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 George Douglas - 18

   Kathy was sitting in the large chair in front of the fire again.  She
was so relaxed that the house could have been burning down and she wouldn't
have moved.  She knew that people were talking but she couldn't hear what
they were saying.

   DS Clark was talking to Jessica, with Cathy listening in.  "I'm telling
you that you don't need to put her through all that again.  There's enough
evidence on the net.  We know who he is and where he is."

   "She has to unburden herself, she need to purge the repress feelings she
suffered from her system.  She has to speak out." Jessica was keeping her
voice low although she didn't need to.

   Clark shook his head in annoyance, "Fine!  If you believe that who am I
to dissuade you?  But Cathy shouldn't have to listen to this.  You can't
defend that can you?"

   Jessica was going to answer but Cathy's calm voice interrupted her. 
"I'm afraid I have to be here.  I promised Kathy that I would be here for
her.  I'm not going to break that promise, no matter what she says."

   Clark looked at the young girl, at the determined look in her eye.  "You
could wait outside the room until Jessica has finished . . ." He faltered
in his words as Cathy kept looking at him.  The look in her eye now told
him to give up!

   Cathy regarded him for a moment before saying, "when Sharon and I were
in the bunker we had each other.  But Kathy had nobody to hold her and tell
her everything would be alright.  I've got to be here now so that she knows
we care."

   Clark tried another approach.  "But what does Kathy think?  Does she
actually want you to know this?  Well Kathy?  *Kathy*?"

   "She can't hear you Mr Clark, not until I allow her to," Cathy told him.

   "But how can she just sit there like that?" Clark was looking at Kathy
who was sitting straight backed and unseeing.

   "She's comfortable.  In her mind she's sitting in a large armchair in
front of a warm fire.  It's a happy memory of hers and she feels safe
there. When we're ready she'll wake up and decide whether to carry on with
the story." Cathy looked at Clark, "This is something she wants to do Mr.
Clark, we're not forcing her to do this, and when she, not us but her,
decides that she doesn't want to carry on . . .  then that's it.  End of
story."

   "But how is it going to affect her future life?" Clark tried to reason
with both the women in the room; he was thinking of Cathy as a woman more
than the child she appeared to be.

   Jessica spoke, "She will never be the young girl that she should have
been.  We can't change that.  All we can do is to show her that it isn't
her fault and that she's got nothing to worry about.  And it's up to you to
ensure that this Jason is put away!"

   Clark nodded "Yes . . .  Well we've got to get him bang to rights. 
Either with one of the kids or while taking a kid."

   Cathy looked at him.  "Well I'm working on that.  But I'll show you
tomorrow - with any luck." Her eyes told him that was all she was going to
say.

   Clark looked at Cathy and Jessica before throwing his hands in the air.
"Alright carry on if you have to.  I just hope it does help her!" he walked
towards the door as he did so the refrain of a song came to him `_*Those
little eyes so helpless and appealing, someday might flash and send you
crashing through the ceiling!  Thank `eaven for Little Girls without them
what might. . .*_' `_What might indeed_' he thought to himself

   Cathy looked at Jessica as Clark walked out of the room and closed the
door.  "He's really worried about her, and he's never even got to know
her!"

   Jessica nodded sadly.  "Yes he does, he's one of the better people that
I know of, and there aren't many of them." She looked back at Kathy who was
still unseeing.  "I wonder if we are right in doing this, we could just
block out everything that Jason has done to her."

   Cathy shook her head.  "And she'll always wonder what else we've done to
her.  No this is better in the long term.  I know it!" Again it was that
different Cathy who answered the question.  Then young Cathy spoke up. 
"Well shall we start again?" she asked.

   -------------------

   Kathy heard Jessica talking to her.  She knew that Cathy was with her,
holding her hand, and Kathy felt very relaxed.

   "Kathy, do you know who I am?" That was a daft question as far as Kathy
was concerned.

   "Yes, you're Dr.  Jessica!" she answered in a calm voice, the change
from the comfortable chair to the seat in this room wasn't worrying her at
all.

   "Kathy we need to go back to the next meeting you had with Jason."
Jessica said to her.

   "Don't you want to know what Charlotte and me did after the last time?"
Cathy asked.

   "Did you hate it?" Jessica asked,

   Kathy smiled, "No, I liked that.  It was so nice," she said dreamily.

   Jessica smiled at her tone and shook her head, "No that's fine Kathy. 
We're only concentrating on what you were made to do."

   "Remember Kathy if you don't want to continue just say so and we'll stop
right there and then," Cathy told her friend while holding tightly to her
hand.

   Kathy took a deep breath, nodded and then . . .

   -

   "About time you turned up!  I was about to call Charlotte again!  I'm
glad you wore that dress, I've got good feelings about that." Jason was
smiling at Kathy.  "I'm expecting Colin to be around today, David played
with Charlotte yesterday.  But first I've got to check on something." Jason
took her by the shoulders and steered her into the other room.

