Blue Topaz

 Monica and I were like two little kids...as we sifted through the information compiled in the zip drive on our large screen TV monitor...

 She was clad only in a baseball jersey that barely came to her hips and bikini panties...and I only in my boxers and a t-shirt...She was sitting on my lap as we looked through the files of the well to do of modern day Philadelphia...

"OH MY GOD!!!  HE'S GAY!!!" we both said in unison when reading about one public official...

''Wow...He was dealing with that many girls?" I said when reading the file of one of my favorite basketball players..

"I thought she was bi-sexual..." said Monica ,when reading the file about a certain politician...

"It's City Councilman Floyd Gibbons...Isn't that the guy the Lieutenant caught in the bed with Glenda Jones ,his ex??" I asked...

"Yeah...and he has a problem with pre-mature ejaculation! Oh wow....That's rich!"  I laughed..

"No wonder she's once again interested in my sister and Lou's relationship..."quipped Monica....

"Maybe he's worked it out...They're still together."I said.

"24 hour Viagra and Cialis does wonders partner...Glad you don't seem to need that."said Monica...

''All I need is to look at you long enough and that solves all of my problems."I said.

"Awwwww...Somewhere in there is a compliment I'm sure."laughed Monica.

And speaking of Monique and our Lieutenant...They were a floor below us...We could hear the bed squeaking something crazy through the air duct....as well as the sounds of their lovemaking..

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..."Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god this is so good baby.."

 "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Frankie...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." moaned Monique..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!..OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
came a loud sound...

Monica and I both giggled and put our hands over our mouths...We heard Monique shushing him..


"Frankie!!!...Frankie!!!...I know you're uh enjoying  yourself..but you've got to quiet it down baby....My Sister and future brother in law are upstairs...THEY CAN HEAR YOU! It's bad enough this bed squeaks so loudly.." she said with a smile...


"Okay...Okay...but I can't help it...it's just that it's so good."he moaned..

 "I guess they're making up huh?" I said.

"They just took a little break from each other...they never broke up...I know my sister...She was missing him as much as he was missing her...Those two are love addicts." laughed Monica...

"Oh ,not just them...I'm kind of hooked on you too."I said and hugged her tightly...

"You are!!! Aren't you??" she said smiling..Then she sifted through the files some more..I wrapped my arms around her waist and hugged her..She smiled and kissed me on the cheek...

"Partner...Our killer or the person behind this is one of these people here.." she said.

"This is about 150 people...A lot of people to interview.." I said..

"We start interviewing these people and one, it will tip whoever the killer is's hand that this information is still out there and two it will get us in a whole lot of hot water...A lot of this information is private and embarrassing..I feel some kind of way having to talk to some of these people so let's be smart about it..

Let's use a process of elimination...I'm going to take 75 people and you take 75..We'll quietly run their financials and check the Street Cam,ATM Cam and Traffic Cam footage for any of these people...We'll get their DMV photos and check against that...The more people we can rule out without having to actually interview..the better." she said..

''Cool and also..tomorrow...We interview that Jeweler, Richard Robert...Our boy bought something very expensive from there..I want to know what it was and why we can't find it.." I said.

"Whatever it was..It was in Hank Safe's safe....Oh My God..that sounds so funny..."said Monica...

"Ouuuuuu...I felt something very hard under neath me..." she said and looked at me...I smiled sheepishly..

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..."Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god this is so good baby.."

 "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Frankie...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!..OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
came the sounds through the air duct.....along with the squeaking of the bedsprings...

 "I'm going to buy my sister a new bed..."said Monica.

"Yeah, her bed is kinda noisy.."I said and smiled and kissed her in the lips....

"Ummmmmm...we got a lot of work done tonight partner...without uh getting freaky.." she laughed..I lifted her up...

"Put me down silly.."laughed Monica...I kept kissing her and walked her over to the bed...

My erection was so hard,I could have balanced her on it...She slipped my boxers down and softly stroked it...

