Fear Aida

Still a Mystery

I ran through every room that I passed but still could not meet with both, until at the end of the corridor I stopped running to regulate my breath that was getting breathless. I'm not used to running - running like this, not being young also makes me lose a lot of stamina. "Where are they both? did Charlotta take Aida away? no. It's impossible" I said in my heart, I thought badly of Charlotta.

Charlotta is a figure that makes me confused for now, how could I who is a psychiatrist be confused with Charlotta's personality. It shouldn't be that hard for me to read the personality of someone with the ability that I have, either I was tired or I hadn't used my skills for a long time since I had been a general practitioner since I lived in the small village where I was on the run.

I went back down the corridor of the building until I arrived on the third floor, the scene I saw was terrible because there were too many marks of gunfire on the side of the building and even the roof of the corridor. Bullet casings were scattered that I could make sure it was a bullet from a long barrel gun, instantly my mind became unsettled as I imagined what if Aida and Charlotta went through this passageway and experienced something bad. Charlotta several times did show her toughness in the face of dangerous situations, but for situations like this it must be difficult to face by a woman let alone she was carrying Aida.

A room that was quite spacious right in the first room at that time I heard a light crying sound that I heard. The room showed me the door that had been opened, I slowly approached the door to see who was inside. I faintly saw the back of a woman who was no stranger to me standing still and petrified from behind the gap between the door and the frame, "Charlotta?" muttered.

The room looked messy with a few file storage shelves lying like they were torn down with a loud slam, the marks of gunfire were still visible on the side of the wall and quite a lot.

I looked around and found a broom handle made of light iron, "Maybe this could be useful" I muttered again as I grabbed the handle of the broom. I warmed up a bit to swing the handle and prepared to go into the room, settled down - I stepped in and rightly thought that I saw Charlotta standing petrified staring at the floor.

At that time I did not know what made Charlotta petrified because some tables became a barrier to my view to see what Charlotta saw, I looked around to make sure that there was only me and Charlotta in my heart even though I asked who had been heard crying and where Aida was.

"Charlotta?" my broom to catch his attention when I was already in the room, Charlotta slowly turned to look at me with an expressionless flat face.

I was surprised to see it because of some blood spots on his face and also the dress shirt he was wearing that afternoon, but I'm sure it wasn't blood coming out of Charlotta's body. Slowly her lip line lifted and smiled at me, she also slowly turned her body to face me.

"Thank God you're safe, are you hurt?" he asked, I was silent for a moment because I was still shocked to see the calmness shown by Charlotta in front of me.

With blood pooling against her body and the room that seemed gripping for a woman, Charlotta could still worry about my situation as if she was not concerned about her own situation which seemed more alarming. Shouldn't I be the one worried about her? in front of me Charlotta again showed her toughness as a woman, couldn't an ordinary woman possibly behave like that? I was made unable to say anything with the attitude Charlotta showed me.

"Andrews? you okay?" he asked again now with a tone of voice that sounded worried about me, his smile disappeared and now he looked at me worriedly.

"Well, I'm sorry, but what happened and why did you bleed like that?" much

"I killed one policeman who tried to kill Aida with this knife." he replied without burden as if it was not his first murder. Charlotta even pointed out the knife she used to kill a policeman without a tremor in her hand. So calm and cold like that it wasn't scary to him.

What should I say, I don't know what's really going on here. All confused me and also surprised me for the umpteenth time, Charlotta, there's a thing he's hiding behind me and it's related to his past life. Whether to be vigilant or grateful that he was by my side, I don't yet know what motive he was hiding and it bothered me so much.

"Is something wrong?" tanyanya and I woke up from my daydream

"You're still asking if something's wrong?" I asked him back with suspicion

"Doctor.." a soft voice of fear rang out from behind me, I immediately turned around and found Aida who seemed to be hiding from earlier under one of the tables there.

I immediately ran up to Aida and knelt down and checked her body well to make sure she was okay, although there are some bruises that I can see in plain sight but I think he is in pretty good shape. More than that I am grateful that he did not experience any significant mental shocks, even though his body seemed to be very vibrating with all the terrible things we had experienced together. Undeniably, I also felt what Aida felt.

The mental health development Aida showed me pleased, at least until now I felt that she had indeed improved and was no longer what I had seen from her when we first met. For me, this is a good thing among all the bad things that have happened to us all.

"You're okay, right? does anything hurt, Aida?" I asked as I looked into her eyes, with Aida's head on her answering my question.

"So Miss Charlotta saved me from the bad cops.The cop tried to kill me and Miss Chorlotta attacked him alone, doctor.check Miss Charlotta." said Aida, who sounded worried about Charlotta.

"I'm fine" said Charlotta, I looked back and looked at her face and she was really showing how good she was right now.

