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Dec. 26, 2025

After Christmas Horror Stories: Scary Christmas Novella Double Feature

After Christmas Horror Stories: Scary Christmas Novella Double Feature
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Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature—two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels closer.

This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dread, winter nightmares, and the kind of holiday terror that hits harder once the cheer fades.

Stories in this double feature (in order):

- Mirror Images — by Rob Fields — A sinister mirror doesn’t just reflect… it replaces, spawning twisted doubles that want your life more than you do.
- A Vampire’s Holiday — by Rob Fields — A vampire crashes into Strickfield with appetite and ambition, turning Christmas into a hunting season—and dragging everyone into a cold, violent showdown.

Across the full lineup, holiday horror, vampire horror, and winter isolation take different forms, giving every segment its own dramatic hook while maintaining the collection’s larger mood.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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All right, my spookies, Christmas is over. The wrapping papers

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in the trash, the cookies are stale, and the lights

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are still up because none of us have the energy

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to admit the season has ended. Which is perfect because

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the day after Christmas is when the world gets quiet

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enough for the weird stuff to start moving again. The

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crowds go home, the stores they go dark, the cheer

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drains out of the air, and what's left is cold

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and still tonight. You're getting a double feature of holiday horror,

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two big nasty gifts with the tags ripped off, a

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sort of spooky swan song for the holiday. First, we've

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got mirrors, but the kind that don't just reflect you.

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They study you, measure you, and sometimes decide they could

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do your life better than you ever did. Then we're

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going to take a hard left into the world of vampires,

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where the holidays aren't about tradition, they're about appetite. And

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if you think post Christmas means the danger is gone,

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you've clearly never met something that doesn't care what day

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it is. So pour yourself something warm, keep your back

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to a wall, and if your reflection starts smiling a

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little later than you do, whatever you do, don't smile

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back and make sure you're subscribed for all the spooky

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goodness coming in the remainder of the year and in

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twenty twenty six. But now let's settle in for the

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first story. Mirror images by Rob Fields, Monday, December eighteenth. Perspective,

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Richie Horton, Why does this always happen to me? Why

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does buzz Hitzigger feel he's always got to come after me?

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For I did ask him one day why he keeps

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giving me a hard time? Cause you exist, he belted out.

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Today must have been one of those days when he

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came to Strickfield Junior High hating the world. It didn't

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take him long to come right after me. I've been

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managing to avoid him throughout school. When you know your

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way around the building well enough, you know where you

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can lose Hitzigger when he's looking for you. As soon

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as we were done with the school day, he was

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on his bike and chasing me down. The problem is,

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I'm on foot. I can only cut through so many

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yards before Hitzigger is going to finally get me. Bill

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Chapman keeps telling me I ought to go out for

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track in the spring. He's probably right, since I'm in

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great shape with all the running I have to do.

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You stop right there, wimp, hit Zigger yells from across

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the street. I'm gonna pulpe you good when I get you.

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He's almost got me when I grab a trash can

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and pull it behind me. He's yelling some choice words

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when he tries stopping and slides onto his side. I'm

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putting more distance in between us. Hit Zigger's twice my

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size around the mid section. He's still able to get

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up fast and get back on his bike. You're dead, Horton.

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You hear me, D e D He yells, I'm cutting

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through another yard and end up on Pleasant Valley Road. Unfortunately,

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it isn't long before hit Zigger finds me again. I'm

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pouring it on when I hear his heavy grunting. It's

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only going to be a few more seconds before he

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grabs me. I suddenly turn and run along the side

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of a brick wall to escape. He's yelling more choice

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words before he's got to stop. You can't run for

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me forever, Horton. Hitzigger yells, you gotta take your fist

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beaten sooner or later, and then I do stop running.

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But not because of Hitzigger. I stop because I'm looking

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right at the old Carnivosh estate. I can't believe I

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really ran from Strickfield Junior High all the way out here.

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You stop right there, hit Zigger, yells. I don't have

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a choice. I quickly grab the top of the wall

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and scale it. Then I jump and land on the

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other side. The next thing I know, hit Zigger's coming

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up over the wall himself, or trying to. When his

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feet slip down the wall, I take off again. Now

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I've got another problem. There's no way I can climb

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over the high vine covered fence. I run to the

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wall on the other side. As I'm ready to scale it,

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this big dog is right there and barking at me.

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When I get away from the wall, I see Hitzigger

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coming and start running again. I realize the only way

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I can possibly lose him is to do the unthinkable.

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I have to go inside the Carnivosh estate. I remember

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being in there back when we all ended up in

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nineteen fifty five in a freak occurrence last Halloween, just

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after Chapman, Chunker and I came back to the Mortal realm.

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But looking at this old mansion. Now you just know

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it's empty, not to mention scary. I make it to

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the back double doors and stay out of sight as

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Hitzigger runs right past me. When I reconsider running back

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to the wall I used to come in, one of

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the doors opens. I slip inside and close the door quietly.

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I'm safe in here, assuming hit Zigger didn't see me

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come in. I quietly lock the doors and move away slowly.

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I know you're around here somewhere, Horton. You'll whim. I

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hear hit Zigger yell. You either come and face me now,

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or I'll give you a double beating at school tomorrow.

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At least it's a little warmer inside this creepy house.

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I don't know how long I'll have to stick it

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out in here. Knowing hit Zigger, he'll try lulling me

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into a false sense of security. When I come out,

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he'll spring out and get me. I start walking through

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the carnivosh estate. Now the floor is squeaking underneath me.

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Suddenly I hear Hitzigger crashing against one of the back doors.

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I move through the house faster. As I turn down

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a hallway, I hear one of the doors give way. Yeah,

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I'll bet you ain't here, ain't you? I hear him sneering.

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I ain't afraid of no house. If you're in here,

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I'll find you. I continue moving quietly down the hallway

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until I come to two doors across from each other.

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I open one of them to reveal a room full

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of magic stuff. Then I got an idea. I open

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the other door and slam it hard. Next, I go

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into the room I just found and quietly close the door.

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Seeing this big mirror, I go and hide behind it.

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I hear Hitzigger coming to the doors. Now he's opening

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the one I slammed and moving downstairs. Time to get

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out of here. I stand up and suddenly see myself

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in that big mirror. Whew, at least I didn't scream.

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Then I noticed the glass has this weird red hue.

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From a distance, you can't really see it when you're

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right up to the glass though. Okay, enough hanging around.

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I'd better get out of here. I open the door

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and quietly see the basement doors open across from me.

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I slip out and start making my way to the

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open back door. So far, so good. As I'm coming outside,

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a hand grabs my shoulders, and pulls me. Oh no

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o oh, hit Zigger was waiting to trap me about

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time I found you, Horton perspective Carter Cross. Horton calms

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down when he sees it's me hit Zigger chasing you again,

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I ask him. He points behind him with his thumb.

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He's in there. I point over my shoulder. Madeline's out front.

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Go to her. I got this. I stay and wait.

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Soon bull Hitzigger comes barreling out. That's when I slap

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him on the back. Uh you dead, meet Horton, he yells,

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before turning around. Surprise. I tell him I saw you

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chasing Horton again. What did I tell you about leaving

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him alone any other time? Hit Zigger backs off. This

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time he points right at me. You alone, Cross, ain't

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got your other friends with you. He pounds a fist

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into his palm. I can take you. I'm ready for him.

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Show me what you got, fat boy. When Hitzigger comes

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at me, I easily sidestep him, so he trips back

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inside the house and falls. When he's on his feet again,

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he comes back out and takes a wild swing at me.

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I duck it to grab him and put him in

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a hammer lock. Then I shove him up against the

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other door and make him cry out, what's that about

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you taking me irving? I ask, don't you call me that?

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He yells I'm gonna kill you. I'm sorry, What did

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you say? Then I crank up the hammer lock again. Okay, okay, uncle, uncle.

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He yells, you gonna leave Horton alone. I persist, cranking

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on his arm one more time. Yes, I'll leave the

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wind alone. Let me go, he wails. Before I let

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him go, I pull him away from the wall to

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turn and shove him towards the few steps leading up

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to the back doors. He stumbles down the but doesn't fall.

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Then hit Zigger turns and sneers at me. I point

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right at him. You better remember, Horton's got friends, something

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you're in very short supply of. Now get lost, hit

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Zigger points at me. Now, you ain't always gonna be

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there to protect him. I shrug. That's why Chapman and

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Chunker are around too, Or did you forget what happened

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when you cross Chapman last time? For the record, hit

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Zigger tried fighting Chapman to get to Horton. I was

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a sweetheart today compared to when Chapman decked him. Chapman

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looks like a hood and can back up what he says. Honestly,

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He's real easy going until you cross him. Hit Zigger

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crossed him. When he sees he ain't getting Horton, he

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yells a choice word before going back over the fence.

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It took a few tries. He gets back on his

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bike and rides away. I move across the yard and

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find Madeline Donnerly sitting on her mong goose and Horton

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sitting on mine. I take it you handled things, buddy,

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Madeleine asks, in her mousey voice. Yeah, he got the point.

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I tell her today anyway, You okay, Horton. Horton smirks. Yeah,

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he didn't get me at least today. What did you

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do this time, Madeline asks him. Horton shrugs nothing. I

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swear he saw me and Bailey downs together at bobble

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Topia yesterday. Then today he comes to school and comes

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right after me in the hallway. You don't suppose he's

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got a thing for Bailey, do you? Madeline shakes her

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head a little. Nah, I can't see it. Also, Bailey

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would have said something to the rest of us well,

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at least as girls. Then I point to the house.

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I can't believe you actually went in there. Dude, you

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do know what this place is, right? Or did Hitzigger

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clock you and you don't remember. Had to make a

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quick decision, Carter, he says, simply cross Horton, Maddie. A

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familiar voice calls out, we turned to see Bill Chapman coming.

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He points right at us. You guys see hit Zigger.

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I saw him chasing after Horton. Carter got him before

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you did. Madeline tells him, sorry, buddy, didn't know you

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were chasing hit Zigger too. I tell Chapman. He gently

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smacks my shoulder. Hey, you're okay, Cross. I told Hitzigger

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I'd kill him if he didn't leave Horton alone. He

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just doesn't listen. Glad you were there. I guess we

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both saw him. I said, we're good. Chapman turns to Horton.

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You good, I'm good, Horton confirms. Then Chapman looks at

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the house. It don't take him long to put two

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and two together. You ran in there, Horton shrugs, like,

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I just told these guys. It was a quick decision.

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Either I face hit Zigger or hiding there besides him

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before I left. Then Horton's telling us about this magic

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room he found. Magic room, Chapman asks, we all know

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what kind of magic the Carnivoches were into. Huh, don't

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remind us, Madeline mutters. Then Horton tells us about this

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weird antique mirror he looked at in that magic room. Oh,

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I gotta see this room, Chapman says, I put my

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hand on his shoulder. Dude, this is supposed to be

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a real haunted house here in Strickfield for many reasons.

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The last story Madeline and me read about it on

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the Strickfield University website was how these two Strickfield High

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girls through this big Halloween party. There didn't take long

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for things to go south fast when this monster showed

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up and crashed the party. One of the girls was

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a mirror. No one's ever seen her again? What about

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the mirrns? Carter a voice side kind of rather not

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here right now, calls out. We all turn to see

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Ariel Miran coming. Then she points right at me. You're

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gonna be on the Strickfield University website if you don't

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quit posting videos of me in that rotten goober Stewart

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on Facebook. I kind of look at Madeline now. She

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just shrugs. You're the one who likes tempting fate with Ariel, buddy.

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Then Ariel forgets she's mad at me when she sees

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where we're all gathered at. Seriously, are you people crazy?

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There are plenty of places to hang out in Strickfield,

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and you're all hanging out here. Hello, this is the

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Carnivosha State. Chapman looks her way. We didn't plan on

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meeting here, Cross and me. We're chasing down hit Zigger

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when he was chasing down Horton. Ariel looks at Horton, now,

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and you had to come here? Horton gives her a

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weak smile. Which would you choose hit Zigger's fists or

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the haunted House? It's a rock and a hard place.

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But then Chapman speaks up again. I want to see

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this magic room Horton was talking about. Ariel slaps his arm.

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I guess you are stupid. Chapman points at me and Horton.

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These two were just in there and came back out. Okay, besides,

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it's still daylight yet, it ain't gonna be dark for

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another hour. We just go in, look at Horton's room,

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and come back out. One of us can stay by

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the door just in case. Uh. I agree with Ariel,

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Madeline says, I don't think we ought to be tempting

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fate here, Maddie, it's just for a few minutes. Chapman persists. Besides,

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I'm curious on what else these carnivoches are into since

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we kind of came here on Halloween night, nothing doing.

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There's no talking Chapman out of this. I point at him. Okay,

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but I'm coming in with you. Somebody's got to have

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your back in case something happens. That's fine, Chapman agrees.

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Then Ariel snatches my arm. No, Carter, no, I'm ready

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to shake Ariel off. But then our eyes meet. Why

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does this always happen whenever Ariel and me are together.

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Don't get me wrong, Ariel and me have been on

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each other's nerves since the third grade. But there's times

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when we really do get along. Only lately Ariel and

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me have been Madeline knows there's something happening between me

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and Ariel. I'll admit it. I really like her. She's

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really a nice person. When she's not putting up her

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mirror and shield. Then Chapman slaps my arm. Just kiss

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her already. When Ariel and me look at him, She's

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growling and ready to slap him. I hate you, Chapman,

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I point at him seriously, Buddy, I'm gonna kill you.

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Chapman laughs, Hey, dude, I'm just calling it like I

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see it. Then Ariel points at Madeline. I see you

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biting on your lower lip. Mouse, go on, laugh it up.

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She growls again. When Madeline does just that, I hate

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you Mouse. Then Chapman starts walking toward the house. I'll

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be right back, I sigh, and look at the others.

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I said I'd go in with him, Carter, Ariel calls out.

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When I'm trotting after Chapman perspective, Madeline donnerly, when I'm

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seeing two of my buddies going in, I hop off

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my mongoose. Then Ariel grabs my arm. You are not

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thinking of going in there, I shrug. There are friends, Ariel.

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I ain't gonna just leave him to go on like that. Besides,

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Carter would do the same for me. Ariel points to Horton,

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this is your fault, bean Pole. Then she groans, fine, mouse,

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I'm coming with you. Wait for me. Horton squeaks, I'm

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not staying out here by myself. Who knows if Hitzigger

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might come back? Good thinking, I say, let's be honest here,

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this little mouse. He still ain't forgotten about going back

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to nineteen fifty five and spending a whole week in

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this house. Back then, the place was still nice, but

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it still had that creepy vibe to it. But you

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didn't have to worry about whether you were gonna come

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back out the same way you went in. We're all

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at the back doors now. Carter and Chapman already went in.

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Horton goes back inside. The room's over here, guys. Then

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Ariel and me are looking at each other kind of saying,

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we can't let the guys go in by themselves. So

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Ariel and me go in. I think I was expecting

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the door to suddenly slam shut right behind us, but

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it didn't. It ain't long before we find the guys

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in the room. Horton found he was right. There's all

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kinds of magic stuff in here, Not like the kind

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of magic the Carnivoches are known for. This is all

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illusion like the rabbit out of the hat kind of stuff.

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Chapman's looking at one of them boxes where somebody gets

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inside and the magician saws it in half. Man, I

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wonder how this trick really works. Carter points to it

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as he's raising a saw. Get in and let's find out.

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Chapman laughs, No way. Carter laughs too, and puts the

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saw back down. Now we're all seeing that mirror Horton

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was talking about. Soon we're gathering round it. Horton points

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to it. See like I was telling you, guys, there's

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some kind of red tint or hue. When you're close

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enough to the glass. Everybody else is looking in the mirror,

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we do see the redness Horton was talking about. When

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they finished checking the mirror out, I come and stand

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in front of it. What the Chapman gasps, You guys

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seeing this mouse aerial chokes? Is there something you want

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to tell us, Madeline, Carter asks, just as shocked. Yeah,

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I ain't believing this myself. Seriously, I'm looking straight at

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the glass, but there ain't another me looking back. I

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can see the reflection of the rest of the room

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and the others around me. Just know me, You're not

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a vampire, right, Horton asks, sounding kind of scared. I

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raise my finger. I ain't getting this, you guys, But

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I do know I ain't no vampire. But you ain't

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casting no reflection. Chapman's stressing, vampires don't cast no reflection.

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I turn around and raise my hand in front of me.

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Honest to goodness, you guys, I ain't no vampire. I

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point to the open back door. I've been out in

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daylight all day, right, I've been in classes at school

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with all of you. Then I get an idea and

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pull out my compact I used to talk to or

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Somemon Mary Worth. Then I turn back around and show

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everybody I got a reflection in it. This is so weird,

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Ariel mutters. Then she pulls her own compact out and

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stands next to me. Mouse reflects in mine too. But

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why ain't you reflecting in this big mirror, Maddie, Chapman asks, puzzled,

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I shrug. Your guess is as good as mine. I

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don't know what to tell you. Then Horton hands me

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a candy bar. Eat this. Vampires aren't supposed to be

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able to eat anything, right, Not true? Bella tabon or

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Bell's is the only vampire I know that can eat

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food and walk in the daylight. Other than that, Horton's

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right about vampires not being able to eat normal food.

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Far as I know, they can drink blood, and that's

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it anyway. I accept the candy bar and eat it

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in front of everybody. Okay, you all saw that, Carter says,

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come in to my side. Madeline passed our tests, so

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she ain't a vampire. Hold it, let's check her teeth,

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Ariel says, Open up, mouse. Suddenly I'm raising my hands

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into claws. Bla blay. Ariel shrieks, getting everybody else laughing.

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Then Ariel's glaring right at me. Oh, I hate you mouse. Sorry,

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I couldn't resist, I chirp. Then I open my mouth

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and let Ariel feel my canine teeth. They're pretty much

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the same size as everybody else's. Better be careful, Princess,

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Carter warns her Madeline just might be a vampire, and

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chomp down on your fingers. When Ariel's ready to get

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on Carter, I lean in toward her. Blea bleaur. Ariel

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gasps and gets out everybody laughing again. She tightens her

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fists and growls, I hate you mouse, Then she calms down. Still,

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why don't you cast a reflection in this particular mirror?

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That's something I want to know the answer to myself.

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I know who I gotta talk to for that later on. Okay,

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now can we get out of here? I ask? I

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would have expected Ariel to give me a hard time

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about being scared. Yeah, this little mousey's a little scared,

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but not because we're inside the Carnivosha State. I really

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want to know why ain't casting no reflection in that mirror? Also,

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when the others weren't looking, I looked again to see

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if Mary Worth would appear, and she didn't. Not concrete proof,

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though Mary might have just been keeping out of sight

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so she wouldn't be seen. The five of us finally

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leave the Carnivosha State and head back to our bikes.

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We look for any signs of Irvin Hitzigger, but we

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ain't seen him around. But you just know he's gonna

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try for Horton again when he knows none of us

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are around. Thinking about it, hit Zigger did kind of

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give up on Horton for a little bit and started

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coming after me. Believe it or not, I ain't afraid

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of Hitzigger. Try as he might, he never could get

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a hold of me. Nah, this little Mouseie's way too

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wily for someone like Hitzigger. He even tried catching me

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on bikes. All hit Zigger can do is ride, and

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he ain't even good at doing that. I've been riding

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with Carter Cross for years. We actually won bike competitions together,

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so I could easily ride circles around hit Zigger. I

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don't know for sure if Hitzigger finally gave up on

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me and went back to Horton, but he'll never catch

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this little mouseie on her best day. After making sure

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Horton and Ariel get back home, okay, Chapman heads off

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to his house, Carter and me are riding to our

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part of downtown village. We pull in the driveway between

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our houses and get off our bikes. You sure you're okay, Madeline?

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Carter asks, Ah, come on, buddy, you still thinking I'm

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a vampire? I sigh, Okay, what other vampire test you

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want me to do? He holds up his hand. Nah,

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we're good. I believe you. I just keep wondering why

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you didn't reflect in that Carnivoche mirror. I take Carter's hand.

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I promise you, I'm okay, buddy. Just then the back

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door opens. Mom's right there. You kids want to come

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in for something warm. I turn her way. Coffee. Mom smiles,

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fresh maid. I brighten up. Yes, Carter and me go inside.

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Mom had peppermint hot chocolate going too, which is what

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she gave Carter. Carter watches me drink my ginger dead

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death Wish coffee. He also sees me eat a few

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Christmas cookies Mom made. Nah, he don't think I'm a vampire.

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He just worries about me like a best buddy would.

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After a while, Carter leaves and heads back home to

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finish up on homework. I head upstairs and into the bathroom.

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Sure enough, Mary Worth's waiting for me. You know what

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happened earlier, I asked her. I was able to hear

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your conversation once you an Ariel opened up your compacts.

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Mary replies, I did not have the chance to look

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over that mirror, but I have a bad feeling about it.

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I'm thinking maybe i'd better keep an eye on everybody

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and see I say, I shall do the same, since

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I have access to their mirrors. Mary promises, I just

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got a bad feeling myself, same as you. It's the

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Carnivosh estate, after all, I tell her, I'm afraid we

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may only wait and see Madeleine. We end our conversation

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from there. I head back down to help mom with dinner.

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Dad'll be home in a little while. I got a feeling,

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my mousey sense, my t tell me ain't gonna stop

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panging for a while. Tuesday, December nineteenth, Perspective, Ariel Miron,

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Mouse and I walk home from school together. I don't

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know what happened to Mona Abels and Bailey downs. Oh wait,

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I think Bailey's working with Horton on some project at

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Strickfield Public Library. I just hope Irving hit Zigger isn't

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waiting somewhere to jump Horton again. Oh he tried giving

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me a hard time, but he's just a coward deep down.

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Irving is bigger and fatter than me. But I don't

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back down from anybody, not even my own mom. When

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we reach the side door next to the main gate,

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I ask Mouse if she wants to come in with me. Yeah,

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I can study with you for a little while, she replies.

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I punch in the gatecode for us to go in.

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After I close the door, we walk to my house

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a few blocks down and off Capitol Court. As soon

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as we're inside, I'm ready to call out to Mom

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and let her know I'm home, like she really cares

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whether I'm here or not. But on this particular day,

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Mom does care. She suddenly comes right out of the

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downstairs hallway and grabs hold of my shoulders. Why would

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you do such a thing, Aeriel Renaissance mirror. Then I'm

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seeing my little four year old goober of a cousin

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just behind her. Now I'm looking Mom in the face.

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What do you mean do what? I just got home

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from school, ask Madeline. Here she walked with me. I've

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seen Mom at her worst before, but this time, if

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I didn't know any better, I'd swear she's ready to

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literally skin me alive. She takes her hands off one shoulder,

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clamps down on the other one, and makes me come

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into the grand dining room. Look at it, she roars.

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I put my hands to my mouth and gasp. This

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is where we usually eat dinner at night, but you

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wouldn't know it. Now. Then I hear mouse gasp behind me.

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I'm half expecting Mom to point at mouse and order

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her to leave, but she never makes so much as

446
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:13.559
a single glance at her. Getting back to the grand

447
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:18.799
dining room, it's completely wrecked. Two of the china cabinets

448
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:21.559
are tipped over, and many of the antique dishes and

449
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:25.440
cups are shattered. Mom mentioned how expensive they were in

450
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:29.720
the past. The cabinets themselves are antique, and the glass

451
00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:33.119
is shattered out on those doors. If that's not enough,

452
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:36.599
all of the old oak chairs are busted up. Even

453
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.359
the grand table is all scratched. I mean, this very

454
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:45.279
room was all full of priceless antiques. Then Mom turns

455
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.359
me to face her and starts shaking me. Why would

456
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.640
you do this? Why? She shoves me away. I've always

457
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:55.640
known you were a spoiled brat, Aeriel, but this is

458
00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.400
just too much. I tighten my fists. What are you

459
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:04.640
talking about, I yelled back, I didn't do anything to

460
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.640
this room. Then I see Stuart pointing at me and

461
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.039
snickering where Mom can't see him. I rush right around

462
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.279
her and grab his shoulders. Did you do this, you

463
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:20.160
rotten little goober? Did you? Stuart responds by kicking me

464
00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:24.000
hard in the shin. That's when Mom turns me back around.

465
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:28.160
Oh no, you don't, child, You come with me this instant.

466
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:31.480
Mom brings me to her office where she codes her

467
00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:34.759
computer games. I rarely ever come in here. In fact,

468
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:38.359
Mom never likes me to disturb her while she's working,

469
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.440
unless it's a real emergency period. She shoves me to

470
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:46.799
her computer and points to some security footage. Now I'm

471
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:54.880
gasping when I see something impossible. That's right, aerial renaissance mirror.

472
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.359
Mom snaps, that is you in that security footage. There's

473
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.079
no way that you can deny it, don't you dare?

474
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.519
Put the blame on Stewart. He was with me the

475
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:09.000
entire afternoon. Then Mouse steps up and points to the

476
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:12.680
time listed on the upper left square. Is this the

477
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.720
correct time the video was recorded? Missus mirn Mom looks

478
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:19.640
at Mouse like she's out of line. She seems ready

479
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.440
to yell at her, but she doesn't. Yes, it is Madeline.

480
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:27.599
Why do you ask? Well? If this happened at two

481
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:32.240
four pm today? Mouse looks right at Mom. Ariel and

482
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.599
I were in eighth period at school at that time.

483
00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.160
Ariel's in all of my classes with me, Missus Mirron.

484
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:43.119
I nod fast. Yeah, yeah, that's right, Mom, I've been

485
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:46.200
in school all day. You can go to school and

486
00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:49.279
ask all my teachers. You can ask all my friends.

487
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:53.039
Madeline's right, we're in every class together. How could I

488
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:55.839
have come home and wrecked the Grand dining room while

489
00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:00.319
I'm still at school? But Mom isn't buying it. The

490
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.440
camera footage clearly shows you, Ariel, and you wrecked the

491
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:06.640
Grand dining room. I have a good mind to send

492
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.359
you to live with other relatives. You're just getting to

493
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:13.960
be too much anymore. But I didn't do this, Mom,

494
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:18.279
I protest, didn't you hear Madeline? We were in school

495
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:24.519
together all day, all day. Mom again, I've got lots

496
00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:29.319
of witnesses. Mouse taps my forearm. Take out your test.

497
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:33.000
I quickly open my backpack and take out my test paper.

498
00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:37.200
Madeline and I were taking this test during eighth period,

499
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.720
right at the time she pointed to on that screen.

500
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:43.359
I'm sorry, Mom, but I'm not taking the blame for

501
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:47.160
doing this. Mom snatches up the test paper and looks

502
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:50.759
at it. Then she rips it right up in front

503
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.839
of me, throwing the remains on the floor. She puts

504
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:56.880
her finger right in my face. Now, you can't talk

505
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.680
your way out of this, you little monster. Then she

506
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.240
points to the computer screen again. That is obviously you

507
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:10.599
on all of these angles, and that's not all you did. Suddenly,

508
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:12.920
Mom grabs my arm and pulls me out of the

509
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:17.039
living room. When we're there, she shoves me in. I

510
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:21.279
gasp when I see the living room itself is also wrecked.

511
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.960
What do you have to say for yourself? Mom scolds me.

512
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.200
You weren't content with destroying the grand dining room. You

513
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.680
also had to destroy the living room. Look what you

514
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.000
did to the Christmas tree and all the presents. Now,

515
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.920
she turns me around. Do you realize how much money

516
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:42.279
it's going to cost to restore everything that you destroyed today?

517
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.680
I'm seeing Mouse behind her giving me that look. No,

518
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.200
she's not scared of me. She's scared of what I'm

519
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.359
about to do. I'm tightening my fists and heaving now.

520
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.720
Then I point at my mom and scream, I didn't

521
00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:01.160
do this. I'm so beyond I'm mad right now that

522
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:03.599
I run to grab something and throw it at Mom.

523
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.759
But then Mouse is right there to stop me. No,

524
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.920
don't do it, Ariel. I'm looking Mouse in the face

525
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.199
as she's shaking her head quickly. No, Madeline, step aside.

526
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.039
Mom tells her, let Ariel throw that debris in her

527
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.159
hand at me. Show me how much you truly hate me, Ariel,

528
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:26.719
do it. When I see Mouse's pleading face, I shake

529
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:29.159
my head myself and drop the thing in my hand.

530
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.760
If you know me by now, you know I give

531
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:35.440
Mouse a hard time. At the same time, you also

532
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.760
know that I truly cherish my friendship with her. I

533
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.239
couldn't tell you how many times Madeline Donnerly has proven

534
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.559
to be my conscience in extremely bad situations. I take

535
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:49.599
a deep breath and look at Mom. I don't care

536
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:53.360
what your camera footage says. I'm sticking by what I said.

537
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:56.480
I didn't do any of this, and I've got witnesses

538
00:34:56.519 --> 00:35:00.599
to confirm where I was. Mom still won't back down either.

539
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:06.159
She sighs now. I see, well, then, Ariel, since it

540
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:10.840
seems you've grown too wild beyond my control, I want

541
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:13.480
you out of my house. I gave you a good home.

542
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.079
I've let you have your slumber parties on Friday nights

543
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:18.559
with your friends. I've usually let you have your way

544
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.679
in most instances, but you went too far this time.

545
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.119
I've tried to teach you how to be a dominant

546
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:26.960
miran but this is not what I had in mind.

547
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.440
I mean it, child, get out of my house. Normally,

548
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.039
I have tried to be a dominant miran. I've tried

549
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.719
to be more like Mom. But I can't handle this anymore.

550
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.360
My feelings become too much and I start crying. Mom

551
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.199
and I have always had a strained relationship, but now

552
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.519
this horrible thing has happened. I really don't know how

553
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:56.000
to fix this. Mouse even vouched for me, but I

554
00:35:56.079 --> 00:36:00.840
can't prove it wasn't me. No, Ariel, you don't get

555
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.599
to do this. Mom snaps, Go pack what you need

556
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.760
and get out of my house. You think you don't

557
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.280
have to listen to me anymore, then leave here and

558
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.800
go make your own way in the world. Then Mouse

559
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:18.519
says to her, I'm telling you it wasn't Ariel, missus Miron. Now.

560
00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:22.719
Mom gives Mouse this weird look, then she approaches her

561
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:27.639
and puts her hand on Mouse's shoulder. Madeline, you've always

562
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.519
been the most level headed person among Ariel's friends that

563
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:34.760
I know. I know your mother, so I feel that

564
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:38.360
I also know you. So I'm going to ask you nicely.

