Packaged Deal

Just hours after we had left the empty apartment of suspect Bobby Mcshay...We returned to the very Apartment building that our dead victim was found in and that our kidnap victim was taken from....

"What kind of call was it Sissy?" asked Sharon, who now as Deputy Special Agent in charge of The FBI was now running the investigation...Since it was a kidnapping..

''The voice was electronically altered ,I could tell and the number was from a burner phone...It was masked..I already had Jimmy run it down.."said Sissy as we entered the Apartment complex and entered the sub-basement....

There lying face up....in a pool of blood was Bobby McShay....our person of interest in the murder of our suspect and possibly kidnapping of Margot Scott, daughter of the Deputy of Operations.

Hazel had a team of CSI and Medical Examiner's office personell with her along with an FBI forensics team..

 "That's him...Bobby McShay" said Carlotta,...

 "Yeah...this is him...Two slugs...One to the chest, and one to the head...Killed him instantly..."said Tyriq..

 "Hmmmmmm....Nice and neat...Too neat..."said Jimmy ,looking at the body and going in his pants pocket...He found a wallet with a debit card and two credit cards and about $750.00 dollars in cash..

Carlotta ,Tyriq and Jimmy put on latex gloves and looked at the body...

''Look at this.."said Duke, who found a pistol with a silencer in a plastic bag... "Might be our murder weapon." he said..

"Look at this.... A Smartphone..."said Angie, who picked up a plastic bag with a smartphone in it..."I wonder if your caller ,called you from this phone..?" mused Angie..

"Nobody upstairs heard a thing....As usual" said Hop....

"Or saw anything...The Super said he didn't even know anyone was down here.."said Sirena..

"There isn't a bleachy smell..Maybe we'll glean some clues or something.."said Sharon....

"Let's get this body out of here before a certain Lieutenant finds out and rushes over here with media."I said..

''That's a good idea." said Sissy.

As the body was wrapped up and removed from the building.

II-

24 HOURS LATER-

The man known as "Pink" was sitting in yet another one of the local watering holes he was known to hang out in...

He had his lucky shot glass....

He smiled at the pretty waitress...

''What's your pleasure Mister Pink?" she asked..

"Whiskey my dear!" he laughed....

Lt. Tragg sat down next to him....

"Hello Mr. Snitch." said Lt. Tragg....

Pink hated Lt. Tragg....He wished that Sissy was the one sitting next to him....

"What do you want?" he asked, not smiling.

"Information....What do you know about a playa named Bobby McShay...??? And don't tell me he's a heist guy...I know that...I want to know what he's been into lately..."said Lt. Tragg..

"I don't think he's doing anything lately....On account of the fact he's dead!" said Pink...

"Dead? Don't play games with me you two bit punk, this guy has been implicated in a murder and possibly the kidnapping of the Deputy of Operations daughter, Margot Scott...."snarled Lt. Tragg...

''Maybe....but he's dead!  Where have you been? Sissy and her detectives found his body in the basement or sub-basement of that girl's apartment building a day ago....They found a pistol with a silencer in a plastic bag and another plastic bag with the smartphone somebody made the ransom call from....It's on the news man...That aint just floatin around the street...Everybody knows about it...The pistol had his prints on it...and they found the girl's prints and DNA in that sub-basement..."said Pink...

Lieutenant Tragg pulled out his tablet and qued up the latest news stories...and there was Sissy, Carlotta, Tyriq,Jimmy, Duke and myself...in a photo....

announcing that they had solved the murder of Benjamin Jefferson...but that the suspect, Bobby McShay, a career criminal was probably responsible for the kidnapping of the Deputy of Operations daughter, the still missing Margot Scott...

Hazel and Sharon said that they found DNA and Fingerprints belonging to the missing Margot Scott and the now deceased suspect, Bobby McShay...So they ascertained that she had been held hostage in the sub-basement of her own building...At least for a while...They said they had no further information at this time..

"Did you see it?" asked Pink who drank his finger of whiskey.....

