Been a while since I have written anything, but here I am again. Let's keep enjoying this piece of work. Hope you guys like this new chapter. First scene is a bit in sexual content so… you an skim through it, nothing new.

The Look in Her Eyes

Scene 1

The air was quite refreshing in the ventilation funnel. A concrete structure embedded deep in the earth to provide the air needed for the facility to work. Adorning the top was a giant fan that created interruptions of light from the moonlight above. The air however was starting to heat up at the bottom, where two figures were consummating their love.

In between echoes of moans there were echoes of laughter. Carmen and Kevin couldn't stop to laugh at times when the echoes of their love making surrounded them in a surreal state. Kevin had to constantly kiss Carmen on the mouth to stop her from moaning but he himself was often the one that expressed his pleasure more openly.

"I've never made love in such a fantastic place." Carmen whispered in Kevin's ear.

"I've never made love so intense as tonight," Kevin said kissing Carmen's breasts. "I'd like to continue over and over again."

"I never thought being under the law was so pleasurable, but…" Carmen toppled him and she landed on top of him. She started to rock herself riding him like a passive pony. "However, I'd like to introduce you to my world. If you let me?"

Kevin's eyes stilled as he pulled himself into a sitting position and aggressively kissed her neck. Both lovers's continued their repertoire of music in that symphony hall of concrete, and to Kevin's surprise he wanted more than just that night.

Scene 2

As planned one of the two independent cover up heists took place that day. Carmen had asked for this permission so as not to raise any rumors in the Underworld.

The world was all about the monument the great Carmen Sandiego had stolen that day. Little did they knew that the real action was on a nearby building where Sarah was in charge of installing a device and point it directly at a satellite.

The week passed without anything worth noting. They all practiced their moves as the heist would be taken the next week, and shortly after the second of the cover up heists Carmen was permited to do.

All week long Carmen and Kevin had enjoyed themselves in the ventilation funnel to the point of exhaustion. Morning came sooner than expected and both Kevin and Carmen felt the need for rest after the night they both had. But neither expressed their desire for some rest.

Finally the day of the big heist arrived. Carmen oversaw the final stages of the preparation and spoke with each one of them individually to help them understand some of their fears and to calm them down.

The day went smoothly but with tension. Carmen really was worried that something might go wrong and that she would be forced to abandon the detectives, so she spoke to her friends alone.

"This is actually an escape door, please use this permission wisely and as a last resort." Carmen said to Sarah and Hugo. "If anything goes wrong, leave them behind." Sarah and Hugo's eyes went wide open, they couldn't believe that Carmen was actually up for abandoning the detectives. "Yes, it is unexpected, but as of this afternoon they are not detectives to my eyes, nor yours, they are colleagues, henchmen, thieves just like us and all rules apply. Anyone that falls behind, is left behind. Kill those that need to be killed in order to save oneself or others. Don't wish things were different, just act with what you have been given. Understood?" Sarah and Hugo nodded in approval. "Let our hands be fast, our feet be swift and our minds be cunning." They clapped hands twice when Carmen finished her prayer, a small ritual she implemented just before any heist.

In the main room Ronaldo was the only higher up that was present at the time of the preparation and asked to be left alone with the detectives.

"Once you guys have exited the building, is your queue to betray Carmen. Make her change her plans and move to the destined location. No questions asked." Ronaldo handed them a map with the place marked in red and left the main room.

"She is risking her life for us and we are betraying her. I feel like the lowest scumbag ever." Zack said looking at the map.

"I know little bro, I don't even know if it is the right thing to do. Yes, she is a criminal, well more than a simple thief but she really knows how to gain your friendship."

"The mark of a great detective is to make the decisions at the right moment and to choose the path of righteousness." Kevin said this with a solemn face a plan formulating in his head.

"Well, people, hope we are ready cause tonight it is showtime. Finish the preparations of the equipment and take a nap or relax time or whatever zen thing I don't care nor give a shit. Just be rested and prepared by the 18th hour. We will be in position by the 20th and start the heist at the 23th hour. Go." Carmen said looking around and clapped her hands twice. Sarah and Hugo knew the drill and got to work. The detectives were a bit shocked not knowing what to do.

"That means do a last time revision of the plan and then go to sleep." Carmen came to them and said in a calm voice. "Calm down it will be all over in half an hour. Trust me."

The detectives started to look around busy, but Kevin's mind was elsewhere. Chief was the only one left to his own, so he went to where he felt safe, play a game of chess with Carmen.

At first when he entered the room she was lying on the bed and he turned around sadly.

"Don't leave me Chief, please." Carmen was looking straight at him. "I know I left you once, but I couldn't handle you leaving me."

"No need, my girl, I'm here." Chief floated gently to her bed. "Chess?"

Carmen put her finger on her lips and bit it as a small laugh invaded her system; he always knew how to relax her. How she had missed him.

"Sure, why not, we have an old score to settle."

As the chess game was set up, Chief suppressed several sighs that Carmen thought irritating. The game progressed on with silent looks and questions left unasked.

