The Girl In A Trunk

PHILADELPHIA, 2040-

I woke up and did a double take.....Outside my window was nothing but water and fish and deep sea life....I was about to have an anxiety attack and then I remembered....I was in a hotel room...an underwater hotel room....

I am Nate Nellis, Homicide Detective...My partner ,Detective Monica Talbert suggested we do something different for the weekend...She suggested we dine at Octopus Garden...A friend had given her two tickets for a free meal there on Friday Night and she had a little extra cash..So she booked a hotel room for us..Not above water where we had stayed before...but underwater in the hotel area they had there...

Monica was in the shower.....Imagine being in the shower and you're nearly one mile beneath the sea?

When she walked out in a long green print skirt and a matching bra top, my eyes nearly popped out of my head..

She smiled...

"I hope I can always keep that look on your face that you have whenever you see me in something new or my underwear." she said laughing..

"Baby...you look great." I said.

"You like?" she gushed...

"I like.." I said.

"This is soo cool us spending the weekend here huh?" she said.  "I know being this deep under the water kind of puts you off a bit...but once I got naked...You didn't think about outside at all..."she laughed and gave me the side eye...

I sure didn't...We made sweet love at least four times last night...before I passed out.

I remembered...She had taken a hot bath as soon as we had gotten back from dancing at the club down here half the night...

 I bathed her slowly as I began to take my clothes off...She gazed at my raging erection and began to stroke it slowly as I bathed her....

 Her body was glistening as she stepped out of the tub.,She was stacked..My partner, Monica was built...I really admired her body..It was a dancer's body...I'd always thought..perfectly shaped legs...nice round buttocks!

 I wrapped her wet but hot body in a towel, and we slow grinded to the beautifully appointed king-sized water bed ,  I'm talking and whispering to her, she's giggling .My erection just raging..She looked at it and her mouth just opened...''Oh My God Nate...Oh My goodness...you are huge!!...Ohhhhh myyy" she gasps. I love the way she looks naked..every last curve... I loved the way she smelled. I held her for a moment and just kissed her neck, behind her ears...her chin and finally, her lips....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Nate, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my godddd..." she moaned softly...

Monica ,at first seems lost in thought....I can't read her mind like she can read mine.. She kisses me, deeply,passionately wrapping me in her arms tightly. I move my hands up and down her sexy body as if I am remembering something , reconnecting. I pull her close... She is already wet. I'm as hard as a rock...
"You're going to hurt me with that thing." laughed Monica as she put both of her hands around my erect penis and stroked it a little bit... She shook her head and smiled..
I enter her and begin to thrust deeply. I catch my breath, she wraps her big legs around me as if I was falling off a cliff. We quickly get a nice deliberate rhythm. I just want to go hard and fast, but she slows us down. I can barely stand it. I slow it way down with deep, long strokes that make me feel like I'm losing my mind...

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Ohhhhh Nate..ouuuuuuuuuuuuu." she moans.

We made sweet love this time for close to four hours before we both exploded in a passsionate fury...And that was just the first of four times last night..The fish got an eyeful last night and early this morning...

"Remembering last night huh? "said Monica... I keep forgetting she's a telepath and can read my thoughts..

"Yeah , Last night was something."I said smiling..

She smiled too..

"Yes it was.."she said.

I kissed her cheek.

"Look at that view of the ocean....I wish we could spend more time here...but uh...I know you don't...You'll get over this hang up you have one day..." she said smiling..

"A few more trips here with you and I won't think about it all all." I joked...

Monica sat on my lap and put her arms around me...

"Awwwww...I'm gonna take that as a compliment.."she said and kissed me passionately...

I stared out at the view....It was indeed a great view...

II-

I wish weekends like that could last forever, but alas they couldn't...Monday Morning found us both back in the city and headed to work.....We both wanted to be on time ,so we took my Flying Car...Big Mistake this time...Lt. Frankie Cotton Jr. was standing outside and saw us as my car landed on the roof...He smiled and looked at us funny..

''What's this?" he said as Monica and I got out of my car..

"This? Oh...Uh..well...Uh..I was at Skyport...I was looking at possible summer trips to Luna City...and on my way back..I just happened to be in the neighborhood so I uh ruh stopped at my partner's apartment..."I said.

''Yes...I was running a little late and uh ruh,Detective Nellis uh offered to give me a lift to work.."she said.

"Oh is that right?" he said laughing...."So where is the part where you tell me ,none of your business Lieutenant sir?" he said cracking himself up with laughter...

"Sir?" I said...

"Detective Talbert...Tell your partner to lighten up...not to be so uptight." he said.

"Yeah Nate, lighten up...stop being so uptight." she said uneasily....and laughed..

He laughed...

"You two are a trip....Go on ,get inside..Somebody might have gotten themselves killed today...I just have a feeling." he said..laughing and shaking his head..

We walked inside and sat down at our desks..

I think he knows...I thought to myself...Knowing Monica could hear my thoughts...

"I read his thoughts....He just thinks you have a monster crush on me...He doesn't know how I feel about you or about us...Just relax...Don't give us away by acting all nervous." she said and smiled at me sweetly...

Just then the phone rang...Monica looked at me and smiled...

''You can stop worrying about it now...I think somebody has managed to get themselves killed.."she said ..

"This is Detective Monica Talbert, Homicide...Uh huh...Okay, we'll be there....Come on partner.." she continued as we got up and headed for my flying car...

As we headed towards our murder scene, Monica leaned over and kissed me on the cheek....

"What was that for/" I asked.

She smiled..."Because I can..." she said...

I smiled..."Just as much as you want to." I said....

III-

We found a car parked in West Oak Lane...The trunk was open and the body of an attractive and shapely young African-American woman was in the trunk....