"I saw it....I should have been told about this....I'm still the senior officer on this case..." he said..,

"Yeah? Lt. Sissy Van Buren and FBI Deputy Special Agent in charge, Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins said that they were running the investigation..."said Pink, trying hard not to laugh...

''We'll see about that...Who was McShay running with?" asked Lt. Tragg...

"You may find this hard to believe, but I don't know...Mcshay and I didn't exactly run in the same circles...He just got out of the joint last year...He was pretty much to himself...That's all I know.."said Pink..

"I'd better not find out that you knew more...I swear.."said Lt. Tragg...

"Believe me, you won't" laughed Pink, who paid his bill and tipped the waitress....

''Evening Lieutenant." said Pink, who walked out...Laughing himself silly.

III-

Sissy and the rest of us sat around the headquarters conference room....

"Our murder is down....but the girl is still missing.."said Sissy..

"A nice package deal....Now we have another murder..." said Carlotta..

"Hop, Jimmy and I have been on the street cams and the business cams ...."said Sirena.... ''Whoever killed him,didn't leave by car..They must of left on foot, because we got nothing...We are still looking though." she said.

 "What we do know is that that girl was held in that basement for a little while...but we didn't find any footprints,other than McShay's  and no DNA or Prints other than McShay and Margot Scott. Her perfume was all over that basement.."said Hop..

"Somebody gave us a nice packaged deal....A third party....They gave us our murder suspect..That gun was the murder weapon...and that phone had only two numbers on it...The call made to you boss lady and a call made to a payphone..We are looking at the film footage on that." said Jimmy...

"Forget it....Whoever made that call ,made it to McShay....We have footage of him on the phone.."said Angie.

''So our kidnapper and murderer and mastermind is someone else....Someone in the shadows, someone not seen.."said Sharon.

"I looked into the Deputy of Operations financials....I thought it was strange that a kidnapper would ask for that kind of dough.." said Duke...

"We found out that he married well...The deputy of Operations wife is an Investment Banker and she made some brilliant investments...She's loaded..."said Sharon...

"But who would know that?" I asked..

"It's a matter of Public Record...It's not hard to look up Keith....Just like we looked it up.."said Tyriq..

"But whoever is behind this is somebody close to the Deputy of Operations...Somebody that probably knew this.."said Angie...

''Hey guys...Dummy up."said Carlotta..

"I still should be appraised of the specifics of this case Sissy....I am still apart of this investigation..."said Lt. Tragg..

"Bobby McShay killed Benjamin Jefferson...we found him shot to death in the sub-basement of Margot Scott's apartment building...we have the murder weapon that cleared ballistics with his prints and DNA on it,but nothing else..We have a Smartphone used to call me and direct me to the body...It only has Mcshay's fingerprints and DNA on it and we have footage of McShay taking a call from a pay phone ,coming from this number...We don't know who killed him...What more do you need to know?" asked Sissy..

''Who Killed Mcshay? Where is Margot Scott?? " asked Lt. Tragg..

"Right now we don't know..We have a request for a quarter of a million dollars...The caller ,who used a disguised ,electronically altered voice said we will get instructions in a few days telling us how the money should be delivered.." said Sharon..

"AND THAT'S IT?"asked Lt. Tragg...

"What more do you want? It's been 48 hours...We've been doing all we can..." said Sissy...

"Unacceptable...She's still missing...and there is another person involved and you don't know the identity of the person..."said Lt. Tragg..

"Art...Come on, give it a rest....They've done incredible work so far...They've closed the initial murder.."said Captain Cantrell ,who was just walking into the office...

"They didn't crack anything...They were handed a packaged deal by the mastermind, who obviously double crossed him." said Lt. Tragg..

"Still the facts remain that the initial murder is down...The FBI is handling the kidnapping end..."said Captain Cantrell...

"All these years...You've been in love with Sissy since she was a young detective...she'sgot you wrapped around her finger..." said Lt. Tragg,...

