Chapter 5
The sunrise over the forest and the heard of deer was grazing in the meadow along the dirt driveway.
The lone figure stumbled towards the cottage that was at the end of the long dirt road.
" Morning Gram, boy that smells great." Seth came up to his grandmother and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
" Morning Seth, thank you, I have coffee ready for you if you like to have some." Robertta flipped one of the sausage patties.
" Thanks that will be so great, so what do you have planned today?" Seth grabbed his coffee cup from the cabinet and went over to fire place and picked up the poker and pulled the arm that was over the coals and pulled the kettle towards him.
Seth put on the oven glove before grabbing the kittle and poured the coffee into his cup.
" Well I am going to be in the shop today, but I will be leaving at lunch time when Bridgette comes in and takes over my place." Robertta put the patties on a paper towel then grabbed the eggs and cracked a couple of them into the pan that she just emptied the sausage grease.
" Ok, and speaking of her do you want me to wake her up and tell her that breakfast is almost ready." Seth asked as he leaned against the counter and watched his grandmother fix the eggs.
" No just let her sleep, what is that sound." Robertta stopped scrapping the eggs around when she heard a siren blaring very close by.
" Am not sure, but do you want me to go and see what it is?" Seth put his cup down on the counter.
Before Robertta could answer Seth the bedroom door opened up and Bridgette walked out and stood in the middle of the sitting room.
" What is going on?" Bridgette asked in a very sleepy voice.
" Am not sure, but I was just going to send Seth out to check on it for us, and breakfast is almost done, so do you want to eat or are you going back to bed." Robertta looked at Seth and nodded for him to go and see what was going on before turning to her granddaughter.
" Am on it see you both soon." Seth grabbed his coat and headed out the front door.
Seth got into his car and started up the engine before backing up and heading down the long dirt driveway.
Seth was just coming to the curve in the road when he saw the police and EMT's just on the other side of the curve of the road.
" Hey Seth am sorry but this is as close as you can get to the scene of the crime." Michael flagged down Seth just short of the crime scene.
" I see, can you tell me what is going on?" Seth put the car into park and looked up at the deputy Sheriff.
" Well it seems there was another attack but this person is still alive." the deputy looked over to where the EMT's were putting the person into the ambulance.
" Really and how did this person get through the gate, and how did you guys know about this person?" Seth watched as the ambulance began to back up before it came to an area to turn around at.
" It seems that the gate was already opened and the person just manage to call 911 before passing out from his wounds." Michael stood up and watched a couple of the other officers get into a car and followed the EMT's to the hospital.
" The gate, um . . . then I will have to ask Bridgette if she left the gate open when she got home late last night from work. Where is the Sheriff this morning?" Seth noticed that his uncle was not here on the scene.
" So Bridgette was the last one through the gate last night and you say that she was at work late last night, um . . . he had to work late last night so he has the day off today." Michael began to wonder if he should tell Seth and his family about the mauling in the park last night.
" Yes she just got up as I was leaving the cottage to come out here to see what is going on." Seth said as the officer with Michael got into the car.
" Well I hate to do this but I need to talk to her and ask her about the gate." Michael looked across the field and saw movement in the trees that was on the edge of the field.
" Yeah sure, and she really did not look to happy being woken up by all the noise out here, but if you want to go head but am giving you heads up about her bad mood." Seth laughed as he saw the other officer gulp in nervousness.
" I will take my chances. See you back at the cottage in a couple of minutes." Michael nodded to Seth before walking over to his car.
Seth backed up and found an area so he could turn around.
Once he turned around and headed back to the cottage. He parked his car back between his grandmother and sister's cars.
Getting out of the car he headed for the door, which opened up before he got a chance to opened it.
" Well what is going on?" Robertta stepped aside so Seth could come into the cottage.
" It is not good there was another attack, but this time the person survived the attack and they were able to call 911. I need to know one thing, um . . . Bridgette did you shut the gate?" Seth came into the cottage looked over to the loveseat and saw Bridgette eating her breakfast.
" No I did not leave the gate open, I made sure that it was locked and even armed, why do you asked?" Bridgette heard a car drive up to the cottage.
" Because the person was found just at the curve in the driveway, oh that is Michael and he is here to ask you some questions." Seth just finished telling Bridgette that the deputy sheriff wanted to talk to her.
" I see well I do not have anything to hide." Bridgette said just as there was a knock on the door.
" Come in deputy." Robertta called out.
The front door opened up and Michael and his partner came into the cottage.
"Morning Ms. Robertta, Bridgette, I see that Seth has told you why we are here, and I just wish it was under better sercsances that I am here." Michael looked over to Bridgette when he came further into the cottage.
"Yes he did tell us, and am really sorry that it has to be this way too." Robertta went over to her chair and sat down.
"I know what question you are about to ask I and my answer to you would be, I did not leave the gate open, and I made sure it was shut locked and even the alarm was on before coming to the house and to my bed." Bridgette looked up at Michael.
