VENTURES: Saturday

A Typical Saturday at Sam Mother's diner... Sam Mother was happy, The place was filled with people and orders were flying..

Orders were up...Food orders were being passed out..

"I'm telling you guys...Whenever you're in court you've got to stop by Malcolm Paltrow's trucks..The food is soooo good." gushed Olivia about our latest client.

''Oh My god yes...and in the summer, you can eat his sandwiches of other food right there on the courtroom steps." I said.

"Especially those Cuban sandwiches...Isn't that right Baby?" said Beverly to Nelson..

"Yes...He sent us a box of sandwiches during the trial..They were so good." said Nelson.

"YESSSSSSSS!" said Josie..

"I'm telling you...The man was on point with his food.."said Josie's boyfriend, Paris.

"Oh I've eaten off of his trucks...He has one in front of our building.."said Yvette.

"I hipped her to his trucks when she used to come to see me at lunch ." said Gary.

''We love his food."said Keith Jones..

"I wish he served Breakfast...We lost our good Coffee and doughnut guy,,,He used to make them right on his truck." said Bee Bee.

"Yeah, he was killed in a freak accident a year ago." said Sofia.

"Here comes our platters." said Kahlil as our food arrived.

"I know Malcolm....He and I developed a friendship , when I started coming to court with you guys."said Jade Lee..

The rest of our neighbors filed in...

"Hi Everybody." said Kayla..

''We decided to risk it all like Melo to eat breakfast this morning..We are glad you guys are here." said her husband, Ray..

He was speaking of Lt. Tragg and how he couldn't seem to help harrassing them when he came in..So much so that they were all either eating at home or going somewhere else to eat breakfast at times..

"There is safety in numbers."said Jazzy..

"I'm not worried about him...I came to eat and that's what I plan to do.."said Dabnis..

"Ohhhhhhh let's all eat and stop worrying about him...He's one guy...Cop or not ,he should not intimidate us so much that we can not enjoy our food."said Jessica.

"Yeah come on let's order..."said her husband Chip...

They all ordered...

ADA Ron Harper and Gerri Williams walked in, hand in hand and smiled and waved at everybody...They took a seat at the counter..

And then HE WALKED IN....Looking disheveled and drunk as usual on a Saturday Morning..

Lt. Tragg.

II-

Even Sam Mother sighed. He didn't want any trouble.. Several people were in here eating that he usually warred with...Especially when he had just lost a case..

He saw all of them...The lawyers, The defense attorneys who had made his life and his reputation a living hell..

He was furious about losing a big case recently....but before he could concentrate on them, Two others walked in..

ADA Diane Baronski and ADA Jake Patais walked in...They were holding hands.. Out of all of her alleged lovers, Jake seemed to be lasting longer...He appeared to be the one.. Lt. Tragg hated him.

"Hi Olivia, Beverly, Yvette and crew." said Diane Baronski...She had nothing but respect for the two teams of attorneys who had beaten her in court..

They smiled and waved at everyone...Jake walked over to me and Nelson..

"Donnie Ray, Nelson...I never properly thanked you two for saving my life...I am in your debt...I owe you..One proffer.." he said and laughed..

"Oh You're welcome man...It was the least we could do.." I said.

"We didn't want to lose you...We were doing so well."said Nelson and they all laughed.

''We'll take that proffer though." said Olivia.

"ADA Baronski, does that go for you too?" asked Beverly..

"Yeah, how bout it?" laughed Josie..

"Hey you guys saved his life...Not Mine!" joked ADA Diane Baronski..

We all busted out laughing..

"I wish some of that good will drifted over our way.." joked Yvette..

"Hi Yvette...Hello guys." said ADA Diane Baronski...

"Hi ADA Baronski." I said.

"Good Morning."said Bee Bee.

"Good Morning." said Sofia.

"Good Morning ADA Baronski." said Kahlil.

"Good Morning Mam." said Jade Lee.

"Disgusting...All of those attorneys handed both of them stunning defeats...and they're over there laughing it up with them...Both of them."snarled Lt. Tragg..

"We don't hate them...I've lost my share to both groups...but it's just a job....Outside the job I don't have anything personal against Olivia or Yvette or their team members.. In fact, Olivia and I and Nelson and Beverly used to be Public Defenders at one time and Yvette and I worked at another Law Firm briefly before I took a job at the D.A.'s Office."said ADA Ron Harper.

"Yeah, win some, Lose some, appeal and move on..Olivia and Yvette and I get mani pedis together and go to the same hair dresser...How am I going to hate them?" said ADA Gerri Williams.

"Bahhhhh nonsense.."said Lt. Tragg..

"You don't hate Olivia or Yvette...I've seen you talking, even sharing a laugh with them in the hallway in between hearings..What's eating you now?" asked ADA Gerri Williams..

Before he could answer, the newest ADA walked in.. The very attractive ADA, Dr. Alice Bourdain walked in and sat at a table..

She looked at a menu...

Lt. Tragg, who hadn't ordered yet invited himself to her table..

"Good Morning Alice.." he said.

" Oh Good Morning Lieutenant...." said Alice.. "Have you been drinking?" she asked.. The smell of Jameson's Whiskey was all over him..

