Secrets Of Sanctuary Hospital Nightmare Of The Dark Shadows (15 page)

“Yes, I just hope he hasn’t figured out what
is going on yet.”

“I don’t think that it would be wise to try
to reach anyone who might be around your family.”

“If he is around the family, it is imperative
that I speak with him.”

“Haven’t you been listening? If she is near
him, she will hear you speaking to him. What do you think he will
do if he hears your claims on the telephone while he is looking
right at you?”

“He will know that the one before him isn’t
me, believe me and if I tell him not to do anything, he won’t.”

“Maybe we should wait and try to get into
town to get an untraceable telephone before we try this.”

“We don’t have that kind of time. We have to
call now!”

He grabs my arms. “Mia, what occurred to you
that caused this type of urgency?”

I don’t want to tell him, but considering he
has the telephone and with each passing moment, we are closer to it
being too late, I have no choice! “Gabriel can read minds like you
can. If he gets close to that Mia and realizes that it is not
me...”

Quickly placing the telephone in my hand, his
anxious voice is at my ear. “What number would you like me to
dial?”

“207-555-7742" It goes directly to voice
mail. I thrust the telephone forward to Grant. “Leave a message
that you are Dr. Smythe from Boston and have a special patient that
you need an emergency consult on and leave your number.”

In a muffled tone, probably to disguise his
voice, he repeats what I said. Hysteria bubbles within me. I need
to get hold of myself and think clearly, there are too many people
at risk and too much that can go wrong quickly. “Grant do you think
that they would take the children and our group to the
dungeon?”

“Normally I would say yes, but since they
know that your son escaped from there, I’m not sure. They may take
the others there, but I would think that they would hold your son
somewhere else and have someone watching him so that he couldn’t
transform and escape.”

Could they possibly be so preoccupied with
Jacob that they would not think about the others? “If they did take
them to the dungeon, do you think that you and I could get to them?
They would be expecting your pack or a large contingent, like the
ones we sent to get the children, they would never expect something
like you and I trying to get them back.”

“You can’t be serious!” I can hear the utter
shock and disbelief in his voice. He grabs my arms again. “I know
you’re frightened, but all we would accomplish by going further
into their territory is getting ourselves caught and then there
would be absolutely no chance of anyone getting rescued. They will
kill us and all those that they have now. Mia, please you need to
be reasonable and think this through! You can’t even see and I
would not be able to protect you if something were to happen. Even
if you were to regain your sight, although you may be a powerful
witch, they have numbers and brutality on their side. They would
not hesitate to kill you or anyone connected to you and if you were
to hesitate at all, that would be it. I have seen what they could
do and alone, I would not even be any type of challenge for them at
all.”

“But I heard you and you did destroy one of
them, the one that was trying to kill you.”

“How could you have heard that?”

“Grant, please that is a very long story and
now isn’t the time. You have the strength to hurt them and if we
could reach the others, maybe we could save the children and then I
can go after Marlena and the other one and rescue my family.”

“Mia, I caught one off guard, but there is
absolutely no way that I would catch them off guard again. I’m
telling you that we would get killed and our children will pay the
price!”

“We just can’t stay here and do nothing!
There are just too many people at risk to let their deception go on
and do only who knows what to our children. What if they are
hunting them now!”

“I don’t think that they would be. They want
to know more about how your son did what he did, they would not
hunt him before figuring out how to master his powers because I am
sure that even though David made Marlena look like you, it has to
be an illusion of some type, he would want the power your son
possesses, the power to actually turn himself into someone or
something else. As far as the others and my children go, they do
not know if you are dead or alive and I am holding on to the hope
that they will keep them alive so that they could use them as bate
if Marlena fails or a bargaining chip so that she will not be
compromised.”

Considering this, a new thought occurs to me.
“If we cannot get to them, is there anyone that you can trust to
enter the hospital. If they went there, maybe that person could get
to Gabriel and we could get help on that end and formulate a plan.
Grant, keep trying Gabriel’s cell.”

Lifting the phone, he intertwines our hands.
“I hope you don’t mind, but we should try to get moving. I think
that we have been on their land long enough. I don’t think that
they are hunting again so soon, but they could be keeping watch to
see if the pack tries to attack or come on to their land to rescue
my children. There is someone that I could send to the hospital but
we should talk to him in person so that there are no mistakes or
errors.”

We walk for what seems like hours, with him
retrying Gabriel, each time the call goes to voice mail. Finally,
we stop. He releases my hand as I hear a car door open and then he
helps me in.

He places the telephone in my hand. “Can you
feel this button?”

“Yes”

“That is the redial for Gabriel, why don’t
you keep trying while I drive. While you are doing that, could you
tell me now how you knew that I had killed one?”

Knowing that if I keep too much from him, he
will become distrustful of me and considering this only has to do
with me and I need his help to save my family, I decide to be
honest. “I heard you outside of the dungeon window when you
surprised and attacked one.

“I don’t understand. You weren’t a
prisoner.”

“No, I was not, but when my children are in
trouble, I can feel and hear what is going on around them. That’s
how I heard you.”

“Can you do this with anyone that you know or
is it just your children?”

“It is only my children and I’m not sure
exactly how it is that I can do it other than to say that I
concentrate on them and somehow feel a connection to them and their
surroundings.”

He tries to joke, probably to relive the
stress which is evident in my voice as I struggle to find the right
words. “If you can do that without really knowing how, just think
about what you could do with a stronger grasp on your power. Can
your children do the same?”

“No, it is only something that I can do.”

“Well, you never know, maybe as they grow
older, they too will develop that talent.”

