~*~*~*~
Part 6
"Wow they really trashed this place huh?" said Carter as he and Martin picked their way around fallen chairs and tables, papers, crashed computers and filing cabinets- their contents spilling onto the floor.
"You could say that again. What exactly are we looking for anyway?" asked Martin, stopping in his tracks and looking back at Carter.
"A phone, fax machine, walkie-talkie what ever that will give us contact with the outside world."
"Do they even know where we are?" asked Martin, returning to the search this time with more energy.
"Huh." chuckled Carter lifting up a stack of files that had been thrown onto the floor to see what was underneath. "I should think so. The windows are blackened out with black paint. That's not something you see every day."
"Doc, get over here and give me a hand will ya?" asked Martin, stepping over a plant pot before picking up and placing his hand on the filing cabinets that lay on the floor, face down.
"Ok." said Carter, finally making his way over to the metal boxes. "On three." he directed, placing his left hand on the bottom and his right hand on top. Martin did the same. "One, two, three- oof!"
The cabinets groaned as the two lifted it up and placed it back in it's corner.
"Alleluia!" shouted Martin. as he jumped in excitement. Underneath all the tones of paper and metal lay a phone.
"Yes, but does it work?" said Carter as he leaned over and picked up the hand set.
Martin stood attentively, not wanting to be disappointed again but knowing that he might be.
Carter placed the receiver to his ear and at hearing the dial tone, breathed a sigh of relief. "It works."
Martin's smile went from an ordinary smile, to a grin and then to jumping around the room and hugging Carter.
"You BUETY!" he yelled as he and Carter danced round the office giving each other high fives.
~*~*~*~
Kate sat in her seat and not feeling much like her tea after the 'unpleasant moment'.
Sarah sat across from her, still shooting the 'what's going on' look at Kate.
She sighed. "I suppose you want to know what that was all about." said Kate, referring to her episode.
"Your damn right girl! Your the only best friend I have left, what do you expect." said Sarah, putting her cup down and crossing her arms in front of her and looking away.
"I just found out this today, but, um, I'm pregnant." said Kate hurriedly taking a gulp of her tea.
"Hey, that's great news! Right?" asked Sarah noticing that Kate didn't look too excited. "Oh yeah." she said, realizing the connection between the baby and Carter.
"How far along?" Sarah asked quietly.
"I don't know yet."
"Well, you know, John will be just fine." comforted Sarah with a big smile.
"Will he? Look I don't know anything Sarah, but being held hostage with a few hundred children in a school isn't something I would call fine." Kate calmed herself down a bit before continuing on. "What if he doesn't make it. What if he isn't here for..."
"Kate, quit it. What if he come's back and is the same as before. What if he couldn't be happier about the baby? You know your going to make yourself into a nervous wreck by the time he get's here!" reasoned Sarah.
"If he get's here at all." whispered back Kate, tears threatening to fall.
~*~*~*~
"Who are we going to call?" asked Martin as soon as they had gotten over finding the phone.
"Do you know the number for the Indianapolis police department?" asked Carter, suddenly weighing his options.
"Yeah it's..." rattled off Martin as Carter dialed frantically trying to keep up.
"Hello? I'm John Carter and I'm stuck in a high school filled with children....."
~*~*~*~
Sarah looked around the apartment and sighed. She certainly couldn't go back to Australia anytime soon. Kate had finally gotten to sleep and all that was left to do was to tidy up the place a bit. Not that it didn't need tiding but Sarah's body clock was still on Aussie time.
As she opened the nearest cardboard box, Sarah found frames. Each was wrapped neatly and covered in bubble wrap. She recognized these as being the items that used to be on her mantle. Carrying the box to the fire place, she put the box down on a chair.
