The Diabolical Page #4

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- Ma'am? Ma'am?

- Do you need assistance?

- No.

- Are you sure, ma'am?

- No, they're fine.

He looked like he was going to die.

I mean, they're fine now, like you saw.

But out here...

I'll need to do some tests

on the children as well.

If you don't mind.

Yes. Thank you.

Okay. Last one.

You did an excellent job.

Let's see how it goes.

- Hello?

- Hello, Ms. Heller. This is Austin Hamilton.

Yes. Um...

I wanted to follow up

on our conversation yesterday.

- Like I said, we'd like to move quickly on this.

- I'm gonna have to call you back.

Sounds good. Okay. I just wanted to

mention that we've gotten...

I will call you back.

Geez.

What does it mean?

Well, it means that the two of you

are in very good health...

and you have no visible reactions

to common allergens.

Well, then you're testing them

for the wrong things.

May I speak to you alone?

Ms. Heller, I've done every test

I can on your children.

Right now,

I can't find anything obvious.

Maybe when I get back to the lab.

So what are you saying?

That we just stay in the house?

Until I finish processing

the blood work, yeah.

They seem fine while they're inside.

I've seen cases like this before,

where maybe they're experiencing

symptoms brought on by stress.

Perhaps you are too.

This isn't stress.

This isn't psychosomatic.

This is very, very real.

They almost died.

You've told me that. Right now,

I can't find anything wrong with them.

Do you think I'm lying?

I could also observe their symptoms

while they're outside.

I'm not doing that to my children.

Thank you for your time.

I'll run the samples at the lab

and notify you if I turn up anything.

Haley?

Hales.

Haley.

Haley.

What are you drawing?

Um... Dinosaurs.

I think the horses are queens

and the dinosaurs are soldiers.

Are they friends?

Um, sort of.

Did you know that horses and dinosaurs

lived millions and millions of years apart?

Yep. But I got bored of drawing horses.

It's okay.

It's okay. Just stay here.

Jacob?

Jesus. Jacob!

What?

Don't scare us like that.

Haley, it's okay.

It's just your brother.

Oh. God. What are you doing down here?

I thought I can try and fix this.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow. You remember this?

No.

You used to love Halloween so much.

I don't remember it.

He told me not to make the volcano.

I only did it because he thought

I should do something different.

I couldn't stop yelling at him, and then

he left, and... It's all my fault, Mommy.

Jake, stop.

He didn't leave

because of your argument.

He left because I told him to.

Hey.

Your dad had become a really...

angry man.

And I couldn't take it anymore.

Okay? It was nothing that you did.

Jake!

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