Mystery and Conspiracy

Early Morning....At Our Duplex.....Monica and I were in our bedroom....Quietly talking about our case...

"This Zip drive is the key to our entire case....This is what our victim was running from...This is what she and her brother found out." said Monica..

"Yeah...the problem, the real mystery is ...Who didn't want her to show this to somebody, who didn't want whatever was on that Zip drive to see the light of day?" I asked...

"The Answer is on the Moon....Somebody in that company.....Is the string puller.."said Monica.

"Lieutenant Cotton will have to see that we are just spinning our wheels here looking for a hitman...We want whoever made the dirt happen." I said.

Monica smiled..

"He'd have to let us go then....For uh investigative purposes..." she laughed slyly....

''Come here you...enough shop talk.." I said....I slowly slipped her baseball shirt off...


"I want to investigate what you have on under your clothes.."I said.


"You always want to." she laughed...

She had on a black thong...a sheer black thong.....

"You like it Nate?" she said smiling...She knew it was something new I hadn't seen before...She softly pulled my boxer shorts down and smiled..We kissed softly...

"WOW! You really do...Look at you...!!! You are huge and hard...Already....!!! My goodness!!" she said with her hand over her mouth...

Soon we were in the middle of the floor kissing and fondling each other like crazy...She was softly stroking my penis...and I was kissing her and sucking her nice size breasts....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nate...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."she cooed softly...

I entered her softly,gently...She was wet and warm...I was losing my mind...as I began to move up and down slowly at first and then gradually faster...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Nate..Ohhhhhhhhh my godddd!!" she moaned...

And below us....Lt. Cotton was watching Monique check her messages in her bedroom...She was wearing only her bra and panties and he was sitting on her bed in anticipation...

"I've got a call here from some strange number...but I don't know it.." said Monique...

"It's just a stalker....Now come on over here.." said Lt. Cotton...

Monique put her phone down and walked over to the bed....

Lt. Cotton slowly unhooked her bra and slipped her panties down...


"I think you're a stalker..." joked Monique..


"I don't have to stalk...I have you right here.." he said and kissed her softly...

He pulled her legs open and sat her on the bed and entered her slowly, kissing her softly and driving her out of her mind...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...oh my god Frankie...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...." she moaned...

He laughed raffishly as he began making sweet love to Monique....

Her bed was squeaking so loud, we could hear it upstairs in our room...


"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sugar Baby...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my goddd!" he moaned...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Frankie...my lawd...woooooooooooooooou." she cooed...

"I've got to buy sister girl a new mattress and box spring , her bed is making too much noise." said Monica..

Our bed was only slightly less noisier....Six hours of sweet, slow, tender lovemaking had passed by...I'm sure they could hear us too..Maybe I'd cover up that vent...

While the beds were rocking and squeaking...Neither of us knew that outside...A Sinister figure, A white man with a crew cut and a grey T-shirt and Black slacks sat in a rental car, watching our house and listening with a small device...

He smiled and started his car and pulled off... II-

 That morning at the Squad room , we were all in good spirits...

I certainly was...I bought coffee for my partner and Detective Kylie White...

''WOW! THANKS NATE!  Mo-Mo must have really broke you off a little somethin somethin...last night.Huh?"she laughed...

"Awww come on Kylie, can't a guy be nice to everybody he works with...?" I asked..

Monica smiled...

"Don't be fooled by him girlfriend...I turned him out last night  and early this morning...He didn't know if he was coming or going?" she laughed..

Which was true...

"Coming being the operative word here...Early this morning too? Huh?  Seems like it wasn't just one way Mo-Mo..." laughed Kylie..

"Ouuuuu girl....He did a number on me too, but check it out...Case wise...My sister found this zip drive taped to the waistband of the dead girl's panties....This might blow our case wide open." said Monica placing the zip drive in a computer...

"She was the Assistant Director of The Luna Galactic Transport Company...They Manufacture the Shuttle Craft that transport people from the Earth to the Moon..

Her brother Wayne Payton brought this report to her attention...

"The pilot of the Earth to Moon Shuttle that crashed last summer outside of Luna City on the Moon, killing himself and 15 sightseeing passengers, had taken a cocktail of prohibited drugs before liftoff in Philadelphia including the opiate painkiller oxycodone, according to newly found documents.

