Murder in the woods: conclusion

Before we leave the woods, I already ask back up from police station. So when we arrive at the roadside, they already there. I handed the killer to another officer to bring him to the station for further questioning.

Everyone is busy, so I take her to the back of an ambulance and told her to sit there. To make her calm I also give her a cup of water, which I get from Dr. Sullivan. He already leaves because he still has other patients to care, and I still have business with her, so I promised him to deliver her back. I don't get why she so eager to help the victim, so I start asking her question.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Just my dress gets dirty"

"That's alright, it's just a hospital gown anyways, and more important is, why you do such reckless action? Do you know you almost die there?"

Well, if we late for couple minute that man already smack her head with a shovel in his hands. Could be said we come in the nick of time to save her. Still, that kind of reckless action can't be tolerated.

"I… I feel sorry for her. She is so pitiful. She'll be buried in the woods alone, nobody will search her, and nobody will remember her. She … she just like me, nobody remembers me, nobody searching me. I'm afraid at the end I'll be forgotten … that's why I want to help her ….." her face looks so sad and tears start flowing from her eyes.

Crap! I forget she doesn't remember anything including her name. It's natural for her to feel alone, nobody knows her, and nobody ever visits her in hospital, except the people in the hospital, who else care about her. Thank God, Sam meddles in the right time.

"What are you talking about silly girl? You know he comes here in rush just to save you. That's because he worried about you. And you should not feel alone, you have me and him here. We are your friends"

She stops crying when heard that and starts smiling. Oh, God! Can she smile that beautiful? Somehow my heart throbbing and my face feels hot when seeing her. Damn! What kind of feeling is this?

"Thank you," she said it with a soft voice. Wait, where she staring at? She did not look at me or Sam. Did she talk to the spirit again?

Before things get weirder I should return her to the hospital as soon as possible.

After delivering her to the hospital, Sam and I return to the police station to write a report about this murder in the woods. Along the way we don't speak much, we still try to digest what just happened before.

"Hey, partner" Sam start the conversation

"Yeah, what's up?"

"I still can't believe what happen"

"Me too. But that's happened in front of our eyes"

"How we make this case report?"

"Didn't I the one that usually writes the report? Now you're concern about that, how strange!"

"I just want to know what you'll write there"

Ugh! He got the point. We can arrest the murderer because that girl informs us. But she gets the info from the victim spirit. Should I write we got information from a paranormal? Suddenly my head feels dizzy and I want to bang my head in wheel driver.

"Just let me think about that okay?"

"'Kay, don't write anything that makes captain think we're crazy, Rick, or he will send us to meet a shrink"

"Hahaha, I think you wouldn't mind meeting a shrink if the shrink is a pretty lady"

"Ugh, most shrink I know is a middle-aged man who told his patient to tell his story"

"If the shrink like what you describe, I don't want to meet either".

When we arrive at the police station, I do intend to write the report immediately, but when my fingers about to write the report, the previous question appears again, what should I write? I need about a quarter of an hour before I start writing the report. You know what I write? I decide to write what happens, I don't care if my captain scolding me tomorrow, at least I write the truth.

After my work time is over, on the way home, I still thinking about what happened today, somehow that girl's sad faces flashes again in my eyes. I don't even thank her for her help in solving this case. I should give her something as a token of appreciation. So when I see a large fashion store in roadside, I stop my car there, buy some woman clothes for her. I don't know her body size, so I just ask the salesperson, clothes for a girl with her approximate height and weight. She never wears any other dress except hospital gown, so these clothes maybe can be useful for her.

Finished buying clothes, I turn my car toward St. Lucia Institute. This sudden impulse makes me want to give this gift for her as soon as possible. What? Do you think this is weird? Well, I think this is weird too. Somehow I don't want her feeling alone and want to see her beautiful smile again. And if these clothes can make her smile, that will be a cheap price.

In the hospital, after stated my purpose to visit, I go straight to the hospital garden. Dr. Sullivan told me that she likes to sit down there. And there she is, sitting in the garden bench. She sits still without uttering a single word, there's no one nearby to talk with either. After coughing a little, to make her notice me, I sit on the bench beside her.

"Hello girl, how are you?"

"Mr. Jones, I'm fine. What brought you here?"

"The last case, I haven't say thank you for help us solve the case. So I come to say thank you"

"It's me that should thank you. You save me when that man almost kills me"

This thanking each other to make the situation a little bit awkward. Then I decided to give her the gift I bought for her.

"Here, take this. This is for you"

"What is this Mr. Jones?"

"Just some clothes. I see you don't have any change clothes so I bought some for you. I don't know if these fit or not on you"

She doesn't say anything just her face become a little redder when she accepts it. Maybe she embarrassed because she doesn't have other clothes?

"Don't think too much. This is also my appreciation for your help. But it's not comfortable to unable call your name. Why don't we use a temporary name until you remember your name?"

She just nodded. Now, what name should I give to her? I'm not good at giving a name. When my eyes see the cloth bag in her hand, suddenly an idea comes in my head.

"That's it, we use that logo. Your name is Macy, Jane Macy. I hope you don't mind"

A sweet smile bloom in her face, she seems doesn't mind with the name that I randomly pick for her.

"He said my name is Macy. This is my name. Look, he also gives me new cloth".

She said that while spreading her new clothes like showing off. Wait, who she talking with? Is that mean there's someone else no…something else besides two of us in this place? Even though she beautiful I still can't remove this eerie feeling when she starts talking with something invisible. That's why I decide to leave the hospital and go home.

End of murder in the woods case.

Start of a new case