(aka Bike, est. 2007) Part 2226 by Angharad Copyright © 2013 Angharad
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My blood froze, it wasn’t Sammi.
“Are you sure it’s my child?”
“The woman who came in with her said you were her mother.”
“What Danni?”
“Danielle Maiden, is that correct?”
“What happened?”
“I can’t tell you over the phone.”
“Where is she?”
“Come to A&E.”
“I’m on my way.”
“Danni’s in hospital, I have to dash.”
“Get her some clean clothes, Simon get the car ready,” Stella barked at us and I dashed upstairs and packed a case with a couple of nightdresses, some toiletries, toothbrush, some makeup and as I closed the case I wondered what had happened. I’m going to have two of them in there now.
Simon dropped me outside A&E and went off to park the car, I ran into the entrance hall realising I still had my slippers on. Fortunately they can pass as light shoes, but I knew they were my slippers. I spoke to reception to be told she was in surgery and that a social worker was being paged to come and see me. Wonderful–all I need is for them to consider I’m a poor mother and they might look to settle some old grudges with me. I felt a little happier when Simon arrived before the social worker.
We sat together neither of us knowing what had happened to Danni but it must be nasty if they’ve sent for a social worker. I was lost in my thoughts when I heard someone calling my name.
“Mr and Mrs Cameron?”
I looked up and there before stood a man who looked like a young Denzil Washington. We shook hands and he told us his name was Michael Moses. He led us off to a consulting room just beyond reception.
“You realise that when a child is badly injured we become involved?”
We both nodded but he stifled our questions with a wave explaining that he needed to ask us some questions. “Why is your son wearing girl’s clothes and calling himself, Danielle?”
“Because that’s how she wants to present herself.”
“Are you sure it’s not you who want him to dress like a girl?”
“We’re not answering any further questions until either we have a lawyer here or you start telling us what the hell has happened.”
“I don’t do intimidation, I work to the law.”
“Are we under arrest?”
“No, this is all voluntary.”
“It was, we’re leaving and we’re speaking to the doctor in charge.”
“Mr Cameron, your son is in surgery.”
“What?” I gasped. “What happened to her?”
“It seems her friend tried to give her a sex change.”
“Oh my god, no wonder she snuck out of the house early. Surely she didn’t agree to this?”
“She was admitted by ambulance suffering from severe damage to her genitals and blood loss. Her surgeon is in custody as are both her parents.” He paused while I dealt with my shock. “Now you see why I have to ask you some questions, there could well be a police investigation arising from this.”
I nodded and Simon’s grip on my sweaty hand loosened a little.
“I see that nearly every male who has entered your household has ended up switching gender.”
I shrugged.
“One or maybe two I could deem unusual but possibly coincidence, but you seem to do it on an industrial scale.”
Simon’s hand tightened on my own. “It isn’t what you think,” he said.
“Isn’t it? It’s got to be one helluvah coincidence that every boy you meet wants to change sex–is it because you did?”
“No. There is a perfectly good explanation for each one except Danielle. To be honest I was unhappy when he wanted us to start treating him like a girl. I called in Dr Stephanie Cauldwell to assess him and she advised allowing him to be her until she grew out of it. Neither of us saw this coming.”
“Would you mind if I spoke with Dr Cauldwell about Daniel.”
“I’d be grateful if you could give her the courtesy of referring to her in the gender she currently prefers.”
He gave me a filthy look and it seemed he was just trying to find an excuse to label me some sort of pervert. However, after I spoke to him for an hour about the children’s histories he sounded as if he was losing a bit of his prejudice. He was calling Danni, Danielle at the end.
“Do we know how badly she’s injured?” I asked.
“I don’t have details except major loss of blood and genital mutilation. Good job Mr O’Rourke was here today.”
“He’s operating on her?”
“Yes.”
“My other daughter is on one of the wards, d’you mind if I go and see her?”
“I think we’ve finished for the moment, please don’t leave the hospital without speaking to me first.”
I agreed and then Simon and I went up to the surgical ward to see Sammi sitting by her bed with a face like thunder. We went in and she smiled and we hugged and then she hugged Simon. “Can you believe it, I’m just about ready to go down for prepping and the sister came in and told me they’d just had an emergency and Mr O’Rourke was called to theatre. Just my flipping luck.”
“That’s the only problem of being seen in a main hospital, emergencies take priority.”
“Yeah, but–well, you know how worked up I was last night...”
“Tell her,” said Simon.
“Tell me what?” Sammi looked curiously at me.
“The reason you’ve been postponed.”
