Sunday, June 30th, 1985

BEA PARKED OUTSIDE OF A FANCY restaurant to see Hopper sitting on the railing outside.

She opened the door before walking over to Hopper

"Hop," she called out and he walked over, placing his hands on her shoulders.

"Henderson," he slurred, tapping her on the head in a drunken state.

"We're getting you home Chief," Bea said and he laughed drunkenly.

"I don't get why you don't drink Bea, it takes your mind of everything" he said, his voice clearly slurring. She ignored his question, dragging him to her car and shoving him in the passenger seat.

She started driving, buckling Hopper into the car beforehand.

Suddenly he started singing Don't mess with Jim and Bea sighed as he belted it out, hanging his head out the window like a dog.

"Drink Hop," she said, shoving a bottle of water into his hands and watching as he reluctantly drank it. "What got you so upset Hop, and why were you there?" Bea asked, wondering what had happened.

"Well," he said, pointing his finger at the road, his voice slurring. "Joyce and I were meant to be on a date but she stood me up like I was in 6th Grade again," he said angrily, taking another angry sip from his water.

Bea watched as he started to sober up and pulled up outside of the cabin.

"Can you get in alright Chief?" She questioned and he nodded, getting out of the car and nearly falling over.

"Have a good night Hop," she called out as he pushed the door open, waving to Bea.

Bea sighed, driving home to see Dustin asleep on the couch, a Russian to English translator book in his arms like a Teddy bear.

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Monday, July 1st, 1985

AFTER A LONG MORNING WORK AT work with Powell and Callahan trying to teach Bea how the new filing and computer system worked she was in the car driving to the mall.

She took a sip from her coffee as she got out of her car, parking up and walking in.

As she looked around she could only see Robin in the ice cream shop. Bea threw away her used coffee cup in the bin before looking around the mall for Steve and maybe Dustin.

She looked around and saw Steve watching her through the binocular and she laughed as he hid behind a plant with Dustin.

She walked over and stood right in front of her boyfriend, tilting her head to the side confused.

"You watching me Captain?" She asked, placing a hand on her hip. Steve laughed and stood up, kissing her lightly on the forehead much to the disgust of Dustin.

"You really are the worst spy," Dustin said as Bea snuck behind them.

Suddenly, in the middle of Bea and Steve conversation, Dustin yells that he has acquired a target.

"Ten o'clock. Sam goody," Dustin said and Bea sighed, grabbing the binoculars of her brother and finding the man in sunglasses.

"Shit. Duffel Bag," Steve said as Bea handed him the binoculars so that he could see.

"Evil Russian," Bea, Dustin and Steve all said at the same time, both of the boys looking at her. They all inconspicuously chased him up the stairs and some people stared at Bea on her police uniform.

She swore under her breath at forgetting to change out of it.

Suddenly the man turned back around and Dustin ran to the phone, talking through it in a montone voice.

Steve did the only thing he could think of. He grabbed the sides of Bea's face and started making out with her which led to the man turning around probably out of awkwardness.

Steve pulled away, grabbing Bea - who was still a little lightheaded from the intense kiss - and started to run after him, following Dustin.

"What was that for Harrington?" She half asked - half yelled.

"Distraction," he yelled as they ran towards the man with the duffel bag.

They watched as he walked into the jazzercise room and leading the class, pulling a boom box out of his duffel bag.

Steve and Dustin watched the music start before Bea sighed.

"Well we found nothing, lets go back," Bea said, holding Steves hand as she basically pulled him back to the ice cream parlour, her brother following after as he muttered to himself about how annoyed he was that they had been following the wrong man. Who was not Russian.

"You're not going to believe who Dustins thought was Russian," Bea said as they walked up to Robin who was sitting on the window seat.

"You did too," Dustin quipped, not wanting to take all the blame.

Suddenly Robin pushed pass them, running off. Bea looked confused, chasing after her so both the girls stood on the bench in the middle of the plaza.

"Rob, what's going on?" Bea asked and Robin looked around vacantly, muttering the code to herself.

Bea followed her gaze until it landed on the Chinese restaurant.

"A trip to China sounds nice," Bea said, turning to look at Robin.

"A trip to China sounds nice," Robin repeated and Bea hugged her.

"Robin you are a genius. God, I could kiss you right now," Bea said and Robin laughed and Bea didn't manage to head the hint of nervousness in it.

"If you tread lightly," Robin said and Bea turned to look around.

"Kaufman shoes," she said and Robin nodded.

"When blue and yellow meet in the west?" Bea said, a confused tone to her voice.

"The clock. Blue meets yellow in the west," Robin said and Bea smiled at the clock, not knowing what to think.

"Bear, what are you doing?" Steve asked and Bea jumped down, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Robin cracked it," she said, jumping up and down slightly in excitement.

"I cracked the code," Robin said when she heard Steve's confused answer.

"This is what you call as genius," Bea said, wrapping an arm around Robins shoulder.

After the few weeks of Steve working there she had grown close to Robin, someone she had slightly known at school.

They climbed onto the roof, sitting and watching. Steve held Bea close as the rain started pouring down, the sun setting in the distance.

"Its beautiful," Bea said as she watched the sun dissappear behind the building.

"It really is," Steve said, looking at Bea and she just laughed at him.

"That was sweet. But kind of cheesy," she said and Steve laughed, pressing a soft kiss to her forehead.

"But you are beautiful," he said and she smiled at him.

"If you two are done, we have some evil Russians to look for," Dustin said.

"Look for Imperial Panda and Kaufman shoes," Robin yelled out as Dustin looked through the binoculars. Bea shivered in her police jacket, the rain soaking her clothes and hair.

Someone whistled as he shoved a bunch of boxes with Pandas on it through a door.

"Whatever it is. They are armed to the teeth," Dustin said and as Steve heard Bea's teeth chattering, he wrapped his arms around her, pulling him up against her to gain any extra body warmth.

"You guys are too cute. We are meant to be on a stealth mission," Robin said and Bea laughed at the comment.

She was about to retaliate when Dustin started making urgent noises. Dustin and Steve fought for the binoculars like little children and they dropped it just as they heard another loud clap of thunder.

The four all ducked, laying against the small wall so that the men couldn't see them as they looked up.

Bea and Robin looked at their suddenly interwined hands before Bea looked down at Steves hand anxiously grasping onto Beas thigh. She had to contain a laugh as they all tried to hide.

Their breaths were all heavy as they didn't know of the Russians had found them.

They all ran back down through the service door, drenched in water. Bea had a tight grasp on Steve's hand as she shivered, sounds of thunder echoing through the halls.

"I think we found your Russians," Robin said, an underlying tone of something in her voice that Bea couldn't particularly uncover as she shivered from the rain.

She drove home, Steve in the passengers seat and Dustin in the back.

He was talking to himself about Russians and Bea couldn't make it out as she listened to Mad World by Tears for Fears on the radio.

She parked up, Dustin going through to his room before Steve and Bea drive back to his to pick something up - both of them ending up staying the night.

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