November 21st
"she's been sleeping a lot Tori we're scared" says CeeCee
"you have to understand she's living her dream CeeCee and she is talking but I have a feeling the cult had told her some things and brainwashed her on certain things, I tried to talk to her about dresses yesterday and she would hiss at me" says Tori
"the cult was a pure race cult, the difference between what the Nazi's did and what the cult did is the cult abducted children from around the world and 'purified' them usually requiring a bath in dilute bleach water, I did some research" says Jade
"what else did the cult do to her, wait, both Andrea and Sarah were abducted by the cult, why does Andrea seem unaffected" asks CeeCee
"from what I read each girl was in 'service' of a boy and were to do anything they wanted, the girls would be conditioned to the boys desires, based on what I've seen she was conditioned to be a sub lover who doesn't talk to any person of color or talk back to her lover, has no one else noticed how she stayed dead silent during supper last night, like she looked way too nervous to pipe in but I know what topics she likes because I asked her, she likes crocheting and embroidery and stuff oh and she wants a guitar" says Jade
"what kind of guitar" asks CeeCee
"the rare type of gibson les paul" says Jade
"a swamp ash Les Paul is going to be impossible to find, even if we do there is no way even Shane could afford it" says CeeCee feeling defeated
"normally it would be however one of Tori's new songs, let's just say she doesn't like how the electric guitar sounds with it so she's been on the hunt for a specific acoustic guitar so I've been in contact with a few guitar auctioneers and when Sarah said she wanted a swamp ash I contacted them and one said he's been having trouble convincing people a swamp ash Les Paul he was trying to auction was authentic so I sent him two grand to him so he could take it to Gibson and get it verified right down to the frets and he came back with this email this morning with a Gibson Canada official CC'd in emailing me the certified authentic paper and the Gibson Canada guy emailed me saying it is indeed authentic and the last of it's line and is worth over ten million dollars" says Jade
"we can't afford that, also what does the last of it's line mean" says CeeCee
"it means people have been buying up the swamp ash and stripping them down and 'updating' them, the guitar is on it's way, the guitar is Literally the only unmodified swamp ash les paul left on the planet, the auctioneer has lost money trying to sell that guitar at auctions so I cut a deal for a hundred grand and he agreed and thanked me, it arrives Monday" says Jade as Andrea walks in
"I can't believe you got her that guitar" says Andrea
"why are you here" asks Jade
"viral accident at the hospital in the research wing, I work in the psychology wing and its right next to the research wing so all but four employees are on paid leave till its contained, so I figured it would be a better use of my time to come here and visit" says Andrea as Sarah comes running and tackles Andrea
"please never leave" pleads Sarah
"why" asks Andrea
"I'm happy and all with my love bunnies but it's just not the same without you, I FOULD JO JO" says Sarah
"I haven't seen Jo Jo since I was eight Sarah, so he picked me as his girl in the cult and didn't want any changes, yes we had a bond but when he had his chance to run he took it, how do you manage to identify every kid from that cult, it's been YEARS Sarah there is no way they have any interest in me" says Andrea
"JoJo is here, I invited them over, they're excited to see you" says Sarah
"I swear to god if you planned this with Maria you could be arrested, she infected six of her colleagues when she dropped that vial" says Andrea fuming
"I did but that wasn't the way it was supposed to go, she's being sexually harassed at work and people saying things like 'maybe if I rape you those tremors will disappear', she hates being there but she needed the money for therapy for surviving that cult, you know that's why she has those tremors" says Sarah
"ok I need to call my boss, I'll talk to JoJo after as nervous as that makes me, what was her original plan to get away from them" says Andrea sitting up
"chemical burns, it was only meant to be bad enough for you to be scared to return to work and ask for time off, she never intended to harm anyone else but you KNOW what her work conditions are supposed to be, isolation, if she managed to infect others it's because people ignored her protocol and broke the rules of her hospital contract and were in her lab room when she dropped the vial" says Sarah
