Bonus Spooky - Splintered in Her Head by Morgan Moore

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Hello, my spookies. It's not
Wednesday, so you're not confused. This

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is a special bonus episode that I
wanted to share with everybody because it's a

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phenomenal story written by our very own
Morgan Moore. As you may or may

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not know, Morgan has written many, many great stories for us here at

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Weekly Spooky, and she wrote this
one especially for you out there. This

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one represents a lot about Morgan's life
that is very important to her, and

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I think everybody can relate to an
extent. So get comfortable because this is

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a wild, rocky and heart wrenching
ride. So give it a listen and

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I'll be back on our regularly scheduled
time this Monday with another episode of Terrifying

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and True, So enjoy the story. After these quick words splintered in her

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head by Morgan Moore, Lulu Dubois
walks through the vast back yard of her

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property and into a small wooded area. In her hands is a selection of

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flowers picked from a nearby greenery.
She treks through the trees until an opening

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in the woods opens up to reveal
a small garden. Her walk does not

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end until she reaches the far side
of the garden. In front of her

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is a circle of painted rocks that
surround a handmade cross. Nailed in the

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middle is a small wooden plaque that
reads, here lies Louis Dubois nineteen ninety

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five to two thousand and twenty one. Lulu lowers herself to sit on both

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her knees, brushing the skirt of
her dress under her body to make sure

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it doesn't ride up or wrinkle.
The twenty seven year old places the bouquet

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by the cross. She stares at
the homemade marker for the burial site.

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May you continue to find some rest
in the after and thank you for being

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a part of me for twenty seven
years. Non religious, Lulu makes the

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sign of the cross anyways before standing
up. She turns around to find another

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woman named Denise behind her. Paying
your respects, she asks Lulu, m

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it is the anniversary, after all, Lulu answers. Denise looks past Lulu

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and at the marker. I suppose
it is. She speaks in a tone

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that she hopes comes off as fat, but it is betrayed by the tinge

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of sorrow present in her expression and
the emphasis on the word suppose. Her

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companion looks at her with an equally
sorrowful expression. You miss him, don't

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you? How could I not?
I knew him for five years. He's

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only a name and a shell,
like a snake shedding its skin for a

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new one. Besides. Lulu pauses
and wraps her arms around Denise's neck,

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stares into her eyes longingly and lovingly. I'm here. Denise smiles and gives

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Lulu a kiss. Yeah, I
guess that does make it okay, at

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least a little bit. She finishes
her sentence with a sarcastic grin. Lulu

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rolls her eyes and pokes Denise's head
to push her away, laughing. Denise

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runs away from her lover and out
of the garden, disappearing into the woods.

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Lulu starts to chase after her,
but pauses at the opening into the

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woods and turns to look at the
grave site. Goodbye me, she finishes,

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before running after her love. Lulu
du Bois was born Luis du Bois.

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For twenty one years, he lived
what could be called a normal life,

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But in the middle of that twenty
first year, something began to change.

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First it was simply the occasional thought. Then it became a small voice

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in the back of his head.
Soon it became full blown, vivid dreams

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that seemed near prophetic and to offer
a glimpse at another reality, another life

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that could be and should be.
So in a moment of bravery after soul

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searching, Luis came out as being
transgender and that he was indeed a she.

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Luis was, for all purposes dead. In his place was Lulu.

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At first, the declaration was rocky
with those in her life, in particular

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her wife, Denise and her family. While Lulu's friends and family were welcoming

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and accepting, it was her wife's
that wasn't. Denise flatly told Lulu at

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the start that she did not like
this and was not sure if the couple

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would stay together. Her mother in
law said that if her own child came

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out as tramp that she wouldn't accept
that child anymore. It was a mindset

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shared by the majority of Denise's family. Yet time showed that even if it

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was a massive change and challenge of
beliefs, that Lulu was still the same

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as she used to be, save
for unleashing herself. Denise eventually came around

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and while they still had their own
issues as a whole in being a couple,

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the love was still there. Lulu's
in laws came around in the form

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of the father and the mother,
though the rest remained tolerant of her identity.

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Now it was a year later,
and in that time Lulu had completely

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changed her wardrobe, started HRT,
done all of the necessary work to get

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her ID changed, and was in
the process of getting her birth certificate changed

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in addition to scheduling her bottom surgery. All to be as true to herself

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as she can be and finally start
living, really living. Despite all all

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of the heartache at the start and
the ever lingering dysphoria, Lulu knew it

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was all worth it, no matter
what may come. Dusk was settling over

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the land as Lulu and Denise sat
in matching rocking chairs on their back porch.

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The two were reading while taking short
breaks to sip from their coffee.

