A/N: Sorry for the wait. Thank you all for the reviews on my other story, Life Without Living and for your kind words. I really love you all. ^_~

Also, ignore spelling. I just wanted to get this out.

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It had been nearly a full week and Mr. Knowl had yet to reappear. Sara didn't know wether to feel gratefull or on guard.

'Who am I kidding?' Sara thought as she pulled her helmet off and made her way up to the station, 'I'm always on guard.'

"Petz-ini, you're late." Dante growled, "We've been waiting for you."

"Waiting, sir?" Sara asked in confusion.

'What have I forgotten now?' Sara's mind groaned as she followed Dante into his office.

"Sara Petz-ini meet the FBI agents who will be working with you and your partners to find that child killer who struck two days ago."

"Hi.'' Sara forced out a completely fake smile as she shook the hands of the two men who stood before her. Both looked young, well, young to be FBI at least.

'I can't believe it slipped my mind!' Sara thought as she led the two men, Mike and James to the office she shared with Danny and Jake.

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Sara sat on her desk in the crowded office since Danny now occupied her chair.

"I thought the pattern had already been identified." Danny sighed as Jake rose to get more coffee.

"It has been but if it is the same man than he hasn't killed in nearly 8 years." Mike ran his palm over his thin brown hair as he looked down at the file he held.

"Who were the suspects then?" Sara asked as she also began searching the file Danny had given her earlier.

Calls were made and recieved but the group seemed to have hit a dead end.

A tap on the door caused all five of them to turn. Dargging her eyes away from the file Sara was praying that it would be Gabriel.

"Hey, chief." Gabriel greeted as he stepped into the office but paused when he saw unfamilliar faces.

Something in his voice seemed a bit off.

"Everything ok, Gabriel?" Sara asked as she slid off the desk and led him out of the room and then to the parkinglot.

"I went to your loft like you asked me to but when I got there I couldn't make myself go in." he sounded puzzled at his own words.

"Was there anything out of the ordinary?" Sara asked as his gaze drop to his shoes.

"Your phone was beeping like it was off the hook, at least that's what I think the noise was, and there was cold air coming from under the door...." Gabriel looked up at her with a weak smile, "I think thats it."

"Give me a second and we'll go look." Sara sprinted back to her office to grab her coat and Danny.

"What's wrong?" Danny asked immediately.

"I need you to come with me." Sara said as she looked around for her phone but failed to find it, "I think someone broke into my loft."

"Really?" Danny asked as grabbed his own jacket before handing Sara her phone which had been laying atop one of the many folders.

"Yeah but I can't be sure."

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"Why didn't you stay in the car?" Danny asked Gabriel as they reached Sara's floor.

"Because I don't believe anyone is stupid enough to stick around after breaking into someone's home, especialy if they knew it was Sara's loft." Gabriel smiled when Sara shot him a look and they continued to the door.

Testing the nob, Sara found her door to still be locked.

"That's odd." She said, taking the keys Gabriel handed her.

The entire place looked as though it had been tossed around for hours. Sara walked over and hung up the phone that was still beeping it's protests of being being left off the hook. She then turned the ac , which had been on high, off.

"Empty." Danny said as he emerged from Sara's bedroom.

"Same here." Gabriel said as he stepped out of the bathroom.

"It looks like they were searching for something." Danny commented as he looked at the upside down couch.

Sara sighed, "Gabriel's family is coming over for a visit and I don't know how I'm going to explain this."

"I'll tell Dante what happened and call for back up. I'll be back later with the paper work for all this."

"I don't deserve you." Sara smiled and Danny laughed.

"You're right. You don't." he said before leaving his partner and her boyfriend to wait for the area to be searched for clues.

Gabriel watched as Sara looked at her broken picture frames and frowned, "Are you ok?" he asked quietly as bent to retrieve something from the floor.

"They ripped the picture of my dad and me." she replied in a whisper.

"I know a guy who's great at repairing pictures. You'd never even know there was something wrong with them to begin with." Gabriel placed his hands on Sara's shoulders and gently squeezed, "I'm gonna call mom and tell them not to come."

Sara nodded and stood, "It'd be for the best. We don't know if these people will return or not, and it'd be hard to be polite and all when the other officers get here to search for evidence."

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Ian stood on the fire escape, looking in at Sara and Gabriel.

He felt as though he had failed.

'If Sara does not kill them, then I will.' he thought as he considered the wild goose chase he had been led on when he went in search of information on who it was that had been keeping taps on the Wielder.

He had been gone just long enough for these cowards to break into Lady Sara's loft and up-end everything. By the time he had realized what was happening it was too late for him to prevent it.

Ian watched as Sara gripped the picture of her father with pain in her eyes and vowed again to end this before the enemy knew what hit them.

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"I can't believe my loft's a crime scene." Sara coomplained as she plopped down on Gabriel's bed with a bowl of popcorn.

"Don't tell me you're surprised about one thing or another that's happened in your life?!" Gabriel said in mock alarm, "I thought you'd seen it all."

"So did I." Sara swung a pillow at Gabriel's head and missed while managing to spill popcorn everywhere.

"Oh, well done!" Gabriel laughed as he chucked one or two pieces at her.

Sara retaliated and within seconds they were laughing with popcorn in their hair and it was all over the bed and floor as well.

"Gah! Not fair! Not fair!" Gabriel laughed when Sara put a handfull of the small bits of still-warm-food down his shirt and then leaned on his chest to crush it.

"All is fair in love and war." Sara teased as she quickly kissed the tip of his nose.

"So I guess this is fair as well?" he asked, flipping Sara so that he was pinning her wrists above her head and her legs down straight.

"Where did you learn that?" Sara asked in honest shock.

"I don't remember." Gabriel smiled, "Probably one of my brothers. We use to torture each other to no end."

Gabriel straightened up while still sitting on Sara and shook the crumbs out of his shirt and onto Sara's stomack.

"Hey." Sara laughed as he brushed the food away, "That tickles."

"What?" he asked with a smile as he continued to touch her sides and stomack ever so lightly, causing her to squirm, "Sorry, I didn't hear you."

Sara didn't have breath enough to try again so she grabbed his hands and forced him to stop.

"Not smart Bowman." she grinned and sat up with him still on her legs.

She attacked his sides till Gabriel's eyes watered.

"Even?" she asked as he moved to slump against the pillows.

"Even." Gabriel quickly agreed, "You don't like to lose, do you?"

"Not one bit." she laid down next to him and smiled as he pulled her closer.

"I'll remember that." he chuckled as he burried his face in her neck.

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A/N: I hope you liked it. It's just a bit of fun mixed in with everything and I thought it fit. ^.~ Once again, sorry for the delay but you understand.

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