Lady in Black. Yuliya Alpagut

did you get here? – with a voice shaking with fear, asked Eleanor.

      – How? Simply. Entered the door, – grinning, the lady in black answered her.

      – But the door was closed…

      – So what? Do you think this can stop me? – the lady smiled again.

      – Who are you? What do you need from me? – a little emboldened and taking a step forward, Eleanor asked loudly.

      – Ооо! – lady in black said, – What? Not afraid of me anymore?

      – What do you want? Kill me? – even more loudly asked Eleanor.

      – Kill? Oh no my dear… It was just a joke… Or maybe… – the lady in black was silent and somehow strangely grinned.

      – Who are you? – once again asked Eleanor, – Ghost? Spirit? Demon?

      – No, no and NO, – the lady in black answered her, – Although the word “Demon” would probably suit me…

      – Who are you?

      – I already told you who I am. I am a pain. I am Suffering. I’m what your miserable, worthless, vile family spawned, – the lady in black this time rudely and evil answered her.

      Then she slowly took from the bookshelf a frame with a photo and gently ran her finger over each one who was captured in the picture, quietly pronouncing their names.

      – Eleanor… Diana… Alice… Calib… Marcus…

      A deathly silence reigned in the room for a minute. The lady in black looked at the picture, and Eleanor looked at her. It seemed to the woman that tears flowed down the cheeks of a strange, frightening, uninvited guest.

      – Marcus… – the lady in black once again said Eleanor’s husband name and looked at this, as she thought, wretched woman who stood just a few steps away from her.

      The lady in black looked at the mistress of the house with such hatred and pain in her eyes that Eleanor even caught her breath from horror.

      – What do you want? – squeaked Eleanor.

      – I want… I want to never exist. You or Marcus… Can any of you go back in time and fix something that shouldn’t have happened? – viciously cried out the lady in black and threw a frame with a photo directly into Eleanor.

      The woman managed to bounce to the side and the frame hitting the door and broke with a terrible noise.

      – Can you go back to the past? – already quietly, calmly, and even imploringly, said the lady in black.

      – Not, – Eleanor shook her head quietly.

      – Then you have to pay for everything!

      – For what? I did not do anything wrong!

      – That’s what you think! You all think so! If you didn’t steal, you didn’t kill… Does this mean you have done nothing wrong?! Not! This is not true! And… You know me! You know me! You knew everything! You knew everything, and did not even try to fix something…

      – I do not understand what you’re saying!

      – You just do not want to understand anything! But, if you did not kill anyone, it does not mean that you didn’t do anything wrong! You… If you at least asked me for forgiveness… But you will not do this!

      – I do not know who are you! Why should I ask for forgiveness?!

      – You know everything, – grinned lady in black, – You know everything… But, if like that… Welcome to Hell! I will kill you all one by one…

      – Get out of my house! – Eleanor suddenly screamed and grabbed a figurine from the nightstand, rushed at the lady in black, but swept through her, as if the uninvited guest was just a vision.

      – Fool, – grinned lady in black, – You can’t do anything to me! But I… I can do a lot… But… I have an offer for you…

      – Damn… What are you?! – quietly whispered to death scared and at the same time furious Eleanor.

      – I am your worst nightmare! And… You are not listening to me! – the lady in black said loudly and in an instant she was next to Eleanor.

      The terrible guest grabbed the woman with her icy hand by the wrist of the hand in which she held the statuette, and squeezed it so tightly that the pain pierced the woman’s entire body and she opened her fist and dropped her “weapon”.

      – You do not need it, – quietly, looking straight into Eleanor’s eyes, said the lady in black.

      Then she grabbed the woman by the throat. Eleanor was much taller than her and twice as large, but the lady in black easily lifted the large woman slightly above the floor.

      Eleanor just managed to cling with both hands to the hand of the lady in black, as she threw her on the couch like a light rag doll.

      The woman grabbed her throat with both hands and trying to catch her breath, she did not look away from the terrible guest.

      – What do you want? – caught her breath again asked Eleanor.

      – Maybe kill you… – the lady in black answered her calmly.

      – It is not true, – Eleanor retorted quietly, – If you wanted to kill me, you would have done it already. What do you need from me?

      – It’s strange that you still think that this is just a dream, and I am a figment of your imagination… – not paying attention to the question of Eleanor, said the lady in black.

      Then she slowly walked to the door and slowly picked up a photograph of the Ramirez family from the floor.

      – You are all so vile, – quietly said the lady in black and went to the coffee table, which stood in the corner of the room and carefully sat on it.

      On the table in the candlestick burned a candle. Near there were some papers. These were some documents. The lady in black took something out of the pile and threw it away, away from the table.