Chapter Thirty: Jake and Sophia.
Now that Boyle had got over his first casual lover, he had been desperate to set Jake up with someone. Even more desperate than before.
"My mother's friend is single"
"I know the PERFECT woman for you"
"How do you feel about travelling to Poughkeepsie?"
Needless to say, everytime he was asked, Jake turned down the girl. Rosa, as well as Jake was getting increasingly irritated by Charles pining, and Rosa took it upon herself to take action.
Jake came home from work that day, to see Rosa entertaining a dinner guest whom he didn't know
"Oh. Hi... I just came here... For a file. Detective" Jake said as he greeted Rosa
"Cut the crap Jake" Rosa said walking over and kissing him hello. Jake relaxed a bit.
"Jake Peralta. Sorry, you are?" Jake said extending his hand
"Your girlfriend" she said, Jake raised an eyebrow at her "Sophia Perez" She added
"My girlfriend?" He asked
"You didn't tell him?" Sophia asked Rosa
"Thought this would be more fun. I was right" Rosa said with a smile, she took Jake's hand and they all sat on the couch
"So, Rosa was telling me about hoe you're getting irritated by people asking you out" Sophia said
"Yeah, a bit" Jake replied, taking Rosa's hand
"Well. I'm here to make a deal" she said.
"Right" Jake replied
"Let me first start with this, so there's no surprises. I'm a defence attorney" She said
"What? Rosa really?" Jake asked
"Hear her out" She encouraged
"I work for this real sleazy guy. Geoffrey Hoytsman. He's a huge drug addict and gambler. He's a nasty piece of work" She said
"Right" Jake chimed in
"Here's the deal. I will be your girlfriend. With my role the opposite of yours, it means that your friends will not try and support us, so when we break up in a few months time, they don't try and keep us together. BUT, during that time we will be seen as dating and your friends will stop trying to set you up with others" she said
"What do you want in return?" Jake asked
"We'll date for a few months, then. I want you to arrest Hoytsman. It's a win-win. You get a girlfriend to keep the pushy friends away, I get my boss gone" She said
"You're a defence attorney. Why should I trust you?" He asked
"Don't base your judgement off my job, base your judgement off me" She said
"You can trust her, Jake. Sophia's cool We met in business school" Rosa said
"Actually. We met one morning after waking up in the same bed" Sophia said with a smirk
"Wait. Let me get this right. My fake girlfriend is my current girlfriends ex girlfriend?" Jake asked
"Yep" Rosa agreed
"That's right" Sophia added
"Ok. Well. How is this going to work?" Jake asked
"Simple. We meet in a bar, have a meal, start dating, you boast to your friends about me" She said
Jake looked between the two women.
"Alright" He agreed.
-1 Week Later-
"Wait for it... Any second now" Jake said, watching the clock as it ticked over to 8am
"What are you doing?" Rosa asked
"Amy is late!" Jake said
"Dude. She finished late last night. She doesn't come in until 9am today" Rosa said
"Oh" Jake replied
-59 Minutes Later-
"Wait for it... Wait for it... 9:01. Amy Santiago is officially late for the first time ever" Jake said. This time he had developed quite a crowd. Rosa sat beside him, with Terry, Charles and Gina beside her
"Alright, let's do this. Who's got theories?" He asked
"Uh. Alarm didn't go off" Terry said
"What? All Three alarms? All three with battery back up? Come on, who wants to take this seriously
"Oh! She was taken in her sleep" Charles suggested
"That's what I'm talking about. Super dark Boyle, but way more plausible than the Sarge's idiotic Alarm Clock theory." Jake said
"I bet she tucked herself into bed too tight and got stuck" Rosa suggested
"Maybe she fell into another dimension, where she's interesting" Gina suggested as Holt walked up to them
"It's 9am. Why is no one working?" He asked
"Amy Santiago is a few minutes late and we're all trying to guess why" Jake said
"I'd like to play" Holt announced "I'd say she's in line at the bank" He said "This is fun" He said
"It is fun" Jake repleid "But you're all wrong. She clearly slipped through a subway grate and is having terrible sex with a mole man" Jake suggested as the elevator doors opened and in rushed Amy.
"There she is. AMY! Where have you been? We have been worried SICK! Do you care to explain yourself?" Jake asked
"I'm just 70 seconds late, it's not a big deal don't worry about it" She said
"Santiago. You will tell us, and you will tell us NOW!" Holt replied
"There was a problem at the bank" She admitted
"HOT DAMN" Holt celebrated. "Back to work" He said seconds after, and everyone did as told,
During the day, Charles found another three women Jake could date. Two of whom were the widows of victims. Once back at the precinct, Jake pulled Rosa aside
"Ready to implement Sophia?" He asked
"Let's do it" She said, getting out her phone, and ringing someone, hanging up a few minutes later
"Meet her at 5th Avenue Bar tonight at 9." Rosa said walking off with a wink.
