Richard

He'd just heard a loud bang come from the direction that he was heading in. His guard was on full alert. When he knew what he wanted, he always got it, and right now he wanted to bring these girls down. Victor had been cut off and he'd cut himself off from Garfield. He knew that the third and final thief would have to be in this area seeing as the other thieves had been in the other two key points of the building. All that was left was to bring her down.

He tensed his body, waiting for something, anything that would indicate where she was.

'Wimp. You can't even find the courage to actually go and look for her.'

'Shut up! This gives me an advantage because then I can ambush her when she doesn't know it.'

'Wimp.'

He decided to end the inward battle with his conscious and focus on his mission. He decided to prove his mind wrong and go look for the girl. He soon came across the main office. Its door had been kicked down.

'Of course.'

He made his way over to the doorframe, being careful not to make a sound. He crouched next to the doorframe, examining the damage and where it had been inflicted. It had been ripped clean off of its hinges.

'Wow. Must be stronger than she looks.'

He peeked head his around the frame and examined the room. There were many monitors lined up on one side of the room, all of them displaying fuzzy screens.

'Hmmm'

Papers had been scattered across the large oak desk and a few across the floor. His eyes were attached to the open safe next to the bookcase. He slowly rose from his crouching position and side-stepped around the fallen door into the dark yet well furnished room. More curious than anything he approached the safe and looked inside.

'Everything's gone.'

'What did you expect?! You stood around that corner arguing with me for too long!'

'Well if you hadn't of started an argument with me in the first place then we wouldn't be in this situation, would we?'

'Focus Richard, get back on track and stop her before she escapes.'

'Shut up.'

For the second time that night he had to pull himself out of a mind war that he would probably end up losing. He regained focus on the room to notice that a faint green glowing was coming from behind him.

Kori

'Damn! That made a loud noise.'

She stepped over the threshold of the room and walked across the fallen door. Before her there were many different monitors displaying different images and various other gadgets and machinery. She strolled up to the camera in the corner of the room and reached up to disable it. One of the monitors in the room went blank at her action, displaying only a fuzzy screen. She set to work disabling the other cameras and soon all of the monitors were mimicking the first. Next, Kori collected all of the CD's that may have shown her and her accomplices acts of thievery. After completing this task she lit a starbolt and surveyed the shadowed room. She named her powers after her love for stars. Her eyes latched on to the portrait of the owner of the museum.

'Honestly, haven't these people ever watched a detective movie? Everybody knows that a safe is always hidden behind a large picture.'

She flitted over to the picture and threw it across the other side of the room. A satisfied smile appeared on her face as she heard the crunch of the wooden frame hit the opposing wall, and the gentle waft of the painting as it slowly floated to the floor.

'I could've walked through the front entrance of this building and still not get caught with the amount of security they actually have here.'

Summoning a starbolt to her hand she cast it at the lock on the safe. Scorch marks covered every inch of the door.

'They'll just think that I used a gun or something', she reassured herself.

Reaching inside of the safe she grasped at the contents and put them into her black saddle bag that was strapped around her shoulder. They included blueprints of other museums, a key, a few thousand dollars, the contract to the museum and some important codes to larger safes. Pleased at her gatherings she retreated to the door and into the hallway but stopped when she saw a shadow cast across the hallway.

Kori backed back into the room and hovered upwards until she was in the darkest corner of the ceiling. From there she kept silent as she watched the shadow creep around the edge of the door. And soon a black-haired head followed. He kept a stern and focused look on his face, his eyes were covered by black shades but his mouth was tense. His dark hair was messy and ruffled but it gave him a rugged look.

For a moment Kori was mesmerized, but there was something about him now that hadn't affected her on their first encounter in Starbucks. The rest of his body followed his head as he rose from floor and crept slowly into the room. Kori could tell that his body was well toned and muscled. He wore a black jacket on top of a dark blue shirt and blue jeans. He seemed to be fixated on the safe. He seemed to stay there for a moment, obviously thinking about something.

'What is with this guy?'

She floated downwards and landed behind him, her eyes glowing with green energy. She saw him flinch and suddenly tense his body. This was a sign that he was going to strike.

Richard and Kori

Just as she had predicted, he twisted around, aiming a punch at her but reacting just as quickly, she flipped backwards and landed in a fighting stance, ready for the next hit. He rushed at her, quicker than she had interpreted throwing punches this way and that. She struggled to keep up with ferocity of his attack. Almost unable to block a few of the punches. He kept on wearing her down, it seemed relentless.

'You can't keep this up forever Kori' she thought to herself.

'You have to find a way of attacking him'

A sudden thought came to mind. Blocking his latest punch she grabbed his arm at the same time. This caught him off guard causing him to halt all action with the other hand which gave her a chance to knee him in the stomach. He hunched over as all of the wind was knocked out of him. Seizing her moment, Kori flew above him, knowing that he couldn't see her because of his current state, and grabbed his shoulders flinging him across the room. He landed on the desk, falling straight through it. Kori landed in front of him. Staring down at his figure she smirked.

Richard rose slowly from the remains of the desk and stared straight at the blonde in front of him. (Little does he know that it's a wig) She seemed familiar to him. Something about her eyes didn't seem right.

