The Murder Show

CHAPTER 26

PREVIOUSLY...

The officers unclasp his cuffs from the table before yanking him up to his feet. "Oh come on! It was just getting good!!" He yells as he is pulled out of the room.

Once he is removed Agents Yang and Torres join the two Detectives and their Captain in the room. Both of them stand staring at Maya. "Are you sleeping with Dr. DeLuca, Detective Bishop?" Agent Yang asks. Direct and to the point, as Maya stares wide eyed.

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"WHAT?! NO!" She exclaims. "That was him digging for an angle." She defends herself.

Ross sighs. "Herrera? What's your take?" She asks.

Andy looks at her partner and friend before turning back to their Captain and the FBI Agents. "There is no take, what he said was garbage. No clue where it's come from." She says backing Maya completely.

"So what is he talking about? Why is he calling her your girlfriend? Well unless there is someone else he has abducted and tried to kill that we don't know about." Ross snarks.

Maya sighs. "No, he was talking about Carina. Dr. DeLuca." She corrects, cringing internally, knowing that slip may not help things. "There is NOTHING going on between us Captain, I assure you."

"There are pictures, Bishop." Ross says sternly.

Maya's head whips up at that with a frown. "Pictures of what? There can't be pictures of something that hasn't happened." She scoffs, rolling the dice on a little bluff, afterall no way he can have anything, right?!

Ross sits down, the Agents remain standing behind her. "Whilst you two were in there Sully had some information from the scene. And some... questions..." She starts.

"From the scene? The place he held her?" She asks.

Ross nods. Maya swallows, knowing what's coming, afterall she saw the pictures herself. "There are pictures of you together. Why would he have those if there was nothing going on?" She asks.

Maya huffs defensively. "I have NO idea. Maybe this was part of his back up plan all along. In case he gets caught, try to make something out of nothing, try to discredit me... call the case into question." She says. "Look, I know what pictures you are talking about. I saw them when I was there. Was I surprised? Sure. But they are nothing." She says firmly.

"So nothing is going on between you?" Agent Torres asks.

Maya shakes her head firmly. "Absolutely nothing."

"You look mighty close for nothing." Agent Yang says, looking at her phone, before passing it to Torres. "They emailed the pictures." She explains.

"Look, we have been spending A LOT of time with Ca- Dr. DeLuca, both myself AND Herrera." She points at her partner. "And sure we have gotten closer than perhaps is normal in a professional setting, we both like her and have become, I don't know... friends? Sort of." She explains.

Torres places the phone down, showing one picture in particular. It's from the night at the bar where he approached her. Maya is standing in front of Carina, concern written all over her face, hands on Carina's upper arms as Carina looks at her with something that is too intimate to be considered friendship. "So this is you being professional? Or a sort of friend?" She asks.

"YES!" Maya yells.

"Explain this then." Yang says, showing Maya the picture from the bar.

Maya rolls her eyes. "There is context to that! You're acting as if she and I were just in a bar on a night out randomly holding each other!" She huffs.