Sunday was spent unpacking in Miroku's two bedroom apartment. It was a nice place, a little messy in some places, but nothing a woman couldn't fix. He had obviously been a bachelor for quite sometime.
The living room was the biggest room in the place and Miroku had taken up most of that room with a large screen TV. For once, since Howard's escape from the institution, she felt safe.
Miroku emerged from his bedroom after he unpacked her clothes while she familiarized herself with his home. "How do you like it?" He asked.
"It's beautiful." She said with a smile.
"Wait until you see this." He said, opening up the blinds that covered his balcony. A orange and purple sunset fell over the blue pacific ocean.
"Oh wow. That's gorgeous!" She breathed in awe, stepping out onto the balcony, despite the cold weather of October. "I've always wanted an ocean front apartment."
"Well, you have one now." He said softly, his blue eyes shimmering beautifully as he stared at the painted sunset with her. "I've wanted to do this for a long time."
"Do what?" Sango asked, feeling his arms around her waist, almost lovingly and protectively. He placed a small kiss on the crook of her neck before he answered her.
"Watch the sunset in the sky on this balcony, then go back inside and make sweet love all night long." His voice was seductive and his hands were touching every place he could reach.
She turned around to face him with a smile. "You never tire out do you?"
"Not when it comes to you." Miroku took her hands in his and pulled her close, kissing her softly, then more passionate as Sango became more responsive. He wanted to make love to her again, he wanted to be one with her body and soul again like he was last night.
He was falling in love, for the first time in his life he felt euphoric and giddy and by the pounding of her heart against his chest he could tell she was feeling the same. Miroku pushed her down on his bed this time, which was unmade and messy, but big enough for two people.
Sango wondered just how many women he had done this to on this very bed, but as his lips continued to travel over her naked skin she quickly stopped thinking about it and just let him please her. His mouth and hands were everywhere and she closed her eyes as she felt him finally crush his lips to hers again, putting his weight on top of her body.
His naked chest rasped against the material of her bra, and he reached a hand to pull it down when he heard a knock at his door. He ignored it and pulled her straps down, kissing along her neck and clavicle, then finally to her round, full breasts, half covered by the cups of her bra.
Another knock came and Sango looked down at him, wondering if he even heard it. "Someone's at the door."
"They'll go away." He said, kissing her waist and belly button.
He tugged on her pants and another knock sounded from the front of his apartment. "Damn it!" He cursed. "Let me go see what they want. Don't get dressed, I'll be right back."
He slipped on his button up shirt without bothering to button it and tried to hide his obvious excitement as he approached the door. Sango sat on his bed, the quilt pulled around her as she tried her best to listen.
"Hey, Miroku." It was Nelly's voice and she wondered if they had found anything out about Howard's escape.
Nelly looked at Miroku's open shirt and then down at his jeans, unbuttoned and unzipped. "Am I interrupting anything?"
"Uh, well…" Miroku said with a sigh. "Yes, actually."
"Sorry." He said, inviting himself in. "But I thought you and Sango would like to see this." He held up a CD, obviously a DVD of some sort.
"What is it?"
"It's the security tape from Sunday night and Monday morning. The police have been reviewing it all weekend and we can't find anything peculiar about it. It's so strange." Nelly told him. "You have a DVD player?"
Sighing, and resigning himself to forget about sex right now and giving in he nodded and led Nelly into the living room. "Right here." He said, opening it.
Sango wrapped her robe around herself and stepped out of the bedroom, giving Nelly a smile. "Hello officer."
"Good evening, Ms. Noriko." He replied to her with a smile. "I'm glad you're here, I want to show you this, too."
Sango sat down beside Miroku, feeling a bit awkward in the strange place, wearing nothing under her thin robe but a matching bra and panty set with a police officer she also worked with reclining in the living room and extremely attractive doctor wrapping his arm around her as if they were about to sit down and watch a movie.
Miroku reclined back and pressed play and an image of a cell appeared on screen. The image had a bit of a green tint to it and it almost seemed like it was night-vision. This obviously was recorded when it was dark and the solitary inmates were asleep.
After a few minutes, nothing happens and Miroku wondered what was so interesting about this recording. He looked over at Nelly, whose eyes were searching the screen rapidly. "What's so interesting about this? Nothing's happening."
