Chapter 25 #3
“Too bad,” Devon snapped. “I get that you want your mom back, but you also need to think about more than just yourself.” She turned to Camden and repeated, “Keep them here. I’ll be back soon.
” He looked at her, his mouth open, and she shook her head, whispering now.
“Don’t even try to convince me otherwise.
Assuming I can help these ghosts, we can clean up some of the energy here.
Then there isn’t quite so much for Tabitha to pull on. ”
And, with that, Devon walked into the backyard, stood there, and slowly opened up her consciousness, something she had only ever done during sleep, though she knew that it had to be possible. As she did so, she saw several energies in front of her.
She smiled and whispered, “There is a light, and it’s right behind you. Please feel it, sense it, become it.”
Several of the entities drifted closer, and she smiled, opening her arms as they came closer and closer. She could see a huge glowing orb of light behind the group gathered here.
She smiled, welcomed them. As she touched each and every one of them, she slowly urged them to turn around. As soon as they saw the light, it seemed as if all the energy started to pull together into one big beam that walked faster and faster, until suddenly it ran to the light and disappeared.
*
“What is she doing?” Tabby asked Camden in a hushed voice.
“She’s helping the ghosts,” he explained.
“When you die, most of the time people go to the light, and they don’t even have this break-room thing going on.
They just automatically cross over, but sometimes, if your death was very turbulent, very quick, or very traumatic, sometimes you get caught in-between.
So Devon’s helping them go to the other side. ”
“She can do that?” Tabby asked.
“Yes, she absolutely can do that,” Camden declared, with a note of amusement.
“She’d done a lot of it during her sleeping hours, but now she is here, with each of these entities, who are just looking for someone to help them.
She didn’t really get to the point of doing anything about them.
I think because of all the stress with you guys and what you were planning.
Thus, she’s been thinking that these energies were here to hurt her, but now she has finally realized they were just looking for help.
They are quite likely the same energies as the family that was murdered here, but I don’t know that she understands that.
She doesn’t question who they are. She just helps everyone. ”
“Right,” Toby added, nodding. “Did she help my mom cross over?”
“I don’t know if she did. I never asked her,” Camden admitted. “There’s a good chance your mom crossed over without any issues, and she wouldn’t be in this holding place here.”
“But, … if Mom is planning on coming back, wouldn’t she be in this place?” Toby asked, frowning.
“I don’t know,” Camden conceded.
Toby went silent for a moment. “Do you think she would need to be somewhere close enough that she can get back?”
“Coming back is not normal,” Camden reminded Toby.
“And the people who try to come back are usually those who are rather desperate to rectify something or to live forever. So, I don’t know what to say.
I didn’t know your mom, and I don’t know what she may have done to convince you guys that this was something she could do. ”
He pointed to Devon. “Watch what Devon is doing. See how the energies are glowing around her? In a minute the energy will soften, and it will lighten up completely.” Just as he spoke those words, they could see that happening.
“What happened?” Toby asked, peering into the darkness.
“She just helped release a group of these ghosts,” Tabby exclaimed. “I saw them.”
“Exactly because that’s the normal cycle of life,” Camden pointed out.
“Even when we die, we’re never really gone.
We are always somewhere around. If they can, our loved ones will cross over but will keep an eye on us.
This can help you to understand the hereafter,” Camden added, “but not in a way that hurts anybody.”
“Which is what my mother was trying to do,” Toby stated, his voice oddly mature, as if suddenly realizing what they were planning on doing.
“Possibly, yes,” Camden replied. “Again, I didn’t know your mother, so I don’t know what was important to her.
I mean, if you guys were her whole world and if she felt she would be missing out and if you were all in on the plan, maybe she would possess Devon so she could live on.
But there’s a huge cost.” When an odd silence came from the twins, Camden looked over at them and asked, “Does that make sense?”
Toby looked over at his sister but didn’t say anything.
Camden glanced up at Tabby, seeing her face twist. Camden said, “Something’s different about you guys. What’s going on?”
“She wasn’t as good of a mom as maybe she could have been,” Tabby shared.
“I don’t know if that’s partly why she wanted to come back, but she didn’t make sure we got things like Devon did.
Devon took us to all our outings, to all the school stuff, to basically everything.
Everybody used to think that Devon was our mom, and, for the longest time, we never really corrected them because it was easier than saying that our real mom was sick in the hospital or having medical treatments or whatever, but she wasn’t always sick … ” Tabby shook her head.
Tabby continued. “Sometimes she just didn’t want to be bothered, and she would tell us that Devon would take us. It got to the point where we had to ask Mom if she would come because we never really saw her. She was always off doing those seances and stuff.”
Tabby sighed. “She was just obsessed with it all, … and now I’m wondering if maybe she was pushing that obsession on us.” She frowned. “I know it sounds odd, but I guess we let her.”
“No,” Camden corrected her, “it doesn’t sound odd at all. She’s your mom, and you wanted her to be the person you wanted her to be. You can’t be blamed for that.”
She looked at him with tears in her eyes.
“Are you sure? I feel as if we’ve done everything wrong with Devon, and yet she’s the one who was always around.
She’s the one who went Christmas shopping with us and for us.
She’s the one who took us to parks and playgrounds, and, when we were having bad days, we called her.
I mean, she was kind of our real mom, and yet she wasn’t anything like our mom. I’m just so confused.”
“I understand,” Camden told her. “It’s partially because of all the things your mom was doing to convince you that this was the right thing.
I can’t answer that for you, but I can say that hurting somebody for your own gain is never a good thing.
In this case, you’re asking an awful lot of Devon, who even now”—he pointed at the scene in front of them—“is helping many other people cross over.”
Tabby asked, “Why is she doing it now?”
“Those souls need her help to make their transition happen. A doorway is not just for one person going one way,” he explained. “When you open a door, it swings both ways.”
The twins stared at him in shock and then slowly nodded.
Camden could see the understanding in Toby’s gaze.
Toby whispered, “Maybe Mom shouldn’t come back.”
Camden shrugged. “I don’t know why she would think she should, unless she thinks she’s been wrongfully hurt or murdered.”
The twins both shook their heads. “She said she would live forever.”