"you know you make some very good points, she is very careful about protocol, ok I need space and I'm taking Sarah with me, is there an empty room I can borrow" says Andrea
"while my art room isn't empty per se however it is sound proof so if you need to yell you can" says Mitchie
"ok…. but one question, why is your art room sound proofed" asks Andrea nervously
"I can see where your train of thought is going and trust me it's only soundproofed because I listen to my own music at near max volume and it can make people pissy sometimes, this way I'm the only person who can hear it" says Mitchie as Sarah leads her sister to the art room
With Andrea
"what is it Andrea, did you find anything out, I really don't want to believe that Maria intended to infect people willingly" asks HR manager Henry
"it's a sticky situation, she's being sexually harassed, Maria and my sister are close friends so it's not surprising that they talk, please read the part of her contract that mentions work conditions" says Andrea
"luckily I have it right here, I was reviewing it, it says 'Maria must work alone as her work is on eradicated diseases', may I ask why you asked me to read that" asks Henry
"think about it, she's a stickler for protocol, how could she have infected anyone after dropping that vial, she has her own decontamination shower and mask supply for that very reason, I'm assuming Jerry made you fire her" says Andrea
"this clears up a lot and yes I was ordered to fire her, however Jerry must have found out about the harassment because those three men and three women also lost their jobs for blatant disregard for protocol among other things, Maria is being taken in by Trisha Vega, some sort of modelling thing, I paid for the moving truck company to move her there from her apartment, all she knows is she's getting cheaper rent and therapy, she doesn't know she's returning to live with her aunt" says Henry
"I don't understand" says Andrea confused
"oh that's easy Maria's mom was Trisha's sister, it's not obvious but you can see the family resemblance when you compare Tori to Maria, same eyes, same curly hair type, they even both have tic disorders, though Tori's is way more severe" says Sarah proudly
"wait I've spoken to frank about health care needs and he most certainly does not have a tic disorder, I'd know because my sister had it, so Trisha must have it" says Henry
"not Trisha herself but that side of the family yes" says Sarah
"why do I feel like I'm being moved again" asks Andrea
"Frank Vega just approved the signing of the state's equal pay bill, hospitals are restructuring to accommodate that, we were over budget anyway, the hospital in the city you are in right now took your contract and upped your pay, they have the biggest budget on long Island because Frank runs donation drives, half of all money goes to subsidize hospital bills, something I wish our representative would do, anyway your lease needed to be renewed anyway so I gave them a call and informed them of the situation, they hired a mover, rather than sorting through everything they're just giving you the dresser and the beds and anything you tell them you want to keep, though as the bed had been basically trashed by your ex they request you pay for the replacement they gave you" says Henry
"I'll have to find the money, I'm still paying off the loan I had to take out for Sarah's meds, anyway I have someone I need to talk to, It was nice working around you" says Andrea as she hangs up and Sarah basically draggs Andrea to JoJo
"j-jojo bear" asks Andrea suddenly very self-conscious and blushing
"I can't believe you called me that, your sister is convinced you love me" says JoJo
"well she'd know" says Andrea
"I don't understand, you were forced to be with me, how could you love me, also how could Sarah possibly know you love me" asks JoJo
"trust me I tried my hardest to live a normal life, my thoughts always turned back to you, it didn't matter how sad it made me that you probably wanted nothing to do with me, my heart wanted you, Sarah has what the cult called the holy gift" says Andrea
"wait so does she have a message for me" asks JoJo
"I got my sister here didn't I Josephine, the rest is up to you" says Sarah
"dang so she really does have it, I've been praying for a chance to be around you again, your loving smile haunted my dreams, I tried to make myself believe that in a place like where we met shouldn't have been able to foster actual love, yet I tried to find you for two years, I only got my job at the grocery store because my sister vouched for me, she's something of a local legend when it comes to mental health problems, there hasn't been one case she couldn't figure out, the people here know that when she says something about someone's mental stability that it's to be taken as fact" says Josephine/JoJo
