A Suspect
Katarina POV
“Ah!!!” I woke up from slumber panting heavily, looking down at my body, I found myself naked as usual with my body filled with blood. I quickly stood up from my bed being slightly scared of the sight.
That was not the first time I had woken up only to see the disgusting sight, this had been happening for months now, and I didn't know what was wrong with me.
I can still remember the revelation I had which still seems like a dream to me, it was the brutal killing of a drug dealer, I can still remember his cry for mercy and how I paid deaf ear to it, I remember everything, but I still can't believe that was me, the only thing I saw was a wild animal doing the killing which gave me a deep feeling that it was I.
I am Katarina Crawford, a police officer of the Cambria district in America. Not only that, but I have been working on a popular case in Cambria here which was a murderer case. We got to know that a wild animal has been killing people brutally for a while now.
The good news was that, the wild animals only killed bad people like the corrupted commissioners, gang stars, Mafia lords, cultist, drug dealers etc. While the bad news was that, I found myself being extremely connected to the killings because most of these people are the criminals I arrested or helped people to arrest but got bailed through their connections with higher class people.
I was distracted from reverie by a phone call, picking up my phone, I found out that the caller was Steven, my assistant “Hey, Steven.”
“Katarina, another case is up, it happened yesterday's night, Mr. Harper was the unlucky being.”
I sighed, he even ditched my greeting because of the case, “I will be at the office soon Steven.”
“Alright.”
I dropped the call, packed the bedsheet and headed to the bathroom for a wash-up. I disposed of the bedsheet inside the washing machine, added soap and water, switched it on and watched it roll for a while until it stopped. I then took the bedsheet out of the washing machine for spread.
I stood under the shower glaring hard at the mirror, the blood was still freshly visible on my skin, I grabbed the glove sponge and soap apace, applied the soap on the sponge and started scrubbing my skin with the sponge. I scrubbed it hard that it became painful, I cried painfully not because of my skin but because of the pain I was feeling within, the pain of not knowing who I was.
I dressed up in an all black outfit, and headed to the office, I got welcomed by the press immediately I stepped out of the car.
“See, it's Katarina Crawford." a press called the attention of the others.
“Miss Crawford, are you aware of the death of Mr. Harper??”
“How are you feeling since you arrested him for drug dealing, and he got bailed two days ago.”
“Miss Andersen, are you by any means involved in his death???” The remaining press nodded their head to the last man question.
The last question really got me, like basically, I would have suspected me too if I were them. I hastened my step and entered the station.
“Katarina, you are here??” Janice, a fellow police officer, stated, while walking with me.
I simply nodded my head. “What am I hearing again about another killing??”
“It was recorded at around 1:00 in the morning, we suspected that it was still the same wild animal doing the killings because Mr. Harper was killed the same way as the rest.” She gave me a file, which I quickly looked into. I nodded my head in understanding.
“What are team A planning??” Team A were the top investigators in our station while we team B followed, then team C, the team C only investigated on non-important cases.
“I don't know, but they are bent on unfolding the hidden secrets this time around because they thought that we were doing nothing.”
“And…" Janice looked around like she wanted to tell me a secret, I became at alert.
“And what???” I whispered to her hearing.
“They are suspecting you.” I became sightly scared but masked it up with a straight face.
“That's bullshit!!”
“Yes it is, but I don't blame them anyway.” she said and waved at someone. “See you around, Katarina” she patted my shoulder and left.
“Good morning, Katarina.” I heard Steven's voice. I turned back to see him walking to my side.
“Hey,” he glanced at the file with me.
“I can see that you have seen the report from Mr. Harper's house.”
“Yes I have, this is becoming confusing and wild, I don't understand why animals will kill humans when we didn't offend them or do we??” We got to my office and I sat down in my seat, Steven sat down in the visitor's seat.
“I kept on thinking about it too, this is crazy.”
“Can you excuse me, Steven?? I have to think.”
“Sure,” he left my office and I immediately griped my head, I started developing cephalalgia, that was too hard to grasp. I sighed then picked my phone to call my mom, her phone rang for a few times without her picking up, I was becoming worried when she finally picked her phone.
“Hello mother,” I greeted, immediately she picked the call.
“Hello, this is not your mother, something happened to this phone's owner yesterday's night, so you are to come over now.” the call got disconnected.
“What the hell is happening??” I quickly stood up and ran out of the office to my car, I rode roughly to my parent's house.
I got surprised with the number of people I saw in their houses. I managed to enter and got the shock of the day immediately I entered. I saw my parents on the floor with their bodies apart and the floor filled with blood. I almost fainted when I realized that the same wild animal had killed them.
I was enveloped with guilt, it wasn't clear to me why, but I felt like I killed them. I stared at the people around, and I felt them groaning angrily at me, I started hearing the siren of the police getting closer and the people in a venomous form coming closer to me.
I staggered to a corner wanting to get away, I felt a touch from behind. I turned back to see, I saw a figure and became scared, thinking it was one of the people. I turned back to run away but was pulled back to the darker part of the corner by the figure. He quickly covered my mouth with his hand, preventing me from shouting.