The Devil Within (The conjuring Ed and Lorraine Warren fan fic )

Bedlam Preschool

Half an hour later Lexi woke up to see Judy already awake with her eyes glued to the laptop.
"How long have you been awake?" Lexi said with sleep clearly audible in her voice.
"Oh Hey....hmmm I think about an hour" Judy frowned.
" What are you doing?" Lexi asked as she stretched and yawned.
" I am looking up that murdering son of a bitch" Judy swore.
" did you find anything?" Lexi asked as she sat up and sat next to Judy.
" You won't believe what I've found... this Freddie guy he's been murdering for decades...look" Judy opened up one of her many tabs.
" OMG" Lexi said placing her hand over her mouth as she watched Judy scroll down missing child after missing child.
" These kids have not been found not one of them have been closed cases. We need to do this for Olivia Lex" Judy turned to her sister " We will Judy don't worry" Lexi placed her arm round Judy's shoulders.
" Jesus He was a Gardner at a preschool that I have not heard of Bedlam's preschool have you? " Judy said opening more tabs to show Lexi who shook her head.
Judy finally spoke again " I don't know how he got here I mean mom and dad haven't brought anything back with them you know like some kind of artefact" Judy shrugged but Lexi was feeling a sense of guilt.
" I....Think we should check out this school" Judy nodded " That's What I was thinking to Lex" Judy nodded.
" Listen Judy I need to tell you something...." Lexi was really nervous.
" What's wrong Lex?" Judy frowned at her sister.
" I think he's here because of me ...well my so called friends"  Lexi took a deep breath.
" What do you mean?" Judy furrowed her brow.
" you remember I had that sleepover not long ago and well the girls and I did a Ouija board and I think he's here because of us" Lexi sighed.
" Oh Lexi how could you be so stupid. You of all people should know about how much damage these damn boards do" Judy snapped " I'm sorry" Lexi felt the tears fall slowly down her cheeks "Any way what's done is done. But we need to do something before he gets stronger and causes more damage" Judy said.
" oh my god I've got an idea but you're gonna totally hate it....What if we do our own Ouija board in Mom and dad's room down stairs" Judy suddenly announced
" Are you absolutely mad I'm not doing that!" Lexi shook her head.
" think about it Lex. Mom and dad's room is blessed every week so not much damage can get in there" Lexi thought about it.
" He can only get us in our dreams so how are we going to contact him via that board?" Lexi asked.
" well you got him out of that board. Actually think about it mom and dad are home in a few days time so we can do it before they come home and then they are none the wiser " Judy exclaimed.
" you know what that might just work only where are we gonna get a board from?" Lexi said as the thought about it.
" Oh I've got it! We can make one and once we are done we can chuck it into the trash so mom and dad will never know" Lexi shrugged.
" Yes that's a genius idea" Judy smiled brightly.
Judy spoke up after a few minutes silence " In the mean time I'll do some research on the school and maybe we can go see it today after school? " Lexi nodded in agreement.
The door to Lexi's room slowly opened with a creak, Judy and Lexi both looked at each other and out popped their grandmother as she poked her head into the room " Morning Girls" She said brightly.
" Blimey Grandma you scare us to death" Judy said placing her hand on her now pounding heart.
" Morning Grandma, Do you always sneak up on people like that?" Lexi chuckled.
" Boy you're pretty jumpy girls. Is everything okay?" She asked.
" Huh? No we are fine Grandma" Judy smiled softly.
" Well anyway girls it's time to get ready for school" She said softly.
" Okay" they both said as they got up off the bed and their grandmother left the room.
" I'll have a look in the school library about that school and I'll meet you outside the school" Lexi nodded " Okay" Lexi said and Judy left the room.
Once Lexi was dressed she headed down stairs into the kitchen where she helped herself to a bowl of cereal that her grandmother laid out on the table.
Judy came down a few minutes later and helped herself to cereal and milk and sat down next to her sister. They both began to whisper amongst themselves as they ate their cereal.
" You girls have  a rather lot to say this morning. Is there something going on?" Their grandma said placing a plate of  freshly buttered toast on the table.
" No everything is okay Grandma"Judy answered automatically.
Their grandmother turned round and said " you know you sounded just like your mother when she was your age, she would say the same thing and I knew there was something up" Their grandma raised an eye bow.
" No grandma everything is absolutely fine we promise" Lexi said said reassuringly.
She continued to have her brow raised as she said "Okay" as she eyed the girls.
" We better go the bus will be here in the minute" Judy said jumped out of her seat grabbing a piece of toast to go "Come on Lex"Judy said waiting for her sister.
" I'm coming, bye grandma"Lexi said also picking up a piece of toast.
" Hang on Judy whats that on your arm?" Their grandma asked pointing to the dressing on Judy's arm.
" Oh That? That's nothing I just caught my arm the other day and it started to bleed and Lexi helped me dress it but it's okay" Judy said trying to reassure her grandmother so she didn't ask anymore unwanted questions.
" well we really better go or we'll miss the bus, bye Grandma see you later"Judy called out as she left the kitchen and headed outside.
Once outside the girls turned to look behind them as they waited for the school bus to arrive.
" She knows something is up, I mean come on she is mom's, mom if that makes sense so they share the same physic connection" Lexi said munching on her toast.
" I think we better do it once Grandmas gone to bed" Judy said just as the bus arrived.
"Damn I meant to cover up my arm" Judy smacking her forehead with the palm of her head.
" Heys it's okay I think she bought it, well for now anyway" Lexi said.

