~Detective Dale POV~

I watched the young girl in the hospital bed though the window. She was talking to Officer Milo. As i walked to my car to go to the crime scene thoughts flooded my mind.
Something was off... for a girl who just saw her family slaughtered and being stabbed herself... it was remarkable how she managed to get around her household... and how unnatural her reaction towards the bodys were...

I arrived at the house. I put on some gloves so i could inspect the scene closer. The forensics team were told to leave the bodys till 6 so I had around 1 hour to inspect them before they are to be taken to be investigated further.

I enter the scene for the first time.

The phone hanging limply off the side a pool of partially dried blood on the ground where they had found the girl who called the police. A messy trail lead to the first body.
Face down wih his head turned to the right, blood on his eye lids from being closed. Parts of a large gash could be seen on his left shoulder and down by his right leg.
I climbed the bloodied staircase. The bannister and wall soaked in blood. At the top of the stairs i saw a hand and the higher i got the more of the body i saw. The man had a deep red smile on his neck only a kitchen knife could cut like that, sticking to the eyeless clowns persona, his eyes were closed and there was bloodied handprints on his white top. I decided to go to the girls room first putting off the mothers corpse for now, as the mother was always without eyes.

The blood trail lead to the girls room. The quilt has been tossed aside a visible slit where the knife had entered her stomach and blood had seeped across the light pink cloths. A clear path could be made out as to how the girl collapsed from her bed.
Finally i enter the master bedroom.

Partially dried blood lined the walls and ceiling, some still dripping to the floor, I walked to the body. No matter how many times I get to see a body, a body with harshly gouged out eyes is always the worst.
The knife had entered directly above the heart and had clearly been twisted slightly.
I felt bile rise into my mouth.
I look away from the disfigured body to an empty bird cage. The bitter sweet chirp from the window still alerted me that the emerald bird was alive.

I left the scene at 05:55 alloweing the forensics team to gather data for later. I return to the hospital.

The young girl was lying in her bed, by the looks of things someone had given her a book and she was nose deep in the pages.
Officer Milo stood outside.

"Excuse me officer may i speek with the girl?"

"Sorry Detective but I'm under the doctors orders to not let anyone enter till he has returned at 8,"

Dammit thats a good hour and a half away... we dont have time for this shit we need details now.

"Thanks officer,"

"Sir. I was told to give you a report on Kiki's injuries,"

Milo handed me a brown file.

"Thanks officer."

I walk towards the hospital enterance where theres a waiting area. I get a coffee from the machine and start reading the file.

The girls stomach was sliced deep enough that she could have bled out also it was identical to how the youngest children from the other families had been killed. 'Was the clown getting sloppy..?'
The file read the girl lost a total 5 liters of blood 2 from when she phoned the police, 3 from crawling around the house.
How thw fuck this kid survived was some fucked up miracle.  As i was deep in thought a young male officer wih bright ginger hair coughed to get my attention.

"Detective Dale Sir, I had the autopsies from the 3 fatalities."
The young man handed the detective a large file and left as soon as he entered. Dale cjecked his watch it read 07:15.

He opened the file of the autopsies and lab results.
Th young girls blood had been found on all the bodys and was found on the walls and floor confirming my previous suspicions. Her DNA was also fond on the phone set and on the master room wardobe door.
Unknown thread was found under the fathers nails. Most likely from trying to stop the clown.

The results held nothing but the obvious.
I check the time again 07:58.
I make my way to the room with the girl.