Justin's Escape

chapter 1

  The night was young, the sun just beginning to set and the bright orange, yellow and red burned the sky giving sence of calmness, Justin began to drift off into a peaceful and thought inducing dream. His mother in the passenger seat of their navy blue mini van, dad at the helm just smiling at  the beautiful woman with shoulder length red hair and vibrant green eyes, the beauty made her extremely desirable to many men she encountered,  he was eternally thankful that she agreed to take the hand of the average looking young man. As the mile marker of the highway passed them it wasnt to long before they reached home from this long drive home from Justin's high school graduation celebratory dinner.

  As they reached their hometown Justin's dream turned from calm and peaceful into a nightmare a tall scraggly man in a black vest top and bleached stained jeans with a kraken tattoo on his left shoulder killed a young woman. Justin woke with terror in his eyes and a scream that startled his parents causing his dad to loose control of the car and tumble down a large ditch leading into a small woodland area where the totalled mini van came to a stop by hitting one of the large trees.

   Justin awakes in a hospital bed badly injured to a nurse checking his monitors and charts. "Doctor!" The nurse yells, running out of the room "Justin Duran is awake" Justin dased and confused looks around at the very generic hospital room, a door leading to a toilet, the iv drip next to his bed connected to his wrist. In great pain he sits up, a man in a white coat walks briskly into the room " hello Justin, I'm Doctor Ronard... you have been in a nasty accident"
"Where's my mum and dad" justin interrupts    
"You need to rest Justin, if you need something to help you with that a nurse can give you a sedative" Ronard explains. Before Justin could respond he spots at the end of the hallway two figures talking, what was odd is that other people seemed to just pass through them as if they wasn't even there.

"Wait! you didnt answer my question, what happened to my parents?"
"Ah" Doctor Ronard paused "I can not give that information to you. I'll send a nurse in to give you something to help you sleep" with that Dr Ronard left the room. Justin's mind was in a panic as he knew that something was badly wrong, looking back in the hallway he could still see those two figures one looked tall and the other was smaller and that one was cuddling the other like it was crying. Justin got up slowly and staggered to the door to see if he could find his mother and father but as he got to the door he heard people outside, he turned the corner and saw 2 officers outside the other room.
"it's a real heart breaking situation, his mother died in the accident" one explained but was interrupted " yeah, poor kid losing his mother like that"  Justin broke down... falling to the floor tears streaming like heavy rainfall. His vision went black as all that circled in his mind was that he killed his mother.

The darkness is broken by the the roaring sound of buzzing, Justin opens his eyes and turns to his bedside table where the phone was yelling at him. He hastily places his bare feet to the warming embrace of the soft carpet in the lage morden room, answering the phone his thoughts where confirmed "I'll be there right away" Once dressed he heads down stairs and grabs a jacket before leaving the house. As he pulls upto the address given, the feeling of Daja vu drowns the fibres of his being. He just couldn't place it until he sees the victim, a young blonde woman approximately 18 to 22 with 3 stab wounds and her throat sliced open.

The scene could only be described as the devil came a knocking for this poor girl, broken glass cascaded around her as well as half of the rooms floor, an explosion of blood painted the walls and the body swimming in a pool of it around her. The vision of that man in the black vest was coursing through his mind, Justin couldn't see the mans face clearly all he could make out was the scraggly dark brown beard and the receding short hair on his head. "Sick isn't it?" A low voice from behind him announced. Justin turns around to see a middle aged man standing at about 5 ft 11 wearing a brown pressed suit, his hair seemed to be neatly presented adding to the authoritative presence he admitted. " the names Carter, I'm your replacement partner for the time being"
"Justin, it's nice to meet you" he replied hesitantly shaking the man's hand as there was something off about him "do we know what happened here?" Justin replied
  "well from what we can gather, it was a crime of passion given the sheer brutality" Carter uttered trying to hold back the breakfast he just ate, the sensation of his throat burning as the vomit began to rise but he swallowed it back down.

Justin scanned the scene once more before noticing the two black figures from that night 12 years ago, his mind tried to shrug it off as him forgetting to take his meds this morning but every so often he'd glance at the unmoving pair. They gave a sence of such sorrow and grief that it was hard for him to focus properly. After documenting all he could and handing the scene to the CSI team Justen sped home to take the medication in his medicine cabinet, however when he grabbed the pills he noticed that he did take them before he left earlier that day. "I cant believe they stopped working again!" He yelled "this is the highest they can prescribe me. God damn it!" In anger he throw the pills at the white tiles of the bathroom wall.

As he turns around to leave the room he sees them again at the end of the hallway the same felling washes over him drowning him in the overwhelming sorrow, only this time he could hear them talking but he couldn't make out any distinguishing words or sentences. He runs down the stairs and out of the house, Justin gets in his car and drives back to the precinct. There, he tries to shut it out of his mind by focusing on the case "Jessica Elgrave" the name startles Justin "what?"
"that's our victim" Carter answers "aged 21, no prior run ins with the law, studying law at Arizona state, I don't see who could have had it out for her but we are gonna find out"