IN THE DARK;
CHAPTER SEVEN
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' who are you in the dark?'

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Callie walked to her desk while some of her colleagues dragged two separate parts of a horse costume to the holding cell as they tried to kick eachother.

It had been a week since, well you know. They hadn't talked about it at all, mainly because Callie was avoiding Jake.

She didn't mean to sleep with him, nor did he, the worst part was that deep inside both of them, they enjoyed it.

"Ugh, Halloween is the worst. Everyone's drunk, wearing a mask, and carrying a fake gun. Plus all the girls think they have to dress sexy." Amy complained to her colleagues.

"I know, that is the worst. Please make them stop." Jake responded sarcastically.

"I passed a slutty tree on the way here. Who wants to have sex with a tree?" She continued making the blonde scrunch her face.

"Was it Maple?" Scully and Jake asked making the blonde and brunette send them both looks.

"Buon Giorno, Buon Giorno. Pretty cool 'stume, huh?" Charles greeted in a ginger wig and chef costume.

"Stume?" Callie asked him in confusion.

"Short for costume." He answered in pride.

"Ah." Callie paused "Okay then. I hope Tina and Val don't look like this." She mumbled the last part before taking a sip of her coffee.

"All right, let me guess. You are a dumpy Chuck Norris." Jake guessed.

"No, I'm..."

"Dumpy Ron Weasley?" Rosa attempted.

"No." Charles huffed again in disappointment.

"You guys, stop it." Terry started. "He put thought into his costume, and he is obviously Miranda from Sex and The City."

"Guys I'm Mario Batali! Molto Mario? Celebrity chef? Ginger Prince of Little Italy?" Charles informed the group.

"Is he also a homeless troll doll?" Desi asked the detective with a smirk.

"Cause you look like a homeless troll doll." Jake said before him and Desi high fived' making Callie chuckle slightly at her friends actions.

"Hey sweet Batali costume dude." A perp said on the way to the holding cell.

"Thank you! Theres a man with impeccable taste" Charles huffed.

"He bit a guy's butt off at a W.N.B.A game." Adelaide informed him as she read the police report.

"Erik Stolz from Mask." Callie suggested.

"I'll take it." Charles sighed in defeat before going back to his desk.

Jake walked over to Callie's desk, which she noticed so she quickly stood up and followed Adelaide to her lab making him frown slightly and retreat to his desk.

"Okay...what was that?" Desi asked the brunette.

"What was what?" Jake replied.

"You and Callie have always been glued by the hip and now it looks like she's avoiding you." She questioned referring to the scene she just saw.

"I don't know. Something happened last week." He answered the brown skinned girl and he looked down at his feet.

"What happened last week?" She asked crossing her arms making the brunette move his head to avoid his gaze.

"Jacob what ever your middle name is Peralta! What the hell happened last week?" Desi demanded giving him the look which made him give in.

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"I hope you're all well rested. It's gonna be a busy night." Terry announced to the room full of officers.

"The holding cell's completely full. I keep having to separate Hillary Clinton and Kim Jong-Un." Jake spoke as him and Callie remember seeing them making out multiple times.

"We need to undercovers at the Deklab Street warehouse party. Uh, Boyle, you're already in costume as, uh, Joy Behar?" Captain Holt assumed

"I'm Mario Batali." Charles responded with a huff.

"Okay. And, uh, Santiago, you go with him." He instructed the detective.

"Yes, sir. Damn it." Amy complained.

"Santiago, I know you hate Halloween, but stick with me and I promise you. You will love it." Charles assured her.

"Can you magically make everyone kind, sober, and fully dressed?" She asked him.

"Kind, sober, and fully dressed. Good news everyone we found the name of Santiago's sex tape." Jake spoke making everyone chuckle.

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Callie was finishing up a police report when Jake walked back into the Precinct with his first perp of the night.

"I swear, these perps are so stupid. I'd make a better criminal than any of them." Jake spoke to the group.

"Yeah you would. You'd be an evil mastermind, and everyone would call you the handsome bandit." Charles exclaimed making Callie and Adelaide snicker.

"Thank you, Charles. And the hest part is, none of you could catch me." He boasted making everyone protest.

"I'm fairly certain you would be caught. No, scratch that. I'm 100% sure you'd be caught." Captain Holt stated making Jake laugh in disbelief, now Callie was really interested as she looked between the two.

"All right challenge accepted."

"I didn't issue a challenge." Captain Holt responded.

"Fine. I'll issue it for you. What's the most valuable thing in your office?"

"My medal of valor."

"God you're such a hero." Desi pointed out.

"All right, how about this? I will bet you that by midnight tonight, I can steal the medal of valor from your office." Jake suggested to the older man.

"Why would I possible agree to that?"

"Because if I lose, I'll work the next five weekends, no overtime. And I won't tell anyone here about the time I saw you wearing short shorts outside of work. But if I win..." Jake started making Callie choke on her coffee for a moment.

