'Alright, this should be an easy job. An old house that has strange sounds being made at night. Easy.' Vivi said unfolding a road map and pointed to a location, Lewis and Arthur looked over her shoulder. 'It is also only a day away.' She added in.
'So are you going to tell us what creepy things are happening.' Arthur asked. Vivi tried to hide the smile that was spreading on her face.
'How did you know?' She asked, now letting the smile turn into a grin.
'Easy. I know you, you never take simple jobs like this unless we are desperate for some quick cash.' Arthur replied, Vivi threw her hands into the air.
'Fine.' She said and lost her grin, she became more serious as she pulled out a sheet with some notes scribbled out on it.
'So there are dolls moving, sounds of a baby crying from the basement, food being taken out of the fridge and there dog keeps following something around the house.' Vivi said reading off the note.
'Vivi, why didn't you just tell us earlier? That tells us that its a child.' Arthur said in a huff.
'But according to the owners daughter, she says that she has seen a teenaged girl walking around.' Vivi replied. Arthur and Lewis frowned. 'That's why I didn't tell you at first, I wanted to go and see it all for myself first handed.'
'So there could be several ghosts in that house.' Lewis stated, looking over the note that Vivi had read from. Vivi looked at the watch on the wall and frowned.
'We should get going or we are going to turn up late.' Vivi said folding up the map and headed for the garage door, Arthur shook the dinner table that he had only just fixed before Vivi told him to pack for the job. He would need to get a new one anyway, there was more metal fixed on then there was the original table. Lewis had apologised for most of the morning, Arthur tested it one last time before he and Lewis followed her. When they got there, Arthur pulled the keys from his pocket and stopped to look at them.
'Hey Lewis, you can drive. I think you haven't in a while.' Arthur said before turning to hand him the keys, Lewis looked down at them before reaching out to have them dropped in his hand. Arthur turned and headed to the back before opening it, Mystery trotted after him. Vivi was already sitting in the front and she rolled down the window before yelling at him.
'Hey I just said that we need to get moving or else we are going to be late.' She called out, Lewis snapped out of his daze and walked to the drivers side. He opened the door climbed in and started it up, he smiled when he heard the familiar sound of the engine.
'You missed it huh?' Arthur asked throwing his arms over the middle seat and looked at Lewis.
'I would be lying if I said that I didn't miss this old thing.' Lewis said nodding, he finally started to back up and out of the garage.
'Well you can drive it when ever you want now.' Arthur said and Vivi pulled off the remote for the garage door, she pressed it and it rolled down. Lewis looked at Arthur.
'I would like that.' He said and drove away from Arthur's house, Arthur want back to his seat and placed a hand onto Mystery's back.
At some point Lewis stopped at a gas station for the others and gave Arthur a chance to drive before it got dark, Vivi was in the back seats with Mystery and Lewis sat in the passenger seat. Arthur drove well into it getting dark outside and Vivi even left them to sleep in the back space, the radio was turned off for Vivi.
'So, you haven't asked anything from us.' Arthur said quietly, Lewis looked at him with a questioning look.
'What, like my family?' Lewis asked and Arthur nodded.
'For example.'
'I don't really want to know, I don't think I would be able to handle a meeting with them.' Lewis said with a sigh. Then a thought came to him. 'How are they?' Arthur tensed a bit to that.
'I really don't know, I hadn't spoken to them in a while.' He fell silent. 'The last time I spoke to them was a few days after your funereal.'
'You didn't go?' Lewis asked in concern.
'No, I was still in hospital when they had it and your parents came to visit me a few days after to tell me that they had it. Luckily Vivi wasn't there that day.' Arthur rubbed his eyes to try to get rid of the start of tiredness. 'I was lucky that they didn't stay to long, something about needing to get back to the restaurant.'
'But they never spoke to you and you never spoke to them?'
'Yea, I was too scarred to talk to them. Afraid that I would end up slipping up and telling them that I killed you, your mum can be really scary when mad you know?' Arthur said with a bit of a smile.
'They loved you like apart of our family Arthur, they would never hate you.' Lewis said softly, he noticed the tiredness in his eyes. 'Pull over, I will take over.' Arthur looked like he was going to fight him, but to his surprise Arthur did pull over on the road.
'Lewis, I just couldn't do it. If you want to see them, then that is something that you can do, but I don't think that I could.' Arthur said before opening the door and sliding out of the van and stretched as he walked to the other side, Lewis moved to the drivers side before Arthur even got to the passenger side. Once Arthur climbed back in Lewis started to drive the van again.
'Are you going to go see them?' Arthur asked after a while of silence. Lewis kept his gaze at the dark road in front on him.
'I don't know Arthur, I would like to talk to them again. Hell I would take a hug at this point, but I don't want to upset them any more then they have been.' Lewis finally said and glanced over at Arthur, who had removed his arm and curled up on the seat. His eyes where half closed and Lewis wouldn't be surprised if he just fell asleep where he was, not a few minutes later did Lewis look back and he found that Arthur was fast asleep.
Arthur awoke as soon as the sun had come up and he wasn't surprise that the van was still moving, he looked over at Lewis and found that he was his skeletal self. Lewis noticed that he was awake and he changed to the way he looked when he was alive, he gave him a smile as Arthur's mind awoke.
'Morning.' Arthur choked out, he retched down to the door were a water bottle sat. He took a drink from it.
'Good morning.' Lewis replied. 'There is a gas station soon and then the two of you can get some coffee.'
'You think that it would be wise to awake the blue beast?' Arthur said with a cackle, Lewis smiled at this and glanced into the mirror to see if Vivi was still asleep in the bundle of blankets, she was and with Mystery right next to him. Lewis looked back to the road in front of him, Arthur connected his arm and hissed as the pain kicked him out his sleepy state.
'You alright, isn't there a way to do that with out it hurting you every single time.' Lewis asked. Arthur thought as he rubbed his neck and shoulders.
'Not really, unless I want to be injection myself every single time.' Arthur replied and looked out on the road.
'Why don't you just keep it on all the time?' Lewis asked.
'Nightmares, it has some thing to do with phantom pains and I just can't sleep with it on.' There was movement from the back of the van, both of the boys froze, thinking it was Vivi that was awoken by there conversation. No it wasn't, Mystery climbed over the seat to join them and they relaxed.
'So, how much further to where we need to go.' Mystery asked.
