~ Body Parts ~
by Larisa
Disclaimer: Ya'll know the story, ya they look like our favorite duo but these two are all mine.
Violence: Gods yes! EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIOLENCE!! If you're weak of heart or stomach, beware!!!! I have gone into some detail about serial killing and it's NOT pretty!
Sex: Of course there is!!!! Me writing a story with out it will never happen!
Bad language and all the other stuff: Yep, can't help myself. If you're still in diapers and can't buy beer, go away until you can.
Thanks to Lesia, Ri, Maggie, WebWarrior and Bardeyes for their help with this gruesome tale. Guys, the shrink ran from his office screaming after talking to me for three minutes!
Part 2
The drive to the Morgantown police station took six hours; Xepher could hardly get out of her car when she got there. Her hip and lower back were killing her; she leaned against her car for a few minutes until she could deal with the pain. She wished that Brian were with her to hit the pressure points and take away the pain. The thought of Brian being alone with just a uniform with her, bothered Xepher more than she liked to admit. She felt that she should be protecting her and no one else.
Hours later, she had gone over every file they had, including the autopsy report. There were similar things with the case but she didn't have the feeling in her gut that she relied on. She would take the files to Brian and let her look over the autopsy reports and see what she thought of them. She was beginning to rely on the doctor for her knowledge among other things.
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Brian compared the X-rays from the Captain with the X-rays of the three women; she double-checked them again and sighed when she found that there was a match. She knew it meant closure for the girl's family but it also meant that they had lost a loved one for good. She would let Xe know when she got home that night. Home was not her apartment, which she couldn't get into anyway. Calling the apartment maintenance man, she explained to him what happened and arranged for him to change the locks on her door, to install a dead bolt and to leave the new key in an envelope in her mailbox. She was not about to take a chance on the psycho having a key to her apartment. Next was seeing if the uniformed officer with her could get someone into make a new key for her car that was still at the impound lot. After batting her lashes at him, she thought that he would fall over trying to get to his cruiser to call the police mechanic. When he came back in out of breath, he told her that her car would be delivered to the Hospital with new keys. "Ya still have it Brian, you can make them swoon with your charm." She thought to herself then mumbled under her breath. "Too bad it doesn't work on someone else." Going back to her paperwork, she signed off on papers for the lab to run tests on blood samples of Dr. Blane. When she had performed his autopsy, she examined his heart and found no disease or reason for his heart attack. There was very little plaque in the arteries and the muscle was that of a younger man. She still thought that the previous test results showed something strange. She took more samples and sent them off to be checked for natural/organic materials. It was a gut feeling that made her do it and she never second-guessed that. Placing the closed file on the identified body, she scrawled across the top half of the folder the girl's name. Picking up the phone, she called the girls next of kin and waited for the phone to be answered. She usually let the police call the parents but she needed to know something for her report.
"Hello this is the Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Meadows. Is this Mr. Levine?"
"Yes it is, is this about my daughter Laura?"
"Yes sir it is. I have identified remains here in Frederick Maryland as belonging to your daughter. A question if I may; can you tell me where she was during the time of her disappearance?"
"She was with a group of college students walking the Appalachian Trail. She had called us two days before she disappeared and said that they were camping along the river and that she would be heading home by the end of the week."
"Did she say who she was with? Dorm mates or acquaintances, did she have a boyfriend? And how exactly was she going to get home?"
"She was with some kids she knew from campus. She didn't have a steady boyfriend and that she was going to catch a ride, I presumed that she was going to hitch hike the same way as she had gotten down there."
Brian was shocked, she hadn't even thought of the victims hitch hiking. "Thank you sir, I will pass all this information onto the investigating officer." She finished the call by taking down the information for transporting the remains and expressing how sorry she was for their loss. Replacing the receiver, she leaned back in her chair and let ideas run through her head. "Wonder if I can track down who she was with? I need to know if she had a boyfriend or significant other with her." She was startled when the uniformed officer stepped into her office and handed her keys to her car.
"The shop just dropped it off, the mechanic said that everything is fine with it and the new keys work."
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A loud roar echoed in the cellar, the preacher fell forward from where he straddled the woman's limp body. His body jerked and trembled with his release. The pruning saw clattered to the floor, he smeared the warm blood over his chest and genitals and felt his scrotum clench tightly. Gripping his testicles in a blood covered hand; he squeezed until another release burst from him and his semen to spurt out to fall on her unmoving chest. Collapsing onto her cooling body, the preacher rested until he was able to catch his breath. Rolling to his feet, he pulled a hose down from the ceiling, turned the sprayer on and watched as the blood was cleansed from the dead woman and washed down the drain in the autopsy table. When she was completely cleaned, he stood in the center of the floor over a steel grate and washed the blood from his own body. Looking to the pale body, he felt his penis throb and come back to life. Slapping as hard as he could with his hand, he flinched and gasped at the pain. Reaching for the disposable razor he had left near the table, he started to shave his pubic area of all stubble. Nicks to his skin were ignored as his blood mixed with hers washed down the drain. When he was finished, he pulled her by her arm until she fell to the floor. Dragging her to a makeshift altar, he positioned her so that her body was resting on forearms and knees.
He screamed at the top of his lungs to the rough hand drawn picture on the white washed wall. "I have made an offering of this sinner to you; she is now cleansed of all sin by the letting of blood!"
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Brian thanked the officer as he walked her to her door, she knew that the young man was smitten with her and ignored his offer to come inside with her. After she convinced him that she would be all right, he went back to his cruiser and waited until she was inside before leaving. Flipping the light on, she went to her answering machine and saw that no one had called her. Not surprised since she had no one besides Xepher in her life at the moment. Dropping the files she had brought home on top of a nearby cardboard box, she went into the kitchen to see if she had anything to fix for supper. It was well past six o'clock and she had yet to eat anything since that morning. Finding nothing of interest, she headed for her bathroom for a long bath and maybe take-out later. She immediately thought of Xepher and wondered if she would join her for a pizza and beer. Flipping the light on, she gasped and stepped back into the hallway. With the eye of a medical examiner, she could tell that no one had been slain in her bathroom, but appeared to have washed the blood of another off. The sink, floor and bathtub had smears of blood. Lying on the floor in a bloody heap were surgical scrubs, booties and a white lab coat.
"That son of a bitch is trying to frame me!" Going into the kitchen, she picked up the phone and dialed Xepher's cell phone number. She was thankful that she had asked for it earlier that day in case of an emergency. She waited for it to ring and prayed that Xepher was either on her way home at already there. She didn't want to call the police station and have all kinds of cops traipsing through her small dumpy apartment.
"Come on Xe answer the damn…"
"Damn what Brian?'
"Thank the Gods! Get over here now, that fucker was here and left my bathroom full of bloody smears."
"Where's your apartment?" She asked as she slowed down in case she would have to cut across the grassy median strip. Once she had her address, she took off in the direction she had been headed. Brian only lived ten minutes at the most away from her. Turning down a side street, she shot across and pulled up in front of the small apartment building next to a burgundy Prelude she assumed was Brian's. She wondered how she had gotten her car back and was a little afraid to ask her. But right now what weighed heavily on her mind was that Brian's apartment had been broken into. She ran up to the door, pounded once before the door was ripped open and she was pulled through by Brian.
"That son of a bitch was here last night! What if I had been here when he showed up!?"
Xe saw Brian's walls starting to crumble. Pulling her into her arms, she rested her head on top of Brian's and just held her.
"Did you go in the bathroom?" She heard the low mumble of "no" come from where Brian had her face pressed against her breasts. "Let me call this in and get the photographer over here and the tech guys." She pulled back just enough to look into frightened green eyes. "I don't want you staying here. I want you at home with me, OK?" With the nod of Brian's head, Xe placed a soft kiss to her forehead and pulled her back into her body. Pulling her cell phone from her belt, she called the station and then took Brian into the kitchen. Opening up the cabinet, she pulled down two coffee cups and readied the coffee maker. The whole time she kept glancing at the still woman sitting in a chair quietly. Moving behind her, she wrapped her arms around her and pulled her back into her body. Leaning down close to her ear, she whispered. "I won't let anything happen to you, I give you my word." Burying her face against her neck, she stayed that way until she heard the doorbell ring. Kissing Brian's temple, she left her to answer the door.
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"I want pictures of everything. I want fingerprinting, fibers, and vacuuming of the floors in the bathroom, hallway and her bedroom." When she had everyone doing what she wanted, she returned to the kitchen to check on Brian. Her mind was reeling with how close she had come to maybe loosing the small doctor. She knew in her heart and mind that she was lost to the argumentive, stubborn headed, sharp-tongued little blond. She would do everything in her power to keep her safe.
