text: “What happened? Let me call for back up ma’am.” Jecob was still confused what to do next. He was trained ranger, and doing his job perfectly for last three years, but in three years of his career worst he saw was a guy who had lost his dog in wood. However, he never saw a person in blood asking for help. It was rainy whole day in Watkinsville, and it got dark so early in evening. Jecob started his night petrol early today; unlike others, Jecob always likes deserted places like Watkinsville where he was posted only a week ago. When he first heard from his superior that he is being transferred to Georgia; he knew that he is signing up for a very large area than usual. Nevertheless, he himself wanted to get out of rock city due to his recent break up and wanted to have some change in his life. He put his favorite bob segar song on his phone and started his night petrol. It was 12:30 am and he just crossed town 15 min ago, he was thinking of taking full circle before his shifts end at 2:00; and he saw a figure on raod. After a continuous rain for three hours, it was quite for last 1 hour, but roads were still very wet. He stopped his jeep, as he saw a woman waving for help in the headlight. He quickly came out to check on her, he was hoping that she would ask for lift, but when he saw her, he could not believe on his eyes; she was crying for help, her old-fashioned white top was having stains of blood, while her head was still bleeding a little as someone had hit her with rod. He was confused for few moments and he heard her tired voice “I need to save him”, “They will kill my husband”, “Please help me”, “They will kill him” continuous crying made her voice very heavy; but plead in her voice was heavier. Since then He tried to adjust frequency on his radio for third time but still not able to get proper response from other side. He was little terrified; but worried more for the woman in blood. He is able to understand the situation more clearly now. She was still crying, “What’s you name ma’am? What are you doing out here this late?” After spending 10 min of trying to connect to nearest police station, He gave up. “Me and my husband” she took a pause to take a deep breath. And then she continued “Me and my Husband came here to spend time to nearby lake; and then they came out of nowhere and they took us..” She again started crying. “Ma’am please calm yourself down, please explain me whole situation then only I will be able to help you properly” Jecob tried to see if she is seriously hurt. “Ma’am you are still bleeding let me get first aid kit from jeep” Jecob noticed a dip cut on her head. “Please you need to help my husband, they are still holding him there,” She pointed at the forest besides road while holding Jecob’s wrist as she wanted him to come with her. “*Her hand is so cold*” Jecob thought when she touched him. “First let me please stop bleeding from your head” Jecob was trying his best to convince her to let him patch her head’s cut “They will kill him, why do you not understand?” She cried in pain and burst out in tear Jecob felt a sense of chill when he heard the cry. “Ok, let me get the torch, we will look for him first” Jecob felt helpless, he wanted to wait for back up as he learned in his training, but she was so determined. “Let’s go” Jecob got the torch and his rifle from zeep and land hand towards her to help her get up. Jecob noticed that she is in pain, as she was bleeding from her leg also, Jecob tried to look properly. “You got shot Ma’am” It was not easy to see clearly due to dark but a rangers eye cannot miss to identify a gun shot. “I am fine, I need to save him” She replied as she does not even care about her pain a bit. “Ma’am please let me first bandage this, It is not looking good at all” Jecob was amazed, worried and horrified at the same time. Amazed due to her determination, worried because he can see how much she is bleeding and horrified because he didn’t know what he is getting into? “NO, we need to save him” She again cried and Jecob felt the same chill in her voice. She crawled her way into jungle and Jecob followed her as a obedient kid. They walked for next 1 hour and Jecob sensed that they are lost. “Ma’am, I think we are lost, are you sure you came here?” Jecob tried to inquire. “We came this way only, we camped there.” She pointed to a very small pond of water, which seems like an old dried water body, which got water filled recently due to heavy rain. Jecob saw madness in her eyes and struggle to see something, which is not even present. She was in pain but still something was driving her. It’s been an hour since they passed small water pond, and they are very deep in jungle, It was becoming very hard to understand the way, but she was making her way in as she was well aware of this way. “That’s where they are keeping him, I need to save him.” she pointed to a very old deserted church and she took an unusual speed. “Ma’am please wait, you need to be careful” Jecob tried to keep his voice as low as possible as he didn’t want people inside the church to hear him; but she was already out of his reach, he also ran behind her while keeping his rifle ready in his hand to take a shot. “They were here only, where they took him?” She cried like mad while Jecob was trying to understand the situation. It was an empty ruined church; it seems like no one came here for years, roof was showing