Wish Upon A Star

xStarletx

A/N: Here we are! Chapter 4! Are you guys excited? Cuz I certainly am! Lol Review if you like it please and don't you worry Chapter 5 will be ready to post next Thursday! No more waiting for posts people I've got me a schedule! Lol =P Enjoy!

Chapter 4

With what Stella got they learnt absolutely nothing. The only hit they got was on a hair, a stolen ferret from a large New York pet store. No doubt Lancelot was rescued from his small cage a few years ago, now they knew that Starlet had no qualms about liberating pets from stores.

"I thought we would get more from this, I had her finger prints, Mac. How could her abusive father not be looking for the only witness to his actions?" Stella asked him. Mac shrugged.

"Maybe he thinks she won't tell anymore, maybe he thinks she's dead. Maybe he's scared if they find her she'll tell them everything he did to her." Mac replied. Stella sighed.

"How the hell are we ever going to figure out who she is then? We're at a dead end."Stella complained just as Flack stepped into the office.

"We found Ricky."

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He definitely had rugged good looks, Mac had to give him that. The boy sitting across from him had to be nineteen tops, definitely much older than Starlet. His hair was a short black crew cut and his eyes mirrored his tanned skin. He didn't look too happy to be there sitting across from a CSI.

"So where is Starlet?" Mac came out and asked. Ricky said nothing.

"He's got an apartment and a job now, the landlord says he's got two young boys living with him but they weren't there today." Flack told him. Mac nodded, he noticed that Ricky's jaw twitched slightly at the mention of the boys.

"You've got them back on the street, with the Starlet don't you?" Mac asked him. Ricky didn't say anything.

"I don't see why it matters we'll find her eventually." Mac told him. Ricky leant in.

"You don't know Star." Ricky snarled. Mac smiled.

"Would you like to elaborate on that? I'd love to know more about Starlet." Mac told him. Ricky shook his head.

"You've done enough forensics man." Ricky taunted.

"How did you know I was in forensics?" Mac asked.

"Flack here said I was going to be talking to a Mac, and Starlet mentioned a Mac coming and asking her questions about her getting shot. I put two and two together." Ricky shrugged. Mac nodded.

"Why don't you just tell me how you met her then, that's not much now is it?"

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It was a pretty cold night, I had my boys casing the joint we were going to break into. It was a rich place, a popular diner with plenty of leftovers and tones of cash. I snubbed out the cigarette I had been smoking being sure to keep the butt. I had nearly been caught on a charge over a cigarette I had left at a scene, I was definitely not doing that again

Vena sauntered around the corner, she had probably the biggest crush on me I had ever had the chance to encounter in my days on the streets. I didn't matter she did what I told her to do and didn't ask questions, just the way I liked it.

"Everyone's in place, you ready to go in?" She asked me. I nodded, pocketing the used butt. She lead me to the side door where I used a lock pick to get in, Scraps was going to be look out, so I waved him to the front of the alley, and then waved Bugs to come and help us load the cash into the bag. We'd be sleeping in a motel tonight baby.

It wasn't until we were half way through the robbery when I found Scraps at the door.

"I found a kitty cat! Can we keep it?" He asked. He was holding a black and brown very fluffy tabby cat in his arms.

"No. We have enough mouths to feed." I told him. Scraps clung to the cat.

"But… I'll take care of it! I promise!" Scraps pleaded. The cat mewed pathetically as Scraps clung even tighter. Vena was looking at the staircase that lead to the office area, there was a safe in there, but I hadn't bothered to go up there yet. I didn't really care what she was doing at that point, we were down a watchman. The cat scrambled out of Scraps arms and rushed into the diner, it took the steps two at a time disappearing into the shadows.

"There's someone up there." Vena whispered. I exchanged looks with her. I handed her the bag of cash.

"Here, take this, and get the others out. I'll deal with the witness." I told her. I flipped out my pocket knife and headed up the stairs I didn't think I'd have to use it, maybe just the scare the person into thinking there was only me there. When I got up to the office I found that light was already on, and there was a person on the window ledge. I could believe it, why hadn't I thought to check if the windows were left open? The person had a hood and I couldn't see their face, but with a backpack that big on I knew that he had most likely gotten into the safe before I had.

"Hey! This is my turf!" I cried. The person turned to me and took in the site of my drawn knife and then scrambled away out the window. When I went through I saw that Vena and Bugs had cornered the turf crosser at the bottom of the fire escape.

"SABER!" The person cried in such a high pitched voice that I just knew this was a girl we were dealing with. From the other side of the alley, the entrance that was supposed to have a scout, barreled a large dog. His tackle sent Vena flying to the ground and in the chaos the girl hurdled over Vena's limp body and ran towards the entrance.

"FOLLOW HER!" I ordered. Bugs and Vena were up in a second, but Scraps stayed behind. When I got down to street level he ran up to me.

"I'm scared." Scraps whispered. He was the youngest of the bunch, he looked to me like a father and I struggled to keep up to his expectations.

"Go back to the house." I told him, pausing only pat him on the head. I took off after the girl down the street I saw Vena and Bugs split up for some reason, and after a few minutes the girl came out of the alley way that Vena had just turned down. The white shepherd met her in the middle of the street. She giggled and pet the dog affectionately.

