Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. *07 - Locked in / Sleepover* -------------------------------------------------------- *Billy's story* I looked at the foot of the bed, there was a brass plaque screwed onto it. *_Elizabeth Harding*_ *_A Beauty in repose*_ I pointed this out to Kate, she nodded. "So the only person in the family grave is Josiah himself! I hope he's lonely there." Her voice showed how angry she was, I told her what Darcy had said about there being no spirit in this part of the room she nodded absentmindedly, she seemed to be thinking to herself, and then she looked up. "Billy?" She started, "I have to ask you a great favour." She looked frightened, as if I wouldn't be willing to help her. She sat down on the bed, ignoring the present occupier; I sat with her and held her hand, as this was so unlike Kate I was beginning to get worried. "Kate, all you have to do is ask!" I told her, she looked at me and gave a shy smile; again Kate was never shy about anything so this must be something. . . My stomach gave a slight lurch; she couldn't be talking about. . . Somehow we got connected again. `_Pull yourself together girl, its Billy you're talking to not Brad, yuck! Fancy thinking about Brad at a time like this_' "At a time like what?" I asked her, she looked at me and then realised what had happened, "Oh shit," she exclaimed, not again! "Alright then Billy, we've got to help Darcy and Cassandra." Well this was obvious and I thought so, she carried on talking, "Yes I know it is! Anyway I don't know about you but I thought it was so awkward when they were in our bodies, instead of seeing you I saw Cassandra, and although she's very pretty, I don't really fancy kissing girls, I mean I hardly kiss any boys!" she added with a smile. "You've kissed me!" I told her, she beamed at me. "Of course I did, you're about the only boy I would kiss" she told me with a smile on her face. I smiled back, I did like kissing her, it was different than kissing mum or my sister, I did the only thing I could think of, I bent over and kissed her again, Cassandra's lessons were being put to good use. Kate put her arms around me and kissed me back, she then pulled back and considered, then she looked at me. "Billy, can you promise never to tell anyone, I do mean ANYONE about this!" I was going to answer, I mean I know Kate is worried about being a girl, and she wouldn't want me bragging about kissing her, when she moved her hands and pulled up her tee-shirt. I couldn't move, she was so beautiful, sitting in front of me with her jeans on and her small breasts poking out at me, she seemed to be bashful, she started to raise her shirt in front of her, and I spoke up. "No please, don't. They're so pretty." She looked shyly at me, "Do you mean it? You're not just saying that?" I shook my head, "I really mean it, and they're perfect on you." This seemed to cheer her up she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me again. "When I first got them I was so ashamed, I didn't want to be a girl, that's why I stayed with Brad and his gang, to prove I was just as good as you lot were!" She said, this time I felt awkward, I wanted to wrap my arms around her but I didn't want to frighten her. "Billy!" Cassandra's voice called from the partition, "Go on! She wants to feel your love for her." I turned to see them both watching, somehow they couldn't enter this side still. I kissed Kate back, my arms touching her now luxuriating in the feel of her flesh, I know I had touched her earlier, but that was with Cassandra using me, and the body I could see was her vision of Darcy, which did put me off slightly, but for now this was just Kate and me together. "Hold me Billy," she said, "I'm frightened." I looked into her eyes. I could see tears in them. "What's wrong?" I asked her, she shook her head. "I want to do this, but I'm scared. What if we do it? What if I get pregnant? How would I explain that to mum?" I just stared at her, Pregnant! I thought she was just interested in kissing, I didn't think she'd want to do it now; she pulled back and looked at me in the eyes. "Of course I want to do it now,"she said, "if only to get back at that Josiah! Now do you want to do it?" She had `heard' me - did I want to have. . . have, well, sex with her - of course I did, but not because I was going to get back at someone, I'd want to do it for the love of the person, I know it sounds sissy, but that was my reason. I did love Kate, I knew that, she was the image I kept in my mind at night when I masturbated, but I wasn't going to tell her that, then I saw the smile on her face - I was really going to have to watch my thoughts down here! "Kate!" I said, "Then we're going to get into trouble together." I smiled at her, "Remember what they said in class - `it takes two people to make a baby' and so we'll face your mother, hand in hand if necessary." She laughed and then kissed me again, this time I hugged her close, feeling her small breasts rubbing against my covered chest, `_Oh this feels so nice_' I heard and agreed, watching her back start to blush - I hadn't realised that it