"I seem to recall that you promised that if ever there was a conflict between us with regards to one of Greeley's patients, that I would have first pi...k. As a matter of fact, I believe 'the Good Doctor' witnessed the agreement." An uncomfortable period of silence followed. When Ray didn't reply, Jack continued, "So here's the way it's going to be, my friend. I'm calling in your 'marker', and taking the Lai girl. You can just pick another from this month's schedule as soon as it comes out.The. “The store burned, the whole building. And Ben...” he stopped, and there was no need for him to finish.Raven felt shitty at her failure to keep the conversation out the recent past.Cameron seemed to remember something. “I do have something he gave me though, a little book. He said something like how we could keep progressing.”“What’s in it?”“I dunno, I didn’t even look at it yet.”Cameron reached in his jeans and pulled out the small notebook. The cover was bent but it looked intact. He opened. "No," she answered. "This was nice."After Jim and Hildy finished their visit that Saturday in June Herb was on the phone to the Lutheran minister at Hildy's church. Later, when Hildy approached the minister, he refused her, according to Old Herbert's wishes.It had hurt Hildy when it happened. She told Jim, and he consoled her by saying that it was her final break between past and future."Let's just find a JP who will do it for ten dollars," Hildy had said."No, it will be in a church," Jim. I was worried - for a split second - about sprouting enormousboobs and developing dangerous curves and then waking one day to realizeI didn't want any of what had happened to my body - that I wanted to beStephen again. For a split second. That fear went away fast and neverreturned. I was in. All my chips to the center.Diary Entry: October 2004When? When? When are you little fuckers going to show yourself? Whenwill you sprout underneath my nipples? I have no soreness. My skin isnot.