That next morning I woke up and noticed Miles was still asleep beside me. I was looking at him just admiring him. "It's rude to stare." He said. "Oh sorry...I wasn't aware you were awake." "So you like watching people sleep Y/n?" "Oh my god you are so funny Miles." I got up after he said that. He sat up, "You never denied it." I just rolled my eyes. "Listen dip shit we have bigger things to worry about today." He smiled at me and leaned his head back.

Today was the day that we were gonna get rid of Kate. I was excited and so happy. But I felt bad for Flora. She's been through so much. She had watched her parents demise, and her nannies keep leaving her without any good bye and it really hurts her heart, and Kate is just a terrible person in general. I felt bad for the poor girl. She deserves more.

We were gonna creep Kate the fuck out. We were going to make her believe that she's seeing things, make her think that she's going insane. This was going to be fun.

.~ Later that day ~.

It was around 3 when we decided to start our plan. I had got Miles to talk to Quint since I wasn't going to go near that man. He got Quint to go freak her out when she was in her room.

| Kate's POV |

It was a Saturday in the Bly Manor, meaning that Flora had a free day from school. I walked around until I made it into the kitchen, I made myself a cup of coffee. I turned and saw Y/n standing on the steps looking at me, she gave me a  weird smile but I decided to think nothing of it. I turned back around and drank the rest of the coffee. I didn't see Y/n anymore, but I heard the front door open and close so i'm assuming that she left to go outside.

Soon after that I heard the door open and close once again. I was cleaning the dishes when all of a sudden Y/n was standing right by my side. "You have mail.." She said to me. "Who's it from?" She paused and threw it down on the counter and stormed away after reading who it came from... Aunt Jenny. I thought she had forgotten that I sent her the address in case she wanted to send me something.

I dried my hands and opened the package. I was a series of paintings, she had always been interested in painting. I couldn't make out what the paintings were, I think that her paintings have been a little strange lately. I don't think she's okay but she won't get help. She claims to be fine. I took the paintings up to my room and sat them down on my bed side drawer. I walked in the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. I splashed water on my face, but when I looked back up I noticed something in the background. I quickly turned around but was faced with nothing. Strange. I looked back at the mirror and the figure was now closer to me. I gasped and fell backwards. I landed on my ass. I rested my hand on my chest and tried to catch my breath.

I was able to stabilize my breathing again. It finally hit me that the figure I saw was Quint. What. The. Hell. I quickly got up and exited the bathroom and closed the door behind me. I walked back down the stairs and sat down on the couch. I didn't enjoy most things that went on inside of this house. Like the weird noises you hear at night, how creepy this house is, how loud things can be, sometimes I feel like I'm just losing my mind. This happens on a daily basis.

I just needed to clear my mind. I just wasn't sure how.

| Y/n's POV |

We had started the plan. When I went to check the mail. I was furious at who had sent this. It was fucking Aunt Jenny. It's like everyone in the family forgot that I exist. That really pissed me off. After I threw it down I made my way back to Miles' room. "Hey whoa slow down...baby what's wrong." I walked over to him and hugged him. I wasn't going to cry but I was so upset. "My aunt sent something to Kate but not me. It's like the rest of my family forgot about me." He pulled me closer. "Well screw them. They don't need you, you're a part of the Fairchild family." I smiled after he said that.

A couple minutes after that took place. Quint went to scare her. Me and Miles listened very closely. We heard her fall and we both were laughing at it. Then we heard her close her door and then her footsteps walk down the hallway. We both high-fived each other.

| 3rd person POV |

Soon after that the older blonde headed woman went for a walk around the property. She noticed a small body of water and noticed something in it. It looked like a person standing there. She thought the children were trying to scare her, she wasn't going to fall for that again. But this one seemed . . . different. She wasn't able to get a better look at the figure, it then disappeared into the fog. The woman looked around trying to spot the figure that was once before her.