"What's really going on?" I asked Charlotta, I stood up and walked up to Charlotta with Aida's hand.

"I ran with Aida while you were talking to some police, while the sound of gunfire coming from where you were arrived - I and Aida were chased by the police" he replied, I turned my eyes to the corpse of the policeman who was lying dead on the floor.

The policeman was wearing a uniform with complete protection even armed with a long barrel gun and a gun and I saw he was also carrying a dagger bag on his waist.

"He... has a weapon and complete protection, you can kill him with just that little knife? who are you, Charlotta?" I asked, for a moment we were silent until my eyes looked back at Charlotta's face.

"What did I do was a mistake for you?" he asked, I shook my head a few times and then sighed.

Charlotta never really answered my question with the answer I wanted, she even threw in a question that made me not want to go back to asking her the same question.

"Do I have to watch out for you or should I be happy that you are by my side, I am just confused" I replied

Turns out we haven't been able to get away from the police, yet, whether we're dealing with this is a cop on our side or a traitor like two policemen who have been killed, the tension is not over.

I immediately protected Aida behind my body and I pointed the iron handle of the broomstick at them, as well as Charlotta who pointed the small blood-soaked knife at them. For a moment my brain immediately thought that we would die right now if we were to get attacked in the same way as before, there was no chance we could fight back the police - the police were probably more than five people.

"You will have trouble killing us, General Simon will never let you go" I threatened them, hoping they would think again to finish us off.

"You're Dr Andrews?" asked one of the policemen to me, not long before I saw two people walking across the police line that surrounded us.

"Doctor Lee!" with Rick shouting my name, I found out that the two people who interrupted the police line were Rick and Shane.

"Officer Rick, it seems like this is the first time I'm happy to see you" I said with insinuation

"What about me?" timpal Shane with his cynical laughter, I laughed cynically at his chirps.

"Commander Flick, they're both wanted by General Simon" Rick told one of the police officers who asked for my name, at once they all lowered their fire direction and some immediately moved to secure the room.

Finally the calmness for a while I could feel because I was sure they would not attack me as well as Charlotta and Aida.

"Good, this way our job is done" Flick said

"Where's Aida?" ask Shane

"She's behind me" I answered briefly, almost the same time I saw Shane, Rick, and Flick trying to see Aida behind me from their positions.

"Doctor Andrews or should I call you Dr Lee?" ask Flick to me

"Both are me, whatever you want to call me" I replied

"Okay, Doctor Lee, we'll escort you to General Simon's place soon" he said

"Commander Flick, there's an officer killed here with a stab wound to the neck!" shouted one of the policemen who had secured the room, we all turned to look at the officer who was standing near the dead body of the policeman who was killed by Charlotta.

"Doctor Lee, can you explain?" ask Flick

"I, I killed the officer because he intended to kill Aida" replied Charlotta who interrupted him, turning to look at Charlotta and quite surprised by her response.

"Miss, it's a gross violation" Flick said

"I had no choice but to do so, I told you earlier that he intended to kill Aida" without the slightest hesitation Charlotta said

"Capture him, we must first investigate the motive for his murder" Flick ordered to some of his men, I immediately pulled Charlotta's arm to block the officer who was about to arrest her.

"Mr Flick, you can't do that because this is a form of self-protection. At least let the three of us meet with General Simon, let me try to explain to him" I said

"You will talk to General Simon but we still have to secure this lady for the safety of our General, I hope Doctor Lee understands our duty" he said, at once Charlotta threw away the knife she had been holding and walked past me.

"I'll be cooperative" Charlotta said as she filed her hands in handcuffs, without saying anything, two policemen approached Charlotta to handcuff her hand and one policeman took the knife that Charlotta used and put it in a plastic clip bag as evidence.

"I appreciate your cooperation, miss" said Flick, then gave a hand code asking all his men to leave the room and escort me to Aida, Charlotta was about to be led away by the two policemen who had handcuffed her but I pulled Charlotta's arm and it caught the attention of everyone there.

"At least let her stay close to me, I don't want anything bad to happen to her" I told Flick, briefly staring at me not long before Flick nodded and gave permission at my request at the time.

"Thank you" Charlotta murmured and when I heard her voice tremble, it seemed like this time she showed her feminine side facing something like this.

"It's my duty to try to protect you even though I still don't know if I should be wary of you or happy that you're by my side" I said

I grabbed Aida's right hand and then I asked her to embrace Charlotta's left arm with a hand command, as Aida immediately embraced Charlotta's hand so firmly. I grabbed Aida by the shoulder and let her halfway between me and Charlotta to protect her, after that we walked to meet Mr. Simon who was outside the building together - the same as a police escort who looked so tight.