IN THE SHADOWS
Part 'Ive been watching, ive been waitingin the shadows for my time. Ive been searching, ive been living for tomorrows all my life.'
heard the song comin from the room next to him. He walked in, to find a young women about the same age as him. He edged forward, one reached one hand out to touch her. She looked at him, with bloodshot eyes, and stopped in his steps. He pulled his hand back to his side. He thne looked down at his feet. He was slowl turning to bone and blood stained skin. As it climbed up him, his clothes became red with blood, his legs became weak, and he fell helplessly to the floor. His hands suddenly became weak and blood stained. Slowly the skin apon his head fell in chunks to the floor, reveiling his skull underneth. He was soon a tangled heap of nothing on the floor. She came forward, put her hands on his body, and his soul was sent screaming downwards. He was clearly dead. She hated to do this, but it was the only ay thats she'd be free again, if only she'd known that, before she done what she did, if only she new what was going to hapen to her...
, , , and all had a month off, and as a treat, their mangement had given them a holiday in America. They were going to stay in colorado, but unfortuanately for them, they didnt no to expect what was going to happen to them.
They soon arrived at the airport, and where meeted by the limo drivers that were waiting for them. They drove them to a mansion. The drivers explianed, that they wood be staying there for a wjile, until they found a more sutible hotel. The mansion was far a way from the nearest town or city. And no matter how loud you screamed, no-one would her them. And no matter waht they did, if they heard a song that wouldnt normally be played by one of them from one of the bedroom, not to go there, otherwise they'd wish they were never born. The boys nodded, and headed to the bedrooms.
Each room had a high roof, a double bed, with a gold leaf patten embrioed on. The floors were boards, and the walls were a plae creamy colour. On each wall there was a picture of sumsort, a animal or one of the owners of the house before. In each room, there was also a mirror that filled the best part of the wall. All four boys checked the rooms out, and choose their rooms for the night. While was unpacking, he caught sight of himself in the mirror. He walked up to it, and touhed the mirror with his out-sreatched fingers. Suddenly, a face of a young woman apperad on the other side, making jump back in fright. The woman's frown slowly changed into a smile, and reached her hand out to the mirror. timidly walked back, and done the same, touching the mirror where her hand was. She smiled again, her eyes slowly travalling to his, and she came closer, to the mirror, as if she was about to step out of it, but she couldnt. steared into her pale eyes. He wante!d to touch her plae skin, just hold her 4 a second. But no matter what she did, she couldnt come thro.
suddenly burst into the room, and saw with his out streached hand that was now pressed frirmly against the mirror. looked at , and lowered his hand back to his side.
turned back to the mirror, and put his hand againt the mirror again, and softly callled the girl back, but she never came. He stood there for 5 minutes waiting for her to return, but she never came. He walked out hte door and went ot tea.
sat down at the table, and just stared at a picture that was hanging behind . It looked so much like the girl in the mirror, but she was standing with someone, another guy. He was tall, wearing a black top that showed part of his chest, like the ones lee wore most of time, with black trousers, and black shoes which were covered. His hair was pulled back a bit, but was hanging down at the back, and he had 3 crow feathers actched to th back of his head. She was wraped in his arms smiling. She wasnt wearing the same that she was in the mirror. She wore a long dress, like the victorian kinda thing. It was black to match his outfit, with her hair down over her shoulders. Their eyes were looking into one anothers, like they were about to kiss. They looked so happy together, but when had seen her, she was sad. None of the other guys had noticed that had been stareing at the picture, until the maid walked in.