"Oh my goodness Nate..ouuuuuuuuuuuu..look at you."she said.

I kissed her again....I slipped her panties down and laid her across our bed...she stared up at me...

"Oh My goodness Nate..." she said...She was reading my mind....She knew how much I wanted her right then...

I entered her slowly and began to slowly lose my mind...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nate..ohhhhhhhhhhhh" she moaned...

Soon our bed was rocking from side to side....the springs were squeaking a little and the headboard was slamming up against the wall...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my godddd.." I yelled out...

"Shhhhh, you're as bad as the Lieutenant.." laughed Monica...

  After we had been making sweet love for the next four and a half hours...It was Monica who was yelling...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, goood lord...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nate." screamed
Monica....

''Who's loud now?" I asked.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my godddd.." she yelled out....

I smiled..Tears were running down her face....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ,Ohhhh Nate.." she moaned...in between wet, sloppy kisses..

 "OHHHHHHHHHHH....You ..you are driving me out of my mind..." I howled as we showed no sign of stopping...

Another half hour passed by and finally, Monica began to sweat profusely and tears just came streaming from her eyes...Once again,I came so hard....it scared me....She was climaxing too.....

''Oh My God Nate...Ouuuuuuuuuuuu." she moaned.. as we both collapsed on the sweat filled bed...

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmph...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled out!

We busted out laughing....She rolled over on top of me and gave me a soft slow kiss and she dozed off to sleep...I was still wide awake..I wrapped my arms around her and held her...

A floor below us...Lieutenant Cotton sipped on a bottle of cold water...He laughed...

''Boyyy, Those two always that loud? Hahahahahahaha.... Hahahahahahaha."he laughed..

 Monique rolled over and playfully punched him in the arm...

"Leave my sister and future brother in law alone...You should talk the way you were carrying on...You were much louder than either of them......" she said...

He pulled her to him and gave her a sloppy kiss...

"I know...It's all your fault .."he said.

She softly stroked his penis...

"Oh My goodness...you're still hard??" she said...

"How am I gonna lay up here in this bed with you and not be? Come on now!" laughed Lieutenant Cotton...

Monique leaned over and kissed him...

"Naughty boy."

He rolled over on top of her and entered her slowly again...She stared in his eyes....They began kissing passionately and pretty soon they too were making sweet love again....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Frankie..."she cooed..

"Yes sugar baby yesssssssssssss.." he moaned..

Once again...we could hear their bed squeaking something crazy through the air duct and the sounds of their lovemaking...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Frankie...."moaned Monique...

"Sugar Baby..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.."moaned our Lieutenant...

We heard a cardoor slam hard and then a car pull off and it's tires screach loudly....I got up and looked out the window...I used my cyber eye...

It was Detective Wally Becker...I just cracked up...He had been sitting a block away,using a high powered telescope to scan our duplex...It was equipped with a listening device also...So I'm certain he heard all of us....

Monica sat up...

"That was Wally wasn't it?" she said...

"Yeah...He must have staked out the house again...The Lieutenant's car is outside...He doesn't hide it anymore..You guys got a cousin or somethin? Wally is going to kill himself unless he gets into somebody's panties in your family..."I laughed..

Monica laughed and playfully punched me in the arm....

"For sure...He's losing a lot of sleep..Poor thing...He needs a life...A hobby or something.. My sister is really not interested in him...at all! You should tell him." she said.

" Why don't you tell him?" I asked.

"Please! I'm trying to crack a murder case...I don't have time for that foolishness...and besides...I'm concentrating most of my other energy on making you happy." she said hugging me and kissing me...

"And you're doing a damn good job..I'm VERYY HAPPY!" I said as I rolled over on top of her and slowly entered her warm,wet center again...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nate...Ohhhh my goodness..ouuuuu...I see...."she moaned as we began making sweet love again.

II-

The next day...Detective Wally Becker read the dailies and discovered that City Council President Glenda Jones and Marsha Tightbottom had both been arrested the day before..charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice.. He was incensed....

