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Wish Shift: Chapter Thirty-Seven
When Shadows Burn
Year 1 A.S. Day 192
Day 237 of Jenny's pregnancy
Brother Paul kept driving past Derek's home. Derek's jeep was there
parked under the carport, but it was the other car there that made him
abandon stopping in as an option. He fumed as he drove down the road.
Who could that possibly be that was there? And why were they here now of
all times? He sensed the hand of the devil in this and considered that
he might have to call Brother Judas and have him send some of his
acolytes to assist him in this.
That might be necessary, but it may also be overkill as well. And
something that they were not really ready to deal with if they should be
exposed prematurely. That had nearly happened already. Some of those who
were under the control of the church and had been used in a set of
failed attempts to spread the Lord's truth to those who would have been
useful in aiding them had nearly exposed them. At least one of them had
not returned and the others had been kept incognito in the camps since
them. It had not seemed to have had any ill effect at the time and it
had impressed on them the need to move slowly. It had been a bad
decision, even if those first attempts had not been sanctioned.
But now as he parked his car some distance away and watched Derek's
house across an open field, he had some doubt that was what the outcome
had been. Was it possible that they had not been overlooked? Were they
just being allowed to do what they had done for some other purpose?
Having others here at this exact moment argued that the devil was moving
against them even now.
Brother Paul took a couple of deep breaths to calm his fears. It was
probably nothing he told himself and if it was, the Lord was with him.
Someone had come by for some reason or another and they would leave when
they had finished their visit. They would not stay long and once they
were gone Brother Paul would go there and do what needed to be done. And
if they didn't leave, Brother Judas's acolytes could still be called in
and all of them could be obtained tonight. They could make room in the
camps for a couple more believers, if need be.
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Derek sat at the small kitchen table with Danny and Agent Matthews.
Jenny was still in the living room where she had been after Danny had
given her a glass of water to drink. Derek saw her looking through the
open entrance at them while she lay there on the couch.
He was shocked to find out that the black woman with Danny was Vicki's
brother Brandon Matthews. Not because she was now a black woman, but
because she was even here at all. Brandon was one of those friends that
had left the church's orbit before he had. Unlike her sister she had not
looked at being made over in their foul image as a viable outcome and if
it meant that she would take flak from her family over her 'apostasy' so
be it. Derek knew that Brandon had gotten a job working for the
government, but he didn't know that she was an FBI agent.
Brandy as she had told him to call her now, had been stationed in the
field office in Atlanta when the Shift happened. She had found herself
in her new body just as the majority of others had, but in her case she
found herself over four hundred miles from Atlanta in an instant.
Listening to her, Derek found himself comparing his situation once again
to theirs and once again finding himself lacking. With each new story he
heard about how others had reacted to the hand they were dealt by the
Great Shift he felt more inadequate in his own experience.
She told him that she was part of an investigation into the activities
of the Church of the Blessed and that she could tell him very little,
but Derek still demanded some sort of answer from the two of them. That
was his Jenny in there and he was damned if he was going to sit in
ignorance while they had obviously been engineering something against
them both.
"So what the hell is going on?" he asked Danny.
Danny started by telling him what had happened with Kim and Jake. When
he started describing the kind of woman that Amy was now, he saw Derek's
eyes narrow in anger.
"That's exactly what those bastards think a woman should be," he said.
"But that's even worse that the girls that grow up listening to their
shit are by a long shot. Even when they get raised with the truckload of
garbage that they stuff into their minds growing up, none of them would
have stood for even half of what you're telling me she said or did."
He nodded in the direction of the back yard. "Out there in the back,
just behind those big bushes is a small shed just like the one you're
talking about. My father built it and set it up and then tried to tell
my mom that she needed to do that shit. That was one of the only times
that I can remember that she stood up to him and told him to get
stuffed. She just wasn't having it, she told him that doing anything
like that was just silly and out of the question."
"Every time they tried to go too far, something like that happened,"
Brandy said agreeing with Derek. But even with the pushing back that
they get from going too far, there was still a lot that they got away
with. My parents had that woman's table nonsense and my mom and sisters
did put up with it. I thought it was the most stupid and anti-family
thing I'd ever seen, even when I was little. If they tried to make me do
it after shifting into a woman now I'd feed them their teeth."
"But that wasn't the worst of it," Danny continued. "The worst of it, at
least for Amy was how empty she was when she wasn't acting like that
paper doll they made her into. It was like they burned everything inside
her that made her a person out of her and all that was left was that
mockery of a woman."
