Strong language ... Or light swearing depending on how you see it. And I also apologise in advance if this offends anyone, I don't know if this will but I am sorry :) x
Orion, looking up, couldn't help but smile at the girl who sat directly across the room from him. She had her mother's long blonde hair but his dark grey eyes. She was wearing a princess' dress, a blue one.
"Cinderella" His son whispered into his ear.
He nodded. "She likes Cinderella?" He asked his son.
"Aw, pops, she loves her. Prefers Mad Madam Mim though because she says that's mum... Well an ugly version of mum" His son replied, smiling.
"Do you have to call me 'pops', Charlie?" Orion asked.
"Well, you are a grandad" He smirked, looking at his dad.
"She has Sarah's hair." Orion commented.
"And your eyes, gramps" Charlie teased then added, "Do you want to meet her?"
They both stood and made their way towards Louisa. In that second, in the time it took them to walk over to the other side of the park, Louisa was gone. They hadn't noticed the man go over to her or him handing her a bear or even him taking her out of the park. They took their eyes off her for one second and she was gone.
Detective Putch was pacing her office. She knew her partner, Carlos Carter was watching her patiently. She knew he was waiting for an answer but she didn't know what to say or how to deal with their new case.
"So tell me again why you accepted this case, Detective Carter?" She asked, looking into his dull brown eyes now.
"Putch, don't start. You know full well why I - we - took on this case" He paused.
"That's crap, Carter, absolute rubbish!" She was angry now. "You can't keep doing this. You know what it does to you and he wasn't even your kid! Stop bringing up old things"
Carter looked down, she was right of course. "No, he wasn't my kid but he was yours, Putch. We never found the sick bastard that did that to him ... We never found him! This is just like what happened to Jeremy. He went while you two were in the park and you never saw him alive again"
That was the worse case that Putch had ever been put on, one not only involving the brutal murder of her son but also one that had not been solved.
"What if this prick is back, Putch? What if we have to create new wounds as well as open old ones? I want to bring the fucker down that's hurting these kids. I will hunt him down and I will give him the worst beating of his life and hopefully the last in his life, ya get me?" He was deadly serious too, Putch could see that in his face, but she shook her head.
"I am not having my partner suspended for something stupid, he may deserve a beatin', but I need you here" She replied which earned a smile from Carter.
"Now that is the Elizabeth I know. Ready to go? The body was found about twenty minutes from here" Carter said.
They took the twenty minute journey in ten and ended up in a quiet suburb outside a quaint yellow cottage. They flashed their badges to the uniformed officer guarding the brown front door then stepped into the cottage.
Once they stepped inside, it was like they had gone back in time, back to when Putch's son had been killed. Her old home was set out exactly like this one: the living room to the left as you stepped in the door and the master bedroom on your right, past the living room was the second bedroom and at the end of the hall was the tiny kitchen. Past the master bedroom was the little bathroom. All in all it was quite a small house.
"Shit" Carter breathed, seeing the resemblance too.
They made their way to the second bedroom, flashing their badges to another officer at the door, then entered the room. Putch's palms started to sweat as soon as she stepped into the room. It was a little girl's room, she noticed by how overused the colour pink was. Putch passed the medical examiner, Eileen Carter, and made her way to the body that lay on the bed. Her partner stopped to talk to his wife about what had happened while Putch looked at the little girl. She had well kept long blonde hair and silvery grey eyes were open, watching the ceiling. Putch closed the little girl's eyes, she hated to see her like that, then looked at the mark above her heart. Again, like the other children, she had a straight shot wound to her heart and patterns carved into her skin around the bullet wound.
The pattern was made up of what looked like vines, and it was easy to see that the killer had taken some time in doing it.
There was one thing going through Putch's mind at that point and she couldn't contain it and said it aloud,
"The Kidnap Killer is back"
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