"Last night...What are you havin doll your breakfast is on me." he said smiling, running his hands along her legs and inching them up her skirt..

She removed his hands and placed them on the table..

"We aren't going to do this...Now I've told you that and uh ruh...I'm expecting a breakfast guest." she said.

"What? Breakfast Guest??" he asked.

"Yes...A Breakfast Guest....I've been subletting his condo...And I've found a new place..He's meeting me here this morning.." she said.

ADA Richard Gray walked in...

"Hiiiii Dr. Bourdain." he said as he sat down..."Sorry I'm Late..." he said.

"Hi Richie...You're not in my class anymore..I don't care.."Said Dr. Bourdain with a smile.

"You taught him too?" asked Lt. Tragg..

"Yes I did...At St. John's University..." said Alice Bourdain...

''Yes she did...We have history...Good Morning Artie, will you be dining with us this morning?" asked ADA Richard Gray.

"Uh NO HE IS NOT!!! I'll talk to you later Lieutenant!"said Alice Bourdain.

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beat..He stood up abruptly, stomped his foot and marched back to the counter..

Ray snickered and banged his hand on the table..

Dabnis laughed loudly...

''Come On you two don't...don't start..."said Kayla,pleading with her husband and her friend..

"Bad as I want to laugh...I'm going to hold it..We've finished our meals...Let's get out of here."said Beverly..

"Yeah, come on honey, don't start with him... I hate this. Much as I like this place..We gotta find another place to eat..Free of him."said Jazzy..

We all paid our bills and began to file out..

''Do you think either Lt. Tragg or ADA Bourdain knows that ADA Gray is Gay?" asked Jessica.

"I'm sure she knows...She was his teacher at St. Johns , Just like she taught Nelson...I don't think Lt. Tragg knows though he might..He was the arresting officer in that case where we defended him."said Olivia as we all filed out.

"Poor Guy...he can't win for losing."laughed Chip.

III-

Every one of us was gone.. ADA Gerri Williams and ADA Ron Harper sat at the counter kissing passionately.. They had finished and paid for their meals..

"Ummm this is like dessert.." Gerri cooed..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh ....AWWWWWWWWWWWWW...MNNNNMMMMMMM!" Ron moaned...

They continued to kiss..

"Ohhh will you two break it up! Go Get a room!" snarled Lt. Tragg..

"You know, that's a good idea...Let's go back to my place and uh further explore this issue."said Ron Harper..

"Ouuuuuu Ronnie Baby, I love the way you turn a phrase." cooed Gerri Williams as they both got up and left..

"Jealous Artie?" said Sam Mother as he cleared away his plate... Lt. Tragg's eyes were on ADA Bourdain and ADA Gray....They had finished their meals, both thrown some dollars on the table and were laughing and talking famously...

oblivious to the fact that practically everyone else had left..

"I wonder if she knows he's queer?" said Lt. Tragg..

"Artie ,come on now...Knock it off."said Sam Mother.. Thinking about his late Father and Uncle, both who were horrible human beings and cops... He had thought young Artie would be better...but he was becoming just as bitter and just as bad as those two had been...

"Ummmmmm what do you want to do today?" said ADA Diane Baronski to her young beau, Jake Patais, nicknamed "Lawyer Bae by young female attorneys...

"YOU!" he said..

"Oh you horny horny boy, you always want to do me.." Diane giggled..

They began kissing passionately in their booth......

Lt. Tragg looked on in disgust...

"Those two are going to make me hurl.." he snarled..

"You're definitely jealous...You and her had a little thing going on and this new babe won't give you the time of day...Go Home Artie...Go home and calm yourself down."said Sam Mother..

ADA Diane Baronski paid both of their bills...She didn't look Lt. Traggs way...She was still smarting from their last conversation a few weeks ago at Curley's Bar.

They were having Corn Beef Specials..

"I tell ya Diane , Nobody in this city makes a better Corn Beef Special than Curleys"said Lt. Tragg who felt Diane's leg and ran his hands up her skirt..While munching on his sandwich...She removed his hands right away..

''Arthur ,let's not start with that...I only agreed to meet with you today because I feel like you've made a mistake...You've arrested the wrong guy...Walker Clarke is no killer...I know him personally, Yes..I was on that boat with both of them...I met them when I first moved back here..I was living down near the riverfront..We used to have coffee in the morning...The three of us and we used to drink together and hang out on the Houseboat..Both were very nice guys...We were all friends...You've got the wrong guy."said Diane

as she finished up her sandwich and sipped the last of her Coke.

"You mean your boyfriend is in over his head..You're afraid of Liv and Beverly's stunts bruising his little ego aren't you? Actually I'm quite impressed by him. He got that damn Judge Reynolds to recuse himself..but that was you...wasn't it??? He borrowed from your playbook...and he won the argument, the soft argument Olivia lobbed out there to throw the whole thing out...She was testin the waters..She knew the Judge wasn't going to throw it out!!! Just one of the games her and her niece like to play from time to time..Testing the waters, how much they can get away with...Under the circumstances Junior's not doing a bad job so far! You've trained him well.." he said...Then he smiled slyly...

