The next morning around 11 o'clock everyone came down to the dinning room. Catherine and Grissom were the first one's down then Nick and Greg the last ones were Sara with her bruised eye and Warrick came down with a sprained wrist, bruised jaw and scrapped up elbows.
"Well I see that you two had fun last night" Nick said and laughed
"Shut up Nick! All I want right now is a cup of mice warm coffee" Sara said and sat down. She flinched because her butt had rug burns all over it from last night's fight.
"What happened with you two?" Catherine asked as she poured Sara and Warrick a cup of coffee.
"Well remember when Sara said I was going to be a dead man?" Warrick stated.
Everyone nodded their head and smiled at that memory.
"Well she wasn't kidding, the only thing that saved my butt was when I kicked her in the eye by accident, I got away before she could really kill me"
"It was not on accident that you kicked me in the eye it was on purpose." Sara mumbled " Coffee! Thank you so much Catherine" Sara grabbed the nice warm cup of coffee from her and took a sip she felt so much better.
"Well you deserved it from almost spraining my wrist and almost breaking my jaw and scraping up my elbows" Warrick retorted.
"Alright that's enough you two, don't want you starting a round two in here alright?" Grissom said before Sara leaped over that table and punched the living daylights out of Warrick.
"Now, who's up for some exploring?" Greg asked cheerfully to the group.
"I am! This place is huge maybe there are some secret passageways some where" Nick said all happy like a kid on Christmas morning.
"Alright, well why don't we go in pairs, Sara and I will go upstairs, Nick and Warrick can go downstairs and Grissom and Greg can go in the basement, that will be loads of fun" Catherine suggested, trying to keep Sara and Warrick away form each other as much as possible.
"Okay, let's go!" Greg announced and grabbed Gil and were out of the kitchen in no time.
"Looks like someone is excited" Sara said "Come on Cath, let's go before I have the urge to pound Warrick or Nick's head in"
"Right behind you, have fun boys and don't get into too much trouble" Catherine snickered and followed Sara.
"Ready man?" Nick asked Warrick
"Sure let's go exploring"
Everyone went off to different parts of the house exploring the place. They never knew what danger lurked inside the walls of the mansion until they uncover it and bring terror to the group.
Catherine and Sara were up stairs looking in all the rooms, there was a study and a library along with many bedrooms they have already seen. Sara noticed a door at the end of the hallway and went to go check if it was unlocked. She turned the knob and it wasn't. Catherine cam up behind her and felt around on the top of the door frame, she felt something metal and took it down and blew off some of the dust.
"How did you know the key would be up there?" Sara asked as she placed the old styled key in the lock and twisted it until she heard the click.
"Even in the old days people still put keys up on the ledge above the door, you should know that you put your spare key to your apartment up on top of yours" Catherine stated and pushed open the door.
The girls saw nothing it was pitch dark until the heard a meow and a cat jumped out of know where and landed on top of Catherine. It was a mean cat and began clawing at her. Sara tried to get it off and eventually did and threw it down the hallway. It was black and turned around to hiss at the girls then left.
"Catherine are you alright?" Sara asked as she helped her up and noticed the scratches all over her and rips in her clothing.
"Yeah I'll be fine, that stupid fluff ball ruined my favorite shirt" Catherine announced and smiled.
Sara felt around on the wall for the light switch and finally found it. She flicked it on and the girls stared in awe at what they saw. It was a room full of old keepsakes. There were cloths covering furniture and painting on the wall with hundred years of dust on them. They lifted the covers off of the furniture and found they were white leather couches and chairs, all splattered with dry blood.
"Looks like something bad happened in here" Sara said as she eyes the blood.
"That's for sure" Catherine said and saw a brown leather covered book and a jewelry box beside it. Catherine picked the book up and looked through the first few pages it was a diary that someone kept.
"What did you find Cath?"
"A diary and a jewelry box, come on let's get out of here all this blood is giving me the creeps" Catherine closed the book and grabbed the jewelry box.
"You specialize in blood splatter and this freaks you out?" Sara asked puzzled.
"Yeah, well this is an old house, it could be haunted, wait until we tell the others about this" Catherine laughed and they shut of the light and left the room.
Meanwhile down in the basement Greg and Grissom were looking at some old photo albums. They were all stored in boxes in the basement many, many years ago. The pictures were taken in the early 1900's. In all of the pictures there was a man and a woman, and then a child, a different one in each of the 50 or so pictures.
"These guys never quit did they?" Greg asked as he was looking over Grissom's shoulder at the pictures.
The sound of Greg's voice made Grissom jump "Geese Greg don't scare me like that, and not all of these children could be theirs, they could be relatives as well."
"What ever rocks your boat Griss"
Grissom rolled his eyes and flipped the page and stared at the picture for the longest time. Beside the man was the woman and then the child was a teenager almost and dressed in a nice long gown. The face of the young lady was Catherine, it was a picture of Catherine.
"Greg you have to come see this?" Grissom stuttered.
"Okay, what.." Greg stopped in mid sentence and was shocked at the picture, it was Catherine. "Oh my goodness, it's...it's Catherine" Greg spit out.
"I have to show this to her, come on let's go before anything else creeps us out"
"I agree with you"
Grissom took the photo album out off the box and turned off the light in the basement. He followed Greg up the stairs and they ended up in another room, a new room. It was the ballroom.
"Whoa! Look at this place" Greg said as he stopped to take a look around.
