The phone rang, it was Paige.
"Honey, about the surveillance footage you asked me to look into...I did..." Paige's voice was heavy, "I don't understand how..."
"What did you see?" Rosalynn's voice was dry.
"An incident did happen at that location. The surveillance view was blocked by a tree, so nothing was caught on tape. However, I found the man who injured Wayne..."
Rosalynn had asked Paige to look into this while she was waiting outside the restroom for Wayne. As soon as Paige received the call, she immediately had someone investigate it.
Wayne had hidden from Rosalynn the fact that he got injured while trying to save a boy, but he didn't hide it from Baillie, so Paige knew about it as well, but when she contacted the people involved, the reply she got was, "What child? There was no child there. The man just suddenly rushed out and scared me, he was babbling..."d2
After hearing Paige's story, Rosalynn exhaled deeply, "Paige, Wayne's condition is worse than we anticipated. It's not just Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, he has created two imaginary personalities. One is the bad part of him that he has separated himself from, and the other...is this boy he's talking about."
Paige was shocked.
"He realizes that the other personality is fake, but he doesn't realize that the boy doesn't exist either." Rosalynn's voice was choked.
"Honey, don't panic, I'm heading back to H City tomorrow!" Paige quickly said, "We'll face this together, after all, it's just an illness. We'll get him treated! Didn't we find a great psychologist because of Madeleine? We'll go to him!"
"No, we can't!" Rosalynn quickly said, "This has to remain highly confidential. I don't know much about Penn's background, and I haven't known him for long..."
"That's not a problem, you have great medical resources at your disposal, and so does Baillie. If all else fails, there's still Larkin!" Paige quickly said, "Just pull yourself together. You guys have overcome life and death situations, this is nothing in comparison!"
"Okay..." Rosalynn covered her face, her voice still shaky.
Paige felt a pang of sympathy. She thought she had had a hard time, but it was nothing compared to the thorny path Rosalynn had walked. Just as things were looking up, she has a pair of smart, adorable children and a reformed Wayne, all the demons had been dealt with.
Why did there have to be this difficult situation?
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