Michael Vey by Paul Richard Evans

Author:Paul Richard Evans
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fables, Legends, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, General, Myths, Visionary & Metaphysical
ISBN: 9781451656503
Publisher: Threshold
Published: 2011-08-08T23:00:00+00:00

Hatch leaned back against his desk. “I knew your father. I knew him well. Maybe even better than you did.”

My chest constricted.

“Do you even know where your father worked?” Hatched asked.

“He worked at a hospital,” I blurted out angrily.

Hatch just looked at me for a moment, then the corners of his mouth rose in a subtle smile. “Good. So your mother didn’t hide

everything from you. He did indeed work at a hospital. Your father was the head of radiology at Pasadena General.” Hatch slightly leaned forward. “He helped us test the MEI.”

His words hit me like a bucket of ice water. “No!” I shouted. “He wouldn’t do that. He was a good man.”

Hatch nodded. “You’re right, he was a good man. He was a vi-sionary. And, like me, he never intended to hurt anyone. He wanted to advance science and save lives. He wanted to make the world a better place.” Hatch’s voice fell. “Unfortunately, he never got that chance.” Hatch exhaled slowly. “I know what happened to your father, Michael.” Hatch turned around and lifted a folder from his desk, extracting from it a single paper. “I’ve been saving this for some time now, haven’t I, Nichelle?”

I had forgotten that she was in the room. “Yes, sir,” Nichelle said.

“Years.”

Hatch held up a paper with a gold border around it. “Michael, have you ever seen a death certificate?”

I shook my head.

“I didn’t think so.” He turned the paper back around. “Let me read the important parts. State of California, County of Los Angeles . . .

Carl T. Vey died at 7:56 P.M. in Los Angeles County on the fifth day of October, 2006 . . . Cause of death: Cardiac arrest from an electric shock.” He set down the paper. “It’s about time you owned up to the truth about your father’s death.” His eyes turned dark. “You stopped your father’s heart.”

At that moment, I had a flashback. I was sitting on my father’s lap. My father was grasping his chest, his eyes wide and panicked.

Then flashing red and blue lights illuminated our kitchen drapes, and sirens wailed in chorus with my mother crying. It was true. That’s what my mother was hiding from me. I had killed my own father.

Darkness filled my heart and mind.

“I was barely eight!” I shouted. “I didn’t know how to control my electricity.”

Hatch just stared at me. “Isn’t that interesting. We wanted to save lives, so we created a machine that could do that. Like you, we didn’t know better. Yet you condemn us—” His voice rose and he pointed at me. “How dare you call me, or your father, a murderer. You’re no different than us, not one iota.” He walked behind his desk and sat down. He looked calmer and his voice was gentle again. “But you can atone for this, Michael. Just as we are trying to atone for our mistake.

We’re trying to do the right thing.”

“That’s why you’re torturing Taylor?”

The loud screech went through my head and I fell forward, grabbing my temples.

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