went so far down her body. I whispered into her ear, "Shall I get undressed, or do you want to undress me?" her blush got redder, if possible, she shook her head, I took this to mean that she didn't want to undress me. I disentangled myself from her grip and stood up, my hands moving to the buttons on my shirt. ------------------------------------------------------------ *Kate's Version* I was sure who the person in the bed was, the feeling was too much it almost overwhelmed me, how could he be so arrogant, so uncaring. He displays his own children as some waxworks and then in the other part of the room has his own wife, in a bed as if asleep. I couldn't be surprised at Billy's reaction, even with all we've seen so far, ghosts, corpses tied up behind glass, a skeleton does still seem frightening, especially when it's head starts bouncing towards you! I gently pulled the bedcovers off from the body, I could just make out the lace on the remaining tatters, I suppose it was a nightdress, so she was female. Billy came up beside me, I had to show that there was nothing to worry about, I smiled at him. "She wouldn't have hurt you," I said, "She hasn't been in this room for years, they would have known." And I pointed to where Darcy and Cassandra were still waiting by the partition; they still couldn't enter this part of the room. Billy said something, which I didn't really catch, and then asked who I thought she was, the answer was obvious to me and I told him. "I think that's Elizabeth Harding, Josiah's wife, what she's doing here instead of safely in her grave I don't know!" Billy looked around at the bed and then pointed to a plaque screwed into it, I read the inscription. Boy this Josiah Harding was sick! He made all his relatives into a bloody display for his own fun, I decided that I really didn't like him, and wanted to piss him off. But if she was here then, "The only person in the family grave is old Josiah himself! Ump. Well I hope he's lonely there!" Billy said something about Darcy not sensing anyone in this part of the room, but I wasn't really listening, Josiah was really adamant about Darcy and Cassandra not being able to touch each other, but what if that was the only way they could be released? What if being in us touching each other could do it? That would deprive him, and that would serve him right, but would Billy agree. "Billy?" I started; I didn't really know how to ask him, "I have to ask you a big favour." I had to stop there, I couldn't get myself to say the words, I sat down on the bed, and I heard the rattle of the bones as more of them were dislodged, but they were in the background of my thoughts. Billy said something, I think he was trying to encourage me, I had to smile at the tone of his voice, I thought to myself `Pull yourself together girl, this is Billy you're talking to not Brad!' where the hell did that thought come from? Fancy thinking of Brad at a time like this! Then Billy spoke which showed that we were connected again, "At a time like what?" He asked "Oh shit!" I said, and then drew myself up, I had to ask him. "Alright Billy, we've got to help Darcy and Cassandra." I started, I heard him say `_That's obvious_!' and I agreed with him, "Yes I know it is!" and then I realised that he hadn't said a word, so I carried on, "Anyway I don't know about you but I found it bloody awkward when they were in our bodies, instead of seeing you I saw Cassandra, she's very pretty but I don't really fancy kissing girls, I hardly kiss any boys!" "You've kissed me!" he said, I had to smile at that, but I also had to defend myself... "Of course I did," I told him, "because you're about the only boy I would kiss" he was smiling now, and then he kissed me again, it was so wonderful; I started to see flashing lights in my head. I pulled him closer to me and started to kiss him back He was really very nice. I broke the kiss, would he do it I wonder? But then would he tell everybody, then how would I feel! I looked at him and spoke. "Billy, can you promise never to tell anyone, I do mean ANYONE about this!" I let him think about this for a moment and then took off my tee-shirt, he just sat there looking at me, I was starting to feel ashamed, he didn't like me! I started to cover my chest up with the shirt again when he spoke. "No please, don't." He said, "They're so pretty." I couldn't believe that he'd said that, I looked at him "Do you mean it?" I asked and then added, "You're not just saying that?" "I really mean it!" He said, "They're perfect on you." I was so happy, he liked me! I grabbed hold of him and kissed him. I started to babble about how I felt about my breasts; I think I told him too much. I heard Cassandra speak from behind her vantage point, but didn't hear what she said, but Billy started kissing me back, I had this feeling down between my legs, now I knew what I wanted to do, and then I heard the voice of Josiah Harding in my head `_If you do it now you'll have a bastard son, your mother will disown you and you'll be cast out into the streets - no-one will have you! You'll be forever alone!