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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 312785" data-attributes="member: 130">Angela walks into the bedroom of a hotel suite and whips open the curtains.  Kevin, his naked body twisted up in the sheets of the bed, squirms, utters grunts of discomfort.  “Get in the shower.”“Go away.”“Look it Kevin, you can do this on your own, or I can have you dragged in there and cleaned up.”“Leave me alone.”“If you wanted to be left alone, you should have joined a monastery.   Now get moving. Richard needs us there, so does Emma.”“Richard Channing doesn’t need anybody.”“And Emma Channing?  How you think she’d feel knowing where you were and what you were doing?”Kevin starts to cry, balling his eyes out into the pillow.Angela stands over him. “I’m not my mother, so don’t expect me to coddle you. Get this over with and get cleaned up.”“Mrs. Channing,” a young man in a distinctly French accent asks Christina in the private hospital waiting room, “is there anything I can get for you?”“No. Thank you, Camille.”“Miss Channing?” he says turning to Emma.“No thank you,” Emma replies, holding up her tea in a paper cup.Michael enters the room, “He’s out of surgery!”Both Emma and Christina run over to him, ecstatic, hugging him. Father Christoper makes his way over.Angela and Kevin come in the room next. Angela asks, “Good news?”“Yes, he’s out a d well,” Michael answers.“Of course he is.”Michael hugs Kevin.   Then Emma hugs Kevin.   “See your father isn’t finished yet.  He’ll be here to take care of us for a long time.”  Then Christina hugs Kevin.  Then Kevin and Camille exchange an uncomfortable glance before Father Christoper hugs Kevin.Angela walks outside of the hospital and lights up a cigarette.  Behind her John Ross appears.  “I heard the good news.”Cool and steady, without turning to face him, Angela says, “Still things aren’t going to be the same.”“No. Recuperating will be difficult, I imagine.”“You’ll be headed back to Dallas now, I’m assuming.”  “No. We’ve got a board meeting. We’re putting in place the succession plans. We’ll need a new member. Interested?”“Oh God no. What about Marion McKenzie?”“The former Attorney General?”“Yes.”“Why him?”“There are few people with such an upstanding reputation when it comes to the law, making it or enforcing it.”“Or judging it. But, if you’re recommending him, I have to assume you’ve got something on him to use when you need it.”“Don’t be so cynical.”“He’s a friend of my Uncle’s.”“I know.”“I’ll bring it up.”“You do that.”</blockquote>

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