Murder House - A Michael Clifford Fanfiction

Chapter 5 - "The Secret"

I looked up to see a boy that looked around Michael's age. How could he be around Michael's age if he was his dad?

"Tate," Michael smiled. He walked up to him and asked, "how are you?"

"Okay, yeah. How about you?" He wondered.

"Pretty good. By the way, this is Pandora. She lives here now. Her and her family just moved in today."

"Oh. Hi Pandora," Tate waved and I could hardly bring myself to wave back, but I did.

"Do you have two brothers?" Tate wondered.

"One is my brother, and the other is his friend," I told him. How did he know about Danny and Paul?

"Tate.. I've got to tell you something. You might want to sit down..." Michael looked down, but then pointed to my bed. Tate began to walk over and I scooted so we'd have enough room for all three of us to sit on the edge.

"What is it, Mikey?" Tate sat down.

"Do you remember Kayla? Kayla Clifford?" Michael asked him.

"Yeah. I remember her," Tate looked at his hands.

"That's my mum.." Michael bit his lip, "and.. you're my dad."

As I watched Michael tell him that, I couldn't believe the look on Tate's face. His mouth dropped open in shock.

"I have a son.. Who I've been friends with for a while and not known it. Oh my god."

"I also have a half brother. Vivien's son, and yours," Michael explained.

"I totally forgot. Where is he now? Vivien hasn't seen him since he was born, and I haven't seen him ever."

I thought Michael said that Vivien had died? I had no idea what was going on, so I just listened to their conversation.

"He lives with grandma, your mum."

"Oh. Could I meet him?"

"Not right now because I really need you to explain to Pandora about what happened to you."

"Okay. In 1994, I got really pissed at my mom's boyfriend, but that wasn't the only thing. There were lots of things going on at that time. Anyways, I set my mom's boyfriend's office at his work on fire while he was in there. He lived, but that's not the point. After I did that, I proceeded to go to my school and kill 15 people. I was killed then in early April of 1995 by a SWAT team, only a little while after Kayla got pregnant with Michael, I guess." (A/N: those of you who have seen AHS, I know that Tate was killed almost right after he killed the 15 students in the library, but I had to make the story add up)

"How are you here if you died? Did Michael somehow summon you?" I asked. He was dead, so this didn't make any sense.

"You haven't told her the secret, have you?" Tate looked at Michael. Michael shook his head.

"Well, Pandora," Tate began, "if someone dies in this house, you're stuck between this world and the 'after world' or whatever you want to call it. I'm a ghost."

"So you're going to live here forever and ever? You're just a ghost in this house?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Do you want to meet everyone else?"

"Everyone else as in who?"

"Everyone that has died in this house," Michael told me.

"Is Thaddeus one of the ones that is dead?" I asked.

"Yeah," Tate nodded. I guess this was making a little more sense..

"After you explain this to me.. How did you have a child with someone if you're dead?" I looked at Tate.

"Kayla got pregnant before I died, but Vivien.. that was just a few years ago. Since I'm a ghost and she was alive at the time, our son would be a devil, in a way. He'd be like a demon."

"I told you Michael was a demon child," Michael laughed.

"Is his name Michael too?" Tate looked at Michael, his face lighting up. He seemed to like having sons.

"Yeah. But now that you know I'm your son, it's not going to be any different, is it?"

"I don't think it will change much," Tate laughed.

"So do you want to meet everyone?" Michael asked me again.

"Sure. Where are they?" I asked.

"They're always here. They can't really leave. I mean, they can, but they don't," Michael told me.

"Violet.." Tate stood up, walking out of the room, "Violet..."

"Tate," a girl showed up and smiled at him, "who's this?"

"This is Pandora. She lives here now," Tate told her.

"Hi," she smiled, "I'm Violet Harmon. I'm guessing Tate has told you about us, and about everything else that goes on in this house."

"Yeah. Well, Michael told me about you two, but yeah. I know what happens. Isn't it weird?"

"I actually didn't know I was dead until Tate showed me my body downstairs," she told me. That would be weird.

"Wow. But I think Tate wants to tell you something he just found out.."

"What is it?" Violet looked at Tate, not knowing what to expect.

"Michael is my son," Tate told her, then looked at Michael. He explained the rest of the details to her as well.

"Could I meet the rest of your family, maybe? And everyone else?" I asked.

"Sure," she smiled.

After a minute, a woman holding a baby and a man behind her walked in. Two guys then walked in behind them. Next came a woman with two little girls, and they were all burnt.. A couple then walked in. Soon, my room was filled with people who had died in the house.

"Pandora, this is Nora, Charles, and Thaddeus Montgomery. This is Elizabeth Short, and they are William and Loraine Baxter. This is Gladys, and her, Maria. These are Troy and Bryan, twins. And this is my dad.. Hugo," Tate stopped for a second, "and that's Moira. These are the Argentos, Sam and Nikki. This is Patrick, and that is Chad. Ben, Vivien, and Brett Harmon along with Violet here too," Tate finished. (A/N: I just came up with a name for the Harmon baby. Since Violet starts with a V like Vivien, I thought the baby's name could start with a B like Ben's name.)

"Wow," I could hardly say anything.

"What's going on in here?" It was Paul..

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-Lizzie xx