That was hard work, but I hope you enjoy with chapter four!
4. Chapter "echo of memory"
On the next morning, MPU 8:00 o'clock
Vivian is the first in the office the next morning when Jack enters the bullpen.
"Jack, we must talk." Vivian demands.
Jack sighs and leads the way to his office. Vivian closes the door behind them and holds a file in her right hand.
"I already got this document yesterday evening. Can you imagine what this file says?"
"Let me guess. Siobhan Chatterly is Victor's sister, she married Alexander Chatterly and Fiona is there daughter, also, they have two more children, Martin and Elaine."
"How do you know that?" Viv asks surprised.
"I spoke to Victor, he wasn't very communicative about his sister and her husband but at least he told me that."
"Was that all he said?" Jack looked Vivian carefully in the face.
"Why?" He could only ask.
"The Chatterleys had four children, but what happened to the fourth child, a girl, nobody knows." She said.
"How old was the girl when she vanished?"
"Catriona Elizabeth Hotaru Chatterley disappeared in 1981 at the age of nine years. Exactly the time Siobhan also disappeared."
Jack was puzzled by this fact "Wait a minute Vivian. When she was nine years old in 1981, today she would be 35 years old, as old as Martin." He murmured.
Vivian answered. "She would be as old as Martin because Catriona was his twin sister. They were born on October 29th, 1972, in San Francisco. The family moved six years later to Lexington, Kentucky, where Alexander was fatally injured in a shooting. One year later Elaine, Martin and Fiona were found when they wandered around on a highway. There were no traces of Siobhan or Catriona. Also there was nothing that pointed to a crime or a kidnapping, only some blood was found, but in 1981 the DNA analysis wasn't as developed, and the authorities were only able to fix the blood-type: 0 – one of the most wide-spread blood-type."
"So it's no wonder we have never heard about it. Victor told me that Siobhan often neglected her children after the death of her husband. He didn't want to talk about his sister and her life, I had the feeling he wanted to hide something."
"Maybe she hurt herself or hurt her children. I already tried to get documents from the hospital in Lexington, but it seems that there are some problems, because they can't find the documents."
"That's really strange. It seems that somebody doesn't want that the truth to come to the surface. Keep at it, Viv."
"You know me Jack; I will keep at it until I get these documents. The others will be in the office by now. We should update them on what we know."Jack thinks about this comment and nods.
After the meeting Samantha, Danny and Elena stand at Danny's desk and look at each other. What they had heard made them thoughtful.
"Did any of you know that Martin isn't Deputy Director Fitzgerald's biological son?" Elena turns to Danny and Sam.
Both answer in the negative.
"Why hasn't he said any word about that fact?" Danny asks the two women.
"We never asked and he maybe didn't want to speak about these private things, Danny. Can't you understand why he left yesterday? How you would feel when your family secrets are revealed, especially that your mother neglected you and then disappeared with your twin sister!" Sam says.
"Yeah, you're right, Sam, but he should have spoke with us when he saw the photo of his sister. Nevertheless it would be interesting to find out whose blood that is and what Martin knows. Maybe he doesn't want to talk with us because there is something he wants to hide. If Mrs. Morris is telling says the truth about Fiona's nightmares, she knows something as well. Before she disappeared she was maybe confronted with the events in her past and now she can't deal with it." Danny speculates.
"I don't know Danny. We should talk with Martin." Elena says.
"But Martin isn't available." and Danny storms out.
Elena and Sam look helplessly at each other.
Martin's apartment, 10:00 o'clock
After the discovery of Fiona's message, they went back to Martin's apartment. Elaine sent her brother directly to bed and when she entered his bedroom a few minutes later, Martin was already deeply and firmly asleep. Elaine made herself comfortable on the couch; she didn't want to leave her brother alone.
On the next morning Elaine awokefirst and on tiptoes checked on Martin. He is still warm, but he feels better than yesterday. Relieved she goes into the kitchen and begins to make breakfast, but Fiona is haunting her. Her sister doesn't like coffee and always drinks tea in the morning.
"You're dreaming about Quentin?" a voice behind Elaine asks.
She turns and Martin stands in the door.
"Do you feel better?" she only sighs. It was senseless to dictate something to Martin. He had been stubborn since he was a child.
"The fever is falling. You're trying to change the subject?" he smiles.
"I thought of Fiona. She liked her tea always with milk but without sugar. You know, we don't know anything what happened to her in the last years. What she has done; has she thought of us?"
A shadow lay over his handsome face and Elaine immediately wants to take back her question.
