A/N: I'm VERY sorry everybody! I made a big mistake in the last chapter! I said that Otto was going to meet Rachel after school the next day, but the next day would have been Sunday! So that's a mistake. I fixed it in the previous chapter. Sorry. ;

8. Getting Acquainted

Rachel spent most of Sunday thinking about the decision she had to make. She could either stay at home and go be Otto's partner in crime every day after school, or she could take the easy way out and just move into his apartment. There were drawbacks to each. First of all, if she stayed at home having a part-time job as Otto's partner in crime, she would have to make an extra trip every night going back home. And, if she decided to move into his apartment with him, she would have to leave her home and her family. Her parents were almost always working, so she hardly ever saw them, or they her. So it wouldn't be too much of a problem leaving home, she guessed. That's what she would do. She would pack up what she needed, and stay at Otto's apartment. She got her backpack/schoolbag and packed what she needed. About five outfits, some money, her favorites CDs, her PDA, camera, cell phone and laptop were what she packed for her new job. Done with packing, she turned on her stereo, laid down on her bed and began reading a magazine, daydreaming about her newfound occupation.

Monday finally rolled around; it seemed to take forever to get here in Rachel's mind. She was so excited she could hardly eat or do anything. Anna came to the door. Rachel answered it, jumping up and down and grinning broadly.

"Oh my gosh! You're moving in with him!"

"YES!" The two girls screamed for another five minutes, and then went inside the house. Rachel grabbed her backpack and they walked to school together, or rather skipped to school. Rachel calmed down somewhat throughout the day, and paid close attention to school. Heck, maybe she'd get her wish after all and have Otto as her science professor! It was possible, right? Well, a girl can dream.

The school bell rang and Rachel sprinted to her locker, grabbed her books, stuffed them into her backpack, and ran out the door, waving to Anna.

"Bye Ray! Have fun with your new life! Wish I was you! Bye!" Rachel stood outside the school building, looking around for Otto. A tentacle tapped her on the shoulder from behind. Rachel turned around to see it snake around behind the school building. Following it, she met Otto waiting for her.

"Have you decided?"

"Yup." She said, gesturing to her backpack.

"Good. Let's go." Otto led Rachel around the back of the school building and to his home. Opening the door, Rachel walked in, observing her surroundings. She noticed a CD player in another room; that was a very crucial article. "Come with me, and I'll show you your room." Otto said, walking past her down the hall. Rachel was ecstatic. She got her own room in Otto's home! She felt like squealing, but she didn't want to irritate him. So she quietly followed him, dragging her bag behind her. He led her into a regular-sized bedroom. The walls were a deep purple color, with hard wood flooring, and a small closet. There was a twin size bed, a small black table with a chair, and a black desk in the corner. "It's not much of a room, I know."

"No, it's beautiful! It's perfect!"

"Glad you like it. I'll leave you to get situated." Otto walked towards the door.

"Oh, hey, if you're not using that CD player…"

"Go right ahead." He said. "I'm going outside to get a few things. Please, make yourself at home." Otto left and went outside, leaving Rachel to adapt to her new home. After he had walked outside, he heard a shrill squeal coming from the apartment that lasted about a minute. He smiled to himself, figuring that she would get used to her new surroundings in a very short while.

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Rachel stood in the room after her burst of excitement and set her bag on the bed. Taking out the clothes she had packed, she hung them up in the small but cozy closet. She set her laptop on the desk, and placed her camera, cell phone, money, and PDA on the table. She ran into the other room and retrieved the CD player, bringing it into her room and setting it down on the floor along with her CDs. There, everything was set out, and Rachel already felt like it was her room. Turning on the CD player to one of her favorite songs, she sat down at the desk, turned on the laptop, and began working on some of her fanfiction.

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When Otto came back into the apartment, he could hear the music coming from Rachel's room. Heading to the room, he saw her sitting at the desk, typing away at her laptop. "Well, I see you've gotten comfortable here already."

"Huh? Oh, hi! Yeah, this place is great! I love it!"

"Glad you think so. Well, you are my partner in crime, but I don't think I've caught your name." Rachel jumped up from her seat.

"Oh! You're right! I'm sorry! I'm Rachel."

"Oh, so your screen name is your real name. Well, it's very nice to meet you, Rachel." He said, shaking her hand.

"Yeah, I like to go by my first name. A lot of people just call me Ray, though. I don't think I need to know your name though, Dr. Octavius."

"You can call me Otto." He said as he walked out of the room. Rachel could have exploded with exhilaration as she ran down the hall following him. She got to call him by his first name! She felt like fainting, but that would show too much fangirly-ness, and not enough of a criminal mind. Speaking of which, what was she going to be doing as Otto's p-i-c?

"Uh, I have sort of a kind of… really stupid question."

"There's no such thing as a stupid question. What is it?"

"Well, I was kind of wondering, since I'm your new partner in crime, well, I was wondering what I'm actually going to be doing." Otto softly chuckled.

"Is that all? Well, you'll get your chance today. Wanna rob a bank?" As soon as this came out of his mouth, Otto considered that to be a stupid question.

"Do I ever!" Rachel exclaimed, her eyes sparkling. Otto smiled at Rachel, who smiled back at him with huge eyes. Her adoration of him made him feel a little like a god. She had him way too high on the pedestal!

"Well, that's an answer I've never heard before." He said. "Of course, I've never had a partner in crime before." He added with a grin. "How's this sound? We'll go to the bank, grab some money, and come back here."