"HEY!" I cried. Her hood fell back revealing a color of red I had never seen on a girl before. She turned her blue eyes to me and I felt lost in them, but for some reason I was still running forward. Behind her Vena appeared and the girl took off in the opposite direction. I caught up with her quickly, she was climbing up another fire escape, why she thought getting up on the roof of a building smart idea was beyond me but it worked for me. I was herding her towards our safe house, we could trap her there. I was up on the building in time to see her do this aerobatic flip over the distance between the roof and the next.

I jumped after her, we were just two roofs away from the safe house. She jumped again and this time I was a little faster. We were on the roof of the house we were using as a base. I managed to catch a her foot after I lunged at her and tripped her up.

"SABER!" She cried, and I looked up just in time to see the dog bend his head as he charged me. It wasn't the fact that I was flying towards the edge of the roof that scared me, it was that I hit something on my way there.

"Oh!" I heard the girl cry, and she was suddenly jumping over my limp body to get to the edge.

"Help!" I heard Scraps called and realized that he must have been the one I bumped into.

"Here! Grab my hand! Saber! Help me." I heard her order. A few moments later when I managed to get up I found that she had hauled Scraps up onto the roof. He was clinging to her coat, as the dog still had a mouthful of Scraps large coat. I moved towards them and Vena appeared on the fire escape. Vena went to grab Scraps from their grasp but Scraps wriggled out of it.

"You're on our turf kid." I told her. She was petting Scraps kindly she looked up to me.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know." She apologized. She was being so kind that I was taken aback; you don't usually get that response from anyone in New York.

"I'll go now." She offered, letting go of Scraps who looked like he was about to cry, and trying to get past Vena on the fire escape. It wasn't going so well Vena wasn't going to let her by.

"We want the money you took." She snarled. The girl backed away.

"I didn't take any money." The girl told us. I didn't believe that I was directly behind her.

"Then what's in the bag?" I questioned, taking the bag off her. I flipped over the snap flap and had the brown and black tabby cat launch itself onto my face. I dropped the back heard a muffled squeak but was definitely more concerned with the cat attached to my face. When the girl decided to help me I noticed she had the back pack on her back again and that she was slightly giggling.

"You think that's funny?" I asked her getting angry. She backed away like I had scared her and I probably should have changed course. I flicked open the pocketed knife and her big green eyes blinked rapidly, no doubt thinking of a way out of this.

Saber, the big white dog, charged me from the side, his teeth sinking into my arm, I dropped the knife and the girl clamored to pick it up. Vena headed forward to attack her, but the cat who was free tripped her up. Then once again the girl got down the fire escape with the dog and cat following after. I tried my best to quell the bleeding but it wasn't going so well. When I looked up I saw that Scraps had taken off. It wasn't until I got down to the first floor that I realized that Scraps was looking for the girl.

"What are you doing down her all on your own?" I asked him picking up, his grimy hand tangled into my black curls and he stared down the street.

"I liked her. She was really nice. Do you think we'll see her again?' He asked me. I felt a little jealous, Scraps had taken an immediate liking to this girl where I had to wait several weeks for him to be ok with me.

"You can count on it, I need to get my knife back." I told him. Scraps looked giddy.

"When I catch that bitch I'm going to rip her hair out." Vena swore appearing beside us. "Are you ok Scraps?"

I let Vena take Scraps from me as I contemplated how I'd find the girl again. How difficult could it really be to find a red head with a big white dog and a brown and black cat?

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Ricky stopped in the middle of his story, when a commotion was heard outside. Flack walked back into the room with a triumphant smile on his face.

"We got them." He cried. Ricky was on his feet in a second rushing for the door, he managed to get out but Flack held him back. Starlet was struggling against the two cops who had her upper arms.

"Watch her shoulder!" Ricky screamed, trying to break free of Flack's grasp. Starlet's head turned to him, fear rushed through her eyes.

"RICKY!" She cried, trying to pull in that direction. The two cops didn't budge. There was the sound of growling and snapping and they saw that they had Saber on a dog catchers pole, trying to herd him into a small cage, but it wasn't going to well, he was circling madly forcing his handler to do the same, every now and then he would lunge in hope of get free. Scraps was in the arms of a female cop and he was crying.

"Starlet." He sobbed, his small hand reaching out of her. Mac saw a primal instinct light in her eyes, and with the agility that no doubt helped her jump off a dumpster and swing over a fence, she pushed against the wall sending her and her captors back until they both tripped and fell. Starlet was up in a flash kicking the cop that had Scraps and taking him from her grasp. Ricky elbowed Flack sharply and rushed towards them, even Saber had gotten free, no doubt with help from Trixie and Lancelot. The little group was surrounded by cops, but each member looked ready to try and fight them off. Mac walked into the circle, Starlet glared at him.

"Now stop this. All we want to do is help you." Mac scolded. Ricky had an arm around Starlet, Saber was at their feet with a deadly growl on his face. Mac didn't move forward, he knew better.

"Ricky is going to stay here, to answer some more questions and we're going to take you the CSI Head Quarters ok?" Mac asked. They didn't seem to like that answer.

"Ok, we bring you all back to CSI Head Quarters." Mac compromised.

"Fine." Starlet snarled, letting her and her group be herded out of the building and into a van outside.