"Of course she thought of us, she was worried about us. She is our sister, we have gone through these bad times and we live. She cannot change that like her name."
And then there is a memory in Martin's mind
He has the feeling that fingers are around his neck. He cannot breathe. Where are you, Catriona?
You are my twin, my second half!
If he holds his breath, he must never say a word about the happenings in the past.
Then he sucks the air around him and closes his eyes so firmly, that no more light penetrates through his eyelids. Everything becomes black, but the pictures in his head are still there. He cannot stop it.
"Cait, stay with me" he wants to cry. But nothing comes out of his mouth.
"You believe she is okay? I'm so worried about her. I don't want to lose her that would be hardly bearable!" Elaine pulls Martin out of his memory.
He goes to Elaine and gives her a huge "I hope she is okay. You must believe it."
Victor sits in the airplane on the way to New York. Jack's information had made him nervous. Hardly anyone knows that he has a second sister and there is no need that the whole world finds it out.
He remembers the time when he saw Siobhan's children after she vanished; it was obvious that they had been neglected. It seems to him like yesterday when the three children sat in the sickroom.
Victor is nervous. The hospital called him because the children of his sister Siobhan had been found on a highway. He hasn't spoken with his sister since one year ago and now she was disappeared.
He breaths deeply and opens the door. The oldest child, Elaine looks up. She is similar to Siobhan with her red-blond hair and her freckles. In her eyes is fear and something more he couldn't interpret.
The youngest child doesn't pay attention to him and plays with bricks. The boy takes a look at him, but it seems he really doesn't look at him. There is no expression in his eyes, only emptiness and loneliness and this view causes Victor unease. Martin reminds him of Alexander, the nose, the mouth and those sapphire-blue eyes, but the look in his eyes is so much like Siobhan. A goose pimple rises on his back.
Victor had never made a secret of the fact he couldn't like Siobhan's husband. Since he came from Great Britain 14 years ago, his sister had fallen immediately in love with him.
Siobhan was graceful, almost fragile. Her face was perfect, but like glass and everybody was frightened to cut oneself on this beautiful face.
Cold and porcelain, a smile which wasn't a smile and a loneliness which was hidden behind her eyes. This was Bonnie's description of their sister.
It was an old-fashioned, oval face with a grace, regular nose, marked cheekbones and full lips, which were swung very slightly upwards in the corners of her mouth.
Siobhan eyes were large and stood far apart that lent to her face something antique as if it would come from a time of the Madonna's on the paints of Tizian.
Her eyes had the colour of a deep grey-blue. The most intensive had been her smile – the smile that wasn't a smile.
It was a suspicion of a smile and everybody longed for it to become real. You were longing so much for it that you would do anything to see it only one time.
And Alexander was successful. That's one of the reasons Victor couldn't like him. Secondly he was simply too perfect, loving husband and father and good in his job. And thirdly he spoke Japanese with the children. Why he had done this, he is English not an Asian. He would forbid speaking Japanese in his house, they were in the USA not Japan.
"Mr. Fitzgerald?" Dr. Smith asks for him and brings him back to the present.
"How are the children?" he turns around to the woman.
"The two girls are physically okay, but the boy has a bad concussion and didn't say a word since they were taking to hospital. Maybe it's a shock, but I really don't know. A psychologist should check him."
"We'll see. When I can take them with me?" Victor only says. He doesn't want to take care of them, but his guilty conscience overwhelmed him.
"You can take the children with you in a few days, but take special care for Martin. When you arrive at home, you should go with him to a doctor to check his concussion."
Victor says thanks to her and steps into the room where the children sit down.
MPU
Jack is on the way to the elevator, when someone shouts his name.
"Special Agent Jack Malone?" a slim man, in his 50's, with grey hair asks for him.
"Can I help you?" Jack asks.
"I believe you can do something for me. I am searching for Fiona, Elaine and Martin Chatterley."
"May I ask who you are?" Jack looks at him.
"I'm Agent Miller. I'm investigating a case in Lexington, Kentucky. We got an anonymous tip. It seems one of the three siblings sent us the information." Agent Miller explained.
"What makes you think that and what's it all about?" Jack asked confused.
"Because of this anonymous tip, we discovered two corpses in a secret hiding place in a house, six milesaway from Lexington. After some investigations we found out that Mrs. Siobhan Chatterley lived with her children in this house until she vanished. After her, nobody moved into the house."
Jack is overwhelmed. This case is going in new directions and he doesn't like it. Martin must really explain it all to him.