Hi! This is my very first Sly Fancic, so I'm not promising anything, that it is very good or anything :D Don't mind about any spelling mistakes or if some word isn't correct, because english isn't my first language, so there MIGHT be some of them :)

Summary: Okay, so Rachel is working in this strawberry farm, and she hates the work. And then she meets new friends and so on.. ;) I don't want to tell everything so... just read it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sly Cooper or any of the characters that Sucker Punch has created but I do own Rachel and etc. :):)

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1. ch. New Friend

Rachel, a 14 year-old white cat was picking strawberries in a strawberry farm. The weather was so hot that she couldn't breathe properly. But she couldn't stop, because she had to earn money for a plane ticket to England and for the hotel she was satying in. The money she got from the work was really lousy and even the fact that Rachel was very hard-working it felt like she could never get enough money. And this was already her 14th day of non-stop work. Rachel was so wrapped around her own thoughts that she didn't even notice when someone started to talk to her.

"You look very exhausted. And you also look very young. I quess girls at your age shouldn't be working yet?"

"Wha...?" Rachel raised her head and noticed a raccoon, very handsome raccoon in fact. He was looking at Rachel with the most beautiful brown eyes that she had ever seen. The raccoon was smiling friendly at her.

"I just said that you look very young. Aren't you too young to work yet?" the raccoon repeated.

"Oh. I'm already 14, and it isn't that hard. Are you working here too?" Rachel asked shyly.

"Me? No, I just came here to pick up so berries for my friends. They love strawberries. I'm here for just this day." the raccoon explained and gave her another smile.

"I'm Rachel by the way, Rachel Detour. Rachel introduced herself.

"Sly Cooper. Nice to meet you." Sly said and shook Rachel's paw.

They continued to pick berries until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Sly was already tired and was complaining about how he didn't feel his legs because they were so sore.

"Oh my god, I can't believe how you can just go on and on and on..." Sly said while he just sat there on the ground and didn't pay any attention to the strawberry bushes.

"Well, with my 0,70/ basket pay I must keep some regular speed if I want to earn any money from this. "Rachel answered and didn't even raise her head from the strawberry bush.

"What?" Sly said surprised.

"Well, of course I'm here for the money, what did -" Rachel didn't have time to finish her sentence, when Sly interupted.

"No, I mean that can't be right! I asked how much they pay from this, and the owner said that about 2.00-2.50! That's not right! I'm going to give that weasel a little talk!" Sly said angrily and started to walk towards a little house near the strawberry fields. He was so angry that he didn't even leave his strawberry basket behind, he jus took it with him because he had a plan what he would do with it.

"NO Sly, wait!" Rachel shouted, but it didn't help. Rachel ran after Sly but he was walking way too fast that she could have stopped him. Sly had already overturned the strawberry basket (which was full) upon an maybe 40 year-old cat's head, and was shouting at full blast.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK BY KEEPING AN TEENAGER HERE AND NOT EVEN PAYING HER PROPERLY! HUH?"

"That's none of your business, raccoon." the cat answered coldly and tried to walk away, but Sly punched him straight in to his face.

"WELL, YEAH IT IS, BECAUSE RACHEL IS MY FRIEND AND I-"

"Sly! SLY! Don't, please! It's fine." Rachel came running towards Sly and the cat.

"No, it is NOT fine! He is going to pay you full pay and I'm going to stand right here until he does!" Sly said angrily and it looked like he was going to punch the cat again.

"Fine, fine. I'll pay her. I'll... just count the money again." The cat said and disappeared into a little room.

They waited a few minutes and then the door opened. The cat came back what he didn't have the money, he had a gun in his hand, and he was pointing it right at Sly.

"You! I know excactly who you are, and you're not scaring me at all! Come any closer to me or my daughter, and I'll BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF!"

"He's her DAD?" Sly thought hastily.

"Okay, I'll just then..." Sly started to back off, but then he used the invisibility trick and knocked the gun out from Rachels dad's hands and punched him into his stomach.

"OUCH!" The cat yelled in pain and fell into his knees onto the ground.

"Come Rachel, RUN!" Sly said and grabbed Rachel's paw and they started to run. They ran all the way about 2 miles before they dared to stop. Sly took his mobile phone from his pocket and called to someone. After ten minutes a blue van stopped right in front of them. Rachel stared at the van for a moment and then she realised something...

"Wait a second! I've seen that van in the news! And you, Sly... Your THAT Sly Cooper! I should have realised from that trick you used!" Rachel said surprised.

"That's right! The one and only! Afraid to get in?" Sly said teasing and grinned.

"No way!" Rachel said and hopped into the van and they started to drive.

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A/N: Okay, so that's the end of 1 chappie:D So just review me, I appreciate reviews, which are constructive but I don't like flamers. :) So, see ya when the next chapters shoes up!

Heiduska