Both women had been bonded out and released...and told that charges will more than likely be dropped....but told not to go anywhere near the Medical Examiner's Office..  The Newspapers and the Media were going crazy with stories about Council Woman Jones possibly using Marsha Tightbottom as a hatchet woman to harrass her political enemies..They questioned her qualifications..Glenda Jones began to distance herself from Marsha Tightbottom to make the story die down...She was running for  re-election in the fall...

Neither woman knew Detective Wally Becker.. Council Woman Jones only knew that someone had been texting her ,telling her when the Lieutenant was with Dr. Talbert and had suggested that she investigate the M.E.'s office...which was how this all came about...

So upon her release..When she got another text...

"Good Afternoon Council woman Jones.I am so sorry to hear that you were arrested on trumped up charges..That creep of an ex-boyfriend of yours is over that whore's house right now as I speak...Sweating and moaning and slobbering over her.You ought to call him and  tear him a new one."

 She responded in kind..

''Who are you? and why do you keep texting me about his whereabouts? He's my ex-boyfriend...I'm seeing someone else now anyway..Why do you care? I'm beginning to think either you're a Lesbian and you like this girl yourself or you are in some crazy way interested in me...I'm assuming you are a woman because no man would waste his time texting a woman about another man's actions...Lose my number and miss me with this bullshit...Don't text me anymore."

And the next day..she went to her provider and requested a new number for her phone.. She was no longer going to be driven into crazy acts by the mysterious texter...

Detective Becker was sick to his stomach!  He tossed his burner phone into the river once more...

He called out sick the next day.

A few days later...Monica and I went to the dead man, Joseph Chill's hotel room..We found two round trip airline tickets..One to the Caymen Islands and another to Los Angelas...We found a bloody metal bar wrapped in a blanket in his closet....

"Mo-Mo...I'm bettin this is our murder weapon and your sister will find a match to our victim's blood and DNA on this bar..." I said.

"You're right partner but something is bothering me...This guy was a professional..He used guns and knives...He kills real close up...Our guy was smashed over the head with a bar and then stuffed in a shower..That seems sloppy and personal...Not this guy's style...I mean look..he's dead..we found the murder weapon at his place...We could call it a wrap and close this case if you want but-" said Monica.

"It seems too neat...Something about this doesn't play...I feel the same way...We keep hunting." I said.

"And that's why I always wanted to work with you...You think like I do...We share the same sensibilities." she said and kissed me softly and tenderly...

"And you like kissing me too."I said.

Monica smiled..

"Yeah, That too! That's an extra perk that comes with the job" she said.

Once again I was blushing...

Monica smiled..."You are soooo cute when you blush....I can't believe I still make you blush after all this time."she said.

III-

For the next two days....Monica and I looked into the lives of 75 people each..We'll quietly ran their financials and checked the Street Cam,ATM Cam and Traffic Cam footage for any of these people...We'll got their DMV photos and check against that...We figured ,The more we could rule out without having to actually interview..the better.

Monica was right...We ruled out all but two people...Surprisingly...One was somebody we had already talked to...Robert Hankins...Whose own safe had been blown a few weeks ago...He had the other zip drive...

I was right also...Monique told us that the blood,DNA and brain matter on the metal bar was a match for our victim..Hank Safe....We had found the murder weapon...Joe Chill's fingerprints were on the metal bar ,along with an unidentified pair of prints...Which meant that more than one person had handled this weapon..!

The other person was a young woman named Veleka Robinson...She wasn't really famous...But she was a client who had visited Mr. Safe more than one time with relationship issues...She was worth looking into...but first we need to see that Jeweler..Richard Roberts...

It was lunch time...We met with Monique at the Bistro, where we always ate our meals during the day..

"Heyy guys."said Monique as we came in...

"Heyy sis..Where is the Lieutenant or should I say..Frannnnkieeee..?" laughed Monica..

I leaned down and kissed Monique softly on her cheek...

"Hi Sugar Baby." I said.

