Reincarnated
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people though that may be on purpose are used in a fictitious manor. I have no knowledge of what any of the people that the characters in this story may resemble did or didn't do. Any diagnosis of diseases are from reports on TV and radio and not from actual examinations. Take it as science fiction and no one will get hurt. If this is even close to the truth, then we should all be scared.
My name is Emily Padilla. It is the year 2058. I am a representative from South Central US for the world congress. I just found out I have an interesting past. I thought my life story was something of a challenge for all woman to aspire to higher standards. But under hypnosis I learned the real story. I have a past life. A not so good one it turns out. So you don't believe in reincarnation? I still don't but under these circumstances maybe I do.
I was a congressman from New York in a past life. I had been very successful in my rise up the ranks of congressman. I got to be the chairman of the ways and means committee before I was defeated by a woman in the primaries. A woman in the primaries! If I was a man I would think that was humiliating. But I am not a man. I am a woman and this hypnotic thing I learned can't be true.
The man I was, was interesting. I was a lawyer from New York and I ran for congress. I had been in many high places and met lots of interesting people. I found myself surrounded by people of power and lots of woman as well. I slept with maybe a couple hundred of them. Most of them were one night stands but I had maybe half a dozen regulars that I kept around. I made a trip to an Island. I can't remember that Island but I remember doing some bad things there. I was married. I remember something about my wife having more woman than I had. That is an interesting quote I heard someone say. I am not sure if that is true. She stayed in New York while I was in Washington. If she had that many, I wouldn't know.
After loosing the election I stayed mostly in Washington acting as a lobbyist. I eventually moved back to New York where I practice law until I got cancer.
Cancer. That was it. I had cancer in the later stages of my life. I remember going to a doctor and he told me I have maybe six months to live if I am lucky. More likely It was six weeks. I got a call the next day from a friend of mine in Washington. He told me to meet him at Teterboro at 6am. He wanted to take me somewhere.
I flew with him and I never knew the flight plan so I had no idea where we went. I think the flight was two hours but I don't know. I slept most of the flight. When we landed it felt like we were still somewhere in America but I couldn't tell you where. There were trees so it had to be East of I35. But after that I don't know.
We went to an office building where I met a man with white shirt and black tie. We filled out the NDA and the HIPPA paper work before we went into his office.
"This is a highly classified program." He told me. " Only a few people even know it exist and most won't know it exist until they need it."
"I need it?" I asked.
"You do." He answered.
"The report I got was that you have less than six months to live. Highly unfortunate. You have several options. 1. Go home, call a hospice and try to die peacefully. 2. Go home and work yourself to death and die quicker. 3. Use our program and gain another 65 years."
"65 years. That would make me ..."
"130 when you die." He finished. "Your body won't live that long but you will."
I was actually 63 but this cancer was kicking my butt.
"Ok, what is involved in your option. Will I be selling my soul to gain another life?"
"Essentially yes, but I am not the devil. I just work to keep you away from the Devil."
"What the Hell are you talking about?"
"Exactly that. Keep you out of Hell a little while longer."
"Ok, you have my attention. What now."
"This is a black ops government program and we are highly selective in who we offer it to. Usually people who have served our country as presidents, Senators or distinguished congressmen. A few Generals have been here. We have some successful businessmen who have used our program in the past."
"How long has this program been here?"
"That is need to know but I will tell you, that there are presidents who served their second 8 year term as president."
"Really?" I said in amazement.
"Really, but you don't know that. Anyway, we have been working with frozen embryos and making clones of them. We tell the parents that we found a surrogate but really we have taken the embryos and created little children. These children have no soul."
I had my eyes wide open now. "How do they live without a soul?"
"Have you heard of black eye children?"
"I thought those were myths."
"They are escapees of our program."
"Oh."
"We develop these children until we can find a soul. When we find one, we have a procedure we do to make sure the soul gets transferred to the body. The memories of your past life will still be there but they will be suppressed. We give the children back to their parents with a soul present. We tell them that the surrogate who birthed the baby has been paid and the child will now belong to you. They raise the child as their own and no one is the wiser. The parents may tell the child that they were birthed by a surrogate but the the seed was from them. So physically you are their child. Mentally you are much older."
"So what happens to the old body?"
"We put it back on a plane and send it home. Give the family a story on how you died and we have a funeral. As far as the world is concerned, you are dead. It was expected."
"What do I need to sign up?"
"What we will do is have you put some money into an annuity which is to be be kept by a trust fund run by us. At age 18 you will be given a scholarship to whichever university you have chosen. Don't worry, We will be watching your decision and we will show up with some believable name for the scholarship. You will not know it is your own money. If you decide to go to law school or medical school, we will be right there to give you another scholarship, fellowship, grant or whatever we feel like you need to keep studying. When you finish school or you decide to start a business we will be right there to fund it. Ok, the loan is your money and as you pay it back you are paying yourself. At some point we will have a long lost relative die and leave you what is left of the money as an estate."
"Ok, and if I decide to go into law again."
"Yes, we will hire you. Or at least one of our people will hire you. We will make sure you stay on track to make it to whatever position you want. Even president. In fact of our last six presidents only Two were not someone in our program."