DARKSIDE of the FAE WORLD

Chapter 6 Bond Fire

Venom POV

Man, my head is banging like an elephant just got done jumping on my head. Ugh! s**t, what time is it? I looked around my room and it came back to me. I was going over decoding my sister's letter that she or whoever sent me. That's when I guess I started one too many drinks seeing as I destroyed the bottle that's in my trashcan next to my desk. I got up and walked downstairs when I got a knock on the door. f**k! Why does someone want to come over now of all time frames to come over. I open the door with nothing but a tank top with no bra but when you have semi small boobs it doesn't really matter if I wear a bra or not and some lace booty cut panties just to see Jeff at the door with bags of what I believe to be takeout and coffee. His eyes scanning my body, I can see the urges he has for me to bend me over his knee are showing because his eyes changed from his normal brown eyes into a reddish fuchsia color letting me know his s*x demonic instincts were trying to kick in. I just cleared my throat which knocked him out of his lustful haze.

"Breakfast?" He suggested with his charming smile

I just let him in and led him to the kitchen where he can put all the stuff down at.

"Jeff, don't get me wrong I'm glad you're here and appreciate you bringing breakfast and coffee because coffee is life; but what are you doing here?"

"Well, since you cancelled our dinner plans last night, I thought we could turn this into a breakfast date instead. Now how do you like your coffee?"

I just giggled because this man is something. For an incubus he sure is attentive and it feels nice, weird but nice.

"4 spoons full of sugar and vanilla flavor creamer please and thank you"

We sat at the table and after eating and drinking my coffee my head feels a whole lot better. Even though it was unexpected for him to come over without calling first at this moment I really appreciate that he did pop up. I got up and cleaned up our little breakfast date and when I got back to the table to wipe it down Jeff grabbed my hand and pulled me to straddle his lap. Gripping my exposed ass in these lacy panties I have on while giving my ass a nice semi hard slap then gripping them again. Making my body grind on his very hard man hood as we stare into each other's eyes.

"So, what are we to each other?" He asked

"I guess for now friends with benefits with a hint of cuddle buddies in there"

"I can get with that for now. Are we allowed to have other friends outside of each other?"

"Yes, but if we are spending time with each other, it's just us and no one else. If we cancel on each other, it must be family, emergency, or work related and not because of some fling, got it"

He kisses me softly before saying "Got it"

We began kissing again when my phone started ringing.

"Jeff, it might be work I got to take this"

"Let them call you on the second attempt" he pleaded with a smirk on his face then just started kissing my neck down to my collar bone and then my phone goes off again.

"Ok, now I really have to take this" I said as I got off him to answer the phone.

"Yo Peri what's up?"

"Hey, we got a body, you need to get down here"

"On my way" I said before hanging up the phone

“Jeff”

"I know, you got to go save the world" he said jokingly while coming to hold me from behind.

I just slapped his forearm and nodded. He turned me around and gave me a passionate kiss telling me to be safe and he would catch up with me later. I gave him a peck on the lips one more time before walking him out. Once Jeff left, I hurried and got ready and made it to the crime scene within 15mins. Let's just say I turned a 45min drive into a 15min drive and not legally by any means, but I will just keep that to myself. I pulled up to a warehouse to see my team coming out to greet me.

"Good morning, Boss" Kevin and TJ said in unison

"Good morning, Chica" Peri greeted

"Good morning, everyone what do we got?" I asked to no one in particular

"We have a burnt victim" TJ answered

"Ok what do we know about the victim" I asked

"Well, all we can tell from looking at body is that the victim was female. But Tara might have more to report then us" Kevin pointed out

I said OK and proceeded to walk in and what I saw I hadn’t seen since I was on a special assignment with the force in Kosovo. Our victim was not only burnt but from it what it looks like is that she was tortured as well. I can tell by the fact she was strapped down to the chair that also burnt up. My mind trailed off when Tara called my name to get my attention.