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In the distance, crickets chirked.
Their normal serenade courtesy of owls, was

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absent during their meal. Lulu had
noticed a general lack of birds in the

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area, and the missing owls added
to the strangeness. The silence was eerie

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and made her feel on edge.
To combat it, she had turned on

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the portable radio they kept on the
porch and clicked it over to a classical

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station. Lulu hated the quiet.
It always put her on edge and gave

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way for her mind to wander into
the dark places where it often played tricks

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on her tempted her to give it
all up in both who she was and

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existing in the most basic terms.
A matching set of scars on wrists and

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one on her neck were proof of
how badly the thoughts could get, Thoughts

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of how transitioning was all a mistake, how Denise would leave her in due

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time for a normal heterosexual relationship,
and of how she was a screw up

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in life as a whole. The
eeriness of the evening silence was overpowering the

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presence of the radio, and Lulu's
thoughts were beginning to walk her down the

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worst parts of her mind. When
a rustling in the trees caught her attention

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normal for any given day, something
about it put Lulu on edge. Watching

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the trees, she noted that every
five minutes, a new unknown source of

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wind would blow in and rustle the
trees, the intensity of which grew with

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each gust. Denise could see her
partner's trance like attention on the trees.

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What you watching? Her answer came
quietly, with her standing up from her

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chair as another gust ran through.
Denise watched Lulu being mesmerized by the happening.

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Five minutes later, it happened again. This time, however, Lulu

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left the back porch and walked towards
the woods. Entering the forest, Lulu

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was both aware of where she was
and unaware of why she was there.

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She was simply reading a Billy Martin
novel. Then she felt what could only

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be described as a flex and side
of her mind, as if some invisible

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presence was bending her thought process to
its own desires. Was it something in

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the wind the air? She didn't
know. To her, the sudden gusts

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of wind and lack of birds reminded
her of when a bad storm is about

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to occur, and the animals scattered
to the four winds. What little remained

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of the sun seemed to all but
vanish in the blink of an eye while

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Lulu walked through the woods. Night
was now the dominant phase of the day,

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blanketing the world around Lulu in a
haze of black and blue. Her

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walk through the woods was no longer
a stroll she had done multiple times,

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both in the day and at night, but was now something that felt like

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it was ripped from a nightmare.
Her steps brought her past the woods and

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into the garden and right about to
the makeshift grave for her former self.

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She stopped then and stared down at
the marker what she started as if ready

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to give a reply. The earth
began to tremble violently. Lulu's footing wavered,

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and she found herself on her knees, a ghastly sound that she could

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only liken to dry leaves and sticks
burning rattles through the region as the ground

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cracked and then split massively open around
her and the grave marker. Lulu cautiously

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walked on her hands and knees over
to the makeshift grave and peered down the

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opening in the earth darkness. Only
darkness greets her at first. A few

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heartbeats later, and up from the
depths rise like molten lava or a fallen

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angel returning from hell. Is something
horrific. Lulu looks at the being in

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shock and horror in her eyes,
as something she truly believed she would never

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see again. It was her,
or rather him, for in front of

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the woman known as Lulu Dubois was
her former self, her self pre transition,

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Louis DUIs. Well, hey there, fraud, Louis said tauntingly.

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At his reflection, Lulu could not
believe her eyes. She never expected to

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see the visage of her old self
ever again. In the flesh. Pictures

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were one thing. Her parents speaking
about her as a kid with male pronouns,

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while slightly irksome, was something she
could look past. Videos or audio

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recordings were like the pictures. But
this, this was flesh and blood.

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Everything about how Lulu looked pre transition, pre coming out was present. The

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short, naturally copper hair, the
facial hair that formed a beard, the

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more masculine physique, everything, and
the voice. The voice that Lulu buried

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by learning how to feminize hers by
singing songs from musicals was not present.

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But the one that was akin to
her father's, if not a tad softer

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was accounted for. How Lulu questioned, you didn't think you could kill me,

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did you? But I, she
struggled to string the words together.

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You simply put on a costume.
That's all you've done. Not to mention

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becoming a junkie, Luis tells the
other. Lulu looks at the ghost from

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her past in astonishment. A junkie. What else do you call somebody who

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claims they can't live without their medicine? You call them a drug addict,

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A junkie, that's what you are. I've heard you tell people that without

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your HRT, your hormone drugs,
that you wouldn't be able to live.

