Subj: DS:Truth 7
Date: 2/2/02 11:28:48 AM Central Standard Time
From: Aesgaard

Sam was lead by the jailer into the jail under the courthouse. He looked at Vicki in the cell reading the Bible he had given her and the cross on the wall. Both had been a ploy to dissuade the feelings of the community, but Trask reading that history of the future did a lot of damage. He looked into her eyes. Was she the same Victoria Winters that Al said lived at Collinwood in 1967 ?

"Vicki," Sam started. "Where are you from ? The truth."

"I told you, Peter." She replied. "Last week, remember......"

"Well, tell me again."

"I'm the governess for the Collins Family in 1967." Vicki admitted seriously with such a straight tone she couldn't have been lying.

"I told you, Sam." Al stood nearby.

"But how......." Sam looked briefly at him a second. "Did you get here ?"

"Sara's ghost was haunting the estate." Vicki held the Bible in her hands.

"We wanted to know why she was not at rest, but there was a burst of wind, and the candles went out. I think I passed out, but when I woke up, I was here."

"Sam," Al was checking her facts. "Ziggy found another parapsychological article on Collinwood. It claims that in 1840 a Quentin Collins allegedly created a stairway for traveling through time by using the quantum causality in Collinwood. She may have accidentally stumbled on it unwittingly if it actually exists."

"Peter," Vicki continued. "I have never been so scared in my whole life. I miss my own time, I miss Carolyn, Mrs. Stoddard and even little David, and now, I may never see them again !" She stood crying on Sam's shoulder. "Oh, Peter, you don't know what it's like to be away from your own time !!!" She broke up weeping.

"Actually, I do....." Sam started.

"No, Sam !" Al snapped to attention. "Don't you dare !!"

"Vicki," Sam took her and wiped her tears with his thumbs delicately. "I do understand....."

"Sam !!!!" Al tried to scold him.

"Who you're looking at is not Peter Bradford." Sam continued as Al sighed and gave up. "What you're looking at is actually a quantum phasic signature of Peter Bradford. My real name is Dr. Samuel Beckett, and I've been traveling through time myself, leaping in and of other people's life like this for years, changing things for the better...."

"Peter, you're scaring me !" Vicki's tearful eyes widened. "You're making this up to tease me !!"

"I'm sorry," Sam pleaded. "But you're not alone ! I was a boy when President Kennedy was shot, I've even leaped into Willie Loomis ! Vicki, I understand. My god, how many Eighteenth Century lawyers know about quantum physics."

"Peter ?" Vicki was in shock as she backed from him. "It can't be true." She started breaking up.

"Vicki," Sam pleaded to her. "I'm from your future !!! I'm here to help you!"

"Sam," Al looked at the comlink and back. "I think you've lost her !" He looked back at Vicki as she suddenly grabbed Sam and started crying over his shoulder. He lost a few tears himself as he consoled her.

"You're not alone." He consoled her and spoke assuredly. "I'm here to help, and one way or another, I'm going to get you home !!!!"

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