"Oh sorry, what do you have for me Tara?"

"Well, from what I can gather from the obvious is that our victim was strapped to the chair and set on fire that much is certain. The victim been dead not long ago I would say about 12 hours ago. However, the state that this body is in someone used an accelerant to speed up the burning process but I will know more and confirm once I get back to the lab"

"Hey Tara look at the hand"

"She is missing fingers"

"Ok it's either here somewhere or the killer took his trophies"

Tara just nodded at me and rolled the body away. Once everyone finished taking pictures and collecting evidence, we all met back up at the station to go over everything so we could get a better picture of what happened and maybe an ID of the victim. This is going to be hard to organize because we have no ID, really to be honest there wasn't much to collect from the crime scene. So, whoever did this was a professional and knew what they were doing like they were seasoned.

"Ok, I know there wasn't much there to collect but tell me what we do have" I said

"Well, due to the lack of evidence we are not dealing with a rookie that's for sure and since we couldn’t find the missing fingers at the crime scene, we are assuming the pert took them with him" TJ pointed out

Kevin chimes in with also informing us by looking at the pictures we collected that this person was targeted and tortured but I can't confirm his observation till I hear back from Tara down at autopsy. I can't rule it out either, I'll just store it as a possibility for now.

"Man, who would do this?" Peri asked

"Someone that doesn't want whatever they are hiding to get out" I answered

"Ok, what about street cameras or cameras in the warehouse were there anything on those that we can work with?" I asked

"We are combing through it now; we should have something to report in a few hours" Peri answered

(Phone rings)

"Hey, Tara, what's up?" I answered

"I got something for you"

"I'll be right down" I said before hanging up

I took TJ with me since Peri will be busy going over the tapes. We made it to Tara's lab to see if we could at least get an ID for this person.

"What you did you find out on our victim?" I asked

"Well, our victim is definitely female and also she is Fae"

I stood there in disbelief wondering how she could tell. Then TJ stepped in and asked how she knew for sure it's our kind. Tara pointed out that our victim had gills on the side of her neck which indicates that not only it's a Fae creature but a water base creature. Also, our victim was partly shifted hence the gills showing, and the brittleness of what was webbing between fingers and toes. By the partial fusing of the legs our victim was a Nix. No name to the victim yet Tara said she was still waiting for the dental records from the teeth she was able to salvage from the body.

"Question Tara was this person tortured in any shape or form besides being set on fire" I asked

"By examining the body, I saw that where the fingers were cut off that they were broken before amputation of the fingers. So, I strongly believe that this person was tortured first then set on fire"

I nodded at her and requested that if she finds anything else to let me know. TJ and I met back up with Kevin and Peri to see if the tapes are ready for viewing.

"Yo! Where are we at with the camera footage?" I asked

"It's ready but the quality is not the best. I tried to clear it up as best I could" Kevin mentioned

We all sat there to view the footage from the cameras, and we saw a man in black carrying what we think is our victim to the warehouse. Then something caught my eye I got closer to the computer screen when I see a woman that looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it because it's so blurry, but we watched how the killer tortured the poor girl then poured something on her causing her to start shifting and next he set her on fire. The thing I'm frustrated about is that he wanted something from her but there was no sound on the cameras which was just f*****g perfect.

"Well, this just confirmed what Kevin suspected and what Tara found during the autopsy. My question is what did he want and who the hell is this woman?" I mentioned to no one in particular in frustration and I could feel myself getting stressed, so I called it a day

"Alright everyone go home, and we will pick this back up with fresh eyes and fresh minds" I ordered before leaving

I called Jeff to meet me at our bar. I call it our bar because that's where we established a spark between us. I ordered a beer to start off with till Jeff finally arrived and joined me.

"So, what's going on Venom?"

