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Chapter 10 Confessions For The Soul

Heidi felt her eyebrow twitch as Lester heaved another sigh beside her. She was really trying to enjoy her book, but this…person was making it hard for her to do so. It was around nine at night and they were only an hour away from Providence Rhode Island. Jeanne had left to go take a nap, and to stop staring at Lester. Bobby had gone to make arrangements for Heidi to get a CT scan the next day. Stephanie and Carlos were beside her, watching the TV and Lester well…

Heidi let out a sigh and said, "Lester, it is impossible for one to enjoy a book, if one's concentration is distracted by another's noise for attention. What do you want; I know you want to talk to someone."

Heidi smiled as Lester sputtered about not wanting to talk to anyone. What a Liar, his thoughts were screaming for someone to talk to him and they were all about one person.

" I don't want to talk about anyone!" Lester said his face flushed, "I was thinking about all the women I get to have fun with, once we're in Rhode Island!"

"No screwing around, Santos," Carlos said, his tone held no room for argument, "I won't let your dick put Heidi in danger."

Lester pouted and said, "I wouldn't put her in danger, I would wait until my time off, before I found a New England chick!"

Heidi smiled softly and said, "It is alright, Carlos, there is but one woman on his mind, I highly doubt he will stray far from her, though, I do have to say, she likes to be treated with respect, and her favorite flowers or orchids."

Stephanie leaned forward and whispered in Carlos's ear, "What is she talking about?" looking over to Heidi and Lester, "Who is trying to hook Lester up with?"

"Think," Carlos said, before he pulled Stephanie up, turned off the TV and said, "we'll be downstairs, good night you two."

Lester watched as Carlos and Stephanie left, once he knew that Heidi and him were alone, he asked, "So what color Orchids does Jeanne like?"

"Purple and pink," Heidi said getting up and yawning, "I am going to take a nap before we get to the hotel in Providence, there is an automatic vending machine for flowers in the lobby of the hotel we are staying in. there are pink, purple and white orchids, buy them all for her."

"How do you know that?!" Lester asked Heidi who climbed up into her loft bed, "Are you like a psychic or something?"

"Something like that," Heidi muttered softly, before she fell asleep.

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Samuel huffed staring at the wooden box the old lady in front of him had placed on the counter of his shop, "What am I supposed to do with this again, Baba?"

"Give it to the blind one; she's going to need it." The woman said, her old brown eyes on Samuel's green one, "I suggest before the first concert she has in Rhode Island. There are many malevolent spirits there and any of them can cause her harm.

Samuel placed a hand on the top of the large wooden box and said, "I know you want something in exchange for this rare gift, Baba, what is it?"

"Oh just you and your brother happiness." The old woman said with a smile, "I have lived for several centuries, and have never seen what I have seen in the last few decades. Both of you find your happiness."

The woman turned and shuffled out the red tent. She paused and said, "Oh, I would suggest you ask for a moderate payment, when you give the woman the box."

Samuel shook his head, waved his hand, so the tent flaps closed and turned to the large wooden box in front of him. He tried to touch the paper seals on top of it, but hissed in pain as they burned their fingertips. Samuel guessed he wasn't powerful enough to open them. Only Heidi would be which was why the old woman gave it to him to give to her. Well, if it gave him a chance to see Heidi the Hermit again. He could remember waiting at the gates of that high end school she went to on a scholarship. She wore that cute school uniform of a soft grey skirt, a black sweater, a white dress shirt underneath and black thigh high socks, her feet in a pair of Mary Janes. Oh how he loved to skip French class to walk her home. She would smile that lovely smile, thank both him and Diesel, because the two never did things without the other one, and give them all her books. Damn, he would give her the moon to see her smile like that.

Samuel pulled the broken magician hat to him, and pulled out the white ferret. He had come to like the little fellow, and was going to keep it. he could always just replace the hat with one of the several dozen magical hats he had. Samuel smiled and stroke the ferret, which nipped at his fingers, he couldn't wait to see Heidi again.

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Jeanne led Heidi into the presidential suite of the hotel they were staying at in Providence. It wasn't as big as the one in New York City, but it will do. Three bedrooms and each bedroom had a bathroom. Jeanne would be sharing with Heidi, Carlos and Stephanie would be in one and Bobby and Lester would be in the other one, the one with two double beds. They had gotten into the city around 10:30 that night, but had gotten to the hotel at around Midnight. The women had to go to bed as soon as they got in, they had to be in Newport Rhode Island at around 11 the next morning for the luncheon with the Governor.

