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[darkboysroadtrip]

We love arson 🔥 -bubble

Seriously though. REMUS AND ROMAN ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Remus jumps up, his hands in the air he's very happy about today's turn of events.

"We set a house on fire!! We found a ghost! Can this day get any better!"

Logan shakes her head, "that was very dangerous and stupid" she chastises.

Roman jumps up with his brother - equally as joyful, "but we did it Logan!"

She raises her brows "did it? Yes the house is on fire and you're lucky no one got hurt!"

Antha lays her hand on Logan's head -right between her cat ears- and pats a little.

Logan sighs "I know you wouldn't have let us get hurt."

Patton looks up at Antha, "are you stuck on this property until we bury the locket?"

She shakes her head, Logan explains- "she's bound to the locket, wherever it goes she goes."

"Do you know where Melody is buried?" Patton asks.

Antha floats upwards a little and points in a direction.

"Is it far?" Logan asks.

Antha shakes her head no.

"Is it walkable?"

Antha nods.

"Alright, I guess that's where we'll be going now."

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Remus is practically vibrating thinking about what they get to do now.

This has been a long time coming and finally they get to set something on fire.

He rushes into the dining room where they left the bottle of alcohol to grab it.

"Okay what do we do now?" He says, he's very ready for this.

"I suppose we can put fabric in it, light that and throw it in the house from a safe distance" Logan suggests.

"Safe distance doesn't sound as fun" Remus responds.

Logan's ears flatten with agitation "we don't need any more injuries."

Remus pouts, "but I wanna be close to the action."

"Yeah, the action of getting hurt" Virgil nudges Remus with his elbow.

Remus sticks his tongue out at Virgil - Virgil shoots it back at him.

"Would one bottle of alcohol even do much?" Dee asks.

"More explosives!" Remus shouts "yes yes more!"

"The wood is brittle and old enough to light up pretty well" Logan says, "I don't think we'll need more."

"On it!" Remus says, he takes the lighter from his pocket, stuffs a random piece of fabric in the bottle but with his injured hand he can't light it.

"On it?" Logan asks incredulously whirling on Remus, she sighs in relief when she notices that he can't light it.

Remus shoves the lighter to Roman and holds out the bottle, "here light it!"

Roman shrugs "yeah okay."

"No not okay!" Logan yells, but it's too late the fire has taken to the rag.

"Oh damn Remus I think you need to throw that!" Virgil says starting to panic.

Remus turns around to look for a place, "where?"

"Just throw it!" Virgil yells.

Remus tosses it not paying attention to where he does, the bottle shatters on the stairs railing, the liquid scatters the flames about and it catches quickly.

Patton yelps and scoops Thomas up to run for the door.

Logan and Roman follow close behind.

Remus stares at it wide eyed, the fire is everywhere but he can't seem to feel the heat of it.

Dee and Virgil grab each of Remus' hands to pull him out with the rest.

They all go stumbling out into the tall grass of the front yard, they don't stop until they get to the car.

Other than their panting and huffing it's no one makes a sound.

Then Remus starts to laugh.

His laughter is light and jubilant -it's contagious- the others start to laugh with him as they're staring at the flames.

The sense of danger from this whole experience seems to have fully dissipated and now a calm washes over the group.

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Can she show us what happened? 🎈

Anthas face scrunches with thought, then one small nod.

It's not a happy story, she scrawls on the window.

The children nod.

"I wouldn't think it would be" Logan says.

"Maybe if you can just shield it from Thomas?" Dee asks.

Very well she responds.

She glides back away from the window, she motions for the kids to stay where they are and when they don't move she stills.

Her eyes close, her face furrows in concentration, cold steam starts to pour from her being covering her, when the steam gets thick enough her hands move in a way a conductor would.

But instead of music she's leading it's pictures that start to form with her movements.

And more surprising, noise starts to fade in as the image gets clearer, it's echoey but not hard to hear.

Humming is heard, a light beautiful meoldy.

And then we see hands putting things into a small elegant hand bag as if we were the ones doing it.

The sound of a door closing, we turn to see a woman walking through it, it's not Antha.

"Oh sister dear! Look at you all ready to be going out tonight! You look marvelous!" The woman gushes at her.

"Thank you" the person who we're seeing out the eyes of says, her voice is soft.

"So, where is that niece of mine?" the woman asks.

"She's already gone to bed, it's late and I would like it if you wouldn't wake her."

The woman waves that away "pish posh Antha! She would love to see me and this gift I brought her!"

"Another gift sister? It's almost as if you're trying to buy her love" Antha laughs a little at her joke.

Her sisters face slackens like she didn't find it funny but she brightens it back up quickly.

"Oh ha ha, I just love her so much! You know that!" she puts the parcel down on the hall table and when she speaks again her voice has a sadness to it underlined with manipulation, "besides after my own little one didn't make it you can let me live vicariously through her."

Antha sighs and lets it go, we look up at the clock, Antha gasps "oh no I'll be late!" we rush to the door then look back "don't wake Melody, you can see her tomorrow."

Her sister waves her off "fine fine."

We leave the house.

The mist swirls and the scene changes, we're in the back yard now, rushing to the well.

A snap is heard and Antha falls to the ground, she curses, turns and yanks off her broken heels.

She gets back up to her feet sprinting to the well, her hair falls around her vision as she stares down into the blackness.

"Melody!" She screams "baby if you can hear me please hold on! Help is on the way!"

"Oh Antha, no one is coming."

We whirl to see her sister walking towards us.

"Wh-what do you mean? You said Melody"-

She's cut off by a sharp laugh "Melody is upstairs in her bed, not privvy to anything going on here."

"What?" Antha whispers, the confusion is very clear in her voice.

"I have decided on something dear sister"- she walks forwards -"and that decision involves you not being here anymore."

Anthas head shakes "what are you talking about?"

The next few seconds are fast but it feels like slow motion.

A flash of metal swings across her throat.

Her locket falls to the ground.

Her sister pushes her into the well.

The last thing she sees is Melody, in her bedroom window looking down at her mother being murdered by her aunt.

Then darkness and a splash.

The steam evaporates and we're back in the attic sunroom.

Anthas form is barely visible anymore, but you can see that her eyes are screwed shut and her jaw is clenched, she's slumped like her limbs were too heavy.

The gang all either have tears in their eyes or have them running down their faces.

"Oh goodness" Patton says, his voice small, he and Roman are sandwiching Logan in their arms.

Logan takes off her glasses to wipe her eyes.

Virgil is gripping tight to Remus' hand and Dee has his arms around one of Remus' arms.

"Not a happy story at all" Roman says blinking his own tears away.

Amid the gloomy atmosphere Thomas' voice rings out "here!"

They all look towards the youngest, he's standing right in front of Antha, he has flowers in his little hands he holds one out to her.

"You look sad! Flowers help!"

She glances down at him, a smile tugs her lips up, she reaches for the flower, despite her form not being fully solid the flower is held.

Thomas then runs up to the rest of them handing them each a flower.

"No sads" he declares.