| Subject: Lurking In The Shadows - Chapter Four: Part III: More Unanswered Questions |
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Date Posted: 11:51:37 09/27/02 Fri
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's message, "Lurking In The Shadows - Chapter Four: Part I: Poca Isla" on 11:30:46 09/27/02 Fri
Anna woke up to someone knocking on the door, turning in the bed to see if Luke and Laura were in their bed, she was surprised to see that they weren’t. She got up and realized that she was alone. Going to the door, she opened it and took a peak to see that it was Mac. Her heart skipped with excitement to see him as she opened the door. “Hi, good morning!” Anna exclaims as she gives him a hug. “Well good morning.” Mac greets her, happy that she’s in a good mood and is happy to see him. For a minute there he wasn’t so sure. He thought about bringing that up but decided to pass on it just because he didn’t want to put her back in that place again. “Where’s Luke and Laura?” He asks with curiosity.
Anna looks around and then sees the notepad. She goes over and picks it up to read it. “What’s it say?” Mac asks, so Anna reads it out loud. “Anna, Maria from courthouse called and says she’s got something interesting that we should look at, didn’t want to wake you up so Laura and I went down, will be back in a few minutes to pick you up. PS, Mac and Jax are here, Mac is in a room next door. Luke.” Anna finishes reading the note. “Oh maybe we should go meet them down at the courthouse?” Anna then suggests. “Sounds good to me, I’ll wait while you get dressed.” Mac offers as he sits down. Anna grabs her clothes out of the carpetbag and then goes into the bathroom. After a few minutes she comes out refreshed somewhat and dressed.
“I decided to forgo my makeup, I’m too curious with finding out what’s interesting to care about makeup right now.” She announces to Mac. “Understandable.” He tells her and then suddenly blushes as Anna starts to laugh. “I mean..,oh never mind let’s just go.” Mac states and they both head for the door, only to find that Luke and Laura have returned and are just about to come in. “Oh you’re up!” Laura says with an air of hopefulness. Anna and Mac waited anxiously with baited breath. “Well?” They both say in unison, impatient to wait any longer. “We’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is..” Luke begins as he pulls out a manila envelope from behind him.
“Maria introduced us to Dr. Ramirez who was here when those fishermen brought that badly injured man into the clinic. He gave us this medical file on the man. And I think you should take a good look at it.” Luke tells her as he hands her the envelope. Anna takes it and slowly opens it, not sure if she was ready for this. She pauses to close her eyes and take in a few relaxing breathes before she goes back opening the envelope and begins to pull out the medical files. Anna begins to read through it some, most of it is his vitals and she can see that he was badly injured because of the constant care that he had gotten. But it really doesn’t say much, it doesn’t explain the injuries and it doesn’t really delve much into anything about his memories if he had any.
She flips the one page to get to the second page and begins to read with great interest. But still doesn’t find anything within it that would clue her in for it to be Robert. The second page describes what a difficult patient he is and she remembers back when Robert was so difficult after he had been injured when his office was bombed. But this could be any number of people who are difficult patients. Surely Robert isn’t the first and surely he’s not the last to be difficult. She then flips the third and last page where it begins to say how the patient is transferred to a better facility on the mainland of Venezuela. But that’s not what makes her suddenly gasp and start shaking.
“Anna? What’s wrong?” Mac asks her. “Mac..” Anna begins but finds she’s got to clear her throat. “Did you and Robert switch your name bracelets?” She asks, her knees were now feeling weak and shaky. “Yeah, we did.” He says, not knowing why she’s asking. Anna looks back at the paper and begins to read it again. Shaking as her knees begin to buckle and she gasps for breath. “Oh my god.” Anna whispers as Mac catches her from falling down. “Oh my god it’s true, it’s really true.” Tears rolling down her cheeks. “What’s true Anna? What is it?” Mac asks, concerned, heart beating fast as the adrenaline picks up. Anna’s body becomes a whirlwind of emotions. Adrenaline surging, head spinning, chills rushing through her spine. “I..I wasn’t sure at first, but now, now I know that it’s true.” Anna gasps through her sobbing tears. “Robert did survive the boat explosion.”
“How do you know Anna? What does the file say?” Mac asks but Anna is too shaken to speak at first. She takes in a few breaths to try and find her composure. “Anna?” Mac asks impatiently. “The patient’s name is Malcolm, at least that’s what the doctors and nurses thought because of the ID bracelet he was wearing when they found him.” Luke finally tells him. Knowing about the bracelet switch. Anna looks up at Luke, remembering that he said that there was bad news. “What’s the bad news?” Anna asks him. “The bad news is that this man, who could be Robert, was very badly injured and very sick, so much so that the doctors didn’t give him much hope of living. But he was taken to a better facility that was more equipped to handle his case. Maria gave us a list of the hospitals closest to the Islands that he could have possibly been taken too. She included several US Navel and Army Bases with hospitals that he may have been taken too.” Luke informs her.
“Couldn’t Maria just access those hospital records from her computer?” Anna questions.
“Unfortunately not, it seams that she was denied access to most of them. She did check on a few on the list and no patient was brought in during that time frame named Malcolm, we marked those on the list. Can’t hurt to recheck.” Luke tells them as Laura sets about packing and picking up.
“So that’s our next course then, we go to these hospitals and check for files on Malcolm?” Mac questions.
“I just have one question.” Anna admits, something is nagging at her big time.
“What’s that?” Mac and Luke ask in unison
“Why are these files charred?” Anna questions.
“Dr. Ramirez says that someone tried to destroy the records and those three are the only ones that weren’t totally destroyed.” Laura explains.
“And why would that be? Also, why keep these three papers for ten years since the rest were destroyed.” Anna continues to question.
“Laura and I have those same questions and we haven’t come up with an answer yet.” Luke tells her.
“Do you think the WSB found him, took him and destroyed the files?” Mac himself questions curiously.
“If so, why didn’t they destroy the files on the boating accident debris?” Luke then questions.
“Good question.” Anna states.
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