Here is another chapter for you all. Hope you like it. Oh! Mrhawkprime, challenge accepted. Just let me finish this story first. Gotta finish what I start.

I don't own Cooper!

Chapter 4: Daddy part 1

Two weeks went by after that night when the gang spent the night at Carmelita's. She still had some business to deal with that she wanted finished before anything. Chief Barkley said it was fine and for her to leave everything to him and the guys at Interpol. She would always head to the station at night to avoid that annoying Cat Steven. He had been pulling some double shifts to just meet up with her and she hated it.

She sighed as she laid her head down on the table. "Ugh!"

"What's wrong momma?" Katrina came up next to her.

"Oh," she lifted her head up. "Nothing really. Just have some work that I need to take over to the station and get things filed before we cane head out tomorrow."

"Then we can finally have fun?"

"Yes, we can finally have some fun that we have been missing for far too long." She reached down and placed a hand on her head and ruffled her grey and black locks of hair. "How come you got dad's hair? I would have liked to have black hair."

This confused Katrina. "What?"

Carmelita caught herself. "Oh, nothing. I was just thinking to myself is all."

Katrina just shrugged her shoulders and walked away. Letting Carmelita mentally slap herself. She shook her head and got up from the table and grabbed a file from her desk. She went towards her front door and grabbed a jacket. She turned to see Katrina playing with her toys.

"I'm going to be heading out soon. Let's just hope that your babysitter gets here soon…" just then the doorbell rang. "Speaking of the devil." She opened the door and saw the whole Cooper gang. "Or more like devils." One of her ears dropped in confusion.

Sly just shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry, they wanted to come."

"Oh yeah! The Murray is the greatest babysitter."

"I'm just here to watch him, and not try out my new helicopter backpack on a test subject and then modify the item to fit a larger scale model and then fuse it to my seat." Bentley was reading his blue prints.

"Uh…don't mind him. He just…"

"Wants to use my daughter as a test subject for a jetpack backpack?"

"Helicopter backpack." Bentley corrected.

Carmelita just put her head down and shook her head. Her tail wagging behind her in irritation.

"You heading somewhere far?" Sly asked as the guys went past them both and Katrina screamed in joy.

"No, just to the office and back. Want to take these files to Barkley so he can finish some paperwork."

"Why doesn't he do them himself or get someone else to do it? You're on vacation."

"It was some cases I was working on. I want to finish them myself and not let anyone screw up my work."

Sly smiled and then grabbed her hands in his and brought them near his face. He kissed her knuckles and then spoke softly. "Hurry back, I'm making pasta tonight." He then placed one hand on the side of her face and she leaned into his touch.

"I will. Be back soon." She grabbed his hand and then kissed the inside of his palm.

He smiled and he then watched as she started to walk down the sidewalk. Her orange tail flowing behind her and her hips swaying with each step. This made Sly want to run up to her and…WACK! Down went Sly.

"Ha! I told you the Murray could hit a target while standing on his head."

Sly got up and saw a pillow laying right next to him on the porch. He got into the cobra stretching potion and looked over his shoulder. He could see Murray doing the cabbage-patch dance and his eyes then narrowed and his ears went flat against his head. He got up and picked up the pillow.

"So, is this a declaration of war?" He said while patting the pillow in his hand.

Murray's face went from a joyful expression to an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He looked over at Bentley only to find track marks from his wheelchair. He searched for his turtle friend and found him in a self made pillow fortress and was hiding behind a wall of pillows. He then saw some ears pop up from behind Bentley's helmet and saw that Katrina was behind the wall too.

"You gone an done it now Murray. Did you happen to forget that Sly is the master of the secret pillow techniques? And did you forget what he did to Bobby Blue Mouth that one time when we were still in school?"

"Booby Blue-who?" Katrina asked.

"He was a friend in school who thought he was the king of pillows. But Sly made him go from blue mouth to red mouth."

"Oh, can you do that to Murray?" She asked with a smile.

"Hey, who's side are you on?" Murray said.

He looked back at Sly who had brought the pillow to his side and then smiled evilly. Murray's eyes then went wider than the pizza he had for lunch when he saw Sly cocked the pillow. And his heart stopped beating when he heard the pillow itself make the sound of a loading gun. Sly then flew from the porch to the inside of Carmelita's house. The door slammed shut behind him and then there was a loud thump. Followed by a very high pitched scream.

Carmelita with her strong hearing heard the scream from where she stood which was six blocks away. She hung her head down and sighed.

