DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters, except for Matthew and Moxie. The rest of them belong to James Duff and the Major Crimes franchise.

Chapter 5

Sunday morning was a different wake up for Andy than Saturday morning. He had woken up earlier that morning to both Matthew and Moxie curled up in his and Sharon's bed. 'At least he's sleeping' Andy thought to himself as he glanced at the clock and saw that it was not even 5 yet. He laid back down and fell back asleep himself.

The next time Andy woke up was to Moxie's face being inches away from his and the dog was panting. "Ugh, Moxie," he whispered as he tried to get the dog to move. He looked over and saw Matthew was still sleeping, a rarity, but figured the kid had a busy day yesterday.

Andy moved slightly and started to get up. Moxie moved with him and jumped off the bed. Andy ran his hand over his face, trying to shake the sleep from him. He glanced at the clock again, this time it was 8:45.

"Dad?" Matthew stretched his arms over his head as he woke up. "Hey bud, you can still sleep if you want to," Andy told him and watched Matthew nod, burying his head deeper into the pillow. Andy smiled and made his way out of the room, with Moxie following him.

Moxie ran down the stairs in front of Andy and ran towards the back door. "Alright, hang on a second," he told the dog as he made his way through the kitchen and to the back door. As Andy opened the back door, Moxie ran outside, into the yard and did his morning routine.

The sun was up and birds were chirping as Andy watched Moxie in the yard. The back door opened and startled Andy. He turned around and saw Rusty walking out. He was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday.

"Hey," Andy greeted him as he walked towards the garage. "Hey," Rusty nodded. "Did you fall asleep on the couch?" Andy wondered because he had taken Matthew upstairs late last night while Rusty was still watching a movie in the family room.

"Uh, yeah, that couch is somewhat comfortable," Rusty said and continued to make his way to his apartment on top of the garage. "If you want breakfast, stop by in a little while," Andy told him and Rusty waved his hand in acknowledgement as he climbed the stairs.

Moxie ran around the yard one more time before coming to stand in front of Andy and looked at him. "You ready for your breakfast?" Andy asked the dog and the dog got excited and ran to the back door and waited for Andy to let him back inside the house.

Meanwhile in Napa, Sharon, Patrice, and Andrea were all up and in the kitchen eating the room service that Andrea had ordered once again. "Hmm, so what time do you ladies want to leave today to go to that art gallery that we saw in town yesterday?" Patrice asked them.

"Oh, I don't know, what time do you think they're open?" Sharon asked as she sipped on her glass of orange juice. Andrea pulled out her phone and started looking it up. "According to Google, it opens at 11 o'clock today," she told them.

"And all those stores that we saw down the road open at 10," Andrea added as she placed her phone down on the table. "How about we aim for 10:30? We could either stop at the stores along the way there or on the way back?" Sharon suggested and asked them.

"Sounds good, I'm going to call Louie and then get myself ready," Patrice excused herself from the table and walked towards her room. "So, how was Matthew and Andy last night?" Andrea asked Sharon as the two of them sat at the table.

"I only spoke to Andy last night. He said Rusty was over and they were all watching a movie, having pizza, you know," Sharon told her as she sat back and relaxed in the chair. Andrea nodded and looked at her phone which alerted to a text message.

"Don't tell me work is calling?" Sharon said, not wanting to give up the nice weekend just yet. Andrea read the message. "Nope, not work. The spa here at the resort just texted to let me know we are all confirmed for tomorrow morning for our massages and facials," Andrea smiled.

In Patrice's room, she was speaking to Provenza over the phone. "How are you doing sweetie pie?" Provenza asked her as he was sitting at their house. "Oh, I'm good Louie. How are you doing?" she asked him. "Did you survive your day with Andy and Matthew?" she continued.

"Yes, after we left the hospital Andy took Matthew to get ice cream and then we went back to their house. I didn't stay for dinner. I don't know what they are doing today but I plan on having a relaxing day here," Provenza told her.

"Ice cream, did you have ice cream too?" Patrice asked in a teasing way. "Oh, uh, I may have had something small there," Provenza said, not telling the whole truth. "Louie, small to you is huge when it comes to ice cream," Patrice laughed. "Well, the kid did get his thumb stuck in a bowling ball after all and I couldn't just watch him eat ice cream all by himself, and plus, Flynn was buying," Provenza stammered.

"Oh, ho, you are so busted Louie Provenza," Patrice giggled as they continued their conversation.

Meanwhile, back home, Andy was in the kitchen making himself a pot of coffee. While it was brewing, he decided to text Sharon to see if she was awake. 'Hey beautiful, I miss waking up to you,' he texted her and then sent a picture of himself, all puppy dog eyed. He was hoping she would see his text message and possibly send a picture of herself back to him.

Except, Sharon didn't see that text as she was standing at the kitchen placing the dishes in the sink. Andrea was still sitting at the table, where Sharon's phone was located, and saw that her phone alerted to a text message from Andy.