Bert “Skip” Nicholson was able to continue flying people for hire in spite of being convicted five times for driving while intoxicated in Philadelphia and three times for drug offenses. The incident revealed lax regulations on Space Shuttle operators and a regulatory loophole that made it difficult to take enforcement action against him, according to documents  my brother prepared for a Luna City Space Transportation Safety Board hearing." she said on the video..

The Space Shuttle flown by Nicholson, 49, crash landed near a cavern on the moon, on July 30 2041 and plunged to the ground, bursting into flames and killing all aboard.

 Victims, some of whom posted photos on social media minutes before the crash, included a professor with the U.S. Air Force Institute of Surgical Research and his wife, and a mother and daughter taking the Sunday-morning flight as part of a late Mother’s Day gift. 

There are people who don't want this study to see the light of day...My brother who did the initial investigation has already lost his life...He was shot to death in Luna City Spaceport trying to get to the FBI in Philadelphia...If you are viewing this now..then I may also be dead...Someone has to look into this...The files are on a Zip Drive in a place that is not easily found on Luna City...Contact Detective Carlos Wallace...Luna City Homicide...He has the other piece of the puzzle."

(Click)

 Kylie was speechless...


"He would have it...Leave it to you guys to walk into a conspiracy." she said..

"I'll say...My sister found this in the waistband of the dead girl's panties...and considering the killer had to kill that security guard and make a quick get away...He didn't have time to toss her purse.. Anyway...Nate and I did some digging into the dead Space Shuttle Pilot...Bert "Skip " Nicholson..." said Monica.

"Yeah and what we found was...Bert Nicholson suffered multiple medical problems including type II diabetes, depression and chronic pain from fibromyalgia. Some of those conditions should have prohibited him from operating a spacecraft in the first place." I said.

"As part of his treatment, he was taking 13 prescription medicines, many of which are also prohibited for space pilots at the controls. A toxicology test found seven different drugs in Nichols’ blood and urine that were prohibited by the SAA, including oxycodone and the sedative diazepam, also known as Valium. Such drugs can impair brain function and motor controls, according to the NTSB documents.

While most airline pilots are prohibited from flying after taking those drugs, Space shuttle pilots are sometimes exempt from having to receive the periodic medical checkups required for other commercial flight crews...Even Transport Sub crews that go to Octopuss Gardens Under the sea and Lemuria. Therefore, the agency was less likely to discover the drug use.Similarly, the paperwork for those SAA-required medical exams is the chief way for Shuttle pilots to disclose convictions for driving while impaired or other things.."I continued.

"Bert "Skip " Nicholson  had one such medical exam in 2036 and he didn’t reveal the first of his driving violations, a 2036 infraction in Luna City and here on Earth.

U.S. law requires Shuttle pilots to notify the SAA(Space and Astronauts Association) of such infractions whether they get an agency-sanctioned medical exam or not. Nicholson didn’t do so.

Somebody screwed up badly and let this guy slip through the cracks...This could mean that heads might roll, big heads and also a series of law suits that might put this company out of business..." said Monica...

''So this thing had to be bottled up and fast right?" said Kylie..

''Exactly..So somebody hired a very competant man to blow the brains out of the investigator who first discovered this and then his sister as well...but they didn't find the main things they were looking for..Two zip drives that has proof of what they did wrong...Proof that could land people in court and behind bars.." I said.

III-

"You're absolutely right!" came the voice of Lt. Cotton.....We lost two people in my city and I want the killer caught......Did anybody contact the woman's next of kin?" he asked.

"She wasn't married and had no children Lou...It appeares all she had was her older brother and he unfortunately is possibly the victim of our same killer." I said.

''And you know this how?" asked Lt. Cotton.

''We called the Moon and checked it out..We talked to the Chief of Detectives up there...They pulled the same type of shells from the same European manufactured Baretta out of his body and the murder went down the same way...In the Spaceport...Only it was in the Men's room....No camera, no eyewitness.."said Monica..

"I checked the Traffic Cam from the station there and got a partial of our killer...White, male, about five foot ,six, built....crew cut, gret t-shirt, black slacks...but not enough face to get a full view needed for facial recognition..." said Kylie..

"Damn..."said Lt. Cotton...

"Wait a minute..." I said and went in the surveilience room...I mixed a copy of our partial with the copy of the partial Kylie had got from the moon...With the help of a technician, we blended the two sides of the face and ran it through Facial Recognition....It took about an hour...but we got a direct hit...!

