A speak easy called simply..."Whispers in downtown Philadelphia.
Ralph Halibut sat in a booth with Velma Blue..
"You been hard to catch up with baby...Aint been answering your phone or your texts...Aint been home lately...What's Up? I wanted to do the Funky Chicken with you last night." he said.
Velma sighed....She had spent the last few days in Atlantic City with a girlfriend..and thinking..She was tired of being the pass around pack for sleazy ,yet powerful men...First Frank Castle, then Bert Johnson...and now this horrible smelling and ugly man, Ralph Halibut.....Frank gave her a nice car and plenty of Jewelry, a credit card and took her on shopping sprees in New York City and to his house in the Hamptons...Bert Johnson was married, but he gave her Jewelry,plenty of money and nice trips to Miami, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New York and a nice Condo... This guy, Ralph Halibut had bought her a new car and set her up in a nice Condo, but that was it...No trips, no spending money...All he wanted was sex...Constant...He never got enough and he smelled horrible...she had already gotten rid of several sheets and pillow cases drenched with his sweat and saliva and cum...She didn't want him to touch her,let alone kiss her.
"I've been away....Just thinking..." she said.
"Yeah well while you been thinkin...The cops found Frank Castle's body where I had it hid until I was ready to permenately dispose of it...and in Bayside...nearly 40 of my associates have been arrested and indicted. My money is kinda short and I've needed to do the funky chicken..For relief..
Mt attorney has all them guys taking a structured plea...We gonna take care of their families while they do they time and this way they don't implicate me...That's costing me a bundle...Now if you makin OTHER plans...just think about that condo I put you in and that fancy car you drivin...It could all be gone baby..just like that....." said Ralph Halibut..
"I'm not a whore..."protested Velma Blue..
"Sheeeet girl, get real...You spread em for the highest bidder and I have always been the highest bidder...You are bought and paid for baby."said Ralph Halibut...
"Excuse Me Mr. Halibut, If I could just have a moment of your time...My name is Josephine Boyd...I'm an Attorney..One of the Attorneys representing ADA Britt Reid and..." said Josie..
"SHIT! A SUBPEONA....JUST WHAT I DON'T NEED" said Ralph Halibut
who knocked over the table and his drinks and ran for all he was worth out of the speakeasy and down the street..
"DAMN IT...I HATE WHEN THEY RUN." said Josie, who took off her heels and prepared to run after him..
"Ouuuuu girl, those shoes are fly..."said Velma..
"Thanks girl.."said Josie as she ran out of the bar..
Ralph Halibut ran down the street and down a driveway....with Josie in hot pursuit...
As he was coming out....Beverly's shiny BMW blocked him....
"Mr. Halibut...Mr. Halibut...Don't be like that.." cooed Beverly..
He spun and charged in the opposite direction....
"Ohhh no he didn't.." said a surprised Beverly...who locked her doors and went after him in hot pursuit...
"I just got a run in my stockings....you jack ass....You're gonna pay for that" she said as she chased him..
Her husband, Nelson emerged from another driveway...
"Goin somewhere fat boy.?" he said..
.
Nelson hit him with a football block and flipped him....He fell into the street...
"Ouuuuuu that looked like that hurt!" said Beverly as she ran up on the scene...
By then Josie had caught up with him and put the summons in his fat little hands.
Ralph Halibut was still lying in the street ,trying to catch his breath.....
Just then, Two police cars drove up...
Lt. Tragg and four uniformed officers got out..
"Why thank you! We've been looking for Mr. Halibut.."said Lt. Tragg as the four uniformed officers picked him up and handcuffed him..
"We were serving him with a summons to appear in court as a witness in our case." said Nelson..
''Subpeona?" asked Lt. Tragg.
Beverly passed him the subpeona... She had no smart remarks tonight...She was tired and angry...She had ripped her pantyhose..
Josie ran up...She was out of breath...She too had ripped her pantyhose..
"Well...Say fella, you're in demand...You gotta appear as a witness in a murder trial here and when that's done..The boys in Bayside want to talk to you about an assortment of things.Looks like your dance card is full." said Lt. Tragg smiling..
"Hook him up! Read him his rights boys....He'll be at trial and in the meanwhile you'll know where to find him...Tell Olivia I send my regards." snickered Lt. Tragg, who was amused at Olivia's youngsters, out of breath after tracking down Ralph Halibut..
