A Wave Of Desire

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Reef

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Abraham was a smart man. He knew this was a possibility and planned for it. This was just another reason to be in awe of him.

I helped Abraham take the girl to another room and watched him sterilize the place for the procedure. We put Brittney on a table and secured her in place. We didn't need her moving around and getting killed in the process.

I noticed that the girl was crying and that her eyes were filled with fear. She was definitely scared about what was going to happen to her. However, she brought this upon herself.

"There is no use crying now, girl. You made your bed, now you need to lie in it." Abraham growled the words at her as he stuck a syringe into her arm. "Now go to sleep. You will be awake before you know it."

Once the girl's eyes rolled back and she was fully asleep, Abraham got to work right away. He made a small incision into her neck. Just big enough to slide in a pair of surgical scissors. I watched him snip a few things in rapid succession.

"What are you doing?" I asked him, curious.

"I am removing her vocal cords. She will not be able to talk or sing ever again."

He continued to work for several more minutes. He put in what he said were dissolvable stitches and pulled out a small bloody piece of flesh from the inside of her throat. That, I am guessing, were the vocal cords. They were a lot smaller than I thought they would be, but it seemed to me that Abraham was finished. He had done what he needed to do.

"There. She will never speak again." I saw that the girl was stable, and Abraham had sewn her up. She didn't show any sign of being in distress or pain. She was just fine, and I knew that Abraham would make sure that she healed just fine. He was a doctor after all.

"So, it's done?"

"It's done." He nodded as he answered me. "I will check on her tomorrow before we go back to the surface, but I am sure that everything will be fine. And now she won't be in prison forever. She will get out, but she won't bespell anyone ever again."

"Should we have had her release her lawyer's spell first?"

"Hmm. I didn't think about that." Abraham shrugged his shoulder. "I guess that we probably should have, huh."

"We should go and see her."

"Yup. I guess we should."

Abraham and I went to find the girl's lawyer. There was a commotion in the courtroom, and I was certain that we knew exactly what it was all about. It was most likely the defense attorney all up in arms and wanting to see her 'innocent' client.

I could imagine it now. Abraham and I had not had the spell removed from the lawyer before we took away the girl's voice. Now, we had probably doomed that woman for life. Lizette the lawyer would forever think that Brittney was innocent. She would most likely hound people and try to get appeals for her. She would destroy her life and wind up ending her career all because of that girl and our rush to see the girl punished. Dammit. I didn't want to see what sort of chaos was waiting for us on the other side of that courtroom door. I didn't want to see what state of mental distress Lizette was in. I didn't want to see what damage I had caused to this woman's life.

The moment that Abraham opened the door to the courtroom, I saw the jury trying to help Brine restrain the lawyer. She was screaming incoherently as she was throwing things around the room. She was angry with a fully red face and eyes that were dripping with tears and rage. She looked completely unhinged.

DAMN! This was what I had caused. This is what I get for not thinking about the consequences sooner. This is what I get for not slowing down and preparing. We rushed into the whole vocal cord removal, and didn't think about anything else until it was done. DAMMIT! I was supposed to be better than this.

I could see out of the corner of my eye that Abraham was just as upset as I was. He was mad at himself for what he had done. He was pissed and angry that we had let this happen. He and I were both in the same boat.

We walked into the room, trying to avoid the flying books and the stacks of paper that the woman was throwing around. She was screaming words that I was trying really, really hard to understand.

"LET ME SEE HER! LET GO OF ME! LET ME SEE THAT LITTLE BITCH! I WILL FUCKING KILL HER!"

OK, that was so not the words that I thought that this lawyer was going to be screaming after we had removed the girl from the room for her punishment. I thought that she would be screaming for us to release her. What the hell was going on here. What was this all about? I was so fucking confused right now. What the hell was going on?

"What is going on here?" I asked as I ran to my wife's side. She was trying to pull the lawyer's arms around her back and restrain her with the others. "Analise, sweetheart, what is happening?"

"She's fucking pissed off." She said as she ducked a fist that was coming toward her.

"Dammit." Abraham growled as he dug out another syringe. He took the cap off with his teeth, ran into the fray, and then jammed the needle into the lawyer's neck.

Almost immediately, the lawyer went limp and was being held up by the members of the jury.

"Will someone please explain to me what happened here? What the hell happened to cause this?" Abraham was pissed off because this was not what we had been expecting at all, and we were already angry because we had messed up. Still, none of this made any sense at all. Why had the lawyer gone crazy like that? What was the matter with her?

"Well, the moment that you took Brittney out of the courtroom, her attorney started to scream. It was like she had come out of some sort of trance, and it was clear that she was pissed off." Analise was looking at the woman as she was laid gently on a bench in the back of the courtroom. "She was screaming things like 'bring her back, she's innocent, bring my client back now'. She truly believed that we were just vindictively punishing the girl and that we were all in on it. She thought that she was around a bunch of enemies or something. We all had our hands full trying to contain her."

"OK, so how did she go from screaming about us railroading her client to screaming that she was going to kill that little bitch. What happened to make her change her mind?"

"Well, Reef dear," I could tell that she was frustrated, since she was giving me that toned attitude, "why don't you think about what it is that you and Malachi have done that would cause this? Hmm? What did you guys do, kill the girl? Did Malachi botch his procedure or something? That's all that I can guess that has happened."

"No! The girl is alive. And she is fine." I assured her, maybe a little frantically.

"So, what do you think that led to this happening?" Analise put her hands on her hips and glared at me. The anger rolling off of her seemed murderous.

"Well, Abraham removed her vocal cords. Maybe because her voice died it counts as her dying. Maybe the spell was broken because of that."

"Really? Do you really think that was all that it took?" She glared at me.

"Well, what else do you think it could be? The girl is alive, but her spell was removed. In my opinion, that should mean that the voice being dead was the reason."

"Hmm. Well, I guess that makes a certain amount of sense." She flopped onto the bench and sighed in relief.

"Is that all it took? Really?" Judge Saltwater had come up behind us and I was sure that he had just heard what we were saying.

"I believe so." Abraham answered him for me. "There is no other explanation."

"Well, I am glad that all ended well. I know that Lizette is upset now, but she will see that the girl is being punished and then her anger will dissipate. I am just glad that it's all over. Thank you gentlemen for all of your help. I know that we need to work more on being considerate to people with these trials, but I think this time we should have just jumped straight to the punishment for her. This girl was clearly guilty from the beginning. The formality should have been skipped."

"We can't think like that, Judge. Justice was served and that's all that matters. We need to leave behind the archaic ways and move into a more modern approach."

"Yeah, and you see what that got us." Judge Saltwater rolled his eyes and swam away.

"I am glad this is over. I just want to go back to our apartment, flop into bed, and go to sleep."

"I am right there with you." Abraham nodded at me. "I am exhausted. I am going to go eat, sleep until the morning, check on that little Siren, and then head back to the surface to get some more sleep. This has been a very long process."

"Indeed." I agreed with him.. "Let's go."