That, was in his room, stareing at the ceiling. He thought about what the maid had said. About the young woman he had seen earlier being trapped in the room at the top of the other stairs. He walked quietly out of his room, not wanting anyone to know that he was going up to the room. He got to room only minutes later. He opened the door timidly, and walked in. The room was dark. He turned on the lights, and looked around. The room looked similar to his, but there where pictures like the one that was in the dinning room. I guess this was their bedroom then, he thought. He walked round, insecpting everything. Once he had finished with the walls, he looked at the floor. It was excatly like his, except for one small difference. what looked like was in the middle of the room, just sitting there. He wondered why he had never seen him as he walked in, or why had never talked to him when he came in. He edged closer, and bent down beside his bandmate. He looked perfectly normal, but when noticed that he wasnt breathing, nor was he blinking. He put his hand on , and suddenly stood, up, maing jump back. stood there like a dummy, like the ones in shops, and slowly, his feet, ankles and legs became bone and empty skin. It travelled fast up his body, and then the skin dropped to the floor, in patches like it had been riped off. The little bits of skin still had vains and nerves stuck to them, and pieces of muscle too. looked onm in horror, at slowly looked at 's head. His eyes had rolled back into
his skull, and rolled out of his mouth and feel to the floor. What was left of , came forward slightly, one of his hands coming up and reaching for . wanted to scream, and run and get help, but he couldnt. He was to scared to move. The body of dropped suddenlly, like a bag of marbles, and just layed their. was just able to edge forward, and touched . never reacated. He was clearly dead.
ran like hell down the stairs, screaming that was dead. The maid, and all the rest of Blue came out, trying to came down enough to find out what had happened. He explained that he went ot the room, and round dead. He explained how 's skin had just dropped, and then how he had come forward to him, then dropped. The maid screamed, and the other boys shock their heads in dis-belive. The maid caled the police and an ambulance, and told them that one of the guests were dead. They arrived 5 minutes after, and took away. The others watched in horror, realising that was right. They did a postmortame a couple of days after, and told them, that they couldnt find the cause of death.
layed on his bed, stareing at the ceiling. He heard a soft tapping comeing from the mirror. He looked over to it, and once again saw the young woman from before. She put one pale hand up against the mirror, and with the other, she beckoned . He looked at her, and blinked. She carried on beckoning . He soon got up, and walked to the mirror, ans placed his hand over hers. He looked into her eyes. A single tear dropped from her eye. He wanted to wipe it away, to feel her skin apon his hand, to feel her lips on his. But he couldnt. All he coild feel was the ice cool mirror on his hand, and he could only see her in the mirror. He wanted to know why she was crying. She just looked at him, more tears falling from her eyes. She could sense Lauri inside him. But she knew that the maid had warned them, so she had to find another way to get him to the room again.
Him and her were holding each other like in the picture. He looked at his wife, and they kissed. He looked at her again, but were disrupted by their butler. He spoke, and led him out the door. She followed, and stood at the top of the stairs watching. A tall guy, with jet blck hair, and dark eyes was standing in the hall. He was wearing a full black suit. He held out his hand, for her counter part to shake. They shook hands, then he was about to lead the guy into the sitting room, when the guy grabbed a knife from within his jacket, and stabbed him in the back til he was dead. She screamed, and ran to his side. The guy then killed the butler, and grabbed her wrist. She screamed again as he dragged her away, screaming for him, and reaching out to him. But he was dead, and the guy showed no signs of letting go. She turned round, and came close to the guy. He bent down to kiss her, and she kicked him were it hurts most. He dubbled over in pain, and in doing so, let go of her. She ran upstarirs, into her bedrooom. The guy followed, and jump on top of her. She screamed again, and tried to get him off her, but he was to strong, and before she knew it, she was at his home.
The mirror went black, and turned round to the woman.
She was standing outside her house, looking round to make sure no-one was following her. She crept in, and ran to her room. It was dark, and she turned round and turned on a light. She turned round again, and raced the bed. Apon it was her husbands dead body, still in the clothes that he was murdered in. She walked up to it, and lay beside the body. She took his hand, and shudrred with cold. She leant forward and kissed his lips for the last time. The guy suddenly apppeared in the doorway, and shot her. Her dark blue dress, suddenly became a bloody purple colour, and she looked at the guy, before putting her arm round her husband body, and didnt move after that. The guy walked up to her body, and took her wrist. He couldnt fina a pulse, and eft the house, but not with out muttering some words under his breath, and looking at the young woman.
