Healing HandsChapter 5
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Carol looked at me, concern written all over her face. “Let’s head back to the refuge, and see what we can figure out.” She said. We drove back to the refuge as fast as we could. As we were pulling up to the front of the house, I noticed that the front door was wide open. This was unusual - the door was never left open. My anxiety increased.
We raced inside, and found the house empty. A kitchen chair was lying sideways on the floor, and it looks as if there had been a struggle. I saw a single white sheet of paper on the table. There was a short, hand-written message on it. It read:
I have your precious girlfriend. If you want to see her alive, come to the farm alone. You know what will happen if you don’t do as I say...
It was signed “Witherand”. Looking closely at the paper, I thought I could see a bloodstain - it seemed that Anita didn’t go easily.
Carol took the paper from my hands and read it. “You can’t go alone - you know it’s a trap!” She exclaimed.
“Yeah, I know. But I have to go - I can’t risk Anita being hurt.” I replied. I reached out with my senses to her. It was like I could feel she was there, but she wasn’t responding to me. She must be unconscious, I thought.
“I’m calling the crew,” Carol said, “I won’t let you go there alone.”
I knew I had to act quickly. I couldn’t risk Anita’s safety on this - Witherand was so unstable, he could just as easily kill us all if it suited his plans. We were just part of his “experiment”, his quest for eternal life.
I turned to Carol and placed my hand on her arm. “I’m sorry sweetheart,” I said, and I concentrated on her sleeping. She looked up in alarm at me, then slumped forward as she fell unconscious. I quickly grabbed her, and carried her to the couch and laid her down. I knew she would be out for a while, and headed out the door to the farm, alone.
When I got to the farm, I saw a strange car parked by the shed. I pulled up alongside it, and cautiously walked through the doorway into the building.
In one of the bays where the tractor was normally parked, space had been cleared. There was a hospital bed in the middle, with floodlights setup around it in a circle. There were sheets of plastic outside that, and it was made to look like an operating theatre. It looked like a scene out of some kind of horror movie or thriller, where the psycho murderer had their victim, helpless and unable to fight whatever sick and twisted torture they might devise. I felt sick to my stomach - this wasn’t a movie, this was my life! It was really happening, and now I was in the middle of it.
Anita was laying on the bed, naked. There were leather straps around her ankles, arms and waist. Her head was shaved, and electrodes were placed all around, a harness of wires leading from her head to a nearby machine. The screen of the device showed multiple waveforms, all moving to some degree.
Witherand was standing by the machines, adjusting dials and making notes in a book. He was wearing a white labcoat, and if we were in a laboratory instead of a farm shed, he wouldn’t look out of place as a scientific researcher, performing an experiment.
Without looking up from his work, he waved one hand and said to me “Ah, how nice of you to join us. I won’t be a minute, just preparing for the next stage of the proceedings.” He paused for a moment, and then said “Oh, by the way, sorry about this.”
I was about to say “Sorry about what?” When I felt a stinging sensation on the side of my neck, like an insect bite. I swatted it, and felt a tiny dart in my skin. I pulled it out, and tried to focus on it, but my eyes wouldn’t respond to my command. I started to feel faint, and then collapsed to the ground, tranquillised by the dart that had hit me.
When I came to, I found that I was sitting in a chair. My wrists were handcuffed to the arms of the chair. There was a chain around my waist, pinning me to the backrest. I tried to move my legs and found that there were chains around my ankles too.
I could see that I was in the shed, but separated from where Anita lay. Her head was rolled to the side facing me, her eyes open. She made eye contact with me, and I could feel the sense of relief that washed over her as she realised that I was unharmed. Her lips didn’t move, but somehow I could hear her voice in my head say “Thank God, you’re OK!”
Just then the psycho doctor came into view. “Ok, you’ve decided to join the land of the living again. Good, good. We’re ready to proceed to the next stage.”
“You won’t get away with this!” I said, struggling against the bindings.
“Oh, but I am getting away with this,” he replied, the look of smugness and superiority on his face. “And I will continue to get away with this. But for now, why don’t we focus on the experiment at hand...”
I started to focus on the doctor, to make him pass out. He started to slump, but before he passed out he said “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. See this deadman’s switch in my hand? If I pass out, your precious girlfriend will die. You wouldn’t want that now, would you?”
It was only then that I noticed that the doctor seemed to be clutching something in his hand, and there were wires that led to some kind of device attached to Anita’s arm, where there was some kind of sinister green liquid held in an intravenous pump. I imagined that it was some kind of lethal dose of drugs, maybe an anaesthetic or something. I stopped contentrating on the doctor. He brightened considerably. My shoulders slumped in defeat.
