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Prompting Post V

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(updated 5 July)

Welcome everybody. How you got here I have no idea but thank you for coming and welcome again, nonetheless . As you may have gathered this is a Fic Prompting Meme dedicated solely to the hilarious and oh-so-addictive BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Cabin Pressure. I'm aiming for this to be pretty anything goes - but in order for everything to run smoothly, there are a few guidelines. Don't worry - they're not too restrictive.

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According to numerous Child Safety laws it is illegal to provide pornographic material to minors. Seeing that the majority of the stuff we have here is rather adult in nature, this Meme is consequently an 18+ zone. Failing to comply to this rule could result in the Meme getting shut down. So if you're here and you're under 18 please back button now.

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It really is VERY important that these rules are upheld as the consequences are severe.

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Carolyn grabbed Arthur's hand, and having turned off the oven, carefully walked out of the kitchen, passed the blood, and into the hallway. She looked up the stairs, heart hammering in her chest, thinking the air had suddenly got very thick.
"Look Mum, fog" Arthur pointed at the haze on the steps.
"I don't see anything but some steps Arthur" Carolyn tol him, and herself, "and neither do you."
"Oh" Arthur told her "Okay, it's just it looks to me like it's all white and foggy over the stair, almost like you can't see them at all."
"No Arthur, it's not" Carolyn hissed through gritted teeth, pulling him towards the steps, walking strongly into the mist.
As soon as they got into the cloud, it started to dissipate, but she couldn't help the feeling that hundreds of tiny hands where clutching and pulling at her.
"Mum, Mummy I'm scared" a tiny voice behind her squeaked
"It's OK Arthur, nothing to be scared of."
"I know Mum, that's what I said." Arthur told her
"No you said you were scared?" Carlyn told him irritated.
"No that was you?" Arthur explained "you said Mummy I'm scared, and then you pulled my hair?"
Carolyn shivered pleased that the the mist had now completely gone as they stepped onto the landing
"GET OUT" reverberated through the tiny space.
"It did that before" Arthur told her, "when Skip and I climbed the stairs." He looked around "Do you think it's a recording?"
"No dear heart I don't" Carolyn said, finding the door to the room Douglas had put Martin in she knocked gently, "Douglas, Martin?" she called
The door swung open, and she pushed Arthur behind her forcefully. Slumped on the bed was a parched skeleton wearing a holey jumper and jeans, and hanging from the ceiling above a grey tattered and bearded old man, suspended by his neck from the light fitting.

"What was that?" Martin asked pointing at the door, which had just opened and slammed again.
"It looked, it looked a bit like Carolyn?" Douglas told him.
"But...but... it was horrific?" Martin stammered "The blood from the eyes, the long white hair, the claws?"
"Yeah, very much like Carolyn" Douglas snorted. "But it does mean one thing"
"Wh..wh...whats that?" Martin swallowed trying to get a hold of himself.
"The floor is solid again." Douglas told him. The first officer walked towards the door and tried the handle slowly this time. It turned but didn't open, he tried again, the knob just turned and turned, but the door wouldn't budge. He pulled it towards him, an it didn't move, he pushed it, shouldered it but it was no use.
"It can't be locked?" Martin said, getting up and walking to the door, "it doesn't even have a lock?"
"yes" Douglas hummed to himself "CAROLYN, ARTHUR?" he shouted "IF YOU ARE OUT THERE, OPEN THE DOOR!"
He rattled pulled the door handle again, and pummeled it with his fist.
"Douglas?" Martin whispered
"WHAT MARTIN?" he snapped at the younger man.
"Look behind us."
Douglas turned to see a gruesome sight, blood spread across the bed, and across the floor towards them, fingers of red liquid reaching out from them, and on the bed two bloodied heads, of Carolyn and Arthur.

"Mum?" Arthur asked as Carolyn slammed the door.
"They weren't there Arthur, it's fine" Carlyn told him, squeezing his hand.
"Oh OK" Arthur though for a moment "Is it like hide and seek, should we go and find them?"
"Er, yes no, I don't know Arthur?" Carolyn took a deep breath "What do you think?"
"Erm well, it quite late isn't it?" Arthur looked at his watch "Do you think we should try and find a bedroom?"
"Good idea Arthur" Carolyn looked at his happy face "erm if you want Arthur, we could share a room? I'll let you sleep on the floor?"
"Are you scared Mum?" Arthur asked in all seriousness, "Because that's OK"
"I know sweetheart" Carolyn patted him, "we can have a sleep over?"
"Brilliant"
A scrabbling behind them made them both turn to see the door behind the start to shake and quake. Bending out with the sheer force behind it, Carolyn leapt backwards into Arthur as hundreds of tiny hands reached out of the wood towards them, reaching clawing and grabbing. As a chorus of demented voices cried "Carolyn, Arthur! Join us..."