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Brian sat with her face buried in her hands, she was trying to hold herself together but it was getting harder by the second. She felt invaded both emotionally and personally. In all the years she had been a medical examiner, no one had ever done what this murderer had. She had no clue as to why he had come into her apartment and tried to frame her. She was on the verge of tears when, she felt Xe come up behind her to enfold her in her strong arms. Xe pressed her body against Brian to share her warmth. The one thing she now knew was that, she could count on the detective's strength and friendship. Both times that Xe had been needed, she had been there in record time and offered comfort and understanding.
"Let me get us some coffee and when the guys are done we'll go home."
Brian loved the sound of the word home, a small smile came to her lips. She glanced to her left and watched her stoic friend prepare their cups. She couldn't believe that Xe knew how she liked her coffee made. Not even her own mother knew that she like both cream and sugar. Turning back to where she could see the techs working, she wasn't paying attention when Xe jumped back and slammed the refrigerator door.
"Son of a bitch!" She growled. "Don't open that." She pointed to the refrigerator and left the kitchen to get a tech in there. Brian could only guess as to what was in there. She knew if she had opened and found something gross, her cussing would have been heard clear to the West Coast. Sighing, she took her cup of coffee and sipped the brew without cream.
"Bag it and everything else in there, I don't want to take a chance on having him screw around with her food. Take everything to the lab and tell them to test for every known biological and natural substance not normal for the article."
"Got it detective. I'll stay there until it's all written up." He opened the refrigerator and swore under his breath. On the top shelf were a pair of hands placed together as if they were praying. He carefully placed a bag over them and lifted them out touching the chilled flesh.
"Guess he knows about my cooking skills huh?" Brian was doing her best not to freak out and run screaming from her apartment. She knew that she would never be able to stay here now. She would look for a new place to live as soon as she had a chance. Tomorrow was to (too) late as far as she was concerned.
"Are you guys done in her bedroom?"
"All done, just be careful of the fingerprint dust and the luminal. We found some blood where it dripped from his hands or what ever."
Xe took Brian's hand and led her to her bedroom. "Get some clothes and what ever else you might need. Then we'll go home."
Brian took a total of fifteen minutes to collect all that she needed, including her laptop and the CD's she needed. With everything stuffed in a gym bag and her laptop case slung over Xe's shoulder, they left the apartment with Xe giving orders to the techs to lock it up when they were done.
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"Do we have to go home right away?" Brian asked as she moved closer to Xe inside the cruiser.
"No, where did you want to go?"
"A bar, preferably a gay bar." She looked at Xe's strong profile and saw a small smirk form on her face.
"Are you going to get drunk and take advantage of me?"
Snorting out a laugh, Brian busted her bubble. "You wish I could get that drunk."
"And all this time I was under the impression that I was irresistible."
"You're dog doesn't count and she likes me better anyway." You are way beyond irresistible! You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. She said to herself and felt a deep blush work it's way up her neck. "I need a strong drink and to relieve some stress."
"Relieve stress, how do you relieve stress?" Xe's heart stopped and was on the verge of shattering into tiny little pieces. Please don't tell me it's by picking up some slag and screwing her in the bathroom!
"Dance my fool head off, that's how."
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Xe pulled her cruiser into the parking lot, turned the engine off and then turned to look at Brian. She could see the stress in her features, deep creases along the sides of her mouth making her look like she was scowling.
"This is the only place I know of, it's not fancy or anything but the do have good music."
Dark green eyes moved from where they were looking out the windshield to connect with silvery blue. A small smile came to Brian's face almost erasing the tension and stress.
"Good, cuz I'm going to dance until I either drop or someone throws me off the dance floor."
"Are you saying that you suck when it comes to dancing?"
"You'll just have to watch and rate my abilities for yourself." She didn't give Xe a chance to say another word nor get around the car to open the door for her.
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Xe stood at the end of the bar drinking a Jack Daniels neat and watching Brian clear the dance floor. She was having problems with her heart beating against her ribcage to the point of pain. She could feel moisture building between her thighs and soaking her Levi's from watching Brian gyrate on the dance floor. The sensual way Brian's hips swayed to the music made her mouth go dry. Taking a sip of her drink, she watched Brian turn away a woman who approached her. She did the same two more times before one of them came up to her.
"Can I dance with your wife?"
With surprise shinning in her pale blue eyes, she asked. "Dance with my wife?"
"Yeah, the hot little blonde. She said I had to ask you first."
"She did? Sorry but this dance is mine." She placed her glass on the bar. "Maybe I'll let you dance with her later." She left the woman with an envious look on her face. Making her way to the dance floor. She stopped and watched Brian for a few minutes before she stepped up behind her. Placing her hands on her hips, she pulled her back into her body. Leaning down close to her ear she purred in a deep sensual voice. "Will your wife be pissed at me for dancing with you?"
Brian brought her hand up and placed it at the back of Xe's head, pulling her closer she purred back. "That depends on how we dance." She turned in Xe's arms, ran her hand up her chest to linger on her cheek before brushing her bangs back from her darkened blue eyes. "Are you any good?"
"Ohh I'm bad…very bad." She moved closer to Brian, running her hands up her back and back down to cup her firm ass. Slipping one thigh between hers, she stepped forward and pressed against her.
"Forget my wife, I'm going home with you." She wrapped her arms around Xe's neck and pulled her closer. A low moan came from her when Xe moved her hands up to caress her back and started to sing to her as they slow danced.
Love sure is something no one can explain
It can bring you such joy, it can bring you pain
And with every emotion, love puts us through
There's nothing you can say, when love finds you
Love is the power that makes your heart beat
It can make you move mountains, make you drop to your knees
When it finally hits you, you won't know what to do
There's nothin' you can do when love finds you
Brian felt tears forming in her eyes as she listened to the words of Vince Gills song being sung to her. She pressed her face deeply against Xe's neck and ran her fingers through her silky hair. The only word that came to mind was "Destiny." The last chorus went straight to her heart.
And when you least expect it, it will finally come true
There's nothing you can say when love finds you
When the song ended, Brian pulled back and looked into dark blue eyes. What she saw there was pure unconditional love. "I hate you Xe." She leaned up and brought their lips together for a lingering kiss. When they came apart, she whispered in a low voice. "I really hate you." The kiss she gave Xe had the tall detectives knees going weak, their tongues seeking out each other and caressing. Moans rumbled in their chests as embers burst to flames and scorched their senses. They never noticed when the music stopped or the lights came on signaling that it was closing time.
"Out! Come on everyone clear out!" The bouncer yelled at everyone standing around.
Xe felt a tap on her shoulder, breaking the kiss, she growled at the interruption.
"Move it."
"I'll move it all right." She gave the bouncer a glare. "Home to our bed." Wrapping her arm around Brian's waist, she walked them to the door. Just as she stepped outside, her cell phone rang. "Son of a bitch!" She flipped the phone open and yelled into it.
"What now I'm busy!"
"Not yet you're not." Boggs said. "We have another body, it's near Cindy D's restaurant up behind the liquor store in the trees."
"Son of a bitch! When I catch this guy I'm gonna rip his head off and ram it up his ass!" She felt Brian fall against her side and whimper. "We'll be there in 45 minutes." She was ready to go on a rampage, her body was humming from arousal and there was not a damn thing she could do about it. Taking Brian in her arms, she buried her face against her neck and moaned. "Gods I'm so sorry. We have another body."
"When you catch him, I'm going to help you kill him! I'm dying here!"
"Makes two of us." She stepped back and took her hand. "Lets get this over with so we can go home."
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Blue lights flashed and bounced of the liquor stores wall, the low murmur of the police radios droned in the background. Xe and Brian could see uniformed officers keeping the gawkers at bay, while the Chief spoke with a handful of reporters. Stopping the cruiser close to the other squad cars, they got out to see the yellow crime tape strung across a large area in the back. Xe went to the back of her car and opened the trunk for the stuff they would need. She treated each scene that she went to like she was walking into a sterile area. With Hospital booties, surgical gloves and her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She wanted to preserve the evidence as best she could and leaving her own trace evidence only made it harder on the techs. Taking a black nylon bag from the trunk, she handed it to Brian.
"What's this?" Brian asked as she held up the heavy bag.
"Your tools of the trade." Taking her hand, she led her to where they could get to the body without having to go near the reporters. Using Brian's shoulder to steady herself, she lifted one foot and slipped the bootie on and stepped over the crime tape. Repeating the process with the other, she then helped Brian put her own booties on. Xe led the way with Brian walking directly behind her so as not to leave to many footprints or destroy vital evidence. Approaching a lone officer, she asked him who all had been near the body. He told her that it had just been him, another officer and the chief.
"In that bag is a UV light, do you think we'll be able to pick anything up?"
