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The One With The Creepy Kids
May. 19th, 2013 09:59 pm[The Shine's been hard to do since Tʜᴇ Iɴᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛ.
He calls it that because his mother always refers to it like that. She doesn't use the words hotel or ghosts or even Jack; she just looks darkly at corners sometimes, and when Halloran asks her about it, she simply says she's brooding on Tʜᴇ Iɴᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛ.
And he says she shouldn't linger on it, that she should move on like Danny has, but he hasn't, is the thing. Oh, the nightmares have stopped coming every night, and sometimes he even plays outside, but he hasn't opened his mind to the Shine in ages. And Halloran knows, and Danny knows he knows-- but it's easier to simply ignore things for now.
But now there's a girl here, pale and eerie, and Danny finds himself drawn to her. She and her caretaker (her father? No, Danny senses vaguely, in the same way he sometimes knows when people aren't related or married) have come to rent out the spare rooms for the winter. He's watched her sit outside in the snow a few times, her feet bare, her eyes wide. And he wants to be with her; he doesn't know why, but there's something about her that warms him in the same way the hotel frightened him.
So he comes out one night, wearing a sweater at least (a balance between the forbidden force of this girl and the maternal wrath his mom would wield if she knew he'd gone out without a coat), and sits next to her.]
Hi.
He calls it that because his mother always refers to it like that. She doesn't use the words hotel or ghosts or even Jack; she just looks darkly at corners sometimes, and when Halloran asks her about it, she simply says she's brooding on Tʜᴇ Iɴᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛ.
And he says she shouldn't linger on it, that she should move on like Danny has, but he hasn't, is the thing. Oh, the nightmares have stopped coming every night, and sometimes he even plays outside, but he hasn't opened his mind to the Shine in ages. And Halloran knows, and Danny knows he knows-- but it's easier to simply ignore things for now.
But now there's a girl here, pale and eerie, and Danny finds himself drawn to her. She and her caretaker (her father? No, Danny senses vaguely, in the same way he sometimes knows when people aren't related or married) have come to rent out the spare rooms for the winter. He's watched her sit outside in the snow a few times, her feet bare, her eyes wide. And he wants to be with her; he doesn't know why, but there's something about her that warms him in the same way the hotel frightened him.
So he comes out one night, wearing a sweater at least (a balance between the forbidden force of this girl and the maternal wrath his mom would wield if she knew he'd gone out without a coat), and sits next to her.]
Hi.