Carolyn sat on the bed, Arthur's head resting in her lap as she listened to the groans and screams flying round the horrible house.
She wouldn't be scared away, she had Arthur, and that's all she needed, all she ever needed. It's a horrible trick she thought nothing more, and in the morning MJN would be solvent and everything would be right.
Having said that she couldn't believe Arthur was sleeping so soundly through it all, she assumed it was his stoic belief that nothing very bad could happen if they were with Douglas.
Carolyn wished she could be so sure, seeing the engorged black bloated face of the hanging Douglas and parched bones of Martin had shocked her. She wondered if that was her worse fear, and that's why she had been shown that, but then her hand gently rested on Arthur's head, no that was Arthur in that room a bloody mess. She wondered where her pilots were, if they'd run out on her she'd kill them, for real, with big knives.
She rested her head back on the bed, and watched green slime flood down the walls for a moment, listening she could hear Douglas and Martin's pleading voices on the wind, and she cuddled Arthur closer. Who was she kidding, she hoped they'd run out on them, it was better than the alternative.

Will continue this, but had to go to bed xxx

Loving this a ridiculous quantity, anon. Looking forward to the rest!

Martin stared at the bed, horror etched on his features,he started to hyperventilate, and it was then that his co-pilot scoffed.
"Martin" Douglas said quietly "do you know the main difference between you and I?"
"No?" Martin swallowed
"I don't believe in ghosts." He started to walk towards the bed.
"But but..." Martin pointed at the heads on the bed.
"No you see Martin, you may claim to believe that ghosts don't exist and then show every sign of being terrified..."
"And what are you going to do?"
"This..." He walked towards the bed, as he reached out his hand to Arthur's bleeding skull there was a loud pop, and the heads vanished.
"Douglas?" Martin shouted "How did you do that?"
"Simple Martin" Douglas told him, dropping a hand to the blood still soaking the mattress, and playing with it between his fingers. "They weren't real." He licked his finger "this blood however is."
"W..w..what?" Martin stammered
"Oh I don't for one second believe it's human, I imagine it's animal of some sort, but definitely real blood, not theatrical, whats the matter Martin?"
"It's not real?" he asked
"Of course it's not real, it's all just cheap tricks to scare us."
"So how are you not scared?"
"I'm not scared of anything, you my friend are scared of ghosts, Carolyn I imagine has seen something to scare her regarding Arthur, Arthur well, he's Arthur, I doubt there is anything in this house that close to my actual fears."
"What about your Dau...mpmh" Martin was cut off by Douglas shoving his hand over his mouth.
"Shhhh Martin" Douglas whispered "I imagine we are being watched, and I'd really rather not give them any ammunition."

Douglas led Martin out of the room, and into the corridor. Pleased to see that the floor had returned, that the door now opened for him and the landing wasn't filled with ghouls. He didn't mention that the younger man was grasping at his hand, there would be time enough for mockery once they were back in the real world.
"Where are we going?" Martin whispered
"To find the others" Douglas told him, "I'm fed up of being split up, together we are stronger."
"Stronger?"
"This is psychological warfare Martin" Douglas explained "the only way to win is to be stronger mentally than your aggressor, and we are in possession of a massive weapon."
"Let me guess...you?"
"Why no Martin, although I am undoubtedly the biggest bully in the playground, our real advantage lies I hope behind this door."
He rapped hard on the seemingly random bedroom door.
"Carolyn?" Martin asked
"Oh no" Douglas smirked as the door opened "ARTHUR!"

"Douglas, Skip!" Arthur greeted cheerfully, "this is brilliant isn't it? Mum's gone to sleep, have you seen any more ghosts?"
"Can we come in Arthur?" Douglas asked
"Yes, oh wow are we having a sleep over?"
"Apparently" Martin told him, as Douglas dragged the younger pilot into the room, and shut the door behind them with a slam.
"Douglas, Martin, what are you doing in here?"
"Carolyn, we are being taken for ride here, none of this is real?"
"I know Douglas" She said patiently
"Oh" he paused "that's rather taken the wind out of my sails."
"Oh good" She smiled and sat up "I do rather like to see you deflated."
"So I imagine this is going to escalate in an attempt to make us run." Douglas continued.
"Yes" Carolyn agreed wearily, half and eye on Martin who was now slumped in a corner, "what do you suggest?"
"Well actually I think we should play dirty, Arthur do you remember the Scooby Doo episode with the old scary house?"
"Yes!" Arthur chirped "hang-on they are all like that, Brilliantly"
"Quite" Douglas agreed "Arthur, we are going to go on a ghost hunt..."

Are we going to get more of this, nonnie? I really hope we are! I was away for a couple of days and was hoping Arthur would have got his Scooby Doo on by the time I got back ;)

argh yes, i love that Arthur is their secret weapon.

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