Once school had finished Judy waited outside for Lexi. A group of girls who used to be Judy's friends . They looked at Judy, laughed and then went to walk away.
" Freak" a girl called out and laughed which set all the other girls laughing as they walked away. Judy looked down at her feet
Lexi walked happily over to Judy " Hey" she said cheerfully only to see the hurt in her sisters eyes " Pay them no mind Judy" Lexi said placing her arm round her little sister " So did you find out where it is?" Lexi asked Judy who nodded and perked up.
" It's actually not far from here at all so we could go there and then come home without grandma knowing or worrying" Judy said taking out her piles of notes and print outs.
Lexi took some of the notes and started reading them " Shall we get going?" Judy nodded as she zipped up her back pack and started walking with Lexi.
" I'll follow you Judy" Lexi smiled " Okay I think it's left at the end of the road here and then another right" Lexi nodded and continued to follow her younger sister.
The girls had been walking roughly around 10 minutes and they were pretty much good as lost.
" Oh we are so lost, I knew we took a wrong turn back there " Lexi sighed.
" No I am sure we are nearly there" Judy said looking at the printed out map " see look it's just another right here" Lexi leant into to look at the map " I don't know Judy" Lexi frowned.
" Come on trust me" Judy marched on confidently.
" Ahh see there it is" Judy exclaimed " I knew I was right" She beamed.
" Come on Lex hurry up" Judy called out.
" all right I'm coming" Lexi yelled back.
" Ah finally I was getting worried that they had knocked it down and build over it for a second. Oh it's a bit creepy" Lexi said looking at the derelict building that stood before them.
" Bedlam Preschool....? They got that bit right didn't they it does look like the building is in bedlam it's self no wonder they shut it down" Lexi read the banner.
" You haven't read this have you?" Judy undid her back pack and reached into the bag and pulled out a printed copy of an old news paper.
Lexi took the piece of paper and looked at the headlines
LOCAL GARDENER FOUND GUILTY OF HAVING SEVERAL INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN AND MORE!!!
MR FREDERIC WEST 46, OF ELM STREET, MONRO CONNECTICUT HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER SEVERAL INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN HAVE BEEN FOUND IN HIS PROCESSION AND CLAIMS OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND MANY CHILDREN MISSING COULD THIS MAN BE THE LINK TO THOSE MISSING CHILDREN?.....Story Continued on page 6

Lexi gasped "Oh my god Judy!" She said placing her hands over her mouth in shock.
" I know and look at his picture" Judy said pointing to the photo of 'Freddie'

" God He's So creepy I mean just look at the sinister look on his face" Lexi said as she felt a shiver down her spine  "Come on the sooner we go in the sooner we can get out of there" Judy said taking a deep breath.
Judy walked toward the fence and rigged her way through the gap bellow the chains.
" come on " Lex" Judy called out " Coming" Lexi squeezed through the same gap that Judy had moments ago.
" I'm not sure about this Judy, something doesn't feel right?" Lexi said nervously as she glanced up at the building.
" Nothing bad can happen from entering a building surely" Judy said
"Yeah, Yeah I've heard something like that before" Lexi said as she opened the double doors and nervously walked in.