_' This scared me, to be thrown out because I got pregnant, which is what I might get if I let Billy do this to me! "Hold me Billy, I'm frightened" I blurted out to him. He looked at me, confused. "What's wrong?" He asked, I tried to ask him what would happen if I got pregnant - how would I explain it to mum. I heard him say `_Pregnant! I didn't realise she wanted to have sex!_' I couldn't believe it! All this time and he still didn't understand. "Of course I want to do it now!" I exclaimed, "If only to get back at Josiah," his whisper just then had strengthen my resolve, "Now do YOU want to do it?" I asked him, somehow I saw a picture of him in bed, jacking off and saying my name, I had to smile Billy started to blush, I knew where that image had come from now, then he looked seriously at me and said, "Kate, we're going to get into trouble together, remember what they said in sex-education class, it takes two to make a baby, and we'll face your mother! Hand in hand if necessary!" he added smiling, it was such a wonderful thing for him to say, that I just had to kiss him again, feeling his shirt on my breasts as I did, I thought it felt so nice and he said, "Yes it does, doesn't it!" - Oh god I did it again! He heard me. Then he whispered into my ear, "Shall I get undressed? Or do you want to undress me?" I couldn't answer, I didn't trust my hands to undress him, I'd get entangled I knew it, so I shook my head, I watched as he stood up, his hands moving to his shirt, undoing the buttons there, his shirt was soon removed, I looked at his chest, expecting to see hair there, I'd noticed that Darcy had a hairy chest in the display, but Billy was bare - well hairless anyway, I suppose they grow with age, he then sat on the bed and started to untie his shoes, I bent down to take off mine, how we missed bumping our heads I don't know, we were very close at that point. Again we both stood up, as if we were on strings, I spoke up. "This is scary!" Billy agreed. We decided to turn our backs to each other and undid our jeans, leaving just our underwear on, and we turned to face each other, I could see Billy's pants with the tent showing in front, although I was slightly scared I also felt tingly, down there! He looked at my eyes again, I could see he was having second thoughts again, so I took the plunge and bent down holding his pants in my hands and dragging them down to his feet. His, his - come on girl don't be shy now. His cock was larger than I expected it to be, and stood out from his body, like his chest he didn't have any hair on it, no I was wrong there was a light covering of hair, but they were so fine as not to be there at all.  Now it was his turn, I stood in front of him, my arms by my sides; it was too late to think about covering myself up, "Go on Billy," I said, "Do it now, please!" I begged him, he nodded to me and then approached me, his hands were warm on my hips as he gripped my panties, he looked me straight in the eyes as he lowered them down my legs, I felt a slight stickiness as they came down, then they were round my legs, I stepped out of them and walked, naked, to Billy. I heard Cassandra say something to Billy again, but the blood was pounding in my ears, I felt his arms around me, lowering me gently to the floor, it was cold! He took his trousers and shirt and placed them under me, he kissed me again, "Kate," He said his voice was slightly hoarse as he spoke, "We can stop now if you want," I held him tight. "Oh no," I said, "We're going through with this, I want YOU to be my first, not Cassandra and Darcy, they already know how it feels, I don't. I want you Billy, and I want you now!" He kissed my face again, and then I could feel his body as he lowered himself onto me. "This is how I'm going to feel when I do it." He told me, and then his head started to move downwards, kissing my neck, and then I could feel his breath on my breasts. "What are you doing?" I gasped out; he paused in his ministrations to smile up at me, "You need to get more relaxed, Cassandra explained to me how you'll feel at first, and so she taught me this." And he returned his mouth to my other breast, it was like electricity running though my body, I could feel so warm and tingly all over, I almost cried out when he left my breasts and moved further down, he couldn't be. . . He wouldn't, would he? I did cry out when I felt his breath on my small slit, I could feel his lips on me as he kissed around the mound down there, and then he found it, my 'magic button' and he started to suckle on it as he had my breasts, it felt so good, so wonderful, I found that my hands had moved of their own will and I was holding his head against me as his tongue started to play with the hardened nubbin there, I couldn't control myself, I started to cry out in ecstasy as I could feel my climax approaching, getting closer, almost there, and then it arrived like a wave of passion. It was such an intense feeling I didn't notice that Billy had moved quickly up and was on top of me again, when I did notice I found that there was an odd feeling - inside me, I looked at him. "Billy!" I exclaimed, "You didn't? Did you?" he