Chapter 3

Unexpected Visit

Interpol Parking Garage…9:15am

Inside the Interpol parking garage, Carmelita pulls into the Interpol parking garage in her red convertible and finally parks in her usual parking space. She gets out and makes her way over to the elevator. She presses the up button and the elevator door opens. She climbs aboard, presses the number three button and the elevator door closes and heads up to the third level. Soon, the elevator arrives to the third level and Carmelita climbs off but stops when one of her co workers runs past her thus confusing her. Another runs by her but she stops him and asks, "Hey, what's going on? What's the rush?"

"Haven't you heard? It's all over the news." the officer replies.

"What?" Carmelita asks raising one of her eyebrows.

"Come on."

The two officers make their way to the break room where all of the other offices including Chief Barkley and Detective Jessica Barnes, Carmelita's closest friend. She makes her way over next to her friend and began to watch he news as well. On the tv, a female rabbit in a light tan dress suit was sitting at a desk doing the news. This was Paris news anchor Lucy Yeager.

"Once again, the city of Hamburg in Germany is in a state of shock because late last night a massive explosion destroyed one of the warehouses in the warehouse district." she reports. "We now go live to our reporter on scene for a closer look. Jeffery?"

The news shifts to Hamburg at the wharf where a male husky was standing in front of the destroyed warehouse. Firefighters surrounded the destroyed warehouse attempting to investigate and police secured the area in order to investigate the explosion as well. The reporter in Jeffery Daniels.

"Thank you, Lucy. As you can see behind me, fire department and Hamburg police are working around the clock on the situation in order to investigate this." Jeffery reports. "Police have yet to determine if this was some sort of accident or a terrorist plot but there is one thing we can confirm, security personnel have found out that legendary master thief Sly Cooper was inside the warehouse several minutes before the explosion."

Then, security footage of inside the warehouse before the explosion appears on the tv. Just then, a raccoon in a blue shirt with a cane lands on the catwalk. Carmelita looks closely at the raccoon in the security footage trying to determine if it was Sly Cooper. If it was, she grew worried thinking that he might've been killed in the explosion. Later after the news, everyone returned to work filling out paperwork. But in Carmelita's office, Carmelita was sitting at her desk but she had her hands over her face because her very ringtail was possibly dead. She then began to remember the fun times she and Sly had together when they were together.

FLASHBACK:
Several months ago, Sly and Carmelita were attending an event at the museum. But as they enjoyed socializing, Sly began to get a familiar feeling in his body. A feeling he only felt one other time before. It was hid old thieving itch acting up again, especially since he was in a museum surrounded by many art pieces. He wanted nothing more than to pull off a heist again, but he needed to resist the urge to pull of a heist in order to maintain his relationship with Carmelita. It didn't take long for Carmelita to notice and become concerned so she walks over to him and asks, "Sly, are you feeling okay?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm okay. I was just admiring the museums art pieces. Nothing to worry about." he replies.

"Are you sure, Sly?"

"Don't worry, Carmelita. I'll be okay. It's nothing to serious."

"I don't know, Sly. But I you say so."

"I know. In fact, let's go share a dance together." Sly suggests.

And so, Sly and Carmelita make their way onto the dance floor and began dancing together. First, they danced the tango for a while and finally, they slow danced the rest of the night. Several hours went by and both Sly and Carmelita eventually decided to head home to Carmelita's apartment for the night. After entering inside, Sly gets into the shower first while Carmelita sat in the living room watching tv. After taking his shower, Sly exits the bathroom wearing a just a pair of blue pajama pants.

"Showers free, Carmelita."

"Okay, Sly."

The raccoon makes his way past Carmelita who enters the bedroom and finally into the bathroom. He enters the living room and took over watching tv while Carmelita showered. Several minutes pass and Sly was still watching tv until finally Carmelita calls, "Sly, could you come here please?"

"Coming, Carmelita." Sly replies standing up and turns off the tv.

He makes his way into the bedroom but comes to a stop when he spots Carmelita wearing a sky blue bathrobe while sitting on the end of the bed with her legs crossed in a very seductive way.

"Feeling better now, Carmelita?" Sly asks playfully while sitting down next to her.

"Much better, ringtail." Carmelita replies playfully. "I feel very relaxed now."

With that Sly begins to tenderly kiss her on her lips and then works his way down to her neck thus causing her to giggle. She wanted nothing more than for Sly to continue what he was doing but she needed to stop him or risk ruining her surprise for him. "Slow down, Sly." she says pushing him back. "You're going to ruin my surprise."

