Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 852.

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Wuthering Dormice
(aka Bike)
Part 852
by Angharad
  
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I took them both up a sandwich, a drink and some crisps. To my astonishment, Trish was sitting on the edge of the bed and chattering with Danny. I couldn’t get over the change in the pair of them, talk about Pauline conversions. I left them chatting and eating and hoped it would last for the whole of the boys’ visit.

Going back downstairs I wondered if this is what the energy had done–it had taken away their respective barriers, enabling them to have a reasonable friendship. There was still a discrepancy in their ages, although girls mature earlier than boys, it would be nice to see Danny acting more like a big brother than an enemy.

Downstairs I found Billy and Livvie playing tiddlywinks in great competition, Meems was watching very closely, almost as if she was some sort of referee. Billy seemed to have the edge on the younger girl, but she was trying as best she could.

“You were a long time, Mummy,” noted Livvie.

“Was I? I had to take them up some lunch.”

“Is Danny better?”

“I don’t know, sweetheart.”

“Didn’t you do...you know?”

“No, sweetheart.”

“Why not?”

“It didn’t seem appropriate, it decides where it’s going to work and how.”

“Oh, okay–yippee,” she yelled as she managed a long range wink into the collecting pot.

“I’m gonna try vat,” said Billy and pinged his counter under the settee.

“How are you going to play that now?” I asked him.

“Um–I dunno, Auntie Cathy.”

“I suggest you have a rule whereby anyone who has one go under a piece of furniture, lets them bring it out and play from there.”

“Okay, Mummy, right can you get my counter out too,” said Livvie.

The two kids from upstairs came down, Danny still had his bandage around his eye and when I asked to have a look, his eye was still red and sore.

“Get, Mummy to have a go at it,” suggested Trish.

“I think we’ll leave well alone,” I replied, the last thing I wanted to do was to upset the truce they seemed to have.

I glanced out of the window, it was snowing again. I wondered if it would be a white Christmas, the experts thought not. They were probably correct.

The experts were correct, it had turned to rain and was washing away the white-stuff quite rapidly. The roads would be treacherous if it all froze.

For the next two days, Danny had the drops put in his eye twice a day, although they didn’t seem to be helping too much. Trish came up to me and asked if I could help Danny’s eye, she’d tried again and nothing happened.

“Perhaps all that’s supposed to happen already has.”

“Will you please try, Mummy?”

“Okay,”–I’d just turned out a loaf from the machine and reloaded the next mix into its chamber–“just let me finish this.” The other children were in the lounge playing quite happily together–they’d earlier walked around the garden in between showers.

We went into the dining room, and I explained that I might be able to help but I couldn’t guarantee anything. Danny seemed okay with that. I got him to sit down and placed my hands on his head, or where the energy seemed it needed to go.

“Wow, my head is feeling really warm, Auntie Cathy.”

“Say if it gets uncomfortable, won’t you?”

“Yeah, okay.”

A moment later he started talking, but not to either Trish or me. Trish looked quite worried, so I sent her out of the room.

He seemed in some sort of a trance: “Daddy, I don’t like you touching me there–it’s not nice...” he went on in this vein for some minutes, as if he was reliving his ordeal. I simply held him and when he seemed to be trembling, I spoke quietly to him.

“Danny, it’s Auntie Cathy, I’m not going to let anyone hurt you, sweetheart, so I want you to see these nasty people who hurt you, being locked in a cage, where they can’t hurt you ever again. See them in the cage and you turning the key––”

“I can’t,” he said, “they’ll grab me.”

“No they won’t, Danny, I’m here and I won’t let them. Feel the energy feel it surrounding you like a blue flame, can you see it?”

“Yes, Auntie.”

“Right, feel it burning anyone who tries to grab or attack you.”

“Ha ha, it burnt their fingers, go on, try again–they’re frightened of me because the fire burns them but not me.”

“It will help to protect you, Danny, it will help you to overcome the painful memories from the past when those people you trusted, hurt you. Providing you use it for good things it will always help you by protecting you from those who would do you harm. If you try to use it for your own desires, it will leave you–forever. Do you understand me?”

“Yes Auntie.”

“Have you locked the cage?”

“Yes Auntie.”

“If you look behind you, you will see a very strong box with a lock on the front. Inside that are all your painful memories, I want you to put the key to the cage in the box and lock the box. Can you do that?”

“I’ll try, Auntie.”

“Good boy.” I waited and asked him, “Have you done it?”

“Yes Auntie, there were some horrible things in that box.”

“I know and you were very brave, but remember, I’m here and so is the blue flame, we’ll protect you.”

“Yes, Auntie.”

“Now lift the box and carry it to the hole you can see to your right. Tell me when you are there.”

