Kaun Hai Woh Qaatil

Chapter 4 - Avni and Neil in conundrum

Avni dresses Neil's wound causing due to fire. Neil screams due to pain as dressing it with medicine. Avni apologizes him. Neil - "No worries.. I should have been careful... Let us leave the place as soon as possible, Avni... "

Neil and Avni packed their stuff. When they are all set to go, the lights began to flicker that made Avni hugged Neil in fear. As soon as the room's mirror shatters into pieces, they turned with a jerk and saw the dead body's smiling face in the broken pieces. "Neil! what the hell is happening?" - She whispered. "I also don't know, let's go," - Neil said and they take their stuff and began to make their way out of the room.

They turned to leave the room, but in their way, the same corpse is laid by intruding the way. Both of them screamed. "What is this?" -  Avni said. "Let's go before something else comes in our way," - Neil said.  Neil moved the corpse little aside and they ran out of the room and as they neared the entrance door, it closed right on their face. They both banged the door. "Please someone open the door! Help us! We are trapped!" - Avni shouted. "Is someone there?" - Neil shouted from the bottom of the throat. He goes to the window to open it but the glass broke right as he approached it, the glass pierced his cheek and hand.

Avni turned back. "Neil!" - She shouts and ran to him. She got the glass pieces out carefully and then did the icing. After sometime, as they got no way out, they sat on the floor only near the door in a stressed condition. But then, fortunately, Avni remembered that the window from which she entered the house at night, was still broken. She stood up and opened it but the remaining pieces pierced her hand. She moaned. "Avni!" - Neil shouted worriedly and stood up running to her, he got the glass pieces out of her hand. "Avni just be careful, we can't get more injured and stay here, we have to get out as soon as possible," Neil said and she nodded.

"Neil, we can go out through this window." - Avni said. "Okay, First you go." - Neil said. "But why not you?"- Avni asked him back. "Please Avni! This is not the time to argue, it's just that what if that evil spirit which belongs to that dead body comes back and harms you while I m out? I can't take risk, so please you go first."-  Neil explained her patiently.  She agreed.  They both  managed to out the stuff through window. Then Avni come out though the window.

"Neil come," - she said. He too jumped out of the window. "Whoff!  Finally we made it," - he said and then he realized something. "Holy Sh*t!" - He keeps his hand on his head.  "Now what?" - She asked. "Still the dead body is in the house, we have to dispose it" - He said with a dull expression.  "What! Are you mad? We could not take the dead boy with us in our car, Police may catch us though we aren't guilty." - she said and take breathe...

 "Then, we never get rid of the evil spirit" - Neil said. "If we do as we say, we will get caught and jailed,"- Avni replies. He thinks where as Avni rubbed her hands out of chill weather. 

Neil -"Honey, I have an idea, We shall burn the house, then the dead body too get scorched." 

As soon as Avni approved, Neil lit the matchstick and threw it at the house. Just then they heard devilish laughter from inside the house and then the spark diminishes. They looked at each other and then at the house. "What was that?" - She asked, he shrugged.

To their shock, the dead body came outside through the chimney, flies in the air and falls where Avni is standing exactly.  Avni shrieked and fell on the floor due to it's weight and pushed it away and stood up. 

Avni -"Ugh! Only if we cut the dead body into seven parts and throw it to the different parts of the world, the corpse and the spirit gets peace".  Avni completes with full of anger.

 Neil - "Relax Honey, that will only do the worst and it's last rites would only get more difficult, it may come back even if it's one of the tiny pieces of body is left." (giggles*) 

Avni - "Oh, that was so stupid of me!"  

Both laughs.

 Neil - "Okay, Be serious. We have to decide what to do with the corpse.  We have to dig the past of it and see what's it's connection with us,"

Avni -  "Who will help us to dig in the past?"

Neil - "Our mind and our soul, or only mine I guess since I was the one who felt connected to this place and not you, and look the house is unharmed, it didn't burn, let's get inside".

 They get inside, dragging their suitcases but this time they didn't unpack and directly went to search for clues.

They searched in room cupboards, at downstairs, under the mattresses and almost everywhere they could but found nothing. Both sit on the floor, getting tired.

 "So much hard work, but still we got nothing,"  - Avni said.

 "Mind if I say to break the tiles and check?" - Neil asked.

 "No way, we have nowhere else to go for now, where will we go if we will break this house?" - She asked. 

Neil was left speechless. He closes his eyes laying his head back on the wall. He got a strange vision of two snakes crawling together and suddenly they turned back to their humanly forms. He opened his eyes with a jerk, seeing that it was the girl to who the dead body belongs.