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Tuesday, August 14, about 9:30am
"Dr. Tracy? Are you ready to talk to me?" Anna stood outside the sick room door and looked in.
"No. Until I can sit at my desk and get out of this stupid hospital bed, I don't want to talk to anyone. But come in anyway." Dianne pushed the bedside table away.
Anna pulled a chair closer to the bed. She opened her portable computer and looked up. "I assume Jeff told you about my first session with Tyler yesterday?"
"Tyler spent 15 minutes in here last night telling me all about showing you Thunderbird 3. I'm afraid he's already planning to see if he can surprise you with anything else. Then Jeff spent some time telling me about your talk with Tyler."
"As long as he doesn't put a snake in my bed, he can plan all the surprises he wants. Right now he needs the outlet. I want to talk with you about him some more but that can wait until you're stronger. I've already talked to your mother and I'll be talking with Drew when he gets here. From what your mother said you seem to have moved on."
"Yes, but I wasn't very together the first two years after the bombing." Dianne grimaced. "Apparently, I didn't do too good of a job with the kids."
"I think you did an excellent job. All four of you are still alive, nobody is alcoholic or an addict, your kids seem fairly happy and not brats -- or at least not any more than any other kids their age." Anna looked up at her. "I do hope you realize this won't be a 'one hour soap opera' solution?"
"A what?"
"A 'one hour soap opera' solution," Anna grinned. "That's my name for it, at least. All the TV shows where something is bothering someone. We finally find out what it is in the last 15 minutes. Somehow this releases all the tension and solves all the problems. Whatever the problem was, it's never mentioned again."
Dianne snorted. "Do I look that stupid?"
"No. Neither does your husband. But you'd be amazed at the number of otherwise intelligent people who can't figure out why their kid isn't better within a couple of weeks. Apparently I'm supposed to have a magic wand. But that isn't what I came down here to talk to you about." Anna looked at something on her computer.
"According to your husband, you're worried abut Callie and, let me see, Elise. Is that right?" said Anna, looking up from her computer.
"Yes. Also Dominic. Although, that may be simpler. He has arachnophobia and had a run in with a spider recently. A tarantula, to be exact. He freaked. And I think Scott and Alex may have made things worse." She told Anna what Alex had told her about Dom's initial run-in with the spider and his and Scott's later conversation with Dom about spiders.
"Hmm. That's not my specialty, but I should be able to help." She typed something else into the computer and looked up. "I made an appointment with Elise for this afternoon. I understand Callie is away right now. And that she was unsure about talking to me. Jeff said I should talk to Brains, Tin-Tin and Kyrano before I talked to her. Can you tell me why?"
Dianne took a deep breath. "Remember I asked you about 'odd religious beliefs'?" Anna nodded. "There is this character called 'The Hood'. He's wanted by Interpol for industrial espionage. He is also Kyrano's half-brother. Jeff arranged to see his Interpol file after he found out about him. The file talks about his 'glowing eyes' and 'strange hypnotic powers'. They don't seem to know quite what to make of him. Unfortunately, we do. He can get into your mind somehow and take it over. Both Tin-Tin and Brains have had encounters with him. So has Kyrano, much more frequently and with greater depth. Last month so did Callie. She's pretty shook up, and I don't blame her. I also think she is blaming herself for not being able to resist him. Although, as far as I'm concerned, she did resist him. She didn't give him any of the information he wanted. At my suggestion she talked to Tin-Tin and Brains about their encounters with him. I do know she is still having nightmares about it. I have her on antidepressants and sleeping pills, but they don't seem to be helping and I'm in no condition to help her right now. And even if I was, I wouldn't know where to start." Dianne was clearly getting upset. "I tried to talk to the head of the psychiatric department at the Christchurch School of Medicine. He offered to have her committed as schizophrenic."
"I've meet the head of the psychiatric department. He's ok as long as a patient fits an established pattern. But it better be the pattern he's decided the patient fits into. He's actually very good at figuring out what medications to use and what dosage. I've worked with him a couple times. But forget about telling him about anything not in a medical textbook or journal." Anna stopped typing and looked thoughtful for a moment. "Have you talked to Callie about talking to me?"
"Yes, and I have her permission to talk to you about it."
"Good. How long has she been on the sleeping pills?"
"Longer than I like. Although I don't know if she's been taking them every night."
"I'll try to talk to Kyrano, Brains and Tin-Tin this afternoon or tomorrow. I'll catch Dominic and ask him if he wants help. How do you handle the prescriptions here?" Anna was staring at her computer screen.
"I keep a small supply of medications here. I can order anything from Christchurch and have it mailed if I'm running low."
"How big of a supply did you give Callie?"
Dianne thought for a moment.
"I gave her a week's worth of the sleeping pills and a months worth of antidepressants just before my accident. She asked Brains for a refill of the sleeping pills before she left to visit her family."
"I'll set up my first appointment with Callie just to ask her if the pills are helping." She entered something in her computer and looked up.
"You know, your uncle Drew is a terrific liar. He told me everything I needed to know and at the same time had me convinced you had actually had a car accident."
"You called him?"
Anna snorted. "I wasn't getting into a plane with two strangers going I don't know where without doing some checking. I also ran a police check for any citations, domestic violence reports or possible abuse reports. The police report came back pretty empty. One public drunkenness warning, one speeding ticket."
Dianne looked at her in surprise. Anna noticed the look. "I suppose that does sound a bit paranoid but in my old job I was one of the people who could take someone's kids away from them. I also know where some battered wives are currently living. I have had death threats before." Anna paused for a second. When she resumed talking her voice was a lot quieter. "And a colleague of mine was killed while helping a battered wife. I have some very good reasons to take precautions."
She closed her computer and stood up. "You look like you're about ready to fall back asleep. I'll talk to you again tomorrow. Right now, I have an appointment with Tyler. He wants to show me the gardens. Hopefully, he hasn't planted a snake or something there."
"No, he wouldn't. Now Gordon might. You have problems with snakes?"
"Only if I have to touch them." She smiled at Dianne and walked briskly from the room.
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