   "I haven't told anyone!" Kathy said anxiously frightened that he was
going to hurt her, - well even more than he did when he touched her the
other day.

   "Oh I know you haven't `cause you'd be taken into prison so fast!  I
told you, as long as you did what I asked I wouldn't get you arrested."
Jason enforced that lie as he sat down and made Kathy stand in front of
him.

   "Now just stand like that while I remove these from you." She felt his
hand on her legs as he went under her skirt and then he drew down her
knickers.  Making her lift each foot as he took them off her legs.  "Aww.
How nice, these make you look like a little girl." Jason said as he
examined them.

   He then put the knickers down beside him and his hands moved under her
skirt again.  Then she felt him pushing at her, where Charlotte had licked
her the other day.  This wasn't a nice feeling.  She started to stand on
her tip-toes as he pushed.  Then he stopped and looked at her.

   "Have you played with yourself down there before?" Jason demanded.

   Kathy was shocked!  Why would he ask her such a question?  She'd never
even considered that, well not until after that afternoon with Charlotte.
"Of course not, that's dirty!" Kathy told him

   He gave her a . . .  not a smile exactly, she wasn't sure what it was
but she didn't like it!  "So you're cherry are you?  Stay there!" He went
to a drawer and removed a metal snake-like object with a light at the end
of it.  He attached one end to a video camera and started to put something
on the other end of it.  "Better make it nice and slippery," he said which
puzzled Kathy.

   Then Jason approached Kathy.  "Right love up on that table and raise
your knees."

   Kathy was getting scared now.  "Why?  What are you going to do?"

   Jason smiled, that same unnerving smile, as he said, "I'm making sure
you've been a very good girl." Then his voice became gruffer.  "So get on
that table.  NOW!"

   Totally frightened Kathy did as she was told.  As she raised her knees
she pulled her dress up over them.  Jason just sneered at her.  "What's
wrong girl, you ain't got nothing I've not seen before.  Now relax and just
lie there!" She could hear him, near her feet working another camera, and
then he started to pull her knees apart, she tried to relax but her body
tensed up.  "Jesus girl.  Don't get so jumpy!  I'm making sure that you're
still cherry!  Now pull those knees apart!"

   She still didn't understand what he meant but slowly she opened her
legs, the fabric of her dress falling back to her hips as she did so.  Then
she felt something cold touching her and then she cried out as it seemed to
stab into her.  "No!  Please it hurts!" she said.

   "You need to open yourself more girl, lift you body up!" Jason told her,
but Kathy couldn't move, she felt impaled on the cold thing and didn't want
to have any more of it in her.

   Then she felt something rubbing her bum, and then it was pushed inside
her, she tried to get away from it, but the only direction was up and as
she did so the metal thing went further inside her.

   "Heh!  I thought that would work.  A nice little Goosing to open your
pussy." Jason said as he moved his finger in and out of her anus.  The
metal object was now moving in further and Jason sucked in a deep breath of
air.  "There it is, ain't it pretty!" She felt the metal thing being moved
around inside her before it was slowly pulled out but the finger remained
in her.

   "Now then, it wasn't that bad was it darling?" Jason asked her as he
looked down on her face.  "All we're going to do now is to make sure it
stays that way.  Well until I decide otherwise that is!  You know what I
mean girl?" He started to move his finger back and forth inside her as she
shook her head.  He grinned, "No!  I don't suppose you do!  Good."

   There was a sound from the door, two knocks, pause and then three
knocks. "Come in Colin!" Jason shouted Kathy looked around in shock, a boy
just a bit older than she was walked in and just looked at her.

   Kathy blushed and tried to hide her body with the dress, but Jason just
laughed and pulled it out of her hands.

   "Just in time kid I've just started!  You carry on with this while I get
everything ready." Jason pulled his finger out from Kathy's backside and
then watched as Colin pushed his in and started to move it just as Jason
had.  "Oh yes, don't touch her pussy.  She's cherry and she's going to stay
that way." He moved his face close to Colin's and snarled.  "So you better
not get carried away.  Or you'll get carried away!  Got it?"

   Colin leaned back and nodded his head.  At the same time pushing his
finger in deeper inside Kathy's bum.  "That hurts!  Don't!" she said but
the boy just laughed at her.

   "Get used to it, I had to!" and moved a bit faster.

   Kathy grimaced but Colin just smiled and kept up the action.  Kathy
asked him to rub her front just to help her but Colin shook his head,
"Nope! Jason told me not to touch you there!"

   "And you better not!" He carried a large box with him and placed it on
the floor beside the table.  "Now let's see, we need to cover the prize so
that you boys aren't tempted to break it!" He picked up something from the
box and looked at it.  Colin glanced sideways and laughed.  Then Jason
moved Colin to one side so that he still had his finger buried inside Kathy
and then he moved the girls' legs together.  She felt two bands being
pulled up her legs and then she was turned slightly and something was tied
around her waist.

   When she was able to look down she could see that her privates were
covered by a triangle of rubber with a no-entry sign across the front of
it. The cover was held in place by elastic going around each leg and a tie
going around her waist.

