The SPECTRE Of The VATICAN ©

Chapter 61 - Decisions Decisions.

Time: Present Day
Location: HereAfter

"Come Carter Cheval, you need to be back in Rome!" Teacher chided.

"But I've just come from there!"

"Perhaps you shouldn't have . . . "

"Why, what's happening?"

"You'll see, it's alright it hasn't happened, yet. You have a another decision to make Carter Cheval, a decision that affects you greatly. A very great lesson to learn if you are to become what you are destined to become. One of the very few decisions a being can make that really affects the All. Hurry, Carter Cheval for I hope you have learned - Time waits for no man . , . or spirit."

They took up their usual corner in Graz's office, the one that least affected the video surveillance cameras. When Carter asked Teacher why they always went to that corner Teacher gave a sigh. "We are all made of the same matter, the same star stuff as you once put it. Remember Carter? Well that star stuff can interact with other star stuff, disrupt gravity, electrical fields, radio and tv signals, telephones, particularly good at interfering with electrical signals.

As a spirit you can learn to control these things, control your influence, even use them to communicate with the living. It works particularly well on earth for some reason. You haven't learnt to control it yet, so I'm putting us, you in particular in this corner to minimise your impact on that." Teacher pointed to the camera on the ceiling about a metre above where they were floating. "We don't want to raise any undue suspicions, we might miss something."

"We can miss something?"

"Of course Carter Cheval, you can't be everywhere, have you learned nothing? Only God can be everywhere, and you my Dear Carter, are not God, at least not yet."

That was the first time Teacher hadn't used his surname as well, before it used to irritate him, now he kind of missed it, strange. Maybe he was growing on him, Teacher laughed. Oops...Forgot he could read my mind.

"Come right in Peter," Graz said into the security intercom. A minute later Carter's dad joined them. "What's happened Petros?"

"We have a problem, maybe a big problem. We are getting a visit from the media, Amanda, Amelia's twin sister rang me. She was checking up to see how much her mother told me I think. She made out that she was ringing to let me know about her mother's accident. She reckons the only thing her Mum told her about her visiting me was that I was shocked to learn for the first time, that Amelia was dead."

"And you suspect she's lying? That she knows much more than she is letting on?"

"Yes, but not only that, she is sending someone to me, a so called friend, who happens to be the front person for a current affairs tv show in Australia."

"What do they want with you?" Graz puzzled.

"Don't know for sure, sounds like a fishing expedition to me."

"Why didn't you refuse? Make some excuse, you're busy, or your boss won't allow it."

"They know something Graz. I'm not sure how much, but I intend to find out, thought I'd warn you."

"You know you don't need my permission any more. You're on your own. You have your own instrument now, Anton is yours. It's up to you what you do with him now. I'm passing him on to you just as Andre was handed over to me."

"So it was you who killed my Amelia. Why did you do that."

"No, not me Petros, that was Enrico's work. A few years before he handed him over to me. Enrico explained to me that he had invested a lot of time and effort into your early training and he wasn't prepared to risk having to start again. When he heard from his spies in Singapore that Amelia had booked a flight back to Australia, not only that she was bringing back the baby, and flying direct to Melbourne, instead of home to Sydney. He panicked, he was sure she was going to track you down, and thought that you would feel guilty about the baby, offer to marry her and dump the priesthood. So he got me to arrange for Dan to bring you to Rome, and then for good measure got Andre to deal with Amelia with Special Treatment. We decided not to tell you. We didn't even tell Dan till it was done. We thought you wouldn't understand, would be against it, and judging by your reaction all these years later Enruco was right."