Shifting Patterns

 Monica and I were laughing and kissing each other passionately in our bedroom....

"Stop it Nate...Stop it please, you are too funny...."laughed Monica...who was rolling across the bed in just a baseball jersey...She was wearing a skimpy blue and white striped thong that had caught my attention...

"In my ass!!!.... Son of a bitch gutted me in my ass..."AWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...son of a bitch!!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."I said imitating FBI agent Ed Lawlor...who had cornered our chief suspect,only to be stabbed from behind by an unknown assailant the night before..

"Stop it Nate, you're making my sides hurt with your imitation of him...It's spot on."said Monica, who was laughing so hard,she was holding her sides...

I stopped talking about him and held her tenderly...

"Well let's stop talking about him then...I'm more intersted in you.."I said as We began to kiss again...

''Ohhhh Nate...I told you I'd let you do it to me..."she cooed.

" I believe the exact words you said was..you were going to let me stick it to you.." I said ,still laughing heartily, while trying to devour her lips...

We were kissing passionately and hungrilly....

"Ohhhhhhhhhh Nate...stick it to me..." she moaned..

"Mo-Mo....I can't wait..." I moaned...

''Ouuuuuu baby." she moaned...

"Yessssssssssssss.." I said as I kissed her neck, her cheeks, underneath her eyelids and finally her lips...

 Monica's  soft hands massaged my growing erection....

"Ouuuuuu somebody is really glad to see me.." she joked continuing to drive me out of mind by stroking me softly...

We both crashed on to the bed...It seemed as if we weren't going to stop kissing.....I slipped her thong off...For a moment I marveled at it...

"I really like this.."I said...

She ran her index finger across my lips....

"Is there any underwear I have that you don't like?" she asked...

"I don't believe there is..."I said...

We both laughed...and continued kissing...

I gently mounted her and eased into her soft and wet center....

  Monica was so soft, so warm,so wet....I could've stayed inside her like this forever , I just kept moving ,slowly,savoring every minute,every second and she kept moaning and  and cooing so sensually...and I kept moving in and out ,in and out softly, gently with no signs of stopping anytime soon....I was sweating profusely....so was she.....I was enjoying myself immensely....How could anybody feel this good?

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nate...Oh My goodnesss..ouuuuuuuu..."she moaned...

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

The bed was rocking from side to side....the springs were squeaking and the headboard was slamming up against the wall...once again..

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

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

"OHHHH.."I cried out....

Five and a half hours of sweet lovemaking continued....I couldn't get enough...

Monica began to sweat profusely and tears just came streaming from her eyes...

''Oh My God Nate...Ouuuuuuuuuuuu." she moaned..blowing softly into my ear....

I couldn't hold back much longer...I exploded in a crescendo of bed rattling passion.....I collapsed on top of her breathing heavily...

She was breathing heavily too...a combonation of tears and sweat running down the sides of her face....

"Oh My god Nate..."she said ,laughing harder than ever now...

''His cowboy ways finally caught up with and oh how..In my ass!!!.... Son of a bitch gutted me in my ass..."AWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...son of a bitch!!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...""I said ,laughing so hard my sides were hurting...

Monica started laughing hard again...She punched my arm...

"Don't start Nate...Stopppp it." she said, continuing to laugh...

FBI Special Agent Edward Lawlor, Monica's ex-boyfriend had attempted to make a grandstand play and hijack my investigation into the serial killer who had butchered three women...Only ,his plan had backfired on him and he nearly became the killer's fourth victim...

We shouldn't have been laughing....He was in the hospital in very serious condition...If we hadn't of arrived when we did he could have very well have bled to death....

Monica nestled up under me and laid her head on my shoulder...

"Mo-Mo..?" I said...

''What baby?"she said.

"You know...Lawlor said that he shot Abbott....and we saw a trail of his blood...but Lawlor got shived from behind.. Our killer isn't Abbott or whatever his name is...Abbott was in front of him.."I said.

Monica sat up...Her eyes got as wide as saucers and her mouth opened wide....

''You're right...Abbott is working for somebody...or with somebody...He's like a shot caller." she said.

"Exactly...We need to go back over all of that film footage...Something or someone we've overlooked..." I said.

"Yeah.." she said...''Why are you looking at me?" she asked..

"You!....It's just amazing that we are actually married and partners...I can't get over it..."I said.

She kissed me...softly and long..

''You're my partner..on the job....and in life....I can't get over it either...but I'm glad.." she said...

"Me too...I wouldn't have it any other way."I said and pulled her to me and hugged her...

She ran her finger across my lips again......and kissed me again....

"Let's get in the shower and get dressed."she said...

