It was around 5-10 minutes later before Ana could walk into the room again. When Ana came in Lesso's makeup and hair was fixed and Dovey had conjured up some magic to cover the monstrosity of hickies and bites Lesso had created. Lesso was positioned at one side of the desk and Dovey the other, yet she more stood behind the side of the table. It was silent for a very long time as Dovey attempted to make all the excuses in the book, as Lesso giggled at her. It was very amusing to watch till Lesso threatened her. If she told anyone she would be dead basically, yet how could she not tell anyone.
This is gonna be one hell of a secret to keep Ana thought. Yet when Ana asked or teased either of them about what had just occurred it was deemed as inappropriate. Ana would say threatening your students is inappropriate, yet she did not say that. A night in the doom room didn't seem to entice Ana.
"Ok can we move on now," Dovey snapped in response to Ana bringing Lesso and her up again. "Please,"
"That would be preferred. Now Ana, why are you even here?" Lesso said snapping back to Ana as her fingers tightened around her walking stick. Although Lesso had enjoyed her partner trying uselessly to explain her way out of this, Lesso was still really pissed off. I mean, I would be.
"That ghost, spirit thing that I told you about. It appeared again. Instead it talked to me, healed my burns. Look," Ana said before she revealed her forearms to show the fully healed scarring under the tattered and charred uniform.
"That doesn't seem like a reason to be breaking into my office," Lesso said through her teeth as her fingers pinching the bridge of her nose and trying to keep her cool.
"Oh no! I would not have come all the way up here for that," She said before she started to explain. "Then the spirit switched emotions very quickly. At first it was nice then it changed. It was angry. It started to run after me and appeared everywhere I looked. I ran from it but it followed. It seemed to think I was Sophie. It kept repeating it, over and over. Then it thought I had done something to her. That is when it started following me. As I got closer to-" it was then Lesso interjected
"It, It thought you were Sophie?" Lesso asked with confusion and worry. She looked at Dovey who shared the same look.
"Yes, is that bad?" Ana asked scared now that she had attracted some evil demonic thing.
"Possibly," Dovey muttered as her mind was lost in thought. You could see her mind playing out every out come.
"Don't worry Anastasia. Professor Dovey and I will sort this out for you," Lady Lesso announced as if she already had a solution. She did not. She used a fake smile and a happy tone of voice to reassure Ana with empty promises.
"Thank you so much! The thing is really scaring me," Ana responded as Lesso led her out of the room. Lesso gently pushed her towards the door with a hand on the small of her back. She pretended to have sympathy for the girl, even fooled Dovey for a second.
"Don't worry. You got back to your dorm and we will fix it. Try to forget about it," Lesso proclaimed as Ana headed out of the door as Lesso shut it. Her face immediately dropped as the door slammed. "I swear I don't know why I took this job. I hate children so much. Anyway how she is gone-"
"That poor girl. That spirit has been terrorising her," Dovey replied actually feeling bad for the girl as Lesso walked towards her. "What if she is really in trouble? It would explain the letters!"
"Letters from a man who had been proclaimed dead twice," Lesso laughed placing her walking stick against the desk "It's a fraud. Rafal couldn't have written them letters. Sophie and Agatha killed him last year, remember?"
"No I was a living doll for a night. I still have really bad joint problems from that. I do not know about you," Dovey said "This corset is not helping,"
"Then take it off. I'm not stopping you," Lesso said with a smirk, almost imagining the view. She wrapped her arms around Dovey's waist.
"You're not helping either," Dovey said with a smile as she looked up at Lesso. Dovey lifted her arms and rested them around Lesso's neck. "You said we need to help her so that is what we'll do. What was your plan to start?"
"I wasn't being serious. I said that to get her out of my office," Lesso said still smiling at how Dovey thought she was serious.
"The poor girl is in real trouble and she came to you for help. Us, Lesso we need to help her," Dovey said looking to Lesso's purple eyes "Please?"
Lesso sighed. Dovey knew she had won she just needed Lesso to officially verbalise it. "Fine. We will check it out,"
"Yay! This is like when we were at school but cooler,"
"Yes dove,"
It was with that that the two Deans excited Lesso's office. One excited to be together and 'solving crime' as she put it. The other just found her partner very cute and entertaining. They journeyed down the spiral staircase and down several corridors. Dovey used Lesso as a shield to hide from the students and staff. Dovey was actually terrified of all of them, she would never admit it but she very much is.
"What am I actually looking for here?" Lesso asked as if she'd had enough and wanted to go to bed as her feet grew more sore. Walking in heels all day is not the most perfect idea in the world.
"Clues," Dovey said with a wide smile. Suddenly she gasped and ran towards the end of the corridor. She picked up something and turned back round so Lesso could see. "Clue!"
"Yes dove but what is it?" Lesso laughed
"I'm not sure but it glows,"
"I'm pretty sure that's the mould the janitors should be getting rid of," Lesso laughed as Dovey quickly got it out of her hand. Wiping them on her dress quickly while scrunching up her face.
"Why did you let me do that?" Dovey asked as she stormed to the bathroom.
"Where are you going, princess?" Lesso smirked
"To wash my hands,"
"What makes you think the taps work?" Lesso asked as Dovey turned around with a confused look "you can try them if you wish,"
"Does anything in this castle work?!" Dovey also yelled looking around at all the other all part falling off the walls, cracks in the flooring and endless amount of mould.
"If I remind you of how much funding my school gets compared to yours does that answer your question?" Lesso asked
"Very much so," Dovey added quickly before another question crossed her mind "did she say anything to you about this? Anything that may help us?"
