title: your first mistake
fandom: Shivers (1995 video game)
word count: 150
contents: second person; no spoilers beyond the opening movie (and I took some poetic license with that)

Note: I loved this game so much! But I haven't played it in years, and was just reminded by finding some old game CDs. Now if I can just find this one and make it work on my laptop... oh, and this also fills the Haunted square on my bingo card :D



"You sure you want to do this?" Wendy asks, daring you to back out. You just laugh, so she winds the padlock chain around the old gate and locks it with a flourish.

"I'll come back and let you out in the morning," she says, pocketing the key. "If the ghosts don't get you!"

The wind picks up with a howl, and you both shudder. She huddles into her leather jacket for a breath, then saunters back to her car. Her headlights disappear into the distance, leaving you alone with Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual.

There's a light flickering in one of the high windows. The place has been boarded up for years, graffiti collecting on the outside walls. No one's managed to get inside since the Professor disappeared. Kids come here at night, but only in groups.

The air is colder now that you're alone.