Breakwater

"Mo-Mo I hate to tell you this bae....But we are totally out of fuel. And my battery is dead!" I said..As my flying car began to lose altitude...

She looked at me with those beautiful ,trusting eyes of hers....

''What?" was all she could say....She was exhausted...Neither of us had had any sleep in almost 48 hours,working around the clock trying to crack this case....Mostly everybody thought the case had been cracked...But she never did...and now I didn't...

''Somebody siphoned all of my fuel...probably while we were inside those apartments,looking at that body...and they killed my battery...but not to worry...There is a back up power source...It will give me enough to steer us over Penns Landing...and activate the landing gear..We've got a good half an hour..."I said.

"That means we won't crash and burn into any buildings......but not the river!!!I never thought it all would end quite like this..but...at least I'm with you..At least we'll die together..."said Monica..

''Who said anything about dying babes? I'm gonna land this thing on the water....It'll be a little hard,but we'll make it"I said.

"Can you do that?" she asked...

''First time for everything."I said and looked at her and smiled..

She looked at me and smiled...

"Goofball."she said and kissed me on the cheek...

I began the landing process and steered the flying car toward the middle of the river....

"Okay Mo-Mo....hang on...We are about to hit the drink!" I said.

"Ohh my god...I'm afraid.."she said...She really was...

"Just hang on Mo-Mo...You with me?" I asked..

She looked at me with trusting eyes...She was so cute!

"Until the end of the world sweetie." she said...

We began to drop at a greater speed....Finally,I steered the car to a safe location and we hit the water hard!

II-

"I always knew I'd run into you cool kids again, but never like this "said our friend, Harbormaster, Zig Higgenbottom...

I called him on my cell,once my flying car hit the water and his crew came out and towed us to shore...


The maintenance crew at the harbor was replacing my battery and refueling my car....

"You're a life saver Zig."I said.

"Yes...We owe you." said Monica...

"Nah..you're my pals....You'd of done the same for me....Looks like somebody played a nasty little trick on you guys."he said..

"Very Nasty...Trying to take us out.."I said.

"Trying to take me out!! You were collateral damage honey bunny."said Monica.

"I agree...From the beginning...this has been about you...Taunting you, killing people and watching you go around in circles trying to catch the killer and then leaving little clues...Clues that lead us to a suspected killer who very nicely and neatly kills himself...thus wrapping up your case and giving you a false sense of security....And then taking you out....All along...you were this killer's real target."I said.

''And all along...our killer has been one step ahead of us...And the only reason that could be....Is because he was among us...Hiding in plain sight."said Monica...

"We didn't catch him because we weren't looking for him....We were looking for someone else..A boogeyman in painters pants..."I said.

''A cop?" said Ziggy.

"No...a cop wanna be...."said Monica with a deliciously sexy smile...

"Well while you two crusaders for justice try to figure it out...How about some food???...I gotta cook here workin for me...Sexy as hell, can make you a western omelette that'll knock your socks off! And fry you some sausage...Oh my god...I'm about to have an orgasm thinkin about it. Go over there and pour yourselves some hot coffee."he said.

Monica and I looked at each other...

"Good Ole Zig." we said as he passed us tumblers of steaming hot coffee.

III-

Zig was not lying about his cook...The breakfast she prepared for us was incredible...I called Lieutenant Cotton....

"Nate ! Are you and Monica alright? We just got a report about a flying car crashing into the river...I just dispatched some personell out there.."he said.

"While we were picking up our killer....Someone siphoned out all of my fuel and removed my battery..."I said.

"WHAT???" he said.

"It's okay...I steered the car into the river...It has a back up power source..Mo-Mo and I are okay...but listen...I would like it if you would keep people thinking that we are dead...Tell Monique to come and get us...and tell Detective Kylie White to detain Officer Scully.." I said.

"Officer Scully?" I don't believe I know him?" said Lt. Cotton..

"That's because he doesn't exist...There is an officer there who has been masquerading as Officer Vince Scully...Detain him until Mo-Mo and I get there..." I said.

"Okay..We'll bust him for impersonating an officer....but we can only hold him for so long..."said Lt. Cotton.

"By the time we get there...We'll be able to hold him for more.."I said.

"Lieutenant....I've got my laptop on....Could you send me photos of all of the crime scenes...in this case..."Asked Monica..

"Sure...I'll send them right now.."he said.

IV-

 Zig gave us a room in the back of his club...Monica and I set up her laptop and scanned all of the crime scenes...In all but one, Officer Vince Scully was on the scene...

"I'm Detective Nate Nellis, this is my partner, Detective Monica Nellis and the M.E. , Dr. Monique Talbert. I said.

