Monsters

Chapter 8

Phoenix's P.O.V

"It's six in the morning!" Grey groans as he slouches into the passenger seat of my car after throwing his bag in the boot, his hair and dark T-shirt damp from the early morning snow as I yawn. "You don't think I know that!?" I snap before resting my forehead against the steering wheel and letting out a deep sigh. "I haven't slept a wink all night, we've been sorting through everything for this." I say, hands still holding the wheel as he buckles his seat belt. "So why are you dragging us out of bed to go ghost hunting again?" He asks, catching my yawn which he covers with a hand as I raise my head, but remain slouched forward. "I told you..."

~ Flashback ~

"What's in it?" I ask as Jinx kneels down next to the box, picking up up to place it on the coffee table where Fortuna's weirdly appearing cup of tea was before she left, lifting the lid to peek inside. "Documents..." She said, placing the lid to one side as Denis sinks into the couch by her right, I glance at John before I head round to take the spot at her other side, him following as his arms drop from me. "What kind of documents?" I ask as her brow furrows while she's filing through them. "I don't believe it..." She whispers out, more to herself rather than to any of us as she sinks back onto the couch, eyebrows knitted together in confusion and disbelief as she holds a few of the papers in her hands. "Jinx?" Denis asks softly, one of his arms going behind her as the other goes to her thigh.

"Birth certificates." Is all she said, leaving me to glance back at John again before casting a look over to Denis as Jinx looks at another one of the papers. "What?" John asks, leaning in so his body frames my back. "Seriously. These two are birth certificates. For you two." She explains a little more, making my eyebrows shoot up. "What?" Denis asks, leaning more into her so his chin hovers over her shoulder. "They're birth certificates for you two. But up to date ones. Ones for this century..." She goes on, so I reach forwards and take the documents from her to take a look as she dives her hands back into the box while I read over the birth certificates.

"Holy shit... They look real. Everything about them." I say, handing John his while I keep looking over the one that's for Denis. "My parents signature is even right." John mumbles as I'm handing Denis his certificate to give him a look as Jinx pulls something else from the box. "The passports do as well!" She exclaims, making my eyes widen as she hands me out two leather looking small books. "Passports!?" I call out, taking them in both hands to start flipping through the pages, seeing all the holograms and all the right information, plus pictures of the guys that look like they were taken maybe a few years ago, but John's hair is tucked behind his ears rather than tied back like it was in the picture online, and Denis has his swept out of his face, but not in curtains.

"Drivers licenses too!" Jinx said, giving me out two plastic cards as I send one of my hands either way to give the guys a passport each. "Oh no! I don't want either of these guys on the roads!" I say, taking the drivers licenses to get a closer look at them. "At least we'd make sure to hand the right passport to the right person." I don't even need to look at John as he speaks to know he has a cheeky little smirk on his face while he exchanges passports with the chuckling Denis behind Jinx and I's backs. "I've got a bunch of death certificates here, I think they're for your relatives." Jinx said, emerging from the box with a small stack of papers in hand which she then rests on her lap.

"April Clark, died at forty five." Jinx said, handing over the papers to John, who reaches forward to take a closer look, reading over the other information. "Natasha Sharp, fifty two. Alexander Sharp, forty eight." She goes on, handing a two different certificates over to Denis, casting him a glance as she reads out his parents names and what ages they died. "Anna Oples, thirty nine. Henry Oples, twenty three." She said, handing him the last two after saying what I'm assuming is the names of his sister and his nephew, leaving him to stare at the papers.