He and Emily had come awake at exactly the same time. Scaring the nurses who had been attending to them almost half to death with the way their eyes had opened up in unison.
But Derek had barely been able to see the humor in the situation because back then,
he'd had very important information to share and the first words out of his mouth had been Get me a police officer.
And within minutes, Marge had been by their side, notebook out as she took notes, a recorder placed between him and Emily as they had told her everything that they knew. Not leaving a thing out when it came to detailing how his uncle had tried to kill them.
They might not have been able to bury him for real. But they had given the figurative sense of the word a go, as they had told the tale.
