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    The Mikaelson siblings weren't like any other pair of twins in the world. Their birthdays were weird and what they do is not ordinary. Normally regular people have 9 to 5 jobs or something a little extra and more time consuming. But the Mikaelson's had YouTube, a community where they could post about their interests and what they like. Their channel, called Our Haunting, had a lot of creepy content on it. But today was like any other day, making sure that they had their two cameras plus SD cards and extra batteries that were fully charged as well. They were on their way to a new haunted location with a more haunting past then one may think. But for now, let's just introduce the twins.

The eldest twin was Belen Lee Mikaelson. He stood at 6'4 and was muscular. He has dark brown hair that is often dyed blonde and he has one brown eye with the other a bright icy blue. His lips are semi-full and he has a well defined look to him. He loves sports and is very fit. He feels the need to protect his sister, Lyre, at all costs since she's the baby.

   The youngest twin is Lyre Lea Mikaelson. She stood at the small height of 5'2 and was very petite but kind of on the chunky side at her thighs. She has very light blonde hair, almost white, and her hair is often dyed red. She has one brown eye, her other is a dull light green. She wears glasses since her eyesight is horrendous, but she wears contacts since it's easier to explore in. Her lips are fuller than Belen's but not instagram model full, her jaw is slightly defined and her body is curvy. She loves reading and is a total nerd, she loves to stick up for her brother and do the research for the channel. Now that the twins are introduced, let's get to the haunting.

Belen drives into a deserted parking lot and parks in the very back, he gets out and Lyre soon follows.

"Good thing the steering hasn't broken yet" Belen jokes and smiles a bit as he opens the trunk, making Lyre give him a look. He gets their bag out while Lyre sets up a camera on the trunk of the jeep where she installed a small surface to put the camera on safely. Belen soon joins her and turns the camera on, yes he had to duck but he didn't mind all that much. He starts the camera and does the introduction to the channel introducing the viewers to his deep and raspy voice,

"Good morning, afternoon, evening, and night to everyone who is watching this. If you are new, my name is Belen and this shortie here is my twinnie Lyre." He pauses to look at his sister who shows a small smile like she always does. The two siblings are more on the stoic side and rarely show emotions. Neither have cried on video, only seriousness and smiles. Never sad or scared or angry. Lyre continues the introduction, her voice is similar to her brother's in the deep and raspy way but still sounding feminine.

"Hello, so today we will be exploring another haunted, abandoned building. Today we will be exploring Haven Reformatory. Where the mentally ill and challenged would be sent to seek better care. I'll share more as we walk to the building, we are about a mile away so we have plenty of time to explain." She stops speaking and Belen turns off the camera. They start their long walk before Lyre jumps on Belen's back and starts up the camera and starts to speak,

  "So the Haven Reformatory was a place to hide mentally ill and challenged people from the world at the time the building was in use. The building was opened in 1805 and housed about 15 patients and 8 staff members. The funding was good so all was well but as the years went on and the building was made to house a bit over 200 patients so it was a very large building" she pauses to catch her breath then continues,

   "In the span of seven years, overcrowding started to happen so the staff numbers went up. Patients were stuffed 3 or 4 to a room and the rooms are made for one at a time. In the next three or so years the funding started to diminish and so did the proper care for the patients. The medication wasn't properly handed out and the patients were abused in every way by the staff. A patient by the name of Henry Smith ran away during break time and spread the news making the reformatory close down and all of the patients were moved to proper homes for proper care. But not all 400 patients left, there were more than 150 deaths in the span of the 12 years of the reformatory opening." She pauses again as they get there,

  "We're here, we have to be quiet now so I'll tell you more when we get inside."

Lyre jumps off of Belen's back and they both crouch, Lyre still holding the camera, and make their way through the small land of overgrown roots and trees creating a small wooded area around the building. They move slowly and Belen takes the camera, the mics they wear catching their slow breathing and small whispers of commentary.

"Lyre, the building is there." Belen speaks and points with the camera to the building where they see two guards in front of the building leaning against the door. The twins go to the side and travel to the back. What the two didn't notice was that the guards were decomposed bodies from two years ago. The smell of the building masked the smell so they fit right in. Their deaths will be explained later on. 

The Body

   Belen and Lyre go around the building and to the back. Belen speaks softly,

"There's the door" makes Lyre nod and she runs off first to the door and stays next to it silently and patiently waits for her brother. Belen soon joins her and stands opening the door. He enters first and turns on his flashlight before letting Lyre come in. That was the usual routine he had to ensure that there was no one there and Lyre would be safe. Belen takes the camera and pans the area while Lyre walks in front of him and around the area a bit.

"Are there stories for each room?" Belen asks softly, making Lyre nod and turn to Belen saying,

"each room has its past, that past has stories." making Belen sigh and Lyre chuckle a bit from it.

"This room was the reception/lobby area. No deaths here but while it was in use a girl would be seen there" she pauses and points to the stairs making Belen come over and film the stairs.

