Who's to judge?

Chapter IV

Baffled, I opened my eyes and looked around. A normal street, nothing special. Why did Derrick meet up with that person? And why didn't they have a scent?

Sadly I couldn't keep investigating, because the sun was rising and I had to go back to the station as soon as possible.

I turned to the fullblood only to find out he was already gone, there were no traces of him. As if he disappeared in thin air. Well, I didn't care much, I had other things on my mind.

Reaching the station, I saw that the window was still open and jumped inside. The vampire from cell 3 was sitting on a chair reading a book, and from the cross on the cover, it was the bible. Where did he get that from?

He looked up to me. With a wide grin, he said: "Hello there. How was the trip? It was boring as hell here, that's why I grabbed this. I thought it was something spiritual, but more people die in here, then on one of my family reunion.

"He then put the book to the side and walked towards me. He was a bizarre creature, but somehow amusing. I pulled out the tracker from my pocket and showed it to him. "I found Derricks tracker."

He suddenly made a weird facial expression. As if he was confused. I slowly took it out of my hand and said: "This doesn't make sense." As if he was talking to himself.

"What do you mean?"

"Why did he rip it off, if he could have just escaped by night?" he explained while taking a closer look at the tracker.

"Maybe he didn't think it through and just acted on instincts" I said, hoping to find out more about Derrick.

"Derrick would never do something without thinking it through. You were never outside with us, that's why you don't know him like I know him. He often talked about his plan. He wanted to do it on the night of the day he had to go on patrol, so that it would take them longer to figure out he was gone. He had a plan. This..." He lifted the tracker and looked at me with big eyes. "This isn't the Derrick that I know." So my gut feeling was correct, this wasn't normal. But what was that all about? Why did he suddenly change plans?

The vampire flinched and looked to the door. He then said: "I hear how the boss's car is coming closer, we should head back into our cells."

I agreed and we rushed to our prisons.

I patiently waited to be called, but it only happened in the late afternoon. It knocked and I opened the door. The devil was standing in front of me and asked my to step outside. I wasn't the only one to be called outside, the vampire from cell 3 was also standing outside. He looked different then from the previous night. He looked cold, emotionally restrained.

The devil started to speak.

"Today was a stressful day for all of us, that's why I don't want any objections or complaints, are we clear?"

We nodded and he continued.

"They found a corpse that fits the description of our missing vampire. But since he has been found without fangs, you have to go to the morgue to identify the body.

"My heart stopped beating and my eyes went to the other vampire. I saw how his eyes filled with shock and tears. He painfully fought against them and stared in front of him, while biting his lip. It hurt, but I also felt anger. I should have looked better, then maybe he would have been alive now.

"There is a car outside waiting for you." Those were the only instructions that the devil gave to us.

We walked outside and there was a patrol car, in which we got on silently. The vampire was sitting close to the window and staring out of it. I could feel his pain, but I didn't know how I should help him, that's why I said nothing. The drive was unbearably quiet, only my mind was loud and overwhelmed me with thoughts.