Chapter 127: Face To Face So To Speak

The Rawsone Residence, Denver, Colorado...

By the time Hadrian Rawsone awoke, he'd been of the mind to believe he'd been home alone. The girls had gone out with Lauren and Julia had errands and appointments to get to. She left him a note about allowing him to sleep and that she'd make dinner when she returned. He gathered that it would be a long day for him just sitting at home on the slow road to recovery from his stint in the facility. He had not been allowed to return to work, given his forced sabbatical and the fact that Moreen had been taking on most of his cases. Hadrian sighed as he moved through the quiet empty house in search of something to eat and trying to make sense of how he'd deal with three babies being on the way.

He had not understood how he'd gotten Alexei pregnant given that he'd not only been a patient but a young lad barely able to function on his own let alone be able to care for a child. Then there was Bethany Stevenson, he'd managed to get a college-age girl pregnant right under his and his wife's own nose and didn't recall in the least how it had been done aside from stories of this "Lonnie" fellow hijacking his life and causing all sorts of mayhem.

Hadrian had been curious as to how Lonnie had come to be and how he'd been able to cause such chaos. Moreen had implied that she believed he suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder, but he had been of the mind to disagree the last he recalled. She explained to him that Lonnie was a manifestation of past trauma from his childhood and teenage years as a result of being sexually assaulted by his father's former mistress.

Hadrian himself had not recalled her or what passed for an affair between them in the least. He resigned himself to a boring afternoon with little to do or see as he made the trek to his home office and opted to look over a few files. Despite being out of the loop for quite some time, he'd been keen to get his mind on something aside from his rather sad predicament, at least until the girls and his wife came home.

The defining silence in the house had seemed to unnerve him as he felt a bit out of sorts in the wake of his release from the facility. He had done a bit of research about the procedure and knew all too well that there were underlying side effects and consequences that even lead him to a dissertation that he'd written to several colleagues and backers about his disinclination to proceed with such barbaric tactics.

He had found quite a bit of his notes on the rather passionate subject for discontinuing them and that he'd been rightly opposed to Doctor Reed's work in trying to reignite them. Hadrian was quite disgusted that his own wife had taken him to see a man he had reviled and opted to sign him over to be used as a guinea pig for his sick experiments to prove himself right for sticking to the same level of barbarism that made the medical care professionals turn their backs on people like him, to begin with.

As much as he hated to admit it, Alexei had been right about what Julia had done to him and it puzzled him all the more as to why she felt the need to take such drastic actions. Hadrian's head began to hurt and he got up from his desk and ventured toward the mini-bar he had stashed in his office.

"Why would she deliberately take me to be at the mercy of someone I so despised in my profession?" he asked taking a drink as he pondered the implications of what had been going through his wife's head. "Was she that desperate to get me help?"

{"Not by a long shot."} said a voice that had been oddly familiar.

Hadrian attempted to locate the source of the voice.

"Hello?" he asked aloud in relative confusion. "I-Is someone there?"

{"Pipe down before you bring in the whole neighborhood, walk over to the mirror if you'd be so inclined."} said the voice once again.

Hadrian sighed as he drank down the small shot of vodka he'd grabbed in the wake of his pondering and ventured toward a small mirror that lined the wall across from where he stood beside the mini-bar.

He'd been shocked to see his reflection, although slightly altered with something of a wicked grin filed across his face.

"I-I know you," said Hadrian in disbelief. "You're....you can't be."

The reflection arched a brow as his eyes seemed to flicker with malice.

{"Go on Doc."} he said in an amused tone. {"Who am I?"}

"L-Lonnie," said Hadrian nearly weak in the knees.

The reflected figure laughed in his face.

{"Ding ding ding, let's check out the prize for that man."} he said taunting his counterpart.

"W-What are you doing here Lonnie, I got rid of you," said Hadrian visibly shaken at the mere implication of his childhood imaginary friend making a return.

{"You only thought you did, Doc."} remarked Lonnie with a smirk. {"But I've got some unfinished business to attend to and I want you out of the way."}

"No," growled Hadrian narrowing his eyes at Lonnie. "You forget I know how you operate."

Lonnie smirked rather wickedly.

{"Do ya now?"} asked Lonnie with an arched brow.

"Sure I do, that boy you nearly killed in school, Bethany, Alexei, you took advantage of them and got them pregnant using my body."

{"You say that like it's a bad thing."} remarked Lonnie. {"I gave them what they wanted and what's more I gave you what you wanted."}

"I never wanted anyone besides my wife," replied Hadrian enraged.

{"You wanted a son."} replied Lonnie with his dark eyes glinting. {"You wanted to get them pregnant your dick swells at the thought of it going in the blonde college girl raw making her moan while you fuck her brains out."}

"Stop it," growled Hadrian once more but felt aroused in the wake of Lonnie's cruel teasing words.

{"Lex has the tightest pussy we've ever had and he moans like a bitch when we fuck him." continued Lonnie with a smirk. "Face it, kid, you love fucking as much as I do and your formerly prude wife wasn't putting out as much for you as she'd been with anyone else."}

"I won't listen to any more of this," said Hadrian as he began to walk away.

{"Good you don't have to listen...you just have to take a little nap."} had been the last thing he heard Lonnie say before he felt the pain in his head once more and collapsed once he lost consciousness.