Jake sat in the bar, and saw Sophia behind him, and started a conversation with Terry, who was beside him. Mentioning something about the trial the next day. When Jake decided that with Terry as a witness it was time to implement the plan.
"Not to overstate it, but I am definitely going to die alone, and work is all I have" Jake said
"I take it dating is not going well" Terry asked
"What?" Jake asked "No its awesome" He added unconvincingly
"What happened with Rosa's friend Katie?" Terry asked
"Yeah, she turned out to be even more closed off than Rosa" Jake said
"But it's not just her. All the dates I've been on lately have been lame" Jake said. That was a lie. All the dates he had been on lately were incredible because they were with Rosa. He just needed Terry to think they were lame to implement Operation Sophia
"Maybe it's you" Terry suggested "What are your moves?" He asked "What do you talk about?" Terry asked
"Uh. My moves are fine, Mom" Jake said "I dazzle them with a bad-ass cop story" He added
"Have you ever thought about going with your non work interests?" Terry asked Jake bit back a smile. That was most of what he did with Rosa outside of work.
"On my first date with y wife, all we did was talk about our mutual love of meat loaf. The singer, not the food" He said
"Oh. So the weirder of the two choices" Jake said, Terry gave him a look "Alright. I see what you're saying. Your wife's awesome and I should do everything in my power to be with her physically" Jake said, getting a sterner look from Terry. "I mean, no not that. Don't talk about being a cop, just talk about my own interests" Jake said
"Exactly" Terry said "Hey, she's cute" He added. Jake looked across amazed to see him talking about Sophia
"And alone. I'll try and find our meatloaf" Jake said, walking off to her.
Rosa finished her shift, after an argument with Amy, and returned home. Jake came home a few hours later smiling.
"You're smiling and you smell of hot wings. How did your date go?" She asked with a smile.
"Sophia is the perfect fake girlfriend" He said, walking up to Rosa and kissing her quickly.
"Isn't she just. So, what's your cover?" Rosa asked
"She's staying in a fancy bar hotel room, I'm supposedly spending the night with her" Jake said as he walked over to the fridge and got out two beers, passing one to her
"Thanks" she said opening it and taking a swig. Jake did the same
"Have you eaten?" He asked
"Not yet, no" She replied "Hungry?" She asked
"Starved" He replied
"Thought you had hot wings with Sophia?" She asked
"I did. But that's a snack, that's not a meal" He said. She laughed
"What do you fancy?" She asked
"You pick, I'm going to shower" He said kissing her cheek and walking off to the bathroom.
When Jake returned, he found Rosa at the door talking to a delivery guy
"What did you choose?" He asked
"Pizza" She replied.
"Good choice" He said. They dined all evening, and Jake, as he was going to say the next day, got lucky that night.
"Hi" Jake said walking into Court and sitting beside Terry
"Hey now" Terry greeted. "You are looking very happy" He said.
"I am. Guess what happened last night. Spoiler alert - sexy times. Ok now guess" He said
"Sexy times?" Terry asked
"YES! The whole night was amazing! We totally hit it off. I found our meatloaf. Wings" Jake said
"The band or the show?" Terry asked
"The food" Jake confirmed.
They continued their conversation as Jake awaited the implementation of Phase 2.
"Ah. Hello District Attorney Kurm. I got lucky last night" Jake greeted as Phase 2 was implemented
"That's great. So, we have a little delay. Gary the defence attorney isn't going to be here" He said as Jake and Terry went on to guess why.
"Anyway. Gary broke his leg so he's being replaced" Kurm said, as Jake and Terry commented
"So, who's the new sub-human piece of human garbage?" Jake asked, knowing full well the answer, and feeling as though he was almost overcompensating for knowing the answer.
"Sophia Perez" He introduced. Phase 2 was a-go.
"Oh God!" Jake groaned as he acted his ass off.
Jake played his role beautifully. Terry had no idea about the plan. To him, Jake just had really shit luck.
Rosa had great fun making hell for Amy and watching Gina and Boyle battle it out.
Jake and Sophia had gotten along quite well, and we're working well at trying to play hate.
Jake decided that this was the perfect opportunity to get the Squad involved in the case, with a side impact of letting everyone know about his new girlfriend.
Jake walked into the precinct, in a suit which Rosa knew he put on intentionally because she knew the effect it had on her. He called everyone in for an emergency briefing, and Rosa knew it was time to start phase 2.5. This was a plan which they had considered but was optional.