   Jason tried to get his finger under the triangle but failed, he nodded
his head.  "Just right!" He looked at Kathy and shook his finger at her. 
"Now listen girl.  The next time you come here you will put this on after
you take off you knickers, if you wear any!  And you are not to touch
yourself down there or put anything inside yourself, understand!"

   Kathy could only nod dumbly.  As if she would do something so dangerous
like that, she could hurt herself.  Except she remembered how Charlotte's
tongue had felt `down there' and wanted to get that feeling back.

   She looked at Colin, "Please lick me down there." She pleaded with him
but he shook his head in disgust.

   "No way!  I'm not doing that!" But Jason gave a small smile and
whispered into Colin's ear.  Still Colin shook his head.  Then Jason's
expression changed and he said something else which made Colin go white in
the face.

   Colin turned to face Kathy and then lowered his face to her stomach. 
She felt his tongue start to move over the lower half of her body until he
touched her private parts.  Then she felt his finger invade her even more
which again pushed her hips up to meet his mouth.

   "She hit me," Colin complained to Jason who had been watching.

   "Don't worry about it boy, you'll have your chance later." Jason smirked
while he picked up another camera and started filming the boy as he licked
at Kathy's privates.

   Kathy liked the sensation of that tongue on her but the finger moving
behind her stopped her from having that wonderful feeling.  All too soon
Jason called the licking to a halt.

   Colin was away from her as quickly as he could be but his finger was
still moving inside her.

   "Please take it out; I don't want you doing that any more!" she pleaded
with him, but Jason spoke up.

   "I'll tell him to do that.  But what are you going to do for him?" She
looked up at the boy's face.  There was a look on it that she didn't like.

   "I . . .  I don't know!  I don't know what he wants!" She said almost in
a panic, "But I don't like his finger there!" As she was saying that Colin
pushed his finger in again.  "Oww.  Please don't do that!"

   "Yes Colin, don't do that.  What she needs is something to occupy
herself there.  Wait a minute I've got just the thing." She heard Jason
moving things in the box again and then there was a satisfied cry.  "Yes! I
knew it was here." And he held up a long hair brush; at least that was what
it seemed to Kathy.  It had long hair stuck into a short handle.  Then she
looked at the handle.  It had a narrow shaft which quickly expanded into a
bowl shape and then tapered back to a narrow shaft.

   Jason smiled at Colin who was watching him closely as Jason lowered his
hand with the handle pointing to Colin's finger.  At Jason's nod Colin
quickly pulled his finger out and Jason just as quickly pushed forward. 
Kathy tried to scream as she felt the narrow end enter her and then she was
stretched to accept the bulge before the narrow end was tight against her.

   Then Colin grabbed hold of her hand and held then together as Jason took
a pair of small handcuffs and put them on her wrists stopping her from
using her hands to pull on the plug that he had put inside her.  "Get up
now little horse!" Jason laughed at her.

   Kathy didn't know what he meant but she gratefully scrabbled off the
table to crouch as the pressure in her backside forced her into that
position.  Jason was still filming her as she ran around feeling the hair
against her legs trying to expel the thing inside her.

   "Hold on girl.  You've forgotten something!" Jason's voice called her
from her actions.  She looked at him with fear on her face.  "You promise
to do what Colin needs and I'll undo your hands."

   "Will you take that . . .  that thing out of me?" she started to beg of
Jason.

   "I thought you looked rather cute with that in you, but I'll promise you
that I'll take it out - after you've finished." Jason said

   Kathy thought for a few minutes, the plug in her was hurting her and
helped to make up her mind.  "Okay I'll do it, what ever it is!" she said
quietly.

   "That's good girl, you've promised on tape and you'll have to keep that
promise, now what do you want her to do, Colin?" Jason looked at the boy.

   "I want her to do to me what I did to her!" Colin said.

   "That doesn't sound too bad to me, does it Kathy?" Jason said in a happy
voice

   Kathy didn't quite understand, he wanted her to lick him.  That sounded
okay after all she done that with Charlotte and she liked doing it.  "Okay
I will," she said cautiously.

   "Fine!  Now come here and I'll take your handcuffs off," Jason told her.
She didn't want them on anymore and so she almost ran to him.  And to her
surprise he did exactly what he said he would do.  She went to pull the
plug out of her when he stopped her.  "No yet girl and now lose the dress!"

   "What, but I though you wanted me to . . ." she started to say but then
Colin pulled on the tail behind her making her scream as the plug started
to move inside her.  She tried to turn and hit him but Jason held onto her.

   "You will, but you won't be wearing anything.  Now come on girl it's not
like I've never seen you undressed!" She looked at Colin and Jason smiled,
"Oh!  I see what's worrying you.  Colin, you get undressed as well."

   The boy didn't argue but started to take off his clothes right there. 
Finally he was standing in just his underwear, White Y-Fronts with a
strange shape inside them.  Colin was going to pull them off when Jason
stopped him.

