Chapter Three: The Tagger
"Do I have to go to work today?" Jake asked rolling awake to the sound of his phone alarm, Rosa, who was an early bird, looked up from her yoga mat on the floor
"Yeah if you want to keep your job" She replied continuing her yoga
"URGH!" Jake groaned and pulled himself from the warmth of her bed. He kissed her cheek lightly
"I'm gonna go home and change, I'll see you in a bit" He said. She watched as he threw on some clothes and walked out.
Rosa finished her yoga and went to work, meeting everyone inside the Bull pen, a few minutes early herself. She couldn't help but notice that one Jake wasn't there. She was a little concerned. The shift started at 8am, as it did every day. But Jake left her apartment at 6:30 that morning.
She was clearly not the only one to realise this as at 8:01, Holt walked out into the bull pen.
"Has anyone seen Peralta?" He asked. No one knew.
A thought crossed her mind suddenly. If Jake disappeared, she would have to tell Holt and the squad that he stayed the night at hers. What would everyone think? What would they say? Is her not saying anything now an obstruction of justice?
Before she spiralled anymore, Jake walked in.
"Captain, you're at my desk. Just what I want to see first thing in the morning" He said. Rosa relaxed and sat down in her chair.
"You're three minutes late Peralta" Holt greeted
"Not my fault. I had a plumbing problem" Jake replied "Which reminds me, I will need a new departmentally issued phone" He said. Holt looked away and said nothing. Jake was smart enough that he was not in a joking mood
"Really? I'm a few minutes late, you're going to call me out in front of everyone?" Jake asked
"Good idea! Everyone! Gather round, so I can call out Peralta publicly" Holt said. Jake looked around the room, and caught Rosa's eye.
"Ok Fine! I was three minutes late I'm sorry for doing one thing wrong" Jake said sarcastically turning away from Rosa and back to Holt who was putting on his glasses.
"Oh, it's more than one thing" Holt confirmed
"Uh Oh" Jake replied looking at the big stack of files in Holt's hands
"Let's start with the Kristov Murder" Holt said
"It was an amazing solve, I got the guy to confess in 20 minutes" Jake said
"You also mislabelled the evidence, so that confession is worthless if the Sergeant had not have caught your mistake" He said "Here are three cases with sloppy paperwork" Holt said "Here are two pictures. One if of your locker, the other is of a garbage dump in the Phillippines. Can you tell me which is which?" He asked. Jake looked intently between the two.
"That one's the dump?" Jake asked pointing to one
"They're both your locker" Holt revealed
"Gah! I should have guessed that. He's good" Jake said turning to Rosa to see how little she was enjoying this.
"This folder is labelled Undies comma dirty" Holt read
"So I won't confuse them with Undies comma clean" Jake said. "Also, who cares about all these rules? I have more felony arrests than any other detective" Jake said
"You also have more mice living in your desk than any other detective" Holt said, opening a draw to reveal a small mouse
"Algernon!" Jake greeted. "Everyone, Algernon's back" He said showing off the mouse around the room. Even Rosa winced at that.
"Get rid of the mouse, and get your act together. Now" Holt said dismissively as he walked off
"He's grumpy" Jake whispered to the mouse.
Rosa watched Holt yell at Peralta, laughing slightly as she remembered one of the main reasons his paperwork had been so sloppy the past week. Since the Ratko bust, and the tie situation, she had found her dominatrix side appealing to Jake. While Jake was pulling overtime shifts to get his work done, she would be at home, eagerly awaiting for him to return. She would send him pictures, flirtatious texts. Anything to inspire him to come home sooner. As much as she wanted to feel guilty, she had no regrets. No one got hurt, all the perps got their justice. And she got as much Jake as she could handle.
Once Holt was out of sight, Rosa decided to take it upon herself to ask Jake about his alleged plumbing problem, and how it took him over an hour and a half to go home, shower, change and come to work.
"Outside Peralta" Rosa said, chiming up. She walked with Jake to take the mouse outside. They walked out of the precinct in silence and over to the park just down the road, releasing Algernon into the concealment of the woods.
"Plumbing problem?" She asked
"I was in the shower, my alarm went on my phone and buzzed it off the side into the toilet" Jake said
"Next time just shower at mine" She said
"Copy that" Jake replied. They walked back inside and back to the bull pen, returning to their desks in time for their morning briefing.
They all sat in the briefing, Diaz getting paired with Boyle and Santiago to hunt down some Cocaine unaccounted for, whilst Jake stood up, to deliver his presentation on some tagger defiling Cop cars, along with Hitchcock and Scully's lack of knowledge about a very common pornographic drawing, which was very strange considering Hitchcock's very sexually explicit lifestyle.
Jake finished his presentation and listened to Terry insist on them taking his minivan, the highlight of the briefing, Rosa chiming up.
"A Minivan? Ah HA!" She laughed. Jake looked up at her as she spoke and laughed with her.
Terry threatened the squad, but quickly diminished it by saying that his wife agrees with him. Jake kept his eyes trained on Rosa. She didn't look scared by Terry. Then again, Jake had seen someone hold a gun to her head, she didn't seem scared.