“I never thought of that. I only hope that we
can make sure all of our children can grow older. Are we almost
there?”

“We are about twenty minutes out. I’ll try to
get hold of him and let him know that we are on or way.”

Handing him the phone, his voice is soft and
pleading. “Kenneth, I need your help and it is extremely important,
several lives depend upon it. Can you stay at the house and I will
be there shortly...very good.”

“He will wait for us.”

“Are you sure that you can trust him?”

“Yes, although he is not of our world, he is
very trustworthy.”

“What do you mean that he is not of our
world?”

“He does not belong to the surreal world,
like we do, but he has strength and goodness behind him.”

After a while, the car stops and he opens his
door. Opening mine, he leads me down a path. A door creaks. “Good
afternoon sister Christopher, he is expecting me.”

“I’ll let him know that you are here, you can
wait in the library.”

Grant takes my hand again and then we are
sitting down.

“What brings you to town, you old dog. I
thought that you and the children were staying on some estate.”

“That is what I came to talk to you about.
Kenneth, this is Mia and we need your help to save her son,
Julianne and Paul.”

“Grant what is going on?” His voice resonates
concern.

“I don’t have time to explain everything
right now, but do you remember the stories about the family that I
told you about?”

“Please tell me that you are not getting into
those fantastical stories again. I told you, there are no such
things as vampires or mythical creatures”

“Kenneth is anyone other than Sister
Christopher here?”

“No”

“Could you have her leave, I need to reveal
something to you and then we need to discuss why I need your help,
but the less people who know about it, the safer for everyone.”

“Grant this is highly strange, even for you,
but just give me a moment and I will be right back.”

While he’s gone, Grant whispers. “May I tell
him about you?”

“He’s a priest?”

“I told you he could be trusted.”

“He won’t believe us.”

“He will when I show him what I am.”

“He doesn’t know already?”

“No, he runs the school that my children went
to. We have been friends for the last twenty years, but he does not
know what I am.”

“Are you sure you want to do this now, maybe
if I just sought his help, your secret could still be safe.”

“I know that I can trust him. He is a very
good man and like you said, there are too many people in jeopardy.
I can’t lose anyone else and I don’t know what my pack will do. I
think that secrets can only hurt us. If he sees what I am, he will
better understand what type of supernatural forces that we are
dealing with and he will be better equipped to convey the message
carefully and not believe what he sees. You need to remember Mia,
he may go to the hospital and you may be with Gabriel. He needs to
understand how dangerous it could be and the necessity that he
follows our instructions so that there are no mistakes or
hesitations.”

Footsteps approach us. “Kenneth, sit down, I
need to show you something and I need you to keep an open mind, I
know you didn’t before and convinced yourself you were seeing
things, but lives depend upon my getting through to you and not
just the ones I mentioned.”

A loud growl fills the room. He transformed
and I hear Kenneth gasp.

“Kenneth, are you alright?”

He doesn’t respond, but a moment later, Grant
does. “Mia, I’m going to get him some water.”

I feel for his hand. “Kenneth, it’s alright,
I know that it was a shock to see your friend like that, but he is
still the same friend that you have always known. He doesn’t mean
you any harm and we desperately need your help.”

There is still no response. Cool water drips
on my hand, Grant must have secured a cold cloth to put on Ken’s
neck. “It’s alright. I’m sorry for the shock, but I need you to
understand what we are dealing with. Please say something.”

He stutters. “What...what did you just...how
did you do that trick?”

“Here drink this. It was no trick, I’m a
werewolf and vampires do exist. The family really is a family of
vampires and they have Julianne and Paul. They also have Mia’s son
and some of her friends. They have killed Charlotte, Steve and
Pauline. They can do things that even I never thought possible and
now two of them could be here and they are pretending to be members
of Mia’s family, they are planning on trying to kill them all, just
the way they have taken out other families in the past. We need
your help to save her family, my family and anyone else who may try
to go against them for their atrocities. Kenneth, you are the only
one I can trust to do this, you are the only one that they would
not be able to detect and they would never suspect a priest of
getting involved with something like this.” Grant’s desperation
rings through his impassioned plea. “You could go and contact Mia’s
family without anyone being suspicious. Besides, isn’t it a
priest’s job to help preserve life? If you don’t help us, I can
assure you that many lives will be lost.”

The moments of silence overwhelm me. I’m not
even aware of how much I am thinking about Jacob until I hear his
plea.

“I’m telling you that I don’t know exactly
how it happened, it just did”

“You will tell us little boy how you possess
such power and how we can control it! Maybe a few days without food
and water will change your mind. Throw him in the dungeon with the
others. We still have to check to see if we can find his mother’s
body or if the wolves have her. If she is still alive, we have to
make sure that they understand that we have some of theirs and that
any interference will mean the immediate death of those in the
dungeon and then their pack.”

Grant shakes me, breaking my connection.
“What happened to you?”

“They’re alive!”

“Who”

“The children and my friends, but I heard one
of them threatening not only them but your pack. They are not sure
if I’m alive or dead, but they plan on getting a message to your
pack that if they help me, your children will die and so will the
pack.”

Kenneth interrupts us. “Grant what’s going on
and what is she talking about?”

“She has a connection to her son that is
captured and heard the children being threatened.”

Kenneth’s boisterous voice makes me jump. “I
don’t know what type of game you are playing or why you are trying
to trick me, but you need to stop this and leave now.”

“Kenneth, this is no game I assure you and
what I did was no trick. In fact, I will transform again and you
can even stroke my fur and see my teeth. I swear to you that I am
not playing a game and neither is she, but if you don’t help us and
do it quickly, we will lose our families.”