Rick was bored. So bored that words could not describe it. It was Friday afternoon and he had no cases to work with. No paperwork. Nothing. As he sat by his desk, playing with a pencil in his hand, he suddenly realized that he could have fun while pulling pranks on others. And he had two favorite victims. Eric and Ryan. Rick smirked evilly as he drove to the lab. Luckily for Rick, no one on the team was in the lab at the moment and he had the perfect time to pull a prank on poor Eric. Rick knew which lab Eric was mostly in, the fingerprint lab, and when he entered he was met by a problem. He didn't which of the three chairs in the lab, that Eric would use. He shrugged and took out a little bottle of very strong glue from his pocket. He put the glue on all three chairs and hoped that Eric would use one of the chairs before the glue dried. Just as Rick left, he bumped into Ryan and Eric in the reception area.
"Hey Rick, what are you doing here?" Ryan asked.
He knew the look in Rick's eyes and it meant that someone was about to find themselves to have become a victim of Rick's pranks.
"I was looking for you guys actually." Rick smirked, "You have a case?"
"We just finished one." Eric said, "Why?"
"I have nothing to do." Rick shrugged, "Oh well, see you guys later."
Rick left and the boys shrugged. Ryan went to the locker room, while Eric decided to go to his lab. He had a little paperwork to deal with and he enjoyed the quiet atmosphere in his lab. He sat down in the chair and started working to get done as quick as he could.
Five minutes later he discovered that he was stuck to the chair when he tried to stand up.
"What the hell?"
He tried to lift himself of the chair and growled when it didn't work. He couldn't take his trousers off either, not in the lab! And he really didn't want to run around with a hole in his trousers either. The door opened and Ryan entered.
"What are you doing Eric?" He asked.
"Rick put glue on my chair when he was here!" Eric growled, "Help me out."
Ryan nodded and grabbed Eric's arms. He pulled until Eric yelled in pain.
"It's not working. Um, we could try to like, push two chairs away from each other, while holding hands." Eric said and nodded at one of the other chairs.
Ryan agreed and sat down in a chair. He grabbed Eric's hands and put the feet up on Eric's arm rests. Eric did the same on Ryan's chair.
"One, two three!" Ryan said and they pushed away from each other.
However, it didn't work and Eric and Ryan simply lost their grip on each other's hands. Ryan sighed.
"I could go get Frank, he's stronger than me." Ryan said and tried to stand up, "Oh no."
"He glued all the chairs!" Eric growled, "What are we going to do now?"
"Take our trousers off?" Ryan asked.
"In front of the whole lab? I don't think so Wolfe-man." Eric sighed, "Rick is going to pay for this."
Ryan used all the strength he had to push himself off the chair. Unfortunately he was also stuck.
"Maybe if we use some water on the glue, it will loosen up." Eric said and started to drag himself to the door.
He opened it and dragged himself with his feet towards the men's room. Ryan followed, but he decided to push himself forward by pushing away from the walls. It took nearly ten minutes to even get close to the bathroom door. That's when Ryan made the mistake to try and push past Eric. He pushed away from the wall hard and slammed in to Eric. Eric was knocked forward and crashed in to the bench and fell down to the floor.
"Wolfe!" Eric growled and tried to get up from the floor.
Ryan pushed himself towards him and grabbed a hold of Eric's chair. Then he used his feet to drag himself and Eric to the bathroom. Once inside, he helped Eric get up from the floor by lifting the chair, while Eric dragged himself up by holding on the to faucet.
"Okay, um, let's try to wash the glue off." Ryan smiled and used the water from the faucet.
He and Eric scooped some water in their hands and simply poured it on the chair. As they did this, Horatio entered and frowned.
"I don't think I want to know what happened." He said and shook his head.
"Rick put glue on the chairs in my lab." Eric sighed.
Horatio tried not to laugh and just grinned at the boys. They sighed as they saw how hard it was for their boss to contain his laughter.
"And, you're now trying to get the glue off?" He asked
"Exactly." Ryan said, "And then we're going to teach Rick a lesson."
Horatio chuckled.
"Can't you like help us?" Ryan asked.
"We already tried to pull each other off the chair." Eric sighed.
"Not before the glue got wet, I think it might work this time." Ryan said.
Horatio shrugged and wheeled Ryan to one of the bathroom stalls. Ryan got the point quickly and put his feet up against the stall door frame. Horatio grabbed his hands and pulled as hard as he could. It worked!
Ryan got loose and nearly knocked Horatio down on the floor.
"Hey! Now it's my turn!" Eric said.
Horatio wheeled him to another stall and Eric did what Ryan had done. This time Ryan helped.
"Okay, one, two… three!" Horatio said and he and Ryan pulled.
Eric got loose and tripped on the his own shoes, knocking Ryan and Horatio down on the floor, while he landed on top of them. At that moment, Frank entered the bathroom and burst out laughing.
"Do you boys need some alone time?" He teased.
They all stood up and just glared at Frank as they left. Horatio went to his office, while Eric and Ryan simply planned their revenge on Rick.
-I-
Eric and Ryan took a little road trip to the PD and sneaked up to the second floor, where all the homicide detectives worked. They saw Rick sleeping at his desk and smirked evilly. They walked to the men's room. Ryan stood by the door, making sure that no one entered while Eric took all the toilet paper from the stalls, one after the other and put glue on one side of the paper. It was time for Rick to have something stuck on him, just like Ryan and Eric.