"Awwwww you guys got jokes...Just so you know...We hear you guys too." she laughed..

"I'm going to buy you a new bed sis..your bed really is noisy..." laughed Monica..

"You're right...Let's go looking Saturday...Oh Hell.." said Monique..

Just then Detective Wally Becker walked in and invited himself to our table..He passed Monique a fresh vase of Tulips and gave her a carif of wine..

"Ouuuu this is nice...Thank You Detective Becker...What is the occassion??" she asked...She was in a much better mood today than she had been in the last time she saw Detective Becker.

"Can't a guy just be nice?" he asked..

"Well you didn't give my sister anything."said Monique...giving Monica the side eye..Monica looked at her sister and frowned...

"That's okay, We are good."said Monica...

I found the entire exchange amusing..

Wally smiled..

"She's got Nate for that...They gettin married soon."he said.

"Well I uh kind of have somebody for that too." said Monique...

Oh boy...and here it comes....I thought to myself...If only our food had been eaten already.... Just then the waitress bought our food to us...Three Cheeseburgers with Fries and three Cokes...and cole slaw...

Wally ordered a pulled Pork Sandwich and a Coke..

"Yeah you have me...Or you could have me..if you play your cards right and stop playing games!" he said..

"YOU?" said Monique...

Oh boy, this wasn't going to be pretty I thought!  I looked at Monica...She put her head down on the table..She was shaking...Trying hard not to bust out laughing..

I could hear her thoughts...She said to me..."Today you're going to find out something about my sister...I know you've always thought I was the strong one...the mean one..but you're going to see that my sister is not the one to mess with either..."she thought..

I nodded at Monica and smiled...It was nice that we were so close that I could hear some of her thoughts ,just as she could hear mine...She told me that this would eventually happen. It was weird but nice..We could hold whole conversations without speaking..

"No..I have Lieutenant Frankie Cotton Jr...We uh are kind of seeing each other now Detective Becker.. I don't want to lead you on...but...I'm sure you know that,the way you watch me all the time." said Monique..

"This is a good burger isn't it Nate?" said Monica ,changing the subject...

"Damn sure is...Wally, you should try this..." I said..

But Wally wasn't having it...He ignored us both.

"Come on...You and Pretty Boy aint really serious, are you?... You know he's probably got plenty women...You're just another notch on his bedpost...Come on....Why don't you give me a chance? You don't have to worry about other women with me" he said.

 "He's got a good point there sis."said Monica slyly smiling... Monique gave her twin sister the serious side eye...

I was close to choking on my food at this point..This was going to have to stop!

 "Wally...I'm sure you're a nice guy...and I'm certain that there is somebody out there who would appreciate a guy like you...but it would probably do you some good not to sit outside a girl's house or apartment  all night or visit her parents house after midnight...or question her like a perp in the fishbowl....That is stalkerish...and just a little bit creepy. But I'm not that girl...I'm interested in another guy and that guy happens to be Lt. Cotton...BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU?...."said Monique..

"You know? You knew that was ..me?" he said ,very embarrassed...

''Yes..I knew..What? Do you think..I'm stupid???I live with two detectives.. You should save your money, sending all those flowers and buying all that wine can get pretty expensive..And get some sleep...Staying up all night listening outside my window, when you know damn well who is visiting me....What is the point in torturing yourself like that?What about that Detective over in Homicide who was telling you everytime the Lieutenant was over at the M.E.'s office to visit me, so you could text his girlfriend, Glenda Jones and let her know...?What about her? Detective Kylie White..Isn't that her name??

You and her might make a nice couple, you two seem to have a lot in common...You both nose around in other people's business..You should call her...Frankie told me she's not dating anybody ...and you did take her to IHOP that night after we closed the Rivers case..She might be the one for you..Wally...She might blow your mind...rock your world...She's a pretty girl...You never know" she said.

It's bad enough when the girl you like doesn't want you, but when she gives you dating advice on top of that..it's really bad...I really felt sorry for Wally at this moment...He had to feel like going through the floor...