nodded. "Cassandra told me that when Darcy first entered her she was so scared that it hurt when he broke her hymen," he started and then carried on by saying, "I didn't want you to suffer as she did, so while you were still enjoying your cum, I'm afraid I went ahead, I'm sorry if you didn't like it." He finished apologetically. He had been thinking of me! And was apologising about denying me pain!! I kissed him, "Don't be so daft!" I said, "I didn't even feel you entering me, you were so wonderful. And where did you learn about licking my clit?" He smiled down at me, "That was Cassandra again, she told me to do that when I wanted to really excite a girl, but I only wanted to do it with you!" He told me, I pulled his face close to me and kissed him, getting a strange but exciting taste on my lips, I brushed my tongue over his lips. "Is that what I taste like?" I asked him, he nodded, and then started to move backwards slightly, I started to follow him, "Noo Billy! I want you inside me, I feel so full up when you're there." He nodded and started to push back, I could feel him expanding my insides, it had taken me by surprise that I was still moving towards him, as he pulled back I allowed him, and then rose to meet him again, then I realised what we were doing, we were fucking, I felt ashamed thinking that word, but that was what we were doing, know I knew what I'd been missing, oh god why had no-one mentioned how good it could feel, there was a slight stab of pain which must have been from where he broke through my hymen, but even that was nothing compared to the pleasure I was feeling. For some reason the fountain came to mind and the scrawled writing on the side of it, I started laughing, I couldn't help it, Billy looked at me worried, but I just smiled back at him. "Duck me Billy, duck me hard." I said laughing, I could see he was puzzled but started to increase his speed, I came again and again before he started to spurt inside me, and I don't care what the other girls say, I could feel it as he came inside me. He fell on top of me exhausted; I managed to roll us onto our sides before he could really cover me too much, I started kissing his face. "Oh Billy that was so wonderful," I said and then looked down at his naked body, I could see his . . . his cock (I can almost say it now) so small, but then I could see that it had blood streaks on it, I started to get worried, "Billy I think you've hurt yourself." I started to say. "Kate!" came Cassandra's voice, "Don't worry, its not Billy's blood you see there, it's yours!"  Mine, but how did I get cut? I wondered and then realised, I was annoyed at myself for not being as quick as I normally was. Then I wondered if I should repay the favour Billy had done me, I had seen Cassandra using her mouth on him and he seemed to like it, and he had licked me, I swallowed hard, I'd tasted my blood before, but it was the thought of that white stuff, his semen that I wasn't sure of, still the longer I debated about it the less time I'd have to masturbate it, I joked in my mind and so I acted. I opened my mouth and engulfed the flesh that had been inside me, giving me so much pleasure, I had to return that pleasure to Billy, and also get him ready for the next part of my plan. The mix of tastes was strange, the tang of blood, my juices (I remembered the taste from when Billy had kissed me) and then the salty taste of something else, I didn't know what it was, but I liked it. I covered the head with kisses and then drew it back into my mouth, bathing it in my saliva increasing the taste, and then swallowing it down, I was enjoying this, and then I noticed that Billy was as well, because I could feel his cock growing in my mouth. I looked up keeping him in my mouth still, and looked at his face, he was smiling at me. I smiled back, "Did you like that?" I asked him, he didn't say anything but nodded, I stood up and took his hand, "We've got to help Darcy and Cassandra now." I said, he just looked at me dumbly, I whispered into his ear, "When they touch though us they should be let free" "But will you let Cassandra use your body?" He asked me, I nodded and asked him if he was willing to let Darcy use his? He nodded as well; we walked, naked, to the two waiting forms on the other side of the partition. ------------------------------------------ *Billy's Story* We undressed - I must admit I didn't really think about anything much, except I would be seeing Kate naked once again, but this time it would be Kate and not the superimposed picture of Darcy. I'd already mentioned her breasts, but now I could see her whole body, her breasts were tipped with pink nipples, not the dark brown that I'd seen in my dad's magazines (mum doesn't know about them I think), but on her they were perfect! And then she surprised me again, she reached out and grabbed hold of my boxers and pulled them down, she was looking at my cock as if surprised, but she'd already see it before, then I remembered that it was while Cassandra had been jerking me off in the dreams. Her face was flushed as she looked at me, standing there in her panties, she said, "Go ahead