565
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:43.039
Would you please stop trying to cover up for Ariel?

566
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:48.760
Mouse remains calm and doesn't back down. Ariel didn't do this, ma'am,

567
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.639
and I'm gonna stand by that Ariel really was with

568
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:56.119
me at school all day Again, she's in all of

569
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:00.519
my classes. Please just ask our teachers. They'll all tell

570
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:04.000
you she was in their classes today. Then how do

571
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:10.599
you explain the video footage? Mom persists, I can't. Mouse replies,

572
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.840
I'm just as puzzled myself. But I do know Ariel

573
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.559
was with me all day at school. I even walked

574
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.599
home with her. I promise I ain't lying to you. Also,

575
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:24.239
Carter Cross is in our eighth period class with us.

576
00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:29.639
He'll also tell you Ariel was there. Now. Mom seems conflicted.

577
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.599
Then she takes a deep breath. What did Ariel threaten

578
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:39.199
you with? Madeline? What? Mouse and I both cry out together.

579
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.159
Mom points at Mouse. I would have expected better from you,

580
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:49.440
Madeline Donnerly, Seriously, what did Ariel threaten you with? Now?

581
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.840
She looks right at me. I myself taught you the

582
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:56.079
mere in ways. So what did you threaten little Madeline

583
00:37:56.079 --> 00:38:00.360
Donnerly here with Ariel? I point right at her. Now,

584
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:07.199
Oh you you, you ah man. Mouse groans and quickly

585
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.440
covers your ears before I belt out the absolute most

586
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:18.559
blood curdling scream I've ever belt it out to date. Perspective,

587
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.880
Bill Chapman. It ain't long before I make it home.

588
00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:26.960
I'm only halfway in the driveway when I hear someone, Chapman,

589
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:31.039
I turn around and see Horton running my way. I

590
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.000
quickly drop my backpack and get my fists ready. Seriously,

591
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:39.960
if hit Zigger's chasing Horton again, Nope, Horton's by himself.

592
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:44.079
He stops running when he reaches me. You okay, Horton,

593
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.559
I ask, what are you running from this time? Is

594
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.039
it hit Zigger again? Horton takes a few deep breaths. No,

595
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:56.719
mom's after me. Now, huh, what do you mean your

596
00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:00.280
mom's after you? I ask. He raises his arm up

597
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.119
and outward. Mom's being a complete psycho today, Chapman. I

598
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:09.679
give him a weird look. She's always a complete psycho, Bud,

599
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:13.639
I'm not lying ever. See Stephen King's it. Remember that

600
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:18.000
psycho mom who tried keeping Eddie from his Loser's club friends. Well,

601
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:22.000
in the real world, that's Horton's mom. She don't hide

602
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.880
the fact she can't stand any of us. I couldn't

603
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:27.599
tell you how many times Meredith Horton's tried keeping her

604
00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:31.480
son in the house forever and ever. Now, Richie's usually

605
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:34.960
a pretty easy going kind of guy. A little too

606
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.920
easy going if you ask me. Anyway, he stood up

607
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.079
to Meredith when she'd get out of line with him.

608
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:44.800
After Halloween night, Meredith told Richie he'd never hang with

609
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:47.760
us ever again. He told us about it when we

610
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:51.440
started going to Strickfield Junior High again. Oh, and get this,

611
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:56.559
Meredith just hates Maddie Donnerly. I ain't got no clue

612
00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.519
why none of us do. I couldn't tell you how

613
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:03.599
many times merediths yelled at her, just her. He got

614
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.280
to hand it to Maddie, though, she just shrugs her

615
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.719
off and never lets Meredith get to her. Also, Horton's

616
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:12.760
mom won't even let Maddie come into the house. She

617
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:17.639
barely tolerates us. But why hate on Maddie. Ritchie finally

618
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:20.840
talks to me. I got in the door after school

619
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.039
and mom was there. Suddenly he puts his hands on

620
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.360
my shoulder. Now, I know something's wrong when he's doing that.

621
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.639
I mean, I don't care because Horton's my bud. But

622
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:33.960
you remember the Christmas tree and all the presents in

623
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:39.440
the living room. Yeah, I utter the living room was

624
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.679
a complete wreck. Chapman. Horton continues, the tree was destroyed,

625
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:48.440
all the presents were opened, and the content's thrown everywhere.

626
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:51.519
Mom got me a new video game console and it

627
00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:55.039
was all busted up. When I ask Mom what happened,

628
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.679
she blamed me. She said I did it. She said

629
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.760
she's he saw me wreck the living room. Then she

630
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:07.039
said I knocked her down and ran out the back door.

631
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:11.840
I'm just looking at Horton. Now. Let's get real here.

632
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.159
I've known my two best friends, Richie Horton and Brian

633
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:19.239
Chunk since we were pups. We've been through thick and

634
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:23.519
thin together, especially when it comes to Abigail Tomlin's ghost

635
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.119
and us disappearing for a whole year. I guess what

636
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.079
I'm saying here is that Horton ain't the kind of

637
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.719
person who just make crazy stuff up. Yeah, what he

638
00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:38.239
just told me sounds nuts. I know. Before I can

639
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.840
answer Horton, we hear tires squealing. We look to see

640
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:47.119
Horton's mom's car out in front of my driveway. You

641
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:51.239
get back here right now, Richie. Meredith yell's pointing at

642
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.880
him right now. Then she points at me. I'll bet

643
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:58.559
you and that Madeline donnerly put my son up to this,

644
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:02.400
didn't you. I take a few steps her way and

645
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:05.679
throw my arms up. Ah, would you just get serious

646
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:09.000
for once in your life? She quickly backs up enough

647
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.880
to where she can haul right into the driveway. I

648
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:15.639
quickly turn back to Horton back door. Bud. Horton and

649
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:18.199
me run to the back porch. I quickly get the

650
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:21.920
door open and push Horton inside before Meredith can rush

651
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.440
into the house. I quickly slam the door and lock it.

652
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:27.639
Hopefully she ain't psycho enough to break the glass to

653
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:31.159
unlock the door. Horton and I go into the living room,

654
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:35.199
and what the I yell Horton and I see my

655
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.400
living room. I don't know what happened here, but it

656
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.119
looks just like what Horton said his living room was like.

657
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:44.559
The branches on the artificial Christmas tree are all over

658
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:48.400
the place, the presents are all destroyed. Even the huge

659
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:51.760
new TV Dad had just installed has a huge hole

660
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:55.000
in the center of it. What's going on here, Chapman,

661
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.280
Horton squeaks, Yeah, he's right to be scared. I look

662
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:03.400
at him, Just tell me this. Ain't you here? Horton

663
00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:06.679
throws his arms up. Ah, come on, Chapman, where would

664
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.559
I find the time to trash my house and yours?

665
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.039
He points to the back door, where that nag still

666
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.519
banging away. Mom there said I did all that back

667
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:19.159
at my house around the time we were at school

668
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:23.800
during lunch period. Lunch period? Are you serious? I quickly

669
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:27.920
raise my hand, Yeah you are. You don't lie. Also,

670
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.920
we were having lunch with Chunker Cross and Maddie in

671
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.719
our school's cafeteria, so we can definitely vouch for you.

672
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.199
Horton looks worried. But who can vouch for you? We

673
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.559
don't know when this happened. Now, I ain't one to

674
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.119
be scared of nothing. But then Bill, that better not

675
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:50.960
be you boy any other time. I don't mind hearing

676
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.599
my army drill sergeant dad talking like that, but I

677
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:57.039
ain't liking how he's calling out my name right now.

678
00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:00.760
If what I'm thinking happened the way and said happen

679
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:03.559
to him, I know I ain't gonna wanna face my

680
00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:07.000
old man. Soon as we hear him moving fast to

681
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.760
the stairs to come down, Horton and I don't think

682
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.119
twice and hit the front door. Horton and Me leap

683
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:16.360
off the front steps and run for it. Horton and

684
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:18.760
me can run pretty fast, but there's two people I

685
00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:22.760
know for sure we can't outrun. Arielmeren's one of them.

686
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:26.800
The other one is my old man. And believe me

687
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:29.760
when I say, you never want my old man chasing

688
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:35.119
after you. Company, Halt, Dad yells at us. Dad's really

689
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:37.840
a great guy, even though he's an army man. But

690
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.719
when he's got it in his mind about something kind

691
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.480
of like what just went down, good luck trying to

692
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.760
explain your side. Man. I don't know about Horton, but

693
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:49.639
I can hear my old man catching up. He's gonna

694
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:53.239
get both Horton and me. Horton's mom's a little ways behind,

695
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:57.480
but she's chasing us down, too, I said, Company. Halt

696
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:01.880
Dad yells even louder. We're dead meat, Horton. I tell

697
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:04.800
him I'd rather face hit Zigger than your dad and

698
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.719
my mom right now, Horton says. Just then, Cross and

699
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:11.599
Maddie appear on their bikes and stop as we're about

700
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:15.400
to cross the street. Get on, Cross tells us. They

701
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.599
both lift their butts off their seats so Horton and

702
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:21.000
me can get on. We gotta move, Mattelin, Cross tells

703
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.159
her when he sees my old man in Horton's mom

704
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.159
Maddie gulps when she sees how fast Dad's running. Still,

705
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:29.559
she and Cross are pedaling as fast as they can.

706
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.880
They'd probably get away from my old man easier if

707
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.880
Horton and me weren't on their seats. Maddie and Cross

708
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.519
keep pedaling for all their worth. Dad's nearly fifty, but

709
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:42.519
you wouldn't think so with how fast he runs. He

710
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:46.639
comes so close to catching us he almost grabs me

711
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.039
off Maddie's bike, but the smallest and thinnest girl in

712
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:53.760
our group finally out pedals my old man. You gotta

713
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:57.280
come back to base and face your court martial sometime, boy,

714
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.719
Dad yells. Maddie and Cross keep riding until we make

715
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:04.639
it to the driveway in between where they live. We

716
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.679
all pull in and head out back. Soon we stop

717
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:10.800
and are off the bikes. Then we see Ariel Miran

718
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:13.519
coming out of Carter's house, which is the red brick

719
00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:17.320
one on the right. Cross points to his house. Let's

720
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.679
go inside. The four of us join Ariel, who holds

721
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:23.719
the door open and lets us in. When she closes it,

722
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:27.679
Cross faces all of us. Somebody want to tell me

723
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:31.079
what's going on here? He points to Ariel and Maddie.

724
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:35.199
The girls both said Princess's castle in the gated community

725
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:39.000
got trashed big. Then I jump a little when I

726
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.400
feel someone moving around my leg. I look down and

727
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:46.599
see a little kid. That's my four year old cousin, Stuart.

728
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:51.039
Ariel tells us Mom was really freaking out when Mouse

729
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:54.000
and I made our jail break from my house. Guess

730
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.440
Mom also scared Stuart and he ran after us. We

731
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.519
had to bring him along. Then she looks at him,

732
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:03.519
I should have left you back there for kicking me earlier,

733
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:07.199
you little goober. Stewart gives her a mean look and

734
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.159
looks ready to grab something, but Maddie quickly gets in

735
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:14.039
between them. Come on, you two, we got bigger problems

736
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.840
here right now. Then Maddie takes off her beret and

737
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:21.280
puts it on Stuart's head. He don't look so mad now.

738
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:26.960
Then Cross continues, My parents ain't home yet, but they're

739
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:30.920
already freaking about their classic van in the garage. It

740
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:34.679
was cherry. Now it's all dented on the outside and

741
00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:39.880
busted up inside. He points upstairs. Their bedroom is also destroyed,

742
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.880
including their waterbed, and that living room's a wreck. The

743
00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:48.039
Christmas tree and presence are destroyed. Cross's parents are a

744
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:50.840
couple of laid back hippies, but it don't sound like

745
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.039
they're gonna be so laid back when they come home

746
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:56.280
and find him. Can't you explain to your parents when

747
00:47:56.280 --> 00:48:01.719
they get home, Carter, Maddie asks, Cross whips out a smartphone. Yeah,

748
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:05.920
kind of a problem there, Madeline. When she sees the phone,

749
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:10.000
she gasps. Then Cross shows the rest of us it's

750
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.400
his Instagram. Only now there's pictures showing him wrecking the van,

751
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.320
his parents' room, and the living room. How about you two,

752
00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:30.480
Cross asks us perspective Madeline donnerly, Oh man, seriously, what

753
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:33.960
is going on here? We're listening as Horton and Chapman

754
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:36.679
explain their stories and why they were running when we

755
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:41.280
found him. I don't get it either, Carter tells us, Okay,

756
00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:44.239
I think we agree. We all were at school when

757
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:48.920
we supposedly did all this stuff, but somehow our parents

758
00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:54.039
have witnessed us doing everything. Ariel replies Carter's right, how

759
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:57.679
could we all have trashed everything we supposedly trashed when

760
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.079
we were all at school that. She looks right at me.

761
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:05.519
You better go check your house, mouse. I ain't really

762
00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:10.519
wanting to, but at the same time, I gotta know. Fine,

763
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.320
let's go. We leave Carter's house and head next door

764
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:16.840
to my place. I open the back door and let

765
00:49:16.840 --> 00:49:20.239
the others come in. After closing the door, Carter tells

766
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:24.280
me he'll check the basement. We stay and wait. All

767
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.000
good down here, Madeline. He calls up. We wait for

768
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.360
him to come back up. Then we check the rest

769
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:33.440
of the first floor. I'm almost afraid to look in

770
00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:38.159
Mom's studio. I gulp and open the sliding doors. Whew,

771
00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:42.519
everything's looking good so far. The rest of the rooms

772
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:45.760
down here ain't trashed or destroyed in any way. Also,

773
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:49.639
the Christmas tree, presents and decorations are still intact in

774
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.840
the living room. I really don't want to go upstairs,

775
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:56.480
but I gotta see. We all head up. So far,

776
00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:59.679
we ain't seen Mom nowhere, and Dad usually don't get

777
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:03.000
home to around six. If anybody's gonna be here, it'll

778
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:06.400
be Mom. When we reach the top, Carter goes and

779
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:10.159
checks the bathroom. When Ariel's pointing at a spare bedroom

780
00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:12.199
that's kind of got some junk in it. I nod.

781
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:17.039
She turns on the light and looks inside. Looks okay, mouse,

782
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:22.320
She tells me, we finally reach my bedroom. Really, mouse,

783
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.880
Ariel asks, pointing to the sign on my door that

784
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:30.159
says welcome to the Mousehole. I remember seeing that sign

785
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.639
earlier in December, when I came looking for you and

786
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:36.039
Carter before you both slipped out and got away. You

787
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:41.239
both remember that, right, don't remind us, Princess, Carter tells her.

788
00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:44.239
I take a deep breath and open the Mousehole's door.

789
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:48.400
Then I flip on the light. I'm both shocked and

790
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:53.840
relieved at the same time. Everything's still intact in there.

791
00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.000
Just for good measure, I open my sliding closet doors.

792
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.000
I turn around to face the others. Then I remember

793
00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:04.639
we still got one more room. Ah. Man, if mom

794
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.440
and Dad's room's wrecked, I ain't never gonna hear the

795
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.440
end of it, I mutter. I'll go and take a

796
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:13.360
quick look. Wait here. I'm ready to walk out of

797
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:17.119
the mousehole when Mom suddenly appears in the doorway, making

798
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:20.840
us all shriek. Ariel never saw me but I did

799
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:24.119
gasp a little. I ain't forgot how Ariel promised she'd

800
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:27.440
see me get scared one day. Well, this is one

801
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.960
more she just missed. Mom ain't looking at all of us,

802
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:35.400
just me, Mom, it wasn't me. I tell her, I

803
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.280
just got home. I swear I ain't never trashed your bedroom.

804
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:41.679
I heard the guys say. Mom was a dead ringer

805
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:44.679
for Violet from Friday the Thirteenth, Part five, with her

806
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:48.840
looks and her punk rock clothes. Mom's giving me a

807
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:51.320
weird look and folding her arms in front of her.

808
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:58.519
Excuse me, Maddie, what your bedroom ain't trashed or busted up?

809
00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:04.000
I ask weekly. Mom laughs a little, and why exactly

810
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:08.719
would my bedroom be trashed or busted up? Then she's

811
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:12.840
looking at all of us again. Okay, kids, She points

812
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.760
at Ariel. Honey, your mom just called here looking for

813
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:18.800
you and little Stewart there. And believe me when I

814
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:21.559
say she sounded like she was about to have an aneurysm.

815
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:25.559
She kept repeating something to the extent of how you

816
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:30.800
wrecked her dining room and living room. Ariel groans, missus Donnerley,

817
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.159
I swear I never did any of those things, Mom,

818
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:38.239
unfolds her arms and extends her little finger. You willing

819
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:42.840
to pinky promise on that, Ariel think very carefully before

820
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:47.440
Ariel quickly locks her little finger with Mom's pinky promise.

821
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:51.679
Mom nods at Ariel and points at Carter. I also

822
00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:54.599
got a call from your parents too. Sounds like you're

823
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:58.880
in big, big trouble when you get home. Carter holds

824
00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:01.920
out his pinky. I'm willing to make the same promise,

825
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:06.800
missus Donnerley. Mom waves him off, no need. She looks

826
00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:10.320
over all of us again. I believe you. Now, let's

827
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:13.280
go downstairs to the living room. Then you're all going

828
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.400
to tell me everything, and I do mean everything. As

829
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.039
Mom's turning around, Chapman calls out, Hugh ain't gonna believe us, ma'am.

830
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:26.320
Mom raises her eyebrow to him. Try me, Bill, and

831
00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:30.000
that goes for the rest of you. Now downstairs, Carter

832
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:33.639
flips off the mousehole's light. Then we all follow Mom

833
00:53:33.719 --> 00:53:36.840
downstairs to the living room and sit. Mom goes into

834
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.960
the kitchen and comes back with some Christmas cookies. She

835
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:42.079
puts them on the table and then brings sodas to

836
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:45.000
go with them. Little Steward ain't sure if it's okay,

837
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:48.880
Mom smiles and hands him a couple cookies before she

838
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:51.840
goes and sits in her recliner, kind of like she's

839
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:55.280
the head of a meeting. After she crosses her legs,

840
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:58.400
she folds her arms in front of her again. Okay,

841
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:08.960
Mom says, with finance, try me perspective, Carter Cross Madeline's mom,

842
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:12.159
Tiffany listens as we're telling her everything we're in trouble for.

843
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:16.960
She still don't seem too convinced. She unfolds her arms

844
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:21.039
and raises her finger. Okay, you kids need to go

845
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:24.840
further back. Something had to have happened in between all

846
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:28.480
of you leaving school and the incidents that took place today.

847
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:33.440
We all tell Tiffany everything we did, but she still

848
00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:39.360
doesn't look convinced. Okay, did you guys do anything out

849
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:43.760
of the ordinary or interesting on another day prior? She asks?

850
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:48.840
Then Horton finally says it, we were at the Carnivosha

851
00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:54.800
State yesterday. Tiffany raises her eyebrow to him. Ah, now

852
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:59.239
we're getting somewhere, do tell. Horton tells her how we

853
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:02.400
originally ended up at the carnivosh Estate and how we

854
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:05.400
weren't there with him originally. The rest of us pick

855
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:08.159
up and tell Tiffany how we all ended up there.

856
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:11.360
And aside from you, Richie, did any of you go

857
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:15.400
into the house, she asks. We all admit we did.

858
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:19.320
Then Madeleine tells her mom about the big mirror. We

859
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:22.679
all chime in about that magic room and how we

860
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:27.800
all looked into the mirror. That's it, Missus Donnery, Ariel finishes,

861
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.800
We all pretty much stayed together. We didn't mess around

862
00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:34.599
with anything in that room, and we didn't go into

863
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:38.320
any other rooms. We just looked at that mirror. After

864
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:41.639
that we left. Tiffany looks at all of us now

865
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:46.199
before giving her two cents. Personally, I believe things don't

866
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:51.440
just happen. Something makes things happen. All of you should

867
00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:55.119
remember that when it comes to that old house, things

868
00:55:55.159 --> 00:55:58.679
are never as seldom as they seem. I myself have

869
00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:01.840
never been in the Carnivosh estate, but there's a reason

870
00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:06.079
why things in Strickfield end up on the university's website.

871
00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:13.119
Do you believe us? Missus Donnerley, Ariel asks, Let's be honest, Ariel,

872
00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.679
there are many reasons why I shouldn't believe any of

873
00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:22.800
you here, even my own daughter, Tiffany admits. However, I've

874
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:25.920
known most of you for years, including you, Carter Cross.

875
00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:30.039
I also know my own daughter. As for Richie and Bill,

876
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:32.880
I'm getting to know you two as well. None of

877
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:35.119
you look like you're the sort to do the things

878
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:39.559
you were seen doing at the same time people saw you.

879
00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:44.000
All of you, with the exception of you, Maddie. Then

880
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:48.320
Madeline comes out with it, funny thing, Mom, I was

881
00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:51.320
the only one who didn't cast a reflection in that

882
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:56.440
Carnivoge mirror. She raises her finger for the record, I

883
00:56:56.440 --> 00:57:00.559
ain't no vampire. Maddie's right, ma'am. We all saw it.

884
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.559
Chapman agrees, Oh, I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to

885
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:09.159
doubt my own daughter. Tiffany tells him. Baxter and I

886
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:13.719
both raised Maddie, and she doesn't lie to us now.

887
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:17.360
The way I'm seeing things here, that mirror probably has

888
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:19.239
a lot to do with what's going on with all

889
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.400
of you. All of you were seen doing damage of

890
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:26.000
some kind to your parents' houses, except for you, Maddie.

891
00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:30.639
Then Madeline remembers something I ain't been out in the

892
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.039
garage yet, Mom. Carter and me parked our bikes out there.

893
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.519
But what if the garage is wrecked like Carter's. Tiffany

894
00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:42.000
gives Madeline a gentle smile. I can assure you the

895
00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:45.760
garage is definitely not wrecked, since I just pulled my

896
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.320
car in there. Also, absolutely nothing in this house is

897
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.960
wrecked either, Honey. I got home just before all of

898
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:55.719
you came here, and I checked all the rooms myself.

899
00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:01.679
So what do we do now? Horton asked, we can't

900
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:06.320
just sit here, right, No, I don't think so. Tiffany

901
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:10.480
agrees we can't do nothing either. Truth be told, I

902
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.679
honestly don't think anything will happen here. I'm thinking it

903
00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:19.280
would have happened already, not that something couldn't happen, mom.

904
00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:24.119
Madeline says, you could be right, but I don't think so.

905
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.880
Tiffany replies, you thinking that mirror at the Carnivosh estate

906
00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:31.239
has something to do with what's going on with the

907
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:35.800
rest of us, Chapman asks Tiffany. Tiffany leans forward in

908
00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:39.519
her recliner a little. Well, we know what's going on

909
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.519
with the rest of you is most illogical. How can

910
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.159
all of you be creating chaos at your homes when

911
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:48.840
you're at school? Doesn't make sense by itself, does it?

912
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:52.400
With all you've mentioned about that mirror you looked into,

913
00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:56.880
That's what makes all this have perfect sense. Maddie looked

914
00:58:56.920 --> 00:58:59.360
into it with the rest of you. Yet nothing happened

915
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:02.800
here at the house. The rest of you saw yourselves

916
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:07.639
in that mirror. Ariel suddenly remembers Stuart here wasn't at

917
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.679
the Carnivosh estate with us yesterday, so he didn't look

918
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:15.760
in the mirror. Tiffany looks at him. Now quite right, Ariel, Stuart,

919
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:19.559
would you come here please? Much to our surprise, he

920
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.840
listens to Tiffany and goes to her. Now he's waiting

921
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:26.039
for her to talk to him. Stuart, you're not in

922
00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:29.519
any trouble here, okay. I just want to ask you

923
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:34.639
a few questions. Are you okay with that? Stuart nods slowly.

924
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.599
Tiffany points at Ariel as she talks to Stuart again,

925
00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:42.719
did you actually see your cousin here in her home,

926
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:47.480
wrecking the dining room and living rooms this afternoon? Stuart

927
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:53.599
nods quickly. Perspective, Ariel, mirrn, I shoot to my feet

928
00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:57.679
and point at him. Oh, you lying little goober. Tiffany

929
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:02.400
glances my way. Ariel, Please, I know you're angry, and

930
01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:04.719
you have every right to be. I want to know

931
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:08.960
what happened from Stuart's point of view. Please, I groan

932
01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:14.559
and sit back down. Okay, missus Donnerley, I'm sorry, it's okay.

933
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:19.559
Missus Donnerley murmurs. Then she looks at Stuart again, points

934
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:23.920
my way, and repeats her original question to him. Stuart

935
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:30.199
nods quickly again. Missus Donnerley lowers her hand. Stuart, has

936
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:33.960
Ariel ever shown any kind of behavior like this afternoon

937
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.280
that you remember? I know you and Ariel don't get

938
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:39.800
along the greatest, but I need you to be as

939
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:43.639
honest with me as possible here. Stuart looks at me.

940
01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:46.920
I really don't know what the little goober is thinking.

941
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:51.039
Then he looks back at Missus Donnerley and shakes his

942
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:56.519
little head. Okay, thank you, Stuart. Missus Donnerley asks him

943
01:00:56.519 --> 01:00:59.760
one more question. Ariel is sitting here in the living

944
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:03.400
room right now. Do you feel she wants to hurt

945
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:07.239
you in any way? Please think about this very carefully

946
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:11.440
before you answer again. Stuart looks from me to Missus

947
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:16.199
Donnerley and back again. He's hesitant in answering her. He

948
01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:20.559
looks at me one more time, then back at Missus Donnerley. Finally,

949
01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:24.480
he shakes his head. Then he points at Mouse, who's

950
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:30.039
sitting next to me. What about Madeline, Stuart, Missus Donnerley asks.

951
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:33.400
He points to Mouse again and looks like he's scared.

952
01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:37.719
Soon he shakes his head and points at me. Missus

953
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:42.039
Donnerley asks Mouse. You aren't scared of Ariel, are you,

954
01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:46.519
dear Nope, Mouse replies, I ain't scared of nobody in

955
01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:50.239
this house right now. Then Stuart gets all happy and

956
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:55.360
claps his hands. Missus Donnerley gets it. I don't believe

957
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:58.800
Stuart is afraid of you, Ariel, because Maddie isn't scared

958
01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:02.159
of you. I think that's why he feels safe too.

959
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:08.480
Stuart nods quickly. Missus Donnerley smiles. Okay, thank you very much.

960
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:12.199
You can go sit down now. Then she watches Stuart

961
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.280
come and sit in between Mouse and me. Now he

962
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.920
looks up at Mouse. He's always liked her. Missus Donnerley

963
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.880
is looking at the rest of us. I'm thinking if

964
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:26.880
anything further happens, it's going to happen at your houses.

965
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.440
She points to Carter. It's a good thing you live

966
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:34.760
next door because here's what I'm thinking, and then missus

967
01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:43.000
Donnerley tells us exactly what's on her mind. When mister

968
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:46.519
Donnerley comes home, his wife explains to him what's going on,

969
01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:49.159
and that we're all staying at the house for a

970
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:53.400
little bit, and why I can't believe Missus Donnerley believes

971
01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:56.800
everything we told her. Baxter doesn't seem to show any

972
01:02:56.840 --> 01:03:00.320
signs of doubting Tiffany. When she's finished talking to him,

973
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.280
he just nods and says, okay. Baxter comes and talks

974
01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:08.360
to me. Now, Tiffany tried calling your house, Ariel. I'm

975
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.599
in agreement with my wife. I don't think you should

976
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:12.920
go back to your house right now, at least not

977
01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:16.000
until all of this is settled. Tiffany's going to call

978
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.440
Stuart's mom and see if she can come and get him.

979
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:23.159
Good luck, mister Donnerley. I gave your wife Aunt Margaret's number,

980
01:03:23.199 --> 01:03:27.079
but she's very hard to get a hold of. I say, understood,

981
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:31.400
he replies. Then he goes to Carter, who's discreetly keeping

982
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:34.360
an eye on his house from a mid upstairs window.

983
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:40.760
Anything Son Carter looks his way, Not yet, sir, did

984
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:44.039
I hear Tiffany write about why you're watching your house, Carter,

985
01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:49.400
Baxter asks, you're looking to see if another you may

986
01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:54.320
turn up. It was her idea, Carter replies, it's the

987
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:57.519
only one that makes any sense right now. After a

988
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:01.000
little bit, Tiffany comes and finds me. I'm afraid I

989
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.320
still can't reach your aunt. I don't have any other

990
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:08.320
numbers for her. I tell her that's fine. She puts

991
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:11.000
her hand on my shoulder. How about you come help

992
01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:15.159
me make dinner. Maybe it'll ease your nerves. Then I

993
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.840
can't help myself and hug Tiffany. To my surprise, she

994
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:24.280
hugs me back. It's all right, honey, she tells me softly.

995
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:28.119
We suddenly come apart, and not because it's getting close

996
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:31.280
to dinner time. A window shattered near Mouse to get

997
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:38.519
our attention. Then I see him a second horton you

998
01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:41.840
belong to me now, he tells Mouse as he grabs

999
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:45.960
her help. Mouse calls out as Carter's ready to move

1000
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.880
away from the window he's at and go help her.

1001
01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:51.519
That window shatters too. I gasp when I see another

1002
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:55.559
me wrapping her arms around him. I hate you, Carter,

1003
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:59.280
the other me tells him in an evil tone, then

1004
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:03.880
one more win No breaks to reveal another carter. Suddenly

1005
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:06.880
a second Chapman kicks in the back door and enters.

1006
01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:12.039
Things just erupt into complete pandemonium here. You know things

1007
01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:15.440
just got bad when little Stewart comes and hugs my leg.

1008
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:23.119
Perspective Madeline Donnerly, Oh man, this ain't supposed to be happening.

1009
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:27.440
Now we're under attack by the other's mirror doubles. No one.

1010
01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:30.159
My real friends from the mirror versions ain't very hard.

1011
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:34.239
One they all got red glowing eyes. Two, they just

1012
01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:37.800
got those evil vibes when you see them. Three and

1013
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:42.360
the most obvious of all is what they're wearing. For example,

1014
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:46.239
our Chapman's wearing a camouflage T shirt with army on it.

