Your daughter?

“Is this your daughter?” Detective Sean asked. Showing her the a picture of a girl. Four year old. Mare took the picture with her shaky hands. And touched it. Tears prickled on her eyes.
“It’s Maeve. My daughter, have you found her.”
“We would find your daughter, I promise. Is there any other thing to identify her with did she perhaps has a mark, this mark on her shoulders?”
He brought out his phone showing her a picture that was taken, when she was out of the street, her face wasn’t seen, since her hair was covering them, and her entire body was bare. She took the phone to have a clear look at the mark on her shoulders.
“It’s..her.”

That was the only word he had to hear. He stood up.
“Why is she naked?” He took the phone from her. And tucked them in his pocket.
“Apparently ma’am, is no longer who you think she is.”
“She’s all grown up in the picture.”

“Not that. She’s...” his subordinate held him back from saying it.
“It’s better she knew. Because we can’t bring her here, once we found her.”
“What is wrong, what happened to my daughter.”
“She’s a demon.”
She blinked, taking a while to comprehend what he said.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“She kills... and she’s wanted by the government. If she’s found she would be killed or trapped for life.”
“No. It’s not possible, he did this to her!” She screamed, trying to jump off the bed.
“she can’t be a demon. It can’t be her.”
“You just confirmed it.”

He sat down. Gazing at Mare as she sobs.
“This is as far as I know, there was a man in this Hans town, Lucas, the famous paranormal researcher. You should know him. She was found in his custody, a witness had said, every night, he hears a scream every night, a girl crying, shouting, he didn’t have the courage to know what they were doing to her, she fled from the environment, it wasn’t quite long, everyone in that same vicinity was driven out of their home and Lucas became the owner of that place from the beginning to the end of it. The girl was chained under his basement. Inside that basement was a lab, which he used to carry out experiment. Inside that basement was where the trace of your daughter Maeve was found. Obviously she was chained there. And made a demon, because she wasn't from birth. She was a normal human, like every other child, there was no default since birth. You could testify to that, this are fact that we have gathered.”

“Lucas?”
She implored.
“Yes, Lucas and his assistant Anika.”
She sniffed.
“Do you recall?”
“Anika, we attended same college but she dropped out and wasn't seen for years. I only heard about Lucas, never seen him once, I don't know why she was taken. By them, why they made her a beast. Why my daughter, haven’t them hurt us enough.”
She hit her chest. And cried.

“Why didn’t them let her be? She was just a child, she knew nothing. I asked you to run Maeve, why didn’t run, why did you let them get you.”
“Where you chased?”
She nodded. The image replays in her head like it was yesterday.
“A huge man, came after us..”
“Did you see his face?”

“I did, he got hold of Maeve, I had to protect her, I cut his cheeks with the small pocket knife Carter gave me.”
“His both cheeks.”
“Yes, then he let go of her, we ran. I had to separate from her. Because if we keep running like that, it would be easier to spot us.”
“I’m really sorry, I promise, if I found I'll bring her to you, so you could see her. Just once.” He felt her pains. He felt that way when he lost his daughter too. She died of leukemia. She was five. Beautiful blonde, he felt his eyes glistened with tears. He had to blink them off. They both lost something.
Then he turned. To her again.

“Did you say you cut his cheeks. It was deep was it?”
“Yes, probably leave a scar..”
He snap his fingers.
Could it be him.

The man they are searching for, the similar description, they had. A scar on both cheeks.
Her eyes lit up. She clasped her hands over his. Not minding the tears dripping down to her mouth.
“You’ll do that for me?”
“I once promised to bring her to you, I'll keep my promise. You could get to see your daughter again. I’ll help you Mrs mare. But you need to get well.”
She nodded severally.
“Thank you.” she squeezed his hands in gratitude. She smiled and wipe her face. With her hands.
“We’ll be leaving now.”

She nodded, as he stood up. She was able to smile again even if it was for only a second.
He was stopped by his ringing phone, he brought it out.
He was gonna call an artist to drew the face. She saw.
He was getting closer to him.

Closer to finding the man behind the mask.
“Hello?”
“Detective Sean, you need to come see this.”
“What’s it?”
“I think she's at it again. But its kind of different from the other similar cases.”
“Go on with the details.”

“Its man, he was found in the woods, at about, 1:01am, his entire body was white, there was no wound or cut up from the stomach, but the blood was drained out. And at the nape of the neck was two dot. And it created a black spot there.”
“Two dots?”
He writes it down, in his note pad.
“Yes. That was the only thing visible, there was no other, wound or cut..”
“What could this mean?”
“I’ve no idea sir.”

Why did the partner change?
He turned to met the curious gaze of Mare.
“Is it?” he asked.
“Its the demon, it's out there again, it actually stopped for a while. And now, I think it's back again. To kill us.”
Mare clamped her hands over her mouth. Muffled her cries. Her eyes spill out tears out of it.
“My baby!” she whimpered.
Detective Sean heaved a sigh.

If there was anything he could do, or a way to help her, he would have done it.
“I need to see him?” she whispered.
“See who?”
“Him.”
She simply answered.
“Who’s him?”
“Albert, I need to see him.”
“Sir Albert.”
She nods.
“Why do you want to see him?”
“Mayb he could help. He was my husband's friend. Know what happened to us, our property and everything, Carter owns.”
Detective Sean nodded.