Billy." I decided to repay her favour and pulled her panties down, revealing a wonderful bellybutton and finally THAT place between her legs, a light covering of hair was just showing, and the slit between her legs was so inviting. She walked up to me and I took her in my arms, lowering her to the ground, I didn't want to use the bed, not with Elizabeth still there, but as my hands touched the floor I realised how cold it was, I couldn't leave her on there with nothing beneath her, I grabbed my shirt and trousers and placed them under her. "Billy! Don't enter her yet!" This was from Cassandra, "She needs to be wet down there first, remember what I told you the other day, make her wet, and then be gentle with her, don't just jump on, let her cum first and then take her, while she's still cumming, she'll never notice the pain when you enter her then." I hadn't thought about that, I did read where girls were hurt by boys ramming their cocks inside them, I didn't want to hurt her in anyway at all, I started off by showing her how it would feel if I was on top of her, and then I started to move down her body, stopping at her tits, I'd read that some girls liked that, (sorry dad, I liked reading your books), from her moans of joy I gathered that she was enjoying the feelings, she cried out when I moved lower down wanting me to carry on sucking on her tits, but I had other plans. I'd listened to Cassandra when she was telling me what girls liked, I aimed for the bump (yes it's a clit I do know but bump is a more descriptive term), hearing her gasp as I touched it, I moved my body around on the floor to allow my hands to reach her tits as I attacked her slit, pushing my tongue inside her, she was tight! I didn't think I'd even get my fingers in there, let alone my cock, but she was moist, almost overflowing and the slit grew larger as I worked on it, remembering to concentrate on her clit, to give her more pleasure, I could feel her excitement increasing, this time the link we had gave me feedback, I could gauge when she was cumming, and as she did I quickly turned myself around and taking my erect cock, pushed it up inside her slit, she was still in the middle of her climax, I felt resistance against me but I gave a sudden thrust and our hips met, I had done it! And Kate hadn't felt my entry. I waited where I was, soon Kate looked up at me, and she seemed surprised at my proximity. "Billy! You didn't? Did you?" she asked my, I nodded. "Cassandra told me that when Darcy first entered her she was so scared that it hurt when he broke her hymen," I said, and then carried on by saying, "I didn't want you to suffer as she did, so while you were still enjoying your cum, I'm afraid I went ahead, I'm sorry if you didn't like it." I didn't want to have deprived her of her pleasure. She kissed me, "Don't be so daft!" she said, "I didn't even feel you entering me, and you were so wonderful. And where did you learn about licking my clit?" I smiled at her and told her what Cassandra had said, we kissed again, Kate licked her lips and asked "Is that what I taste like?" I nodded, and then decided that now was the time to start to move I pulled my hips back, and found that Kate was moving with me, my cock started to move out of her slit, "Noo Billy!" She said, "I want you inside me, I feel so full up when you're there." I couldn't say anything so I nodded and started to push back, Kate was still pushing up against me, we met in the middle, I pulled back again, I could see Kate wince as my cock rubbed against a sore point inside her, but I couldn't stop. Kate started laughing and mouthing words as we carried on. "Fuck me Billy, fuck me hard." she was saying, as I started to increase my speed, I could feel her shuddering and pulling me tight to her several times before I felt the now familiar feeling of my balls tightening up, I was so close, she started to shake again as I came. The sensation was too much I blacked out and didn't know anything else. I awoke to the sensation of my cock being bathed in some warm place, almost as if I was still inside Kate, I opened my eyes to see the top of her head, somehow she knew I was watching her, as - still keeping me in her mouth - she looked up at me, her eyes smiling, I smiled back at her. "Did you like that?" she said, I was so overwhelmed that I couldn't speak to her, so I nodded, then she got up and grabbed my hand pulling me to my feet, "We've got to help Darcy and Cassandra now." she added, I wondered how we could help them, she noticed my look and whispered to me, "When they touch though us they should be let free" This got my attention, but I wasn't sure if she knew what would be involved, I asked her if she was going to let Cassandra use her body, she nodded, and then asked me "Are you willing to allow Darcy to use yours?" I had thought about this before, although I was frightened I didn't want to show it in front of Kate, so I nodded to her, she held my hand as we walked to the partition where the two were waiting for us. As we entered that side of the room Cassandra went up to Kate and kissed her, Darcy nodded at me. "That was very