In The Red

     A Police Detective breaks the electronic seal on his partners door. He hadn't answered his vid that morning. Not normally a cause for alarm, if not for the message from the serial killer they were hunting saying he found the officers of the law such interesting prey.

     He enters to find the apartment silent, nothing moves in any room. He finds the body in the bathroom, the pale walls decorated in bright splashes of red. His partner had not died easily, but still, he was dead. Suddenly he catches movement from the corner of his eye. A small white kitten wriggles free from where his partner had used the curve of his body to protect it. Mewling softly, it nuzzles the hand that had left a print of itself, dark on its tiny body. The detective picks up the kitten, witness/evidence, and tucks it under his coat, it's the least he can do.