   "No, not just yet." He turned to Kathy, "Now then off with the dress."
From his tone she knew that it was impossible to protest and so she started
to undo the zip and allowed Jason to pull the dress up over her head. 
While this was happening Jason placed the camera on a stand and focused it
on the two children.

   "Now girl, you can finish off what Colin started." He pointed to Colin's
Y-fronts.

   Now Kathy wasn't too sure what she would see.  Her parents had stopped
her from attending the sex education classes on the grounds that it was
their responsibility to teach her . . .  only when she was a bit older. 
And so although she'd heard from other school friends about the difference
between girls and boys, she'd never actually seen `it' for herself.

   She gripped the material and pulled the pants down.  The boy's cock
seemed to spring out at her making her move back in surprise.  It wasn't
like she'd been told and she didn't think she could even touch it, let
alone . . .  She couldn't do it!  No way would she lick it!

   "I can't, I'm sorry but I can't do it!" she started to say but Jason
went behind her and was keeping her on her knees.

   "Don't be like that!  You promised Colin that you would do what he
wanted you to do.  And you really don't want to break your promise.  After
all your mother wouldn't like it would she?" There was a threat behind the
voice, almost as if he was going to do something that Kathy wouldn't like.

   "No, she wouldn't.  But I don't think she'd want me to do this!" Kathy
thought this might make him stop but he didn't.

   "Hey, listen kid if you do this I won't have to do anything about your
mamma, will I?  Something that both you and she wouldn't like.  So what
about it?" Jason said close to her ear.

   "Alright!  But leave my mother alone!" Kathy almost spat out the words.

   "Of course girl, anything you say, you're in complete control here." And
then to contradict his words he pointed to Colin's body.  "Just carry out
your promise.  I'll stand here and make sure you do."

   She looked up at the boy who was smiling down at her, again it was a
cruel smile and she vowed that if she had the chance she'd never have
anything to do with boys again.  "Well, start licking me!"

   It was alright to begin with she thought but then Jason started to move
her head over Colin's cock and didn't seem happy with her just licking it.
"Open you mouth Kathy and see what happens," Jason told her.

   "I don't want to!  You told me to lick him only," Kathy said, feeling
tears pricking at her eyes.

   "So you're going to lick his entire prick so you might as well do it
properly.  So open or else!" Resignedly she did as she was told and felt
disgusted as Colin's cock brushed over her teeth.  "Don't bite it just suck
on it for a while." Jason instructed her while he pushed her head forwards
making the boy's cock hit the back of her throat. . . .  -----

   Abruptly Kathy found herself back in the chair by the fire.  She was
confused.  Why was she back here?

   Then she saw Cathy's standing beside her.  "What happened?" Kathy asked
her.

   Cathy smiled at her in a relieved way, "I'm glad you're alright, you
were screaming out that we had to stop the session."

   Kathy started to cry again, "I'm sorry.  I didn't mean to." But she was
stopped from saying any more.

   "No Kathy it's not your fault, Jessica is amazed that you were able to
tell us so much.  But she thinks that you really need to stop thinking
about how much Jason hurt you, not all men are like that!" Cathy told her.

   "Well they were!" Kathy said and a screen showed up with three male
faces on it.  Cathy recognised the three men who raided the house and
caught Kathy.  She concentrated and then two faces appeared on the screen.
Jameson and Frank, Kathy's father.

   "But they're not are they?" Cathy said.

   "No they're not, but they're not the type of men I mean." Kathy was
getting flustered, "I mean they're good, but Colin and Jason were mean and
nasty."

   "Yes, they were.  But then just think about Colin, what did he tell you
when he first touched you."

   Kathy thought back and then as if by radio Colin's voice could be heard,
"_Get used to it, I had to_!"

   Cathy pressed home her advantage.  "You heard that.  He had to get used
to it!  Not that he wanted to but he had to!  There was no choice given to
him either!  He'd been used by Jason just as you had been!  His manners had
been altered by what Jason had made him do, just like yours would have been
if you had stayed with Jason!"

   Kathy tried to protest, "But he liked what he was doing to me!"

   Cathy sighed, "But was it because Jason wasn't touching him?  And you
are also a pretty girl you know"

   "What's that got to do with it?" Kathy was getting confused by the way
the subject was being changed.

   "Everything!  Men always like pretty girls you know!" Cathy smiled at
her friend.

   "So maybe I'd better get ugly and fat, and then they wouldn't look at
me!" Kathy said heatedly

   Cathy sighed again, this was getting difficult.  "But that would be
wrong!  Why change your looks just for stupid reasons.  Charlotte wasn't
nasty to you was she?"

   The picture on the screen changed to Charlotte's head and shoulders, the
background was of a pink girl's bedroom.  And Charlotte was smiling.  Kathy
looked at the picture and she smiled as well in memory.  "No, she was
forced to do what she did to me by Jason, but she didn't want to do it, she
told me that!"

   "But she still did it anyway!" Cathy pressed home her advantage.