''Watch it Arty...Don't go down this road...If you had been working harmoniously with them like the Deputy of Operations asked you to do...You'd of known this...Stop being a Showboat and a Grandstander...Be a team player...And stay out of the media...This comes from the Deputy of Operations....He called me and told me to give you that message..."said Captain Cantrell..

"Ohhhh he told you that to tell me right?" asked Lt. Tragg...

"He did...You can call him and ask him yourself Arty.."said Lt. Tragg...

"HMMMPH!" said Lt. Tragg, who stormed out of the office...

"That guy is gonna bust a gasket one day..."said Duke..

"We should be so lucky..." said Tyriq..

"Stoppppppppp you two."said Sirena..

 "He's right you know.." said Carlotta,laughing..

 ''Regardless...we have work to do..We need to take Deputy Scott's life apart...See if we can find anybody in his past, who might be disgruntled.and might want revenge.." said Sissy..

 "Duke and I will look at his old cases.." said Angie..

"I'll Help you.." said Carlotta..

"Yeah, So will I...Let's get to cracking...We might have to interview some people tomorrow.." said

 "My people are still searching that building to see if there is any additional DNA or prints around.."said Hazel.

 "Hubby, you Jimmy and me need to check the street,business and traffic cams from the opposite direction and see if we pick up anything or anyone heading toward or leaving that building.." said Sharon.

 "We are already on it.."said Hop..

''Ange...It's gonna be a long night tonight.." said Jimmy...

Eddie C.. Sissy's husband walked in...He had a case of beer and four boxes of Pizzas....

"Hey guys..I got wings in the car, could somebody help me?" he asked..

 "This guy is right on time..." said Duke...

"I'll say.." said Jimmy, smiling...

"I anticipated a long work night.." said Sissy..

"I sure wished we were staying in Copland for this.." laughed Sharon...

IV-

It was a warm summer night...

Carlotta and I were taking a break and walking along the city streets...

"This is nice....I remember this neighborhood.."I said..

"You do?" she asked..

"A few years back...You and I had just started seeing each other...That Drug kid, Tray Jones, got murdered, right across the street...You and Tyriq caught the case...It was before they built these three condos and that loft...and that small shopping center...This whole area was just vacant lots... I remember...Tyriq saying

"Release the body."  as people came with stretchers and lifted the now lifeless body of Tray up and put it in the M.E.'s wagon....I grabbed your arm gently and pulled you to me.

"Uh Detective Rodriguez...Could I uh have a word in private?" I said.

"Huh? , oh.....uh yes." you said and we walked across the street, away from the crowd behind the restaraunt into a vacant parking lot!" I said.

"Wow , you remembered that?"asked Carlotta.

"Yeah, I remember everything about you.." I said..

We were behind the building where Margot Scott lived...I looked up...The street camera hadn't been fixed yet...It was still off...

"That camera is still disabled.."I said softly...

I lifted her up and sat her on the stone wall entrance to the sub -basement...I began kissing her passionately...

"Ummmmmmm papi....ouuuu, you feel so good.." she said..

I put my hands under her skirt and began slipping her panties down...She didn't resist me..or look at me strange..

She kept kissing me, softer, slower...Soon ,I unbuckled my trousers and entered her...softly,slowly....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Papi...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she moaned.

We made love right there in the back, right there on the wall...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Carlotta,I'm going crazy."I said...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu papi...."she whispered softly between soft ,slow kisses....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh girl....ummmmmmmmmmmmmm..."I moaned softly....

I lifted her up...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...Ayyyye Mios dios..." she squealed happily and continued to kiss me..

An HOUR AND A HALF PASSED BY... of slow motion lovemaking in the back of this massive building, hidden from the street.

I came so hard....I thought I was going to pass out...

so did Carlotta....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuu papi...Ohhhhhhhhhh my goodness..Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" she said, breathing heavily...  What was this?..What did we just do?" she asked..

''We just made better memories." I said as we fixed our clothes and prepared to walk back to work..

(TO BE CONTINUED)