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Hidden Beyond The Veil #AtoZChallenge

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David’s phone rung as soon as his message was delivered to Mr. Gupta. He instantly called back. With shaking hands David picked up his phone.
“Yes David, tell me”, spoke the Inspector in a hurry.
“I can’t tell you over the phone.”
“Ok, I’m coming. Stay right there” and after these words the line was disconnected.

After half an hour later, which David has spent walking restlessly in his cabin, Inspector Gupta dashed into his cabin without even bothering to knock.
“Have a seat Inspector!” David spoke patiently. He had been putting together the pieces of puzzles ever since he had sent the message to Mr. Gupta.
“David, I have my force ready on the word Go, just tell me the name”, replied Inspector Gupta impatiently.
“You can’t catch or arrest him”, David said with an air of finality.
“What? Why?” Expressions on the face of Mr. Gupta were as puzzled as he was.
“Yes, you heard me right”, David paused for a second and continued, “Because he’s dead.”
Mr. Gupta just stared at him blankly.
Not waiting for him to react, David continued, “It was Dr. Karan who did it himself.”
“I still don’t get this. Please elaborate’, as Mr. Gupta said this, he finally took a seat on the sofa.
“Ok, so here it is”, David himself sat down beside him with all the reports and the evidences in lying casually on the table in front of them.
“As everyone is quite aware by now that Dr. Karan was facing problems from the side of his hospital trustees. Nothing had been working out for him since quite long now. He had been taking sleeping pills to put himself to sleep. He would usually come home drunk, as Alia had told Rohan quite a few times. That day was no different. As I came to know from Rohan, that fateful night he had come home drunk yet again. Alia had told this to Rohan. He had a fight with Reeti, which turned out to pretty bad and Karan’s anger went out of control. He stabbed her in her heart with the kitchen knife. All this while he wasn’t aware that Alia had heard most of it. But the proof to this was captured in the selfie that Alia took. What she saw in her selfie petrified her to the core. She instantly called and messaged Rohan for help but he didn’t her calls for he was already asleep,” David passed the print of photo retrieved from her cellphone. Apart from her face that covered major part of the photo, in the background it had an image of Karan stabbing Reeti.
“Hmm. Continue”, said Mr. Gupta, taking in the proofs and the story.
“Karan saw Alia and understood what had just happened. But before any reason could prevail in his mind, he went on to kill his only daughter, again driving the knife through her heart. It was only after that the realization struck him when he sat down in the despair, leaving blood prints on the curtain. Grief, regret and fear must have taken over him in the next few minutes. He decided his next few moves in a hurry but efficiently. He first arranged the bodies like they were killed in sleep. Cleaned the house of any blood stains. He then quickly formatted Alia’s phone to wash out any evidences and threw it under her bed. But he forgot to discard the memory card, hence this photo. He further stabbed himself into the abdomen, which would surely kill him but will also give him enough time to make this look like murder. But he also knew that just the stab might not have killed him, so he took all the sleeping pills he had in stock accelerating his death”, David finally rested his case.
“But why would he want to make it look like a homicide? He was anyway dying, how did it even matter?” Inspector was still left with some questions.
“Inspector, What is the only thing that is left when we are gone?” David asked him back.
Inspector stared at him blankly, confused.
“Our NAME. Nobody wants to be remembered as a murderer. We all want to be remembered for all the good things. He was no different”, David concluded.

Days have been passed since the case had been solved but it had left David restless. ofcourse, life moved on. Newspapers which had considered this case the most burning topic, found new stories to cover. David himself got new and challenging cases on his plate. But something somewhere was not same, something has changed. Demise of his best friend Reeti had created a void in his life that nobody else could fill. Life was not never same again, atleast not for him.

~THE END~

Written for A to Z Challenge 2016

Theme this month: A story A week

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39 thoughts on “Hidden Beyond The Veil #AtoZChallenge”

  11. DAMN I KNEW IT! I KNEW THE DOCTOR DID IT!
    Sorry for the shouty caps *hides face*
    Lovely story, Nibha! What’s next week? Another murder mystery? Or some fantasy fiction? I do hope it has a happy ending 🙂
    Cheers, and happy weekend! <3

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  18. That was quite a twist. And I liked the idea of a story each week. This way the story doesn’t stretches too long and readers can also maintain the hang of it 🙂

    Cheers
    Geets

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