SEEING THE LIGHT
The darkness has faded and the light is seeping in between my eyelashes.
I'm more aware of it than I can see it; but I know it's there.
And if I can feel the light that means I'm coming up to the surface.
Swimming up from the deep dark bottomless pool to the sunlight shining on the surface.
The light is twinkling; enticing me to get there and open my eyes.
I am not alone.
Hutch is in here.
I can hear him. He's real excited about something.
Babbling away nineteen to the dozen; worse than I am when I get one of my enthusiasms and drive him nuts with it.
Concentrate.
He's telling me something important.
Well he thinks it's important…it sound like a load of babble to me.
I can hear his voice and I can sense his excitement and the importance of what he is saying.
But I don't understand a word of it.
It's like he's talking to me in some strange language I've never heard.
Like having water in my ears.
Got to get up closer to the surface and focus and listen.
Push up from the deep, Davey.
I'm getting the sense of it…or the nonsense.
He's telling me a list of companies and names.
Gunther? Who the fuck is Gunther?
Oh wait a minute….I know who he is…
What is Hutch trying to tell me?
Is he trying to tell me that the all-powerful Mr. Gunther is behind what happened to me?
I should be flattered.
The all-powerful Mr. Gunther of Gunther Industries was pissed enough at me to want me dead.
To want us dead.
He didn't get me…he'll go after Hutch.
And I'm not there to watch his back.
Hutch is still rattling on about companies and names.
I have to warn Hutch not to go after Gunther without me.
I have to wake up properly.
OK, here goes.
One last push from the bottom and
Up…
….I…
……..come.