1015
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:50.760
Chapman's doubles wearing one two except the patterns reversed with

1016
01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:55.960
ymra on his. Also, there ain't no mirror double of

1017
01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:59.199
this little mouseie. Yeah, but I'm gonna be bringing in

1018
01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:02.039
my own doubles shit shortly if you catch my drift here.

1019
01:06:02.440 --> 01:06:04.840
But I gotta get away from the other Horton first.

1020
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:07.760
I quickly drop to my knees and scurry in between

1021
01:06:07.800 --> 01:06:10.840
mirror Horton's legs. I'm back of my feet and quickly

1022
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:14.199
run into the stairway leading into the basement. After pulling

1023
01:06:14.199 --> 01:06:17.000
the door shut, I haul my keyster downstairs and pull

1024
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:20.840
my compact out of my pocket. We're in real trouble, Mary,

1025
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:24.599
I tell her, you know what to do, Madeleine. She

1026
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:30.559
tells me, merry Worth, Marry Worth, Marry Worth. I quickly

1027
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:34.199
say to the mirror. Now the ghostly energies come out

1028
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:37.159
of the mirror and go into me. Before long, I'm

1029
01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:40.360
once again a passenger in my own body. As Mary

1030
01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:44.199
Worth takes over. Mary floats up and out of the house.

1031
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:47.039
Then she enters in on the ground floor when she

1032
01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:52.400
sees what's going on. Ah, yes, now I understand why

1033
01:06:52.440 --> 01:06:55.320
you could not cast a reflection in the mirror at

1034
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:59.960
the Carnivosh estate, Madeleine. Mary thinks to me, The mirror

1035
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:03.039
is a doorway between the mortal realm and into my

1036
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:05.719
part of the after life, known as the mirror Realm.

1037
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:10.280
You did not cast a reflection because I myself reside

1038
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:14.599
in the mirror realm and am currently possessing you and

1039
01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:18.960
them mirror doubles. I ask, these are beings who have

1040
01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:21.880
escaped and are looking to bring your friends back to

1041
01:07:21.960 --> 01:07:25.400
the mirror. If they should succeed, your friends shall remain

1042
01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:29.559
in the mirror realm for all time. Good thing, we

1043
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:33.800
ain't near that mirror, I say, with relief. No, Madeleine,

1044
01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:38.039
not that mirror. It can be any mirror in this case.

1045
01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:41.199
They just need that one back at the Carnivosh estate

1046
01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:45.119
as their doorway to the mortal realm. I must stop

1047
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:49.320
those doppelgangers before they place your friends in mirrors. Mary,

1048
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:52.840
Look that Chapman's got a mirror and he's gonna use

1049
01:07:52.880 --> 01:07:56.440
it on Mom. Mary casts a spell and causes the

1050
01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:00.440
mirror to shatter. When the mirror doubles see Mary, they

1051
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.440
scream and quickly run out of the house in different directions.

1052
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:06.800
Two of them drop whatever mirrors they already had as

1053
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:11.280
they run. Okay, I was wrong. Our carter cornered mirror

1054
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:14.639
Ariel before she escaped. Chapman and Dad get over to

1055
01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:18.119
her and keep her there. Mary quickly casts a spell

1056
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:21.560
to make a rope appear around mirror Ariel. Then she

1057
01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:24.600
casts one more spell to fix all the windows and

1058
01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:28.239
the back door to keep the cold out. Now Mom

1059
01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:32.199
and Mary are face to face. Mom ain't even scared,

1060
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:37.640
and then Mom actually talks to Mary where the others

1061
01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:42.199
can't hear. Thank you for coming. You are safe for

1062
01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:47.199
the moment, Tiffany Donnelly, Mary tells her. Then she floats

1063
01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:50.840
back out of the house and into the basement. Mary

1064
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:53.680
brings out my compact and returns to the mirror realm

1065
01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:56.840
to give me control of my body again. Then I

1066
01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:01.560
look in the mirror and see Mary's face. Those doppelgangers

1067
01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:05.840
will return, Madeline. Mary warns me they cannot remain in

1068
01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:09.079
the mortal realm as long as their real counterparts still

1069
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:12.960
exist here. Return to the others, call upon me if

1070
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:16.880
you need me again. Thanks Mary. I close up the

1071
01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:20.279
compact and head back upstairs. When I open the door,

1072
01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:24.640
Ariel grabs me where were you mouse? Then she looks

1073
01:09:24.680 --> 01:09:29.119
at me, funny, it is you right, I'm me, Ariel,

1074
01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.840
I assure her. Then Stuart comes and hugs me. I

1075
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:38.239
hug him back. You're definitely you, Ariel says. Stuart wouldn't

1076
01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:40.640
have done that if you were one of those things.

1077
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:44.000
We go into the kitchen where Mirror Ariel is tied

1078
01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:47.079
to one of the chairs at the table. You think

1079
01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:52.000
you're safe, Mirror Ariel sneers, You just wait the others

1080
01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:54.840
will be back one way or another. You will all

1081
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:58.319
be going into the mirror realm. Now she's looking right

1082
01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:01.560
at our Ariel. I I had so much fun wrecking

1083
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:06.560
those rooms in your house, ruining Christmas. I'm still laughing inside,

1084
01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:10.760
knowing you got the blame for everything. Now your own

1085
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:15.079
mom doesn't even want you anymore. Ooh, I bet that's

1086
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:20.680
got a hurt. Are Ariels shaking? Now? Oh? You you?

1087
01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:26.079
She tightens her fists and screams. Then she raises her

1088
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:32.520
fists to hit the other Ariel perspective, Bill Chapman, I

1089
01:10:32.600 --> 01:10:35.800
reach out and stop Ariel. Then she turns and looks

1090
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:40.279
right at me. What are you doing? Chapman? Come on,

1091
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:43.680
what good will hitting her do? I ask, it's not

1092
01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:46.079
gonna fix anything back at your house or get you

1093
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:50.600
back home. Ariel's still shaking, but she finally backs off.

1094
01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:54.680
Chapman's right, you guys, Even after we fix everything, I

1095
01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:57.880
still can't go home. Mom will keep thinking I was

1096
01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:01.439
the one who trashed those rooms. Then Mattie's got her

1097
01:11:01.439 --> 01:11:05.640
smartphone out. Hey, Ariel, why don't you go stand behind

1098
01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:09.439
your twin sister and smile real pretty? Ariel gives Mattie

1099
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:13.159
a weird. Look. Have you flipped your Mickey Mouse ears

1100
01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:17.760
or something? But Mattie's dad gets it. No, do it, Ariel.

1101
01:11:18.119 --> 01:11:20.079
Mattie's going to take pictures of the two of you

1102
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:24.039
then we can send them to your mom. But what

1103
01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:28.479
if mom doesn't buy it? Ariel asks, she's the absolute

1104
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:32.319
most stubborn woman I know, probably next to Aunt Margaret.

1105
01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:37.920
Then she sighs, Okay, I'll do it, but only because

1106
01:11:37.960 --> 01:11:41.920
you ask me to. Mister Donnery. Actually, I'm starting a

1107
01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:45.920
video chat to your mom's phone. Mattie tells her. Got her.

1108
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:51.039
Ariel quickly moves up behind her mirror double. Then Mattie

1109
01:11:51.119 --> 01:11:55.520
gives the signal say hello to our mom, Ariel tells

1110
01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:59.359
her double. Then she looks at the phone. Hi, Mom,

1111
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.720
look what we've got to show you. No, your eyes

1112
01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:07.159
aren't deceiving you. This isn't a trick. There really was

1113
01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:10.119
another me who wrecked the house while I was at school,

1114
01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:14.199
and she's sitting right here looking all pretty for you.

1115
01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.319
She slaps her double shoulder. Well, come on, say hi

1116
01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:22.560
to mom. Then the other Ariel growls at our Aeriel

1117
01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:27.760
and glares at Maddie. Oh you you cover your ears.

1118
01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:32.359
Everybody quick Horton quickly tells us. The other Ariel belts

1119
01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:36.319
out a high pitch scream. When she calms down, Cross

1120
01:12:36.359 --> 01:12:39.319
has a towel in his hand from the downstairs bathroom.

1121
01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:42.600
You get far away from me with that, you muscle

1122
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:46.560
bound oath. The other Ariel snaps at Cross. Then Our

1123
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:49.960
Ariel grabs the towel from him. I'll gag you myself

1124
01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:52.279
if you don't shut up. You still got mom on

1125
01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:57.279
the lin mouse yep, keep going, Maddie answers. Now, little

1126
01:12:57.279 --> 01:13:00.520
Stuart Miron's right there. He gives the other Ariel a

1127
01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:02.960
mean look before he kicks her hard in the shin.

1128
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:07.359
She cries out before she thrashes forward. Stuart backs up

1129
01:13:07.399 --> 01:13:11.399
when she roars at him. Our Ariel backs him up. Careful, you,

1130
01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:15.119
little goober, Ariel tells him this other me might eat

1131
01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:18.880
you up. Stuart looks up at his real cousin. He

1132
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:21.439
almost looks like he's ready to kick our Ariel too,

1133
01:13:22.239 --> 01:13:26.960
but he doesn't. Then Ariel asks everybody, Okay, now what

1134
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:30.199
do we do with this other me here? She turns

1135
01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:33.800
to Maddie's phone. Still don't want to talk to me, mom.

1136
01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:36.439
We're all trying to tell you you're not seeing things. This

1137
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:39.039
isn't a trick for you to let me come back home.

1138
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.119
Then Ariel explains everything about us going to the Carnivosh

1139
01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:46.359
estate and finding that mirror, which was how we let

1140
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:49.000
our doubles come into the real world, and how they

1141
01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.520
were the ones who wrecked all those rooms at our houses. Look, Mom,

1142
01:13:54.439 --> 01:13:56.920
I know you and I don't really get along that well,

1143
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:00.359
Ariel says, But I really thought you you kN me

1144
01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:02.920
better than that. If you don't want to talk to

1145
01:14:02.920 --> 01:14:05.960
me anymore, that's fine. Show everybody here at the Donnerly

1146
01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:09.720
House what kind of mom you really are. Suddenly, Maddie's

1147
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:14.000
mom gets a call on her smartphone. She answers it, Oh, hello,

1148
01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:19.359
missus Miron. Yes, here's Ariel. She hands her the phone.

1149
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:23.039
Ariel and her mom get into it. Then Ariel's double

1150
01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:26.159
gloats to Missus Miron about how she wrecked everything and

1151
01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:29.640
loved every minute of it. Oh does Ariel's mom give

1152
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:32.840
her double and earful When she asks to talk to

1153
01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:35.800
her real daughter, Ariel's mom tells her she can come

1154
01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:38.840
back home, but that she's still in big trouble for

1155
01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:42.640
going into the Carnivosh estate. Then I can see Ariel's

1156
01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:45.760
mom give her a wicked look, and do you know

1157
01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:48.560
how you'll be paying me back for all the damages

1158
01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:52.760
Ariel renaissance, Miron. Let's just say that you and Stuart

1159
01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:54.920
are going to be getting real close over the next

1160
01:14:54.960 --> 01:14:59.560
several months. Her mom hangs up. Now Stuart's giving our

1161
01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:03.279
Ariel an evil kid look. I think Ariels probably wishing

1162
01:15:03.279 --> 01:15:06.319
her mom had kept her out after all. Now that

1163
01:15:06.359 --> 01:15:08.199
I think about it, the rest of us can get

1164
01:15:08.199 --> 01:15:12.319
off the hook once Mattie's parents explain everything. I don't

1165
01:15:12.319 --> 01:15:14.199
think they'll kick us out of our houses the way

1166
01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:17.479
Ariel's mom did her. I think even my old man

1167
01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:21.079
might be willing to listen to reason. Then Horton has

1168
01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.199
an idea. I wonder what would happen if we went

1169
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:28.359
back to the Carnivosh estate and shattered that mirror. No,

1170
01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:32.800
the other Ariel yells. Then she goes crazy and starts

1171
01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:37.039
trying to get free. Our Ariel approaches her. What happens

1172
01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:40.279
if we break it? Huh? When the other Ariel won't talk,

1173
01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:44.479
our Ariel shows an evil smile. If you don't talk,

1174
01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:48.359
I'll have Stewart kick your shins again. When the other

1175
01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:52.600
Ariel starts screaming and thrashing again, crossing me go to

1176
01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:56.479
her and keep her chair planted. Then she screams loud

1177
01:15:56.520 --> 01:16:02.560
one more time you finished. Our Ariel asks, okay, if

1178
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:05.319
you don't talk, I think I'm going to scream again

1179
01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:09.439
myself right in one of your ears. Better be talking.

1180
01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:12.840
Mattie tells her, I don't know about you, but I've

1181
01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:16.800
seen our Ariel actually crack windows with her screams. Then

1182
01:16:16.880 --> 01:16:19.880
I say, in the other Ariel's ear, I wouldn't want

1183
01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:24.319
our Ariel doing that to me. Our Ariel gives Cross

1184
01:16:24.359 --> 01:16:27.680
a wicked look. I could scream to get your sodas

1185
01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:32.920
at school now, Cross shakes his head. Never gonna happen, Princess.

1186
01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:35.880
Maybe once you get back home you can start using

1187
01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:39.680
King Daddy's royal credit card again to get your own sodas.

1188
01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:45.760
Ariel growls at Cross, oh you you and again Cross

1189
01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:48.920
an Aeriel are in their trance when their eyes meet.

1190
01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:52.359
When Cross reaches out and holds Ariel's hand, the other

1191
01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:56.520
Ariel rolls her eyes. Q two are making me sick here.

1192
01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:01.119
Our Ariel quickly takes her hand back. Maddie's biting on

1193
01:17:01.119 --> 01:17:04.520
her lower lip to keep from laughing. When Horton sees

1194
01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:07.600
she's ready to burst. He quickly covers up for her

1195
01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:11.680
by laughing himself. Our Ariel points at him, you just

1196
01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:15.279
keep laughing at up Horton. Then she points at Maddie.

1197
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:19.319
I heard you Mouse. Then she grumbles, I hate you

1198
01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:24.920
Carter anything you say. Princess Cross sneers. Then I get

1199
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:28.319
things back to where they gotta be. Maybe Horton's right,

1200
01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:30.800
Maybe we ought to go back to that house and

1201
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:34.239
break that mirror. The other Aerol starts thrashing in her

1202
01:17:34.319 --> 01:17:38.520
chair again. Don't you dare? If you shatter that mirror,

1203
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:41.720
none of the others can come through. We'll also have

1204
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.159
to go back, since we haven't gotten any of you

1205
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.760
to take our places. What happens if we end up

1206
01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:51.640
in the mirror world? Cross asks? When the other Ariel

1207
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:55.720
won't answer, Our Ariol opens the refrigerator door and takes

1208
01:17:55.760 --> 01:17:59.239
out a coke. Then she comes and stands next to Cross.

1209
01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:04.520
Now the other aeriels eyeing the coke. Our Aeriel quickly notices.

1210
01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:12.199
Then she smirks, I think now we're getting somewhere perspective,

1211
01:18:12.920 --> 01:18:16.600
Aeriel Mirror. I crack the coke and take a drink.

1212
01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:19.800
If it weren't for my girls sneaking this bubbly slice

1213
01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:22.119
of heaven over to our sleepovers at my house on

1214
01:18:22.199 --> 01:18:26.159
Friday nights, I'd both be stuck drinking diet sodas and

1215
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:30.680
losing my mind. Oh you want some of this, I

1216
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:33.880
ask my double. Don't you dare taunt me like that?

1217
01:18:34.520 --> 01:18:39.600
My double snaps, Then she looks desperate. I want that soda.

1218
01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:43.600
Mouse points to the refrigerator. Tell us what we want

1219
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:45.479
to know, and I'll give you one of your very own.

1220
01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:49.960
We got plenty. She doesn't believe Mouse until she opens

1221
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:54.520
the refrigerator door. Improves it. Now, my double starts spilling everything.

1222
01:18:54.920 --> 01:18:58.159
She answers Chapman's question by telling us, if we end

1223
01:18:58.239 --> 01:19:01.079
up in the mirror Realm, then we stay there forever,

1224
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.680
as in, we just take your places in the mirror

1225
01:19:04.720 --> 01:19:09.960
realm itself. Horton asks, that's right. The other Aeriel answers,

1226
01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:15.880
then we can finally experience everything you experience, including Christmas.

1227
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:20.159
Baxter points at her, now, and you just gave me

1228
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:23.680
an idea. Mouse's dad gathers all of us into his

1229
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:29.239
wife's studio and quietly explains his plan. What about my coke?

1230
01:19:29.840 --> 01:19:32.880
We hear the other Ariel calling out, come on, I

1231
01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:38.119
told you what you wanted to know. Please. When Baxter

1232
01:19:38.199 --> 01:19:41.680
finishes explaining his plan, we go back into the kitchen.

1233
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:47.000
You realize you're going back, right, Chapman asks her. She

1234
01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:49.760
gets mad. I'll fight you every step of the way.

1235
01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:54.239
I'll go kicking and screaming. Yeah, we'll see about that,

1236
01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:57.800
Mouse says, and keeps her word. By getting my double

1237
01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:00.560
her coke, she asks to crack it, hold it for

1238
01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:04.479
her to drink, since we won't be untying her. People say,

1239
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:09.199
I'm obsessed with SODA's, But the other me, whoa mouse,

1240
01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:13.000
ends up giving her two cokes. Better enjoy it because

1241
01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:15.199
I'm sure there ain't no coke where you're going back

1242
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:20.319
to mirror, Aerial growls, I hate you, you little squeaker,

1243
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:24.279
I point at her. Nope, nobody says they hate mouse

1244
01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:27.439
except me and me. Only don't care if you are

1245
01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:31.359
supposed to be me. Carter gives me a strange look. Now,

1246
01:20:32.439 --> 01:20:36.640
you sure know how to be a princess. Princess, and

1247
01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:40.640
don't you forget it. I return, then I raise my

1248
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:45.840
own coke can to Carter cheers. That night, the five

1249
01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:48.760
of us return to the Carnivosh estate with our prisoner.

1250
01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:52.960
Mouse's parents are parked just outside until we need them.

1251
01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:56.239
Let's be honest. You know how many times I've found

1252
01:20:56.239 --> 01:20:59.880
myself envying Mouse. She's not as rich as my family,

1253
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:02.920
but she's got way more than I've got. Right now,

1254
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:07.520
looking at my parents and then Mouse's I definitely want

1255
01:21:07.560 --> 01:21:11.640
her parents getting back to Now we're moving the other

1256
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:15.000
me to the back door of the Carnivosh estate. You

1257
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.600
really think those other mirrored versions of us are going

1258
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:21.880
to come back here, I ask Mouse. She shrugs. I

1259
01:21:22.039 --> 01:21:25.199
just got thinking how we're always hanging out. If these

1260
01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:27.520
versions of us are the same as us in most

1261
01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:30.680
every way, maybe they're like us and being there for

1262
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:35.439
each other too. I mean this other you's gotcha soda craving, right.

1263
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:38.840
I look at the half drunk coke that Mouse gave

1264
01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:43.279
me before we left. Oh, I hate you Mouse. Then

1265
01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:46.800
she snickers. The next thing we know, Mouse digs into

1266
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:50.119
her jacket and pulls out another coke. I'm ready to

1267
01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:53.439
snatch it up, but she scurries away from me. Nope,

1268
01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:56.479
this one ain't for you, Ariel, She looks to the

1269
01:21:56.520 --> 01:21:59.880
other me, who's still tied up. This one's for your tow.

1270
01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:04.840
The other me looks desperate for that unopened can. The

1271
01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:06.840
others are going to turn on me when they learn

1272
01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:10.199
I helped you. She bites her lower lip and groans,

1273
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:15.640
I want that coke. It's yours, Mouse promises her. All

1274
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:18.439
you gotta do is call for help. See, I'm betting

1275
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:21.800
your friends are around here someplace. Either they're coming to

1276
01:22:21.840 --> 01:22:25.159
rescue you or they're wanting to get us. So now

1277
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:28.000
that we're back here where all this started, it'll be

1278
01:22:28.039 --> 01:22:31.119
two birds one stone, right, So go ahead and call them.

1279
01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:34.079
Soon as they show up, I'll let you have this delicious,

1280
01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:39.199
icy cold sweet refreshing. The other me suddenly yells for help.

1281
01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:43.640
Chapman leans in and says to Mouse, this really is

1282
01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:49.239
a crazy plan, Maddie. You sure it'll work. Mouse is optimistic. Yeah,

1283
01:22:49.359 --> 01:22:54.119
I'm thinking so. Chapman sighs and shakes his head a little. Okay.

1284
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:57.680
Ever since Horton, Chapman, and Chunker became a part of

1285
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:01.560
our circle, Chapman always seems to have trouble understanding Mouse,

1286
01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:05.319
but I think he finds her interesting. The other me

1287
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:08.960
keeps calling for her friends. As soon as we're outside

1288
01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:11.479
the door where those magic tricks in that mirror that

1289
01:23:11.600 --> 01:23:15.960
caused all this trouble is. Mouse looks inside the room. Yep,

1290
01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:19.279
the mirror is still here. Do we dare go near

1291
01:23:19.319 --> 01:23:23.920
it again? Horton asks, I know what you're thinking, buddy,

1292
01:23:24.359 --> 01:23:28.600
Mouse replies, but I got a hunch. Mouse walks up

1293
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:33.079
to the mirror again. She doesn't cast a reflection, but

1294
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:36.319
then again, neither does Horton when he stands next to her.

1295
01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:39.000
I go and stand on the other side of Mouse.

1296
01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:42.920
I don't have a reflection either. I look over my

1297
01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.720
shoulder and see the other me. I can see the

1298
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:50.039
reflection of the room itself, but nothing of us. Was

1299
01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:55.000
that your hunch, Mouse, I ask? Yep, she replies. Now

1300
01:23:55.039 --> 01:23:57.279
we just got to wait till that other April's friends

1301
01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:02.640
show up. We're already here, someone calls out. Suddenly, mirror

1302
01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:05.920
Chapman slams the door to the room. We never thought

1303
01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:08.880
to look behind the open door. The other Horton and

1304
01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:12.319
Carter come out from their hiding places too. It's then

1305
01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:15.800
when the mirror starts glowing red. Horton said, how it

1306
01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:18.479
only had a slight tinge of red when we all

1307
01:24:18.520 --> 01:24:22.359
looked into it yesterday, but now it's really glowing. Crimson

1308
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:26.560
about time you guys found me, the other me says

1309
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:29.840
after their carter untiser. The four of them are coming

1310
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:32.880
at us. Now. Time for you guys to take our

1311
01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:37.199
places in the mirror. Realm there, Chapman jeers. Don't worry.

1312
01:24:37.199 --> 01:24:40.439
You'll get used to it after a while. We had

1313
01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:44.239
our whole lives. When their eyes start glowing as bright

1314
01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:47.239
as the mirror, we know we're in trouble, but we're

1315
01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:50.319
not going into that mirror so fast. You want to

1316
01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:53.119
take our places, you're going to have to fight us

1317
01:24:53.159 --> 01:24:56.479
for it. I tell our doubles. Then I look at

1318
01:24:56.479 --> 01:25:00.880
my double. Don't forget honey, Mouse here still has your coke.

1319
01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:05.359
She looks desperate now as she moves toward Mouse, give

1320
01:25:05.640 --> 01:25:10.239
it to me. Through my peripheral vision, I can see

1321
01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:14.119
something coming out of the mirror. I gasp when this

1322
01:25:14.279 --> 01:25:19.640
big glowing hand wraps around my waist. Guys, I yell fast,

1323
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:29.039
help me perspective, Madeline Donnerly, Oh man, seriously, how come

1324
01:25:29.079 --> 01:25:31.800
plans never go the way you want them to? I

1325
01:25:31.840 --> 01:25:35.439
wasn't expecting this. Guess it just goes to show you.

1326
01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:39.800
I think that's how you say it. I don't know anyway,

1327
01:25:40.319 --> 01:25:43.439
I know I gotta bring Mary Worth back. Only thing

1328
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.439
is everybody you'll see me. But suddenly the door bursts open.

1329
01:25:48.119 --> 01:25:50.760
My parents are here now. Guess they must have saw

1330
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:53.239
the glow coming from the window and knew we were

1331
01:25:53.279 --> 01:25:58.239
in trouble. Mirror Chapman sees my parents and sneers at us. Really,

1332
01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:01.439
you gotta call mommy and daddy when you're in trouble,

1333
01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:05.880
what whimps? Mom points at him. It's got nothing to

1334
01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.920
do with that, and you know it. We're parents. We're

1335
01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:11.760
supposed to be here for our children when they need us.

1336
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:15.560
Then the mirror Horton's looking at my parents in a

1337
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:21.640
weird way. What's with the Christmas costumes? Yep? Dad's wearing

1338
01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:24.399
a Santa Claus suit and has a big red bag

1339
01:26:24.479 --> 01:26:28.000
over his shoulder. Mom's dressed up like one of Santa's elves.

1340
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:34.239
Who wants presents? Mom asks the mirror doubles cheerfully presence.

1341
01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:39.600
The other Chapman groans, what's the joke here? No joke, son,

1342
01:26:40.279 --> 01:26:43.399
Dad says in a deep Santa voice, don't you have

1343
01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:47.279
Christmas where you come from? Then Dad puts the sack

1344
01:26:47.399 --> 01:26:50.960
down and opens it to reveal lots of presents. Now

1345
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:54.600
our doubles look stunned, except the aerial one, who wants

1346
01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:58.199
the pop I'm still holding. Now she's pointing right at me.

1347
01:26:58.720 --> 01:27:02.079
I want that koke, you little mouse, I point to dad.

1348
01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:05.800
But Santa's got presents for you, Ariel. Don't you guys

1349
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:11.359
want presents for Christmas? Now? She looks confused. Guys are

1350
01:27:11.439 --> 01:27:16.520
Ariel shrieks A little help here, think mouse? Think ah,

1351
01:27:16.560 --> 01:27:19.239
I got it. I draw back to throw the can.

1352
01:27:19.720 --> 01:27:23.800
Let our Aeriel go and you get the can. No, no, no,

1353
01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:29.039
absolutely not, Mirror Ariel refuses. You're all going into the

1354
01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:32.079
mirror so we can live in the mortal realm. We'll

1355
01:27:32.079 --> 01:27:36.000
finally get to have a real Christmas. This isn't negotiable.

1356
01:27:37.199 --> 01:27:39.439
Then I hold the can up and put my fingernail

1357
01:27:39.560 --> 01:27:43.119
under the pop tab. Okay, I guess I'm gonna drink

1358
01:27:43.119 --> 01:27:48.800
your pop. Mirror Ariel really looks desperate. Now stop the

1359
01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:52.000
big glowing red hand. Let's go of our aerial and

1360
01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:56.039
goes back into the mirror. Okay, you got what you wanted,

1361
01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.760
you little squeaker. Mirror Ariel snaps, Now give me the pop.

1362
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:05.119
I toss it to her. It's yours. She catches it,

1363
01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:08.640
almost dropping it then she opens it and groans as

1364
01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:11.960
she drinks it down. The other mirror versions of us

1365
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:15.119
are still wondering what to make of Dad. Then he

1366
01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:18.560
starts handing out presents to them. It don't take them

1367
01:28:18.600 --> 01:28:21.239
long to know what to do with them. They open

1368
01:28:21.319 --> 01:28:24.279
the presence, just like they did at the houses they wrecked,

1369
01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:27.920
only this time they don't destroy the presence. Dad even

1370
01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:32.359
gives Mirror Ariel some She looks surprised before she opens them.

1371
01:28:33.239 --> 01:28:36.239
Since they're distracted, I creep to the door and slip out.

1372
01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:38.960
I move into the next room down and pull out

1373
01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:43.920
my compact Mary Worth, Merry Worth, Mary Worth. For the

1374
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:46.720
second time today, my ghostly friend comes out of the

1375
01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:50.199
mirror realm and possesses me. I shall put an end

1376
01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:54.199
to this, Madeleine, she tells me. Mary floats right through

1377
01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:57.119
the wall and appears in the room. The mirror versions

1378
01:28:57.119 --> 01:28:59.800
are screaming like they did at my house. They're ready

1379
01:28:59.800 --> 01:29:02.640
to drop their presence and run, but Mary makes the

1380
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:06.720
door slam shut and lock behind them. Mirror Ariel turns

1381
01:29:06.760 --> 01:29:09.960
to her, don't kill us. We just wanted to live

1382
01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:13.920
in the mortal realm. We just wanted to experience Christmas.

1383
01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:18.840
It's not fair. You misunderstand. I am not here to

1384
01:29:18.920 --> 01:29:22.640
kill any of you. You know that you cannot remain here.

1385
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:25.920
You must return to the Mirror Realm or you will

1386
01:29:25.960 --> 01:29:31.439
indeed cease to exist. The others look sad. Now, are

1387
01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:34.760
Ariel's right? We just wanted to live in the mortal

1388
01:29:34.760 --> 01:29:40.279
Realm and experience Christmas. Mirror Chapman groans, how come you

1389
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:44.760
get to be here? I am an astral projection, while

1390
01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:49.279
you children are the reflections of your mortal counterparts. Mary explains,

1391
01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:53.119
I'm afraid we are not the same. So the laws

1392
01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:57.960
that govern you do not govern me, you know. I

1393
01:29:58.079 --> 01:30:01.560
kind of feel sorry for him now. Yeah, they caused

1394
01:30:01.640 --> 01:30:04.920
a lot of trouble, but they never really hurt nobody.

1395
01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:09.399
As if Mary heard my thoughts, She tells the mirrored kids.

1396
01:30:10.239 --> 01:30:13.560
The rules dictate that you may remain in the Mortal

1397
01:30:13.600 --> 01:30:16.359
Realm for forty eight hours from the time you leave

1398
01:30:16.399 --> 01:30:20.039
the Mirror Realm. You have one more day, then you

1399
01:30:20.159 --> 01:30:25.840
must return until next month. The Mirror doubles talk among themselves.