And so back at our duplex-
''So Lt. Tragg has him huh? But you did serve him! That's not a bad thing!!...He can't flee..." said Olivia.
"Something is going on here..." I said.
"Yeah a lot of information is flying around real fast....To a lot of people..We were leaving Stoleys...When I got a call, an anonymous call saying that he was at Speakeasy's....and directions on how to get there..I remembered that I had copies of his summons in my car... Josie and I had picked them up earlier in the day, so we headed there. I'm guessing Lt. Tragg got the same call!"said Beverly..
''We thought it would be easy..but we prepared for the eventuallity of him running just like you taught us Donnie Ray." said Josie.
"You should've seen the block I put on him Donnie Ray...You'd of been proud." said Nelson.. He passed Josie her shoes...
"You forgot these...I went back and got them.." he said.
"Thanks Nelson...I wish you could replace this pantyhose I tore...I just bought these.."sighed Josie.
"I ripped mine too chasing that rat.." sighed Beverly...who had a large run up the leg of hers..
"Awww, Don't worry girls...I'm buying your next pair...both of you...It's on me...You done good work ,all of you!." said Olivia ,giving them a salute..
"Good Job...We'll see you in the morning.."I said , and they all said goodbye and left... I locked the door...
"Now where were we?" I asked..Kissing Olivia passionately and backing her into the corner...
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yessssssssssssssssssssssss..I was about to get it! Wasn't I?" she moaned..
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BABYYYYY! YES YOU WERE!!!" I moaned myself..
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, promises, promises!" she said softly..
We didn't make it to the bedroom...We wound up on the couch ,making sweet love for the next SIX TO SEVEN HOURS...
"Ummmmmmmm.." I moaned.. "OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! give it to me!" she cooed.. "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" was all I could manage to get out... and then on the living room floor...
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU DONNIE RAYYYYY!" she moaned....
"Don't stop!" she said to me in between hot smouldering kisses....
We were standing near our bedroom door kissing.....
We walked into our bedroom and collapsed on our bed...
''I can't stop..." I said....nearly out of breath... "I knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" she moaned... ANOTHER THREE HOURS of sweet love making continued..
Standing outside of our Duplex/Office, unknown to us was Velma Blue..
She laughed..."Just a matter of time, That Bad Fish as they call him will be out of my life"..she thought.
II-
TWO WEEKS LATER-
First Day of trial The arguments began in the Murder trial of ADA Britt Reid of Bayside, accused of killing Attorney Bert Johnson of Philadelphia.
Judge Percy Reynolds was presiding..
Olivia and Beverly had fought hard to win this in the preliminary hearings...
But ADA Margaret Barnes had proven to be a very tenacious and intelligent prosecutor and very well prepared...
Nelson and Josie had been spectacular on Voir dire, getting 10 of the 12 witnesses they wanted...
ADA Margaret Barnes argued that ADA Britt Reid was a good man and a very decent ADA...but was so wound up, was wound up so tight that he took things to the extreme and killed Bert Johnson, out of rage ,because he wasn't getting anywhere during his corruption probe.
She presented 10 witnesses ,all from Bayside who testified how serious and uptight he was and how wound up he was...
ADA Britt Reid hung his head..He knew them...They weren't his friends..
On Cross ,Olivia hung five of them...She brought up the fact that Britt had given these five, all attorneys in the D.A.'s office working under him poor performance evaluations and questioned if that was why they had been willing to testify against him..Of course they vehemetly denied it, but the damage was done...The Jury had heard it. Had seen the evidence.
ADA Barnes objected vigorously to this line of questioning, but she was over-ruled.
Beverly then asked the other five witnesses on cross if their personal dislike of Britt Reid was responsible for their actions...and she brought up records of his recent prosecutions of friends and relatives of the five witnesses...
Thus harpooning their testimonies..
Josie went a step further...She asked all ten witnesses if they were psychologists , if they had any training in psychology...If not, then how were they qualified to make any ruling on the mental state of her client?
ADA Barnes objected bitterly, but was over ruled again...
She then paraded Cops that were on the scene, Crime Scene Investigators, Medical Examiner Office people and Forensics specialist to the jury...None of who was challenged..
Then she presented the murder weapon..