"Oh Sharon, your lover boy has sent you a text with a picture," Andrea teased her as she walked back over to the kitchen table and her phone. She smiled and shook her head. "Me thinks he really misses you," Andrea teased again. Sharon waved her off as she looked at her phone and the message from Andy.

She opened the picture he sent and saw his cute, adorable face looking back at her. "Awe, look as his puppy dog eyes," Sharon showed Andrea his picture quickly and then started to reply back to him.

Meanwhile, Patrice walked back out of her room to get a drink from her water bottle. "What did I miss?" she asked Andrea as she saw Sharon was smiling goofy into her phone as she texted. "Andy texted her," Andrea stated as she got up from the table.

"Oh, we are all set for massages tomorrow morning at the spa here," Andrea told Patrice as she passed her heading towards the bedrooms. "Oh good, I can't wait to get these kinks out of my shoulders!" Patrice stated and then went back to her room to get ready for their day.

Sharon quickly texted Andy back and went to her room to get herself ready.

As Andy was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking his coffee, his phone alerted him to her text message. He opened the message and saw a picture of Sharon blowing him a kiss along with a message 'I'm hoping my boys behave themselves for the rest of the time I am out' and ended the message with a smile emoji.

Andy returned her message with a smile emoji and sent it to her as he heard little feet coming towards him. He turned around to see Matthew walking towards him, his hair all messy, and his thumb still bruised in a purplish tint.

"Hey buddy, are you ready for breakfast?" Andy asked him as he watched the kid walk towards the other side of the table and plopped himself down in the chair. Matthew nodded as he sat there, eyes looking very tired. "How's your thumb?" Andy asked as he stood up from the table and walked towards the coffee pot to pour himself another cup of coffee.

"It still hurts a little bit," Matthew shrugged his shoulders as he sat there. Moxie came back into the kitchen and sat down next to the boy, as he wanted to be petted. Andy moved over to the freezer and pulled out an ice pack. He wrapped it in a kitchen towel and brought it over to Matthew.

"Here, keep this on it for 10 minutes," he handed Matthew the ice pack and Matthew placed it on his thumb. "What would you like for breakfast this morning?" Andy asked him. Matthew again shrugged his shoulders and Andy sighed.

"How about French toast?" Andy suggested and Matthew's eyes lit up and he nodded his head in excitement. Andy smiled and went about the kitchen getting the ingredients and preparing the food.

Rusty had joined them for breakfast once he freshened up and changed his clothes. "What are you doing today?" Matthew asked Rusty as they sat at the kitchen table, eating the French toast with blueberries. "Oh, uh, I don't have any plans today," Rusty told him as he ate.

"Do you want to come with me and Daddy to the park so I can fly my drone?" Matthew asked him. Rusty looked at Andy and then back at Matthew. "Sure," Rusty told him. "Yeah!" Matthew stated and they all finished their breakfast.

Back in Napa, all three ladies were ready to venture out to go shopping and view the art gallery. "Hello ladies," the director of the art gallery greeted them as they walked inside the building. "Hello," Andrea said back to the director as she stepped further into the lobby area. Sharon and Patrice both smiled at the director. They paid the admission price and ventured off into the fine art gallery.

"Oh, look at this painting," Andrea stated as Sharon walked up next to her to see what she was looking at. It was a picture on a sunset over the ocean and the sky was painted in reds, oranges, and yellow hues. Patrice was across from them looking at a painting of sunflowers. None of them saw the man standing in the back eyeing the sculpture of a ballerina.

The man turned around to look at Sharon, Patrice, and Andrea laughing, having a good time as they went through the gallery. He had eyed that ballerina sculpture last week when he was scoping out the art gallery for his next heist. He had needed a distraction from him in order to swipe the sculpture and he thought the three of them would provide the perfect distraction.

Meanwhile, Andy, Rusty, Matthew, and Moxie piled out of the car and headed towards the open field at Griffith Park. Rusty was carrying three camp chairs while Matthew was carrying his drone in the carrying case. Andy held Moxie's leash and the cooler they had brought with them, as they found the perfect spot away from people.

"I think this is a good spot right here," Matthew stated as he placed the carrying case on the grass and started unzipping it, pulling out the drone and making sure all of the parts were connected. Rusty set up the three camp chairs as Andy placed the cooler down and set a blanket down for Moxie to lay on. He took out Moxie's water bowl and filled it up with a bottle of water before turning his attention to Matthew.

"Do you know how to do all that?" Andy asked Matthew as he watched him put together the drone. "Yeah Dad, Billy got one for his birthday last year," Matthew told him. "Oh, okay," Andy said and then took a seat. Andy looked around at the rest of the people that were there in the park. They were flying kites, playing frisbee, tossing the football around. The weather was perfect for a January day in LA.

