2. Move

3.2 – Move

Teaser:

Fi: Ever move houses? It's not easy. You have to give up whatever you were comfortable with.

It can be hard, but it's usually for the better. Sometimes it's not, and that happens to some people. But what if you don't know how you feel? Can those feelings take over your life? And what happens, if they do?

"Do we have everything?" Molly yells into the house, while standing in the doorway. "Yeah, but we're making one last check!" Fi yells back. "OK...hurry up though!" Molly yells again. "OK...we will!" Jack yells also. In Fi's room, Fi is zipping up her laptop case. It is the only thing left in her room. Fi looks around, and smiles. "You know we're doing this for the right thing, " she thinks to her father. Jack is in his bedroom too, taking his last thing, his first baseball glove, which Rick and he had played with. He too smiles, and thinks, "You know we're doing this for the right thing." He looks around and walks downstairs, as Fi does too. Molly walks in, "So is everything ready?" "Yep, the upstairs is clean, " Jack says. "Good...now help me check the downstairs, OK?" Molly asks. "Sure, " Fi answers and they starts checking. Molly walks around, looking in every nook and cranny for small lost things. Behind a cupboard, she finds a thin book. She opens it, and it is a photo album of pictures from pre-Rick's death days. Fi walks back in and starts to say, "Mom, everything's..." then sees Molly's tears and finishes, "you OK?" "Yeah, I'm fine...let's go, " Molly wipes her eyes, "This is the last thing," holding up the picture album. They walk out the door, and Molly shuts it, locking it, and whispers, "Goodbye," to the "house in the mountains". She climbs into their car, and drives away.

A moving truck pulls up to the Phillip's new house. (It's the same house as the "real season 3") Irene and Ned climb out of the cab and open the rear hatch. "Well, I guess we can get started," Ned says. "Yeah, but I don't know where Moll wants..." Irene begins, but hears a honking outside of the storage compartment. They peek their heads out and see Molly and her family pulling up. "Hey, Moll," Irene smiles and climbs out to meet them, and Ned does too. "Hey Irene. How's everything coming?" Molly asks. "Great...Carey's inside, cleaning some stuff," Ned says. "Great, let's go see him guys," Molly says, and they walk into the house. Carey looks up from cleaning base boards. "Hey guys," he says. "Hey Carey," Jack says. "Looks good Carey," Molly looks around. "Thanks, but mom and dad helped too," Carey says, standing up. A view of the empty rooms fades into it fully decorated, that same night.

"It looks really good Moll," Ned says. "Yeah...it does," Molly says. "One more box!" Fi says. She opens it and starts taking stuff out. "Woah, woah! Fi, settle down!" Molly laughs and goes over to help her. Molly reaches in and grabs the photo album. Suddenly, she has a vision where Fi is backing up from something. Then a strange looking demon comes at her, but this wasn't on a rooftop, or even anywhere on Earth. It's pitch black, except for a light that hung over the area, like a street lamp at night. Then the creature grabs Fi and starts dragging her down a slope or hill of some kind. Then it picks her up and hurls her far away. Then Molly comes back. "Mom? Moll? You OK?" everyone is asking. Molly looks around, and says, "Yeah...yeah, I...I don't know what happened." "Here, I'll help you," Jack says, and takes the album from her. He has a quick flash of his castle vision, but no one notices. He shakes his head and helps unpacking the box.

Later that night, the Bells are gone and the Phillips are just sitting on the couch. "So what is this mom?" Fi asks, picking up the photo album that was sitting on coffee table. "It's your father's old photo album," Molly says. Fi opens it up and sees alot of pictures of Rick, the band, Molly. Near the end, there are alot of missing pictures, "Hey, there's pictures missing!" Fi says. "Oh, they probably just fell out," Molly says, sipping her coffee and not looking at the album. "Hey, there's one of all of us," Jack says, grabbing the album. And there is a picture of Rick, Molly, Jack, and Fi. "I remember that picture...Fi wouldn't stay still...it took almost two hours to calm her!" Molly laughs, and they do too. "Hey...here's an interesting one," Fi says. It's a picture of a star consellation in the sky. "I don't recognize that one," Jack says. "Neither do I," Fi says. Molly just keeps looking ahead, drinking out of her mug. Fi notices this, but doesn't say anything.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! Molly wakes up and groans. She hits her alarm clock, but instantly gets a jolt. She has another vision while getting shocked. Fi is running from something, in that pitch black room again. It's a giant body of fire, no body feature, just a big mass of fire. It chases her around the area, and it catches her. When it does, Molly comes back to reality. Breathing hard and feeling her heart race, she looks at the clock and sees it smoking. She looks around, and decides to get up then.

