only as if Lilith had died just a day before, most of the skin was still there, the skinny limbs twisted, like she had curled up in a tiny ball, her face being definitely the worst. Her eyes were not there anymore, leaving two dark holes where they should be, and her mouth wide open in terror, leaving the four boys, Lori and Fletch imagining Lilith trying to breathe, and dying as a small intake of oxygen was her last.
The deep, scary silence was disturbed by a loud thud, and everyone looked behing them as Dougie fell on the floor unconscious. Harry immediately kneeled on the floor beside him, laying the blonde head on his tighs, as the manager, Lori, Tom and Danny made a circle around him.
'He's really sensitive, you know?' Harry stroked Dougie's hair lightly. 'This kind of things... it must be from the shock.' Lori nodded in agreement, and got up.
'Take him to his bed and let him sleep.' She said, furrowing her eyebrows as she concentrated. 'He will probably be out for a few hours, but it's the best for him.'
The other three nodded in silence, and Harry picked Dougie up, putting one arm under his knees, and the other holding his shoulders, Harry's left hand supporting his head, and got up, leaving the room with Tom and Danny behind him.
'What about now?' Fletch asked Lori when they were alone in the room. He closed the small compartimente where Lilith was with a quick, angry slap, and paced around the room nervously.
'I suggest you go home and rest too, Mr Fletcher.' Lori replied. 'We found her body, and, as I said before, we have to get rid of everything that links Lilith to this dimention.'
'And how exactly do we get rid of her body?'
'Not only her body, but also everything we find that is hers. So that means the body, the dress and the black book.' She explained. 'And we burn it, of course. Then we put the ashes away, far away.' Lori looked even more nervous than the manager, and could not even look at him while she talked, her breaths fast and deep.
'When do we do that? Tomorrow? Is there any specific date to... burn bodies, dresses and diaries to get of a ghost?' Lori shook her head at Fletch's question.
'Tonight.' And Fletch only nodded, because he knew it had to be as soon as possible.
They had to kill Lilith, forever.
19th August, 2003, 10:20pm: Evergreen Woods
It was abnormally cold for a summer night, as if the world knew what was going to happen that night. The two items- the dress and the book- and Lilith's body, covered in a white blanket were lying in the middle of the floor, some mud already staining the blue silk of the slightly burnt dress.
Tom took the two messages written in what he had assumed to be Lilith's curly calighraphy out of his pocket and plced them on the top of the book. He sat down on the soil, his fists clenched in determination. He was ready to do it.
Danny glanced at Tom and made a comforting smile for his friend, even though he was screaming inside, not wanting to admit he was dead scared that something went wrong.
Dougie watched as Tom put the two pieces of paper in the pile of objects, and almost immediately curled up against Harry's arm, shutting his eyes in fear.
Harry felt Dougis'a body against him, and put an arm around his shoulders, whisperin to his friend that everything would be okay, even if he was not so sure.
Lori asked Fletch for his lighter, and he passed it to her with a shaking hand. She placed the lighter close to the book and everyone watched, slightly hypnotised by the fire, as it spreaded, firstly by the black cover, and then invading the old paper inside.
19th August, 2003, 3:17pm
Fletch and Lori had gone home after telling them to rest, as they were 'in for a rough night', as the manager had put it.
Dougie was lying in his bed, with Harry beside him, half lying, half sitting in the bed, an arm around Dougie's shoulders.
Danny was also taking a nap in the end of Dougie's bed, curled up in a tight ball, and Tom could only wonder how he could feel comfortable in that position, but it was Danny after all, and he should be used to his weird manners.
Tom was sat in a bean bag that he had brought from the music room to Dougie's, not wanting to leave his friends alone, his lyric book on his hand and Lilith's black book on his lap.
He could not help but notice how similar the two books were. They had roughly the same size and the cover was almost the same.
He had assumed a long time ago that Lilith's black book, had been, in fact, her diary. Tom had observed carefully the blank pages and noticed there was definitely something written in there, but it was invisible, like it had been written with a pencil, but erased at some point.
Tom's lyric book was where he wrote his songs, but the pages were mde of a thick pper, ideal for drawing, which Tm also loved to do. That was the reason why the pages were filled with song lyrics with Tom's doodles decorating the letters in the whole page, making the diary a small reflex of Tom himself.
LottiePoynterr: Thank you, hopefully we'll see more of Dougie in the next chapter, I have some stuff in mind.
deeplyinloves: Yes, that was my point, the freakiest the better. Glad you liked it, hope you enjoy this one :)
