Disclaimer: I do not have the money to own CSI: Miami… .
A/N: XD… Back to some RaVe scenes as well as NED…and yeah, enjoy!… XDD
Chapter 15:
"Finished!" Ryan triumphantly pumped his fist in the air. "'Ishida' has gone and saved the poor ripped 'JoJo' from an untimely death!" Valera cracked up at how comical Ryan both looked and sounded.
"What're you drunk?" We're not even at the bar yet.
"No." He momentarily paused. "I'm just happy to finally finish!" My poor, poor fingers.
"Yeah, I can see that."
"Ugh…" He rolled his eyes. Why does she constantly make fun of me? "I'll just give this to Ella and we can go."
"Really?" He actually wants too… Valera checked her watch. Wow…time flies when you're having fun…poking fun at Wolfie! She laughed with exuberance.
"Yeah." He laughed at how silly the woman next to him was acting.
"Then what're we hanging around here for?"
"Uh…you…slow poke."
She scrunched her nose… "Alright, Wolfie, holdja horses…"
Rolling his eyes, Ryan patiently awaited for Valera to get up from the chilly floor they had been sitting on and together, they left the hallway outside of the morgue.
Earlier, they had been kicked out of the morgue so that Alexx could process a dead body found at some crime scene. She had given them a set of little girls clothes that had been washed and dried, and were to be given to Ella when they were finished with the bear repair.
Hmph. "So, where do you think they are?"
"I guess…I don't know…" Ryan was stumped. Where would two kids be? "The break room…possibly?"
"Yeah…either that or at the DNA lab… eating up my secret chocolate stash." She pouted. If that's true, Eric and Natalia better pay me back…chocolate is…yummy…
"You have a secret chocolate stash?"
"Well, considering the whole lab knows now…it's not so secret anymore-" She stopped as Ryan began to laugh at her. "Why are you laughing at me?"
"I just didn't realize you were so infatuated with chocolate." I mean, a secret chocolate stash? What is she five?
"Uh…you're the one with a 'secret' sewing kit in his locker." She air-quoted the word 'secret'. I can't get over that… It's just too funny.
"That's not the point."
"Then what is?" Their eyes locked. They felt stuck in time, a moment quickly broken by a shout.
"Valera!" The shout of a slightly distressed woman broke their contact. "So glad we found you!"
Valera turned away from Ryan and saw Natalia and Eric approach them. What was that? That weird timeless feeling…that was strange and odd…yet… at the same time…electrifying… "What's up?"
"Could you process these and see if they match our DNA?"
Valera's eyes widened as she noticed the bloody tissue that Eric was holding. "Uh, what happened to you two?" Did I miss a fight? Nuts!
"Oh, this," Eric held up the hand with the bloody tissues, "Jem just lost his first tooth." He said the statement like a proud parent. That kid is cute…and he could be my son…I should feel proud…
Natalia giggled somewhat at the absurd situation. "We just need a DNA test to verify that they're our children."
"Oh," Valera said in wonder, "I can't believe I didn't even think of that." Ryan had the same reaction. They quartet laughed at their lack of common sense. "I guess I'll go with you guys and meet you at the lobby outside the elevator." As she spoke the last bit, she turned and pointed to Ryan. "And don't even think about chickening out."
"Wouldn't dream of it." His voice was saturated in sarcasm. "Where're Ella and Jem?"
Eric pointed down the hall. "They're in the break room. Ella may still be sleeping on the couch, though."
"Oh, okay, thanks."
"No, thank you, man, for helping out…sewing the teddy bear back together and all. Ella's gonna be really happy."
Ryan chuckled while his comment about how it was just his 'job' received a smirk from Eric. They then separated; Ryan to the break room, and the left-over trio to the DNA lab.
Her eyes were bugged out. She jumped onto the person next to her and shook him hard. "WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!"
"Fate! Snap out of it!" The boy got out of his friend's grasp.
"Coop! We have to stop them!"
"Stop who?"
"Eric Delektorsky, Natalia Boa Vista, and Maxine Valera!" Fate was waving her arms about frantically.
A slight wrinkle appeared upon Coop's forehead. "You mean Eric Delko; I think his parents changed their last name when they entered the land of the free."
"Do you think that THAT'S very important right now!" She was white as a ghost and was pacing about the cloud anxiously.
"Okay, chill Fate. Chill. Why would we want to do something?"
"Oh. I don't know. Maybe it's because when they do the DNA test and figure out that those kids really are theirs then they're gonna be like 'How the heck did that happen?' and then we're screwed!"
"Uh…I guess that could cause a problem."
"It IS a problem! What d'we do?" She plopped herself desperately next to Coop. "We're in enough trouble as it is."
"Well-"
Fate gasped and shot up from her seat. "A lightning bolt!"
"A lightning bolt?" Coop began playing with his little love dust pouch.
"Yeah…yeah…you know strike down the entire DNA lab."
"Okay…like you said we're in enough trouble as it is…how would striking down the entire DNA lab…pose as our savior?"
"Because…oh yeah, that'd be a problem."
"Yeah."
"Well, you have any better ideas, Cupid?" Her idea shot down, she was ready to hear what her friend had to say.
"I don't know…I mean anything we could alter their futures for the better…or worse."
"Argh! What if we use your love dust?" She yanked the pouch out of her friend's hand.
"Hey! How's that gonna solve anything?" Sheesh, she's such a lunatic sometimes.