II-

 We headed down to the squadroom and to our surprise...Lieutenant Cotton was already there....

"What are you two doing at work on a Saturday?" he asked...

"Trying to catch a serial killer sir." said Monica..

"I could ask you the same thing sir." I joked....

He smiled sheepishly...

''We ,uh...I uh had some paperwork to do and I stopped back by the station house.." he said..

Monica scanned his mind...She knew he was lying......And I noticed he had on the same clothes as yesterday....

Suddenly...Monique left his office..She also had on the same clothes as yesterday...She smiled sheepishly...

She whispered...

"I was over the Lieutenant's house..."

Like we didn't know that.....I mused....

Her hair was undone...She was a little tipsy...

'"He's taking me home." she said.

I smiled...

"Hi sis.."I said.

"Hi brother..Come here.." she motioned and leaned up and kissed me in the lips...Her lips were as soft as butter,just like her sisters...I could smell liquor on her breath...

Monica laughed...

"Shame on you Lieutenant...You got my sister drunk...Go home sis..and get some rest..."she said ,smiling at her sister

"I'm not drunk Mo-Mo....just got a little buzz." said Monique...

Just then ,Detective Kylie White entered the room with a very familiar face....

"Hey guys...I'm glad you guys are here...I'd of hated to turn this dreamboat away...After he's come this far to see you two...I told him you weren't on shift today, but that I'd call you."she said..

It was Detective Carlos Wallace of the Luna City Police Department....We had met him on our very first case...

''Detective Nellis, Detective Talbert...I told you I was going to come to Philadelphia to visit you guys.." he said.

Monica smiled and hugged him and then showed him her wedding band...

"Hi Carlos....I'm Detective Nellis now too!" she said.

His eyes opened wide and he smiled...

"You and Nate? Yall two got married????...Ohhhhhhhhhhhh WOW! That's major." he said.

"They just got back from they honeymoon" said Kylie,smiling sheepishly and obviously checking Detective Wallace out....

"Yeah man...I made her an honest woman.."I said as I hugged him and gave him dap...

"I see you've met Kylie...Detective Kylie White." I said.

"Yes I did...I'd like to know more about her too." he said.

Kylie blushed something terrible upon hearing that....

"But on a serious note...I'm glad you two are still working cases together ......And married to each other...I'm not surprised...I could see it even then on your first case...how well you two worked together...Even though you guys were arguing so much...I could detect that there was something there....."he said.

"You are a great detective...There was something there...I was trying to fight it...but I didn't fight it too much longer."laughed Monica...

"So tell me...Is SHE married? She's a fox!!!!" he said making goo goo eyes at Kylie White, who was blushing up a storm...and trying hard not to smile...

"Why don't you ask me yourself Detective? and No...I'm not...Not seeing anybody either."she smiled batting her eyes unashamedly...

Monica scanned his mind and she told me later...Detective Wallace was quite taken with Detective Kylie White...As she was with him..

"Detective Wallace...This is our Lieutenant...Frankie Cotton Jr. and my twin Sister, Dr. Monique Talbert..Our M.E." said Monica..

Detective Wallace smiled..

"Oh My God...Two of you Monica?  How do you stand it Nate?" he joked..

I smiled...

"It's hard work man, but I manage...I live with both of them in a Duplex.." I said.

"Nice!! Well now that we've all met..I'll tell you why I'm here...It's a bummer that it's a Saturday...but in the past week we've had two very gruesome murders in Luna City...Two young women...One Black, One Latina...both were surgeons...both lived in the same apartment complex...both knew each other casually....These killings occurred before your s began...Then just like that..They stopped."he said.

He put some glossies on our desk...

"They were both stabbed in the back with a precision knife and some of their organs removed...both had little cuts around the big gaping hole.....No money was stolen from either of them...Neither woman traveled in the same circles....There was no man between them...I talked to family,friends and co-workers and there was no trouble...and yet the killings seemed more than co-incidental...So I went in Vicap to see if there were any simular murders and I found some in New Haven, New York City,Baltimore and D.C.  from a year ago...all just like my two...all unsolved and then I saw your fresh ones from a week ago...I meant to get down here sooner..." he said.

Monique and Monica looked at the photos..

"Oh my god...exactly the same cuts...same precision surgical cuts....as your victims sis."said Monique.

"And our killer may have shifted his pattern."said Monica..

"Oh?" said Detective Wallace...

"In all of the other cases....New Haven, New York, Baltimore and D.C.  ,he's killed in threes and moved on....He killed three girls here and then moved on to the moon...where he killed two...Well he's doubled back...He's still here in Philly."I said.

''What makes you think that?" said Detective Wallace.