"The woman is the ghost of a nurse that died of suicide here, she jumped or was pushed off the roof on the other side of the building. Everyone thinks she's here because she was always in charge of keeping the lobby empty and making sure every patient was in their room" she stops and looks up the stairs. Belen sees a banner on a door and goes over, Lyre watches from behind him, her blank stare watching him in view of the camera. She follows saying,

"The morgue." Belen looks back at her saying

"I can read, I know"

"Alright, but a doctor by the name of Dr. James White came down here and never came up. His body was found in one of the drawers, the cause of death was that his heart just suddenly stopped.'' She stops speaking and goes inside taking the camera back. Belen looks around before his eyes catch something. His eyes widen and he quickly pushes Lyre out of the room, closing the door as fast as he can, confusing his sister. He peeks his head in and takes a picture. Lyre questions him so he quickly makes up a lie saying,

"Someone's in there, best to leave them alone..." Lyre nods slowly and turns around walking a bit away. Belen trails after her and she goes up the stairs thinking about how the death toll went from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty-one not knowing about the other two. They reach a corridor that splits in two ways, left and right, so they decide to split up. Lyre gets the other camera out and turns it on while Belen stays next to her and looks down the corridors deciding where to go. He decided on the darker hallway that was the right side. Lyre finishes setting up the camera to her liking and looks at Belen

"I choose the right side." He breaks the silence with that making Lyre nod saying, "alright, to the left I go" she uses some enthusiasm while speaking making Belen chuckle. Belen takes out two small cameras that were always in the bag and that Lyre had forgotten since Belen was in charge of 'em. He turns them on and puts one facing the left and one facing the right. Lyre waits patiently and Belen goes over, they do their handshake with a camera facing them and split up going down their designated hallways. With Lyre, she walked down the hallway checking all of the doors if they were locked or not. She goes into each room and films it retelling if the room had any story to tell. She walks into one room and starts to speak

"This is the room of James Brian, he was a patient with severe tourette's and was on the autism spectrum. He was bludgeoned to death by the owner of the building. The owner at the time was the head doctor named Leo Brain. Yes, I said Brain, he was walking with James and got annoyed with him so he beat him to death with his cane since Dr. Brain had a limp. That was outside in the courtyard and James was left there for two fucking days before a nurse found him and three male nurses carried him through the building into the morgue. James was said to be a nice man that cared about everyone, even the ones that wronged him." She stopped speaking to pick up a small teddy bear,

"that was a week before closing" what she didn't see was a tall man in the doorway smiling at her in a kind way. It was James. The camera caught him slightly and you could see him vividly. Lyre gently set the teddy bear down and turned around as James' ghost went to Belen. Lyre leaves the room and goes into all of the rooms in the hallway ending at a room that was for the younger patients.

"This was a play room of sorts that the younger patients were held in during the day between meals and time outside." She films around the room, the walls are a pale blue with rainbow lining in the center of all four walls. On the walls were small handprints of children that were held here. The camera gets pointed to a chair that faces the door in the center of the room,

"Not creepy at all..." Lyre chuckles at her joke slightly and goes to the chair. The chair was a deep red, almost like a blood color, and crouches near it seeing a piece of paper next to it. She picks it up and sees that it's a drawing a child made, it was kinda creepy so she put it back down. She snaps a picture on her phone and gets up going to the door. She looks back around the room before leaving, hearing a scream. Belen's blood curdling scream....

RUN

In Belen's hallway, he walked down with his phone flashlight on. He entered the first room and filmed the walls that were covered with photos of all the patients when they were alive and smiling. A bit over 150 had a bright red X in the corner showing who lived and who didn't. On one of the tables there was a large file, he goes over and flips it open. Inside of the file are papers about all of the patients that have stayed in the building during use. He flips through it and says a few names that caught his eyes.

"Jane Keith, age 18, female, unknown...unknown....the records aren't that good.....death: suicide.." he speaks softly, James was behind him while reading until he got to James'

"James Brian, age 20, male, unknown..." he sighs

"unknown....death: accident? How can someone die accidentally except for taking the wrong meds or falling from a high height...but....that makes no sense..." He closes it up and puts it in his bag. He looks in the viewfinder seeing James for a second before turning around seeing nothing. He shrugs it off feeling uneasy and picks up the camera, he looks around for a few seconds before moving onto the next room. He goes room to room looking around

"I'm not giving you good content without Lyre, she has all of the history" he sighs softly and enters the last room at the end of the hall. The door is a lilac color, Belen opens it and feels like he's being watched. He goes inside and feels the temperature drop drastically. Belen raises an eyebrow at the sudden temperature drop but continues on. A shadow forms in the corner of the room. Belen goes over to a black table in the center of the room that holds some papers, he picks one up. It was a diary entry from Jane Keith. He reads it outloud,

"Dear Diary, today my day was bad. Today the inevitable happened, Leo Goldy raped me." He pauses and whispers to himself so low the mic can't hear him. He continues,

"Everyone could hear my screams, I was in my room during the day. He came in and did it to me." He pauses again and sighs deeply letting his face show emotion, pity? No..empathy. He continues again,

