If A Tree Falls

The Sleeper Awakens

Anastasia
I open my eyes after a horrible nightmare. The one I keep having includes the people I called parents and someone who looked like me are running from something unseen. I am stuck and can't move. I can't speak, I can't hear, but I can see. But what I see is scares me to the point I am screaming. Apparently I was screaming and I see concerned people looking at me and checking my eyes and removing something from my mouth, telling me to cough. I cough because I am choking. How did I scream? How did I move? How did I hear? I could see them and I am frightened. I start struggling and feel a sharp pain in my arm.
Grace
I can't believe the luck this young lady has. I have learned so much about her since she first arrived at the hospital. In such a short time she has been attacked three times and been nearly crushed by trees. Mr Firestone helped save her from the accident. He just missed being crushed by the trees himself. I was shocked that Kate Kavanagh was arrested for brutally attacking Miss Steele the very day she was released from the hospital. Mia mumbled something about she wasn't surprised that Kate got arrested for attacking someone and it was a long time coming.
Mia
I am fretting about my comments that slipped out about not being surprised about Kate getting arrested for attacking someone. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I can't think straight about this and I need to talk to someone else about this.
Carrick
Grace called me about something Mia said about not being surprised Kate had been arrested for attacking someone. I call Mia and tell her she needs to be ready to answer some long unanswered questions. She was rushed to the hospital after she attended a party at the Kavanagh's. She was too frightened to talk about what happened back then, but she might tell us now. Every time we asked her about it she had a panic attack. That was six months ago a couple of therapists and we are still in the dark about it. She had slipped away from her security. She was found laying in the middle of nowhere unconscious by a family coming home from visiting friends. They called 911 and were afraid to move her or touch her not knowing what had happened to her. She lived through several surgeries. The Sawyer family recognized Mia and called my offices and they called me and relayed the message about Mia was in critical condition and headed to the hospital. I added the court date against Kate Kavanagh to my schedule and moved other things so I can find out more about the family. When I had tried to talk to the family they directed me to Gould. He refused to have a meeting regarding Mia. We are still trying to find out what happened that night. The Kavanagh family are no longer welcome at any events we throw or around our family. We don't have enough evidence to get our restraining orders but with Kate attacking Miss Steele and it was about Christian and mr Firestone. Her neighbor heard their names spoken from what her statement said. She wants to testify against the blonde bimbo. We were able to expand the restraining orders to cover the Steele's, the Firestones and all the Grey and Trevelyan family. None of the Kavanagh family can come near us. I don't want to push Mia, but for her to heal she needs to tell someone what happened to her at the Kavanagh's that night.
Mia
I can't take it anymore and go to mom at the hospital and ask to see Miss Steele. If I had came forward when Kate had attacked me for not getting Christian to go out with her she would be in jail now. Along with her mother. Eamon, Enid and Kate had put me in the trunk of my car and drove my unconscious body to an isolated road and left me laying on the road making it look like I was raped and left for dead. My car was found three mikes away from my body. They had hoped I would have been ran over by a driver not paying attention to the road. Eamon called me and threatened to do it again if I told anyone. To prove his point he had a someone following me and telling me that they could get any place and any time at all. They somehow got past Christian's security. I can't live like this anymore. I ask dad and mom to meet me here at the police station. The Sawyer family said they will be here for me if they are needed to testify. I told them everything. They followed the ambulance and gave their statements. I wasn't ready to press charges yet. After seeing Miss Steele I knew that I wasn't the first they brutalized. They use their newspaper as a weapon and it works.
Kate
I am arrested again, but this time I wasn't the only one. Dad and mom were as well. We were handcuffed and taken out of the restaurant in front of a huge crowd. This had to be Mia pressing charges.
Enid
I can't believe we are all three being read our rights. Each of us being handcuffed Ethan watched in confusion as we were taken away in handcuffs. Eamon told him to call Gould and arrange bail for all of us.
Eamon
I should have quashed that news story, but I wasn't able to get hold of the reporter that took the photos of Kate and then got a photo somehow of Miss Steele. I tell Ethan to call Gould and tell him to get us out of jail. He starts dialing as we leave he has the bill brought to him and the food boxed up, we had just ordered it and it arrived as we were taken out of the restaurant. Ethan has no idea what happened that night. He doesn't know half of what we have done to protect Kate. He has been in New York since he graduated and got his medical degree. He had just arrived today with his girlfriend Samantha Morton. She was busy and couldn't join us for dinner.