"Not from their point of view," Derek snarled. "Even if they couldn't
force women into being that before the Shift, they sure did their
damnedest to get them as close as they could to it. That's why I kept
away from them when the girls from the church would come after me. If
Vicki hadn't caught me the way I was after Aunt Dina's funeral, I would
have blown her off then."
He looked over to Brandy. "No offense Bran," he said.
"Why would I be offended by that?" Brandy said. "You did the right
thing. And remember, she did try to slip that shit to me as well. If you
had still been with her, she would have slipped it to you instead."
As bad as what they had done to Amy was, what they had done to Kim was
even worse in Danny's opinion. He told Derek about how Joshua, since
that was who he said he was now, had become worse in his outlook than
anything Jake had said or done on her most batshit crazy day. It was
worse because he was doing this with what control over himself he had
left and he was not torn up with dealing with what Jake had been dealing
with.
Danny said it was like they erased every scrap of understanding of what
it was like to be a woman from Kim's mind. And in its place was the iron
plated fanatic that they had come to regret knowing. If he and Sam had
not seen that example of what had happened while the both of them were
under the influence of that drug, they wouldn't have had any idea of how
such a thing was even possible in so short a time.
They asked him how he had not seen the same thing happening here, right
under his nose and Derek tried to tell them that he was leaving the
choice of what kind of woman she was going to be up to her. He said that
lately, what he had been seeing from her was starting to really bother
him, but he wanted to leave it as her choice to hammer out what kind of
woman that she was going to be now that they were together.
And to tell the truth, he admitted, her doing those kinds of things the
way she had been doing, was what he would have considered pretty normal.
He was about to tell them how, even when Aunt Dina was alive that she
had limited what he did around the house. She taught him how to do
everything, but when it came down to it, he didn't do it all of the time
or even all at once.
Aunt Dina was just more comfortable doing those things herself, she told
him and then gave him some other job to do outside. She may have put it
that way, but Derek knew that it was really that she hated doing yard
work with a flaming passion and would rather he did that most of the
time.
But he didn't get that far into that part of what he was going to say.
Jenny interrupted him first.
"I'll just bet you thought it was normal," she growled from the doorway.
She had been listening to them the entire time while she was remembering
every string of imposed beliefs that she had been compelled to speak.
Only this time as they had spilled from her lips, she was hearing them
for the first time while she had a clear head. As she listened to them
talking, each time they discussed one of those things that Amy or Joshua
was doing, she could feel an inner impetus from what had been grafted
into her mind well up and compel her to agree that was what a woman
should do. That was what a woman was and she was getting angrier and
angrier at this violation of her being.
It was the first time she had felt clear, pure anger in a long time and
even as it licked through her mind like a wildfire, she felt the
internal bonds they had tried to place on her telling her that a woman
had no right to anger of this kind toward any man and especially, not
toward her husband.
Derek looked up to her. He thought she was still resting on the couch.
"So you're going to sit there and play innocent are you?" she asked him.
Her anger at what had been done to her and with what she knew about his
involvement with Brother Paul made it burn even hotter. Sonya had been a
firecracker when she was angry, Jenny was a hand grenade in the process
of detonation.
"You sat there at this table every day this week while I fed you like
some kind of servant. I ate in the kitchen for almost every meal like a
dog and you just sat there accepting it."
"I worked like a slave on this house every day and you just accepted it
without a word. Yes, I told you not to do anything, but that never
stopped you from just going ahead and doing something anyway. You could
have just done anything you wanted to when it came to that and made it
stick, but you didn't. You didn't lift a finger. You just accepted it."
"And you're the one that sent that bastard and his bitch over to my
trailer in the first place. If I hadn't known that you knew him, I'd
have never let him in the door the first time. You gave him full access
to me, you served me up to him on a plate and let him do as he pleased
with my mind."
"I don't even know that anything you are saying is the truth. Everything
I own has been locked up from the moment that you moved me here. Even if
I could drive my truck you have it locked away in that goddamned garage.
You've kept me here under your thumb ever since you got back from
Asheville and you never said a word while I was your happy little
prisoner. If you even went there that is. For all I know you're
perfectly fine with your good buddy Brother Paul turning me into your
little fucktoy maid."
Jenny's voice was rising as she vented her anger. Danny could see how
hard the verbal blows were striking Derek. He could see the hurt and
anger rising in his own eyes and he could also see the force of will
that he was using to keep from answering her in kind. He had to say
something to her before she went too far.
