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Oct-16-2008 11:19

Makensie has been around awhile in Sleuthville, minus the long break she took for a much needed vacation, and she remembers this place to be alot of hustle and bustle, detectives walking all over the place, working on their current case. Now, she knows that times do change, and it is still a wonderful place, but, dammit, she wants to get this place hoppin' again.

She walks along the sidewalk, starts to take out a cigarette, then looks at it, decides she is done smoking,until the next time she gets the urge, and flips the unlit cigarette on the ground.

"That'll cost ya, Ms Brewer", a male voice says. Oh BROTHER, what NOW, she thinks, as she rolls her eyes, turning toward the voice. "Shady, you miserable bastard. What, are you charging for littering now?", Makensie says. Shady laughs in his disgusting, husky, smoke-too-many-cigarettes laugh, and replies, "You are the law arent you, Ms Brewer? Do you like breaking your own laws?" Makensie laughed, and says, "I dont give a rats ASS who throws what on the ground, Im too busy doing other things" He looks at her, smiles, saying, "Yes, like working toward trying to pay your falsie off. Oh I just love to see you detectives running around working your ass for ME." He turns from side to side, then says, "Hmmm, doesnt seem to be as busy though. Could it be that I finally broke every detective of their money? Is it possible I ran them straight out of business? Wouldn't that be a pity?" Makensie frowns, and says, "In your dreams, you slime ball"

"Yes, in your dreams, slime ball", a female voice says behind him. A shot rang out, as Makensie jumped in surprise and shock, & starts looking behind Shady to see who got shot. Then, all of a sudden, Shady looks at Makensie, and says, "I've been hit! I cant believe it...some twerp actually shot the person who is needed so much!" Makensie growls, not wanting to save this idiot, but he was right, we do need him, even if we hate to admit it, so, she runs to a pay

Oct-16-2008 11:28

phone to call for an ambulance, when suddenly a black car pulls up, squeeling tires, and grabs Shady, tossing him in the back seat. Makensie runs into the street,watchng the car drive off, and looks at this other detective, saying, "What the hell just happened? Why did you shoot that idiot for to begin with?" She looks at me full of frustration, and says, "You think I shot him? Look, I hate that jerk but Im not stupid enough to shoot at him. Looks like we have a case to solve. Why, and who? ...and who are them people in that black car?" Makensie looks at her, then back toward the road, "Yes, who ARE them people?"

She takes out a cigarette, looks at it, then shrugs her shoulders, thinking, Screw it! I've had too much happen today, I cant give up smoking NOW! She looks at the female detective, and says, "I really hate to do this but, I have to get going. I have an appointment across town, and I cant be late" In a surprising voice, she says, "What?!? You cant just LEAVE like this. What about Shady? What about finding who shot him? Shouldn't you CARE?" Makensie hesitates a bit, thinking about it, then says, "Hmmm, I should....ok, I care enough about the curiosity I have on who shot him, thats it...because man, that took some balls!" Makensie grinned, then noticed she was the only one having fun, then says, "Ok fine! I will treat this like any other case where I sincerely care"

She shook her head, and says, "Whats your name anyway? You look familiar!" Makensie holds her hand out, gives a firm handshake, and says, "Im Makensie Brewer. Im an Officer at The Blue Pagoda....and you are?" She returns the shake, although she needs to work on making a firm handshake. A firm shake shows confidence, is what my Grannie always said.

She says, "My name is........

Oct-16-2008 14:05

Lilangel. I'm a director in Dawg Pound Investigations. I just got done paying Shady for my false accusation. Truth be told, that was a quite a hefty sum at this day and age. Over $700,000 got paid to Shady very recently. Just after I got myself a nice penthouse."

Lil had to go, she had an appointment with the Client of her next case. She hated to leave Makensie alone to solve this case. Fortunately, the police didn't arrive, and there wasn't much of a scene here.

Oct-16-2008 14:36

Makensie watches Lil walk away. Great, how am I supposed to do this myself?, she mutters to herself. As she is standing there, the police finally show. "Well, bravo, u showed up", she said. This one cop, who looked like he had one too many donuts, says, "I received a report that shots were fired, and there was a kidnapping. Who was it" Makensie said, "The Shady guy, hell, I dont know who is real name is. He hangs in the tricky mister,annoying us detectives, just like YOU guys do" He gives her a not funny stare, and says, "Do u know the direction from which the shots came from?" Makensie remembered looking at Lil, so they would've had to come from "Right over there", she says, pointing toward the shoe shop. "Ok, and the car that pulled up and grabbed him. Color?", the police asked. "It was Black w/ tinted windows, and no, I dont know the license plate or what kind of car it was", she said.

The police kneeled down and scoped the ground, as Makensie walked off toward the shoe shop. Maybe he saw something.

"God I need help! I cant do this alone!!", she says to herself, as she walks inside the shoe shop.

