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Luke Crain [Haunting of Hill House] is forever (countingtoseven) wrote in valloic,
@ 2020-11-01 11:27:00

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Luke Crain

Hill House

Theo Crain

WHO Luke and Theo
WHERE Outside of town
WHEN Sunday Morning
Luke and Theo discover Hill House WARNINGS Hill House is more than a house. It is a living entity.

If These Walls Could Talk...

Sunday morning, Luke woke with a start. He had enjoyed four days of relative quiet. The ghosts that hovered close to him had been gone. He didn't see movenment out the corner of his eye, he didn't sense them. He missed Nellie, of course, but he knew she was still with him. She was his twin, his other half. She would always be with him, part of him, half of his soul. Dead didn't mean gone, and Nellie would never be gone.

He sat up in his bed, the sheets tangled around his legs, the air sucked out of his lungs. There in the doorway, he saw Nellie, seemingly as solid and real as if she were standing there in the flesh. "GO!" she told him, as she often did, the image of her representing some deep seeded understanding that he needed to move from where he was.

Luke freed his legs from the twist of the sheets, and stumbled over to Theo's room. "Theo? Theo, are you awake?" he knocked on his sister's door. it wasn't closed, she had agreed to keep it open a crack so she'd hear him if he needed her in the middle of the night. That didn't mean he would barge in on her. He needed her, sure, but he wasn't running from the ghosts. He didn't run away from Nellie when she came to him.

"Nellie's back," he told her through the door. He was pretty sure that would get her up and moving. Nellie told him to 'go'. Now he just had to figure out where he was supposed to go.

CODING

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ineededachange
2020-11-01 09:16 pm UTC (link)

Theo wasn't entirely sure what had happened to them. Her brother wasn't seeing ghosts and when she touched something, albeit experimentally at first, nothing happened. There were no echoes of the past. Nothing that told her of what could've happened. Something that she'd wanted for a very long time.

She had also known that it would be short lived. There was no way her abilities would just up and leave like that. However, she'd managed to sleep and sleep well. No feeling of hands trying to grab her. No voices clear as day in her head or scents to throw her for a loop. All of that ended though. The moment she heard her brother's knock.

It was like a floodgate opened. Practically caused a flood the moment those words left his mouth. Nellie's back.. The one ghost that neither of them minded. She knew that he didn't. Why would he? That was, after all, his twin.

"Did she say anything?"

Despite being well rested, her voice was laden with sleep.

"I'll be out in a minute."

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countingtoseven
2020-11-02 02:17 am UTC (link)

Luke rolled his shoulders. He knew he'd caused Theo to get slammed with the sensations that came with her abilities, with the exposure to ghosts and the like. He felt bad, but it would have happened instantaneously whether he woke her or she woke on her own.

Their quiet reprieve was over.

"She told me to go." Go where, though? He didn't know. He just knew that it was a message. That he needed to get out of the apartment. He didn't want to go alone, though. Not yet. He didn't know Vallo well enough to navigate the streets on his own.

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ineededachange
2020-11-02 02:46 am UTC (link)

"To go where?"

It takes her a few minutes to get re-oriented again. To get dressed and slip her gloves on. That was probably something that she'd have to eventually look into. See if this place had a store that sold gloves like what she wore. That was for another time though.

Opening her bedroom door completely, she steps out and looks towards him," If we're going to go, lets go."

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countingtoseven
2020-11-03 09:57 pm UTC (link)

He shook his head as he pushed off the wall he'd been leaning against. "She doesn't ever tell me where. She just says 'Go' all demanding, like it's important." He was grateful Nellie was with him, that he could see her, and hear her. He could talk to her, and she'd respond to a point. He knew she was mostly in his mind, but having her with him in any capacity was a comfort.

"I feel like I'll know it when I get there," he said. Cryptic, maybe. But cryptic messages were commonplace for them, so it didn't really phase him. He had other things to worry about.

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ineededachange
2020-11-03 11:29 pm UTC (link)

"Maybe it is important."

She didn't have the connection to Luke like Nellie had. The twins had always had this intense bond between one another. Something that Theo envied sometimes, but only sometimes. With her abilities and the way they worked she didn't want to be connected to anyone. Didn't want them to have to feel what she felt.

"I'm sure that you will," she tells him before heading towards the door. There was something about the place that felt off, but she chalked it up to the residual feelings left over by her brother.

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countingtoseven
2020-11-05 03:23 am UTC (link)

Luke led the way out of the apartment. He glanced back, not because he worried Theo wouldn't follow, but because he wanted to know how close she was. Nellie had been gone for two years, with him only in spirit. Before that, he hadn't seen her for three months, not since the day she dropped him at rehab. The program had discouraged visitors, and Nellie had been living her own life while Luke was trying to get his in order.

He sighed, and scratched at the back of his neck the way he did when he felt Nellie near to him. She'd died with a noose around her neck, and he felt the rope around his neck so often that it was just a fact of life for him.

They chatted about mundane things, and the weirdness of being in Vallo. And then Luke came up short, freezing midstep, with Hill House looming like a dark hulking shadow just ahead of them. Like they'd wandered too close without even seeing it until suddenly it was there larger than life.

"No." Luke said, with the appearance of talking to someone, because he was hearing Nellie tell him to 'go'.

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ineededachange
2020-11-05 04:58 am UTC (link)

If there was one thing, in Theo's eyes, that would happen it was that she'd stick close to her brother. Not smothering close but close enough that if he reached out, he could touch her. It was something that probably made them both happy. That they were close enough to touch. Even if she hated touching or being touched, in general. Hated the echos that came with it.

