CHAPTER 3

MATTERS GETTING WORSE

Later Shadow and Rouge finally made it to the woman's house. They walked up to the door.

Shadow faced Rouge, "This woman lost her son and I want you to behave yourself for once."

Rouge threw her cigarette on the ground, "Whatever."

Shadow sighed and rang the doorbell.

Soon a yellow female squirrel opened the door, "Are you those detectives?"

Shadow nodded, "Can we come in?"

The squirrel nodded. As they came in the squirrel noticed how Rouge looked, "Are you a detective?"

Rouge faced her, "Yeah."

"Just checking."

Rouge turned her back. "Noisy bitch", she muttered.

"What did you say!"

Shadow pulled Rouge away from the squirrel, "Rouge, maybe we should check the rooms."

Rouge struggled to get out of his grip, "I told you it's bad girl!"

Shadow shoved her upstairs, "Get moving!"

They first searched through the boy's room. They didn't find much.

Shadow was doing all the work while Rouge leaned against the wall smoking another cigarette. He ignored her and continued to look on the floor. He then spotted a small blood stain on the carpet. He studied it for a bit, 'Maybe the kidnapper tried to settle the boy down by hitting him with something. Something...hard.'

Rouge was getting impatient, "Are you done staring at the floor?"

Shadow walked passed her, "Let's check the next room."

Rouge sighed and followed him into the next room. When she walked in the next room, she saw Shadow looking around on the floor again. "There's nothing on the floor, so stop wasting time."

"For your information, I found blood in the boy's bedroom."

Rouge put her hands on her hips, "Does it look like I give a damn?"

Shadow ignored her and looked underneath the bed. He then found something. Once he saw what it was he was deeply disgusted. "How sick."

Rouge was curious, "What did you find?"

He took a pair of tweezers and showed her what he found.

Rouge's cigarette practically fell out her mouth, "Is that a condom!"

"A used one it seems."

"How disgusting."

Soon they returned downstairs and confronted the woman.

Shadow placed the condom in a plastic bag. He held it up at the woman, "What was this doing under your bed?"

The woman blushed, "That must have been from last night when my son got kidnaped."

"Last night?"

The woman nodded, "Yes, I not too long ago got a new boyfriend." She changed the subject, "Did you find anything that would be related to my son's kidnapper?"

"Well...we did find a small blood stain in your son's room."

The woman gasped, "Is he hurt?"

Shadow shrugged, "I don't know, but if they want that money for sure he's still alive." He headed for the door, "We'll get back to you later. Till then try not to worry. Come on, Rouge."

Rouge hit Shadow's arm again.

He held his arm, "What the hell was that for!"

"It's bad girl!"

"Shut the hell up woman!"

Later that night at Shadow's house, Shadow and Rouge were in the bedroom. Shadow was sitting in his desk chair thinking about some possible solutions to their case while Rouge was sitting on his bed smoking.

Shadow took his mind off the case and looked over to Rouge, "I've never seen you like this before."

Rouge took the cigarette out her mouth and placed it in a nearby ashtray, "That's because I've been hiding some of my emotions from you."

Shadow sat next to her on the bed, "You don't have to do this."

Rouge looked down on the floor, "...Maybe you're right." She looked at him with a glare, "And maybe you're wrong. I like being bad and if you don't like it deal with it!" She pushed Shadow on the mattress. "You know what I want and I want it now."

"Wait a minute..."

"Take it off!"

He still was wasn't comfortable with this, "But..."

Rouge got on top of him, "Either it's my way or my way!"

Somehow Shadow knew that this intercourse would be a lot different than the rest and he feared it.