❛ &. ┊ ♡ SULLIVAN, LILLY. ╱ seeksghosts·.
this was quickly turning into one of the biggest investigations she’d ever had and it would easily make or break her . sure , she was well known . she had fans . she was successful . but if she treated this too campy or too seriously , she would get laughed out of the fucking community . but if she had a team that believed in her , she could make it happen . hell , she’d been sure that arnie would’ve laughed margaret of the phone . and he would have if he had thought it was ridiculous . so maybe they were really onto something . she’d have to talk about him when she made it home , when they were alone . she needed to be sure he wasn’t just trying to keep her spirits up and not embarrass her in front of margaret . yeah , he supported her in ninety percent of what she did , but she just needed to know . “ i didn’t even make him sign a prenup ! oh what a naive girl i was . ” a tease of a laugh , nose crinkling ever so slightly . “ he’d get half of everything . can you imagine how angry the network would be ? could you imagine the youtube comments ? can’t let any of that happen , can i ? plus … i’m desperately in love with him , so a divorce would just be … not ideal . ” lips roll for a moment as she watched the other type away . she was excited . she wanted this to work . and it was going to take the whole fucking team if they were going to have any chance at it .
“ both it is then ! ” a bright giggle as she pulled a book to her and thumbed through it . at the mention of investigating jonas , though , her head shot up , lips in a stern line . “ whatever you do , don’t let arnold hear you say that . there are … very few things that he doesn’t share with me and his research with and on jonas are both of those things . and don’t you dare get any ideas about going off and figuring it out on your own because what i do know is that that will put everyone i care about in danger and i won’t allow that . ” she put her finger in her place in the book and leaned toward margaret . “ we don’t talk about the boogeyman . that is a word forbidden in the house . even kat doesn’t know the boogeyman . she knows the monster in the closet , the ghost under the bed , but we don’t talk about the boogeyman in front of her or in the house . you understand ? ”
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 Lilly was something Margaret would be idiotic to ignore. Whatever Arnold was up to regarding his missing mentor was very obviously something he didn’t seem to want to share-- and it was made all the more interesting to her. She had always struggled to mind her own; it was what made her such a great contact for people when needed information was hard to come by. It was made her a great and problematic friend. She never did anything cruel with anything she discovered; whether that information be something small like lying about how your day was or something major like who was sleeping with who in the janitor’s closet at school-- Margaret was one of those that people found easy to talk to and was, coincidentally, also one of those kids most people never noticed was within earshot when sharing that information with someone who was not her. Made her pretty convenient in high school and made for fun gossiping with her friends-- whenever she had friends to gossip to.
“Right, yeah, okay,” Margaret agreed quietly, “Mysterious disappearance of Jonas is off the table forever. Not to be mentioned again.” The assurance is followed by a tight-lipped smile as she turned back to her computer to copy down more titles of books and online resources to check out. “Must be big,” she mumbled to herself and peeking at Lilly, “To warrant such caution, I mean. I hope he’s being careful.” When it came to believing in the preternatural, Margaret was hard to pin down as to whether she was a believer or a skeptic. She seemed deliciously balanced between both. Of course, she would get excited about the stories and the dark history and the events that caused such a haunting but when it came to believing in whatever evidence Lilly found, she seemed more supportive of the evidence being interesting or possibly concrete or rather, supportive of its suggestions rather than planting herself behind it as affirmation to spirits and ghouls. Of course, she had seen some weird things, experienced weirder things, but she was never the type to solidly say one way or the other where she stood.
“Boogeyman is also never to be mentioned in House Stomberg,” pulling her forefinger and thumb over her lips as if sealing them, Margaret offered a lighter smile and then glanced at her watch. “Library’s closing soon, let me print off these articles and we can bring everything to your house to talk with Arnold? Or did you wanna meet in the am for breakfast?”
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