Okay, we all know I don't own Sly. Big whoop. There's mention of a game in here my friend and I played on the Internet. I do not own the site or the game.

I own Faye and any poems mentioned in this chapter. I got a poem from last year that I used for this chapter. I made it off the top of my head so it may sound corny.

This chapter has been changed to third person PoV all the way, so no more abrupt switching in dialogue. All right, now that we're done here…on with the story!

Note: Changed Bentley's note slightly. Hopefully it makes sense now. The word 'anthropomorphic' probably won't, but in short it's anything that is able to have human characteristics (like talking and walking on two legs).

Chapter 3: A New Laptop But No Sleep

So Sly, his gang, and Faye had just dodged Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox in the beginning museum from Sly 2: Band of Thieves. She had absolutely no idea how she got there, but she did know that she was about to barf. Faye covered her mouth with both hands, turning a slight green all the while.

"Uh, Murray? You might want to cut down on the sharp turns if you don't want Faye to throw up in the van," said Bentley. Murray turned into a dark alley. They had given the police the slip…for now. Thank you Bentley. Faye bust open the van doors and headed for the nearest trashcan. Murray was ready to roll as soon as Faye was done losing her lunch and dinner. Sly opened his door and stepped out of the vehicle while Faye was still leaning over the trashcan. He strolled over to Faye and patted her back.

"Are you going to be okay?" he asked.

"Whenever I lose my lunch, I'm always asked the same question. The answer is always 'Yes.'" Faye got up from the trashcan and got back in the van along with Sly. Murray sped off out of the alleyway and Faye managed to not to sick again. Faye stared at the computer Bentley sat at.

'I love computers.' But was once again thrown to the van's sides. Sly turned back to Faye and Bentley.

"May I borrow your bandanna, Bentley?" Sly asked him. Bentley looked from his computer to Sly. He had his arms crossed over the top of the seat, smirking at Bentley. Bentley started to untie his bandanna.

"What do you need it for?" he asked as he gave it to Sly.

"To blindfold Faye."

"What?"

"No offense but we need to keep our hideout a secret," said Sly.

"That's understandable," said Faye. She stumbled over to Sly's side of the van and sat down. Sly effortlessly tied the bandanna around Faye's eyes.

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It was dark and bumpy on the way to Sly and his gang's hideout. Faye kept hearing the clicking of Bentley's fingers over the keyboard, Murray eating, and Sly flipping through a book. Most likely the Thievius Raccoonus. There was a sense that they were going around in circles because Faye kept hearing the same song three…make that four times. Murray had just passed it again. It would be a while before they all got to their destination. That repetitive song was going to drive Faye nuts.

/Thirty minutes later…/

"Senorita…

Your eyes shine like crystals.

Senorita…

You make my life sparkle.

Senorita…" Faye had been singing the same verse of 'Senorita' for thirty minutes. Bentley had put on earmuffs, Murray clogged his ears with hotdogs but he kept eating them so he had to use earplugs, and Sly was covering his ears with his hands alone since Bentley and Murray got to the ear protection aids first. Finally, Sly couldn't handle it.

"Faye! F, Faye!" Faye stopped singing. "Do you know any other songs?" he asked.

"Hmm… I've got it!" Faye cleared her throat and said,

"Is it too late to say I love you?

Is it too late to tell you true?

Is it something we can do without?

Is it something we both knew?

It's never too late...to say what your heart feels.

It's never too late...to say what is real.

Never give up on that one glorious moment.

When destinies collide

Put differences aside

And let your heart home in.

Let your fate be sealed...

In the power of love."

"That was a poem," said Sly.

"That I just made up," said Faye.

"You're creative."

"Thanks, although I've run out of ideas." Sly took out Murray's earplugs and tapped Bentley on the shoulder so he would remove his earmuffs.

"Say Sly? Can you tell me something?"

"What about?" Sly turned back to Faye.

"About Carmelita. She seems really eager to catch you and your friends," said Faye.

"Carmelita. She's been on our tail since our first heist. She always tries to catch me but never can. I still remember the look on her face when I escaped. It was like she lost her jaw after seeing me," Sly chuckled a little.

"Yes, well, we had a good escape plan and were able to elude her," said Bentley.

"It was around then I got the team van," said Murray.

"So Faye, what about you? What thefts have you done?" Sly asked her. Faye was stunned. She didn't what to say, so she told the truth.

"Priceless artifacts, guards, criminals…among others. I've lost count," said Faye. Okay it wasn't the entire truth, but in the video game she had done it so technically she was telling the truth.

"By yourself?" asked Murray. Faye hung her head low.

"Without counting miscellaneous interruptions, yes. I've almost gotten caught a few times and almost killed," she said. The image of Carmelita almost shooting her made Faye shake a little. This was no lie; she almost had died if it wasn't for Sly. And she had been caught by the Inspector. There was an awkward silence that followed for a time until a certain anthropomorphic ringtail broke it.

"So, Faye," Sly said slowly, "You're a human?"

"Yeah," Faye said quietly, still having the thought of almost being killed on her mind.

"Are there others?" he asked softly, not wanting to sound aggressive or overbearing, although he did come off a bit eager. Faye, not smiling a bit, gave her response,

"Well..." she shook her head, "Look, can I just keep quiet about this until I'm ready to tell you guys?" Sly, Bentley, and Murray glanced at one another and nodded as the van came to a stop.

