Haunted.| ✓

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Somehow the night had grown too intense in darkness and eeriness; Lucy felt, as she walked through the carpeted hallways to where Patrick was laid. She could hear Katie's occasional sniffle and sob erupting from the depth of her heart. It hurt Lucy immensely. Katie was leading the way, walking slowly, not wanting to face the impending doom too soon. Emily was shocked by the scream just as everyone; she was a girl who was never scared easily; she walked behind Katie, taking as much time she can to never rush forth.  

However, Lucy was the only girl who saw the windows were darkened by horrific figures. At first, she presumed it was by the trees or something that caused the shadows, but soon as the realization dawned upon her that no trees were situated near to this part of the house; she felt scared. Scared beyond her wits; she looked down and walked, trying to calm her beating heart. Soon the feeling of being chased and watched intensified, making her breath go jagged and heavy.

A sudden flashing of light illuminated the room in an eerie way, making Lucy feel a shadow passing overhead. She looked up to the high ceilings and took a three sixty degrees turn but there was nothing above. She tried to call Em but no words came out. Looking up, she walked on, to bump into Emily's back. Em didn't even bat an eyelid for she was frozen solid in the doorway while Katie was in Lydia's arms crying out loud.

Lucy wasn't prepared to see Patrick in such a worse condition with his arms tightly tied around the bedpost and legs flaying and bending to odd shapes. Lucy covered her mouth from screaming out loud and stood there along with Em whose hands were let loose and mouth hung open, looking at Patrick.

All of a sudden everything ceased.

Patrick fell back down without much protest and closed his eyes. His words were incoherent but Lucy felt he was trying to say something. In fact, he was trying to warn about something but she didn't have a clue what it was.

Katie's guilt blinded her anger; she wept onto Patrick's leg saying she was sorry over and over again. No matter how hard they tried to console Katie, her belief that Patrick had to go through this was because of her, ached her heart.

"Father, please, father, wake up... I am sorry... so... sorry," Katie cried and shook Patrick's legs.

Just as she erupted in another fit of sob, Patrick woke up straight from the bed and stared at Lucy with hard cold eyes. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything; all that came out was gurgles and noises. He looked at Katie and fell down once again.

The butler hurriedly walked in their family doctor who upon seeing the grave atmosphere realized this wasn't something as simple as flu and cough. He quickly sat by Patrick and checked his temperature and blood pressure.

"My God!" he murmured under his breath after he checked the blood pressure. "He is sporting high blood pressure and fever. The blood pressure is at an alarming rate. He should be shifted to the hospital immediately. I don't remember diagnosing him or anyone here with blood pressure. I sure need to check everything again and it's best that we take him to the hospital... immediately." Doctor SamuelColsby said.

As he was placing his instruments back into his carry bag hurriedly, Patrick got up. Samuel greeted him warmly but Patrick's eyes were cold and hard. He suddenly gripped Samuel's throat and hollered, "No one leaves this house." Patrick looked to Lucy and smiled wickedly; then said, "Thank you LucyMariaSebastianLivinggood."

Patrick loosened his grip and fell down but his eyes had left the coldness and he looked around the room alarmed. Em heard Lucy gasp suddenly but Em was too relieved to see Patrick being ok that she didn't notice how the veins in Lucy's temple puffed out in an alarming shade and size. Everything went back to normal and Lucy wondered what suddenly happened to her.