Hey everyone,
For this chapter I decided on a little time jump of a few months as well as to do something little fun – something more commonly known as sweet revenge. And sorry, but just having the team quit their jobs doesn't feel like it was enough revenge for the emotional terror Barkley put Carmelita through the entire time, so yeah.
Let's have fun,
Venquine1990
PS. Credits For This Story Go To Kitty Petro
Murray's POV
It's been two months now since Sly's birthday, since Bentley and I actually got canes of our own and since the Master, Bentley and I became like a side team to Sly as he became busier and busier – as well as happier and happier – with getting the new part of our team – the Fox Family – ready to be official Master Thieves.
The four of them are doing really great and take to Sly's lessons just as great as Bentley and I did when we were learning from him when we were just kids and Sly only had his memories of his father's lessons to go by, yet it's the life and progress of one of them that has had my interest ever since she joined us.
I don't know what it is about Helena Fox, but something about the peach-color furred, brown-eyed fox draws me in and the way her body bends and moves entices me and makes me glad that we barely ever train alongside her and her family as I just know that I would be too distracted with looking at her to do any proper training.
Yeah, it has taken a lot of years before I got to this point, but now I finally understand why Sly always loved his chases with the former inspector Fox as I enjoy spending time with Helena just as much as he used to and while Bentley and the Master seem perfectly onto me and my growing feelings – is Sly in a world of his own.
Of course I understood what he said when he spoke Italian to Carmelita in the back Urmilla's designer shop and the Raccoon has definitely been coming true to his promise of showing her how the treasures and emotions of his heart were for her and her alone as he has started several special little rituals of personal romance with her.
One of them was that, whoever woke up first would wait for the other in the kitchen and if Carmelita woke up first she would be allowed to pick out whatever it was that she wanted us to have for breakfast, if Sly woke up first, Carmelita would join him at the stove and would wrap her arms around him from behind as he worked.
The two always talked while Sly cooked and while Carmelita sometimes helped Sly along by fetching a certain ingredient Sly was missing while cooking, did Sly never really accept for anyone bar himself to make breakfast and while the fox had been confused by this at first, had she grown to just accept it as time went on.
Another little ritual of theirs is that, after dinner, they would always spend at least an hour in each other's arms in Sly's personal chair and while I had felt shocked the first few times to see how easily Sly accepted the fox in his chair, do I still remember how he had commented that this allowed him more time close to her.
And this is something I can understand more and more the longer the Fox Family stays at our place, something they have done permanently after they officially resigned from their jobs at Interpol – and Sophia with her job at the local Hospital – the more I just want to be close and spend time with the middle child of the Fox family.
Yet, while Sly, Bentley and I have been spending a lot of time with them, have we also been spending an even amount of level of time with just the three of us, simply because that is something we are so used to none of us want to stop it now that our team has gained members – something all the others more than understood.
Yet while the three of us are now easily spending time together, me playing a little game of on the game machine Bentley was able to build and install with a game of his own design, Sly reading through the Thiefnet magazine in order to see if there are any potential targets for us to go after, does Bentley suddenly say:
"Hey Sly, remember that one plan Murray and I thought of about two months after we settled down here?" To this I pause my game to look at the turtle as I do have a bit of an idea of which plan he is talking about, while Sly looks up, the look on his face proving he was too deep into his magazine to have really heard the turtle.
"You mean the one Sly absolutely refused to go through? Operation No Plan, Not Yet?" To this Sly looks shocked as he must have apparently completely forgotten about that one, yet the look that grows on Bentley's face as I mention the name proves that I did indeed read his question right before he snickers: "Exactly, that one."
And while I wonder if Sly would still be against this plan as it involved Interpol, something that always made Sly turn down the plan as he didn't want to cause more problems for Carmelita than necessary, yet just one look at my leader – and still the youngest member of my family – proves that this is no longer the case.
The look that is now on the Raccoon's face could easily be seen on the face of a Cobra when it is about to puncture its prey or foe with its deadly poison and then Sly speaks and his words decide what the team will soon be doing: "Two months sure is enough time to make him believe himself free of payback, don't you agree?"
And while the deadly smirk on Bentley's face proves that he really has grown to consider the Fox Family as part of his own – just like Helena hinted at when we met them – do I personally just feel like the actual dangerous beast that I am as I sometimes felt like just opening my big mouth and munching on Barkley right to his death.
