A/N- This is my first Lante fic so please be kind!

Dante is still a cop and trying to take down Sonny. Lulu does not know the truth about him, so she's going to be calling him Dominic as the rest of the people in Port Charles.

Chapter 1:

Dante sat on a bench on the docks after his meeting with Ronnie in the laundry mat. Ronnie said that the evidence that he compiled so far wasn't enough and he had to get more and soon so that they will be able to arrest Sonny. Dante was glad that he had more time to collect evidence that meant one good thing too. He was going to spend more time in Port Charles hopefully he'll get to know the beautiful, feisty blond named Lulu Spencer better.

"You look deep in thought."

Dante turned to see Lulu descend the stairs. She looked like a vision only wearing a navy blue dress. "Just thinking," he said.

She approached the bench. "May I join you?"

"Please." Dante scooted over to make room on the bench for Lulu.

"So what were you thinking about?" Lulu asked him.

"Oh," Dante sighed. "I was just trying to figure out a good way to finally get your phone number."

Lulu laughed. "You know you could actually ask me for it."

"Will you give me your actual number or will it be a number for your favorite pizza place?" Dante said.

"I wouldn't reveal my favorite pizza place to anyone, Dominic" Lulu said.

"I'm not just anyone," Dante protested. "Did I hallucinate that kiss you gave me outside the Haunted Star?"

"It was the only way to get you to shut up."

Dante laughed he dangled his arm behind the bench. "Well, I knew that you couldn't resist me."

"I don't know about that."

"Seriously Lulu, why don't you go out with me?" Dante asked. "I know a little place that has the best-"

"Okay fine. I'll go out with you."

Dante was not expecting that. He expected her to give up a fight. "Are you really accepting?"

"Yeah I am so you can stop all your cheesy pick-up lines."

Dante gave her the once over and cleared his throat. "This is a classic but… your father must be a baker because you have a nice set of buns."

Despite herself, Lulu laughed. "Okay. I guess I'll see you later."

"Don't I get your number?" Dante asked as Lulu got up from the bench.

"You are resourceful Dominic. You'll find away to get it."

Dante watched as Lulu walked away and let out a deep sigh. He was in Port Charles to do a job and all he could think of was a way for him to get her phone number.

Dante woke up in his room above Kelly's the next morning. Thankfully his room had a phone book but unfortunately Lulu's phone number wasn't listed. He shut the book in frustration. To make matters worse there was no Spencers listed in the phonebook at all, like Lulu they must have unlisted phone numbers as well.

She wouldn't have made it that easy for him. He knew where she worked Crimson magazine. That is where he was going to begin.

As soon as Dante descended the stairs to the restaurant below he saw one of Lulu's brothers sitting at a table drinking a cup of coffee obviously waiting for him. "Mr. Perelli, I need to speak with you." Lucky rose to his feet. There was an incident that had to do with one of Sonny's warehouses. You need to come down to the station for some questions."

Dante sighed. He did have several alibis for the night before one was Ronnie and the other one was Lucky's little sister. "What time did the incident happen?"

"Why?" Lucky questioned. "Did you do it?"

Dante crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm not answering any questions without my lawyer present."

"Let's wait for Diane down at the PCPD then." Lucky took Dante by the arm and led him outside.

In the PCPD, Dante was sitting on a chair that was beside Lucky's desk. He noticed there was a rolodex beside Lucky's desk phone. Do people really have rolodex in the day of cell phones? Dante wondered as he scooted the rolodex towards him. Lucky would have his sister's entire list of phone numbers in there.

Dante reached the L's and quickly went through them trying to find Lulu's elusive phone number.

"Uh-hmm."

Someone behind him cleared their throat. Dante turned it was Lucky.

"Looking for something?" Lucky asked as he took a seat behind his desk. He reached for the rolodex just as Dante saw "Lulu" on top of the card he was about to look at.

Dante bit back his sigh of frustration. "Well Detective Spencer, You brought me here and had me waiting for awhile. I got bored."

"So you decided to look through my phone numbers, why?"

Dante shrugged. "There are no magazines laying around."

"This is a police station not a doctor's office," Lucky grumbled.

"Why am I even here? You have no proof that I was there."

"Mr. Perelli I hope that you didn't answer any question without me present," Diane Miller said as she sauntered in her designer heels and briefcase.

"Nah Miss Miller, I was just telling the good detective that he is lacking good reading materials in the waiting room," Dante answered, sitting back in his seat.

"Why is my client even here, Detective Spencer? Do you have any proof that he was where you claim him to be and what time did this alleged incident happen?"

"Last night around seven thirty-"

Dante grinned. He was with Lulu at that time. Lucky is not going to like his answer. "Detective Spencer, I do actually have an alibi for the time in question."