"Jenny, you're angry. And you have every right to be. But maybe you are
being too hard on someone you love right now. Maybe you should back off
a bit and come at this later?" Danny said slowly as calmly as he could,
hoping it would rub off on her since it was coming from him.
"I don't even know that he does," she said turning from the doorway and
walking away. "Or that I even want to," she hollered at them.
Brandy looked at Derek. "I don't think she means that man, not for
real," she said to him. "I don't know her, but I do know how someone
reacts when they're coming out of this shit and they tend to focus that
anger on the most likely candidate when they do. If it makes you feel
better what she just did was a good sign."
There was a low knocking at the door. Brandy got up, unholstered her
weapon and went to the door and looked through the peep hole. After she
was satisfied she opened the door and spoke to who was there. She talked
in low tones for a few moments and then closed the door and came back.
"That's my backup," she said holstering her pistol. "When she said that
they were supposed to go to the camp today, I called the field office
and told them to dispatch a team here immediately. I told them that they
should only send agents that I personally knew by sight. They're going
to set up outside and maintain a perimeter while we're here."
"Is that necessary?" Danny asked. He didn't expect that this trip down
here would turn into something like this.
"I think it is," Brandy said. "As organized as these people are, I
wouldn't put it past them to run a snatch and grab when the initial
acquisition failed. I also alerted the teams that are on your house and
the one keeping your compromised family under surveillance."
"I did let him in though," Derek said quietly. "I let him in and I
didn't kick him out, even when I got back. I knew what a snake he was
and I let him come here like he owned the place, because I didn't want
to be an asshole. I didn't want to tell her who she could and couldn't
talk to and I did this. My not being an asshole did this to her."
"Is it true what she said about the truck?" Danny asked.
"No, not like that. Yes, I locked it up. And I locked up the trailers
too, but I also put the keys to all of the locks on her keychain as soon
as it was done. I just forgot to tell her about it. You can look now,
they're right there," he said pointing to her purse.
Danny looked over at the man he had come to know sitting on the other
side of the table. The whole way down here he had promised himself that,
if that man had even one iota of involvement in what was going on with
Jenny, he would tear out his throat, even if he had to use his own teeth
to do it, if it was necessary to get Jenny safely away.
Regardless of Jenny's accusations. From his reactions and from what
Derek was saying, it rang true to him and he hoped that when Jenny's
anger was spent that she would see that too. He reached over and put his
hand over Derek's.
"It's ok, son," he said "I believe you. And you have no idea how glad I
am that I do," Danny withdrew his hand and reached for his phone. "I'm
going to call Sam now and let him know what's going on. I think that we
will be very in late getting back and she needs to know why."
"Brother Paul's a petty, manipulative bastard," Brandy said. "He always
was and this shit show is exactly what he lives for."
"Not exactly," Danny said. "He didn't get them."
"No," said Derek, "he didn't get me. And that's what he's always
wanted."
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Year 1 A.S., Day 193
Day 238 of Jenny's pregnancy
Jenny didn't calm down easily. She remained in a fuming, smoldering rage
the rest of the night. Danny went in and sat with her for a while.
Occasionally, one of the twins would kick her and she would look down at
her distended stomach. "Will you kids fucking quit it," she snarled at
the infants moving inside of her.
Before she gave up being around people for the night she was still
angry, but it had ceased to be the blazing, white-hot fury that she had
just let loose on Derek earlier. She told Danny that she was going to
bed and that maybe she would speak with him in the morning. Once she was
in the room with the door firmly closed behind her, Danny went to see
Derek.
He told him what she had said and advised him to not come near her until
morning, if he valued keeping what made him a man physically attached to
his body. Derek agreed and said that he would just sleep on the couch.
It was comfy enough and it was as far away from her as he could get and
still remain under the same roof. Danny told him that he thought that he
didn't deserve anything that she had hit him with and Derek thanked him
for giving him the benefit of the doubt.
He showed Danny and Brandy the other bedrooms and suggested that they
sleep there. Danny said that he was going to go in and sleep in the room
with her. He didn't think that she needed to be alone and it would be
safest if he were the one to stay in there right now. Brandy said she
would be in the next room, so she would be close by, if someone got past
the agents outside, should anything happen during the night. Brandy
closed the door, leaving just a crack open and laid the shotgun and
ballistic vest that the other agent had given her on the bed beside her
within easy reach. This whole fucking situation reminded her too much of
her last tour in Iraq.