Slowly and careful, Sarah placed the photo frame's in a decorative order, the smallest at the front and the largest at the back. Standing back to admire the work she had done, Sarah noticed that one frame was missing. Digging deeper into the box and taking out the unnecessary plastic, she found a beautiful glass frame. In this particular photo, which had been enlarged, Sarah and Kate were in the park with a bunch of their guy friends just fooling around quite a few years earlier.
***Flashback***
"Come on Kate, you'll look good in a photo!" said a tall gangly teen, that had a ridiculous camera in hand.
"Oh shut up Ronnie and stop haggering her for a kiss." yelled Sarah, giving him a friendly shove.
"Well didn't I just say that Kate would look beautiful in a photo? You don't have to shove me!"
"You had it coming!"
"Ok, ok, I'll have the damn picture if Sarah can be in it too." said Kate finally opening her mouth, hopeing to bring peace to the group. However her words just caused the bickering to worsen as the two fought about which spot the picture should be taken and at what angle. They had finally settled for a quiet place by the pond under a gigantic tree.
"Smile!" yelled Sarah as Kate wrapped her arms around her friends shoulders and they leaned in for a shot that had resulted in the professional looking picture.
***End flashback return to normal time***
Sarah smiled as she placed the frame in the middle of the mantle and began to build a log fire with the few logs that had been put by the fire place by someone as though they were planning on using them but never got round to it.
~*~*~*~
"Ok. Martin, you understand what you have to do, right?" asked Carter chucking the teen a walkie talkie that they had found.
"Yup. Find the classrooms with kids in them and start herding them to the library and try to find Crystal." said Martin nodding his head to let Carter that he understood perfectly.
"Right and I lock the bunch of idiots in the bathroom, ok? Don't call me until you get the kids safe or if you get into trouble."
"I won't get into trouble." said Martin.
"Just be careful, man, ok? You scared, Martin?" asked Carter softly, his hand on the younger boy's shoulders.
"Yeah, a little."
"Don't worry. So am I." admitted Carter as the two ran from the room in separate directions, each concentration on the task and not the fear they felt welling up inside them.
~*~*~*~
"Any news?" asked Kate walking into the living room to find Sarah polishing her piano. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and her straight red hair was all tangled and in a messy pony tail.
"No, nothing important. But a Dr Weaver called, said for you to call back." said Sarah, not looking up as she continued to rub at the hard surface. Kate just ran for the phone, not bothering to listen to the rest of the message.
"She said that it wasn't really important and that you could wait...."
Kate didn't care. She furiously dialed the direct number to the ER and anxiously waited for someone to pick up the phone.
"Randi? Is Dr Weaver there.. thanks..... Kerry, what happened.... Oh. Ok.... *really* I'm coming down there." and with that Kate put down the phone and without looking at Kate ran to her room.
"Kate what happened?" Sarah asked anxiously. When she didn't get a response, Sarah walked up to Kate and shook her gently. "What happened?"
Kate, as though she didn't know that Sarah was in the room, looked up surprised and shocked.
"He called. He called the police department."
"From where?"
"The school." answered Kate, pulling on a pair of jeans and an old t-shirt before slugging on an extra old and dirty looking pair odd sneakers.
"And where are you going."
"The hospital."
"Kate-"
"Sarah-"
The friends looked at each other, Kate pleading with Sarah, through her eye's to let her do this her own way, Sarah trying to convince Kate through her body language that this wasn't what she should do and should wait for more information.
"I.... have to go-" said Kate braking the silence as she rushed to the bathroom that was conveniently just across the hallway from the room the pair were standing in.
Sarah waited for a few seconds, thinking of how she could convince Kate to stay when she heard Kate begin to reach, then followed her into the bathroom and held Kate's red hair back from her pale face as she tried to chuck what ever was left in her stomach from her last bout of morning sickness and into the open toilet bowl.
At last, a few minuets later, Kate stood up rinsed her f ace and mouth out at the porcelain sink.
"Kate, I'll make a deal with you." said Sarah slowly, deciding on a plan of action.