   "I told you she didn't want to do it, but Jason forced her to!" Kathy
almost shouted at her friend, she still thought of Cathy as her friend
though.

   "Just as he was forcing Colin?" Cathy continued to press.

   "Yes - I mean No, I . . .  I don't know!" Kathy sat back into the chair
and covered her eyes, she started to sob.  She felt Cathy's arms around
her.

   "You are confused at the moment.  You need to rest and time to sort out
your feelings.  Why don't you return to the real world and go to bed.  I'll
get Sally to prepare you a supper to leave by your bed for when you wake
up, alright?" Cathy's voice was persuasive.  Kathy gave a sleepy nod and
vanished from the room.  Cathy smiled and looked around, "This is a very
nice place to be in, but I'll have to return to the real world as well."

   --

   Jessica was worried, Kathy had started to scream out while in her trance
and then she just went catatonic, she wasn't responding to either Cathy's
or her voice.  Jessica was going beyond worried and was almost panicking.

   Then Cathy looked at her with a strange look on her face, "I won't be
too long." And she also went into a trance.  No amount of shaking could
bring the girls out from their trances.

   Finally she hit the panic button calling Sally and Jameson to the room,
Sally was professional in her actions, checking the breathing of the two
girls and taking their pulses.  Then she looked up at something which
Jessica couldn't see and said "We need Dr.  Quinn here now!"

   She then picked up Kathy leaving Cathy for Jameson to carry into the
bedroom, after which he was ushered out of the room.

   When Dr.  Mary Quinn arrived she found Jameson pacing outside the
bedroom like an expectant father.  "Haven't you got work to do?" she asked
him, he gave her a blank look and then glanced at his watch.

   "Oh my!  I have to get the dinner prepared and the korks and fnives to
put out!" Jameson was agitated and this was reflected in his manner.

   Mary glanced at him and handed him two tablets.  "I suggest you take
these and sit down for a few minutes.  I'll be out to see you soon." She
then went into the bedroom where Sally had already dressed the two girls
ready for bed.

   "Hmm now let's see what's going on." Mary said as she raised the eyelids
of both girls.  "Well they're reacting to light so there's nothing wrong
there.  What were they doing?" she asked Jessica while taking the girls
pulses.

   "Well Kathy was in a trance going over some disturbing events when she
started to scream out, and then after a few minutes she stopped and was
just sitting there, not moving or speaking.  I didn't know what to do but
then Cathy touched her forehead and then told me that she wouldn't be too
long.  Then she went just the same.  That was when I called for help,"
Jessica explained.

   Mary looked at the two girls and smiled, "Oh well then that explains
it!" she said.

   "Explains what?" Jessica was mystified.

   "Why their pulses are in synchronisation.  There's nothing wrong
medically with them.  It's just that their minds have gone walkabout.  All
we can do is to leave them alone until they decide to return." Mary spoke
in such a matter of fact tone that Jessica couldn't believe she could be so
calm.

   "What are you on about?  They're catatonic!  They need help! 
Electro-therapy perhaps?" Jessica was trying to clutch to straws.

   Mary just calmly shook her head, "Now my dear, this isn't the middle
ages.  If their condition lasts more than a couple of hours I might
consider I.V.'s to help maintain their fluid levels, but nothing more than
that." She sat Jessica down and held her hands.  "You see my dear what has
happened is this, Cathy has entered Kathy's mind.  She's trying to find her
friend and convince her to return to us!"

   Jessica was shocked at hearing this.  "How can you say that?  You moan
at me for calling on electro_therapy and this you come out with that! 
People can't just enter each other's minds, it's impossible!"

   Mary smiled at her, "Bumble-bees!" was all she said.  At Jessica's
puzzled look she expanded.  "It's scientifically impossible for bumble-bees
to fly . . .  except nobody's ever told them apparently.  Science doesn't
know everything my dear.  You should have learnt that by now." A noise from
one of the two sleeping girls made all three women look to the bed.  Kathy
was rubbing her eyes.

   "Where am I," she said as she took in the three women near her.  Jessica
got up and walked to her.

   "I'm sorry we caused you so much distress," she told the girl.

   "Oh, Cathy's already told me that!" Kathy said quickly, "She also said
that I'd have to stop worrying about Jason and the nasty things he did. 
But really that was the last time I went there `cause mum didn't want me
away from the house as dad wasn't home.  And then the next thing was I was
here and couldn't go anyway."

   Jessica looked at the girl, this was the longest sentence she'd heard
from the girl when she wasn't under hypnosis.  "Where did you see Cathy?"
Jessica had to ask.

   "Oh she was in that room.  I don't know how she got there, but we just
spoke for a while and she told me to come back here.  Where is Cathy?" It
was only now that she noticed that Cathy wasn't with her.  She turned over
in the bed to see the form of her friend beside her.

   "What's wrong with her?" Cathy asked.  Mary was quick to answer.