"Sure," Sly replied. "And would you look at that. We're here." The leader of the gang led Faye out of the vehicle and into the hideout. He then untied Faye's blindfold. She opened her eyes and gazed upon the Cooper Gang's hideout. Faye smiled widely at one thing.

"Computer!" Every little bad thing that was on her mind vanished completely. Faye rushed over to the main computer and typed up an address. In an instant, she was at an Internet website full of games. In a few clicks of a mouse, she was playing a violent game and racking up a high score. Sly, Bentley, and Murray came over to the computer. It looked like a school was under attack by…Goth kids? Bentley pushed the chair away from the computer.

"What the…?" Faye watched as her character died onscreen.

"The computer is not for horseplay," said Bentley. Murray picked Faye up and took her to another room. It was small but it had a bed, a table, a light, a laptop, a chair, a closet…

"A laptop!" Faye hopped off Murray and grabbed it. It was night black with silver edges. A small tag was on it with a small symbol and the letters 'T' and 'N' were barely visible in the corner. Some typed writing was on it.

'To Faye,

I hope you don't mind that I got it off Thiefnet. Being a hyperactive adolescent I figured that you would appreciate something to keep you busy, especially since I saw you eyeing my computer earlier and Thiefnet is notorious for it's quick delivery system. Enjoy and please leave my computer alone.

Bentley.'

Faye ran back into the main room just after reading the tag. She made a beeline for Bentley and hugged him. To her it was seriously weird hugging a turtle and it had her wondering if anyone had ever tried it before.

"Thank you, thank you…" she squeezed hard. It was still weird hugging a turtle. A talking turtle that coughed out,

"You're welcome." Faye finally stopped hugging him when she saw that he was currently having a hard time breathing, his neck mistakenly being held a little too tightly. She put down Bentley and said,

"Oops! Sorry." The brainiac coughed, getting some much needed oxygen back in his system. He coughed.

"It's alright," he said. "I'm fine." Faye shyly backed out of the room, trying to smile a bit before disappearing off to her room. Faye hooked up her new laptop to the Internet and started to play on the same website as before.

/Sixty hours later…/

"Sly you've got to do something," said Bentley, "Faye has been on that laptop for two and a half days straight!"

"Has she eaten?" asked Sly.

"Yes, but only when Murray brings food to her," said the turtle. Sly pondered for a moment and called Murray.

"Say Murray? Can you make a sandwich for Faye?"

"Sure Sly. Which type of sandwich do you think she'll want?" Sly smiled that Cooper smile as he whispered something to the pink hippo.

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Faye turned the volume of her laptop down to a low resonance and snuck to her bedroom door. It sounded as if Sly and the others were planning to put sleeping pills in her next meal, so when Murray left and Sly and Bentley returned to the computer, Faye slipped out of her room and into the kitchen area. Murray was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The teenager's eyes set upon one sandwich in particular with a little flag in it labeled 'Faye's Sandwich.' That was probably the one with the sleeping pills.

"Hmm… I seem to have run out of bread," said Murray. He turned around to get more and that's when Faye slinked in, switched the sandwiches around, and tiptoed back to her room.

'I wonder if Sly noticed me? Hope not.'

Faye sat down quietly in her room and resumed to type quickly in at an instachat website. She had given herself the nickname "Destiny'sFate" and she was chatting with someone named "StableKayla." She excitedly typed down about her new laptop when StableKayla mentioned something about a Sing-Off at Dimitri's Nightclub. Though, it was getting late and both had to logged off the chat room just as Murray came in with the sandwiches. She logged onto Thiefnet and started looked for an animal costume so she wouldn't stick out too bad.

"Want one?" Murray offered Faye a sandwich.

"Sure!" Faye took a sandwich and so did Murray. Faye bit into her sandwich and kept flipping through web pages. Murray looked at her search. After a while, Murray fell to the ground asleep.

"Don't mess with Faytin," Faye whispered as she continued to search for a costume. Finally, she found one.

"Wow… It's a striped, orange cat costume! 'Full body costume. Comes with retractable claws and mask. Great for parties or April Fools' Day. Comes with complimentary T-shirt: size M, red with blue emerald in center, and jeans: size 16 regular. 200 coins.' I don't have that kind of money!" A pair of hands suddenly held Faye and a rag was put near her nose.

'Goodnight, Faye' was all she heard as she fell into a deep sleep. Sly removed the rag and put it on the table next to bottle marked 'chloroform'. He lifted Faye from her chair onto her bed and ambled back to the laptop. He took a look at what Faye was trying to search for.

"Cat costume?" Sly looked at the plate of sandwiches and grabbed one for himself. He glanced at Murray and said to no one in particular, "Poor Murray. Didn't even know she came into the kitchen." Sly took a bite of the sandwich and left the room.

Part three of Sly as a Cooper is finished! In case you're wondering, Faye was taken to the hideout in The Black Chateau chapter. Sorry if anyone was out of character or if the story seemed to drag on. I don't want to jump ahead to the first bad guy without Faye's roll in it. Also, the instachat website was supposed to have dialogue in this chapter, but I'm prohibited from putting anything in the format of any instachat place in fanfics (or manuscript form, whatever you want to call it). I'll be putting things that would normally not be in the game, like time fillers as shown in this chapter. Well that's all I got for now. I have other characters lined up that I might use but that's a maybe. As always please review.