Nightmares

The Strange Client

The house was a lot more silent with both Heather and John out. The day before, or night, (it was really hard to tell at the time) we had all been swept into a huge pit by a very unnatural force, that John is currently working hard to solve. I do not approve of him working so hard while he is still recovering at all. Last night when we climbed up the ladder I had John and Heather up on the top ahead of me as i climbed behind them. We were almost to the top of the ladder when Heather passed out. She fell off the ladder and nearly took me down with her. I dodged her falling body and I gasped as I reached out my arm to grasp hers. She dangled there lifeless and the ghosts below her would form anytime Caleb would help John with something because the light would flash out and it would give the ghosts below us a chance to reform their bodies. I watched in horror at the sight of them reaching their ghostly hand to Heather's dangling body in my arms. I heard a shout from above me and looked up and saw Caleb above me on the ladder reaching for my hand. I struggled to grasp it, which was hard considering I had to hold on to Heather as well. After a lot of straining and effort I got a firm hold of his hand and he got a firm hold of mine. He lifted me up and pulled me up to the top of the pit. I would glance behind me every few seconds to see if we were in pursuit and I would see the ghosts clamoring up the ladder. It was terrifying to watch them all come rushing up the ladder towards us. Caleb was too busy hoisting us into the room above us to grab his light and shine it down. 

"Hurry" I said in a panic. He looked down and yelped. He pulled us up faster and i looked behind me to see a shadowy hand of smoke come close to us I closed my eyes and screamed. When I had finally opened my eyes I was in the living room upstairs next to the opening of the ghost pit. panting I fell to the floor in exhaustion and horror of the event that had just passed so quickly before my eyes. Caleb scrambled around for his light.

"Hold this while I go to get more lights" He ran off and I held the light there and watched the ghosts linger there by the opening of the pit, sitting in the middle of our house. The light was just enough to keep them at bay but not enough to destroy them. If they were more in the shadows, in the more of the deeper parts of the pit, I would have been able to disintegrate them there and we would be done. But of course as always there is another problem that makes our job so much harder to do! I am surprised we haven't given up or become depressed children yet. Caleb came back with big lights and he set them up all around the circle. He quickly plugged them in and the light coming from the hit the pit in  the perfect spot. I heard a satisfied screech surround the room and Caleb ran off to the other room covering his ears. I watched happily as the ghosts below me shrieked and died off. There were some who managed to escape into the deeper parts of the cave again, we would have to get that sealed with some iron when someone came to fix it. The ghosts either died or retreated back to their sinful existence, leaving the house at a complete and utter silence. I stood up and flicked the flashlight off. Caleb (who had just came back from the other room) stayed seated on the floor and panted still trying to catch his breath. We stayed there for a while longer until we heard a knock at the door with the paramedics. We opened the door and they silently took Heather and John away to the hospital. They examined us and then left a few hours later. We sat at the kitchen table alone in a trance staring at the pit that had appeared in our living room just hours earlier.

A couple hours later they started to work on fixing the giant hole in our house. By then I had started to work on writing my new book on the computer. I was working hard and typing fast while in the process of eating an apple when the sound of the tools in the room beside us became unbearable. I stood up with a start and knocked my chair over. I huffed and shut my computer. Then I grabbed my bag and the rest of my supplies and walked to the front door, grabbed my keys of the hook in the entry way and left the house. I walked to the garden near my house and sat on one of the benches there. I pulled out my computer again and was about to open it but I sat there and listened to how much more silent it was out there. It was so calming and reminded me of the days when things were so easy. I would give so much just to live a day in those times again. The birds chirping all around me and the sound of the leaves rustling in the trees and when things were carefree and it was those kinds of things that would give you a happy awakening in the morning.

I opened my laptop again and was about to get to my writing again when a girl came up to me.

"excuse me, are you Emma?" "the Emma who runs the group of Unnaturals?" She asked me. I looked up. 

"I need your help"

I was baffled at the fact that this random lady on this super cloudy day happens to be outside in the park at the same time I was and knew who I was and my name and everything. It was creepy like she was stalking me. I thought it was awesome that she needed our help I mean we haven't had a case in forever. I sprang up next to her off my bench and dropped my sketchbook and and pencils into the grass. 

"Awesome! um I'm Emma, but of course you already knew that, which was weird." 

"uh yeah. Anyways I have an issue that I need help with, an uh Paranormal issue if you will." "I believe it is something only the 'Unnaturals' can solve." She said to me in a snotty voice as she rolled her eyes. My smile quickly faded and I was so not liking her right then. But then I realized that if I blew this we would never get this job. The job that we desperately needed.

"Uh okay" I said and I hurriedly packed my things, talking away. I stood up enthusiastically and said, "Alright Lets go back to the house to get you interviewed." And we marched over to my loud house and my teammate.