   "Nothing is wrong with her my dear, she's just sleeping.  She'll awaken
soon." Kathy accepted this and then looked around again before yawning

   "I'm sorry but I feel so tired, is it okay if I have a nap?" she asked

   Jessica smiled in relief, "Of course you can Kathy, sweet dreams," she
added as she watched the girl lie back in the bed and close her eyes, her
breathing slowing as she slipped into sleep.

   "Oh good, she's gone," said Cathy as she blinked her eyes, she looked at
Mary in surprise.  "Who are you?" she asked

   Mary smiled at her, "I'm Doctor Mary Quinn, and you shouldn't be doing
that without someone helping you!  What if you got lost in there?"

   Cathy smiled back at her, "I'd be alright, there's nothing that Kathy
can do to harm me!" she said brightly

   But Mary shook her head, "It isn't just Kathy that you have to beware
of," she said darkly, "It's the denizens of the mind, the dwellers who hide
there.  They can trap the unwary ones."

   Cathy looked straight into Mary's eyes.  "Do you think I could be
trapped like that?" She asked.  Mary stared back at her noting the way the
girls' eyes were watching her as if dissecting her mind.

   Finally Mary blinked and shook her head.  "No, no I don't think you
could." She smiled at Cathy.  "But tomorrow I want you to have an
appointment with me.  I've still got to give you a check-up."

   Cathy gave a grin and nodded.  She went to get up but staggered slightly
and fell back on the bed.  "I'm a bit tired, would people mind if I stayed
here?"

   Jessica shook her head, "I think they'd understand.  Is there anything
you need?"

   Cathy thought for a moment and then nodded her head, "Oh yes, I forgot."
She turned to Sally, "Would you mind leaving some food out for Kathy, just
in case she wakes up during the night.  I promised her you would."

   Sally smiled, "Of course I will, why don't you take a nap as well."

   Cathy didn't reply but her head dropped back onto the pillow, and her
eyes were closed.

   Sally started to tip-toe out of the room but was stopped by Mary, "I
wouldn't bother, they'd never hear a bomb if it went off." Sally went to
talk but then looked at the two sleeping girls, she decided that Mary was
right and so she walked normally with the other two women

   Once outside the room Sally asked a serious question.  "Is it normal for
the girls to be so tired after just a few hours of talking?"

   Jessica shook her head, "It wasn't as simple as that.  Kathy was living
that whole period again, every step.  I didn't really know just how much
effort it was taking her." Jessica's voice started to break Mary reached
out and held onto her.

   "Don't worry my dear, they're both strong.  I know Kathy is and I
suspect that our young heroine is as well."

   Sally was slightly mystified by this exchange, "What do you mean?"

   Mary patted Sally on the arm, "You see my dear, Cathy placed herself in
a trance and entered the mind of our young victim in order to talk to her."

   Sally was amazed "But how could she do that?  I mean it's not normal?"
Mary laughed at that and even Jessica seemed mildly amused, Sally looked
between the pair of them.  "I don't get it?"

   Mary steered them all over to some chairs.  "I take it that this room is
under full surveillance?" she asked Sally.

   "Yes, of course.  Alpha didn't want to take any chances with any of the
girls, there is sound and vision here and sound in the bedroom, there's
nothing in the bathroom, they have to have some privacy you know." Sally
felt free to tell them that.

   Jessica looked slightly shocked, "So there's a video record of the
sessions?" she asked but Mary just laughed.

   "Of course there is, they tried to put one in my examination room, but I
put a stop to that." She looked around and spotted a probable camera in the
corner of the room; she looked at it and then smiled, "They still try to
put one in while I'm not there.  But I've got my own little sniffer and
remove them soon as they're in place."

   Jessica stopped suddenly and pointed to where Jameson was sleeping in a
chair.  Mary smiled.  "I must have given him the extra strength sleeping
tablets by mistake.  He'll be out until tomorrow." She turned to Sally,
"Could you be a dear and get a couple of men to take him to his quarters
please, and you'd better tell the housekeeper that she'll need to take care
of the dinner arrangements."

   Sally nodded and picked up a telephone, it would have been easier to
allow Mark to pass on the message, but old habits died hard and she quickly
ensured that Mary's suggestions were being acted on.

   When Sally returned Mary was already seated and had composed herself. 
"You'd better sit as well Sally," Mary told the younger woman before she
continued.  "Now where was I?  Oh yes, what Cathy has done is very rare and
very dangerous.  I've only seen it done once before in Australia, I was
present when a group of aborigines held a rite of passage, I wasn't too
sure what exactly was happening and was surprised that they allowed me to
remain.

   "A young person was brought before the tribe and started to dance.  He
was allowed to exhaust himself until he collapsed.  I was going to check on
him but my guide stopped me.  `He will be alright, he's just dreaming,' I
was told and gently returned to my seat.  While I was sitting there I fell
asleep, it must have been the smoke or something, But I found myself by a
cave and the same man, well boy really, was smiling at me.

   "`_Go' day lady.  You's a wise one then?_' he asked me and then looked
at a lizard on the ground.  I went to him and asked him where I was. 
`_This dreamland lady!  Oz just as it was before you's kind arrived._' He
looked at the lizard again and laughed as if he'd been told a joke.  Then
his face changed as he looked behind me.  `_You's better stand behind me
lady.  Trouble coming_!'