The smell of bleach was everywhere.....I questioned the officer on the scene while Monica put on latex gloves and joined the coroner in looking at the body...

''What do we have here?" I asked..

"Her name is Danielle Groves....She's 23...This is her car....but as you can smell...Bleach is all over everything...No fingerprints, no DNA....nothing...We are going to check for fibers.....The body was found in the trunk...She's been strangled..." he said..

"There is a possibility she's been sexually assaulted too...There is semen on her legs, her panties appear to be soaked...Which means she had sex recently and from body temp...She's only been dead for about three hours at the most.."said Monica...

I used my cyber eye to scan the area for anything....and I found, a loaded condom..a few feet from the car..

"Bag and tag this." I said to one of the cops..."This could have been a rape or a lovers spat gone wrong."I said.

"How did you guys find this car?" asked Monica..

"There have been a number of break ins in the area she lives in and her car was reported missing and she hadn't been at work or called within two days....One of her girlfriends was suspicious and called us..We traced the car because it has a lojack device on it and we found it...Her pocketbook and her wallet were in the front seat.." he said.

I went through her pocketbook...

''Credit cards here,Debit card, Drivers License...$500.00 in case...Tampons....Lipstick,make up...Nothing is missing." I said.

''Where is her phone?" asked Monica.

"There's no phone here." I said.

"No girl goes out without a phone....and especially a single girl in her twenties."said Monica.

Some truths were so universal, you just couldn't argue with them...

"It's got her address on it...Let's talk to her neighbors.." I said...

''Maybe that semen in that condom is a match for the semen found on the body and we'll get a hit on our killer,close this one early."said Monica...

"This will be our 100th closed case...It'll make us best in the department."I said.

Monica laughed..

"Men, Everything is a sport , Everything is a record.." she said..

I nibbled on her neck...

"Hmmm, I don't know how many times I've kissed you or we've....ahhh..." I said..

"Okay..Okay...I get it...Come on let's go..Release the body." she said.

We watched as the body was removed and put in the M.E.'s wagon...

IV-

Monica and I went to break the news to the dead girl's Mother, Father and older brother...They were devestated...

''Was she dating anyone?" asked Monica..

"No, nobody serious...She went out with a couple of guys...I can give you their names and addresses..but they wouldn't do anything like this..." said her mother..

''She kept telling me that she was thinking about moving...There had been several break ins in that area recently..a rash of them." said her Father.

"Yeah..it's been on the news...Whoever was breaking into these homes was stealing lightweight stuff..No  more than like $500.00 bucks,maybe some jewelry...but also, panties and bras...pantyhose..weird stuff, you know?  She told me that she thought some kind of sex maniac might be on the loose."said her brother..

"Hmmm...We'll check with Robbery..Thanks for telling me that." said Monica..

"I'll get on that."I said.

Some time later, I was at the vicitm's house with CSI personell and crime scene photographers...The house was a whole different story...There was a puddle of semen outside the door...another puddle in the living room, another puddle in the bathroom,  on the floor outside the bedroom and inside the bedroom...

The living room sofa had been turned over and there was signs that a terrific struggle had taken place here..I found a belt...This could have been the murder weapon...I had it tagged and bagged...

I assigned officers to do a house to house search for a five mile radius and question people...I assigned more officers to get a look at traffic cams, ATM cams and street cams for anything...Anything that might give us a clue...

CSI dusted for fingerprints...There was none...but there was enough DNA to definitely give us something..All convicted criminals now of days not only gave us fingerprints,but urine,saliva and blood samples..so that we had a DNA base as well as a fingerprint base for them....

Monica and I hooked up for lunch and compared notes...

"Mo..Mo..there was a terrific struggle in that house...I'm thinking,she was raped and strangled in that house with a belt..that I found and then taken in her car and disposed of..''I said.

"Did you find her phone?" asked Monica..

''That's the funniest thing..I did not..No sign of any phone....But I have a phone number...and a provider..They can hit the tower and trace it." I said.

"Yeah...I got three guys to interview that she dated casually.."said Monica...

"The neighbors told me that there was a rash of break ins that started a few months ago in that neighborhood..but that the robbers only took like $500.00 dollars in cash at the most...some jewelry and ladies underwear...Kind of weird huh?" I said.

"I heard that too..Nate ? Are you doing this?" she said laughing her head off..

"That's cold Mo..Mo.."I said..

''Just kidding...but you are always looking in my panty drawer every time you come over my apartment to see if I've bought anything new or scandalous.."she laughed..

I ignored her...

"I'm going to call Robbery and check out the 18 break ins..and check with the local pawn shops and fences..See if anything was pawned or fenced.." I said.

"Good and I'm going to check with the coroner and see if there is a match with the DNA...and see if we got any hits off of the ATM, Street and Traffic cams..."said Monica.

''Check her financials too,see if anything is missing or looks untoward.."I said...Then I stared into Monica's eyes and leaned over to kiss her..she took her hand and blocked me...

''Ugh..Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh..Not in here honey...Anybody might walk in here...All this talk about stolen underwear and semen has got you all worked up hasn't it?" she asked..

"You know me so well."I said half sarcastically...

She smiled sweetly and totally disarmed me..

"Well it's gotten me hot and bothered too...I just don't want to act on it here..." she said...

"Ohhh?" I said with a wry smile..

''We went to your place last time..Let's go to mine." she said.

"Let's save all of that pent up energy for afterwork..We still have a few more hours to kill.." I said.

"Okay...Suit yourself."she said and smiled,winked and got up and walked to the counter and paid our bill...

I smiled as she walked towards the car....God she had a sexy walk...

I followed her out..

"On the other hand...."I said.

"You are sooo easy.." she laughed...


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