"What are you doing here?!"
Nicky sat up, shaking his head in hopes some glass fell out of his hair,"Could ask the same, you're in a floating house in a white void with an endless black void!", Nicky was offered his hand, he took it and Mr Peterson pulled him up.
. . .
"What is this place?"
"Honestly. . . I don't know."
Nicky looked around, realising it was just a single room that was the living room, he saw Mr Peterson's chair, TV, paintings and it looked like his living room if it was bigger.
"I've just been here. . . It's a place I've come to each time it took over my body."
Nicky was shocked, so. . . Quentin and himself were right; He was possessed and there may have been times he never spoke to Mr Peterson.
Mr Peterson sat in his seat,"I was always thankful. . . Thankful you could see through everything in Raven Brooks, yet. . . Here you are years later. . .", Nicky knew it, but now he had more questions.
"Mr Peterson. . . What. . . Uh, I have so many questions. . . Quentin answered most, but. . ."
"I understand. . ."
Mr Peterson stared at the TV,"The Raven. . . I tried to so hard to protect you all from it. . . From me. . . It wanted to use everyone in Raven Brooks as it's vessels, if it can take your form. . . It's already gotten it's grip on you. . . It used me. . . And now it's using Aaron. . .", Nicky felt his blood go cold, Aaron. . . Was the Raven?!
"And. . .-"
Nicky cleared his throat,"What about the dolls. . . Or how that's possible. . .?", Mr Peterson sighed,"The dolls were created to keep them in line, to use them to control them or switch bodies.", Nicky shuddered, feeling cold sweat,"Aaron. . . He tried. . . But the Raven gave him no other option to switch bodies with him to free you and his friends. . .", Nicky felt like someone had just punched him in the gut.
The vision or. . . Outerbody experience he had, he was in Aaron's body.
He freed them all. . . Including him. . .
Mr Peterson looked out at the void,"I don't know if Aaron still. . . Has awareness. . . All I know is, my body is long gone and this is my purgatory to forever to be trapped. . .", Nicky wanted to help Mr Peterson, but how. . .
"Nicky. . . I know you have a gift. . . That supernatural link like your grandma. . . I never knew if you knew you had it or tried so hard to push it away. . . You were a smart kid, a kid. . . That grew too fast. . ."
Nicky let his vision go blurry, his vision blinded by tears.
Mr Peterson got up and walked to him, taking his shoulder as a form of comfort.
"Nicky. . . I know it hurt you so much, having to carry what happened to you for years. . . But this gift you have,", Mr Peterson pointed to his chest,"That's not something that's indicates who you're like, it's what you choose to do with your gift that shapes you to who you are.", Nicky felt tears running down his face, he didn't wipe them away or cry out. . . It was a silent cry.
"You can use that gift for good. . . You don't have to acknowledge who it reminds you of."
It now made sense to Nicky. . . Mr Peterson could see things and hear what Nicky could that others couldn't, sense things others couldn't.
Maybe that's why he looked so scared that day. . . Something was standing behind Nicky, something Mr Peterson could see.
Now it explains why they could see through him.
. . .
Nicky looked at the TV, seeing a video playing of them all in a much happier time.
Diana was alive, Mr Peterson wasn't in his house and they were acting. . . Like kids.
It was like something clicked in Nicky; He had to stop this, save the others once and for all.
"Unfortunately. . . I can't go with you. . ."
Nicky turned to Mr Peterson, who shook his head sadly,"My body is long gone, my consciousness remains here. . . All I can do, is wish you luck. . .", Nicky, then hugged Mr Peterson and he hugged back.
Nicky let the tears fall, he had been so happy to know for certain Mr Peterson never hurt him and only wanted to protect everyone.
"Thank you. . . For being a parental figure when I had no one. . ."
. . .
"I'll save them. . . And Aaron."
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Nicky felt like he was falling, opening his eyes he saw he was in pitch black and was falling from the white void above!
Use that connection!
Nicky didn't know how, he rejected it for so long!
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He woke up.
He was laying in a familiar place; The Basement.
He slowly sat up, holding his head as it felt the blood came rushing at once. . . Was that all a dream?
But then, he noticed the small cuts on his jacket and knew that wasn't a dream and that was the last time he would ever see Mr Peterson.
Nicky wanted to cry. . . But, he knew he didn't have the time for tears.
As he stood up, he saw Aaron's Voodoo doll. . . The one that look exactly like him.
Nicky picked it up.
Then he had an idea.
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||Hello Neighbour: One Last Game||
Fanfiction||Nicky returns to Raven Brooks after so many years, he finds the neighbourhood nearly empty with many residents that had moved or passed away eventually, no new people as who would move to Raven Brooks after all that had happened?|| ||But Nicky is...