Kate didn't say anything , but kept her head down in the sink, the tap running freely into the hole, the tap making a screeching sound as the aging metal squeezed the liquid out of the pipe and into the waiting plug hole, ready to take it back to it's place of origin.
"I'll let you go to the hospital if you let me come with you."
Kate finally lifted her head, turned off the tap and with a croaky voice from sickness, answered with a smile.
"Of course you can come. Your not trying to baby me are you?"
~*~*~*~
Carter watched as the two guards fought out side the men's toilets that he and Martin had been shoved through and told their twisted future. Chuckling to himself he watched carefully taking in all that was happening, and figuring a plan of action.
"You dofus! You should have never let them in there by them selves." said one guy, illustrating his frustration using his huge, large and masculine hands.
"Don't worry they will be out in a sec, would you like to drop a load infront of strangers? We could have been in there for hours." said the other, trying to state his point as quietly as possible but without success.
"So. At least they would be safe and have no chance of escape."
"Their locked in a toilet for god's sake- how could they get out?"
"I don't know but I'm telling you now, you don't mess with a doctor. They have all these special powers that can heal you from within!"
"Like I don't know! Of course I know. My brother was cured of leukemia when he was just seven. I respect those guys. Which is another reason why I let him in there!"
"Yeah, and you don't believe that, with their special and mystical powers that they won't magically fly through the wall or just creep through this door while we are out here fighting?"
The pair were silent for a second, both pondering what they had just discovered.
"You don't think so, do you?" asked the guy that had just suggested these magical powers that all the doctors of the world had just received.
"Well, I dunno. But it certainly is a possibility."
Carter couldn't believe what he was hearing and gave a low whistle to himself. 'Perhaps this was going to be easier than I thought...'
~*~*~*~
"Kerry!" called out Kate as she and Sarah entered the hospital's admit desk. "Nothing new since the last update?"
"No, I'm sorry. Your welcome to crash in one of the empty exam rooms, you don't look too well." said Kerry taking in Kate's pale face and haunted looks. Sarah nudged Kate as in to say 'I told you so!' Kate nudged Sarah back and noticed that she should be doing to introductions.
It suddenly dawned on Kate how quite Sarah seemed to be. Usually the one in charge, speaking her mind and offering her advice Sarah was now quiet and mouse-like, staying not quite beside Kate but a little further back.
"Kerry, I'm sorry. This is my best friend Dr Sarah Rapa. Sarah, this is Dr Kerry Weaver."
"It's nice to meet you!" said Kerry warmly, holding out her had.
Sarah shook it warmly and gave a small but comforting smile.
"Likewise." Sarah then turned to Kate.
"Are you going to stay here or go on home?" Kerry then left the desk and turned aound to verbally abuse the desk clerk and nurses who were watching the television, waiting for more insight to what had happened to their beloved resident.
"No. I'm not going back again I'll stay here."
"Ok. Suite yourself. But your not to see any patients or do any charts. *Nothing* work related ok?" said Sarah stressing on the work part.
"Yeah, I know. Kerry wouldn't let me anyway." said Kate making her way to the Lounge after checking the board.
"She know?"
"Nope."
~*~*~*~
Carter waited and waited. He watched as the two men listened at the door to the lavatory , trying to decide if the 'Doc' was using his special powers or not.
"What dose it sound like when a Doc uses his powers?"
"I dunno. I guess it's a kind of whizzing sound... you know?" The carrot head answered, twirling his left hand around as he pursed his lips together and blew strongly, his cheeks puffed out in a comical manner "Wufffffssszzzzzz".
His partner, twice the idiot concentrated on this weird 'whizzing' thing that carrot was doing as though it was the secret to 'what women want.'
Carter took this opportunity to open a store room closet door which he was leaning against.
Waiting till his eye's adjusted to the dimness to the room, he saw a long length of rope sitting just under the light switch. Grabbing that and a weird, dented plastic pipe that had been painted a shiny silver colour, he carefully left the room, not bothering to close the door behind him...