Brian looked at the area surrounding the body, turning her head and using her senses to pick up humidity and the movement of air, she gave Xe a small grin. "We just might, the weathers perfect to preserve certain evidence. Let me check and see if he left us anything." She pulled the UV light out and started at the ankles and worked her way up. She stopped and looked over her shoulder at Xe who was standing there with a notebook in her hand. "You gonna be my secretary?"
"Yep, just tell me what to do."
Brian wiggled her brows and gave her a lecherous grin. "Take your clothes off."
A dark brow rose to bury itself in her bangs. "Excuse me but how is that going to help with me taking notes?"
"Oh its not to help you, it's to help me. I think better when I'm around gorgeous naked women." She snickered when the uniformed officer choked and walked away. "Works every time." She flashed Xe a grin. "OK, looks like we have some semen in the navel area. That's a first for this guy, he must have been in a hurry." Moving the light on the insides of the victim's thighs, she stopped when a small spot glowed bright purple. "We have some more on the inside to the upper left thigh, 2 millimeters from pubic bone. She searched the entire body and found just small spots of semen that had not been washed away. After scraping the samples into a small glass bottle, she gently turned the body over and with the use of a small flashlight and the spotlights angled toward her. She found a blonde pubic hair. Placing it into a plastic evidence bag, she handed it to Xe. With close examination to the amputated areas, she knew that it was the same guy from before that had dumped this body. She got up from where she has squatting and led Xe off to the side away from prying ears. Pulling her down to her she whispered in her ear.
"He's getting sloppy, he shaved her pubic hair like the others, nicked the Hell out of her and missed some spots. This body belongs to a brunette, so either the blonde pubic hair is his or it belongs to one of the other victims. I won't know until I can look at it under a microscope and do a DNA test."
"OK, lets bag this one and get her out of here. The autopsy can wait until later this morning."
After giving the evidence to Boggs to be logged in and then sent off to the labs. They helped the paramedics place the body into the ambulance and gave them instructions to what storage drawer to put it in. Shedding the booties and gloves, they placed them into a small bio bag and put everything back into the trunk.
"Let's go home I'm exhausted and my hip is killing me." Xe handed the car keys to Brian and then limped to the passenger side and crawled in. Brian looked at the keys and grinned, she had always wanted to drive a cop car.
"Can I speed?"
"I'd prefer it, I wanna get home and collapse into bed." She saw Brian's face fall a bit. "With you." She finished and saw a glimmer of a smile cross Brian's face before she pulled the cruiser onto to RT. 340 and headed home.
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After letting Bear out, filling both of her dishes and leaving their cell phones purposely on the kitchen table, they headed for the bedroom. Xe had shed all of her clothes before she had even gotten to the bed. Dropping face first into bed, she rolled onto her side and waited for Brian. Fighting to keep her eyes open, she lost the battle the second a warm body snuggled up against her. Brian lay facing Xe, she traced a dark brow with her fingertip and leaned forward to kiss her parted lips. Snuggling closer to the detective's body, Brian lay her head on a muscular shoulder and drifted off to sleep. With the comfort of each others arms wrapped around them and a warm furball nestled against the backs of Brian's thighs, they slept deeply for the first time in years.
The ringing of the phone could not wake them; it rang for 20 minutes straight before stopping. Finally the caller got fed up and decided to pay the women a visit. It didn't really bother Boggs that he would have to drive out to Xepher's house. He felt as if she were one of his daughters. He knew that when he had seen her the night before that she was exhausted from the long hours working the case. He also noticed that a tell tale sign of her exhaustion was that she would start to limp and favor her left leg. He would never forgive himself for not listening to her when she had told him of how her partner of two years was mentally unstable. He had just chalked up her partners problems as job stress and long hours. He had no idea that the man would kill his wife and mother in-law and then shot Xepher in the attempt to take his own life.
He had asked her if she wanted to be partnered with someone else when she had come back to work. The answer he got from her still made his hair stand on end. The low keening growl that she made had every one with in hearing distance cringing under their desks. He made it a point to never ask her that question again and took it upon himself to be her partner when she needed help. The other higher ups of the police station called him her little pet, but knew that she really didn't need a partner. They also knew that guilt was the reason Boggs was going out of his way and onto a limb for her.
So here he was at ten o'clock in the morning pounding on her front door. If she didn't answer, he was tempted to crawl through the doggy door at the back of her house. The only problem with that idea was, he wasn't the thin man he used to be. It would be the embarrassment of a lifetime to be caught wedged in the small door.
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"Go way." Xe mumbled into the soft flesh beneath her cheek. "Damn pounding. Kill someone." Bringing a hand up to cover her ear, she felt fingers buried into her hair. Opening one eye half way, she took stock of where she was and recognized her bedroom. The odd thing was, the pounding and a deep snoring. Picking her head up, she looked at the sleeping face of Brian. A smile came to her sleepy face as she looked into the calm innocent features of the woman that had worked her way into her heart. Then the smile vanished when a horrible snore rumbled in Brian's chest and a snorting noise came from her nose. Chuckling, Xe kissed her breast and tried to roll from her arms.
"No, can't leave." Brian mumbled and pulled Xe closer to her.
"Brian, someone's pounding on the front door."
"Kay." She let Xe go, got up from the bed and stumbled from the room. Xe lunged across the bed trying to catch her before she made it to the front door. Getting out of the bed Xe's left leg gave out from under her and dropped her cussing to the floor.
Boggs raised his hand and was about to pound on the door again when it cracked open to show a blurry green eye peeking back at him. Before he could say a word, the door was pulled open and a naked Brian walked away leaving the older man's mouth to drop open. Coming to his senses, Boggs stepped in and closed the door.
Xe stubbled and limped from the bedroom, as she stepped into the living room, Brian walked up to her and wrapped her arms around her waist and pressed her face into her silk covered breasts.
"Boggs." Was all she said as she snuggled further into her. A low groan came from Xe as she saw her boss coming further into the room. He raised his arms and shrugged his shoulders at her.
"She let me in, is she trying to give me a heart attack?" He watched as Xe struggled with her silk robe trying to wrap them both in it to cover Brian's bare ass. "I'll go make some coffee."
"Let me get Brian back to bed, I'll be there in a minute." She turned them around and half stumbled and walked them back to the bedroom. She couldn't believe that Brian had gone to the door completely naked. She looked down into her face and saw that she was sound asleep. "Ohh great, you're a sleep walker." A wicked grin came to her face along with an equally wicked thought. "Wonder what else you do while still asleep?"
"Would have found out if he hadn't shown up." She proved her point by taking a hardened nipple between her lips and nipping the end. Xe let out a low moan and sunk to the edge of the bed taking Brian with her.
"Ohh fuck." She threw her head back and moaned when a warm tongue circled her nipple. "He's a dead man!"
Brian released her nipple and placed a warm wet kiss between her breasts. "Go see what he wants, I'll be out in a minute." She pulled the silk robe around Xe. "I really hate you Xe." She gave her a kiss that had her gasping for breath and wishing Boggs wasn't in the kitchen. With all the strength she had left in her body, she left a very tempting Brian to get dressed. Taking a deep calming breath, she walked into the kitchen to find Boggs toasting bagels.
"Now I know why you didn't answer the phone or your door." He turned and handed her a cup of coffee. "I don't blame you one bit." He took a cup of coffee and sat down at the table, his eyes sparkling with laughter.
Xe sat down at the table and took a sip of the hot brew, her pale eyes still a little unfocused. "I didn't hear the phone, and we were just sleeping." She arched a brow at him. "Why am I explaining this to you? Anyway, we were exhausted. I think I've had eight hours total sleep in the last week."
"That's one of the reasons I'm here. I'm giving you the day off."
"Boggs, I have interviews to do, people to find and a shitload of reports to go over."
Xe looked over her shoulder when she heard the shuffling feet of a still sleepy Brian come into the kitchen, taking in the clothes she was wearing sent a fire to her nether region. Brian was wearing only a button down shirt that Xe had left laying across the foot of the bed and a pair of her socks. Brian wrapped an arm around her neck and settled in her lap, burying her face against her neck, she mumbled something and fell back to sleep.
"That's one of the reasons you have the day off, the other one is you look like shit. I can't afford to have you getting sick." He leaned back in the chair and grinned at her pensive face. "You two are exhausted and trying to work that way can get you both hurt or worse." Leaning forward on one hand, he captured her eyes with his. "I pulled two detectives off their cases to comb the campsites, C&O canal and track down anyone who might have seen something. I put a rush on the lab reports and called Quantico for help with profiling. And I have an interview with the parents of the woman Brian identified. That leaves you two to sit here all day and come up with some ideas." He refilled his cup and filled one for a now awake Brian. "You might want to track down the next of kin for Dr. Blane. I think he has a sister nearby." She took a deep breath and shook her head in amazement, never had anyone done anything like this for her before.
"Why are you helping me?"