nice Billy, you handled that with a maturity I'd never had expected, I don't think Kate felt anything as you entered her." He held out his hand for me to shake which I did. Then Kate spoke up. "Darcy. Cassandra, I think I know what to do. Your father said that you would never touch each other; I think if you do then you'd be released from this prison. I think if you take us over, use our bodies then it should act the same." "NO! I FORBID IT!" The voice came from everywhere; Kate looked around and shouted back. "YOU CAN'T JOSIAH, THIS IS OUR DECISION NOT YOURS!" her eyes were flashing in anger, I don't know what he'd said to her but she certainly didn't like him. She looked at Cassandra and spoke quickly, "Cassandra you'll have to take me over completely, this would have to be your body." She looked at Darcy, "You'd have to take Billy's body over completely as well!" She looked at me and smiled, "Don't worry Billy; we'll be back before we know anything's done." She nodded at Cassandra and closed her eyes, I watched as Cassandra seemed to melt into Kate, shrinking down into the form. Her eyes opened, but I could see that it wasn't Kate it was pure Cassandra! Darcy moved closer to me, and smiled at me, "Don't worry Billy, I won't allow your body to come to any harm. Ready?" I nodded and closed my eyes, I could feel a slight coolness as Darcy entered my . . . ---------------------------------------------- *Darcy's Story* I opened my eyes, I was in full control of this body, it was young, energetic and virile, I couldn't remember being this age, although I had to be at some stage, I looked at my beloved sister. Although I was looking at Kate's body, all I could see was Cassandra at that age; her breasts were just forming, but promised a fullness that she would just see before being cruelly deprived of life by father. I walked up to my sister; her face was almost level with mine, which was strange as she was always slightly shorter than I, but then I was indebted to Kate for this, I reached out for Cassandra who took my hand. "My darling," I said, "This is a wonder, I can feel your hand in mine, do you remember the last time we were able to touch, upstairs in my bedroom, I had just pleasured you when father broke in." Cassandra looked down, shaking her head, "Don't dwell on that brother, we are here now, together, let us make the most of this." She reached up to me and kissed me, "Take me brother, you know we both want to." She was right, it was exactly why I had felt Kate when she was near the house, she was so much like Cassandra at that age, her spirit was my motivation, I heard her call which released me and through her Cassandra was freed. If I could I would remain in this body, it was so tempting I could feel that Billy was also a relative, but I couldn't why should I deprive him of his life, I would be no better than father, worse in fact. No I had to follow Kate's plan and join with my sister, but if we only had to touch to be freed then why weren't we? We'd both touched hands and were still here, I asked Cassandra that question; she just smiled. "Well obviously we have to be joined as one, with you inside me. Come brother, make your sister happy." And she pulled me down to the floor, we kissed as of old, our minds slipping back into our happier times, when she was 12 and I was just finding out about our bodies, I moved my head to her breasts, knowing how much she liked me touching her there, I then pulled her on top of me allowing her to straddle my body. "Oh yes, Darcy." She said, "I remember this way, you were always ready for me." She smiled at me and then raised herself up, positioning herself over my rampant member, she was right I always loved her doing this, showing me how much she loved me, she always screamed out in her pleasure, we'd have to wait for papa and mama to be out, or we'd be in the furthest room away from them. Cassandra lowered herself onto my root, she hissed as it entered her, she winced as the length entered her; it seems that Kate's deflowerment still had left some raw edges, but my sister was eager to complete our union, her flesh was so sweet, and her face so pure, Kate didn't realise but she was an almost perfect match for my own sweet Cassandra. It was such a sweet sensation that I couldn't control my (Billy's) body and I spurted inside her, listening to her own vocal utterings as she also climaxed at the same time, she lowered herself down onto my chest. After a few minutes she rose up and looked around the room, looking at the tableau of our punishment, and then she looked down at me, "Brother? Why are we still here? I thought we would have passed on?" I must admit I was surprised that we were still here, we had touched each other, in fact we had merged ourselves and climaxed together, surely we'd done enough to break this spell that held us in thrall. The laugher of my father resounded in the room; "Oh my foolish children, you just don't understand do you! It isn't the bodies that the spirits inhabit that restrain you; it's your bodies themselves! Once they touch then you're be freed, except you can't break the glass, not in those bodies, it's beyond their strength." I looked at my sister, tears were streaming down her face, she shouted out into the air. "Why! Haven't we paid enough for our sins?" She asked. "*NEVER!