The guy then walked up to the bed, got hold of her husband, and dragged the body away. He left her body there. The mirror went black again. looked at her, and then to the mirror again.
was walking up the staris to her room. he opened he door, and went inside. He saw a young woman lying on the bed, and went forward to see if she was alright. Suddenly, she sat up, her eyes red and bloody, her dress blood stained. jumped back in fright, and she lifted one of her hands, and walked towards him. He backed away, but she jump and caught him. He screamed, but no-one seamed to ear. The body moved away, and crawled under the bed just as the door opened to reveal . The mirror turned black for the final time, before becomeing a normal mirror again.
"Thats your curse, isnt it?"She nodded. He came forward, and put his arms around what he could of her. She leaned into him, and he could feel cold tears falling down his bare back.
He let go of her, and stepped back. "How the...." He looked at his hands, but they seemed normal. He looked at the rest of his body too, but nothing seemed different. He put one hand out again, and toutched her. His hand went straight thro hes, but she seemed so ferm when he hugged her, it was unreal. Suddenly, the doorbell rang, and a couple of minutes later, the maid was in 's room, saying it was for him. He looked to where the woman was, gulped, then walked on to the landing. By the look of it, the maid hadnt seen the young woman. He walked downstairs, and stopped when he saw who was at the door.
He was tall, and wearing black. A black cap covered his face. The maid walked off into another room, and knew that the other 2 had gone out with some girls they'd met the night before.
"OK, so u gonna tel me or not?"
" lived here with her husband . He was loyal, and rich, and he could basicly have any girl he wanted, but he chose . To him, she was truthful, kind, and a normal girl. He loved her from the time that he saw her. She loved him as well, but only because she knew that he had money. He never found out. He asked her out a year after they met, and after 3 years together, he propsed. She sed yes. They married 4 months after. They where together for another 3 years after that. But she grew tired of waiting for him 2 die, so she hired someone, my great grandfather, to kill . So a week after she talked to him, my grandfather came as they had their picture painted. The butler got , took him
downstairs with following. As walked into the sitting room , my grandfather shot him, with watching with a frown on her face. She thought she wanted him for his money, but she soon realised that she loved him. Once my grandfather left, she took lauri to there bedroom, and layed im to rest in peace. She married again and again, because she thought that she oved them all, but she never loved any of then like lauri. My grandfather propsed to her, and she aceptted. But before they married, she killed her self. My grandfather was a speacialist in black magic, and was so upset, that he cursed her. From then on, her ghost lived here, and when ever some1 she thought she loved came, she would show them the same story she showed you. I oly came here 2day because someone phoned me, and made me a deal to give me $100000 if i killed you. I agreed, and landed up wasting it on her."
"What do ya mean, not always?"
sat and and looked at the slowly disappering body of the young woman. Is it true? did you only want him for his money?
layed awake that night, just thinking about , when he heard a bloodcurling scream. He threw the duvet to one side and raced to his door, and opened it. He looked out and looked both ways, only to see doin the same as him.
The two of them walked up the staris in silence. Once they were both at the top off the cob webbed stair case, they stopped. They sound of someone runing around had stopped, and the only sound, was their breaths. put out one hand, and opened the door with causion. The door was dark, but with some light comeing in from a window. There was adultish size lump on the floor. knwlt down beside it, and let one of his quivering hands toucht he mingled heap. It moved slightly, and turned over. It was now lieing on its back, and got colser to what seemed to be the head.
