Waking The Demons (A Bullet For My Valentine Fic)

Chapter Six

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*Steph POV*

*Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, what do we do? We swim, swim,* I groaned rolling over and grabbing my phone to shut off the alarm that was playing for the second time in five minutes, meaning it was now 10:35.  As much as I loved Dory I had no idea as to why I set her to my alarm tone. I let out another groan as I opened my eyes to see that I hadn’t closed the window last night so I was blinded by the bright light. I kind of regretted drinking so much the previous night. I might have been ok if we would have come straight back and gone to sleep, but as we decided to go for your midnight walk I was now hung over and tired.  When I eventually dragged myself out of bed I gathered my things together and headed down the hall for a cold shower to wake myself up and refresh me. Once that was done I changed into some blue leggings, purple cons, a Motley Crue band tshirt and my nightmare before Christmas hoody. I tied my hair up into a ponytail as it was still wet, and applied my usual eyeliner and mascara. I didn’t bother making too much effort as most of the day would be spent setting up cameras and lighting. Once I was sorted I headed to Emmas room. I knocked on the door but there was no answer so I decided to head downstairs to see if she was about.

Sure enough I was right, she was sat out side with a cigarette in one hand and two Starbucks coffees sat in front of her. She wore a pair of grey skinny jeans, maiden cons, and a black leather jacket along with a red and black checked scarf. Her hair was down and slightly wavy. ‘Finally out of bed huh.’ She laughed as I walked over to her, taking a seat next to her on the bench. ‘I got you a strong coffee, thought you could do with the caffeine hit.’ She handed me one of the drinks.

‘Thank you. You have no idea how much I’m going to enjoy this.’ I said as I took a slow sip as it was still hot. ‘Have you been up long?’

‘Nah. I got up probably about 45 minutes ago. Knocked on your door and you didn’t answer so I guessed you were showering as I heard Dory singing before so knew you were up, so went and took a drive to get some drinks. Nothing beats a fresh Starbucks.’ I nodded in agreement. ‘Yvette, Karl and Stu have already left to go get things sorted, so whenever you are sorted we can take a drive there.’

‘I’ll be good to go once I’ve finished this and grabbed some of the equipment I brought with me.’

‘That’s cool. I’ve got to get my make up bits too, as Yvette wants to get some filming done early this afternoon before we get going with the main event.’

‘Will we be able to come back and change before tonight?’ I asked her.

‘Oh yeah, of course. Once we have set up and the little bit of filming is done we can come back, get changed and ready and then go back.’

I sipped my drink some more, feeling the caffeine wake up my sleepy brain cells. ‘I’m so tired. God knows how I’m going to manage to stay awake tonight.’

‘Join the club. I don’t think we will be the only ones.’

‘Ha, yes that’s very true. Have you heard or seen anything of any of them?’ She shook her head. ‘Still fast asleep no doubt, so in fact it will just be us two snoring away in the corner.’

‘Ah come on, I’m sure we will be fine. You know what it’s like when that adrenaline kicks in, the last thing on your mind is sleep.‘ Emma got up and walked over to the bin throwing the empty drink container in it. I followed doing the same before we both headed inside and back to our rooms to gather the things that each of us would need.

Once we had everything we needed loaded into the back of Emmas car we climbed in and headed towards Newton House. As we drove down the lane we walked down last night we both looked at each other and laughed as we passed the field with the heard of deer in it. It was only a 5 minute drive, if that to the location. We pulled down the long driveway and pulled up just outside of the building. It was a beautiful building, so much nicer up close. (see picture).

Yvette must have heard the car arriving as she was stood in the doorway waving to us both. We both grabbed everything we needed and headed towards here.

‘This place is amazing!’ I said to her as we reached the doorway.

‘Isn’t it just. You wait till you see inside.’ She led the way inside and the doorway opened up to a huge hall with a grand stair case to the left hand side of the room. For some reason I felt a shiver down my spine. Yvette walked to the back of the hall and through a door that led into a large dining room. Karl and Stu were already sorting the lighting equipment out. ‘Steph are you alright helping them get sorted. I need to get beautified.’ She winked making me laugh.

‘Yeah sure no problem.’ With that I headed over to them both. They both said their hellos and told me what needed sorted. My first job was to set up an infrared in the war room, so that the cameras would be able to film during the night. In the room was two old beds pushed up against a wall, a large oak desk, a mannequin with an old fashioned nurse’s uniform, an old fashioned radio and also a wheelchair. Again I felt a shiver down my spine as I entered the room alone. ‘Pull yourself together Niemo.’ I whispered to myself as I began to get set up. It was horrible being alone, for a long while I had the strangest feeling that I was being watched and that someone was sat behind me. I kept checking behind and there was nothing there.

*Emma POV*

It only took me about half an hour to sort Yvettes make up and hair to how she wanted it, after that I was free to help Steph out so that we could get a few bits filmed and head back to the Inn. I jumped out of my skin as I heard her shriek from the room that she was in. I quickly ran through to find her clutching her chest and pointing to the radio.

‘Honest to god, the flipping radio came on all by itself.’ Karl had arrived behind me to make sure that Steph was ok.

‘How, it’s not even got a plug attached to it so how could it just come on?’ I asked as I walked over to it.

‘I swear that it just came on, I have no idea how. It was just making this weird crackling sound, just like an un-tuned radio.’ Karl flipped open his hand held cam, just in case the radio did it again. He asked Steph to tell him again what had happened so he could film her on camera, as she was re-telling him what had happened, the radio made the very same crackling noise that she had described.

‘Do not leave me alone in this room.’ She pointed at me and I had to laugh.

‘Yes boss. I’m free to help you now anyway.’ She nodded and started to mess about by shouting out her orders.

After an hour we were sorted and ready to film a few bits. We headed out to the front of the building and Yvette told a short bit of information to the camera.

‘Set in the middle of this 18th-century landscape park is Newton House which, it is rumoured, is haunted at night mostly by Lady Elinor Cavendish, along with her suitor and various other spirits. Lady Elinor was betrothed to a man she didn’t love and to escape him she sought refuge with her family, followed by her enraged suitor who then strangled her to death. The upper hallways are said to be so active with paranormal goings on that it is no longer open to members of the public.

Staff believe that there are various presences still haunting the house. Lights switch themselves on and off, muffled voices are heard around empty rooms and from time to time there is the unmistakeable aroma of pipe or cigar smoke, along with poltergeist activity and visual sightings.’

‘And that is why we stick together.’ I whispered to Steph as the group headed back inside to film some more about the buildings history. Another hour later and we were free to leave for the afternoon, filming wouldn’t start until 8pm so we had a few hours to get food and rest.