Skeptical by engesser44 in Pixabay

Reasonable doubt

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She didn't say anything and the two men kept talking:

"The chaplain would say that coincidences are fissures that God slips through, but this is more than a coincidence, it's a Deja Vu, a click in time."

"Aren't you being overly dramatic, Mike? This looks more like an ordinary case of parental abuse.

Nim seemed indifferent, but he followed the thread of the conversation step by step. He was intrigued by the outcome of that sad story that the press had catapulted into media stardom, but was increasingly obscured by the appearance of lights that coincided with another case.

"No distractions, Ian. We need to focus on the facts, not the assumptions.

"Hey, Nim! You're very quiet... And you think this is an ordinary case of abuse too?

But, Nim wasn't interested in commenting, his mind was on what was most disgusting - all the drama that's been played out about it or the superficial treatment that was being given by the specialists in charge of the investigation.

"I insist that we look more deeply into the anomalous behavior of the alleged perpetrator, he's a bright boy... What if it's true that he's the real victim, as he claims?"

"Really, Nim? You're going to give that monster credit?"

"He may be the only one who sees the monster's tragedy and I agree with Mike that there are more than coincidences here."

Ten beds bordered the edge of the room, and in the center was a nurse's desk, there Dani was confined, and although there were ten beds, there was no one else besides him in that psychiatric ward.

He had the particularity of being a charming boy, he would charm anyone who listened to him with his angelic grace. That's why he was left alone so that he wouldn't continue to influence the strange behavior of the patients who shared the room, who became his "slaves" if that word could be used for what was happening.

The psychiatrist treating him was not convinced that he had been guilty of the death of the girl who was supposed to be his girlfriend, a thirteen-year-old girl who was found stabbed to death. He considered it "bad" in that he was considerably traumatized by a father who considered him "bad", but for perceiving him as hostile and heartless.

However, he himself considered that another boy was responsible for the girl's death and not him. The point is that no one saw another boy enter the girl's room, only him.

Now, they showed up in the same room where that girl died ten years ago, the two old men who bought the house, and coincidentally Dani had been discharged a few days before.

Nim came home and was surprised to find the kitchen door open and ketchup on the floor. Initially, she was alarmed by the blood-red on the floor, but the smell reassured her, it was just ketchup.

However, her peace of mind lasted only a few seconds when she saw Dani talking to her daughter. She had been his psychiatrist since before he was blamed for his girlfriend's crime as a teenager, which cost him ten years in that sanatorium thanks to his medical report, as she considered it dangerous.

However, despite the fact that the father was openly aggressive and despised his son as a freak, he was not thoroughly investigated and this was another resentment that Dani had against her.

Now, ten years later, at the age of twenty-four, she found him playing at being a chef in her kitchen, along with her youngest daughter, and she could not suppress the disgust and fear because, although she lacked certainty, once again, albeit circumstantially, he was suspected of murdering the elders although no evidence placed him at the scene of the crime, leaving only reasonable doubt.

Although she felt that there were circumstances that clashed with the coincidences in the whole new case, she saw the bursting in of the young man in her house as suspicious and worrying. The web of charms Dani was weaving in her house would be part of her modus operandi?

@zeleiracordero
25/04/2020

In response to @mariannewest: Weekend Freewrite - 4/25/2020 - Part 1 - The First Sentence. The prompt for each part is highlighted in bold. If you are interested, find out here