Rape Kit continued
Episode 16
“And…” a hand came out of the door pushing Sheriff Leland back, “he wants a woman.” Another hand came out after him then, and pulled him forward. “And… not Ruth.” The hand appeared to be Ramey’s.
Leland stood there nonplussed.
“I believe it is in the patient’s best interest, Leland,” Doc Chatham whispered.
“I believe I’ve got just what you need,” Leland said, holstering his pistol. And he waved Agent Hailey over.
“Ramey, meet Agent Hailey of the FBI. Agent Hailey, of the FBI, meet Ramey.” Leland pushed on the door. “Ramey. You’re going to have to open the door wider if you want to Agent Hailey to be able to get through.”
The door slowly opened wider.
Leland introduced Agent Hailey again with a nod.
Ramey looked like hell. But he looked at Agent Hailey, sized her up with a hardened aspect that Leland had never seen on Dentist Ramey before, and let the door swing open as he turned on his heel and stepped back inside. Agent Hailey gave Leland a ‘what-the-hell?’ look.
“I’ll get the kit,” Leland said. He motioned that she should go in.
“It’s not so much a split-personality disorder as it is a two-person personality disorder,” Dr. Chatham said as he conferred quietly with Leland outside on some porch chairs.
Meanwhile, Agent Hailey was inside questioning Ramey and performing a rape kit exam, ‘however that goes,’ Leland wondered.
“Typically, with a split personality, it’s just that.” Doc Chatham stared at Leland intently. “Either of the personalities may have their own name because they share none of the personality traits of the other. Whichever character represents the splinter personality is what the literary crowd might call a ‘stock’ character or a ‘flat’ character. They are the simple possessor of one character trait the heretofore ‘whole’ personality disavows, in essence saying, ‘that’s not me.’” Doc Chatham spread his arms wide.
Leland nodded. He’d watched the movies too. And he didn’t much care for this ‘psychobabble’.
“But in Ramey’s case, this ‘splinter personality’ is much more like a ‘whole’ person! It has its own name, sure. But it also has a history and knows things which would seemingly be foreign to a person like Ramey. Unless our Ramey has been very clever at living two, totally different lives. And, one life is as a woman.” Doc Chatham stopped as if to let that sink in.
Leland wondered where he thought it was going to ‘sink’.
“The upshot of this is that either I am being totally buffaloed, or I’ve never seen or heard of anything of this sort before.”
Leland stared at him.
“That is, of course, outside of the movies.”
“Oh yeah? What movies have you seen?”
“I was just being rhetorical… or something,” Doc Chatham spread his hands… possibly in hope. As if he were entreating Leland to dispel the confusion and perhaps come up with something.
“And you are going to ask me to bill the County for,” “….this?” Leland and Doc Chatham stood taking the measure of either for a long breath. Leland spun his hand.
This got old Doc Chatham’s back up. “You can take that up with my office manager, Leland.”
Leland didn’t want to take up anything with her. And he didn’t think Ruth would either.
“Fine. Okay. Thanks for your help in this time of crisis Doc,” Leland grumbled.
The Doc left abruptly, and Leland stood outside for a while, before he figured it was better that he go in. Just ‘cause it was silent, you never know what could have happened. He knocked softly.
“C’mon in,” Agent Hailey chirruped sweetly. “We’re all done.” She opened the door while snapping a latex glove from her right hand.
“You don’t want to know,” she said, in answer to Leland’s astonished glance.
Ramey was lying naked on a living room table with his knees up and partially covered by a sheet.
Photo by Carl Nelson
Tags: Dissociative identity disorder, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, murders, Rape kit, serial fiction, serial killer
Schn00dles's Blog 
December 7, 2012 at 9:12 am12 |
Now it has come full circle. This is the lost third season of Twin Peaks.
December 7, 2012 at 9:12 pm12 |
And get it here! Fresh!