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The next morning when Jenny emerged from their room she was obviously
still angry with him, but he couldn't tell if it was anger because he
was an available target or if she had decided that she still blamed him
after all. He waited for her to say something to him, but she didn't
utter a single word. Brandy said this was a good sign, but Derek was
wondering if their relationship could stand it or if it would even
survive.
That was what had kept him up more last night than anything else had. He
had his own fury at Brother Paul and at Madeline, but after that
sputtered out for the time being, what plagued him was the very real
thought that Jenny could decide when she woke up to walk out the door
the next morning and he would never see her again. It was a very long
night for him and the uncertainty stretched the hours even more.
She had gone to the bathroom first and come out and demanded to know
where those fucking pills were. Danny told her calmly that Agent
Matthews had collected all that remained of them and sent them in to the
field office last night to be placed into the lab as evidence. That
seemed to mollify her, she had gone in the bathroom intending to flush
each and every one of them down the toilet. Once she got dressed she
lumbered into the living room and told Danny that she wanted to talk to
Dr. Warren immediately and before he could say anything she picked up
her phone and called him.
They traveled in a short caravan there. Danny, Jenny and Agent Matthews
rode in his car, leading the way. Derek in his jeep following them and a
pair of agents brought up the rear while the other two pairs stayed
behind at his house. While Jenny went into Dr. Warren's office, the two
agents stayed with her while the rest of them drove to Bob's to kill
time while she was in there.
A caravan of Humvee's and Stryker's rumbled down the road while they
were going in. "There's been a lot of that the last couple of days,"
Derek remarked," Danny gave Agent Matthews an inquisitive look, but the
woman's face revealed nothing.
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Year 1 A.S. Day 192
Evening
Brother Paul was starting to panic. He had watched them from across the
field, waiting for whoever was in the car to leave so he could go in and
try to deal with whatever he found waiting inside when they did. He
hadn't been too worried that either Derek or Jenny would stumble onto
what he was trying to do. Both of them had a trigger command coiled and
waiting inside of them that he could use if he had to. That would give
him enough leeway to have them swallow a couple of capsules and put them
under and that would be the end of the matter.
But the occupants of the unfamiliar car didn't leave. As twilight
started to approach he was going to call Brother Judas and have him send
a team here to just get all of them at once when two other cars pulled
up and parked outside of Derek's house. Four very large men and two
women got out of them. They fanned out in teams of two and began
sweeping the property with drawn weapons while two of them knocked on
the door and started speaking with someone inside the house.
Brother Paul watched them take up positions so they could keep the
property locked down. At first he thought it was something to worry
about, but when one of them opened the trunk and started handing out
Kevlar vests with FBI in bright yellow letters on them out to the other
agents and then started handing out automatic weapons and shotguns, he
knew that it wasn't anything to worry about, it was something to be
afraid of.
He dialed Brother John and told him what he was seeing and then started
the car and headed for the nearest salvation camp in Easton. That was
the one he had intended to take them to as soon as he had them in the
proper frame of mind. As soon as he arrived he dashed into the main
office and sent out a single word signal to all of the Church's
sections. The word was Har-Mediggo and it was a warning. He didn't know
when he sent it that it was never received.
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Year 1 A.S., Day 193
Morning
The three of them walked into Bob's Country Kitchen and went into the
back to find a booth out of the way. The two agents that had followed
them were standing guard in Dr. Warren's office while Jenny was talking
to him right now. It would be a while. This was not going to be a short
session, nor would it be one that could be overlooked.
Danny sat next to Derek with Brandy sitting with her back to the wall
watching the entrance from that corner. Clarice came up to them and he
took a few minutes with them to get their order down. While he was
walking away Derek heard another set of rumbling engines and turned his
head toward the windows to see a convoy of empty five ton trucks
escorted by Humvees with an assortment of crew served weapons mounted on
the roof rolling down the road, the truck's canvas tops thundered from
the wind rolling over them as they passed.
"I want to thank you Bran," he said. "I don't know how you got involved
in this, but I'm glad you're here."
"You really don't have to thank me Derek," she said. "I'm not here to
protect anyone. I'm here because my Agent in Command decided that
someone needed to be here with Danny after he decided not to take them
into protective custody. My job is to be an alarm clock. If I saw
something I'm supposed to raise holy hell about it so the AIC has a
heads up."