Boggs tried to hide the blush that was creeping up his face. "You remind me of my eldest daughter Sarah, you're headstrong like her. She always tells me that I don't pay attention to what goes on around me and I half listen to what I'm told. I wasn't listening like I should have when you came to me about your partner. I feel responsible for you getting shot."
"Damn it Dennis, I got myself shot." She reached across the table and took his hand. "I went in there with out calling for back-up, I knew what he had done and that he was dangerous. But being the stubborn ass that I am, I thought I could handle it. I was wrong. I thought I could talk him out of using the rifle on himself, I never expected him to shot me and then kill himself." She took a calming breath and leaned her head against Brian's. "He wanted to die no matter if he took every one with him in the process."
"Xe, you did what's in your nature to do." Brian cupped the side of her face in the palm of her hand. "You can't go against what your gut tells you. Your partner didn't want you dead, if that was the case he would have shot you in the chest or head."
"I know but it's still hard to accept that I couldn't stop it."
"Listen to Doc, your partner would have gone to prison for the rest of his life. All those guys you two put away would have gotten to him and that life would have been worse than killing himself. There was nothing you could do but if I had listened to you maybe I could have gotten him some help."
Brian held up her hands for them to stop.
"Hold up you two. Neither one of you is to blame, the man had some serious problems and neither one of you is to blame for that. So throw the guilt out the window and lets get this new psychopath off the streets. Capish?" She looked between the two blushing people and smacked her hands together. "Let's go for breakfast, I'm starving."
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Boggs was amazed at the amount of food that the two women could put away. He asked them why they just didn't pull their chairs up to the all you can eat bar and have at it. Brian grinned between him and Xe and spoke what was on her mind.
"If we did that, I wouldn't have as much fun listening to Xe growl at me every time I stole food off her plate." She looked over to Xe's plate and stole the last bite of her blueberry muffin and got growled at. "See what I mean."
"You're a Hell of a lot braver than I am." He glanced between the two and could swear that he saw some kind of deep connection between them. "How long have you two known each other?" He asked seriously.
Xe looked to Brain who shrugged her shoulders. "Seems like a life time instead of about a week." Taking a piece of bacon off Brian's plate she bit it in half and offered the remaining piece to her. She bit down on her bottom lip to keep from moaning when a wet tongue teased her fingertips. Boggs coughed and cleared his throat, he had never seen anything so seductive in his life. He had to get away from the two women before he made an ass of himself. Maybe lunch at home with his wife would be a nice change. Tossing some bills on the table, he pushed back his chair and stood.
"I've got some work to do, let me know if you two find out anything." He gave them both a wave and walked away towards the door thinking he would definitely go home for lunch. It was the sight of a small hand playing with the detective's zipper on her Levi's that got him.
Xe rested her chin on her closed fist and locked eyes with a smirking medical examiner. "Brian, what do you think of making love in public?"
"Don't know, I've never done it in public. Why?"
"Because if you don't stop playing with my zipper, I'm gonna throw you on top of the table and clear this place out with your screams."
Brian winked at her, then set a blazing fire down below by dragging her blunt fingernails up the seam of Xe's Levi's.
"I'm game if you are." She teased her relentlessly until Xe couldn't take anymore and grabbed her hand.
"Come on we have work to do, we can play later and I'll warn you." She purred into Brian's ear. "I have great stamina and I play rough."
Brian had to will her legs to hold her up, just the sound of that deep purring voice sent her senses racing wildly through her body.
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They were sitting in Xe's small office at home going over the files of Dr. Blane. He had never really connected with anyone at the Hospital and very rarely spoke to the other doctor's. He was what every one thought of as the stereotypical ghoulish medical examiner. Xe cast a sideways glance at Brian and shook the thoughts from her head.
"No I don't, never will and that is soo gross! I can't believe you think that of me!" She slugged Xe in her shoulder.
"What?" Xe whined and rubbed her stinging shoulder.
"Dead things, that's what."
Shivering, Xe rubbed her arms and gave Brian a strange look. "Did you just like read my mind or something?"
Brian raised just her eyes from what she was reading. "Believe me, it lasted a whole minute if that. Quite empty up there if you get rid of all the perverted stuff."
"Perverted stuff, I'm not the one who plays with dead stuff. Do you read tea leaves too?"
"No I prefer reading blood stains on maxi pads."
She looked up when she heard a low groan and a thump. Xe was spread eagle on the floor from where she had fallen out of her chair. Her eyes closed tightly, she mumbled something unintelligible. Brian slowly slunk from her chair and crawled across the floor on her hands and knee's. Easing between Xe's spread legs, she crawled up the tall detective's body until she was hovering over her moving lips. She didn't know what it was about this woman but she brought out the worst in her. Ducking her head, she captured Xe's pink lips with her own, they still tried to move until she bit down on the full bottom lip and stroked it with the tip of her tongue. The second they stopped moving, she released her teeth and explored her lips with her tongue. Large hands came up to caress her ribs and graze the sides of her breasts. A deep moan rumbled between them when Brian lowered her body to lay completely on top of Xe. Deepening the kiss, Brian slowly teased Xe's tongue with her own, every shared breath brought them closer to what they both wanted and needed. When lights flashed before Brian's eyes from lack of air, she broke the kiss and buried her face against a warm neck that held the scent of Obsession and a hint of sandalwood soap.
Xe's voice was deep and rough, her breathing ragged from the emotions Brian stirred in her with just a kiss. "Do you have any idea what you do to me?"
"I can imagine, ya know what I want to do?"
"Take advantage of me and make me your love slave?" That quickly brought up Brian's head.
"You don't strike me as the submissive type."
"I'm not, I'm more of the…you ain't getting me till I'm ready." She rolled Brian off of her and took off running through the house with Bear barking at her heels.
Brian lay on the floor with her mouth hanging open, she couldn't believe what had just happened. Getting to her feet, she ran though the house and out the back door. Xe was nowhere in sight. Looking around, she heard the squeak of a door and the Bear whining from inside.
"What the Hell is she doing?" Going back in the house she stopped and listened for noises.
"You looking for me?" A deep purring came to her ear, strong arms wrapped around her from behind and pulled her into a warm body. She gasped when hands went under her shirt. Her breasts were cupped in Xe's large hands and rough thumbs ran across her nipples bringing them to a hard peak. Moaning from the attention lavished on her nipples, she pushed her rear into Xe and rubbed against her. She felt Xe's body shudder against her and then she was picked up and carried to their bedroom. What she saw excited her beyond anything she had ever experienced. The room was lit with only candles and the soft fragrance of lavender hung in the air. The bed was now covered with a silky silver sheet that sparkled in the candle light. Gently, Xe laid her down on the bed. A whisper of a touch trailing from her collar bones down to her bare feet. The look in Xe's eyes made Brian's blood boil, dark and passion filled, glimmering with silver flecks in the candlelight. She slowly undressed and dropped her clothes to the floor to let the candle light play across her bronzed flesh. Brian's breath lodged in her chest when large hands moved up to unfastened her Levi's and eased them down her body with just a brief touch of fingertips on her heated skin. Thumbs massaged her insoles and brought a low moan from her and sent shivers up her spine when they softly trailed to her ankles and massaged her calves. Her muscles jerked when a wet tongue joined fingertips and then lips. Her fingers dug into the covers on the bed as Xe worked her way up each leg with her lips and teeth, nipping her skin lightly then kissing it. Each time she stopped dangerously close to her throbbing nether lips. She could feel her wetness soaking into the silk of her blue silk French cut panties.
Xe, crawled up to straddle her hips and helped her to sit up, slowly pulling her T-shirt over her head, she placed kisses from the edge of her panties all the way up to the hollow of her throat. After the shirt hit the floor, Brian's lips were captured in the slowest most passionate kiss she had ever had. Xe's tongue filled her mouth and moved sensuously across her own, deep moans were exchanged as hands trailed across warm flesh. Memorizing textures, shapes and causing tingles to travel through nerve endings. Brian felt like she was being worshiped, none of her other lovers had treated her like this, with the slow exploration of her entire body and gentle touches. She was lowered back onto the bed, hands turned to satin as they drifted down her upper chest to cup the weight of her breasts in their palms.
Arching her back to offer more of herself to her lover, she let out a long moan when a warm wet tongue traced her from neck to ear and circled the shell before slipping inside. A warm rush of juices flowed from between lips and soaked through her panties to coat her inner thighs.
"What…are you…doing…to me?" She gasped out when teeth nipped at the sensitive flesh below her ear.
Her voice deep and sultry, Xe answered breathlessly into her ear. "Loving you."
Brian buried her fingers in to thick dark hair and pulled her lips back to her, she kissed her deeply and with a hunger she had never felt before. Xe pulled away and trailed open mouth kisses down the center of her chest and stopped. Gazing into darkened green eyes, she ran a fingertip across kiss-bruised lips.