That day, Molly is alone on the couch, looking at the photo album. She sees one picture...of Rick and her on their one-year wedding anniversary. She puts her hand on it and whispers, "Rick." She holds back her tears and turns the page. A picture of Rick holding something, but the bottom half of the picture had been cut off. Molly quickly turns the page, then the door bell rings. DING DONG! She gets up, wiping her eyes, and answers it. "Irene!" Molly says, and she lets her in. "Where is everyone?" they ask at the same time. "Well, Fi's at Candy's, and Jack's at Trent's," Molly says. "Well, Ned's getting the band stuff out of storage and and Carey's sleeping," Irene says. "Sleepy head, huh?" Molly jokes, and they both laugh. Later, the two are sitting on the couch, just talking about the good times they've had. Then they reach a point where they've run out of things to say. "Irene," Molly begins, seriously, "Do you think I did the right thing?" "For what?" Irene asks. "Moving...I mean, do you think it was the right thing to do?" Molly asks. "Yes, of course, Moll! You said yourself that living in your old house...brought Rick back too much, and you couldn't handle it," Irene says. "Yeah, you're right. And Fi finding that...something in our old house...didn't help either," Molly says, and they sit in silence once more.

Fi's online her laptop. "Muintir O'Shannon." "Searching...Please Wait." "One match found." Fi clicks it on. "Family of Colin Mcquinn and Kathleen O'Shannon McQuinn." All it is, is a family tree. "Boring," Fi says, and exits it. She walks downstairs and sees the photo album. She sits down and looks at it. She looks at every page, every picture. Some of Rick, some of Rick and Molly, some of Jack, some of all three of them, some of Fi, some of all four of them, lots of different combinations. Molly walks in, "Whatcha doing?" "Oh, just looking at the album," Fi says. Molly sits down beside her. Then Fi starts talking, "I never knew him...you...Jack...Ned, Irene...even Clu and Carey...they all have memories of daddy." "Baby...I don't know...maybe it's...for the better," Molly says. "Mom...I thought you were on my side!" Fi argues. "What side is that, Fiona?" Molly asks back, sternly. "I...I don't know," Fi says. "If's it's the side for your safety, then yes, I'm on that side!" Molly says. "But you're still going on tour?" Fi asks. "Fi! You told me to? Now do you want to change your mind? Do you want to..." Molly lectures, but then a noise is heard. A creak. "What's that?" Fi asks. "I don't know," Molly says. Fi gets up and goes to the stairway that leads to the upstairs. "Hello?" Fi whispers up. She continues to walk up, when a door opens, and Fi screams and jumps back. From behind the door comes Jack. "Fi! You scared me!" he says. "Jack...you scared me! I forgot that's your room!" Fi says. "What were you doing in there, honey?" Molly asks from the first floor. Fi turns around in surprise. "Nothing...just listening to music," he says. "Didn't you hear that noise?" Molly asks. "What noise?" Jack asks. "Oh, never mind," Molly says and walks away. "What?" Jack asks Fi, confused. "I don't know either," Fi says, and walks back down too.

That night, Fi is in her room. Molly walks in with the photo album. "Hey," Molly says. "Hey," Fi says back. Molly sits down on the bed. "You wanna look at this?" Molly asks. "Sure," Fi smiles and moves over to the bed with her. "Baby...I'm sorry about today...but lately, I've just been very stressed out," Molly says. "It's alright mom," Fi says, and hugs her. Molly hugs back, and then break apart and start looking at the album. Molly points to one, "This was one when we first met." "Daddy had glasses and a beard?" Fi smirks. "Yeah, you knew that!" Molly says. "Oh yeah...the videos," Fi says. "So why is this so small?" Fi asks. "Well...I don't really know. We got it...a few months before Rick's death...I said we should get a bigger one, but he said that this...is all we needed," Molly says. "So...he knew," Fi mutters. "Knew what?" Molly asks. "About his death! He knew...'that's all we need.' He knew he wouldn't have too many more pictures!" Fi says. "Fi! He couldn't have!" Molly says. "But mom!" Fi protests, but Molly cuts her off, "Fi...I know you and daddy did the same thing. But...I don't...really share that interest. I don't even believe, I don't think." A LONG moment of silence. Then Fi asks, "Mom...how did daddy get interested in the paranormal?" Molly thinks for a sec, then responds, "He...thought that there was something...different about our relationship. So he investigated. There were some 'traits,' he said, that no other couple had. And that led to something else. And led to, well, so on." "What kind of 'traits' did he mean?" Fi asks. "That's something he never told me. When he became involved in it, he started hiding many secrets. Too many...it was one thing that almost broke us apart," Molly says. "Then why didn't you?" Fi asks. "I...I...don't know. Maybe there is...some greater force...maybe..." Molly wonders, and Fi wonder too, and they hug. Then Molly goes right back to the album, “In this one, I was pregnant with you…”

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