"I'm gonna thank you anyway," he said. He turned to Danny.
"Do you think that Dr. Warren can help her? Do you think she'll be
okay?"
"Honestly Derek, I don't know," he said. "My Jenny was a strong man
before the Shift and that strength almost broke him afterward. It took a
lot for her to come as far as she did before that fucker dropped a deuce
in her pool. I don't know what it is that she'll have to do to get out
of this, but I hope that she can."
He took a slow sip of his coffee. "The real question is will she? And
that I don't know. I wish I did."
"At least now I understand what the hell has been going on for the last
few weeks," Derek said miserably. "I thought I was just going crazy. I
find what seems like the perfect woman as far as I'm concerned and she
just starts slowly turning into everything I didn't care for in every
woman I knew when I was a kid. If I wanted a woman like that in my life
I'd have stayed with Vicki or gotten involved with someone like her when
those church girls were throwing themselves at me."
"You know that was probably Brother Paul or Madeline hip deep in that
too don't you?" Brandy said. "The fucker did the same thing to me when I
walked away. For a year or better I had them calling me and every time I
visited my family there was always one of them there like clockwork.
That petty fuck hates it for anyone to leave his control. He's worse
than a fisherman that can't stop lying about the one that got away."
"I know it now," Derek said. "I had an idea, but if I had made the
connection earlier Jenny wouldn't be like this right now. I wouldn't
have put her in danger."
"You didn't do this and you didn't put her in danger," Danny said
sharply.
"Yes, I did," Derek insisted. "I gave that fucker the chance to turn
someone I love into someone I wouldn't be able to stand."
Danny looked at him. "I'm going to admit something to you," he said to
Derek. "If you had been responsible, if you had done this, then I was
all ready to kill you to get her out of here. And Agent Matthew's there
might have been able to stop me, but she wouldn't have been able to stop
me from trying once we were in your house."
"That's how much I love my daughter," he said to him. "I've already lost
one daughter to these scum and the man she married. I don't know if they
can come back from that and from what they've told me they may not. But
I will tell you this."
"Derek, I've grown to like you and to respect you for the way you
stepped up for her. Hell, the whole family thinks really highly of you
for everything you're done for her, even before the two of you became a
couple. That's why thinking that you could be involved in this, was so
hard for me and Sam to take. That's why I wouldn't have hesitated to do
anything I had to, to get her away from you, if that was what needed to
be done. I'm glad I didn't have to though," he said.
Derek looked at Danny. "I'd have felt the same way if I'd have been in
you and Sam's position," He said and then looked down into his own
coffee.
Danny looked down at his own coffee. "I guess I've become more of a man
than I thought I have," he said.
"I wouldn't say that," Brandy said quietly. "You just sound like a
parent to me."
They settled down and waited for Clarice to bring them the rest of their
order. There wasn't much to talk about until later when Jenny got out
anyway. Another convoy rumbled down the highway in silent purpose.
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Danny and Derek had walked with her into the office. They had only
spoken with Dr. Warren after Jenny called him and told him that she
needed to speak with him today. She gave him no details other than
impressing on him that it was vital that they speak with each other as
soon as possible today. Once they were in his office and the doors were
closed behind them, Agent Matthews gave him a brief overview of what had
happened and what they had observed. He had to sit down to try to take
in all in. She showed him the pictures that she had taken with her phone
of the black capsules and the false prescription label on the bottle.
These had already been forwarded to an FBI laboratory to be tested and
entered as evidence.
While Jenny rested on the couch with one of the agents stationed in the
room with her, all of them related their bit of the whole to him in the
reception room of his office. Dr. Warren was horrified over what had
been done and by what they assumed the goals of these people were.
When he heard described what Amy had become when she returned home and
what she was like outside of what they had made her into. When he heard
how Jenny had been altered to match that to a lesser extent, he told
them that it would be best for them to go and not plan on being back for
a while. He had no idea how long they would have be together during this
session, but he promised them that, when they were ready to leave for
the day he would call them.
The other two agents remained just outside the door after the rest left.
Dr. Warren could see that she was still fuming over what had been done
to her. He also listened to what each of them had said about how she had
reacted as well. He looked at her on the couch. Until she released that
anger and drained some of its venom, they could not go anywhere near
what they needed to explore mentally today. Dr. Warren thought carefully
about what they should do while he let her rest. This was going to be a
delicate and mind wrenching discussion for both of them.
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