Chapter 2: Reunion
When he arrived at the school he could see a couple of old faces like Emily, Niome, and Sissi. When he walked past her she stopped him and turned him around, when she did she noticed who he was and squealed like the little school girl that she was.
"Oh Ulrich dear! Is that you?" Sissi asked happily.
"What do you want?" Ulrich asked annoyed.
"I didn't think you were going to come since your rich and all," Sissi said flirting.
"Well I got news for you, my parents cut me off so I'm making money on my own. Why don't you move along and don't mess with me again are we clear?" Ulrich said anger in his voice.
"Fine, but after this night you'll be begging me to come with you," Sissi said walking into the building.
"Yeah whatever you say," ULrich said walking in after her. When he walked in he had noticed that there were a lot of people here and it was quite hot and crowded he walked over to the drink table and leaned against it. He looked around thinking to see any of his friends but he didn't, he was just about to leave until someone grabbed his shoulder which made him grab the person's wrist and flip him onto his back.
"What the hell Ulrich?" Asked the guy.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Ulrich asked strongly.
"It's Odd," he answered getting up and dusting himself off.
"Sorry, reflex," ULrich replied.
"Anyway, how have you been buddy?" Odd said grabbing him something to drink.
"Let's go find a table, then we'll talk," Ulrich answered walking towards a empty table.
"So, what do you do?" Odd asked curiously.
"I'm a secret agent," Ulrich answered.
"That is awesome! Hey everybody my friend is a secr-" he said getting his mouth covered by Ulrich.
"Shut up, it's suppose to be a secret you dork," ULrich whispered letting his mouth go.
"Hey guys, I see you have caught up with each other," asked a very entergetic voice. Ulrich turned around to see Aelita and Jeremie. Aelita's hair was long and light pink while Jeremie wore semi-small glasses and a black suit.
"Yeah, so what do you and Jeremie do job wise?" Ulrich asked curiously.
"Jeremie works for a major computer company and I'm his assisstant, what about you Odd and Ulrich?" Aelita asked sitting down in a chair with Jeremie beside her.
"I'm a pro skateborder/artist/musician," Odd answered.
"Let's just say I work for the government," Ulrich answered simply.
"Oh, what happened between you and Yumi?" Aelita asked.
"We went to the same college and we dated for a while until she broke up with me my first year, if only I could see her again I would welcome her back into my life with open arms. She is what my heart has been missing and if I could just see her one more time and be able to dance with her, that hole in my heart will close up and I could love my life again. Being alone for a long time is a real boring way to live life, and my mom wants me to come visit them and I have to have to have a girlfriend or be married by that time," Ulrich explained.
"Everything will work out just fine, just don't beat yourself up about it," Aelita answered seeing Yumi walking up to them, "well speak of the devil," she said with a smile.
"Hey guys, it's so good to see you guys again," greeted a girl from behind them.
"Hey Yumi, how you been?" Aelita asked hugging her old friend.
"I've been better, is that you Ulrich?" Yumi asked, Ulrich turned around slowly and saw her wearing a dress that was strapless and stopped at her knee cap.
"Yeah, hey can I talk to you Yumi, alone?" ULrich asked looking a his friends.
"Sure," she said sitting down next to him, Aelita and Jeremie left to mingle while Odd went to go look for his fiance. "What did you want to talk to me about?" She asked curiously.
"I wanted to talk about what happened between us in college, all I want to know is why did you want to break up with me?" Ulrich asked quietly.
"I broke up with you because I saw you flirting with another girl and I got jealous, and I know it was wrong to do that to you. I have thought about it for a while and I have never dated another guy since then, I always had the feeling that we would find each other again and you would forgive me for my wrong doing. I'm really sorry for everything now if you'll excuse me I have to go," she said holding back tears, as she walked outside she was stopped by someone grabbing her arm.
"Don't go, I love you too much to see you walk out my life again and I'm also sorry that I went out with another girl but she was trying to make you jealous. When I saw you I tried to get to you but she kept pulling me the opposite direction, can I get a hug? For all time sakes?" ULrich asked holding out his arms, Yumi felt tears running down her face and ran into his arms crying. After a minute or two she let him go and went to the taxi that was waiting, before she left she gave Ulrich her number on a piece of paper and the taxi driver drove off.
After the reunion was over Ulrich got all of his friends phone numbers and drove his way to the hotel, when he walked in he had heard his cell phone ring but it was the phone he uses for work.
"How you doing Stern?" Asked the cheif from the other line.
"I'm fine sir let me guess, you have another case for me?" Ulrich asked walking into his room.
"Not exactly, we have decided to move you to a diffrent department," the cheif answered.
"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked.
"You'll be working with a partner on this next case and you are exactly where you will be working at, you need to meet your partner down at the local coffee shop and they will give you the information. We have already sent down all of your belongings from your apartment and they are in your room already, it was nice working with you Stern but this is where I say goodbye and good luck," the cheif answered hanging up. Ulrich hung up his cell phone and changed his clothes into his pj's and laid in the bed, he ordered room service and fell asleep after eating.