Lucky arched an eyebrow. "Really and whom will that person be? Max and Milo?"

"No actually It's your little sister," Dante said with a huge smile on his face.

"Lulu?" Lucky asked surprised. "What were you doing with my sister?"

Diane cleared her throat. "Why don't you give her a call and find out? The quicker she can say that she was with my client the quicker that Mr. Perelli can get out of here."

Lucky sighed as he pulled out his cell phone. He looked through his contacts and pressed a button. "Hey Lu, it's me. Can you come down to the station right now? I need to clear something up. Thanks I'll see you soon."

He hung up and placed the phone in his pocket much to Dante's dismay. He was hoping to get his hands on the phone to get Lulu's phone number.

"Okay, Lulu is on her way. She'll be here soon."

"Good then I can make the designer handbag sale that I was going to before I was called in," Diane chimed in.

Ten minutes later, Lulu came in the PCPD she was wearing a red strapless dress with a black sweater over it. Just the sight of her took Dante's breath away.

"Lulu thank you for coming in," Lucky greeted her.

"It sounded important." Lulu's gaze fell on Dante and Diane. "What's going on?"

"Mr. Perelli has stated that he was with you around seven thirty last night. Is that true?" Lucky asked his sister.

"Yeah we ran into each other and had a conversation," Lulu answered truthfully.

"Good!" Diane said. "Set my client free because he has an alibi."

Lucky turned towards Dante. "You are free to go, Mr. Perelli. And please keep my little sister out of your life of crime."

"Yeah, well we'll see." Dante answered as he and Diane left.

Lulu watched as the disappeared through the door. "Can I go now?" Lulu asked. "I still have to get Kate a latte or she's going to explode."

"You may go," Lucky said. "And Lesley Lu, stay away from that guy. He's bound to get you killed."

Lulu just nodded. "I have to get Kate that latte. Give the boys a kiss for me."

Lucky said he would and he embraced his sister. "Take care sis, and again stay away from Dominic."

Dante got off the floor that the Crimson's offices were. Maxie was at her desk trying to answer the ringing phone. "Crimson please hold. Crimson please hold. Damn it! Of all the days for Lulu to be called in for questioning is the day before the magazine goes to press!" She said to herself.

Lulu must be still held up at the coffee place, Dante thought as he looked down at the bouquet of flowers in his hands. He wanted to thank her in person.

Maxie looked up. "Oh its you. I thought it was Lulu."

"She said something about getting lattes or something at the station," Dante explained, looking over at Lulu's empty desk.

"I wouldn't wait for her. We have a lot of work to do," Maxie said as she reached for the ringing phone. "You should give her a call."

If only it was that simple, Dante thought.

Then a light bulb went off. "I had to get a new phone. The other one… never mind I lost all of my numbers. Can you…"

Maxie franticly wrote on a Post-it and handed it to him. "There that is her cell phone and our landline. You better leave before Kate gets back."

Dante tried to contain his smile as he looked down at Lulu's phone number. He went to her desk and placed the flowers on her desk. "I'll be going. Tell her thanks. She'll know what I mean."

"Whatever…"

Dante went to the elevator and as the doors closed he felt like he held the Golden Ticket in his hands. He got her number and now she has to go out with him like she promised.

Lulu returned to the office carrying a container that held three lattes one for each of them. Maxie sat at her desk on the computer. "You know, you brother called you in at a real good time," she grumbled.

"Why?" Lulu said, handing Maxie a latte.

"The phones would stop ringing and someone dropped by to see you. He left you some flowers." Maxie nodded towards Lulu's desk.

"Flowers?" Lulu turned around to see a bouquet of pink and white roses on top of her desk.

"Dante said 'thank you' and you would know what he means," Maxie added.

Lulu smiled as she picked up the bouquet. The flowers were really sweet maybe she should give in and actually give Dominic her phone number.

"Is that a smile?" Maxie asked. "You are really into this guy aren't you?"

"I'm going to find a vase to put these flowers in," Lulu said changing the subject. "Enjoy the latte."

After the long day at work Lulu and Maxie went to Jake's to unwind. They sat at the bar and Coleman came over to them as they took a seat at the bar.

"Hey ladies what can I get for you?" he as he sauntered over to them.

"Margaritas!" Lulu exclaimed.

"And an extra shot of tequila!" Maxie added.

Lulu shook her head. "No tequila shots."

"Tequila is in the margaritas, sweetie," Coleman said as he mixed the drinks and set the drinks in front of them.

"I know that. Drinking tequila straight on the other hand is an entirely different matter."

"Why is that?"

