"Now, are you sure that getting a tombstone for your grave won't affect you?" Adam asks as he slips his wallet into his back pocket.

"Positive." Tim answers as he props pillows up behind him and gets comfortable in the bed with a book. "I'll still be just as dead." He adds with a smile as he slips on his glasses.

"You know what I mean." Adam smiles as he looks strangely at his lover. "You know what I find strange?"

"You mean, besides talking to a dead guy?" Tim chuckles.

"Yeah, besides that." Adam laughs as he smacks the brunette's arm. 

"What do you find strange?" Tim asks as he opens the book.

"The fact that the dead guy I'm talking to has to use glasses to read." Adam laughs as he leans down and gives his lover a quick kiss before leaving the bedroom. "Got some errands to run. Love you!" He calls out from the hallway.

"Love you too." Tim calls out.

"Love you." Austin calls out in a mocking way.

"Oh, bite me, Austin." Adam laughs. "Y'all behave."

Adam had been gone for about forty-five minutes. Tim was so engulfed into the book 'Lord Of The Flies' that he had started reading. Austin had gone quiet so Tim guessed he was either doing something he shouldn't be doing or he was in his room listening to music from those weird ear covers.

A sudden sound caught Tim's attention. The sound of breaking glass. Tim slowly removes his glasses, laying them aside on the nightstand.

"What has he done now?" Tim asks as he marks his place in the book and lays it next to his glasses.

Getting out of bed, he heads out of the bedroom into the hallway.

"He better not have broken anything of value." He says as he opens Austin's bedroom door. "Hey, what the hell did you break this time?"

Austin had his headphones on listening to music as he thumbs through a magazine.

Tim rolls his eyes as he walks over and snatches the headphones from Austin's head.

"Hey. What are you doing?" Austin asks looking up at the older spirit.

"What did you just break?" Tim asks, glaring down at the greenhorn.

"I didn't break anything." Austin answers.

"I just heard glass breaking." Tim replies.

"Well, it wasn't...." Austin was interrupted by the cowboy.

"Shhhh." Tim says holding up his hand and turning his head toward the door. "I hear voices."

"Maybe it's Adam and his friends." Austin says.

"No, I don't think so." Tim says as he turns and heads for the stairs.

Austin throws the magazine aside and hops out of bed to follow. He joins Tim at the stair landing, looking down at the first floor.

"Look! That window is broken." Austin points down to the living room window. "That's what you heard."

"Shhh." Tim quietens the kid.

"Whoever it is can't hear us." Austin says with a snicker.

"Oh, yeah." Tim chuckles as he slowly starts down the stairs. "Let's go check it out."

"Look at this, Joe, we've hit the mother load. Just look at all these antiques." One of the men says.

"Yep, today is our lucky day, Todd." Joe laughs. "But we need to hurry. We don't know how long this dude will be gone."

"Tim, we're being robbed." Austin says as they stand on the stairs and watches the burglars. "What are we going to do?"

"We're going to stop them." Tim says as he descends the stairs. "That's my sh*t they're taking."

"But how?" Austin asks, following Tim down the stairs.

"By doing what spirits does best. We'll scare the sh*t out of them." Tim answers. "But let's take it slow and have some fun."

"Awesome!" Austin giggles.

The two men had separated and went to different rooms. Each carrying large bags to put their loot in.

"You take the one in there and I'll take this one." Tim says. Austin nods and heads to the kitchen where burglar Joe was emptying all the antique silverware into his bag.

Tim walks up next to Todd.

"Wow." Todd whispers as he picks up the old pocket watch that Tim's grandfather had given him. "I bet this is worth a pretty penny."

Tim gives a low growl causing Todd to drop the watch and frantically look around.

"Uh, Joe? Does this guy have a dog?" Todd asks. "I swear I just heard a growl."

"I don't see any signs of one." Joe answers from the dining room. "What the hell!" Joe says as a dining room chair tumbles over.

"The f*cking tv just turned on!" Todd shouts from the living room.

"Maybe it's on a timer." Joe answers as he slowly walks over to the fallen chair. "I know I didn't bump into that." He adds quietly.

Todd opens a door to what looks like an office. "Hey, maybe there's a safe in here." He tells himself as he walks in. The door suddenly slams behind him "SH*T!!" He yells as he quickly turns around just in time to see what looks like a shadow dart across the room. "I'm outta here."

Joe walks back into the kitchen to see if he had overlooked anything. "What the.." He says as he sees all the cabinet doors open.

"Joe! We need to get the hell out of here. That d*mn door just slammed behind me." Todd says as he runs into the kitchen.

"Probably the wind." Joe says as he stares at the opened cabinets.

"Okay? How do you explain the shadow I just saw?" Todd asks.

"Maybe it was your own shadow, I don't know. But we have a job to do so let's just calm down and get it done." Joe states as he takes a calming breath.

"Make excuses if you want but there's something strange about the house." Todd mumbles as he heads back to the office. He stops as he starts through the living room. All the furniture had been moved. "Uh, Joe? You might want to take a look at this."

"What now, Todd?" Joe asks as he enters the living room. "Okay. What the hell is going on here?"

The couch that had once been in the center of the room was now pushed back against the wall. An antique high back chair that was in the corner was now sitting on top of the coffee table. Books that were on the bookshelf were stacked on the floor in the shape of a pyramid.

"F*CK!" Joe whispers loudly as a slamming of a door and heavy footsteps are heard upstairs. "Someone's here."

"Let's get the hell out of here!" Todd says as he grabs his bag of the stolen items.

"I'm right behind you, Bro." Joe says, grabbing his bag as they head for the door.

The front door begins to shake violently as if someone was trying to get in. 

"SH*T!! THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY OUT!" Joe shouts as they turn and run in another direction.

They open a door leading to what looked like a basement. "Maybe there's a backdoor." Todd says as they run down the stairs.

"DAMN IT!! THERE"S NOT ONE!!" Joe says as they turn around in circles.

"OH, MY GOD!!" Todd screams out as they hear a low evil laugh coming from the top of the stairs.

A dark shadow figure was standing at the top of the stairs. 

"Gotcha!" A low growl says before the shadow disappears and the basement door slams.

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"Oh, my God!" Adam says as he sees the front window of his house broken out. He quickly unlocks the door and runs in. What in the hell have they done now?

His jaw drops as he sees the turmoil that his house was in. 

"I'm going to kill them. Sh*t, they're already dead." Adam says to himself as he eyes the destruction of his living room. "TIMOTHY?! AUSTIN?! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!"

"BY THE BASEMENT DOOR!" Tim calls out.

"I HOPE YOU TWO KNOW THAT YOU'RE IN DEEP SH*T!!" Adam yells as he stomps down the hall. "I CAN'T LEAVE YOU TWO ALONE FOR FIVE MINUTES!!"

He turns up the hall leading to the basement. He sees Tim and Austin sitting on the floor by the basement door playing cards.

"But why are we in deep sh*t? We just caught the burglars." Austin says pointing at the basement door.

"Yeah, you might want to call the sheriff." Tim smiles up at his lover.

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