"Leo will die by my hands. Even if I die first.." he reads the rest in his head. He puts his bag onto the table with the camera gently set down facing his waist. He takes out the large folder from an earlier room and finds Leo Goldy. Leo was a nurse here who was murdered by Jane who then committed suicide the following day. A scream is heard from next to him, he flinches and looks around. Belen knew it wasn't Lyre, that wasn't her scream so he brushed it off. Belen puts everything back into the bag and picks up the camera. He looked around the room some more, the walls were a light gray almost white. The walls were adorned with roses in speckles, the trim a baby pink, and the floor white tiles. The room was in the best condition, better than any room he's seen so far. Like someone comes here daily to clean this room specifically. He films around the room before getting the feeling of being watched, he looks around the room seeing if Lyre was there. She wasn't. He got a bit confused but ignored it, bad idea, he was soon pushed making the camera fall about a foot away from his hand. He screams from the impact and turns and sees a dark shadow and the shadow from earlier, James was protecting Belen from the evil spirit. Belen gets up and snaps a photo before running. He meets Lyre out in the hallway, he quickly picks up the two cameras putting them into his bag then grabbing Lyre's hand running out of the building with Lyre barely keeping up. Once they make it outside he just picks her up like a sack of potatoes and runs to their car. Lyre films the building and sees the dead guards and a dark shadow in the window where Belen got pushed. A lighter shadow in the window next to it, we all know who that shadow was. Belen puts her down after a mile of running to the parking lot where the car was in sight. They walk in silence, Lyre filming them still. A bruise is already forming on Belen's cheek, a scratch unknowingly forming on his calf. They make it to the car and get in their respective seats of Belen driving and Lyre in the passenger's seat. Belen shakes a bit in the car, Lyre puts the camera on the dashboard like she always does

"What happened in there Bub?" Her voice is soft, she knows something is wrong. Belen sighs and speaks quietly

"Something in there attacked me. I was pushed. I turned and saw shadows? As odd as that sounds, but I did. There was a lighter one and one that was like midnight. I also may have found a large folder of all of the previous patients that never left. Oh and there's a God-damn dead body in the morgue th-" he gets cut off by Lyre,

"Wait, slow down. A shadow person pushed you. You found a folder about all of the dead patients and there was a body in the morgue? Is that why you didn't let me enter the room?" Belen nods as a response

"You took a picture of it..can I see?" Belen looks at her like she's crazy and nods nonetheless and takes out his phone. He goes to his gallery and shows her the picture. The picture held a dead man, the man was black and he had three large scratches going along his clothed chest.

"The Holy trinity.." the twins mutter at the same time. They look at eachother and Lyre's eyes are drawn to Belen's wrist.   

After Math

"Bub," Lyre points to Belen's wrist. There was a large cut on it going down, it was fresh so not self inflicted. Lyre gets the first aid kit, which was always in the car, and starts to clean the wound trying to be careful. Belen stays quiet knowing to not make a noise once she gets concentrated. Once Lyre is done she looks up at him and puts the first aid kit away.

"It didn't hit any veins luckily but there will be a mark there for a while. Luckily with no scar. Now let's go home, want me to drive?" Belen shakes his head and he starts the car starting to drive home. After the long ride home they pull into the driveway and Belen turns off the engine making the two sit in silence. Lyre turns her head to her brother and she takes the keys out of the ignition putting them into Belen's hand. The two get out of their car and go inside. Before going inside Lyre grabs their bags and goes inside locking the door behind her. She puts their bags on the kitchen counter as Belen sits on the couch in the living room a few feet away. Lyre empties their bags putting everything where it goes while Belen turns on the TV and connects Spotify to play their shared playlist of music they listen to after filming a video like this.

Lyre puts the folder and teddy bear in front of Belen on the table since she doesn't know where he wants to put the items. Belen looks at them and stares, Lyre can tell he's zoned out so she leaves him alone. She goes back into the kitchen and puts their bags by the door on the stool that is there in a specific order. Belen is first closer to the door then Lyre's beside it. She enters the kitchen again and makes a small snack platter for Belen, she grabs a glass from the top middle cabinet and fills it with water. She brings it to the table and sets it beside the teddy bear. She sets down the plate as Belen comes back to reality. A small light and movement catches her eyes. She straightens up still with the glass of water now looking down into the hallway that contains the shared bathroom and the rooms that are. Another movement is seen by her and she drops the glass as she makes eye contact with a woman in her brother's room. Everything feels like slow motion as the glass falls. Lyre doesn't move and Belen seems to move too fast. He grabs the glass as the water spills on the ground. He puts the, now empty, glass on the table and stands. Lyre's hand shakes as she keeps eye contact with the girl.

The girl moves from her sight and farther into Belen's room. Belen grabs her shaking hand and moves around the table

"What's wrong sis?" Her free hand points towards his room and Belen starts to walk to his room. He lets go of her hand as he walks signaling her to stay where she is. Lyre follows him and they go into his room. There is no girl but his room is trashed. Lyre goes into her room to check, she thought she saw a shadow by her closet but ends up ignoring it as she looks around. She goes back to Belen's room to see him just looking around. He goes to his window to see it is shut and locked since Belen hates having his window open while he's gone. Belen starts to pick stuff up and puts it back

"Where did she go?" Lyre whispers to herself as she helps Belen pick up items around his room.

"I don't know Lyre," Belen whispers as well. They both go silent with the only thing in the background being the music Belen turned on earlier. Lyre picks up a broken picture frame and turns, bumping her hip into Belen's bureau making the broken glass shift and cuts her hand. She ignores the cut until she begins to bleed. Neither of the twins are Hemophiliac so she didn't worry about it. As she continues to help clean, wiping her hand with a tissue every now and then. As they finish cleaning Belen's room, Lyre's hand has yet to stop bleeding. She leaves the room and goes into the bathroom to clean and bandage it. Belen follows her and shows her the picture he took of his room before they started to clean. He points out the shadow in the corner that wasn't him or Lyre.