Nelson went to work... He mentioned that no fingerprints or DNA was found on the weapon and he had the Coroners report that stated that the angle the gun was fired into the victims chest was fired by a right handed shooter who was about five foot nine or ten....ADA Reid is left handed and well over six feet he noted and smiled at me..
I had provided that last bit of evidence to him..
Gloria Renee sat in the visitor's section smiling..She was a fan...a big fan...
Lt. Tragg kept his hand up under ADA Barnes skirt the entire time, rubbing her legs and palming her behind..almost ignoring all of the testimony....
She giggled a little and removed his hands several times...She squeezed the bulge in his trousers and softly stroked it..whispering..
"Calm down, wait until the recess..."
Lt. Tragg jumped up and ran out of the courtroom abruptly...She apparently had gotten him so excited , he had to excuse himself..
No one knew why he had jumped up so abruptly and run out...
He returned shortly with a pleased as punch look on his face and a big smile...and a cloth, wiping his brow...
''Arthur, there is something I have to tell you after the trial is over." she said.
"YOU'RE PREGNANT??" he asked..
They had been making love at his house and at her condo a lot lately.. ,sometimes twice a day since this case had begun... He wondered..We were glad we were able to eat peacefully without his usual ranting and raving...We didn't see him much...and when we did ,he was in a considerably better mood..He didn't mention the trial at all.. Unusual for him.
"Noooo, not hardly...but I'll tell you after the trial is over." she said..removing his hands from under her skirt..
"Stop it now!" she said. III-
Margaret Barnes closed her case...
She had convinced maybe half of the jury that Britt might be guilty...
We had to convince all of them that he was not..
Olivia and Beverly both promised the jury that they wouldn't keep them long..They reminded them that experts had said that the shooter was five eight or five nine and right handed and that Britt Reid was well over six feet and a lefty.
They didn't deny that he had been at Bert Johnson's condo that night, but they said he had left just minutes before his killer arrived..a man he knew well...Because he let him in..There was no forced entry.
Nelson reminded them that the gun which was discarded outside the condo had no DNA or fingerprints on it..
Then they called Ralph Halibut..
He looked agitated to even being called , but he came..
"Mr. Darlington, where were you on the night of Bert Johnson's murder?" asked Olivia directly..
"I believe I was out of town..that night.." he said smiling.. He then whispered to Olivia.."That's a beautiful dress you have on..Why don't you and I get together after this is over? I find you extremely attractive...I can be very discreet..." he said.
Olivia laughed.."How bout we not?" She showed him a photo which was time stamped of his car, just a block from Bert Johnson's condo..
"This is a time stamped photo taken from a Traffic cam of your car parked one block from Bert Johnson's..The time is 9:40 pm... This is another photo of your car in the same place, taken by the camera from the ATM across the street from where you parked...and your credit card slip, from the parking meter you used that night..so try again." said Olivia.
"Mr. Halibut,it was hard...but we have a darn good investigator...We looked at some Street cam photos taken at 9:55 pm..and look who we found coming out of the building....THAT'S YOU! You dropped something in the trash can, the same trash can where the police found the gun..."said Beverly..
"SPECULATION YOUR HONOR...MR. Halibut is not on trial here."said ADA Barnes..who looked at Lt. Tragg and shook her head...
She liked Artie, she thought, but he was not a very good detective...Olivia definitely had an advantage, she thought to herself..
Judge Reynolds yawned...
"Over ruled...Continue." he said.
Josie continued...
"Isn't it true that you are the subject of a corruption probe in Bayside...as we speak and that your partners, Frank Castle and the late Bert Johnson were getting too hot , ADA Britt Reid was getting too close...He has just recently indicted 39 of your partners.. So you had to get rid of one or both of them to keep yourself from being indicted..?" asked Josie..
"I'm going to take the fifth amendment on that and not answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me.." said Ralph Halibut , who was looking guiltier by the second..
"I move to supress any mention of Frank Castle and the Corruption Case in Bayside particulars."said ADA Barnes..
"So moved , stick to the facts that are pertinent to the night in question." said The Judge.. It was the first time he had ruled in ADA Barnes's favor.
"Mr. Halibut...I have a witness here...You didn't see him...He was coming up the back steps of the condo, as you were exiting and he saw you that night..and he saw the gun you had in your hands, a black.22 caliber pistol...You had it in a plastic bag didn't you?" said Olivia.
"Mr. Jackson will you come up?" asked Beverly,..
