The lost child

The basement

Mark's POV~

Anti started to pace and I could feel Jack tense up. I heard Vicki let out a shaky breath. Jesse looks at me a moment and looks down.
"Mark, I'm sorry. I should have told you sooner." She looks as if she's about to cry, I had honestly thought demons didn't have tear ducts.

I sigh and glance at Anti who had stopped pacing to look at his daughter. He faced away with his face twisting in pain trying to figure out what's going on.

"It's alright Jesse. . . . You were right though." I say trying to comfort her.

"Right about what?"

I chuckle and start walking to the basement door, signaling for everyone to follow. I press a button on the knob and type a code into the keypad that appeared.

"Mark, you said we wouldn't go down there unless an intergalactic war started." Jack says in uncertainty.

"Why would there be an intergalactic war?" Dark asks.

I just look at him.

"Oh, right."

I open the door and start to walk down the stairs. I hear them follow me, then the alarms go off saying "WARNING: DARK, ANTI, AND OTHER DEMONS ENTERING RESTRICTED AREA". I hit the button on the wall and sigh.

"Pretty precautionary don't you think Mark? Oh and shouldn't you be in jail?" Anti asks.

I hear Jack freeze and turn to him. Everyone stops.

"Jack it's okay. He's just trying to get into your head." I say resting a hand on his shoulder.

"He's got a point uncle Jack." Vicki says hugging him tightly.

Jack sighs and walks past me. I catch Anti as he walks past me.

"What's your problem? It's bad enough that you influenced him to cut himself after Justin got the cops, did you really have to remind him?"

"Oh yeah, I did do that. How is his arm?"

"Anti that's enough. We aren't here to torture them, we're here to find out why Jesse won't come home and why Vicki is having these dreams." Dark says, for once he's the sensible one out of the two.

"Fine. Whatever." Anti says pushing past me.

I look at Dark and he sighs.

"You know what we have to do."

"He won't listen to him any more than the two of us." I tell him.

"Yeah, I know. But we will later."

"Especially if we want the computer to work properly."

We walk in to a big room that has a stairwell down to the floor. On the wall is a large computer with two holes for the "keys". It has a small keypad and a larger one above that. Beside the computer is a tank that is empty and the lights are turned off. One the other side is a small chair with a small spot lighter than the rest. Looks as is if Tiny box Tim and Septiceye Sam haven't been here in years. This won't work without them. Sam and Tim are astonished at all of this.

"Dads, how did you keep this hidden for 10 years?" Tim asks.

I chuckle and explain that I kept the door to here blocked with a code and boxes so that if they ever did some how manage to get passed the door they wouldn't see this door.

"Wow. . . What used to be in here?" Sam asks pointing to the tank.

I chuckle, "That's where Septiceye Sam  used to be, but it looks like him and Tim stopped monitoring years ago." I look around a little, I see a small door and look at it remembering when Tim and Sam would go in to that small room to sleep.