Carmen Sandiego smooth lines

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"Well that's going to be all over the tabloids tomorrow." Ivy said sighing as she made her way back to her brother and Jasmine.

"Which part? The you bringing two lovely ladies as your dates? The you ripping into your parents? Or the fact that you're the actual heiress to your grandmothers fortune and companies instead of it being your mother like everyone thought?" Jasmine asked without looking up from where she was making sure that Zack was okay.

"Yes." Ivy said without specification as she knelt down to check on her brother who was quietly sitting in one of the chairs.

"Bitch." Jasmine said although she was smiling slightly and making Zack snort at the look of surprise and shock on the two criminals faces. They had never heard the detectives curse before, and honestly they kind of forgot that the detectives were teens and would know a lot of choice words.

"You say that like it's a bad thing." Ivy said with a grin as she made her brother look at her.

"You alright there runt?" Ivy asked earning a weak smile from her brother who nodded and ran a hand through his messy hair.

"Yeah." Zack said as he fixed his face into a smile and began to stand up.

"There's too many vultures around here for me to let it affect me visibly at the moment. I'll deal with my emotions when we get back to the house." Zack said with a flippant air to him as he stood up with a grin on his face, Ivy standing up with a frown on hers as she put a hand on his shoulder.

"If you need to leave early let me know." Ivy said making Zack look at her and smile thankfully but turning it into a small mischievous grin.

"Yes mom." Zack said sarcastically earning a smile and gentle cuff upside the head from Ivy.

"Don't take that tone with me young man." Ivy said making Zack pout while Jasmine snickered and the two criminals smiled slightly at the interaction between the two siblings.

"Come on Jasmine. Want to dance?" Zack asked looking at the Jamaican teen and holding out his hand palm up towards her.

"I'd love to." Jasmine said taking the hand offered and letting him pull her out onto the floor where they moved like a well oiled machine together. The fact that Jasmine had been Zack's date to these things before showed as the two moved together and laughed together over whatever it was they were talking about as they danced.

"Are your parents always like…" Carmen trailed off as she found Ivy's finger on her lips shushing her with a smile.

"I'd like to enjoy the dance and event with the two beautiful women that accompanied me. Any questions about the leaches can be saved for another time alright?" Ivy asked making Carmen slowly nod her head in agreement with a slight blush on her cheeks.

"How are we going to dance?" Sara asked looking at Ivy who hummed a bit as she pulled away from Carmen.

"Well I can either dance with you two one at a time or you could dance with each other if you prefer. Whichever way you're more comfortable with." Ivy said with a smile as she looked at the two of them, easily lifting three glasses off of the tray of a passing waiter without him ever noticing.

"Smooth theft. You're not even old enough to be drinking champagne." Carmen said impressed by the easy and effortless, if minor, theft the girl had pulled off, accepting one of the glasses that was being handed to her.

"Not like it'd be the first time I've done it." Ivy said with a wink as she handed Sara the other glass and then sipped her own champagne.

"What drink champagne or steal something?" Sara asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." Ivy said with a grin earning a small snort from Carmen.

"Honestly most of the ACME detectives do quite a bit of drinking, you should see how our Christmas parties turn out. I swear most of the time it's a race to see who can spike the punch first and a competition to see if they can remain uncaught after doing so." Ivy said making the two criminals look at her surprised.

"Tatyanna is a light weight but she gets violent when she's drunk, I usually have to knock her out. Zack is like a puppy, bouncing around everyone and demanding attention and affection. Joshua is just as bad as Zack but instead of going to everyone he follows me around like a lost dog and gets upset if I pay someone else more attention than I do him. Jasmine over there is usually my partner in remaining sober but the one time she got drunk she went on a huge pranking spree and we still don't know how she did half of those things." Ivy said describing each of her co-workers after they've had a few too many to the two curious and amused criminals.

"I thought Zack was going to invite Maria or Tatyanna to the dance?" Carmen asked when Ivy was telling them about how Maria was a giggly drunk.

"He was going to but Tatyanna usually ends up blushing and focusing on me whenever I'm around for some reason." Ivy's face was perfectly innocent at this earning a snort from Sara and Carmen both. The blond Russian was apparently under Ivy's charm just as much as the two of them were.

"Maria told him she wasn't interested in dating him before he could even ask her about coming to the dance, and Jasmine was going to come anyways so they decided to go to the dance together." Ivy said making the three of their group glance over to Jasmine and Zack just in time to see Jasmine laugh at something Zack had said.

"While not as wealthy as me and Zack, Jasmine is plenty rich herself but prefers a more…modest lifestyle. Apparently her family is responsible for some of the most notable historical and marine discoveries and inventions. By the two of them coming to parties like this together it keeps the gold diggers away from Zack and the leeches away from Jasmine." Ivy explained making the two older women nod slowly in understanding. That made a good bit of sense.

"What about you? While they keep the leeches away from each other, what happens to you when you're here at these things alone?" Sara asked looking at the younger woman who took another swallow of her champagne.

"Usually if I'm alone then the vultures try to swarm me with hopes of getting me to themselves. Joshua in particular is known to try and attach himself to me and 'impress' me with whatever it is he thinks he's good at that particular month." Ivy said rolling her eyes at the end.

"Joshua? One of the techies at ACME? He gets invited to these things too?" Carmen asked surprised and earning a nod from Ivy.

"Both of his parents are inventors and have several machines patented to them. He's a little less wealthy than Jasmine but more than half of the others here. He also has a crush the size of Canada on me and apparently doesn't know the meaning of the word 'no' whenever I tell him." Ivy said scowling a bit, she had to fend off the persistent fanboy more than once.

"Well don't look now but it seems Mr. Determined himself is heading this way." Sara said nodding to somewhere behind Ivy, causing the girl to glance over her shoulder and then swear under her breath.

"Great. He's either going to beg me for a dance or do something stupid. Looks like he's had too much of the champagne." Ivy said her voice a growl as the boy rather unsteadily made his way over to the three women with a small frown on his face and a blush on his cheeks.

"Hey Ives…Didn't know you were a dyke." Joshua slurred slightly as he moved as if to throw an arm around Ivy's shoulders.

Ivy had a scowl on her face as she easily evaded the arm and the poor boy fell at her feet as she glared down at him.

"Don't be such a prudish bitch." Joshua whined up at her causing Carmen and Sara both to scowl at him darkly.

Ivy just looked at her half full glass of champagne for a second before holding over Joshua.

Then she turned it upside down.