"I'm gonna start to edit the video once I stop bleeding, send me that photo and I'll add that to the video." Belen does as told and sends her the photo and the photos he took of his room. An hour or so later her hand finally stops bleeding, she finds it strange but doesn't dwell on it that well. Belen sits on the couch as Lyre sits on the floor with her laptop and the cameras to edit the video. She puts her blue light glasses on and transfers the videos from the camera to the laptop. She opens her editing software as Belen moves the coffee table away from the couch for Lyre to fit comfortably with space on the floor. Lyre moves to the spot he made for her as Belen puts on Reign knowing it was one of Lyre's favorite shows because she belittles it for how wrong it is. She starts by editing the intro and putting the clips together. She starts to watch the clips from Belen's camera first, she puts in the clips from her camera as well with transitions. The more she watches Belen's camera view the more she notices how different their experiences were. 

Edits

Lyre leans back now leaning against the couch as she watches Belen's camera view. She pauses it and has Belen sit behind her on the couch as she sits recording.

"Hi, editing Lyre here. As I'm editing I noticed how different the experience between Belen and I were when we were in the building. Belen was followed by....something the entire time while I saw a shadow but that's it. Also with the folder that Belen found, I'm gonna do a video just going through that folder." She stops recording and keeps editing. She pieces clips together and edits some to be shorter. Lyre gets to the clip of Belen getting attacked and slows it down so she can watch it frame by frame. Belen watches her and gets up walking around the table and takes a photo of her editing. He takes a video of her as well

"stalker." Belen laughs at it and stops the video. He puts the video on their shared Instagram story and the photo on their Instagram as well with a caption of "editing one of the scariest days of our lives". He posts it and puts his phone down on mute so his phone can blow up with notifications because of the photo.

"don't forget the video we have to do in the folder, put it on the calendar for tomorrow so our brains can process today's events a little." Lyre states quietly. Belen does as told and puts the video on the physical calendar that is on the wall in the kitchen. He grabs some paper towels on his way back and puts it on the water from before. After around 2 hours of editing, Lyre scheduled the video to post tomorrow at around 1 pm. She closes her laptop and stares at the teddy bear, something about it drew her in. She soon zones out while staring at the stuffed animal. Belen, who was in the kitchen to get stuff out for dinner, comes back into the room once he hears her laptop close. He sees her zoned out and sighs softly at the sight, Lyre is slowly falling back into darkness. He grabs her water bottle and blanket from her room since those are her comfort. He puts the bottle in front of her on the table and the blanket on her lap still folded. That knocks her back into reality and she looks up at Belen and stands putting the blanket onto the couch.

"sorry, I'll start dinner now" she starts to walk to the kitchen making Belen stand in front of her

"We can order in tonight, don't worry about it." He taps her arm and turns on the TV and turns on the LED lights that surround the floor, he turns the light to a pale orange color to have some comfortable aura surrounding the room. Lyre nods and plops down onto the couch letting out a small groan. Belen goes back into the kitchen and puts all of the food away and takes out the box of menus from different restaurants. Lyre fidgets a bit in her seat not knowing what to do now. Belen comes over to her with the box and sets it on the table

"How's your wrist feeling?" Lyre asks softly

"sore." Belen pulls a funny face at her and rolls his wrist making her laugh a bit. 

The Next Day

 The next day Lyre was up at 5 am like usual. She lets Belen sleep in and starts to do her daily chores. Lyre grabs the clothing she laid out the night before and showers. She notices something in the mirror once she gets out, a face. A face is in the mirror staring right back at her. It wasn't the girl's face, it was a males. It was staring at her with wide eyes like it was shocked. The face soon disappears once she speaks..

"hello?" The face quickly disappears from her sight and she looks around with her towel wrapped around herself, but finds nothing. She gets changed into the clothing from before and brushes her hair, putting it up into a simple ponytail and doing her skin care and makeup. After the shower she makes breakfast for herself and Belen, she organizes the living room and kitchen from making breakfast. Belen finally wakes up and goes to take a shower while Lyre makes his plate full of food while she snacks on the made breakfast. Once Belen comes out Lyre takes out the recording equipment and sets it up on the floor so she can sit on the ground with Belen on the couch as their usual set up for these types of videos. Lyre sits with a vlog camera and speaks to Belen.

"I saw a face." Lyre says grabbing Belen's attention immediately, a piece of toast hanging from his mouth

"wut?"

"don't eat with your mouth full. When I got out of the shower I saw a face in the mirror. Nobody to go with the head. It looked shocked....When I said hello it disappeared." Belen swallows loudly and quickly goes to the bathroom. Lyre hears rustling around and Belen letting out a small yelp with a soft thud following right after. Lyre lets out a small laugh before grabbing the small camera and goes into the bathroom to see Belen on his back while he holds his knee with a pained look on his face.

"You alright bud?" Belen nods and lets out a small laugh

"I smacked my knee on the counter!!" Lyre lets out another small laugh. Belen lets out a loud laugh in comparison and gets up, puts on a fake limp and dramatically "limps" out of the room. Lyre follows him and once Belen sits down she sets up the camera. She grabs the folder of things and puts the teddy bear from the reformatory on one side of Belen. She sits beside his right leg where his left leg would have sat if it wasn't tucked under his other. Lyre hits record and Belen speaks first

"Good morning, afternoon, evening, and night to whomever is watching. It is the next day from the previous video on our channel and as you saw I found a large folder full of papers that contained all of the previous patients that have stayed in the reformatory." He pauses to point to the folder and to give Lyre a cue to put in the clip of him finding the folder. Lyre continues to say

"When we got home, Belen's room was trashed and we saw a female face in his room. It looked like someone robbed just his room. My room was fine and so was everything else. This morning when I got out of the shower I saw a face in the mirror looking at me, different from the face I saw yesterday in Belen's room. The face I saw was masculine. We were followed, I want to see if the spirits that followed us were patients. So let's get started." She pauses and slides the folder into view. She opens it and the first face she sees is the ghost that was in the bathroom.

