INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - On the second day of their road trip after fleeing Sydney, will the Hawkins family have better luck evading the aliens, ghosts, monsters and demons that are pursuing them? Will the evil forces stop putting messages into Cornelius's head? Will the toilet demon find youngest daughter Erica? Will daughter-in-law Danielle continue having a blue period? Will Gavin's sister Lisa be safe back in Sydney, or does she know too much? Will the family patriarch Alistair go completely insane this time, taking the matriarch Faye down into madness with him?
Read Chapter 5 of this story series to find out. As with the previous chapters, it contains strong themes and scenes of female using the toilet and having their periods. All characters engaging in sex are 18 or older, and are completely fictional, with similarity to real persons living or dead coincidental and unintentional. Please enjoy your latest trip back to 1998 with the crazy Hawkins family and rate and comment.
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Cornelius had fortunately recovered somewhat as Alistair and Danielle got him back inside the chalet and was now seeing the world in live action again not in animation, but he was still pretty strung out as his mother took the empty chicken bucket off his head.
"Please don't let the vampire, the robots or the TV people come back and get me!" he pleaded, sitting on the couch and drawing his knees into his chest.
"I thought maybe we should leave but we're tired and need to rest," said Alistair. "We would be sitting ducks for the aliens out there on the road tonight and be in a UFO and up into outer space. So we'll stay here, but we need to be careful."
"What do you suggest?" Faye asked.
Alistair went outside to the cars and returned with the tin foil purchased earlier in the day and some sticky tape. "We'll cover the windows with this, that way the aliens and demons won't be able to use the lighthouse to send invisible rays in here to put messages in our heads."
Setting to work, everyone soon had the windows of the chalet covered in tin foil. Alistair was pleased with the effort, he and Danielle going back out to the cars and returning with both guns concealed by blankets. Alistair tore a tiny hole in the tin foil at the front window, enough to look outside, while Faye sprinkled holy water around the chalet and said the Lord's Prayer in each room.
"We need to be vigilant tonight," Alistair said. "We also need to keep a watch on the cars, so we'll have to take it in turns to keep watch during the night. Faye and I will keep watch first, then Gavin and Cornelius and then Danielle and Erica. Now give me a hand to push this couch against the door, stop anyone coming in."
Everyone took hold of the couch, including Cornelius who was now recovering more after alien or supernatural forces messed with his mind back at the restaurant, and put it in front of the door to barricade it.
Faye and Alistair took first watch, Alistair holding his shotgun, while Faye took hold of the rifle. The younger members of the group all tried to get some sleep. As Danielle passed by having been to the toilet, now wearing a tee-shirt and panties, Faye could not help but notice that her daughter-in-law was now wearing a period pad, and she was not at all pleased.
"Danielle, I thought we agreed that you use tampons not pads," she said crossly. "If werewolves come here to track us the first thing they will smell is your period."
Danielle was huffy and indignant in her response. "Excuse me, but there's no way I am wearing a tampon to sleep, I'm not getting toxic shock syndrome. Anyway, I'll wear tampons outside where there might be werewolves. I don't see any werewolves in here, do you?"
Alistair was clutching his shotgun as he and his wife kept watch while the others slept. Nothing happened of note. There was a hooting noise from outside, but when Alistair shone a torch light outside he saw that it was just an owl in a tree in the car park.
After three hours, it was time for Faye and Alistair to sleep and Gavin and Cornelius to take their shift at keeping watch. Alistair kept hold of the shotgun saying, "If anything strange happens, wake me up straight away."
Cornelius reached for the rifle his mother was holding, but Faye pointedly handed the firearm to Gavin, something that clearly disappointed Cornelius. The two young men kept vigil throughout the late evening and into the early hours of Saturday morning, again with no issues, before handing over to the girls around 2 am.
Danielle sat on the couch holding the rifle with Erica beside her, the two girls checking outside intermittently through the gap in the foil to make sure there were no supernatural or other interferences with the cars, but things went fine. The early hours of the morning passed, and around 5 am the others woke up.
"Nothing happened?" Alistair asked.
Danielle shook her head. "No, quiet as the grave."
"Well let's hope it stays that way," said Alistair.
"Do you think that they might have given up?" Faye asked anxiously.
"I would doubt it, we still need to be careful," said Alistair. "The aliens and demons put a lot of effort into putting messages into Cornelius's mind last night, they won't give up so easily."
"Talking about the restaurant, you've got grease all over your hair Cornelius, so you'll need to wash it," said Faye.
"Yeah, I'll do it," said Cornelius.
"Actually, I just need to go to the toilet first," said Erica.
"Go ahead, I don't want to be taking a shower while my sister's on the dunny," laughed Cornelius, clearly back to his old self after last night's terrors.