Then all of a sudden she gets pulled under the water. She notices something in the water right in front of her. Something or maybe someone wearing something white is tangled in some branches. She swims over to investigate furthermore. She soon realizes who this body belonged to; Miss Jessel, Flora's former governess. She had once read this poor woman's diary's that she had left behind.

Kate was running out of air so she swam up to the surface, gasping for air. She quickly got out and ran back into the Bly Manor. She called out for the children. "Flora?" She said once she got in the house. "Flora?" She called out once again once she had reached the stairs. "Miles?" She asked seconds later. "Y/n?" She finally called out after she reached the top of the stairs.

None of the children revealed themselves to her. Hiding from the scared woman. Moments later she heard noise coming from a room she heard mumbled voices, she couldn't identify these strange voices. She ran into room only to be met with nothing. The speaking came to a halt but the bed continued to squeak and make noise. Then the room fell silent.

Seconds later you could hear someone being choked. No one was in the room besides Kate, and she wasn't the one making the noise. She slowly knelt down to peek under the bed. She was then met with a blurry shadowy body, the one she saw earlier in the water, Miss Jessel's.

The woman spat out water, then vanished. Kate stood back up looking mortified. Miss Jessel's body appeared once again, on top of the bed this time. But this time the woman was being violated by Quint, his hand was also around the poor woman's neck. Seconds later she had died. The man had looked up at Kate. She was terrified. She tried to leave once she made it to the door it stayed closed. It wouldn't open.

Quint then soon appeared behind the young lady. Grabbing her neck to where she couldn't breathe and brought her down to the floor.

The bedroom door shot open. Y/n standing in the door frame. Kate had her arm up in the arm, he back was arched. She was gasping for air, then she finally got some. "Kate?" She looked around and panicked. "It was him!", She yelled "It was him! It was Quint!." "What are you talking about?" the younger lady asked. "Quint murdered Jessel. I saw her body at the bottom of the lake!" "Stop it Kate. Stop lying." She paused and looked at me. "You knew..." She spoke in a softer voice. Y/n quickly got up and left the room.

Kate shortly followed. "You knew! You knew what he did!" she shouted at the young girl. They both stopped and Y/n walked back over to her sister. "Quint's dead." She said in a harsh tone. She walked away once again, with Kate right after her. "Where are Miles and Flora?" "You stay away from them." "It's not safe here!" "We shouldn't have let you in here." (I should've left you on that street corner where you were standing... But ya didn't....... sorry lmao lets continue). "You, you knew... you never said anything." "I've been looking after this family for a long time! And I won't let you near them. You're going mad, Kate." "Move!" She yelled at the girl. She pushed her out of the way. She caught herself on the railing of the staircase almost falling off of it in the process. Y/n just sat down and was trying to catch her breath.

| Kate's POV |

I ran down the hallway and down a flight of stairs I was trying to get away from Y/n. I needed to get to Miles and Flora before she did. I ran into Flora's room first. I stopped her doorway. There was someone stroking the young child's hair as she was playing with her doll. The person quickly disappeared once I entered the room. "Flora!" I shouted. I ran to her and crouched down in front of her. "Are you okay?" I asked her. "I'm scared." "Do you still have your brave face?" she nodded in response. "Can you put it on for me?" she nodded once more and brought her hands up to her face 'putting on her brave face'. "It's good. Let's go." "Where are we going?" The child asked as we exited her room. I ignored her question. "Everything is going to be okay. We just need to get to the car."

"I don't wanna die!" She didn't wanna do this anymore, she was scared to leave the property. "I don't wanna leave!" She grabbed at my hand and tried pulling away from me and running off. "Flora come back!" I yelled for her but it was no use. I started to run after her but as soon as I passed Miles' room music started playing.