"Asking me because she doesn't like you anymore. What was the reason again?" Lesso pretended to think while Lesso gave her a scowl. "Ouch. Ok, ok. She said about the spirit. She said about following her. Eyes! It had eyes! Erm... a door,"
"Right a door. What about this door?" Dovey asked as they walked into a nearby classroom so they weren't in the hallway anymore
"It had planks over it, chains. It was very old and it was glowing," Lesso stopped there and thought "you don't think it's... that door,"
"That door? Your gonna have to be more specific I have no idea wha- The door! It can't be?" Dovey said. Both of the deans sprung into action. They went down to the dungeons of the school for evil. It connected the sewers of the two schools together. It was positioned even further down than the doom room. Dovey hated that room and had her ears covered as she went past, it upset her far too much. "I still don't understand why you have that room,"
"It's not for an Ever to understand, lovely," Lesso said placing her hand on the small of her back for comfort. "Come on we are almost there,"
They passed the dungeons and Lesso pressed a brick like a button. It revealed another stairwell. They climbed the small one to get up. The hall way was preserved well. Carpet was still a lovely red colour with golden trim. Candles lit themselves aflame as they walked closer. The walls had half wooden and half red wallpaper, to match the carpet. They walked till they came to a door. A door neither of them had seen but had only heard about. The planks, the chains and the red glow. There was also a strong presence there, powerful. Whether it was what was holding whatever was inside in or the inside trying to get out, the deans would never know.
"What do we do now?" Dovey asked not taking her eyes off of the door
"We open it!" Lesso said excitedly "always wanted to see what's behind it anyway,"
"No are you an idiot! It's clearly something very dangerous being held in here," Dovey said "We can't just-"
It was too late. Dovey's words meant nothing to Lesso as she had used her magic to remove the planks one by one and each chain binding the door closed. She reached for the door handle and opened it. Yet it was way less exciting than Lesso imagined. Instead of the giant monster she wanted to defeat that night it was much much Lesso exciting. It was a dorm room of the school for evil. Instead of the usual 3-4 beds it only held one. The whole place was covered in dust and cobwebs it was riddled with filth. They both walked in but not before Lesso dramatically flicked her walking stick and it turned into a sword and stood in front of Dovey to protect her.
"Wait," Dovey said she quickly stepped back to where the candles where on the walls. She took one off with her magic and held it into the room. "There we go," there was nothing. Dovey stayed by the door as Lesso checked the bathroom, closest and under the bed. Absolutely nothing.
"This is just throughly disappointing," Lesso said retracting her sword back to a walking stick. "I waited what? 15 years for this,"
"You'll get over it I'm sure," Dovey said entering the room properly and lighting the existing candles. It was then Dovey started to look around before she realised Lesso "What are you doing?"
"There is nothing here. I don't know why you're looking. You're not going to find anything," Lesso declared as she leaned on the wall. It was then they both heard a click. They became still waiting for it. "If this is a booby trap. This is a shit one,"
"Do you ever shut up?" Dovey exclaimed turning to face Lesso. Lesso gave her an innocent smile before she turned back to looking for what the click was.
"Not what you were saying earlier," Lesso muttered with a smirk.
"I've found it!" Dovey said as she lifted some sort of box from the bed side table. She sat on the dust covered bed. "It's stuck hang on,"
"Ok I'm not sure you should open that," Lesso said sternly
"Oh your scared now are you," Dovey teased and she continued to try and open it.
"I just think we should leave it," Lesso said walking towards Dovey.
"What are you scared now?" Dovey continued to tease as Lesso looked at her with a 'you know I'm right' look on her face. Suddenly the box opened and before Dovey could get a peak inside the box she dropped it. She dropped to her knees to catch it. It was almost in slow motion. A scene of which both deans still play in their minds to this day. As the box hit the floor it broke an important artefact. A small, clay doll. Suddenly red magic surrounded Dovey. When it had Dovey fully surrounded it invaded her body till all of it was gone. It felt like a burning sensation everywhere it entered. "Help! Help! Lesso please!" Dovey begged but not even Lesso could do anything. Lesso almost leapt to Dovey's rescue. Yet she had no idea what to do. She turned the Dean towards her but she swatted her arms in every direction attempting to get it away or to move it but it was no use. It fully invaded her body and her eyes glowed red for around 10-15 seconds before it faded.
"Are you ok?" Lesso asked repeatedly but she got no response. Till finally she got a small one.
"Yeh," Dovey replied quietly before she actually came to "Yes, sorry. I am fine," she smiled and went to get up.
"Woah hang on. We don't know what that was. It may have messed with your brain, take it easy," Lesso smiled as she tried to sit the other dean back down.
"Lesso I have lessons very early tomorrow. So if you will excuse me I will retire for the night," she said as she got up and headed out of the door. Lesso quickly followed behind her, she didn't care about the burning candles or the mess made she just followed Dovey like a lost puppy dog.
"Ok. If you insist, dove. I'll walk you back just to be sure," Lesso said following her back out to the sewer.
"No need I can manage. Good night Lady Lesso," Dovey said before taking the sewer back to the school for good. Lesso was left gobsmacked. She couldn't comprehend what had just happened. She never took the sewer because she couldn't stand the smell or the screaming children. She always said goodbye, I love you and always made sure to kiss Lesso goodbye. No matter where they were. She watched her princess vanish behind the wall that curved round to get to the school for good. Lesso couldn't help wonder what the fuck was in that thing? And how she could let that happen?