Eric then placed all the paper out on the floor, with the glue-side facing the roof. Anyone who stepped on it, would walked around with paper stuck under their shoes. Hopefully it would take a while for Rick to notice it. It looked as if someone had gone crazy and thrown paper around the whole bathroom.
When Eric was done, he and Ryan left.
It took fifteen minutes for Rick to wake up and realize that he needed to use the bathroom. He sighed heavily as he opened the door to the men's room and saw all the paper on the floor.
"Was this really necessary?" He asked himself and cursed at whoever had decided to play with the toilet paper, "Poor cleaning crew."
He did his business, while walking over the paper. Not noticing how it got stuck under his shoes. He washed his hands and then left. Everyone who passed him simply contained their laughter and watched as the former IAB Srgt. Walked around, spreading paper all over the homicide area.
Not until one hour had passed, someone actually told Rick what he had under his shoes.
"Damn Delko and Wolfe!" He growled.
-I-
It was only one hour left on the shift and if Rick wanted to have his revenge, he needed to do it quickly. Rick had come up with an idea while thinking about the toilet paper under his shoes. He grabbed all the toilet paper from the bathroom floor and drove to the lab. There he quickly found Eric and Ryan's cars. Luckily for Rick, they were parked next to each other. Rick smirked as he started to roll the paper over the cars. He started at the hood and stopped at the back wheels. The paper covered both cars and also stretched between them. Rick then waited for Eric and Ryan to leave for the day as he hid behind Horatio's car.
At the end of the shift, Eric and Ryan were the first to leave. They chuckled as they walked towards their cars and then froze when they saw what had happened.
"My, my, my… my car!" Ryan whined and gently touched the car.
"Thank god no one else is here to see this." Eric sighed and shook his head.
However, two minutes later Calleigh and Natalia exited the elevator and burst out laughing at the sight of the cars.
"Rick is a genius!" Natalia laughed.
"This was so low." Ryan sighed.
"Suck it up Ryan." Eric said, "We'll get back at him."
Ryan looked so sad when he started to pull the paper away from his car. Eric noticed Rick hiding behind Horatio's car and walked towards him. Rick stuck his tongue out and ran away.
"Catch me if you think you can!" He yelled as he ran across the parking lot.
Eric was about run after him when he noticed keys on the ground next to Horatio's car. He picked them up and smirked. Rick had dropped his car keys. It was time to pull a car-prank on Rick.
"Ryan, here is what we're going to do…" Eric whispered his idea to Ryan and Ryan went from sad to happy.
-I-
Rick had been running for a while before he realized that he wasn't being followed. He shrugged and walked back to the lab. He saw that both Eric and Ryan's cars were gone and nobody was in sight. He smiled and walked to his car, but when he approached the spot he had parked in, his car was gone.
"I was sure I had parked it here." He mumbled.
His jumped in fear as his phone rang. It was Horatio.
"Yes?" he answered, "What can I do for you?"
"I need your help with something Rick. A case." Horatio said, "Could you come up to my office."
Rick sighed and then noticed his car in one of the corners of the parking lot.
"Is it an emergency?" He asked.
"Yes." Horatio sighed and hung up.
Rick knew better than to argue with Horatio. He took the elevator up to the lab and walked to Horatio's office. What he didn't know was that Horatio was in fact at home. Eric had asked him to call Rick and ask for his help with a case. Eric would send him a text message every time he was supposed to call. Eric and Ryan had parked their cars down the street and then used Rick's car keys to move his car. As soon as Rick took the elevator to the lab, they parked his car at a different parking space.
When Rick saw that the office was empty he frowned and took the elevator down to the parking lot again. When he approached the spot where his car had last been seen, he noticed that it wasn't there. Then his cell phone rang again.
"Horatio, you're not in your office." Rick growled.
"I was there. But I had to use the bathroom, I'm in the AV lab with Cooper." Horatio said.
Rick sighed and hung up. As he waited for the elevator, he spotted his car again and smiled. Once in the lab, he didn't find anyone in the AV lab, except for Cooper.
"Where is Horatio?" Rick asked.
"At home I think." Cooper shrugged.
Rick growled and went down to the parking lot again. Again, his car was not where he had last seen it.
"This is not funny!" Rick growled, "I just want to go home you guys."
Ryan threw the cars at Rick's head from behind another car. Rick growled and picked the keys up. He still didn't know where his car was though. As he went around the parking lot, searching for his car. Eric and Ryan went home.
After thirty minutes, Rick finally spotted his car.
"Finally." He sighed and sat down in it and went home.
In the lab, Cooper was working late. He wanted to get as much as possible done for the weekend. After a while he needed a break and took a stroll around the lab. Everyone from the day shift, except himself, had left. That's when Cooper decided to sneak around in all the different labs. He pretended that he was Valera, while playing in her DNA lab. When he reached the fingerprint lab, he decided to sit down in one of the chairs and pretend to look at fingerprints.
"Boring." He sighed and tried to stand up.
He was stuck! Nobody had thought about getting the glue off the third chair and what Rick had missed when he put the glue there, was to read on the bottle, that on fabric, the glue never really went dry until somebody sat down in it.
"Hello?" Cooper called when he realized he needed help to get off the chair, "Anybody?"
Unfortunately for Cooper, he would have to wait for two hours before the night shift arrived.
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