Here is the first chapter of "Haunted by the past". It was very difficult for me to translate the whole chapter and I believe there some errors in the language. But I hope it's understandable.
Enjoy!
Translation from Japanese to English:
"Dozo tsukete kundasai" you can translate with call for help
1. Chapter "Coming home"
It is dimly lit and he couldn't see barely anything, but he can smell blood. The smell caused nausea and he feels like its drive him made.
Suddenly he sees her. Her eyes are open in a speechless cry and tears are on her eyelashes. He opens his mouth to cry, but he doesn't utter a sound.
He tries to get away from the evil in the room, but there was no escape. He begins to cry.
"Dozo tsukete kundasai!"
With a jerk Martin Fitzgerald sit up in his bed. He is bathed in sweat and his heart throb. Gradually he slows down.
Martin's throat was on fire, and his back, legs, and arms ached. He felt so weak, he wasn't sure if he could stand up anyway.
Despite of this he tortures out of the bed and walks to the open window.
There is a light breeze which stroke reassuring across his face. Then he has a look at his clock.
"Damn it! I will come to late again."
As quickly as possible he gets ready. He put on his coat and cursing the persistent cold that had nagged him for almost a week now. It wasn't bad.
He could ignore it – had ignored some colds before.
MPU
When Martin enters he bullpen, Elena, Vivian and Jack aren't their. It seems that the team has a new case. Danny shakes his head as Martin walks toward his desk and sit down in front of his computer.
But after a few minutes the background of his monitor aches in his eyes. He closes them and let his thoughts wander.
Slowly the memories of Fiona force its way through his heart, like a monsoon. Martin doesn't notice Sam's appearance behind him.
"Martin! Are you okay? What are you doing? Jack was mad, that you come late again this month. Be careful or you have serious problems. Beside we have a new case
and we could really need your help." She says and stands a cup of tea in front of him.
Martin opens his eyes; take the cup of tea and follows Sam. He already regrets that he stood up. His head pound over and over again and his whole body hurts.
"Fiona Campbell, 27 years old. Last seen yesterday at eleven o'clock in the morning when she leaves her apartment. Her employer called the police because she didn't come to work.
She was never too late or absent. Viv and Elena are searching for evidences in her apartment and Jack is talking to her employer.
As Sam steps back, it hit Martin hard. He knows the woman, who looks at him from the picture very good, too good. He would never forget those bright blue eyes, her snub nose and the little scar over her eyebrow.
Suddenly he feels weak like never before. The cup with tea slips out of his hand and shatters on the ground. Automatically he bends down to pick up the broken pieces.
"Martin, are you okay? You bleeds. Let me help you." Sam looks with concern at him. She guides him to his chair and get some dressing material for the wound at his hand.
Danny watchs at Martin. He is worried about him because Martin behaves strange since a few weeks. Danny stands up and he decides to mop up the ground with a cloth.
Then he walks toward Sam who is searching for a band-aid.
"What's going on with Martin? First of all he comes too late, then he can't concentrate on his work and in the end he let drop the cup. I have never seen him in such a frame of mind.
Something must be really wrong with him!"
"I don't know what happens to him, Danny. But you are right. He behaves really strange. But we should wait and see if he speaks with us."
Sam turns around and hurries to Martin. She gave him the band-aid. Afterwards she works her way through the finances of Fiona. Martin looks through the telephone conversations when he discovers that Danny sometimes looks at him with quick glances.
Martin doesn't know how to react. Should he tell them everything or should he better say nothing. He decides to wait.
Some hours later
First Vivian and Elena return from the inspection and tell the others their information.
"We haven't found anything interesting, except those old photos and something which is similar to a diary. Nowhere else we could find information about her past. It is very difficult to find out who she is.
There is nothing personal in her apartment. It's sparing and cold. I wish we could find out more about this young woman." Elena sighs and let herself plop into her chair.
"Let me see!" Sam says and grab for the photos and the diary.
Martin wants to stand up and snatch the things out of her hand, but he knows that his colleagues want to find Fiona and use everything, what is useful.
He has to be calm when he wants to know what happened to his little sister.
"We have to find out who are this boy and the man on the photos. They are maybe her brother and her father."
Samantha leafs through the book. The handwriting was filigree and on the one or other side there are little illustrations. It was obvious that Fiona has a talent for drawing.
"This sounds really interesting." She says and begins to read loud
"After all this years I have found the courage to observe my brother. He didn't notice me and it seems like yesterday as he stood in front of me. He didn't want me to leave but I had to go.
There was no hope for me. But the scene is five years ago.
Five years and the memories are in my blood, they are deep in my heart and they never let me rest. Often I lie awake because my thoughts torture me.
So many years passed away, but the death is like a shadow which never leaves me.
My brother always covers me with his love, warmth and safety which I ask for. In these moments all the teasing were forgotten. I was a normal girl with a normal family.
But nothing was normal!
THEY said everything will be all right, things will come right. But nothing would never, ever be the same again. Never!
It's time to go back and come loose from all the thoughts and memories which torture my heart and soul for such a long time!"
"It seems that she loves her brother very much. Maybe he can help us to find her and tell more about her life. We have to find him. I believe something happened in the past of the young woman and it's our job to discover what she suffers from."
When Martin hears the sentences from Fiona's diary his heart begins to ache. Never would be ever the same again. It happened too much and they couldn't it tell anyone. His father would be furious.
But to keep silence gave him and his siblings a lot of trouble. He has completed with the past and he didn't want to relive the traumatic years which followed the incident in their past.
In the next few hours the team tries to find out more about Fiona, but she has take care that nothing reveals from her past.
Then Martin decides to go to Jacks office. When he enters, Jack is looking up from his desk.
"Come in Martin and sit down!" he says.
Martin goes to the desk and sinks into the chair. He knows Jack would speak to his late come.
"Today, you were late again Martin." Jack begins "This shouldn't happen again or I have to do something!"
"I'm Sorry, Jack. At the moment I don't know what's wrong with me. All falls apart and I don't know what to do!"
Jack look up when Martin begins to tell. This isn't the cool and self-control Martin who is sitting in front of him. Jack was scared when he looks at Martin.
He doesn't look good, but rather pale, tired and exhausted.
"Are you okay, Martin? You look tired! Maybe you take a few days off and recover."
At first Martin is silent, but then he nods. He has to find Fiona, but he could do it better alone. He knows her best of all and now when Fiona is vanishing he couldn't concentrate on his work.
Because of her handicap she could come in a dangerous situation. Especially when she loses the most important thing she needs extremely.
"I think you're right." He sighs, stand up and leave Jacks office.
Jack looks thoughtful as Martin leaves his office. He doesn't want but he is worried about his agent. Something was definitely wrong!
Martin comes back, walks directly to his desk and grabs his things. The other agents look behind him when Martin leaves the bullpen in direction to the elevator.
The doors of the elevator close, Martin lean his head exhausted against the wall. His headache becomes from bad to worse and to top it all he get probably a cough.
His thought moves in a circle about Fiona and her disappearing.
How long has she been here and why she hadn't report to him? And now she is vanished and it tortures him that nobody knows what happened to her.
Slowly he climbs up the stairs to his apartment. The elevator was out of use, again.
After he enters his apartment, Martin goes directly to his telephone. He pushes the buttons of the telephone und wait that somebody takes off the phone at the other line.
"Hello?"
"Hi, that's me! Fiona is back!" Martin says.