"I…" - thought
"I…" - speaking

Next Morning
Carmelita Fox wakes in a white room. She sees two needles: one attached to the I.V. and the other to the heart monitor. She's in the hospital.

The door opens, Barkley and a doctor enters the room.

"Glad to see you awake Ms. Fox.",
the doctor greeted. "You feel okay?"

"Yes. I'm fine.", Carmelita answered.

"Tell us what happened. We need to figure out who did this to you.",
said Barkley. "Tell us who did this to you."

Carmelita thought about what to tell her boss. If she tells him that a ghost or invisible demon attacked her, they'd think she's gone insane and she'd lose her job. All Interpol officers had to be sane to do their job.

She was broken out of her thoughts. "Take it easy chief, she just woke up from a attack."

"I bet it was Cooper.", chief accused.

"No!", Carmelita shouted. Both looked at her in confusion. "Cooper didn't do this. Was there, to steal the artifacts, but saved me instead. The artifacts are still safe in the exhibit."

Both the doctor and Barkley looked at Carmelita as if she was crazy.

"But, he's a crimina…"

"I chase Cooper long enough to know that he refuses to harm the innocent and the law. He's not that kind of thief."

"No, Barkley, remember what I said. She just came out of an attack. She needs to rest. Why don't you look at the museum's security tapes?", the doctor suggested.

"The tapes were disabled. My guess Cooper's brainiac friend was behind it.", Barkley stated sadly.

"At least it's over. Come on, we need to and she needs to rest. Inspector Fox, you'll be out Wednesday.", said the doctor as he and Barkley left.

Later that night…
Carmelita tossed in the hospital bed. Constant winces and soft whines escaped her mouth.
Carmelita finds herself in a house. A house she never been into. She looks around and notices the she has no scars and marks and her right leg perfectly fine. She explores the home and comes into a living room.
She sees a picture on the wall. A young raccoon cub holding a ballon. Next to him on both sides at raccoon boar* to his right hold his hand and a raccoon sow* to his left. His parents. Carmelita turns around and sees a closet cracked open. She peeks in to find Sly's cane.

"Cooper, you here?", she called. No answer.

She hears someone running. She follows the sound into the kitchen.

"This isn't funny Sly."

More running. She follows again into the living room.

"Sly, I swear if this is a prank you and your pals are trying to pull, I'll…"

She turns around and sees the cane Cooper cane missing. Then more running. The foot steps entering the living room. She tenses with fear.

"Just please, stop."

Around the corner of the kitchen comes a shadow. She has nowhere to run. Then a figure comes.
He sees a raccoon in black, tattered shirt and a pipe in his mouth. He looked just like Sly, only older, in different clothing, a little thicker, and taller.

"You must be the fox that Sly keeps his eye on. Carmelita Fox is it?", he said.

"Sí. Who are you? I want to know what the hell is going on.",Carmelita demanded.

"You don't remember me? It's me Connor. We've meet before…when you were really young."

Carmelita looked at him a confused look. "I know your Sly's father, but I don't know anything else about you nor remember meeting you."

"Like I said, you were real young."

"Okay, tell me why am I here and why are you in my dream?"

"To warn my daughter, about Muerta."

"Wait, whose Muerta? And whose your daughter? I thought you only had Sly as your only child?"

"People don't know this, but the Cooper males tend to have more than one mate and you are one of my daughters."

Carmelita look at Connor in complete shock."Im…impossible. How? I'm a Fox, not a Cooper. I was raised to uphold the law, not to be a thief. Además, I'm a fox, not a raccoon."

"Correction your a fox-raccoon hybrid. But,it's true, you are third daughter."

"If so, where are my ringtails and mask?"

"Maybe you were born that way. I'm surprised you didn't develop any tail rings much less a mask.

"I don't believe you."

Connor chuckled. "I know you don't, especially if your an officer of the law and this coming from the world's greatest master thief."

Connor heard a howl form outside.

"What was that?", the fox asked with a hint of concern.

"The demon that's been haunting you is Muerta, and she's come, for you."

"Why me?"

Loud bangs came from the door. It grew louder at each bang. The door started to break. CRACK! An arm reached out of the door clawing the air towards them.

"Come with me." Connor grabbed Carmelita by the wrist and ran out the back door. It was a matter of time til Muerta broke in. The ran to forest to sinkhole.

"Jump.", the raccoon commanded.

"What? In there?"

Muerta and 3 other hyena like demons jumped out from behind the bushes behind them."Give me the fox!"

"Never! Not now, not ever." Connor stood his ground in front of his daughter.

"Have it your way. Hyenas, attack!"

The hyenas charged after the vixen. She froze in fear. She couldn't move not even a muscle.

"Carmelita, jump."

She just stood there.

"Carmelita!"

Mouth agape, eyes wide open, paralyzed.

With one last resort. Connor pushed her into the sinkhole. As the darkness swallowed her, all she could hear from Connor, "I be there, young one."

She wakes up. It was all in her mind.

The dream continued to play in her head. Connor, Sly's father, was actually her father as well. Making Sly her half-brother.

"Muerta.", she growled at that name.

Again she couldn't sleep, but not for fear.

Sorry it took so long it wanted to get this done on Friday but I was still changing things around.
Boar* - male raccoon, pig, or bear
Sow* - female raccoon, pig, or bear
Ch. 5 is on its way