"That's a good idea Sergeant. We'll take the van" Holt agreed
"We? You're coming with me? Sir with all due respect, I don't need back up" Jake said
"It's not back up. It's babysitting" Holt insisted
"Babysitting? Ah Ha!" Rosa laughed again. Jake looked over to her, darker eyes than before. She raised an eyebrow at him and bit her lip. Daring him to punish her for taking the piss out of him. Both knowing that he would that night. Jake stared at Rosa, while Holt went over a few more things. Rosa mouthed one word to Jake, which made the weight lift off his back.
"Babylon" She mouthed. One small nod. Barely noticeable, but Rosa saw it. She winked at him.
They were dismissed from the meeting and Rosa went straight to Babylon, Jake only feet behind her. Once inside, she slid closed the concealment, and locked the door, as Jake pressed her against it. She wrapped her legs around his waist.
"You had to make that comment didn't you" Jake asked
"Did you like it?" Rosa asked with a smirk
"I think you know I did" He said
"If you don't want me to comment, don't give me as reason to. Play nice with Holt. And you can be as rough as you need with me to get it out your system" she said against his ear. She turned to kiss him, but caught his lower lip between her teeth. She bit ever so gently. Not enough to hurt, but hard enough to show what she wanted.
Jake who was more than up for a bit of rough, pressed her against the door and brought his lips down on her neck. Hard. Biting the skin. She growled as she started rocking her hips against his. Feeling his member grow against her own desire.
"How much time do we have?" She asked
"It's nine, I'm leaving at ten to ten with Holt" Jake said
"Plenty of time then" she said, pulling off her leather jacket, and pulling her top on the floor. Jake reached behind her back and unclasped her bra, pulling off the constraints of her breasts. His hands going straight to her globes.
"Jake!" She moaned. Her hands making quick work of his shirt and tie.
This was one of those rare locations and occasions when they could get fully naked at work, and they both took full advantage of it. A few moments later, they were both naked, and laying on the couch in there. Jake picked up one of her legs and hooked it behind her head, as he positioned himself, and sheathed himself inside her.
"Fuck Jake" Rosa moaned. Jake was laying on his side, Rosa also on her side, facing him. He easily rolled them onto their backs and pounded into her. Passionately. They were having more sex nowadays then they ever were before. Back at the academy, it was most nights. Since they joined the Nine-Nine it was at least twice a week, but they were averaging twice a day at the moment, if not more.
Jake and Rosa moved her bodies in a euphoric harmony, both inching closer and closer towards their climax.
"Please Jake, please" Rosa begged, hanging on to the edge of her sanity by the skin of her nails, begging Jake to push her off the edge to blissful ecstasy. Jake, who was teetering on the edge himself was more than happy to oblige, and with her hips moving in rhythm with his own, he lifted his hips to make sure that every thrust hit her G Spot, she lost her control, and found her climax. Her tensing muscles tightening over and over milked his member for every drop of his seed. He pulled out of her once he had recovered from his own high. And Rosa lowered her head, and sucked his member clean, making sure to be careful as she knew he was sensitive after. She moaned at the taste, always a fan of tasting the combination of their juices.
Jake reluctantly pulled up off the couch, and dressed.
"Fuck. We have to get going" He muttered looking at his phone, which was not broken, but was in fairness due for an upgrade.
"Damn! Worth it though" Rosa said, pulling back on hr jeans, still topless. Jake turned to her
"Do you have any idea how much will power it takes to walk away from you when you're looking like that?" He asked her referring to her still being topless, sat on the couch so her face was level with his now jean and underwear clad dick.
"Do you have any idea how hard I am fighting myself right now?" she asked. Jake leaned down, and kissed her once more, before slipping out of the room. Rosa dressed, brushed her hair to make it less obvious as to what she was just doing then walked out to find Boyle and Santiago ready to go.
"Where were you?" Boyle asked
"Sorting some stuff out. You ready?" she asked just then, Gina walked over, introducing her friend Carlene. Rosa faded out then, listening to some bogus vision which even she could have predicted, before walking off with Amy to view some floor plans of the building, in the corner of her eye, she saw Jake walked over to talk to Terry.
After the successful arrest of the Tagger, and the find of the cocaine, Rosa and Jake had both returned to the precinct. Jake was sat at his computer when Rosa walked in. Helping Amy weigh up the drugs. That was when Jake called an emergency briefing for Santiago, Diaz, Boyle and himself. Terry and Hitchcock were also present.
"So, here are my options. One, I process Podolski's kid, he fires me and I spend the rest of my career as a detective third grade which is literally pathetic. No offence Hitchcock" Jake started. "Option two, I let him walk and spend the rest of my life, with Holt as my babysitter. Honestly when I think about spending the rest of my life with a babysitter, she's king of a cute blonde named Erica, she always has pizza money and lets me stay up as late as I want" Jake said trailing off in thought.
"How old are you in this scenario?" Amy asked, bringing him back to reality.