The voice behind them sounded vaguely familiar. They turned around to see Dante smiling his megawatt smile at and only Lulu.

"Dominic," Lulu said. "Thanks for the flowers."

"You got them and the message?"

"You are welcome."

Coleman leaned over the bar. "What can I get for you, bud?"

"A beer."

"Right on." Coleman handed Dante a beer to him.

"Oh! Look at the time!" Maxie squealed. "I forgot I'm meeting Spinelli at Kelly's right now! Enjoy the drink Lulu!"

Maxie jumped from the bar stool and darted towards the door. "Bye Coleman!"

Lulu watched her fleeing friend in shock. She hoped that Maxie at least would be a buffer between Dante and herself.

"I can't believe she did that. She left me alone and with the bar tab!"

Dante reached across the bar and took Maxie's untouched drink. "Why don't you make the most of it and join me at a table?"

Lulu took her drink and joined Dante at a nearby table. "Are you going to tell me why I was summoned to the PCPD to be your alibi today?"

"Are you going to tell me that you are willing to drink a margarita that has tequila in it but not a straight tequila shot?" Dante returned.

"I was kidnapped and forced to drink a bottle of tequila at gunpoint," Lulu said as she took a sip of one of the margaritas.

Dante looked at her and laughed. "No really…." He trailed off. "Wait you are serious?"

Lulu nodded. "I am."

Now Dante was intrigued. "No wonder your brother is so over-protective of you."

"Lucky doesn't know. My family didn't even noticed I was missing. Wait Dillion my step-brother actually noticed. I think he actually went to Lucky and tried to report me missing. Lucky blew him off."

Dante's grip on his beer bottle tightened. "This is a lot to digest. Why don't you start at the beginning, Lulu?"

"Oh wrong place wrong time. Ran into someone that some bad guys were looking for and they took me along too. They locked us in a warehouse. They wanted our deaths to look like an accident…"

"So they forced you to drink tequila at gunpoint?" Dante finished. "I can see why you would be turned off drinking the stuff straight."

He had to admit, Lulu Spencer was getting more and more interesting the more he got to know her.

"Yeah well, who wouldn't be turned off?" Lulu took another sip of her drink.

"How did you get out of there?"

"Well after the first bottle the person I was held with and I were pretty buzzed. He provided a distraction while I made a mad dash to the door I made it outside for like a few seconds yelled for help before they found me a dragged me back."

"You went kicking and screaming?" Dante asked.

"The thug threw me over his shoulder and carried me back. Then they brought in the second bottle. I told them that I wasn't going to drink it to make them feel better when they threw me off the docks or what else they planned for me."

"Then what happened?" Dante asked.

"Well for starters they made the person I was held with get on his knees and they pointed a gun to the back of his head and told me I better drink up or they will kill him in front of me. So I drank." Lulu finished her drink and reached for Maxie's.

"You just can't leave that story like that. How did you get out of there?" Dante drained the last of his beer and motioned to Coleman that he would like another.

"Apparently someone heard my screams and alerted Sonny," Lulu shrugged. "But someone else came first and I wasn't about to go down without a fight, I hid behind the door. I hit the person over the head with one of the empty bottles of tequila and knocked him out cold."

Dante laughed. "Who was it? Max or Milo?"

Lulu remained quiet and didn't answer.

"It wasn't one of them?" He asked. "Now I'm dying to know. Who did you knock out cold?"

"Why am I even telling you this?" Lulu asked. "I hardly even know you."

"I'm trying to know you better," Dante smiled at her. "So who did you knockout cold? Not Jason. It had to be one of the other guys that Sonny has."

Dante looked at her and the smile on Lulu's face said that it wasn't another of Sonny's men. "No way! You knocked Jason Morgan out cold? And you were drunk off your ass?"

Lulu held her hands up. "In Jason's defense, he just been shot and wasn't one hundred percent."

"But still, not many people can say they took Jason out and live to tell about it."

Lulu looked over at the pool table that just cleared out. "Want to play some pool, Dominic?"

Dante grinned. "Like on the night we first met? I just hope your brothers will stay away this time.

Lulu got her drink and walked to the pool table she handed Dante a cue. "I can take care of myself, Dom."

"Is that what that little story about?" Dante took the cue and began to set up the balls. "That you can handle yourself?"

"Take what you want for it."

Dante finished the setting up. "What should we play for?"

Lulu laughed. "You are not getting my number that way, Dom."

"Oh who says I don't already have your number?" Dante returned. "Ladies first."

"Really?" Lulu said as she readied her first shot. "Then why haven't you called me yet?"

Suddenly there was a ringing sound coming from her purse. She reached her phone.

"Hey Lulu, I don't consider this our first date," Dante's voice said through the other side.