The place was huge with a glass dome ceiling with a chandelier hanging from the dome. The walls were painted with mosaics and pictures of Jesus, and the New World was all over the walls along with Greek mythology. The floor was marble and there was statutes of gargoyles and birds on both sides of the grand stair case that lead up towards a new painting. One of the man of the house, his wife which was Angelina Willows and there daughter Catherine. It was the same picture they saw in the photo album accept bigger.
"Oh my god" Grissom said and walked up the wooden steps towards the painting. He read the plaque underneath the portrait and it said: The loving family of Gregory, Angelina and Catherine Willows.
"This is too weird, come on let's go find the others" Greg said as he puled Grissom down the hallway.
Nick and Warrick were having fun exploring the downstairs of the house, well mansion. They were in the sitting room and admiring all of the beautiful furniture and painting on the walls. There was a huge fireplace on the wall that was made of marble. Warrick looked over on the coffee table and saw their was a cigar in the ashtray that was already lit.
"Hey Nick, did you take up smoking or something?" Warrick asked as Nick was admiring the fireplace.
"No? why?" Nick asked as he walked back over to his friend.
"Because someone lit a cigar, and I don't smoke, you don't smoke, Catherine quit so did Sara, Grissom would never touch the thing and I don't think Greg would either, so who lit it?"
"I don't know man, come check out this fire place with me"
Nick and Warrick walked over to the marble fireplace that was huge, you could walk inside of it. There was no wood in the bottom and no ashes anywhere. It looked to have never been used. Nick looked at the bottom and noticed a small latch. He bent down and opened up the trap door and smiled.
"YES! I knew there were secret passages in this house" Nick said and started to go down the steps.
"Man your nuts, but I guess I have to go with you because this fireplace is giving me the creeps."
They kept going down the staircase and they ended up in the green house. There were plants of all kinds all over the place along with many different types of flowers. There was a big fountain in the middle of the Green house that have a cupid statue water fountain in the middle. The place looked to of been taken care of over the past few years, but they didn't see any caretakers any were unless they died a few years ago.
"Whoa! This place is amazing" Nick said and went around looking at all of the plants and flowers.
"Yeah amazing, do you think I should pick a flower for Sara so then maybe she'll stop beating me up?" Warrick said.
"Nah, she don't like flowers she likes vegetation, like plants and stuff, like this" Nick pointed out and the veins of the plants wrapped around his hands. "AH! Help Warrick!" Nick screamed and Warrick ran over to the plant. He grabbed the hedge clippers odd the ledge and snipped the plants veins.
"Thanks man" Nick said as he untangles the veins that were still around is hands.
"No problem." Warrick huffed and sat back on the ledge of the fountain.
The water in the fountain and that was coming out of the statues mouth began to turn red and became blood. Nick saw it happening and his eyes got as big as saucers. Warrick noticed and turned around seeing the red water.
"Holy cow, come on Nick let's get out of here" Warrick said as he motioned towards the door.
"I'm with you there" Nick said and they ran out the door almost running into Catherine and Sara.
"Whoa! What's the rush there?" Sara asked. The two men looked as pale as ghosts.
"You guys look like you saw a ghost or something?" Catherine said and laughed.
"No, were fine just you know found a secret passage and all, have you guys seen Grissom or Greg anywhere?" Warrick asked as he eyes what Catherine had in her hands and her torn clothing "What happened to you 2?" he asked.
"Cat troubles, and we found these in a secret room, and no we haven't seen Greg or Grissom" Catherine said.
"Let's go back to the kitchen and wait for them then" Nick suggested and they all went back to the kitchen.
When they entered they saw Greg and Grissom sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee. Catherine sat down beside Grissom and put the book and jewelry box down on the table. Sara sat beside Greg and Nick and Warrick took the two ends of the table. They eyed the photo album that was in the middle of the table.
"Oh my god what happened to you Catherine?" Grissom asked as he saw the blood and torn up shirt.
"Cat troubles, so what did you guys find?" Catherine said eyeing the photo album.
"Something very freaky, come on we'll show you" Greg said and they all followed him out of the kitchen and down into the ballroom.
Everyone looked in awe at the beautiful and huge room. Greg and Grissom went up the stair case with everyone following behind and pointed at the painting. Everyone's eyes got as a big a saucers and there mouths dropped open.
"The loving family of Gregory, Angelina and Catherine Willows" Sara read out loud and looked at the young girls face. "Oh my god that's Catherine" She whispered.
"Freaky huh?" Greg said.
"Very freaky" Nick and Warrick said at once. Catherine just stared at the portrait for along time.
"Catherine? Cath? Are you alright?" Gil asked.
"Huh? Yeah I'm fine, but that can't be me I mean that was taken many years ago" Catherine said after she got out of her shocked state.
"Well it is you, I mean it looks like you to every last detail."
"What did you two find?" Sara asked changing the subject.
"Well we found a sitting room that had a secret passage down to the green house and a plant tried to eat me and the water turned to blood." Nick said "Oh and in the sitting room a cigar was lit in the ashtray and none of us smoke" he added.
"Whoa! Freaky, we found a jewelry box and an old diary, in a room with furniture splattered with blood" Catherine explained since Greg and Grissom didn't know about what they found.
"You know I think this place is haunted, we should leave, like now" Warrick said.
"It's 11p.m. right now, why don't we go to sleep and leave first thing in the morning alright?" Grissom suggested.
"Alright I guess, but I really don't want to spend another night here" Nick whined.
"Scared are we?" Sara replied
"No, just don't like the place"
"Come on let's all go to bed" Catherine said as she left to go to her room.
"I agree to that" Greg said and followed Catherine along with everyone else.
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