To all my followers new and old thank you for sticking with the story! Me and Mouse love you! I appreciate all the reviews I receive special place in my heart for you guys. To CJ: I don't see JT falling for Mouse. I see them having more of a big brother little sister relationship. My train of thought when writing the scenes with him and Mouse are more he is jealous of everything she has and knows. which is way more than him ;). And she can see that he can challenge her which she likes. Maybe in one of my future stories I might play with the idea but for now they are just friends. I know this Chapter is kinda short but I plan to update during the weekend. So without further ado Chapter 8.

"Vince!" She sounded so happy. "I hadn't heard from you. We are still on for tonight?"

I heard her but wasn't listening. I was to busy watching Catherine asking Mouse something. Mouse nodded at the question and guided Catherine out of the room.

"Vincent?"

"Yes?"

"Did you forget about tonight?" she asked hurt coloring her tone.

"Alex." I said a lump in my throat. Not because I had actually forgotten about mine and Alex's date tonight but the look on Catherine's face as she left the room. It was hurt? No it was more than hurt.

"Alex, I'm working on a case and I don't know if I'll be able to make it tonight."

She didn't say anything for a moment, "With Catherine." It was a statement.

"She is my handler." I said reminding her. But knowing it was far from the truth made me close my eyes. As if I could make the lie go away.

At that point I heard clicking noises and turned around to see Mouse in the door way making disapproving sounds with her tongue. I gave her a what was I suppose to do look.

Suddenly concern colored Alex's tone, "Is it dangerous?"

"We are just doing research at this point but we might have to go arrest someone later today. If we get all the information we need on the person's location." Mouse took this opportunity to make a movement with her hands and a noise that sounded like a bomb going off. I ignored her.

"If I can get away can I call you?" I asked.

"Fine, but you better bring me my favorite candy so I can eat while we watch the movie." she teased.

"Of course." I said trying to match her tone but failing. Just in this conversation and having Catherine in the same room. Seeing how sad she had become and how I felt horrible for talking the call. Maybe I didn't feel the same for the two women. Maybe Mouse was right when she said the only way I would truly know is if I had them both on a level playing field. But even that felt like a lie.

"Hope to hear from you soon. Be careful Vincent." She said.

"Thanks Alex. Talk to you later." And with that I hung up the phone.

I saw that JT was at Mouse's computer setup, examining it, but didn't see her. "Really?!" a voice came from behind me. Mouse stood there with your arms crossed.

"What?"

Her eyes rolled behind her blue framed glasses. "Did you really have to answer?" she asked in disbelief.

"We all knew who it was. It's not like there's a lot of people who know the number to his burner phone." JT said. "If he didn't answer it, this would have been an even more awkward situation."

She looked between me and JT as if she didn't believe what she was hearing. "Where is Catherine?"

"In the bathroom." She answered scratching the back of her head. I blew out a long breath of air and Mouse looked up at me quickly.

"Yeah I would be relieved too. I know you are the Hulk but Catherine's got a gun and badge. I bet if she really wanted to, she could shoot you and hide your body where no one would ever find it." Mouse was looking past me now as if she could see it happening "So you ducked a bull it, literally."

I had to smile a little at the ridiculous thought, "Catherine would never do something like that."

"Never do what?" Catherine was standing at the door and I hadn't even heard her approach.

"Nothing." I said quickly. Her face was guarded and there was no emotion. As if the last couple of minutes didn't even happen.

Mouse turned to Catherine, "So since you're a detective; can you use deadly force whenever you want?" she finished with a little bit too much enthusiasm.

Catherine looked at Mouse confused. I wasn't sure where Mouse was going with this but I knew it wasn't good. To my relief Catherine's phone rang. She picked it up in blinding speed.

"Tess! You got it! I will pick you up. Be there in ten!". She hung up and then looked at me and JT.

Catherine looked up at Mouse, "Um, Can they stay here?"

Mouse looked between me and JT "I don't mind babysitting."

Catherine smiled at Mouse, "Thank you, for everything!"

Mouse smiled, "It was fun. If you ever need help again you know where to find me."

"Oh, Wait." Mouse said as if remembering something and ran to the work table where the gun was. She retrieved something small and came to stand in front of Catherine. "This is a GPS pin." She showed her holding it up. The pin was in the shape of a rose. "If you ware it we can keep track of you. Just incase anything goes wrong."

Catherine smiled and then nodded. Mouse put the pin on Catherine's jacket with excitement in her eyes. "Your good to go!"

Catherine turned on her heel and made her way to the door I followed behind her.

"Be careful" I said genuinely worried.

"I'll have back up." She said as she pulled the door open. She didn't look back as the door closed behind her.

I made my way back into the tech room where JT was still looking at the computer set up. Probably taking mental notes for improvements to make to our set up. And Mouse was... Where was she? Suddenly a small block of wood came flying out of the closet were the work table was set up. Then something that looked like a memory board hit the ground. "Mouse?"

Mouse's head popped out of the closet, "What are you doing?" I asked. As I came closer to the closet I noticed that there were more items scattered around the floor. She had gone back to pulling open draws and throwing stuff on the floor.

"Looking for something. I know it's in here, somewhere." She said.

"Wow!" JT said coming up behind both of us. "What is all this?" He lifted up something and looked at it for a minute. "Spare parts?"

"Yeah, I had it all organized at one time but then it kinda got out of control. I just started sticking random crap in...AH Found you."

She had come out of one of the draws with a flat screen that looked like an i-pad. She hugged the flat screen to her and then pressed a button that brought the screen to live.

"What's it do?" I asked watching the screen boot up.

Mouse looked up at that point and started to run her free hand threw her messy short hair. She looked guilty for some reason. "Well you know that GPS pin I put on Catherine?" Both me and JT were listening carefully. "I wasn't completely honest about it being a GPS tracker."

"So, it's not a GPS tracker?" JT asked confused.

"Oh it is but it's also a camera that gives a live feed to this." she held up the flat screen. "Downside. We have to be really close to receive signal. Which means one thing. Road trip!"