What A Doll

PHILADELPHIA, 2041-

A rare summer Saturday Morning...We were all off today...Monica made breakfast of Strawberry Waffles and Omelets and hash browns... and we were joined by

my sister in law, Dr. Monique Talbert, who looked anything but a doctor this morning...

She had teased her reddish hair and had on a nice white flowing skirt.....and her husband, our boss, Lt. Frankie Cotton Jr.

"My compliments to the chef.." said Lt. Cotton as we all chowed down...

"Why thank you.." said Monica...

I smiled at my wife and checked out her sexy legs...She was wearing a purple romper...I certainly felt like a romp with her in the bed this morning...Shame we had company...

Since she's a mutant and can read or rather hear thoughts...She blushed...She blushed something terrible..

Monique smiled..

"You'll never guess who I saw last week Mo-Mo...One of your old flames....and no not a certain detective or FBI agent before you ask...This guy goes back farther..." laughed Monique..

"Oh My God...Evan?? Evan Doll?" she said ,already reading Monique's mind...

"You know this habit you have of reading minds is getting old sister...Nobody can surprise you.." joked Monique ,who was used to her sister, having grown up in the house with her mutant twin all these years..

"I'm sorry sis...I can't help it...You know how I get..." laughed Monica..

"So who is this Evan Doll?? An old flame? High School??" College?? Nate don't you want to know?"joked Lt. Cotton..

"As a matter of fact, I do..."I said , arching my eyebrow and jokingly staring at my wife...

"He used to be sweet on me in High School...We both were kind of like nerds...." said Monica..

"Yeah they were....but nobody thought of Monica as a nerd...Every boy in that school wanted to get in her panties back then.." remembered Monique..

"Or yours...it wasn't just me..."said Monica.

"I can certainly understand that.." I said, rubbing her legs under the table and devilishly trying to run my hands up her romper..Only she moved my hands this time..We had company...

"He was kind of shy at first....Then he found his courage....He started walking me home from school, carrying my books...and talking to me after class...in study hall and at lunch...He had a little money, He bought me lunch at first ,then he started taking me to lunch, during school hours...I thought he was sweet..."said Monica..

"Butttttttttttt you didn't see him as boyfriend material..." I said..

"Well no, not at first..." admitted Monica..

"She was crazy about Sky Reynolds.." laughed Monique..

"Let me guess...He was a jock...Football team??...Basketball team?? Track Team??" asked Lt. Cotton...

"Try all three and he lettered in all three sports...He was cool, real smooth and I used to melt everytime he was around.."gushed Monica..

"He didn't know you were alive right?" asked Lt. Cotton...

"Hmmmph!  Tell him sis!"laughed Monique..

"Ohhh he knew...and he wanted me badly...but just for one thing...the obvious...and nothing beyond that...My dad peeped his card from day one...So did my mom...and to tell the truth I knew..His thoughts just raged...Like his hormones and he was always trying to get me in a corner or pull me in a room somewhere..And when I wouldn't easily give it up...He told everybody that I was a baby...and jive..."said Monica..

"This nucka then tried to hit on me...He had some idea that I was easier....Told me he was just talking to Mo-Mo to get to me...After I finished laughing at him , I cussed his ass out...."

"I was hurt.....Evan Doll used this as his chance to move in on me...He knew just what to say and how to say it...and even though he wasn't who I wanted ...He was who I went out with.... I uh....Uh...lost my virginity to him....I think he lost his to me...It was an awkward ten minutes.."said Monica..

 "Damn...ten minutes.." I said in astonishment...

 "Everybody is not the all night lothario you are brother in law..." said Monique, smiling at me and rubbing my back...I know she'd heard our many late night sessions through her air vent...

Lt. Cotton cracked up.....

"It uh did get better right?" he asked...

"Of course....and Evan and I were together for a year and a half...I went to the prom with him....Having me improved his stature..." said Monica, smiling..

"I'll say...He went from nerd to the second most popular boy on campus...Nobody could believe that a guy like him had gotten my sister...I couldn't believe it..."said Monique..

We continued to eat....

II-

 "So what happened?  There has to be a reason why you're married to Nate here and not Evan Doll?" laughed Lt. Cotton...

Monica smiled and took my hand...

"Nate is different...I wanted him...and as it turned out...Nate wanted me....."she said and smiled at me..

Funny ,because when we first met...You would have never known that....Monica kept me at an arms distance for the longest time before I kind of grew on her...

"Evan got a big head...Like Monique said...He became quite popular because he had me..and soon he began to act it...Blowing off our dates...Talking to me any kind of way in public and even trying to hit on other girls...Girls who wouldn't have given him the time of day if he wasn't dating me..Truthfully,I was looking for a way to break up with him the whole time...A loop hole...He inadvertedly gave it to me." said Monica..

"So you dropped him." I said.

"Right after the prom..."laughed Monica...

"Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!Go to the prom first...That's my girl!" said Lt. Cotton,laughing...

"He took it very hard....He used to stand outside our window and throw rocks up to the window trying to get Mo-Mo's attention...Apologizing, singing every break up song available..."said Monique..who smiled, remembering it!

