Chapter 50 - Caught (2)

knock, knock, knock,

She heard another set of knock from the people on other side of the door.

"She will get away, if you keep knocking like that! Force in!"

"Sir, we cannot do that, especially since we do not have a warrant."

Nida's lips slightly twitch upward, amazed by Randell's bravery.

It's something she couldn't do when she was in his situation.

"I can't even make my parents believe in me, but he managed to bring the police here "

"Warrant? warrant doesn't apply to a monster!"

Her expression turns grim once Randell calls her a monster.

"Yeah right, I am a monster."

"Sir, you can't do that!"

Bam!

She was about to pick up the towel on the floor when the door was forcibly opened by Randell, thus making everyone of them, including the three police officers, stare at her naked body.

The three policemen were so flustered that they immediately backed away and moved out the door while Randell panicked and grabbed the policemen while pointing his other hand toward Nida.

"Catch her before she kills anyone again!"

Nida picked up the towel and wrapped around her body again. She wasn't flustered that three strangers saw her body but walked closer to Randell with her stoic expression.

"Here, please arrest me." She offered her wrist to the police officers, but they only awkwardly laughed in front of Nida.

We apologize for arriving so early in the morning, and we would like to speak with you. However, please get dressed first, and we will wait outside." The police officer awkwardly talked to her in a polite manner.

Nida recognized the police behavior and heaved a sigh internally.

'I thought this was different from what happened to me.'

She then looked at Randell's expression. He was getting impatient as to why the police were not arresting her yet. Randell can also not hide his fear and trembling.

"Please wait a minute." She responded calmly and walked back into her apartment.

She can still hear Randell grumbling and protesting to the police officers that they should hurry before she can do anything to escape.

"No. Randell, shouting and protesting won't do any good." She mumbled, commenting on Randell's action.

She was in the same situation ten years ago. That time, she almost lost her voice and energy from shouting and protesting, hoping someone would believe her.

But no one does.

After getting dressed, she called the policemen inside her apartment, but one of the police officers was left outside with Randell.

They asked to talk to her without Randell.

She peeked at Randell, who was too worked up to arrest her, but she agreed to talk to the officer first. 

She then pushed all her trash and a pile of things that were on her usual messy floor to make space for the police officer to walk in. She then shoved out the things that were also lying on her couch and offered the couch to the two.

The two policemen, unfamiliar with Nida's messiness, observed her room. 

Used clothes, food wraps, empty bottles, and random objects are lying on the floor as if they have been there for a long time.

The officer looked at her awkwardly, wondering how a beautiful lady could be so messy in her own apartment, as if a shut-in jobless man was living there.

"Ehem!" the policeman, who is more senior than the other, starts their conversation by clearing his throat.

"Ms. Mildea, right?"

"Yes, sir."

"Actually, Sir Lobo was involved in an incident last night. A wolf was-" The police halted his word once he saw Nida raising her hand, telling him to stop.

"I know what happened, so please be direct."

"Ah, great! you heard the news? Well then we are here to ask for your assistance."

"Assistance?"

'I knew it. These people aren't believing what Randell said. How can I make them arrest me? But what will happen if they arrest me?'

Nida wanted to let Randell prove his claims, but she was also scared of what was going to happen to her once it was proved that she was the crazed monster.

"What assistance, sir?"

"He was traumatized by the wolf attack that made him mix reality and fantasy. They told us that you transformed into a werewolf and killed everyone else." The policeman slightly laughed in between his explanation and the thought of Randell's report as ridiculously unrealistic.

"I did. Now arrest me." she plainly said as she offered her wrist again, waiting for the handcuff, but the police officer just stared at her flawless, thin wrist.

"Maam, you might be drinking till morning." The officer shifted his gaze from the pile of bottles of beer and to her bloodshot eyes, assuming that the lady was still under the influence of alcohol.

But that pile of bottles of beer is just sitting there getting piled up because Nida was too lazy to throw them out.

"No, I don't."

'Why do police officers all think the same way? They are so rational that they refuse to accept extraordinary things. like supernatural creatures. '

"We apologize for disturbing your Sunday morning, but can you at least give us a contact number for Sir Lobo's family? He is refusing to give us their number and he just gives us your information."

'What was Randell's family like again?' She tries to recall how Randell's parents treated him.

'Will they believe him if he is sent back to them?'

As far as she could remember, his parents were kind and loving, but they were kind of weird for imprisoning their child once a month.

'Is his parents' the same here as the one I know?'

"I actually lost my phone. That is why I cannot give you their number. I don't actually know their address either."

The police officers looked troubled since Nida couldn't help them.

"Anyway, you should send him to the hospital rather than look for his family." Nida thought of the deep wound that she inflicted on his shoulder, worried that he might be enduring the pain just to make sure she would be arrested.

"He wasn't injured, ma'am. He managed to get away from the wolf. I guess he witnessed everyone being killed by the wolf so that he was more affected mentally."

"He is not?"

Nida stood up and hurriedly walked out of her apartment and ran towards Randell, who was being held by the police officer.

Randell pushed the police officer and tried to run away from Nida because she was acting like the wolf last night that was about to kill him.

Surprised by her strength, Nida caught him and pinned him down. 

"Get away!" Randell shouted as he hit her back. 

"Hey, I won't harm you. Just let me see your shoulder." She ignored his punches and stretched out his shirt from the collar to see his shoulder.

"Sir! Sir! Don't punch her!" The police officer helped her by holding Randell down.

"Ma'am, what's wrong? You cannot do this too!" The police grabbed her by the waist and separated the two.

'How come his deep wounds healed overnight?'

She is thankful that he is not hurt anymore, but that proves that he is not human either.

'Does he know?'

"Sorry sir, for suddenly attacking him. Actually, he is my boyfriend. Can you leave him with me?"

"I don't think we can do that ma'am. You're kind of intoxicated. We'd much prefer it if you could guide us to his home."

"Hmm? Then can you call SPO1 Lord Suarez? He is at station 3. He can take care of Randell."

"What is your relationship with SPO1 mam?"

"Close friends. He will come here if you call him."

The policeman hesitated for a moment, but called the station anyway.

After a few minutes, the officer approached her again.

"Okay ma'am, we will leave once he is here."

All of them went inside of her apartment, and she offered them instant coffee, while Randell refused and kept himself crouching in the corner, trembling. He got tired of convincing the officers about Nida's true form and chose to be silent.

"Sir, What if I am really a wolf and kill everyone, what will happen to me once I am caught?"

"There's no way, ma'am." The police officer shrugged his shoulders while sneering.

"Just what if?"

"Well ma'am, you will probably be caged so that you can't go out and kill anyone again."

"I am just being imprisoned? Why? I killed a lot of humans!"

"We cannot kill wild animals, especially endangered ones, so the least the authorities can do is isolate the wolf."

"Anyway, ma'am, the wolf will be lucky if he doesn't die from the hunt. If he survives, he will be caged."

Nida made a sigh again, feeling disappointed toward the officers because they kept shoving out the idea that she was a wolf.

She looked at Randell, who was still trembling in fear.

'Did I look like that too?'

"Hmm?" She blinks her eyes multiple times as she thinks she saw something she shouldn't.

"Dust?"

She walked closer to him again, making him cower in fear even more.

She slowly raised her hand and touched Randell's shoulder again, dusting off the little amount of silver dust on his skin.

"Did we switch out?"