"Anyway. The point is Holt cares more about if I do my job right than If I have a job at all so I'm taking suggestions" Jake said
"I say piss off Holt. So, we get to watch your career end right in front of us" Amy said Rosa looked at Amy. Angrily. How dare she!
"Ok. Thank you for that Santiago" Jake said, clearly as pissed off with her as Rosa was right now. Jake had a good mentality though" I'm going to put you here in Don't Arrest and I am also going to put your phone number on every urinal in Rikers" Jake warned.
"Don't arrest him, just smack him. Hard. With a phone book. On a body part no one can see, you know what I'm saying?" Rosa asked. Mental images filled both of their minds about the copious times over the last 12 years that they left love bites, bite marks or bruises on one another, always making sure that no one would see them. It was an on going joke between then whether that classed as police brutality .
"So, you're suggesting police brutality?" He asked, with a smirk.
"Ha, ha I guess so, yeah, Why?" She asked raising an eyebrow of her own.
"Hey Scully?" Jake called to Scully outside the room, who poked his head in
"Yeah?" He asked
"You want this collar? Paperworks all done and its perfect" Jake said trying to tempt him
"The Podolski kid? Are you kidding? I just gave him my lunch" Scully said. And that showed how serious it was. Scully giving away his lunch!
"Ok. Boyle, what do you think?" Jake asked
"I don't know man. I'm lost. The universe is a cruel and vexing puzzle. I'm at the whim of the cosmos " Charles said
"Ok. I'm gonna put you down for 'Bummer', and you can hang out in that category all by yourself" Jake said
"Hey everyone" Gina said walking in. "Hey Jake there's a very sexy, angry official here Deputy commissioner Podolski. He's asking for you, very angry, elderly, sexy, furious" Gina said walking out.
"Well. My career is over" Jake said putting his pen down and walking out. "See you at the bottom Hitchcock. No offence" He said. Rosa held out her hand as he walked past and grazed his fingers with her own. It wasn't much. But it was enough to calm Jake down, if just a little bit. Rosa watched him walk out, and watched Amy follow him.
"Hey Peralta. When you're done can you help me wrap up this massive cocaine bust I just pulled off? Thanks. Oh, Deputy commissioner, Didn't see you there. Sorry for interrupting. Amy Santiago" she greeted. Amy walked away from Jake, to see Rosa standing a foot away from her
"What the HELL Amy?" Rosa asked, pissed off
"What?" Amy asked walking away. Rosa followed close behind
"Peralta is already in the shit. Why must you make it worse for him?" Rosa asked
"Why do you care?" Amy asked
"Peralta is one of my closest friends. That wasn't cool Amy" Rosa said, not even needing to lie.
"He would have done it to me" Amy said Rosa thought. Yes, there was a chance that he would have done it to her. But it was Jake. If Amy called a meeting about something like that, Jake wouldn't say that she should just piss off holt to watch her career end. Or, if he did, he would at least have a solution for her.
"He would have help you out though. Not thrown you under the bus" Rosa added, walking off. Leaving a dumbstruck Amy behind.
They finished work that night, and the squad went home. Jake decided to stop by Shaw's bar on the way home, and have a few drinks with Boyle and Terry. Rosa was invited, but said that she had plans. Jake knew that once he had a few drinks he would be going back to hers anyway. Jake finished his beer, and decided that it was more than enough. He decided to walk as it was a nice evening. He walked the well known blocks, to Rosa's apartment. He unlocked the door, and found a surprise inside. There she was, sat on her couch. The first thing he noticed was her blonde wig. Eyes wandering down her blonde locks, he realised then that she was in her silk bathrobe, and her black lingerie set with matching stiletto heels. And other than that? Nothing. she stood up and walked over to him, swaying her hips deliciously with each step
"Where have you been?" She asked stopping right beside him. With the added inches of the stilettos she was now a few inches taller than him.
"At the bar?" He asked
"It's like you don't want pizza" She said pulling a $20 note from between her breasts. Jake's mouth opened and began to water at her actions
"Now Jake. How long do you want to stay up tonight?" She asked seductively her words inciting a double entendre, whilst her hands ran up and down her curves intoxicatingly.
Jake found himself unable to reply, as she pushed him back until they hit her bed, where she lay him down. Inside she kicked the door shut with one of her heels, and dropped her robe to the floor, straddling him
Jake had no idea how he managed to stay up for as long as he did that night. He and Rosa finally crashed and went to sleep at almost 3am.
Jake was tired the next morning. He and Rosa awoke to his alarm at 7am, and showered together to save time. They got to work, earlier than usual.
"Are you sure that you want to do this?" Rosa asked
"100%" he agreed, picking up his tend and going to set up in the briefing room. Rosa rolled her eyes and went to make herself a cup of coffee. As everyone gathered in the briefing room from 8:20.
Grumpy and short tempered, and very, very tired, she pushed past Boyle and Gina taking her seat in the briefing room. She watched Jake clamber out of the tent. Rolling her eyes as she knew that he had been actually asleep in the tent. 4 hours sleep was definitely not enough. Although, she couldn't deny that it was worth it.