John

Im listening.

* italics and underlined is characters speaking telepathically * *Bold Is characters thoughts*. *and regular text is monologue or actions*

Joey POV (in Masako's bedroom)

"I hope John's okay." Masako mumbled to herself.
"He will be." I said walking up to her.
"You're Joey?"
"Yep! The one and only!" I exclaimed.
"Why are you here?" She asked.
"Because I'm worried about my brother and sisters." I stated.
"Why are you worried? What's wrong?" She asked concern dropping off of every word.
"We are worried that their bastard of a father might try to harm them." Gramma said walking into the room.
"Who are you?" Masako asked.
"I'm Julia Nite. I'm their grandmother." Gramma stated.
"You are their grandmother and Mr. Nite's wife?" Masako asked in shock.
"Yes I am. Is it that surprising? I know how could someone as beautiful as me end up with that old fart?" Gramma laughed.
"I..." Masako started.
"Gramma." I mumbled.
"I'm joking. But anyway look at you darling!" Gramma exclaimed.
"Me?"
"Yes! You! You're gorgeous!" Gramma exclaimed causing Masako to blush.
"Masako. I need your help." I stated quickly before Gramma could say anything else.
"What do you need?" She asked.
"I need you to make sure my brother doesn't do anything stupid. He just told the rest of your team about what our father did and our mother almost heard something she shouldn't have heard."
"What did she almost hear?" Masako asked.
"Did John ever tell you why he never told anybody?"
"He said you wouldn't let him." She stated.
"He's right. I wouldn't let him because our father said that if we told anyone...that he'd kill everyone we cared about, starting with mum and Rosalie."
"But..."
"He said that if we told the police they would take us away from mum, I was scared so I..didn't tell anyone." I admitted.
"John tried to tell a teacher he trusted one day. The next day that teacher was in a wreck."
"That must be a coincidence." Masako mumbled.
"Her brakes were cut. She didn't believe John and confronted our father about the accusations and she paid dearly for her mistake."
"She died?" Masako asked quietly.
"Yes. She did. John still blames himself."
"He saw that bastard at the park. I heard him talking to the red head." Gramma stated.
"His father was at the park and he didn't tell us?"
"Was Nana with you?" I asked.
"Yes."
"That's why." I mumbled.
"Huh?"
"Nana never believed that he was abusive. She is his mother after all. After I died everything came to light. Everyone heard about our father's violent tendencies. So he left the country." I told her.
"Oh." She said quietly.
"We can't move on until they are safe."
"So if their safe you'll all move on? That's you're unfinished business?" She asked.
"Kind of. That's Gramma's unfinished business and mine but not my uncle Max's. He has changed drastically. He's a site bound spirit now. He wants to live again. And it makes him angry that he can't."
"So there is no hope left for him?" Masako asked sadly.
"No. I don't think so."
"Well we can still try." She mumbled to herself.
"Oh how I wish I could have met you when I was alive darling! Jo talked about you like you were an angel sent to earth! You and your team changed him for the better! He cares about you all and now he's scared that his father is going to hurt one of you or Max is going to do something." Gramma exclaimed looking at Masako like she was made of pure gold.
"I wish I could have met you as well." She said sadly.
"Both of you." She mumbled more to herself.
"Well I'm still here and so is Gramma and you can see us so let's get to know each other as much as we can!" I exclaimed.
"Ok!" She said smiling.
She has a beautiful smile. She's perfect for him. And him for her.
"Oh darling you should smile like that all the time!" Gramma exclaimed.
"Thank you." Masako mumbled.
"John and Rosi look a lot like you." She whispered to Gramma.
"Thank you! They are cuties! Aren't they? John and Rosi have always been adorable!" Gramma exclaimed.
They get it from me!" Gramma boasted proudly.
"Well Masako we will talk to you later alright? Rosi and Mai are coming up here and I don't think my sister would like to see me um us at the moment. Gramma come on let's go." I stated.
"Alright. Goodbye darling we will talk soon if that's ok?" Gramma asked hopefully.
"I would like that." Masako admitted.

Masako POV

"Masako who were you talking to?" Mai asked walking through the open door into my room.
"I was talking to myself." I mumbled.
"Oh ok." Mai said looking unconvinced.
"Is everything ok?" I asked although I knew nothing was ok at the moment.
"No. Masako I would like to ask you for a favor." Rosi stated.
What do you want me to do?" I asked.
"I want you to talk to my brother and figure out what he's hiding from us. I'm worried and he will talk to you. He won't even look me in the eyes at the moment." She mumbled.
He won't talk to me because he doesn't want you to get hurt Rosalie.
"Ok? What should I talk to him about?" I asked faking curiosity.
"Ask him what our father threatened him with."
He can't tell me.
"Ok. I'll see what I can find out." I mumbled.
I'm not going to do this to him.
"Thank you Masako! Thank you so much!" Rosi exclaimed I just smiled.
"I heard him talking to Grandpa, Oliver, and Lin. He said our father would hurt someone. I don't know who though. I couldn't make out everything he said from outside the door." She explained.
"I'll see what I can do Rosi." I said walking out of the room.
I need to make sure John is all right.

•.•.• a few minutes later •.•.•

"John? Can I come in?" I asked knocking on his bedroom door.

"Hey." John weakly mumbled opening up the door.
"John?"
"No I'm not okay." He whispered.
"I'm sorry. Do you want to talk about it?" I asked softly.
"I don't know. But on a different note I have Amy Nazomi's contact information, but she doesn't really want to speak with us." He stated emotionlessly.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Well in her email she sent to me she said to "stay the hell out of my life and never contact me again because I don't give a damn about what you have to say. Jamie is dead and gone, so I don't care" and that's when I turned my laptop off and gave up."
"What did you say in your email?" I asked wondering why a mother would act that way.
"Well to sum it all up I asked for her permission to call her on behalf of her daughter. I told her we worked with SPR and that we had contact with her daughter's spirit and that she wanted us to relay a message to her mother and that's about it. It was pretty formal." He stated.
"Well you tried. That's all you can do."
"I know." He muttered.
"Can I come in?"
"Yeah. Sorry come in." John said opening the door up wide enough for me to enter the room.
Should I tell him I saw his brother?
"Masako? What's bothering you?"
"Um well I don't know if I should tell you, but I saw your brother." I stated.
"You saw him? You saw Joey?" John asked.
"Yes I did. We had a conversation."
"He talked to you?"
"Yes. John I know why you didn't and won't tell anyone what your father threatened you with. Joey told me." I whispered.
"Oh." John mumbled.
"I'm sorry."
"You don't have to be sorry. Thank you for telling me." He said softly.
"I don't think Joey wanted me to tell you, but you deserved no needed to know." I admitted.
"And I also um saw um..."
"My Gramma? I doubt that you would hesitate to tell me about Uncle Max. I never knew him." He stated.
"Yes I saw her. She was a very beautiful woman. She's very nice."
"Yes she is um was. Did they tell you why they can't cross over?" John asked.
                  
We can't move on until it's all over. -Joey
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We can't move on until they are safe. -Joey
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They can't move on until Max is gone and the situation involving their father is resolved and over with.

"No they didn't. Sorry." I lied.
"Oh that's ok." John mumbled.

Withholding information is just another form of lying.

★。°。〜 Hi! Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this chapter it took a little longer to write thanks to the fact I had to rewrite half of the chapter before this and left out some information and just some small stuff.
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