09-01-2013, 07:16 PM
Continued from: On the Case
A few hours later...
Unlike the Atharim and their hired-help, Chief Inspector Drayson and his team came at the Rougarou hide-out from all angles. Regular beat cops held the perimeter from street level to a floor below the suspected hide-out of the escaped hospital patient, and Drayson followed on the heels of a SWAT team as they stormed the place from both the front and a chained up fire-exit. The tunnel the Atharim had used had been deemed too small to bother entering through; officers waited there in case anyone tried to bolt.
What they found would probably never be fully explained or understood. Holes shot in the ceiling, water still dripping from the broken ceiling mounted fire extinguishers and near ankle deep water pooled on the floor. An upturned deep freezer, the Freon cable cut and drained of gas, sat at the center of a slowly spreading deep red cloud that tainted the already filthy water on the ground. The drain was gummed up with what seemed to be ash and what they first thought was melted rubber, and later found to probably be cooled lava. Some of the men were sure there was even a face to be seen in that pile of cooled stone, but Chief Inspector Drayson refused to give it a second thought.
The skinned body was found next. It's skin eerily intact on the blood soaked floor, and the body sporting bullet holes that seemed to have been received post-mortem.
Skeletal remains were tucked away in holes in the wall, intestinal tracks and other 'undesirable' internal organs fed down one of the larger drains in the floor till it was blocked up and became a favoured dining hole for the local rat population.
Some of the old bath house rooms had been re-purposed as sleeping quarters for, from what they could tell, four people. That seemed entirely mundane, considering everything else they had come across. Other rooms seemed to have been turned over to holding cells, or more likely, meat lockers. Chains, meat hooks, saws and butchers knives, the works. One of the rooms had fresh blood, and a person-sized area of floor and wall that had been scorched to the point the stone had cracked in the heat, and nothing but a greasy smear of ash remained. In a room across the hall, a large man had been shot repeatedly.
The SWAT team cleared the entire place in a matter of minutes. Two bodies were found. One shot repeatedly, the other skinned and shot. They were in and out before any of the real horror of the situation could be understood.
Chief Inspector Drayson remained as the crime scene investigation teams rolled in, photographing, videotaping, and noting down what was found. He stayed long enough to watch the mystery freezer righted and opened. Few in the room were able to handle that revelation and keep their lunch down.
Medical examiners were able to ID the skinned man as, probably, the missing heart patient, judging by the remnant scar tissue on the dead man's chest. And with that, Drayson sighed quietly and took his leave. Senior detectives of the city precincts would fight over who's jurisdiction the crime scene fell to, and whomever got the case would keep the Chief Inspector informed.
There were many questions that needed answering, and he doubted those answers would be found through conventional science. But he would follow the case closely, and decide where to go from there. After all, there seemed to be two bodies missing from the hide out. Possibly one, if his guess on the greasy ash stains wasn't too far off.
Edited by Drayson, Sep 1 2013, 07:18 PM.
A few hours later...
Unlike the Atharim and their hired-help, Chief Inspector Drayson and his team came at the Rougarou hide-out from all angles. Regular beat cops held the perimeter from street level to a floor below the suspected hide-out of the escaped hospital patient, and Drayson followed on the heels of a SWAT team as they stormed the place from both the front and a chained up fire-exit. The tunnel the Atharim had used had been deemed too small to bother entering through; officers waited there in case anyone tried to bolt.
What they found would probably never be fully explained or understood. Holes shot in the ceiling, water still dripping from the broken ceiling mounted fire extinguishers and near ankle deep water pooled on the floor. An upturned deep freezer, the Freon cable cut and drained of gas, sat at the center of a slowly spreading deep red cloud that tainted the already filthy water on the ground. The drain was gummed up with what seemed to be ash and what they first thought was melted rubber, and later found to probably be cooled lava. Some of the men were sure there was even a face to be seen in that pile of cooled stone, but Chief Inspector Drayson refused to give it a second thought.
The skinned body was found next. It's skin eerily intact on the blood soaked floor, and the body sporting bullet holes that seemed to have been received post-mortem.
Skeletal remains were tucked away in holes in the wall, intestinal tracks and other 'undesirable' internal organs fed down one of the larger drains in the floor till it was blocked up and became a favoured dining hole for the local rat population.
Some of the old bath house rooms had been re-purposed as sleeping quarters for, from what they could tell, four people. That seemed entirely mundane, considering everything else they had come across. Other rooms seemed to have been turned over to holding cells, or more likely, meat lockers. Chains, meat hooks, saws and butchers knives, the works. One of the rooms had fresh blood, and a person-sized area of floor and wall that had been scorched to the point the stone had cracked in the heat, and nothing but a greasy smear of ash remained. In a room across the hall, a large man had been shot repeatedly.
The SWAT team cleared the entire place in a matter of minutes. Two bodies were found. One shot repeatedly, the other skinned and shot. They were in and out before any of the real horror of the situation could be understood.
Chief Inspector Drayson remained as the crime scene investigation teams rolled in, photographing, videotaping, and noting down what was found. He stayed long enough to watch the mystery freezer righted and opened. Few in the room were able to handle that revelation and keep their lunch down.
Medical examiners were able to ID the skinned man as, probably, the missing heart patient, judging by the remnant scar tissue on the dead man's chest. And with that, Drayson sighed quietly and took his leave. Senior detectives of the city precincts would fight over who's jurisdiction the crime scene fell to, and whomever got the case would keep the Chief Inspector informed.
There were many questions that needed answering, and he doubted those answers would be found through conventional science. But he would follow the case closely, and decide where to go from there. After all, there seemed to be two bodies missing from the hide out. Possibly one, if his guess on the greasy ash stains wasn't too far off.
Edited by Drayson, Sep 1 2013, 07:18 PM.