SORRY! Life has been so hard with college and transferring schools and then work. Finally here is the next chapter. It is somewhat short but it's still an update that is way long overdue. Sorry again.

Venquine1990: She will find out who she really is but not right now. I kinda have 3 different ideas on how the news is given to her but haven't decided on one.

I don't own Sly Cooper

Chapter 5: Family Life

A few years have passed and Katrina is already 18 and is basically an adult. If you factor in animal years and blah blah blah. She would be in her what, 30s ha-ha. She is out of high school and is almost finished with college. I know it might be somewhat confusing but bare with me. I have a friend in a similar predicament with her own genius sister.

Sly sat on Carmelita's right side on the couch looking up at the white board that was placed in front of them. Carmelita was trying to stay upright while Sly tried to stay awake.

"Ugh!" Sly groaned in a whisper. "Why did you have to have such a smart child for a daughter?! I can't even understand her." He spat silently at Carmelita.

She threw him a nasty scowl. "Hey, this is your fault. Having Bentley babysit her while we went out for dates and even our honeymoon. That was 3 weeks of Bentley!" She hissed back. "And she is your daughter too you know."

Sly sat up and rubbed his temples. "Yeah well, it was better than having Murray watch her."

"Subaru could have watched her."

"You really think Subaru is capable of watching Katrina? Think of all the trouble they might have possibly gotten into."

Carmelita was going to rebut his stamen but then thought for a moment. "You have a point."

"Are you guys even listening?" They both snap their heads towards Katrina.

"Of course we are sweetie. But you lost us at 4 pie r squared divided by 3.53." Sly said.

"Really? I was lost back at the square root of 9 minus that wired half infinity symbol thingy." Both Sly and Katrina looked at her.

"Mom. That was at the very beginning of the problem. And that symbol means varies as."

"Huh?"

"You know, if y = 2x, then y ∝ x." Carmelita looks at Sly. "Its basic proportionality constant."

"Exactly." Katrina said with a smile. "And then V ≅ C2 × C2,"

"But wouldn't it be better to use the x := y, y =: x or x ≡ y formula?"

"Uhh…..I guess I could use that one but it wouldn't make it congruent to the isomorphic." Katrina pulled her arm back from the board and started to scratch her head in frustration. Carmelita didn't know what to say and just looked between them.

Sly then got up and took the marker from his daughters hand. He then started to write out some letters that Carmelita could only follow as L's and a sideways V with a very circular E and then a P.

"What if the polynomial-time many-one reducible to, If L1 ≺ L2 and L2 ∈ P, then L1 ∈ P?"

"That really doesn't make any sense to me yet. I can only figure out that L would be congruent to P if x2 = 4 ⇒ x = 2."

"Huh? Oh wait….I see what you're saying. Never mind." He laughed and erased his writing.

"How do you know any of this Sly? We have been married for 8 years and I never knew you could do all this math stuff."

"Sweetheart. There is a lot you still don't know about me." He turned to her and smiled.

"That and he locked himself out of the car when he would drop me off for school and would be stuck sitting in with me while he waited for the locksmith." Katrina smiled while crossing her arms and cocking an eyebrow over at her dad. Sly's ears went up and his cheeks turned red.

"You said you would never tell her that." He loomed over her.

"Ha-ha! And how many times have you locked yourself out of the car?" Sly hunched over in defeat as both his wife and daughter laughed at him.

"Once," Carmelita stopped laughing.

"Then….there is no way your learned all this from one 3 hour class."

"It seemed interesting and I sorta, maybe tagged along with her when she went to her math class." He looked over at Carmelita and saw a softness in her smile. "Plus I thought it would be nice to be able to help her let alone have a conversation with her when she comes home for that class."

"Aww….." Carmelita got up off the couch and walked over to him and kissed his cheek. "You are so sweet." He smiled.

"You really picked a good one mom. He doesn't even flinch when the female teachers hit on him." She smiled again while giving a small chuckle.

Sly cursed himself and then froze when Carmelita's hand stayed on his cheek for a while. She didn't pull back from her kiss and then she let out a small breath that sent chills down Sly's spine.

"You are digging my own grave here." He looked over at Katrina who had a smile of victory plastered all over her face.

"You started this war when you chased off Edward."

