"Claudia why is your shirt moving?"
He pokes his head up and out of Pretty girl's shirt, Sneaky Fat Man's voice usually indicates food.
"Claudia! I don't want that thing wandering in the warehouse." Fat Man barks.
"Oh come on, Artie" Pretty girl whines and scratches his head "The ferret has a name."
"Why is that thing in my warehouse?"
"His name is Pete. You sent Pete and Myka to Israel. Just the flight to get there takes two days and the poor little guy cant sit cooped up in his cage all that time." Pretty girl defends looking down at him, that is his cue to look cute and pathetic.
He tilts his head sadly to the side and makes big eyes at Fat Man.
"He can and he will" Sneaky fat man says firmly ignoring the pathetic looks.
Pretty Girl gives a sad face and pouts.
"This is not a zoo, Claudia." reprimands Fat Man.
"Could've fooled me" Pretty girl mutters
"Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda"
"Nice try Artie Farty but that saying doesn't work in this case"
"I'm the boss and I say it does."
Pretty Girls gives a sly smile, "Well seeing as I can't return to the B & B without transpo I'm going to need your keys"
"Oh No. You are not getting the keys to my baby."
"Ew. That just sounds so wrong." Pretty Girls says scrunching her face, "Come on hand 'em over. You want the ferret gone…"
"Absolutely not . That beast is not getting anywhere near my leather seats!"
"Then I guess he stays" Pretty Girl says happily.
Sneaky Fat Man mutters to himself and Pretty Girl cups a hand to her ear
"What's that old man. I can't hear you." Pretty Girl Mocks, "Stop talking to yourself. People might think your crazy…actually it's too late for that."
"He stays with you at all times" Fat Man grumbles
"Got it Chief" Pretty Girl mock salutes and marches out of the office with a satisfied smile. He clings to her shoulder in excitement.
"And no trying out or playing with any of the artifacts Claudia" Sneaky Fat man calls.
"Always such a kill joy" Pretty Girl mutters to him and caresses his head, he chirps in agreement.
"You better not make me regret this." Pretty Girl warns
He looks at her innocently.
"Ha! Don't try that look on me. I invented that look." Pretty Girl says tickling his chin.
"Besides if you misbehave I'll disorganize Myka's room and blame it on you."
They both shudder and he hunkers down on her shoulder.
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"Lunch time!" Pretty Girl calls
He pops up from the shelf he was exploring. She grabs him and swings him about dancing.
They scamper to the office and Pretty Girl gets out her lunch. Sneaky Fat Man is no where insight.
She picks him up and puts him on the table.
"Shhhh. Don't tell Artie, He'd have a cow if he saw you on the table."
She splits off pieces of her sandwich and gives him some.
"Oh Shoot. Mustard!" she says and leaves the room
The sandwich is nice but what he really wants is cookies. He tips over her lunch bag and is disappointed to find pudding.
He knows Sneaky Fat Man has to have a stash of cookies around somewhere.
Clambering down off the table he sniffs about the room.
Mmmm.
He can smell something sweet and chocolaty by Fat Mans desk.
He searches and his nose leads him to a candy bar taped beneath Sneaky Man's desk.
It smells good but he really wants cookie. He sniffs the air again and detects a hint of sugary goodness.
He follows his twitching nose to a filing cabinet. He stares at the bottom drawer and it pops open. Climbing in he can smell the sugar at the bottom of the drawer, it's a hidden compartment.
He noses, pushes, scrabbles, and the compartment pops up to reveal an array of candy bars and doughnuts. As good as all of it smells and looks it's not what he wants.
Putting his nose in the air again he manages to pinpoint something that he is almost positive is fresh cookies.
He scampers across the office to a door.
Sticking his nose beneath the door jam he can smell what he is absolutely positive are chocolate chip cookies.
The door inches open as he stares at it. He slips quickly through the crack and finds Sneaky Fat Man being sneaky.
He paws at Sneaky Man's leg and Sneaky man jumps. Sneaky Man looks positively guilty with his hand stuck in a plastic container filled with warm cookies.
"Shoo." Sneaky man whispers and shakes a leg at him.
He refuses to leave and stares at the cookies.
"Go on, go!" Fat man says whispering fiercely.
He chitters loudly and lunges for the container.
"Get out of here"
He squeaks indignantly as Fat man jerks the container behind his fat back and peers nervously at the door.
He chitters again and Guilty Fat man shushes him.
He slinks to the door and looks back and forth between fat man and the door then squeals particularly loud. Guilty Fat man looks at him in alarm. He looks at the guilty fat man then at the cookies and then the door. He gives Fat man a choice, either hand over a cookie or get caught.
"Alright" Guilty fat man grumbles and digs out a cookie and sets it on the ground, "Don't get caught"
"Don't get caught doing what?" Pretty Girl says smirking
"That's really sweet that you're sharing your illegal booty Artie"
"Claudia!"
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I hope you enjoyed now go review and request :)
So there's a start to more Artie & Ferret interaction some one requested. (Hope you liked it Shorty McGee!) and Maddie I think your request is up next! And the whole ferret in the shirt thing came from Shorty Mcgee's Artie's Rules story.