A/N : Sorry it took so long to update. RL got in the way. And my Dad just got out of the hospital yesterday. But here I am back again to entertain and amuse you with the re-telling of OFTM. This is the last chapter. I hope the length of this one makes up for my lack of work for the past few weeks. There will be a epilogue chapter though. Well enjoy! Rain (Jackie)
RPOV
So here I am bad-ass ex Army Ranger standing in a mid-grade apartment doing domestic stuff like frying up these steaks and scrambling eggs. The things I will do for my Babe. It's a good thing my men can't see me now. The would tease me relentlessly for months!
As I turn the steaks over for the final time, Steph walks up behind me and wraps her arms around my waist.
"Smells wonderful, Ric, where did you learn to cook?" She asks me.
"My Mama and Abuela taught me. They thought we all should know how to fend for ourselves." I tell her. "Pass me a bowl so I can get started on the eggs babe."
Steph reaches in the cabinet and hands me a small mixing bowl. I crack 6 eggs into it and fluff them with a fork before adding them to the hot skillet. After a few minutes the eggs are done and it's time to plate everything up.
Steph hands me two plates and I add everything to them. Then walk them over to the table.
We sit down and enjoy our breakfast in mostly silence, except of course for Steph's moaning throughout. I groan and shift in my seat. And I swear Steph just smirks at me behind her hand.
After helping her clean up the dishes I ask Steph what she has planned for today.
"I need to go by the office and see if Connie has any new FTA's for me. After that, I'm kinda open to look for Morelli. What about you?"
"I have a couple of morning meetings scheduled. I'll call you when I get done with them and we'll discuss what to do about Morelli."
"OK. I have to go to the little girl's room right fast. Wait here and I'll walk you out when you leave." She says.
"Alright babe, I'll make a quick phone call while I wait." I explain.
She gives me a peck on the cheek and darts toward the bathroom down the hall.
As she turns the corner, I pick up my phone off of my hip and dial my second-in-command, Tank.
"Yo, I need a crew to pick up someone. Get Bobby, Les, Hal, Cal, Hector, Woody, Ram, and Vince on it. Two teams, unless you can get a third team together. But these are the guys I trust the most with this operation. Yeah, who we were talking about. No, just keep him downstairs till I get there. OK, thanks man."
I know all the men I mentioned to Tank, including Tank himself, will love to get a piece of him when they find out what he did.
As I hang up I notice Steph has rejoined me. I wonder how much of that she heard? Well I didn't name anyone so it should be all good.
SPOV
I'm on my way back to the living room when I hear Ric on the phone with someone. I pause my steps to listen in. I know it's wrong, but hey, I'm curious.
I hear him telling someone to "pick someone up" and leave them downstairs till he gets there. I wonder what that's about? Who is he having picked up and where are they taking them? I wonder if I should ask Ric about it. Yes I will, I'm just that curious.
"I'm back. What was that about? Sorry to be nosy, but I can't help myself." I timidly tell him.
"Nothing for you to worry about babe. Just someone we have been looking for. I was telling my second in command to set up a crew to round him up for me. I'll take care of it later, after they bring him in for me." He tries to explain.
I still think he's hiding some of it from me. But oh well, I'll find out soon enough.
"OK, you best get to your meetings. I'll see you later, maybe we could do lunch." I tell him as I give him a tight hug and a kiss.
Of course he is not settling for a simple kiss. He has to deepen it. Hell, there goes another pair of panties. I sigh and reluctantly let him go.
"Now get going Ric. I'll see you in a few hours for lunch." I tell him as I shoo him out the door.
"I don't want to leave, but you're right babe. I have a business to run. And I will see you for lunch." He says as he inches away from me.
I give him one last peck and close the door behind him.
I pick up my purse from the coffee table and head out the door, locking up behind me. I have to visit the office.
Two hours later I come back home. Connie still doesn't have any new files for me, business is slow. The criminals are being good for right now.
It's now 10:30 a.m. and I didn't sleep much last night so I think I'll lay down and try to catch a nap until Ric shows up.
RPOV
The meetings are going well, no break-ins, no one reporting anything out of the ordinary either. Good for me. After I close the last meeting out, I tell the core team to stick around.
