Looking down at the picture she drew, Helen feels a shiver run up her spine.
Before her is a red baseball hat.
The hat has a logo of a man on a boat fishing.
Muldover's Bait and Tackle
"That's Judge's hat him wears!" Luna bursts out happily. "He always wear it!"
"Is that so." Helen shakily says and her monitor goes off slightly. "Did he used to work there?"
They wait for a few moments and Luna shakes her head.
"No, him friend work there."
"What's his friend's name?"
"Thomas Muldover. He go by....Bumpy though." Luna says and grabs a new piece of paper.
"Did Judge used to fish?"
"Yeah! All time! Caught big fishies. Little fishies. A boot! Haha—he silly." Luna giggles and Helen smiles softly.
"Judge...did you used to live in this house?"
"He said no."
"Then why is he here now?" Helen asks and Luna shakes her head. "What? I'm not trying to be rude— I'm just curious."
"He said not you time to know that question." Luna says.
"Well...when is my time then?" Luna looks uneasy and shakes her head to the seat at the table where Helen presumes Judge is placed.
"When pieces are filled in more." Luna says and goes back to coloring.
"How do I fill them in?"
"With Daddy." That's all she says.
....
"Brov... my phone isn't working..." Logan whispers, beyond scared about what could happen. "I can't call out."
"Just relax." Lukas says and squints his eyes towards one of the nearest windows- a small slat of light coming through. He begins to slowly maneuver his way over to the window- Logan pressing hard into his body- out of fear his brother will leave him.
They get to the wall and creep along the edge of the building- trying to go as slow and as silently as they can—not the spirits can't witness them in this moment- yet still.
"Does your phone work?" Logan asks quietly.
"Shut it..." Lukas quietly growls and gets to the window. It's boarded up, but he tries prying it open the best he can. The boards however are screwed in tightly and no amount of tugging on them can remove them. "Shit...I can't get it off."
"What are we gonna do?!" Logan frantically cries out and they hear something loud bang across the vast darkness of the warehouse.
"Shh..." Lukas covers his brother's mouth and tries so hard to think of what to do.
How do they take on a ghost?
"Valentina?" Lukas quietly calls out to her and then waits. "Valentina?"
"What are you doing in here?" She shrills as she comes down the steps from the catwalk.
"We um...we got stuck in here...we want to leave." Lukas says and She comes towards them, her hands in her pockets.
"How'd you get stuck in here? We haven't been open in years. You're trespassing."
"The...the door jammed. Could you maybe help us?"
"You're lucky my Dad isn't here to catch you both." She says as she leads them to the door.
"Valentina?" Lukas softly begins as they follow her. "Do...do you wanna go home?"
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Intertwined
Fanfiction****Alternate Universe: New Amsterdam*** Helen Sharpe has been trying her best to simply keep her head above water. As a single mother of two teenage boys: she has to do all she can to not only keep them from burning their world down, but also find...