"Exactly!" Nelly exclaimed. "Nothing happens! That's what so strange about it! We don't see Bailey escape, or anyone aiding him in his escape. Nothing!"
The psychologist was just as baffled as the police when suddenly he noticed something. "Hey, wait a second…" He picked up the remote from his coffee table and hit the rewind button and watched it again for a few more seconds. "Did anyone else notice the time lapse?"
"Time lapse?" Nelly asked. "What time lapse?"
"Look," Miroku said, rewinding and pausing it again. "The time at the corner. It says 12:17 A.M." Then he pressed the forward button and pressed it a few more frames. Each frame was recorded at 10 second intervals but nothing seemed out of place.
Nelly kept watching as Miroku pressed the button a few more times and then he stopped. "This is only about a minute later, but look at the time now." He said, and Nelly saw that it read 3:16 A.M.
Nelly looked over at Miroku, who rewound the recording again and let it play naturally. There was clearly a jump in time that no one had caught before! "Wow! Great eye, Keseki!"
"So, what does this mean?" Sango asked, looking at the two boys.
"It means," Miroku said, ejecting the disk from his player. "That Howard Bailey didn't escape. He was released by someone who works with us."
"Right, because only employees have access to the security cameras to be able to cut them on and off!" Nelly said. "Thanks, Keseki. You've been a great help. I'll take this information back to the police."
He waved at the two of them and left them alone in the apartment once again.
Miroku looked over at Sango and he knew that Nelly had ruined the mood, but it was still an early night, maybe after a home-cooked meal and some candlelight she'd be all over him again.
"Good morning, Mr. Keseki." Hayden said sweetly.
Miroku was taken back a bit and he raised an eyebrow cautiously. Usually the blond was irritable towards him, since he made his liking towards Sango anything but secret. And despite today being a rainy, dreary Monday she seemed cheerful and delighted to see him.
"Good morning, Hayden." Miroku said, unsurely. "How's your morning been?"
"Hm…OK." She mused, then she looked at him. "How are you and Sango?"
Ah, he knew she had a motive for talking to him. She wanted to see how his relationship was going with her. Smiling, he decided now was the time to get her to back off of him again. "Wonderful."
Hayden's jaw tightened and she stared at him as he grabbed his file of appointments out of the cabinet and set off down the hall to his first appointment. Kami, even the way he walked was enough to drive her mad with lust and desire and it wasn't fair that Sango had him all to herself.
Speaking of the little which, she showed up at the nurse's station just as Hayden was trying not to think about the two of them together. They both seemed extra cheery today and no doubt the two had sex at some point over the weekend. It disgusted Hayden and she couldn't think of a person in this world that she hated more at that moment, then Sango Noriko.
Hayden promised herself she'd get her back for stealing Miroku away. If he only he hadn't been so utterly handsome and unapproachable, Hayden would have made her move first. But he had taken an immediate liking towards Sango and Hayden couldn't figure out why.
She was always the girl who got the guy. She was always the one that other females envied, not the other way around. This was all new to her.
Sango gave her a small smile and Hayden returned it, mockingly. Turning away, the brunette woman rolled her eyes and rolled her cart of medication towards Hamilton's room where it sounded like cartoons were playing on his television while he enjoyed his breakfast.
He sat up in his bed and gave her a huge smile. "Sango! I miss pretty nurse all weekend."
"I missed you, too, Hamilton." Sango said sweetly. "Are you ready for your medication?"
"Yes." He nodded. "Dr. Miroku has helped me a lot." He said, as he waited for Sango to prepare his medication. She measured out just the right amount of liquid.
"Oh he has?"
"Yes. He says just because you go away, doesn't mean you won't come back." Hamilton said, taking the cup from her. "I always hope you come back." He took his medicine obediently and gave her a sweet smile.
"I'll always come back." She said, disposing of the drinking cup. "You enjoy your breakfast, Ok? I have to go."
Hamilton looked uneasy for a moment, then nodded his head emphatically. "OK, but come back and see me, Nurse Sango?"
