who was he ?

Chapter 13

"Okay Brady so you know what we are going to do next, right " Thomson said while rubbing his hands and started fidgeting in his seat due to the sudden exciting turn of events . His sudden eagerness and enthusiasm was similar to the anticipated face of Brady who also could not control his wild emotions.

"yes sir but Where do you think would we find this Elizabeth Smiths dia...." He could not complete his sentence when Vance barged into the room stopping any further conversation.

"Everything is over Black , everything is over . The girl is dead . " He said while pounding his fist on his table which lead to papers flying everywhere and the already messy table turn even more messy resulting to a sigh from Thomson and a shocked Brady who could not help but jump to his feet and stare at him wide eyed.

"What happened ? " Thomson asked while scrunching his eyebrows , surprised by Vance's sudden change in demeanor and his anger stricken face . His bloodshot eyes was a scary site to look at and his hands were all bloody and bruised as if he had beaten someone real badly right now. Whoever it was , must be badly hurt as he was a very very strong man , even a simple hug from him could crush you and a punch could send you to your death bed. The mere thought scared Thomson and he could not stop himself from thinking this again. Why could Vance want to beat someone so badly . The girl was forgotten for a while , when the new worry started to develop.

This was very unlikely of him to come like this to Thomson . He was a very well trimmed gentleman who loved control and power. Seeing him so ..... vulnerable and angry confused Thomson as he had never ever seen him like this whenever they had met before. This was a new side of him taking over which could not amaze Thomson further.

"N..n...n..nothing " he said while trying to shield his hands from Thomson's piercing gaze. " Anyway I have news for you . Alice is dead so no need to bother about the case anymore . " With this he turned around and sprinted towards the door , wanting to go away from there as quickly as possible ; but was stopped by Thomson's arm on his shoulders who pulled him back inside and forced him on the chair . Despite his competition with Vance , they had eventually started to care about each other and kept a check on each other. Though their rivalry both knew that they were friends from inside , despite the hard shield they kept uptight. Both of them denied their friendship and would always laugh on the term 'friends ' and shrug it off, but both were their for each other when the other one needed help or was in danger , which was often due to their profession as it shouted danger every now and then.

"Sit with me my friend , we need to talk " Thomson said while notifying Brady to leave them alone . He had used this term first time and it shocked Vance as he stared at him dumbfounded and nodded in agreement while locking his stare down on his now ripped shoes.

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"Dr. Greene is here madame " Cesia said while bowing to Lucy and not wanting to stay in that doomed room any longer, she exited leaving the doctor to examine the body .

He walked towards the still body, careful as to not disturb the disturbing calmness of the room except for some sniffling noise time and again . Other than that the room was deadly silent and if noticed you could even hear two heartbeats , one quite irregular due to the heartbreak and the other serious due to the complexity of the situation.

He bent down and settled his briefcase beside the body and started taking out various equipment. He glanced towards Lucy and felt very sorry and denied the fact that yes Alice was dead though the body was in front of him now .

He searched the body for any kind of clue though the body was now fully damaged.

He took out his scissors and gently clipped off the unwanted weary skin , scared that maybe due to his harshness the body would get a scar.

Then after removing the skin , he took out his thermometer and noted the temperature and also took her wrist hoping to hear even the slightest beat that could prove that she was living though she was dead.

He had all of her antemortem data (injuries that took place while she was living ). She had a fracture in her right arm which she got when she was just four year old while jumping . She also had her ears pierced when she was born.

While examining he observed that the body had to be taken back to morgue where he could further continue his autopsy or postmortem which was not possible here in the mansion in front of all her family members who could break on any further news regarding her and he being the great pathologist he was , could not take any chances. He knew that an anthropologist had to be called from another town since no one was so qualified in researching decayed bodies which could be only possible if the body was taken away from the mansion and not buried immediately. But , before that he had to ask Lucy all the questions about her daughters' physical appearance or any birth mark which would be a very difficult job since she was lost in her own world , he thought while glancing at her again , who was busy looking at the trees outside the window.

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psst !

it was such a technical chapter with such huge terms of biology (and i dont even have biology as a subject ) though i loved this chapter (specially the starting ). i did not want to burden you guys with all those terms in this chapter , so i am already warning you that the next chapter is going to be very technical with huge words that i dont even know how to spell (lol)

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