"Tank, Les, Bobby, stay behind. We have someone to discuss." I alert them.
After all the men file out and get back to their assigned tasks, Tank closes the door. He takes his seat once more and we begin.
"What's up Ric?" He asks.
"What's this about?" Bobby adds.
I look over at Bobby and Les as I ask.
"You remember the new BEA I was helping with her FTA, Dodd, who nicked me in the leg?" I say.
"Yea, she was hot! What, you giving her up already cuz?" Lester teases.
"Knock it off Santos!" I growl. "Yea that's the one. She was left a present on her balcony last night. Our old pal Ramirez took out his aggression on one of his hookers. Cut her up bad, raped her, and left her to die. He's also been leaving Steph threatening messages."
I notice all three men tense up with rage. I knew they would not stand for this bull-shit.
"What can we do?" Tank replies.
"That's why I called you earlier. Set up those teams like I asked and bring him in. Drop his ass in one of the holding cells down stairs and we will all teach him how to treat a lady." I utter through gritted teeth.
"Hoo-rah!" I hear a chorus of agreement. I knew I could count on my brothers.
"Let me know when he is delivered." I tell Tank. "Dismissed!"
I look at my watch. It's nearly 1300. I pick up my phone and dial Steph. It takes her several rings to pick up. What's up with that?
I find out why when she answers half-asleep it sounds.
" 'Lo."
"Yo babe, you OK? You sound sleepy."
"Just thought I'd take a nap while I waited for you. Connie didn't have any new files for me." She croaks out.
"Too bad. You ready for lunch?" I ask.
"Yepp, come on over." She says. Then I hear her add under her breath. "I could use some tasty Cuban buns to nibble on."
She must have thought she said that last bit to herself. I feel my pants tighten in response.
"I'll bring your buns over in 10 babe." I tell her with my wolf-grin and hang up before she can reply.
I head down to the garage and climb into my truck. I arrive at her parking lot in less than 10. Wonder if I was in a hurry?
I make my way up the stairs to her door on the 2nd floor. I try the knob, good it's locked. I knock lightly on the door.
I hear her moving about inside. The locks tumble and she cracks the door open with the chain still attached. A grin lights up her face as she peers out at me.
She closes the door again to release the chain. I'm glad she checked to see who it was before just throwing the door open. She is taking her safety more serious now. I smile broadly at the thought as I walk in and close and lock the door behind me.
"One set of Cuban buns delivered to your door ma'am as you requested." I joke.
I see her blush bright red, but with a mischievous twinkle in her blue eyes; which are getting darker by the minute.
"Very fast and efficient service." She giggles.
"I aim to please." I tell her without a doubt.
"I'll hold you to that promise." She sighs.
I can no longer stand her without her in my arms. I take the two steps toward her and pull her to me. I attack her lips feverishly as the last of my control vanishes. When we come up for air I growl out.
"What you do to me babe."
"What do you want me to do to you?" She teases.
"Anything and everything you want babe." I tell her honestly.
This time she reaches up and begins to kiss me in earnest. My hands find their way under her shirt and quickly and efficiently unhook her bra. My hand makes it's way back around to tease and toy with her already pebbled nipples. She moans into my mouth.
I bend my knees and pick her up effortlessly. I make my way down the hall to her bedroom, still tasting her lips all the while. Once we reach our destination, I carefully lay her down on the bed.
I break away from her lips long enough to straighten back up to whip my shirt off over my head and toss it to the floor behind me. I reach into one of the pockets of my cargos and remove a condom package.
As I am starting to remove my weapons and gun belt, I see her start to work on her jeans.
"No, let me." I offer huskily.
After quickly ridding myself of my clothes and donning my protection, I bend down to start to assist her with her clothes. I tug her shirt up and off of her body first. Then I remove her bra easily since it is already hanging there unfastened.
I lean down to take her lips again possessively, while my right hand teases her nipple, twisting and pinching playfully. She groans and leans into me, rubbing her jean-clad mound against my ever-hardening erection.
I move my hand from her breast down to the button on her jeans and nimbly flick it open and draw the zipper down deftly. She picks her hips up and I remove her jeans the rest of the way. I lean back and look at her lying before me wearing only a small pair of lacy black panties. She has already gotten them soaked with her arousal. I growl my approval.