He stood up...His entire game was blown...She knew the whole deal...He took his wine and his Tulips and stomped his foot angrily and stormed out of the bistro! We heard his car screaching off into the morning..

"Well sis...That uh , went well." said Monica..trying to hold back a laugh...

I busted out laughing....

 "Mo-Mo..how did you get rid of him?" asked Monique..

"Well for one thing..Unlike you...I didn't kiss him...I was just with Nate all the time...and when he found out about us...I just kissed Nate a lot in front of him...Plus..I was so mean to him..he knew that nothing was jumping off..I didn't give him a slither of hope."said Monica.

"He might still need a little convincing you know..that we are together."I joked.

Monica leaned over and kissed me softly....

"Ohhhhh hush up...You're not fooling me...you just want a kiss...smarty..You are soo silly." she said.

The waitress came with his Coke and Pulled Pork Sandwich....I began eating it...Monica and Monique gave me the side eye...

"What?" I said...It's not like he's coming back to eat it." I said.

"Sis,Nate keeps you laughing doesn't he?" said Monique,looking at me and shaking her head...

"He does at that..among other things " said Monica.

"What?" I said again...It's not like he's coming back to eat it...Not after the way you read him Monique...He might not come back to work today....Ummmm, this is some good Pulled Pork..Wally don't know what he's missing...I'd of stayed and ate at least...Damn! Pass me that Cole Slaw.." I said ,still munching...

They both shook their heads and started laughing..

"And I'm marrying this guy.Monique..." laughed Monica. "It's too late for me sis..I love him! but he is a goof ball." said Monica..

"Nate's alright..He's a good goofball..He's our goofball.""said Monique..who bent down and kissed me softly on my cheek and hugged me...

"I love him too."she said and smiled.

IV-

 Monica and I visited the jewelry store where Hank Safe had purchased a very expensive jewel...just days before he had died..

"Mr. Robert, I'm Detective Monica Talbert...This is my partner, Detective Nate Nellis...We are from Homicide...We are investigating the death of Hank Safe...He made a very important purchase from here in the days before he died.." she said..

"Just call me Ricky Bobby...My My My..you are a cutie pie...but I see you're engaged...Whoever your boyfriend or fiance is..he has excellent tastes...He got that from Tiffany's didn't he?  Of course if he were here he could tell me..Hahahahaha." Laughed the Jeweler ,Richard Roberts a very gregarious man..

"Actually he is here...." said Monica pointing to me..

I smiled...

"You?  You're her fiance?/" he laughed..

"Guilty as charged.."I said smiling..

"And she's your partner too? Smart man....I wouldn't let a cutie pie like her out of my sight either."he laughed...

"Now about Hank Safe." I asked..

"He purchased my most expensive diamond ring...The Blue Topaz!" said Ricky Bobby...

"The Blue Topaz?? Oh My God..I've heard of that....It retails for 25G's..." I said..

"You never cease to amaze me partner...Diamonds, Panties,Bras, Lingerie....Do you know about shoes too?" asked Monica laughing silently and leaning her head into my arm...

"I read a lot and I tend to pile a lot of trivial facts in my head...When I was in high school..my friends used to call me Mr. Trivia."I said.

"Awwww...I wouldn't have teased you..I like smart guys.."said Monica..

"Your fiance is right...In fact...Mr. Safe was planning to get married..He was excited about asking a young woman who he said had been right under his nose for a long time to marry him..Thing is..I had another buyer..Who put down a sizable deposit.." said Ricky Bobby..

"You did?" I asked..

"Yeah a Hankins...Richard Hankins...He was going to ask somebody to marry him too! He put down more initially than Safe...but Safe came up with the balance first...Mr. Hankins was crushed..."he said.

"That's funny...Hankins didn't mention this when we talked to him."I said.

"No he didn't....I'm beginning to think that this wasn't about the information in that Zip Drive...That was just a ruse...This was about that Blue Topaz Diamond all along.."said Monica..

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