"Alright." She agreed and closed the door behind her. Miroku had so much patience with Hamilton and it was really showing. She was always a firm believer that her patients could recover from being "insane" and be productive citizens in society. One day, she hoped that could be for Hamilton. She wanted him to find a family, a wife, children, someone he could come home to everyday and not feel the emptiness of abandonment anymore that had plagued him for so long.
Miroku approached her in the hall with a smile. "Hey there, gorgeous."
"Hey Miroku." She said, looking around. He was being awfully…non-secretive…about everything. Which wasn't really bad thing, but she didn't want Jay to find out, and Hayden was already shooting the two glares.
"How many more patients you have to visit?"
"Just three." She said, looking at her time sheet. "Well, three for this morning. What about you?"
"My last appointment got canceled. Mr. Moss has the stomach flu, so he's resting. Nothing else really to do…except…" His mouth curled into a smile and Sango simply grinned.
"Hang around and annoy me?" She asked.
"Well, I was thinking about hang around and keep you company, but that works too." Miroku said with a grin. "But, hey I'll leave you to your work. I can go out and get us some Wacdonald's or something for lunch while you finish up."
"Sounds great." Sango said. "Get me a WacChicken sandwich, please."
"Gotcha! I'm going to get me a WacMac. You want some fries too?"
"Yes." Sango replied, going into Raven's room.
Miroku smiled and headed for the exit.
Hayden rolled her eyes and checked her watch. It was almost noon and she supposed she should get Mr. Banks ready to play Bingo in the recreation center. She really hated this duty, not only did she feel it was useless, but she also hated Amber the Bingo girl. She sounded so happy and chipper when she called out those annoying numbers and she even started to flirt with one of the cops.
It seemed like everyone at work was getting action, except her and she was sick of it!
Miroku wrinkled up his burger wrapper and threw it over at Sango who had quickly finished her lunch and was doing some extra book keeping for Jay. "Miroku!"
He laughed childishly and she threw the balled up paper back at him, where it bounced off his forehead. She stood up, ready to take his next blow, but instead of chucking discarded food wrappers back at her, he pulled her towards him and closed her mouth over hers.
He stood up from Hayden's chair and ran his fingers through her hair and she held back a sigh of pleasure when she felt his tongue push through her lips. "Miroku…we can't do this during our hours!"
"Oh yea?" He asked, pulling away and lifting her up on the desk, right on top of Hayden's papers and magazine she had opened to an article about some celebrity. "Why not?"
"Because…Mr. Webb said…"
"I don't care what Mr. Webb has to say, right now to be honest." He whispered against her neck. "I've wanted you all day."
Sango giggled and kissed him again, his hand planted on either side of her. Then suddenly he stopped.
Miroku felt something underneath the mess of papers and magazines. Something hard and small and he moved the papers until he found it. It was a small, gold key that had hid itself under some papers. "Hey, what's this?"
"Looks like a house key." Sango said.
"Why would Hayden have just one house key. Most people, especially women keep their keys on key chains and stuff, right?"
"Well…I do." She said. "What do you think it is then?"
"I don't know. We better put it in the lost and found box in the lobby." He said then gave her a small kiss. "Want to take the trip together?" He asked with a grin and held out his arm like he had on their first date.
When they reached the lobby a short five minutes later, they found Hiten Morioka standing in the lobby, seemingly angry with Nelly and Inu Yasha.
The silver-haired, golden eyed man snarled. "Look, we ain't sayin' you did it! We're just sayin', you're the only one who has access to that room! If it wasn't you, then who was it?"
Hiten pounded is fist on the counter and Sango jumped a little, not sure if coming with Miroku was such a good idea after all. They seemed to have stumbled into a fight. "I've worked here for 10 long years and not once have a let a patient out of that cell, and you know it!"
Nelly saw Miroku and Sango walk in and his stressed face turned into one of joy. "Hey, you two."
"Hey." Miroku said, pulling the golden key out of his pocket. "We want to drop this into the lost and found box. We think it's someone's house key or something."
Hiten turned around and looked at the small key in the doctor's hands. "Hey! There's the key!"
Inu Yasha rushed over from behind his desk. "This is the security camera's room key? Miroku, where did you find this?"
"We found it on Hayden's desk, under some papers." Miroku replied, handing it over.
Inu Yasha raised an eyebrow. "What were you doing snooping around her desk?"
