Eavesdropping on the Cooper Gang
The gang reached the safe house. The van pulled up into the garage that primarily made up the first floor. Sly was the first to get out of the van and headed up the stairs to the second floor, where his room was.
Carmelita pulled her car up to within a block of the safe house. When she reached the building, she saw that the garage door was opened, and she could clearly see the Cooper Gang van.
"Yep, this is the place all right!" Carmelita said to herself.
The garage door began to close, so silently, Carmelita snuck in. She ducked down behind some tool chests; obviously belonging to Murray, and it wasn't just because it said 'PROPERTY OF THE MURRAY' printed on the sides. She watched as Murray stepped out of the van and headed up the stairs. And then Bentley and Penelope out of the back.
"What's up with Sly?" Penelope asked.
"He's always like when this time of year comes," Bentley sighed.
"Was it something that that Carmelita women did?"
"No, actually it was before they even met, " Bentley said, using his rockets on the bottom of his wheelchair to help him get up the stairs.
"Wait, is this the anniversary of when his parents were," Penelope asked, finishing the sentence with a fake throat cut with her fingers.
"Actually, no." Bentley said. "There was someone before Inspector Fox, but that was a long time ago. I think her name was Angelica Laughlin."
The door shut, meaning that it was safe for Carmelita to come out of her hiding place. She began looking around; there was nothing very interesting of the garage until she came across what looked like the computer database of the office.
"Oh my," Carmelita whispered, "This database must contain information on everyone."
She went browsing through the database, looking at the large screen. There were up to date blueprints of nearly every building Sly has ever entered. There was Interpol, the Eiffel tower, a bunch of museums from all over the world, even buildings that used to be the headquarters for a number of bad guys. The personnel database was even more interesting. There were files on everyone. They even told of the location of Cooper Gang operatives from all over the world, including that freak Dimitri, Panda King, and the Guru. Taking a disk from a storage cabinet, she uploaded the files. There were also files on members of the Fiendish Five, and the Klaww Gang. Then came the files on Interpol officers. There was one on the chief, one on her best friend, Alexia, and a big file on herself.
"Let's see what you had in the past," Carmelita muttered, typing in a name.
A file came up on an Angelica Laughlin, but except for her picture, there was nothing but a security lock.
"Wow Cooper, I'm impressed," Carmelita awed. The picture was of too a fox. "A fox too, you must have a thing for them, wonder why you didn't stay with her?"
After trying so hard to get past the firewall that kept her from viewing Angelica's file, Carmelita finally gave up, and decided to do some more sneaking around. She went upstairs. 'Everyone must be sleeping, it is eleven.'
After a few minutes in the dark, she managed to turn on a lamp. 'Nice place, it's as nice as mine!' She moved around, noting the bathroom, the kitchen, and then she came across the bedrooms. Each had a symbol for each member; Carmelita noticed Sly's room at the end of the hall. The door was ajar, and she could see inside. The room was relatively neat, she could see a number of pictures on the wall, some of the gang celebrating the completion of they're jobs, others were of an eight year old Sly at the orphanage, a picture of Sly with his parents, And then she saw a picture of herself, though it was nothing she saw offensive towards herself. Then she saw the pictures on Sly's desk. Seeing how there was no Sly around, Carmelita crept in and looked at the photographs on the desk.
"What happened to such a couple," she muttered to herself, in awe at the pictures, of what was Sly and Angelica together. She rummaged through them, all of Sly and Angelica together, either at picnics, or of them dancing, but the last one was unusual. It was a picture of Sly and Angelica wearing military jumpsuits in front of a military cargo plane.
"What the…!" Carmelita muttered.
Deciding not to stick around to get caught in case Sly appeared, she went out onto the balcony that was connected to his room and jumped down to the pavement and headed for her car.
"I have everything I need for your arrest Cooper!" she smiled to herself, and she drove off.