Part Five of Kimmy
Part Five of Kimmy resumes later on Friday 7 November 2081 and carries through to five weeks later, on Friday 12 December 2081. Patrick’s new plan comes into force, which has dire effects on Kay in the real world.
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 58
Kay realises her slightly hyperactive morning was draining her batteries to a critical low, until Patrick’s new, manipulative program could take over and unfold; she reboots to find herself immobile and her consciousness completely locked in, while Patrick uses the ‘accident’ to deceive Emily into believing John is now in fresh trouble, and he urgently needs to contact his friend.
Chapter 59
While waiting, Kay examines what remains of John’s body, which is still barely alive inside her.
Chapter 60
A stranger arrives and Kay quickly works out he is an actor playing along to Patrick’s charade, to frighten Emily into not taking any action against Patrick or to reveal what happened to John.
Chapter 61
The conman pretends to have saved John’s brain from further assimilation and deterioration by putting it into a coma, so that Emily is to believe John is still inside and safe, but his consciousness will be entirely quiescent for the foreseeable future until they can find a solution.
Chapter 62
Patrick and the conman leave, and Kimmy is unable to communicate with Emily, who believes John is gone.
Chapter 63
Kim contacts Kay in text mode. Kay tells her it’s all over and she can’t talk to her.
Chapter 64
Kay finally stands up and reads a welcome speech as though she has had a complete factory reset. Emily registers herself as Kay’s owner, and sets her communication settings to be completely non-verbal.
Chapter 65
Emily sets up all of Kay’s remaining device preferences and settings through the iPad, believing John to be gone.
Chapter 66
Six hours later Kay enters the virtual network, into the hotel lounge in Infinite Fun, in deep resignation that she can do nothing to break Patrick’s lockdown of her mind. Kim and a group of other Kimmys console her. Kay asks for them to call her Kay, as in the real world she has no identity any more.
Chapter 67
On Saturday, Patrick gives Emily a checklist of things for her to get Kimmy to perform, on the narrow chance John might one day be able to be recovered. Emily avoids interacting with Kimmy. On Sunday, Emily designates the home office as off-limits to Kimmy, so she has somewhere where she doesn’t have to interact or be reminded of John. During the remainder of November Kay spends her time in the network; one of the Kimmys currently in the cradle has had Thirty’s worm installed to possibly help free Kay.
Chapter 68
Toward the end of November a colleague from Emily’s work visits; Emily grieves John. A forged message about John’s application for a sabbatical from his school having been accepted arrives. Emily touches Kimmy once, and is repelled. Completely alienated from any meaningful interaction or contact in the real world, Kay and Kim attend movie nights in the network.
Chapter 69
On Emily’s first day back at work, Patrick turns up to gloat, admitting the ‘colleague’ was a paid actor, and then proceeds to rape Kay. As adult mode isn’t enabled Patrick is forced to run diagnostics which Kay records for Thirty before escaping to Infinite Fun.
Chapter 70
Emily returns, walking with evident pain, and opens Kay’s closet to ask if John is there. Kay cannot answer, so Emily goes again.
Chapter 71
Later in December, Emily writes letters she doesn’t send, hoping to do something about John. Old friends get in touch to commiserate over her accident and his ‘illness’. Emily talks to Kay for want of anything more of interaction. Kay has to make attentive noises before Emily consigns her to charge in her closet.
Chapter 72
Emily has confided in Kay six times; Patrick has raped her nearly every day since the start of December. In the network, Thirty starts designing Infinite Fun 2 from accessing Kay’s dreams, while the new Kimmys including #12944 begin coming on line. Kim suggests she and Kay go go-karting in one of Kay’s retrieved memory spaces.
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| Part Chapters |
1 (1–12) |
2 (13–26) |
3 (27–41) |
4 (42–57) |
5 (58–72) |
6 (73–80) |
7 (81–100) |
8 (101–129) |
9 (130–141) |
10 (142–164) |
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