"Uh Uh...I know what this is, You don't want him to know that YOU SLEPT WITH BOTH OF THOSE GUYS...Barrett and Clarke....Let's see, we add them to me, Bert Vandenberg and Jumpshot Jim...That's five guys within a year...Nooo, Junior makes six...Whooooo, you've got some dance card little lady..You just drop your panties for everyone don't you?" he laughed.

"ASSHOLE!" she said and slapped him hard... Everyone heard it and saw him fly out of his chair and hit the floor.. Several patrons snickered....Some laughed outright...

"OOOOOOOF!" said Lt. Tragg as he hit the floor..

She got up, tossed a few dollars on the table and walked out abruptly as people looked on and gasped...

Curley helped Lt. Tragg up off the floor..

"Artie, you really know how to bring it out in people, don't you? " he said and shook his head..

It was the cruelest and nastiest thing Artie or anyone had said to her...and she hadn't spoken to Lt. Tragg since that afternoon..It had been almost a month now..

She paid her bill and she and Jake

walked out of the door hand in hand...

IV-

Lt. Tragg left..

He stood on the corner and drank the entire bottle of Jameson's Whiskey and tossed the bottle in the trash...

He got in his car and begin to drive..

He saw people he knew. on the street..

as buses drove by..

Olivia's sexy,but smart mouthed niece, Beverly and her husband, Nelson..

Olivia's equally sexy cousin, Kayla and her husband, Ray...He didn't like Ray much, but Ray had a beautiful woman on his arm..

Jasmine "Jazzy" Coley, who he considered a friend...He couldn't understand for the life of him what she saw in Dabnis Coley, the loud mouthed attorney who once sued him...but they seemed happy together.

They all seemed to be headed toward the shopping center, perhaps they were headed to a movie..

In the park, across the street where they lived , he saw Yvette's snot nosed kid attorneys as he called them..

Bee Bee and Keith Jones, Married now , kissing in the playground ...

Not too far from them was Sofia and that Arab, Kahlil...Also married

They were kissing too!...

That Puerto Rican lawyer that used be a Public defender and her husband...

Kissing, Everyone was kissing.

He saw Olivia and Beverly's Junior Partner, Josie and her boyfriend, who he did not know...

Sharing an Ice Cream sandwich..

Lt. Tragg felt an emptiness in his soul...

He wandered into Curleys...some hours later...

There sharing a table and drinks was Olivia Bennett-Alexander , her husband, Donnie Ray, Yvette Jones Lockwood, Her new husband,Gary Lockwood, an Investigator from the D.A.'s office and a Detective who rose through the ranks under him...ADA Karen Page , who he came close to sleeping with two times and his ex friend, B.L. Benz , host of the TV show, HARD BOTTOM...and that damn Investigator, Jade Lee and his newly minted Lieutenant, Danny Ho...He remembered when Danny Ho was a uniformed officer, glad to fetch his coffee..He watched Danny become Detective, Sergeant and now Lieutenant...He didn't like Danny Ho or Gary Lockwood being this close to these Attorneys..He could never be sure if they were helping them or not..He'd better not ever find out they were.

He didn't want to be in here with them...So he left...he drove past ADA Jake Patais's condo..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ,OH MY GOD, JAKEEEEEE!" he could hear Diane's loud moans through their open window..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

squealed Assistant District Attorney Diane Baronski as Jake Patais, The Newly minted Assistant District Attorney plowed into her, doggie style and bent her over the kitchen sink..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..AWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWWD!" Jake moaned..Of all the women he screwed...Nobody made him feel as good as Diane..so soft, smelling so good, so entrancing..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MEEEEE?" she moaned..

"OHHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHH!!! OHHHHHHHH!! UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOIN TO MEEEEEEEE??" he moaned..

Soon they were sitting ,naked on Jake's couch, kissing each other passionately...while she moved up and down on his rock hard penis..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JAKEEE, GIVE IT TO ME....UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...AWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWWWD!" he moaned...

and eventually in his huge bed...Where they had been making love since this morning

Diane had had four to five orgasms, intense orgasms...Jake was like a machine...she was close to tapping out...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU HOOO HOOO HOOO HOOOOUUUUU OOOUUUU WEEEEEE! JAKE, OUUUUUUUUUUU YOU ARE A BEAST!!! OH MY GODDDDDDD! UMMMMMM!" she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed to the top of his lungs as he finally began to cum and cum hard...

He was furious....So Furious he sped off...

It was beginning to get dark...He wound up in Food court...

He saw ADA Alice Bourdain sitting alone, enjoying a Banana split.

and staring out the window.

He invited himself to her table..

"That looks good, especially the way you eat it." he said and smiled.

"Do you always look and smell this bad on Saturday? I mean during the week, every hair is in place, Your suits are impeccable, shoes shined... Nice smelling fragrance..but on Saturday, you just let go huh?" she laughed....

"Tell you what? Go out with me tomorrow and I'll clean up..." he said.

"Lieutenant....I just moved here...I'm trying to find my way...You want a relationship and I'm uh really not ready for that yet...With anyone.." said Alice Bourdain.