The work of a Detective

Chapter 3:The horrible memory

As i'm sitting in my hospital bed i get glimpses of what happened at the house. It goes from me telling the man to freeze then to me getting shot in the shoulder and Spencer being by my side until the ambulance came. I'm broken from my state when Spencer wakes up and looks at me it looks like he can't believe i'm awake he says "Alice, you're awake i can't believe it it's like a dream". I reply " yep and my shoulder fucking kills me, i don't really remember much i only remember glimpses of what happened at the house". Spencer then looks at me with a concerned look on his face and then says "well the piece of shit got away but there's detectives out right now as we speak trying to find this guy, after the ambulance came you were rushed into the surgery and now here you are". As i listened to Spencer's voice i can feel tears forming in my blood shot eyes Spencer came up and said " Hey, it's okay you're a fighter Alice your going to get through this, were going to get through this together trust me, if you need me at any point i'm here for you. Always". I give Spencer a hug a reply "thank you for everything really it means a lot for you being here and were going to get this sick bastard and put him where he belongs, even if it's the last thing i do". i start to stand up and pull the hospital scanners off of me and put my clothes on in the bathroom. As i'm in the bathroom i see a gift wrapped in brown paper and a red bow sticking out like a sore thumb. i finish getting dressed and bring out he box and ask Spencer if he left the box in the bathroom for me as a gift he said " no i was only one in the room and occasionally the nurse when she came up to check up on you". As i hear that my stomach sinks as i think that a psycho maniac came in my room to drop off a present and leave and to think even further he could have finished the job, but didn't . I slowly unravel the silk red ribbon and open the brown box and see a bright, gory, covered in blood animal heart and attached to the top of the box is a note and it was written in this spine chilling hand writing and the writing wrote " Hello, Alice i am deeply sorry for you shoulder wound i never wanted to hurt you, why would i want to hurt someone i love so dearly? i hope you like my present i always wanted to give you my heart i will forever and always love you, the Chicago Slasher ." and signed in the bottom corner of the letter is the familiar sign he leaves on his victims and now the "Slasher" or whatever he calls himself is obsessed with me. Me and Spencer leave the room and go to the front desk and see if there was any footage on the camera to see if he was seen. We ask the receptionist if she saw a man ask to visit the room possibly holding a box with a red bow she responds " i did see a man come in here he had a a box with a red bow but asked to visit a different room on the same floor as yours." My body froze and i didn't know what to do Spencer filled in and said " Would you show us the video footage from today" the receptionists responds with "of course" the receptionist continues clicking her keyboard and pulls up the footage as i look at the footage i see a man dressed head to toe in black with a hat on but i could see that he was a white male possibly in his twenties holding the same box in his hand heading to my hospital room. me and Spencer then ask the receptionist if she could put the footage on a flash drive because it was evidence. we go back up to my hospital room to grab my things and drop me off at my place. As we approach my place Spencer offers to stay to make sure i'm safe and to make sure the man doesn't come back. I tell him that it was okay for him to stay, Me and Spencer walk up to my door where i struggle to get the keys from my bag, But Spencer grabs my bag gently so he doesn't hurt me and pulls my house keys out of my bad a opens my front door.

We walk inside my dark house and i turn to my right to feel for the light switch and quickly turn it on. Spencer puts my bag on the coffee table and i tell him to make himself at home, He quickly kicks his shoes off and plops on the couch and turns on the TV. I chuckle a bit when he did that, i tell Spencer that i was going to get in the shower and that i was going to be out in a bit, He gives me a nod telling me that he said okay. I walk to my room to grab clothes and a towel and walk to my bathroom. I close the door behind me and lock it, i turn to the mirror and take a minute to look at myself and just reflect on what this week has been like, i slowly unbutton my shirt and toss it to the floor as i look back up at the mirror i see the big patch on my shoulder and a small red dot showing that my wound was peaking through my patch. I took off my big patch and examined my bullet wound, i opened my medicine cabinet to grab the peroxide and the bag of cotton balls. I take one of the cotton balls out of the bag, I clench my teeth together because i hate the sound of the cotton rubbing together when you pull it out of the bag. I put the cotton ball that i just grabbed out of the bag and i put it on top of the peroxide and tipped the bottle. I pulled the cotton ball off of the peroxide bottle and put it directly on my bullet wound, a tiny scream comes out of my mouth at the pins and needle pain the comes from my shoulder i let the cotton ball sit there for a few seconds and take it off revealing a blood soaked cotton ball, i turn on my shower so Spencer wouldn't get suspicious about why i took so long i take off the rest of my clothes and step into my shower. I let the warm hot water hit my face i wipe away the water and turn to let the water hit my hair and my back. After about five minutes of being in the shower i turn off the water and step out of the shower and grab my towel. I slowly dab my wound with a cotton pad and open up a new bandage and slowly put it on top of my wound preparing myself for the pain that was about to occur, the pain was like i got shot again but worse way worse. I Put my clothes on and walk out of the bathroom to see Spencer passed out on the couch, i turn off the TV and cover Spencer up on the couch and turn off the light. I walk back to my bedroom to get ready for bed i pull back my fluffy blankets and sit in my bed and cover myself up and lay my head on my pillow. I feel myself falling asleep but as soon as i close my eyes i see the horrible glimpses of what happened the night before i quickly jerk up and my head is covered in sweat. I get up out of my bed and walk out of my bedroom and grab a glass of water out of the kitchen but i be careful not to wake up Spencer but my quietness fails and Spencer jerks his head up and asks me f everything was okay i give him a nod and tell him to go back to sleep. I walk back to my bedroom and sip my water before lying back in my bed and i slowly fall back to sleep this time without having flashbacks of the horrible memories from the night before.