Visions: I know who the killer is
Crime detective
Алексей Сабадырь
© Алексей Сабадырь, 2023
ISBN 978-5-0062-0524-6
Created with Ridero smart publishing system
Visions. I know who the killer is
Settlement. A street with private houses on both sides. Time of year: summer August. A father and daughter live in one of them.
Karina Khromova, sixteen years old, brunette, medium height, shoulder-length hair, thin, knows how to stand up for herself. Character: strong-willed, honest, purposeful, kind. She dreams of working as a kindergarten teacher.
Karina and her father are sitting at the kitchen table, having lunch. On the table are two plates of borscht and a plate of pies.
Daughter, have you decided to become a teacher? asks the father.
Why not! «Ill go to college, study and look after the kids,» Karina answers.
«By that time you will need to start your own,» the father says, biting the pie.
Wait and see.
I dont intend to wait long.
«Id better go for a walk with Dick,» says Karina and gets up from the table. The father looks out the window and says:
Be careful not to get wet, clouds are approaching.
Dick looks at Karina, starts jumping and wagging his tail. Karina attaches the leash to her collar and goes outside. The sun is shining brightly, its warm outside Karina and Dick are playing in the field. Dick, a German shepherd, has been faithfully serving his owners for eight years. Karinas father often swears at him, so he loves Karina more.
Black clouds are approaching and she decides to return home. Suddenly a strong wind rises and it starts to rain. Karina and Dick are hiding under a large tree, she sits down and begins to stroke Dick.
«Dont worry, now the rain will stop and you and I will go home,» says Karina.
Khromov Yuri Ivanovich, forty-five years old, dark-haired, of average height, thin, has a gentle character, rarely shows severity. Im ready to lend my shoulder at any moment.
At this moment lightning strikes, Karina falls to the ground and loses consciousness. Dick whines and licks Karinas face, then turns around and runs home.
After jumping over the fence, Dick begins to bark near the door. The father comes out to the door and asks:
Are you a dick, or what? Where did you lose Karina?
Dick turns around and runs to the gate. Yuri Ivanovich throws on his raincoat as he walks and runs out of the house, following Dick. Dick looks back, waiting for his owner, and picks up speed again. Ten minutes later, Yuri Ivanovich runs up to his daughter and feels the pulse on his hand.
«There is a pulse, which means he will live,» says Yuri Ivanovich.
He takes Karina in his arms and carries her home, Dick runs next to her and barks.
The rain does not stop, as if the heavenly office decided to flood this world.
Yuri Ivanovich takes Karina into the bedroom and puts her on the bed. He dials the ambulance number on the landline and says:
Hello ambulance!
Chapter No. 2
An ambulance arrives, a doctor and a nurse enter the house. In the bedroom, Karina lies unconscious on the bed. The doctor sits down on the bed next to her and begins to listen to her. The nurse takes a chair and sits next to him, the father watches while standing.
What happened? the doctor asks Yuri Ivanovich.
I dont know, my daughter went for a walk with the dog. Then I found her unconscious under a tree,» Yuri Ivanovich answers, shrugging his shoulders.
On his right hand, the doctor discovers a dark spot the size of an apple.
«There is an assumption that she was struck by lightning,» says the doctor.
So what now?
The doctor gets out of bed and says:
We need to take her to the hospital, there may be irreversible consequences.
«Then Im with you,» says Yuri Ivanovich and puts on his cloak.
Stay at home, you will visit her tomorrow. She is now unconscious and may spend the whole night in this state.
But Im a father!
Now you cant help her.
The next day Karina begins to come to her senses and the nurse
who had been on duty next to her all night, leaves and returns with the doctor. A room with four beds, two of them are empty, an elderly woman lies on one, Karina on the other.
The doctor comes up to Karina and sits on the bed.
Welcome back! says the doctor.
Where I am?
You girl are in the hospital, I am your attending physician Roman Semyonovich. Do you remember anything?
I dont understand what you mean? Karina looks at the doctor in surprise.
You were brought to us unconscious.
I only remember that I was walking with Dick and thats all.
The doctor on duty shows Karina a dark spot on her arm, in the shoulder area.
Apparently, you were struck by lightning yesterday.
Karina also begins to look at her spot on her hand.
Then why didnt I die?
This phenomenon has not yet been fully studied by scientists, so we cannot confirm anything or, on the contrary, refute it.
Are you feeling well?
Quite, only my head hurts a little.
«Well, this can be fixed, in our pharmacy they sell magic pills for the head,» the doctor smiles.
Tell me, when can I go home?
Roman Semyonovich gets out of bed and shakes Karinas left hand.
I think in a couple of hours. Yes, I almost forgot, your father is waiting for you in the corridor, Ill call him now. «And you get well,» the doctor says with a smile on his face.
At this moment Karina has a vision:
«Doctor Roman Semyonovich returns home late at night. He enters the backyard and a man in jeans and a sports jacket with a hood comes towards him. The stranger pulls a knife out of his pocket and says:
Old man, give me the money quickly!
«Im a doctor, I dont have a lot of money,» answers Roman Semyonovich.
The stranger stabs Roman Semyonovich in the stomach, searches him and takes some money. Then he quickly disappears into the darkness.»
The doctor on duty leaves the room, followed by the nurse. Karina in
Horrified by what she saw, she still does not understand what is happening. Karinas father enters the room, sits on the bed and kisses her on the cheek.
«Its probably just from fatigue,» Karina says in a whisper.
Did you say something? asks the father.
«Hi dad, no, you probably heard it wrong,» Karina comes to her senses.
Hows your health?
Okay, the doctor said that in two hours you can go home. Hows Dick?
Its normal, he came running after me to bring me to you.
Tell me more about this.
Yesterday you went for a walk, I turned on the TV and started watching a movie. Then there was a strong wind, rain, thunderstorm, lightning. I began to worry, I wondered where you were. I hear barking in the yard, I open the door, Dick is standing on the threshold. As soon as he saw me, he immediately rushed to the gate. Then I realized that something had happened to you.
What happened to me?
He brought me to you, you were lying unconscious under a tree. I took you
picked him up and carried him home, then called an ambulance. The doctor suggested that you might have been struck by lightning.
«He told you about this too,» says Karina thoughtfully.
Did you remember anything?
Nothing, except that she went for a walk with Dick and thats it.
«Nothing, the main thing is that everything worked out okay,» says the father, stroking Karinas head with his hand.
«Youre right,» says Karina and hugs her father tightly.
Chapter No. 3
Karina and her father enter the yard and Dick begins to bark loudly at Karina. She approaches him, Dick whines and climbs into the booth.
Dick, its me Karina.
Whats going on, why does he greet you so angrily?
I dont know, hes never behaved like this before.
The father comes to the booth, sits down and calls Dick. Dick growls at him and doesnt come out.
Strange.
Leave him alone, maybe he was imagining something.
May be.
The next day, Karina turns on the TV and watches the local news with her father. A correspondent stands near a residential building and begins to report. Police officers and onlookers stand nearby.