DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters of UC undercover. I borrowed them for a while. All other characters are mine and my friends. I have there permission to use them. This story was written to tie into the Fic Tests which was written by Sab (sweetangeldoball).
TRUE COLORS (preface to Tests) By Jville

It had been a few days since Sab came home from the hospital after being shot trying to save Rachel, her step-mother, that was going to testify against another drug dealer.* She and Cody had been out a few times but this was a special invitation from Elaina to go out for a night on the town with her, Frank and the rest of the team. They were celebrating Elaina getting the cast off her leg, from her plane crash** and Sab going back to work soon.

Sab and Cody arrived at the restaurant to see that Alex and Monica had found someone to dance with already. "They can always find dance partners," Cody observed.

"I've never been to this place before, it's nice," Sab said, looking around. She saw Frank and Elaina and pulled Cody with her to the table. "We made it."

"Welcome! Have a seat, dance, whatever floats your boat," Elaina said. "There'll be live entertainment later."

"Really at a restaurant? That's a little different," Cody said.

"They're changing it to a dinner club. It was Maria's idea," Frank told them.

"Maria? What does she have to do with it?" Sab wondered. Alex and Monica made their way back to the table. "Hi, ladies," Sab greeted them.

"She's become part owner in it. This is what she's doing when she isn't playing Fed." Elaina informed them.

"I thought she resigned?" Alex asked, taking a drink.

"I changed her mind, we're running short of good agents, so I put her on part-time status," Elaina said.

"Where's Jake?" Cody looked around for him.

"He'll be here he went to do something," Monica told them.

"Sure he isn't here, because of Maria?" Cody asked knowing that he and Maria had broken off their relationship.

"He maybe a little uncomfortable but he knows she's going to be here, I told him. He said he'd show up." Elaina hoped he would.

"At least Maria was up front with him when she told him it wasn't a steady relationship to begin with," Frank stated.

"I think Jake was hoping she'd change her mind, but now he'll just have to move on and forget about her." Cody's comment was met with stares from everyone.

"I guess you'd know all about that wouldn't you, Cody." Sab patted him on the back.

"When does the party start?" They all looked up to see Jake.

"Hell! Elaina started three drinks ago so we're all catching up," Frank told him' getting smacked playfully in the head, by his wife.

"I'm alternating my drinks. They're not all alcohol. I'm going to enjoy the party, not be the life of the party," Elaina said, smiling.

"Somebody mention us," Paula said as she, Dee and Heather walked up to the table. "We're normally the life of any party." Paula laughed.

"Now the party will get good." Sab hugged the three of them. "Where are Bea and Rav?"

"They'll be here. They had to go talk to Andy about the case."

"I guess that means I read about it tomorrow." Elaina knew the report would be on her desk before Andy left.

"Ok, Lady how about a dance to try that leg out?" Frank held out his hand.

"That's why I'm here." Elaina took his hand as they went to the dance floor.

"Jake, let's dance." Alex took him before Heather or Paula could ask him.

"That was rude. I was just about to ask him," Paula pouted.

"There are two guys at the bar looking this way maybe they'll ask you?" Monica waved to the men.

"Don't do that." She tried to stop Monica from waving. "I want to dance with Jake, not them."

Heather took a good look at one of the men. "The one on the right is all mine, until I can dance with Jake." Heather went over and asked the man to dance.

"She's a brazen hussy, wanting both Jake and the best looking guy at the bar." Paula waved for the waitress, so she could order a drink. "If I can't dance, I'll sit here and drink. Maybe someone else will look good after one or two." Paula laughed.

Maria was watching the table and the partygoers from a distance. "Maria when do you want to start singing." She turned to see Steve, the leader of the band, standing behind her.

"I think we'll let them dance for two more songs and then we can do our thing," Maria answered.

"Ok, I'll tell the others." Steve walked back behind the stage.

Maria walked over to the table, when she saw Frank and Elaina sit down. "Hello! You all seem to be enjoying yourselves."

"I don't know about anyone else but I'm having a great time." Elaina kissed Frank.

"So am I," he said kissing her back.

"You two are enjoying each other, more than the party," Maria teased.

"Very observant cousin. Tell me how are you handling the bar and your little problem?" Elaina asked.

"Don't start mothering me, Lainie. I'm doing just fine without it. I've been sober for years, I make one slip and you think I'm off the wagon permanently."

"Well, pardon me, all to hell for being concerned about you." Elaina stared at her. "Nice to see therapy is working," she said sarcastically, knowing her cousin had refused to go.

"I've got to go. I sing in a couple of minutes." Maria walked away. She smiled as she passed Cody and Sab.

******

Maria was introduced as everyone took his or her seats. "I have family and friends her tonight and I dedicate all my songs to them. I hope you all enjoy them." Maria's first song was 'How Do I Live Without You'.

Elaina leaned her head on Frank's shoulder. "If she's singing that for this table, I'll bet you who it's for."

Frank watched Maria's eyes and noticed she was looking at Cody and Sab. "My money is on Sab and Cody."

"If my instincts are right. You have it half wrong. She's singing to Cody."

"Your imagination is running away from you. Their relationship is no longer a problem, he loves Sabrina," Frank told her.

"I think I know my cousin a little better than you do. She's up to something," Elaina insisted.

Elaina watched as she sang the other songs that night and noticed that she did sing a song to Jake. She finished singing Frank and Elaina's favorite song.

Maria came down to the table after her last song to talk to them. "Like my song selection?"

"It was pretty good, I really like the first one that you sang for Sab and Cody," Elaina commented.

"How did you know that it was for Cody and Sab?" Maria emphasized Cody's name.