"Ok well I think I will go and check out the gate and just make sure it was not messed with after you locked and alarmed the gate." Michael nodded to Bridgette and he knew that she worked late at the hospital because he saw her once, when he had to take his daughter to the emergency room.
" Bridgette why don't you tell him what you saw last night after you got off work." Robertta looked at Bridgette and tried to get her to tell Michael in what she saw last night.
" That won't be necessary she can talk to the sheriff and tell him what you saw, he is off today, but you can tell him tomorrow." Michael moved back towards the door.
" Ok that sounds great and I will tell him all about last night." Bridgette nodded back at the Deputy, just before he walked out of the cottage.
Michael left and Seth went over to the stove and bent over and opened the oven and taking the oven mitten he grabbed his plate out of the warm oven.
" You will get to tell Lionel tonight, because he will be joining us for dinner so are you sure that you shut, locked and armed the gate?" Robertta looked at her granddaughter as Seth came over and sat down next to his sister.
" Ok, I will talk to Lionel, yes I did shut, locked and armed the door, because I did get out of the car, and made sure it was shut and locked before driving up to the cottage." Bridgette looked at her grandmother before she started eating her breakfast again.
" Ok I believe you sweetie well I better get ready for work today, we did leave you all the paper work and two boxes that still needed to be unpacked." Robertta said as the clock began to chime five o'clock in the morning.
" Thanks gram, ok that sounds great, I will do the dishes for you guys this morning." Bridgette got up from the loveseat and walked over to the kitchen area.
" You can leave it and I will get it when I come back home, you both go back to bed." Robertta looked at both her grandchildren before going to her bedroom.
" You were out last night am I correct?" Bridgette took the plate from Seth.
" How do you . . . never mind . . . then why did you not tell them the whole truth too, by telling them that you too were out of the house when everyone went to bed." Seth looked at Bridgette with a stern look.
" I did not go anywhere but the barn, I was worried about Betsy so I stayed with her for a while, what is your excuse for being out." Bridgette picked up the pan and put in it into the sink.
" I thought I would go look around in the forest but I did not find anything." Seth went to the door and locked it.
" Oh well am going back to bed so I will see you later then." Bridgette started heading for her bedroom.
" Ok, am heading that way too, see you later then." Seth nodded and opened his bedroom door.
Both Bridgette and Seth went back to their rooms and to their beds.
Robertta left the cottage and headed into town and to her little shop in the middle of town.
" Hello?" Robertta answered her cell phone.
" Hello Grammy, it has been a long time." the man's voice said with a laugh as he heard the elderly woman take a deep breath inwards, as she was in shock to be hearing from him.
" What are you doing here?" Robertta asked still shaken up by the person she is talking too.
" Well first I am here for fun, and secondly to make Bridgette pay for what she has done to me." the man's voice said with a laugh in his voice.
" You have gone too far this time and you will pay dearly if you hurt her, and it is me you should fear." Robertta said with a growl in her voice.
" We will see old lady." the man said before hanging up his phone.
" Damn!" was all Robertta could say as she headed further into town.
The smell of the dead soaked into the Deputy's nose.
" Lynette." the Medical Examiner looked up from the body that he was looking at.
" Edward, so this is the second victim I take it?" Lynette asked as she came further into the morgue.
" Yes it is the second one, the neck was ripped open, the face was shredded and the stomach was also ripped open." the Medical Examiner went over to the sink and washed his hands.
" Ripped and shredded how?" Lynette began to realize what they were dealing with.
" I believe it was done by a dog, and I believe your victim was also killed by a dog too, because I saw the same patterns from that attack we had a couple months ago, but what gets me is this and from the looks of these it was made by a very big dog." the Medical Examiner pointed out all the marks on the body.
" It is not a dog, it is something a lot worst. I need to talk to Michael, did you find anything else besides the wounds?" Lynette looked down at the body.
" Not yet, but I have taken samples of the blood and I will let you know when I find something in the blood samples. I have also taken blood samples of your victim and I am going to the hospital and get samples from the person who survived their attack." the Medical Examiner put the sheet over the body and the assistant took the gurney and rolled it into the cooler.
" Well this one is female, but do we know what the sex of the first victim was?" Lynette walked over to the door.
" No not yet but when we do the blood test I will know the sex and I will let you and the sheriff know." the Medical Examiner walked out of the morgue with the deputy.
" Ok well I will let you get those samples, and I will go and talk to Lionel." Lynette nodded before walking away from the Medical Examiner and the morgue.
Lynette went upstairs to the station and went to her desk and sat down.
Picking up the phone Lynette dialed a phone number.
" Morning sir, sorry to wake you up, but I need to talk to you face to face." Lynette looked down at the mark on her hand.
" Morning Lynette, no you did not wake me up, ok meet me at the restaurant." Lionel looked out his back door as he saw some movement in the wood.
" Yes sir." Lynette said before hanging up her phone.
Everyone is going to get a huge surprise in the sleep town.