“An emergency–so they said.”
“It’s Danni.”
“What? What’s happened to her?”
“Let’s go for a little walk.” Simon suggested looking round at the otherwise bored ladies lying on their beds or sitting beside them.
Telling the sister where she was going, Sammi accompanied us down to a small apse in the corridor and we sat and talked and I told her what we’d gleaned from the social worker.
“So the little cow has done a DIY job even though she knows I was down to be done today. I hope she bloody well bleeds to death, selfish little shit.”
“I hope you don’t mean that,” I said quietly.
“But she knew I was being done today–why has she screwed this up for me?”
“I don’t know, sweetheart.”
“She knew how worried I was about it.”
“We all knew that, I’m sorry, sweetheart.”
“God knows when I’ll get done now...”
“I’ll speak with O’Rourke and arrange something as soon as possible, even if I have to pay for it.” Simon poured some oil on stormy waters and Sammi relaxed a little.
“Thank you, Daddy, I do appreciate it.” She hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
A nurse walked up and said, “Mr and Mrs Cameron, you’re wanted down in A&E.” We hugged and kissed with Sammi and escorted her back to the ward then went downstairs to the A&E reception.
“What’s been going on here?” asked Ken Nicholls.
“I wish I knew,” I shrugged.
“Mick is on his way down, I think your girl is going to survive, but I hope she doesn’t want to revert, I think she just joined the female team on a permanent basis.”
Comments
Thank you
Angharad for the anwer to the question on all Bike readers mind being posted so early, At last i can get off the cliff edge... Until the next time.
So Danni has gone and done it, Silly girl, Its all so final for her, Lets hope that her mind really does match her new body, I do wonder however how much of what happened was down to Pia, Seems to she was never going to give up until Danni was the same as herself , Now she seems to have got her wish lets hope everything turns out for the best for everyone... Something tells me though there is going to be a hard road ahead for all concerned...
Kirri
Maybe not voluntary
Now I am wondering if, on this trip round the mountain, if perhaps Daniell's "Friend" somehow did violence on her? With both the parents in custody, perhaps the plod saw sufficient probable cause to think they had a part in it, thinking that they were loopers? Now Danielle will have to live with it wanted or not.
Gwendolyn
Definitely not voluntary
“Mr Cameron, your son is in surgery.”
“What?” I gasped. “What happened to her?”
“It seems her friend tried to give her a sex change.”
This makes it quite clear that it was Pia's actions that resulted in Danni requiring immediate surgery. I would not be surprised to find Pia at least being charged with something or other (GBH, I suppose?), and maybe Pia's parents as well.
As no one in the Cameron household had any idea of what was happening beyond Danni visiting Pia, I doubt any of them would be charged.
Suspicions Confirmed
But we certainly don't have all the answers. There are so many possibilities, but all we can hope for is the best for Danni's physical and mental health.
Portia
And you will never see Pia again
Peer groups can cause kids trouble they might not have found on their own. I think it's past time to break this peer group up.
Thanks Angharad. I've been reading it since the first chapter and I'm so addicted that I know the most common time that your posts show up and I'm heading to the computer! I really appreciate all the time and effort you've put into this story.
You try to protect your
children, and what you worry will happen does and your never sure if it was forced on them or asked for.
With 2 teenagers and soon to have 4 infants all I can hope is that the twins continue to be so aware and that their siblings will turn out the same.
Goddess Bless you
Love Desiree
Danni is forever?
I hope not. Perhaps the blue light and the Goddess or at least the Goddess has something to do with this? And we still don't know what the will of the Goddess is concerning Cathy. Could it be something to do with the health, feeding and care for Transgendered and Transsexuals?
Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?
Katrina Gayle "Stormy" Storm
Well it looks as though ...
Danielle is probably going to have to live with 'something' but lord knows what, yet. After all if the genitalia have been mutilated, how much material remains for the surgeons to work with whatever the surgically preferred direction (not to mention the psychological one!). If stuff has been cut away, who knows what options remain; in all probability very limited and potentially unsatisfactory ones.
Thanks Ang, the cliff edge still remains in this case at least until there is some indication of what courses are open to the surgeons.
Still lovin' it.
Bevs.
xxxx
What did they do?
Really didn't expect this. After Pia nearly died you'd think they'd know that self surgery doesn't work. Poor Danni - what have you done to yourself?
I'm actually...
I'm actually sort of hoping she was attacked, oddly enough. Would mean that there's less wrong in Dannie's head, comparitively.
And I'm re-reading the entire series. I just got passed Billie dying again :X