Chapter Thirty-Two: USPIS
"Morning" Jake greeted, walking in to their room with a tray of food
"Breakfast in bed? What's the occasion?" she asked
"Well. After Hitchcock reminding us that we missed Scully's birthday yesterday, it made me think that I missed your birthday whilst I was undercover" He said
"You more than made up for that when you came back" She said
"Oh, on the contrary. I will make this up to you today" Jake said, passing her the tray, on which was a small card, along with her breakfast
"Thank you, Jake" She said leaning in and kissing him. She opened the card and found a small piece of paper
"9am tomorrow" it read
"We both have the day off. So, I've planned a surprise day for you" Jake said
"You're too good Jake" She replied He smiled at her
"You're worth it" He replied as he kissed her
-Later That Morning-
"I'm running this task force, so everything goes through me. Got it?" She asked "Good" She finished.
"Jackson. Some ecstasy was found on the F train. Take it to the lab, find out if it's giggle pig. Scully, Hitchcock. Work your . Miller, get a new K-9. That dog is an idiot" She said "Ok, move out" She finished.
"Hey" Jake greeted walking in. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry I'm late" He said explaining why he was late. Rosa didn't care, she was just happy that Jake was assigned onto her task force.
"Here's what's up" She brief Jake "Task force brought in a giggle pig supplier this morning" She said
"Nice" Jake replied
"Second guy we've brought in that's had one of these keys" She said handing the key to Jake
"Huh. My best guess that this opens some creepy old wardrobe/portal to an enchanted land, full of talking toads and fairy folk" Jake said
"It has something to do with the Postal service. It has USPS engraved on it" She said "Take it to the Postal Inspection Service, see what you can find out" She said
"Copy that" Jake said
"Hey" She said, making Jake turn around "Work this thing hard. We're under a lot of pressure with the task force so we could really use a win" Rosa said
"You got it" Jake said "You're my friend and I won't let you down" He promised. He hated to use the word friend. Especially that day, but he had to because of Charles. He could also hear the desperation in her voice. He knew how hard she was working to prove herself and her task force, and he knew she was struggling.
"I'm going to push you up. Just like a bra" He said
"What?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. Wondering how long it would take Jake to realise they were at work, and Charles was behind him.
"I meant like a brassiere which is totally different" Jake tried to change
"Come on man" She said
"Not better. Here we go" He said walking off with Charles.
Jake returned a few hours later, and showed Rosa the maps and the potential drop off sites.
"We think the dealers have been using these out-of-service mailboxes as drops for Giggle pig and money" Jake said
"Good job. I'm glad Danger was useful" Rosa replied, not able to stop her eyes from checking out Jake. Jake went on to complain about the guy, and Rosa swiftly reminded him that he was a good resource.
"Well. Hopefully Donger will be less annoying from now on" She said
"Yeah, hopefully. Wait. From now on?" Jake asked, looking into her eyes
"No" He said
"Yup" She replied, this continued for a few moments. Both holding their gaze strong. Both remaining in eye contact. Daring the other to back down. But they knew all too well. They were both a fighter and it only made it more exciting for the two.
"No. Please tell me I don't have to keep working with him" Jake begged, using that voice which he knew would break Rosa. And she was very, very close to breaking. When he appeared behind Jake.
Once Donger had made his first impressions, Jake introduced them.
"Detective Rosa Diaz. Meet my new Partner. Jack Donger" Jake introduced. Rosa shook his hand out of politeness, but she knew the pain Jake was about to endure. Although, she did notice that he addressed him as his 'Partner'
Jake went off with Donger to check out the box, as Jake lost the perp due to Donger. He had to go back and break the news to Donger
"I'm sorry, let me get this straight" She said. Jake knew she was pissed. "You had a giggle pig supplier 20 yards from you, and he got away?" Rosa asked. Jake looked down, as Jake and Donger started complaining.
"I'm sorry, Rosa. Can I talk to you in private for a second?" He asked
"Yeah" Rosa said getting up, as they walked off.
Once alone, Jake turned to Rosa.
"Look. It's not just that Donger's annoying, he ruined the whole operation. The perp got away because he's the world's biggest tool! No Tools can be useful. He's the world's smallest tool! I'm the world's biggest tool. God! Do you see what he's doing to me?" Jake asked
"Look. These dealer's didn't just randomly using mailbox keys. There's clearly a postal connection. Sorry dude, you gotta keep working with him" Rosa said, apologetically. Jake did feel sorry for her, and he felt guilty at the tone of her voice.