1400
01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:29.920
They come out of their huddle. I guess we really

1401
01:30:29.960 --> 01:30:34.760
never knew how this worked. Mirror Chapman tells Mary, if

1402
01:30:34.800 --> 01:30:38.039
we can come back during certain times, that's good enough

1403
01:30:38.039 --> 01:30:42.279
for us. Then Mirror Horton tells us, we live in

1404
01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:45.079
the mirror realm, but we don't get to enjoy the

1405
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:50.560
same things mortals do, especially Christmas. We just wanted to

1406
01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:54.319
live as mortals instead of just being your reflections all

1407
01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:58.520
the time. You do understand that you have caused much

1408
01:30:58.560 --> 01:31:03.199
trouble for your mortal counterparts. Mary reminds them, we can

1409
01:31:03.239 --> 01:31:07.359
fix all that. Mirror Carter says, we still got a

1410
01:31:07.439 --> 01:31:10.399
day to be here yet, so we can make everything

1411
01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:15.119
right again. Then our carter points at him, that would

1412
01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:18.960
be just great. If you can fix everything, then we'll

1413
01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:22.520
call it even and you even get to keep your

1414
01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:28.199
Christmas gifts. Dad says, still playing as Sannah, can we

1415
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:33.079
get some more coke before we leave? Mirror Ariel asks,

1416
01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:38.439
I think that can be arranged. Mom replies, Mirror Ariel

1417
01:31:38.520 --> 01:31:43.640
turns to the others. Let's make everything right again. Mary

1418
01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:47.199
took care of everything at my house earlier. But I'm wondering.

1419
01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:50.760
But I'm wondering how exactly our doubles will fix up

1420
01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:59.680
everything they wrecked at the others' houses. Epilogue, Wednesday, December

1421
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:07.319
nintheenth perspective. Richie Horton. Our doppelgangers went back into the

1422
01:32:07.359 --> 01:32:11.760
mirror at the Carnivosh estate and headed back home. They

1423
01:32:11.800 --> 01:32:15.279
even took their Christmas presents back with them. Now we're

1424
01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:19.239
all hanging out here at Roth's Rings. Well, us kids

1425
01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:22.640
are here. Mattie's parents went home after they dropped us off.

1426
01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:27.119
Maddie and Carter just finished playing the new Grand Turismo game.

1427
01:32:27.880 --> 01:32:31.359
Ariel's got little Stewart up at the counter. Looks like

1428
01:32:31.439 --> 01:32:33.479
she ordered him a slice of pie and a coke.

1429
01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:37.079
My eyes go wide. When Stuart picks up the items

1430
01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:40.800
and throws the mat her, The pop hits Ariel and

1431
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:45.600
just explodes all over. This is not going to end good.

1432
01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:49.600
Ariel takes a deep breath and is dripping pop down

1433
01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:54.520
her face and jacket. Then she grabs Stuart's shoulders. What

1434
01:32:54.880 --> 01:32:58.920
is your problem, you little goober? Then I see Carter

1435
01:32:59.159 --> 01:33:02.760
just recorded the whole thing on his smartphone. Maddie's trying

1436
01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:05.239
to tell him not to do something. But then I

1437
01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:08.600
get a Facebook notification on my phone. I tap it

1438
01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:12.279
to see the new video Carter posted called Little Stuart

1439
01:33:12.319 --> 01:33:16.840
treats Princess Ariel to a coke. Then Stuart kicks Ariel

1440
01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:20.199
on her shin. That's when Maddie comes over and helps

1441
01:33:20.239 --> 01:33:24.239
Ariel out. Stuart turns to her and is happy she's around.

1442
01:33:25.000 --> 01:33:27.520
I don't know what Maddie does that makes Stuart like

1443
01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.800
her so much. Maddie lowers herself to talk to him.

1444
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:34.439
He seems to be listening to Maddie because when Ariel

1445
01:33:34.479 --> 01:33:38.600
buys him another coke, he doesn't throw it at her. Then.

1446
01:33:38.680 --> 01:33:41.760
I'm seeing all the emojis people are posting on Carter's

1447
01:33:41.840 --> 01:33:46.479
latest video, many of which are laughing ones. I'm thinking

1448
01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:49.319
Carter did this because Ariel stole his soda when we

1449
01:33:49.319 --> 01:33:53.520
were in the cafeteria for lunch. Sometimes they got along

1450
01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:57.760
super well, and other times they're at each other's throats.

1451
01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:01.399
I'm guessing she'll be hot after Carter once she sees

1452
01:34:01.439 --> 01:34:06.600
this video. I suppose you're wondering what happened to our doubles. Well,

1453
01:34:07.399 --> 01:34:10.680
they were true to their word and fixed everything. Don't

1454
01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:13.960
ask me how, but they did it. I mean they

1455
01:34:13.960 --> 01:34:17.640
didn't just super glue everything back together. It was like

1456
01:34:17.720 --> 01:34:22.359
everything those guys did never even happened. Even the presents

1457
01:34:22.399 --> 01:34:26.199
were fully restored. When Mom talked to me about it,

1458
01:34:26.279 --> 01:34:30.079
she chalked it up to being majorly stressed out. She

1459
01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:33.720
even apologized to me repeatedly for coming after me the

1460
01:34:33.760 --> 01:34:38.000
way she did. You should have seen Chapman's dad, remember

1461
01:34:38.039 --> 01:34:40.920
how he was chasing after Chapman and me before Carter

1462
01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:45.119
and Maddie came to save us. Chapman's dad apologized too,

1463
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:49.880
but Chapman said he overheard him wondering if aliens might

1464
01:34:49.920 --> 01:34:54.359
have invaded his house. Carter's parents never said anything to

1465
01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:58.640
him about what was wrecked there, even so Mattie's parents

1466
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:02.439
vouched for him. When we get to Ariel, she was

1467
01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:05.800
allowed back home again. Like we heard on Maddie's phone

1468
01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:09.720
during that video chat, Ariel wasn't off the hook, though.

1469
01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:12.359
Her mom told her that while she was glad the

1470
01:35:12.479 --> 01:35:15.600
rooms were as they were again, she wasn't going to

1471
01:35:15.640 --> 01:35:20.079
trust Ariel anytime soon. I think Ariel looked a little

1472
01:35:20.159 --> 01:35:23.319
hurt over it, but she sounded like she expected that

1473
01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:27.319
from her own mom. Also true to her mom's word,

1474
01:35:27.920 --> 01:35:31.279
Ariel's got Stuart with her. I know Ariel's trying to

1475
01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:34.800
do the right thing with Stuart. Maybe he's just mischievous

1476
01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:37.960
at heart, or he really doesn't want to be around Ariel,

1477
01:35:38.439 --> 01:35:43.079
who knows good thing Maddie's there to diffuse him. Oh,

1478
01:35:43.359 --> 01:35:46.800
we ended up telling Chunker, Mona and Bailey about what happened.

1479
01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:51.600
We knew they'd believe us. Why wouldn't they after all

1480
01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:55.039
we went through in the last few months. Right. In fact,

1481
01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:57.960
it's a few days later when it's us guys in

1482
01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:01.800
the cafeteria and Bailey come in to talk to us.

1483
01:36:02.720 --> 01:36:05.680
It's not long after that when Ariel finally sees the

1484
01:36:05.760 --> 01:36:10.279
video Carter posted from Wednesday and tried to get to him.

1485
01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:14.880
Unfortunately for her, principal Benjamin van Deist came in and

1486
01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:18.680
sent Ariel and Carter both back to class. When it's

1487
01:36:18.760 --> 01:36:21.800
just Mona and Bailey and the three of us, Bailey

1488
01:36:21.880 --> 01:36:24.600
tells us that she and Mona are going to Pendleton

1489
01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:27.560
this weekend to work at the Home Sweet Home Orphanage

1490
01:36:27.560 --> 01:36:32.239
for a Christmas celebration, and Mattalie Donnerly's going to drive

1491
01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:36.960
them there. After some talk, Chapman convinces Bailey to let

1492
01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:40.199
the three of us tag along. When that's all settled,

1493
01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:42.800
we just have to get through the rest of the day.

1494
01:36:43.640 --> 01:36:45.399
I think this will be a good spot for us

1495
01:36:45.399 --> 01:36:48.960
to say goodbye for now. Don't worry, we'll be back

1496
01:36:49.000 --> 01:36:54.119
for some more scary happenings. This is Strickfield, Ohio after all.

1497
01:36:54.319 --> 01:37:08.119
Oh and especially since December isn't over yet. Merry Christmas,

1498
01:37:08.880 --> 01:37:16.600
A Vampire's Holiday by Rob Fields, Prologue, December twenty third

1499
01:37:17.079 --> 01:37:22.560
perspective Madeline Donnerly. First off, let me just say this

1500
01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:27.560
ain't no family friendly story. Having said that, I only

1501
01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:31.640
been wherever here is for a short period of time

1502
01:37:32.439 --> 01:37:36.039
late summer up till now don't seem like much. I

1503
01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:38.079
think it's because I spent most of my life in

1504
01:37:38.119 --> 01:37:41.279
a reality where one night I went to bed and

1505
01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:44.640
everything was hunky dory, and woke up the next morning

1506
01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:48.520
to the beginning of a vampire apocalypse. I was only

1507
01:37:48.600 --> 01:37:51.600
thirteen when I had to abandon my life as a

1508
01:37:51.640 --> 01:37:56.079
teenager and become an adult. Fast. I fell in with

1509
01:37:56.119 --> 01:37:58.600
a clan who trained me to be a superb fighter.

1510
01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:03.359
Eventually I became the nemesis of Mayor Patrick Gunter, one

1511
01:38:03.399 --> 01:38:07.840
of the people responsible for starting the vampire apocalypse. I'm

1512
01:38:07.880 --> 01:38:11.479
thinking he didn't act alone. Not sure who else helped

1513
01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:15.640
him though. Anyway, I fought Gunter and kept proving to

1514
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:18.640
him mortals could still win. Where only a few of

1515
01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:22.760
us remained The day finally came when Gunter bit me.

1516
01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:26.880
I was royally screwed, because when you get bit by

1517
01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:31.600
a vampire, you're gonna turn for sure. When I returned

1518
01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:35.000
to my clan, one of them discovered I had no reflection.

1519
01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:40.640
I massacred all of them. I massacred my entire tribe

1520
01:38:41.079 --> 01:38:45.079
by drinking them all for my first meal. Patrick Gunter

1521
01:38:45.239 --> 01:38:48.720
took so much from me, including my first and only

1522
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:54.119
love in Carter Cross. Gunter hurt and broke me more

1523
01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:57.760
than any person should have to endure. In trying to

1524
01:38:57.920 --> 01:39:00.680
escape from him and his hordes of Vai vampires at

1525
01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:03.960
the Strickfield Carnival, the Mayor himself was able to channel

1526
01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:07.720
lightning from a passing storm. I ran into the Funhouse

1527
01:39:07.760 --> 01:39:12.239
to try and escape. Gunter's lightning struck the funhouse repeatedly,

1528
01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:17.000
resulting in me being zapped myself. When I woke up,

1529
01:39:17.039 --> 01:39:22.039
I found myself in this new reality. After examining the

1530
01:39:22.039 --> 01:39:26.079
Funhouse and the Strickfield Carnival, I eventually found the reason

1531
01:39:26.119 --> 01:39:30.119
I ended up here. Turns out that funhouse had circuits

1532
01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:35.600
controlling a time portal. I'm reasoning in my universe, Gunter's

1533
01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:39.560
lightning struck those circuits and caused me to be transported

1534
01:39:39.600 --> 01:39:44.359
to a different universe. Here, there ain't no vampire apocalypse,

1535
01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:49.279
nor any sign of one. I ended up removing those

1536
01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:52.640
circuits from the funhouse and hiding them where only yours

1537
01:39:52.680 --> 01:39:56.720
truly knows. Ain't no way I'm letting Patrick Gunter come here.

1538
01:39:57.399 --> 01:40:02.920
This is my universe, My my home universe became a

1539
01:40:03.039 --> 01:40:06.199
dark dead world in just days because there were so

1540
01:40:06.319 --> 01:40:09.319
many vampires and not enough mortals to sustain them. All.

1541
01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:15.399
Not true here, No Mayor Gunter literally sent me to Utopia.

1542
01:40:16.439 --> 01:40:19.520
It's just me here. I got all the mortals I'll

1543
01:40:19.520 --> 01:40:22.920
ever want or need for food. Also, I make sure

1544
01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:26.640
these blood bags don't come back like me, decapitating or

1545
01:40:26.640 --> 01:40:31.239
destroying the bodies after I feed. I'm the only vampire

1546
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:35.800
of my kind here, and it's going to stay that way. Oh.

1547
01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:39.880
I already found other vampires here too, who also made

1548
01:40:40.079 --> 01:40:44.960
very delicious meals. The vampires here got many differences compared

1549
01:40:44.960 --> 01:40:48.560
to me. For one, he don't turn after getting bit.

1550
01:40:49.399 --> 01:40:52.680
Vamps got a drink from the mortals, Then the mortals

1551
01:40:52.720 --> 01:40:56.279
got a drink from you. I haven't seen vampires here

1552
01:40:56.399 --> 01:40:59.600
drink from each other, But I reason this does nothing

1553
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:03.319
back home. You ain't supposed to drink from each other.

1554
01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:06.840
When I started doing it, I just wanted to die

1555
01:41:06.880 --> 01:41:10.680
and was hoping to. But my powers grew from drinking

1556
01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:14.359
from other vampires, and my powers keep growing drinking from

1557
01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:18.800
vampires here. But you know what, I actually found a

1558
01:41:18.840 --> 01:41:23.239
new home here in Strickfield, an outside area people are

1559
01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:27.680
scared of, called the backwoods. It didn't take long to

1560
01:41:27.720 --> 01:41:31.279
see why people are scared of it. There are actually

1561
01:41:31.680 --> 01:41:35.479
dead people walking around in there, like what you see

1562
01:41:35.520 --> 01:41:41.720
in scary movies. There's also these things called ghouls. Just

1563
01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:44.399
like I drink blood to live, they eat flesh for

1564
01:41:44.479 --> 01:41:48.680
the same reason. It's a few more days till Christmas,

1565
01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:54.319
and I am so bored. Okay, stay calm, Mattie. You

1566
01:41:54.439 --> 01:41:59.800
only been here a short time. Remember this world is utopia.

1567
01:42:00.239 --> 01:42:03.159
But I ain't gonna have much fun just freely grabbing

1568
01:42:03.199 --> 01:42:08.199
these walkin blood bags. Nah, I need an event. In fact,

1569
01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:11.600
I'm sitting here in my cabin. I took from some trapper.

1570
01:42:12.319 --> 01:42:15.640
I was already in downtown village earlier this evening and

1571
01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:19.399
picked up some stuff. After grabbing a few bobbleheads for

1572
01:42:19.479 --> 01:42:22.920
my collection, I started from bobble Topia. I grabbed a

1573
01:42:22.960 --> 01:42:26.920
copy of the Strickfield Journal, which also confirms this ain't

1574
01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:31.920
my universe. Our paper was called the Strickfield Source. Anyway,

1575
01:42:32.600 --> 01:42:35.840
you get lots of great news out of here. Hopefully

1576
01:42:35.840 --> 01:42:39.359
I can find some fun and excitement. I want to

1577
01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:44.760
create some havoc that'll bring heroes wantin to fight me. Ooh,

1578
01:42:45.039 --> 01:42:48.600
now this is an idea. I'm reading an article about

1579
01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:51.359
some Mirran woman who's supposed to be coming home to

1580
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:56.960
Strickfield today. Okay, so what right? Well, turns out Mirans

1581
01:42:57.279 --> 01:43:00.199
are just as high profile here as they use to

1582
01:43:00.199 --> 01:43:03.760
be in my universe, aside from the aerial Mirran where

1583
01:43:03.800 --> 01:43:06.880
I come from, Mirans pretty much fell off the map

1584
01:43:06.880 --> 01:43:12.039
when the vampire apocalypse happened. Not here. I've been leaving

1585
01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:15.399
the backwoods here every night and flying into Strickfield to

1586
01:43:15.520 --> 01:43:18.439
hang out and get used to my new digs. That,

1587
01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:23.000
and I gotta eat. Oh. I can't believe I got

1588
01:43:23.039 --> 01:43:26.359
all this delicious food walking around whenever I want it.

1589
01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:32.640
Like I said, Patrick Gunter, you messed up big funny thing.

1590
01:43:33.079 --> 01:43:36.760
I actually found another you here. She ain't no vampire,

1591
01:43:36.800 --> 01:43:39.520
and you live here in the backwoods with me. But

1592
01:43:39.560 --> 01:43:43.439
don't worry. I ain't gonna come after you, at least

1593
01:43:43.479 --> 01:43:47.439
not yet. And when I do come after you, I

1594
01:43:47.479 --> 01:43:50.319
won't turn you. For all I know you might be

1595
01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:54.239
just as much a battie as my mayor Gunter. Still,

1596
01:43:55.279 --> 01:43:58.600
long as you're living far enough away from me, I'll

1597
01:43:58.680 --> 01:44:04.039
leave you be for now. Oh, but this Mirran chick's

1598
01:44:04.079 --> 01:44:08.960
really holding my attention. I'm gonna go after her. Since

1599
01:44:09.119 --> 01:44:12.760
Mirans are so high profile here, I'm wondering what kind

1600
01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:16.319
of negotiations her family will want to do to get

1601
01:44:16.319 --> 01:44:21.439
her back. M m mm. Now I ain't feeling so

1602
01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:25.119
bored no more. I put my paper down and leave

1603
01:44:25.159 --> 01:44:29.319
the cabin. I leap into the air and fly. Another

1604
01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:33.039
difference between me and the vampires here. We can both

1605
01:44:33.079 --> 01:44:37.960
turn into bats, but I can fly without changing. Today's

1606
01:44:37.960 --> 01:44:43.239
paper says Analie's Miran will be coming home to Strickfield today. Well,

1607
01:44:43.319 --> 01:44:46.399
it's night now, so she's got to already be in

1608
01:44:46.479 --> 01:44:50.159
the mir gated community. This will give me a reason

1609
01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:54.399
to really see it up close. Back home, the vampires

1610
01:44:54.479 --> 01:44:58.119
laid waste to it and made it an eyesore. It

1611
01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:01.760
don't take long to hover over stra I turn into

1612
01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:05.399
a bat. At this point, I can't believe how bright

1613
01:45:05.479 --> 01:45:09.359
this village gets around Christmas time. There's all kinds of

1614
01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:16.159
decorations nearly everywhere, lights, animatronics, fake snow, decorated trees. We

1615
01:45:16.279 --> 01:45:20.720
never had this kind of dedication back home. Anyway, I'm

1616
01:45:20.760 --> 01:45:25.760
gliding into the mirrangated community now. Hmm. Not much in

1617
01:45:25.800 --> 01:45:29.600
the way of decorations in here. Guess these mirans don't

1618
01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:33.479
care for Christmas much. Looking around inside here, you'd swear

1619
01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:36.199
this place was a whole other world, the way the

1620
01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:39.720
Mirans are getting it all walled off. I fly to

1621
01:45:39.800 --> 01:45:43.359
a tree and change back into me again. Thanks to

1622
01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:48.479
my night vision, I can see everything easy, funny. For

1623
01:45:48.560 --> 01:45:51.560
all they do to keep non mirans out, they don't

1624
01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:55.319
keep people like me in mind. No wonder the vampires

1625
01:45:55.359 --> 01:45:59.039
back home leveled this place. Oh but I'm loving how

1626
01:45:59.039 --> 01:46:02.720
it looks. Believe it or not, I could definitely live here.

1627
01:46:03.720 --> 01:46:07.039
I drop and change into a wolf. Now I'm walking

1628
01:46:07.079 --> 01:46:10.279
around for all these Mirans who see me know, I'm

1629
01:46:10.359 --> 01:46:13.720
just a doggie who got loose from somebody's mansion, and

1630
01:46:13.800 --> 01:46:17.319
I'm just out looking for a place to squat. Ah.

1631
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:21.279
But my patience is gonna be rewarded back home. I

1632
01:46:21.319 --> 01:46:26.000
remember this used to be Felicia Myron's place. She doesn't

1633
01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:29.760
seem to be living here now, but I'm seeing Annalee's

1634
01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:33.039
mirror sitting out on the back patio. There's a hot

1635
01:46:33.079 --> 01:46:37.319
tub right there, and it looks like she's throwing a party. Oh,

1636
01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:40.760
this is gonna be such a recipe for disaster. For

1637
01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:45.560
one thing, I'm gonna be taking Annale's mirror. Two, I'm

1638
01:46:46.319 --> 01:46:49.239
I'm just craving what's on the menu right now, which

1639
01:46:49.279 --> 01:46:54.840
means three, it's time to create something beautiful carnage. I

1640
01:46:54.960 --> 01:46:58.079
change back to my human form again and walk to

1641
01:46:58.119 --> 01:47:01.720
these mortals when one of Annalise's girls sees me in

1642
01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:05.920
points everybody's looking at me now. I'm wearing a backless

1643
01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:09.760
black leather top that shows off my glorious gallery of tattoos,

1644
01:47:10.520 --> 01:47:13.800
sleeves on both arms with lots and lots of skulls,

1645
01:47:14.319 --> 01:47:16.000
and the one on my back that used to be

1646
01:47:16.079 --> 01:47:18.319
the symbol of the clan who trained me to fight

1647
01:47:18.720 --> 01:47:22.479
the way they once did. Remember they were my first

1648
01:47:22.520 --> 01:47:26.399
meal after I turned. I'm also wearing matching pants and

1649
01:47:26.479 --> 01:47:31.039
ankle high boots, plus a choker around my neck. Can

1650
01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:37.119
we help you? Analiz Miron asks real snotlike I smirk. Yeah,

1651
01:47:37.159 --> 01:47:40.479
I'm looking for Felicia Miron. Is she home? I know

1652
01:47:40.600 --> 01:47:43.840
she ain't, but I want to hear him talk. Annaliz

1653
01:47:43.960 --> 01:47:49.319
starts laughing scornfully. Felicia doesn't live here anymore. She wanted

1654
01:47:49.359 --> 01:47:52.319
to move out of the community so bad, so I

1655
01:47:52.399 --> 01:47:55.920
bought our family mansion from her. It's all mine now,

1656
01:47:56.720 --> 01:47:59.119
just as well, since I never really cared for my

1657
01:47:59.239 --> 01:48:04.439
baby sister anyway. Now the snob's getting defensive. I know

1658
01:48:04.640 --> 01:48:08.000
you aren't a mirror or a guest here, so how

1659
01:48:08.039 --> 01:48:11.800
about leaving before I call the police. I'm laughing it

1660
01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:15.000
up now. The police will never make it here in time,

1661
01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:18.720
especially not after I'm through with all of you. Now

1662
01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:22.359
they're all laughing. To these snobs, I look like a skinny,

1663
01:48:22.399 --> 01:48:27.199
little weakling, even at standing five foot ten. Call me vain,

1664
01:48:27.319 --> 01:48:29.359
but I think I ain't looking too bad for being

1665
01:48:29.399 --> 01:48:33.640
all grown up. I'm not bustier sporting fakeies like these

1666
01:48:33.680 --> 01:48:37.840
women here, but I'll gladly keep what I got. Speaking

1667
01:48:37.880 --> 01:48:42.720
of fakies, they're showing their nasty sides, so I'm gonna

1668
01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:45.960
show them mine. I vamp out and hear them screaming

1669
01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:49.319
at my face and claws. I've been eating normal people

1670
01:48:49.399 --> 01:48:52.439
food since I got here. Now I'm gonna have me

1671
01:48:52.560 --> 01:48:55.760
some rich people food. A few of them are trying

1672
01:48:55.800 --> 01:48:59.239
to go inside, but I appear and slide the door shut.

1673
01:48:59.600 --> 01:49:03.039
A beef guy slams into the glass and crashes right

1674
01:49:03.079 --> 01:49:06.640
through it. I grab him and pull him back my way.

1675
01:49:07.560 --> 01:49:11.079
His throat gets slashed on a shard coming out. He's

1676
01:49:11.159 --> 01:49:15.319
gagging and gurgling before falling on his back. I quickly

1677
01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:18.560
get down and drink him up. I ain't got to

1678
01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:22.119
bite him since he's already cut open. It don't take

1679
01:49:22.199 --> 01:49:25.720
long to finish the first course. I'm back up and

1680
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:28.880
moving around till I get him all. With the exception

1681
01:49:29.000 --> 01:49:33.600
of Annalies, of course, I ain't gonna killer. She's backing

1682
01:49:33.720 --> 01:49:37.079
up against the corner. Don't know if she's shivering because

1683
01:49:37.119 --> 01:49:40.359
she's wearing a bathing suit in December, or if she's

1684
01:49:40.399 --> 01:49:46.600
afraid of me. Probably both. What do you want, Annalise stammers?

1685
01:49:47.279 --> 01:49:51.039
I can give you money, please, I'm laughing at her. Now,

1686
01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:55.319
what would I want with money? I can take whatever

1687
01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:58.600
I want. I could walk into a bank right now

1688
01:49:58.760 --> 01:50:01.720
and leave with as much money as i'd want. Getting

1689
01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:05.000
the picture yet your rich blood bag. I don't watch

1690
01:50:05.039 --> 01:50:10.039
your money. I want you. I pull Analise away from

1691
01:50:10.079 --> 01:50:16.479
the corner and Glamour invite me into your house. Analiz

1692
01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:21.479
nods slowly, you can come in, okay, So maybe I

1693
01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:23.640
can't go everywhere I want to go with the whole

1694
01:50:24.199 --> 01:50:28.000
needing an invite to get into private dwellings. Good thing.

1695
01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:31.720
Glam gets the job done. Anali's and me go into

1696
01:50:31.760 --> 01:50:37.199
her mansion. Nice place you got here, I compliment. Now,

1697
01:50:37.279 --> 01:50:40.039
I want you to put some warm clothes on, because

1698
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:43.880
you're gonna need them where we're going. Analiz nods once

1699
01:50:43.920 --> 01:50:47.720
and works on obeying me. While she's doing that, I

1700
01:50:47.800 --> 01:50:51.119
got one more course to eat. I open the basement

1701
01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:54.239
door and find that snotty woman who talked to me earlier.

1702
01:50:55.159 --> 01:50:59.800
She screams and flees. She won't get far. I appear

1703
01:50:59.840 --> 01:51:02.439
in front of her and hug her to me. She

1704
01:51:02.600 --> 01:51:07.560
cries out when I'm drinking from her neck. Oh please please, no,

1705
01:51:07.560 --> 01:51:11.920
no stop. She's whimpering while she's feeling herself dying in

1706
01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:16.239
my arms. I let go over and watch her drop.

1707
01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:19.399
Then I drop to one knee so I can snap

1708
01:51:19.439 --> 01:51:22.520
her neck and keep turning to pull her head off.

1709
01:51:23.800 --> 01:51:27.520
After dropping it, I peer back upstairs and find Annalise

1710
01:51:27.640 --> 01:51:32.119
ready to go. She's wearing warm winter clothes and a coat.

1711
01:51:33.000 --> 01:51:36.880
I order her back outside. When we're back at the patio,

1712
01:51:37.000 --> 01:51:41.840
I admire my latest horrific masterpiece. I got half a

1713
01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:45.560
mind to call the cops and see their reactions when

1714
01:51:45.560 --> 01:51:49.159
they'd see all these headless bodies, aside from the first

1715
01:51:49.159 --> 01:51:54.319
one I drank up. Ooh, unlocking. Give me your phone,

1716
01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:57.840
I tell Annalise when she hands it to me. I

1717
01:51:57.880 --> 01:52:00.920
remember the number for the Strickfield Police to apartment and

1718
01:52:00.960 --> 01:52:04.399
give them a call after reporting the murders. I crush

1719
01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:07.239
the phone and drop it. Then I change into a

1720
01:52:07.319 --> 01:52:11.199
bat and snatch up Analees. From there, I'm flying my

1721
01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:14.640
Christmas present back to my cabin in the backwoods of Strickfield.

1722
01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:19.680
She ain't no bobblehead, but I'll make her the centerpiece

1723
01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:24.079
of my collection. I'm really hoping they're going to be

1724
01:52:24.119 --> 01:52:28.359
heroes that'll come looking for annales I'm dying for both

1725
01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:37.000
the competition and a challenge perspective. Felicia Miren Greetings, comic

1726
01:52:37.000 --> 01:52:41.000
book nerds, it's me, your favorite spider girl. I'd like

1727
01:52:41.079 --> 01:52:44.960
to say this is finally my second issue, but not

1728
01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:48.880
just yet. This is both another team up and a

1729
01:52:48.920 --> 01:52:52.680
bit of going back in time. This story takes place

1730
01:52:52.720 --> 01:52:57.359
a few months after my Origin issue ended. However, we

1731
01:52:57.439 --> 01:53:00.840
can pick up kinda where I left off. I remember

1732
01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:03.159
telling you I decided to take a chance with my

1733
01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:06.600
college guy that I met. Yeah, he's the guy I

1734
01:53:06.680 --> 01:53:10.239
found myself naturally drawn to when I first met him.

1735
01:53:10.680 --> 01:53:14.279
From there, we started having hours and hours of sexy

1736
01:53:14.359 --> 01:53:18.720
time during my ovulation periods, all because I feel I

1737
01:53:18.800 --> 01:53:22.800
want to be a mommy and make babies. Eventually it

1738
01:53:22.840 --> 01:53:25.840
got to be more than just our hot monthly meetings

1739
01:53:25.880 --> 01:53:31.039
between us. We finally became a couple. In fact, right now,

1740
01:53:31.399 --> 01:53:33.960
I'm letting my boyfriend hold me to him while we're

1741
01:53:34.000 --> 01:53:38.000
in bed. We've been quite intimate since last night, before

1742
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:41.000
going to sleep together. When we woke up, we had

1743
01:53:41.039 --> 01:53:44.920
shared some more intimacy together. It's like the more we're

1744
01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:48.479
around each other, the more we're in bed together. Believe me,

1745
01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:54.039
I ain't complaining in the least funny thing. We still

1746
01:53:54.159 --> 01:53:59.800
haven't fully exchanged names or digits. I think we mutually

1747
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:03.279
I agreed that this relationship of secrecy we've got going

1748
01:54:03.319 --> 01:54:07.479
on is a major turn on between us. Anyway, We've

1749
01:54:07.479 --> 01:54:10.199
been having so much intimacy I don't even know if

1750
01:54:10.239 --> 01:54:13.159
I'm just craving my guy or if I'm on my

1751
01:54:13.720 --> 01:54:17.239
time of the month. Ever since my freak occurrence that

1752
01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:21.920
gave me spider powers, I started exhibiting traits like a spider.

