Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband

"You are a moron." Phoebe blurted out.

Maureen raised her head so quickly and poked her head in front like the most curious of cats. It was rare to see Phoebe call a client names and right now, Collin Baltimore was very much a client.

"Pheebs..." Rekha started but Maureen was not having it.

"Shut up." she hushed at Rekha. She wanted to see where this was heading.

Ignoring her aunt, Phoebe jutted a finger in Collin's direction. "You are not just a moron but a selfish bastard too. I have begged you many times to let me speak to Cassie, but you refused. You knew....deep down you must have suspected that she was related to Connie's death directly, but you kept a lid on it. If you had allowed me to speak to them and find out the truth and then help them come to some kind of understanding, we would not be here."

"It's complicated, I wanted to protect both of my sisters." Collin defended himself.

"No.." Maureen moved a finger back and forth speedily, "You wanted to protect your sister that is alive. No matter what she did, you wanted to bury it and move on."

Collin winced.

Phoebe before he could defend himself again. "I don't care what your reasons were just lead us to Cassie's room. Before she could think of locating Connie using the central map, she had to make sure that Cassie was out of danger.

"This way." Collin hastily led them out of the living room and mounted the stairs. "I was going to tell you everything Phoebe, I swear but the thought of my family getting destroyed over all this has not left the back of my mind. We have already lost enough loved ones; my mother will never recover if she finds out that Cassie did something that resulted in Connie's death." Moisture formed in his eyes.

Maureen's fingers curled around the doorknob. "Yeah well, she will die quicker if her ghost daughter kills the one that is left. Mind you, if Connie goes on rampage and starts killing, you and your mother are probably on the hit list too. Now is not the time to fish for sympathy Baltimore, you were wrong on this one. You should have informed us immediately things went south. What if that teenage ghost whose whereabouts are unknown has already killed Cassie while you drowned yourself in a bottle to escape reality?" She condemned him sternly, wishing to pinch any part of his flesh because he was truly an idiot.

When they reached the door, Collin tried it and discovered that it was locked from the inside. When he knocked, there was no response and so panic set in as Maureen's words echoed through his mind.

"Cassie, Cassie." he called out twice in a desperate voice.

"The door is locked, perhaps fetch another key." Phoebe suggested.

Rekha twisted her hand and created a circular ball of dark blue sparkling current which she thrust towards the door. "No need for a key, we need to get to the girl as soon as possible." She told them.

The door fell backwards with a big hole in the middle, and they all rushed inside. The Saxon spirit was already inside attending to Cassie.

When they came closer to the bed, Collin was still frantically yelling his sister's name. The ghost team noticed that the girl was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, she seemed to be sleeping peacefully.

The spirit faced Phoebe and said, "I had to knock her out because she was delusional. If she goes one more day without sleep and she is probably going to go insane. She was rumbling words that just did not make sense when I found her. I can smell our missing ghost, it seems to me like Connie had made it her mission to haunt and scare her, to what end? I have no idea." It informed them.

"Is she going to be alright?" Collin asked, his voice shrouded with a mixture of worry and fear. He was checking Cassie's head, trying to see if she had a fever. "How do you plan to help her? What should I do?"

He made it obvious that he cared about her more than Connie who was already dead. As sad as it was, the living had moved on, and they had to keep living.

Maureen sneered. "So now you care? If you were worried so much then you should have run to Phoebe the moment this girl began to get nightmares again." She twisted her nose to express disgust.

"Aunt my God! Let it go, now is not the time." Phoebe let out an outcry. If she heard her aunt's condemnation one more time her ears would go on a strike.

Rekha began to pour rock salt around the bed while chanting spells of protection, Maureen followed by spraying holy water into all corners of the room.

"I guess that it is time to force Connie to move on to the other side." She stated nonchalantly. She was still lighting sage by the window, so she did not see the immediate reaction of the people in the room when she said it.

When she turned around however, she realized that she had earned herself a number of mixed gazes. Some had disbelief and shock, others anger and one betrayal. Phoebe was the one that looked betrayed which made Maureen realize she had said the wrong thing.

"Before you chew my head off, please understand that I am speaking as a guardian not Connie's friend__if you can call it that. We don't pick and choose how we deal with ghosts that have crossed the line, we do our job because that is how we protect humanity. The girl is angry, reckless and a danger to herself and to others. Do you want to tell me that you are confident in allowing her to continue running wild out there doing who know what?" She stated her reasons using logic to appeal to them, especially Phoebe.

Rekha would do her job, this Maureen was sure of, But Phoebe.....she would probably fight them to protect Connie.

"Connie is family aunt, we are not vanquishing her. She-- is-- my-- family." Phoebe slowly repeated in a stern slow and deep voice. "Erase that thought from your head immediately or you and I will face off." Phoebe threatened Maureen through an angry voice with a snarl at the end.

Maureen backed off with her hands held up as if in surrender.

Rekha scratched her nose. "Pheebs, in this world the humans are the priority, it is possible that this new angry Connie is not the ghost that you used to know. See what she has done to her sister, she has driven her insane. This is clearly an angry ghost on a revenge mission." She tried to make Phoebe see reason.

"They are right dear, while I am all for saving Connie, in the worst-case scenario, we will have to vanquish her." The spirit gave its submission.

Collin's legs trembled but he remained silent, his eyes drifted to Phoebe who was the only person on the team that was on his sister's side.

"It will not come to that; I am going to save Connie no matter how lost she has gotten because she is my family." Phoebe told them. "Now Zephyra wake Cassie up, she needs to tell us what she did to Connie that resulted in this." She commanded, the warmth in her voice gone.