Suddenly, a hand was tighlty warpping its self around 's neck. He sceamed to for help, and he rushed ova to help him. was just able to remove the hand from 's neck, but wasnt breathing. couldnt see anything, other than 's eyes wide open, showing the white part of his eyes, and his mouth was wide open. dropped 's lifeless body, and looked at the heap that lay next to him. He looked closely at the face and realised that it was . His eyes were both a bloody red, and his mouth was in a twisted smile.
jumped back in fear, dropping 's body to the floor. He pressed his body against the door, and held his breath. His eyes darted everywhere, and soon stopped on the mirror. Its was shining a brilliant white and he could just make out a face in it all. It was looking at him, and smiling. The light grew brighter and stepped out from it and walked over to him. She raised a hand, and felt a slight coldness in his cheek. He released his breath, and lent forward to . She came closer to him, and kissed his. suddeny felt dark and empty, changing to light and free.
drifted upwards, and then stopped. He faced and was suddenly spinning. looked down, and noticed he was dressed like the guy in the picture from the dinning room...the black shirt, the black troussers and the black shoes. He lifted a hand, and touched his hair. It was spiked up, and had 3 feathers attachted to it. He looked at , and she came towards him, and put her arms around him, he did the same to her. He felt all her warmth upon him, and didnt wznt to stop. lifted her head, and came closer to still. Then she whishpered in his ear.
No sleep
I've been watching,
They say
I've been watching,
Lately I've been walking
I've been watching,
I've been watching,
(In the shadows - The Rasmus)
Once the song finished, and were closer, and then everything went dark, and and were riseing, leaving all living. wathced his lifeless body being covered by a cloth by the ambulance ppl. He looked into 's eyes, and rose further, and then everything went as black as night.
The End!!!
"Whats up?" He asked.
"Tea'll be ready in a couple of minutes, k?"
"K."
As he was about to walk out of the room he added "um.. what where you doing?"
"Huh? oh nothing, just thinking of home, thats all."
"K mate, but ya no, if theres anything you ned to talk about, you can always talk to us."
"Yeah, i no, thnx mate." walked out, and slowly closed the door behind him.
"She looks happy, doesnt she?"
"Huh?"
"The mistress."
"The mistress?"
"Her."
"Shes the mistress?"
"Yeah."
"So, whos that she with?"
"Because, he was killed."
"How?"
"No-one actually knows, shes the only one. But soon after, she died. A couple of years ago, scientists did a postmortam, and they couldnt find a reason for her death, but they say she was mumdered."
"Why?"
"Because, the clothes they found her in, were blood stained."
"Oh...."
"People say she was cursed to. But i dont no anymore than that, sorry."
The boys sat back down, (as they had stood up to hear better), and looked at one another.
"Anyway, i'll be back in a minute, your dinner's gone a bit cold." And she walked out again. just looked at the picture again, and thought about their story.
"It was you, wasnt it?"
She looked at him , throu the steaming mirror, nd raised an eyebrow.
"You killed , didnt you."
Slowlly, she nodded, and looked down.
"Why?"
She looked at him, yet again, and opened her mouth to speak, but no sound came out.
"Well."
She opened her mouth again, but then shut it and looked down.
"Why," he whispered softly. She looked at him, a single tear in his eyes. She turned away, and started to walk into the refection of the room, but called her back. She turned her head to face him.
"Who are you?"
He already knew who she was, but he wanted her to talk.
"Your the misstress, aint ya?"
She nodded, and once again turned away, and walked away. backed away from the mirror, and sat down on the nearest thing to him. Suddenly, he saw the woman ranning back towards the mirror. The mirror broke, and she stood before him. stood up. She walked toward him, but he ran away. He knew that she had killed his bandmate and friend, and she knew that it was because of that, that he was afraid of her. She walked towards the mirror, and it repaired its self. He watched her every move, just in case. She lifted her hand, and pointed at the mirror. He looked in, and saw the picture from downstairs appear in it, the one of her and her husband. He watched closely, as the picture became a flashback, to that day.
"That was you wasnt it?"
She nodded.
"Then that means...."
She nodded again.
"But how did..."
She pointed at the mirror again, as it went black.