"I love you Brian." She said softly before dropping her head down to circle a hardened nipple with the tip of her tongue. She felt fingers massage her scalp and then pull her back up to waiting lips. The hunger of before was gone and replaced with an intensity that came straight from the soul. Brian's hands ran down her shoulders to her back to stop at her hips. Kneading the tight muscles of her ass, she was pulled closer and felt a wet center press into her and grind slowly. Moaning deeply, Xe broke the kiss, and moved down to capture a nipple between her lips while rolling her other nipple between thumb and forefinger. She sucked until Brian thrust her hips upward.
"Please Xe!" She ground out from between clenched teeth. Switching to the other nipple, Xe sucked harder until her lovers back arched off the bed. The low moans had her wetter than she had ever been and so close to going over the edge that she had to squeeze her thighs together to control herself. Groaning deep in her chest, she licked the underside of a firm breast and down the side of Brian's ribcage. Brian was panting and pressing her center into her lover. Placing her hands on Xe's wide shoulders, she pleaded and pushed her lower.
"I need you Xe…please touch me." She pleaded and let out a gasp when a wet tongue slipped beneath the waistband of her panties. Slowly, Xe slid the silk down her thighs until she could push them all the way off with her foot. She locked eyes with her lover and moved to lay between her thighs. Running her fingers across her lower stomach, she played with the short dark curls. Spreading her lips, she watched her lover's center pulsate with need. "You're so wet baby." Blowing warm air across her center sent Brian to undulate her hips. The scent of her arousal made Xe's mouth water. Keeping eye contact, she reached out with her tongue and licked at a swollen nether lip. By drawing her tongue back and forth slowly she was driving Brian insane.
Xe stopped what she was doing and gazed with love-filled eyes in to misty green.
"Tell me baby."
"Oohh Gods Xe…I love you…please!" Her hips jerked upward when Xe slipped her tongue between her lips and licked the juices from her. A deep moan vibrated her engorged clit, she could feel her muscles tense and start to roll from her chest downward. Xe slipped two fingers into her center and pulled her clit between her lips and sucked. Slowly moving her fingers in and out, she tilted them upward and pressed into the sensitive area and pushed Brian over into an earth-shattering release. With her name echoing off the walls, she plunged her tongue into a clutching center and drank what her lover offered and sent her back over the edge with another scream. Panting from holding back her own release, she crawled up Brian's twitching body and straddled her thigh. Capturing gasping lips, she kissed Brian with all the pent up arousal in her body and thrust her swollen womanhood against her thigh. Jerking her lips away, she threw her head back, her body arched and her release tore through her. Xe's cries of release took Brian with her. Bodies still trembling with aftershocks, they lay wrapped around each other. Xe raised her head when she heard sobbing. Wiping the tears from Brian's face with a fingertip, she kissed her cheeks of their moisture.
"Baby what's wrong?" She asked with a low whisper.
Pressing her face into Xe's neck she cried softly.
"Baby did I hurt you?" Xe was beginning to worry that she had done something wrong. Tears filled her eyes and she cried silently. Brian lifted her tear stained face and saw the tears trailing down her cheeks.
"Ohh Gods no you didn't hurt me. You did something to me that no one ever has. You broke through my walls and captured my heart and soul." She cupped Xe's face with her hand and wiped the tears from her cheek with her thumb. "I love you Xepher Sallano. Even when I tell you that I hate you, I love you more than I can put into words." She kissed her softly and moaned when she tasted herself on her lover's lips. "I'll show you for the rest of our lives." She rolled over on top of her lover and showed her what was in her heart for the rest of the day and night until they fell exhausted into the land of dreams.
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Xe moaned, someone was licking the scar over her hip. Cracking one eye open, she saw the top of a tousled blonde head. Her hips jerked when Brian licked the area beside the strip of dark curls. "Ohh Gods I hope you're awake."
"Oohh I'm awake and very ready just like you are." She proved her point by dragging her fingers through Xe's wetness and then licking her fingers clean. Xe moaned and covered her eyes with her hands.
"Please wait just two seconds, I have to go…" She pointed towards the bathroom.
"Be quick or I'll start without you." She wiggled her brows when sleepy blue eyes looked at her. Xe fumbled with the sheet and hurried to the bathroom, she couldn't help but picture her lover touching herself. Her center twitched and her nipples hardened. After relieving herself, she rushed back to bed to see Brian with a lifelike thigh strap-on. What she was doing with it almost sent Xe to her knees. She was lying on her back, knees bent and her legs spread apart. Her wetness glistening on the insides of her thighs and the tip of the dildo. A deep guttural groan rushed from Xe's throat. She kneeled on the foot of the bed and licked her lips.
Her voice dropped an octave. "Do it baby, push it in." Dark blue eyes watched as trim hips lifted and the dildo was slowly pushed into her lover's center. Xe's hips jerked forward, juices poured from her center as it clenched. She looked into dark green eyes before going back to watch the dildo slid in and out of her center. Her wetness coating it's latex surface made Xe's mouth water.
"Xe touch yourself."
"Ohh Gods!" She moaned when her fingers slid through her own wetness, her hips pushed forward into her hand forcefully until she was steadily grinding to the same tempo of the dildo moving inside of her lover. She crawled the short distance to Brian. Her fingers buried deep inside herself, she ground her hips as she leaned down and licked her lover's engorged clit. Brian tangled her fingers into thick dark hair and thrust her hips upward.
"So close…Come with me Xe!" She couldn't hold back anymore, a low keening sound tore from her lips as she went over.
"Bri…ooohhh…Gods!" Xe thrust her hips once more and fell forward across her lover as her release ripped threw her. Gasping with each tremor, it was long minutes before she could catch her breath. Rolling onto her side, she placed a kiss on Brian's mound and sighed. "I swear baby you're gonna kill me." She slowly pulled the dildo from inside her and placed a gentle kiss to her pulsing center. "We won't be able to walk after what we've been doing."
"Plan on it." Brian growled. She moved out from under her lover and buried her face between her thighs. Low moans came from her lips as she licked and sucked at her lover's juices.
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Screams echoed threw the small house as they climaxed together. A low howling came from the kitchen and then a barking joined in. Bear was under the kitchen table barking at the man who was trying to fit through the doggy door. He had one arm and part of his shoulder through but couldn't get any further. Spittle flew from his lips as he struggled, he needed to end the sin coming from the other part of the house. The women's screams of pleasure tore at his brain, it was un-natural what they were doing. Their blood needed to be spilt so that they could be free of sin. He had followed them and waited until it was time to take the blonde away and make her a sacrifice to his God. Now he would have to wait, he used his other arm and pushed himself backward with all the strength he had. A scream bubbled on his lips as the metal of the doggy door tore into the tender under part of his upper arm. The sound of ripping material and the clatter of the doggy door was all Xe heard as she ran into the kitchen.
"Bear? Bear where are you?" She called and looked under the table to see her small dog cringing with the hair going down the center of her back standing on end. Her legs still shaky from her climax, she sunk to her knees in weakness. "What was it girl?" She asked trying to catch her breath. Looking to where the doggy door was still swinging, she saw a piece of dark blue material and drops of blood on the floor. "BRIAN!" She yelled in panic when she heard glass shattering from the other room. Getting to her feet, she ran to where the noise had come from. She stopped in the living room to see Brian standing near the windows that ran along the side of the front door. In Brian's hands was a baseball bat that she kept behind the door. Glass lay across the floor in jagged pieces around her feet. "Don't move baby." Grabbing her boots from near the couch, she slipped her feet into them and walked around as much of the glass as she could. Swinging Brian up into her arms, she carried her to the couch.
"What happened?" She asked while cupping her silent lover's face.
"Some bastard punched his hand through the window." Tear filled eyes connected with blue. "I smacked his arm with this." She held the bat up. "Xe?" She whimpered and fell into her arms. "It was him wasn't it?"
"I think so." She hugged her lover tightly to her chest. "I have to call Boggs."
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The house was full of evidence techs, uniformed officers and Boggs. He had cruisers patrolling the area looking for the man who had tried to get in to Xe and Brian's house. Who ever this man was, he was escalating in his killings and Boggs was afraid that he had now set his sights on either Sallano or Dr. Meadows. His MO had changed as well, none of the other victims had been taken from houses, if they had, he was sure that someone would have placed a missing persons report instead of them having two unidentified bodies at the morgue. He had to literally throw Sallano out the front door of her house along with Meadows and the furball dog. He didn't want them at the house incase the nut case came back. He would have two officers staying inside her house while the rest of them tried to find the nut. Giving Sallano the address of Dr. Blane's next of kin, he told her to go question the woman and see if he had spoken to her about the serial of murders.
