An X File (A John Smith Case) (by Rika)

An X File
(A John Smith Case)


“Hello again, Mr. District Attorney”
“Hello John, it’s a nice day, isn’t?”
“Unfortunately not for Mrs. Rayden”
“Yes, poor lady, he was her one and only son”
“That’s right, and a good boy too I may add, he always helps his mother with her house chores”
“I heard that Mr. Rayden also passed away recently”
“4 months ago to be exact”
“Have you asked her anything yet?”
“Yes, I have…. It was at 4 a.m this morning when she heard a strange sound from her son’s room. Then she walked towards it and found him on the floor, just lying there, not breathing and no pulse”
“The weird thing is that no blood on the floor or anywhere else, even on her son’s body, and it is getting weirder since the autopsy came up with nothing….. I mean nothing…..no wound….. no head trauma…….. not even a bruise.”
“That’s odd!!” how about any suspects?””
“I can’t really say for now, Sir, but Mrs. Rayden suggested me to speak to the boy’s girlfriend. She said they were very close. That’s what I’m going to do now, speak to that girl”
“You’ll do that John, you do know that I don’t have a case if we don’t have a suspect, don’t you?”
“ I’m very much aware of that, Sir. The autopsy and the Crime Scene Investigation is still on going. We’ll be in touch soon”

“Good morning, Miss. Knight, or can I call you Jennifer”
“Good morning Mr. Smith, and ‘Jenny’ would be fine”
“Alright, Jenny… I presume you already know what happened to Mathew?”
“Yes, I know….not in detail, but I do know Mat is gone now”
“I heard that you were very close, did you recognize anything out of the ordinary involving Mat lately?”
“He did tell me he had been having scary dreams”
“And what kind of dream would that be?”
“Very scary ones…each dream has different detail things…..but they all have the same theme”
“The same theme? What was it?”
“They all are about …..’the aliens’. I know that it may sound ridiculous to you, but they really got into his mind.”
“I had tried to tell him that they were just dreams, that there was nothing to worry about, but nothing seemed to work. And, the worst thing just happened 2 days ago. He showed up in my door step, trembling, and I couldn’t forget the look in his eyes that day”
“What did he tell you that day?”
“Once I told him to come in, made him some hot soup, and he got calmer, I asked him what happened….and he said that he just had the scariest dream that night, he said it even didn’t feel like a dream…. It felt very real he said.”
“What happened in that dream?”
“Like I said….he was very sure that it was not actually a dream. He said that night the aliens actually came to his room and told him that he was selected….and that they will come again and picked him up”
“Pick him up where exactly?”
“That part that they did not really explain he said. Oh, detective, if only you could see his eyes that day, they were full of fear. I was also very scared just by listening to him and I felt some of that fear myself.”
“I see, other than those dreams, did he tell you anything that will get him into a trouble?”
“He was a very good boy, detective, you can ask anybody who knows him…… he has no enemy at all”
“Okay Jenny, thank you for everything that you share me…..if anything new comes up, please let me know”
“Of course, detective”

“Hello guys, what do you have for me?”
“Nothing much we can find in that room John, just a bunch of finger prints, but just the victim’s and his mother, no third party”
“How about the autopsy, anything new from them?”
“They had been looking all possible ways of what causing his death……but they can’t seem to find any, they said it almost like he just suddenly stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating.”
“Excuse me??, that is something really new coming from a 25 years of experience expert like dr. Stone!”
“Hey, don’t sue us for any autopsy matter.... why don’t you call him your self?”
“I will…as soon as I recharge my cell’s battery.”

“Hello, dr. Stone, it’s me John, I’m calling for the newest information that you can give me about Mathew Rayden’s death”
“I’ve been trying to call you this last 2 hours, there’s something really strange comes up”
“Oh really? what is it doc? You got what caused his death?”
“That the thing, John, He is not really dead….. he is very much alive now”
“What do you mean his alive?? He was dead 15 hours ago”
“Well, he’s not anymore, why don’t you come and join us here, at The George Washington Hospital”

“John, thank you for coming, he’s in there with his mother, they are talking”
“He sure looks alive to me…..what’s going on here doc?”
“As much as I want to give you the explanation, John…….I really can’t! An hour ago I finished the autopsy ……you know like usual…stitched him back as he was……one hour ago I heard my assistant screaming like she just saw a ghost……but then I saw him..there..just standing…asking me where he was”
“Wait a minute, you said you finished the autopsy, it means you already gave him ‘the head and the ‘Y’ cutting?”
“Yes, John….just like usual…..and I stitched him back….but look at him now… he is breathing again, his heart is beating again, he is talking, …he’s well, John. It’s just a miracle”
“Okay then doc, I have to see him, I’m going in”

“Mathew? How are you feeling?”
“I think I’m feeling just fine, it hurts a little on the stitches though, but I’m okay I guess”
“Do you remember anything? Anything at all what just happened to you?”
“Well, I do remember trying to get some sleep in my bed, but the next thing I know, I was there in that room….full of surgery tools”

(Rika, rikacintara@gmail.com)