A tall thin dark skinned man stood up..
Suddenly, Ralph Halibut remembered..He began to sweat....He remembered rushing past that man in the stairwell, He was sloppy drunk...THEN! Now he had on a suit, a haircut and a shave and looked very sober...How did they find him? He wondered.
"Alright..Alright...You got me! I shot Bert!!!...but it was in self defense...We argued..He attacked me..I had to defend myself.. I didn't even know Reid had been there until after he was arrested.."he said.
"And You thought you hit the jackpot didn't you? Self Defense? One or two shots maybe...but you emptied a whole clip in him...Oh and looky here...you're five foot eight and you're right handed...Hmmmm, co-incidence?" said Nelson..."No further questions." he said and smiled.
Ralph Halibut looked at Nelson like he wanted to strangle him...He peered at me with an Icy cold hatred..
I had my arm around Olivia's waste....
"I believe that concludes our case." said Beverly.
"The Defense rests." said Josie..
Ralph Halibut knew he had stepped in it....He didn't expect this to be such a mess...He actually thought he be helping to put Britt Reid behind bars...Instead..Britt was going to go free and it looked like he was going to be behind bars...For a very long time.
"In light of this new evidence...The People move to drop all charges against ADA Britt Reid...You have my sincere apologies sir.." said ADA Margaret Barnes..
"So Moved..The Jury is discharged...Mr. Reid, you are free to go.." said Judge Reynolds..
"Bailifs, take Mr. Halibut into Custody..."said the Judge,shaking his head and looking at Lt. Tragg in disdain...Here was another man he had wrongly arrested..
Lt. Tragg looked stunned..How could he have once again been so off? He wondered.
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" said Britt Reid..who was happy to be exonerated...and happier still that he had made his corruption case..His election was almost a shoe in.
"Britt you're free.."said Gloria..
She kissed him passionately...She had been kissing him a lot lately..along with
marathon love making sessions in his hotel room all week long...She had never expected this, not from him..It seemed like he never got enough and this was all he wanted to do all week long..
She was exhausted...but happy that she had finally gotten him....
He apparently wasn't so uptight and strait laced after all...
"I suppose I've just blown any job I was hoping to have with you haven't I?said Margaret Barnes..
"Noooo, not at all...You took the case given you and you did a superb job...Just not superb enough thank God!" he laughed.."I look forward to seeing you in two weeks Ms. Barnes..You'll make a fine ADA in Bayside."said Britt Reid , who turned and hugged Olivia..
"Thank you soooooo much dear friend...Thank you for everything.." he said.
"You are sooo welcome Britt and make Gloria Renee an honest woman.."said Olivia..
"Yes...She stuck by your side through this whole thing.." said Beverly...who winked at Gloria Renee.
"You got him girl." she said.
"Thanks Girlfriend.."whispered Gloria..
"Alls well that ends well." said Nelson...
"Wow, nice one..Nice work Donnie Ray.."
"That's why Liv pays me the big bucks...Britt, I want you and Gloria to come to my birthday party at Blue Bar in a week from today.."I said..
"Wouldn't miss it for the world.." said Britt..
IV-
A Doorbell Rang..
Lt. Tragg came to his door..He was getting ready to head to Curly's..
"Hi Artie, I have something to tell you...but I'd rather make love first...I'm like super horny.." she said.
He smiled..
''Welllllllllllllllllllllll….so am I." he said.."Come in" he said..
Within the next TWO HOURS ,they were kissing passionately and wound up in his bedroom
making love for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS... The bed was loud and noisy and squeaked loudly...The headboard was slamming hard against the wall...
He had brought her to orgasm at least five times..She was amazed at his stamina... "He's a machine.", she mused..
and later on in the morning on his couch making sweet love for another FOUR HOURS... "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, he is scary...she thought...My god, he's a machine..she thought, sweating hard and having at least two more intense orgasms.... "He doesn't get enough!!!" she thought..
"What did you have to tell me babe?" he asked ADA Barnes sometime later as they sat on his couch catching their breath...
"That was my last case as an ADA in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office...In two weeks I start a new job as an ADA in Bayside.. I'm moving to Bayside..When I get settled..I'll send you my address and you can spend a weekend with me if you like.." she said..
"Ohhh geeez..YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" he said..
