Holy cow! You really know how to twist knots into one's stomach! These can't be called plot twists. I think I'm having plot whiplash!
So much here to comment on!!
Carrie was the killer. Lois was reasonably certain of it. And she had to let Karen know what she’d learned.
She punched the code for the security office. After a moment, she heard, “Prometheus Station Security, Sergeant Walker speaking. How may I help you?”
Lois took in a breath and put her finger on the transmit button, but froze in place when she heard the all-too-familiar ‘snick-snick’ of a semi-automatic pistol being cocked. She slowly turned her head and saw a dark-blue pistol clasped in a woman’s small hand, a hand which was covered by a white latex medical glove.
The woman whispered, “Turn off the comm panel, Ms. Lane.”
Oh dear!
By the time you reach the habitat level, you’ll be traveling at well over a hundred miles an hour, and that’s simply not survivable. But if I hit you hard enough, you won’t know about it. You probably won’t feel the impact at the bottom of the spoke whether I knock you out or not. And they won’t be able to tell one little bruise from all the other messy parts.”
OMG, Clark, fly into orbit and save her!!!!!!!
“Why did you kill Claude?”
She dissolved into tears. “Don’t you know? Don’t you understand? He was supposed to marry me! He was supposed to be my husband! He was supposed to help me raise our child! But those women polluted him! They twisted his mind and his heart! They wouldn’t stop chasing him! They wouldn’t leave him alone! He was a great man but he wasn’t perfect! He had so much love to give! I wanted all of it but I couldn’t take it all in! I wasn’t – I wasn’t enough for him by myself! I wanted to be but I couldn’t! He was – “
Whoa! What had Carrie said? Their child? Oh, boy, this just kept getting more and more interesting.
I'll say! So much more to Claude... and I really like they way you're telling it - with him dead, and a deranged ex with his blood on her hands. That's one way to tell him to stop sleeping around.
He – he laughed when I said I’d marry him! He said there were too many truly beautiful women in the world for him to – to tie himself to just one! To plain old me!”
“But you had two abortions before. What was – “
“Those other men? Ha! They were weak. They were soft.” Her voice gentled. “Not like Claude. He was so – so perfect. He was smart and sexy and funny and I could listen to his voice all day.”
I feel bad for Carrie (even though she's a killer and killed that cute couple)! She really cared about him, even though she seems to understand on some level that the man was a complete cad.
And you've left us with a gun firing which means that you have to come back PRONTO and fix this!
MORE SOON!
~NICOLE
