Fatherhood At Its Finest
Chapter 8: So Much Time Is Left
Preview: After Sly Cooper returns from Ancient Egypt after the events of the fourth game, the gang and Carmelita return to there everyday lives... as in stealing and fighting crime. But after almost four months, a new epidemic arises. Carmelita is pregnant, with Sly's baby! After learning this, the four friends must work together to not only keep the unborn child alive, but try to continue with there own careers.
A/N: Okay, so I just wanted to tell you guys that this Fanfiction WILL at some point focus on Buffy (The child) and will show her and her whole gang that will be made up OC's. But yeah, for now we'll be focusing on Sly and Carmelita as they raise there little girl, also, I may skip years but Buffy's story will start up I think when she's around ten or twelve I think. Anyways, please enjoy the chapter!
(4 months after birth of Buffy)
Sly groaned as the baby awoke again crying about what Sly could tell just from the smell was a dirty diaper, man, he was ready to just pass out by now. "Your turn." He mumbled to Carmelita, who groaned in reply.
Carmelita slowly yawned and got up to change the baby, afterwards, she clambered back onto the soft bed and was out cold on contact. Sly couldn't hide his astonishment about how Carmelita's personality seemed to change a bit, she snapped a lot less at him and rarely argued with him unless she'd hadn't had enough sleep. But as time wore on, Sly was changing too, he hardly noticed it, but the gang and Carmelita sure did. It had been a month after Buffy's birth that they admitted to the press that Buffy had been born from one of the best cops in history and a master class thief. Yep, that had gone GREAT, but not really, the press had flipped out and tried to get pictures of the baby and parents, but the couple high tailed it to New York city in America to protect the baby and themselves.
But that wasn't what the gang and Carmelita noticed, no, it was how Sly always seemed uneasy when couples were allowed to hold the baby or get to close to her. Not that they could blame him, as usual, instincts wore on and caused Sly to become a bit protective of his daughter. Sly wasn't the only person getting protective, Carmelita was also seen glaring at any female animal that hit on Sly or stared at the baby. Yep, Sly felt like they were going crazy per say.
The next morning, both Sly and Carmelita panicked when they saw that Buffy wasn't in her crib, they practical trampled each other trying to get to the living room only to stop in there tracks to see Bentley smiling as Murray held Buffy, who was giggling like crazy in his arms. Carmelita glared at the gang members.
"Way to give us a heart attack." Carmelita growled, her fur standing up a bit.
Sly sighed. "Warn us next time, please."
Bentley scratched the back of his head nervously as he glanced at the angry fox then to the sort-of-upset-but-not-too-much raccoon, then to Murray and Buffy, who were both laughing happily. "Sorry, Sly. Murray really wanted to see her and wouldn't hush up until we saw her."
"Yeah, I'm totally gonna teach her to say 'Chainsaw' as her first word!" Murray told the couple.
Carmelita rolled her eyes. "Not if Ringtail here teaches her to say 'Pickpocket' first." She told the hippo.
"Personally, I think 'Hack' would be a great first word." Bentley said nervously, he didn't want to be in the middle of a fight.
Sly shrugged. "Well, Carm here DID mention 'Police' as a cool first word. But do we really need a baby screaming for the cops all day?"
They continued to argue until Sly had to change Buffy, who was crying again as she needed to be changed. Unlike most dads, he really didn't puke if he needed to change a baby, he'd smelled worse after being thrown in dumpsters plenty of times. However, unpronounced to Carmelita, he secretly planned on teaching the baby to swim early on. He himself wished that he new how to swim, but he was the worst swimmer known to animal kind in basically everyone's opinions, he had more then once nearly drowned during missions.
"Hey, Carm, isn't today your first day back at work in this area?" Sly asked his mate, he was met with a 'Shit, I gotta go, bye Sly' in return.
Carmelita paused in the doorway. "Oh yeah, Sly, remember to do the errands, okay?"
"Yeah..." Sly moaned as he held Buffy. "Geez, your moms such a multi-tasker, huh Buffy?" Sly asked the baby, but got no reply.