1753
01:54:22.520 --> 01:54:25.439
In fact, I can even turn into a giant version

1754
01:54:25.479 --> 01:54:29.279
of one, complete with eight legs in two arms. I

1755
01:54:29.319 --> 01:54:32.279
also got the spider's ovulation where I want a mate

1756
01:54:32.279 --> 01:54:35.439
and make babies. I'm gonna say I ain't feeling my

1757
01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:38.720
mommy vibes at the moment since I'm not wanting to

1758
01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:43.159
make babies. Speaking of babies, my boyfriend's got a little

1759
01:54:43.239 --> 01:54:47.079
girl named Millie. I actually first met her on Halloween

1760
01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:50.720
Eve when I was a giant spider, then for the

1761
01:54:50.760 --> 01:54:54.479
first time as a human the very next day. She's

1762
01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:58.359
such a sweet little girl. What's more, she took to

1763
01:54:58.399 --> 01:55:00.880
me right away when her daddy told her he was

1764
01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:03.720
seeing me. Of course, I had to tell her my

1765
01:55:03.800 --> 01:55:07.560
first name since I know hers. In light of that,

1766
01:55:07.960 --> 01:55:12.600
my guy and me finally agreed to exchange first names only,

1767
01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:19.119
and his is Gabriel. Getting back to Millie, Gabriel actually

1768
01:55:19.199 --> 01:55:22.119
left her in my care a few times. The more

1769
01:55:22.159 --> 01:55:25.960
I'm around her, the more I'm just loving her, and

1770
01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:29.359
the more I'm getting too close to Gabriel. I mean,

1771
01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:32.720
you can't be in a relationship with somebody who has

1772
01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:36.479
kids and not accept them. Right lately, that's all I've

1773
01:55:36.520 --> 01:55:40.640
been thinking about. I'm eighteen, a senior and the cheerleading

1774
01:55:40.760 --> 01:55:44.720
captain at Strickfield High School. Gabriel's a senior at Strickfield

1775
01:55:44.800 --> 01:55:49.640
University and a Beta Theta Pie fraternity brother. He's also

1776
01:55:49.720 --> 01:55:53.199
got nine years on me. Every time he gives me

1777
01:55:53.279 --> 01:55:57.800
that lady killer smile, I always turned to butter. Is

1778
01:55:57.840 --> 01:56:02.119
our relationship based mostly on our intimacy, Well, you wouldn't

1779
01:56:02.159 --> 01:56:05.640
be wrong. Just the same, Gabriel trusts his little girl

1780
01:56:05.680 --> 01:56:09.159
around me. I can't believe I'm thinking about this when

1781
01:56:09.479 --> 01:56:13.600
I'm sharing intimacy with Gabriel yet again. When we finish,

1782
01:56:13.640 --> 01:56:16.840
I let him hold me to him close again. When

1783
01:56:16.840 --> 01:56:20.319
we look into each other's eyes, he gives me that

1784
01:56:20.479 --> 01:56:25.079
lady killer smile. We're pecking for a little bit before

1785
01:56:25.079 --> 01:56:30.319
we look at each other again. I love you, Gabriel

1786
01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:34.279
tells me for the first time ever. Oh my god,

1787
01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:38.880
do I tell him back? Am I really too young

1788
01:56:38.960 --> 01:56:42.560
to be thinking about being with Gabriel full time. The

1789
01:56:42.640 --> 01:56:46.359
problem is, that's all I'm thinking about here. I am

1790
01:56:46.439 --> 01:56:49.399
a mutant spider girl in her last year of high school,

1791
01:56:49.800 --> 01:56:53.279
the cheerleading captain, and I'm already in a relationship with

1792
01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:57.600
a wonderful man who has a wonderful little girl. Yeah,

1793
01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:02.840
we've gone on dates and stuff, but Hugh, guess even

1794
01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:07.119
us mutant spider girl's gotta make those tough decisions called life, right.

1795
01:57:08.319 --> 01:57:12.159
I look him in the face, a serious one. You

1796
01:57:12.479 --> 01:57:17.880
do realize what you said is dangerous? Right? What that

1797
01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:22.399
I love you? Gabriel asks, in his suave voice, which

1798
01:57:22.479 --> 01:57:27.239
goes really well with his lady killer smile. I narrow

1799
01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:29.920
my eyes on him and put my finger on his

1800
01:57:30.039 --> 01:57:35.800
ripped chest. You do realize we don't fully know each other? Right?

1801
01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:39.680
What if you find out something about me and hate

1802
01:57:39.720 --> 01:57:44.159
me for it? He chuckles? What could I hate about you?

1803
01:57:45.520 --> 01:57:49.479
I shrug. I don't know, But what if you did?

1804
01:57:50.119 --> 01:57:55.640
I mean it, Gabriel saying you love me is very dangerous. Now.

1805
01:57:55.680 --> 01:58:00.159
I give him my sweet smile, which he loves from me. Oh,

1806
01:58:00.399 --> 01:58:02.479
I get it. You're telling me you love me and

1807
01:58:02.560 --> 01:58:06.039
knowing how much I care about Milly to further entangle

1808
01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:10.119
me with you. Right, damn it, there's that lady killer

1809
01:58:10.199 --> 01:58:15.079
smile again. You ain't leaving, babe, You're still here in

1810
01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:20.319
my life. I raise my eyebrow seriously, I'm that good

1811
01:58:20.359 --> 01:58:22.239
in bed to where you tell me you love me.

1812
01:58:23.560 --> 01:58:27.000
Before he can answer, we hear knocking on the back door.

1813
01:58:27.840 --> 01:58:31.359
We're at his parents' house. We've been kind of living

1814
01:58:31.399 --> 01:58:34.720
here together while he's house sitting for them over the holidays.

1815
01:58:35.079 --> 01:58:37.720
Little Milly was out for a sleepover with her friends

1816
01:58:37.800 --> 01:58:42.600
last night. Seems like she's home. Gabriel gets off me

1817
01:58:43.119 --> 01:58:46.439
and we put some clothes on. We go downstairs where

1818
01:58:46.439 --> 01:58:49.960
he lets Milly in. He quickly steps outside to wave

1819
01:58:50.000 --> 01:58:53.600
at the woman who dropped her off. Milly immediately comes

1820
01:58:53.680 --> 01:58:56.119
right to me so I can lower myself and hug

1821
01:58:56.199 --> 01:58:59.399
her tight. For a little girl, she can hug just

1822
01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:02.479
as tight as me. I stand up and hold her

1823
01:59:02.520 --> 01:59:06.279
while waiting for Gabriel to come back in. When he

1824
01:59:06.319 --> 01:59:08.840
sees me holding Milly and both of us are looking

1825
01:59:08.880 --> 01:59:12.840
at him, he's smiling again. I think now I can

1826
01:59:12.880 --> 01:59:16.760
see why Gabriel's interested in me like he is. We've

1827
01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:20.159
been intimate many times. He knows Milly and I love

1828
01:59:20.239 --> 01:59:23.600
each other. I'm thinking he's seeing me as a potential

1829
01:59:23.680 --> 01:59:28.359
mommy for Milly. To be honest, I'd love being a

1830
01:59:28.399 --> 01:59:34.279
mother to her. Then the phone rings. Gabriel answers, it

1831
01:59:34.319 --> 01:59:38.039
sounds like he's talking to his parents. I'm thinking he's

1832
01:59:38.079 --> 01:59:39.720
going to be on the phone for a little bit,

1833
01:59:40.039 --> 01:59:44.479
so I ask Milly if she wants to watch TV. Yeah,

1834
01:59:44.960 --> 01:59:48.439
she exclaims quickly. I bring her into the living room

1835
01:59:48.439 --> 01:59:52.079
and turn on the set. We're watching some classic cartoons

1836
01:59:52.079 --> 01:59:55.119
for a little bit. When I see the paper carriers

1837
01:59:55.239 --> 01:59:58.920
just dropped off the Strickfield Journal, I tell Milly I'm

1838
01:59:58.920 --> 02:00:01.479
going to get the paper and head outside to bring

1839
02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:05.800
it in. After closing the door, I gasp and nearly

1840
02:00:05.880 --> 02:00:09.479
drop the paper. That's when Gabriel gets off the phone

1841
02:00:09.520 --> 02:00:13.840
and sees me fell a show. What's wrong? The front

1842
02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:19.000
page says massacre at Mirn Mansion. The pit of my

1843
02:00:19.119 --> 02:00:22.760
stomach hurts when I read the article. My older sister,

1844
02:00:22.840 --> 02:00:25.840
Analie's bought the mansion from me when I didn't want

1845
02:00:25.880 --> 02:00:29.199
to live there anymore. It just kept getting too rough

1846
02:00:29.239 --> 02:00:32.520
for me to stay there after our parents died. Also,

1847
02:00:32.600 --> 02:00:36.039
I never really got along with Annalie's much, but I

1848
02:00:36.079 --> 02:00:38.680
still love her for the fact that she's my sister.

1849
02:00:39.520 --> 02:00:44.319
According to the article, the police found many decapitated bodies,

1850
02:00:44.720 --> 02:00:48.800
all drained of blood. It also says Annalise is missing.

1851
02:00:50.039 --> 02:00:53.960
I've got to find her. Suddenly, I cry out when

1852
02:00:53.960 --> 02:00:58.560
I feel myself being held against Gabriel. Of course, my

1853
02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:03.159
spider instinct did didn't go off. Gabriel's no danger to me.

1854
02:01:03.840 --> 02:01:06.000
I look up at him and bite my lower lip.

1855
02:01:07.520 --> 02:01:10.479
I'm afraid I gotta go for right now. I tell him.

1856
02:01:11.279 --> 02:01:17.560
He sees I'm spooked you Okay, baby, I nod quickly, Yeah,

1857
02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:20.840
something's come up. Then I give him my sweet smile

1858
02:01:20.920 --> 02:01:24.800
again to tell him it's not him. I'll be back later. Okay.

1859
02:01:25.960 --> 02:01:27.960
He doesn't want to let go of me, but he

1860
02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:31.960
eventually does. I go back upstairs and get fully dressed.

1861
02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:34.960
After I come back down, I go say goodbye to

1862
02:01:35.039 --> 02:01:39.560
Milly and promise her I'll be back. Milly sad and

1863
02:01:39.640 --> 02:01:43.960
hugs me tight again. Seriously, Am I ready to commit

1864
02:01:44.039 --> 02:01:47.479
to being part of a family unit. When Milly and

1865
02:01:47.520 --> 02:01:50.279
I let go of each other, I promise her and

1866
02:01:50.359 --> 02:01:54.760
Gabriel again that I'll be back. I'm leaving my stuff here,

1867
02:01:54.880 --> 02:01:58.399
so that should tell Gabriel I'll be keeping my promise.

1868
02:01:59.159 --> 02:02:01.159
I leave the house and no, I got to go

1869
02:02:01.239 --> 02:02:05.279
into the mere engated community to begin my own investigation.

1870
02:02:06.560 --> 02:02:09.319
Things are gonna start getting scary from here. Comic book

1871
02:02:09.359 --> 02:02:19.640
Nerds Perspective. Aileen Donnerly, Bells and I are training together.

1872
02:02:20.239 --> 02:02:23.399
We've been training more and more since our run in

1873
02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:25.720
with those freaks back when we went to her home

1874
02:02:25.760 --> 02:02:30.279
in Ravenhenge for Thanksgiving last month. I still can't believe

1875
02:02:30.319 --> 02:02:34.920
Bells grew up there and that that's the tab on Homeland. Still,

1876
02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:38.680
I nearly died last month. I know I don't want

1877
02:02:38.680 --> 02:02:42.880
to be in that predicament ever again. Also, those pills

1878
02:02:42.960 --> 02:02:45.760
Bells made for me to help me with my sickness

1879
02:02:45.880 --> 02:02:49.159
keep working. I don't know what she made them from,

1880
02:02:49.399 --> 02:02:51.560
but she hasn't had to make any of the new

1881
02:02:51.600 --> 02:02:55.960
medicines she brought back from Ravenhenge. Yet I keep taking

1882
02:02:56.000 --> 02:02:59.960
the pills like Bells told me, and I'm still feeling fantastic.

1883
02:03:00.640 --> 02:03:03.279
I'm actually able to keep the pace with Bells as

1884
02:03:03.279 --> 02:03:07.800
she's training me. She puts her hand on my shoulder. Okay,

1885
02:03:07.840 --> 02:03:12.000
iiny ready to show me what you learned. Let's do it, Bells.

1886
02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:16.199
I tell her we assume our fighting stances. When she

1887
02:03:16.279 --> 02:03:20.760
says go, we spar with each other again. Good, bell says,

1888
02:03:21.239 --> 02:03:24.760
very good. Keep it up. Yes, Bell's has learned many

1889
02:03:24.800 --> 02:03:28.399
different fighting styles during her time as both a tabon

1890
02:03:28.880 --> 02:03:32.399
and a master vampire. Right now, she's teaching me a

1891
02:03:32.439 --> 02:03:35.880
little bit of everything, mostly the stuff she learned as

1892
02:03:35.920 --> 02:03:39.479
a tabon growing up. I've been matching her more and

1893
02:03:39.600 --> 02:03:44.039
more as she's attacking. That's the exercise. She attacks and

1894
02:03:44.159 --> 02:03:48.760
I defend. We keep going for several minutes. Whatever that

1895
02:03:48.880 --> 02:03:52.319
stuff is Bells gave me is amazing. I feel like

1896
02:03:52.359 --> 02:03:57.520
I've got so much energy. Finally she stops attacking. Remember,

1897
02:03:57.600 --> 02:04:00.680
iiny what I'm teaching you. You do not use on

1898
02:04:00.800 --> 02:04:04.680
people at school, even when they upset you. You could

1899
02:04:04.800 --> 02:04:07.279
kill an innocent if you let your anger get the

1900
02:04:07.319 --> 02:04:11.640
better of you. I nod, I know, Bells. Then I

1901
02:04:11.760 --> 02:04:15.119
tighten my jaw and look at the house. You just

1902
02:04:15.239 --> 02:04:18.800
know how much I hate Martin. Bell's puts her hand

1903
02:04:18.840 --> 02:04:22.920
on my shoulder. He's not worth it. I only agreed

1904
02:04:22.960 --> 02:04:26.840
to teach you because you're my partner. I mean, it's great.

1905
02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:29.000
You make all our toys for when we go out.

1906
02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:32.000
But you got to know how to fight too. I

1907
02:04:32.119 --> 02:04:34.800
know we always stick close, but what if I'm not

1908
02:04:34.880 --> 02:04:38.760
there to help you? Like last month, I remind her

1909
02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:43.800
as we go inside, and like the Thanksgiving before, Bell's

1910
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:47.279
points at me, Ah, but you did handle yourself a

1911
02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:51.640
year ago without me. Face it. Iini, you're tougher than

1912
02:04:51.680 --> 02:04:55.920
you look. But if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't

1913
02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:59.920
even be here right now. I further remind her. Then

1914
02:05:00.399 --> 02:05:05.119
Bell's hugs me, I hug her back. We love each other,

1915
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:09.239
but not romantically. Belle's and I have been with each

1916
02:05:09.279 --> 02:05:12.560
other through a lot. We come apart fast when mean

1917
02:05:12.680 --> 02:05:17.279
Martin comes in, my older brother, who I hate so much.

1918
02:05:18.279 --> 02:05:20.399
When he sees me, I know he wants to call

1919
02:05:20.479 --> 02:05:24.039
me a little snippet. Martin's always made it clear that

1920
02:05:24.119 --> 02:05:27.760
he never wanted me to him. I was always the

1921
02:05:27.800 --> 02:05:31.199
little sister who kept getting in the way. I kept

1922
02:05:31.199 --> 02:05:34.399
trying to win him over, growing up to be fair,

1923
02:05:34.640 --> 02:05:39.119
Sometimes he would appreciate me. All that went out the

1924
02:05:39.159 --> 02:05:42.760
window when his actions with Courtney Rickman came back to

1925
02:05:42.840 --> 02:05:46.960
haunt me. I didn't take advantage of Courtney when she

1926
02:05:47.079 --> 02:05:50.560
was drunk at a party, but when she wanted payback.

1927
02:05:51.319 --> 02:05:55.039
Long story short, Courtney got her payback when her brother

1928
02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:01.479
brutally assaulted me and gave me aids. Immune system couldn't

1929
02:06:01.479 --> 02:06:05.000
handle a lot of the drugs I was being given. Really,

1930
02:06:05.319 --> 02:06:08.319
if it wasn't for Bells coming into my life and

1931
02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:12.119
using her knowledge her gram's taught her, I really don't

1932
02:06:12.119 --> 02:06:16.159
think i'd be here right now. I have hated Martin

1933
02:06:16.279 --> 02:06:19.800
ever since that night. To be fair, he's tried to

1934
02:06:19.840 --> 02:06:23.079
do right by me, but I can still tell he'd

1935
02:06:23.159 --> 02:06:26.720
rather be out of his life for good. The reason

1936
02:06:26.760 --> 02:06:29.720
he doesn't verbally attack me is because Bells told him

1937
02:06:30.079 --> 02:06:33.359
if he ever messed with me again that she would

1938
02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:37.159
mess with him. Martin throws his arms up and just

1939
02:06:37.199 --> 02:06:40.880
storms right back out the door. That is the kind

1940
02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:45.479
of tension going on here. Martin wants Bells as his girlfriend,

1941
02:06:46.079 --> 02:06:49.680
but he hates me. Bell's and I both hate him.

1942
02:06:50.680 --> 02:06:54.319
I turned to Bell's. I really don't know how much

1943
02:06:54.359 --> 02:06:58.399
more I can tolerate him. Bells walks to the door

1944
02:06:58.439 --> 02:07:01.880
and picks up the strickfield journe Martin dropped before leaving.

1945
02:07:02.960 --> 02:07:06.399
Then she turns back to me. I know this is

1946
02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:10.960
your house, Eine you said you were born here. Again.

1947
02:07:11.039 --> 02:07:15.640
If you want to leave here, we'll leave together. I sigh.

1948
02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:19.800
I really don't want to leave this house, but I'm

1949
02:07:19.920 --> 02:07:24.520
seriously considering letting Martin have it all. Like you once said,

1950
02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:30.159
anywhere we go is home. Yes, I did. Then she

1951
02:07:30.279 --> 02:07:34.279
looks at the paper. Looks like we got something. Iiny.

1952
02:07:35.159 --> 02:07:38.079
Bell's reads for a little bit before handing the paper

1953
02:07:38.079 --> 02:07:42.680
to me. I gasp after reading about the bodies. Then

1954
02:07:42.760 --> 02:07:48.640
I look up. It doesn't say Annalise Miron was among them. Nope.

1955
02:07:48.960 --> 02:07:53.079
Bell's agrees we'll have to go into the gated community

1956
02:07:53.119 --> 02:07:57.800
when it's dark and investigate maybe the hospital Morgue too.

1957
02:07:57.960 --> 02:08:03.279
I give Bells that icky look. Ah gross, She smirks

1958
02:08:03.319 --> 02:08:07.239
a little, Sorry, irony, I know you hate the Morgue,

1959
02:08:07.239 --> 02:08:12.600
but it always smells so gross, Bells, I tell her.

1960
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.560
Then Bells and I have our little stare off before

1961
02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:19.840
I agree we might have to go there. Can we

1962
02:08:19.920 --> 02:08:22.399
go there first and just get it out of the way.

1963
02:08:23.239 --> 02:08:27.439
Bells laughs, Sure, better go make sure the toys are

1964
02:08:27.479 --> 02:08:31.119
tuned up and ready to go. I already did. I

1965
02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:33.880
even upgraded the battery in the sun lamp. I say,

1966
02:08:34.800 --> 02:08:37.359
I know it's still not perfect, but I can get

1967
02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:40.319
it to work better. I know it. You know I

1968
02:08:40.399 --> 02:08:44.079
trust you, she assures me, even when you puke your

1969
02:08:44.079 --> 02:08:47.439
guts up at the morgue. When she laughs, I grab

1970
02:08:47.479 --> 02:08:50.720
a pillow and throw it at her. Shut up Bells.

1971
02:08:51.319 --> 02:08:54.319
Then I growl a little. I hate going to the

1972
02:08:54.319 --> 02:08:59.239
Strickfield General Hospital morgue, but oftentimes Bells is right about

1973
02:08:59.279 --> 02:09:02.840
us sneaking around down there. I get the feeling she's

1974
02:09:02.920 --> 02:09:06.880
going to be right about us going down there again tonight.

1975
02:09:07.840 --> 02:09:13.359
Perspective Bella tabon. Ainie and me use our same plan

1976
02:09:13.479 --> 02:09:17.319
for getting into the hospital morgue. I disguise myself to

1977
02:09:17.359 --> 02:09:21.319
get into the hospital and get downstairs. Since the cameras

1978
02:09:21.359 --> 02:09:23.840
can't see me, I can get into the morgue and

1979
02:09:23.960 --> 02:09:27.439
open a window to let Aini in if someone's in there,

1980
02:09:27.479 --> 02:09:29.920
I use GLAMs so Ainie and me can do our

1981
02:09:29.960 --> 02:09:34.359
business and get out of there. Funny thing they still

1982
02:09:34.399 --> 02:09:38.560
never put cameras down here. That's good. In Heine's case.

1983
02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:43.319
It ain't long before she's making weird faces. She's probably

1984
02:09:43.359 --> 02:09:46.760
gonna puke, but at least she's a trooper. AINI opens

1985
02:09:46.800 --> 02:09:54.239
a drawer. You found one, she mutters in her mousy voice, Ainie,

1986
02:09:54.239 --> 02:09:57.439
and I pull the drawer out. It's not the bodies

1987
02:09:57.479 --> 02:10:02.159
themselves that get to Eine, but the smell of the chemicals. Anyway,

1988
02:10:02.760 --> 02:10:07.399
I'm looking around the neck area carefully. These heads were

1989
02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:11.760
ripped off, Bells. Aini says, you can see the necks

1990
02:10:11.840 --> 02:10:15.399
broken here. Then I put my hand to my chin.

1991
02:10:16.760 --> 02:10:19.920
I love how you easily diagnose the bodies we look at,

1992
02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:23.760
but this really bothers me, not you, Ainy. I mean,

1993
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:27.880
why rip the heads off? Wouldn't it be a lot

1994
02:10:27.960 --> 02:10:32.920
easier to just chop them clean cut and all Iiny

1995
02:10:33.039 --> 02:10:36.479
pulls out her phone and brings up today's paper. After

1996
02:10:36.520 --> 02:10:40.640
reading the article again, she says, the bodies were all

1997
02:10:40.760 --> 02:10:45.680
drained of blood. Bells, you're a vampire, any ideas? I

1998
02:10:45.800 --> 02:10:49.880
grown her way, No, and that's what's really bothering me.

1999
02:10:50.840 --> 02:10:55.079
Vampires normally drink their victims, and that's it. They usually

2000
02:10:55.119 --> 02:10:58.960
don't rip the heads off. It just don't make sense.

2001
02:11:00.279 --> 02:11:03.880
From being friends of Analie's Miron, there's nothing saying what

2002
02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:08.399
the motive is. Ainie's typing away on her new smartphone.

2003
02:11:09.000 --> 02:11:11.560
After she got it, she took it apart and modified

2004
02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:14.479
it so she'd have access to all kinds of stuff

2005
02:11:14.520 --> 02:11:18.039
to help us. She keeps fighting the urge to gag.

2006
02:11:18.920 --> 02:11:22.800
There are other newspaper articles from around the area about

2007
02:11:23.279 --> 02:11:27.279
similar bodies we weren't investigating at that time, though I'm

2008
02:11:27.319 --> 02:11:31.239
sure those bodies are long since buried by now. At

2009
02:11:31.319 --> 02:11:35.359
least Aini and me both agree it's a vampire. I

2010
02:11:35.439 --> 02:11:37.760
pick up the head and take a closer look at

2011
02:11:37.760 --> 02:11:44.000
the neck. Right here, heinie definitely fangs. We look over

2012
02:11:44.039 --> 02:11:48.239
the body further and see there's nothing else aside from

2013
02:11:48.239 --> 02:11:52.560
indications of a struggle. After Aini snapped some picks on

2014
02:11:52.600 --> 02:11:59.199
her phone, we put the body away. We done? She asks, yeah,

2015
02:11:59.479 --> 02:12:03.920
I reply, oh, Aini, if you're not gonna eat that

2016
02:12:04.039 --> 02:12:09.039
greasy pork sandwich, ah Aine puts her hands to her

2017
02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:13.119
mouth and races to the nearby restroom to puke. After

2018
02:12:13.159 --> 02:12:16.319
flushing the toilet, she comes out and slaps my arm.

2019
02:12:16.880 --> 02:12:20.800
I hate you. Then I open the fridge and hand

2020
02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:24.439
her a coke, which she drinks gratefully before we leave.

2021
02:12:25.640 --> 02:12:30.000
All right, let's head to the mirngated community, I suggest.

2022
02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:33.159
Ainy waits for me to grab hold of her so

2023
02:12:33.279 --> 02:12:36.880
I can leap us both over to the Miron's compound

2024
02:12:42.680 --> 02:12:48.159
perspective Felicia Miron. Thanks to my spider instinct, I can

2025
02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:51.800
move around inside the gated community without anybody seeing me.

2026
02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:55.960
I'm in human form at the moment. At least. It

2027
02:12:55.960 --> 02:13:00.600
gets dark early in December. There's no cops around. Plenty

2028
02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:05.119
of yellow tape and chalk outlines all over the back patio.

2029
02:13:05.359 --> 02:13:07.560
This is the kind of stuff you see in horror

2030
02:13:07.560 --> 02:13:12.079
movies comic book nerds. I can't believe more murders happened here.

2031
02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:17.079
I left this house behind a few weeks ago. Believe me.

2032
02:13:17.920 --> 02:13:20.720
I wanted to keep living here after my parents died,

2033
02:13:21.680 --> 02:13:24.680
but it was getting to be too much on me emotionally.

2034
02:13:25.680 --> 02:13:29.520
That's how close I was to my parents. Unlike Annalise.

2035
02:13:30.439 --> 02:13:33.000
As soon as she met her ideal man and ran

2036
02:13:33.079 --> 02:13:35.920
away with him, she literally turned her back on our

2037
02:13:35.960 --> 02:13:39.800
immediate family. I'm sure you've heard the mir and ways

2038
02:13:39.920 --> 02:13:43.960
mentioned many times. I myself know the mir and ways,

2039
02:13:44.000 --> 02:13:49.359
but Annalies really used them to capitalize on opportunities, which

2040
02:13:49.399 --> 02:13:51.520
was how she got to be so rich all on

2041
02:13:51.600 --> 02:13:56.920
her own, probably why our parents left everything to me. Still,

2042
02:13:57.479 --> 02:14:00.479
when she offered to buy this mansion from me, I

2043
02:14:00.600 --> 02:14:06.119
accepted Annaliese definitely had the patio remodeled. Mom and Dad

2044
02:14:06.159 --> 02:14:09.520
never put a hot tub out here. Last I checked,

2045
02:14:09.720 --> 02:14:12.880
there was one in the basement Jim for after workouts.

2046
02:14:13.640 --> 02:14:17.479
I never asked anales why she wanted the mansion, but

2047
02:14:18.239 --> 02:14:21.520
I didn't really care. I took her offer and left.

2048
02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:25.319
She was even cruel and told me once I finished

2049
02:14:25.319 --> 02:14:31.199
moving out to never come back. That really hurt. We

2050
02:14:31.279 --> 02:14:33.840
almost got into a physical fight when she wanted to

2051
02:14:33.920 --> 02:14:38.920
kill my pet Tarantula creepy. Nevertheless, I still love my

2052
02:14:39.039 --> 02:14:42.279
sister because of the fact that she's my blood. That

2053
02:14:42.560 --> 02:14:46.039
and I'm also doing this because I want to do

2054
02:14:46.199 --> 02:14:50.520
good with these powers. Seeing Little Milly reminds me about

2055
02:14:50.560 --> 02:14:54.920
that every day. And Furthermore, I'm still looking for the

2056
02:14:54.920 --> 02:14:58.920
Blue Ribbons, the all female secret society who made that

2057
02:14:59.039 --> 02:15:02.319
New Life compound that was responsible for much of the

2058
02:15:02.399 --> 02:15:06.920
tragedy here on that Thanksgiving night and contributed to me

2059
02:15:07.119 --> 02:15:12.239
gaining my spider powers. Looking at this scene, however, this

2060
02:15:12.399 --> 02:15:15.399
doesn't have the Blue Ribbons written on it. I was

2061
02:15:15.479 --> 02:15:19.760
already at the hospital Morgue. While I'm sure multiple murders

2062
02:15:19.760 --> 02:15:23.760
aren't beneath the Blue Ribbons, they're more about world domination,

2063
02:15:24.720 --> 02:15:30.920
no someone else specifically targeted Analies. Not finding anything on

2064
02:15:30.960 --> 02:15:34.000
the patio, I go in the house for the first

2065
02:15:34.039 --> 02:15:38.239
time since I finished moving out. Looks like Annalies had

2066
02:15:38.239 --> 02:15:42.199
more rooms remodeled. Then I see more yellow tape and

2067
02:15:42.319 --> 02:15:47.000
chalk lines. Like on the patio. Everybody here got an

2068
02:15:47.039 --> 02:15:52.640
accompanying circle for their head except for one. The outline

2069
02:15:52.680 --> 02:15:56.279
by the broken out patio glass didn't have an additional

2070
02:15:56.399 --> 02:15:59.880
chalk circle. I did find one of the bodies at

2071
02:15:59.880 --> 02:16:03.680
the more with its heads still attached. Then I remember

2072
02:16:03.720 --> 02:16:07.760
the Strickfield Journal saying all of the bodies had no blood.

2073
02:16:08.840 --> 02:16:12.279
Aside from me, the only other blood drinkers I know

2074
02:16:13.119 --> 02:16:16.880
are vampires. I had a few run ins with vampires

2075
02:16:16.960 --> 02:16:21.159
since gaining my spider powers. I drink blood, but I

2076
02:16:21.319 --> 02:16:24.520
try not drinking straight from other people, which is why

2077
02:16:24.600 --> 02:16:28.479
I buy animal blood from Strickfield Meats. I just need

2078
02:16:28.520 --> 02:16:32.959
blood in general, doesn't have to be human. But what

2079
02:16:33.079 --> 02:16:36.840
kind of vampire drinks blood and then rips the heads

2080
02:16:36.879 --> 02:16:41.760
off the bodies. I gotta do more research on vampires.