"You won't."

"You have to do all my paper work tonight. The busiest and spookiest night of the year. And you have to publicly state that I'm an amazing detective-slash-genius." He finished.

"And this won't interfere with you doing job?" Holt questioned his employee.

"You mean my job as an amazing detective-slash-genius? No, it will not. I'll do all of my work, guaranteed." Jake assured to him.

"I'm considering it. I'm interested. I agree to participate." Holt told him before sticking out his hand for Jake to shake.

"All right. There's the robot I fell in love with." Jake said with a smile before shaking Holts hand.

This made Desiree think for a moment as a new idea sparked in her head.

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"Hey Cat can you come help me look for something in the storage room?" Desi asked her blonde friend who agreed.

They walked down the hallways till the came to the storage room. Expecting to only see the old case files on metal shelves she saw her two other best friends looking through files as well. She sent Desi a look but walked in nevertheless. Desiree took this moment to quickly shut the door and lock it.

"D what the hell!" Callie shouted as her and Jake marched over to her with angry expressions.

"You two need to sort your shit out." Adelaide spoke.

"What shit?" Callie responded.

"You've been avoiding Jake for a week. Why?" Desi pointed out making Callie lean on the wall behind them.

"Its nothing...really. God I was in the FBI why am I getting so upset over this." The blonded grunted while pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Then why are you." Jake asked the blonde who looked at her with pleading eyes.

"I... I don't know..."

"Well you'll have plenty of time to figure out why when you two work together." Adelaide said making the two culprits raise their eyebrows.

"What do you mean, 'work together?" Callie asked the ginger.

"You're gonna help Jake with his bet with Captain Holt." Desi told them with a smile on her face.

"Desi...Jake doesn't need my help...I...I mean he said it himself he's an amazing detective-slash-genius." Callie rambled making Jake smile slightly.

"I know that but...you are the only person who's had experience in a higher well degree of law enforcement than Holt. Jake's gonna need your help" Adelaide insisted to the duo.

"Fine but I'm only consulting. I'll chip in when he really needs it because it was his choice to make a bet with his boss." Callie stated before going over to Desi and put her hand out for the keys and unlocking the door.

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It was time for first of Jake's plan. After Desi had gone to the Janitors closet to look for and extra Janitor's uniform and gave it to him. He had his fake moustache and mop. He gave the blonde girl some matches which he had asked her to use to start a fire in one of the trashcans.

"We need to catch some birds." Jake whispered into her ear as he walked past her in the Janitor uniform.

They spent a good 20 minutes using bread to try catch some birds. They then went to the copy room.

"Wait stop scratching me, we're supposed to be a team." Jake complained as she stood to the side and watched him struggle before Captain Holt came in.

"Captain, Hi. Callie and I were just photocopying some stuff."

"Are you trying to jam pigeons into my air-conditioning vent to flush me out of my office?"

"Way to ruin the suprise."

"How'd you get those birds?" Captain asked intrigued.

"By using my big, fat brain." Jake started before Callie cleared her throat." Oh yeah and Callie helped too. All part of my elaborate plan to defeat you."

"So far you and your big fat brain are losing, badly."

"Maybe, if we're talking about who's winning our bet. But if we're talking about who's holding more birds, I'm winning, four nothing."

"You're only holding two." Holt pointed out making Callie assume that the other two flew into the vents and were probably dead.

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They had just pulled off the Royal babies part of the plan and now Jake was waiting for the Captain in the interrogation room.

"Captain sorry to interrupt." Callie started.

"Some officers just arrested Peralta." Amy continued.

"What?"

"They caught him scaling the side of the building with a blowtorch." Callie finished making the Captain sigh before he stood up and walked there.

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"Captain. Welcome to the Endgame. Would you care to shake the hand of the man who defeated you" Jake said as he stood up forgetting that he was wearing Handcuffs that dragged him back down hitting his hands on the table.

"Forgot I was wearing Handcuffs. Ohh that hurt." He groaned as the captain took a seat

"Climbing thr side of the building with a blowtorch. What were you thinking?" He questioned the brunette.

"I was thinking I had better core strength. I got winded like ten feet up."

"I knew you wouldn't win the bet, but your performance tonight has made me question not only how good of a detective you are, but quite frankly how smart you are."

"Well that's not surprising. You constantly underestimate me."

"No you've been correctly estimated. You have five minutes until your deadline, and here you are handcuffed to a table in a locked room."

"Which is precisely where I planned on being." He paused as he leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table. "Captain, let me tell you a little story. You remember when I fell through your ceiling?"

"Yes, that was six hours ago."

"It was, I admit a disastrous failure. But it gave me...well Callie and I thought of the idea for Herman, the friendly Janitor you met. With Herman, I commenced the perfect crime."

"I caught you as Herman."

"But you didn't catch Rosa. As it turns out our friend Rosa is great at picking locks."

