Ethan and Mia Winters x Male Child Reader

Chapter 4: New Territory

You walked shakily to the big double doors. Your dad put the missing piece he picked up in them. The doors open to a big room with two stair cases on the side and a bunch of different doors. Your dad walked around taking in the new room. The phone rang and he picked it up. From your dad's responses you learned that person on the phone was the kid of Jack. When your dad hung up the phone you turned to him and said "dad look! There's a door out of here!". "Yeah but it looks like it's missing things just like the other door" he says as he gets closer to it. "I guess we're going on another treasure hunt" he says and you sigh. You were walking around checking everything out when your dad saw a shotgun and got excited. He took it out of the statues hands but then the door closed and you got nervous. "Dad!?" you asked. The door opened again when he put the shotgun back. "I'm gonna have to find something to replace it with" he whispered to himself. You took a deep breath and followed him back to the living room. "I found a clock gear, I think it'll go in the big grandfather clock in the main living room" your dad said to you, trying to keep you involved and not in the dark. You just shook your head and followed him. The clock made a loud noise and you covered your ears, but then you saw that it spit out one of the dog heads. You smiled wide, you were closer to getting out of here. Your dad put the dog head in the door and then headed up the right staircase. The grandma was sitting at the door, looking lifeless. She creeped you out. The door lead to another part of the house. It had a room with a snake decoration on and it was locked. A balcony that showed outside. You ducked when you saw Marguerite outside with a lantern. She probably wouldn't notice you but you didn't want to take any chances. You walked into the main room of that hallway and saw a giant pool table and a bar. With a door that had a different design on it, it was also locked. Your dad found a book and when he opened it he found the second dog head. Then you saw a videotape. "Dad, it's another video tape" you said. You went over to it and placed it in the video player. You saw your mom, she looked frantic and said "Ethan if you find this, please protect y/n. Y/n if you're listening, mommy loves you so much, I'm sorry for what happened. But you have to believe me, it wasn't me. Something is going on here. Ethan, I know I can't expect anything from you. Not after what happened. After what I did. But I just want you to know that wasn't me. I don't know what happened. There's so much that you need to know". Just then Marguerite pops out of nowhere and starts chasing your mom. You hear a creepy little girls voice say "over here, mommy". Jealousy pangs in your stomach and chest. You watch as your mom goes around the house hiding from Marguerite. She fiddles with a statuette and fits it to match the picture on the wall. Then a pathway opens up. She goes through it and it brings her to the other side of the hole as soon as you get in the house. You hear Marguerite spout more bullshit about someone loving her. You feel happiness as you see your mom manage to slip away but that quickly fades when she drops the camera and gets dragged away. "Ethan! Ethan, please help me! Help, Ethan! No!" she screams. The video tape ends after that. You feel tears well up in your eyes. You look over at your dad and ask "we're gonna help mommy, right?". The tears then spill and your dad hugs you tight and says "of course we are". You take some deep breaths and your dad wipes away your tears and rubs your back. "Let's keep going, okay?" he says. You nod your head and follow him to the one room you haven't explored yet. It's a bathroom and there is gross black goop in the bathtub. He unplugs and drains the tub and finds a wooden statuette, like the one your mom found in the tape. There's nothing else in there though and your dad goes to walk out just for Jack to appear and pick him up. "Heck of a thing, ain't it? Sure as shit beats the hell out of dying" he says. You notice his head is trying to regenerate itself. He throws your dad into you and that knocks the wind out of you. Before you can get your bearings your dad is picking you up and running away from Jack. He runs through the pool room and out to the balcony just to get enough time to run to the door. Your dad makes a beeline for the thing that looked like what was in the video tape. He twirls it around until it matches the picture on the wall. A path opens and he leads you through it. You go through some boards and the first thing you see is a giant statue of a moose. There's another one of those locked doors with a giant crow on it. You walk into the next room while your dad is gathering supplies. You see a drawing of a little