As he stepped out of the bathroom to ask his friends if they wanted to go with him for his errands, he noticed that they had ran for it, traitors. He mumbled a few curses as he pulled off the errands list from the fridge while putting on the small baby carrier that he'd seen people use to carry babies on there chests. He placed Buffy inside of it and strapped her in, then set off to take care of the errands.
ERRANDS LIST
1. Get groceries
2. Return library books
3. Pick up medicine
4. Talk to gang about heist
5. Check on Demetri (Be careful around him with Buffy)
6. Go home
Sly sighed, he liked Demetri and all, but the guy was a bit... eccentric. And usually that was only not crazy if your rich or smart. Not that he wasn't going to check on the guy, but, he was still worried about him meeting Buffy. Sure, the lizard was famous now, but that didn't change the fact that the guy was a bit of a nut at the most inconvenient of times. But yeah, he'd visit him none the less.
After a huge argument with the check out lady about how to scan an item, Sly just wanted to hit the hay and head home, but he still had shit to take care of. He almost ran to the library with Buffy as he dropped off the books and was out the door in a heart beat, he still wondered why Carmelita read those weird soap operas. The raccoons were soon at the pharmacy buying medicine and were then found in front of Demetri's large house in the nicer parts of New York since he wanted to stick close by. As soon as a maid opened the door, loud music hit the raccoon's ears and caused Buffy to cry in fear and confusion, Sly sighed as he tried to calm the baby down while being led in by the maid to see Demetri dancing in a large dance room.
"Hey, Demetri." Sly said as he walked in, he suddenly remembered that Demetri didn't even know about Buffy yet, only hearing that Carm was pregnant.
Demetri danced over and grinned at the thief. "Hey, man. Waz up?"
"Not much ju-" Sly started, but was cut off as Demetrui made a grab for Buffy and held her in the air, Sly bit back an angry growl.
Demetri laughed as he examined the girl. "Cooper, you dog! Its looks just like you, man."
"Yes, the babies a she." Sly said in the calmest voice he could muster.
Demetri's smirk grew. "So, you had a hot babe child and weren't gonna let me in on it until now?" He asked Sly, how held back from slapping himself in the face from Demetri's use of words.
"No, I meant to call, but we've been busy. How have you been?" Sly asked as he managed to grab Buffy and held her close, even if the girl just kept giggling at Demetri and trying to grab his tail.
Demetri went on for what felt like hours about his TV show and about other useless things until the clock struck three PM, Sly quickly stepped out saying that they'd keep in touch, the raccoon in question sighed as he caught a cab to the hide out, an old apartment in the down town area of New York.
"Man, Demetri's a nice guy, but he needs to be a bit less... eccentric." Sly mumbled as he petted Buffy's hair, who was asleep.
As they drove towards the hide out, Sly couldn't help but wonder what Buffy would be like as a teenager. He himself wasn't much different as he was now adays. He had been short, funny, tough and sassy as a teen growing up without parents. He was just thankful that he had Bentley and Murray to be there for him, otherwise, he'd probably not be where he was today. A sigh left his lips, he was tired and wanted to hurry with the meeting, but he secretly knew that it would be awhile thanks to Bentley's outrageously long speeches that he pulled off on a daily basis. Sly carried Buffy with him inside as he shut the door behind him, he smiled to Murray and Bentley as he sat down at a table.
"Thanks for coming Sly. As I was saying, in order to get into Panthra's palace, we'll need Sly to make his way in using his disguising skills, he'll be dressed as a bar tender and enter through the front door while I sneak in through the sewers and plant a bomb under the safe. Murray, you'll be lookout until the bomb go's off, then, you'll carry it out while Sly gets the golden Cats Eye from Panthra himself. I don't doubt that something will go wrong, but please TRY not to start a fight, Sly." Bentley said, he tried to make sure sly was paying attention.
After another few hours, Sly and Buffy headed home to meet up with Carmelita after she got home from work.
A/N: Hope that this was a good chapter, I'll be skipping certain years, but over time we'll reach Buffy's story. But yeah, I hope this was good enough for you. Its, like, 2:52 AM in Michigan, which is where I am, right now. Yeah, I know, I'm crazy, but I couldn't sleep, so I wrote for a few hours to get my mind off stuff. Anyways, please R&R!
~Supercasey.
