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One Flew Over The Ambridge Cuckoo's Nest

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  Posted by Ambridge Forever Frittering (U5978873) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  CHAPTER TEN
  
  On the eve of his son's 14th birthday in December 2013, Nigel Pargeter took Freddie aside.
  
  'My boy, there are two things I must teach you. I must show you the Pargeter Footholds on the roof as your grandfather taught me. As you know, this knowledge saved my life two years ago. But first you should learn about your true heritage. It is time. You're of age now.'
  
  ' No, I'm not,' Freddie contradicted. 'That's when I'm 18, Dad.' He wondered if that blow to the head, as David Archer yanked him back from certain death, had damaged Nigel mentally more than they had realised. He had hit his head an almighty thwack on the chimney stack.
  
  'That is the human custom.' Nigel spoke more solemnly than Freddie had ever heard from him before. 'I am speaking of your Sehethulah heritage. We are neither of us true humans. I was born so, but the Sehethulah blessed me as I floundered. They took charge of the body of the old Nigel Pargeter and I was born anew. But you and Lily are full Sehethulah, though your human host - she whom you call mother - knows nothing of your destiny.'
  
  Freddie just stared at his father. In his mind's eye, he saw him safely encased in a white jacket. He supposed that Nigel had been getting steadily more eccentric. And clambering onto the roof in a howling gale to remove a banner. What sane man would do that?
  
  'Listen well, my boy. You are destined to defeat our mortal foe, the Agorrans. And you will be riding Topper to victory.'

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  Posted by Ambridge Forever Frittering (U5978873) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  The Boss was going through the Ambridge files with a fine tooth comb. What a splendid job his new agent was doing! When he thought of those years of bumbling Bert Fry's dreadful rhyming reports, he could have wept at the waste.
  
  But there was no time for such human emotions. Things were moving fast now. The Agorrans baby had been safely delivered of Vicky Tucker. Now that their enemy knew that humans and Agorrans could produce offspring, there would be no stopping them.
  
  They had tried once before.The admirable Rob had certainly been digging deep into Ambridge lore. Over 20 years ago, a male Agorran, known as Cameron Fraser, had bought the Borchester Estate. His task was partly to learn as much as he could about the residents, but mostly to impregnate one of them.
  
  But he was rotten even by Agorran standards. He took advantage of human gullibility to steal money from them. He ran up huge debts, he had people after him, and he had to make a quick getaway. He had intended to take his pregnant girlfriend, Elizabeth Archer, now Pargeter, and see what evil could be wrought when his child came of age.
  
  But then he realised that he could not spend the rest of his life with her whining voice in his ear, evil plans or no evil plans. And so he left her stranded in a pub off the motorway and saw her no more.
  
  Fortunately for the Sehethulahs' own plans, she was weak and felt she could not raise the child alone, even with her large family to help her. And so the prospective Agorran infant was terminated. The Boss thoughtfully tapped his teeth with his pen as he saw Nigel Pargeter's name circled heavily and read Rob's comments beside it. Rob had found out that Nigel had wanted to marry Elizabeth and bring up her baby as his own. Could he have known the reason for its existence?
  
  Everyone dismissed Nigel Pargeter as a harmless, good natured buffoon. But there must be more to him than met the eye if he was so determined to save that Agorran brat.
  
  It was a real pity that, having lured him onto the roof, David Archer had not succeeded in pushing Nigel off when he had lost his footing. But then David Archer was not Sehethulah, just temporarily under some mild mind control.
  
  There was only one member of that branch of the Archer clan who was true Sehethulah. And none of the others suspected a thing.

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  Posted by Vicky S (U2258400) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  Building up nicely now!

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