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The visit to the hospital had been a nightmare. It was too much to take in, with a the wires and beeps and liquids pouring in and out of his father's body.
Hamish didn't want to think about it.
Instead, the next day at school he tried to keep preoccupied, as busy as possible. He did more than he ever would normally in every piece of work. He never let his mind drift, all his conversations were about something other than his father. He was in the middle of talking to Scarlett about cats (why he didn't know, but Scarlett did like cats) when she stopped him and said:
"You know, Hamish, talking might help."
Hamish stopped and looked down, "how? Every time I close my eyes I see him lying on that..." He stopped.
"Hamish, he isn't dead."
"He looked it."
"You would too."
"But..He isn't supposed to look like that."
Scarlett put her arm around him, "Hamish it's ok to be sad, but you have to understand that it will be ok in the end. It's bad now but later you will be grateful that you have your Father back alive in the end."
Hamish but his lip. It bled and blood filled his felt sick.
"Tell me a story about him. A good memory or something." She said, smiling.
Hamish waited a while and then kicked the floor. "Fine... Ummm, well this one time father and I were in the kitchen."
Scarlett sat down on a chair in the canteen, "go on."
Hamish sat down next to her, "and father had this great idea for an experiment. So we started it, he let me burn all the metals and acids while he mixed all the chemicals together-"
"- where do you get all of this stuff?" Scarlett asked.
"Oh Molly likes to help. Also father tells the yard that they are for a case. To be honest they usually are. Anyway, in the middle of the experiment dad called, saying that we needed to get a take away for dinner. So father handed me the money and I set off to get fish and chips. I like fish and chips." He grinned at Scarlett for the first time in days, "I was gone for a while and when I got back my father was burning all my dad's jumpers on the bunsen."
"Oh," said Scarlett.
"Yes. Anyway, either the bunsen or the jumper had magnesium in it so when it burned...Well, it's good we were looking the other way."
"Why?"
"When you burn magnesium it gives off a huge bright white light. If you look at it you are blinded."
"Oh." Scarlett laughed, "Im guessing you didn't do that again."
Hamish shrugged, "actually, no. Father said it was interesting and we did it to the rest of the jumpers. Well, until dad got home."
"What happened then?"
"He sat in his chair and told us to warm up his chips. It happens too often for him to care anymore." Hamish smiled. That was a normal evening in 221b..He hoped that it could happen again.
Scarlett smiled, "well that's good isn't it? You will still be able to enjoy stuff like that."
Hamish nodded, "yeah, I guess we will."
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