"so are you trans or fluid" asks Andrea blushing harder
"the latter, though I'm more girly than ever lately, do you love me" asks Josephine
"Forever and always JoJo, one question how did my sister find you" asks Andrea as she hugs Josephine
"no idea, all I know is she convinced my boss to give me a week off, she somehow knew I never had time off" says Josephine
"SARAH NAOMI PARKER, you know you aren't supposed to do that, you know it would have pissed mom and dad off" says Andrea
"they told me to, they said they wanted you to be happy, they know you pray every night and that you cry yourself to sleep, they told me to find JoJo and to do whatever I felt I needed to do to get there, you don't have the gift, I get that but you don't understand that when they ask me to do something I'm compelled to do as they ask, I lose my free will and only get it back once I've done what I'm asked to do, we seer's are bound by the light of God to do his bidding, the darkness of the devil is blinded by our light" says Sarah
"and by God's great gift we are bound to serve, I'm sorry Sarah, losing mom and dad was hard on me, then my ex raped you and you moved in when Jennie was born, I guess I made myself forget everything mom and dad taught us about the gift, how is Jennie anyway" says Andrea hugging Sarah and JoJo
"it's rough but she's taken a liking to Dani, not like romantically but like as her role model, Shane and Trina don't understand her at all, I guess it doesn't help she has an affinity for ancient and dead languages, she's not fond of English and will use any other language, if at all possible, she has quite the vocabulary for an almost three year old" says Sarah
"I'll just say this Sarah, the apple didn't fall far from the tree that gave it life, you were obsessed with Swedish shows growing up, you were fluent in Swedish before you turned two, mom was Spanish and dad was Italian, you refused to learn those languages so honestly it doesn't surprise me that she's obsessed with the ways of humanities root societies, after all you speak to those who have passed on, so if anything Jennie learning Ancient languages would be an extension of that so she is a literal extension of you, it certainly explains why she can look at a cereal and say nothing and you can pour her a bowl knowing she will eat it" says Andrea
"it's simpler than you think sis, she has eye twitches which honestly makes it surprising she can read at all because she can't walk straight, when she's hungry she makes sure I'm looking at her as her eyes twitch in a certain pattern, also you must not have noticed what she does with her hands at the same time as her eyes twitch" says Sarah as Andrea kisses JoJo
"the hand tremors, ya I noticed, that's why I always insisted you take her to the doctors every day but you refused to" says Andrea
"because I'd already tried once Andi, I borrowed some money and took the bus with Jennie, I got there and the doctor took one look at me and said I was forcing her to 'fake' the tremors so I could get attention, Shane and Tess took her to a doctor yesterday and guess what, the tremors are incurable, when I freaking took Jennie to the doctor it could have been fixed or at least minimized, it's a vitamin deficiency that has now become unfixable, the doctor is unwilling to try and give her high doses to try to fix it, she will be on supplements for the rest of her life and could go completely blind" says Sarah as Andrea and JoJo's jaws drop
"why didn't you tell me, I could have sued them for you" asks Andrea as she starts to cry
"well for one Jennie is scared of you, she saw me get made fun of everywhere we went, everyone laughed at me there, one time I was out with Jennie getting new clothes and these guys would come up behind me and pull my hair till I'd lose my balance and fall then they'd smack my butt and put their foot on my neck and take a picture, had I asked you to sue the doctor Jennie would be in a corner crying waiting for the news that you turned on me" says Sarah
"based on that then her not speaking English is a test" says Josephine
"huh" asks Andrea confused
"yup you got that right JoJo, she's both trying to impress people and determine who would cuddle her and I if we didn't speak English, Tess won her over by speaking French, Trina spoke some Spanish, CeeCee spoke Norse as you'd expect her to being that is where her parents came from, Shane is having a little bit of trouble figuring out how to cross that line, he's not good at speaking anything other than English" says Sarah