"Why hello again. The first patient we have is Nando Baggi. He was a 22 year old white male who was on the autistic spectrum. He was put into the reformatory at age......age 10. He was one of the first patients in the building and was the last one out. He was found dead the day before the building closed, he was face down unresponsive in his room one day. He overdosed on his medication that was a muscle reactant." She pauses and stares at his face

"this was the face I saw in the mirror..." Belen watches her movements and puts a hand on her head. Belen takes the folder and looks at the next patient. The two take turns going over the patients until they get to Jane Keith. Lyre freezes, recognizes her face then shakes her head slightly and is going to read it but Belen stops and explains how he already read this file before he was attacked.

"she's an 18 year old female who's cause of death is suicide but it's marked down as unknown. She was...was raped by one of the guards names Leo Goldy. She killed him then..yea" he speaks softly and looks down at the floor not at Lyre, but beside her. There's a moment of silence as Lyre joins him in looking down. Lyre has a past in this topic....That's why Belen is reacting like this, it hits close to home.

They continued on as if nothing happened but there was a layer of gloom in the air as they continued on. They finish the video after an hour and a half going through all of the files. Once Belen turns off the recording Lyre looks him in the eyes for the first time since Keith's file.

"Jane." was all she said, catching Belen's attention. He goes back to her and sits on the couch in his usual spot. One leg under him so he can face Lyre who was still seated on the floor.

"That was the face I saw in your room last night." 

The Decision

After Lyre reveals the information that she's kept hidden for an hour and a half, Belen stays quiet.

"Are you sure?" was his response breaking the moment of silence resembling the one during the recording. She nods and stands up. Lyre begins to put away the camera equipment. Belen watches her before she breaks the tense silence again.

"We have to go back." Belen's head snaps to look at Lyre so fast she thought that he might get whiplash

"Absolutely not. I was attacked by a fucking shadow and you want to go back to that building. When we were running away there were shadows watching us. There was a dead fucking body in there just left to rot. I was pushed off of my feet and scratched by an unknown shadow. We were followed home and you want to go back?!" He was bewildered at her. His voice slowly rose by the word.

"Do you have no common sense?" His voice was a lot softer now.

"I want to go back so that the spirits that followed us would go back. A suicidal rape victim who kinda murdered someone followed us, an autistic ghost who was most likely murdered by a nurse followed us back. I will go back alone if need be."

"You are not going back alone. If you go, we go together. Just think."

"My mind is set. I'm going some time this week."

"Why?"

"Because I want to know the full story."

"You can get the full story. There are articles and interviews online that you can look at."

"Facts can twist. The truth can be twisted and words can be twisted with it, you know that." Belen lets out a sigh and pinches the bridge of his nose with his left hand showing the bandage before he lets his hand drop back to his side.

"think about it." Was how he ended the conversation. He walks back to his room and plops down onto his bed laying on his back with his feet touching the ground. His right forearm lays over his eyes with his other hand on his stomach. He lays there thinking until sleep slowly overcomes him, the mental exhaustion finally affects him.

Lyre lets out a small sigh and puts all of the video equipment away in the box and in the closet it goes. She goes back to the couch and sits in her normal spot on the floor bringing her laptop over to be in front of her. She opens it up and puts in her password, 111323, and opens up the internet browser she uses. She searches up "useful equipment that helps find ghosts". Multiple links come up and she clicks on the first one and scrolls skimming the article. She spends an hour doing that before she gets her phone out. She puts in the password, 2512514, and goes to her notes app. She makes a list of four pieces of equipment that could possibly help then puts her phone down on the table. As she closes down her laptop Belen comes out, his cheeks and nose a bit red from the warmth caused by his nap. She looks away and gets up.

"I'm sorry about earlier." was all she said before going into the kitchen. It's around noon time now so it's time to make some lunch. She makes some pasta with herb butter. While she cooks Belen sits on the counter and watches her.

"Don't be sorry about earlier. I just..I just don't know if I'll be able to be there mentally when we go."

"Then how about I go alone. We can be on the phone or facetiming the entire time so you can see what I see at all times and talk to me the entire time. I'll even record it and we can make a video out of it." He nods as they come to a compromise about the situation.

"Tomorrow I'm gonna go out and get some ghost stuff, wanna come with?" she looks at him with her normal blank face being unreadable to everyone except her twin. He nods

"Knowing you, you made a list after doing research. What's on it?" She gets her phone out and opens her notes app. She simply hands her phone to him so he can read the list. A spirit box, an EMF reader, digital recorder, and a thermal scanner.

"do you know what any of these do?" He questions her

"Of course I do. The spirit box goes through an absurd amount of radio stations, the spirit can use their energy to talk to us and form words. EMF readers measure electromagnetic fields so it basically reads how strong a spirit is. A digital recorder records sounds, and a thermal scanner records air temperature."

"and I stand corrected." he lets out a small laugh as Lyre smiles while cooking.

"Also I'll come with you, when are you going back to Haven?"

"probably in 2 to 3 days. Give my brain some time to process."

"what are you gonna be doing?"