   "I was going to ask what kind but his expression showed me that he
concentrating, I went to him and then turned around.  In the air was a
shape - it looked like a kangaroo but was large.  `_Him doesn't like you
here lady!_' the youth told me and started to take out his boomerang, which
he held in one hand, and a knife, held in the other.  `_Go!  leave!  I's
protecting lady_.'

   "The shape stopped and talked to him.  `_br She's not one of us!  She
doesn't belong!  Get rid of her!  Let us show her what her kind did to us
br_!' The tone was menacing and it scared me but the youth just laughed at
it.  `_You's got no hold over me or her!  You's better go before I tell her
what you's really is_!' he gave a smile to that thing.  `_You's don't want
that!_'

   `_br You couldn't do that.  If one of them learnt about us it could mean
the end!  Just as they tried to do to our people.  If we hadn't taught Mabo
he wouldn't have succeeded.  And you want to defend her?  br_' The youth
looked at the lizard and then laughed, `_Course I's am.  I's not like them
I's can see what's right and I's ain't blind.  She's going to be helping
all of us's in the future by what she learns here!_' This surprised me I
must say, as I didn't understand any of what was happening.  The shape
looked behind the youth at me and seemed to regard me before saying, `_br
Very well - But listen to me Mary Quinn learn your lessons well.  Or we
will meet again in the dreaming br_'

   "The shape vanished and then the youth turned to look at me he smiled
white teeth in dark skin.  That was the main impression I got.  `_So lady,
you's ready to learn about dreamtime?_' I couldn't speak I could only nod."

   "And?" Jessica asked as Mary lapsed into silence for a few seconds.

   "I woke up in hospital five days after the event; whatever I was taught
in that cave was lost in my mind.  I was told that I'd eaten some Aborigine
food that had disagreed with me.  Every time I tried to explain what had
happened I was told that I had hallucinated it all." Mary smiled at
Jessica. "But at times I can understand what some people feel and how
they'd react, after that I see those white teeth smiling at me, and I can
understand what I was told.  But I can't explain what exactly it is!"

   "That's infuriating!  First you say that you're going to explain.  And
then say that you can't explain!  What kind of story is that!" Sally
exploded but Jessica just nodded her head.

   "Sally, you missed the important part of the story." At Sally's
surprised look Jessica continued.  "Whatever Mary had learnt would be
helping her in the future.  She'll be able to understand and assist in the
future, or rather now?" She glanced at Mary as she finished.

   Mary shook her head.  "I don't know, but I somehow understand what it
was that Cathy had done.  Like that time with the Aborigine youth and me,
she was able to enter Kathy's dreamtime and talk to her.  She has done
something that nobody should do and she didn't even have to think about it.
But I can tell you that she's never done anything like that before!  She
could only do it once she had to!"

   Sally didn't understand that.  "But how could she do that?"

   Mary laughed.  "I didn't say I knew how she did it, I know that she did.
How did you learn how to breathe?  Who gave you the lessons?" At Sally's
mystified look Mary continued, "It's the same with Cathy.  I wouldn't be
surprised at some of the things she capable of.  But I'll tell you now,
don't comment on it.  If you tell her that it's impossible then she might
believe you and will never do it again!"

   Jessica was interested in that.  "So you think that Cathy is some kind
of super girl?  Able to do anything?"

   Mary laughed and shook her head, "You mean like leaping tall building
with a giant leap?  No!  She is different and somehow that's all Sir
Timothy knows, why else would she be here?"

   Sally shook her head, "But that was just because of the newspapers going
on about the kidnapping.  We had to get involved."

   Mary nodded, "Involved?  Yes.  But not to this degree!  Simple guards at
the houses would have sufficed not this amount of security.  There is more
to this than Sir Timothy is telling us.  But then he's always been like
that." She looked at the camera again, "Haven't you?" she said smiling.

   Sally remembered where she was and gasped, "You mean he's watching us
now?" She started to get up.

   But Mary held her hands and stopped her, "It's alright my dear, you're
looking after the girls, and you need to know these things just in case. 
So I wouldn't worry about it!" She looked at Jessica, "However I'm not sure
about your involvement, it might mean that you are also restricted to this
house for the time being."

   Jessica started to look indignant, "But he can't do that!  I've got
patients to see.  I've got responsibilities!"

   Mary looked to the camera again.  "You hear that Timothy?  Doesn't it
remind you of anyone you know?" She smiled at Jessica.  "That's just what I
told him the first time he `recruited' me.  One of his men got injured and
I treated him, then I was dragged into this organisation!"

   "They dragged you?" Jessica seemed shocked.

   "Oh no, not physically.  Sir Timothy sweet talked me into staying on for
a little while . . .  That was 4 years ago." She smiled at Jessica's face,
"To be honest I haven't really regretted a moment of it."