I lie down on top of her holding most of my weight up on my forearms. I take her lips again in a passionate kiss. I sneak my hand down her abdomen to the top of her panties and cup her mound in my large hand. I run my middle finger along her soaking wet split. I can't believe how wet she is for me.
I plunge a finger into her core and she jerks her hips up off of the bed as she cries out her first release. I remove my finger and swiftly rip her ruined panties off of her body.
As she comes down from her high I slowly ease myself into her tight heat. I close my eyes and moan at the sheer joy of the feeling of being so tightly encased in her. It is like heaven the feeling of being wrapped around by her.
I give her a moment to adjust to my size before I start to move, slowly at first. After a moment or two she is moaning her second release. I can no longer take it. I begin to pound into her body relentlessly. As she screams my name for the third time, I come apart inside of her with my own orgasm.
"Damn babe, I will never get tired of that. You will always make me want you." I admit when I can breathe again.
I flop over on my side after I pull out of her and dispose of the condom in the trash.
Once she is able to talk again she informs me.
"That was hot as always. But we really need to get up and look for Morelli some. His bond is up in 3 days and I still have no clue where to look for him."
"Well we can just roll around his usual haunts and see if anything jumps out at us." I say.
"OK." She replies as she gets up to go to the bathroom.
After we both shower and dress we decide to head out.
"Where to first?" She asks as we load up in my truck.
"Let's stake out Stark and see what's happening there." I suggest.
She nods her agreement and we head out toward Stark street. I pull up in the shadows a block away from the gym. We settle in to watch the regulars for a while.
There's not much movement but it's still early. An hour or two later it's gotten dark. It's around 1800 so thing should start to pick up now.
I hear Steph gasp and realize why. We spot Morelli coming out of the building across from the gym. We watch him walk to a dark panel van parked to the side of the building. He is not aware of his surroundings because he is too involved in a phone call. He's holding a cell phone up to his ear and talking animatedly.
"Wonder what he's up to?" Steph wonders aloud.
"No idea. But let's keep an eye on him." I respond.
We sit there for a few more minutes. I feel my cell phone buzz on my hip. I pick it up to read a text I just received. *Trash delivery. Waiting on you. T* I grin to myself.
I look up from my phone as I put it back on my hip. I notice a silver corvette come around from behind the gym. It is Ramirez's. The windows are tinted so I don't know who's driving. I do know that it is NOT Benito. I also notice that the van Morelli is in starts up and falls behind the corvette. I fall in place 3 car lengths behind Morelli's van. Let's see what he's up to.
"What in the world is going on? Why is Morelli following Ramirez?" Steph asks.
"Don't know babe, but we will find out when they stop." I reassure her.
We follow Morelli and the corvette to the out-skirts of town. Looks to me like they are headed for the river. After a few more miles I realize that they are headed to the marina.
'What the fuck is going on?' I think to myself.
The corvette stops beside a refrigerated truck near the docks. Morelli pulls in a bit away from them, and I pull over behind some trees 200 yards from Morelli.
I am not surprised to see Jimmy Alpha climb out of Ramirez's corvette. He heads over to the refrigerator truck. After Alpha is out of sight, Morelli crawls out of the van and sneaks over to hide near the truck.
"Do you have your gun babe?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Grab it and come on. Let's see what these guys are up to. No good I bet."
We both get out of my truck and stealthily follow Morelli to the refrigerator truck. I creep up on the driver's side and hear voices coming from the rear.
"What the hell have you done? You almost ruined me. And now you put a cap in Ziggy. What the fuck man?!" Morelli yells. "And where is Carmen?"
I peek around the corner of the truck and see Morelli standing in front of Alpha. They both have guns drawn and trained on each other. They are standing to the rear of the open truck door.
I nod to Steph and mouth silently. 'Go around and keep your gun on Alpha.'
She nods back that she understands and she walks back around me to the other side of the truck. We both step out at the same time with our guns out and pointed at Morelli and Alpha.
"Don't move Jimmy." I threaten.
"You're under arrest Joe, you're coming with me." Steph says.
"The hell I am Cupcake!" Joe shouts.
