(aka Bike) Part 1768 by Angharad Copyright © 2012 Angharad
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We had an early start, a limo took us from the villa to the airport and the same jet which had flown us from France was there to fly us back to Southampton. The us was Simon, Trish, and me.
Trish was a little annoyed that I wanted her home with us as the others were staying for a bit longer, but I wanted her checked over by a doctor I trusted. I also wanted to know why she was lying at the bottom of a ladder in a place that should have been off limits to any of the passengers.
Her first answer had been that she couldn’t remember anything of the day, so she didn’t remember Mallorca at all, let alone the ferry and falling down the ladder. I’d contacted Dr Rose and also Stephanie, as I wondered if she could get anything more out of Trish by hypnosis–some people can be asked under hypnosis to remember things which they thought they’d forgotten. It isn’t admissible in a court of law because there are all sorts of questions which might arise, including leading the client by the hypnotist, but Stephanie had used hypnosis before and agreed to come and have a try.
We were back in Blighty by mid day and after lunch, which David made, we popped over to the hospital and Sam Rose did a full check on Trish. Everything came back negative and if it hadn’t been Trish, he’d have accused me of time wasting because she had nothing wrong with her, even the weal on her head had shrunk to almost negligible size.
Then back at home, Stephanie came over for dinner, and she took Trish off to my study and an hour later, she played me a tape she’d taken of the process.
The first part was Stephanie relaxing Trish and explaining what was going to happen. She reassured the child every couple of minutes that she would come to no harm and asked if she felt safe in doing this with Stephanie. Trish replied that she did.
There was more boring stuff as she took her deeper into the hypnotic state then:
“Tell me, Trish, do you remember visiting Mallorca?”
“Yes.”
“What was it like?”
“Hot.”
“Okay, let’s leave it then and I want you to fast forward a bit until you’re on the ferry sailing back to Menorca. Can you describe the ferry?”
“It’s a big boat.”
“Where are you?”
“In the car with Grampa Henry.”
“Are you on the boat yet?”
“Yes, we have to leave the car and go up to the passenger deck.”
“What happened after that?”
“We had a drink of pop.”
“Then what?”
“I needed a wee.”
“So you went to the ladies?”
“Yes.”
“Anything happen there?”
“Yes.”
“Describe it.”
“I went for a wee and washed my hands afterwards.”
“Anything else happen in the ladies?”
“Yes.”
“Describe it.”
“I saw a lady who looked like Mummy.”
“Did you think it was your mummy?”
“Yes.”
“Did you speak to her?”
“No she left as I was washing my hands.”
“Then what happened?”
“I ran off after her.”
“Why did you think it was your mummy?”
“She had the same hair and clothes and she looked like Mummy.”
“So you followed her?”
“Yes.”
“Then what happened?”
“She went down some steps and through a door that said no admittance.”
“And d’you know what that means?”
“Yes.”
“What does it mean?”
“You can’t go down there.”
“What happened next?”
“I followed her through the door.”
“Through the door which said, no admittance?”
“Yes.”
“Describe what happened next?”
“I went through the door and I saw the lady snoggin’ some bloke in uniform. I think it was the captain.”
“So could that have been your mummy?”
“No, she’s a good lady and loves my daddy.”
“So you were mistaken about who the lady was?”
“Yes, it wasn’t my mummy.”
“What happened next?”
“I heard a noise and went through another door in case they saw me.”
“What was through this door?”
“I don’t know it was very dark and as I was walking across it I found a ladder and started to climb down it and I think I might have fallen.”
“Why did you go down the ladder?”
“I thought they might see me and be cross.”
“And you think you might have fallen?”
“Yes.”
“Why did you think that?”
“The boat jerked and I sort of remember banging my head.”
“Did it hurt?”
“A bit.”
“Then what happened?”
“I don’t know, I had funny dreams in which I heard Mummy calling me, but they were dreams so I didn’t answer.”
“When did you know it was Mummy calling you?”
“I could see the blue light and I knew she’d find me.”
“Did you see anyone else?”
“Yes, the captain saw me and locked the door over the ladder.”
“You saw the captain lock the door?”
“Yes.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
“Didn’t you say you banged your head?”
“Yes.”
“So might you not have been unconscious?”
“I was unconscious.”
“So how could you see who did what?”
“I did.”
“How could you?”
“Mummy’s blue light enabled me to see.”
“You haven’t made a mistake, have you–remember you thought you saw your mummy earlier?”
“I saw him, he had lipstick marks on his shirt collar and his ear.”
“You’re sure it was the captain?”
“Yes, we saw him with Gramps earlier.”
“And he locked the door?”
“Yes.”
“Might he have missed you in the dark?”
“No, he put the light on.”
“He switched a light on?”
“Yes.”
“Did he say anything?”
“He said something in Spanish which I translated as, ‘I’ll drop you overboard later you nosy little goat’.”