"Yeah well….Ah…" Sly stopped his rant when he felt Carmelita's fingers grab onto his fur and pulled his cheek away from her face. As she pulled back and Sly managed to open his eyes through the pain of having his fur pulled, he wished he hadn't. "Ah….babe?"

Carmelita's eyes were emotionless. Her once golden eyes were now covered by the shadows of her hair. Making it seem like they were a black hole. And then just before she could even think about saying anything, Katrina spoke up.

"All in all he really is a nice guy. When they would hit on him it would go right over his head. Literally. This one time I found him waiting for me at center courts at a table and even had my favorite drink with him. Then before I could call out to him Ms. Jones sat down and said the cheesiest line. 'You waiting for me handsome?'" She started to laugh. "It was hilarious that I almost busted out laughing. Almost because she was making a break for my drink when dad swooped it out of her reach and then said," She was cut off.

"I told her that I was waiting for my daughter and this is her cup that I got for her." Sly said with his eyes still closed.

"She still didn't take the hint and said that I wouldn't notice and what I don't know won't hurt me. That's when dad saw me and called out to me."

"I got up and then gave her the hot chocolate and then Katrina said, 'Hey Ms. Jones.'" Sly gave a weak laugh and then looked at Carmelita through squinted eyes.

"Ms. Jones? The one that works at the library?" Sly nodded his head. "That conniving jack rabbit."

"She backed off when she saw me and then looked back at dad. She then asked him if I was his daughter, oh mom, you should have seen her face."

By this time Carmelita had already let go of Sly how then went and hid behind Katrina.

"She then asked about you and I said that I was married to you and then her once black fur turned white. As if she recalled a memory. Did something happen between you two when you were younger?" He gave his wife a puzzling look. Carmelita just gave a small giggle.

"I may have….knocked her front teeth out…when she copied my test and then said I cheated off her when she was the one sitting behind me in history B II. Stupid teacher believed her and I got detention."

"You mean British literature? I loved that class." Katrina said.

"That's all you took from that?!" Sly looked between them. "You got detention and then took out the most sacred teeth out of a rabbit?!" Carmelita looked at him and then blushed a little. "Oh wow. I think I fell in love with you again." He gave her his sideways grin and Carmelita just laughed and shook her head.

Katrina just rolled her eyes and went back to her board. Just then they heard the doorbell ring and Katrina ran and opened it. She squealed and jumped into Murray's arms.

"Uncle Murray! What are you doing here?"

"Well, little lady, we are here to pick up your pops because we have a miss-oof!" He was silenced by an elbow to his gut.

"What Murray is trying to say is that we planned to hang out today and we just came to grab your dad from you guys for a couple of hours." Bentley smiled at her and then looked at Sly who just squeezed the bridge of his nose. "What?" He shrugs.

"Ooooo….can I go too?!" Katrina smiled and jumped up and down.

"Huh?" Bentley was confused.

"She kinda….ugh!" Sly started but never finished. Carmelita then stepped in and told them about their last mission.

"She had always asked about where you guys go when you come to pick Sly up or when Sly would head over to your place. She would always ask to go but was never allowed. Then one day she got curious and snuck out that night you went to Rome for the weekend. She said she was heading over to a friend's home to work on a project and it didn't dawn on me that she already finished it just two days before."

~~A Few Months Ago~~

"Okay mom I'm heading out now." Katrina said as she opened the front door to leave.

"Have fun sweetheart." Carmelita hugged her and kissed her forehead. Her tail wrapping around them both in a tighter hug. Katrina's doing the same.

"When is dad coming home?" Carmelita's ears stood up and her tail fell back behind her.

"Umm….probably not until Monday morning."

"Oh." Her face fell.

"I know you want to go with him but where they go you can't follow. Not because he doesn't want you to but….." she trailed off.

"But what?"

"It's is hard to explain dear. When he comes back we will talk about this to help you understand. Ok?"

"Yeah I guess. Well see you later mom."

She ran down the street and headed towards her friend's house, also in the direction of the train station. She smiled and took out her new toy that she made while staying over at her uncle Bentley's place. His girlfriend Penelope has been helping her make a shrinkable cane. She saw her dad hold one, one night he came home late from one of his outings. She was getting some water and saw this awesome cane that he placed in the safe he shared with her mom.