Then a whole lot of shit happens at once. Morelli lunges for Steph. His gun arm falls and his trigger finger slips. The bullet zings off of the bumper of the truck and ricochets hitting Steph. I see red. At the same time Alpha turns to fire at Steph, but I hit him first in the base of the neck, killing him instantly.
Steph is in full rhino mode and makes a flying tackle taking Morelli down to the ground trying to scratch his eyes out the whole time, while yelling at the top of her lungs.
"You're scum Morelli. You shot me you bastard!"
I don't know if I should pull her off of Morelli or let her have at him. I am so proud of her right now.
She sits back on her heels straddling Morelli's waist and is still steaming.
"Move over babe, let me handle this." I try.
She reluctantly rolls off of Morelli and I roll him over to cuff him. He is not too happy with either of us right now either. I turn to Steph and ask.
"You alright? Where are you hit? Let me see."
She turns her back to me and I see a small spot of blood right in the middle of her right cheek.
"He got you in the ass babe?" I chuckle.
She just growls and huffs at me with fire in her eyes.
"Laugh it up Batman! This shit is so not funny!"
"OK. You need to go get that looked at?" I offer.
"Not yet. Let's take care of these two first." She adds.
We load Morelli up in my truck. I cuff his ankles to the bar in the rear floor board. We call the TPD to take our statements and take care of Alpha and the other bodies.
The responding officer, Eddie Gazzara asks me if I want him to take Joe to the station for us.
"Hell no!" Steph all but screeches at him. "I'm taking his ass to the station. He's my first capture as a BEA and I want to do it right."
Gazzara backs away from Steph with his hands held out in front of him in a defensive gesture.
"OK, OK Steph, I was just trying to help. Don't bite my head off."
After all the paperwork is done, the TPD and Gazzara leave the cleaning to the CSI team. We are now free to go.
"You ready to go get that pain in your ass checked out now babe?" I tease.
"Hardy har har funny man, sure let's go. But can I go let your medic check it out. I hate hospitals." She pleads.
"Sure babe, whatever you want. Bobby is the best." I inform her.
We climb in my truck and head over to my offices on Haywood. Of course we drop Morelli off first at the station and pick up Steph's body receipt. She is glowing with pride. So am I.
"I want to give you a part of the capture fee Ric. I probably wouldn't have got him if it wasn't for you." She reveals.
"Not necessary babe." I tell her.
"I insist. You had a huge part of helping me. Please take part of it, for me." She bats her eyes at me. I sigh and shrug my shoulders. The things I do for her.
We arrive at Haywood and I fob my way into the underground parking garage. I pull into one of my spaces near the elevator and we ease out of the truck. I call Bobby on my cell as we reach the elevator.
"Meet me and Steph at the infirmary. She took a ricochet. She wants you to clean and stitch it up for her. OK."
"Was that Bobby?" Steph inquires.
"Yea, he's meeting in his clinic on 3 in 5 minutes. He said he is happy to help you." I tell her.
We exit the elevator on 3 just as Bobby enters from the stairwell. He was in his apartment on 4 when I called him.
I notice when we enter the clinic that Steph's posture has tightened up. I wonder what's wrong.
"What's wrong babe?" I whisper to her.
"I'm a little nervous about this. I never thought about Bobby having to see my naked butt until now." She whispers back.
"He's seen asses before babe, although all of the ones he has seen before have mostly been hairy." I chuckle out loud.
She does look a little relieved after that, or is it amused? Bobby speaks up as we close the door to the clinic behind us.
"What's the damage? I don't see any wounds."
Steph blushes and turns her back to Bobby. He looks confused before his attention is drawn to below her waist.
"How did you manage to catch a bullet in the ass honey?"
"Damn Morelli, damn ricochet, damn cooler truck!" She grumbles.
I can hardly keep my face blank from wanting to laugh my ass off.
"Just fix me up please?" She begs.
"You got it. Drop your pants and bend over. I'll give you a local." Bobby suddenly goes into medic mode.
I take this opportunity to let Steph know I'm leaving for a few minutes.
"Babe, I have to go check on something. I'll be back by the time Bobby is done with your stitches. You're in good hands, the best there is." I let her know.
She shakes her head that she understood, so I turn and exit the room. I enter the stairwell and make my way down to the basement holding cells.
