A.N.— And here is chapter 12! :D I hope y'all enjoy :D

Chapter 12: Queen Bee

Pedro starts to wake up a little. He tries to turn over to sleep a little longer in a better position, but then he notices that there's something warm and feathery keeping him from being able to turn over. Pedro curiously opens one of his eyes a little and looks beside him and sees that Adriana is snuggled up close to him. He grins and closes his eye again. Then he gently lays his flipper around her. 'Yeah, I'm so not going to wake her up right now...' He thinks with a wide smile before falling back asleep.

About an hour later, Adriana wakes up. She opens her eyes and sees Pedro and smiles a practically invisible smile before she notices that his flipper is around her. "What the atún!?" She exclaims, immediately sitting up and scooting as far from Pedro as the cuffs will let her.

Pedro wakes up and looks curiously and sleepily at her. "What's the problema?" He asks with a yawn.

"You!" Adriana points an accusing flipper at Pedro. "You were cuddling me!"

"No, that was all you, Adriana." Pedro says shaking his head. "I was just lying here, sleeping; you're the one who snuggled up." He says as he sits up and stretches. He ignores the malicious look Adriana gives him and gets the canteen and some fruit out from the backpack. "Desayuno*?" He offers.

"Por supuesto.*" She says as she rolls her eyes a little and gets the fruit. Pedro nods and starts on his own breakfast as he takes the map out from the backpack. Adriana looks curiously at him. "I thought you said that you don't need the map?" She says.

Pedro glances at her. "I don't really...I was just checking something..." He says as he rolls the map up again and stuffs it back into the pack.

"Sure you were..." She says giving him an unbelieving look. He looks unamusedly back at her. Adriana takes a bite of her banana and looks curiously at the map. "So where are we anyhow?" She asks.

"Brazil, in a forest." He says and sticks his tongue out a bit at her. Adriana looks at him with frown. Pedro laughs a bit in return. "But seriously, we are riiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhht here." He says and points at a spot on the map. "Right on course, as I had thought."

Adriana looks at him and takes another bite of her banana. "Mmbout hoooow mmannnee mmías unnnnntil mmmm mmave tmmm stammmrt mmmming mme mmmouse blmmm?" She asks as she finishes her banana.

Pedro looks blankly at her. "How about you swallow and try again without your boca* full?" He asks.

She looks at him before rolling her eyes and swallowing. "About how many días until I have to start singing the jailhouse blues?" She asks again.

"Oh." He says and then taps his beak in thought for a moment. "Dos to tres días? Maybe cuatro at most?" He says thoughtfully and looks at her."Most likely dos unless we run into some malo* weather or predators..."

"Okay." She says, almost resembling a sigh. Adriana then stands up and tugs Pedro up after her. "Let's start on our way then..."

Pedro looks at Adriana as if she's lost her mind. "Are you feeling alright?" He asks. "I mean...You're sounding almost like you want to go to the prison!" He says surprised.

Adriana just shrugs. "Well, what else do you think there is for me to do out here?" She says. She looks at Pedro, trying to seem convincing that she isn't hiding any escape plans. She does have a plan, actually, but it requires the use of the map. That very same map that hasn't left Pedro's sight except when it's in the backpack which he never leaves unguarded...Pedro looks at Adriana scrutinizingly as he tries to determine whether she is lying to him or not and Adriana smiles a bit at him as innocently as she can fake and not seem fake. "I mean...All there are are trees and vicious predators that may try to make a snack of me if I tried to escape..." She says with a fakes somewhat scared look.

Pedro looks at her with a suspicious look. "So, a murderess like you is scared of a few snakes and jaguars?" He says with a small laugh. Adriana just shrugs a little. "Kind of difícil imaginar*..." He says. "But whatever...Let's get going..." He says as he picks up and swings his backpack onto his shoulder. He starts waddling further into the forest.