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Brian started humming the theme song from Psycho; she looked up at the huge house waiting for Norman Bates to pop up in a window somewhere. Shivers ran down her spine from the sight of the dilapidated two-story house. The grass was knee high, paint faded and peeling from warped wooden siding, singles blown off and looking like small horns on the roof and the front porch sagging from rotten wood.
"Xe are you sure this is the place? I mean, who in the Sam hell would live here?"
"Yep, it's the place." She looked down at the paper from Boggs. "Says here that there's bodies stacked like firewood in the guest bedroom."
"Oohh YeeeHaaa! Let's have a BBQ!" Brian rolled her eyes at her lover. "Can we just burn down the eyesore and forget about going in there?"
Xe turned in her seat and gave Brian the raised eyebrow look. "Are you afraid to go in there?"
Brian crossed her arms over her chest, glared and Xe and replied in a strong voice. "Yes God damn it! I'll have you know that I missed the ending of Silence of the lambs because it was so damn spooky." She raised her left eyebrow at her lover. "I may have drooled over Jodi Foster, but when it came to all those bugs and the pitch black basement!" She shivered and rubbed her arms.
"I'll protect you baby." Moving across the seat, she gave her lover a deep intense kiss that left her eyes closed and her breathing ragged. "Let's get in there and talk to who ever falls out of the shadows."
"Nothing like embedding thoughts of horror." Brian mumbled. Xe opened the passenger side door and helped her lover out. Taking her hand, they walked up to the front door skirting the rotten boards and holes. Xe took a deep breath and knocked on the wooden door and waited. "If Norman answers, run like hell."
"Gee thanks for the ohh mighty warrior façade you gave me earlier. Big damn chicken."
Xe leaned in close and licked her ear. "But I'm your big chicken." She quickly pulled away with embarrassment when the door was opened and a nurse stepped onto the space. "I'm Detective Sallano and this is Chief Medical Examiner Meadows. Is Mrs. Gaston home?"
"Yes, she's in but I'm not sure she'll be able to help you." She said in a low voice.
"Why is that?" Brian stepped in front of her lover. "This is rather important."
"Well, you can try but she's been unresponsive verbally for over a year now. She suffered several strokes that left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair." She showed them into the large house and then to the small room where Mrs. Gaston was staring off into space. Brian latched onto Xe's hand in a death grip. She hated houses like this one and was not about to leave her lover's side for nothing.
"Can I speak to you for a minute?" Xe asked the nurse. She pried her hand free from Brian's and asked her to check on Mrs. Gaston's health.
Brian growled at her. "Don't you leave me."
"Never baby, I'll be right here." She pulled the nurse to the side but kept Brian in her peripheral vision. "I'm investigating the murder of Mrs. Gaston's brother Dr. Blane, did he ever come here to visit her, call or anything?"
"He would come by once a week and check on her. He never stayed long, he and his nephew didn't get along. They disagreed on Mrs. Gaston's care."
"She has a son? Where can I find him?" Xe's mind grabbed onto the bit of information.
"He doesn't get home from work until five o'clock, then he takes over her care." She lowered her voice so that Mrs. Gaston wouldn't hear her. "That guy gives me the creeps, looks at me with weird eyes."
"Really?" A dark brow rose. "What's this guy's name?"
"Jeffrey Gaston, he owns that Jeff's lawn care service that does all the banks and big businesses in Frederick."
"What kind of car does he drive and what does he look like?"
"A big dark blue thing, not sure what it is but it's huge and has one of those big antennae's on it." She thought for a few seconds then continued. "I'd say he's a little shorter than you, maybe weighs around 175lb, bald, eye color is hard because his eyes are all squinty, I'd take a guess and say hazel. And he wears those clothes like farmers do, you know green work clothes. Funny thing is I've never seen him dirty. You would think with cutting grass all day that he would be or at least cut that jungle of a yard out there."
"You would think huh?"
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Brian kneeled across from Mrs. Gaston and waved her hands in front of unmoving eyes. Snapping her fingers near her ears received the same response, none. Looking on the small table beside the chair, she noticed numerous bottles of medicine. Picking a couple up, she read the labels, opened the bottles to look at the pills and moaned. The pills in the bottles did not match what the label read. She wondered why the woman was taking those types of meds. "Haladol, Prozac and Demerol. Something's not right here." She pushed up the older woman's sleeve and let out a low groan. "Xe…Detective Sallano can I see you a minute?" She watched her lover limp towards her, her heart sped up a beat at the sight of the beautiful woman that was all hers. Then remembered what she was doing and sighed. "Look at her wrists, this woman does not need to be tied down. She has a catheter and a colostomy bag and is pumped full of enough drugs to keep the local nut ward sleeping for a week!" She looked to the nurse standing beside her lover. "What meds do you give her while you're here?"
"I just make sure that her bags are empty and that she's comfortable. I was never instructed to administer any meds."
"What about in case of an emergency, who's her doctor on record?" Brian was reeling with the information she knew to be a little iffy.
"I'm supposed to call Mr. Gaston at work and tell him. He never told me anything about who her doctor is." She took a deep breath. "Listen, I know this all looks bad me being a nurse and everything. I work for a nursing service, we do in home care and that's it. Anything else is done by the person who hires us."
Brian waved a hand at her and smiled. "It's OK, I know how this all works, I'm not blaming you."
Xe's facial expressions became pensive; she walked over to the medicine bottles and started looking at the labels. She was no doctor but some of them looked a little suspicious to her. Looking back to the nurse, she saw that she was occupied with Brian. Palming one of the bottles closet to Mrs. Gaston, she rejoined her lover.
She rested a hand on her shoulder. "Brian, you ready to go?"
"Yeah Xe I am, I have some paperwork to do at the office." She held out a hand to the nurse. "Thank you for all your help."
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Xe drove like a bat out of hell towards the hospital. A mischievous look was firmly planted on her face.
"Alright Xe, what are you up to?"
"What makes you think that I'm up to something?" She glanced quickly to her lover and grinned.
"That look says so, what did you do?"
She reached into her pocket and pulled out the bottle of pills. "I wanna run it for finger prints. From what Nurse Ratchet described, Jeffrey is a strange bird and he may need his wings clipped."
"Isn't what you did like sorta illegal?"
"Only if I get caught, besides what you did last night is illegal in some states."
Brian's eyes grew huge; her mouth fell open to make a small coughing noise. "Me! What about you?"
"I didn't cuff you to the headboard."
"That's 'cuz you didn't think of it." She stuck her tongue out at her. "Do worse later."
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Brian scanned all the admittance records for the last year and none of them was for Mrs. Gaston. She then did the same for Jeffrey Gaston and found an ER admittance for seven months prior for a tetanus shot. "Patient cut palm of left hand on wire, six sutures to close. Prescribed antibiotic cream. Dr. V. Lundel MD." Getting up from her desk, she went into the small room where Xe was going over case files that Boggs had given her. Slowly opening the door, she found her lover lying on the small bed, folder open on her chest and sound asleep. Pushing off her worn out tennis shoes, she pulled her t-shirt over her head and dropped it to the floor and then her Levi's. Taking the folder from Xe's chest, she placed it on the small table and crawled into the bed beside her. Snuggling up to her side, she laid her head on her shoulder and fell asleep.
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Two hours later, Xe woke with a start. She had the strangest feeling that someone had been looking at her while she slept. Looking around the room, she saw that the door to the room was open. She leaned up on an elbow and then looked down to see that Brian was still asleep. Easing out from under her half-naked lover, she kissed her gently on her parted lips and then got out of the bed. Slowly walking towards the door, she eased it open and looked down both ends of the hallway. Closing her eyes, she concentrated on hearing anything out of the ordinary. Walking across the hall to Brian's office, she looked in to see the place trashed. Every file folder were thrown on the floor, the PC's tower was pried open with wires cut and what was left of Brian's lab coat lay across the desk with a letter opener sticking out of where it had been jabbed into the desktop. Running back to the small room, she woke her lover.
"Brian get up, he's been here!" She shook her shoulder until green eyes shot open.
"Who's been here?" She asked groggily.
"The psycho, he tore your office apart. Come on we have to get out of here and to my office."
Xe was collecting her files when she heard Brian using sentences with words that didn't quite belong together. Looking over her shoulder, she saw that her lover was holding up a t-shirt and one shoe.
"Baby what's wrong?"
"That fuckinggoodfornothingsonofabitchinassholecocksucker stole my CLOTHES!"
It took Xe a few seconds to figure out what came before the "stole my clothes" part. Getting to her feet, she pulled her lover into her arms and held her tight. "I'm just glad that you were in here with me when he showed up." She tilted her face up to her. "I don't know what I would have done if anything happened to you."
"Right now I'm more dangerous than he could ever dream of being!"