"I hope I still have a house still standing when I get home." She smiled a little. Then it faded just a little. "Agh! What is going on with my life? If I am an officer of the law and then the next thing…I'm falling for that blasted raccoon hard." She continued to walk towards the station while pondering this thought.

She couldn't believe that he was making her feel this way. She couldn't believe it even more that she let that ringtail into her bed. Her face went red. She could still feel his warmth around her even though it had been a few weeks. She smiled at herself. Then her ears went up and fear tugged at her heart.

"Oh, what would papi say about this? He would have a heart attack. Mama would probably think it's true love." She smiled again. And even gave a small chuckle. As she looked up she saw the Interpol building ahead. She looked towards the parking and saw no sign of that damn cat. She smiled and hurried in. she saw a few people working at their desks. It was getting to that time where everyone was either out on patrol or heading home. She saw one of her only friends still sitting at her desk in the corner of the second floor. She walked over and saw her tiger friend Lillie asleep. She smiled and then laughed as she saw some drool coming out of her mouth.

"Umm….Lillie? Wake up. You have drool coming out of your mouth and it's getting on your paperwork." She nudged her friend.

She started to stir. "Ugh! What do you want Kyle? I still have five minutes." Carmelita laughed.

"Who's this Kyle?" Her friend shot up. A piece of her paperwork sticking to her face.

"What?!" She shook her head and looked around. She then saw Carmelita looking at her with her arm crossed over her body and the other up by her mouth holding her chin. She also had a sly smile on her face. "You heard nothing."

"I heard everything." Carmelita said with an evil smile. "How this person holds you, how they smile at you, how…"

"Okay, so I have been seeing this one wolf. I would have told you about it but there just wasn't anytime during the day and I wanted to see if this went anywhere before I actually…." She tried off when she noticed Carmelita was laughing uncontrollably. "What?!"

"I just heard you speak the name Kyle. You fell for the rest. For all I knew it could have been a girl's name but oh…was it so much more."

The tigers ears stood up straight and her eyes went wide. "So…you mean….that is not cool. Not at all." She turned in her chair and went back to doing her work. Carmelita stopped laughing and only a few small giggles escaped her lips as she went up to her friend.

"Oh come on. You would have told me eventually."

"Yeah but I wanted to make sure this dude wasn't an jerk before I told you about him. Last time you saw that one guy make a fool out of me when we went out to eat."

"Yeah, and then I sucker punched him and eat fell into someone else's food and then got punched again by that pit-bull."

"It was supposed to be a secret."

"Oh fine, you want to know a secret that I have been keeping from Barkley?"

The tigers ears perked up and she spun around in her chair. "Spill it."

Carmelita smiled and took a deep breath. "You know Cooper?"

"That hot grey raccoon that practically every female animal in this universe is in love with, including you?" this left Carmelita speechless for a second.

"Uh…yes."

"What about him?"

"He spent the night in my house a few weeks ago."

Her friend didn't make any sudden moves. She just sat there. Carmelita looked at her and then asked why she wasn't surprised.

"Oh! Right. Um…what?! No way you let that man inside your home?! Uh…that is….ah…"

"You already knew didn't you?" Carmelita raised an eyebrow at Lillie and gave her the death glare. The tiger sank in her chair as the fox leaned over her.

"Uh…okay Subaru came to me about five days ago and we had lunch and she told me about the time that she saw you and that raccoon kissing on your front porch and how he went inside your home and how he didn't come back out and she said she saw him leaving your home the next morning and then she saw the whole gang go some other time and they too spent the night." Her friend took a deep breath and then whimpered.

Carmelita's jaw was hanging wide open. Her eyes looked like they wanted to come out of their sockets. She then closed her eyes and scrunched her brows and then brought her hand up and pushed her brows together in frustration.

"What else did she tell you?"

"Nothing more. That you looked really happy."

"You haven't told Barkley at all?" She looked back at the cat.

"Why would I do that?! That would ruin your happiness. Why would anyone do that to a person?"

Carmelita smiled. She just hugged her friend and also shocked her. She never ever gives out hugs to anyone. Carmelita just turned and walked towards Barkley's office leaving her stunned friend behind.

Carmelita entered the room and Barkley was writing on his note pad. She laughed.

"Working on something chief?"

"Yes, something very important."

"Work?"

"Grocery list." He heard someone laugh and looked up. "Carmelita?! What are you doing here?" She held up her files. "Oh yeah, the files."