Once inside the briefing room, Jake stood at the front.
"Alright. Listen up. We need more evidence. We need more evidence on this guy and we need it quick. So, no time for Chit-chat" Jake said
"What's going on? You love Chit-chat" Rosa asked, catching on to the plan quickly. Amy caught the wrong end and started commenting on his posture
"Because I'm being serious. Because I don't want this perp to walk" Jake said
"This isn't about the perp" Terry said, picking up the piece of paper that Jake held in front of him and sticking it to the board. "It's about this woman" He added "Jake slept with her" He finished
"Oh! She's so pretty. She looks like a woman on an olive oil bottle" Charles piped up
"Way to go Jake" Rosa commented
"She's a defence attorney" Terry said, and the room was filled with disaprovement
"Ok guys, let's take it easy on him" Terry said
"Thank you, Terry" Jake added. Before they interjected with rabies talk
"Alright. Listen. Can we focus up? Our witness is useless so we wither need to recover the stolen gems or find the break in tool" Jake said
"What year was the perp's house built in, some of those old brownstones had dumbwaiters" Amy said
"A perfect hiding spot. Good thinking Amy. Alright we're going t win this case, then we can put my horrible sexual experience behind us forever" Jake said
"I don't know Jake. I think I'm going to think about it every time I look at your crotch" Charles said
"Then stop looking at my crotch" Jake replied as he walked out.
-That Evening-
"NYPD!" Jake shouted as they ran into the house, finding it empty
"Where's this dumbwaiter Amy?" Rosa asked
"Try the kitchen" Amy said walking back downstairs. They found the dumbwaiter and inside they found all the tools with shards of glass, matching the glass from the crime scene
"I think we did it!" Jake said. They returned to the precinct and filed the evidence, until it was just Jake and Rosa left
"Ready to go?" she asked
"Hang on" Jake said finishing off the last of his paperwork
"What's John Addams?" Jake asked her
"HE was a politician. He -" But he cut her off
"Babe I just need a line of something" Jake said
"To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none, is something worse" Rosa said
"Thanks" He said
"Why?" She asked
"I made a scene about how I didn't watch John Addams so I need something to make it seem like I did" He said
"She's good isn't she" Rosa said
"I'll say" Jake replied. Sophia was an incredible actress. Considering she was a lesbian. They went home soon after, and made love into the night.
-The Next Afternoon-
Terry managed to convince Jake to go after her, and watched from the door as Jake 'asked out Sophia' and they made off together. Once out of sight, they watched until Terry left, and they walked their separate ways, wishing each other a good evening.
Jake arrived back home, and about ten minutes later, Rosa arrived back.
"Amy beat Scully as our union rep" Rosa said
"Sophia and I are officially fake 'dating'" Jake said
"Productive day then" She said
"Yeah, except the perp walked" Jake said
"They found him not guilty? That's bullshit" Rosa complained
"I know!" Jake replied. He sat down with her that evening, thinking about what their meat loaf was. Die hard, Movies, Sex, Cop stuff, Laser tag. Honestly there were so many things they had in common, so many things they could talk about. They didn't need a meat-loaf. They had one another.
"Come here" Jake said about ten minutes into whatever programme they were watching, he wasn't paying attention. He placed his hands on her hips and pulled her to straddle his lap. She moaned as she rocked against his length
"You are the most incredible, insatiable, beautiful woman, I have ever met" He said whilst rocking his hips into hers
"You are everything I want" He whispered into her ear as he kissed her. In a heartbeat, he flipped her onto her back, positioning his hips between her legs. She made quick work of his suit, tossing it onto the floor. Jake was pulling her clothes off quicker than she had put them on.
The longer they made our, the more desperate he grew. He needed her
"Rosa" He moaned as he practically ripped her bra from her body, then her underwear. Both naked he wasted no time in slipping a finger in between her folds, groaning as he felt her warm wetness envelope him, dripping her arousal down her legs.
"Fuck! Jake!" She moaned as his finger teased her gently.
He slipped his length inside her, taking her by surprise as she let out a loud cry if intense pleasure, as he stretched her out, and began thrusting into her exquisitely.
"Fuck!" He growled as he was already reaching his release. She was not far behind when he stopped, grabbed her legs and hooked them both over his shoulder, thrusting into her with passion and determination, as they both grew closer, and with a few words of gentle encouragement, they both found their climax. Jake lay beside her on the couch.
"You know I meant all of that" He whispered as he kissed her more. She smiled in response. Her heart never feeling fuller than it did right now.