Chapter Fifteen :
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Evangeline
Evangeline is a young woman living with Thanatophobia. This is
an abnormal fear of a person’s own death.
Evangeline developed this phobia as a child due to an incident in which
she nearly drowned in a lake at her childhood estate. This phobia begins to
take over Evangeline’s life. She avoids doing anything which may be linked to
or cause her own death. She came from a wealthy aristocrat family and
has never worked a day in her life. Her mother and father died while she was
still a child and she was raised by her grandmother. During a car trip one
afternoon, the rain begins to fall heavily and the weather becomes severely
violent. Evangeline suffers a halloucitation in which the car begins to fill
with water, she pulls over and desperately tries to escape but the doors are
locked from the inside. After this event Evangeline makes the decision to visit
one of the most renown doctors in the world, Dr. Alastar Cagney. She travels up
to the small rural village in Ireland where his centre is based and is admitted
for an unknown period of time. During their first meeting Dr. Cagney seems
uninterested in Evangeline’s condition and shows little attention to her.
Evangeline begins to experience more and more nightmares and is obsessed with
her own death. One night Dr. Cagney follows Evangeline back to her room and
photographs her in her sleep. We see Evangeline get up after he has left and
lock her door, unknown to him she saw him taking the photographs. Very soon
after this event a new story dominates the papers, two bodies were found in a
nearby woodland. Evangeline becomes fixated on the fact that she will be next
and the killer is Cagney. She plans her escape and that night leaves the
treatment centre without telling anyone. Not knowing where to go, Evangeline
checks into a small B&B in the neighbouring village. Once inside she
realises she’s left her purse at the centre, but she remembers her credit card
in her pocket. She pays for the night by card and locks her door as soon as
she’s in her room.
The next morning Evangeline wakes with ease and as she sits up
she notices a very familiar object on her bedside table. Her purse, and inside
several photographs of her in her sleep. She leaves the B&B in a panicked
frenzy she returns to her home in Kent. During the next few days Cagney is
arrested under suspect of murder, though Evangeline can’t put to rest her
feelings of unease still. We see Cagney’s court cases and are led to believe he
is sentenced until Evangeline is seen sat in a café and is watched receiving a
phone call, we hear the caller with his strong Irish accent and become aware it
is Cagney, he threatens her. Evangeline takes off leaving all her belongings
and phone in the café, she drives through the rain for a long period of time
and arrives at the estate we are aware is her childhood home. She is seen
walking into the lake fully clothed and drowns herself. Alastar Cagney is seen
watching from a window of the house.
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