"Because last night, FBI agent Ed Lawlor got a lead on him and cornered him in an alley and was stabbed himself....He's in the hospital in pretty bad shape."said Lt. Cotton..

Upon the mention of his name, Detective Wallace tried hard, but couldn't hold back his laughter...

"Agent Lawlor...I know him....He is supposed to be working with me on the case...but he basically took it over...took all of the information I had painstakingly gathered on the killings and claimed it as his own...I tried to call him ,he never returned calls or texts and he basically just made this his investigation....When it got back that he was in the hospital..My Lieutenant sent me here."said Detective Wallace.

"He did the same thing to us...We were following him, which is how we came up on him in that alley...If we hadn't of gotten there when we did...He would have been victim number four...Except that the killer stuck him in the buttocks and then the side and had to flee before he could do anymore damage...Mo-Mo, I mean Monica,I mean Detective Nellis and I are here today because the person of interest we thought we were on to is possibly not the killer."I said.

Both Monique and Kylie cracked up laughing...

"Mo-Mo is what Nate calls my sister...when we are at home Carlos."said Monique..

"He is so cute...He loves her soo much." laughed Kylie..

Monica just smiled...and rubbed my hands softly...

"We identified a suspect...a Wallace Abbott, who has been in and out of jail and foster care and who has bench warrants in several of the cities where the murders have taken place...He was also at the scene of all three of our murders...Ed Lawlor got a lead on him yesterday that he didn't share with us...He shot him....and then somebody knifed him from behind... I don't know what his role is in all of this, but he's not the killer...He's working with the killer somehow..."said Monica...

"Monica, Nate...Why don't you and Detective Wallace work together on this?...You planning on sticking around for a few days?" asked Lt. Cotton.

"Yes...I'm staying in a hotel downtown..."he said.

"And Kylie...I want you in on this too...I owe you...I pulled you off of a case the last time Lawlor was involved...That was a mistake and I'm sorry..You four work this case...Share information...No Press conferences...But I don't have to tell you that...Right?  Right! Lawlor is a little indisposed now, so you guys work this case..." he said.

"Oh Thank you Lieutenant." she said..

She was happy to be working with Detective Wallace..

He was happy to be working with her...He thought she was sexy....

Their mutual attraction was contagious...

"Now folks...It's Saturday...Let's all go get some breakfast....I'm Hungry ,aren't you guys?" he said.

"I know just the place." said Monique...

III-

 This was the same Bistro that Monique had taken us to a few months back when Monica and I had first gotten engaged...It was a breakfast buffet......

The Bistro was beautiful...It looked like an expensive joint, but from the crowd outside that was lined around the corner...maybe it wasn't...To our surprise..The crowd moved fast...and within twenty minutes...the six of us was seated...

Lieutenant Cotton and Monique...

Monica and me..

And Detective Kylie White and Detective Carlos Wallace...The two of them chatted and in between bites of food, they smiled at each other constantly.....

"Nice Joint..." said Detective Wallace....

We piled Pancakes, Waffles, Eggs,Hash Browns and other things on our plates while a waitress poured us all hot tumblers of coffee...

In the distance we heard the sound of broken glass and a crash....It was Detective Wally Becker...

He had apparently dropped his plate of food....

"Ohhhh...Awww I'm so sorry..." he said as  attendents immediately came and cleaned up his mess..

He balefully looked at our table,stomped his foot and stormed out!!! We heard his car screeching off into the morning ....

Monica, Monique and Kylie all lowered their heads in embarrassment...I myself found the whole thing amusing...

Detective Wallace looked confused...

"You guys know that guy?" he asked..

"Unfortunately ...We do....He's one of our Detectives...He's pissed off because I'm dating Monica's sister and he can't accept it." said the Lieutenant....

But Monica had scanned Kylie's mind and discovered something else...Something very surprising..

Kylie and Wally Becker had slept together...Not once...but twice....and he might be jealous seeing her with Detective Wallace ,who he didn't know.....That and seeing Monique and Lt. Cotton too might have driven him over the edge..

Naturally she couldn't let on how she knew that....but she told me later on when we were alone.

"Love Triangle huh?" laughed Detective Wallace...

"Honey it's a regular Peyton Place around here."said Kylie..

"I'll say."said Monique with a bit of sarcasm and ,who was still a little pissed at Kylie for helping Wally to spy on her and the Lieutenant...

Monica rubbed my hands softly and kissed me on the cheek...

"This food is the bomb diggity isn't it?" she said ,trying to ease the tension a bit...

There was no argument from Detective Wallace and I who continued to load our plates and eat....

