Solid State

Chapter 3: Stake out

Vega sits in her desk contemplating Sean. He’s looking over the files of the case they’re supposed to work on together. Demetrius walks over to Sean.

“Yo man, what’s going on? You gonna introduce me to your new partner?” his tone is sarcastic and Sean just looks at him and focuses back on the file. Demetri put his attention to Vega.

“You have to excuse my friend Sean, my name’s Demetrius Hicks” his hand extended.

“Hi, I’m Detective Vega, Vetter and I were just going to go over the file together, right?” Sean’s eyes don’t leave the file “Yeah, that’s right” his voice monotone. Demetri pulls Vega to the side and whispers to her.

“Don’t worry about him, he’ll come around. Once you get to know him he’s just a big puppy dog” he manages to put a smile on her face.

“I bet he is” she sees Sean standing up and walking out. “It was nice meeting you Demetrius, talk to you later” she grabs her jacket and follows Sean.

“Hey Vetter! Wait up!” Sean doesn’t slow his pace; he pushes the button for the elevator as it opens, she gets in and stands next to him. They both stay silent, Sean because he really doesn’t want to talk to her and Vega because she knows he’s being a dick.
They make their way to the parking lot and she stops next to the Honda Passport.

“Are we taking your car or mines?” she asks. Sean looks at her car and grins as he keeps walking towards his pick up truck. “OK yours” she says under her breath. Sean gets in and she stands next to the passenger side, he turns the car on but hasn’t opened her door yet. She put she hands on her waist ‘This guy is getting on my nerves’ she thinks. Sean looks her way finally opening the door.

“Thanks” she says sarcastically. They pull off on the street.

“So are we staking out this place?” she gets no answer. “Are we on our way to question the suspect?” still no answer. “Look, I wasn’t asked to be paired up with you. So either we can get along and begin to trust each other or keep ignoring each other until it costs one of us our lives.” She looks over to him, he’s eyes are glued on the road “What’s it gonna be Vetter?” Sean lets out a deep sigh and quickly looks her way.

“So what’s your name?” the question seems unexciting but nonetheless, he’s talking.

“My name’s Naomi” she instantly feels a little better. “Alright Naomi, we’re going to check out this ‘restaurant’ and see what kind of jokers frequent this place.”

“Sounds simple enough” she says, as he laughs “It’s never simple enough”. He pulls up in front of the restaurant making sure he blends in with the rest of the parked cars. Naomi takes out her high-tech camera and prepares to take photos. Sean looks at her amazed. ‘Not bad for a rookie’ he thinks.
The restaurant ‘Michaelangelo’ is high class, complete with valet parking and about three or four guys in the front that look like they should be working for the secret service. Everything seems normal until a black Mercedes Benz S600 pulls up in front.

“There he is” Sean points to the S600 “You think that’s our guy?” Naomi asks. “I know it is” he answers. She begins snapping pictures of the man getting out of the car, talking to the ‘secret service’ guys and going inside the restaurant “Gotcha” she says.
They head back to the office. Naomi gets out to go to her car.
“Hey Vega, take that film to the lab as soon as possible.” “You got it” she responds. Before she can go back inside he catches her attention one more time. “Vega!” he calls “Yeah” she waits for him to continue “How about dinner tonight, if your not busy that is” Naomi stands there not sure what to say ‘Maybe he wants to make it up to you for being a dick’ she thinks. “Sure” she goes to ask something but he cuts her off “OK, I’ll pick you up around 8” with that he goes off leaving her there standing looking baffled. ‘But he doesn’t even know where I live’


To be continued.......................................

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