"H...hello?"
"Hi. Are you ?"
"Yeah."
"Good."
walked downstairs, and shock hands with the guy. offered to sit in the sitting rom, and the guy agrred. As turned round to lead the way, the guy got out a gun, and was about ot shot him, when the young woman jumped in fron tnof the gun shot. turned round, to find the young woman on the floor, a growing pool of thick dark blood, spreading rapidy around her. lent down beside her, feeling the coldness of her body. looked at the guy, and saw under his cap, and reconied him. He was the guy from the mirror, or al least a desedant.
"You."
"What?"
"Why? why did u..."
" I was aiming for you."
"Why."
"Because i new what you r... who u r."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, you have some sort of connection with her 'loved one'"
"ok, i didnt like the envisis on the loved one thing."
"She didnt love her husband, she only wanted him for his money."
"YOU FCKIN LIER!!! YOU DONT NO HER AT ALL!!"
"An i suppose you do?"
"Well... i ..."
"Thought not. Listen, she killed him, she killed her husband. She wanted hs money."
"How do you..."
"I no, just trust me."
"How can i trust you when u nearly killed me."
"Because i no the truth."
"Ok then, but can you answer this. If i saw her as a ghost thing in the mirror, than who come she got shot, and shes solid?"
"Because, she does that when she thinks she loves someone."
"What do yo mean?"
"Ok, il tell you, listen carefully to what im saying, maybe youll understand."
"Yeah, il tell ya, ok.. here it goes, but i gotta warn you, you may not understand everythin. k?"
"K."
The guy took a deep breath...
"Im still confused."
"I no, the storis confuseng, but its true, that what my geat grandfather told me, and ive never forgotten it."
raised an eyebrow. "How can ya b sure that he told the truth?"
"Because i trust him. I mean, he is my grandfather, and your supposed to trust those in ur family, right?"
"Yeah, but not always."
"I mean, your grandfather, sorry, great grandfather, could have made it up. Ya no, coz he was jealous?"
"I TRUST MY GREAT GRANDFATHER!! HE WOULDNT LIE TO ME!!"
"Yeah but.."
"No buts, he didnt lie to me, and thats it." And wih that the guy left.
"Wha..who?"
"I dont no mate."
"...?"
"Yeah ?"
"Wheres ?"
"Um..."
"Hed be here..wouldnt he?"
"Yeah.."
The two of them looked up at the stairs. The door stood slightly ajar, and there was a creaping comeing from the room, like someone was running around up there.
"?"
"Yeah?"
"I think..i think 's up there," He sed, pointing up the stairs.They both gulped.
"Do ya think we should go up?"
"Um..yeah..just in case."
"Ok, you first."
"No way man!! You go first!!"
"We'll both go together..at the same time, agreed?" sighed.
"Agreed."
"Im sorry , after all these years, ive realised something..." She paused and took a deep breath.
"I love you." looked at her and she leaned in and kissed him. There was a small click from somewhere and music started playing.
No sleep until I'm done with finding the answer.
Won't stop
Won't stop before I find the cure for this cancer.
Sometimes
I feel like going down and so disconnected.
Somehow
I know that I'm haunted to be wanted.
I've been waiting,
In the shadows
For my time.
I've been searching
I've been living,
For tomorrows
All my life.
That I must learn to kill before I can feel safe.
But I
I'd rather kill myself than turn into their slave
Sometimes
I feel like I should go and play with the thunder.
Somehow
I just don't wanna stay and wait for a wonder.
I've been waiting,
In the shadows
For my time.
I've been searching
I've been living,
For tomorrows
All my life.
walking in circles.
Watching, waiting
for something.
Feel me, touch me,
heal me
come take me higher...
I've been waiting,
In the shadows
For my time.
I've been searching
I've been living,
For tomorrows
All my life.
I've been waiting,
I've been searching
I've been living,
For tomorrows
In the shadows
I've been waiting...