Mr. Monk and the Silver Polar Bear
PG
Mystery/General
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story itself.
WARNING! VERY IMPORTANT! Spoilers: Yes. If you have not yet read my first story "More Than Friends" Then this will give the ending away. If you want to read this then I suggest reading my other story first so you know the details.
"Dad could you pass the mustard?" Benjy asked signaling to the mustard across the table. Monk gladly handed the bottle of mustard to his son. It was the first dinner the family had had together sense Adrian and Sharona returned from their honeymoon.
"So Benjy what did you do with Ryan while we were gone?" Adrian asked taking a bite of his veal.
"Besides breaking you head open and getting to take your first ambulance ride." Sharona joked.
"Me? Get into trouble?" The boy said placing a hand over his heart acting appalled.
"Yeah you." She said pointing the fork at her son.
"Well we had a couple water balloon fights, hung out with Jeremy and Jason from next door, Blew up a CD in the microwave, Played Halo 2 that he got for his birthday, played hackie-sack, uh…."
"Wait wait wait! You blew up a CD in the microwave?" Sharona interrupted.
"Is that possible?" Monk put in.
"Yeah! It does this really cool rainbow thing right before it starts to melt and then its KAPOW!"
"Wow maybe we could try it after dinner!" Monk said getting excited.
"Adrian!" Sharona interrupted "You're encouraging this?"
"Well nobody got hurt Sharona"
Sharona gave Monk "the look" that all women give their husbands at some point in time. Seeing this scared Monk like being stuck on the top of the empire state building with the only way to get down was being forced to eat a plate of mushrooms and wash it down with a cold glass of milk.
Monk turned to his son, cleared his throat and said in the best parental voice he could muster "No more blowing up CD's in the microwave for you young man."
"Ahh Man. But its so much fun." Benjy replied.
"Yes, well that sorta thing is only meant for grown-ups." Monk said jokingly.
"Wait, so you get to do it?" Benjy said cocking an eyebrow.
"Well yes but not when your mothers around." Monk said in a whisper.
"Hey I heard that." Sharona said as the phone rang. She turned to look at the phone then turned to look at her husband again. And said "You're lucky the phone rang 'cause I was about to get you." She got up and walked over to the phone. "Hello"
"Sharona?" Stottlemeyer said on the other end of the line.
"Yeah?"
"Sharona we have a case here. Can you and Monk meet me in my office around 8:15?"
"Well actually we were in to middle of dinner…How bout 8:30?"
Stottlemeyer sighed "ok 8:30's fine."
"Ok"
"Ok bye."
"Bye" She said hanging up the phone.
"Hey glad you could make it." Stottlemeyer said opening the door to his office.
"Glad you could make it? Man you must really need our help." Sharona said taking a seat.
"Well we have a interesting case here."
"What have we got?" Adrian said also sitting down.
"This is what we got." Stottlemeyer dropped a file in front of Monk. Monk picked it up and began reading it as Stottlemeyer walked them through it.
"Ok so…when we were first brought in this was a stolen item case…then it turned into a missing persons case…Around 11:26 pm the alarm at the San Francisco zoo went off. The security guard checked the security cameras and noticed there was something funny about the polar bear exhibit."
"What do you mean funny?" Sharona asked.
"Well the gate was open. Any way he went to the exhibit and found that the polar bear food was still there, He also checked to see how all of the polar bears were doing. He said and I quote "I looked the cubs over first. They seemed fine. I then checked the mother and father. Now…at the zoo one of our mane attractions is Luke. Luke is a silver polar bear, the only silver polar bear in the world. When I went to see how Luke was doing he was gone."
"Somebody stole a polar bear?" Monk asked
"Well if the gate was open couldn't he have just escaped?" Sharona questioned.
"Well I asked him that. He said that Luke was the most obedient bear he had ever worked with and that he knows not to leave the exhibit with out a trainer."
"Tell me about Luke." Monk said still reading the file.
"Ok…let's see…" Stottlemeyer said flipping through Dishers notes. "Ok here it is, Gabe Johnston …he's one of the trainers at the zoo. He said, "Luke was a good bear, very obedient. He is the only silver polar bear alive! I can't even begin to tell you how many offers we've gotten from other zoo's that wanna buy him. They have offered like…something from $80,000 to like $6,000,000 to have him shipped to their zoo. But there was no way on earth we would let him go. He can also do some pretty impressive tricks let me tell you that."
Monk went on studying the file. At last he said, "I think we should take a trip to the zoo Sharona."
To be continued.
Ok my most profound apologies. This is my first time writing a mystery so I don't really know what kinda feel it's supposed to have. If you don't think I am writing this well then please send a review and tell me how you think it should be done and I will gladly except all advise you have to offer and will try my best to improve to your satisfaction.