"Oh thank goodness we've made it to Providence on time, we have to get up at 7 in the morning, get our hair done and then dress up nicely for the this snooty luncheon," Jeanne said, pulling the covers down on the bed she would be sharing with Heidi, "I swear Heidi, if this man calls me Barbie, or sweet thing, I'll kick him in the balls."

Heidi slid her night gown on and said, "I have no doubts you will, Jeanne, please, put the dream catcher under my pillow."

"Why did Plum give you this?" Jeanne asked, placing the dream catcher underneath the pillows, "Does it really work?"

"It does, I have had no visions of my stalker, nor do I have any nightmares." Heidi said lying down in the bed and pulling the covers up, while Jeanne slid in the bed beside her, "Have a wonderful sleep Jeanne."

The two lay in the large bed silently before Jeanne turned to Heidi and asked, "How does it feel, to be, you know…psychic or something?"

"Different, that is for sure, It is odd, hearing what people think, but when you can see their past present and future, it is a scary situation sometimes," Heidi said softly, her eyes closed, "Like the person who threw a bottle at me last week, he was the first person I touched after the accident. I saw him, getting fired from his job, I saw him beat his wife, I saw him appear in the conference room, and throw the bottle at me. I had warned him that he would lose his job if he did not stop drinking, because all of the actions he had done, had stemmed from his alcoholic addiction. He had sneered at me and called me a crazy 'cunt' such vulgar language."

Jeanne sat up in the bed staring down at Heidi in the dark, "So, after that incident, whoever you touched afterwards…"

"I never told them of their fate, not only would they have not believed me, they would retaliate." Heidi said, turning to Jeanne in the darkness, "I can see your soul Jeanne, and apart from a spot of grey near you heart, you are quite bright. I like that; it means that someone can fix that broken heart of yours."

"I don't have a broken heart!" Jeanne hissed, laying down in the bed, "You're crazy Heidi! It doesn't need to be fixed!"

"It is a shame I cannot see your future when I touch you, or else I would prove you wrong otherwise." Heidi said, yawning, "But be as that may, I can say for certain, soon, you will be very happy."

Heidi turned away from Jeanne and fell asleep, while Jeanne huffed and whispered, "Crazy bint," before she too, fell asleep.

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Stephanie smoothed out her sun dress one more time, before she turned to Heidi and Jeanne. They were dressed to the nines also. Jeanne had put on a light pastel blue blouse and white slack with her hair up in a bun. Heidi wore a soft pink sun dress, with a matching wide brim hat that covered her face from the warm New England sun. her long black hair was in a pony tail that hung in soft curls. They had driven out of Providence and to the Newport, where multi-million dollar mansions hid behind gates and the rich and famous hid from prying eyes. it was just the three women. Jeanne insisted on it just being Stephanie to watch over Heidi, since they were just having lunch with the Governor.

They had been waiting for a minute in a huge foyer of the Governors personal mansion. He was wealthy and from old blood, apparently. Stephanie leaned over to Jeanne and said, "I'm afraid to walk on these floors, they look like they cost a fortune!"

"Don't worry, as long as you don't scoff them, we'll be fine," Jeanne said, watching as the Governor of Rhode Island, walked up to them.

He was an older man of 50, with black hair with a streak of grey going through it. he had bright blue eyes that had laughter lines around it and a soft smile. He wore a causal suit of soft dove grey and had an air of lightness to him.

"Madam!" Alexander Walter the 4th said, kissing Heidi's outstretched hand, "It is an honor to have you in my family home, along with your lovely friends, come, come, I've had the butler place lunch on the veranda, close to the beach."

Stephanie had to admire all the pieces of art that hung on the walls of the mansion. Some were family portraits and others were rare one of a kinds. The group walked out a set of French doors and on to a veranda that was close to the beach. A small dining table had been set up, and variety of food had been laid out, for them to eat. Alexander pulled out their chairs and helped them to sit down. He sure had some manners on him.

"Thank you for inviting us to your home," Heidi said thanking the man as he poured her some tea, "It is such a lovely home."

"It is a pleasure to have such a gifted person as yourself to grace the halls." Alexander said with a smile, looking Heidi up and down, "A lovely and gifted woman."

Jeanne made a sound in the back of her throat, which had Stephanie grabbing the woman's wrist. Heidi giggles and said, her face flush, "Well, it has been a while since a man has complimented me like that."

"Where is your wife, Governor Walter?" Jeanne asked snidely, making Stephanie grab her wrist tighter, "I'm sure she would have given your first born to see Madam."

