AN: I think my muse might be confused right now and is in war with my imagination :) bad muse! But I actually feel lie there might be something new coming soon. Not sure when that will be though, so no promises ...

Penelope saw him still looking at the DVD and started getting a bit nervous.

"Could Kevin Lynch have known about this?" she heard him ask and saw him pointing towards a chair, motioning for her to sit down on. So he wanted her to stay longer.

"Well, if he did he most certainly wouldn't have been … excited," Penelope answered, knowing full well what she spoke about.

"Why? She was… a porn star? Shouldn't that kinda fulfill most guys dreams?" she heard him ask and had to wonder about his question. Funnily enough JJ had asked the same question, but that was different.

She wondered whether that dream applied to him as well, whether he'd like to bed an adult movie star himself – and maybe he already had – and before she even realized it herself she had asked. "Does that include your dreams as well?"

Immediately after she blanched. She felt her face almost burning up, the blush creeping up every inch of skin and she couldn't believe she had just said that. To him. A detective. "I… I'm sorry.. that is none of my business and I am sure that…."

Surprisingly enough he answered her question, although she wasn't entirely sure what exactly he said, or where he saw himself really. "I said most guys. I didn't say whether or not I include myself in that group." The wink that followed his statement could have meant anything.

"Anyway…" Penelope decided on moving on. The sooner she got back to neutral territory the better. Although, this all wasn't very neutral. "He… Kevin was not very into… advanced stuff." Careful phrasing might save her from further blushing. It wasn't as if she was a prude, or anything, and she certainly had no problem with most stuff, but around him things definitely were different. She felt almost like she wanted to prove herself to him - for whatever that was.

"Advanced?" she heard him ask a moment later, an amused smile on his lips. "This is a porn movie. Probably half the population, if not even way more, has seen one in their life. I wouldn't consider it advanced…"

And great, now she felt the blush coming up again.

"Well for… Kevin's standards this was quite … advanced," Penelope said. For a moment she really thought about her next words – but felt she needed to clarify her knowledge somehow. "We might, or might not, have been at a store during our relationship – if only for the purpose to ignite fire again – a fire that probably wasn't burning very bright in the first place, but anyway. So... I might – or might not - have… seen a certain reaction to … stuff they sell at places like this."

And the smile that seemed to grow exponentially to the time she spent with him got even wider now. In order to not look at him, and maybe therefore get her blushing under control again, her eyes landed on his desk, on a file and what looked like a magazine. Fixing on the magazine, wondering what he might be reading, she almost fell of her chair when she realized it wasn't a magazine, but a catalogue. For what looked like Fetish-clothing. And just like that her idea about the handsome detective changed, rapidly. That would certainly explain a few things.

Getting up, she looked at him, before saying "Anyway, I… I thought I bring you this," pointing towards the movie just in case. "For your case…I hope it will help." And then she moved to the doors. Quickly.

And she probably needed a bottle of strong booze to get rid of the picture in her mind of him, in leather head to toe, looking like some kinky-fetish-guy. This clearly was not going like she had expected. But if he was into that – than she clearly would have been the absolute wrong person he would want to see again in regards of a date or anything. She would probably have to get the movie back at some point, seeing that it wasn't hers, but then again she couldn't imagine JJ missing it very much. And the way he looked at her – or that movie she brought. Behind these gorgeous eyes and his intense stares at her he probably wondered whether she was real and what on earth got her to bring some movie, that probably didn't prove a thing. And maybe he was right. This was … way over her head. This was a murder. A murder that the police themselves couldn't get details on – or suspects.

And maybe it was time for changes – if they couldn't solve it, well, someone probably could.

"You want to do what?" JJ asked for what seemed the millionth time since Penelope had gotten back to her place and told her about her plan.

"I will…solve this murder – well, technically we, so you kinda need to be free for the next few days," she said, deciding on smiling widely.

"Why? I mean… Lynch cheated on you and you left – which was the right thing to do. Why do you want to solve his murder?"

"Because no one else is going to," Penelope said and saw JJ look at her best friend for a moment.

"The murder only happened a bit over a day ago. Penny, this is the real life, not some… TV drama show, where everything gets solved within a few hours or days. Things like this take time. They are supposed to take time. This isn't CSI or…NYPD Blue. Give them maybe more than a day's time to get some results before you start playing Magnum PI. Let them do their job, before you decide on picking up a second job…"

"I was actually more thinking along the lines of 3 Angeles for Charlie…" Penelope mussed and didn't miss the look JJ gave her. "Also JJ, you didn't see the look on that Detective's face… it was just… I can't even explain it. He seemed too ... whatever to actually say anything else and kept starring at the DVD cover."

"Well, maybe that was because he is a guy who just happened to get handed a porn DVD by a gorgeous looking woman. He might not be immune against everything…" JJ said and Penelope decided on not mentioning the catalogue she had seen on his desk – because that would open a whole new box of issues.

"But what happens when they don't solve it?" Penelope asked.

"Well, if they can't solve it how the heck will you? I assume they have a few more possibilities than you have…"

"JJ, if I was to die and the police couldn't solve my case I would someone to do it for them… And I would do the same for you…"

"Yeah, but I am not dead or Kevin Lynch - and neither are you," JJ argued. "Penelope, I really hate saying this, but… these are the things that get you into trouble all the time."

"Because of my curiosity and need for justice?" Penelope asked quizzically.

"No, because of these ideas that form in your head and lead usually to nowhere. Let the police do their job and you'll see, they will find whoever did this. For the moment, maybe just be happy you are free again. Don't do anything that could land you behind bars again, Penny. One time was already bad enough."

Penelope had to admit her friend was right. One time really was already bad enough, but she just couldn't help thinking. And maybe one day really was too soon.