"You won't let them down, right Carmen?"

"I won't."

The game continued on, but Carmen was getting tired and that little anxiety she always felt before a heist was creeping in, making her feel uncomfortable.

"I need to confess you something Carmen." Chief said making a move that could prove bad for Carmen. "If… if you had ever come up to me and asked for my help and protection, I would have given it to you. I wouldn't let you go to jail; I wouldn't let them take you away. I'd break any law in order to protect you."

Carmen wasn't expecting this. This was something that caught her off guard and to which she had never prepared. She looked at him with her blue eyes and understood exactly what the Chief was trying to tell her. Her mind started to rise formulating an escape plan and suddenly she felt safe again. Under Chief's presence she always felt safe somehow.

"I was stupid to leave." Carmen finally confessed her true feelings as she forfeited the game.

"Just a mistake, no big deal." Chief ended the game panel and smiled. Both friends spend the rest of their time just looking at each other and after a while Carmen fell asleep. Chief stayed by her side guarding his only true friend.

Scene 3

10pm (20:00) – Location Outside Museum.

"Alright people, lets set up. Now" Carmen urged and the entire team spread to its positions.

Sarah was stationed in the monitoring van just outside the museum. Zack was the inside coordinator between what happened on the outside with Sarah and what was happening on the inside with Carmen. Chief was stationed at ACME monitoring the feeds offering feedback.

Kevin and Hugo where on the top floors monitoring any human activity and taking action in order to mitigate any human interaction. Kevin was in charge of neutralizing guards if any and Hugo had his sniper rifle just in case, this created some tension in the air. More so when Carmen was accessorizing herself with her .45s which caused some concern in Kevin and Ivy.

Carmen and Ivy where the ones that would portray the theft and the only ones that would have access to the open museum spaces. Ivy was limber and more flexible while Carmen had the experience.

Everyone readied themselves for the time to start. As soon as all their synchronized watches say 11:30pm the action will start.

"T minuz 30 secz, all zystems hot." Sarah started to block the alarms.

"Clear, starting the counters now." Zack said as the video and audio feedbacks that Sarah started to block were difused.

"Everything smooth." Chief said monitoring all.

"We are clear." Hugo said looking through the scope.

"Moving in 10." Carmen said looking at Ivy.

"5 and then live." Ivy said preparing to descend.

At 11:30 the video and audio feedback looped. The sensory alarms started to work intermittently but never faulting. A fault in the system would trigger a silent alarm that can't actually be tripped off. Ivy descended first landing near a statue while blocking herself from the lasers. Carmen was jumping from rafter to rafter buying her time between the lasers to descend.

The guard noticed something but Kevin muffled him and signaled to Hugo all was fine. Hugo kept looking at the other guard on the screening room but started to notice something was wrong. Kevin hid himself again as planned waiting for the signal to get out.

Ivy was at the pillar where the mask was already and Carmen soon fallowed from the other side. Both women had to work synchronized to deactivate the alarm and open the case. They worked silently and automatic, with hours of training. At last Carmen had the object in her hand, however a light tap was heard in her com from Sarah.

That was all it took to push Ivy down and go for her gun, when the first shot appeared. Bam Bam. Hugo had shot an intruder behind Ivy. He noticed the guard was dead seconds before Sarah's tap.

Sarah had been ambushed on the van and had to leave station, the tap is an auditoria message that she had to get up for the wrong reasons. Something that Carmen had trained her and her henchmen for years. Sarah managed to kill some of her assailants but needed to abandon post, since she had permission to leave from Carmen herself she so did.

"Alone." It was all that needed to be said. Code word to tell those inside they were alone.

Hugo managed to put the other assailant down but was surprised when a strong hand pulled him out of his post. Hugo wrestled the man and killed him with one of his knifes, but as soon as he did two more came at him with guns and Hugo quickly moved out. He had to escape, moving fast on the corridors returning fire from his handgun and covering himself with his rifle till he hit the escape door. The floor was three flights of stairs down but he jumped from one to the other just in time to catch one of the attackers as he peered through the door on the head. Bam Bam. He had to leave.

"Alone." Hugo shouted as the caught a glimpse of Sarah in the van turning around. Sarah opened the door an Hugo ran to it.

Zack heard the commotion outside with Sarah and went to see what was wrong. As he opened the door he watched Sarah run over some shooter and leave the scene. He quickly closed the door when the attackers spotted him. He ran towards where he knew Kevin was hidden still.

Kevin heard Hugo's shoots and looked around for Carmen and Ivy. He was making his way towards them when he bumped into Zack.

"What is happening?" Kevin asked him.

"Don't know Sarah was attacked outside and left where is Hugo?" Zack said looking up. "They are fallowing me."

"He left shooting at others." Kevin was getting worried. "We need to find Carmen and Ivy, come on."

Carmen grabbed Ivy by the arm and managed to move swiftly through the main floor. Evading the now live audio and video feedback on top of that the sensors that were back online.