Adriana quietly follows Pedro and looks around the forest as they waddle. 'I wonder how many miles of these trees there are here...It seems to just go on forever...' She thinks slightly awed. 'There are sooooooo many good hiding spots, too." She thinks. 'But then again, you could probably get lost forever in here...' She looks over at a cluster of vibrantly colored flowers with a small smile. "Those are pretty..." She mumbles silently to herself. Pedro hears Adriana and glances over his shoulder at her and then at the flowers as he waddles. Adriana doesn't notice him noticing her and keeps waddling, looking at the flowers they pass.

"Enjoying the plant-life?" Pedro asks with a small smile and another glance back towards her.

Adriana looks at Pedro and shrugs a little. "I guess..." She says.

Pedro nods with a smile. "We could stop a moment and you could get a closer look if you want." He says with a small shrug. "There really isn't much of a rush to get to base, I mean, it's not like it's going to grow legs and runaway and time soon, is it?" He says with a small laugh.

"Umm..." Adriana looks at Pedro as she thinks this over. "I guess we could..." She says, trying not to sound that she actually likes the idea, like she does.

Pedro nods and stops waddling when they are near another clump of exotic flowers. Adriana kind of kneels down at them to look a bit more closely at them. "These are Peruvian Lilies by the way." He says with a smile. "Bonita, aren't they, Adriana?" He asks as he picks a large, peach-colored one with his free flipper and a sly glance back towards Adriana. He inconspicuously slides the flower into a pocket of his backpack.

Adriana nods as she looks at and sniffs the flowers a little. "Sí, they are muy bonita..." She says quietly with a small, barely noticeable blush. She can't believe that she is actually kneeling here, looking at native flowers when she is in cuffs with a cop on the way to a maximum security base. She looks at the flowers a little more before seeing a bee. "Eep!" She quietly yelps and backwards crawls quickly from the flowers, dragging Pedro along to the ground, too.

"Wah!?" He exclaims and looks at Adriana as if she has lost her head. "Are you suddenly loca?! Qué es tu problema, señorita*?!" He says looking at her confused at her suddenly terrified reaction.

"There was una abeja*!" Adriana says with wide eyes and a glance towards the flowers.

Pedro continues to look at Adriana as if she is crazy. "A bee?" He says. "A little bee?" He says with a small laugh. "A little honey bee caused you to flee the flores*? Seriously? You on regular basis face all kinds of terrifying things, and you're scared of abejas?!"

Adriana looks at Pedro and nods just a little. "Euhm...Sí..." She says silently and stands back up. She gets herself back in her cold way and looks at Pedro again. "And if you tell anyone, anyone at all, I will personally make sure you mysteriously disappear to your grave, got it?!" She growls.

"Yup, crystal." Pedro says with a small smirk. "The Shadow is scared of bees and wants to keep it a secret."

"Oh just shut up." Adriana growls with an unamused glare.

Pedro grins. "I don't have to. You're the one whom anything you say can be used against you in court." He says with a small laugh. "I can say whatever I want to say, seeing as how I'm the agent and you're the arrested criminal." He sticks his tongue out a bit jokingly at Adriana.

"Wow, you're soooooo mature." She says sarcastically while rolling her eyes. "I'm soooo lucky to have been arrested by YOU of ALL coppers..."She says. "Do you come with a shut up switch?"

"No, I'm sorry to say that, no, Adriana, I do not come with one of those." He answers with a laugh.

"Fantástico!" Adriana rolls her eyes again, not at all amused. She stands back up. "Let's get going already..." She says.

Pedro gives her a mock salute. "Yes, Abeja Reina* Adriana." He says. "Let us buzz onwards towards the base." Pedro is nearly beside himself, laughing at his own jokes.

Adriana looks at him half-amused. 'Well...He does have a rather interesting laugh...' She thinks as she watches him. "Are you finished making fun yet?" She asks. Pedro continues laughing for a few more minutes before nodding a little. "Great, then let's go, copper, before I try taking one of your weapons and freeing myself from your perpetual irritations." She says with an evil look. "And there are several ways I could do that, let me assure you..."

Translations:

* Desayuno — breakfast

* Por supuesto — of course

* Boca — mouth

* Malo — bad

* Difícil imaginar — difficult to imagine

* Qué es tu problema, señorita? — What is your problem, miss?

* Una abeja — bee

* Flores — flowers

* Abeja reina — Queen bee