“Ah, that’s better. Let’s not do that again, for Anita’s sake, ok?” He replied, moving over to a tray of implements that was near Anita’s bed.
And so he began a series of tests, somewhat like what we did to work out my abilities. Witherand was methodical in his process, repeatedly making notes, recording entries in a voice recorder, performing a test and then making a note of the results. First pain, increasing in strength, and increasing in distance. After each test he moved Anita’s bed further away from me. Each time it took more and more effort to take Anita’s pain and prevent her suffering. As the distance increased, the amount of concentration needed to help Anita increased, until I was covered in sweat and panting almost constantly as if I’d run a marathon.
It was a no-win situation - Witherand kept turning up the pressure until Anita was screaming in agony and I was barely conscious. There was no way I could disable him and protect her at the same time. “I’m sorry...” I whispered as consciousness finally departed from me.
When I came to, I was still chained to the chair. I didn’t open my eyes, but I reached out with my senses and discovered Anita was nearby. I could tell that she was awake, and I “thought” out to her to be still. I concentrated on the leather straps that were holding her down, to get them to weaken and dissolve. I could hear her talking to Witherand, trying to keep him distracted.
“Why are you doing this?” She pleaded with him. “Why are you hurting me? I’ve never done anything to you!”
“It’s nothing personal, my dear” he replied. “Every advance in medicine requires effort and sacrifice, and this one is no exception. It’s just that you get to make the sacrifice, and I get the rewards. That’s just how life is. Do you think that people mourn over the loss of a few lab animals? Some pain is necessary to get the breakthrough that I want.”
“You murderer!” She spat at him. “You bastard! You f...”
He slapped her face sharply, and she stopped abruptly. “That’s enough from you!” He said. “I demand respect! What you want or care doesn’t matter. You’re expendable. Now, behave or else I’ll dispose of you and pick another subject.”
I used that moment to contentrate on the doctor and make him pass out. He staggered away from the table where Anita lay, and then collapsed to the floor. His hand opened, and the deadman’s switch rolled out onto the floor.
The intravenous pump activated and the terrible green-looking liquid started flowing down the tubing to Antia’s arm. She looked at it in horror as it started to flow into the cannula on her arm. I opened my eyes and looked at her.
“Quick! Pull it out!” I yelled. She flexed her arms and the leather straps broke free. Quickly reaching over with her left hand, she shakily pulled the terrible looking needle from her right arm. As it came out, green liquid poured from the tip. She held the needle away from her, dropped it to the floor and then fainted.
I still couldn’t get out of the chair, because I had no influence over the metal chains. I concentrated on Anita, and I could feel her heart rate dropping and all her muscles start to go slack. Whatever was in that machine was some kind of muscle relaxant, so I focussed on her heart. Thump thump, breathe in, thump thump, breathe out, thump thump, breathe in, thump thump, breathe out. I could picture this drug flowing through her body, and any muscle that the drug touched went limp. I concentrated on her breathing and her heart, trying to keep her alive and remove the drug from her body. I could feel my strength waning, but I knew I couldn’t give up. I could sense her heart trying to beat on it’s own, and I knew that she would survive. Once I knew she would be OK, I passed out.
When I came to, I was lying on the floor of the shed. The rest of the crew were surrounding me, and Anita was kneeling by my head, her hands were stroking my hair.
I sat up suddenly, looking around. “Witherand!” I said, panic on my face.
“It’s ok!” Frank said, “he’s gone, for now. Carol raised the alarm as soon as she could, and we came to the farm to rescue you. That was a stupid thing to do - you played right into his hands!”
I looked down into my hands. He was right. It could’ve ended badly.
“Don’t ever do that to me again!” Carol yelled. “You idiot, how can we protect you if you won’t let us? You can’t beat this guy by yourself - he’s smart and not a little unhinged. If it comes down to just you and him, he’ll beat you every time.”
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The next few days of Ridhima’s newly married life went by without any unusual incidents. Sandeep and Ridhima had shifted to Delhi after their marriage. They lived just like any other married couple. Sandeep came from a family of affluent businessmen. He was managing a small firm of his family’s large business estate somewhere in Delhi, NCR. They also owned a lavish penthouse in a high-class society nearby. Sandeep and Ridhima started living in this penthouse. In the eyes of society, it was an...