After pulling, a pair of scrubs on, she and Xe went out the back door of the morgue. 25 minutes later, they were pulling into the police station parking lot. This would be the first time that Brian had been to Xe's office, for some reason that drilled into her mind that she was in fact in a lot of danger. Before it was a subconscious thought but now, that had all changed when she walked in to the building filled with police officers. Taking her lover's hand, she stayed close to her side as they wove their way to Xe's office. They stopped on their way to see Boggs and then went to the area where they took fingerprints. Pulling the pill bottle from her pocket, she handed it to the officer at the small table.
"I need prints on this now! When you have them, run them through the computer. I think that's the psycho stealing heads." The young officer looked into steely eyes and nodded. "We need to check some things out then we're going back to Mrs. Gaston's house."
Brian shuddered; she hated the idea of going back to the creepy place. Tightening her grip on Xe's hand, she looked up into eyes full of fury and nodded her head. They went to Xe's small cubicle and pulled up any information that they could find on the Gaston family. The only thing that they found was that Mr. Eugene Gaston had died in 1977 due to natural causes and that his survivors were his wife and son.
"Is having your head cut off considered natural causes?" Xe asked sarcastically. "Gardening accident?" She pointed to the screen where it told of how he had been found near a lawn mower with his head a few feet away. "What did he do stick his head under it and start the damn thing?"
Brain stood behind her with one hand on her shoulder and her chin resting on the other.
"More like someone helped him loose his head."
"Talking about loosing heads little lady." A young detective junior grade stepped up to Brian. "How about loosing Sallano's and joining me for lunch." He leaned against the edge of Xe's desk and gave Brian a charming smile.
Brian returned his smile, brushing her fingers against Xe in a comforting manner; she turned to face the young man.
"I see only one problem with that." She dropped her voice to a sultry purr. "You see, Xepher here has the sexiest little head that I've ever seen. I love to take it between my teeth and feel it throb beneath my tongue when I bite down on it. Run my tongue across it and flick the very end until she moans and thrusts against my lips. Suck on it until she wraps her beautiful thighs around my head." She let out a deep moan and watched his eyes grow darker. "Just the feel of it becoming engorged in my mouth makes me cum." She felt Xe shudder against her side. She let out a deep chuckle and looked down at the detective's crotch. "From the looks of the stain on your pants, I'd say you have a problem with premature ejaculation."
The young detective stumbled away with his Jacket pulled in front of him. Brian was chuckling softly and leaning against her silent lover.
"That was cruel Brian." She ran her hand up the inside of Brian's thigh and felt her jump a little. In a very low whisper meant only for Brian's ears, she said. "He's not the only one that has a problem being premature."
"I'll make it up to you when we get home." She leaned against her lover's side and ran her fingers up her ribcage to stop right below her breast. "For hours." She whispered in her ear.
"Let's get out of here." She stood slowly, and pulled her pant legs down with a grimace. She gave Brian a low growl when she heard her snort.
"S'not funny." She whined.
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Boggs told them that he had back up set up if they needed it even though he didn't agree that Jeff Gaston was guilty of anything but being weird. The fingerprints on the man came back negative on any priors or warrants so he thought they were just jumping to conclusions. Not even Brian telling him her suspicions about the mother being over prescribed psychological drugs and the problem with Dr. Blane's lab results. Or the fact that she had been singled out by some wack job who stole her clothes earlier that day while she was sleeping.
Xe wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close to her side as they walked out of the station house.
"Don't worry about it baby, if it isn't him we'll keep looking. Let's stop at home so you can change and I can check on Bear."
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After strapping on a bullet proof vest and pulling her t-shirt on, Xe pulled two Glock .9mm' from the safe in her office, checking the clips, she put them into her double holster and added extra clips to the leather pouches. Going to the bottom desk drawer, she pulled out a boot knife and strapped it to her calf under her pant leg. She hoped that she didn't need all of the stuff she was carrying but it was always better to be prepared than no at all. Leaving the office, she went to see if Brian was ready. She wasn't prepared for what she saw. Her lover wore a bulletproof vest and had a holster at the small of her back along with her gold badge clipped to the front of her belt. To finish off her look, she pulled a black windbreaker on with Medical Examiner on the back in yellow letters.
"Baby since when do Medical Examiners carry guns?"
Green eyes lifted to hold pale blue, a small grin lifted the corner of her lips.
"Ya know how the stiffs sit up on the tables? Well, a .38 is how I put them back down on the table. I'm a pretty good shot too: only hit the oxygen tanks once so far."
Xe's eyes rolled upward, she knew she was in a shitload of trouble now. "Come on Dirty Harriet; let's go scare an old lady."
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Jeff Gaston pulled his car around to the back of the house; he knew that he had taken a big chance on being at the morgue earlier that day but he had no choice. He had to make sure that the Medical Examiner didn't have anything on the missing women or his Uncle. Knowing that she had probably ordered new tests on him after his murder, he didn't want her to know that prior to his heart attack, he had been given Bella Donna in his coffee. Pulling the door to the cellar open, he then opened the trunk of his car and lifted the black body bag from the trunk. Carrying it down the steps, he dropped it into a corner and returned to his car three more times. When he was finished, he went into the house to check on his mother. Walking through the house, he stopped long enough to take the sling from his arm off and lay it on the cluttered kitchen table. As soon as his arm dropped to his side, a sharp pain tore through it.
"Fucking little bitch!" He swore. "I'll fuck you with a baseball bat for breaking my arm." Placing a funny smile on his face, he went into the small room to dismiss the nurse for the rest of the day. He couldn't understand the look on her face until he realized that he was dressed in a police officer's uniform instead of his usual green uniform. He saw recognition in her eyes, quickly he reached out and punched her in the face twice and watched her slump to the floor. Taking her by a foot, he dragged her towards the kitchen and left her lying in the middle of the floor until he could change out of the uniform.
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"Baby I really hate this house, I still say we should just have it burned to the ground and be done with it." Brian shivered as she looked up at the upper windows, she squinted her eyes when she saw movement in one of them. "I think Jeff's home early." She pulled Xe down and pointed to the upper window. "I saw him in that room."
"Let's go have a little talk with him."
They walked slowly up to the door and skirted the new holes that were in the porch. Knocking on the door, they waited for someone to answer. A good ten minutes went by with no one answering. Xe shrugged her shoulders and motioned for Brian to follow her. They rounded the back of the house and saw the dark blue Crown Victoria sitting with the trunk open. Drawing her pistol, she motioned for Brian to stay behind her. Stepping next to the car, she looked inside and saw that it was empty. Moving to the trunk, she spun away and took a deep breath of air. Brian seeing her lover's face turn an unhealthy green.
"Xe what's wrong?"
"Take a good whiff and tell me what you think it is."
Brian stepped next to her and didn't even have to get close to know what the stench was. It was the combination of decomposing bodies, feces and formaldehyde.
"I think we have or guy Xe." She pulled her .38 from its holster and checked to make sure that a bullet was chambered before replacing it.
"Let me call for back up before we go in there." She pulled her cell phone from her belt and was about to hit speed dial when a scream pierced the air and a sharp pain shot up her arm. Falling to the ground holding her shattered arm she saw her lover pull her .38 and fire at a retreating figure that had disappeared into the cellar doors.
"Baby don't go down there!" She screamed as her lover charged down into the darkness. "Gods don't go down there." She whimpered as the darkness claimed her.
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Brian hugged the cellar wall as she slowly made her way down the wooden steps. Her vision was still not adjusted to the darkness; she stopped and waited a few moments until she could see a few glints of obstacles off to her left. Slowly taking a calming breath, she eased down the last step and into the pitch-black darkness. Running her hand against the wall, she tried to listen for any sound or feel any movement around her. A breeze blew past her face making her throw her head back; a loud thump hit the wall in front of her face. Dropping to her knees, she swung a foot out and felt her shin connect with something and then a low grunt came to her ears. Crawling on her hands and knees, she fell over something covered in plastic. Sliding on her stomach over what ever it was, she scurried away from it to hit her head against something made of metal. Warmness trailed down from her eyebrow and clouded what little vision she had. Wiping it away, she picked up the coppery scent of her blood. Reaching her hand up, she felt the cool metal of what she determined to be a table. Running her hand across it, she felt a jabbing pain in the tips of her fingers. Holding back a yelp, she clamped her hand over her mouth and stayed still. She knew that she would have to find a light switch or leave the cellar; her lover was outside injured and she was becoming worried when she hadn't joined her.
Standing up, she raised her hand over her head to search for a pull cord. She thought she had found one until she felt the rubber on an extension cord. Stepping forward a few steps, she stopped when her toe hit a wall. She was about to search for a switch when a biting pain slashed across her upper thigh. Spinning she fell into the wall and fired into the dark. The echoing of her shoots made her drop her head and cringe; it saved her as she heard the impact of a weapon bounce of the wall near her head and a grunt of frustration. Aiming her .38, she fired again and heard a squeal of pain. Fumbling along the wall, she found a switch and flipped it on. The brightness blinded her; covering her eyes with her arm, she waited until she could remove it with out the sharp pain. Looking around the bright cellar, she saw a blood trail across the floor and to a set of steps across the vast space. Limping from the pain in her thigh, she went to the stairs and looked up at the open door. Slowly she took the steps and clenched her jaw to keep from screaming out.
