Phone Call
A few days later, Carmelita stepped into her office, once again being hounded by the scumbags that wanted a date with her. Of course nobody knew that Carmelita's relationship with Sly was more than just professional; the only person who actually knew about the relationship was Alexia. Alexia was an annoying greyhound working with under the SVU. Most would say that she was very annoying because she was bored and that she was bored because she saw little action, seeing how there was now a low crime rate, more importantly, low murder rate. She was also held back from the juicy cases. A few months ago, a mad bomber used hidden soup cans packed with explosives to kill other criminals as well as nearly killed a cop, which, when he confessed, was an accident.
Alexia often got into peoples' business. She ended up managing to finger over five corrupt cops, which earned her favor with Interpol's Internal Security, giving everyone a reason not tell her off. Since Carmelita was her friend, she chose not to report this, even though it wasn't against policy for officers to hook up. IIS just wanted to know about these things.
"So Carm," Alexia said. "You hate how those guys treat you like a piece of ass?"
"HELL YEAH!" Carmelita yelled in a disgruntled tone. "The only guy on this branch who treats me like an actual person is Cooper!"
"And that's why he's your boyfriend?" Alexia said.
"That and he's sweet," Carmelita said, calming down. "Wait! What are you going at?"
"Hello ladies!" Sly said as he entered the office with a cup of coffee. "Alexia, SVU wants down there. They're saying that some kid's body was found in quarry just outside of town."
"Oh my, that's terrible!" Alexia said, dashing out through the door.
Sly immediately closed the door and bolted it. "That got her out of here."
"So there's no kid in a quarry?" Carmelita said with a grin.
"There isn't even a quarry near Paris!" Sly replied.
The two just laughed for about a minute. But eventually, they went to work filling out paperwork and whatnot. This continued on until the sun had set. That's when everything started.
There was tapping on the door, and Sly, his desk being closest to it, opened. And in popped a disgruntled Alexia.
"Gee, thanks for telling me about the non-existent kid!" she growled. "Now I'm the laughing stock of SVU!"
"Relax Alexia," Carmelita said, seeing how Sly couldn't help but laugh.
Suddenly the phone rang on Carmelita's desk. She picked it up and went pale.
"You!" she whispered. She quickly hit the record button on her phone console.
Almost immediately, Alexia and Sly knew that something was wrong. Soon after it started, the conversation ended. Carmelita, who was speechless took off her badge and pulled out her shock pistol and laid the two items on her desk. She then wrote a note and put next to her badge. She then left the office, not saying a single word to either of them. Sly and Alexia merely looked at each other, and then at the note.
I QUIT, C.M. FOX"This isn't happening!" Alexia said.
"This CAN'T happen," Sly said.
The two ran after Carmelita. They managed to catch up to her at her car.
"Carmelita," Sly yelled. "You can't do this!"
Suddenly, she turned around and grabbed Sly by the collar and kissed him.
"Don't worry about me Sly," she said in an upset tone. Tears were in her eyes. "I'll be fine. I want you to know that I love you and that nothing will change that. Please don't follow me, not for me, but for you own safety."
She kissed him again, and released him. She then got into her car and drove off.
"That call!" Alexia said. "She recorded it!"
The two ran back to the office. They closed the door and Sly hit the Play Last Recorded button on the phone console.
"Inspector Fox, it's me, good old TL."
"You!"
"That's right, did you think that you could hide from your destiny? Well now you know that you WILL fulfill your destiny! You are going to quit your job."
"What makes you think that I will do that?"
"Right now, you have your friend Alexia Rico standing about three feet away from you to your right, and your sweetheart Sly Cooper standing in front of you, but a little to the left. Don't turn around! If you tell anyone, I will kill both of them right now. I have aligned up with Cooper's head so that I will also get Alexia with the same bullet. Now do what exactly that I say."
"What do you want?"
"You will first quit your job, and then you will come to Le Parc de la Ville in ten minutes or else. Come alone, or your friends will die! Come unarmed too, or else the threat WILL be carried out!"
"We're going!" Sly said with an angered face. "I'm not going to let this ass have things his way!"
"Right beside you Cooper," Alexia said. "Carmelita's the only REAL friend I've ever had since joining Interpol."
Sly pulled out a satchel a placed Carmelita's badge and shock pistol in it. He then pulled out a Smith & Wesson twenty shot pistol and pocketed it. Most people wondered why they were in such a hurry seeing how there wasn't anything important that was going on. But to Sly and Alexia, the most important events to them were happening. And they weren't going to sit back and watch the show.