"It won't, but it's smells like," as Fate opened up the leather pouch to get a whiff of strawberries, the powder slipped out and escaped onto the unexpected civilians below, "SHIT!" She instantly clapped her hands over her mouth. Oops…hopefully Father Time and Destiny didn't hear me…or I'm going to get a spanking… Uh-oh…Coop looks mad.
"WHAT DID YOU DO? That's concentrated love dust! CONCENTRATED! Who knows what could happen now!" Now, he was the one panicking, or fuming; at the moment, she couldn't tell which. .
"I'm so sorry...oh no… I'm really, really sorry!" Oh, crud!
"Wait…wait…wait, this may actually be a good thing…this may actually solve your problem. Yeah…okay…that's a relief." He sighed as a state of euphoria once again passed through him.
"How?"
"The dust's concentrated so it can only get one target." Coop grinned mischievously. "It's kind of perfect, if you think about it."
"Okay, that's nice…someone's going to become blinded by love. But, how's that help? They still can check the DNA at the lab."
"Not if there's a power outage."
"What?" He's using a lightning bolt…and I can't? That's not fair…
"They're redoing the first floor's interrogation room and just hit a power line. We're definitely in luck." Strange…
"Uh…so, it's the humans' fault and not ours."
"Well, technically, everything's our fault." Little did they know that in the dark corners of the cloud, Destiny was secretly aiding the two entities.
"Oh, shut up, you're confusing me."
"Anyway, just look, this is some pretty funny stuff."
"Not really, Coop."
"Lighten up."
"How can I? The fate of the world rests on my shoulders! Literally!" Coop laughed.
"You can deal with it. You've been doing fine this long. Anyway, be quiet…I'm watching something interesting." Fate stuck her tongue out, then began to giggle as she observed the wild occurrence below.
They had just been about to enter the DNA lab when Valera unexpectedly paused in stride, making Natalia ram into her.
"Oomph! Whoa…sorry Valera!" Why'd she stop all of a sudden? Eric seemed amused by the scenario, which only made Natalia glare at him.
"Sorry, guys, but I have this sudden urge to go see Ryan!" Valera seemed to be in a complete giddy daze as she darted off to the direction they had just past.
Natalia frowned. "Is it just me or does it-"
"-smell like strawberries? Yeah, it does… I also noticed that earlier."
"Yeah, me too. What's that mean…are you wearing new cologne?" She half-smiled at a little fond memory.
"What?" Eric face colored a tint of cherry red. "I don't wear cologne."
"Right…what about when we first started-"
"That was MARÍSOL! She was fooling around with the AXE body spray and the can exploded…sort of…"
"Sort of…really?" Natalia couldn't help but burst into a series of giggles. She was feeling slightly better and a lot less emotional than before.
Eric casually wrapped an arm around the woman next to him and squeezed her shoulder. "Let's get those DNA results then."
Natalia didn't tense up as much from his touch as before. "Yeah, let's..."
They entered the room only to learn that the construction below had hit a power line and that the electronic devices were temporarily inoperative.
"Okay," said Natalia, the distress from before weaving its way back into her system, "What do we do now?"
Eric grinned. "Let's see what Ryan and Valera are up to."
Natalia suddenly remembered something and slipped out from under Eric's arm. "Oh. You. You knew about the whole police protection deal? When were you planning to share that itty bit of information with me?"
At first, Eric looked surprised and shocked at the accusation, but then smiled sheepishly. "Well, Horatio thought it'd be a good idea if he was the one to break the news to you."
"You make it sound like the police protection deal's a good thing."
"Well, isn't it?" I don't get it…her possibly psychotic ex-husband is out of jail hanging out in Miami.
"Uh, no. I can take care of myself."
"That's probably true, but you're two people now. And that lil' guy in you is half mine and I'm determined to make sure that he gets out of there in one piece."
Natalia shook her head slightly. "In a weird way, that was kind of sweet."
For a short while, her thoughts see-sawed back and forth, but finally her mind gave in to her heart's 'logical' reasoning. "Fine, but only one night. This is completely ridiculous, though… How are you planning to fit all of us?"
"Well, you and the kids can take the bed. I can take the sofa."
At Natalia's negative facial reaction, he defended his decision. "Natalia, it's fine. I've slept on the couch before. It's very comfy. And I don't think the bed was meant for four people." He half-laughed; he had only half-lied. The couch gives me a stiff neck. But her well-being is much more important than my own…
"We'll see about that, Delko." If she was being forced to sleep over his house, for her own 'safety', it wouldn't be at the expense of his own comfort.
"Either way, we've got to figure out something for those kids to do tomorrow."
"Any ideas?" She couldn't think of anything. Maybe the zoo… or the park… or a movie?
"I guess I could take them to my parent's home."
"Oh, okay, then where does that leave us?" Hopefully, Horatio discovers something valuable and then we can go process a crime scene…so there's no…awkward moments…
"We'll figure that out tomorrow." Eric grinned with a slight mischievous glint in his eye. Natalia looked up at him in wonder as they began to stroll back to the disaster awaiting them in the break room.
A/N: Right. So they made that law against spanking according to TIME magazine… does writing about it mean that I'll get fined … for "promotion of abuse"? . ;;; … LOL…
So, yeah, feedbacks appreciated… LOL…
teehee... the disaster awaiting... XDD