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Xe moaned and rolled to her back, the pain in her forearm was worse than when she had been shot. Rolling to her knees, she fell forward on to her good hand and lost what little bit of substance was in her stomach. Dry heaves racked her body, sweat poured down her face and into her burning eyes. She had to get up and look for her lover, she had a feeling that Brian was in serious danger. With her arm hanging useless at her side, she stumbled down the steps and looked around the large cellar. The sight of black body bags in a pile and the stench of the cellar made her stomach roll again.
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Brian kneeled by the nurse's side and felt for a pulse in her neck, checking the dark purple bruise on her jaw and cheekbone, she knew that the woman was only unconscious and would be all right. Using the kitchen table to get to her feet, she slowly made her way through the gloomy house. She looked down at the floor and tried to follow the blood trail, noticing that it went towards where she had spoken to the nurse days before she stopped and listened for noises. The low drone of the TV and then a falsetto voice was heard coming from the small room.
"You finally did it this time Jeffrey! You are a filthy sinner and you must pay for your sins!"
Brian shook with the sounds of a loud slapping sound and then whimpers. She sunk down the wall and listened to the one-way conversation.
"NO erections! It's the devils way of controlling man!" Was screamed in a high voice and then a loud male voice screamed NO!
Brian moved around the corner of the room and aimed her .38 at Jeffrey Gaston or whom she thought was the man. What looked to be a Halloween mask covered the face of the naked person before her. A shoulder length wig fell across wide shoulders and neck, breasts heaved as the person took gulping breaths as a hand clenched on the handle of a tree-trimming saw.
"Jeffrey put the saw down!" Brian said in a calming voice. "Just put it down and step back from your mother." She felt the hair rise on her neck and knew that her lover had just stepped behind her. "Xe he has a saw in his hand."
Ignoring the psycho, she was more concerned about her lover. "Are you OK baby?" She placed a large hand on her shoulder.
"Been better." She replied without taking her eyes away from the crazed person. "Do your cop thing and arrest him or something."
Before either of them could do anything, a loud scream of "Spill the sinner's blood!" echoed through out the room and then a loud scream of pain came from the crazed person. They watched as the saw moved at a downward angle and blood sprayed across the room and continued to fountain as the jerking body fell backwards.
"Shit!" Xe yelled as she quickly moved past Brian and into the room. "Covering her eyes, she shook her head and retreated from where the body was lying. "Can't help him baby." She wrapped her good arm around her lover's shoulder and led her through the house to where the nurse was just coming to. "He cut off his dick." She looked down into her lover's pale face and caught her before she fell to the floor. "Fuck baby you're hurt." She eased her down onto the floor, took off her belt and applied it above the slashed area of her thigh. Ripping her t-shirt off, she wrapped it around Brian's leg and told her not to move. Slapping the nurse lightly on her hands, she pulled her the rest of the way to be conscious. "I need your help, Brian's hurt."
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Boggs face was white as alabaster, in all the years he was a cop he had never seen a more gruesome sight. When Xe had called and told him to send out the homicide team to the Gaston residence, he had no idea what they would be doing. As soon as he opened the door to Jeffrey's room, his stomach rebelled and he covered his shoes with his lunch. The stench of rotting flesh was as thick as fog. On the shelves across one entire wall were decomposing heads of half a dozen women. Brian and Xe turned their heads at the sight until they were able to control their own stomachs and enter the room. The heads sat upon the women's feet with their hands cupping their sunken cheeks. Sitting on a table next to a filthy blood covered bed was the head of Dr. Blane along with jaws with human organs in them. Both women had seen enough and left the room to go outside for fresh air. Standing outside reading a leather bound journal, Xe skimmed over the pages until she came to a section where Gaston tells of the reason why he killed it uncle. He simply stated that his uncle had caught him in the morgue one night trying to steal a body, and when he threatened his life, Dr. Blane laughed at him. He knew that his uncle hated him for drugging his mother with his pills and for all the bodies he was defiling because he was as his uncle called him "A sick fuck" So to protect himself, he had to get rid of the medical examiner. Closing the journal, she gave out a whistle through her teeth and handed it to Brian. Wrapping her uninjured arm around her shoulders, she placed a soft kiss to her lips.
"Love you baby." She whispered to her as she rested her head against her shoulder.
"Love you to, let's get out of here."
They watched as an ambulance left the driveway with the nurse and Mrs. Gaston inside. Now that they were free to leave, Xe helped her lover to the car and drove them to the hospital to be treated for their wounds. Xe wasn't worried about her arm as much as she was about Brian's leg. The weapon that had injured her was the saw that Gaston had used to severe body parts with.
Brian told her not to worry that with the amount of blood she had lost that the wounds were clean. When the first ambulance had shown up, she had one of the paramedics give her a surgical scrub and used it to clean the wound to be on the safe side and to put Xe at ease.
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"So baby, what are we gonna do on our forced vacation?" Xe asked as she plopped down on the couch.
"Ohh I don't know, how about if we stay home lounge around the house naked and watch dirty movies on TV?"
A dark eyebrow cocked above an amused eye, she gave out a snort and fell back on the couch with a groan. "We're already naked. Watch dirty movies, why would we do that?"
Brian lay down beside her and tapped the cast that went from her lover's upper arm to the tips of her fingers.
"Ohh because my handicapped warrior, you're useless in plaster. And I want to watch dirty movies."
"Hey I'm not completely useless, my arms in a cast not my tongue! Dirty movies are dumb, I like the real thing." She wiggled her tongue and gave Brian the come-hither movement. "You still owe me from the other day."
A wicked grin split Brian's face, she crawled up Xe's body until she was kneeling over her face. "And I'll pay you back with interest." Her head fell back when she felt warm fingers run up the inside of her thigh and tangle in her short blonde curls. "Double interest!" She cried out when she felt her lover's tongue slip between her nether lips.
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Boggs walked up to Xe and Brian's door with a huge grin on his face and a small black box in his hand. His wife had told him to wait and see them in a few days, give them some time alone to heal. But he couldn't wait, he had to see Xe as soon as possible. Raising his fist to pound on the door, he stopped when he heard a blood-curdling scream through the open windows. Stepping back, he threw his shoulder against the front door and fell inward when the door jam gave way. Coming up onto one knee, he pulled his pistol and trained it around the living room. He let out a long gasp and covered his eyes. "Ohh Christ!" He mumbled.
"Damn it to Hell Boggs!" Xe rolled over on top of Brian to shield her lover's naked body. "What the Hell is wrong with you, and why'd you break our door down?" Pulling the blanket off the back of the couch, she covered Brian up and got to her feet to smack Boggs on his head.
"OOWW! Why'd you hit me?" He looked up at her naked body, turned a bright red and dropped his eyes to the floor. "I heard god-awful screams and thought…" He stopped when he heard Brian laughing hysterically. "Oohh for the love of God, here this is yours I'm going home to hang my self from the rafters."
After Boggs had left, Xe sat down on the couch and flipped the box over in her hand. Brian pulled her down to rest against her chest and took the box from her fingers. "What is it?"
"Don't know open it for me."
A gasp came from Brian's lips after she opened the small box, she snapped it shut and placed it on her lover's chest.
"What was it?" Xe asked.
"Ohh just a gold shield that has the word lieutenant across the top of it." She rolled out from under Xe and looked her in the eye. "Since that means a raise in pay, you can buy me a ring."
Xe blinked her eyes a few times. "A ring, you want what kind of ring?"
Brian waved her right hand in front of her lover's face. "What kind of ring do you think I want?"
"Ohhh that kind of ring." She pulled Brian close and kissed her with all the emotion she had in her body and soul. "I love you Dr. Meadows, marry me."
"Under one condition…I get Bear." She snorted at the shocked look on her lover's face. "Just kidding." She placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I love you Xepher and yes I'll marry you. Now let's go to bed."
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The uniformed officer drove past the address that had been given to him over the radio, so far that night they had received numerous calls about screams coming from one of the houses. A huge grin covered his face when he saw the Crown Victoria sitting in the driveway with a sign saying 'Just Joined' across the trunk. He knew who's car it was and there was no way in Hell that he was going to tell Sallano about the disturbing the peace tickets she was going to get. That was Boggs job. Before he pulled away, he heard a war cry that set the hair on his arms on end. Shivering he rolled up his windows, turned off his radio and sped off into the night.
The end
Body Parts
By Larisa
Hecate3366@frontiernet.net
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