Acts of God by James BeauSeigneur

Author:James BeauSeigneur [BeauSeigneur, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Second Advent, Christian, End of the world, General, Christian fiction, Cloning, Armageddon, Fiction, Religious, Futuristic
ISBN: 9780446531276
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2004-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Steadfast

9:34 a.m., Sunday, June 21, 4 N.A. (2026 A.D.)

Decker opened his eyes and looked at the clock beside his bed. Another night had passed in the eastern United States, and the greater part of the day had passed in Babylon, and yet still there was no call from Christopher. Two full weeks had passed since the call to Jackie and Milner and except for a call to Debbie Sanchez to say he’d be gone ‘longer than expected,’ he’d had no contact with anyone from the U.N. Sooner or later, Decker knew Christopher would call and he would have to give some explanation for his absence, not to mention explaining why he had not yet taken the communion. He still didn’t know what he would say. It had been one thing to lie to Milner, though he still wondered if Milner really believed him. It would be quite another to try to hide the truth from Christopher.

What was the truth, though? Decker still had not decided. He could not ignore the dream in Petra. It wasn’t just that Christopher had hesitated when Decker asked about Tom. It was the look of indifference on his face — as though he truly

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didn’t care whether Tom got out of there or not. It was as though he only told Decker where Tom was because he knew Decker wouldn’t leave without him. The image haunted and tormented him. But though Decker could not ignore the dream, neither could he ignore over twenty years of knowing Christopher as intimately as anyone could have. He struggled to find an explanation.

Perhaps, he thought, perhaps the dream in Petra was not identical to the dream in Lebanon after all! He tried to compare the two dreams in his memory and they seemed identical, but how could he be sure? Perhaps in the second dream his imagination had added the expression of indifference to Christopher’s face; and now, as he looked back through the years, his mind had transposed the image to the events of the first dream as well.

Then a new possibility occurred to him: maybe it wasn’t his imagination at all! Maybe Rosen had used his telepathic abilities to plant the image in his head! And maybe he, or some other member of the KDT, had done the same thing to Tom, planting the idea in Tom’s mind to kill Christopher. Maybe that’s what this was all about! Maybe Rosen had altered Decker’s memory and had only let him leave Petra so that he would betray Christopher! Maybe that was why they kidnapped him in the first place; and the indoctrination from Rosen was either to soften him up, or it was a front to hide the KDT’s real purpose. Maybe at the proper moment some other latent image would be recalled that would compel him to believe that he had to kill Christopher! Would history repeat itself? Was he destined to again play the role of Judas the betrayer?

But what could Rosen hope to gain? If Christopher was killed again, then surely he would once again be resurrected.

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