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But they let me be me,
Lulu respond, that's what any dope head

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or drunkard would say. No,
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He takes her face in his hands
and stares at her. You are

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a phony. You will never be
a real woman. You're just some character,

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made up an actor who's gone way
too far into method acting. You're

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not real and you don't have any
right to exist, let alone kill me,

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which, by the way, you
can't. I'll always be here and

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not any drug or mutilation you do
to your body will change that. You

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fake. Now, how about you
throw yourself down that pit so that I

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can get back to living and to
my wife. Luis pushes Lulu away by

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her face, leaving her sprawled out
on the ground. He walks past her,

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jumping over a divide in the earth
like it was nothing. Before leaving

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the garden, Louis pauses and looks
towards Lulu. The least you could have

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done is just be a faggot.
At least then you could have been acceptable,

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if not tolerable. The words stung. It hurt Lulu to where,

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whether by it or whatever force had
a grip on her mind, sent her

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into shock. As Louis left the
garden weekly Spooky will be right back.

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After these quick messages, Lulu laid
on tattered earth, still in shock from

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the events that had just unfolded.
How is this even possible? The presence,

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the appearance of Luis was too surreal. He certainly was no ghost.

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The firmness of his hand touching her
face was proof of that. A demon,

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a devil, a wraith. What
was he? What was she?

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Maybe Louis was right and Lulu was
only an illusion. It could be plausible

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that she was only imaginary and that
he had always existed. The young woman

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thought about how while her friends were
accepting that, there was the awkward phase

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of them getting used to everything,
same with her family. What suddenly flooded

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her mind were the moments with Denise, the anger she had at the confession

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of her partner being transgender. How
that was not who she had married and

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taken vows with the lack of support
until much later, most of all Denise

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saying that she did not think she
could or would be able to love this

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newly born woman or want to keep
their marriage, their relationship going. How

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Lulu could have and almost more than
likely lost her one, her only,

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her soulmate. Lulu rolled over and
crawled to the opening in the earth.

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She stared down the hole into the
utter darkness. The blackness stared back at

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her, singing to her inside her
head, it was only comparable to every

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negative thought, every instance of dysphoria, every insult she ever heard. Perhaps

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more concerning to Lulu was how gentle
it sounded, how comforting, how reasonable,

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how peaceful. Within that void could
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which Lulu was always Lulu and never
Louis. Maybe it would be best to

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let Luis live again and give Denise
back her partner, her husband. Lulu

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closed her eyes and tried to think, tried to decide. The force that

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led her through the woods to her
homemade cemetery flexed in her head showed her

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the joy that luis living would give, whether by the force or on her

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own. Lulu found her muscles preparing
to launch herself over the edge and into

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a dark oblivion. Over her legs
went, then her hips and waist her

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lower torso and an arm. Lulu
opened her eyes and found herself hanging by

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one hand. She stared up at
the night sky and into the moon.

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Whether by a higher power or other
supernatural phenomenon, Lulu saw the face of

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Denise. She was laughing, smiling
all down at her. You're a silly

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little one, my hummingbird, she
heard in her head. Hummingbird was a

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nickname Denise gave Lulu. She once
told Lulu that they can be a sign

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of hope. Lulu squeezed her eyes
shut and started to cry. She wanted

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to let go, yet found herself
unable to. I love you forever and

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always, the voice of Denise told
her. Lulu's eyes shot open. I

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love you too, forever and always. Using all of her strength, Lulu

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pulled her body up until she could
reach her other hand and get a grip

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on the edge of the pit.
She strained her muscles to raise herself upwards.

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Once willing to fall down the pit. Lulu now feared that it would

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happen. She wanted to escape this
pit. Lulu let out a defiant scream

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and hauled herself out and back onto
the ground where her garden once was.

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She panted heavily from physical exhaustion.
Lulu felt as if she could go to

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sleep for a good few days,
but she couldn't. She knew there was

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no way she could go to sleep
until this thing was finished. Lulu slowly

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got to her feet, took a
few deep breaths, and ran back into

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the woods. Lulu dashed through the
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Her body knew where she was going, but her mind, still recovering from

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presumably Luis having his hold on her, she did not take notice of any

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hazards she could encounter. As such, Lulu found herself gaining cuts along her

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feet, legs, arms, and
hands from running into and through branches,

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wild grass, and rocks. Despite
the more perilous path taken, Lulu soon

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found herself out of the woods and
in her own backyard. Across the vastness

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of her property, she saw her
house. At the distance she was Lulu

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could only see the glimmers or candle
light through the window, but Lulu knew

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the two were inside. Cautiously,
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She stood in her kitchen and let
herself sink into the eerie quiet of

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the home. The first floor was
completely dark, save for the small amounts

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of moonlight that poked through the windows. Knowing the threat that was present was

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otherworldly, but wanting to try and
combat it in human terms, Lulu grabbed

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a knife from a carving block before
leaving the kitchen. Doing her best to

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imitate what she had seen in various
movies, she begins to sweep through the

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first floor, Finding nothing, She
makes her way to the stairs and looks

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up them. At the top of
the landing, she could see the faint

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glimmer of candlelight. With the first
floor clear, there was only one other

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place to look. Taking a deep
breath, Lulu climbs up the stairs,

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taking each step cautiously. Now at
the top of them, she cranes her

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neck right and left nothing to her
left. To the right, at the

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end of the hallway is the bedroom. The door was shut, but Lulu

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could see light flickering from the gap
between the bottom of the door and the

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floor. Letting her body think for
her, Lulu charged at the door,

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positioning one of her shoulders to be
ran directly into it. Her body,

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led by her shoulders, slammed into
the door, busting it open. Lulu

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stumbled some as she slowed herself down
before finally finding her footing inside of the

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room or Denise and him. Denise
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room while Lulu's former self stood by. Both of their eyes went to Lulu.

