All I want to do...

Their last case was a long one. It was probably long to her due to the fact that they went weeks without a solid lead. This was not your typical garden-variety murder. Every time she thought back to the case a chill ran up and down her spine. It was a child, and for her these were the worst cases. The child was a product of a mother and father who could not stand to be with one another. It was the wife who in the end caused the child's death thinking she would take the one thing the husband loved the most away from him.

The girl was 4. After the split, she was kept locked away from life. The mother would just leave her there in her room locked up with no food, no care and most of all, no love. The father had always asked how she was doing, but he received the standard answer, "she's fine" or "she's at a play date today" it wasn't until it was too late, when he had found out she had died, that he realized he could have saved her. The little girl tried to leave her room, and in doing so she broke the window and sliced a major artery and bled to death within minutes.

When the mother found her she needed to put what happened to her daughter behind her. So she did the only thing that came to her mind. She took her body and got rid of it.

This is how they got the case. The little girl was found in a dumpster. It was only with the husband's instance that the detectives took a deeper look into his wife's story. Now that they had a confession the case was closed. Kate did not want to go home right away, so she decided a drink was in order. A drink would give her the opportunity to unwind and relax.

Departing the 12th she got into her personal car, deciding to leave the Crown Victoria parked where it was. The weather forecast called for heavy downpours all day and it had just started to rain again when she was leaving. She pulled out onto the avenue and came to a red light. It was teeming rain and looking to see a couple with an upturned umbrella trying to dodge the rain, she really felt for anyone who was caught out in this tonight.

The light changed green and she was off once again. She was heading south towards the bar. As she turned the corner she looked to the right and there was a very expensive BMW i8 parked off to the side of the road. If it was not for her quick reaction she would have hit the man standing by the side of the road. He was dressed only in a button-down shirt and pants, no umbrella, no coat. Who in their right mind goes out in this weather so unprepared?

Kate pulled alongside and rolled the window down and asked if everything was okay.

"Are you okay? She asked.

"Yeah, but the tire on my car has seen better days"

"I'm sorry. I am heading to get a quick drink at the bar a couple of blocks from here. I could give you a lift and then you could call someone to fix your car."

"I'd love a lift, thanks." He accepted her offer with a smile.

As he sat down in the seat she could tell he was drenched and lowered the setting on the A/C. They drove in silence. She never asked him his name, she just drove. But then something had Kate thinking….was there such a thing as love at first sight? Fate even? Her current boyfriend did not have a romantic bone in his body. She loved him unconditionally, but he never returned the love. Her boyfriend could not give her what she wanted the most in this world…a child. He had contracted some type of fever while he was on one of his lifesaving missions abroad leaving him impotent. Their lovemaking was out of this world, but his condition was always in the back of her mind. Instead of going to the bar she looked over to her passenger and the way he looked sitting in the passenger seat she was drawn to him. There was something familiar about him, she just could not figure out what it was. Her thoughts about Josh's comments came back to her.

Her last conversation with Josh right before he left had been ridiculous it was actually more of a knockdown, drag-out fight, minus the physical contact. Their talk started off okay, but then spiraled downward quickly. He was ashamed about his condition in the baby-making department, she tried to tell him that it did not matter, only it did. But before he had left for his 5 months of self-imposed exile, he told her in not so many words that if she had not cleared out by the time he got back, there would be hell to pay. For him they were over.

They pulled up in front of a top end hotel and before Kate lost her nerve she put her hand on his thigh and looked at him. He seemed to know what she was thinking before she ever voiced the words. Not saying a word they both got out of the car and made it to the front desk. Still having not said anything, they moved quietly to their room after checking in. It was awkward at first, Kate had never done something like this ever before in her life. With the current disarray of her ending relationship with her always absent now ex-boyfriend, she wanted this.

For some reason he could read her. He was kind and gentle to her needs. He pleased her before he worried about his own needs. They made love all night long and even though she didn't know his name, she was falling for him. He wanted only the best for her and he showed her how much that night. They went about 8 rounds seriously? Are they robots? HA! before he had finally fallen asleep. She just laid there in the over comfortable bed staring at the ceiling. As she thought, she looked over at his chest taking in air rising and falling. Yeah she was definitely falling for him. Due to her current status she decided that she could not…no would not let this go on any further than tonight. Looking at the bedside clock it read 4:45 am. Her mind was made up. She slipped out from under his arm that had draped lovingly across her chest and retrieved her clothes and got dressed. Sitting down at the desk she turned on the light and started to write a letter to him.

She finished the letter and looked it over one last time as she read it back to herself,

I told him I am the flower you are the seed

We walked in the garden we planted a tree

Don't try to find me, please don't you dare

Just live in my memory, you'll always be there…

She folded the letter and placed it into an envelope and sealed it. Walking back over to the bedside, she placed it on the nightstand where he would be sure see it. She gave his still form one last look and turned to leave. As she got to her car she realized two things. First, that it was better this way. She had the whole night of love from a man which she can say is more that her boyfriend had ever offered, and secondly with all that happened last night she wondered why he never made a phone call to fix his car. Who just leaves a $85,000.00 BMW parked unattended on the streets of NYC? He must be rich or something.