“How could you translate that if you were unconscious?”
“I could still hear him.”
“I see. What happened next?”
“I was standing by myself.”
“I thought you said you were unconscious?”
“I was standing by my body–that was weird.”
“You were standing by your body?”
“Yes.”
“I thought it was dark, how could you see?”
“There was this golden light.”
“A golden light?”
“Yes, it was coming from this beautiful lady.”
“A beautiful lady was holding a light?”
“No, she was the light–it was coming from her.”
“Not the lady from before, the one with the captain?”
“No, she was pretty like Mummy, this lady was beautiful.”
“Who was this golden, beautiful lady?”
“Billie said her name was Sheki something.”
“Billie? Where did Billie come from?”
“Oh, didn’t I say, Billie was with her.”
“You spoke with your dead sister while you were unconscious and out of your body?”
“Yeah.” Trish said this so matter of fact I had to snigger, which made a change from the tears I’d shed from the commencement.
“What else did Billie tell you?”
“She told me not to worry, Mummy was coming to rescue me and that they would help her because she was helping them.”
“Did she tell you how your mummy was helping them?”
“She told me that Mummy had to save someone’s baby and the mummy that was carrying it.”
“And did she rescue you?”
“Gramps did but Mummy told him where to find me. I knew she would.”
The interview ended there.
“If I didn’t know this family, Cathy, I’d swear your daughter had just had a weird hallucination following a blow to the head.”
“That bastard was going to drown her, wasn’t he?”
“If what Trish said is true, it certainly sounds like it.”
“And there was I busy saving his wife and baby’s lives. If I’d known all this, I wouldn’t have bothered.”
“But then you might have lost Trish.”
I imagined the captain and saw him squabbling with his mistress after his wife told him he was going to be a father. The look on the mistress’ face tended to indicate she hadn’t finished with him yet–so maybe he was going to get his payback.
“Yeah, I suppose it all worked out for the better. I don’t suppose we could use this tape to get even with him, could we?”
“I doubt it, hypnosis isn’t allowed as evidence in the UK, so I suspect it’s the same in Europe, especially as she had suffered a bang to her head which then mysteriously healed by itself.”
Comments
Conniving Captain.
Well, perhaps James could arrange something and the widow could collect the insurance? Just saying...
G
"If I didn't know this family..."
So it sounds as though mother and baby will survive, but the captain might have his comeuppance. After all, if the door was still locked by the time Henry arrived to rescue Trish, or if he forgets to change shirts before visiting his wife, or the mistress decides to have some revenge of her own...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Trish's story
At least we know what happened to Trish - but why would the Goddess want the woman and her child saved, when she probably already knew about the Captain and his little tryst.
And we seem to be on our way to reading about Cathy finally making a well-thought out decision to admit she was wrong about the Spiritual side of things, and then having a talk with the Goddess and once again confirming she will do what they want her to do, and understanding why.
Keep it up Bonzi, you are doing a great job with this story.
Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?
Katrina Gayle "Stormy" Storm
I seriously doubt that
Cathy needs to do anything to the ferry captain. He'll get his, and probably soon. Interesting that even Trish knew what Cathy had to do. Glad she's back and wish she'd stay out of trouble but if she did she wouldn't be Trish.
Thank Angharad for characters we care about.
... and what is this thing with a woman who looked just like Cathy?
Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1768
Seems to me that Henry or Monica could use their influence to teach the captain a lesson.
May Your Light Forever Shine
let's see what we got
let's see what we got here....
a mysterious woman that looks just like cathy crosses trish's path, then lures her into parts of the ship where she shouldn't be, and there she got an "accident".
when cathy's ether self arrives on the scene, she runs into a wall ...
sounds to me like it wasn't an accident at all.
come to think of it, the billie cathy saw when she was ill, didn't really behave like the billie we know.
Mystery woman?
I am soooo happy Trish is OK, and none the worse for her experience. I'm pleased that the memories of the trauma are buried, for now. However, sooner or later, they will have to be brought to the surface, and Trish will have to face them, knowing that she was the target of a murderer.
I doubt that Cathy will do anything to the captain. At the same time, he sealed his own fate when he attempted to murder a 'hand maiden' of the goddess. It wasn't a brilliant move on his part.
As for the woman who looks like Cathy, I'm intrigued. This could cause all sorts of complications. It's not just who is she, but why does she look so like Cathy that even Trish was fooled? The plot thickens!
Red MacDonald
Now that was a twist
i didn't expect (not that there's anything new there )..
Nasty captain , Hope he gets what he deserves .Maybe he will, Maybe he won't.... But one thing is for certain you don't normally pull a tigers tail and get away with it...
Kirri
tiger tail
worse yet, you don't threaten baby tiger!
I think a taste of hell fire to come
might be beneficial, which is where he is going from the sounds of it.