As I reach the door to the occupied cell, I see Woody is standing guard. I nod my acknowledgement to him as I enter.
Ramirez is sitting handcuffed to a metal table, slouched in a chair and looking worse for wear. 'Good, you deserve it.' I think to myself. I speak to Tank, who is grinning smugly.
"Everyone get their piece of the action?"
"Yepp, everyone got their licks in. It took 3 of us to pull Woody off of him though. You know how he is. Takes his job as southern gentleman's chivalry seriously man." Tank laughs out loud.
"We all are like that man. We don't take kindly to pieces of shit like this who mistreat women. He deserves everything he gets and worse. Death is too humane for him. But I will enjoy it still." I grouse.
I walk over to Ramirez and spit out.
"Yo Benito, you still with us?"
He slowly looks up at me with two black eyes and several bruises to his face. It looks like someone broke his nose and jaw, too. I take in his other evident injuries. I see what appears to be a broken leg, if that bone sticking out is any indicator. I also see several shallow cuts to his face and chest. Looks like Hector has been playing with his knives again. I can't see any more obvious injuries so I ask Tank.
"What all did they guys do to him?"
"You can see Hector had his fun with his blades. Vince broke both his knee caps. Hal did that damage to his face using only his fists. Cal cut off most of his fingers. The rest of us just beat the shit out of him. Hell, Woody branded the OU logo on his ass." Tank is chuckling by now.
I have a sly grin on my own face by now. I return my attention to Ramirez. He is still looking up at me, tho now it is through swollen eyes. I speak to him once again.
"You know why we brought you here?"
He doesn't say anything, just stares back at me.
"You fucked with the wrong woman, MY woman. And I never liked the way you treat women. You are a piece of filth and were treated as such."
Ramirez just snarls and spits on my boot.
"Wrong move asshole!" I say as I pull my beretta out of it's holster.
I raise my gun and ask him one last time. "Give me one reason not to put a bullet between you eyes."
Ramirez just sits there sulking, saying nothing to defend himself. He doesn't see fit to give any reason, although they would be feeble; as to why he tortured and probably murdered dozens of women.
"You don't have anything to say? I didn't think so. You don't deserve to breathe the same air as decent people anymore." I say as I put the life-taking bullet between his eyes.
I turn to Tank and tell him.
"Get a clean-up crew to get this slime off of the cell floor."
Tank nods and grunts out a "Hoo-rah" as I make my way back out the door. I sprint up the stairs back to the 3rd floor. Bobby should be about done with Steph by now.
I walk into the clinic just as Bobby is taping the bandage down on Steph's stitched up wound.
"How ya feeling now babe?" I ask her.
"Better, like I'm floating." She giggles.
"Numbing agent and pain meds man." Bobby informs me.
"Don't worry, I'll drive her home and tuck her into bed." I tell him.
"Our guest taken care of?" Bobby asks me.
"Clean-up crew is taking care of the sludge left on the floor as we speak. Did you get your chance?"
Bobby nods to me and says. "Hoo-rah".
I nod back and speak to Steph again. "You ready to go get some rest now babe?"
She just nods back, looks like she is getting sleepy now. Must have been some good stuff Bobby gave her. I pick her up and carry her to the elevator. I make my way to my truck and gently sit her in the passenger seat buckling her in snugly.
I take her home and settle her in the bed for the night. I curl up behind her after I remove my weapons and clothes, leaving me in my only pair of black silk boxers. I pull her into me, spooning her. I wrap my arm around her waist.
She has already fallen asleep. I lie awake for a while thinking of how proud I am of her for getting Morelli. Him as a first case would have been hard on anyone, but she never gave up. She's like a pit bull with a bone. I am so proud of her. I think to myself as I begin to doze off, too. 'I can't wait to see what our next adventure is!' ################
A/N : Well that's it folks, my take on how OFTM should have been. I have planned on doing 4 more stories in this series, 4 more books to get re-done with my twist. I will be posting a short epilogue chapter for this story with a sneak peek into the next book I plan one re-hashing. The first person to guess which book it is will get a special sneak peek at the first chapter of that story and will be choosing their own special input into the story. It will be whatever you want, from your name in the story, to anything you want to happen (your own special scene!). So keep those reviews coming. I love every one of them!
Rain (Jackie)