Twilights Revenge (Chapter 5)

The car spun round the corner into Galdall Road and pulled up in front of the Ibiza Night Club.
Stepping out of the car James’ attention turned to the park opposite. As he looked beyond the fence a strange feeling came over him and an image of a young girl walking through the park late at night filled his mind.
‘James, James’
The feeling and vision faded and James was back on the street next to the nightclub
‘You OK James’
‘Yeah I’m fine’ he said. He wanted to say no, but for some reason that he could not figure out he could not.
‘You felt a little funny again didn’t you?’
‘I don’t know what you’re on about I’m fine. ‘
‘O come on James there’s no need to act tough with me. I know you’ve been feeling a bit off, you told me back at the station.’
‘I’m probably just coming down with a cold. Let’s just get on with our job and try and find this girl.’ Replied James turning towards the door of the nightclub and pressing the door bell.
A minute later the door opened and a middle aged man appeared from behind it.
‘DC Sanderson and WDC Jones’ James said showing the man his warrant card.
‘Dave Henderson’ Replied the man. ‘Come in, I’ve got the details you asked for over the phone.’ He continued gesturing for them to enter.
James and Sara followed as the man walked through the foyer, up the stairs and into a room just off the landing.
Moving round behind the desk in the middle of the room Dave picked up a file. ‘This is all the information I have on the employees that were working last night including the door staff. I could not get anything off the CCTV it seemed to have stopped working just before the girl and her friends left.’ He said handing it to James. ‘Is there anything else I can do to help?’
‘Would you display some posters?’ Replied WDC Jones
‘Of course, I’ll do anything to help find the girl.’
‘I’ll get uniform to drop some off for you. They’re doing the rounds in the local streets and searching the park at the moment.’

*****

Uniformed officers combed the park for any clues that may lead them to the missing girl and help them work out what happened the night before. They knew the girl had left the night club at 2am and after saying bye to her friends set off across the park on her 3 minute walk home. You could see the nightclub from the front bedroom window of the parent’s house.

James and Sara walked out of the nightclub and headed across the road to the park to find an officer with some posters. As they entered the park the feeling came over James again and the vision of the girl walking along the dark path alone came back into his head. Shaking it off he continued across the park as though nothing had happened, lagging just a little behind Sara. As they got halfway through the park the feeling and vision returned, this time showing someone jumping from the bushes, grabbing the girl. James collapsed to his knees gripping his head in his hands. Sara carried on unaware of what happened behind her until:
‘DC Sanderson, DC Sanderson. Officer down, we need an ambulance at the park in Galdall Road.’
Turning to the sound of PC Smith’s voice Sara saw James laid on the path unconscious. Bending down next to him she checked his pulse and his breathing. ‘He’s got a pulse and he is breathing.’ She said to the PC placing James in the recovery position to help keep his airways open. The sound of sirens getting closer and closer made Sara look up to see if she could see the ambulance. As she turned her head to look down Galdall Road she saw flashing blue lights coming towards the park. PC Smith had already got back to his feet and headed to the park entrance to direct the paramedics to James.
‘What happened?’ One of the paramedics asked Sara as he bent down next to James.
‘Not sure he was walking behind me. PC Smith put the call out.’ She replied looking up at the uniformed officer that had directed the paramedics to James.
‘He just clutched his head and fell to his knees.’
‘He’s been feeling funny all day.’ Sara said after PC Smith finished.
‘Can you hear me.’ Said the paramedic in James’ ear as he checked his pulse and breathing. His colleague placed the stretcher on the ground and bent down next to him. ‘His pulse and breathing are OK but I’ve had no response from him. Lifting James on to the stretcher they carried him to the ambulance.
‘Can I come with you?’ Sara asked
The paramedics looked at each other before one of them answered. ‘Not sure that a good idea.’
‘Someone should be with him in case he wakes up.’
‘He’s in good hands, we’ll take care of him.’
‘I’d still feel better if I could be with him.’
The two paramedics looked at each other again. ‘OK’ they said ‘If you insist.’ Sara climbed in the back with one of the paramedics while the other walked round to the driver’s side and climbed in.
‘Twilight One to Twilight HQ, we have him.But we have a slight problem. His colleague insisted on coming with him.'The paramedic who jumped in the driving seat of the ambulance said into his radio.
‘Bring him in. We’ll get everything set up at this end. Just sedate his colleague we’ll deal with that problem once we have James’ Came the crackly voice through the radio.
The paramedic in the back listened to the conversation in his ear, pulled out a ready filled needle, turned and injected WDC Jones who instantly collapsed to the floor.

The ambulance pulled off, lights flashing and sirens blazing as PC Smith watched unaware of what had happened inside.
‘Back to work people, time is of the essence.’ Echoed Sergeant Grant’s voice over all the police radios in the park and surrounding streets. The park once again became a sea of black and yellow moving slowly from one end to the other, looking for anything that could be a clue to finding the missing girl.

*****

DS Lynch sat at his desk and looked through the file he had just been handed by a young PC who had brought it in from the park where the search was happening. ‘There are a lot of people to talk to I’d better get the team to work quickly.’ He thought as he stood up and looked around at the others in the room. ‘OK everyone let’s get to work.’ He said so everyone could hear. The whole room turned and listened to DS Lynch as he gave out his orders.
A few minutes later the room emptied as everyone went off to interview the employees they had been asked to. DS Lynch spent the next hour checking all the names on the computer to see if any of them had a record. He was hoping to find something that could help them with their investigation.
‘It’s no use there’s nothing here.’ He thought after he had checked the last name.
‘DS Lynch.’ Came a voice from the other side of the room.
‘What you got for me? Anything that could help us with the investigation?.’
The young DC that had just walked in made his way over to DS Lynch’s desk. ‘Not really. Her friends just told me the same as they had told her parents that they left the club at 2am and she headed home across the park as she always did, they saw no one follow her but they moved on just after she went through the gate. They said that because she always goes that way and nothing has ever happened before they now just wait till she’s crossed the road and entered the park, then they go off to the taxi office.’

*****

PC Smith had spent 3 hours combing the park, checking every blade of grass and fallen leaf for anything that could help. ‘Sir this is getting tedious.’ He said to Sergeant Grant as he passed him for the umpteenth time. ‘There’s nothing here the scene is clean.’
‘Keep looking. There has to be something here.’ Came his uncharacteristically abrupt reply. ‘We’ve got to find her and fast.’
PC Smith knew what he was getting at. There had been a case the week before where a young girl had been abducted, here mutilated body found forty-eight hours later in an alley. Their only suspect was now back on the streets after his unexplainable escape from custody, and it looked to everyone like he had struck again.
‘We need to broaden our search, have you passed on the file WDC Jones gave you?’
‘Yes CID are following up on the information.’
‘What about the CCTV?’
‘It looks like the same thing happened here as did at the station. There is no footage from 1:55 till 2:10 on the clubs and the streets camera footage. It’s been passed on to tech to see if they can get anything.’