(The Next Morning)
ULrich's 'POV'
I woke up at 6:00 o'clock to take a shower and made myself look neat and clean for my new partner. When I walked out the building I put Razor in the car and we rode down to a local coffee shop called Le Cafe, I had to leave Razor in the car since he couldn't come in. I walked in and ordered a decafe latte and sat down at a table with someone who had a black hat on and sunglasses. By the way they sat and held their coffee, I could tell that it was a female. After about a few minutes of silence the women slid a folder over to me and I opened it to show a picture of a man standing by a car.
The woman finally took off her hat but kept her sunglasses on and looked at me in shock, when I saw the look I was quite confused. I took off my sunglasses and studied the woman closely.
"Are you my new partner?" I asked taking a sip of my coffee.
"Um yes I am and I must say I am quite shocked to see you hear Ulrich Stern," the lady answered.
"And why is that?" I asked taking a piece of gum out of my pocket.
"I thought I wasn't going to see you after the reunion last night, who knew you were a secret agent," she whispered.
"How did you know that I was at a reunion? Are you psycic?" I asked confused.
"No I'm not, the only way I know that is because it's me Ulrich," the lady said taking off her sunglasses, when she did I nearly choked on my mint.
"Y-Yumi? You're a secret agent too?" I asked curiously.
"Yep, but I didn't think that I would ever be partnered up with you. You must have been a very good agent over at your department because I was too," Yumi answered.
"I was good in most areas like; I know the exact details of a crime, I know how to uncover finger prints and I know how to shoot a sniper. What about you? What makes you the best in the buisness?" I asked.
"I'm very good when it comes to spying, tracking an enemy and close hand-to-hand combat but I have done drug busts, rape cases and murder cases," she answered.
"I'm not very good when it comes to the murder and rape cases, my buddy Ash back at my old department was really good when it comes to rape cases, so enough of the introduction. This must be a really tough case if it takes the best in the buisness to handle, so what are we dealing with here?" I asked looking at the folder.
"About 2 weeks ago a twelve-year old girl was kidnapped outside of school, the teacher was questioned on what happened and she said that the guy claimed to be her father. When my commander told me that I would have a partner I was a little worried at first, since I like working alone on cases," Yumi explained.
"Yeah me too so this little girl was a brunette, she had blue eyes, and she was wearing a school uniform when she was taken. It also shows that this guy was following the little girl as she was walking home one day except he didn't make a move to grab her but he might have been planning his attack," I replied.
"You might be right, I have a list of people here who saw the incident so I think we should go talk to a Mrs. Cathy Hall," Yumi said grabbing her coffee and leaving with me following.
"Where's your car?" I asked opening the door for her.
"I-I don't have one, my department had to make a couple of budget cuts so I walked up here," Yumi answered shivering a little.
"That's fine, since we are working on this case together you can ride in my car. I hope you don't mind sharing a car with my pal Razor here," I said opening the driver side and petting Razor on the head.
"Oh no, I actually love dogs," Yumi said petting the dog on the head.
"That's weird," I said watching how my dog was just so relaxed.
"What is?" Yumi asked curiously.
"All the other girls that tried to come near me or pet him he would growl and try to bite them, but when you started petting him it was like he knew who you were for some reason," I answered getting into the car.
"Have you talked to him about your friends? About me?" Yumi asked buckling her seat belt.
"Yeah, but I talk about you the most and I told him what you looked like and how you always smelled like cherry blossoms and how you had the prettiest smile," I answered with a smile, I then looked over at Yumi and noticed that she was smiling and blushing a little.
"Wow, you are a lot more charming then what you were in college," she responded.
"Well I always had a feeling that you would be back in my arms, now that you're my partner it makes my life even better beacuse I have my number one crime fighter on my side and I was also wondering if you would want to go out with me again?" I asked nervously starting the car.
"I thought you would never ask, I really did miss you Ulrich," Yumi answered rubbing her hand down his tricept, he sighed at her touch and pulled the car out the parking lot.
"I missed you too, now let's go talk to Mrs. Hall," I said driving off. When they arrived at Mrs. Hall's house they knocked on the door and waited for about five minutes until a lock was heard. When the door opened they saw a lady in her mid twenties wearing a robe and some slippers.
"Can I help you with something?" Mrs. Hall asked tiredly.
"Why yes, um me and my partner here are looking for this little girl that was kidnapped from the school across the street. Did you see anything unusual about this man?" I asked showing a picture of the little girl then the guy.
"Yes, he was kind of shady and he drove a 1980's Charger. I caught a glimpse of his license plate before he drove off," the lady answered,
"Could you recite those letters and numbers?" Yumi asked pulling out a notebook.
"Um PITA457," she recited.
"Thank you ma'am, we'll alert you when we get the girl back," I said about to leave.
"Okay," she said closing the door.
"So we got the car and license plate, how do we locate it?" Yumi asked.
"Let's talk to some more people then we can go to our seperate homes and go over the facts," I answered getting into the car.
"About that, I have been spending nights in diffrent hotels ever since I joined the force," Yumi answered getting in the passanger side.
"You can't live in a hotel by yourself I'll tell you what, since you are now my girlfriend again you can come stay with me till my parents send me money over for a house in the country. How does that sound?" I asked curiously.