"Oh, ok. I understand."
"Do you hear something?" asked the carrot head.
"Yeah.... yeah, I think so!!" answered his partner. He turned around and looked down both ends of the corridor. "But it's not coming from inside the, then...."
Carter had the pipe in his hands, whizzing it round as though it was a magic wand. As it swiveled round and round, the air got trapped inside the tube and thus the whizzing had begun. The rope held ceremoniously by his right hand behind his back.
The men had noticed and turned around as though they were being whipped with fire on their backs.
"Who- who are you??"
"I'm Dr Johnahonagen. Here to see if you" said Carter pointing to the red with the pipe and then turning on his shorter partner "and you will be let into the holy Gates of Heaven or the Gates of Fire and Pain."
"Please, Master Doctor John-ahhhh..." said Carrot head, "We want to go to Heaven!!"
"Well, that depends." said Carter, deciding that he'd better stop swinging his pipe. He held it beside him, it's silver paint glowing in the florescent lights. "On how good you have been."
"Oh, we've been excellent Master!"
"Not a bad bone in our body!!"
"Well, isn't that for me to decide?" asked Carter using his voice with authority and lifted his head up majestically, doing his best to be a super Doc.
The two men stood silently as he pretended to 'cheak them over'.
"Ok. Fine." said Carter finally.
"What? What, did we pass?" anxiously asked the carrot head, his knees shaking with fear.
"You will pass as long as you complete the task that I am about to set you...." said John, walking up to the men in big, long strides.
He resumed the swinging of the plastic pipe and as soon as he got closer, close enough to intimidate them he pointed one long arm with his shirt torn in places, at the dark closet that was just around the corner...
~*~*~*~
occ: In regards to 'The Secret Life', Yeah, I know the story was crap and perhaps I will take the heart one day to go over what me and my cuz wrote. I'm sorry. I know I could have done better.
Part 6
"Wow they really trashed this place huh?" said Carter as he and Martin picked their way around fallen chairs and tables, papers, crashed computers and filing cabinets- their contents spilling onto the floor.
"You could say that again. What exactly are we looking for anyway?" asked Martin, stopping in his tracks and looking back at Carter.
"A phone, fax machine, walkie-talkie what ever that will give us contact with the outside world."
"Do they even know where we are?" asked Martin, returning to the search this time with more energy.
"Huh." chuckled Carter lifting up a stack of files that had been thrown onto the floor to see what was underneath. "I should think so. The windows are blackened out with black paint. That's not something you see every day."
"Doc, get over here and give me a hand will ya?" asked Martin, stepping over a plant pot before picking up and placing his hand on the filing cabinets that lay on the floor, face down.
"Ok." said Carter, finally making his way over to the metal boxes. "On three." he directed, placing his left hand on the bottom and his right hand on top. Martin did the same. "One, two, three- oof!"
The cabinets groaned as the two lifted it up and placed it back in it's corner.
"Alleluia!" shouted Martin. as he jumped in excitement. Underneath all the tones of paper and metal lay a phone.
"Yes, but does it work?" said Carter as he leaned over and picked up the hand set.
Martin stood attentively, not wanting to be disappointed again but knowing that he might be.
Carter placed the receiver to his ear and at hearing the dial tone, breathed a sigh of relief. "It works."
Martin's smile went from an ordinary smile, to a grin and then to jumping around the room and hugging Carter.
"You BUETY!" he yelled as he and Carter danced round the office giving each other high fives.
~*~*~*~
Kate sat in her seat and not feeling much like her tea after the 'unpleasant moment'.
Sarah sat across from her, still shooting the 'what's going on' look at Kate.
She sighed. "I suppose you want to know what that was all about." said Kate, referring to her episode.
"Your damn right girl! Your the only best friend I have left, what do you expect." said Sarah, putting her cup down and crossing her arms in front of her and looking away.
