Pulling a Jack the Ripper

The encounter

The eyes of London were watching Natía White. She didn't notice them, of course. No one paid attention to the cameras. it was an accepted fact that London has one of the most extensive CCTV systems in the world. The conservative estimate was that there where a million cameras around the city, but the actual number was probably much higher and growing all the time. The feed went to police, security firms, MI5, and thousands of other private individuall - forming a loose and all encopassing net. It was impossible to do anything in London without the CCTV catching you at some point.

The cameras silently recorded Natía's progress and tracked her as she turned onto Dunward street. It was 4:17 am and she was suppose to have been at work by 4:00 am. She had forgotten to set her alarm, and now she was running, trying to get to the Royal London Hospital. Her shift usually got the fallout from last nights drinking - the alcohol poisonings, the falls, the punch-ups, the car accidents, the occasional knife fights, ect. All the nights mistakes came to the early-shift nurse.

It has been clearly pouring with rain. There were puddles all over the place. The one mercy of this doomed morning was that there was only a light drizzle now. At least she didn't have to run through the rain. She got out her phone to send a message to let them know she was close by. The phone emitted a tiny halo the encircled her hand, giving it a saintly glow. It was hard to walk and type at the same time, not if she didn't want to fall of the pavement or walk into a pole. And running lake...

Natía had tryed to type the word late three times but it kept coming up as lake. She wasn't running lake. She wasnt going to stop and fix it, there was no time. the message would stand.

...Be there in 5...

And the she tripped. The cell phone took flight, a little glowing ball of light (hehe that rhymed. anyway... on with the story.), free at least before it clattered to the side walk and went out.

"Damn it!" she said, "No, no, no... don't be broken..."

In her concern over the fate of her phone, Natía didn't take notice of the thing she had tripped on, aside from the faintly registering that it was somewhat large and weighty and that it gave a little when her foot struck it. In the dark, it appeared to be a strangely shaped mound of garbage. Something else put in hher way this morning to impede her progress.

She knelt down and felt along the ground for the phone sinking her knee directly into a puddle. "Wonderful!" she complained to herself as she scrambled around.

The phone was quickly recovered. It appeared to be dark and lifeless. She tried the power button not expecting any results but to her delight the phone blinked on, casting its little light around her hand once again.

This was when she first noticed something sticky on her hands. (no its not what you dirty little sphynx think it is especially you StephewTrashCan 😂). They consistency was extremely familiar as was the faint metallic smell.

Blood. Her hands were covered in blood. A lot of blood, with a faint jelly-like consistency that suggested congratulations. Congratulations blood meant that that the blood had been there for several minutes, so it couldn't be her own. Natía  shifted around, holding up her phone for light. She can see now that sye had tripped over a person. She crawled over and felt a hand, a hand that was cool, but not cold.

"Hello?" she asked, "Can you hear me? Can you speak?"

She got up alongside the figure, a smallish person dressed entirely in motorcycle leathers and wearing a helmet. She reached up to the knees to try find a pulse.

Where the kneck was suppose to be there was a space. It took her a moment to process what she was feeling, and in desperation she kept reaching round the edge of the helmet, trying to get a size of the wound. In went on and on, until Natía realised the head was barely attached at all, and the puddle she was kneeling in was certainly not raining water...

The eyes saw it all...

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Hoi there,

im sorry if that sucks its my first book and im not very good at writing things. Please, please pleaseeeee give me feed back it will help me so much and i dont know when the next update will be because i have school. solo ya.

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