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Chapter Eight

Huang's Office

FBI Headquarters

Manhattan

Okay, Munch you have given me permission to perform a time regression exercise on you. I'm stating this for the record and I will begin the procedure now", Huang said addressing Munch who was sitting in a chair in the center of his office. The lights were dimmed so that the room was dark.

Regression Exercise John Munch

Day 1

"Okay Munch what we are going to do now is enter into time regression. We are going to regress back to the year of 1965. March 14, 1965," Huang said in a very calm voice. What's happening? Where are you?"

"I'm standing in my parent's sitting room surrounded by a lot of people. They all have on black. Everyone is whispering and they keep looking at me with curiosity in their eyes. I don't like it."

"Why are the people there, John?"

"They are here because my father killed himself and left me and my brother all alone with her."

"Who is she?"

"Priscilla Munch."

"How do you know her?"

"She's my mother and she hates me and Bernie. She says that we are worthless and will never amount to anything just like our father. Who couldn't even hold a decent job without getting laid off after five months. She's the reason why my father killed himself. But I'm so angry with him because he left me and Bernie alone with her. He shouldn't have done that. I think it might be my fault; maybe I didn't do enough. I wasn't a good enough kid for him to stick around even with her being there."

Huang grimaced at this.

"Where is your mother now?"

"She's in her room and she won't come out. She refused to go to the funeral saying that it's a waste of time. I hate my father right now, but I hate her even more."

Day 2

"Okay Munch, its May 1st 1965. What are you doing?"

"I'm outside on the playground. It's recess and me and my little brother are playing jacks by the step like we do everyday."

"Okay what happens next?"

"Frank and Peter come up to us and take 7 of my jacks. I tell them to give it back and they just laugh at meI kinda get fed up with it. This always happens. They always hassle me so today for some reason I decide to do something about it I lunge at Peter because he is the one always taunting me and calling me names, and saying bad things about my father. But he's ready for me. I guess I was too slow. He knees me in the stomach and I go down hard but he doesn't stop there he starts kicking me and all the kids surround us and they are screaming and the sound is deafening and all I feel is the pain of him kicking me. Finally Mrs. Brown, my sixth grade teacher comes over and breaks it up and drags me and Peter to the principals office where of course I get in the most trouble because Peter's father happens to be good friends with Principal Peterson it's all my fault of course. I was suspended and my mother had to come pick me up from school. She of course came into the office all in a huff. She was upset that I had caused her to miss her favorite soap opera. She then continued to berate me all the way home."

"When we finally got home there was someone waiting for us on our door step. He was a young man around twenty years old. I guess you could say he was handsome with curly brown hair and blue eyes. I vaguely recognized him but couldn't really place him. I couldn't figure out why he was on our doorstep. He introduced himself to my mother as David Stein. He then revealed where it was that I had seen him before. It was at the local synagogue that me and my brother used to go to with my father. He had a youth program that was just getting off it's feet and he thought I would be a prime candidate for it. My mother of course told him that I had just been suspended and that I was worthless on top of that and I would probably just bring him grief. He brushed off her comments and told her that I would be perfect and that's when I decided that David Stein was the best thing that could happen to me."

Day 6

"John, why are you crying?"

"Leave me alone, oh god."

"John?"

"I feel sick I think I'm going to throw up," Munch said and then proceeded to do so before Huang could react.

"John?"

"I can't believe it oh god." Munch said wiping his mouth.

"John what happened?"

"I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I didn't want to. He said it was okay, that it was normal that boys had been doing it since the Ancient Greeks. You know he knows a lot about history. He's the smartest person that I know."

"Who is he?"

"David, of course."

"He has been so great to me. I don't know why we had to do it."

"Do what?"

"You know he touched my, my,……..penis and we…we master.. bated each other. It didn't feel right. I don't know how I could do it. I threw up afterwards and he got so mad that he slapped me. He's never been mad at me before. I just got up and ran all the way home. Bernie tried to talk to me but I wouldn't let him in to my room. I cried all night."

"That next day I didn't go to youth camp."

"He came by that night and told my mom that we had had a situation. I watched them talking from the stairs. She told me to come down there right that second."

"I came down and I looked up at David my friend who had hurt me."

"David told my mom that there was no need for me to apologize as long as I came back that next day."

"And so I did."

Day 10

"Oh God." "It hurts so much. David said it would but that I should be a man and just take it. Oh god, Oh god, why?"

"It hurts. It hurts. Make him stop make him stop…"

"John? John?" Huang called.

John had passed out.

Day 12

"I did something stupid today and David is going to punish me."

"What did you do?"

"I told Mrs. Wilson, my seventh grade teacher, that someone was hurting me."

"She called my mom and my mother is going to talk to David to see if he knows anything about it tomorrow. He's going to kill me, he's going to kill me, he's going to kill me."

Day 13

Munch was shrieking at the top of his lungs and nothing Huang did seem to stop it.

It was starting to rattle Huang.

"John, John," Huang called as calmly as possible. "What's happening, John?"

"He's …He's…….. ah… he's carving something into the bottom of my foot with a knife. He said that it would teach me a lesson. Ahhh….. oh god it hurt's. Oh god. We were learning about the twelve tribes of Israel and he said that he would make sure that I always remember them Joseph, Judah, Issachar, Benjamin, Levi, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Simeon, Dan, Zebulun, Reuben. and I would always remember that what happened between me and him would stay private or Bernie would be next. I was leaving me, my mother, and brother but he said that if I wanted to keep Bernie safe I would forget this ever happened. It hurts so much."

"I have to tell Mrs. Wilson it was all a lie, if I want to keep Bernie safe."

"Munch, Munch you are awake."

Things started coming into to focus for Munch, but something was different he remembered. He remembered … everything. Munch hunched over and began sobbing.

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