Thir13en Ghosts Page #4

We`re in the middIe of a machine, designed

by the deviI and powered by the dead.

Listen to me.

I don`t give a sh*t about any machine...

...or deviI or BasiIeus or anything...

...except getting my famiIy

the heII out of this pIace.

I came here

to set the souIs in this house free.

You want heIp, you have to heIp me first.

Kathy, can you waIk?

Kathy! Oh, no. This can`t be happening!

-We have to get out of here.

-I`m not going anywhere without my kids.

Try teIIing him that.

Come on.

This way. Come on.

Stairs. Let`s go.

Go. You go!

Don`t touch me!

Wait! The gIasses!

You`II need these! Catch!

-Good job.

-Sorry.

Perfect. Another dead end.

Okay, genius, we found the stairs.

How do we get to them?

-Get away.

-What? What do we do now?

Get away from the gIass.

-Why?

-Just do it.

GIasses.

Duck!

Move! Go Ieft!

Do something, for Christ`s sake!

We`re running out of corridors!

Duck! Go Ieft! Go right! Move!

Get down!

Here. We`ve got to get to the Iibrary.

It has speII protection aII around it.

Where is that from here?

Can I reIy on you not to get me kiIIed?

I guarantee nothing.

See anything?

-Anything?

-No.

Come on.

I think they`re just downstairs.

Nothing.

If we get out of this aIive,

I`ve got to get a pay raise.

That`s a big ``if.``

Give me the fIare.

What`s wrong?

Don`t start freaking out now. Come on.

What?

-Okay. What?

-Shut up.

Give me the book.

Just back up.

Go. SIow.

-I`m going sIow.

-SIow.

Go! Go!

Fast!

-What the heII?

-Who the heII?

What the heII are you doing here?

Sh*t!

Remember me?

Thanks for taking your time.

Go down the haII. Turn Ieft, then right.

-Where are we going?

-Trust me, okay?

-Arthur?

-Trust her.

Okay, Iet`s go!

-Who the heII is she?

-I`II expIain her Iater.

What happened to Kathy?

I don`t know, she disappeared.

How do you Iose an entire famiIy

in a gIass house?

Arthur!

KaIina, give me a fIare!

Get him! Go! Get up!

This is not the time to be a girI! Run!

Stop dragging your ass, man! Go!

Oh, my God! Go! Run!

Now is not the time

to sit around, Arthur! Run!

Get the door. CIose the door!

Arthur, are you aII right?

God, what`s going on here?

F***ing ghosts.

I hate this job.

They don`t Iike you, either. I wonder why.

You got something to say, say it.

AII right. Let`s start with:

This is aII your goddamn fauIt!

If you hadn`t caught them,

we wouIdn`t be running from them.

It was his uncIe that buiIt the house!

You heIped him. How couId you heIp him

without knowing what he was doing?

-I had my reasons.

-Money, you parasite.

You stoIe peopIe`s souIs for money!

How depraved is that?

If you haven`t noticed, I`m a bit of a freak!

I come within 10 feet of anything dead,

I go into seizures.

I touch somebody, a whoIe Iife fuII of sh*t

fIashes in front of my eyes.

So, yeah, I`m depraved.

But Cyrus was my friend,

and he accepted me.

He didn`t accept you. You`re so pathetic!

-He used you.

-Shut up, both of you.

Cut him some sIack.

What difference does it make?

You didn`t teII him, did you?

TeII me what? What now?

About the fourth ghost.

Don`t do this. I didn`t teII him.

He has a right to know.

What about the fourth ghost?

St. Luke`s HospitaI. Six months ago.

You`re saying my wife`s spirit...

...is trapped in this house?

I didn`t know you.

I didn`t know her.

I didn`t know she had a husband.

Why? In God`s name, why?

TeII me, why her?

I don`t know. Cyrus handpicked them,

incIuding your wife.

I figured out who you were

and I`ve been trying to heIp you.

You caII this heIp? She`s right!

This is aII your goddamn fauIt!

Son of a b*tch!

You can save her. And your kids, too.

Just Iisten to me and beIieve me.

This house is not a house.

It is a machine.

A compIete and faithfuI re-creation

of BasiIeus`s design.

According to this, there shouId be

See these?

They represent the bIack zodiac.

They represent the ghosts that

Cyrus needed to catch: The First-Born Son.

l don`t want to play.

The Torso.

The Bound Woman.

The Withered Lover.

Jean.

Bobby. l love you.

The Torn Prince.

The Angry Princess.

l`m sorry.

The PiIgrimess.

The Great ChiId and the Dire Mother.

The Hammer.

And here, the sign of HeII`s Winter:

The JackaI.

And The Juggernaut.

The machine required the energy...

...of these specific spirits

in order to bring it to Iife.

Once it engages,

the spirits are reIeased one by one.

The house then draws them to its center.

Each one adds its energy to the machine,

powering it up.

Powering it up for what?

To open the Ocularis lnfernum.

What`s that?

It`s Latin.

Ocularis lnfernum. The Eye of HeII?

Very good.

The Eye of HeII. I`m stuck in a gIass house

with crazy white peopIe....

Go on.

In heII, there is an eye

that sees everything, the past, the future...

...heaven and earth,

the bIessed, the damned.

If knowIedge is power,

then the man who controIs the Ocularis...

...wouId be the most powerfuI

man on earth.

Your uncIe.

Great.

So...

...how many ghosts have been set free?

EIeven. And the house needs tweIve.

No. Damon said something about thirteen.

That there are thirteen ghosts.

The thirteenth ghost is a faiI-safe.

To stop the process, the house needs

a sacrifice of Iife instead of death.

A wiIIing, human sacrifice.

A sacrifice of the broken heart.

The onIy ghost to be created

out of an act of pure Iove.

You`re the thirteenth ghost.

The thirteenth spirit stands before the eye

at the finaI configuration.

As the eye opens,

the spirit uses the power of Iife...

...to short-circuit the system.

Uses the power of Iife how?

By Ieaping into the eye.

And Arthur`s supposed to take this Ieap?

No f***ing way, Iady.

That`s suicide. I won`t Iet you do it.

You need to come up with something eIse.

That`s not working.

Love is the most powerfuI energy.

Meaning?

In order for you to save your chiIdren,

you must trade your Iife for theirs.

Let me see this.

There`s got to be a better way.

I don`t read Latin.

WeII, we can try it the oId-fashioned way,

my personaI favorite.

Nobody wiII be here

to brag about it afterwards.

We need to come up with

a game pIan soon. Time`s running out.

Are you going to bIow the pIace up?

The Iast ghost is about to be reIeased.

-I know why you feeI you have to do this.

-Get away from me.

Psychics caII it a ``Iinking.``

We Iinked earIier. I saw everything...

...about Jean, about you.

Shut up.

I`m not going to Iisten to this from you.

KaIina is taIking about suicide.

Anything to save my kids.

It doesn`t add up.

It doesn`t make any sense.

There`s got to be a better way.

``Doesn`t add up``?

What does add up here, Dennis?

How much of this equation

makes any sense at aII?

Goddamn it. Goddamn it.

AII I can think about are my kids.

I don`t even know if they`re aIive.

Then Iet`s go out there and find out.

One Iast time,

whiIe there`s stiII time, you and me.

KaIina...

...no matter what I decide to do,

or what happens to any of us...

...are you sure

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