"Does not suprise me."

"No, me neither. Of course I had to find a way to get her out of your office without you seeing her. So I had Callie make a diversion, not mistimed, perfectly timed. So she could escape unseen."

"What about the pigeons?"

"Oh the gray pigeons? They were a Red Herring. Thank you. Their only purpose was to draw you into the copy room. While two members of my team broke into your locked office. So now I had a way into your office and an open cabinet. All that was left was for the royal babies to steal your keys."

"Yes but you didn't need the keys. The cabinet was already unlocked. You needed a way into the safe."

"And I got it. You were so concerned with getting your keys back you didn't even notice the sergeant steal your phone. That's right, even the sergeant is in my side. I then had Charles and Adelaide dust your screen cover for prints. The greasiest smudges revealed the four numbers you use the most. The four numbers in your passcode. Based on your advanced age, I assumed that you use the same passcode for everything. Your phone, your email and of course, your safe."

"That would be a fair assumption."

"It was at that point that I bumped into Callie after she arrested a perp and we got our flirt on...hard." Jake smiled at the memory despite the fact that they had alot to talk about.

"And how was flirting with Detective Rodriguez part of the plan?"

"Oh it wasn't. It just ruled. And that brings us to five minutes ago when Amy and Callie came to your office and told you that I had been arrested. And as you walked over here Desiree swiftly snuck herself through your window and opened your safe. We had the four numbers of your code, which meant there were 24 possible combinations Desiree to try. That could take up to four minutes, which is why I really dragged out this explanation. I mean really stretched it. I don't know if you noticed, but there were times where was like, what am I even talking about this isn't..." he paused when he heard the sound of his timer going off.

"But now, four minutes is up. Which means Desiree is on the other side of that door holding your medal, or I've lost." Jake spoke as the Captain stood up and walked to the door.

"Jake this better have been worth it, I have knots in my back where knots should..." Desiree complained as she stood there with the medal in her hands and an annoyed face before Captain closed the door not giving her time to finish.

"20 seconds to spare, game over, Captain. Check me."

"I think you mean Checkmate. You really need to learn how to play chess. How did you get everyone to help you?"

"I appealed to their sense of teamwork and camaraderie with rousing speech that would put Shakespeare to shame." Jake started as he remembered the horrible speech he gave.

"And that worked?"

"No. No, no. Not at all. My speech did not inspire them. So i bribed the. I told them that id we pulled this off, i would do all of their paperwork. And since you're doing all my paperwork..."

"I'm impressed Peralta. Well done."

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The squad were all currently at the bar getting some drinks. Callie decided to wear a cute angel costume, it was a white flowy dress with a halo, silver hoop earrings, some white heels and some angel wings.

While everyone was talking and having a good time Callie decided to take a seat at the back. Desi noticed and told Jake to go talk to her.

"Hey Cals." He greeted as he sat on the other side of the table.

"Hey" she responded as she took a sip of her drink.

"Can we talk now?" He asked her to which she agreed.

"I need to start off by apologizing. I'm sorry for avoiding you this past week ever since..." she paused.

"We had sex?" He finished making the girl blush slightly and slump in her seat.

"Yeah." She confirmed as she tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear.

They sat there in total silence for a good 3 minutes. They didn't understand why they were being so awkward about it. They had both had their equal shares of one night stands. Callie has had to sleep with multiple men and women during undercover assignments. Did she enjoy those? Absolutely. Did she enjoy this one with Jake more than she should? Yes. Did Jake feel the same way? Yes he did.

Did they both want to do it again? Absolutely.

"I might be asking for a bit much...but for now can we maybe just forget that it happened?" Callie suggested with a heavy heart, she didn't want to forget about it at all.

"Yeah sure... that's probably the best you know." Jake assured with a slight frown, he to didn't want to forget about it too but he, she, they both knew it was for the best.

Their heads turned up at the sound of their favorite song making them both smile.

"Catalina Rodriguez, may I have this dance?" He asked in one of his accents as he stood in front of her with his arm out.

"You may Mr Peralta." She giggled before taking his hand and going over to geh dance floor.

Desiree, Adelaide, Amy and Rose had been watching the entire scene with ideas in their minds.

"Okay ladies I know you're thinking what I'm thinking." Desiree spoke as she faced the three women.

"Yeah we are. Operation Cake is a go." Adelaide said.

"Really...I think Perlriguez sound better." Amy said to the group.

"Fine operation Perlriguez is a go. By the end of this year we're gonna get these two together." Adelaide spoke with a raised glass before the three women clinked them together.

So I finally updates :/ sorry for the hiatus. I was trying to finish my Flash fanfic and I have, the sequel is upp btw.

I'm gonna try to update atleast once a week from now on probably on weekends.

So their ship name is Perlriguez:))

Thank you for reading I love you all sm and thank you for 2K <<<333