Regret

Chapter Twelve

(Lilly's Dream State)

"M-maria" I said flabbergasted.

"Lilly" she said looking just as shocked as me.

"Oh god no" Michael said in a pained filled voice. Maria and Michael just stood there staring at each other with tear filled eye's.

"Michael hurry up" said Saddie as she came running up to us. "Christian's on his way back we have to go now" she said taking off with Michael and Maria behind her, they kept running till we came to the spot where I woke up in the wood's. "I'll be right back" Saddie said disappearing.

"Hey Michael" I said.

"Hmm"

"You can put me down now" I said.

"Oh shit sorry" he said placing me on a log, once I was situated his attention went to Maria. "Baby what are you doing here"

"I died Michael" she said sadly. "Once I crossed over I kept hearing this voice so I followed it then next thing I know I saw the mansion and then I saw you two" she said.

"You shouldn't be here" Michael said, his voice cracking as tears threatened to over flow from his eye's.

"Baby" she said taking his face between her hand's. "There's no where else I'd rather be than be by your side, I was obviously meant to be here" she said, Michael sadly smiled as she wiped away his tears.

"Ok I'm Back" Saddie said as she and a older man came walking up to us. "This is my dad, he's going to get Lilly out of here"

"How" I asked.

"With this" he said holding a book. "None of this should of ever happened" he said in a frustrated tone.

"How did all this happen" Michael asked.

"I inherited this house from my uncle that I never knew about, well the house also came with money, my wife got greedy" he said sighing. "She started playing around with dark magic, I just over looked it till she started to use it on people, most importantly Christian"

"She was using black magic on her own son" Maria asked in disbelief.

"Sadly yes, believe it or not Christian used to be a good kid" his father said sadly. "That is until his mother got ahold of him"

"So what exactly happened to Christian" I asked.

"She wasn't only using black magic she was also trying to conjure up thing's, I found a bunch of satanic book's in the attic, she said they weren't hers but I knew she was lying, so that night I started packing the kid's and my thing's up I wasn't going to let her do this anymore, I had to stop her before she hurt one of the kid's or worse killed them" he said.

"But you were to late" Michael said.

"I was to late" he said agreeing with him. "I had all the children ready but I couldn't find Christian, I went back in the house to find him in his possessed state"

"So is he the one who killed all of you" Maria asked.

"He killed everyone but me, I killed Christian, I had no other choice, then when realization hit me of what happened, I couldn't bare it so I killed myself" he said in a shaky voice.

"Why are you trapped here" I asked.

"Christian won't let go of his anger, he has us all trapped here" Saddie said.

"What about your mother" Michael asked.

"Christian dammed her to hell" she said.

"How can he do that" Maria asked.

"His mother conjured up a very powerful demon that night" he said.

"Daddy we need to hurry" Saddie said.

"Right, I need you to close your eye's for me" he said as I closed my eye's. I could hear him flipping the page's in the book, then there was a short moment of silence before he started reading. "Lilly open your eye's" he said, I opened my eye's to see it was just me and him in a dark looking tunnel.

"Where are we" I asked.

"Listen to me" he said in a frantic tone. "We don't have much time, I need you to remember this, you need to burn the house down"

"W-what why" I asked.

"It's the glue that's holding everything together, please Lilly don't forget, it's the only thing to set us free" he said in a desperate tone.

"I won't let you down" I said, he just smiled at me and walked away. "Wait" he turned to look at me. "Thank you for helping me and please tell Maria and Michael I love them and I'll miss them" I said.

"I will now you need to go before the portal closes" and with that he disappeared. I looked forward to see a bright light at the end of the tunnel, here we go I thought as I headed towards the light, then everything went white.