CHAPTER 9 BABY TALK

Days had passed and Jocelyn was in a coma. She Had a collapsed lung severe loss of blood, as well as twenty-two stitches across her chest.

"Ann…Ann…wake up." Dominic shook his sister softly

Ann jerked awake. "Jocelyn?"

"No Dominic, Ann you have to go home for a while Candy is waiting for you, and is going to take you to shower and sleep."

"Dominic, what happened to her the only thing she said was he pushed me. Who was it Dominic, why is our family cursed? Dominic, what are we going to do if she dies?" Ann slipping into hysterics.

"Antoinette, look at me; you have to pull it together. She's going to be fine, but the others need you to. Elizabeth and Breanna needs to know that your o.k."

Just then Breanna comes padding into the room looking somber and subdued. "Breanna how did you get here?" The pair asked in unison.

"I brought her, Ace stepping into the room she needed to see you and she has something to tell you."

Breanna started making wild hand movements, and Ace bent down next to her and whispered something. Breanna took a deep breath, and went slower with her hand movements as word escaped her lips.

"DDARK…MAMAMAN…ON…ON…TOP…OF…ROCK…"

Dominic and Ann both amazed at what they had just heard thought that was the end of her sentence and bent down kissing and hugging Breanna, but Breanna pushed them away staring with anger, and began her sentence again.

"DDARK…MAMMAN…ON…ON…TOP…OF…ROCK..PUSH …SISTER"

Dominic stared at Breanna and calmly asked her if she was done, and Breanna shook her head up and down.

Ace Picked Breanna up and hugged her. "Now was that so hard?" Breanna shook her head in reply. "Go wait with Jarred and Elizabeth in the hall o.k. Branna padded out as if nothing had just happened.

Ann Hugged Ace "How did you get her to talk?"

"She was trying to tell me something, but I just couldn't get it, so she finally got mad at me, and started talking. That's great news, but right now my concern is who pushed Jocelyn?"

"I don't know, but I'll kill the son of a bitch."

A morbid look on Dominic's face told Ann that hell was about to break loose in Castle Rock, and no one was going to stop it. Dominic placed a hand on his sister's shoulder, and she shrugged it off walking to the door.

"I know who did this Dominic."

"You don't know that Ann."

"If I don't know that, than why do you know what I'm thinking?"

"He always said he was going to find her, and now he did Dominic."

"Ann you don't know that."

"Dominic, He hated us all. He hated us, Kanickie, Rizzo, Danny, He hated us all. Yet he wanted nothing more than our sister; than Jocelyn. You know it was him!"

"Ann we have to look at this logically."

"No I don't! Our sister is lying in a bed just about dead, and we know who did it." Ann took off in a run. She ran, through the hospital, out the doors and into the streets. The rain was falling at as fast of a rate as her tears.

"WHY?" Ann screamed into the night running until she came to the end of town and collapsed to her knees sobbing.

"Why do you hate us? What have we done? What have I done? My parents, my sister, Why?"

"Nothing" she thought no voice from the air. No reason behind it all. Ann sat in the rain looking out beyond the town until her tears slowed, yet even after the tears had stopped the rain had not, and she sat in the rain.