Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 112

!!!!!!!!!!Author's Note!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Everyone! Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a good week! Mine was good! We took a short trip in our travel trailer over Memorial Day and chose to stay an additional night, so that was fun! We came back on Wednesday afternoon, then my son completed his last two days of school and here we are. I'm headed to band practice in about an hour, but I had time to update before I leave so you don't have to wait!

This week, Patrick meets with Elisa, his lawyer after Brad drugs him to the point that he can barely walk and can't really talk. Elisa tries to explain what she's been able to do so far, but Patrick is way too drugged to understand. Brad poisons his mind and messes with their perception to where they can't understand each other. Elisa starts reading Patrick's lips to find out exactly what he's saying and then instructs him to read her lips. They make some progress, but Brad is pissed, so he does a "welfare check" on Patrick where he gives him more Versed, rendering Patrick useless to the point that he can barely sit there, he's drooling out of his mouth, and all he wants to do is melt onto the floor and go to sleep.

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Chapter 112

********Trigger Warning for Drug Use ********

Elisa is looking forward to this visit with Dr. Stump. Hopefully they can have a good meeting this time and actually get some stuff done. She wishes she had more to tell him though. The truth is that not much has changed since the last time they met. She's had her assistant file everything with the court and she hasn't been given a court date yet. Elisa doesn't know why. She's done everything that she can do on her end, but the court seems to be dragging its feet. It is strange though. It's never taken her so long to get a court date for an initial hearing. Perhaps she should look into it when she gets back to the office. Elisa's got a few friends in the court offices, and they owe her a few favors. She decides to call them later today.

To be honest, Dr. Stump's situation seems very suspicious and Elisa's pretty sure he's being framed. How does one go from being a doctor at the prison for many years to helping two inmates escape during a medical transport to the hospital? Then the ambulance somehow got into a bad accident where it flipped a few times, the driver disappeared, the patient died, and Dr. Stump was injured and freezing to death. Somehow, he ends up in a motel where he called the prison to come get him. He's brought back to the prison, his injuries are treated, he's released and then suddenly a mysterious guard that no one knows comes along and tells the warden that Dr. Stump had committed a crime and had been sentenced to five years in the time he was gone, presenting the warden with the correct paperwork. First off, Elisa has never seen a trial happen in a matter of two or three hours. It wasn't enough time for the case to be presented, evidence introduced, witnesses questioned, closing and sentencing usually happens at a separate hearing. There's no way that all that happened in such a short time frame. It wasn't physically possible. Plus, you can't have a trial without the accused there defending themselves. Next, why would he call the prison with his location and ask them to come get him if he'd committed a crime? That makes no sense. If you had committed a crime, you would run and try to evade the law, not go back to prison. The timing on all this just doesn't add up, and that paperwork that was presented to the warden must've been forged. That's another thing! It takes time, like several days, for that paperwork to be drafted, notarized and filed, and a random guard wouldn't have just been able to get a copy of it. There was no way that it could've been done in such a short time span.