*" Our father replied. "This is your punishment to remain like this for eternity, never to touch, never to get release." "*AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*" she screamed out in answer, there was a cracking of glass. "*NOOOOOoooooooooooooo!*" cried my father's voice, I looked at the glass. Where the outer glass had cracked with age, allowing the rats in that had fed on me, this crack had widened, Cassandra's (Kate's) voice had done that, I saw that it was directly over my body, if I could get it to break completely then perhaps. "Sister, please scream again, the end is in sight." I pleaded with her, she hadn't seen what her voice had done, she looked at me, "Please sister, scream again." She nodded and drew in a deep breath. "*AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee*" this time her pitch was higher and the cracking noise was more pronounced, in fact the glass shattered raining shards over the flesh of my body, the impact of the glass on the wooden stake caused it to shake, over the years woodworm had eaten away at the stake, I had to push it or my body may fall the wrong way, I got up from the floor and ran to the display, forcing my body to hit the wooden stake forcing it down towards the glass holding my sister in thrall. The impact was all I could have desired, the top of the stake hit the glass like a spoon striking a boiled egg, the inner glass shattered, the force of the wood on glass force my body forward on the chains and I heard the thud of age hardened flesh hitting the glass making it crack again, the weight of my body and the stake on the glass caused a fissure to open up stretching from the floor to the broken hole, for the first time in ages I got down onto my knees and prayed to the lord that he would allow this to work. The sound of glass splitting was everywhere, the strain imposed on the area was great, and the glass finally gave way and my chained body fell onto the bed where the body of my sister was tied, my stomach falling between her outstretched legs, my chest on her lower body, and my face kissing her stomach. I remember a light shining everywhere, I could feel myself being pulled out of Billy's body, I returned his consciousness to it, 'Thank you Billy, for everything' I said to him as I rose up, looking over I could see my sister also leaving Kate's body, I reached out to her, drawing her close to me and we entered the light, together, once more. ----------------------------------------------- *Kate's Version* My throat felt raw, I looked at the display and gasped, Darcy had somehow fallen through the glass onto Cassandra, then I realised what must have happened, I went to walk towards it when Billy stopped me, "Kate, careful of the glass, it's all over the floor there, I think we'd better get dressed." I agreed with him and we ran back into the other part of the room and quickly got dressed, Billy looked around and found some more candles, he lit a couple giving us more light in the room. After I put my shoes back on I ran into the main part of the room. "Cassandra? Darcy? Are you there?" I called into the air, but they did not reply, Billy joined me; he was also looking around bringing a candle in with him. "Cassandra are you here?" He called out, but silence was our only reply. We looked at each other, had we done it? Were they free at last? I looked at the ruined display, how had they done that? I wondered. But they deserved better than this. I wondered how I would be able to get them properly buried, it was what they should be, not this macabre display. "Come on Billy, we've got to get out of here and get someone back here to help them!" I said, pulling on his arm "But if they're gone they don't need our help anymore," He said, I stopped and looked at him. "I don't want them to remain like that!" I said, "They should be treated right!" Billy just stared at me and then nodded. "Okay then, we'll get out of here and get our parents; they'll do something you see." And he led me out of the room and up the stairs. At the top of the metal stairway we faced the door, and then we saw it, the broken handle, the metal rods were torn away, I tried to look for a switch like the brick on the other side, but there wasn't one. "That's right children!" Josiah's voice said and then he appeared on the floor with us, "I didn't want anyone to leave this room, they'd only have ruined my punishment of Darcy and Cassandra, and so I made sure that this door couldn't be opened from this side, I've also ensure that window is now secured, no-body can get in, you can't get out. This means that I now have my new exhibits, but what to call it. . . Oh I know," He smiled when he spoke now, "*The two foolish virgins*, yes that's what I'll call this new display, you should last for at least five days without food and water." Defeated we walked back down the stairs. ------------------------------------------------------------