After a short conversation with her mother, Lindsay put down the phone. The pain in her hip had disappeared now she knew the whole story, but that still didn't put her at ease. She turned around to meet the puzzled and slightly exasperated stares from her two colleagues.
"Well?" asked Danny, leaning forwards and putting his hands flat on the table, fingers spread apart. He clearly wanted answers and he wanted them now.
"Well," Lindsay replied, "Milli, or Amelia Monroe is my identical twin sister, and you have just witnessed a case of twin telepathy." She looked at them both, meeting their gaze levelly.
Danny looked totally perplexed, but Hawkes was nodding his head, knowingly. Well, he was a doctor, after all.
"Explain, please Doc?" asked Danny, who was still slightly concerned about Lindsay's health, emotionally, if not physically. If he understood twin telepathy correctly, both Lindsay and Milli could have been through a lot of pain throughout their lives, childhood and adult.
Hawkes sighed. "Well, in compact, simple terms, identical twins often have the ability to speak in secret languages that no-one else can understand, or send and receive feelings and/or messages telepathically. Studies have been done where one twin picks a card then sends a message telepathically to their sibling in another room. 50 of the time both twins chose the same card. There is no evidence to suggest the data presented to us is false, some just call it a coincidence. There is no way to 'switch off' per se, but twins often like the connection, even if it increases the stress in their lives." He then looked at Lindsay, with a look in his eyes silently asking if he had overstepped the mark. Lindsay smiled and silently put him at ease.
"Crikey," said Danny, still a bit shocked, "so is that what happens between you and Milli, then?"
Lindsay nodded, suddenly very close to tears. "It isn't always that bad, but Mom told me Milli is in a coma. She was stabbed in the left hip. She's losing lots of blood."
And with that Lindsay started to fall towards the floor, but luckily Danny caught her and held her close, whispering comforting words to his precious Montana, as Hawkes took that as an extremely subtle hint to leave the lovebirds-to-be alone. Danny wouldn't hurt her. In fact, Hawkes believed the Danny was the only one Lindsay would ever open up to. As he looked back over his shoulder, he smiled softly as he saw Danny stroking Lindsay's hair, as Lindsay's body shook with gut wrenching sobs.