Lemuria

The Ocean looked peaceful, serene.......I peered out the window of the Aqua Bus, me and my wife were on...

''Wow..." was all I could say...

My wife Monica looked at me and smiled..

"You know...When you have that look of amazement on your face like you do now...You just look so cute...I remember when you and I were on our very first case and we were on the moon...You looked just like that...I almost kissed you for the first time then." she said..

"Wow..I wished I'd of known." I said, smiling at her...

"I did kiss you on the way back..." she said.

"Yes you did and I haven't been the same since.." I said.\

''Awwww." she said and leaned over and kissed me passionately...

We had spent the day before interviewing people at our murder victims place of employment...No one had a bad word to say about her and everybody alibied out....Just like detective Bobby Sykes, her boyfriend and everybody in her apartment complex...we interviewed everyone who had seen her in our friend Ziggy's bar near the pier..and they told us what we had already seen on the film footage...That she and FBI Special Agent Ed Lawlor and her had had an argument and that he had grabbed her and had pulled his gun on a patron...Then he had stormed out of the bar ,furious....

We know that Regina had taken an Uber from her apartment ,to the bar...she didn't drive....We spoke to the Uber driver....But the Uber she picked up when she left was stolen!  We found it and it had been bleached down and wiped of any fingerprints or DNA....

Which left us with one viable suspect....FBI Special Agent, Ed Lawlor...As much as I found the man distasteful...I didn't think he was a killer....but we had to go where the evidence lead us...

After searching his apartment and making an inquiry of him at the local FBI, we found he was on assignment in the Undersea city of Lemuria...

That's where Monica and I were headed...Lemuria...an undersea city, deeper under the ocean than Octopus Gardens...

II-

As the Aqua Bus cruised into the middle of the Ocean...Monica looked at me...

"Bae..You aren't a little bit worried are you?   It's perfectly safe down there in Lemuria..." she said.

"Yeah...I'm straight." I lied... I was apprehensive when we went to Octopus gardens....which was only a half mile beneath the sea...This city was even deeper...Too deep for us to take the mini sub that we took to go to Octopuss Gardens...No..We were taking a Transport Sub...

"It's Okay...First time I went down here ,I was a little nervous....but I was with my sister and my mom....They made me feel better...You're with me...Hope I can make you feel better." she said.

I smiled..

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

We were in the back on the Aqua Bus..She discreetly unzippered my trousers and ran her dainty little fingers into my pants...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu...After the way you put it on me last night ,I'm surprised you can still get this hard she said as she kissed me and stroked me softly....

People sitting in front of us were oblivious to what we were doing...We were kissing passionately and a lot of the couples were doing the same...

We could hear soft moans coming from some of the seats...

At any rate...It took my mind off of what we had to do...

We arrived at the Aqua Port.....

"I've got our tickets...I ordered them on line last night and printed them..." said Monica as she passed me a ticket..

We straightened our clothes and walked through the port....Most of the people were headed to Octopus Gardens...As we once were...Only a few were waiting for the transport Sub that would take us to Lemuria..

"You'll like the transport sub bae..We'll be in a cabin...We'll have complete privacy..." said Monica.

"This must be costing the department a fortune.." I said.

"Yeah...$1200 a piece for both of us...Round trip....and we only have a room for one night...I put it on our department credit card...So we get partial re-imbursement  for our room and food..."said Monica..

I smiled...She thought of everything...I loved this girl...I thought...She heard my thoughts and she smiled.

"I know you do..That's why you married me." she said.

I smiled...she was right.

III-

Our Transport Sub headed toward Lemuria... It was hard to believe my sister in law, Monique had taken a day trip here a month ago to see a noted expert on Genetics about whether she was a mutant like her sister or her mom...

Everybody didn't have a private cabin on this sub....Some of the riders had seats..but Monica had said..

"Go big or go home..."

Our cabin had one bed in it and was big enough for the two of us  to stand up and turn around in...

Alone and with nothing else to do...we wasted no time in getting our clothes off and making sweet love...I lifted Monica up, slipped her panties off and slowly and softly entered her...

  I eased Monica up against the wall and began kissing her passionately...She returned my passion....My shirt went to the floor as I continued kissing her and she continued kissing me...I unzippered her dress and slipped it off....She unzippered my trousers and I hurriedly stepped out of them....She held my now massively erect penis in her hands..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh baby!"

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nate...."

"Monica..I-I couldn't wait."

"I know you couldn't."

