It was locked up. I didn't want to takeany chances, so I focused on locking it down tighter, using the exercisesJane had taught me to prevent any more...episodes of psychic backlash. Her confusion intensified, as her powers now failed to even find my mind,slipping off its tightly armoured exterior like someone trying to gripwater. She was starting to get worried, perhaps that her power's werefailing or something."Why can't I sense you!" she said in horror. She started to move towardsme, to what. She'dgotten to the point where she'd started having better control. But mynew husband got tired of her needing to be changed. And when he startedgetting violent with me about it she reverted right back to where shestarted. Now that she's gotten scared I need to find a gas station orsomeplace where I can change her. She's sitting there in a wet diaperthanks to being so scared." She explained. "Look I don't want to presscharges I just want to get my daughter as far away from that bastard asI can.. Kelly was certain the infractions were imagined.When she got back to the house in the evening she found Mike already there. She stripped off her now-filthy fatigues and stumbled into the shower. She came out with a towel around her head and collapsed face down on the bed. Mike sat down on the edge and started to massage her body. As he worked on her muscles she could feel her aches and pains slowly ebb. They had scarcely spoken a word since she came in. It was obvious to Mike what had happened,. “Jason, I had the strangest of conversations with Delores today.”“Really. Do you want to tell me about it?”I paused, trying to find just the right words, in the end deciding to repeat what she’d said word-for-word.“She put her hand on my tummy, asked me if I remembered how wonderful it felt to have a baby in your tummy and how close it made you to the father. And then she said how you’d never been whole since Jayden and that having a baby with me would make you whole again.”There was a long.