She'd been following her brother, talking about anything and everything, when he stops. Stopped so short that she nearly ran right into him. Her skin crawled even as she looked over towards that looking dark shadow. The one place that neither of them wanted to do with.

Even though she wanted nothing to do with it, she walked towards it. Practically drawn to it. It shouldn't of been in Vallo. They shouldn't of been, but that house. It shouldn't of so much as touched the ground.

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countingtoseven
2020-11-05 12:16 pm UTC (link)

Luke didn't like to be touched any more than Theo did, though he didn't share her sensitivity. His enhanced sense was smell, and he'd snorted so much up his nose over the years that the ability was dulled. not gone, but manageable.

And then there were the ghosts. Especially around Hill House. A glance at the hulking house showed a young girl in an upper window. Abigail. Murdered by Luke's mother. Whether or not she was actually there was irrelevant, Luke saw her because he had been there in the red room the night she died.

"No," he said again, looking from the house to Theo, and back again.

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ineededachange
2020-11-05 09:02 pm UTC (link)

One of the things that Theo remembered where the house was concerned was the Red Room. How it had been a different room for everyone. Whatever they wanted it to be, it was. Her room was different compared to Luke's or any of their other siblings. That was something that stuck in her mind.

She turns slightly, despite being drawn to the house that much more. "Luke." It was them or someone else finding the place, wasn't it? Them or the citizens of Vallo. "We need to go. I'm here with you. I'm not going to let the house do anything that it shouldn't." Not to her brother.

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countingtoseven
2020-11-07 07:45 pm UTC (link)

Luke knew that was a lie. Well, no. He knew she meant it. She would protect him as much as she could. But the house was stronger than both of them. The house was an evil entity capable of manipulating people to its will.

They had been innocent children the first time they'd been subjected to the house. At least in Luke's case, the house had never really let him go. It had tried to reclaim him, but the love and support of his siblings, Theo and Steve and Shirl and even Nellie, had been strong enough to over come it. But they'd all been together then.

Now it was just him and Theo. And maybe Nellie, because Nellie was always with him.

He glanced at Theo and shook his head. "I don't want to."

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ineededachange
2020-11-08 07:40 am UTC (link)

Luke didn't know Theo that well if he thought that it was a lie. She would protect him even if it meant her own life. Which, hopefully, it wouldn't come down to that. Last thing that her brother needed was more ghosts. No one needed something like that.

She turns towards him and moves to stand in front of her brother, those eyes searching his. "Luke? Do you want someone else wandering into that house? To be trapped like we were?" If anything, she could throw logic at her brother. Hopefully that would work. She didn't want anyone else in that house.

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	countingtoseven 2020-11-11 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	Luke shook his head. He stuffed his hands under opposite arm pits to keep them from shaking. "Did the porch light just..." blink twice. Like Mom calling us in for dinner. Luke sighed. He knew Theo was right. They had to go in. It was their legacy, after all. No one else needed to stumble on the evil that was contained in that house. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ineededachange
2020-11-12 04:47 am UTC (link)

She'd been paying attention to her brother more than that damn house. Though, she had caught the porch light blinking twice. Like what their mother used to do whenever it was time to come home for dinner. Something that caused a chill to run down her spine.

"I saw it too."

It had been out of the corner of her eye, but she'd seen it. She takes a deep breath but stays right where she was, standing in front of her little brother. It was them or the patrons of Vallo.

"We'll be fine, Luke. I'll make sure of it."

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countingtoseven
2020-11-14 12:59 am UTC (link)

He wanted to resist, to tell her she couldn't promise him that. no one could promise that. There were ghosts in that house. There was evil, alive and breathing, and calling out to them both. Calling him to take his own life, just as it had called to him before. Just as it had called to, and claimed, Nellie. And their mother.

"Okay." He wasn't okay. Not at all. He was shaking. Barely holding it together. But he was with Theo, and he trusted Theo. If Theo went, he would go too. Because he wasn't going to let her go in alone.

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ineededachange
2020-11-14 01:24 am UTC (link)

Theo knew about the ghosts in the house. If any of them tried to come after her brother then they'd have to deal with her. She hadn't, in her opinion, done enough when they'd lived in that place back home. She'd do something about it and more now. So, she moves to stand in front of her brother and places her gloved hands on his shoulders.

"We'll share a room." Like how him and Nellie had. "I'm not letting anything take my brother from me. It nearly did once. I'm not losing you, Luke. You hear me. I refuse to."

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	countingtoseven 2020-11-15 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Okay." It was barely a squeak out of him. But he trusted her. He'd be okay, as long as he was with her. As long as the ghosts didn't get her. Or him. But he tried not to think about that. "I tried to burn it, you know. I dumped gasoline all in the foyer. And then I lit and it just...burned right out with a snuff. Like I didn't do anything at all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ineededachange
2020-11-16 12:11 am UTC (link)

If the ghosts wanted to get her, they'd have a hell of a time. She was a spitfire to deal with. Maybe some day people would realize that. Well, the ghosts would realize that. She really hated that the house had even showed up, but she'd protect her brother. One way or another.

"It's the house. We both know it is," she tells him when he mentions trying to burn it. "I've got you, Luke. Don't worry about what you tried to do or about the house itself."

[ooc: Wrap here or on yours bb?]

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	countingtoseven 2020-11-17 01:53 am UTC (link)
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