She brought out her small baton and unclasped it and it sprung out into a similar cane. But instead of what looked like a 'C' to her on Sly's cane hers had a 'K'. It was more curved than a straight lined 'K' so she would be able to grab certain parts of ledges and swing on ropes or even zip line. She had tried it once a few times before and she had to make a few adjustments to the cane.

While she was doing this she had also been working out. She even surprised her parents when she joined the wrestling team at school. She said she had always wanted to try since her uncle Murray was a star at it. Of course she lied and only was participating because she wanted the body strength to pull herself up over roof tops and the strength the pull herself off a rope she swings on.

But also she has taken a liking to taking down guys during her matches with ease. She has gotten so good that she is heading over to nationals in a few weeks and she is not really that excited but she is happy. Murray is way stoked and is always looking forward to her meets. After every win he always bows to her and says, 'The Murray has taught you well.'

She runs up the platform of the station and gives her ticket to one of the guards and hoped on the train. She sat on one of the many empty seats and smiled.

"Okay, time to put this baby in action and finally see what you are up too dad." She smiles as she reclines her seat back and closes her eyes.

Back home Carmelita is sitting down drinking a cup of tea and is reading a book when she got a thought in her head. She shakes the feeling away and grabs her cup and takes a sip of her Jasmine tea that Penelope gave her to try when they first hung out. She laughs a little at the thought of her hanging out at her age.

She takes a sip and smiled in content. She then goes in for another sip when her eyes shot open and her ears stood up. She slowly lowers the drink from her mouth.

"She finished her project two days ago."

She got up and headed up stairs to her daughters room and opened the door. She looked around and then saw her paper sitting on her desk with all her notes stacked right next to it. She then went over to the side of the desk to look at her to-do list. She looked at everything that Katrina has written down for this week's goals.

And there at the top of her list was her project that was already crossed off. Carmelita shook her head at not thinking of this before and was about to leave the room when a poster caught her eye. She moved around the desk again and saw a white poster hidden behind many notes and sticky notes. She never noticed because she thought it all had to do with homework but the word 'Rome' caught her eye.

"What is all this?" She starts to read some of the notes.

'Never drives a car when he leaves, always in the pimped out van when picked up.'

'Goes only too well guarded places.'

'Museums, banks, gang hideouts(Probably knows because of the news), art galleries.'

'Why? What is he after? What are they after?'

'Italy, Spain, Brazil?, Germany,'

Carmelita read over many more notes and then saw a map of all of Europe. She then saw different places circled in red marker and some notes on them. She even saw some notes on Rome and had a lot of question marks.

"Oh Katrina, what are you doing?" She left her room and headed to her office and then hit a button that was under the bottom drawer of her desk and pressed it. She looked to her left and a click was heard and she then pressed the wall inward and then the hidden door slid to the left and she walked through the wall. "Still surprised Sly hasn't found this place." She smiled a little.

She went over to another desk she had that was placed in front of computer monitors. She logged into her system and then took off her collar she always wore and placed it in a holder that scanned her pendent and it then brought up a map on one of the screens.

She then typed in Katrina's name and it started to decipher her location. "Hopefully she hasn't figured out that I placed a chip in her necklace." She said as she thought about the collar that she wore that Sly had given her. Carmelita then smiled at the memory because he gave it to her when he married her. He then told Katrina that if she will have him he wasn't to, in a sense, marry her as well. Making another everlasting promise to be the best dad that he could be.

She then laughed out loud recalling Katrina looking up at her and asked if she could kiss daddy too and marry him. Everyone at the wedding started to laugh at her innocents and she said she could only after she does. Sly then placed the collar on her neck and Katrina fingered it. Instead of it looking like a police badge like her moms it was in the shape of Sly's signature calling card but more circular. In the center it had a star in the middle with two small canes in the back of it. Then it had her favorite flower right in the center of the star.

"Tiger Lilly." Carmelita said to her computer and then it replied back.

"Password accepted."

Then the map zoomed in and then a small red dot started to blink on the screen. She could see that she was moving along the railroad.

"She is on a train?!" She then looks up train times and saw the one that she was on. "Oh boy. Headed east bound to Rome. This is just perfect." She shook her head. And went to go and grab the phone she uses only to communicate with Sly. But before she could grab the phone she stopped. "Hmmm…..Maybe I should see where this may go." She pulled her hand back and leaned into her chair. "I guess it is about time she learned what the family life is all about. Well, at least his family life."