"probably just going around the building again. We didn't explore everything. There's a basement that we didn't go down or find the door to at all. But I'm leaving the dark hallway for the last time." Belen nods in response and his foot starts to move side to side quickly. His anxiety spikes at the thought of Lyre going alone but he can't do anything.

"add a portable charger or two to the list. I don't want your phone going below 50% while you're in that building. Also I'm driving you there and staying in the car." Lyre nods, she knows she can't change his mind. She finishes cooking and puts pasta into two bowls. They stay where they are and eat there like they always do with lunch. They eat in silence until Belen finishes and notices that Lyre has zoned out and is swaying slightly. He puts a hand on her arm and that brings her back to reality. Neither of them mention it as Lyre continues eating. Belen begins to clean up everything and Lyre finishes. He takes her bowl and fork and they stand in silence while Belen cleans, the running water the only thing heard.

Lyre tilts her head to the side and ends up putting her head on Belen's arm. The silence is overwhelming and makes Lyre slowly creep into an anxiety attack as what if's come to mind. Belen stays quiet until he realizes what's happening

"story time?" He dries his hand and opens his phone, putting in the password, 1225175, and pulls up one of her favorite videos that always make her happy. Lyre nods a bit as he does so and Belen gives her his phone. She watches the video and calms down, keeping her head on his arm. He watches the video with her twisting his head in an uncomfortable angle. They continue on with the day and around 9:23 they go to their rooms so they can be up early to prepare Lyre for the video.

Lyre wakes up at her normal time to do her routine. She walks out of her room to see Belen already up, still in the same outfit as yesterday, on the couch staring at the TV which is turned off.

"You alright?" she asks him to stay at the threshold of her room. He looks at her with his eyes keeping his head in place. His eyes look bloodshot like he's been crying for hours.

"What's the passwords of our phones mean?"

"They mean our names, my phone is your name and your phone is my name."

"Then what do the numbers signify?"

"They signify what letter of the alphabet the corresponding letter is. Why are you asking me these questions?" Belen gets up and goes over to her hugging her

"Thank God.." she hugs him back silently knowing he'll explain.

"a person looking like you came into my room last night, with your voice but different clothing. She kept asking me why I did what I did. I thought it was a nightmare so I tried to wake up. But I couldn't...everything was so real..." he takes a pause to let her take it all in then continues

"Then whoever it was walked farther into my room and disappeared about two feet from my bed. I got up and looked everywhere to see you in your bed asleep, I kept looking and couldn't find her. So I stayed on the couch until you left your room"

"Oh my...Why didn't you wake me?"

"I didn't want to worry you"

"to late"

"It's fine. If it happens again tonight, I'll wake you." He lets go of her and walks into the kitchen.

"How are you brushing this off so easily?" Lyre stays in place watching him.

"because I'd rather try to forget about a woman who looks and sounds like you acting like I killed you." Lyre doesn't reply to that but instead walks into the kitchen with him

"When would you like to leave?" Lyre asks him

"around noon? We haven't edited the video have we?"

"I haven't yet. You wanna do it?" Belen nods in response and leaves the kitchen to start editing. He brings the laptop and camera card to the dining room table as Lyre begins to make breakfast. She plays soft music as she does so and finishes in 30 minutes giving Belen a breakfast egg sandwich. She goes to the living room and grabs a book going to the dining room table to sit and read. She sits with both legs on the chair in a criss-cross apple way but with her legs parallel. They sit in silence until Belen finishes and schedules for it to upload in a few hours. Belen looks at the clock as Lyre gets up and cleans his plate that was finished off a while ago.

"wanna leave early and eat lunch out?" Lyre shrugs

"Sure, what restaurant?"

"Hmmm, Master Realm?"

"Sure, they have some good food" Belen nods and puts the laptop away in Lyre's room. He goes to his room and changes as Lyre goes to hers. Belen changes into a casual black button up shirt with black slacks and black work boots. He leaves his room and waits in the living room. Lyre changes into a white button up with a thin pale orange-red sweater on top and white jeans with her slightly dirty and old converse. She puts her curly hair into a large hair clip with her glasses now on.

"I don't have any contacts left. I'll just pick some up later" Belen nods and gets up

"Are you ready?" Lyre nods as well and grabs her brown cross-body bag, putting her phone, keys, and wallet in it, keeping room for Belen's wallet. They go to the Jeep driving to the restaurant, they enjoy some yummy food then go to Walmart first. They find the digital recorder, the spirit box, the EMF reader, and the thermal scanner all in one go. Belen walks away from Lyre while she looks at HBC or the Cosmetic section. He comes back with his phone out recording. He sees Lyre and goes to her

"I found the portable chargers and told the audience about you going back." she nods and they go check out. They go back to the house and look at the clock. They spent 3 hours out of the house, the furniture is all wrong. The dining room chairs are on the table and the living room table is on the couch. The kitchen cabinets are all open and both of their doors are open. They go to Belen's room and see that it's fine, they go to Lyre's room to see the sheets off of the bed, her desk on its side with all of her streaming equipment on the ground perfectly fine. Her pillows are thrown around the room and her closet doors open with nothing on the hangers. They share a look and let out a deep sigh hoping that Lyre going back will help. 

Part Two

Belen whips out his phone and records everything while Lyre begins to put everything back. He puts his phone away and helps her, it takes them an hour or so until every piece of furniture is where it was earlier.