2081
02:16:42.120 --> 02:16:44.959
I only just learned they were real, and I don't

2082
02:16:44.959 --> 02:16:48.760
know the exact rules for them. Sure, I've seen lots

2083
02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:52.840
of movies, but the rules are almost always different. I'm

2084
02:16:52.879 --> 02:16:56.079
gonna say the vampire that was here drank the blood,

2085
02:16:56.680 --> 02:16:59.840
then rip the heads off so they wouldn't come back.

2086
02:17:00.959 --> 02:17:03.319
The only body in the morgue that still had its

2087
02:17:03.319 --> 02:17:07.959
head also had its throat slashed. The article said by

2088
02:17:08.079 --> 02:17:12.360
Glass the vampire didn't bite him then, so there was

2089
02:17:12.399 --> 02:17:15.680
no need to rip the head off. Okay, I know

2090
02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:19.920
this sounds insane, but it's what I got at the moment. Also,

2091
02:17:20.000 --> 02:17:22.879
I don't know why the vampire took my only sister

2092
02:17:23.479 --> 02:17:28.159
and killed everybody else. Then my spider instinct tells me

2093
02:17:28.399 --> 02:17:31.920
I'm no longer alone in my old house. I hear

2094
02:17:32.040 --> 02:17:34.120
voices and leap to the other side of the room

2095
02:17:34.239 --> 02:17:37.680
to get out of sight. I quietly opened the window

2096
02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:39.479
in front of me in case I got a bail.

2097
02:17:40.239 --> 02:17:43.840
I'm wearing a hoodie, so whoever these people are won't

2098
02:17:43.879 --> 02:17:48.360
easily see my face. Then they come into the room.

2099
02:17:48.840 --> 02:17:54.760
What Aileen Donnerly and Bella Tabon, what are they doing here?

2100
02:17:55.920 --> 02:18:00.840
Their fellow students and cheerleaders at Strickfield Highane Donnerly was

2101
02:18:00.879 --> 02:18:03.559
also a big help in my solving the puzzle of

2102
02:18:03.559 --> 02:18:08.120
what happened with my parents and how I got my powers. Now,

2103
02:18:08.319 --> 02:18:12.280
I am intrigued. We haven't been out back yet, heine.

2104
02:18:12.520 --> 02:18:17.680
But the vampire's definitely been here, Bella tells Aileen. Don't

2105
02:18:17.760 --> 02:18:22.559
vampires have to be invited first? Aileen asks, Bella thinks

2106
02:18:22.559 --> 02:18:27.239
about it. Ah, if I needed an invite into your house, heine,

2107
02:18:27.600 --> 02:18:30.719
all I'd have to do is glam you, assuming you're

2108
02:18:30.719 --> 02:18:34.000
in here and looking outside at me, then I'd order

2109
02:18:34.079 --> 02:18:38.399
you to invite me in. Aileen gulps. I'll have to

2110
02:18:38.479 --> 02:18:42.079
remember that. Yeah, it's very easy to fall into that

2111
02:18:42.159 --> 02:18:46.920
particular trap. Bella says, I'm thinking that's how the vampire

2112
02:18:46.959 --> 02:18:50.239
got in here. Analise Miron is at least one of

2113
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:54.440
the owners here. The article just said Annalise Miron owns

2114
02:18:54.479 --> 02:19:01.000
this house Belle's. Aileen tells her are they investigating Annalise? Why?

2115
02:19:02.159 --> 02:19:05.280
I'm watching them more now and keeping my breathing quiet

2116
02:19:05.559 --> 02:19:08.600
so they don't hear me. I see they both have

2117
02:19:08.840 --> 02:19:15.360
contraptions strapped to their wrists. They are investigating Annalees again?

2118
02:19:15.600 --> 02:19:20.719
Why also? They seem to know a lot about vampires?

2119
02:19:21.120 --> 02:19:25.760
Whoever did this sure made a mess. Aileen observes, so

2120
02:19:25.920 --> 02:19:31.440
much blood, then Bella sneers, you sure you're finished with

2121
02:19:31.520 --> 02:19:36.440
that greasy pork sandwich? Iiny Aleen tightens her jaw and

2122
02:19:36.520 --> 02:19:41.719
points at Bell's shut up. She lowers her hand blood like,

2123
02:19:41.760 --> 02:19:45.040
this doesn't make me puke, Just those chemicals in the

2124
02:19:45.079 --> 02:19:50.040
hospital Morgue, Bella pats Aileen's shoulder. Just wanted to make

2125
02:19:50.079 --> 02:19:53.280
sure you got it out of your system. Aileen shoves

2126
02:19:53.319 --> 02:19:56.959
Bella a little. Yeah, I got your greasy pork sandwich.

2127
02:19:57.600 --> 02:20:01.959
Bella faces her. Always get your twin cousin Madeline to

2128
02:20:02.000 --> 02:20:04.600
come out with me. She never gets sick in the

2129
02:20:04.639 --> 02:20:11.520
hospital Morgue. Aileen growls a little, and then they get serious. Seriously,

2130
02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:14.799
who are these two? I wait for them to finish

2131
02:20:14.879 --> 02:20:18.040
up in here. They also say something about how puzzling

2132
02:20:18.120 --> 02:20:20.799
it is for a vampire to rip the heads off

2133
02:20:20.799 --> 02:20:25.120
their victims. You think the vampire didn't want to sire others,

2134
02:20:25.520 --> 02:20:31.479
Aileen asks, Bella looks puzzled. Every vampire I've ever encountered

2135
02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:34.959
has been the same. Aside from being masters or not,

2136
02:20:35.719 --> 02:20:39.600
siring is a one for one exchange. The vampire drinks

2137
02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:43.399
from you, then you drink from the vampire. But from

2138
02:20:43.399 --> 02:20:46.479
there you can come back two or three nights later.

2139
02:20:47.280 --> 02:20:50.639
A simple bite just makes the victim bleed, it never

2140
02:20:50.719 --> 02:20:54.120
turns them. The rules are the same for both masters

2141
02:20:54.159 --> 02:21:00.600
and garden variety vampires. Not you, bells Aleen counters. You're

2142
02:21:00.639 --> 02:21:03.520
a master vampire, but you're the only one who has

2143
02:21:03.559 --> 02:21:06.959
their own set of rules. This is true, iine, but

2144
02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:11.600
even if I could sire people, I wouldn't know how. Also,

2145
02:21:11.760 --> 02:21:14.479
having tried to drink blood just after I became a

2146
02:21:14.559 --> 02:21:19.479
vampire wasn't a good experience. I mean, I literally dropped

2147
02:21:19.479 --> 02:21:22.920
to my knees and puked. That was when I discovered

2148
02:21:22.959 --> 02:21:27.360
I needed to eat lots of food instead, like greasy

2149
02:21:27.479 --> 02:21:32.079
pork sandwiches, alien cracks. I had to keep from laughing.

2150
02:21:32.799 --> 02:21:37.040
Then Bella laughs a little to herself. Okay, I guess

2151
02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:41.440
you get that one. She gets serious. It still bites

2152
02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:44.600
me though. Ripping the heads off your victims ain't normal

2153
02:21:44.680 --> 02:21:49.959
vampire behavior. Iini, let's go look outside. Then Bella sniffs

2154
02:21:50.840 --> 02:21:59.959
we ain't alone, and then she looks my way. Perspective.

2155
02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:05.040
Div Bella tabon. It smells like someone who's been just

2156
02:22:05.159 --> 02:22:08.559
working out. When I start moving to where I smell

2157
02:22:08.600 --> 02:22:13.239
the person, someone quickly leaps through an open window. I

2158
02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:16.319
can easily tell it's a girl. I couldn't see her

2159
02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:19.680
face because of the hoodie, but she was definitely wearing

2160
02:22:19.719 --> 02:22:23.639
sweatpants and sandals. I dive right through the window and

2161
02:22:23.680 --> 02:22:27.079
sniff for her again. Then I turn and catch iiny

2162
02:22:27.159 --> 02:22:30.399
when she's diving through the window. After I set her

2163
02:22:30.399 --> 02:22:34.280
on her feet, she lowers her night vision goggles. Then

2164
02:22:34.360 --> 02:22:37.719
we split up to look around the yard. It's times

2165
02:22:37.799 --> 02:22:40.120
like this when I wish I could transmorph into a

2166
02:22:40.159 --> 02:22:44.440
bat or even fly. I pick up that sweaty workout

2167
02:22:44.479 --> 02:22:48.440
girl's scent again. Then I hear ainy in my earpiece.

2168
02:22:49.000 --> 02:22:52.159
She's on the roof. Bells. How'd she get on the

2169
02:22:52.239 --> 02:22:56.879
roof so fast? If she's our vampire? I leap up

2170
02:22:56.920 --> 02:23:01.399
onto the roof myself. The girl's squatting down. She's got

2171
02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:04.040
her sandals off and his barefoot with a hand pressed

2172
02:23:04.079 --> 02:23:07.920
to a roof tile. I'm leaping at her now, I'll

2173
02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.719
catch her since she won't see me. Suddenly, the girl

2174
02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:15.280
turns out of nowhere and shoves me hard, making me

2175
02:23:15.360 --> 02:23:20.639
fly right off the roof and hitting the glass below. Okay,

2176
02:23:21.319 --> 02:23:26.200
quite possibly our vampire. Not to mention she just made

2177
02:23:26.239 --> 02:23:30.799
me mad. I leap onto the roof again, but she's

2178
02:23:30.879 --> 02:23:35.479
nowhere to be found. She's in the garage. Bells, Iini

2179
02:23:35.600 --> 02:23:39.639
communicates to me, she just scaled down the wall and

2180
02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:43.959
into the window. Can vampires do that? Now? I hear

2181
02:23:44.000 --> 02:23:48.879
a crash, bells help. I quickly leap off the roof

2182
02:23:49.319 --> 02:23:53.120
and land where I hear AINI she's secured the siding

2183
02:23:53.239 --> 02:23:58.879
by webs. Iine's struggling to break free, but these webs

2184
02:23:58.920 --> 02:24:02.879
have her wrists and ankles stuck fast. When I break

2185
02:24:02.920 --> 02:24:07.520
the webs, they're sticking to my own fingers. You okay, Iiny,

2186
02:24:08.040 --> 02:24:11.799
I ask? She nods. By the time I saw her,

2187
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:14.639
she was right on me. Then I ended up like

2188
02:24:14.719 --> 02:24:19.799
how you found me? Vamps can't spin webs, right, No,

2189
02:24:20.200 --> 02:24:24.559
they don't turn into spiders, I assure her, And before

2190
02:24:24.600 --> 02:24:28.399
I realize what's happening. Next, someone grabs me from behind

2191
02:24:28.440 --> 02:24:31.200
and slams me hard right through the wall and into

2192
02:24:31.239 --> 02:24:34.520
the garage. I fly right through the back window and

2193
02:24:34.559 --> 02:24:38.399
inside of a jeep. All right, whoever did that just

2194
02:24:38.440 --> 02:24:42.440
wrote a check they can't cash. Then I hear Iiny screaming.

2195
02:24:42.959 --> 02:24:44.959
I kick the door off the jeep and come out.

2196
02:24:45.719 --> 02:24:49.319
That's when I see the two glowing red eyes of

2197
02:24:49.360 --> 02:24:54.319
the shadowy figure holding iiny. About time somebody got here

2198
02:24:54.319 --> 02:24:59.399
to investigate my artwork, The vampire calls out in kind

2199
02:24:59.399 --> 02:25:03.840
of a mousey voice. Now I finally get to have

2200
02:25:03.959 --> 02:25:12.040
some fun perspective, Madeline Donnerly. Yes, wherever here is has

2201
02:25:12.120 --> 02:25:15.680
heroes too, and here's two of them. The one I'm

2202
02:25:15.719 --> 02:25:19.719
holding onto right now is definitely nostalgia for me, and

2203
02:25:19.799 --> 02:25:23.639
the other one looks like I'm gonna get my competition.

2204
02:25:24.600 --> 02:25:27.479
The girl I took suddenly throws something in my face.

2205
02:25:28.120 --> 02:25:31.559
I scream and let her go. That little girl through

2206
02:25:32.399 --> 02:25:37.079
garlic essence in my face. It burns, but it don't

2207
02:25:37.079 --> 02:25:40.799
take long for me to heal up fast. Now Aileen's

2208
02:25:40.799 --> 02:25:45.520
looking right at me through her are those night vision goggles?

2209
02:25:46.440 --> 02:25:51.079
Then she gasps, are you seeing this? Bells? The other

2210
02:25:51.159 --> 02:25:55.319
girl comes and stands with her. This can't be right, iine,

2211
02:25:55.920 --> 02:25:59.559
No way it can be her. Now I'm laughing at him.

2212
02:26:00.440 --> 02:26:05.360
Oh do I look maybe sound like somebody you know?

2213
02:26:06.319 --> 02:26:11.120
Aileen shakes her head. You can't be Madeleine. I hold

2214
02:26:11.200 --> 02:26:15.760
up my arms out to my sides. Tada looks like

2215
02:26:15.879 --> 02:26:20.079
you win the prize, Aileen. Then the one called Bell's

2216
02:26:20.159 --> 02:26:24.440
shakes her head. It ain't her, Ainie. Maybe she looks

2217
02:26:24.440 --> 02:26:28.000
and talks like Mattie, but this ain't her. It's not

2218
02:26:28.159 --> 02:26:32.399
her scent. Believe me, I know Maddie's scent. She's been

2219
02:26:32.440 --> 02:26:36.040
around us enough times. I fold my arms in front

2220
02:26:36.040 --> 02:26:40.520
of me. Now I'm just insulted. Here, I unfold them

2221
02:26:40.520 --> 02:26:45.319
and raise my finger. I am Madeline Donnerly, No mistake there,

2222
02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:51.159
I just ain't your Madeline Donnerly. Now that I'm seeing you,

2223
02:26:51.239 --> 02:26:55.840
Aileen and hearin about another me here? Well, I guess

2224
02:26:55.840 --> 02:26:59.559
now I know I'm in another universe. Then I look up.

2225
02:27:00.319 --> 02:27:04.799
You really messed up sending me here, Patrick Gunter. Now

2226
02:27:04.879 --> 02:27:09.000
I'm looking at him again. Come to look at my masterpiece?

2227
02:27:09.079 --> 02:27:12.600
Did you maybe to you? I made a real mess here?

2228
02:27:12.639 --> 02:27:17.559
But this is art. I just love carnage almost as

2229
02:27:17.639 --> 02:27:21.239
much as I love blood. Too bad the piggies had

2230
02:27:21.239 --> 02:27:24.879
to wreck it. Oh well, but at least you two

2231
02:27:24.959 --> 02:27:30.600
are here. Now, what are you? Aileen yells? Come on,

2232
02:27:30.879 --> 02:27:34.200
you both gotta know what I am. I returned. I

2233
02:27:34.280 --> 02:27:38.000
mean you just threw garlic in my face. Right, I'm

2234
02:27:38.040 --> 02:27:42.360
a vampire that came from from a whole other universe

2235
02:27:42.639 --> 02:27:47.719
where my earth's nearly all vampires, and now I'm here

2236
02:27:47.799 --> 02:27:53.000
in yours. I vamp out and extend my claws, and

2237
02:27:53.079 --> 02:27:59.239
now I want to play. Then I gasp, Oh, you

2238
02:27:59.319 --> 02:28:01.280
want to know how else I know? I'm in a

2239
02:28:01.280 --> 02:28:07.040
parallel universe, a Leen, I laugh cause I drank you

2240
02:28:07.200 --> 02:28:11.959
up myself. I'm thinking maybe I'll drink you again. I

2241
02:28:12.079 --> 02:28:16.760
never liked you. Suddenly, the one called Bells leaps right

2242
02:28:16.799 --> 02:28:20.280
at me and knocks me on my keyster. Then she's

2243
02:28:20.360 --> 02:28:23.000
picking me up and slamming me into an suv that's

2244
02:28:23.040 --> 02:28:27.120
parked outside. But I'm quickly fighting back and showing this

2245
02:28:27.239 --> 02:28:30.559
other vamp I ain't no slouch. Turns out I can

2246
02:28:30.639 --> 02:28:33.799
match her for strength. I'm also showing her I got

2247
02:28:33.840 --> 02:28:38.600
moves too. Suddenly I'm dropping and moving in between Bell's legs.

2248
02:28:39.000 --> 02:28:41.159
When I come up, I jump right on her back,

2249
02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:44.319
and before she can get me off her, I'm sinking

2250
02:28:44.360 --> 02:28:49.040
my fangs right into her neck. Are you serious? Bells

2251
02:28:49.079 --> 02:28:54.200
cries out, you just killed yourself. I'm really tightening my

2252
02:28:54.399 --> 02:28:58.719
arms around Bells. Now, I drank from several vampires back

2253
02:28:58.719 --> 02:29:04.920
in my universe, but this Bell's vampire is so so yummy,

2254
02:29:05.639 --> 02:29:09.520
I can't stop drinking from her. Then she finally breaks

2255
02:29:09.520 --> 02:29:12.479
free and knocks me away. I go fly into the

2256
02:29:12.520 --> 02:29:16.479
grass and slide to the patio. I stand up and

2257
02:29:16.600 --> 02:29:21.440
lick my lips. Now Bells is coming at me. Seriously,

2258
02:29:21.479 --> 02:29:26.239
you little psycho. You're gonna drink from me. Bells yells.

2259
02:29:26.639 --> 02:29:30.680
Now I'm smiling. I want more. I don't know what

2260
02:29:30.799 --> 02:29:36.639
kind of stock you got, but I want seconds, Bells.

2261
02:29:37.520 --> 02:29:43.280
This Mattie isn't melting away. A Leen stammers, I'm laughing again.

2262
02:29:44.200 --> 02:29:48.079
Melt away, Oh, a Leen, I've been drinking from other

2263
02:29:48.200 --> 02:29:52.040
vampires back in my universe. You ain't supposed to, but

2264
02:29:52.159 --> 02:29:57.840
that's what made me powerful. Then I gasp, Wow, you

2265
02:29:57.959 --> 02:30:01.680
got some great stock, Bells, because I'm getting a real

2266
02:30:01.799 --> 02:30:04.959
fix off of you right now. Now I'm falling to

2267
02:30:05.000 --> 02:30:08.920
my knees and holding myself. I'm thinking they're expecting me

2268
02:30:09.040 --> 02:30:14.040
to melt like Aileen said, but I don't melt. In fact,

2269
02:30:14.319 --> 02:30:21.799
I'm feeling feeling more powerful. I'm moaning and groaning as

2270
02:30:21.840 --> 02:30:26.680
I'm feeling sensations i've never felt before. It's like getting

2271
02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:31.319
some kind of supercharge. Now, when I'm back on my feet,

2272
02:30:31.760 --> 02:30:38.399
I'm looking right at Bells. I want seconds. I'm shrieking

2273
02:30:38.479 --> 02:30:41.520
with delight. When I leap at her, she draws back

2274
02:30:41.600 --> 02:30:44.520
to knock me away. When she goes to punch me,

2275
02:30:45.000 --> 02:30:47.920
I quickly grab her arm and swing around to attach

2276
02:30:48.000 --> 02:30:51.520
myself to her. Again. She cries out when I sink

2277
02:30:51.600 --> 02:30:55.680
my fangs into her neck yet again. My body's really

2278
02:30:55.760 --> 02:31:02.079
coming to life now, Hm, yes, I moan hard. I

2279
02:31:02.120 --> 02:31:06.719
can't get her off me. Bell's cries run iy, But

2280
02:31:06.840 --> 02:31:11.040
Aileen don't run away this time. She's throwing holy water

2281
02:31:11.120 --> 02:31:16.239
in my face, but I ain't letting go. Finally, Bell's

2282
02:31:16.360 --> 02:31:20.719
falls on her side. Aileen tries holding a holy wafer

2283
02:31:20.760 --> 02:31:25.479
to my forehead and it don't do nothing. Next she's

2284
02:31:25.559 --> 02:31:30.920
using a crucifix and even that don't work. Now I

2285
02:31:31.040 --> 02:31:36.000
finally do stop drinking and stand up. I look at Aileen,

2286
02:31:36.600 --> 02:31:41.920
licking my lips and smiling. Your friend, here's some sort

2287
02:31:42.000 --> 02:31:46.719
of super vampire. I look down at Bell's I drank

2288
02:31:46.760 --> 02:31:51.319
from you. Now I got your powers too, and apparently

2289
02:31:51.399 --> 02:31:56.879
you ain't affected by vampire weaknesses. Oh man, things are

2290
02:31:56.920 --> 02:32:02.239
about to get real Fineuddenly someone else hits me and

2291
02:32:02.360 --> 02:32:06.200
sends me flying away. It ain't long before I'm back

2292
02:32:06.239 --> 02:32:09.799
on my feet again. Then I'm shrieking again. When I'm

2293
02:32:09.840 --> 02:32:15.280
seeing a giant spider. I guess Aileen hasn't ever seen

2294
02:32:15.319 --> 02:32:19.760
that before either, because she's freaking out too. The giant

2295
02:32:19.799 --> 02:32:23.799
spider lady got eight legs and two arms, with gray

2296
02:32:23.959 --> 02:32:28.760
fur claw like hands, four eyes, two antennas, and wearing

2297
02:32:28.799 --> 02:32:31.479
a T shirt torn down the middle enough to show

2298
02:32:32.000 --> 02:32:37.040
she's got a chest. Now she's pointing at me. Where's

2299
02:32:37.079 --> 02:32:43.840
Annalie's mirror? Vampire? Now I'm laughing. Why she's somewhere where

2300
02:32:43.959 --> 02:32:47.559
you ain't willing to go. I got her safely kept

2301
02:32:47.600 --> 02:32:51.120
away in the backwoods of Strickfield, and if you want her,

2302
02:32:51.719 --> 02:32:55.239
you gotta come and get her. Why are you doing this?

2303
02:32:55.920 --> 02:33:01.680
The spider demands, I really love how feel an evil feels.

2304
02:33:02.680 --> 02:33:06.920
Why not? Then I head up into the air, come

2305
02:33:06.959 --> 02:33:11.479
and get her. But I'm suddenly stopped when I'm tangled

2306
02:33:11.559 --> 02:33:20.600
up in a sticky web. Now the spider's pulling me back. Perspective,

2307
02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:25.799
Aileen Donnerly, I can't believe that giant spider woman is real.

2308
02:33:26.680 --> 02:33:29.280
There have been pictures of her in the Strickfield Journal.

2309
02:33:30.280 --> 02:33:34.319
I almost wondered if our paper was going tabloid. No,

2310
02:33:34.639 --> 02:33:40.040
this is Strickfield, Ohio. Vampires exist here. Then again, I

2311
02:33:40.280 --> 02:33:44.159
just found out last month that other monsters exist outside

2312
02:33:44.200 --> 02:33:48.280
of Strickfield. The more I'm looking at this giant spider,

2313
02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:53.319
the more I'm thinking she's on our side. Get back here,

2314
02:33:54.040 --> 02:33:58.239
the spider tells vamp Maddie. Then she shoots more webs

2315
02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:03.840
to entangle her, getting me, Vamp Maddie cries out. I

2316
02:34:03.920 --> 02:34:07.000
quickly move up to her. You either stop or I'll

2317
02:34:07.079 --> 02:34:10.600
hit you with this UV light. But this Maddie shows

2318
02:34:10.600 --> 02:34:13.680
how wickedly smart she is by changing in the mist

2319
02:34:13.879 --> 02:34:18.000
to escape from those sticky webs. She becomes human again

2320
02:34:18.040 --> 02:34:22.559
and lands she gotta do better than that Charlotte. Vamp

2321
02:34:22.639 --> 02:34:26.120
Maddie sneers at the spider woman. Then I hear a

2322
02:34:26.200 --> 02:34:30.120
groan and look to see Bells is still moving. I

2323
02:34:30.200 --> 02:34:33.920
quickly go to her. Bells, Bells, are you okay? I

2324
02:34:34.000 --> 02:34:41.879
shriek two weak Bells tells me so hot. I quickly

2325
02:34:41.959 --> 02:34:46.799
touch Bells's forehead, then turn to the spider. She's burning up.

2326
02:34:47.600 --> 02:34:50.440
I can tell the spider wants to go after Vamp Maddie.

2327
02:34:51.040 --> 02:34:54.920
She laughs scornfully at the spider. Guess you gotta choose.

2328
02:34:55.520 --> 02:34:57.760
You want Annalie's mirror, and you gotta come to the

2329
02:34:57.799 --> 02:35:02.600
backwoods of Strickfield, thinking you should just let me have her. Awe,

2330
02:35:03.479 --> 02:35:07.040
I made your vampire sick. The mirror woman or your

2331
02:35:07.120 --> 02:35:12.440
vampire better decide. Vamp Maddie changes into a bat again

2332
02:35:12.920 --> 02:35:16.920
and flies away. Then I noticed the sun's going to

2333
02:35:16.920 --> 02:35:20.840
come up soon. Bells and I pulled another near all nighter.

2334
02:35:21.760 --> 02:35:25.680
Then the spider surprises me by lifting Bells into her

2335
02:35:25.760 --> 02:35:30.520
humanoid arms. Where are we taking her, she asks me.

2336
02:35:31.440 --> 02:35:35.040
I almost struggle to think where we could go. Then

2337
02:35:35.360 --> 02:35:39.719
I remember something. The spider nods behind her, telling me

2338
02:35:39.840 --> 02:35:43.120
to hop on her back. She was wearing a backpack

2339
02:35:43.159 --> 02:35:45.200
and moves it to her shoulder for me to get on.

2340
02:35:46.280 --> 02:35:50.000
When I'm secure, the spider follows my directions. I have

2341
02:35:50.079 --> 02:35:53.799
to hold on tight as the creature leaps far distances.

2342
02:35:54.600 --> 02:35:59.200
She's probably as strong as Bells. Eventually we land outside

2343
02:35:59.200 --> 02:36:02.639
of a secluded house that Bell's bought here on County

2344
02:36:02.760 --> 02:36:07.000
Road one thirteen, outside of downtown village, just in case

2345
02:36:07.079 --> 02:36:11.920
things come full circle with mean Martin. The spider glances

2346
02:36:11.959 --> 02:36:15.280
at me. I can't enter the house like this. I'm

2347
02:36:15.280 --> 02:36:19.479
too big. I'll be right back after I dismount. The

2348
02:36:19.520 --> 02:36:23.479
spider places Bells in my arms. Then she goes behind

2349
02:36:23.520 --> 02:36:27.399
the garage. A few minutes later, a girl comes to us.

2350
02:36:28.280 --> 02:36:31.479
She's wearing the same sweatpants and hoodie we saw earlier.

2351
02:36:32.760 --> 02:36:36.120
She's got sandals on her feet. Now. Then she takes

2352
02:36:36.159 --> 02:36:41.600
Bell from me and into her arms again. Yeah, Bell's

2353
02:36:41.600 --> 02:36:45.760
is unconscious. I get us inside and turn on the lights.

2354
02:36:46.600 --> 02:36:50.360
The girl goes and sets Bells on the couch. Then

2355
02:36:50.559 --> 02:36:56.200
she thinks to check Bell's wrist. Now she realizes, how

2356
02:36:56.200 --> 02:37:00.120
can you have a pulse? She asks Bells, almost as

2357
02:37:00.120 --> 02:37:04.879
if she's asking herself. She's not like other vampires. I

2358
02:37:05.000 --> 02:37:08.200
tell her I want to pull her hood aside and

2359
02:37:08.239 --> 02:37:12.399
see who she is, but she's trying to help us.

2360
02:37:13.000 --> 02:37:17.159
I leave it go. Bells is more important right now anyway.

2361
02:37:18.600 --> 02:37:22.680
I just don't understand it. How could vamp Maddie bite

2362
02:37:22.719 --> 02:37:27.559
Bells and still be alive. When Alissa and Ali Mirn

2363
02:37:27.639 --> 02:37:32.159
drank from her, they both died horribly from it. They

2364
02:37:32.200 --> 02:37:35.520
didn't do it right away, but they melted into this

2365
02:37:36.319 --> 02:37:46.000
gross goop. Will the same thing happen to vamp Maddie perspective?

2366
02:37:46.520 --> 02:37:51.000
Madeline Donnery, I'm flying as fast as I can. I

2367
02:37:51.000 --> 02:37:54.760
ain't gonna make it I'm gonna die burning up. As

2368
02:37:54.799 --> 02:37:58.520
I'm nearing the backwoods of Strickfield, I know I'm totally screwed.

2369
02:37:59.120 --> 02:38:02.040
The sun's up enough to where it'll kill me. I

2370
02:38:02.159 --> 02:38:05.239
groan and fall fast. I won't die when I hit

2371
02:38:05.280 --> 02:38:11.000
the ground, but it's gonna hurt off. I'm in great pain,

2372
02:38:11.159 --> 02:38:15.520
but not for very long. I stand up and clear

2373
02:38:15.600 --> 02:38:19.520
the cobwebs. Now I'm seeing light in my eyes. I

2374
02:38:19.639 --> 02:38:24.120
open them and scream. I'm still too far from my cabin,

2375
02:38:24.319 --> 02:38:26.879
and I ain't safe from sunlight here in the backwoods,

2376
02:38:27.600 --> 02:38:33.280
but I'm not burning up. I stand tall and face

2377
02:38:33.360 --> 02:38:37.399
the morning sun. I look at my tattooed arms and

2378
02:38:37.479 --> 02:38:42.959
feel my face. Nothing's happening. I admit I'm scared, but

2379
02:38:43.559 --> 02:38:48.120
I stay where I am and watch the sunrise more. Wow,

2380
02:38:49.360 --> 02:38:53.040
I'm still here. I've been out in the sun for

2381
02:38:53.120 --> 02:38:56.920
several minutes, and I'm not dying. It's gotta be the

2382
02:38:56.959 --> 02:39:01.520
blood I drank from Bells means she can be out

2383
02:39:01.520 --> 02:39:05.680
in the daylight too. I'm continuing to feel more and

2384
02:39:05.799 --> 02:39:10.159
more powerful with her blood in me. I don't know

2385
02:39:10.200 --> 02:39:13.559
what all Bells can do, but I seen other vampires

2386
02:39:13.600 --> 02:39:16.840
and know they can't be out in the daylight. But

2387
02:39:16.920 --> 02:39:21.639
the fact that I am means she can too. I'm

2388
02:39:21.719 --> 02:39:25.920
truly free now. I ain't got a fear sunlight ever Again.