IV-

 Hours later-

We all wound up in a very tony night spot in downtown Philadelphia...just blocks from where our first two victims were....We found the body of a fourth female...She was white, and like all of the others...not over 29...Shapely and attractive, wearing a mini skirt and stilletto heels...Her name was Marcy Carson...She was a model.

I put on my latex gloves and kneeled down to look at the body....

"This is our guy." I said turning her over...The amount of blood, the same gaping back wounds and what looked like the removal of organs...

Monica also put on Latex  gloves and examined the body...

"My god...Just what kind of monster are we dealing with?" she said as she looked at the body....

"The type of monster we've got to get off the streets and fast...The body count is growing...This is 18 deaths in a little over a year."said Lt. Cotton...

Detective Wallace observed the body...

"You guys were right....This killer has shifted his pattern...This is his fourth victim in this city....He has usually killed three and then gotten out...He came back here and he found himself trapped..."he said.

Then we heard the voice of Detective Kylie White...

"We got another body guys!" she said...

''WHAT?" said Monica and I in unison as we walked over to where Kylie and Monique were standing..

Monique had on latex gloves and was looking at the body of a white male...with blond hair, a blue polo shirt and jeans and a jeff cap.....

"This looks like your initial suspect...Wallace Abbott...."said Monique.....

"He has a gunshot wound in his shoulder.....This is where Agent Ed Lawlor shot and wounded him the other night...."said Monica....

Detective Kylie White rolled him over and examined his back and to nobody's surprise...he had the same kind of wounds in his back...and the same enormus amount of blood loss...

''Wow....It was so noisy in here with the music and all..Our killer gutted both of them without anybody hearing or noticing and they both bled out....

Detective Wallace kneeled down and looked at the body...

"First time he's ever killed a man...He's really shifting his patterns.." he said.

"I'm gettin a team on all of the cameras in here...I'm going to triangulate them with the cameras at the other scenes....''I said.

 "You do that...Kylie and I are going to look into Mr. Abbott's life ,see if he has any friends,associates or relatives who he might be traveling with..."said Monica..

''I'm going to check all of the sales receipts in here...Somebody bought something with credit or debit cards maybe...The killer knows that we have no clue as to who he could be...He might have gotten sloppy.."said Detective Wallace...

 "We can release both bodies...You're finished here right Monique?" I asked..

Monique sighed...

"Yeah...I'm done .." she sighed....as both bodies were removed...

The six of us were at the point of both physical and emotional exhaustion....5 open murder cases..

This was a precedent I hadn't wanted to be set.

"Good and get a team on all of the ATM cams, Street cams and traffic cams in this area....We might get lucky...you never know."said Lt. Cotton..

We all had been working all day this Saturday ...It was now three in the morning...Sunday..Finally Lt. Cotton said...

"Okay guys...Let's go home...get some sleep...Tomorrow..we'll get back on this with fresh eyes.." he said.

Monique put her arms around him....

"You coming to my place aren't you?" she asked...

"Yeah baby...but first we gotta stop by my spot...I need a change of clothes and a few other things.." he said and kissed her neck and then her lips...

Monica hugged me...

"Come on honey bunny...I'm so sleepy..."she said, yawning...

"Yeah, me too babes." I said... I really was...

"Uh could you give me a lift to my hotel detective?" said Detective Wallace..

"Sure could.." she said.....

We all walked out and headed to our cars...

Detective Wallace got in the passenger side of Kylie's car....They both looked at each other and smiled...

"Uh Detective Wallace , would it uh be too forward of me if I uh asked if I could uh spend the night with you?...I don't want to sleep alone tonight..I'm kinda creeped out.."she said.

That wasn't completely true...Knowing Detective Becker like she did...She imagined that he was parked outside her house staking it out and she didn't feel like the drama...She had made a big mistake sleeping with him....Now he would expect something....A relationship, which she didn't want....Not with him...

He smiled from ear to ear....

''Wow! Why of course...And...And...Look...I uh have a bed and I have a nice sized couch that I can uh sleep on.."he said.

"I didn't want to uh take you out of your bed..I thought that maybe you and I could uh share the bed."she said and gave him the side eye..then winked....

He smiled slyly....

''Word...I like sharing..." he said and smiled slyly.....

"I'll just bet you do."she said smiling sweetly...

He unbottoned her blouse...She was wearing a red and white striped bra....

He smiled..

"Ummm Detective...You don't waste much time do you?" she smiled and rubbed his leg...

"Life is short.."he said...

He leaned over and kissed her softly.....

"Yes...it isssss." she said...

The two of them drove to his hotel....

Meanwhile...Detective Wally Becker sat outside Detective Kylie White's house...sipping a tumbler of coffee and waiting...Fuming...

(TO BE CONTINUED)