Show Me A Hero

At the Police Commissioner's house...In his bedroom , Deputy of Operations ,Barbara Shipley and Police Commissioner, John Tannenbaum were in bed ,kissing passionately and making sweet, sweet love...

"Ohhhhh Barbara, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I am losing my mind,it feels so goood...ohhhh.."he moaned as the bed began to squeak and the headboard began to slam up against the wall with a fury....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu John...Oh my god...I love you so damn much....ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she cooed....

John Tannenbaum felt so good, he was losing his mind...he didn't know if he was coming or going...He and Barbara had been here all night after his wife's funeral...Making sweet love for close to six hours.....They had slept only a few hours and now they were making love again....They had been making love for four hours.....


"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I love you so much John...I am so glad we don't have to sneak around anymore.. We are at last here in your bedroom...." said Barbara, her eyes welling up with tears.....

"Ohhhhh sweet, sweet baby....I love you too...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..." he moaned...

"How much?" she asked as he continued to pound inside of her..

"Huh?" he asked...

"How much? Do you love me as much as I love you?" she asked...

By now ,he had one of her large breasts in his mouth and was slobbering over it..

"More..MOREEEEE, Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu MOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he yelled....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Johnnnnnnnn....I love you sooooo much...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....I'm cummming! ohhhhh my god...I'm cumming....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." she yelled...

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so am I....Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."he yelled....

They lie in bed in post coital bliss....

Police Commissioner  John Tannenbaum rolled over and ran his fingers across Barbara's lips..

"Baby, ugh,I have a question to ask you." he said..

"Anything John..." she said.

"I heard yesterday that Detectives Nate Nellis and Kylie White had a suspect in my wife's killing in custody and you and a few guys walked in during interrogation and took their suspect from them and the case files...Why did you do that?" he asked.

"Because baby..I wanted to investigate this thing myself....For you...I felt as though I am the more seasoned detective.." she said.

"You haven't been on the street in years...When was the last time you personally cracked a case? About ten years ago!  These are seasoned Homicide detectives...and they're pretty good...Don't interfere in their investigation..Not ever again..I had that case file delivered back to Lt. Cotton's office." he said.

"You did!!" she said.

"Yes I did...Now I got some unfortunate news last night that the suspect was killed over at D.O.C.  Which is very unfortunate...I wanted to see him prosecuted ....The way they stack bodies over in that facility..It's no wonder he got stabbed to death...But there is some good news.."he said smiling..

"Good News?" she asked..

"Oh yes...They caught the second one...The girl who was driving...She's in custody..." he said and smiled..

"That's great...Great news!" she said..

"Yes..we'll get to the bottom of this." he said.

''Why do you care who murdered your wife??...You love me right?" she asked him...

"Barbara...Mary and I were married for 22 years...You don't just throw that away...I loved that woman...Yes ,I cheated on her with you...but I loved her never the less...You've never been married.. You don't understand..." he said..

She went under the covers and fondled his penis...

"I understand that you like this.."she said..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..ummmmmmmmmmmm..yes..yessssssssssssssssssssss " he said as he found himself getting harder by the second...

She took all of him into her mouth and began to slowly move her head back and forth, up and down...sucking and slurping...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..ohhhhh now that is good..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu that is good!" he moaned...

She stopped abruptly....


"Hey what are you stopping for...?"he asked.



"If you want to keep getting that...You will never mention that woman's name again and never give me another order concerning my police work...IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?" she snapped.

He meekly complied..

"Yes sweet baby.." he said...

She again took all of him into her mouth and began to slowly move her head back and forth, up and down...sucking and slurping...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..anything you say sweet baby ..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god!Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." he moaned...

 II-

At the same time, Monica, Kylie and I were at the crime scene...

Inside the building that housed Phillip Marlon Investigations..

Kylie and my wife, Monica had on latex gloves and were kneeling down looking at the body...

"So much blood...My goodness.."said Kylie..

"I can't believe I was talking to this man just hours ago...He took a shot to the chest, and two to the head...One administered after death..it seems.."said Monica..

"Pretty nasty scene...No sign of forced entry..He obviously knew his killer...I searched through his files...You said that he was doing work for Mrs. Tannenbaum right?" I asked.

"Yes..why?" asked Monica..

"His files are in Alphabetical order and hers is nowhere to be found.."I said.

''Maybe he put those somewhere else..a safe or something.."said Monica.

"Safe is blown...Nothing in there and his desk was jimmied...Nothing in there either.."I said.

Just then, My sister in law..and Monica's identical twin sister, Dr. Monique Talbert and her crew arrived...

"Oh My...look at this..." she said... She examined the body....

After about an hour she came to us and said.-

"Whoever shot him...dug the bullets out..There doesn't appear to be any slugs in him...And it smells like bleach in here...No other prints or DNA other than his and we can't find any slugs in the wall either..." she said.