"She is away for business, she had tried to shuffle dates around, but she could not get out of them." Alexander said, his eyes never leaving Heidi's form, who was trying to not to grimace, "she'll be gone for a while."

Stephanie gave the Governor a look and said, "Please, I'm sure Heidi is hungry we should eat, before all this food gets cold."

Stephanie never took her eyes off of the man in front of her, even as she ate. She knew that look in his eye. Every man got that look in their eye when they saw something that they wanted. The governor wanted Heidi, which was why he invited her up to his second home. It's a shame he didn't count on Stephanie being with Heidi. Like hell she would let anyone touch her.

Stephanie stood up quickly, when Heidi gasped and jerked away from Alexander's hand, which had touched her arm.

"Please, don't touch her," Stephanie said, walking over to Heidi and placing a hand on her arm, "Are you okay Madam?"

Heidi shook her head and said in a strain voice, "No, I need to go to the restroom, please, escort me there, Stephanie."

Stephanie helped Heidi up and led Heidi into the house, ignoring the Governors irritated exclamation.

"We need to leave, Stephanie," Heidi said softly, "I do not like this man; I want to leave this place now."

"Glad you said that, Heidi," Stephanie said, leading Heidi to the front door, "I'll put you in the car and go back for Jeanne."

"Stephanie, that man is a murderer, and a rapist, hurry and get Jeanne," Heidi whispered softly in Stephanie's ear, "I do not want to spend another minute here."

Stephanie placed Heidi in the SUV, told her not to open the door for anyone, and went to get Jeanne, who was having a staring contest with the Governor, "I'm sorry, but Madam has fallen quite ill, we need to take her back to the hotel."

Jeanne got up and hissed in Stephanie's ear, "Is she okay?"

Stephanie shook her head and said, "No, we need to leave, now." She waved goodbye to the Governor and then she and Jeanne went off to the SUV.

They were driving out the driveway of the Governor's mansion, when Heidi grabbed Stephanie's shoulder and said, "Do not go right, go left, go all the way down this road, until you see an abandoned field."

Stephanie did as she was told and drove past large homes and mansions, until she got to the end of the road. On the side of the road was a fenced in area that had 'do not trespass' signs all over it. Heidi climbed out the car, and walked over to the fence. She touched the weathered down wood post, and said, "Follow me," before she climbed over the fence and into the tall grass.

"Heidi!" Jeanne hissed, running after the woman, "What are you doing?! Where are you going?!"

Stephanie looked around, pulled her gun out of her thigh holster and followed the two women, her spidey senses going off.

Heidi led the two deep into the field, only stopping when she made it to a large oak tree situated in the middle of the field. Heidi turned to Jeanne and said softly, "Call the police, there are 8 women buried underneath this tree."

"How do you know that?!" Stephanie asked, her voice rising, "Heidi what is going on?!"

"I saw them, they were so young and naïve, he was older, handsome and wise, he led them out here, raped them and killed them. His family owns this land so no one would look for them here. Plus, he has money to bribe people." Heidi whispered, touching to the tree, "Thank goodness one brave soul came up to me in during the lunch, and told me where she was, if his touch had yielded nothing, her confession would have led me here."

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"I'm scared, Carlos," Stephanie whispered to the man as they watched as eight skeletons, still in their clothes, be bagged and carried off to the coroner's van, "How did Heidi know where these women were?"

Carlos turned to where Jeanne and Heidi stood in the field. Heidi was talking to a cop, giving him information about items that were taken off the victims and kept in the killer's home. He knew that something was different about the woman, but he would have never guessed this. His Great grandmother, before she had died, had told him as a child about people who could see things that most people couldn't see. Heidi had to be one of those people. He would confront the woman, the moment they were back in the hotel room. She had a lot to explain to him, and he had a feeling that she would bare her soul to him.

"Babe, let's get Heidi back to the SUV, she has a doctor appointment to keep and it seems she is getting a migraine." Carlos said, watching Heidi, lean against Jeanne, her eyes clenched shut.

"Have you finished asking all these questions?" Jeanne snapped to the detective in charge, "Like you said, the clothes on these bodies are from nearly 30 years ago, Madam is only 26, how in the hell would she kill these people fouryears before she was born, shit, look, here's my number, call us when you find the real killer."

Jeanne led Heidi away from the sputtering cops and said to Stephanie and Ranger, "Well, let's get the hell back to the hotel, I have no migraine medicine for Heidi and she is having one of the biggest ones she's ever had before."

"Stop snapping Jeanne, you are not helping," Heidi said, letting Stephanie lead her back to the SUV, where bobby was waiting for her, holding his medicine bag.