Back at the art gallery, Patrice noticed the man looking at the three of them as they toured around the gallery. "Uh, Sharon, I think that man over there is acting suspicious," Patrice informed her in a non-alarming tone. Sharon glanced to where Patrice was referring to and saw the man in question.

She become weary of him and watched him as they moved to the next set of artworks in the gallery. Andrea wondered what had preoccupied Sharon and Patrice had told Andrea her suspicions of that man. "Oh, no, Sharon, we are here to enjoy art, not to do police work," Andrea whispered to Sharon as she kept watch on the man.

"I think Patrice may be on to something here with that man, he's acting very strangely and keeps eyeing that statue over there," Sharon told Andrea and pointed non-chalantly to the ballerina sculpture in the corner.

"There's cameras all over this place. Certainly, if he was going to swipe something, he's not going to do it during the middle of the day, with people around," Andrea tried to reason with Sharon. "Unless he wants a distraction," Patrice pointed out as she was trying not to make it obvious that she was watching the man. "Unless he wants a distraction," Andrea muttered, shaking her head and rolled her eyes as she went along with the other two.

"Okay, so if your suspicions are correct, what do you want to do about it? Really nothing we can do because he hasn't committed a crime!" Andrea told both of them. "Yet," Sharon chimed in and Andrea eyed her. "Andrea, just relax for a moment," Patrice told her. "I'm trying to relax, but I have a police commander on high alert that something is going to happen here in front of our eyes!" Andrea reasoned with them and Sharon giggled.

"Come on, let's move over here so it looks like we are looking at that sunflower painting again," Sharon pulled Andrea across the gallery with her and Patrice. The man watched them again, trying to figure out his next move.

Back in Griffith Park, Matthew was having a blast flying his drone in the open field. Rusty was reading a book he had brought. Andy glanced at both of them and then spoke to Rusty. "Hey, you might want to actually enjoy this nice weather we are having," he told him as Rusty looked up from his book.

"I am," Rusty said as he moved in his chair so that he was now sitting more upright than before. Andy shook his head and looked at Moxie who was laying down next to his chair. Moxie was watching everything that was going on around him.

Matthew brought his drone back to land in front of Andy, Rusty, and Moxie and walked back to join them. He sat down on a blanket that they had brought and opened the cooler, searching for something.

"What are you looking for?" Andy asked him. "Some fruit snacks, I know I put in here before we left," Matthew said as he dug through the cooler, finding them on the bottom and pulled them out. "Are you all done flying?" Andy asked and Matthew shook his head no. "Just taking a break," he told him. Andy leaned back into his chair and continued to people watch.

Back at the art gallery, the man had lost track of Sharon, Andrea, and Patrice so he decided to make his move because no one else was watching him. He walked over to the statue, moved his head from side to side as he looked at the statue, and in one swift move he threw a cloak over the statue and it disappeared from the table. The man dabbled in magic tricks and he made the biggest magic trick of his life.

He now had the statue with him, hidden under his coat and as he turned to head for the exit of the gallery, he was met by Andrea. "Don't you just love the art in here?" she told him as she tried to distract him from making his exit. "It's lovely yes," the man said in an accent and walked away from Andrea.

The man didn't know what happened next as he felt himself tripping over something and landing on the floor, with the statue popping out and rolling on the floor towards Sharon. "Oops! I'm sorry, I didn't see you there," Patrice told him as she stood next to the door frame looking at him.

"My oh my, what do we have here?" Sharon said as she picked up the statue, still wrapped in a cloak, and stood there in front of the man who was still on the floor. "Place your hands behind your back, mister!" Patrice told the man and he complied.

Just then, the art gallery owner came into the room after hearing the commotion and looked at the man on the floor and the three women surrounding him. "What on Earth is going on here?" the gallery owner exclaimed as he looked at the statue that Sharon was still holding.

"I'm Commander Flynn of the LAPD, sir, I believe this man here tried stealing this statue," Sharon said as she handed the statue over to the art gallery owner. "Oh, my goodness," he said as he looked at the statue and then towards the man still on the floor.

"The local police department is on it's way," Andrea stated as she walked over to join them. The art gallery looked at the man on the ground. "Wait a minute!" he said and then pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. "You're Reginald Felix, the art thief who's a magician!" he compared the picture on the paper to the man on the floor.

"Thank you, ladies, for stopping this crime!" the art gallery owner told them as they all stood over Mr. Felix. The Napa Police Department arrived on the scene five minutes later to take custody of Mr. Felix and they also needed the statue as evidence.

Sharon was speaking to one of the detectives on the scene as Mr. Felix was being led out in handcuffs by two officers. "Thank you, Commander, we received an alert from our counterparts up in Portland, Oregon about this guy, never thought he would actually come down here," the detective told her.

"Oh, well we're just happy to help!" Sharon told him and he turned around to go speak with the owner. Sharon walked towards Patrice and Andrea and smiled. "So, ladies, we stopped an art thief, what else do you want to do today?" Sharon laughed as they all left the art gallery and started to head towards the car.

TBC