 I  thrusted my tongue practically down her throat and while squeezing one breast with my hand...and licking on the other one with my mouth"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GOD, OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" she screamed as I continued to thrust , harder and feverishly more.....

 I laid her across her bed , a few minutes later and I entered her softly and gently and began to stroke her softly and slowly....She moaned and put her arms around my neck and drew me closer to her..I kissed her neck, between her breasts, her cheeks....She continued to kiss my lips and my ears and my chest...
"Ohhh My God...I can't believe I'm doing this with you on a Transport sub.." she moaned..

"Me neither! Now We are members of the miles below club" I said.

"Silly." she laughed...

She wrapped her legs around my waste and we began to move in a slow, yet deliberate rhythm for quite some time...She matched me thrust for thrust and even kissed my shoulder at one point...She was so soft...so moist and smelled so good...I was losing my mind....She was shaking and looking like she was on the verge of crying the entire time.......

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...OHHH MY GOODNESS...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she moaned loudly ,obviously not caring who heard us....

We made sweet passionate and intense love like this for close to two hours...Monica began to shake and gyrate and tears began to stream down her face again....I was surprised at how passionate she was ...

 Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Oh my god Nate..." she moaned as the bed squeaked and the headboard slammed hard against the wall...

"Mo-mo....oh my godddddddddddddddddd!" I found myself moaning out loud...

"It's sooooooooooooooo goooddd...Oh my godddddddddddddd it's soooooo gooood Oh my Goddd Nate....ohhhhh don't stoppp, don't stopp...don't ever stop...ouuuuuuuuuuuu" she screamed as we both climaxed in a crescendo of sweat!

 She would later tell me that for the second time, she was having an orgasm so intense that all she could do was cry..!! I was coming so hard, I felt like I was dying...

 Monica stared at me with those pretty doe like eyes of hers and laid on top of me..Blowing softly  in my ears and kissing me softly and softly caressing my penis until I came again...


Unlike before..we couldn't drift off to sleep...We had to get up...Wash ourselves off in the small sink and get dressed again....

"This small cabin was a pretty nice idea..." I said ,smiling..

"I figured you'd like it.." she said.. "Took your mind off of being so deep under the water.." she said..

"Yeah...It did." I confessed...."Piece of cake." I laughed.


IV-

A half hour later we were entering the water space of the undersea city of Lemuria...

The beautiful underwater city of Lemuria was a wonder...so dark....because it was a mile under the ocean...and yet so lively...Filled with people...Electronic lights....People everywhere, shopping, socializing...all inside a huge and thick dome that protected them from the Ocean waters....


Huge generators ,pumping air from the surface kept the temperatures moderate....

Monica smiled as I stared at everything...with such amazement...

"You look so cute ,husband of mine that I just want to kiss your lips...." she gushed..

"Well don't hesitate." I said.

''Calm down...We have to find Ed first..." said Monica.

We stopped by the local FBI Office...The Special Agent in charge told us...


"He just helped us crack a big smuggling case...He probably is at his favorite uh watering hole.."


He gave us directions and we took a hover cab to the bar..

To at least my surprise , the place was packed...Mostly with one day visitors....They had three dj's playing an assortment of music and people dancing, drinking and doing what people do in clubs..

The bar had the nerve to have a huge aquarium under it with live aquatic life....As if being one mile beneath the sea didn't give folks enough aquatic life...

I was hungry..I ordered Monica and I two cheeseburgers and fries... I got instead two Soy burgers and fries...It was treated with an artificial taste that made it taste just like a normal cheeseburger...with a bit of an after taste... It would have to do..

Monica said to me..


''Time for you to use your cyber eye dear and see if you can spot him in here.. There are so many people and so many thoughts being picked up that I-I can't...." she hesitated...

"Baby...There are two guys in here with trench coats on....In the back...See em?" I asked.

"I see em...I'm picking up some bad thoughts from these two guys..." she said..

We weren't allowed to have traditional firearms down here...Just stun guns...but I didn't know what these clowns had....



While we were eating and  talking...I noticed two guys come in...So Did Monica...One sat by the door and kept looking out into the street.. The other looked around and then walked over to the bar counter...Both had on long trenchcoats...

  Monica and I had both  been  cops too long..we knew what this was..

I started walking gingerly towards the bar...whistling....I leaned over....

....I continued to whistle and looked downward....