"Miles! We have to go!" He was sitting at his drum set, drum sticks in hand. "We need to get Flora out of this place!" The music was irritating me and Miles was ignoring me. I unplugged it from the wall and the music stopped. All you could hear was Miles tapping the drumsticks on his knees. I walked over to the boy and crouched down in front of him, just like I had done with his sister. "Miles listen. It's Quint...I thought I was going crazy but I'm not. He's here." He still didn't answer but kept tapping. I grabbed them. "You knew that didn't you?" "Where's Y/n?" He finally asked. The lights in his room started to flicker and went out (Will? sorry). "I don't know." I mumbled softly. "We need to leave." "No I can't. I'm sorry. For everything." "Flora won't leave without you. We have to go." As soon as I grabbed his hand trying to get him to leave the poster board fell. "I can't." His voice is now shaky. "He won't let me leave." The music cut back one even though it had been unplugged. "How long until he hurts Flora?! Please Miles." I reached out my hand for him to take.

| Flora's POV |

I sat beside my bed with my doll. Y/n walked in to see how I was doing. "Hey you doing okay?" "Yes! I'm doing this very well!" "Good job keep up the great work, our plan is going amazing!" I smiled at her. She kissed the top of my head and left the room.

| Kate's POV |

Me, Miles, Y/n, and Flora all exited the manor and walked over to my car. Flora and Y/n sat in the backseat while Miles climbed in the passenger and I got in the drivers. "I need you to be brave okay?" I asked Flora, she just nodded at me. We made it to the end of the driveway and the gate was closed by slowly opened up. Once it opened wide enough we drove away.

I came back in touch with reality. I was in the kitchen just looking at the strange drawings.

"No, stop it. I'm serious." I heard Flora speak. "You shouldn't be going into her room." Miles spoke back. "You have to trust us on this." Y/n said to the young girl. "Shh. I can hear her." Miles whispered as I opened the door to the room they were in. "Play it cool she's coming." He said as I peeked my head in. "Miles what's wrong with her? She looks scary." Flora asked her brother. "What are you guys doing here?" I questioned them, Flora ran to the staircase. "I wanna go." She announced. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Shhh Flora." Miles silenced her from talking any further. She put her head down, now looking at the floor. I looked in the mirror and saw Quint I gasped and the children all looked at me funny. Then Flora quickly turned away. "Flora." I said softly "Flora." I said again and dropping everything in my hands and stepped closer to her.

"Did you see Quint in the mirror?" I asked her and grabbed her shoulders. She was rapidly shaking her head. "I know that you saw him." She kept denying that she did. "Yes you did. I saw you." "Quint's dead." Y/n and Miles said at the same time. Miles smiled and was shaking his head at me. "You saw him too." "No I didn't" he laughed while responding to me. I turned back to Flora. "Why are you lying to me? I saw him. I know you saw him." "I didn't see him!" She said while slightly shaking her head at me. "Just tell me that you saw him! Flora tell me that you saw-" Flora dropped her doll and gasped. "You broke her!"she ran past me and knelt beside the doll. She was about to cry. Y/n got beside the child. "She's broken! You broke her!" she yelled at me. "I can fix her. Just let me-" "No you can't you broke her!" She yelled at me. I apologized to the small child. "You broke her!" She yelled once more.

Miles stood up. "You can't fix it." he said "She's broken. Just like you." Y/n said now standing at his side. He grabbed Y/n's hand. "Come on Flora." He said to her. She grabbed the broken doll and gave me a mean stare as she walked away from me.

"Why is Kate crazy?" I heard Flora ask her brother. "I don't know." He answered her as they walked away. I started getting flashbacks from everything in my past. I ran out of the house and got in my car and drove away.

| Y/n's POV |

We heard her car pull out of the driveway. We all cheered. "Yes! Finally!" Miles spoke. Flora hugged us and we hugged her back. "I promise Flora that the next person we get for you won't be like her. I swear. I spoke softly to the child. "Thank you Y/n." I kissed the top of her head. Then I kissed Miles. This is how I wanted this to end. Her finally out of my life for good and with the people I loved the most. This is my happy place. My happy place is here, living with the Fairchild's.

.~* THE END *~.

I think this story went well for my first one. I really enjoyed writing this. And if 10+ people want a sequel I guess I'll write one. But let me know what you guys though about this!!

August 24, 2022

12:56  a.m.