"Sounds great to me!" Rachel could feel her stomach churning. "I'm hungry. You got any food around here?" Otto sheepishly smiled.

"Well, yes and no." The confused look from Rachel drew him to explain his predicament. "You see, the electric company cut the power from my apartment because I wasn't paying the bills. So I do have food, just none of it is any good."

"Oh… is that why you wanted to rob the bank?"

"One reason, yes."

"Oh, there's no need for that! I've got my college scholarship with me, wait here; I know it's around somewhere." She said as she ran to her room.

"Oh, you don't have to--"

"Here it is!" Rachel shouted, coming back to the den with a paper in her hand, offering it to Otto.

"No, Rachel, I can't take this."

"Why not? Is it illegal?"

"It's not a political issue. And even if it was that wouldn't matter. You need it for your education. I'm not going to take that away from you."

"Please? You need it more than I do! Food is more important than education!"

"Is it? I'm beginning to wonder…"

"Please take it, it's mine to give, and I want you to use it! Please?" Otto looked into Rachel's pleading eyes, and at the paper in her hand.

"No, Rachel. I can't take this. Your education is more important to me than having power to my home." A tentacle took it from her hands and extended over into her room, placing the paper back into her bag. "We'll just use the money from the bank."

"Well, there's no use doing that! The police'll find out you stole the money, and used it to pay some of the bills to regain power, and then they'll come over here and find you, not that they could do anything, however, cuz' you could take em' all out in a split second!" She said, with a wily grin on her face.

"Quite right. I had thought of that; I was simply testing you." The real truth; Otto had lied. He hadn't thought of that; he was beginning to think having a partner in crime was going to be very beneficial.

"Wow! I passed my first test!"

"And quite accurate, and with much description, I might add."

"Awesome!"

"Well, are you ready to go?"

"Yup! Let's get going!"

"Very well."

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Otto and Rachel arrived at the bank, which appeared to be exceptionally busy that day. Otto's actuators were hidden beneath his coat, as he and Rachel innocently walked in. Why make a scene, Otto thought. The stealthier, the better, and he could see how Rachel would do in other situations. Glancing over to the vaults, he nudged Rachel in the shoulder, gesturing over to the guards in front of the vaults. Rachel studied the situation, then noticed a door with a sign that said "SECURITY ROOM: EMPLOYEES ONLY" She whispered to Otto and he nodded, and Rachel headed for the security room, and Otto proceeded behind the guards.

Rachel, upon arriving at the door of the security room, found that it was locked with a keypad. Score one point for the good guys, she thought. She knew numerous hacking codes from being on the internet most of her life, but she figured the bank people would have probably over-ridden them for further security. However, she did remember the little screw-driver she kept in her pocket that she used to take things apart; one of her favorite activities. Taking it out of her pocket and looking at the keypad, she thought to herself.

"The fools! They should've welded this thing to the door, instead of screwing it in where anybody could take the thing off and break in! Someone like me!" She smiled at her ingenuity, and proceeded to unscrew the keypad off of the door, making sure no one was looking, of course. Done with that, she reached her hand into the hole where the keypad originally was, and unlocked the door from the inside. Then she opened the door, closed it behind her, and pulled the keypad up against the outside of the door, to make it look exactly the way it was before she maimed it. Walking over to the rows of monitors, she found the one she was looking for; the monitor looking over the vaults. There was a code on the bottom left of the screen; maybe it was a key to something. So, riskily, she typed it into the keyboard below the screen. A menu appeared, with a vast array of options. Scrolling down with her eyes, Rachel spotted a menu command for the locks on the vaults. Grinning broadly at her discovery, she inputted that command, and a message appeared on the screen saying that the vaults had been unlocked.

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Otto came up behind the guards. A tentacle shot out a razor-toothed blade from behind the two guards. It went clean through them, and all life passed out of them as they fell to the ground in a silenced death. Otto looked up at the security room and saw Rachel in the window, giving him a thumbs up. He returned the gesture, and turned to the vault, opening the door and walking in. He took 10 bags of gold coins, walked out of the vault, signaled Rachel to him, and together they walked out the bank without even being noticed by anyone. Rachel excitedly told Otto about how she had broke into the security room and activated the vault doors, obviously interested in what Otto thought about it.

"Did I do good?"

"You did perfect for your very first crime."

"Really? Yay!" They went back to the apartment, and Rachel walked into the kitchen, sitting down at the table with one of the money bags. Upon examining one of the coins, Rachel frowned at it, and then looked through the rest of the bag. Suddenly, she started laughing hysterically. Otto came into the room, looking at Rachel with a confused look.

"Rachel, have you been drinking?"

"Huh? No! It's just that… here, look." She held one of the coins in her hand, then crushed it in half.

"Wha…?" Rachel started laughing again.

"Otto, these are chocolate coins!" She said as she removed the gold foil to reveal the chocolately goodness, then continued laughing.

"Chocolate?! How?" He demanded.

"Apparently, I had forgotten that some of the guys at my school had decided to pull a prank, and in the middle of the night they snuck into the bank and replaced the gold coins with chocolate ones. I had completely forgotten about that event until now."

"Well, this doesn't help any." Rachel giggled.

"So much for my first criminal activity. But hey! Now we've got plenty of food!" She said grinning at Otto. Finally, Otto smiled and laughed himself. A perfect crime spree, gone wack because of some crazy school boys. Tis' something to laugh about.

A/N: There ya go, nice big fat chapter! Everybody says they're really short, and I totally agree. Hope you liked this one! Please review!