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Date Posted: 09:17:22 09/04/99 Sat
Author: Mary Ellen
Subject: Just to clear up the labor day confusion, this part goes right after DiAnne's most recent addition...Hurray!
In reply to: AN E! SISTERS COLLABERATION 's message, "HEART OF EVIL - PART FOUR" on 14:01:22 09/03/99 Fri

"Johnny!" He heard Roy call out. "Johnny, wait!"

Johnny turned to see the figure of Roy DeSoto standing next to him. His dark blue eyes looking straight into Johnny's.

"John, please don't! Don't go! Don't leave us! What'll I. . .a-and Cap and the guys do without you!" Roy implored him.

"They'll manage!" Johnny responded. "Chet will just have to find himself another pigeon that's all."

"Yes, and you know who'll that will be, don't you? It'll be me!" Roy said.

"It's no good, Roy! I've made up my mind! I'm not going back if it means having you sell pencils the rest of your life!" Johnny said.

"Hey, listen! I can do a pretty mean job of selling pencils if I had to! I can do a mean job of selling anything to support my family! What makes you think I'd be reduced to pencil-selling in the first place. There are plenty of things I can do to serve LA County, even blind!"

"What! and be forced to take a desk job for the rest of your career?" Johnny retorted.

"Hey! Just where was I when we first met?" Roy snapped back.

Johnny opened his mouth to respond to Roy latest argument but then again he had to admit, Roy had him there!

"Johnny, it goes beyond just the job!" Roy continued. "John, man! It the whole rest of your life you're throwing away. Think of your family back home. Think of your wife, your kids."

"Wife and kids! Roy, I don't have any wife or kids!" Johnny said surprised that after all the years of knowing him, Roy should have forgotten one of the basic tenets of his life.

"That's right and if you stay here, you never will! You die now and the family you're destined to have will never be. Simply to save my sight, you'll be condeming your own children to non-existance. Look, if it were me in your situation and I had the chance of getting you back your sight but giving up my kids in order to do it, I tell you, pal, I'd buy you the white cane with my own money."

"John, what you're doing is beautiful and I love you for it, pal." Roy went on taking hold of Johnny's shoulders. "But John, it's too much! You're ready to stand here and give up everything about living just so I can get back only one minor aspect of it! And an expendible aspect at that! Johnny, I'll live whether I can see or not!"

"Roy, it's a lot more that just living or not living! If I don't leave and let Laurel heal you, if I let you go blind what kind of a life would you have? I mean, forget about never seeing a blue sky or a green field ever again. Man, you'd never see Joanne again! You'd never see the faces of Chris or Jennifer ever again! You'd miss watching them grow, man, seeing the kind of adults they'd develop into. You'd miss living all those years with Joanne, seeing her face change over time and yet see her as nothing but beautiful no matter how long the two of you live.

If you go blind, all you'll have of your family's faces would be memories. Memories that would fade and maybe even be lost over time. Somewhere inside you, Roy, something would miss that and long for it back again. There's a part of you that'd grow bitter and resentful that you lost it. At least I won't be missing my wife and kids because I never had them to begin with. Add to that, the fact that the whole situation wasn't our doing in the first place. Somebody, somewhere had an ax to grind with the rest of world and you and I just happened to get caught in the crossfire. Can you honestly say I'm wrong?"

Roy was silent. No, in all honesty, Johnny wasn't wrong. He'd hit the nail right on the head! It seems John Gage knew Roy DeSoto as well as Roy DeSoto knew John Gage. Johnny has just given voice to what Roy had feared most next to being separated from his family entirely through death, being separated from their faces, their smiles, the sparkle of love he saw everyday in their eyes! He couldn't lose all that and yet he couldn't let Johnny throw away his entire future over it! Somehow, Roy would have to find a way to live without it!

"Johnny, if you're that willing to give up your life so I can see, than I will give up my sight so you can live. If you'll come back with me now, I promise, even if Brackett or Early or anyone offered me an outright cure for my blindness, I'd say no! I can live in darkness. I've got my family to help me through it. You shouldn't have to. You'd be enduring by yourself." Roy said.

Before Johnny could answer, the darkness was suddenly banished by a flood of light and a gentle loving voice calling to the two paramedics.

"I AM WELL PLEASED, MY SONS! WELL PLEASED, INDEED!"

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  • Cahan and Brackett -- Sally, 12:29:28 09/04/99 Sat
  • Hating hospitals was an understatement. -- DiAnne ;), 13:14:13 09/04/99 Sat
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