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 Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:43 pm
Maia nodded. "Be careful," she warned.
The kid paused, studying Dari. Suddenly, he was beside the alien. "You're here to help me?" he asked, suspiciously. "You're going to help me find mother?" He looked around worriedly. "She's missing. I've looked everywhere. I can't find her... I couldn't..." He hesitated, and then backed away from Dari. His gaze was accusing. "You're with that other man! I don't want you!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:47 pm
"Yes," Dari said, "We're only here to help." He knew better than to talk about death or crossing over with a ghost. That was Michael's job. The best he could do was try to reassure the boy that they were there to help and they were to be trusted. He set the tripod on the floor of the nursery. He didn't want a machine between him and their entity. "Even that other man, he only wants to help."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:54 pm
The ghost paused again. "The other one, he says he knows where she is. Where? The fire. I couldn't... I tried. I ran. The door..." He looked around, and his eyes fell on the camera. "What is that?" He demanded. "Stop that! I don't like that."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:57 pm
The boy was beginning to wonder, was he?
"Well, that's a very complicated question," Dari responded, and then looked to the camera. "That's so we can see the house, and so we can see you. This is going to sound silly, but we can't see you all the time. Well, maybe you know that, since you appeared to me."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:02 pm
"I'm good at hiding," the boy provided his own explanation. "I don't want to be seen all the time. I can't find Momma." He stared at Dari, frowning slightly. "Where did those other people go? She's a mom but she's not mine."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:04 pm
Dari's eyes went wide a moment. Maia, a mom? Was this a moment of a ghost knowing more than they should or of a young boy mistaking all women for mothers?
"Don't worry, you can still hide. They're still in the dining room. I'm just about finished here. Maia should be... somewhere around here. That's the lady whose hand you took. Maia."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:16 pm
The boy frowned. He took Dari's hand and tugged on it slightly. His skin was dry and room temperature. He was definitely there. "If I talk to everyone you brought, will you go find my mother?" he asked. "Then you'll go away?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:40 pm
Dari was used to odd hands holding his. He smiled down at the boy.
"The man you have to talk to is the one you dislike most. He's like you. I'm not. I'm not sure I could help you as much as he can." Of course they had helped Michael, but it had taken near forever and everyone's nerves were frayed by the end. Michael took care of these things more quickly and presumably more easily.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:50 pm
"I don't want to talk to him," the child protested. "Why can't you help me?" He paused, and hesitated. "Its because of the fire," he said then. He looked up at Dari, eyes black. "Momma's dead, isn't she." The camera in the nursery began to shake violently. The toys on the shelf above the changing table began to move on their own. The battery powered ones lighting up and playing music.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:56 pm
Oh boy. That was enough to send shivers up the most sturdy of spines. Dari swallowed and backed out of the room, pushing the door closed.
Well then. Maybe they'd leave him home for a while.
Even if the nursery camera fell over, it would be able to capture some of the movement in there. If the kid was especially apt at altering electronics there might be an issue, but they had even a tiny bit of footage now. He padded back toward Toby, who was watching him with a furrowed brow.
"That was quite the temper tantrum," Dari said.
"It sounds like it's still going on," Toby replied. Dari just nodded.
"We will give him some time," Michael said with a nod. He only existed from the waist-up at the moment, behind the view of the cameras. He wasn't tangible either. He had begun saving energy to tangle with the child lingering in the house.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:06 pm
There were multiple thuds against the nursery door. It sounded as if things were being thrown against the door. Cries sounded, filling the house. Lights flickered.
Maia sighed, and looked towards the hallway leading to the nursery.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:09 pm
Toby took Maia by the arm and tugged her to him, holding her. Dealing with dead children in any form wasn't fun.
Michael just sighed and shook his head. "Let him have it. Everyone tantrums from time to time."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:31 pm
A long while passed before the cries finally died down. The flickering stopped, the sounds of things hitting the door stopped. The nursery door opened and the child emerged, clutching a bedraggled stuffed bear. It was old, and definitely in disrepair. One of it's eyes was missing.
"I want you all to leave!" He announced, and rubbed at his eyes with a fist. "Right now! Go away!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:35 pm
"We can't until you've found your momma," Dari said. He had been the only other one to make contact with the ghost, so he thought it might be up to him to talk. Then again, it had sort of lost its mind on him. "That's the deal. It's what we do."
Michael, meanwhile, was at work in the nursery, unseen and unheard.
"That's a nice bear you have," Toby said, "What's his name?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:54 pm
"You can't!" The child disappeared and reappeared directly in front of Dari. He stomped his foot down on the alien's. "She's DEAD! She's dead!" A sob escaped him and he rubbed at his eyes. "I can't ever find her!"
He looked to Toby. He seemed to calm slightly at the question. "Winser." He appeared next to Toby and offered him the teddy bear before wrapping his arms around Maia.
Maia startled and petted the boy's hair. The poor thing.
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