The Unicorn (Innocence Killed)
“Anna, darling, don’t stand in the car!” Anna Darling’s mother cried out while they were driving home from Anna’s ballet lesson. “Okay mommy, but look I’m a rocket ship!” 6-year old Anna replied to her mother. As her mother turned to see what Anna was on about a drunken driver came down the next road and crashed into the drivers’ side of their station wagon. A loud crunching, crash noise filled the entire area and the impact knocked the station wagon completely over. On-coming cars skidded to a halt, causing major traffic jams.Anna had survived the crash and was searching around the car for her mother. She climbed out of the car, while she was holding her pink stuffed unicorn and still wearing her tutu, to see if she could get a better view of her mother. She peeped through the crashed driver’s side, but before she had seen anything the paramedics had arrived and moved aside to treat her and to get her mother out. She looked puzzled at the paramedics and asked, “Mr Doctor Sir, where’s my mommy?” The paramedic smiled at her and said, “They’re taking her out of the car now and are going to make sure she’s ok.” Anna smiled and said, “Okay… My unicorn is worried about mommy. I told Ms Fluffelby that mommy is going to be fine.” She looked over to her unicorn in her hands which were now stretched out and said, “Now, Ms Fluffelby I told you mommy is fine… You worry too much.” While she was lecturing her stuffed unicorn the paramedics had managed to get her mother out of her seat and onto a stretcher. They rushed to the ambulance. Once Anna had seen her mother she ran after the stretcher crying out, “Mommy! Mommy!” Her mother was unconscious and could not reply to comfort her daughter.
The ambulance rushed to the hospital and Anna followed closely behind them in a police car. At the hospital Anna sat alone with her unicorn and a police officer who was reading the newspaper. Anna with her big, round, searching eyes kept roaming around the waiting area familiarising and recognising each object in the quiet waiting room. She had no family other than her mother. Her father was estranged and it was only her and her mother. Her mother was a wealthy lawyer so they lived a decent life. Until now…
After the policeman had received word that Anna’s mother was in a coma, he decided to take Anna home to get changed and to play while the police station was working on who should look after Anna during her mother’s coma. After much deliberation Anna’s friendly next door neighbour, Mr Smith, volunteered to look after her for the while.
It had been settled, Anna would stay with Mr Smith until her mother wakes up. Anna knew Mr Smith for the entire 6 years of her life and trusted him as she would an uncle, therefore she settled quickly. She never had a doubt in her pure mind that her mother would wake up- soon. She woke up every morning eagerly asking if she was going to see ‘mommy’ today. Mr Smith told her ever so kindly that her mother was still asleep.
Mr Smith distracted her from thinking about her mother’s coma. He took her for ice-cream, movies and to a fair. He was gaining more and more of her unconditional trust. Once he had gained all of her trust- he crushed it. Mr Smith had a hidden agenda concerning young Anna…
The second step of his sadistic plot was to make her feel ‘loved’. One evening before she went to sleep he convinced her that it would be safer for him to sleep there with her. Being as young and naïve as Anna was she believed him. The first three nights he would just lay there with a smug look on his aged face. After that he started to get creative and said he needs to ‘fix’ her by touching her in unmentionable places. She went along with it, as she was unaware that it was wrong. Then he convinced her to touch him! Once he had gotten her used to the touching he started raping her. The neighbours started filing police reports about high pitched screams for help late at night emerging from Mr Smith’s house, but after one or two shouts it muffled away. He started to hit her unconscious so that she would not scream for help behind his back. While he was away he’d lock her up unconscious with her unicorn in a secret room in his home that was sound proof.
Eventually the police decided to question him about the complaints. He flatly denied any accusations and said it was the TV that was too loud or that Anna was having nightmares and called on him for help. The police accepted his claim of innocence, but still kept the case open. After Mr Smith was confronted about the complaints he was furious, so furious in fact that once he arrived home he smothered Anna’s face with a pillow and yelled, “There! Scream into this you ungrateful brat! I helped you Anna and you repay me by getting me almost arrested!” Once she had stopped struggling he came to the realisation that she was dead. He had suffocated little Anna Darling. He was scared and remarked to himself, planning a quick getaway, “Great! Now your death is on my hands too! I’ve got to get out of here! I’m going to Mississippi.” He left Anna in the corner of the room with her unicorn that she had treasured so dearly.
The police still regularly questioned the neighbours and they all claimed that it had been much quieter since Mr Smith left. The officers were baffled and decided to search his home. They kept looking until the one officer found a hidden door. Behind that door they found Anna lying, still grasping her unicorn. They buried her the next Saturday after they had done an autopsy and discovered that she had been raped. The officer, who was looking after her at the hospital the day of the accident, was holding her unicorn and found a zip at the back. He opened it and found a video camera inside. Her mother had installed it to always keep an eye on her. This is how they had captured Mr Smith- with the help of Ms Fluffelby.
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