"Hey, Heidi," Bobby said, pulling a syringe and a bottle of medicine from his bag, "I have some morphine in my bag, do you want to use this or wait until-"

"Give me the drugs now," Heidi snapped her head throbbing, "please, let us do this in the SUV, all these people, and sounds…I feel faint."

Heidi placed her head in Jeanne's lap, letting the morphine soothe away the pain. That had been the worse migraine ever. They were on the way to the hospital, where Heidi would receive a CT scan of her brain. All those thoughts and the poor souls of those eight dead women, using her energy to get to the other side, it had all been too much for her. Heidi had simply let Jeanne lay her down in the back of the car with her head in Jeanne's lap. She was so tired now.

"Is she going to be alright?" Stephanie asked, watching Heidi breath in short shallow breaths, her eyes closed, "That looked like a bad headache."

"Sometimes, migraines can turn into seizures, I say we admit her into the hospital overnight," Bobby said, checking Heidi's pulse, "The migraine could come back."

"No," Heidi said, shaking her head, "No hospital, I will be fine, let me just get this scan and then go back to the hotel and get some rest."

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Stephanie sat beside Carlos, watching the Neurologist and Bobby spoke in hush voices away from each other. He looked baffled and unsure of himself. Like he had never seen a brain like Heidi's.

Bobby thanked the man and walked back to the group. Carlos rose an eyebrow up and said, "Well, what's going on with Heidi, any bleeding, or tumors."

"No, it's just the activity in her brain, the pattern is erratic and the neurologist was not able to pick up anything. He had never seen anything like it. Then again, she is labeled as a genius; most people who are geniuses, their brain patterns are different from other people. She's been given anti-seizure medicine to damping the severe migraines, but other than that, she's perfectly healthy, a night's rest will do her good."

Heidi pulled her dress back on, her back turned to Jeanne who was looking at her in concern, "I apologize Jeanne, I used some of my energy to send those poor women to the other side that is why the migraine was so bad today."

"So, like an exorcist." Jeanne whispered shaking her head, "That's not one of your gifts."

"The lady at the fortune telling shop told that many more gifts would manifest randomly." Heidi said, pulling her sandals on, "I did not know I would be this powerful, I guess there was a reason why I was abandoned at that orphanage."

Jeanne wrapped her arms around Heidi and said, "It was fate, right, that's what you always tell me."

Heidi smiled and said, "And fate will be at play tonight,"

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Such power, such wonderful power, every day, Heidi was making them fall In love with her more and more. They could not wait to hold the blind woman in their arms. They had yet to find the perfect set of eyes, a powerful person needed the most perfect eyes, not any would do. To exorcist sprits and ghosts was a rare gift indeed. But then again, with a pure soul such as Heidi's they expected no less from the woman. It had been a while since they've sent a gift to her, maybe a nice pair of hands that remind them of Heidi's dainty ones.

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The moment everyone had left to go freshen up for dinner, Carlos rounded on Heidi, who sighed and sat down in a chair, folding her hands in her laps.

"You're a psychic," Carlos said to the woman, making her smile and shake her head.

"I am not psychic, I am just able read thoughts, I can see your past present and future and I can see your soul. I am able to have visions and I can exorcist spirits. There are many more gifts I have, but they have yet to manifest. Heidi said softly, her eyes looking to Carlos's, "it all started after the accident that left me blind. The blindness trigger the gifts and now they are coming at a fast pace."

Carlos looked into Heidi's eyes and said, "You can read my thoughts, so that's how you knew about Stephanie."

"Yes, she was running through your mind, she must be a very important person for you to be thinking about her like that." Heidi said with a soft smile, "I mean you no harm Carlos, I apologize for reading your thoughts."

Carlos said, "It's no problem, my great grandmother, she told me about people like you, that you are able to see on a different plane or something."

"I can," Heidi said softly, her eyes bright, "It is a very scary thing sometimes, but I am not afraid of most of the Beings I see."

"You must not tell anyone, Carlos," Heidi said softly, "Just like my blindness, my gifts must remain a secret, only Jeanne knows, because she is the closet person I have to a family."

Carlos held his pinky finger out and said, "I pinky promise you, not to tell a soul."

Heidi frowned, but linked her pinky to his and said, "I accept your promise, Mr. Manoso, Such a childish gesture to use."

"It felt right." Was all Carlos said, making Heidi hum.

"Then it is fate that you were meant to promise me in this way." Heidi said with a smile, "Now, let us prepare for dinner, lobster is my favorite seafood you know."

TBC….