"Ok, wait, wait. Let's just out this in perspective for a second" He said "Is this whole war on drugs really worth the human cost of me spending another minute with this behonkus?" Jake asked
"I don't know what behonkus means, but yes." Rosa replied
"Behonkus means butt, and I think you could have guessed that from context" Jake replied
"Seriously, Jake. I'm asking you to see this through" She almost begged
"Alright fine. I will do it for you, as a favour because you're my friend, but if he tells me one more time how USPIS "Mailed down" The Berlin Wall, I'm going to give him your home address, and you will receive holiday cards from him forever" Jake said
"My own relatives don't have that address" She said threateningly
"Oh, I know, I know" Jake replied in an equally threatening tone. He leant in and kissed her quickly
"Let's solve his quickly" Rosa said as they broke the kiss and walked back to the desk, re-joining Boyle and Donger, before walking off with them, again.
"Hey, hey people. Taskforce, officially on the scoreboard. With our first major Giggle Pig dealer busted" Jake said walking back into the Precinct with the handcuffed criminal, as Rosa walked around the corner.
"Rosa! Great news, my friend!" Jake said
"What the Hell. Donger just called and said you abandoned him, took information from a classified computer and licked a roll of antique stamps" She said. She was angry. Jake hated to see her angry. Charles said his piece then walked off.
"Look, it's not a big deal. Donger wanted us to waste a week staring at mailboxes. If I had listened to him, I never would have caught Delroy, or found his books which tells us there's a huge Giggle Pig shipment coming in tonight" Jake said
"I told you to work with USPIS" She said slowly, calmly. Jake knew he had crossed a line.
"Ok, I know I didn't do it exactly the way you asked me to-" But he was cut off
"The way I ordered you to. As leader of the task force. Do you think that just because we're friends you can do whatever you want? Donger's furious. He's on his way over here now because they're taking over the case" She almost shouted
"What? He can't do that!" Jake said
"Yeah. He can. They're a federal Agency. From now on any bust that comes from this, including Delroy goes to USPIS. My task force gets nothing, so thanks. Friend" She said. The way she emphasised 'Friend' Jake knew that she was beyond pissed off, as she walked off.
Jake complained to Boyle. He felt so bad about betraying Rosa. He knew what he had to do, and he had to do. Cajole his ass off.
Hours later, Jake had cracked the code, and got the case back from Donger. Jake rang Rosa a few minutes now.
"I'm busy Peralta" She said harshly into the phone
"Get your tactical gear on. I'll be by to pick you up in ten" He said
"What the Hell Jake!" She asked
"I got our case back. I sucked up to Donger, I got the case. I cracked the code, about the bust tonight" He said
"You'd better be serious. If you're screwing with me, I swear to God I will-" She started to threaten but Jake cut her off.
"Babe. Trust me" He said. Rosa sighed. She did. Of course she did.
Sat in the car, on the way to the bust, Jake turned to her.
"I'm sorry" He said
"You got the case back. We're cool" She said. Jake smiled reached over and placed his hand on her thigh.
"Sorry it's been such a shit anniversary. If all goes well, we're still on for our evening" He said Rosa smiled
"Let's just hope this bust goes well" She said. As they arrived. They set up, and prepared themselves into position.
"Ok. Get ready. It's going down" Rosa said into the radio
"Wait before we go in there-" Jake started
"Apology accepted" She said
"No. I actually want to do it" Jake said
"Urgh! So, I have to suffer?" She asked
"I'll make it quick" He promised "I didn't follow your orders, I took advantage of our relationship. I was a jerk. I'm sorry" He said
"So that's what eternity feels like" She said
"I could not have made that any shorter" Jake said
"Alright. What's the plan? This Dong is ready to Ding" Donger said as he approached
"Tac team 1 will take the North Entrance. Tac Team 2 will take the East Entrance. Jake, you stay out here and man the radio" She said
"Oh" Jake said, disappointed "Sure, whatever you need. I'm on it" He said. Rosa laughed
"Nah man. You're coming in with me" She said.
"Jerk" Jake breathed under his breath
"Ready? On my count. Three, Two, One
"FREEZE POLICE" She shouted running, in, Jake just behind her. He loved working cases with her.
They caught all the bad guys, and returned to the station. Starting their interrogations, they made quick work of breaking the perps and getting the names. At 2am, they clocked out together, and made their way home.
-The Next Morning-
With no work, they didn't have to worry about waking up at 6:30, instead they had a leisurely lie-in until 8:30, when Jake got up, Rosa following quickly. They dressed and got in Jake's car.
"What are we going today?" She asked
"A surprise my dear" He said, as they drove for about twenty minutes, until the turned up outside a Laser Tag place
"Remember the third day of the Academy?" he asked
"When I beat your ass at Laser-tag and we had our first kiss?" She asked
"Hell yeah!" He said as they walked inside, checked out their guns, and the games started. Much like the Academy, there were 6 games. The first was just shooting, the second through sixth games were more intricate battles.
They drew on 3v3, and decided to have a seventh game as a tie break, which, after great concentration from both, led to a dramatic win by Rosa. They celebrated then got back into his car, as he drove them to a nearby diner.
Inside, he bought them breakfast and they enjoyed a delightful chat about what would happen the rest of the day. Jake was very secretive and refused to give anything away.