"I just found out this today, but, um, I'm pregnant." said Kate hurriedly taking a gulp of her tea.
"Hey, that's great news! Right?" asked Sarah noticing that Kate didn't look too excited. "Oh yeah." she said, realizing the connection between the baby and Carter.
"How far along?" Sarah asked quietly.
"I don't know yet."
"Well, you know, John will be just fine." comforted Sarah with a big smile.
"Will he? Look I don't know anything Sarah, but being held hostage with a few hundred children in a school isn't something I would call fine." Kate calmed herself down a bit before continuing on. "What if he doesn't make it. What if he isn't here for..."
"Kate, quit it. What if he come's back and is the same as before. What if he couldn't be happier about the baby? You know your going to make yourself into a nervous wreck by the time he get's here!" reasoned Sarah.
"If he get's here at all." whispered back Kate, tears threatening to fall.
~*~*~*~
"Who are we going to call?" asked Martin as soon as they had gotten over finding the phone.
"Do you know the number for the Indianapolis police department?" asked Carter, suddenly weighing his options.
"Yeah it's..." rattled off Martin as Carter dialed frantically trying to keep up.
"Hello? I'm John Carter and I'm stuck in a high school filled with children....."
~*~*~*~
Sarah looked around the apartment and sighed. She certainly couldn't go back to Australia anytime soon. Kate had finally gotten to sleep and all that was left to do was to tidy up the place a bit. Not that it didn't need tiding but Sarah's body clock was still on Aussie time.
As she opened the nearest cardboard box, Sarah found frames. Each was wrapped neatly and covered in bubble wrap. She recognized these as being the items that used to be on her mantle. Carrying the box to the fire place, she put the box down on a chair.
Slowly and careful, Sarah placed the photo frame's in a decorative order, the smallest at the front and the largest at the back. Standing back to admire the work she had done, Sarah noticed that one frame was missing. Digging deeper into the box and taking out the unnecessary plastic, she found a beautiful glass frame. In this particular photo, which had been enlarged, Sarah and Kate were in the park with a bunch of their guy friends just fooling around quite a few years earlier.
***Flashback***
"Come on Kate, you'll look good in a photo!" said a tall gangly teen, that had a ridiculous camera in hand.
"Oh shut up Ronnie and stop haggering her for a kiss." yelled Sarah, giving him a friendly shove.
"Well didn't I just say that Kate would look beautiful in a photo? You don't have to shove me!"
"You had it coming!"
"Ok, ok, I'll have the damn picture if Sarah can be in it too." said Kate finally opening her mouth, hopeing to bring peace to the group. However her words just caused the bickering to worsen as the two fought about which spot the picture should be taken and at what angle. They had finally settled for a quiet place by the pond under a gigantic tree.
"Smile!" yelled Sarah as Kate wrapped her arms around her friends shoulders and they leaned in for a shot that had resulted in the professional looking picture.
***End flashback return to normal time***
Sarah smiled as she placed the frame in the middle of the mantle and began to build a log fire with the few logs that had been put by the fire place by someone as though they were planning on using them but never got round to it.
~*~*~*~
"Ok. Martin, you understand what you have to do, right?" asked Carter chucking the teen a walkie talkie that they had found.
"Yup. Find the classrooms with kids in them and start herding them to the library and try to find Crystal." said Martin nodding his head to let Carter that he understood perfectly.
"Right and I lock the bunch of idiots in the bathroom, ok? Don't call me until you get the kids safe or if you get into trouble."
"I won't get into trouble." said Martin.
"Just be careful, man, ok? You scared, Martin?" asked Carter softly, his hand on the younger boy's shoulders.
"Yeah, a little."
"Don't worry. So am I." admitted Carter as the two ran from the room in separate directions, each concentration on the task and not the fear they felt welling up inside them.
