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Note: I'm going to call Jane's wife, Joy.

Chapter Ten: Chaos in a bottle

Jane

Visiting hospitals has never been fun for me. They have always held dark memories for me. My Pops with cancer. My daughter, Gemini, being born. The birth hadn't been an easy one. I had almost lost my wife and newborn daughter because the birth had gone so bad.

My wife hadn't wanted to have any more children after that. She got her tubes tied. I was a little disappointed that Gemini would be an only child but I could not choose to risk the life of my wife. Eventually, Gemini became enough. Gemini had been such a rambunctious toddler.

Gemini had my wrapped around her little finger. I would do and buy anything for her. She brought out the good in me so it is a bit ironic that she got killed because of my pride. Gemini had been just like her mother. I had done everything for her mother too.

I had gone to visit Pops just because my wife, Joy, kept telling me that I needed to visit him. I didn't want to go. Pops had always been wickedly mean when he was grumpy and I had been sure that the chemo therapy was not making it easy for him to be happy. I would have been grumpy too if I had to deal with chemo therapy.

Joy kept bugging me about visiting Pops so I made sure that I had enough time to visit Pops once a week. Joy thought that I should visit him more often but I couldn't. I was angrier at Pops then I would have liked Joy to know. Joy had always been the forgiving type. She might have bugged me about forgiving him. I loved Joy like crazy but at times she drove me up the wall with her nagging.

Every week I visited Pops in his own hospital room. Somehow he had conned his way into having his own room. I am not sure how he accomplished that because he didn't have any time to research the mark. No matter how angry I was with my father I couldn't help but admire how charming he could be. Pops would always find something to nitpick me on. He didn't like that we were letting Gemini grow up as a mark. He didn't like that Gemini was not growing up with the Carnie folk. I couldn't blame him. What I and Joy were doing was a crime in the eyes of the Carnie folk.

He thought that I was letting Joy run my life and I kind of mentally agreed with him on that. I would do almost anything to get Joy to stop nagging me. She never let up about anything, but I couldn't have Pops picking on my wife like that so I would argue with him. I always found myself stomping out of that hospital room.

One night, I left like I always did. I could hear him shouting obscenities as I walked down the hall. I am not sure how much the nurses liked him. He had always been hard to live with. The next morning I got a call.

They told me that he had died around 2:00 a.m. I tried to feel sad that he was gone from my life but I couldn't feel it. All I felt was regret. He was gone for good. I could never see him again.

Hospitals have never held any good memories for me. It is a crying shame that I am going to have another memory to add. "Mr. Jane?" I hear a small voice peep out from the back of the car. Angela must have woken up when Cho swerved into the parking lot.

"Yeah?"

"Are we going to see Mommy?"

"We're going to see Mommy," I confirmed.

She immediately smiled at me. The grin reminded me of my wife. It had always been so full of light. Cho wordlessly parked the car, and then turned back so he could talk to Angela.

"Jane and I have some rules that we need you to follow."

"Okay," Angela peeped out from the back of the car.

"We need you to listen to and obey everything that we tell you to do."

"Okay."

"We need you to hold one of our hands as we go to see your Mom."

"Why?"

"To make sure that we do not lose you in the crowd," Cho told her.

"All right," Angela replied.

Author's note: Reviews are appreciated! The chapter is a bit shorter than the last one, but be patient and I will eventually reach my goal of having a 2,000 word chapter.

Wish that someone would make a Mentalist video on Youtube using Florence and the Machine. Most of her music fits so well with The Mentalist and since I have no idea on how to make a YouTube video….. (hint, hint)