She handed them to him and he began to read them. He then asked for the file on Mugshot.

"What?! It's not there?!"

"Uh, no it isn't."

"Oh! I must have left it on my desk. I'll go and get it."

"I would hurry, you know who is going to be here any minute now." This caused her to groan. She was just about to leave the office when Barkley called out to her. "He better be treating you right."

This caused her stop skid to a stop. "Umm, sir?"

"You know what I mean. I may be old but I'm not blind. Even though it says so on my driver's license. Blasted DMV." He continued to write down on his not pad. "Ah, eggs and milk. Ha, I knew I forgot something."

She just looked at her boss and then turned to walk away. As she left the building she had a small smile on her face. She was so wrapped up in the moment that she didn't even see the shadow figure jumping along the roof tops.

Sly landed on top of the building right across from the Interpol building. She looked at the roof and saw some police tape along the door that gave access to the roof.

"Oh perfect." He looked down at the front doors and then sucked in a deep breath. "Well, got to get these to her boss." He pulled his hood over his head. Not wearing his usual hat for he didn't want to give away who he was. He hugged the file close to his chest as he jumped off the roof.

He went to the front doors and then walked in. There was no one at the front desk and Sly let out a deep breath that he didn't even know he was holding in. he knew the chief's office was on the second floor. He chuckled to himself thinking he would have wanted his office to be on the top floor. As he made his way up the stairs and into the work area. He questioned why there was hardly anyone there. He looked around and when he thought for once, that he was in the clear, he ran into someone and papers went everywhere.

"Ugh!" The person he hit made a sound as they hit the floor.

"Oh, I am so sorry. I didn't see you there." Sly said as he tried to help up the fallen animal.

"What the?! Ah great, all my files are all messed up. Thanks a lot you…" they turned to see their file wreaker. "Sly Cooper?!" They almost yelled.

"What?!" Sly tried to hid his face.

'Oh come on, that hood fools no one. Plus I practically know your bone structure and facial features and might have a few hidden picture of you in my desk…."

Sly didn't catch the last part. "What?"

"Oh nothing." Lillie got up off the floor. "So what do you want raccoon?" She crossed her arms.

"Uh, well I was just here for one thing but now I'm here for two. First thing is a question. Why haven't you arrested me yet?"

"You want me to?" She pulled out a pair of handcuffs. Sly backed away.

"Ah! No I just was wondering." He held up his hands. "And I was just here to drop off something Carmelita forgot."

"Oh good. Cause I am terrible at fighting people and can barely get handcuffs on a dummy." She laughed. And Sly just gave her a questioned look. "I'm a police officer that works in the field as an anthropologist." This lost Sly even more. "Ugh, why doesn't anyone know what that is?"

"Uh, that's like…someone who works with bones, right?"

"Yes! Finally someone knows. I just go out when they have a body that can't be recognized. Otherwise I am here just looking at puzzles that no one else can figure out. Lie that stupid riddle that damn puzzler leaves everywhere." Lillie started to pick up her papers.

"What's the puzzle?" Sly asked as he bent over and helped her.

"Thanks. Just this stupid riddle that I just haven't had time to solve." She found that paper and gave it to him.

Sly read it. "Hit me and I will crack, but you won't stop me from looking back." He thought and then asked a question. "This other one is somehow connected to this one."

"That's right but I can't figure out how it is."

"The more there is the less you see. Hmmm…." He thought.

"Damn guys around here make it so hard for me to figure this out. They ask for help when it is their job and then bug me about it saying if I'm done with it and…."

"A mirror." Sly interrupted.

"What?" She looked at the raccoon.

"A mirror. The first riddle. If you hit a mirror it cracks but when you look at it you still see yourself. The next one is darkness. The more darkness then the less you see. To me this sounds like that one antique mirror shop down that one ally. Right off of parks way."

Lillie just looked at him. He just looked back.

"What?"

"That actually makes sense." She grabbed the paper from his hand and went back to her desk and started to talk to herself.

"Umm…." Sly just walked backwards towards Barkley's office.

He looked around inside the office to see that no one was there. He smiled thinking he could get in place the file on the desk and the get out. But luck wasn't on his side. As he turned to leave after placing the file on the desk he hear a chair squeak.

"Cooper." He heard a raspy voice.

Dun-dun-dun! Sorry it is so short. Had this work in progress and time slipped by and work got long. This chapter isn't finished but it's been a month.