''Well Look a there..."I said.

Lt.Cotton smiled..

"I knew you were special....The day I brought you to Homicide...I knew it.." he beamed with pride..

Monica whispered in my ear...

"I knew it too....Ouuuuu I'm going to screw your brains out some time to day..." she said and kissed my cheek.

''I'm going to hold you to that.." I whispered and we kissed softly..

"Ummmmmm.." we moaned.

"Okay, Knock it off you two...What do we have there.?" said Lt. Cotton.

"His name is Vince Matthews, Alias Chris Matthews, Alias Chris Cunningham....He's ex- Navy Seal..Has 28 kills to his credit in service...and hires himself out for mercenary work to whomever...One conviction..Manslaughter...Did five years in Federal Prison, released after two...He's a real heavy hitter Lieutenant." said Kylie.

"I want him found...and brought in...Take all of the men you need.." said Lt. Cotton.

"I checked out his addresses..None here in Philadelphia..One Apartment complex on Luna City..."I said.

"He's here at a hotel somewhere..." said Monica...

"By the way...You talk to your sister today Mo-Mo?" asked Lt. Cotton.

"You mean you haven't?" asked Monica smiling..

''When I left this morning, she was getting dressed...I called her office three times, no answer and I called her smartphone, no answer...That's not like her." he said.

"Hmmm, let me call.." said Monica.   "That's funny...No Answer....Let me call the main number.." said Monica..

Monica got a funny look on her face...

"What's Up Mo-Mo?" I said...

"I called the M.E.'s office and they said that Monique didn't come to work today...That's not like my sister...She probably overslept after the way you put it on her last night." said Monica ,smiling.

"No she was up...she was getting out of the shower and about to get dressed...

She had her clothes laid out.. We were supposed to have lunch  today..." he said.

"I'm pinging her phone...." said Monica...

"What you got baby?" I asked..

"She's at home...but she's not picking up...That's odd..." said Monica.

"Let's....Let's uh go over there.." said Lt. Cotton..

Monica was scanning his thoughts...He was thinking all kinds of things...That Monique was over there in bed with another man...That maybe she had passed out or worse.....She rubbed her Lieutenants arms..

"Lieutenant...My Sister loves you...She has since she first laid eyes on you...I'm not supposed to tell you that...but I know you're worried...I'm sure there is a logical answer to this..Let's go over there." said Monica.

"If I see her or hear anything...I'll call you.." said Kylie..

IV-

Monica and I and Lieutenant Cotton got in my flying car and flew to our Duplex...

It was eerily quiet...

and the door was wide open...

I pulled my gun and arched toward the front door..

Monica pulled her gun and followed me..

Lt. Cotton pulled his gun...

"I'll take the back..." he said.

Monica whispered to me..

"I'm not detecting any thoughts....There is either nobody in here...or.......nobody alive!" she said ,with a slight tear running down her face...

"We don't know that bae..We don't know that...Let's be cool...."I said as we inched inside...

There was nobody inside!!! But Monique's place looked like it had been tossed...Her drawers opened and emptied...Clothes everywhere...

"Our killer has been here...He was looking for that Zip Drive..." I said.

"And he's got Monique..." said Monica..

"Mo-Mo...Nate.. Somebody's been in your place..." said Lt. Cotton...

On our floor, our place was equally a mess...It had been tossed.. papers everywhere...clothes on the floor, closets opened..

"It's Matthews...He's been following us all the time..He wants that Zip Drive...He's got Monique and he's going to trade her for the Zip Drive..."I said.

''We can ping her phone and trace her." said Lt. Cotton.

"Her phone is here...We can't track her.." said Monica..

"DAMN IT!  DAMN IT!! WE ARE AT THAT BASTARD'S MERCY!" said Lt. Cotton...

Monica whispered to me...

"I can find my sister...You know that right?"she said.

"Yeah, but no one else knows that..."I said.

"I need to get away...Keep Lou busy...When I've found her.. I'll call you...Then bring the troops." said Monica.

"Baby please.. Don't try to take this guy alone...He's dangerous...Call me.. Promise.." I said.

"I promise boo..." she said..

She kissed me passionately for a few minutes......


"I'll call you as soon as I get a reading...I promise." she said..

I didn't like the thought of my sister in law being with that mad man....This had not been part of the plan...

Things had gone from bad to Worst...


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