Wish Upon A Star

xStarletx

A/N: Here we are Chapter 5. I know I've taken forever to get this up, but I made a promise to myself to finish at least five stories this summer, so I'm going to all my half finished stories and finishing them. Like this one. So I'm going to try and finish up this one and others. Give me feedback, REVIEW!

Chapter 5

Back at CSI Head Quarters Starlet and her pets were patted down for more evidence. The hairs were officially running through the AFIS. Mac stood in front of the two way mirrored glass watching the way Starlet and Ricky acted.

One of Ricky's hands were on always somewhere on her, and he was staring her wondering if she were ok. She in point of fact looked pissed off.

"Now, you were telling us a story." Mac asked, sitting in front of them. Starlet turned to him.

"Which story were you telling them?"

"The one about how we met." Ricky told her.

"I like that story." She murmured. Ricky smiled.

"Well, continue."

It had been a while, at least a few weeks, and I still hadn't found the girl. Not that we hadn't been looking for her, she was just impossible to find and even if I did catch a glimpse of her, I'd lose her pretty quickly.

A month later, I had had another pretty big fight with Vena about why I was never very emotional with her and had decided to take a walk.

Yea I'm not emotional, I'm not an emotional kinda guy. She should have just been happy with the few quick fucks I was giving her and just left it at that. But no, typical girl had to bring her feelings into the whole situation.

I made my way to central park, figuring I'd maybe sit on a park bench get some change out of a fountain and buy a hotdog or something. The sun was setting, and most of the people were leaving, and I figured I might as well leave too, no one with some good cash on them would be here anyways.

Then I saw it, the flash of white running through the trees. I took after it, hoping it was the right dog. And it was.

The girl I had been looking for, lay on a park bench all huddled up in her large coat. I could tell she was freezing I could hear her teeth chattering from where I was. I lent up against the back of the park bench and looked down to her. She sneezed twice and took a shuddering breath in, only to starting coughing.

I was immediately softened to her predicament. The poor girl was sick. I hazard a hand to her hood, I could feel her fever radiating off of her. I heard a low growl and saw the dog inching towards us. I froze.

The girl turned to me, gazing at me though fever glazed eyes. They widened when they recognized me and she got up. Backing away from me. I came around the park bench with my arms out, trying to comfort her.

"It's ok. I just want to talk." I told her. She didn't listen. She ran instead.

I wish she hadn't, she collapsed a few feet away from where we started. I went to her, she began to cough again. The dog eyed me warily as I bent down beside her.

She struggled against me to begin with but I wouldn't let go.

"Stop. I'm going to get you some help ok?" I told her. She became still in my arms, and once again I felt my heart swell just a little bit. I loved her blue eyes. I loved how they just trusted me. I picked her up and carried her back to our newest safe house.

Vena was on me in seconds.

"What are you doing?" She hissed. I ignored her. The girl coughed again, and groaned lowly. I was worried. She was more sick then I thought.

I put her down on my bed, and covered her with the blankets I had found.

"She's going to get us all sick!" Vena snarled. I turned to Bugs and Scraps.

"You two stay away from her ok? Until we know she's not contagious!" I ordered. Scraps had the brown and black tabby in his arms. Saber was by the girls side. He was beside her warming her up.

"She's going to get you sick!" Vena accused. I rolled my eyes at her.

"So what?" I snarled.

"Come on guys, we're going to go get her something to make her better."

"No, I refuse." Vena cried.

"Fine. Stay here and watch her then." I snarled. The dog huffed in her hair. Vena crossed her arms across her chest. She glared at them. Scraps tugged on my shirt.

"I'll stay with her." Scraps offered.

"Ok, but don't get to close to her ok? Don't want you catching what she's got." I ordered. I ruffled his hair lightly. I turned to Vena who was ready to go. I took note of the fact that the dog was already heading out of the door. Scraps stooped down and picked up the cat.

I took one last look at her before stepping out. We headed to the nearest pharmacy but luck wasn't with us. Seemed I was only lucky with the girl around. Security caught us attempting to steal the cough medicine. We had no choice but to run.

We returned back empty handed, I was determined to keep her warm, even if I had to do so with body heat, but when I returned she was sitting up pouring out cough medicine for her to take.

"What? How?" I asked. She looked up to me.

"Saber." She replied. The dog beside her barked. I noticed that Scraps was curled up beside her, the cat half on top of him. A white ferret was poking it's head out of her pocket.

"You have quite the collection of pets." I told her. I noticed she wasn't smiling. She huddled up in the blankets I had given her.

"What you don't talk bitch?" Vena asked.

"There's no need to be rude." The girl responded.

"You wanna say that again?" Vena challenged. I stood between her and the girl, but a low warning growl came from the dog. I turned back and saw that he had stood now, and was standing over the girl. He was making his fur stand on end.

He looked positively horrifying. Even Vena backed down. The girl snapped her fingers and the dog backed up. He sat back on his haunches and huffed. He lay down, half on the girl's legs and put his head down.

I sat down beside her.

"What did you do with my pocket knife?" I asked. I was rather attached to it. I was hoping she didn't pawn it. She had been putting the medicine into her backpack. She paused in her sorting and started to sift through the contents of the bag.

I couldn't see anything, but I was suddenly curious. What was she carrying around? A few moments later I was rewarded with my pocket knife.

"You could have gotten quite a bit for this. Why didn't you hawk it?"

"It's yours not mine." She replied. I didn't understand her logic.

"If we thought like that we'd die." I told her.

"I take what I need. That's it."

"I think that's stupid."

"I don't care." She growled. I chuckled slightly. The girl had balls. I liked her attitude. No one talked to me like that, even Vena was more respectful.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Starlet."

"No, I mean your real name."

"Starlet" The girl repeated. I sighed.

"Fine. Starlet. I'm Ricky"

There was a loud commotion outside and then John burst in.

"Where the hell have you been?" He demanded heading straight for Starlet. She was up in a second hugging him.

"I missed you."

"You wouldn't have missed me if you didn't run off!"

"I thought you were mad."

"Clearly you're stupid."

"John." Starlet pouted. John softened immediately.

"You're right that wasn't very nice. I'm sorry. Now come on I've posted your bail."

"What about the others?"

"Yes I paid for Bugs and Scraps and your pets." John listed.

"What about Ricky?" Starlet asked. Ricky turned a smugly bright smile to John who glared at him.

"No."

"But John!"

"No Star. No, Just no." John growled. Mac was slightly amused when Starlet started to pout. He saw John suddenly start to cave.

"Star stop it. I don't want to spend my money on that idiot! For all we know he did this!" John snarled.

"Please John?" Starlet asked, her pout getting even more adorable.

John walked out with the whole crew that day. With the promise that they would be back for questioning tomorrow once Starlet was feeling better.