"The killer knew what we'd look for...Any cameras in the building?" asked Monica..

"They were both disabled detective."said a police officer..

"This is related to your case....Think about it...He was investigating the Police Commissioner, found out he was having an affair...He must have found out who he was having an affair with after you interviewed him Mo-Mo..." said Kylie..

"Our killer silenced him and stole the files and they had our shooter silenced too..." said Monica.

"The way I see it...Kim Chi is our last hope...because if she's killed...Our Killer is home free and this investigation is essentially closed...We'll never catch our killer." I said.

"We've got to get to her and talk some sense into her...before it's too late." said Monica..

 "Can we release the body?" asked Monique..

"Yeah release the body..."sighed Kylie...

We all watched as the body was released and taken out of the building...

''All the tenets were already gone for the day.. Nobody saw anything...but I'll have some officers ask a few people."I said.

III-

Three hours later at our Precinct, Deputy of Operations Barbara Shipley was going off..

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY BOOKED A SUSPECT AND BY PASSED CENTRAL BOOKING??? DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS LIEUTENANT??" she screamed.

"No,I wasn't here...I was out at D.O.C. investigating the murder of our murder suspect....Who would be alive if you hadn't interfered with my detectives..."he said.

"So you're telling me...your three detectives went rogue on you and you knew nothing about it and you don't know where the second suspect is??? ..IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME LIEUTENANT???" she screamed.

"That's what I'm telling you..Why are you so interested in this particular case?" asked Lt. Cotton..

"QUESTIONS AREN'T IN YOUR VOCABULARY RIGHT NOW LIEUTENANT!!!AS OF NOW...YOU ARE SUSPENDED....YOUR REPLACEMENT WILL BE HERE TOMORROW! You will be reassigned to the K-9 unit!!!" she screamed...

Just then, Monica, Kylie and I walked in...

''Well Look who it is...The Three Stooges."she said with biting sarcasm.

"You might want to hold off on the insults." said Monica.



Barbara Shipley was incredulous...



"Do you know who you're talking to?" she said.

"The woman who used to be the Deputy of Operations "said Kylie White.



'"Used to be? STILL AM!..YOU'RE WAY OUT OF LINE DETECTIVE,! I DON'T LIKE YOUR SMART MOUTH LADY!"she screamed.


Kylie laughed...


"You find something funny Detective??...because it won't be funny when you're pounding the beat...getting coffee for some male detective in Auto Theft..."said Barbara Shipley...


"No it wouldn't be...but that aint gonna happen no time soon."laughed Kylie.


"WHAT?" asked Barbara Shipley incredulously.....

 ''Tone down the screaming please...I've had a long day.."I said non-chalantly.

We weren't surprised to see the Deputy of Operations standing in the middle of the floor..

"Detective Monica Talbert -Nellis...As of now...You are reassigned to Narcotics..... Detective Nate Nellis...You are reassigned to Special Victims Unit and  Officer..Kylie White, you are reassigned to Auto Theft, effective immediately...and that is after you all serve a weeks suspension along with your former Lieutenant...Got anything to say now guys?" she screamed...

Monica smiled...

"I'm not going anywhere and neither is my husband or my friend Kylie and My Lieutenant is still my Lieutenant. You on the other hand are on your way...Up the river!" she said quietly...

"You-You've lost your mind girl..." said Barbara Shipley...

"I'm afraid I haven't...And I haven't been a girl in a long time..." said Monica..

I called two officers...

"Mam...Gun and badge please!!!..."I said.

"WHAT?  Are you mad? You're fired detective!!!...All three of you, you're fired!!!.."she bellowed..

"GUN AND BADGE PLEASE!!!...I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU AGAIN."I said...

"Are you mad? Raising your voice to me?? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" she asked..

An Officer snatched her badge from around her neck and another one confiscated her Glock...



"What is this?" she said ,stomping her foot..


"This is you being arrested for murder!" I said.

"You want to know where Kim Chi is???...She's in the Women's Detention Center...Now..She spent the night in Federal Lock Up, where she would be safe from you, unlike her co-conspirator.." said Monica..

Barbara Shipley laughed...

"Oh you're crazy...."she said.

"After we told Kim Chi about what happened to her partner...She sang like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and she gave you up so fast....I couldn't believe it...We know about the transfers from your accounts to their accounts as payment for Mrs. Tannenbaum's murder...We tracked a phone call made by you to the D.O.C. to a certain inmate who runs things in there...A guy you put away years ago and who you made a huge financial contribution to ......While he didn't go as far as to say that he did it...He was very willing to say that you called him and asked him to see that things got taken care of..."said Kylie White...