Yet, while I know that this plan will not allow me to do anything remotely like that, do I still feel like following up with this plan and just like all the other times do I feel blessed and super-excited over the fact that I am part of this here gang as I can't imagine anyone else I would want to take down that bastard with, ever.
That night
Helen's POV
I don't always know what Sly, Bentley and Murray do during their little time together while Carmelita and I had a little bit of girl time together in her room, yet it's obvious that, whatever it is, it makes them very excited and this excitement has been shown on all of their faces all throughout dinner and after.
Yet just when Sly and Carmelita have started their usual hour of cuddling, does Sly then speak up, something he hasn't done much so far and he says: "Hey gang, you remember how Bentley, Murray, Guru and I came back from a really difficult heist about two weeks ago now?" To this we all nod and I remember that time.
It had indeed been two weeks ago and Sly and the Gang had been gone for a good four days. Carmelita had proven that she had noticed this the most of us all as she looked really sad making breakfast for us and just as sad after dinner when she would move into their chair and cuddle with herself for a few minutes.
After this she would go to bed and while she had tried not to show how much she had missed Sly at first after he returned, had Sly not had the same intentions as he had pulled her close to his form, kissed her almost into a coma and whispered all kinds of sweet words in a combination of Italian, Spanish and English.
This had broken my sister's mask of indifference and the two had spent a good two hours closely together before they had almost agreed that they should move their relationship to the next level by having either of them move into the same room as the other, yet in the end they had agreed to wait on this just a little longer.
Then Sly brings me back from memory lane and he says: "Well, this time you guys can come with us." All of us look at him shocked and the excitable smile that has been adorning his face now actually has a strong hint of malice in it that makes me wonder what his connection is to his next target before dad asks:
"Wait, you guys already have a new target?" To this Sly nods and says: "To be honest, this is actually a slow period for us. We usually have about four to six targets in these months and then a good one or two dozen in about two months from now all the way until – I think, Easter?" He asks and Bentley nods before he goes on:
"Anyway, usually, yes, it does take us a few more weeks before we get our next target, yet there is also one job we have been postponing practically ever since my friends and I settled down here." This confuses me as well as my family and dad asks: "Why postpone a plan for that long? Haven 't you been here for years now?"
Sly nods and then tightens his hold on Carmelita as the malice disappears out of his smile and gets exchanged for romantic care as he says: "We postponed it, because it concerned a location that I was against targeting – namely Interpol." This shocks my entire family and then Sly turns to his girlfriend as he softly says:
"I was constantly against that target, lovely, I just didn't want to cause you anymore problems than necessary or would be considered required for the profession I lived up to. Yet, now that you are part of my team and now that two months have passed – don't you think it's time we show that lowlife that his payback has yet to end?"
And while I feel amazed that, even before Carmelita fell for the Raccoon, she had enough of his loyalty to her that he didn't want to harm her reputation more than required of him, do I fully agree with the new game plan of the Raccoon and then Carmelita proves me that she is all in as she smirks herself and says:
"Oh yes, I agree, my nefarious Ringtail. And I even know how to make this plan of yours even better. I know of Interpol's most hidden little treasure and – if we can manage to get to that, steal it and then show it out to the public – it will not just embarrass Barkley even more than we did in front of his superiors – it might even ruin Interpol."
And while I wonder how on earth she could have found out about something like this, about something even I didn't know the existence of, does this make the gleeful malice that is shown on Murray and Bentley's face, does Sly reward his girlfriend with a searing kiss before he huskily whispers at her:
"Tell us everything, my Carmen, we are all ears." And with that do we all hunch over to sit close together, does Sly place Carmelita on his lap with his arms around her waist and do we go over all that Carmelita has to tell us, me shocked at what she discovered about this treasure, as well as the plan that Bentley aptly calls:
Operation No Plan, Not Yet – NOW!
Okay, short, but sweet.
Okay, so I didn't actually write out this so-called target that I'm pretty sure you all read about at the start of last chapter, yet I did want to make it look as if Sly and the others do more than train up the Fox Family, yet I didn't really have any thought up info regarding their target, so Helena only remembered their return.
Now, next chapter will definitely be much longer as it will concern the actual operation and I will probably have it be in multiple Points of View, which reminds me: WARNING: MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW COME UP NEXT CHAPTER! Sorry, I had someone complain about that at - I think it was actually another story.
Have fun,
Venquine1990
