Catch Me If You Can

A/n: Friends, I'm back. Starting with a new story today. The rating is T for now but will go up as the story progresses.

It was no big deal for the CID Team when the phone rang in the Bureau reporting a dead body found at a desolate spot in Madh Island in Mumbai. The team hurried over to the crime spot.

AT THE CRIME SCENE

Nikhil and Purvi started examining the victim's body for any sort of identification while Freddy and Pankaj interrogated the few people present there.

But he stood quietly a few steps away from his team. Being the seniormost at the moment he was only supposed to supervise his team who rarely gave him a chance to complain.

He stood there with an expressionless face. From the blackened bruises on the body he could very well make out who the victim was even though the killer had ensured that his face was destroyed beyond recognition.

There was not a single thing that gave the team a slightest hint about who the vitim was, yet he knew. How could he could he not? It was only because of this man that he had lost the woman whom he had loved at a point of time.

"Sir!" Freddy's voice jerked him out of his thoughts. He just gave a questioning look in reply.

"Sir, we could find nothing about him so we are sending the victim to the forensic lab for further examination." Said Freddy.

Senior Inspector Abhijeet just nodded his agreement in reply and looked past his junior to see Nikhil and Pankaj helping a lab worker in putting the victim's body inside the ambulance.

AFTER A FEW HOURS

She stood in front of the dead body, helping her boss in autopsying the victim. Was it a faint sig of happiness that could be seen on her face?

Yes, she was happy. Happy that the man lay dead in fron of her. Happy that the person who had denied her any peace of mind was gone.

"Seems like he's been through a lot of pain before he died." These words by Dr. Salunkhe brought her back to reality.

"Nothing in comparison to the pain he had inflicted upon others." Dr Tarika thought.

But before she could reply, the CID Team barged inside the lab.

"What did you find, Salunkhe?" Asked ACP Pradyuman matter-of-factly.

"Nothing, except for the fact that I'm glad that he's dead." Said Dr Salunkhe in a dry voice.

"What?" ACP Pradyuman was shocked at his comment.

"Going by the wounds on his body, death must have come as a relief for him." Said the forensic expert.

"What about the cause of death?" Asked the Assistant Commissioner .

"Trauma suffered from attack with a blunt object." Said Dr Salunkhe.

But Abhijeet looked past the doctor, towards his assistant as he heard Vineet say something about the killer being a monster in disguise.

"The victim himself is the monster here." He thought.

He was utterly frustrated because he realised that he could not arrest the killer even though he knew who it was.

"Who am I kidding?" He asked himself as he thought that he was up against a team of unbeatable two, considered one of the best in their respectve fields of work.

He punched the palm of his hand out of frustration because he knew he could not arrest anyone yet. He knew that no public prosecutor would agree to represent a case based solely on circumstantial evidence.

THAT NIGHT

"NO. NOT HER!" She sat straight up in her bed, wide awake. She felt a strong arm around her shoulder and obliged as it pulled her into an embrace.

"The monster was torturing the queen once again and the princess just looked on." She whispered apologetically.

"The monster is gone now. The princess should celebrate his demise." He whispered softly as he kissed the top of her head.