 "Oh and after you killed Phillip Marlon, who we suspect found out about you and was blackmailing you...You disabled the cameras, took the bullets out of the body and the wall and wiped your prints and DNA off of everything...But you made one mistake..well two...You didn't throw that stuff away Babs...We found it in the trunk of the last police car you took from the motor pool and your fingerprints and DNA are all over the car and we have eyewitnesses who will swear and testify that you have been taking those cars out on the nights you were sleeping with the Police Commissioner..We talked to all of the detectives who had those cars for the day...Two of them said that you asked them for their cars..."I said.

"And last but not least...We have a traffic cam photo of you leaving the most recent crime scene...TA DAAA! " said Monica.

Deputy of Operations Barbara Shipley ,blanched, then just shook her head...She knew that we had her....

"You had her killed and you did all of this so that you could have him...Didn't you? You've been in love with John Tannenbaum ever since you were my training instructor in the police academy and he was the Supervisor....That's a long time Barbara....You were once my hero...I wanted to be you....You were a great detective, then a Lieutenant, Then Captain and now Deputy of Operations...You just set women back 50 years....Please tell me the woman I modeled myself, my whole career after...all these years is more than just a lovesick psychopath ,who murdered three people?"said Monica..

Barbara Shipley said nothing...


"The Commissioner loves me.. He won't let you do this to me." she said meekly...


Monica passed her a smartphone...


"Call Him...Tell him what kind of trouble you're in.. See if he'll help you out....I think you already know how this is going to play out." said Monica softly..


Barbara Shipley began to cry profusely.....

Lt. Cotton slapped the hand cuffs on her....

"Barbara Shipley...You're under arrest for Conspiracy to commit murder, two counts...Mary Tannenbaum and  Revan Ramli and First degree murder..Phillip Marlon...You have the right to remain silent...any and everything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law...You have a right to an attorney...if you don't have an attorney, one will be provided for you....Do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?" he said.

"Yes.."she said meekly...tears flowing down her cheeks.....her hands shaking...

"And Barb...I've secretly dreamed of slapping handcuffs on you for years, but not like this..." whispered Lt. Cotton in her ear..

"Ouuuu you disgust me...You pig....All of you males, you just wanted to get me in the bed..You never saw my true worth..you all just wanted to get in my panties.....Lieutenants,Captains....All of you..."she snarled...

"Save that speech for someone who cares Barb....It's all over for you."said Lt. Cotton.

An officer came to take Barbara Shipley to Central Booking...She looked at us one last time...

"Good work detectives...You all are the best of the best...I only wish I could have been a better example for you." the tears were flowing like a river down her cheeks as she was ushered away.....

Lt. Cotton looked at Monica ,Kylie and me..

 "Once Again...Good work guys....For a minute there...I thought we were all cooked." he said.

"No sir...from day one...I thought it was her...but I didn't have any proof and I didn't really want to believe it was her.."said Monica.

 "Wow...We just busted the Deputy of Operations....If she really was the Commissioner's girlfriend..We might still all get fired." joked Kylie...

"Yeah...How about that?" I said.

"Oh I don't think so...When this mess gets out...and it will shortly, He's going to be doing all he can to distance himself from the mess....Even though he really didn't have anything to do with it." said Lt.Cotton..

 I looked at Monica...

''Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy..F.Scott Fitzgerald.." I said.

She smiled...

"My Baby is so smart....Here's another quote-I need a Drink...Ernest Hemingway." she said...

"I can get with that." laughed the Lieutenant...

"Me too" said Kylie White.


EPILOUGE-

 Barbara Shipley was found guilty of three counts of Murder in the first and sentenced to die by Lethal Injection.

Because of her testimony and the fact that she wasn't the actual shooter...Kim Chi was given immunity from prosecution and released after the trial...She's still in Chinatown acting as security for the Floating Crap Games.

Commissioner Tannenbaum, though he was not involved in the murders at all , was so damaged by the scandalous affair that was revealed ..The Mayor asked for and got his resignation....

He has never visited or corresponded with Barbara Shipley, although she writes him daily and tries to call him..

We all finished our day at the local brewery, quaffing down some domestic and international beer...

"Whew...That has got to be one of our wildest cases..." said Monica..

"You aint lyin....And our most dangerous..Career wise.."I said..

Kylie White and I high fived each other..

 "When Mo-Mo walked in so non-chalantly and didn't react when she was told she was reassigned..I knew the tables had turned..."said Lt.Cotton...

"Lieutenant sir..You knew we had taken Kim Chi to Federal Lock up...We called you and got your authorization...Why didn't you just tell her?" I asked..

"Because...I wanted to see how far she was going to go with this....Mo-Mo had called me and told me her hunch...I was giving her time to get the needed evidence and it looks like you guys did."said Lt. Cotton..

"I didn't want it to be true...but when she came and took the suspect the other day and then he wound up dead...I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was her."said Monica..

Monique walked up..

"Hey can I join you guys?" she said..

"Have a seat "I said as she sat between me and Monica.

And we all quaffed down our beers and ceased talking about this case any longer..Monica and I just stared into each others eyes,oblivious to everyone else at the moment!