He could tell that she was waiting for his next action. Although his body wanted to fight, his mind was telling him to get information out of her.

'Why are you doing this?'

Kori was shocked at his sudden words. Expecting another assault from him instead. She was unsure of what to say. His voice astounded her even more. It was so brusque and alluring. It made her melt inside.

'What the hell is happening to me?'

'Because, some people want a better life.'

'So you'd rather steal all of the hard work of an old man to ensure that you get a good life?'

'If that's the way you want to put it'

Richard was shocked at the sultry sound of her voice. It had and undertone of naivety but still managed to sound seductive. He was also finding all of these new thoughts strange.

'Where are you planning on attacking next then?'

'Do you honestly think I'm going to tell you that? I'm afraid that you and your boys are going to have to find that out for yourself.'

'But what if we get it wrong and I don't get to see you again?'

'Wait a minute! Was he flirting with me?!!'

Richard saw the bewildered look on her face and seized his chance to attack her. He flipped forward to kick her in the stomach. She crouched over her herself, gasping for air. He twisted around her, yanking both of her arms backwards to clasp them in one of his hands. He proceeded to wrap his free arm around her waist and pull her against his body tightly so that she couldn't move. They were now back to chest.

Kori was still gasping for air and she couldn't exactly say anything in her current position. Richard placed his mouth against her ear. She could feel his warm breath against her neck, gradually progressing upwards to her ear.

'Do you still think that robbing this place is a good thing?' he whispered seductively.

She whispered out her reply.

'Yes'

He began to delicately trace patterns with his fingers on her bare skin. Gently brushing his fingertips against her toned stomach. Kori's eyes rolled in to the back of her head. Her breathing became more ragged.

'Please stop' she uttered

'Why? You're enjoying this.'

That snapped her out of her reverie at his words. Her eyes faintly glowed with anger, not enough to cause awareness but enough to show her fury at herself.

'How dare you let yourself get in to this position! You had better kick his ass now!'

Kori tightened her hands into fists; Richard still had a hold of them but she knew how to break out of this. She kicked her foot upwards, just dodging Richards face. It was enough to shock him and loosen his grip on her wrists. She turned into a side-kick. Knocking him backwards and giving her enough time to escape out of the door and sprint down the hallway.

Richard was quickly back in action and was trying to keep up with the sounds of her running footsteps.

Kori pressed the small button on her headphone that called both Bee and Rachel.

'Time for our grand exit girls. You know where to go.'

'Bout time y'all got you butt into action, sparky's been chasing me for ages.'

'I'm almost at the window'

'Okay Rach, we'll be there soon, Bee, lead him to our exit.'

'Will do'

'Kori out'

She rounded a corner, still able to hear his footsteps behind her though. Her mind kept on racing back to the memories of him holding her in his strong arms and touching her so gently……

what if we'd gone a little farther?............

maybe a kiss wouldn't have been so bad……………..

'Kori snap out of it!! He is our enemy!! Stay focused here!!

She shook her head. Knowing that her conscience was right. She rounded another corner and saw the window which they had come in through ahead of her. Rachel was already sprinting up the opposite hallway towards her.

The both smiled at each other knowingly. Kori could see the figure of Garfield Logan catching up to Rachel. Before he could reach put and grab her though, Rachel flipped forward and landed on the open windows sill. A slight breeze blew in to the hallway from outside. Kori was the next to jump in front of Rachel in a protective stance. Garfield saw her and froze; he knew that there was no way he was getting to Rachel now. Garfield immediately thought that they were going to attack him together but Richard rounded the corner and so that thought fleeted by.

Bee and Victor were still making their way towards the window. Bee making sure that Victor knew where she was so that she could lead him to her exit. She saw Rachel and Kori straight ahead of her, both perched on the windowsill both waiting for her appearance. She ran straight past Garfield and Richard to where Rachel and Kori stood. Neither of the men could react to her entrance as she was too quick for them.

Victor eventually caught up and halted in the hallway in a similar fashion to Garfield.

'Now that everybody is here….' Kori began.

'We would like to introduce you to…' Rachel added

'The Midnight Trio!' finished Bee.

'If you would like to find out more, please feel free to discover our next target.' Kori uttered mischievously.

Although I warn you, there is little you will be able to do to stop us.' Concluded Rachel.

'So now boys we will leave you in your awe and wondering.'

'We look forward to our next encounter.' They finished simultaneously.

With those final words, they all jumped out of the window and into the waiting darkness of the alley below.

All three of the men ran to the window but as they looked out of the window they saw nothing but the mystery of the night and a small note that was attached to the window.

It read:

To our dearest detectives,

Do not feel too bad about losing us the first time. You will all get another chance to regain you dignity. You will have to work harder next time if you wish to capture us. Don't feel too downhearted though. After all, this is just a game.

Your favourite criminals,

Midnight Trio

X

Ooooo I love this chapter :D

Thank you to everyone who reviewed

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I apologise if at anytime Jinx is mentioned in this story as in my first draft of this story I envisioned Jinx with Victor but I later thought that Bee and Victor were a better couple. (Sorry to any Jinx and Victor fans out there)

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter, sorry it took a while to put up but I've been really busy lately

I'll try to get the next chapter posted up as soon as possible.

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