Chapter 4

The session

<Screenplay note: very calm room and subtle effects of pen writing, breathing etc.>
Knock. Knock. That knocking brought me back to present world.

“This is Dr.Shiela. May I come in?”

“Yes please Doc. I have been waiting for you”

“Looks like you have started without me”.

A dry smile popped out of me.

“Just drifted away”

“Sometime self-realization helps”.

She sat down in the chair near me.

“But it may put me out of job”.

She smiled, I smiled in response as a formality.

“So, what do you want to talk about Today.”

“It is always the same thing Doctor."

"I am sorry Doctor. I am not sure these sessions are doing any good to me. I am doing it just for my wife. I am not sure any amount of therapy can take away my guilt. As my wife is paying for these sessions, I feel more guilty”

“It’s okay Mr. Reily. We will keep discussing. We will get a breakthrough soon”

“I have my doubts Doctor. That day when I made my own decision based on heat pattern, I killed a whole family. Almost 40 people including Women and Children."

Reily takes heavy breaths. Doc allowed his time to recover.She knows he relives the horror far more than her liking.

"Only when I see them in heaven and get their forgiveness, I can feel better. Sometimes I get to think about point of all these wars. Someone at the top of the chain wants to show off and somebody else pays the debt”

“Relax Mr. Reily. Everyone has a role to play in this lifetime. No one surely knows the purpose that God gave us. We pretend to know”.

I slipped out a dry smile again.

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