"Tomorrow I will go back to the place where this started. I don't think the spirits want me to.." She closes the final kitchen cabinet as Belen puts a chair on the ground

"it seems like it." Belen replies shortly as Lyre gets the bag and takes out the equipment they bought. She puts the bag into her room containing the things she bought for herself and Belen. They tested everything out but getting no response from anything but the thermal scanner's temperature kept going up and down. Later that night Belen is waiting in the car for Lyre. He taps his foot on the side of the jeep and stares ahead of him. Lyre finally comes outside putting on her glasses and zipping up the backpack. She puts the bag into the open trunk and closes it. She gets into the passenger seat and lets out a small sigh and leans into her chair. Belen starts the jeep and starts to slow drive to Haven Reformery for part two. Lyre sets up the camera and starts to video today.

"Hello people. Good morning, night, evening, and afternoon for those around the world. Today we are going back to the place where the last few videos have started. But Belen isn't going in with me. We will be on facetime the entire time and I'm gonna have a harness go pro on. Belen, are you going to drop me off as close to the building as you can or the parking lot?"

"As close as I can obviously." He chuckles a bit and looks at Lyre for a second. He looks back at the road and keeps driving. After a while they pass the parking lot and Lyre straightens up as her anxiety raises. Belen notices but says nothing and keeps driving. After another few minutes down the dark and ominous road Belen parks on the side of the road but doesn't turn the car off, he just puts it in park.

"Should I see if I can drive closer?"

"The woods are too dense."

"true, I guess this is as far as I can get then... I'll see if I can get a bit closer while you're in there." Lyre nods and gets her phone out. It was at 100% battery with the power saver on so it stays on for as long as possible. Belen watches her silently and gets out of the jeep to get her bag. He opens the trunk and gets her bag out and opens it making sure she has everything to find a way to make them go home knowing that this wouldn't happen tonight if they did go back. She has everything.. He closes her bag and goes to her door as she opens it, the harness over her chest and a small headlamp on so she doesn't have to worry about a flashlight. They just changed the battery that night and she has extra in her bag so she has backups in case something happens.

Belen sighs softly and takes out his phone,

"When I close my door, call me so we can be on facetime the entire time you're out of this jeep. If something happens and the call stops or the camera stops out of random and you can't recall me, You come right back here as fast as you can." Lyre nods and the go pro caught all of that speech. She stays in place as Belen hands her her bag and she puts it on her back. Belen hesitates a bit before walking to his side of the jeep and goes into the jeep as Lyre gets her phone out. As soon as the door closes Lyre facetimes Belen with the camera showing in front of her using her back camera. Belen answers immediately and she keeps the phone in the camera's view. Belen starts a screen recorder so people can see his view. Lyre begins walking and watches her feet most of the time. She goes to the back of the building knowing the entrance there more than the front one. She goes inside and looks around.

Because of the darkness, the lobby looks more like a horror movie. The light from the moon shines through the windows creating a creepy fog like look around some of the floor.

"We should have come back in the morning..."

"If you want we can do that, you can come back right now and we can do this later. You having a panic attack right now is not good" Belen replies to her.

"I got this. As long as I have light, I'll be alright." Belen nods a bit and Lyre goes in the opposite direction from the morgue entering a hallway they've never been down. She looks around but focuses on the white door that looks pristine, not knowing what kind of room it is and the room right above it.

She tries to open the door but can't, she places her backpack down and puts her phone down flipping the camera so it faces her and she puts it on her bag so Belen can see her. She puts her ear to the door and hears nothing. She waits for a bit and still hears nothing so she backs up a bit and raises her leg. Belen watches in silence as Lyre slams her foot into the seam between the door making it slam open.

"If anyone is here, they definitely know I'm here.." She whispers and Looks back down the hallway. She pauses and hears nothing. Not even wind or a mouse scurrying across the floor. She picks up her phone after reaching down and putting on her backpack as she finally looks into the room. She flips her phone camera again and shows Belen the room. There were tons of body bags, hazard bins, and cabinets that looked fully stocked but were locked. Lyre goes further inside and steps on a body bag by accident. Something squishy under her feet. She freezes and lifts her food up slowly, putting it beside the squishy object. She looks at her phone and flips the camera to face her. She Kneels down and explains what just happened

"I felt someone squish under my foot....It's in a closed body bag....Belen, should I open it?"

"no, get up and leave the room. The less time you're in there the better." Lyre ignores him and opens the bag slowly, the silence between Belen and Lyre grows as she looks inside the bag. Her anxiety rushes forward as her eyes slowly focus on the object that was below her feet only moments ago. Her eyes finally focuses as she lets out a small sigh

"just a mouse...it's been there for a while.." Belen lets out a small sigh and leans back in his chair resting his head against the seat. Lyre slowly raises and slowly moves further into the room watching her feet slightly. She reaches the middle of the room and spins slowly to look around the room quickly. No windows. Only one door. A small trap door in the wall that Lyre suspected was a body shoot.

"This must have been a second morgue for when the actual morgue was full.." Lyre whispers softly and turns towards the door, she thought she saw someone so she ducks and goes to the wall quickly and scurries to the door to stay hidden. The phone camera was still facing her so Belen saw the fear in her face. No noise is heard for a minute so Lyre pokes her head out and sees nothing. She stands and goes into the hallway silently and slowly. She walks down the hallway again entering the lobby. She looks up the stairs and flips the camera around again so Belen can see the stairs. His eyes widened as he looked. The moonlight shines down the stairs creating a movie scene type feel of the room. She walks up the stairs slowly listening to every eerie creak from the stairs. As she walks up the stairs she looks around quickly and when she enters the intersection of the two hallways from the first video she looks down both hallways moving around and showing Belen the darkness.