“I’m there, Auntie.”

“Be careful, but look down the hole, you can see it goes right down to the centre of the earth, you can see the flames from the magma–the molten rock that comes out of volcanoes. Now you can see the box is wooden, so if you dropped it down the hole, it would burn and so would all the stuff inside, including the key you put in there.”

I let him think about things for a moment. “I can feel it’s very hot, Auntie.”

“It’s about ten thousand degrees, Danny, hot enough to burn anything, including rock. I’m going to let you choose–you can drop the box and the key you have in your hand down the hole and everything in there will be destroyed, so the cage can never be unlocked.”

“Won’t they die if they’re locked in the cage for ever?”

“No, it’s not the real people, just their badness, what they did to you and possibly others, if that is locked in there, they can’t do it to you or anyone else.”

“Can I really drop this box and be rid of all the badness?”

“Yes, Danny, I promise–but it’s up to you, it’s your decision, you can keep it if you wish, but I warn you, it will grow heavier with every day that passes. Is it heavy now?”

“It’s getting heavier, Auntie Cathy.”

“So what do you want to do?”

“It’s getting too heavy, I’ll have to put it down.”

“You can’t put it down, Danny, you either carry it with you for the rest of your life or you throw it down the hole and be rid of it forever.”

“It’s so heavy, Auntie Cathy, can you help me carry it?”

“I can’t, Danny, it’s for you to carry or throw away, you must choose.”

“You promise me it won’t come back and the people in the cage will be alright?”

“I promise, Danny.”

“Okay, I’m going to throw it down the hole,” I felt his body heave as he released the box. “Cor, it’s burning with big blue flames–now it’s exploded into a huge yellow flame.”

“Stand back, Danny, the hole is going to close, so your pain can never get out of the earth and trouble you again.”

“Wow, Auntie Cathy, the hole just closed over–can I sit down now? I feel so tired.” He seemed to fall into a deep sleep and with difficulty, I managed to pick him up and place him on the settee. I sat with him for over an hour. Trish came in and asked if she could have a biscuit and a drink and I asked her to take one for the others as well.

“Is he alright?” she asked.

“He’s fine, I hope soon he’s going to be very much better.”

“He’ll still be a dumb boy, won’t he?”

“No.”

“What he’ll be a girl?”

“No, Trish, he’ll be a much happier boy–not everyone wants to be a girl.”

“Yeah–dumb boy,” she poked out her tongue at me and scampered out of the room.

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Thank you so much for the Prezzi

... you always the best gifts: Yourself.

Oh and thanks for the episode also :).

Give a pet to Bonzi for me also.

Kim

Cathy Gave Him

A Gift far beyond anything from under the tree. Angharad, you need to post a Bike-asode in the contest.

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine
    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

nice...well sorta

kristina l s's picture

Thanks for keeping up the flow Ang and have a good day, just gone midnight there I think.

Kristina

I have been reading this

I have been reading this series from early on. I love it and thank you for the thrills, suspence and warmth that you have generated. I need to get out more and you inspire me to go for it. Merry Christmas.

Cheryl pinkwestch

Thanx

for taking the time out of a busy Christmas Eve to give us a prezzie.

And there was me

Thinking the worst of Danny....Trust Cathy to see beyond the exterior poor Danny had thrown up to try and protect himself....So lets hope that now he's free of his burden Danny can learn to trust in those around him and realise that not everyone wishes to harm him.

Merry christmas everyone.

Hugs Kirri

Now this is nice

The girls seem to enjoy having the boys around and vice-versa.

I really hope the family will be able to help Danny with this problem .Being molested is an horrible thing especially if it come from a parental figure and there's no doubt that Danny will need all the support and love he can have (and I am sure he will give back whatever is given to him).

Lily. :)

Angharad, what nice way to

Angharad, what nice way to get a person to unload their past troubles, conflicts, and fears. I really liked Cathy's approach with Danny. Jan

Wow, what a christmas gift for Danny

I'd been skeptical but I'm starting to see Cathy's brood getting a little bigger. Loved Trish's questions and response at the end.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Growing family

Athena N's picture

Of course she's getting lots of children. We already know that -- her mum said so ages ago, soon after her death.

But yes, this was a good chapter. Different kinds of tears, and some of the good ones at the end. Thank you for the Christmas present, and happy passing-the-winter-solstice holidays.

So...

What happened to Danny's parents? Did they suddenly become nicer people? Just asking.

A parting Christmas gift ?

Wow ! Cathy now exorcise our personal demons. Danny was sexually abused by his father. That would explain his attitude, he probably felt less then manly (gay?) because of it. He attacked Patrick to prove he's a manly boy.

Cefin