2389
02:39:26.639 --> 02:39:30.159
This whole world's truly mine to play with and do

2390
02:39:30.319 --> 02:39:34.719
with as I wish. Now I can truly call my

2391
02:39:34.959 --> 02:39:41.440
new world utopia. I haven't seen the sun since Carter

2392
02:39:41.600 --> 02:39:47.559
Cross's fourteenth birthday. Still in the sunlight, I start walking

2393
02:39:47.680 --> 02:39:52.000
back to my cabin. I'm gonna go check on Anale's

2394
02:39:52.000 --> 02:39:55.639
mirror first. Then I'm gonna go look for those three

2395
02:39:55.760 --> 02:40:00.760
heroes again and show them exactly what I can do now.

2396
02:40:06.440 --> 02:40:15.200
Christmas Eve perspective Felicia Miron. Bella is still unconscious. Eileen

2397
02:40:15.280 --> 02:40:19.200
and I have been doing everything we can. She's bringing

2398
02:40:19.239 --> 02:40:23.479
me another cold compress to put on Bella's forehead. I

2399
02:40:23.520 --> 02:40:28.000
never felt a fever like this on anyone before. I'm

2400
02:40:28.040 --> 02:40:31.159
almost afraid to ask what a thermometer would read on her.

2401
02:40:32.280 --> 02:40:38.559
Still I can't believe Bella Tabon is a vampire. Then

2402
02:40:38.600 --> 02:40:42.079
I realized the sunlights coming through the window and onto her.

2403
02:40:43.600 --> 02:40:47.360
She's not even dying. I once fought a vampire and

2404
02:40:47.440 --> 02:40:51.040
stopped him by webbing him up. He was stuck fast

2405
02:40:51.120 --> 02:40:53.799
until the sun came up and that's what ended him,

2406
02:40:55.000 --> 02:40:59.319
not Bella. Though you said Bella was a different kind

2407
02:40:59.319 --> 02:41:05.000
of vampire. I say to Aileen, she's unique. Aileen replies.

2408
02:41:05.959 --> 02:41:09.159
She walks in the daylight and eats lots of food.

2409
02:41:10.200 --> 02:41:14.879
She's not fully undead and doesn't drink blood. She's her

2410
02:41:14.879 --> 02:41:19.360
own kind of master vampire. I sigh and turn her way.

2411
02:41:20.520 --> 02:41:25.079
I'm gonna trust you, Aileen. This stays just between us, Okay,

2412
02:41:26.319 --> 02:41:32.959
I pull my hood back. Aileen gasps, Felicia Meren, our

2413
02:41:33.360 --> 02:41:38.760
cheerleading captain. You're the spider lady. I know, right, I reply.

2414
02:41:39.680 --> 02:41:42.840
I take another cold compress from Aileen and put it

2415
02:41:42.879 --> 02:41:49.840
on Bella's forehead. Will she die? I ask? Aileen looks exhausted.

2416
02:41:51.360 --> 02:41:57.200
I really don't know. Then she cries softly. I'd be

2417
02:41:57.280 --> 02:42:00.920
dead right now if it wasn't for Bells. I'm sick,

2418
02:42:01.000 --> 02:42:04.799
and she's used her family's medicines to keep me alive.

2419
02:42:06.159 --> 02:42:10.600
She looks me in the face. I can't lose her, Felicia,

2420
02:42:11.120 --> 02:42:15.040
She's all I have. I'm a science whiz, just like you,

2421
02:42:15.520 --> 02:42:19.319
I say, I don't know how to help a vampire, though,

2422
02:42:20.239 --> 02:42:22.879
the only thing I can think of is maybe Bella's

2423
02:42:22.920 --> 02:42:26.760
lost too much blood that other vampires seemed to drink

2424
02:42:26.840 --> 02:42:31.520
quite a bit from her. Just then, Bella groans, I

2425
02:42:31.600 --> 02:42:35.120
quickly pull my hood back on just as she's opening

2426
02:42:35.159 --> 02:42:39.959
her eyes. She sees me first. Then Aileen goes into

2427
02:42:40.000 --> 02:42:47.280
her sight Belle's She groans, I'll live Inini feels like

2428
02:42:47.360 --> 02:42:52.639
I got poison in my veins so hot. Just stay

2429
02:42:52.719 --> 02:42:58.120
here and lay down, Aileen tells her. Suddenly, my spider

2430
02:42:58.200 --> 02:43:01.520
instinct's going critical. Quickly snatch up a Leen and pull

2431
02:43:01.520 --> 02:43:04.959
her to the floor. As the front window shatters, I

2432
02:43:05.040 --> 02:43:09.079
quickly get up to see that vampire again. It doesn't

2433
02:43:09.120 --> 02:43:11.360
take either of us long to see that she's not

2434
02:43:11.440 --> 02:43:17.159
burning up either. Now where were we, the vampire asks,

2435
02:43:17.920 --> 02:43:22.120
Then she looks down at Bella. M I think I'll

2436
02:43:22.200 --> 02:43:25.280
drink up the rest of that yummy blood of yours.

2437
02:43:26.319 --> 02:43:30.040
Bella suddenly strikes and kicks her. The hell you will.

2438
02:43:30.760 --> 02:43:35.120
The vampire goes flying through another window, and right outside,

2439
02:43:35.719 --> 02:43:38.319
Bella is trying to get up off the couch, but

2440
02:43:38.440 --> 02:43:42.159
she's still weak and sick. I leap out that same

2441
02:43:42.239 --> 02:43:48.239
window and intercept the other vampire. Yeah, fight me, she cheers.

2442
02:43:49.000 --> 02:43:52.600
The two of us are locked in mortal combat. Fortunately

2443
02:43:52.719 --> 02:43:55.760
for me, I'm able to dodge her blows and kicks

2444
02:43:56.120 --> 02:44:00.920
thanks to my spider instinct and reflexes. Yes, book nerds,

2445
02:44:01.040 --> 02:44:04.280
I am very much a freak, but I'm also trying

2446
02:44:04.319 --> 02:44:08.680
to be both a good mirror and a hero. Every

2447
02:44:08.760 --> 02:44:12.440
time I punch or kick the vampire, she's stunned for

2448
02:44:12.520 --> 02:44:17.280
a moment before getting back up. She's loving every minute

2449
02:44:17.280 --> 02:44:21.639
of our fight. She's tried warping behind me, but my

2450
02:44:21.760 --> 02:44:25.680
spider instinct warns me of that danger too. I can't

2451
02:44:25.680 --> 02:44:29.120
believe the kind of reflexes I got. I don't think

2452
02:44:29.120 --> 02:44:33.079
I ever experienced these in my spider form. Guess their

2453
02:44:33.159 --> 02:44:38.040
advantages to being human over my spider body. Unfortunately, I

2454
02:44:38.079 --> 02:44:41.719
can't change into the spider because it takes around two minutes,

2455
02:44:41.760 --> 02:44:44.479
and that vampire won't give me that kind of time.

2456
02:44:45.600 --> 02:44:48.680
When she gets too close and tries biting me, I

2457
02:44:48.799 --> 02:44:52.760
quickly cover her face with very sticky webs. Then I

2458
02:44:52.840 --> 02:44:56.440
grab her arms and give her my prickles. I hope

2459
02:44:56.479 --> 02:44:59.840
my spider venom works on her. I get my answer

2460
02:45:00.000 --> 02:45:03.399
and she starts wobbling around a little. I prick her

2461
02:45:03.479 --> 02:45:08.440
again and inject even more venom. Now she's walking around

2462
02:45:08.559 --> 02:45:11.879
like a few stoners I see at Strickfield University. When

2463
02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:15.040
I go there to get coffee, I start laying into

2464
02:45:15.079 --> 02:45:18.399
her again. I'm thinking, if she's out in the daylight,

2465
02:45:18.879 --> 02:45:21.799
she drank from Bella and somehow gained her powers too.

2466
02:45:23.120 --> 02:45:26.639
Just how powerful is this vampire? I keep throwing my

2467
02:45:26.680 --> 02:45:32.000
spider strength into her again and again. I'm even drawing blood,

2468
02:45:32.879 --> 02:45:36.440
you know, comic book nerds, She ain't gonna stay stoned

2469
02:45:36.479 --> 02:45:39.879
for very long. Suddenly she runs into me with a

2470
02:45:39.920 --> 02:45:44.719
shoulder tackle and takes me down. I'm stunned now. Then

2471
02:45:44.879 --> 02:45:51.239
the vampire slithers onto me. M chow time, she giggles

2472
02:45:51.280 --> 02:45:55.920
in her mousey voice. Suddenly Bella's right there to pull

2473
02:45:55.959 --> 02:45:58.479
the vampire off me and throw her hard enough to

2474
02:45:58.520 --> 02:46:02.920
send her flying halfway through through a farmer's field. Aileen's

2475
02:46:03.000 --> 02:46:08.559
right there, now, you okay? I nod, just a little winded.

2476
02:46:09.120 --> 02:46:12.479
When Aileen gives me her hand, I accept it and

2477
02:46:12.600 --> 02:46:16.120
let her help me up. I realize it's now or never.

2478
02:46:16.799 --> 02:46:19.159
I move behind the house and strip down to my

2479
02:46:19.280 --> 02:46:23.959
T shirt. Then I start the change. In two minutes,

2480
02:46:24.200 --> 02:46:29.000
I'm my cute and cuddly giant spider self again. Bella

2481
02:46:29.040 --> 02:46:32.000
and I move to the other vampire. I point at

2482
02:46:32.079 --> 02:46:36.959
her and demand I want Annalie's mirror right now. The

2483
02:46:37.040 --> 02:46:41.959
other vampire laughs scornfully, hue Wanner, come and get her.

2484
02:46:42.719 --> 02:46:46.120
She quickly flies up into the air and is getting away.

2485
02:46:46.879 --> 02:46:50.159
Bella tries leaping up to catch her, but she's still

2486
02:46:50.239 --> 02:46:53.879
too weak and falls back to the ground. Damn it,

2487
02:46:54.639 --> 02:47:00.360
Bella screams. Aileen kneels down beside her. Easy, Bell's, don't

2488
02:47:00.360 --> 02:47:04.840
push yourself. Bella gets back to her feet. Then she

2489
02:47:04.920 --> 02:47:08.639
sees me, what do you have to do with Analie's mirrn.

2490
02:47:10.120 --> 02:47:14.360
Let's just say she's someone I care about. I reply.

2491
02:47:15.520 --> 02:47:20.799
Bella groans, fine, it's our fight. Then she looks in

2492
02:47:20.840 --> 02:47:25.239
the direction the other vampire flew. Guess we're heading into

2493
02:47:25.239 --> 02:47:29.840
the backwoods of Strickfield. I really hate that place. All

2494
02:47:29.959 --> 02:47:34.319
kinds of nasty things walking around back in there. I

2495
02:47:34.360 --> 02:47:38.120
put a hand on Bella's shoulder. You're gonna be okay

2496
02:47:38.159 --> 02:47:43.600
to do this, she sighs. Honestly, I still ain't feeling

2497
02:47:43.680 --> 02:47:47.399
so hot, but I'm gonna do this. Can you carry

2498
02:47:47.440 --> 02:47:51.319
both Iiny and me on your back? Spider hop on?

2499
02:47:51.959 --> 02:47:55.479
I tell them Bella and Aileen are both short and

2500
02:47:55.600 --> 02:47:59.680
skinny enough to ride on my back. Hang On, I

2501
02:47:59.719 --> 02:48:02.760
show my riders how fast I can move on my

2502
02:48:02.840 --> 02:48:06.760
eight legs. It takes a few leaps, but eventually we're

2503
02:48:06.799 --> 02:48:10.879
outside the forbidden Forest. No point asking if Bella and

2504
02:48:10.959 --> 02:48:15.040
Aleen want to turn back. Knowing we're seeing this thing through,

2505
02:48:15.920 --> 02:48:20.280
we head into the backwoods of Strickfield together to have

2506
02:48:20.319 --> 02:48:28.520
a meeting with destiny perspective. Bella Tabon, I don't understand

2507
02:48:28.600 --> 02:48:32.159
how that other Madeline Donnerly could drink from me and

2508
02:48:32.280 --> 02:48:36.280
gain my powers. I already know how dangerous I am.

2509
02:48:37.040 --> 02:48:40.760
I haven't forgotten how dangerous Thornton Jillian was during my

2510
02:48:40.879 --> 02:48:45.239
time as immortal. I was the one who finally killed him,

2511
02:48:45.799 --> 02:48:50.120
but his powerful master vampire blood mixed with my pure

2512
02:48:50.239 --> 02:48:54.959
Tabon blood through injuries while I was unconscious, turning me

2513
02:48:55.040 --> 02:48:59.040
into the master vampire I am now. The fact that

2514
02:48:59.120 --> 02:49:03.200
this Madeline now seems to have all my powers makes

2515
02:49:03.200 --> 02:49:07.440
her possibly even more dangerous than I or even Thornton

2516
02:49:07.559 --> 02:49:11.760
Gillian could ever be. I can also tell this Madeline's

2517
02:49:11.840 --> 02:49:15.079
not playing with a full deck, which makes her that

2518
02:49:15.280 --> 02:49:20.040
much worse. Listen you too, when we fight Maddie in there.

2519
02:49:20.440 --> 02:49:24.879
Don't hold back, I tell them, And remember, Ainie, this

2520
02:49:25.000 --> 02:49:29.079
ain't your twin cousin. Believe me, Belles, I know the

2521
02:49:29.079 --> 02:49:34.319
difference between our Maddie and that thing we're chasing. Aleen replies,

2522
02:49:35.520 --> 02:49:39.040
I'm just hoping what happened in that vampire universe we

2523
02:49:39.120 --> 02:49:41.799
went to back in October isn't a sign of things

2524
02:49:41.840 --> 02:49:45.760
to come here. I doubt it. Ainie, I tell her,

2525
02:49:46.239 --> 02:49:50.760
remember she didn't even know who I was. Either I

2526
02:49:50.879 --> 02:49:54.680
don't exist in that vampire universe or she ain't never

2527
02:49:54.760 --> 02:49:58.840
met me before. Wait a minute, are you two saying

2528
02:49:59.239 --> 02:50:04.440
parallel un verses are actually real? The Spider asks, we

2529
02:50:04.600 --> 02:50:08.840
don't expect you to believe us. Aileen replies, you had

2530
02:50:08.879 --> 02:50:13.360
to have been there. No, I believe you. The Spider says,

2531
02:50:14.319 --> 02:50:17.440
I guess you can make this stuff up, but at

2532
02:50:17.440 --> 02:50:22.040
the same time you can't. Then she stops. It's my

2533
02:50:22.120 --> 02:50:26.680
spider instinct. Be ready. It ain't long before these white

2534
02:50:26.719 --> 02:50:30.920
people are coming at us, and I mean white hair

2535
02:50:31.040 --> 02:50:38.399
and skin. They also have puke colored eyes. Hungry, they

2536
02:50:38.440 --> 02:50:42.280
both roar, we're ready to jump off, but the Spider

2537
02:50:42.360 --> 02:50:46.959
quickly turns to face them. I got this. She snags

2538
02:50:47.000 --> 02:50:49.719
them both with her webs, brings them to her and

2539
02:50:49.799 --> 02:50:53.360
smashes their heads together. They both fall away and are

2540
02:50:53.399 --> 02:50:57.200
staggering trying to get up, giving us time to get away.

2541
02:50:58.079 --> 02:51:01.040
I swear it seems like we're getting deeper and deeper

2542
02:51:01.079 --> 02:51:05.360
into these woods. How in the world did this big

2543
02:51:05.600 --> 02:51:10.639
stretch of woods outside Strickfield become such a fearful place?

2544
02:51:11.920 --> 02:51:16.959
No cell signal here, Aini informs us, not surprised, The

2545
02:51:17.040 --> 02:51:21.799
spider replies, just like in the horror movies, we live

2546
02:51:21.879 --> 02:51:25.840
them all the time. I informer story of our lives

2547
02:51:26.760 --> 02:51:30.319
Inini and me keep riding the spider. Soon we come

2548
02:51:30.360 --> 02:51:36.239
to another clearing stop. Spider, I think, I smell Madeline.

2549
02:51:36.479 --> 02:51:39.920
I'm right up above you. We hear her call out,

2550
02:51:40.559 --> 02:51:43.959
but the spider quickly knocks Madeline away as she drops

2551
02:51:43.959 --> 02:51:48.399
on us. AINI and me dismount. When Madeline's on her feet,

2552
02:51:48.799 --> 02:51:55.280
she cheers, congratulations, you found it. The spider gasps. When

2553
02:51:55.360 --> 02:51:59.280
we see Annalie's mirror sitting lazily on the porch of

2554
02:51:59.319 --> 02:52:04.840
a nearby car, she looks very weak. Then I remember

2555
02:52:04.920 --> 02:52:08.559
how Madeleine drank from me and understand what kind of

2556
02:52:08.639 --> 02:52:13.360
vampires come from her universe. Don't let Madeline, bite you,

2557
02:52:13.680 --> 02:52:17.639
I warn them, or you'll turn for sure. The spider

2558
02:52:17.719 --> 02:52:22.399
points to Annalie's mirror. Did you bite her, Madeline? I'll

2559
02:52:22.520 --> 02:52:29.040
kill you? Madeline snickers. Maybe I did, and maybe I didn't.

2560
02:52:29.920 --> 02:52:34.680
She points to me. Oh bells. Since I drank your blood,

2561
02:52:35.280 --> 02:52:39.600
I got your powers now. I really love enjoying a

2562
02:52:39.719 --> 02:52:46.000
beautiful sunrise. You set me free. I don't care how

2563
02:52:46.079 --> 02:52:50.000
weak I still am. Madeleine's gotta be stopped. I'm a

2564
02:52:50.079 --> 02:52:54.479
tabon and I can't let this creature win. Let's do this.

2565
02:52:54.719 --> 02:52:56.840
Only one of us is leaving here, and it ain't

2566
02:52:56.879 --> 02:53:02.959
gonna be you. Madeleine tightens her fist. Okay, entertain me.

2567
02:53:04.000 --> 02:53:14.559
Suddenly Madeline howls and leaps right at me. Perspective Madeline donnerly. Yes,

2568
02:53:15.120 --> 02:53:19.360
I'm finally gonna be entertained at last. I was beginning

2569
02:53:19.399 --> 02:53:21.959
to think I was gonna be bored here in Utopia.

2570
02:53:22.680 --> 02:53:26.879
It's little old me against a mortal, the master vampire

2571
02:53:26.920 --> 02:53:31.319
who set me free, and a spider freak. At first,

2572
02:53:31.399 --> 02:53:36.000
I'm thinking Aileen'll be easy, peasy, lemon squeezy, but she's

2573
02:53:36.040 --> 02:53:39.280
showing me she ain't no little mousey with her moves

2574
02:53:39.319 --> 02:53:43.920
and those contraptions. She can't really hurt me with her moves,

2575
02:53:44.000 --> 02:53:47.200
but she's showing me she ain't gonna go down easy.

2576
02:53:48.159 --> 02:53:51.079
The only thing frustrating me is I can't hit that

2577
02:53:51.200 --> 02:53:57.440
spider Ah. That's right, spiders sense danger. She'll always know

2578
02:53:57.559 --> 02:54:02.440
I'm coming, even when I warp behind me. She's definitely strong,

2579
02:54:02.719 --> 02:54:06.879
but I'm much stronger since drinking from bells. In fact,

2580
02:54:07.280 --> 02:54:10.719
that's what I'm gonna do again. I want all of

2581
02:54:10.760 --> 02:54:15.559
her delicious blood. I want all of her power. The

2582
02:54:15.639 --> 02:54:18.840
four of us keep fighting into the afternoon. I can

2583
02:54:18.840 --> 02:54:22.600
tell Aileen's getting tired, but she's still showing she's willing

2584
02:54:22.680 --> 02:54:27.000
to fight. Eventually, even with my new powers, these three

2585
02:54:27.159 --> 02:54:30.079
just ain't given up. They all triple toe me and

2586
02:54:30.120 --> 02:54:33.200
give me a hell of a showdown. Then the Spider

2587
02:54:33.239 --> 02:54:38.399
Girl sticks me again. Wow, she really dope me up

2588
02:54:38.440 --> 02:54:42.319
this time. I can barely stand. Then I fall on

2589
02:54:42.440 --> 02:54:47.399
my keyster. Seriously, you're all wanting to kill me so

2590
02:54:47.600 --> 02:54:50.879
bad just to get this blood bag over here back

2591
02:54:51.360 --> 02:54:56.280
I jeer see. I glamed Anaale's mirn and got her

2592
02:54:56.319 --> 02:54:59.959
to open up about herself. She's one of the absolute

2593
02:55:00.000 --> 02:55:03.639
the worst people you'll ever meet. Know how many big

2594
02:55:03.719 --> 02:55:07.520
companies she's taken over. Know how many judges she's bought off.

2595
02:55:08.040 --> 02:55:11.200
That's how corrupt this woman is. You ought to just

2596
02:55:11.280 --> 02:55:14.399
let me have her. I'd be doing people here a favor.

2597
02:55:15.079 --> 02:55:17.680
Then Bell's leaps at me and pops me right in

2598
02:55:17.719 --> 02:55:22.040
the face. You'll never understand, Madeline, You're not a hero.

2599
02:55:22.600 --> 02:55:25.000
It ain't about what people like Analie's mir and may

2600
02:55:25.079 --> 02:55:28.719
Or may not have done. When I'm almost on my feet,

2601
02:55:28.959 --> 02:55:32.000
a Leen's right there to fire a steak into my heart.

2602
02:55:32.920 --> 02:55:35.600
For a brief moment, I'm afraid of dying for good.

2603
02:55:36.760 --> 02:55:40.840
Then I'm seeing the benefits of drinking Bells's blood again.

2604
02:55:41.959 --> 02:55:46.120
The vampire weaknesses I once had no longer affect me.

2605
02:55:47.040 --> 02:55:49.719
I pull the steak out of my heart. Oh, I

2606
02:55:49.879 --> 02:55:52.600
do know what it's like being a hero. But what

2607
02:55:52.680 --> 02:55:55.319
you got to live for when your greatest enemy takes

2608
02:55:55.360 --> 02:55:59.360
everything from you? Oh, I'm really mad and break the

2609
02:55:59.399 --> 02:56:03.799
steak just by squeezing it. Mayor Gunter caused the vampire

2610
02:56:03.840 --> 02:56:07.959
apocalypse to happen in my universe. He took away my world,

2611
02:56:08.000 --> 02:56:12.639
my family, my friends, and my life. He eventually took

2612
02:56:12.639 --> 02:56:16.239
my mortality when he bit me and turned me into this.

2613
02:56:17.360 --> 02:56:21.239
Then he finally killed Carter Cross, taking the love of

2614
02:56:21.239 --> 02:56:24.799
my life away from me. I ain't got nothing left

2615
02:56:24.840 --> 02:56:28.959
to lose. I'm feeling all that power surging through me

2616
02:56:29.000 --> 02:56:33.559
as I'm getting madder and madder. So you do gooders,

2617
02:56:33.600 --> 02:56:37.440
Tell me, then, what else is there left to fight for?

2618
02:56:38.639 --> 02:56:46.280
I pause? Don't you understand yet? Goodness is weakness? The

2619
02:56:46.360 --> 02:56:50.479
spiders looking upset? You think I don't know what Annale's

2620
02:56:50.559 --> 02:56:54.040
Miron's done. Has it ever occurred to you that I

2621
02:56:54.079 --> 02:56:56.760
could have turned to evil and did everything you're doing

2622
02:56:56.840 --> 02:56:59.879
right now? But I got a real chance to do

2623
02:57:00.120 --> 02:57:03.120
some good and help make this world a better place.

2624
02:57:04.120 --> 02:57:07.079
If it means I gotta save people like Analie's mirror,

2625
02:57:07.719 --> 02:57:10.760
then that's what I gotta do. It ain't our place

2626
02:57:10.799 --> 02:57:14.040
to judge them. That's for God to decide their fate,

2627
02:57:14.840 --> 02:57:19.159
not you. Now. I'm just looking at them, and one

2628
02:57:19.200 --> 02:57:23.719
more time, I'm laughing hard. When I finish, I just

2629
02:57:23.799 --> 02:57:27.799
look right at him. Yeah you all entertain me? Good

2630
02:57:28.399 --> 02:57:31.200
You're giving me a hell of a fight. So you

2631
02:57:31.319 --> 02:57:35.840
think highly of this God? Huh? Well, I got something

2632
02:57:35.920 --> 02:57:40.399
here that says the contrary. That's when I'm reaching in

2633
02:57:40.440 --> 02:57:44.559
my pocket and pulling out my compact, I open it

2634
02:57:44.680 --> 02:57:49.079
up and show them. Yeah, I learned about old Bloodstone,

2635
02:57:49.399 --> 02:57:54.159
which lets vampires see their reflection. That means I can

2636
02:57:54.319 --> 02:57:58.159
use it to finally see my own reflection. Ever, play

2637
02:57:58.239 --> 02:58:02.879
video games, don't you know there's always a final boss. Well,

2638
02:58:02.959 --> 02:58:06.959
guess what it ain't me? Then I laugh it up

2639
02:58:07.000 --> 02:58:12.719
again before looking into the compact and saying Mary Worth,

2640
02:58:13.440 --> 02:58:27.719
Marry Worth, Mary wor word boy, oh boy? You people

2641
02:58:27.760 --> 02:58:31.360
should have seen the looks on the hero's faces when

2642
02:58:31.360 --> 02:58:36.319
the ground starts shaking. Soon the evil red energies come

2643
02:58:36.319 --> 02:58:40.440
out of the mirror and flow into me. Oh, are

2644
02:58:40.479 --> 02:58:43.639
these three ever gonna be in for the fight of

2645
02:58:43.680 --> 02:58:48.319
their lives? Maryworth used to be a white witch who

2646
02:58:48.399 --> 02:58:52.600
fought for good. After Patrick Gunter bit and turned me

2647
02:58:53.200 --> 02:58:58.280
tainted my soul, Mary's soul got tainted as well since

2648
02:58:58.360 --> 02:59:03.239
she was possessed me. I truly wish I could describe

2649
02:59:03.280 --> 02:59:06.479
what she looks like now, but I simply couldn't do

2650
02:59:06.639 --> 02:59:11.399
her justice. Now, I just sit back and let Mary

2651
02:59:11.600 --> 02:59:22.000
deal with these so called heroes. Perspective Aileen Donnerly. Just

2652
02:59:22.079 --> 02:59:25.799
when I thought being in that vampire universe last October

2653
02:59:26.159 --> 02:59:30.399
was scary enough, I should have seen this coming, Bells,

2654
02:59:30.879 --> 02:59:35.879
I groan, No, we should have seen this. Bells disagrees

2655
02:59:36.760 --> 02:59:40.760
normally when cousin Maddie calls for Mary Worth. She's a

2656
02:59:40.840 --> 02:59:44.559
gentle and powerful white witch who wields the power of

2657
02:59:44.600 --> 02:59:48.600
the White Light. Though she was wrongfully accused of witchcraft

2658
02:59:48.879 --> 02:59:51.879
during the days of the Salem witch Trials, she never

2659
02:59:51.959 --> 02:59:55.959
turned to evil. She just simply left her body and

2660
02:59:56.040 --> 02:59:59.680
went into a mirror to escape her death. But this

2661
03:00:00.159 --> 03:00:04.280
evil version of her, She's colored in many different shades

2662
03:00:04.319 --> 03:00:08.399
of red, and her eyes are glowing like two burning rubies.

2663
03:00:09.239 --> 03:00:12.719
Just seeing the power emitting from her, you can literally

2664
03:00:12.840 --> 03:00:17.479
see how evil she really is. Those sharp fangs of

2665
03:00:17.520 --> 03:00:22.639
hers truly scare me. Bell's is right, we both should

2666
03:00:22.680 --> 03:00:26.719
have seen this coming. Vamp Maddie sure played us good.

2667
03:00:27.600 --> 03:00:31.079
Now we may not even live to see Christmas Day tomorrow.

2668
03:00:31.959 --> 03:00:35.840
Vamp Mary laughs scornfully at us. Her laughter is so

2669
03:00:36.040 --> 03:00:41.399
scary when it echoes upward into the sky. Madeleine called

2670
03:00:41.520 --> 03:00:48.680
me the final Boss. Vamp Mary says, in her evil voice, Truly,

2671
03:00:48.840 --> 03:00:54.680
you shall learn, indeed what a final boss can be. Suddenly,

2672
03:00:54.799 --> 03:00:58.760
vamp Mary lashes out with her powers and immediately strikes

2673
03:00:58.840 --> 03:01:03.360
all of us down a man. Yeah, I know it's

2674
03:01:03.360 --> 03:01:07.159
something Cousin Maddie says, but that's how I'm feeling right now.

2675
03:01:07.959 --> 03:01:12.000
I really feel like laying right where I am and dying,

2676
03:01:13.239 --> 03:01:16.000
even though I know I'm dying because of the disease

2677
03:01:16.120 --> 03:01:20.239
that's slowly killing me. I know I don't want to die.

2678
03:01:20.920 --> 03:01:24.120
I forced myself to sit up. Bell's taught me so

2679
03:01:24.280 --> 03:01:27.920
much since she came to be my best friend. I

2680
03:01:27.920 --> 03:01:32.559
don't care. I'll die fighting beside my friend. And besides,

2681
03:01:33.040 --> 03:01:38.040
Felicia's right about why we're the good guys. Problem is,

2682
03:01:39.280 --> 03:01:43.959
how can you fight a ghost? Then Bell's raises her hand.

2683
03:01:44.719 --> 03:01:47.159
You two are gonna have to sit this one out.

2684
03:01:47.479 --> 03:01:51.200
I'm the only one who can fight her. That's right.

2685
03:01:52.159 --> 03:01:55.559
Bell's was able to keep Abigail Tomlin from taking Cousin

2686
03:01:55.639 --> 03:01:58.079
Mattie and her friends the way she did those three

2687
03:01:58.120 --> 03:02:01.360
boys a year ago last Halloween. I don't know what

2688
03:02:01.520 --> 03:02:05.479
kind of power Master Vampire holds over a ghost, but

2689
03:02:05.559 --> 03:02:11.079
I'm placing my faith in my best friend. Very well, Vampire,

2690
03:02:11.840 --> 03:02:16.799
I shall accept your challenge, vamp Mary points to Bells.

