Funny How Fast Life Changes

Caught Red-Handed

Emma arrived at the parking lot very early. She carried the box of folders upstairs into the empty office. Or at least she expected the office to be empty. Sitting at her desk was Killian. He had headphones on and was tapping a pen against the desk. Emma placed the box down and stood beside him with her arms crossed until he finally looked up.

"Emma! You're here early." He took off the headphones and paused the music.

"You're early too....why?"

He shrugged. "Couldn't sleep. Thought I'd check if we got the warrant yet."

Emma didn't tell him that she could not sleep either instead she asked if they had received it. He shook his head. Emma sighed. 3 days had passed since they found out where their culprit may be hiding and they have gotten nothing. Meanwhile they had been able to solve 2 other small cases.

"So other than checking on that you've just been sitting here listening to music?"

"No. I'll have you know I did in fact do something productive." He gestured his hand to show her the corner of her desk. "I have reorganized your pens by color. Blue red and black all in different containers."

"You've worked so hard." She laughed and sat in the chair beside him.

Killian took out his sketch pad and pulled out a loose paper. It was another drawing of the view from her balcony but this one was colored. He handed it to her.

"I made a better copy for you."

Emma took it and smiled. "Thanks." She opened her drawer. For a second Killian thought she was just going to put it away. Instead she took out tape, carefully placed it on the paper and stuck the drawing on top of her desk.

Killian looked at his drawing now stuck to the corner of her desk. It warned his heart that she had liked it enough to exhibit it on her tabletop.

"I should make more to cover your whole desk." He suggested smiling.

Emma chuckled. "Why not make more to cover every single desk in this office?"

Killian raised an eyebrow. "Is that a challenge?"

"Maybe...."

Soon Killian and Emma started planning on pranking Ryan by covering his desk completely in random drawings. They had barely noticed their colleagues start to come in. Emma and Killian couldn't stop laughing at their perfect plan which they would execute at night but those plans were sabotaged when Mr. Jones' secretary walked over to them.

"Guess what finally came in." She held up a paper.

Emma took the warrant from her and turned to Killian. They nodded at each other simultaneously. It was time.

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Emma thought she heard shuffling. After 2 or 3 knocks Emma kicked opened the door.

Everything was quiet and it seemed no one was in the house after all.

"He must have left already." Emma hit the door in  frustration.

Emma's eyes darted across the room. It looked like you would expect any normal house if you ignored the messiness.

"There has to be a clue of where he went or if his accomplice has stayed here or gone with him." With that sentence Emma started looking up and down for anything that might be of use. She searched on tables, old receipts and mail. Killian did the same. Desperately they looked for anything that might give away another location.

"What the-?" The voice came from the front of the house.

Emma quickly looked up. Large body, pale skin and bald. That was him.