HAUNTED
Twenty-Five
POLICE ARCHIVES EXCERPT:
Officers F. Richardson and M. Green, while on patrol, sighted victims of 65829 kidnapping.
Victims questioned, unable to provide valid information. Witness testimony says that perpetrator is dead.
UNRESOLVABLE
NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED
While two policemen were on patrol in one of the county's only squad cars, searching for a sexual predator with no known face or name, they noticed three children walking out of the woods and recognized them as the victims of the kidnapping they were assigned to solve.
They were taken to the station and questioned. They described their kidnapper as an old woman who was searching for something she couldn't have and didn't quite remember what it was. They explained that they had escaped when the woman had died, but offered no further elaboration.
The children were assessed by a psychiatrist and determined to still be too traumatized to provide viable information, and were taken in the squad car back to their respective homes.
The story gained the front page in the local paper due to its curious nature, lack of true resolution, and the meddlings of two writers in the company who happened to be the legal guardians of two of the victims.
The case was marked as 'Unresolvable' and filed away in police archives, with no intention of it ever being revisited again.
Case closed.
(A/N): Two chapters in one night? What planet am I living on?
Earth, you nincompoops. Twenty-Six is just probably gonna take a bit longer, so I decided to get un-lazy and type this next one up for you.
Mkay? By the way, Twenty-Six, Twenty-Seven, Twenty-Eight (if it will exist) and the Epilogue are where we get into the hard-core Normaline, for those of you that have just been waiting for that. Especially the [REDACTED] in the Epilogue. :DDDDDDDDD