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Yeah, this chapter is REALLY short, but it will get longer. Hopefully.

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Carmelita was bristling with confusion and annoyance (and, in a corner in the very back of her mind, worry). She had been called into Cheif Barkley's office for the third time this week.

She knew why she was being called in it was because of the damned raccon. He was basically robbing every bank and museum in Vienna and every time she almost caught him, and every time he managed to slip through her fingers yet again. Carmelita's patience had met it's end after the fourth bank. Now, whenever anyone tried to even talk to her, she verbally bit their head off. She had more complaints against her personally, than any of the departments had combined.

"Damn you Cooper." Carmelita grumbled as she rounded the corner. As soon as the people in the hallway saw her, they dived into the nearest office and hid, probably trying to avoid getting another verbal beating. She didn't mean to be so hard on them, but she was on her final nerve.

It was just so...difficult to work there now. She hadn't really been accepted yet, even though she had worked there since she was sixteen. She repeatedly rejected all of the guys and constantly showed them up by bringing in more bad-guys than they did, so they hated her. The women were jealous of the attention the men gave her and of her looks, so they hated her. Now, not only was she outed, she was outed AND alone. Cooper had helped her deal with the being-alone-at-work-ness. She hadn't even noticed it until he showed up. Now, it seemed the most dominant aspect of her career.

She was alone, exiled, and being called into Barkley's office to probably get fired or assigned to a different case, and it was mostly Sly's fault. Even though he was the reason her career was in turmoil, she couldn't bring herself to hate him. No matter what he did, she could't hate him. She loved him, everyone knew it. That also made her job that much harder.

She loved Sly, he loved her, yet she could never catch him. It was embarassing. Of course, there were times when she could have caught him, There were plenty of times when he was with her, in her penthouse, completely defenseless, when she could have brought him in, but she didn't. She couldn't. That was the only time they could spend together, in secret and completely alone together. She loved that time they spent together, and mentally cursed herself for even considering taking him in during that time.

By this time, she had arrived at Cheif Barkley's office. Carmelita took a deep breath as she took one last look down the hallway. Everyone who had dived into an office, was now peering at her around doorways and then jerking their heads back in when they saw her looking at them.

"Babies." she whispered, then opened the door.

Cheif Barkley was sitting behind his desk, chewing on a cigar he never seemed to light. He was an old badger, and had been training her since she was sixteen. She respected him highly, but she was still slightly afraid of him. When he got mad, he got MAD. That's why she tried so hard to stay on his good side. But that Cooper was just making it impossible this week.

"Ah, Inspector Fox. You're here, good. Sit down." he said, motioning to a chair. "Oh no." Carmelita thought as she sat in the old wooden chair. He didn't usually ask her to sit. "This is gonna be bad." she mentally sighed and cursed Cooper and his gang down to the firey pits of hell.

"Inspector Fox," Carmelita would usually say, call me Carmelita, at his point, but he wouldn't anyway, so why waste her breath, "you've been working the Cooper case for a while now, and he's got you wound tighter than a spring, so I think its time for you" "Oh no, here it comes" "to take a vacation."

A vacation, Duh Duh.....DUMMMMMM!!!

What will happen next? How will Carmelita react to said vacation? Keep reading to find out the answer to these pressing questions and more!

I will add each chapter daily, so check back tomorrow (6/10/09) to see if I posted the next LONGER chapter.

This chapter is SOOOOOOOOOO short!!!! I bugs me SOOOOO much!!! GOSH!!!!! What will I do?!?

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