"We…we weren't." Sango spoke up. "I was…we were…"
"Looking for something." Miroku finished. "Anyway….uh…that's where I found it. I thought it was a house key so we decided to bring it down here."
"I've been missing this thing for a week!" Hiten said, rolling his eyes. "I've had the pick the lock on that stupid door every morning just so I can sit in a chair and stare at a screen all day! Can I have the key back now?" He asked.
"Alright, alright." Inu Yasha said. "You're free to go. Nelly, bring Hayden in for questioning."
"Yes, sir." He said, nodding and exited the office.
"And as for you two…I know what you were up to." He eyed them suspiciously, but a smile played at his lips. "Either way, good job. You've made two breakthroughs in this case in less than twenty fours hours."
Sango clutched onto his arm and smiled up at him. Miroku held her hand and nodded. "May we go now, officer."
"Yea, get lost." He said, irritably grabbing another donut out of the flat box Nelly left sitting on his desk.
Hayden sat in the police's office in the department on the top floor. It was an unfriendly place, even more unfriendly than her department and they felt they needed to dramatize it even more but making her sit at a long table with a light above it as two puffed up cops circled her.
Nelly slid the gold key across the table at her. "Does this look familiar, Hayden?"
Her heart started to pound and she stared up at the two officers. "Uh…Uhm…it's a key."
"Yes…" Inu Yasha said. "Do you which key?"
"A gold key…"
"Yes, a gold key that goes to the security camera room." Nelly said. "Do you know what happened that night?"
"No." She replied.
"Howard Bailey was released from his cell, he did not escape. Monday, October 21st, what where you doing that morning?"
"I was asleep!" Hayden exclaimed. "I didn't have anything to do with that?"
"Then how come this key was found at your desk?" Inu Yasha interrogated. "Dr. Keseki found it this afternoon on accident."
Hayden became infuriated and stood up, pushing the chair back against the wall. "How do you know he didn't do it?"
"Because he's the one," Nelly began, looking at her. "who noticed the mysterious time lapse in the security recording. The only way that could have happened is if someone stole the key out of Mr. Morioka's locker and opened the door, shut off the tape, released Bailey from his prison, then turned it back on when all was clear."
Hayden was speechless. "Look, I-I don't know anything about this. I…I want to go home."
"Tough!" Inu Yasha said. "You're lucky you're a woman or you'd be in a lot worse shape than your in now."
Hayden started to cry. She was tired, hungry and regretting everything she had done. The two cops had been interrogating her for the past three hours and she felt as if she was ready to be committed to an institution herself.
"Stop! Just stop!" She cried. "God!"
Nelly's face softened but Inu Yasha stood his ground. "Inu…maybe you should…give her a break."
"Alright!" Hayden screamed. "Fine! I did it! I released Howard from his cell. I did it because I'm sick of that fucking bitch Jay's made me work with!"
"Sango?" Nelly asked. "Sango's a great girl, I'm glad she and Miroku are--"
"Exactly! Her and Miroku, Miroku and Sango, Sango and Miroku!" She pounded her fist on the table. "I'm so sick of hearing about those two I could spit crazy people!"
"Why would you want to release Howard because of her?"
Hayden stared up at the two of them. She knew she was going to go to jail and lose her job and she thought she might as well just spill everything.
"Howard was obsessed with her." Hayden began. "He was in love with her, he showed his collection of picture he had of her before he was committed."
Both officers looked at her with interest.
"What pictures?" Nelly asked.
"All of them were candid. She had no idea he was taking them. He promised me, he would get her for me, if I released him…He promised me I could have Miroku if I let him go…so I did it."
Inu Yasha scowled and crossed his arms. "Just because you let some psycho run loose around Tokyo doesn't mean Miroku's going to go out with you. Women are so stupid!"
"Inu Yasha…" Nelly called out to calm him down.
"Well, not like it worked anyway." Hayden muttered irritably. "He hasn't succeeded in killing her. I don't know what I was thinking…"
"Well," Inu Yasha growled from his position leaned against the wall. "that isn't going to get you out of jail time. Let's go."
She obediently stood up and Nelly handcuffed her wrists and the two led her out of the room. But only one part of this mystery was solved and capturing Howard Bailey was already proving to be difficult.
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