brendala

Hey, thought you might like to know I ended up writing another scene for the Inspector Cooper AU. I'm adding this and the other one to the wiki:
There was a moan behind us and we whirled around. Bently was rubbing his head and climbing to his feet. "What happened?"

I held out my cane ready while Carmelita got her pistol. Oh man, I did not want to fight my best friend again. "Stay where you," I warned. "I don't want to hurt you-"

"Sly?" Bently looked up and seemed confused. "Where are we?"

I swallowed and lowered my cane. Bently called me "Sly". Not "Cooper", or "Inspector", but "Sly". "Bently-"

Suddenly, Bently's eyes widened and he ran straight towards me. "Sly! DON'T DO IT!" He grabbed me by the shirt. "Whatever you do, you can't destroy Clockwreck! It's going to cause a-"

He then trailed off and blinked. "Hold on," he glanced and his jaw dropped. "My legs? I-I can walk again." He let go of me and stared at amazement. "I can walk? But how?" HIs confusion suddenly turned to a frown and he groaned before turning to glare at me. "Sly, what did you do?"

I started laughing. It was Bently, the same old Bently I knew since I was a kid. "You're back!" I ran forward pulled Bently into a hug. "Oh man, it's good to have you back!"

"Um...glad to be back," said Bently as he returned the hug. "But what happened exactly?"

"He smacked you on the head with the cane" I heard Carmelita muttered behind. It was probably weird for her to see me hugging for what she had always thought was a high level crime lord. "Then you woke up like this."

"Of course!" Bently cried as I let him go and he smacked his forehead. "Sly, your cane is from the original timeline." He pointed to it and nodded his head. "By hitting me with hit, it restored my memories from the old timeline."

"Oh, really,," I said slowly and turned to Carmelita with a grin. "So, if I were to hit you with the cane-"

"Don't even think about it," Carmelita said in a cold tone.

I sighed as I twirled the cane in my hands. I had to admit, I doubt I could bring myself to actually hit Carmelita. Still, it would be nice to have the old Carmelita I knew back too.

"In any case," Bently continued as he removed his trench coat. "You mind bringing me up to speed? While I remember the original timeline, it has now made my memories of this current one fuzzy."

I folded my arms over my chest. "To put it simply, I destroyed Clockwreck and somehow that has cause you, Murry and my dad to become crime lords while there's another version of me running around who is a law enforcement nutjob."

Bently moaned as he rubbed his eyes. "I was afraid this would happen."

"But what I don't get," I continued. Now that I had the old Bently back, I could get a straight answer. "How come, there's a second me? That didn't happened when time got changed before."

Bently stroked his chin and started to pace. "By destroying the ancient Clockwreck Sly, you changed your own timeline so severely, it probably changed your whole personality."

He then paused and looked to me. "But, due to your immunity to the time changes, thanks to the Thievius Raccoonus, the timeline itself was force to create a whole new Sly to balance itself out."

"I had a feeling it was something like that." It was then a thought struck me. Bently had figured my immunity came from reading and learning from the Thievius Racconus. However, if that was the case then.

"Bently," I said, not sure if I wanted to hear his answer or not. "My father is alive in this timeline and I know he would have read the book too. Do you think-"

"That he might be immune too?" Bently shrugged. "It's hard to say, Sly."

"I hate to break up this fascinating lesson in time travel," Carmelita injected as she glanced back to the wide opened door. "But we need to get out of here now, before Bently's guards show up."

Bently stared wide eyed. "Guards? I have guards? Wait, didn't you say something about me being a crime lord?"

I sighed as I let Bently climbed onto my back to carry him to the window. "It's a long story, buddy."