2691
03:02:17.600 --> 03:02:24.719
But it shall mean the end of you. Suddenly, vamp

2692
03:02:24.799 --> 03:02:29.840
Mary strikes Bells down again with her tremendous power. Bell's

2693
03:02:29.879 --> 03:02:34.559
groans and then stands up. That all you got? Vamp

2694
03:02:34.680 --> 03:02:40.440
Mary strikes Bells down again again, she gets up. I'm

2695
03:02:40.479 --> 03:02:44.840
afraid for Bells. Still, No matter how many times vamp

2696
03:02:44.959 --> 03:02:49.000
Mary strikes her down, Bells keeps getting right back up.

2697
03:02:50.040 --> 03:02:55.200
Sooner or later, you shall remain still for good, vamp

2698
03:02:55.239 --> 03:03:01.840
Mary taunts, even you cannot withstand my power. Forever. Bells

2699
03:03:01.920 --> 03:03:06.559
forces herself to her feet again. But forever is exactly

2700
03:03:06.639 --> 03:03:11.239
how long I got? Or did you forget I'm a vampire?

2701
03:03:11.879 --> 03:03:15.639
Then Felicia taps me on the shoulder and whispers a plan.

2702
03:03:16.559 --> 03:03:19.440
I nod and hop on her back. I don't know

2703
03:03:19.479 --> 03:03:23.280
if Belle's is distracting vamp Mary, but we're getting the time.

2704
03:03:23.319 --> 03:03:26.399
We need to get over to that cabin and rescue

2705
03:03:26.399 --> 03:03:30.879
Annalise Miron. When we reach her, she looks like she's

2706
03:03:30.920 --> 03:03:35.559
really weak. I climb off Felicia and start checking Annalise's neck.

2707
03:03:36.680 --> 03:03:40.520
That's when Annalise herself comes to life and starts punching

2708
03:03:40.559 --> 03:03:44.680
and slapping at me. Felicia quickly grabs her wrists and

2709
03:03:44.760 --> 03:03:47.600
holds her so I can examine her. I don't see

2710
03:03:47.639 --> 03:03:51.719
any bites. I tell Felicia, get your hands off me.

2711
03:03:52.440 --> 03:03:57.079
Analise growls, seeing Analise is going to fight us, Felicia

2712
03:03:57.159 --> 03:04:02.200
sinks a claw into her. Shortly after she's falling fast asleep,

2713
03:04:03.079 --> 03:04:07.559
Felicia lifts Antaali's into her arms. Get on, Aileen, I'll

2714
03:04:07.559 --> 03:04:10.520
get us out of here. I look up at Felicia.

2715
03:04:11.280 --> 03:04:15.120
You can get her out of here. I'm staying with Bells.

2716
03:04:15.639 --> 03:04:19.479
She's about to ask me if I'm sure. Then she

2717
03:04:19.639 --> 03:04:23.200
smiles a little. If you two ain't back at school

2718
03:04:23.239 --> 03:04:27.360
for cheerleading practice after Christmas break, I'll come find you

2719
03:04:27.479 --> 03:04:32.239
both and assign extra duties. I laugh a little. We'll

2720
03:04:32.280 --> 03:04:36.399
be there. Felicia and I slap a quick five before

2721
03:04:36.440 --> 03:04:40.159
she turns away and takes Annale's to safety. I don't

2722
03:04:40.159 --> 03:04:43.719
know if Felicia is coming back or not. I turn

2723
03:04:43.799 --> 03:04:48.799
my attention back to Bell's and vamp Mary. I don't

2724
03:04:48.840 --> 03:04:51.280
know what I can do in this fight, but I

2725
03:04:51.360 --> 03:04:56.399
won't abandon Bells, not when she's never abandoned me. I

2726
03:04:56.520 --> 03:05:00.479
take a deep breath, then move my little legs. Vamp

2727
03:05:00.520 --> 03:05:05.000
Mary keeps striking Bells down, but she keeps showing she

2728
03:05:05.079 --> 03:05:08.520
won't stay there, Bell's looks like she got her butt

2729
03:05:08.600 --> 03:05:14.120
kicked many many times over. And then I see it,

2730
03:05:15.280 --> 03:05:20.559
vamp Maddie's compact. Now I'm thinking of my Maddie. People

2731
03:05:20.639 --> 03:05:24.840
call her mouse, people used to call me mouse. Okay,

2732
03:05:25.520 --> 03:05:28.840
I'll be mouse today. I get on my hands and

2733
03:05:28.920 --> 03:05:33.159
knees and move real careful. I'm ever so close to

2734
03:05:33.200 --> 03:05:38.280
that horrible vampire ghost. I can literally feel that red

2735
03:05:38.479 --> 03:05:44.040
evil radiating from her spectral form. But I have courage

2736
03:05:44.479 --> 03:05:48.600
and reach out to grab vamp Maddie's compact. Then I

2737
03:05:48.719 --> 03:05:55.159
turn around and sneak away you. Then vamp Mary fires

2738
03:05:55.200 --> 03:06:00.600
twin ibeams at the compact and destroys it. You have

2739
03:06:00.799 --> 03:06:05.559
nothing left to fight me with, little one, vamp Mary sneers.

2740
03:06:06.479 --> 03:06:10.639
I look past her and see Bell's is again getting up.

2741
03:06:11.319 --> 03:06:16.280
You know, I'm really scared, But I stand up and

2742
03:06:16.399 --> 03:06:19.879
look right into vamp Mary's face. When I see her

2743
03:06:19.920 --> 03:06:25.360
fangs again, I know exactly what to do. I've got this,

2744
03:06:26.000 --> 03:06:29.719
I tell her simply. I raise my arm and fire

2745
03:06:29.840 --> 03:06:34.239
my last remaining stake. It hits its mark and actually

2746
03:06:34.280 --> 03:06:40.200
sinks right into the ghost's heart. Vamp Mary gasps, ah, no,

2747
03:06:40.639 --> 03:06:48.120
that's impossible. Good thinking, Anie, Bell's calls out, shakingly. Yeah,

2748
03:06:48.159 --> 03:06:52.959
she's still very weak. The ghost tries pulling the stake out,

2749
03:06:53.079 --> 03:06:56.840
but her energies are fading fast. She has enough time

2750
03:06:56.879 --> 03:07:00.719
to utter a spell, which opens a portal. Then the

2751
03:07:00.760 --> 03:07:07.040
ghost disappears and becomes vamp Maddie again. She points at us. Now,

2752
03:07:08.000 --> 03:07:13.440
no fair, what did you do to me? Belle's obliges

2753
03:07:13.520 --> 03:07:18.600
Vamp Maddie. Now, no, what did you do? Madeline? She

2754
03:07:18.760 --> 03:07:23.520
raises her finger. Okay, you got yourself an early Christmas

2755
03:07:23.520 --> 03:07:27.040
present by drinking my blood and gaining my powers from it.

2756
03:07:27.559 --> 03:07:30.920
In this case, it was only you who got my powers,

2757
03:07:31.479 --> 03:07:34.879
not your ghostly friend. That's why AINI was able to

2758
03:07:34.920 --> 03:07:39.399
stake her. She became a vampire herself through you. Now

2759
03:07:39.440 --> 03:07:44.159
that she's faded, it's left you weaken. Two. You never

2760
03:07:44.239 --> 03:07:47.799
sent her back into the mirror properly, and since your

2761
03:07:47.920 --> 03:07:53.879
Mary destroyed it, Bell's approaches her. Now, oh, here's another

2762
03:07:54.040 --> 03:07:59.239
Christmas present. Suddenly, Bell's vamps out and grabs vamp Maddie.

2763
03:07:59.760 --> 03:08:02.719
Then she gives me one heck of a surprise when

2764
03:08:02.760 --> 03:08:07.639
she exposes vamp Mattie's neck and sinks her fangs deep.

2765
03:08:11.000 --> 03:08:14.840
Now I'm wondering if somehow vamp Maddie's bite did something

2766
03:08:14.879 --> 03:08:20.799
to Bell's, like some kind of trade. Bells keeps drinking

2767
03:08:21.399 --> 03:08:25.159
and drinking until vamp Maddie is far too weak to

2768
03:08:25.280 --> 03:08:31.639
move and goes limp. Bell's finishes by raising vamp Maddie

2769
03:08:31.719 --> 03:08:35.799
over her head, then throwing her into the open portal.

2770
03:08:37.840 --> 03:08:47.719
Ou vamp Maddie calls out before the portal closes. Where

2771
03:08:47.719 --> 03:08:54.079
did we send her, Bells? I ask? She shrugs hopefully

2772
03:08:54.159 --> 03:09:00.399
back to her home universe. Now I'm noticing he's not

2773
03:09:00.440 --> 03:09:07.799
looking so good. You okay? Bell's glares at me. Now, no,

2774
03:09:08.000 --> 03:09:11.719
I nee, I ain't okay. I just drank a bunch

2775
03:09:11.760 --> 03:09:17.319
of blood. I forgot how nasty this stuff tastes. Oh,

2776
03:09:17.360 --> 03:09:20.479
I got her. Now I know exactly what to do.

2777
03:09:22.000 --> 03:09:26.600
Maybe the taste of a greasy pork sandwich will Suddenly.

2778
03:09:26.639 --> 03:09:30.159
Bells drops to her knees and paints the ground with

2779
03:09:30.280 --> 03:09:34.639
all that blood she sucked out of vamp Maddie. When

2780
03:09:34.680 --> 03:09:38.280
she finishes, she stands up and glares at me again.

2781
03:09:39.600 --> 03:09:44.959
I'm gonna kill you. I raise my finger. I had

2782
03:09:45.000 --> 03:09:47.159
to get you back for at the morgue last night.

2783
03:09:48.280 --> 03:09:56.079
Bell's sighs, fine, we're even, I shake my head. Nope,

2784
03:09:56.120 --> 03:09:58.799
not when you consider how many times you've made me

2785
03:09:59.000 --> 03:10:02.319
run to the bathroom when we'd investigate down there. But

2786
03:10:02.399 --> 03:10:09.040
I finally got you once. Bell's sighe fine, if we're

2787
03:10:09.040 --> 03:10:14.959
done here, let's go home. Mine or yours? I ask,

2788
03:10:16.079 --> 03:10:27.440
She groans, you choose? I really feel like crap. Epilogue

2789
03:10:27.799 --> 03:10:34.399
Christmas Day perspective. Bella tabon Iini chose for us to

2790
03:10:34.479 --> 03:10:37.040
go to my house. I had to board up the

2791
03:10:37.079 --> 03:10:40.239
windows that got broken out. I'll have to get those

2792
03:10:40.319 --> 03:10:44.280
replaced after Christmas. Next, I got the house warm for

2793
03:10:44.399 --> 03:10:48.399
Iini and cleaned up the debris from the windows. From there,

2794
03:10:48.520 --> 03:10:52.680
we both crashed until Christmas morning. When I wake up,

2795
03:10:52.760 --> 03:10:56.280
I feel fully restored. It's like I never lost my

2796
03:10:56.360 --> 03:11:02.159
blood to begin with. Then Iini comes and find you, okay, bells?

2797
03:11:02.799 --> 03:11:09.399
She asks, No, I'm really hungry. I answer, I'm thinking

2798
03:11:09.520 --> 03:11:14.879
Denoyer's grill and some breakfast platters. You hungry? Yeah, I'll

2799
03:11:14.920 --> 03:11:19.520
do breakfast with you, AINI replies. After we get cleaned

2800
03:11:19.600 --> 03:11:22.559
up and put fresh clothes on, I get us both

2801
03:11:22.639 --> 03:11:27.440
the Denoyer's grill. Since I'm back at full power. That

2802
03:11:27.600 --> 03:11:31.120
only means Thornton Gillian has the last laugh on me

2803
03:11:31.959 --> 03:11:37.159
once again. I'd have thought that after the other Madeline

2804
03:11:37.200 --> 03:11:41.239
nearly suck me dry, that I'd finally drop over and

2805
03:11:41.319 --> 03:11:46.840
stop being immortal again. I'm thinking I may never be

2806
03:11:46.959 --> 03:11:51.959
able to die. On a more positive note, I get

2807
03:11:51.959 --> 03:11:56.520
to keep eating this delicious Denoyer's grill food. Even on

2808
03:11:56.639 --> 03:12:01.280
Christmas Day. They're still serving up breakfast. They're going to

2809
03:12:01.319 --> 03:12:08.079
be serving Christmas dinner later on that night. Iinny and

2810
03:12:08.159 --> 03:12:11.559
me are at my place. I really wanted to cook

2811
03:12:11.600 --> 03:12:15.680
dinner for her like I did on Thanksgiving. Just like

2812
03:12:15.760 --> 03:12:21.920
on Thanksgiving, Irony ate good, honestly, we both ate good.

2813
03:12:22.719 --> 03:12:26.840
Eventually we're sitting in the family room and enjoying the fireplace.

2814
03:12:28.200 --> 03:12:31.600
Thanks for letting me stay here with you, Bells. Aini says,

2815
03:12:32.840 --> 03:12:36.079
no problem. We kind of had to come here anyway,

2816
03:12:36.200 --> 03:12:38.959
since I never got around to buying food to eat

2817
03:12:39.000 --> 03:12:42.000
at your place. I knew I had plenty of food here,

2818
03:12:42.079 --> 03:12:47.559
so made sense. So what do you want to do?

2819
03:12:48.159 --> 03:12:53.079
Aini asks? What do you want to do? I ask back,

2820
03:12:54.079 --> 03:12:58.600
Irony shrugs. I don't really care, Bells. We're here with

2821
03:12:58.639 --> 03:13:02.959
each other Christmas. At least we don't have to see Martin.

2822
03:13:04.239 --> 03:13:10.879
I turned to her, how are you feeling. I'm fine, Really,

2823
03:13:10.920 --> 03:13:14.159
I'm fine. Those pills you whipped up for me at

2824
03:13:14.200 --> 03:13:19.840
Thanksgiving keep working. I'm hoping they never stop. Ainie gets

2825
03:13:19.920 --> 03:13:22.319
up and comes and sits with me on the couch.

2826
03:13:23.879 --> 03:13:27.399
I know we ain't lovers, but I love you, Bells.

2827
03:13:27.879 --> 03:13:30.440
I appreciate you training me and letting me be your

2828
03:13:30.479 --> 03:13:33.319
partner out in the field. I want to be able

2829
03:13:33.319 --> 03:13:35.520
to live long enough to help you in whatever way

2830
03:13:35.559 --> 03:13:38.520
I can. Only way you're going to get me to

2831
03:13:38.600 --> 03:13:44.239
stop is to leave me forever, I sigh. In the beginning,

2832
03:13:44.280 --> 03:13:48.280
we both know I tried doing that and failed miserably.

2833
03:13:49.399 --> 03:13:52.959
I couldn't do that to you now, Iinie. We've been

2834
03:13:53.040 --> 03:13:57.840
friends for far too long. We're family now. I know

2835
03:13:57.959 --> 03:14:00.319
I'll never be able to stop you from coming out

2836
03:14:00.319 --> 03:14:03.440
with me, but I don't want you to die out

2837
03:14:03.479 --> 03:14:06.719
in battle with me. I know the only way I

2838
03:14:06.760 --> 03:14:10.840
can truly stop you, and I'll never do that. I

2839
03:14:10.879 --> 03:14:14.120
thought i'd always be alone after becoming the last Tabon,

2840
03:14:15.239 --> 03:14:19.760
but then you came along and all that changed. I

2841
03:14:19.760 --> 03:14:23.200
don't know. I feel like in some way we're supposed

2842
03:14:23.239 --> 03:14:27.319
to be together. I can't explain it, Like you said,

2843
03:14:27.959 --> 03:14:32.440
we ain't lovers, but it ain't like that, so I

2844
03:14:32.479 --> 03:14:36.840
guess will always be partners, you and me. I take

2845
03:14:36.879 --> 03:14:43.319
Ainie's hand in mine and cry a little. Just don't

2846
03:14:43.360 --> 03:14:48.040
you dare die on me, not unless it's your natural time.

2847
03:14:49.920 --> 03:14:52.399
Ainie and I both hug and hold each other for

2848
03:14:52.440 --> 03:14:56.879
a long while. Personally, I haven't been a huge fan

2849
03:14:56.959 --> 03:15:01.760
of Christmas since I became the last tape and had

2850
03:15:01.799 --> 03:15:06.000
no family to celebrate with. But now I've been with

2851
03:15:06.079 --> 03:15:10.639
Iini for two Christmas holidays. Since she's family to me,

2852
03:15:10.719 --> 03:15:16.000
now I have a reason to celebrate again. I don't

2853
03:15:16.000 --> 03:15:19.920
want to lose Aini, but I am going to cherish

2854
03:15:20.639 --> 03:15:25.959
as much time with her as I possibly can. I'm

2855
03:15:26.000 --> 03:15:29.959
hoping we can have many more Christmases and other family

2856
03:15:30.079 --> 03:15:36.840
holidays together. Grahams used to say, nothing's more important than family.

2857
03:15:38.239 --> 03:15:40.879
I guess I gotta thank Thornton Jillian for what he

2858
03:15:41.559 --> 03:15:46.239
inadvertently made me into. If it weren't for my becoming

2859
03:15:46.239 --> 03:15:53.159
a master vampire, I'd never have met Ainie. Merry Christmas, bells,

2860
03:15:53.799 --> 03:16:01.559
Ainie says, when we finally come apart, Merry Christmas. I

2861
03:16:01.639 --> 03:16:09.959
tell her perspective, Felicia Miron, I don't make it back

2862
03:16:10.000 --> 03:16:15.639
to Gabriel's parents' house until late Christmas Eve night. Gabriel's

2863
03:16:15.639 --> 03:16:19.719
waiting up for me. Naturally, I'm back in my human form,

2864
03:16:20.239 --> 03:16:27.120
wearing normal clothes now. Naturally, Millie's asleep upstairs. Gabriel looks

2865
03:16:27.159 --> 03:16:31.040
from the TV to me. When he sees I look

2866
03:16:31.159 --> 03:16:35.719
like hell, he gets up and comes to me. You, okay, Felicia,

2867
03:16:36.639 --> 03:16:40.200
what happened? I really don't know if I want to

2868
03:16:40.200 --> 03:16:44.520
tell Gabriel everything, but we're getting more and more serious

2869
03:16:44.559 --> 03:16:49.799
about each other. I had a huge fight with my sister,

2870
03:16:50.399 --> 03:16:54.680
I tell him as the spider Aileen Donnerley, and I

2871
03:16:54.799 --> 03:16:59.200
saved Annalise. Thankfully she didn't get turned by that vampire

2872
03:16:59.280 --> 03:17:02.040
we were fighting. I don't know if I could have

2873
03:17:02.120 --> 03:17:05.959
forgiven myself for that. Once I turned back to human

2874
03:17:06.360 --> 03:17:09.120
and put my clothes back on, I showed up to

2875
03:17:09.159 --> 03:17:13.319
try and take Annalise back home. First thing she did

2876
03:17:13.440 --> 03:17:16.959
was slap me hard across the face and told me

2877
03:17:17.040 --> 03:17:20.079
she didn't need her pathetic whimp of a little sister

2878
03:17:20.680 --> 03:17:24.479
to save her. Then she kept rubbing salt in my

2879
03:17:24.559 --> 03:17:28.200
wounds by saying I was stupid and a bleeding heart,

2880
03:17:28.920 --> 03:17:33.120
just like cousin charity. She said I should have just

2881
03:17:33.239 --> 03:17:35.920
left her there, and that's what she would have done

2882
03:17:35.920 --> 03:17:39.799
to me if I had been in her shoes. I

2883
03:17:39.840 --> 03:17:44.239
couldn't hold back anymore. I went off on Annali's like

2884
03:17:44.319 --> 03:17:48.440
I'd never gone off on anyone. No, I never hit her,

2885
03:17:48.520 --> 03:17:51.879
but I told her how soulless she turned out to be.

2886
03:17:53.200 --> 03:17:56.200
To add insult to injury, I told her that I'd

2887
03:17:56.239 --> 03:18:00.440
have saved her again and again. It felt really good

2888
03:18:01.000 --> 03:18:03.799
to get all that out of my system. It also

2889
03:18:03.879 --> 03:18:07.319
felt good that I rescued her, especially when it came

2890
03:18:07.399 --> 03:18:10.360
to teaming up with other heroes to save the day.

2891
03:18:11.559 --> 03:18:17.159
Of course, I couldn't tell Gabriel about that part. Gabriel's

2892
03:18:17.200 --> 03:18:20.760
been holding me to him the entire time and being

2893
03:18:20.879 --> 03:18:25.200
the most supportive man. I just don't understand how people

2894
03:18:25.280 --> 03:18:30.520
can become so apathetic like that. I finish now. He

2895
03:18:30.639 --> 03:18:33.760
makes me look up at him. He's a head taller

2896
03:18:33.799 --> 03:18:36.719
than me. He tells me how sorry he is for

2897
03:18:36.799 --> 03:18:39.879
what I went through and that he's glad I confide

2898
03:18:39.920 --> 03:18:42.879
it in him about it. He tells me I can

2899
03:18:42.920 --> 03:18:46.479
tell him anything and that he'll always be my rock.

2900
03:18:47.559 --> 03:18:55.639
Then I finally tell him I love you. There's that

2901
03:18:55.799 --> 03:19:01.239
lady killer smile again. I love you too, Felicia. I

2902
03:19:01.280 --> 03:19:05.479
don't need my spider instinct to tell me someone's watching us.

2903
03:19:06.399 --> 03:19:11.399
We both turn and see little Milly. She comes running

2904
03:19:11.479 --> 03:19:15.799
right to me. I lower myself and hug her close

2905
03:19:15.840 --> 03:19:20.600
to me. She hugs me just as tight. I missed you,

2906
03:19:21.280 --> 03:19:26.159
she says, I missed you too. I tell her I'm

2907
03:19:26.200 --> 03:19:31.399
back now as promised. Just then, the old grandfather clock

2908
03:19:31.440 --> 03:19:34.920
in the living room goes off. Now I look at

2909
03:19:34.920 --> 03:19:40.280
Gabriel's little girl in the face. Hey, Milly, it's midnight.

2910
03:19:41.440 --> 03:19:47.760
Know what it is? Now? It's Christmas. Then Gabriel kneels

2911
03:19:47.799 --> 03:19:52.479
down with us. Felicia's right, Milly, it is Christmas. Now

2912
03:19:53.360 --> 03:19:59.639
you want to open presents? Yeah, she exclaims. Truth be told.

2913
03:20:00.120 --> 03:20:03.079
When I agreed to live with Gabriel while he's house sitting,

2914
03:20:03.799 --> 03:20:06.680
I never knew I'd be feeling things I only ever

2915
03:20:06.719 --> 03:20:10.799
thought would happen in movies. I cried many times when

2916
03:20:10.840 --> 03:20:14.120
I'd watch them on the Hallmark channel or on Lifetime.

2917
03:20:14.840 --> 03:20:19.159
Other things. Anneal's would say I was weak for whenever

2918
03:20:19.200 --> 03:20:24.239
I'd show emotions, she'd call me weak. I gladly own

2919
03:20:24.319 --> 03:20:27.920
my emotions. I don't know if this is truly what

2920
03:20:28.000 --> 03:20:30.319
it feels like to be a part of a family unit.

2921
03:20:31.040 --> 03:20:35.120
But if it is, I think I want this. I

2922
03:20:35.159 --> 03:20:37.520
want to be a good woman for Gabriel and a

2923
03:20:37.559 --> 03:20:40.719
good mother figure to Milly. I know I'm only a

2924
03:20:40.799 --> 03:20:43.319
senior in high school, but I know I love this

2925
03:20:43.440 --> 03:20:46.959
man and his daughter. Oh but it's about to get

2926
03:20:47.079 --> 03:20:51.159
much worse. Comic book Nerds. After we opened all the presents,

2927
03:20:51.239 --> 03:20:54.479
we're all sitting on the couch and watching a Christmas story.

2928
03:20:55.440 --> 03:20:59.360
Little Milly actually stays awake. It's when we finally get

2929
03:20:59.399 --> 03:21:02.479
to the end, see where the dad surprises Ralphie with

2930
03:21:02.559 --> 03:21:07.399
one more present. That's when Gabriel suddenly sits up and

2931
03:21:07.479 --> 03:21:12.639
looks around. Hey, wait a minute, did we open all

2932
03:21:12.719 --> 03:21:17.079
the presents? He asks? Now I sit up myself and

2933
03:21:17.159 --> 03:21:22.000
look around. I'm pretty sure we did. Milly, you played

2934
03:21:22.040 --> 03:21:25.200
Santa Claus. You didn't miss any by any chance, did you?

2935
03:21:26.120 --> 03:21:30.799
She shakes her head, no, Felicia. Then Gabriel looks at

2936
03:21:30.840 --> 03:21:36.360
Milly suspiciously. You sure about that, little lady? Suddenly Milly

2937
03:21:36.479 --> 03:21:40.520
comes to life. I'll be right back, Felicia. Milly goes

2938
03:21:40.559 --> 03:21:44.239
and runs upstairs. Then she comes back down and hands

2939
03:21:44.239 --> 03:21:49.840
me a small gift wrapped box here, Felicia, Merry Christmas.

2940
03:21:50.840 --> 03:21:53.600
I accept the present and smile a little at Gabriel.

2941
03:21:54.600 --> 03:21:58.079
Then both father and daughter watch me unwrap the gift.

2942
03:21:59.559 --> 03:22:06.040
It's a'm all red velvety box. I'm already feeling my

2943
03:22:06.120 --> 03:22:10.920
emotions rising, which are only confirmed when I open the

2944
03:22:10.959 --> 03:22:16.559
box and see it, and I can't help it and cry.

2945
03:22:18.399 --> 03:22:24.120
Gabriel when I face him, he says, marry me, Felicia.

2946
03:22:25.000 --> 03:22:28.360
He takes my hand. You don't have to answer now.

2947
03:22:29.520 --> 03:22:34.040
I love you, MILLI loves you. We know you love us.

2948
03:22:35.639 --> 03:22:39.719
A marriage proposal on Christmas Day and Millie's part of it.

2949
03:22:41.319 --> 03:22:45.600
I really don't deserve this, comic book nerds, I don't know.

2950
03:22:46.559 --> 03:22:50.079
Do any of you think I deserve this? I know

2951
03:22:50.200 --> 03:22:55.559
I gotta make a choice. Look, Gabriel, you realize if

2952
03:22:55.600 --> 03:22:59.040
I accept this ring, We're really gonna have to be

2953
03:22:59.120 --> 03:23:02.079
honest with each other. We won't be able to keep

2954
03:23:02.159 --> 03:23:07.600
secrets anymore. You know that? Right then, he pecks me

2955
03:23:07.680 --> 03:23:11.520
on the lips. Being secretive is what I love about you, baby,

2956
03:23:12.280 --> 03:23:14.719
But what I care about it is that you're always

2957
03:23:14.719 --> 03:23:18.959
honest with Milly, and you're gonna have to deal with Mom,

2958
03:23:19.520 --> 03:23:23.000
Millie mutters, that's one thing I love about that little girl,

2959
03:23:23.479 --> 03:23:27.600
always telling me like it is. You know, comic book nerds,

2960
03:23:28.120 --> 03:23:32.040
emotions are a very powerful thing God gave us. They

2961
03:23:32.079 --> 03:23:37.360
can certainly make you do strange and unpredictable things. I

2962
03:23:37.440 --> 03:23:41.559
look right at Milly, then I'll deal with Mom. I

2963
03:23:41.639 --> 03:23:48.399
turned to Gabriel. Yes, Gabriel and Milly are both happy.

2964
03:23:48.479 --> 03:23:51.959
When he puts the engagement ring on my finger, I'm

2965
03:23:52.000 --> 03:23:55.200
still crying. I would never have met these two if

2966
03:23:55.239 --> 03:23:58.680
it wasn't for me getting my spider powers. I know

2967
03:23:58.840 --> 03:24:04.680
my pet Tarantula is upstairs in Millie's room. Oh you're

2968
03:24:04.799 --> 03:24:08.799
really in big trouble now, my spider. But will I

2969
03:24:08.920 --> 03:24:12.399
be in big trouble down the road. I guess that's

2970
03:24:12.440 --> 03:24:15.920
gonna be the next phase of my life's journey. But

2971
03:24:16.079 --> 03:24:19.239
for now, this part of my story is gonna have

2972
03:24:19.319 --> 03:24:23.479
to end here, well, at least until I appear in

2973
03:24:23.559 --> 03:24:28.680
another issue. In the meantime, all of you have a

2974
03:24:28.879 --> 03:24:40.360
very merry Christmas and be good to one another. And

2975
03:24:40.520 --> 03:24:46.719
that's it, my spookies. That's the double feature. Two holiday novellas,

2976
03:24:47.239 --> 03:24:52.959
two different kinds of terror, and one important lesson Christmas.

2977
03:24:53.000 --> 03:24:58.600
Doesn't really end, It just changes costumes. So take a breath,

2978
03:24:59.079 --> 03:25:02.440
toss the last the tinsel in a box, and try

2979
03:25:02.520 --> 03:25:05.440
not to look too closely at that reflection of yours

2980
03:25:05.959 --> 03:25:09.719
when you turn off the lights, because some things don't

2981
03:25:09.760 --> 03:25:14.719
stop playing the part once the show is over. Now,

2982
03:25:15.239 --> 03:25:18.799
before you go tomorrow, we're kicking open the door to

2983
03:25:18.879 --> 03:25:22.639
a twisted New Year's marathon, a whole night of stories

2984
03:25:22.639 --> 03:25:26.520
built for that strange, liminal hour when the old year

2985
03:25:26.600 --> 03:25:30.399
is dead and the new one isn't born just yet

2986
03:25:31.040 --> 03:25:36.000
and anything can slip through. And then on Wednesday, a

2987
03:25:36.040 --> 03:25:40.719
brand new weekly spooky story drops fresh fear for the

2988
03:25:40.760 --> 03:25:44.600
new year, the kind that makes you realize new beginnings

2989
03:25:45.079 --> 03:25:49.440
can also mean new rules. So keep an eye on

2990
03:25:49.479 --> 03:25:53.600
the feed, my spookies. And if you hear fireworks outside,

2991
03:25:54.239 --> 03:26:08.440
well don't assume they're just for celebrating. See you tomorrow,