Hugo may have killed two of the attackers but three others where in pursuit of them. She looked for cover in any place possible. Instructing Ivy to move while she scanned the area.

"What are we going to do?" Ivy said a little more frantic.

"Let me do my job." Carmen said pointing her gun to an opening, and surely enough after a few moments someone came out. Bam. She just needed one shot to put the attacker down. The others startled by the shot returned fire towards them. Bullets chipped away at the concrete pillar they used to hide.

Out of the corner of the room Carmen saw Kevin's scared face and made a run for it.

"Go now Ivy." Carmen stood up, took her other gun out and started to shoot one after the other while back pedaling towards where Kevin was. Her aim was not on the attackers but on the statue they used to cover. The big .45s chipped away at the feet and the statue crashed on the assailants.

"Go, go, go." Carmen urged them to run. They looked a bit lost so she took lead. Running through the whole museum for an exit. She could hear more footsteps and could see flashlights, probably from the guards of the museum making their way towards them.

"Big mistake." She whispered as she commanded the detectives to stay put while the guards passed. Bam Bam. The assailants killed the guards and that was the queue Carmen needed to proceed on the other direction.

They finally made it to the basement where some cars that were destined for museum VIP transportation where stored. Carmen choose a black bimmer M5 and prodded opened urging them to get in.

"You drive," Carmen said once she got it to start to Kevin. "I need to shoot at the ones that will fallow us."

"This is not good."

They got out of the museum's basement into the roads, making their way rather fast through the maze that was London's streets. Surely enough three black Cadillac SUVs started to fallow them.

"They are onto us." Zack said alarmed.

"I know, I'll take care of them." Carmen said opening the moonroof and positioning herself with her favorite long range gun on her hand.

"Where do you keep all your guns?" Ivy said scared.

"Close to my heart." Carmen said. Bam Bam Bam three shots and one of the SUVs got its radiator pulverized nearly colliding with the second one.

They kept coming but now the roads where more tight and Kevin was making all his effort to keep them from colliding with anything.

"Keep it cool Kevin and go to the highway." Carmen said trying to nail another SUV. Bam Bam. The second SUV shoot at them, breaking the passenger's side mirror an another one hit the roof close to Carmen. She lowered herself to avoid anymore shoots. "Uff, don't' want to get shoot only to have doctor Kevin here curing me." She said with a smile.

"You smiling at time like this?" Kevin said, he couldn't believe it but Carmen was enjoying this way too much.

"Relax, this is all playtime for me." She assured him with a wink and suddenly he didn't felt scared, he just enjoyed driving fast.

But the second SUV kept firing at them and Carmen couldn't get on top nor out the sides to return fire.

"Move a little Kevin. Swirl, shift, drive this V10 faster." Carmen urged him.

"I'm trying this is new for me."

"Oh we need to give you lessons if you want to come with me."

"Wait what, what are you doing?"

"Move it let me drive."

"But who is going to shoot at them, I'm getting very sick back here." Zack said curled on the backseat while Ivy protected him.

Kevin managed to get out of the drivers' seat while Carmen moved to it. As soon as she felt in control she slammed that gas and drove like mad. Both SUV's had trouble catching up to the fast bimmer, but something in her mind told her to finish them all there. She took out her trusty Matchmaster and started to double load it.

"What are you doing?" Ivy said when she caught a glimpse of light reflected from the metal on Carmen's gun.

Kevin had been looking at the road and only reacted when Ivy spoke.

"Wait what are you going to do now?" He asked knowing well he didn't wanted to know the answer.

"I'll show you what feeling alive feels like." She said smiling and looking at him.

She made the car skid to the left, making it drift in a linear path so that the driver's window faced the main SUV. She lowered the window, pulled her gun out and just waited for the right moment. Her other hand hard on the steering wheel, holding it tightly against the torque forced produced by the tight turn she had taken. Her feet slammed against the gas pedal that was forced hard against the back it could as well be welded to it.

Seconds passed with this action, but as soon as the driver in the SUV saw her move he did the same. He exposed his driver's side to the car and took out his gun.

"Big mistake, asshole." Carmen said as she pulled the trigger. BamBam Bam. Her double shot went clean above the front wheel, hitting the air suspension system and making the SUV loose balance. The second shot got the wheel and it made the whole SUV tumble forward and hard. Killing the assailant that was on the driver side the instant it hit the pavement. The passenger went flying out the window landing hard on the bonnet of the second SUV, scaring the driver and making him slam the SUV on the side rails. Both passenger and driver in the second SUV lurched forward slamming their heads on the windshield, breaking their skulls on it as they passed through the glass.

Carmen quickly corrected the drift making the car lurch forward and continued her way through the lighted highway. She closed the passenger window, turned on some music, put her gun away behind her back and relaxed putting her arm on the side rest.

Kevin, Ivy and Zack where still in shock after witnessing this disaster and just stared at her.

"What?" She said amused and smiled at them. "It's all a days work."

End of Chapter 10

Oh yes… I'm back and with a vengeance. What did you guys think about this chapter? Does the action look real?