"Ohhh wowww !Do people still do that?" I said laughing out loud..

''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mann"laughed Lt. Cotton..

"If he wasn't so goofy, it actually would have been kind of sweet....Of course no girl ever broke your hearts did they? No girl ever made you two cool guys cry right?" asked Monique..

"Yeah,plenty.....I've cried over quite a few...I wasn't exactly the smoothest guy either in high school...."I admitted..

Monica sat in my lap and gave me a soft, slow sensual kiss....

"You got better with age baby!" she said and leaned her head into my shoulder...

"My heart's been broken, but I didn't do any of that...Throwin rocks up at nobody's window...He's lucky he didn't break it." said Lt. Cotton...

Monique laughed that sexy laugh both her and her sister could laugh when they knew something you didn't..

"Uhhhhh, actually,he did break the window..." she said..

"You don't break the window of Detective Ray Talbert!!!! My dad had him in custody within three hours...My Mom and I had to plead with my dad to drop the charges....He did...Evan didn't bother me anymore...The last time I saw him was at graduation...He apologized to me...and I let him kiss me one last time...That's the last time I saw him.." said Monica...

"So what happened to him?" I asked.

"He went to M.I.T. ,graduated with an engineering degree and started his own company..."Living Doll Robotics"  He's been pretty successful he says." said Monique..

"He married?" asked Monica.

"He said he was married briefly, but that it didn't work out....He lives here in Philly where he runs his company....He asked me about you....I told him you're a homicide detective and that you're married..He looked sad..."said Monique..

"Well that's too bad...I imagine he is sad...but he can't have my baby, she's mine!" I said...Hugging Monica..

Monica laughed.....

"Yes bae...I'm all yours.." said Monica..

"Sure about that Mo Mo? He's got his own company...He's rich now!" laughed Lt. Cotton...

"Frankie !!" laughed Monique....

"Nahhhhhhhhhhhh Nate is a keeper!I wouldn't trade him for all of the gold in China" laughed Monica, who hugged me...

III-

It was a beautiful day...From a distance we could see all of the pretty balloons floating in the sky...

It was a mellow day in the city....So why...Why did someone have to get themselves killed today???

A little over an hour later...Monica's phone rang...

"Hello? Yes this is she....Yes...There are no other Homicide Detectives on deck today?  Well call em again...Somebody has got to be there....You know what? Never mind...My partner and I will be there..." she said, exasperated...

''We got a murder?? We couldn't possibly....It's our day off...I know other detectives are on call today!"I said..

"I don't believe this...You took the call Mo-Mo?" said Monique...

''Ahhhh...I didn't have anything to do today anyway..."said Monica.....

"Well speak for yourself....I'm not going out.."laughed Lt. Cotton...

"Seriously....You not goin out Frankie?"  asked Monique seductively....

"No...Nobody told Mo-Mo to agree to that call.." he laughed...

IV-

As the four of us approached the scene of the crime...I looked at Lt. Cotton..

''Don't you ever call me whipped again..." I said..

"Hey man ,look at her....I know you know what I'm talkin bout...Who in their right mind is gonna tell either of them no?" said Lt. Cotton..

"You do have a point..." I said..

Inside...we found the bodies of a man and a woman....The man lying on the living room floor, lifeless eyes staring at the ceiling...the woman in the kitchen ,face down on the floor...

Monica looked at the officer who called...He was kind of sweet on her...He basically called her because he wanted to check her bodacious body out...Not because he couldn't get in contact with another homicide cop..

She checked her anger and looked at the body...

"His neck is broken...and somebody has really done a job on him...wow..." she said...

Monique and I looked at the woman in the kitchen....

"My god, her neck is crushed..."I said..

"Hmmm...I wonder if one guy did this...or two..."said Monica looking at the body....

Lieutenant Cotton studied the scene...

"There was a terrific fight in here...but nothing was stolen...Or at least it doesn't appear to be..." he said..

An officer came up to him...

''We found their wallets and purse..filled with credit cards and cash..." he said.

"Get a team in here to dust for prints, blood, DNA whatever.." said Monica to the officers...

"Put some guys on the street cameras and the security cameras..." I said.

"The security camera was disabled detective..."said another officer..

"Damn it! Who are they anyway?" I asked.

"George and Molly Dodd....Very, Very connected shareholders in a number of companies...They are also philantropists..."said Monica..

"You got all of that from their wallet and purse?" I asked..

"No...I googled them after I got an ID...and all of their awards for charities are all around this house.." said Monica..

I smiled...

''That's my girl...Stick with her Nate...She's going to make a fine detective out of you yet." said a smiling Lt. Cotton..

"Let me get these bodies out of here...We know who they are and their possible cause of death.."said Monique...

"Go ahead...release the bodies.." said Monica...

We watched as the bodies were bagged and carried out....

What started out as a beautiful and uneventful day was now any other day and with a murder case to
boot...

Unknown to us..a man was just across the street...A man who knew Monica...A man from her past...Evan Doll...

"Oh My God...That's Monica Talbert.....It can't be....After all these years....What is she doing here?" he said.

TO BE CONTINUED