Within minutes they were kissing on his couch...Their clothes were off
and he had her on the floor pounding into her doggie style.. "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned.. "OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ARTHURRRRRRRRRRRR!" she screamed..
She left that afternoon..Totally satisfied and exhausted....
As for us...
We celebrated at Josie's...
It was a nice crowd tonight...
Plenty of Beers..
and Olivia and Beverly's favorites...Citris Martinis.
Old Halibut must have a good lawyer...He's only being charged with Manslaughter in the Bert Johnson case..That's 10-15 max.." I said.
''Yeah, but the Bayside Corruption Charges are going to land him another 15...It appears somebody flipped , turned States Evidence " said Olivia..
"That's 30 years...a life sentence for that greasy bastard...Either way you look at it..The so called Bad Fish is Tanked..And nobody is charging him with Frank Castle's murder..They aren't even looking into that."said Beverly..
"Lt. Tragg will probably wind up arresting the wrong person for it.."laughed Nelson...
"Yeah...Keeping us in business." laughed Josie as we all enjoyed our drinks and listened to the music.
EPILOUGE-
Beverly was as good as her word..
They rented Blue Bar out and invited all of our friends to my birthday party..Philly invaded Bayside tonight..
"This is sooo nice...We've got to come here alone Lem.."said Zoey...
"I was thinkin the same thing doll."said her husband, Lem..
"Ouuuu I love this bar.."said Kayla, Olivia and Beverly's cousin..
"Nelson told me about it...I just never got around to coming here."said her husband Ray..
"This is like my third time here..I love it.."said Dabnis Coley..
"I didn't know you could rent this place out.."said Jazzy..
"I imagine it cost a pretty penny.."said Jessica Sanchez-Burrows.
"Olivia and Beverly just got this town's next African American District Attorney off of a murder rap, I'm sure they have some pretty pennies.."said her husband Chip...
"This is sooo nice...I love this place."said Alfreda..
"Yeah,I like it too."said ADA Rockland Cambridge..
"This was the perfect place for a party...A private Party.." said Yvette..
"Even though it's just us in here...It is Private.." said Gary Lockwood..
"Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!" said Keith Jones..
"This is so nice, so relaxing...A private party."said Bee Bee.
"You call this private?" laughed Kahlil..
"It's just us friends here..we know everybody here."said Sofia..
"Sofia's right.."laughed Jade.
"Wow...all these cops and lawyers here...who's minding the store? Lt. Tragg?" laughed Danny Ho,.
"Don't mention his name."said Lt. Sissy Van Buren
"Let sleeping dogs lie.."laughed her husband, Eddie C.
"Yeah let's just relax and enjoy this party....I don't want to think about work..."said Duke Baylor..
"Me neither and especially not HIM!" said Hazel refferring to Lt. Tragg.
"Babes...I might bring you here for your birthday, just me and you."said Tyriq..
"That would be nice ." said Sirena.
"Having a good time Chocolate Cupcake."said Jimmy to his wife ,Angie..
''The best."laughed Angie.
"This is nice...I can't believe I didn't know it was here.."said ADA Keith Wallace.
"I can't believe you didn't know it either Papi."said his wife, Carlotta.
"Wow...We don't go out that much, but when we do...Here is a cool hang out spot."said Hop.
"Yes indeedy sweetie." said his wife, Sharon.
Private Investigator Kevin Morris and his beautiful wife Sepia arrived..
"Hey everybody....Nice digs..." he said.
"This is nice."said Sepia.
"Where is the Birthday Boy?" asked ADA Miles Ellis who arrived with his girlfriend ,
AUSA Karla Williams..
"There he is over there, kissing his wife!,.,."laughed Karla.
Olivia and I were kissing passionately..
"I love you so much, Thank you for this." I said , nearly in tears.. I moved here knowing only a few people , close to just her and her niece and Josie and in a short time I had met and grown close to all of these great folks..
"I'm the one who is supposed to tear up .not you.." said Olivia..
"Here come the drinks.."said Nelson.
"I know that's what you're waiting for .."said Beverly...
"It's what I'm waiting for..Happy Birthday Donnie Ray.." said Paris..
Josie hugged me..
"Happy Birthday.." she said..
Beers
International Brews
Citris Martinis
Mango Martinis
and Margaritas arrived..
along with our last four guests of the night..
B.L. Benz and his girlfriend and our good friend, ADA Karen Page
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