Virtual American Gothic - Second Season 
         Episode Nineteen - Finale - Prologue


		A Little Night Music
		by Robyn Russell
		<wrussell@polarnet.com>
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        Lucas was comfortably settled in his study with a good book and 
a stiff drink. After a hard day of restoring order and harmony, a man 
needed a little relaxation. He had just gotten to his favorite part of "The 
Devil and Daniel Webster"--the trial of Jabez Stone by a jury of the 
damned--when the wind gusted in through the open window and blew 
out the lights.  The electric lights.
        /Someone's at the door/. The words tickled in the back of his mind
as if whispered by a voice too low to be consciously heard.
        "That you, Angel Face?" Lucas asked the room at large, alert but
not overly concerned. In his line of work, one had to be prepared for the
occasional unannounced visitor. "You aren't gonna get any good conduct
medals actin' like that."
        Lucas rose and snapped on one of the wall lights. He closed his
eyes, scanned the room, and found his gaze drawn to the mirror.  As he
approached, the reflection of the study was gradually replaced by the 
face of Jonathan Virgilius Kane.
        "You're dead," Lucas said conversationally.
        Kane's face metamorphised into Lucas's own, identical but for the
white shirt.
        "You can kill the body, but the spirit moves on," Kane's reflection
said.
        The image began to rotate slowly and then faster and faster. Lucas
found himself being pulled toward the mirror.  The book was torn from 
his hand and slammed into the wall. The vortex was becoming impossible 
to resist. As he stumbled forward, Lucas directed a smashing blow across
the glass with his forearm.
        The mirror shattered into a thousand pieces. Lucas leaned against
the wall to catch his breath. In the shards, the image of Kane reformed,
one face now broken into many smaller pieces.
        "I'm comin' for you, boy."
        Lucas stomped hard on the shards, crushing them again, but Kane 
had already disappeared.

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Season Two is based upon the television Show, "American 
Gothic", which is the property of Shaun Cassidy, Renaissance 
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