"I swear, if I'm dying tonight because of you, I'm gonna haunt your ass so hard, Harrington!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah! I'm gonna go full Poltergeist and shit!"
"Then bring it, Graveswood."
"Challenge accepted."
***
In which after years of suppressing their...
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Chapter Sixty-Nine: I Feel Death
(The Mind Flayer)
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Just like earlier that day, Rowan found herself walking along the abandoned train tracks—except this time, it was to find Dart and his new Demogorgon buddies, and Lucas, Cami and Max were with them. And Cami and Max knew about her and her brother's powers.
"So, your entire family has... superpowers?" Max summed up, after Rowan and Alistair had explained their powers, their family secret.
"Pretty much," Rowan and Alistair said in unison.
"Except for people like your aunt, and the people who marry into it, who don't," Cami added in.
"Yep."
"And Rowan, you can like teleport and shoot lightning bolts out of your hands and Al, you can... see ghosts?" Max questioned, giving Alistair a skeptical look as Rowan nodded to confirm that yes, she could.
"Yeah, I can," Alistair said with a roll of his eyes. "Very hard not to think they're ghosts when no one else but you can see the man without a head or the girl who has a bullet hole in her chest."
"And you can also... raise the dead?" Cami questioned. The nervous tenor in her voice had Alistair flinch, but he nodded, as if to hide the flinch and hope no one else had seen. Rowan had, though. And she knew why he flinched.
"Yeah," Alistair mumbled, rubbing the back of his neck. "Only animals though. I don't know if I can... raise human zombies, too."
"Right," Cami muttered, looking a bit queasy.
"So that raven that you said was a puppet was actually real?" Max queried, looking right at Hugin, still on Alistair's shoulder.
"Yeah. Halloween's really the only night I can have Hugin out in public without causing a panic," Alistair explained, stroking Hugin's feathers as the undead corvid croaked affectionately. "Plus, it worked with my ghost costume pretty well."
"A costume that wasn't really a costume," Max said pointedly.
"Kinda? I know what ghosts actually look like, so I might as well try to be accurate," Alistair replied. "At least I was more accurate than the ghosts in Ghostbusters."
"Yeah, you should have heard him after we saw the film—he ranted so much about how ghosts don't actually look like that," Lucas piped in, as Alistair gave his best friend a withering look.
"And yet he still begged me to take you and you other gremlins back twenty more times or so and wouldn't stop singing that goddamned theme song," Rowan said, exposing her little brother who gave her a horrified look and waved his hand rapidly over his neck, but it was too late. Max gave Alistair a smirk while Cami was still frowning.
