WALKING IN DARKNESS
PART THREE
by
BlackFury
After Kermit had gone, Caine went into the meditation/workout room and lit some incense in front of the statue of Bhudda and prayed to the Tao for guidance. As Caine turned, Lo Sei was there beside him. Caine smiled, "My old friend, we will retrieve your son, it will be a long process however but, it will be done."
Caine nodded and the two of them went out to the terrace where Peter sat staring, always staring out in front of him. Lo Sei looked at him narrowly and asked Caine what had happened. As he was told, Lo Sei shook his head sorrowfully. "Caine, we must bring him inside and take him into the meditation room. Come." The two of them got Peter up and they walked inside.
They had Peter sit on the floor and then began lighting the candles around him. Caine then sat facing his son as Lo Sei finished and stood outside the circle to monitor both of them. Caine took Peter's hands in his and tried to link their chi's as they had done a few time before but this time, as hard as Caine tried, he could not reach his son.
He kept trying until Lo Sei touched his shoulder. Caine released Peter's hands and slumped back, tears streaming down his face. "Even I cannot reach him, my friend. I cannot reach my son. He has gone beyond where even I can reach him." Caine leaned against his friend and cried as he had never wept before.
Lo Sei was silent, he knew neither of them could reach Peter now but there was one out there who could, if they would only try. But, Lo Sei knew they could not bring that one here, they had to come of their own accord or all would be lost. Caine finally slumped and Lo Sei put him to bed. He left Peter sitting there in the circle of candles, knowing that the Tao was watching over him now.
Peter didn't even know where he was, he hadn't known anything since that last day after going home from the crime scene. He had looked on the scene of the slaughter and had found the youngest two in their room, holding onto each other as they had died. It was more than he could handle. His mind began questioning everything he had ever been taught.
He had tried to retreat to his secret place, to that part of his mind where no one else would dare come to look for him. It was the only way he could deal with the pain he was experiencing. He couldn't get his mind around the fact that someone would do that to innocent children. He had seen a lot of bad things as a police detective but this, this he had never seen before. He didn't want to come out, he didn't want to have to face that world ever again.
But, instead, he found himself trapped in that house with all of those dead children, children he had tried to protect. His failure was more than he could handle so, he rolled himself into a fetal position, trying to shut out everything around him, trying to hide.
End Part Three
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