"Heyyy, Her name is Nellis too? Your partner? She's kinda cute....Can't believe she's a Homicide Detective. "asked the officer at the scene checking Monica out....

''She's my wife."I said.

"Damnnnnnnnnn.....That Medical Examiner looks just like your wife..."he said checking Monique out.

''She's her sister...They're twins..."I said exasperated with this police officer...

"So you're here with your wife and your sister in law?" he said.

"Yes...I see not much gets by you...So what do we have here?" I asked..

''White female...age 42, cause of death, one gun shot wound to the head.. Nobody saw anything..I got guys asking everybody that was in here...You want me to put a team on the ATM cams, and Area Cams?" he asked..

"Yeah...That's a great idea officer."I said.

Monica smiled..

"It's been a long time..but that's him...Brett Brietland..."she said.,

 "So he's not Vince Scully eh?" I asked..

"No...Vince Scully was Kylie's partner when she was a uniformed cop..a roller..He was killed in the line of duty six or seven years ago...I'm surprised I didn't catch it at first....When he told you his name." she said.

An officer ran up to us...The officer we had seen the day before at the Undersea Hotel....

"We did a trap and trace....We got a hit on that phone call...The last one..." he said...

Monica smiled..She looked at me...

"Something about that guy is familliar." she said.

 "So you said his name is Brett Brietland..What is his story..What is his connection to you?" I asked.

"He,Kylie and I were all in the academy together...He was a know it all..and a suck up....He tried to date me at one point....He acted like he was doing me a favor by dating him...I turned him down flat...At any rate...he didn't graduate...He washed out....He attempted to enter Quantico,years later to train as an FBI agent...He washed out of there too..He then tried for the Secret Service and washed out of that....He got a P.I.'s license and was a pretty decent Private Investigator I hear...but he and a shady attorney got caught up in something a few years back...The Attorney was disbarred and did a stint in prison...He didn't go to prison, but his P.I.'s license was snatched..He kind of fell off the grid..I hadn't seen or heard from him in years.."said Monica.

''And he's been obsessed with you and bitter ever since."I said.

''Apparently...He set these killings up...based on an old case of mine...to confuse and baffle me and his end game was my death....All this time..."said Monica....

Meanwhile at the precinct....Officer Vince Scully was cleaning out his locker when Detective Kylie White walked up on him...

"Officer Scully? Going somewhere?? Your shift isn't over.." she said with a bright smile on her face...

He turned...

"You know this is the men's locker room....and you shouldn't be in here...uh unless there is something else you uh are looking for..."he said eyeing her cleavage and smiling salaciously...

"Vince Scully right?   That's funny...my old partner's name was Vince Scully...He died seven years ago...You don't look anything like him, but you do look like Brett Brietland....who was in the academy with me and my girlfriend...Monica Talbert at the time...!!! It's been years Brett..." she said..

He was startled...

"There must be uh some mistake..."he said.

"I don't think so...Knock off the act Brett...I know who you are.."she said..

He stomped his foot in frustration...He was close to getting away...

Another officer walked up...

"The mistake is why are you pretending to be a police officer? A dead police officer...You're under arrest Brett..."Impersonating a police officer....Hook him up and read him his rights.."said Kylie...

"Kylie..Kylie..come on babes...No harm ,no foul...We can work something out...come onnnnn."he said as the officer took him to the interrogation room  and sat him down...He was surprised...He thought he would be going to central booking....

The next big surprise he got was when Monica and I walked through the door..

His eyes got as large as saucers.....He looked like he had seen a ghost...Two Ghosts!

I smiled...

"Officer Scully.....Fancy meeting you here.."I said Laughing and sitting down...

My laughter was angering him...

"Hi Brett....Long time, no see....I thought you looked familiar the other day...but I was so exhausted and tired ,I wasn't thinking straight...Why did you do it Brett?"asked Monica.

He smiled..

"All this for impersonating a policeman?  How much time do you think I'll get for that?"he smirked..

"Probably no jail time...but for five first degree murders,kidnapping and two attempt murders..you'll get either the rest of your natural life or a needle."said Monica..

He laughed...

"You're stretching detective...perhaps you are sleep deprived..You got nothin.."he said and gave us both a sinister look..

I tossed a plastic bag on the table...It had a smartphone in it....

"We tested it for prints..yours are on there....They are still on file from your time in the academy...Your prints are on this phone...We found it on the dead man....There is no reason your prints should be on this phone...This is the phone you called all of our murder victims from...with instructions on where to meet you with the money...They thought they were being blackmailed.."I said.

