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summary: when you accompany the boys on their trip to waverly hills sanatorium, you see something that you weren't expecting.
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you weren't usually one to turn down an invitation to go on a ghost hunting adventure with sam and colby. but this time, it was a little different.
you'd always been sensitive to spirits and apparitions, always being the one person who saw what no one else did. you'd seen shadows and formations of people that the boys were barely aware of being in the places they went.
so when sam and colby told you they were going to the waverly hills sanatorium, you were a bit hesitant. you'd heard of it, and seen it featured on an episode of ghost adventures, as well as various other youtube videos. you knew that the way you saw things was going to be severely tested if you tagged along.
"babe, i don't want you to think that you have to come. of course, i would love for you to be there with us. but i don't wanna force you into doing something that you're not comfortable with or that's gonna make you scared." colby said to you when you shared your concerns.
"i am a little scared, but i think i'll be okay. plus, i always feel more comfortable when im with you and sam. you guys make me feel protected." you said.
"and we always will." colby said with a smile.
as the day got closer, you were actually starting to get excited. katrina and stas were also coming along, as well as steve and dylan, a couple of ghost hunters that sam and colby had become friends with after a couple of haunted trips. knowing that you were gonna be part of a bigger group made you feel a lot more comfortable.
once you arrived to waverly hills, your stomach began hurting, but you just wrote it off as the food you ate beforehand not sitting well with you.
your group got everything set up, sam and colby set up for the intro to their video, and you got on with your evening.
after a walkthrough of the grounds, the boys set up and filmed a rundown of the history of the sanatorium and then you finally got to your investigation.
the night started out rather eventful, as the boys began capturing evidence pretty quickly. the energy was high as the amount of evidence had everyone excited, but it had you on edge. you were scared that something was going to reveal itself to you soon, but you didn't know what it was going to be.
later on in the night, when your group met back up after splitting up to go to different floors of the building. you'd finally made your way up to the top floor and that's when things started going south for you.
earlier, when the boys were giving a rundown about the place, and what was rumored to be haunting the halls, the story of the creeper came up. as you were listening to them explain it, it was exactly what you didn't want to meet.
you were walking around the top floor, hanging back as sam and colby were setting up their equipment.
"hey, you doing okay?" colby asked, pulling you in for a hug.
"yeah." you said with a smile, pressing a quick kiss to his lips.
filming started and they began the next part of their video. you all were waiting for something to happen, and then all at once, it did. their rem pods were making noise, the flashlights were going on and off, and you were beginning to see things.
shadows were appearing to you more than they had all night. figures of people standing in doorways.
then, the thing you'd been most nervous about.
you were just walking around, trying to see what you could see, then it appeared. you first noticed it in the opening where a window once was, then it disappeared for a minute. you noticed it again as it peered around the doorframe, then it started slowly crawling towards you. you started backing up as it got faster, almost breaking out into a run. you started screaming, falling to the floor after tripping over something. as you fell, everything went black.
"(y/n), wake up. please, wake up." you heard a voice say.
"huh? what happened?" you asked, sitting up. "where are we?"
"we're in the car. i needed to get you out of there." you looked around and focused on colby sitting next to you in the back seat.
"what happened back there? are you okay?" he asked.
"i saw that thing." you sighed as you zoned out, replaying the incident in your head. "i'd never seen anything so scary. it started crawling towards me, and it just kept getting faster and faster, i really thought it was gonna get me." you said, starting to cry as you told him the story.
"babe, it's okay. you're safe now. i got you." he said, hugging you tight and pressing a kiss to the top of our head.
"when i heard you all talking about the creeper earlier, i was really worried i was gonna see it. and when i did, i just didn't know what to do. i feel like i was stuck, just like i was gonna let it get me. i tried to run, and then i don't remember what happened."
"you fell and hit your head on the wall. i hate that you got hurt. but you got so close to the edge, i was more nervous that you were gonna fall over."
"ah, that explains the headache. i'd take a bump on the head any day over plummeting off the edge." you laughed.
"well i'm glad you can joke about it so soon." colby said, pressing another kiss to your head.
"i'm sorry i messed everything up. i didn't mean to throw a wrench in your plans for this video."
"baby, please don't apologize. all i care about is your safety. and now that i know you're okay, i can breathe." he said.
"i love you." you said with a smile.
"i love you too." he said, kissing you. "so, you think you can go back inside to finish up this video, or do you just wanna hang here?"
"maybe we just wait here until the rest of the group comes out front and we can join them outside to film the outro." you suggested.
"sounds good."
you sat in the car, catching your breath after an eventful night, and waited until everyone came outside. once you saw them set up in front of the building, you and colby joined them for the outro.
"hey, you okay?" katrina asked as you joined them.
"yeah, im better now." you said as she took your hand in hers.
once you finished the video, you packed back up and headed out. colby sat with you in the backseat so he could keep you comfort. you nuzzled into his side and tried to sleep on your way to the hotel, trying to push the scary memory of the night out of your head. it was a fun night, but you were still glad that is was over.
