Carmen Sandiego AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

Three years later and not much had changed.

"Carmen get back here with Maria!" Ivy yelled as she chased after her wife, one of her daughters giggling happily strapped to her chest as Ivy tried to chase down her wife and other child.

"She is having fun stealing famous treasures, aren't you Maria?" Carmen asked looking down at the little girl in her arms. The little over two year old girl was laughing happily and nodding her head.

"Is it wrong of me to think this is kind of cute and kind of hilarious?" Tatyanna asked her boyfriend of over a year as the two of them chased after Carmen and the thieving toddler as well. This was far from the first heist Carmen had taken one of her children too but it seemed that little Maria enjoyed being the 'robber' more often than the 'cop'.

"What that Carmen is using her heists as another family bonding experience or that the twins actually enjoy this whole cat and mouse game?" Zack asked in return as Ivy with a giggling Rosa raced after the fleeing thieves.

"That despite all of this, the news still hasn't caught on to Carmen and Ivy being married and that their children are twins?" Dara asked grinning from where she was moving to intercept the two blonds.

"Well to be fair the twins aren't identical. Maria has brown hair and blue eyes, Rosa has red hair and blue eyes. The hair color is throwing them off I'm sure." Zack said as he stopped to chat with the hot headed muscle woman. The ACME and VILE agents still got along and most of the time during a Carmen crime, when one of the upper VILE agents went to intercept the other detectives they usually just had a casual civil conversation and got caught up on what happened with each other since the last chat.

News crews world wide were baffled by this but none of them nor any of the reporters that often followed after Carmen or the detectives thought to ask about it.

"Ivy has literally yelled for Carmen to bring Maria back for her nap or else Carmen would be sleeping on the couch alone…and none of the news crews have picked it up yet." Dara pointed out dryly and making Zack laugh. He had never seen Carmen stumble and rush to hand her little mini-me back to Ivy so fast before.

"Do you really think they'll believe that the worlds most wanted woman would be married to a detective that regularly chases her?" Tatyanna asked making Zack laugh harder.

"They will if we tell them the heists were Carmen's idea of foreplay." Zack said making Tatyanna blush brightly while Dara busted out laughing.

"Oh I gotta tell the others that one. That's gold Zack!" Dara said clapping the boy on the back and nearly sending him tumbling into a nearby pond.

"I wouldn't put it past boss for that to be true either. Do you think that the early crimes she pulled when Ivy first started to chase her were her ideas of dates? Maybe she was just getting Ivy's attention and taking her exotic places to get in the queens good books?" Dara asked after a moment and making Zack snicker. Even after three years the VILE agents still called Ivy their queen, mainly because while everyone knew Carmen was in charge of VILE…Ivy usually could get Carmen to do whatever she wanted.

"I wouldn't doubt it. Ivy had mentioned once when I started working the Carmen cases with her that Carmen was a lot more…themed…methodical now after they married. The first few cases after she started chasing Carmen, Carmen seemed to take her to every place in the world that Ivy ever wanted to visit. As if she were showing off for Ivy." Zack said glancing up when he heard Carmen laughing, a sound that once was rare but was much more common now.

"Look. The detective got ahold of Carmen Sandiego's daughter." One reporter said taking a snapshot of Ivy holding Maria in her arms, Rosa hugging her sister and the two babbling happily.

"You managed to grab the miniature version detective. Nice job. Seems motherhood hasn't slowed you down at all." Carmen said standing in front of Ivy with a smile on her face and her arms crossed in front of her chest.

"I could say the same for you Carmen. But seriously? You know their naptime is in twenty minutes, and they almost never sleep for at least an hour after a heist." Ivy asked sighing as she adjusted her grip. Rosa looked up at her 'papa's name and reached for the tall red clad woman.

"Papa!" Rosa cried reaching for Carmen who gave a loving smile as she expertly plucked the red head from the baby harness.

"…Did the detectives' daughter just call Carmen Sandiego 'papa'?" The reporter asked slowly as everyone focused on the infamous thief and just as infamous detective who were talking civically and familiarly.

"Did papa's little detective have fun playing 'catch the crook'?" Carmen asked with a grin as she kissed her red haired daughters forehead.

"Mama! Stole!" Maria called for her mama's attention as she showed the diamond in her tiny hand that she had helped her papa steal.

"I see sweetheart. Mama has to take it back now that the game is over." Ivy said smiling down at the mini-Carmen. Seriously her little brown haired daughter was dressed up just like Carmen. Where and how Carmen got a red trench-coat and fedora that fit both of her daughters perfectly Ivy would never know. She was also quite sure she didn't want to know.

"Did Carmen's daughter just call the detective mama?" The reporter was blinking slowly as he tried to process this.

"Aww." Maria pouted as her mama took the shiny rock she helped steal away.

"Don't worry Maria. Papa will take you to steal something else again later." Carmen said earning a fondly exasperated look from her wife and a happy squeal from both daughters. Maria going stealing meant Rosa got to go chasing. Rosa loved going with her mama and chasing down her papa and sister.

"They're barely over two years old Carmen. Couldn't you have waited until they were at least five before you turned one of our children into a master thief?" Ivy asked amused as she looked at her wife who just laughed and pulled Ivy into a hug.

"She's not a master yet dear. Maria still has a lot to learn about being a thief, just like Rosa has a lot to learn about being a detective…but it's always better to give them an early start." Carmen said kissing Ivy's hair as she held her wife and two children close while the VILE and ACME agents nearby just looked fondly amused or happy for the married couple.

The news crews, reporters, and those watching around the world could only gape in shock however.

"Into being just like their mothers? A master thief and a detective. I swear I better not be called to bail our daughter out of jail though." Ivy said making Carmen laugh again.

"As if anyone will actually throw her in jail! If someone tries doing that before she's at least fifteen then they'd have not just us but all of VILE and ACME breaking down the doors." Carmen said as the two toddlers babbled happily about something or another, Maria probably talking about the diamond since she kept saying 'shiny rock'.

"Our girls are going to be so spoiled." Ivy said sighing and earning a grin from Carmen.

"Of course! They're the princesses of Crime after all." Carmen said completely unashamed as she grinned at her wife who merely shook her head with a smile.

"Why did I marry you again?" Ivy asked rhetorically.

Carmen's smugly stated words rang out all over the globe while Ivy rolled her eyes but was still smiling.

"Because I stole Priscilla Presley's ring from the Elvis museum and proposed in Ireland before buying you your own ring legally?"