Godsend Page #5

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For those of us who don't wear helmets

in the house.

What you doing?

Where did you get this?

It was a birthday present

from Joey Smoyer.

Do you like it?

Yeah.

Why don't you get some sleep?

- Dad, I've been thinking.

- About what?

I don't think I like you so much any more.

- Oh!

- Gotcha!

Ohh!

Somebody is in

some very serious trouble!

Where do you think you're going?

I'm going to smother you!

It's just in some ways

he's so much the same, you know?

But he's still his own person, entirely.

And then look at him.

I honestly forget sometimes

you know?

And then something like that...

that toy dinosaur thing will happen.

It's OK. It happens to me, too.

- I just worry, you know?

- What?

- If he ever found out.

- He won't find out.

What if he did?

About what it would mean to him.

I just love him so much.

Both of you.

Mm.

No!

No!

Help!

Adam!

Adam!

It's OK.

- I'm right here.

- Who are you?

Dad!

- Adam!

- No!

Mom!

Help!

Adam?

Oh, my God! Adam!

- Go away!

- Take it easy! It's OK. It's OK.

- Stay away!

- Take it easy.

Jessie!

- Get away from me!

- It's OK.

- OK. All right!

- Get off!

- Get off me!

- It's OK. Jessie!

Honey!

- No!

- Oh, God!

Adam! Adam!

- What happened?

- I don't know. He just collapsed.

- Call 911!

- I'm calling Richard!

Richard. Thank God.

I want him in a hospital.

- My staff and I can handle this.

- Your staff don't know about this.

They don't need to. We're close friends.

You know our arrangement.

Maybe we need to reconsider that.

It's five hours, he's still unconscious.

Breathing and color are good

he's responding to stimuli.

He's basically just sleeping.

But for some reason he's not waking up.

What you describe

sounds a lot like night terrors.

It's a sleep disorder.

A child screams in his sleep

he may sit up, walk, even talk

but all attempts to wake him are futile.

No, you weren't there.

This is something entirely different.

All right. Hold on a minute.

I know it's scary

but we talked about this.

The possibility that things could change

once Adam crossed the age

at which he died.

Well, it's been eight years.

As of now, he's crossed it.

You said change.

You never said anything like this.

Because I couldn't have known.

He is the only one, period.

We are and always have been

at the mercy of that fact.

Up till now, we've had a map

Adam's first eight years.

Now we're entering uncharted territory.

We have no way of knowing

who the Adam of age nine

age ten, age 50 is going to be.

What problems he may or may not have.

I promise you, there's nothing more

a hospital would be doing for him.

- What's happening?

- I'd like to find out.

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