Ridhima sat on the bed, held her face with her hands, and started sobbing. Her mouth was dry because she had narrated her long story and kept crying while doing so. Naveen, too, was sitting on the couch, listening carefully to Ridhima. An hour ago, he was shivering with anger and grief after he discovered his wife’s scars. But now he seemed calm and composed. He decided she would experience romantic love making with him.He got up, walked towards Ridhima, and gave her a glass of water. Ridhima...
When Melanie and I broke up, I guess I took the whole thing pretty badly. It hadn't been my idea, and I tried to prevent it, from the first moment she brought the possibility up. We'd been together for almost four years. Everyone I knew, myself included, believed she and I would eventually get married. "I still love you, Marty, but not the same way you love me. You know yourself that we've always been more like friends than lovers. Until recently, that was always enough for me." It had...
In her dream Jess stood holding her father's hand as she gazed across the street. Her mother smiled and waved at her in the sunshine as cars rushed between them. Jess was excited about celebrating her 12th birthday with her parents at the Art Institute. Her mother was arriving a few minutes late but she was smiling brightly at her little girl as the light turned red and she started across the street. She never saw the car that took her life. Jess screamed silently and her eyes flew open. It...
The curtains fluttered in the soft breeze. The air smelt of rain and wet grass. Jonathan shifted in his sleep and turned over onto his stomach. One arms groped and found cool sheets, something that puzzled his sleeping mind and drew it back to consciousness. After his eyes drifted open, he lay still for a moment trying to figure out what had woken him. Kat. He sat up, his eyes adjusting to the darkness as he searched the room for her. The curtains ruffled in a particularly strong surge of wind...
I slowly became aware of my surroundings again, as consciousness started to seep back in, bringing me once more into this strange reality that I found myself in. I was laying on my back, with my eyes closed. I felt two bodies next to me, one on each side. Both were snuggled under my arms, their heads on my shoulders, and breasts pressing in on both sides. One pair felt pert and firm; the other pair felt softer and spread out slighty further. As I slowly inhaled a deep breath, my hands flexed...
The breakfast dishes were squared away, and I was sitting at the table with a cup of coffee, enjoying a moment of rest. Nikita was still in the other room with the kids, and in the background you could hear the TV on, and what sounded like a movie running. The other adults were still at the table; Maggie with her husband Frank, Judy & Donald, and Gill. Carol was running an errand somewhere and would be back later. The men had rejoined us after cleaning up breakfast. There was a sense of...
When we got back to the house, the four of us went inside. Carol was not a happy camper, and Judy looked somewhat confused at what had just happened. The rest of the adults heard the commotion and joined us in the living room. “What the hell were you thinking?” Carol growled. “You can’t just abduct a woman just because you think she’s being abused by her husband!” “I couldn’t just leave her there.” I shot back “You know she’d just go back to the slimy bastard, and he’d just keep beating her...
I was broken out of my self-pitying reverie when Mitzi pulled to a stop in front of her immaculate three bedroom Cape Cod style house. Mitzi received the house free and clear, in lieu of alimony, as part of her divorce settlement. She got the house, children and child support when her husband of nineteen years took up with a twenty-two-year-old bookkeeper at the accounting firm where he worked. To her credit, Mitzi did not mention my problems as I followed her, zombie-like into the kitchen,...
I gnawed on the suspicion of Lindsey having an affair with Blakemore all day. The more I thought about it, the more likely it seemed, because Blakemore was, ‘the Golden Boy.’ His full name was William Royce Blakemore, but he earned the nickname ‘Wild Bill’ during his four years playing Free Safety for the University of Florida Gators and twice being selected an All-American. But Wild Bill wasn’t just some dumb jock. He managed to graduate in four years with a GPA of 3.8. He majored in US...
Lindsey had given it to me with both barrels, so I left Chez Henri with my head hung low. Suddenly, Lindsey’s blunt honesty wasn’t nearly as refreshing as it used to be. To make my day even worse, the midday sun reinvigorated my hangover. I just made it out of the front door when my stomach clinched up and I deposited pink piles of Mister Henri’s luncheon special all over the parking lot. After a couple of violent heaves, a kindly looking older couple stopped and asked me if I was okay. I...
With the psycho doctor gone, and the young man’s condition stable, I knew I had to get out of there before I passed out. I headed down to the ground floor and out of the hospital, to the car where Frank and Maggie were waiting. I managed to get in the back seat and close the door before the fatigue finally took me from consciousness. When I awoke, I was in bed back at the refuge. Anita was laying there next to me, her hand draped across my bare chest. They had taken the recording device off...