girl and a house, it looks like a kid drew it. Which makes you wonder if that little girl in the video did it. You had a bad feeling about her. Your dad walked into the room and looked around as well. Then you noticed the next door had that black goop around it. Your dad had his gun out and pushed you behind him. As you walked through the next room a big black goop guy popped out of nowhere. You screamed and your dad shot at it until it fell down and didn't move anymore. You have never been more terrified in your entire life. You walked through the next room as you were trying to calm your breathing. You walked into a hallway that had another locked door and then a staircase leading down with a door next to it. You went through the door and it was a more relaxed place. It had a soft dim light which comforted you. "Y/n, I think you should stay here until I come back up. I'm going to go down into the basement to find what I need but I want you to stay here until I come back" your dad says. You would much rather go with him but you do as you're told and stay as your dad goes. It's been like half an hour and you're tired of waiting. You look around to see if you can find anything to protect yourself with. You find an old rusty handgun. It's little but it'll work. You walk down the stairs and see that all the walls have the black goop on it. You hear some gunshots and follow them. As you go to walk through a door one of those goop monsters pops out and slashes at you. You fall backwards and try your best to shoot at it. You've never held a gun before let alone killed anything. After 10 tries the monster falls and you get up a little winded. You notice the scratches on your arm and see a little dried blood. You're not too worried about it though. You follow the path where the gunshots came from. Luckily you didn't run into anymore of those monsters, when you find your dad. He's just about to grab the third dog head when Jack takes it. You don't want to startle your dad so you stay behind and watch. Jack is going on about being someone's father or something, you honestly don't know. When Jack leaves your dad walks away and you decide to catch up with him in a minute because you need a breather. A couple minutes later you get up and follow where your dad went. You hear some gunshots and then you hear a chainsaw. You realize your dad must be in trouble so you rush to the sound. You look down and it seems to be an arena. Your dad has the chainsaw and Jack has really big, sharp scissors. You notice a knife on the ground near your feet. Someone must have dropped it. You wait until Jack is in range and then you jump down onto his back. You stab him a bunch of time with the knife until a bunch of bubbles form, which makes you let go. He swings his scissors frantically and manages to hit your leg as you're trying to get away. Your dad takes the chainsaw to the bubbles. Soon enough Jack explodes and all that's left is his lower half that walks around until it falls. "Y/n! I told you to stay put!" your dad says as he comes over to you, checking for injuries. "You took forever" you say and then wince at the pain in your leg. You peel back part of your pants to see a deep cut, deep enough to see what looks like bone. You look away fast, knowing you'd pass out if you kept staring. Your dad checks it over and almost pukes at the sight. "Fuck" he mutters. "I need something clean to put on it, do you have anything?" he asks you. You think for a minute until you remember "oh my undershirt!". You take off your now dirty and bloody shirt to reveal your clean white undershirt. You take it off and hand it to your dad. He ties it around your leg tight. You put your dirty shirt back on and try to stand. It hurts but you try to push through it. Your dad takes the chainsaw and cuts through the door. Sadly, the chainsaw breaks in the process. When you are headed back up the stairs you hear a lady humming a song. When you get to the top of them you see it's the grandma and she's now gone quiet again. You go back into the comfortable room and take a seat on the floor, giving your leg a rest. "While you were sitting here, like I told you to, I managed to get some better stuff. Now that we have the third dog head we can go outside and find your mom" he says to you. "Do you think she's going to kill me or kill you for my injuries?" you ask jokingly. Your dad laughs and responds "probably both". Even though things are probably the shittiest they'll ever be and you're in immense pain you can still joke with your dad. Maybe all hope isn't lost.

To be continued...

(A/n - Hope you all enjoyed, I'll be putting out another chapter today since I don't have anything better to do and I meant to do a double chapter on Christmas but was too busy. Next chapter will most likely be the whole entire Marguerite section so strap in!)