   Jessica considered Mary's words.  She didn't want to remain in her
present place all her life.  But then would being trapped in this place be
any different?  She shook her head.  "I'm sorry but I don't relish the idea
of being here for the rest of my life!"

   Mary saw the look on Jessica's face.  "Oh my dear it's nothing like
that. I'm most probably painting a blacker picture than I should.  Sally
dear, would you contact Sir Timothy and tell him what I've told Jessica.  I
think I may have caused her some concern for no reason." Sally nodded and
went to the telephone again.

   Mary looked around; as she expected Sally had brought in a bottle of
wine, she had only done this for Jessica's use not the girls Mary was sure.
Mary poured two glasses, returned to her chair and handed one to Jessica.
"I think you need this," she said kindly.  Jessica accepted the glass and
started to sip at the drink.

   "I don't know what to think at the moment," Jessica confessed.  "I do
think that I'd better concentrate on Kathy's problem for now and lose my
mind later, what do you think?" she finished with a smile.

   Mary patted Jessica's knee affectionately.  "That's the idea.  Eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow . . .  well tomorrow's another day."

   Jessica laughed out loud, "That's nice, you just mixed two sayings in
one."

   Mary nodded.  "Of course my dear, at my time of life you can afford to
do that.  Now I suggest you join me for a snack, the food here is
excellent."

   Jessica drained her glass and smiled at the older woman, there was an
air about her that exuded calmness.  "Why not!  After all I might be here
for some time."

   Sally watched as the two women left together.  She smiled to herself. 
Mary was a fixture in the Organisation.  She was one of the main recruiters
that they had.  Once she decided that they needed a person she would set
the bait and reel them in herself.  Soon Jessica would find that out. 
Would she mind?  Sally didn't think so.

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   At the dinner there was comments about the missing girls and Jameson,
Nobody really knew about the events of the past two days and so couldn't
comment on them (although they all knew something had happened it all took
place while they were locked into their rooms).

   Jameson's failure to appear caused more concern to the staff below
stairs, but the footman managed to conduct himself so that Jameson's tasks
were done, although not to Jameson's level of competency.

   The next day started with Cathy waking up next to Kathy, who was spooned
in front of her.  They hadn't been disturbed by bad dreams and had slept
nearly eleven hours.

   As the two got up they woke up Sharon who stared at them bleary eyed,
"Go away!  It's not time yet!" she complained.  Kathy just giggled and
joined Cathy in the shower.  While there she looked into Cathy's eyes and
then moved her face close to her and kissed her.

   Cathy allowed that, but when Kathy tried to move closer and to touch her
body she stopped her.  "No, I'm sorry Kay but I don't feel like that."

   Kathy pouted, "But I'm trying to say that I'm sorry for causing you such
trouble.  You'll enjoy it I promise."

   Cathy shook her head.  "It's not necessary, honest Kathy.  Some girls
like doing it, some don't.  But you don't have to do anything to please
me." She smiled at the frowning girl, "Come on lets see if Su's in the Gym.
I think it's time to call in a debt."

   Kathy started to smile when Cathy said Su's name and started to wash
herself." Cathy smiled as she watched her.  Somehow she felt that although
Kathy could have made her feel good it wasn't what she wanted, not just
yet.

   They both ran from their suite, down the corridor - Both sliding down
the hallway towards the Gym.

   Su was half dreading, half waiting for the girls to arrive.  She was
worried that Cathy had some strange sort of truth or dare program waiting
for her.  Sir Timothy had told her that she should follow Cathy's orders.
But she wasn't sure if she could.

   The noise of the two girls announced their imminent arrival and sure
enough the two arrived and stood in the room.  As they approached Su
noticed that both removed the shoes they had been wearing and bowed to her.

   "Good morning Sensei", they both said at the same time.  (Cathy had
called Su that once and the greeting stuck).  Su bowed back to them

   "Good morning.  Where is Sharon?" Su asked noting her absence.

   Cathy smiled, "She'll be here in a few minutes.  But Su, after the
exercises would you come back to our rooms."

   Su frowned.  What did Cathy have planned for her?  "I am not sure Cathy.
You are not going to humiliate me are you?"

   Cathy put her hands on her hips in indignation.  "Of course not!  Well
not really.  I'm trying to see if we can make you look like a young girl.
So that we can get this Jason arrested!  Will you help us?  Please?"

   Su looked into Cathy's eyes and then into Kathy's.  Although Kathy's
eyes were pleading for help.  Cathy's were steady as if commanding.  Su
thought about it.  She wanted to help the girls and if dressing up could
provide some kind of proof then why not?

   "Very well.  I will do it.  But first we have to complete the exercise."
Sharon arrived in the Gym panting after sprinting to the Gymnasium, she
hadn't realised the time.

   "I'm sorry I'm late Sensei," she started to say but Su just smiled at
her.

   "You are not late yet Sharon, but you've forgotten to remove your
shoes." Sharon looked down at her feet and quickly pulled her shoes off
before her feet touched the mat.  "Now positions and we will begin."

  
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