"Excuse me but, did you happen to notice what was going on right outside your window here?", Makensie asked nicely. "Oh, Im detective Makensie Brewer" He looks at her with impatience, and says, "I KNOW who u are, detective. You only bother me every day. Now, what is it you want to know? Im very busy here" Makensie smiles, and says, "I want to know if u are aware of what happened outside your shop?" He looks outside, then back at her, and says, "I did hear something. When I went to look out, I saw you, Lil, and another person back this way a bit"

Makensie raised an eyebrow, and says, "Really? Do you know who it was?" He replies, "Hmmm, yes, I believe it was this detective named Bonelady but I cant be too sure" Makensie makes a note to check it out, maybe SHE can help her, or atleast give her some information on what she saw.

Oct-16-2008 18:59

Bonelady was finishing her lunch at Sami's when the door swung open. She looked up from her plate and noticed Makensie Brewer looking right at her.

Makensie approached Bonelady's table and began to speak, "Excuse me, I've recently returned to town and am on my first case in a while. Are you the one they call Bonelady?"

Bonelady looked at Makensie like she had a third eye. "Honey, take a look at the way I'm dressed, do you think anyone else other than me can be the 'one they call Bonelady'?" she asked sarcastically.

"Well, I couldn't be rude and just walk right up to you..." Mak started to reply.

Bonelady held up her hand as if to signal Mak to jsut be quiet and interupted her, "Look, just cut to the chase, I'm a busy woman. Waddya want?"

"Well, " began Mak, "Like I said, I'm on my first case since being back, it's seems my old friend Shady has been shot and kidnapped. A reliable source told me you were in the area when it happened. Do you know anything about it?"

"What? Shady's been shot," exclaimed Bonelady. Then she began to chuckle, "You know I've only had to pay that no good son-of-a bitch once, it was jsut a matter of time before his underhanded business caught up with him. I heard some commotion going on but I paid no attention to it since I was on my lunch break."

Mak wasn't sure if she believed Bonelady or not. Something just didn't sit right. "Well thank you for your time, Bonelady. If you hear anything please let me know," she asked as she handed Bonelady a business card.

Mak opened the door when Bonelady shouted out, "Wait, I may know something." Mak stopped in her tracks and turned around. "While I was coming in her, there were two people on their way out talking about getting revenge. One of them was the local barber, I can't think of the name of the person she was with though. But I've seen her around town, usually with a pet tiger by her side."

Oct-17-2008 07:23

Makensie stared at Bonelady for what seemed like forever, until she finally said, "A pet tiger by her side?" Bonelady rolled her eyes with impatience, and says, "Yes,honey, you DO know what a tiger looks like, dont you?" Makensie was getting a bit irritated at this Bonelady, and says real snappy, "Yes, I DO know what a TIGER looks like, you....you......." Bonelady cuts her off, and says, "Idiot. I know. Say it. Go ahead. I just dont have time for this stuff. I'm so busy" Makensie smirks, and says, "Yeah, you LOOK busy" Bonelady chuckles, and says, "Well, thats the info I have for u. If I think of anything else, hmmm, I might call ya, if I have TIME. Now,move along....I got people to see, things to do, and all that jazz...."

Makensie takes a deep breath, and turns, walking out the door. "Why cant she just help me, I mean, I HEAR she is a great detective...but, doesnt have TIME. UGHHH!!!! I wish I would've been somewhere else when Shady was shot. I mean, why do I even CARE that Shady got shot?", she complains,out loud to herself. "Because you have a boring,nice heart sweety, now, come on, chop chop! who is it we are questioning? The Barber, and...who?", Bonelady says, snapping her fingers. Makensie groans, & says, "Breit" Bonelady laughs, and says, "Breit? You think its Breit?" Makensie kind of laughs, and says, "Well, doesnt she have a tiger?" Bonelady laughs, taps Makensie's arm, and says, "Just kidding honey, come on, lets go", and she bounces off.

Makensie thinks to herself, This is going to be interesting. They walk to the Barber first, since its on their way. Or on HER way, she has no idea where Bonelady will go.

Oct-17-2008 15:40

It's not unusual for some character to pound on my door at unreasonable hours. Especially when I've been working on a case for 3 days with no sleep. But I have to say, this dame was far from normal. She introduced herself as the Bonelady and told me she needed me to do her a favor, that she didn't have time to track some other dame down on her own. I told her she'd REALLY owe me and asked who I was supposed to find. She gave me a description of Breitkat and a possible address. First time I've been asked to track down wild life in New York city. First time for a lot of things...

I found the dame as she was coming out of a former bank uptown to take her 'pet' for a walk. My mistake that I forgot to bring an alternate chew toy.

She freely admitted (as a hundred pound tiger gnawed on my new red suede shoes) that she had it in for most of the barbers of the world and that if Edward had been shot instead of Shady, I would have found my man, as it were. As it truly was, she had nothing against Shady and suggested that I widen my suspect pool to several thousand other disgruntled detectives. I asked her who was going to buy me another pair of shoes. She laughed and said that that was the price of doing business and that I was lucky it was only the shoes the cat had chewed up. She added that the next time I came to interrogate her, I wouldn't forget to bring something for that purpose, if only just a ham sandwich. (For some reason the tiger growled at that one.)

