Missing Years ( Part 12)

Commander Swan had received the call that he had been dreading. Someone knows about Ray Samuels return, worse than that it’s his father Eddie!

Tom Lucas had called earlier and given him the news, Swan had to accept it but wasn’t happy. So much for keeping him under wraps. He told Lucas to keep both men at number 37 in the Travel Lodge and this time don’t let them go anywhere!

He sat in the small office at the station and in walked Spencer. Spencer noticed the angry look on Swans face.

“Everything OK Sir?”

“No it fucking isn’t, that idiot Lucas has only gone and let Ray Samuels meet his Dad!”

“You’re joking, how did that happen?”

“According to Lucas, they were having a drink in the pub when just by chance, Eddie Samuels walks in!”

There was a sarcasm to Swans words. Spencer could see that he was very displeased with this news.

“OK, let’s have your report, make it quick as I’ve got some calls to make”

“In a nutshell sir, there is no doubt that it is Ray Samuels, the clothes are from the early eighties and his dental records match exactly, there is no doubt whatsoever”

“Well, that’s what we thought anyway but we had to be sure before we make the next step”

“What is the next step sir?”

Swan sat back down again and gestured to Spencer to do the same.

“Now that Eddie Samuels is involved we can’t keep this a secret anymore, if we don’t tell the press, he sure as hell will. We need to hold a press conference and let everyone know about the mysterious return of Ray Samuels, it’s going to be a massive story, there will be all sorts of theories about Alien abduction, time travel, religious theories, you name it the press will be on it. But first we need to let certain people know, by that I mean his wife and his daughter, we can’t have them seeing it in the papers first that wouldn’t be right. Get hold of his wife and daughter and take them to the Travel lodge, book a few more rooms there as well”

“OK Sir, I’ll get on it straightaway”

“Spencer, I need everything done by the end of today, both wife and daughter have to have had time with Ray before we call a press conference”

“When are you thinking of holding one?”

“Tommorow at 09.00am here at the station!”

Spencer nodded, sod it, that only gives him a few hours to get everything done, it was now 17.30, he had to act fast.

As Spencer left the office, Swan was picking up the phone.

“Home Secretary please, it’s Commander Swan, tell him its urgent!”

Tom Lucas sat on his own in the Moby Dick pub next to the Travel lodge, he had taken Ray and Eddie back to room 37 to let them have some time together. The plain clothed PC was sitting outside, he had been told not to let them out of the room. Tom had mixed emotions, he was pleased that Ray was finally with his father, but angry at himself for letting down Swan and Spencer. So he was doing what he always did in these situations, he was drinking a large whiskey!

Ray and Eddie sat looking at each other, trying to take it all in. Finally Eddie spoke.

“Your back Ray, back for good, I always knew you would be, just like I told you all those years ago, you thought I was a bit mad back then, I know you did. When I told you about the vision, the prophecy, you thought I was making it up. But it’s all come true Ray, all of it. You’re special Ray, really special”

“There’s so much that I don’t understand Dad, where have I been all these years, what was the point. If I’m “special” as you put it, why didn’t I just keep living my life, why did I have to go away somewhere for 25 years, it doesn’t make any sense”

“Think about it Ray, you needed to learn things, things that take a lifetime to learn, if you’d tried to learn them back here in your own time, you’d never have done it and if you did, by the time you were ready you’d have been too old to do what you now have to do”

“But what is that Dad, what am I expected to do?”

“You need to be a leader Ray, a leader of a great number of people, the world is in chaos, war, famine, greed, murder, crime everywhere. Someone needs to take order Ray, the people need someone to follow, that’s you Ray, you”

“Dad, I’m just Ray Samuels from bloody Romford, how can I do that?”

“You will Ray, you will”

Ray sat back in the chair and let out a large sigh, he noticed his Dads Bible on the table next to him.

“See you’ve still got the old Bible then, I remember it from all those years ago”

Ray picked it up and started to flick through it, it looked familiar, very familiar. Not because he recognised it from years back but there was something else, something important about it, he seemed to know it, as though it was part of him, he started remembering things. He remembered a classroom where he was being taught, he knew this Bible.

Eddie Samuels took the Bible from him.

“Ray, listen to me, listen carefully, I’m going to ask you about some parts of this Bible, tell me what you think it says”

Eddie flicked through the pages and stopped at the Book of John he chose a verse at random.

“Ray, John, chapter seventeen verse one, what does it say”

Ray closed his eyes and began to speak.

“These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, father, the hour is come, glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify you.”

Ray opened his eyes and was astonished at what he had just said.

“Dad, I know every word, every word of that book, how…..?

“Shush Son, not now, now’s not the time, all will be revealed soon.”