Ok here's chapter two...
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Chapter Two
Myka was standing by the window wearing a stunning dark blue dress. She turned around and approached Claudia with a smile. Just as she was about to kiss Claudia the door opened and in walked Pete. Myka pulled away from Claudia and walked seductively over to Pete. She kissed him passionately and after a few moments his shirt was off and they were through the door.
Claudia woke up at that point shaking. Even in her own dreams Pete interrupted. She glanced over at the clock, six twenty-eight.
"Great," Claudia muttered, "yet another day buried in old worthless parts. If Artie would just make me a warehouse agent I could prove my worth."
Sighing she pulled herself up out of bed and walked over to the dresser. She pulled out a pair of tight dark gray jeans and a dark purple tank. After dressing and brushing her teeth she headed down to the kitchen to find something to eat. Leena was already there eating a bowl of cereal with orange juice.
"Good morning Claudia, you're up awful early." The psychic peered at Claudia. "Your aura is all out of whack, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Claudia grabbed a banana and a cup of coffee.
"Well it's obviously not nothing. It appears to be a matter of the heart. Am I correct?" Leena as usual, was prying.
"Yes you are correct." Claudia hated mornings so she was being unusually short with Leena.
"You can tell me anything, Claudia. You know I won't tell anyone." Leena gave Claudia a comforting smile.
With a huff Claudia sat down across from Leena. "I like someone, but they don't like me back."
"Do I know this person?" Leena asked
Claudia just crossed her arms and didn't say anything.
"Well it's not Pete. When he's around you get all annoyed. Artie is too old for you and you think of him as a father. So that leaves me and Myka."
Claudia just glared at her.
"As I'm pretty sure it's not me, and you always seem to light up when Myka is around…"
"Ok, fine. I like Myka. So what?" Claudia growled.
"There is nothing wrong with liking Myka. I can definitely see why you do." Leena said soothingly.
"It doesn't matter anyways. She's probably straight. And she obviously has a thing for Pete."
"Pete? You seriously think that Myka has a thing for Pete?" Leena looked at Claudia in surprise.
Claudia just shrugged and slunk further down in her chair.
"And as for Myka being straight, I wouldn't bet on that." Leena smiled comfortingly at Claudia, "I wouldn't give up your hopes quite yet, dear."
"Whatever." As she said this Claudia got up and headed out the door.
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"Los Angeles! Sunny skies, plenty of beaches, and lots of beautiful single ladies!"
Pete and Myka had just arrived at their hotel and were currently standing on the balcony looking out at the beach.
"Pete keep your mind on our job. We have to find this artifact." Myka was tired of Pete's juvenile behavior. Claudia would have been a much better warehouse agent then him.
"Well where do we start then?" Pete asked sitting down at the table.
Myka set her file folder down on the table and sat across from Pete.
"Well there has to be a pattern here. Lets map out the centers of these fires."
Pete spread out the map of the Los Angeles area and put a mark at the location of the center of each fire. The fires appeared to center around the Pasadena Area.
"There are four fires. A pentagram has five points. So the next fire should be here." Pete put his finger down in the mountains just north of Glendale.
"The fires are centered around Pasadena. I'll head there this evening and see if I can find something. You can go north of Glendale and scout out the area. Look for a spot that the next fire is likely to be started."
"Do we have to do this today, Myka? There's only a couple hours of light left, can't we go to the beach for a while?" Pete was practically whining.
"You can, I suppose. The fires were five days apart, so you have three days until the next fire. I'm going to head to Caltech this evening." At that Myka got up and headed back inside.
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Claudia glared at the camera. Previously whenever you took a picture it turned the person or object into a giant black and white cutout, now it just changed them to black and white. She was trying to get it to make a copy of the person in full color. Artie was sitting in the other room playing the piano. Pausing she listened, as little as she'd like to admit it he was quite talented. Her phone buzzed at that moment and she pulled it out of her pocket. Glancing at the caller id she saw it was Myka.
"Hello?" Claudia answered. She made sure to keep her voice neutral.
"Claudia? It's Myka."
"Hey Myka, what's up?"
"I need a hand with something."
"Yeah? What?" Of course she didn't call to chat, she just needed something. Claudia thought.
"I need you to hack into the Los Angeles branch of the FBI."
"Sure, what am I looking for?"
"Information on the area of Pasadena. Specifically anyone that the FBI is watching."
"Why not just contact them?"
"You've never interacted with them before have you?"
"Okey dokey, I'll call you back when I have something."
"Thanks a million Claudia, you're the best."
"No problemo Myka, talk to ya later."
Claudia sighed as she closed the phone. She glanced at her watch, nine-thirty. With a final glare at the camera she headed out the door.
"Artie, I'm headed home. I'll see you in the morning." Claudia grinned at Artie.
"Sure thing Claudia, sleep well." Artie didn't look up from his piano.
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Myka was sitting in her car outside of a small restaurant. It was an old brick building with a wooden roof. On the lower right corner of the window was a red pentagram. Myka's phone buzzed, glancing at the caller id she saw it was Pete.
"Bering." She answered.
"Hey Myka, you'll never guess who I saw!" Pete said excitedly.
"Who." Myka said dryly.
Myka listened as Pete rambled on about some famous actress and her bikini. After about five minutes she was tired of it and was saved by her phone beeping.
"Look Pete, as much as I want to hear about all the hot girls and their asses I got to go."
"Ok, I'll see you later."
With a sigh of relief she saw hit the send button.
"Bering."
"Myka it's Claudia. I got the info you asked for."
"Thanks, so what did you find?"
"The FBI has twenty-four hour surveillance on a small restaurant."
"Is it on Lake and Del Mar?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"I'm parked outside it right now. Ok I got to go. Thanks again." Myka said as a man wearing a suit walked out of the restaraunt.
"Later."
The man walked over to Myka's car and rapped on the passenger door window.
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-Johanna