signs of time and half-broken, due to rain whole floor were wet. He was not able to understand what is going on. “Ma’am are you sure this is the place” This is the first time Jecob was doubting her mind. “Yes, they tied us here” she pointed to ceiling Jecob saw in direction up, and there was nothing to tie, ceiling was broken there and it doesn’t even seems like it can hold a weigh of a kid. “They were questioning my husband for information and they were torturing him” She was horrified as she is visualizing everything again. “I got loose somehow and I ran for help, they were shooting at me, but I didn’t stop, They were here only, I need to save him” She was talking like she is under possession. “Ma’am no one is here who needs help, please at least let me help you, you are bleeding badly” Jecob tried to command her as he was little frustrated. He was now sure that she is mad, only thing, which is making him confused, was gunshot in her leg and serious injuries that anyone can notice on her body. “No, I need to save him” “I need to save him... I need to save him... I need to save him” She repeated same thing and she fell down clearly due to loss of blood. “Ma’am...” Jecob tried to catch her and barely succeed. “Shit.. Now what should I do?” He questioned himself loudly. He carefully put her down and started patching her wounds. Her body was cold as there is no life in her. He again started trying to tune his radio to connect someone, but could not succeed. He sat down on wet floor and tried his best to keep himself awake but got defeated from his tired body. “Ma’am....” He was trying to find her for last two hours since he woke up. He looked at the sun and tried to guess time again; his watch had stopped last night. “*I should have at least asked her name.*” He thought in his mind After spending another hour or so he started walking towards the road. He looked at his radio again and cursed his luck as it was also not working any more. When he reached out to his jeep he drove to the direction from where he came. He remembered clearly that he passed one local motel. After 20 min drive he reached to that motel, It was 2:00 after noon. “May I use your phone, I need to connect to local police station,” He asked the aged man on the reception. Old man looked at ranger keenly and handed over the phone besides him. “Yes, she was injured, there is no way she could walk on her own” He explained briefly about the whole situation to the officer on other side and demand for search. “It is first time I am hearing in last 15 years of such thing, but it was very common in old times that mobs are capturing hikers and couples” man at reception told Jecob after hearing him on phone. “What do you mean?” Jecob Inquired. “15 years ago local police ran an operation to kill or capture all the mobs after church incident” Old man told Jecob. “What church incident?” Jecob was curious now. “Around 15 years ago in the same time of year one local couple went for camping near old lake area, and one local mob group abducted them. Story goes as they were trying to send a message to local government and was torturing the couple in old church, wife tried to escape but they shot her, she managed to get out of jungle and was found by a police officer barely breathing. In her last word also she was telling that office to help her husband.” Jecob could sense the sadness in man’s voice. “What happened to husband?” Jecob was feeling as chill in his spine now. “By the time police reached there, mob killed him also” He responded. “If she is dead than...” He stopped himself to say it loud. But he couldn’t stop his thought from echoing in his mind. *Who was telling the story? And whose story was it anyway?* The word fluttered and flew in the wind. “Do you know who was the officer investigated the case?” Jecob was now full of curiosity, he was trying to figure out what happened last night. “Yes, his name is John Wikkins , he lives nearby only” Old man started writing the address on paper as he understood that Jecob wants to meet him. “Hey I am looking for John Wikkins.” Jecob told the man standing in front of him who answered his knock, he was so curious to meet the officer to understand full story. “I am John Wikkins, How can I help you officer” John inquired as he recognize the uniform. “I want to know about the fraizer couple murder case” Jecob learnt the name of couple form man at the restaurant. He learnt the same story what he heard before from Officer. “It was a very bad day for me, It was rainy whole day and I was about to end my shift after late night petrol; and I saw her, she was all wet in blood and barely breathing” Old office told Jecob with a very sad face. “Do you have her photo with you?” Jecob asked him. “These days everything is in computer, but in our time we used to keep hard copies in files, when I retired I took all records of the cases I worked on with me home; let me grab it for you.” John was little confused because of Jecob’s inquiries, but he didn’t ask anything as he could sense curiosity on jecob’s face. After 5 min John Returned with the file and handed it to Jecob. “Her name was Marrie, she took her last breath in my hands only, even with the last breath she wanted to save her husband, I still remember her last words...” John wiped his moist eyes. “I need to save him” Jecob mumbled and dropped the file after seeing the picture of Marrie.