Sure enough...The guy behind me at the door cocked his gun... a .38 and fired up into the ceiling...The ceiling ,like everything else in this city was made with re- inforced super plastic...

"ALRIGHT!! THIS IS A STICK UP..EVERYBODY EMPTY THEIR POCKETS!"

The patrons were stunned!  

The guy at the counter aimed his gun, also a .38 at the cashier..

"OPEN THE REGISTAR DOLLFACE!!! OPEN IT!!" he yelled....The cashier was stunned...She began shaking and crying...

"OPEN IT OR I'LL BLAST YA!" he demanded!....

 I quietly grabbed a bottle of beer and smashed it over the guys head...  This entire sequence of events was pretty bizzare...I was certain it would be the highlight of the afternoon news...

The man was shocked ....he stumbled and dropped his gun!!!! , Which an alert Monica grabbed !!!!I grabbed the arm of the gunman at the counter and slammed it down hard...so hard, he dropped his gun..I elbowed him in the face.....breaking his nose...then I dropped him with a punch to the stomach....

By the time the one man got himself together and got to his feet...The business end of my .45 stun gun was just inches from his nose! And Monica had his gun on his partner, who was still on the floor groaning!!!

 "Drop the gun sugar....it's all over!" she said.

 I winked at her...She smiled as two uniformed Lemuria police officers put magnetic handcuffs on the two men ..They thanked us both and hauled both would be stick up men out of the bar..

All of the patrons clapped and cheered...

One was clapping a little too long and too loud...

It was FBI Special Agent, Ed Lawlor...

"Deeeeetectiveeee Monica Talbert...Nicely done.." he said.

"Hello Eddie..and it's Detective Monica Nellis....I'm married...You remember my husband and partner, Detective Nate Nellis." she said.

He looked at me and smirked..

"Oh Yeah...You!" he said.

He was visibly inebriated... (Drunk)

He sat back

A waitress brought several beers over...

He tossed back several....

"So Mo-Mo...What brings you two here? Honeymoon?? No, you've had that already..." he said.

"Actually.. ..We are here to see you Eddie..." she said.

"Me? What, you need my help on a murder case." he asked.

''Actually...We do.." I said and showed him the photo of Regina Baker..

His eyes perked up...He looked genuinely surprised..

"She's Dead? WHAT??? You got any suspects?? I can tell you one...That loser boyfriend of hers...Detective Bobby Sykes." he said.

"It wasn't him.. He alibied out...He was working a case that night." I said.

He looked at me with pure disdain..

"Oh is that what your investigation turned up?  He probably told you that...and you didn't check...." he said.

"Actually,he told me and I did check...It wasn't him....but YOU on the other hand was the last person to see her alive...We have you on the film footage from Zig's spot near the pier..arguing with her and pulling your service revolver on a patron who was attempting to aid her.."said Monica.

"You don't think I killed her do you?   Nooooo..I loved her...I was in love with her..." he said.

"She filed a restraining order against you...I checked." I said.

He smirked...

"It was a year ago...Did you also know that the time was up on it? Of course you didn't.." he said dismissively..

I smiled..He was such a jerk....I wondered what Monica ever saw in him..

"You stalked her...I have footage of your car outside her job, outside her apartment..." said Monica..

He looked at Monica..

"You know I didn't kill her...YOU KNOW I DIDN'T..." he said.

Monica had scanned his mind...

"Yes, I know.." she admitted..

"Yeah...we broke up.....I went to Alaska on assignment...By the time I got back to Philly, she was seeing that Jive ass Detective Bobby Sykes...I understand you and him used to bop around.. I swear Mo- You have some really bad tastes in men." he said.

"I'll say..." I said...


Monica giggled...


He didn't like that.

Monica laughed...

"Alright stop.." she said.

She showed him a photo...

"You bugged her apartment....Her bedroom and her bathroom..." she said.


He looked genuinely shocked..



"Nooooo....Noooo I didn't...Look at these things..they're cheap...The FBI uses a better grade of spyware than this,..." he said.
Again...He was telling the truth.

''Was anybody else bothering her?" asked Monica.



"Not that I know of...Look, We had an argument that night...and maybe we said some things and I uh did some things...but I left...I went to another bar and then I went home...To bed...Yesterday ,I followed a suspect here and busted him...I was leaving in the morning.." he said.



Monica nodded at me..He was telling the truth..
.

So we had come here to Lemuria....For Nothing.. Our Killer was on the surface...In Philly...Or at least we hoped..

(TO BE CONTINUED)