As visiting hours come to a close, Duncan walks his step-mom and sister to the garage...
"It's not that I don't believe you or your father, Dun," Iman said, "but to believe there could be another David out there somewhere is a little hard to swallow..."
"Maybe," Duncan chuckles half-heartedly, "Maybe you're right...maybe I was imagining things. Dad's fans can get a little bonkers..."
In the dimly lit sub-basement of the garage..."Wait here, Iman," Duncan said, "I'll pull the car around." Duncan walked several rows of cars back to where the automobile waited. As he slid in and adjusted the seat (he is a bit taller than his parents), he couldn't stop thinking...or wondering...It did appear as if that 'Aladdin-Sane' bloke could fly...Nah! Duncan shook his head and pulled out of the space, but as he drove..But how did he recognize me? Even some of Dad's hardcore fans don't know what I look like.... As he pulled up the entrance...
"Iman? Lexie?" Both mother and child were missing...
"Iman?" Duncan shouted out of the window, but no answer. Lexie's baby bag had been dropped on the ground. Duncan abruptly parked the car where it stopped and jumped out of the car. He looked around--a feeling of panic came over him. It seemed so unlike Iman to just take off...
Against a pillar was a subway map, with darts aimed at northernmost Manhattan.... *************************************************************************** Now that it was nighttime, and the nurses were all busy at the station with their charts, David took the opportunity to investigate...
He put on some clothes--a T-shirt and a pair of black cargo-pants. He lookedcarefully to see if the hallways were clear, then snuck his way onto the elevators. If anyone asks, he's on his way downstairs to the smoking pavillion.
As the doors close, Duncan arrives on a different elevator, making a mad dash for his father's room.
"Dad!" Duncan bursts into his father's room--no one answers. He dashes to the nurse's desk, "Nurse, where's my father? He's not in his room..." *************************************************************************** It was just past radiology, Dun said, David thought, if my faultier-than-usual memory serves me correctly. He walks the labrynthine hallways until...
"Psych E.R.?" David thinks. "No, that can't be right..."
"Can I help you, sir?" An armed guard asked briskly.
"Um...no...just looking," David smiled charmingly.
"Who are you??" The guard said curtly.
"Well...they say my name is David Bowie but..."
"How did YOU get out??" the guard roughly grabbed David by the arms before the man could react, "Geez, first you freaks try to bribe me with imaginary cigarettes, then you try to seduce me--males and females!--they oughta keep you guys chained to the wall!"
"B..b..but I..." David sputtered, confused and stunned, but before he can get out a coherent sentence, he is tossed into the locked room.
David's shock only increases once he sees the room's occupants...
"MASTER!!!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!!"
To be continued...
Don't understand me, just love me
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