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Huh, what are you doing here? Luis asked Lulu. What Denise

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tried to ask. I'm here to
put you down to rest, Lulu told

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her old self. Louis chuckled at
the comment. Q tried that once and

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it didn't work. As I recall, you're right, it didn't. I

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thought I could simply bury you,
whether it was in my mind, in

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the memories of those around me,
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So what makes you think it will
work now? I will always be

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here in her, in your parents
and your friends, and in you.

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That's true, you always will be
here. The thing is, though,

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while you did exist once, I
exist now. Lulu says, I'm waiting

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to hear how if you agree with
my presence always being around, how you

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plan to put me to rest?
Louis replied mockingly, It's simple. I've

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been so afraid of people forgetting who
I am, and you coming back,

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afraid that if my care stops my
addiction as you claim it is, that

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I'd be forced to go back to
being you. That everybody I know in

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love would rather have you than me. But whether it was some divine power

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or some voice in my head finally
saying it, I know now that I

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don't have to be and that I
shouldn't be afraid of you and give your

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once existing power over my life.
Now you did exist for that brief number

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of years you lived your life,
but now I exist, and it's my

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turn to live, especially without being
afraid of you. Louis looks at the

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knife Lulu is gripping. You really
think that knife is going to stop me,

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or that, despite all of what
you said, that it's as simple

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as ignoring me. The house begins
to shake as the two Dubois stare each

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other down. Items hanging from the
walls fall to the floor as the foundation

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begins to crack. Denise carefully stands
up and starts to make her way over

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towards her wife. Louis grabs her
by the hair and yanks her to him.

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Lulu, Denise cries out in pain. I'm waiting, Louis taunted.

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If I gave you this power by
trying to bury you symbolically, then I

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have to undo it. Without much
pause after her words, Lulu threw the

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knife at her old self. Surprised
by the action and forgetting his supposed invulnerability,

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Luis ducked down and covered his head, letting go of Denise in the

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process. With her wife free,
Lulu dashed to her, took her by

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the hand, and sprinted out of
the bedroom. The couple raced down the

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steps as the house shaped violently as
if being assaulted by a tornado. At

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the bottom of the stairs, Lulu
leads Denise into the kitchen and out the

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back door. Where are we going? Denise shouts over the howling and evil

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winds that were bringing trees down all
around them as they ran across the backyard.

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Lulu didn't answer, she was much
too focused on getting the couple to

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their destination. They jump over a
fallen tree and sprint into the woods.

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Lulu led Denise by hand, still
doing her best to keep the two from

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being caught by branches and bushes and
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In no time flat, the pair
exited the woods into the once beautiful

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garden they had made. Lulu charged
right up to her homemade gravestone. She

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grasped both sides of the marker with
each hand and began to pull up.

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Her body, weakened from everything else
that has gone through this night, does

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not quit though. Lulu groaned,
then grunted, then let out a scream

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as she pulled upwards on the gravestone, her muscles tightening until they feel like

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they are going to tear, her
veins close to popping out of her skin.

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With one last flex though, Lulu
finally ripped the stone out from the

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earth where she planted it. She
held it over her head with all her

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might, and she waddled to where
an opening in the earth was, then

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threw the stone down. It fell
into the unknown depths of the earth and

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from wherever Luis came from. No
A horrific, distorted voice shrieks through the

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night. Lulu and Denise covered their
ears from how shrill it was. The

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earth stopped shaking, slowly closing it
self up from where it had cracked open.

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Soon the wind ceased as well,
and in one last unnatural event,

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the moon, in the blink of
an eye, switched with a slowly rising

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sun. Lulu and Denise look at
each other, first in questioning what just

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happened, then lovingly, oh,
Lulu, Denise cries, before embracing her

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wife. I love you, Lulu
smiles forever and always, Denise replies.

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The two pull apart some and kiss
slowly. Their lips pull away, and

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the couple hug each other tightly once
more. As they hug, Lulu looks

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to where Luis's gravestone was, where
it once sat as a marker of fear.

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Slowly there were flowers growing, a
combination of red and yellow. Lulu

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smiled and closed her eyes as she
and her wife continue to embrace. M hmmm,