"Just having a hard time with this case is all"

"Tell me about it and maybe it will help you sort out your thoughts"

I swear this man is weirdly perfect. I told him everything about the case and how we have been getting lucky by the skin of our teeth to piecing together a somewhat scenario with little evidence to go off of. Then I took another sip of my beer sighing in the process. He just stared listening to me rant and rave at my frustrations with the case.

"Try not to overwhelm yourself about solving the case in a short amount of time. Even if you only have little to go on follow wherever the evidence takes you till it leads you to a break in the case" he suggested

For someone that has never been to any kind of law enforcement before sure gave me the best advice that was well needed.

"Thanks, I needed that reminder of how to handle difficult situations" I said as I leaned my head on his shoulder and gave a small smile.

"That's what I'm here for" as he gives me a soft kiss on the top of my head.

As we're ordering another round of beers my phone goes off to see its Kevin.

"Hey Kev, did you find anything out"

"Yeah, I was able to clear the footage a little on the tags of the car"

"What did it tell you?"

"The car of course is black which we all know but I ran the plates and it's rental car belonging to a rental company called One stop Rentals"

"Ok, are they open right now?"

"No, they should be open tomorrow around 7am"

"Ok you and I will check out this rental place tomorrow. Make sure to bring your tech equipment in case we need to run names through the data base"

"Copy that" then he hung up and turned my attentions back to Jeff.

"I'm guessing you got a lead"

"You would guess right"

We finished our beers and headed back to my place we're we had hot sweaty s*x all night. I woke at 0530, got dressed and left him with coffee, a donut, and a note telling him I left to go save the world and to lock the bottom lock when he leaves with some xoxo at the end. I arrived at the car rental place called One stop Rentals with Kevin pulling up soon after.

"Alright let's go learn something" I said

Kevin just nodded and followed me with tech stuff in hand. We walked in and just at first glance this was a normal but a cash only operating establishment. Then some bald guy with a beer belly and glasses approached us.

"How can we help you today?" He asked

"My name is Detective Venom and this detective Kevin, and we have some questions about one of your cars that you rented out"

"Oh, ok wow how can I help you?"

Kevin showed the salesman a picture of the car with the license plate.

"Do you know who you rented this car out to and when did you rented it out?" I asked

"Sure, just give me a moment to look it up" he said before getting on his what looks like an outdated computer.

"Oh yes we rented out 4 days ago and it's supposed to be turned back in today"

So, I called TJ and Peri to meet us here at the car rentals while Kevin was getting a picture of the person that rented the car.

"I checked their files for a copy of the driver's license and from what they copied the ID is fake" Kevin informed me

I just shook my head like of course it's fake. Once Peri and TJ arrived, we all took positions to ambush the suspect in question. As the car pulled up, we all ran out guns out yelling.

"Get out the car!" I yelled

Pulling the male suspect out the pinned him against the hood of the car with cuffs already around his wrist. He looks no more than 18 years old, but I couldn't rule him out yet. I turned him around and gestured the salesman that we spoke to earlier and asked is this the man that rented the car. The salesman said no he wasn't the one that first rented the car.

"Hey, where did you get this car from?" I asked

"Some guy paid me to drop off the rental for him. Look I didn't think anything would be wrong about doing and I really needed the money" the teen explained

I uncuffed him and sent him with TJ to get a sketch of the man that paid him. Once we got the sketch, we put a bolo out on him hoping someone can spot him. We made it back to the station and I met up with Tara to see if she found the ID to our burnt female victim. But she just told me that it will take a while to get results because the test labs are back up, I just sighed and rolled my eyes then told her ok.

I went home after a few hours and just ran a bubble bath and got a bottle of wine out of my secret stash. As I was about to step in, I heard my doorbell ring, so I put on a robe thinking it must be Jeff to see an envelope on my porch. I opened it and it read “Stop looking or I will come for you”

(Phone Rings)

“Hey Detective Venom speaking”

“Hey, venom it’s Tara we have an emergency”

“What’s up” tired of surprises and frustrated

“Well the DNA sample I sent to the Lab and our Burnt victim are missing”