"Which hallway are you going to go down first?" Belen breaks the silence.

"The dark one. I've already gone down the lighter one." Lyre turns to the right and goes down the darkest hallway, because the sunlight has retired for the night; the hallway seems black as night and like a neverending void. Lyre looks around keeping her phone close and ignores the doors she passes until she reaches the same Lavender door that Belen opened. It was still open from when Belen rushed out. She goes to the center of the room and sits down using the red chair as a holding place for her phone but keeping it perched up to face her. She faces the door that she left open, and gets out the spirit box and the emf recorder. She lays them in front of her and she turns on the spirit box breaking the silence with the static sound of the device. She speaks,

"Is anyone here?" no response.

"Jane Keith?" a small response that was inaudible and couldn't be understood.

"Leo Goldy?"

"Hello"

was the first intelligible response.

"Alright then, hello Mr. Goldy. How many are in this room?"

"five"

"five...you...who else?"

"Owner....innocent..... girl...... JJ."

"Leo Brain. Nando Braggi. Jane Keith. James Brian. Am I correct?"

"yes."

"alright then...can I talk to one of the others in the room?" she gets 5 different responses but all at once. She looks at the emf detector and is at the red light and doesn't look like it will stop.

"Can I talk to Jane Keith?"

"no."

she sighs and speaks

"I want to talk to her." there is no response.

"James? I have your teddy bear with me." She takes out the bear and holds it in her lap.

"buck.."

"Is it named Buck?"

"yes...stupid.."

two different voices show through. One was male and the other was female.

"don't be mean Jane." no response. That went on for a while until there was 5 minutes of no responses and the emf detector slowly went to green.

"You are welcome to come home with me James. Only James." She shuts off the spirit box and puts it both away.

"Lyre, it's almost 3am. I would recommend coming back to the car." Lyre nods and she stands gathering her belongings. She holds the bear and her phone in her hands as she quickly leaves the room and walks down the hallway. As she walks all of the doors slam open around her making her scream in fright. She quickly runs down the hallway and down the stairs as Belen watches terrified. Lyre gets down the stairs as she starts to feel like she's being watched. She looks back up at the stairs for a second and sees nothing. She runs out of the haunting building as the feeling of being watched never leaves until she's in the woods but she never stops running until she sees the car in view, that only pushes her more. She left like she was doing the mile run in the gym with the car being the final point as she finished her last lap. Lyre quickly gets in the car as Belen ends the call with her breathing heavily. Belen puts a camera on the dashboard and starts it staying quiet. Lyre looks forward as she shakes a bit as the adrenaline slowly stops pumping through her veins.

"Whenever you're ready. I'm gonna start the car and drive us home alright?" Belen speaks softly like she's a piece of fragile glass. Lyre nods and puts her backpack in front of herself by her feet and takes off the gopro putting in at her feet as well. 

After

After the painful silence for the first 10 minutes of the ride with the camera rolling Lyre finally speaks,

"You saw what happened..."

"I didn't see what caused you to scream or what you saw in the hallway"

"All the doors in the hallway were closed as I went down the hall first. As I was walking back to you and in the hallway all the doors slammed open like the person inside wanted to scare me and used as much strength as possible. When I was in the morgue room with all of the cabinets I saw someone in the hallway. A whole ass person in the hallway. As you saw I ducked and hid." Belen nods and takes a hand off the wheel and rests it on the center console. Lyre reaches out and picks up the camera and turns it off putting it into her bag. The rest of the car ride was silent until Belen pulled into the driveway as the clock hit 3:28 am. They leave the jeep and go into the house not noticing anything out of the ordinary. They sit at the dining room table in silence while Lyre unpacks the bag she had. She holds the teddy bear close to her and sits in her seat. As soon as she sits in her seat all the cabinets in the kitchen slam open. All papers around the two seem to be thrown around. Loud thuds start to happen making Lyre curl up in her seat while Belen goes to her and moves the two to be under the table both not sure what was happening. He looks at the clock and sees 3:33 am..

"fuck.." he whispers under his breath. Lyre looks at him

"look at the clock sis." She looks at the clock and sees the time. As the clock hits 3:34 am all the sounds and papers flying stops. But one thing doesn't stop, the small thuds. It was footsteps...as the sound gets closer nothing is seen by the two. Lyre looks around and quickly gets the camera out as the thuds continue. She hits record and shows in front of the two as the thuds soon stop. Everything is silent until a door opens, they couldn't see what door though..The same door closes again and everything seems to stop.

"should we go see what door just opened then closed?" Lyre whispers to Belen a small tremble in her voice. Belen nods silently and leaves the safety of being under the table first and checks if the coast was clear. He puts his hand out to Lyre who takes it and she stands, now beside him. Belen takes the lead and slowly walks around the corner to their bedrooms.

"Which room do you think it's in?" he asks him softly.

"I hope it isn't in either room..." was her answer in a whisper tone. She focuses the camera in front of her to see right beside Belen. He goes to his room and opens it as Lyre looks at her door, she sees nothing wrong with it and looks at Belen's door seeing the same. Belen opens his door first and sees nothing wrong, everything was as it was from a few nights ago when all of this started. He keeps his door open and slowly turns to face his sister as she turns to her door. Belen reaches and opens her door slowly. He lets go of the nob and pushes it open lightly as the door creaks softly. Everything in her room was in its place...