As she turned to go, Breitkat stopped short and told me she had thought of someone I should talk to. It turned out that Lady Jas had had to use Shady's services right after she had just paid him off. So she was rather irked at Shady and a character named Ben...

I miss my shoes.

Oct-17-2008 15:58

Makensie was never able to follow through on questioning the two she was supposed to, she got side tracked, but, Bonelady came through. She came running down the walk, rather uncoordinated, if u ask me, and said, "I got some info" Makensie says, "I dont" "I could've told u that. Anyway, Luc Pfeiffer, who did a favor for me by questioning Breit, was given two names for us....well YOU, to question...and oh, honey, you are going to LOVE this" Makensie, patiently, waits, as Bonelady plays with her nails, and chews her gum. "WELLLL? What are the names?" , Makensie asks. Bonelady stops looking at her nails, blows a bubble, then says, "Lady JAS, and BEN!!" Makensie says, "Oh no! My very own Director?!? Can my day get any worse? How am I supposed to question my own BOSS?" Bonelady says, "You will figure it out,, Im sure of it" "Ok, YOU question her. I will talk to Ben" Bonelady laughs, almost spitting her gum out, and says, "Look Mak...I got you this far, no way, nu-huh, Im not talking to Ben. You do it. In fact, Im so out of this girl, its not even funny" She walks off, tripping on air, as she went along. (wink)

Makensie grumbles, and says, "Im going to get Reese to question, Lady Jas. I cant question my own boss!!!!" She was about to give up, when there was Ben walking down the way.

"Oh damn", Mak says. Ben gets closer, and she says, "Ummm, excuse me, Ben? Ummm, Shady was shot, then kidnapped, and somehow your name got brought up. so where were you?" Makensie was so nervous, all professionalism went straight out the window. Ben responded, in his friendly voice, "I have no clue what you are talking about. I was at the restaurant with my wife,having lunch. If you dont believe me, go there and check it out. You will see everything I say is true" Makensie nods, then learns how to speak, and says, "Great! Cool! Gotcha...off to the restaurant"

As she walks off, she shakes her head, with her hand on her forehead, and says *more*

Oct-17-2008 16:01

to herself, "You IDIOT!" Now, to the restaurant to get the alibi, which she is praying is REAL, and then....off to question her Director. This day has been a day from hell, and she can not wait until this is all over.

In fact, she decided she was just done with all this, and turns, and walks back in the direction she came. Why should she care about Shady?, she thinks.

Reese would tell her that she is just chicken to question her boss, and maybe she was right.

With that, she trotted off to find Bonelady. She is going to help her with this, whether she likes it or not. Chuckling, she walks on, making a note to question the waitress about Ben. Guess she isnt giving up, after all.

Oct-18-2008 15:30

Makensie knew exactly where she would find Bonelady and went right back to where she was when this all started. Sure enough, there was Bonelady with a group of people at the Tricky Mister, the drinks we're flowing and the BS was flying. As she got closer to the crowd she could begin to hear the conversation, being dominated by Bonelady of course.

"$20, same as in town," Bonelady said as the group of people roared into a fit of laughter.

Bonelady noticed Makensie, "You again? Damn girl, what kind of detective are you if you constantly need my help. I've done everything I could for you."

Just as she was finishing Bonelady noticed a familiar face walk in the door and immediately went pale. "C'mon Makensie, we got get out of here," she said grabbing Makensie's hand and heading for the back door.

"What is it Bonelady? What's the rush?" inquired Makensie.

"See that guy over there?" she pointed, "He is not someone we want to mess with right now, let's get the hell out of here"

Oct-19-2008 09:52

Coming through the door, brick notices Bonelady scurrying out the back door with some attractive lady he'd never seen before.
"Scotch, brick"?, Cyrus, the bartender, asks. "Sure", brick says. "Make it a double." brick scans the bar, out of habit, and sees the usual clientele of riff-raff and high class.

"Good crowd, Cyrus", he says, taking a large sip of his Glen Livet. "Yep. You know they flood the place when it gets close to happy hour", states Cyrus,
"plus, the thing with Shady".

"What about Shady?" brick asks, halfway interested since Shady had relieved him of a lot of money in the past. "He was shot?" says Cyrus. "And kidnapped".

Fully intrigued now brick says, "You've got to be kiddin' me?", "Who's handling the case?" Cyrus says, "That lady Bonelady was pulling outta here." "Hey, brick. By the way, why does Bonelady dart outta here every time she sees ya?" brick chuckles and says, " She thinks she owes me money from the racetracks, but we never made the bet. I let her keep thinkin' it 'cause it keeps her from buggin' me." brick and Cyrus enjoy a laugh at Bonelady's expense.

"Speakin' of which, who's that detective with Bonelady anyway, Cyrus?"

"Her name's , Makensie". brick says, " Makensie, huh, nice... *DING DING*

brick's words are drowned out by the cowbell Cyrus rings to let folks know that it's officially happy hour. As people start to rush the bar, brick slides his empty glass forward and says, "Hit me again, Cy".