36 - Third pt.3

Before Jack started watching TV, James left to change out his equipment at the never center.

When he got there he saw that Billy was already awake and was watching the cameras.

Billy knew he was coming since he had been watching him on the cameras for a while so when James entered Billy started chatting with him right away.

"The activity is insane, the most I think we've ever gotten in one place." Billy excitedly said as he watched James grab a EMF sensor, handheld recorder, and a thermal camera.

"Yeah, this spirit's intelligence is abnormally high too..." James replied as he readied the camera he just grabbed.

"I can't wait to start my shift and experience this place. but I also dread it with the things I've seen on the forums being talked about." Billy had seen a few highlights of the other guy's shifts from the website and a few incidents scared him even though he was only watching them.

He was frightened and worried when he saw Adam faint and hit the ground.

While he remembered some of what happened that he saw on the forum his face suddenly changed greatly.

He unexpectedly saw the TV in the living room turn on.

"Woah, check this out James!" Billy cried out for James' attention while pointing at the living room's camera on the monitor.

James hurriedly turned to look and they both saw the TV flipping channels before settling on a show.

"The family did say Jack liked to watch TV." James remembered the family telling them about it earlier.

"I'm going back in, wish me luck." James said as he hurriedly put the recorder and EMF in his pockets, grabbed the thermal and infrared camera, and left without even waiting for Billy's reply.

"Well good luck then..." Billy said as he watched James leave in a hurry.

.....

James almost ran out of the nerve center to the front door and entered.

He made sure his thermal was on and the camera was recording the screen and made his way to the living room.

As he got close Jack was already looking behind him to see who entered.

'Couldn't you have taken your time?'

'The show just started getting good.' Jack complained not knowing he forced James to rush with his actions.

James slowly panned the room with the thermal looking for anything out of the ordinary but saw nothing, so he walked around to the front of the couch and saw the remote on it.

He pointed the thermal to the couch and his eyes widened slightly when he saw a cold impression on the couch.

James wished he had another hand as he struggled to keep recording the cold spot on the couch while trying to get the recorder out of his pocket.

'Buddy just put it down for a second I'm not going anywhere.'

Jack was amused by his difficulties.

After some trouble eventually, he got it, started recording on it, and put it next to the remote.

He was also tempted to turn the TV off so it wouldn't mess with his recording but thought better of it since that would be rude to Jack.

'Woah, watch where you're putting those hands.' Jack cried out as he dodged James's hands that got dangerously close to his crotch.

"Jack, are you sitting on the couch right now watching TV?" James inferred and then inquired, not being aware of his mistake.

"Yes, Also, next time watch where you put your hands." Jack used the recorder to reply, displeased by almost having his privates invaded by a hand not even being bothered by his energy usage and using almost everything he just recovered for that sentence.

"Why do you like watching TV?" James waited a few minutes allowing for some silence and then asked another question and repeated the silence.

Jack after getting over his discontent with almost being touched in an area he would rather not be, really wanted to sarcastically answer.

Unfortunately, he wants to save his energy for a finale for the last shift so he in the end didn't answer this one.

After a couple of minutes of silence, James set the thermal down on a table making sure to face it at the couch and picked the recorder up.

He put the recorder near the camera and then played it.

Right after his first question was asked he heard a crystal clear voice of discontent and was frozen in awe and terror.

He was awed by the clarity and tone of the voice even with the sound of the TV interfering but terrified of what the voice implied.

"Sorry..." James awkwardly apologized.

He then proceeded to replay it and excitedly paid attention to the second question since he missed it since he was in shock.

However, he was fated to be disappointed since he got no reply for that one.

After the recorder stopped he decided to just leave it recording and place it on the table this time.

Then he grabbed the EMF sensor out from his pocket and said,

"I'm going to place this on the couch next to the remote, Okay?" James gave a warning phrased as a question as he waited a few seconds before proceeding to do as he said.

"Can you touch this for me?" James asked when he put the EMF down.

Jack was just ignoring him as he continued to watch TV.

After waiting for a while with nothing happening James picked the thermal up to check if the cold spot was still there.

It was.

Seeing that he got no response he felt guilty like he was bothering someone while they just wanted to watch a show.

"Sorry." Unfortunately, he has to do his job so he apologized and then said,

"Please touch it for me or else I'll have to pick it up and move it around myself to test for a reaction."

Jack was annoyed but he understood why James said that so he didn't blame him.

Jack reached over to the EMF and it went off for a second before stopping.

James saw it and smiled.

"Thank you, good job."

Jack rolled his eyes while inwardly thinking that he was being threatened and then treated like a dog.