"Diva, you heard her, she saved Maggie, she can bring Gwen back too." She says gently to the older woman. "Please, think, where are they taking her?"G...diva, sniffles a little, takes a couple of deep breaths, then looks over at me. She wants so much to believe."There are some cells that have doors, they are way in the third building, in the basement." She looks strained after telling me this, but calmer. Now all her hopes are pinned on me."Good, very good" I say with a nod and a gentle smile. " Kind of weird timing, isn't it? I mean, with Brandon and Meredith—" Well, yeah, but, on the other hand, what better time?" Are you sure they aren't just, I dunno, influencing your mindset or something?" Me? Naaaw. Derek, I've been planning this for years. Well, maybe not planning, but I've known it'd happen. For... Well, at least since we've been in college." It was something he hadn't even admitted to Brandon.Someone else might've made a poke at him, but Derek simply nodded. "She's. It was therefore a great surprise when she saw the mailman riding his bicycle one sunny morning in June, stopped in front of her mailbox by the road. From her kitchen window she watched him place a brown envelope into the box and lift the small metal flag to indicate that there was mail in the box. At first she thought that it was a letter from the township asking her one last time payment for her taxes, but she had just talk to Mr. Brown the city clerk the day before and he had given her. Often I would walk in and pull the covers up over them if they had kicked them off. When Ashley moved to the basement for her senior year of high school, I would check on her after checking the basement door, before moving on to the main level of the house.On one particular night, I saw that Ashley had kicked the covers down to the foot of her bed so I stepped into her room to pull them up over her. As I got close to her bed I froze in my tracks as I realized she was lying naked, legs askew and.