~*~*~*~
"Any news?" asked Kate walking into the living room to find Sarah polishing her piano. She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and her straight red hair was all tangled and in a messy pony tail.
"No, nothing important. But a Dr Weaver called, said for you to call back." said Sarah, not looking up as she continued to rub at the hard surface. Kate just ran for the phone, not bothering to listen to the rest of the message.
"She said that it wasn't really important and that you could wait...."
Kate didn't care. She furiously dialed the direct number to the ER and anxiously waited for someone to pick up the phone.
"Randi? Is Dr Weaver there.. thanks..... Kerry, what happened.... Oh. Ok.... *really* I'm coming down there." and with that Kate put down the phone and without looking at Kate ran to her room.
"Kate what happened?" Sarah asked anxiously. When she didn't get a response, Sarah walked up to Kate and shook her gently. "What happened?"
Kate, as though she didn't know that Sarah was in the room, looked up surprised and shocked.
"He called. He called the police department."
"From where?"
"The school." answered Kate, pulling on a pair of jeans and an old t-shirt before slugging on an extra old and dirty looking pair odd sneakers.
"And where are you going."
"The hospital."
"Kate-"
"Sarah-"
The friends looked at each other, Kate pleading with Sarah, through her eye's to let her do this her own way, Sarah trying to convince Kate through her body language that this wasn't what she should do and should wait for more information.
"I.... have to go-" said Kate braking the silence as she rushed to the bathroom that was conveniently just across the hallway from the room the pair were standing in.
Sarah waited for a few seconds, thinking of how she could convince Kate to stay when she heard Kate begin to reach, then followed her into the bathroom and held Kate's red hair back from her pale face as she tried to chuck what ever was left in her stomach from her last bout of morning sickness and into the open toilet bowl.
At last, a few minuets later, Kate stood up rinsed her f ace and mouth out at the porcelain sink.
"Kate, I'll make a deal with you." said Sarah slowly, deciding on a plan of action.
Kate didn't say anything , but kept her head down in the sink, the tap running freely into the hole, the tap making a screeching sound as the aging metal squeezed the liquid out of the pipe and into the waiting plug hole, ready to take it back to it's place of origin.
"I'll let you go to the hospital if you let me come with you."
Kate finally lifted her head, turned off the tap and with a croaky voice from sickness, answered with a smile.
"Of course you can come. Your not trying to baby me are you?"
~*~*~*~
Carter watched as the two guards fought out side the men's toilets that he and Martin had been shoved through and told their twisted future. Chuckling to himself he watched carefully taking in all that was happening, and figuring a plan of action.
"You dofus! You should have never let them in there by them selves." said one guy, illustrating his frustration using his huge, large and masculine hands.
"Don't worry they will be out in a sec, would you like to drop a load infront of strangers? We could have been in there for hours." said the other, trying to state his point as quietly as possible but without success.
"So. At least they would be safe and have no chance of escape."
"Their locked in a toilet for god's sake- how could they get out?"
"I don't know but I'm telling you now, you don't mess with a doctor. They have all these special powers that can heal you from within!"
"Like I don't know! Of course I know. My brother was cured of leukemia when he was just seven. I respect those guys. Which is another reason why I let him in there!"
"Yeah, and you don't believe that, with their special and mystical powers that they won't magically fly through the wall or just creep through this door while we are out here fighting?"
The pair were silent for a second, both pondering what they had just discovered.
"You don't think so, do you?" asked the guy that had just suggested these magical powers that all the doctors of the world had just received.
"Well, I dunno. But it certainly is a possibility."
Carter couldn't believe what he was hearing and gave a low whistle to himself. 'Perhaps this was going to be easier than I thought...'
~*~*~*~
"Kerry!" called out Kate as she and Sarah entered the hospital's admit desk. "Nothing new since the last update?"