At 1pm, they got back into his car, and at 2am, he brought her to a storage unit
"What are we doing?" she asked
"You'll see" He said, as they walked inside a room, and was locked in. The rom was a bar, with some empty bottles on the shelf.
"What the Hell?" she asked, before it licked. "We're In an escape room?" She asked. Jake gasped
"Are we? Dang it. How will we ever get out?" He asked. They started searching for clues, and after looking in the till, and finding a key, which opened a box, which was full of light switches, some LED lights lit up 5 numbers. '91621' There was a padlock on a drawer, and a padlock on a door. The code opened the door and inside the room was an office. Inside the one drawer that opened was a book, with some pages dog-eared
"Rosa?" Jake called
"Yeah?" She replied
"How many numbers for the other lock?" He asked, back to her in the first room
"4" She said
"Try 7, 9, 23" He said.
"Nope" She called. Jake tried on one of his and found it worked. There was one padlocked cupboard left with him, and one back with Rosa. Rosa walked back in to help Jake, and pulled out the clipboard in the drawer which had just opened.
"Shipment tonight. 7 boxes of 40% proof. At 19:30: She said
They tried all sorts of combinations but neither answered. That was, until Jake saw the clock on the wall, which wasn't turning. He pulled it off, and set the time for 19:30, as the battery pack flew open and there was a piece of paper inside.
"Established 9/8/1835" Jake read
"1835. Got a match" Rosa called from the other room, as she came back in with a reciept.
"So, we have one drawer left?" She asked
"Yeah, why?" Jake asked, she handed him a list of people with open tabs.
"Ok. There's like 20 here" He said
"How many digits?" She asked
"Uh... 4" He said
"So that's only 9 of these" she said, she started trying them, as Jake looked for the exit. There was no door.
"Ah Ha! She said as it opened. The draw held a map of the rom, with an X under Jake. They lifted up the rug and found a trap door.
"I'll go first" Jake said, as he lowered himself in, and found a small tunnel. "Is there a flashlight up there?" He called. She passed one down to him
"Come down" He called. Rosa followed and they walked into the basement. Wine bottles on the wall, all with numbers on the corks
"Look, there" Jake said pointing to a staircase, "There's a keypad on the door" he said
"How do we find the code?" Rosa asked as she looked around "Wait" She said taking a bottle off the shelf which held a note inside. She read the note out loud
"Only prisoners get locked in, if you're in you've committed a sin. To get your code out, you must get your purgation. Look around for the illustration" She said
"What?" Jake asked. They started searching floors, walls and ceilings to find an illustration, when Jake called out
"Rosa!" He called. She walked over, and found that from Jake's angle, shadows of the bottles on the floor, made a pattern which looked like the keypad.
"There are 5 full bottles, the other's are empty" She said She located the bottles on the keypad, and found the numbers on the corks.
"Ok Jake, you ready?" she called He nodded.
"5, 8, 2, 6, 1" she said, cross referencing the location of the bottles with their numbers. So, the middle bottle had 1 on the cork, but was number 5 on the keypad. So, the first digit was 5, and so on and so fourth.
Amazingly, the door opened.
"Incredible" Jake said, kissing her quickly before they walked out.
Back in the car at 4pm, Jake drove them to their next location
"So, Laser tag. Locked in a room. The only thing missing from that first day, is handcuffs" She said. Jake smirked.
They arrived back at their apartment minutes after, and Jake waited until she walked in. Under the illusion of closing the door behind her, in half a second, he had her wrists handcuffed together
"What?" she asked, amazed by his grace and precision in handcuffing her, also finding it a bit of a turn on. When she turned to face him, she realised that he had his badge and hat on.
"You're under arrest" He growled huskily in her ear, making her shiver as goose bumps covered her body.
"What for?" she asked, rubbing her ass into his crotch, as he walked up behind her
"Mmmm. You know exactly what you did" He said as he pushed her against the counter of her kitchen, and rocked his hips into hers
"Jake" She moaned
"That's officer to you" He replied harshly, spanking her ass hard, she gasped at the hit. Jake brought his hands to the front of her jeans and pushed them down, all the way until they pooled around her ankles
"You've been teasing me all day" He growled into her ear as he lowered his own pants, rubbing his member into her. "You've made me so fucking hard" He growled as he pressed his length against her. She moaned lightly
"I've been thinking about taking you all day. Touching you" He said slipping a finger between her dripping folds
"Tasting you" He said as he pulled his finger out, and brought it to his lips
"Feeling you around me" He said slipping his member inside her. Long, smooth strokes, and she was begging for him in no time.
"Officer. Please! Of fuck please" She moaned. Jake was losing the ability to maintain his character as her body was bringing him closer and closer to his release.
Eventually he found his release, only a few moments after she found hers. And once they had come down from their high, he uncuffed her
"Happy birthday" He whispered to her. She was still feeling sparks from her orgasm, as she came down from her high.