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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmour family on the basis of what I see over a period of from twenty-four to seventy-two hours. And if theloss is too great—or if he comes back as Timmy Baterman apparently came back, as a thing of evil—iwill kill him.As a doctor, he felt he could kill Gage, if Gage was only the vessel containing some other being, quiteeasily. He would not allow himself to be swayed by its pleadings or its wiles. He would kill it as hewould kill a rat carrying bubonic plague. There need be no melodrama about it. A pill in solution,perhaps two or three of them. If necessary, a shot. There was morphine in his bag. The following night,he would return the lifeless clay to Pleasantview and reenter it, simply trusting that his luck would hold asecond time (you don’t even know if it will hold once, he reminded himself). He had considered theeasier and safer alternative of the Pet Sematary, but he would not have his son up there. There were a lotof reasons. A child burying his pet five years or tenyears or even twenty years later might stumble on the remains— that was one reason. But the mostcompelling one was simpler. The Pet Sematary might be. . . too close.The reinterment completed, he would fly to Chicago and join his family. Neither Rachel nor Ellie wouldever need to know about his failed experiment.Then, looking along the other path—the path he hoped for blindly with all his love for his son: he andGage would leave the house when the examination period was over, would leave at night. He would takecertain papers with him and plan never to return to Ludlow again. He and Gage would check into a motel—perhaps this very one in which he now lay.The following morning he would cash every account they had, converting everything into AmericanExpress traveler’s checks (don’t leave home with your resurrected son without them, he thought) andflat cash. He and Gage would fly somewhere— Florida, most likely. From there he would call Rachel,tell her where he was, tell her to take Ellie and catch a plane without telling her mother and father whereshe was going. Louis believed he could convince her to do this. Ask no questions, Rachel. Just come.Come now. This minute.He would tell her where he (they) were staying. Some motel. She and Ellie would arrive in a rental car.He would bring Gage to the door when they knocked. Perhaps Gage would be wearing a bathing suit.And then— Ah, but beyond that he did not dare go; instead he turned backto the plan’s beginning and began to go over it again. He supposed that if things worked out, it wouldmean accumulating the identification minutae of whole new lives so that Irwin Goldman could not usehis overflowing checkbook to trace them. Such things could be done.Vaguely, he remembered arriving at the Ludlow house, tense, tired, and more than a little scared, andhaving some fantasy about just driving down to Orlando and hiring on as a medic at Disney World.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (250 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM
file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmMaybe that wasn’t so farfetched after all.He saw himself, dressed in white, resuscitating a pregnant woman who had foolishly gone on the MagicMountain ride and had fainted. Stand back, stand back, give her some air, he heardhimself saying, and the woman opened her eyes and smiled gratefully at him.As his mind spun out this not disagreeable fantasy, Louis fell asleep. He slept as his daughter awoke inan airplane somewhere above Niagara Falls, screaming from a nightmare of clutching hands and stupidyet merciless eyes; he slept as the stewardess rushed down the aisle to see what was wrong; he slept asRachel, totally unnerved, tried to soothe her; he slept as Ellie cried over and over again: It’s Gage!Mommy! It’s Gage! it’s Gage! Gage is alive! Gage has got the knife from Daddy’s bag! Don’t let himget me! Don’t let him get Daddy!He slept as Ellie quieted at last and lay shuddering against her mother’s breast, her eyes wide andtearless, and as Dory Goldman thought what an awful thing all of this had been for Eileen, and howmuch she reminded Dory of Rachel after Zelda had died.He slept and woke up at a quarter past five, with the afternoon light beginning to slant down toward thecoming night.Wild work, he thought stupidly and got up.45By the time United Airlines flight 419 touched down at O’Hare Airport and offloaded its passengers atten minutes past three, central standard time, Ellie Creed was in a state of low hysteria, and Rachel wasvery frightened.If you touched Ellie casually on the shoulder, she jumped and stared around at you with big walleyes,and her whole body quivered steadily and without letup. It was as if she were full of electricity. Thenightmare on the airplane had been bad enough, but this. . . Rachel simply didn’t know how to cope withit.Going into the terminal, Ellie tripped over her own feet and fell down. She did not get up but merely layfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (251 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM
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