"No, I'm sorry. Your welcome to crash in one of the empty exam rooms, you don't look too well." said Kerry taking in Kate's pale face and haunted looks. Sarah nudged Kate as in to say 'I told you so!' Kate nudged Sarah back and noticed that she should be doing to introductions.
It suddenly dawned on Kate how quite Sarah seemed to be. Usually the one in charge, speaking her mind and offering her advice Sarah was now quiet and mouse-like, staying not quite beside Kate but a little further back.
"Kerry, I'm sorry. This is my best friend Dr Sarah Rapa. Sarah, this is Dr Kerry Weaver."
"It's nice to meet you!" said Kerry warmly, holding out her had.
Sarah shook it warmly and gave a small but comforting smile.
"Likewise." Sarah then turned to Kate.
"Are you going to stay here or go on home?" Kerry then left the desk and turned aound to verbally abuse the desk clerk and nurses who were watching the television, waiting for more insight to what had happened to their beloved resident.
"No. I'm not going back again I'll stay here."
"Ok. Suite yourself. But your not to see any patients or do any charts. *Nothing* work related ok?" said Sarah stressing on the work part.
"Yeah, I know. Kerry wouldn't let me anyway." said Kate making her way to the Lounge after checking the board.
"She know?"
"Nope."
~*~*~*~
Carter waited and waited. He watched as the two men listened at the door to the lavatory , trying to decide if the 'Doc' was using his special powers or not.
"What dose it sound like when a Doc uses his powers?"
"I dunno. I guess it's a kind of whizzing sound... you know?" The carrot head answered, twirling his left hand around as he pursed his lips together and blew strongly, his cheeks puffed out in a comical manner "Wufffffssszzzzzz".
His partner, twice the idiot concentrated on this weird 'whizzing' thing that carrot was doing as though it was the secret to 'what women want.'
Carter took this opportunity to open a store room closet door which he was leaning against.
Waiting till his eye's adjusted to the dimness to the room, he saw a long length of rope sitting just under the light switch. Grabbing that and a weird, dented plastic pipe that had been painted a shiny silver colour, he carefully left the room, not bothering to close the door behind him...
"Oh, ok. I understand."
"Do you hear something?" asked the carrot head.
"Yeah.... yeah, I think so!!" answered his partner. He turned around and looked down both ends of the corridor. "But it's not coming from inside the, then...."
Carter had the pipe in his hands, whizzing it round as though it was a magic wand. As it swiveled round and round, the air got trapped inside the tube and thus the whizzing had begun. The rope held ceremoniously by his right hand behind his back.
The men had noticed and turned around as though they were being whipped with fire on their backs.
"Who- who are you??"
"I'm Dr Johnahonagen. Here to see if you" said Carter pointing to the red with the pipe and then turning on his shorter partner "and you will be let into the holy Gates of Heaven or the Gates of Fire and Pain."
"Please, Master Doctor John-ahhhh..." said Carrot head, "We want to go to Heaven!!"
"Well, that depends." said Carter, deciding that he'd better stop swinging his pipe. He held it beside him, it's silver paint glowing in the florescent lights. "On how good you have been."
"Oh, we've been excellent Master!"
"Not a bad bone in our body!!"
"Well, isn't that for me to decide?" asked Carter using his voice with authority and lifted his head up majestically, doing his best to be a super Doc.
The two men stood silently as he pretended to 'cheak them over'.
"Ok. Fine." said Carter finally.
"What? What, did we pass?" anxiously asked the carrot head, his knees shaking with fear.
"You will pass as long as you complete the task that I am about to set you...." said John, walking up to the men in big, long strides.
He resumed the swinging of the plastic pipe and as soon as he got closer, close enough to intimidate them he pointed one long arm with his shirt torn in places, at the dark closet that was just around the corner...
~*~*~*~
occ: In regards to 'The Secret Life', Yeah, I know the story was crap and perhaps I will take the heart one day to go over what me and my cuz wrote. I'm sorry. I know I could have done better.