"I saw the way you were looking at them." Elaina pulled her cousin closer. "I should say him. Don't go there," Elaina warned her.

Maria had a look of hate in her eyes as she looked at Elaina. "You don't know what you're talking about," Maria whispered and left the table.

"I didn't realize she was singing to us. Did you Cody?" Sab asked him.

"I did notice she was looking our way," Cody said.

"If Sab had been looking up at her, I'm sure she would've noticed who she was singing to. I think it was sweet how she kept looking at you though, as Maria sang it," Elaina said.

"Let's dance, Lady." Frank practicly picked her up out of the chair to get her away from the table.

"What's this about?" Elaina didn't mind being held tight but he was over doing it.

"I want you to quit being suspicious of Maria. The others are going to start noticing and you'll ruin the party," Frank told her.

"My cousin is going back to her old ways. As a teenager she'd steal other boys away from their girlfriends, just as a sport. After she got them, she'd go out make it known and then toss them to the side. Just as she did with Jake."

"She didn't steal Jake from any one. They just sort of happened," Frank reminded her.

"That may be but I still say she's setting her sights on Cody." Elaina saw Frank giving her a disappointed look. "Ok! I'll drop it but I'm going to tell you I told you so, if something does happened."

"Thank you for giving in." He kissed her then got an evil grin. "Want to put on our own floor show?"

"I don't think so, maybe next time." Elaina laughed with him.

Bea and Rav showed up as they were walking back to the table. "What did we miss?" Bea asked.

"Nothing but Maria's floor show." Elaina received and elbow from Frank. "I mean stage show she dedicated her songs to us."

"Well, that was real sweet of her," Bea said, sitting down next to Frank.

"I asked him first Paula," Heather said.

"You did not I did," Paula countered as they came back with Jake.

"What is going on as if I didn't know?" Bea asked.

"They both asked me to dance, at the same time. Now they're fighting as to who said it first," Jake explained.

"Ok. Heads or tails?" Frank took a coin from his pocket. This started another discussion.

"Ladies!" Bea called out. "I'll decide, Paula gets heads and Heather gets tails."

"If it lands on the floor, I'll dance with him," Elaina said, taking another drink.

Frank flipped the coin and it landed on the table; heads. "Paula, you win Jake."

"Thanks Boss," Jake said as Paula dragged him to the dance floor.

"Where is Dee and Monica?" Rav asked.

"They found dance partners of their own at the bar," Sab told her. Sab turned to Elaina, "Thanks for the party but we're going to go home, my arm is hurting."

"So soon? The night is still young," Rav told them.

"My girl wants to go, so we're going." Cody informed, them as he helped Sab with her jacket.

"Good night and drive safe," Elaina told them.

"We will. Good night," Sab said giving Elaina a hug.

*******

The next day, Sab was exercising her arm to work the stiffness out of it. She had music playing and barely heard the knock at the door. "Just a minute." She turned the music down and noticed that it was about time for Cody to show up. "Did you lose you key?"

She opened the door to find Maria standing there with a box in her arms. "Sorry, I returned my key."

"What are you doing here?" Sab took the box from her with her good arm and set it on the counter. "What's this? It smells good?"

"I noticed last night that your arm was bothering you, so I had the restaurant cook prepare you some meals. Just some heat and eat stuff," Maria stated.

"That was really nice of you but Cody has been cooking for me at night. At lunch I eat leftovers," Sab told her.

"Well this way you can spend more time getting to know Cody better, instead of him slaving over the stove."

"What makes you say I can spend more time getting to know him? I know him well enough." Sab was a little puzzled by her remark.

"Well last I heard, you thought we had just dated. I was hoping he had told you the whole story by now," Maria said with a smirk.

"What do you mean the whole story?" Sab asked wondering what she was leading to.

"Well for one thing we were dating before he found me passed out.*** We had been dating for at least a month. It was after I got out of the hospital that we got closer and became lovers," Maria explained to her.

"That's not what Cody said, he never lies to me. He may edit his stories but he doesn't lie." Sab was getting very angry.

"I'm sorry Sab but its true. If you don't believe me, ask him yourself. As a matter of fact, ask him if he prefers older woman, that's what he told me," Maria said with an evil laugh.

"He said you never were lovers. You're just trying to break us up." Sab walked over to the door. "Get out of my home!" Sab yelled at her.

"Honey, if, no, when I decide I want Cody, I'll have him. You see when you were in Montana looking for my cousin, I was all a lone with Cody reminiscing about our past. I know that he'd come back to me, if I asked him, too."

Sab smacked her across the face and then threw her out the door. "Don't you ever, come near me or Cody again."

Maria was standing in the hall laughing as Sab slammed the door shut. "Calm down she is lying to break you up, that's all it is. You know how she loves to play pranks. This is just one of her sicker ones."

"Talking to yourself is a really bad habit."

She had been ranting so much she didn't hear Cody come in. "Hi. I didn't know it was time for you already." She walked over to hug him.

"You look a little upset. Something wrong?"

"No, nothing. Maria came by with some food to keep me fed while I'm recuperating."

"That was nice of her. Did she stay long?" Cody asked.

"Actually she just left. I'm surprise you didn't see her."

"I took the stairs, she was probably on the elevator."

"Well, I better put this food away." Sab put the food in the freezer. She had tears in her eyes and she wiped them before Cody could see them.

"I can do that if your arm hurts," Cody offered.

"It's good exercise for it." She kissed him for asking.

"Well, I'm going to go take a shower and change clothes. I'll be out in a few."

"Why don't we take one together? It will save water." Sab kissed him. Cody took her hand and led her to the bathroom.

* Truth Be Told.. By Sab

** Songbird's Song..By Jville

*** Hidden Secrets..By Jville