She then stands up in front of the raccoon and began to undo the strap of her bathrobe and she slides it off of her, revealing that she was wearing dark blue bra and panties. Sly's reaction was very priceless thus making Carmelita giggle even more. She makes her way toward him, pushes him down onto the bed, climbs on top of him and the two made love with each other for hours. Several hours later, Sly was lying down on the bed sleep while and his beautiful vixen was resting on top of his chest until finally they began to stir. They both soon began to stir and they both looked at each other, staring into each others eyes.

"That was amazing, gorgeous. Especially you Carmelita." Sly complimented.

"Thanks for the compliment, Sly. You weren't so bad yourself." She replies. "I only wish it wouldn't end."

"Me too, Carmelita." Carmelita says. "I love you, Carmelita."

"I love you too, Sly." she replies and falls asleep again on Sly's chest.

END OF FLASHBACK

Carmelita lets out a sigh and smiles after remembering that night. It also gave her reason to hope that Sly was still alive. But she also had some confusion as to why Sly was involved in the explosion in Hamburg. This was something that didn't make sense. Meanwhile, at the Cooper hideout, Sly was indeed alive and fast asleep in his bedroom. He began to stir and finally wakes up. He looks around at his surroundings trying to determine where he was and soon spotted the one thing he'd recognize. It was the one item he'd known for a very long time… the Thievius Raccoonus. It was at that moment, he finally established that he was back in his room at the hideout in Paris.

"I'm back in my room in the hideout." Sly established. "But, how did I get here?"

He stands up from the bed, walks over to the door, and exits his room. He walks down the hallway and soon enters the living room and not only sees his friends Bentley, Penelope and Murray, but also Dimitri, Panda King, and the Guru as well thus making him more confused at what was going on. The other team members see that their friend was moving and begin making their way toward him in order to greet their leader but Murray beat them to it.

"Sly! You're okay!" Murray shouts pulling him into a very painful hug.

"Of course, Murray." Sly says finding trouble breathing. "Can you put me down now? I… can't… breathe!"

"Opps. Sorry, buddy." Murray replies and releases his grip on Sly.

After Murray releases Sly from his death grip bearhug, Sly proceeds to say hi to the other team members. After introductions were finished, the gang all gathered in the dining room and began discussing about the explosion in the warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany in order to determine whether it was an accident or intentional as well. But all through the debate, Sly had his mind on Carmelita and how she was doing since the last time they saw each other. He thought to himself. "I wonder how Carmelita's doing. It's been awhile since I saw her. Maybe later tonight, I'll pay her a quick visit."

"So that's why, we all need to lay low for a little while." Bentley announces. "It's just until we determine what's going on."

"Are you serious about this, Bentley?" Sly asks in disbelief. "I mean how are we going to pull off any future heists"?

"Look Sly, I know it's in you're blood to be a master thief but it's not worth risking your life." Bentley explains. "Besides, it'll only be awhile. Just until we find out what's going on."

Sly lets out a sigh and says, "Alright Bentley, I trust you."

But Sly didn't feel too discouraged because it wasn't going to affect his plan to see Carmelita. Later that night when the other Cooper gang members were already fast asleep, Sly grabs his cane and sneaks out of his room through the window and takes off into the night. He runs across several rooftops, walked along several ropes and wires and even ninja spire jumps across several narrow points. Soon, he eventually arrives on a rooftop across from an apartment building. He pulls out his binocucomm and spots Carmelita in her bedroom wearing her light blue nightgown. He wanted nothing more than to be with Carmelita again but he began to have second thoughts about seeing her again after what he did to her.

"Come on Sly, just go for it. Just go in there and tell you're sorry." he says to himself.

With that, Sly makes his way across to the apartment rooftop and begins making his way down toward Carmelita's balcony. He looks inside and saw the living room he used to share with her was dark. Using his skill, he picks the lock to the door and sneaks into the apartment living room undetected. Inside, he looks around at his surroundings and remembers how beautiful it looked. But, inside Carmelita's room, she gets up from her bed because she was hungry and wanted a quick snack. She opens her door but stops when she spots a shadowy figure standing in her living room. Utilizing her police training, she charges and jumps the intruder from behind, causing the two to fall to the floor.

"I don't know what you were thinking breaking into my apartment but you better hope you have health insurance after I get done with you."

She grabs the intruders arm and puts it in a very painful armbar. Sly couldn't withstand the pain which is why he needed to find a way to make Carmelita stop but eventually Carmelita pulls out a pair of handcuffs from the side table and slaps them onto the intruder. "Got you!" Carmelita shouts in triumph. "Now turn over on your back so I can see you're face!"

She turns the intruder on his back and proceeds to turn the light on in order to see his face. But upon seeing his face, her expression turned to shock and says in disbelief, "Sly?"