The Awakening

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Part thirteen of the Robyn series.

Six months had passed in Lazytown since Kit and Robyn's birthday. It had been a fairly easy six months for everyone and was enjoyable. Everyone was now looking forward to Christmas and the New Year.

Stephanie had had her baby not long after getting married to Pixel and the three were going to spend the holidays with her parents. Baby Lucy was a healthy, lively and pink girl who had most of the looks of her mother.

Pixel's stag night had gone just as he'd envisioned it except instead for being cast out to sea naked in a dinghy, he'd been anchored in the lake.

Pixel and Stephanie's wedding had been held in Robyn's new garden and had been wonderful. Stephanie's parents had highly praised Robyn's hard work and her brilliant designs. They also couldn't deny the girl had serious talent and had taken away plenty of gardening tips with them when they'd returned home.

Kit and Robyn's holiday to the Greentown Gardens had been fabulous and they'd come back closer than ever. Their time away from the prying eyes of their friends and family had done them a great deal of good. While they'd been away the two had recorded a lot of things they'd done on their video camera including Kit accidentally bursting a water mattress by jumping on it. He'd not been aware at the time that it was a water mattress and there was plenty of laughter to be had when all of the water started to pour out of it. The expression on his face had been hilarious and his explanation to the member of staff they'd called to report the 'faulty bed' had also been comical but believable. They'd narrowly escaped having to pay a huge bill for the replacement of the bed, carpets and mattress.

Ché and Greta had returned home a week after the birthday party as their stay had been a long one and Ché had student heroes to mentor. They'd told Kit and Robyn to let them know when they wanted to take their trip to Spain and the two promised they would; they also suggested it would be a nice place to go for their honeymoon.

At the present time Robyn was sat in the waiting room at the outreach clinic. Doctor Palley had arranged to do the tests he'd spoken of once. He wanted to study Robyn's ability and how it worked. Both Ziggy and Robbie had strongly objected to the tests and Robyn being treated like a lab rat to satisfy the doctor's curiosity but Doctor Palley had promised to treat Robyn with the utmost respect. He'd also promised to keep the two men well informed and to give them a copy of a full report he'd write on his conclusions. Eventually both men had relented and dropped their objections.

Doctor Palley walked out into the waiting room and looked for Robyn; he spotted her sitting by the windowed wall of the clinic and walked over. Robyn looked up when she caught sight of him out of the corner of her eye and stood up. Doctor Palley motioned for Robyn to follow him and she did.

Once they'd walked into a quiet corridor Doctor Palley spoke, "you understand we have to be careful. No one knows what we'll be doing when we get to my office; they're under the impression that you're here for some more brain scans and to consult with me about your epilepsy."

"I understand. If anyone found out I could quite easily be taking a one way trip to the Crazytown safe house."

"No one except your friends is aware of your ability are they?"

Robyn shook her head, "only they know. I had a few attacks while I was in the Greentown Gardens but they weren't questioned."

"Good. I've lined up several types of tests and will score you between one and ten on what you've picked up and how well. Ten is the highest and one will be the lowest. I expect you to get some tens in some tests and ones in others. I'd certainly be amazed if you got ten out of ten in all of them."

"So would I." Robyn agreed.

Doctor Palley opened the door to his office and motioned for Robyn to enter. She did so and he followed her inside closing the door behind him.

Upon entering the room Robyn noticed that on the doctor's desk there were several items laid out and on the examination bed there were several bags which looked like they contained items of varying size. Two violins had also been placed on the floor next to the desk which confused Robyn.

"Please take a seat and make yourself comfortable." Doctor Palley said taking a seat on his chair.

Robyn sat down on a chair opposite the desk and watched as the doctor pulled some small cards from a drawer in his desk. They were face down so she couldn't see what was on them but something told her what was on the cards.

Robyn closed her eyes and honed the images that were forming in her mind, "circle, star, square, cross, rectangle and triangle."

Doctor Palley was struck dumb. Looking at the cards with shaking fingers he realised that Robyn had gotten every single card right and in the order they were stacked. He'd not expected her to get it so quickly or with such incomparable accuracy. Taking a pen from his pocket he wrote down the result of the first test, ten out of ten. He also made notes of what had happened for his report.

"If you're wondering the items in the bags from left to right are: a shoe, a set of keys, part of a tyre, a pair of headphones and a stethoscope." Robyn said with her eyes still closed.

Once again Doctor Palley was struck dumb. Robyn had guessed each item correctly and had passed the second test. The score was ten out ten like the last time.

Clearing his throat Doctor Palley said, "That was extraordinary. Now, you see these items on the table in front of you? I want you touch each one and tell me if you get any images from them. All of these were previously owned by patients who have died either in their homes or the hospital some died further back than others."

Nodding Robyn placed her hand on the first item. It was a pair of slippers. Within ten seconds of placing her hand on the pair of slippers Robyn yawned and shook her head.

"Come sit by me, Mabel. We'll sleep tonight no doubt. Oh my back does hurt. It hurts something rotten. Let me lie down Mabel, that's it. Good girl. Now to sleep." Robyn spoke in a strange voice as if it wasn't her speaking at all. Her words had been intermingled with yawns and her eyes had opened and closed at random.

Doctor Palley watched Robyn's actions with great interest and slight trepidation. Her reaction to the slippers was extremely odd but fascinating. He had to go back to the store room in the hospital and find out who had owned the slippers. If Robyn picked up the same vibes from everything else on the desk he'd have to look up the rest of the items too.

When she removed her hand from the slippers Robyn came back to herself and smiled sweetly at the doctor. She seemingly had no memory of what had transpired upon touching the slippers and at the doctor's instruction put her hand on the next item.

It was a belt.