"We have video footage of you at all of the crime scenes....plus you're impersonating a long dead officer..Try explaining all of that to a jury...I think we have enough for five counts of first degree murder..Officer, read him his rights...and cuff him."said Monica..

Two officers came in the room, one handcuffed him, the other read him his rights....

She said....

"Oh yeah and we found your fingerprint smudge on Nate's Flying Car battery....Yeah,we found that...So we can add the charge of attempted murder of a police officer...Two counts...Brett...Brett..Brett..still a wash out...See, this is why you didn't make Detective or Federal Agent....No attention to detail."said Monica smiling... "Oh and one more thing..alert officers found the plaster mold of Stephen Todd's fingerprint...the mold you used to incriminate him after you kidnapped him and held him hostage here...You should have broken that up or dropped it in a trash can farther from your building..."she said laughing.

Brett was beside himself with anger...

"YOU BITCH!!!...YOU SNOTTY NOSED LITTLE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY!!!!  I WAS SMARTER THAN YOU...I WAS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY...I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THAT JOB!!...I WASN'T THE RIGHT MINORITY AT THE TIME!!!!"he spat...

"Is that what it was?  Ohhhh,I thought it was because you were a nut case." I said..

"I WAS SMARTER THAN ALL OF YOU CORNBALL COPS!"he snarled..

"And yet...We caught you!"I said.

He stomped his foot in anger.....

The two officers dragged him out kicking and screaming...

"You haven't seen the last of me...I'll get you..Next time...It'll be different...I'm smarter than all of you..You'll see.YOU BITCH!!!...YOU SNOTTY NOSED LITTLE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY!!!! I WAS SMARTER THAN YOU...I WAS SMARTER THAN EVERYBODY...I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THAT JOB!!...DAMN YOUUUUUUUU!!!"he screamed as they dragged him out of the office...

 "Gee...He's not one of your fans."I said looking at Monica and kissing her cheek..

"Unlike you huh?" she said and smiled at me..

"I'm your biggest fan, always have been." I said.

"Awwww."she said and we kissed passionately for a minute....

Lt. Cotton and Kylie White walked in the interrogation room just then....

''Damn..He was right under our noses all along...He blended in...."said Lt. Cotton..

"I get chills thinking about it....He's a scary guy..He always was a bit of an odd sock...even in the academy!"said Kylie...

"Good work you two....Five murders cleared....Nice!   Mo-Mo...You and Nate go home..take the next three days off and I mean take em off...Don't look for any new murders....Get some rest....Damn..it's Saturday afternoon... I'll see you two on Thursday...."said Lt.Cotton....

Monica yawned...

"You don't have to tell me twice Lou..." she said..

Her sister, Dr. Monique Talbert arrived just then...

She hugged Monica and kissed me softly...

"I'm so glad you two are alright..." she said...My car is outside...I'll drive you two home..."she said.

"My flying car will be ready tomorrow...but I doubt if I'm going to get it before Monday..Come on Mo-Mo."I said and put my arms around her and we walked out...

She leaned her head on my shoulders and we walked out...We passed Detective Wally Becker on our way out..

"Damn you guys look beat."he said..

"Always good at stating the obvious ,Detective.."said Monica, smiling at him..
"Kylie's right behind us."she said, kind of letting him know that she knew the deal between them...Wally smiled sheepishly.

He laughed too...He saw Kylie in the hallway...

 ''Hey"he said..

"Hey" she said blushing...

"I uh thought you might want to go to lunch." he said.

"Not a bad idea....Where you takin me?" she asked as they left arm and arm...

He smiled sheepishly...

Lt. Cotton whispered in Monique's ear...

"Hurry up back after you drop off Mo-Mo and Nate...I'll be waiting for you in my office...Naked!"he said.

Monique blushed...

"You need to stop..."she said and they both laughed...

EPILOUGE-

 Brett Brietland was convicted on five counts of first degree murder,one count of kidnapping and two counts of attempted murder of police officers and sentenced to die by Lethal Injection....He awaits his execution on Death Row..

I watched Monica undress slowly as I sat on the side of the bed...in just my boxers and a T-shirt...

 I smiled wryly,but said nothing..She continued undressing and put on her t-shirt and came and sat on my lap....

"Bae...your Mo-Mo is tired.."she said...

I yawned....

''I'm tired too." and crawled into the bed...

Monica snuggled under me...I put my arms around her and my leg over one of hers......

"I can't sleep without you!!!....You've got me spoiled.."she said..."And stop smiling about it."she said ...

I laughed a little bit as we both drifted off to sleep.