Hello there! So recently I have re-read this fic and I decide to re-write it, revising the grammar and writing a couple of new things (as new chapter for example). Hope you (re-)enjoy it and also hope you tell me what do you think about it. R&R

Luca was the favorite place of young people due to its numerous nightclubs, its restaurants and cafes, and shopping centers. The most privileged had a house there, so they could have all the comforts that the city offered them at any time. However, people who lived in other cities or in some villages could only visit occasionally the city because transport was very expensive, especially during the weekends.

There was not the case of our girls. Luckily for Paine and her friends, she had an apartment near the center of Luca, so they could make their living in the city without having to worry about transport from one city to another.

That night the girls had agreed to go to one of the new clubs that were inaugurated in the city. They decided to go to one that was run by a friend of Paine's father so that the drinks would be free for them. They arrived at the club and saw that the queue was huge and went around the block.

"Do we really have to wait for that queue?" Rikku asked with a tone of desperation in her voice.

"Maybe Paine can do something." Yuna suggested with a smile. Both Yuna and Rikku knew that Paine had some 'privileges' and could get anything she wanted.

Paine looked at her friends and then the queue. She did not like to use these 'privileges' but did not like to wait such a long queue though. Paine looked at her friends, who were waiting for her to answer. She sighed and she went to guard at the door, followed by her friends.

"Excuse me." Paine said, placing her hand on her hip.

The guard looked down at her and her friends. He noticed the clothes of each one. Paine wore a black skirt with a tank top of the same color. The top highlighted Paine's figure and made all eyes were pointed at her chest, but that does not bother Paine. She knew she had a nice chest and did not want to hide it. Her outfit was accompanied by black patent leather heels, shining due to the reflection of the city lights in them.

After Paine, the man noticed Rikku. Rikku was wearing white shorts accompanied by a top with blue, green, yellow and red stripes. The colors brought her tan out. Her blonde hair was in a braid that was cast aside, and that came at the waist. It could have passed for a girl of 17 years if it was not for her high heels and makeup that made her look like a girl of 20 years, her real age.

Finally, Yuna's turn came. Yuna wore a simple black dress that left her back all bare. Her sandals made the attire very elegant. She was not wearing much makeup as Rikku. She did not need it. Yuna, like Paine, looked to be 20 years without makeup.

After an analysis of the girls, the guard turned his gaze to Paine, who was waiting for him to let them went inside. As the guard was taking his time, Paine decided to take her heavy artillery and approached the guard, whispering something that her friends did not hear. The guard expression changed completely and moved to one side, letting the girls went inside.

Once inside, the girls asked Paine what she had said, but Paine just smiled and simply said that she reminded him who she was. They were looking for a place to sit and suddenly found LeBlanc, who was making signs to them to sit with her.

"Hey." Rikku greeted happily as she sat on the couch that LeBlanc had long occupied.

"Loves, I thought you would never come with such a long queue." LeBlanc said.

"Well, let's say that Paine has used her contacts." Yuna said with a smile.

"Really Paine, someday you'll have to tell us how you do it. You always get people to do what you want." Rikku said laughing.

"A magician never reveals her tricks." She just said. She did not want to tell her friends the truth of why she could do anything she wants. She was not yet prepared to tell the whole truth to the girls.

"Someday we'll find out." Yuna joked and rose from the couch, accompanied by Rikku, to order drinks for all.


"Your target just arrived." Lenne said to a guy with chocolate eyes and platinum hair. She was on the other side of the bar working as a waitress. "Turn around slowly. She is sitting on a table in the back of the room. To the right." Lenne ordered the boy, who instantly spotted Paine.

"Okay, okay, okay. Explain it again. Why Baralai and not me?" A blond guy with a patch over his right eye asked, making Lenne let out a sigh of despair.

"Gippal for the fifth time! We need someone to get into her circle of friends. You wouldn't introduce yourself to her circle of friends. You would introduce yourself to her bed and you'd left the following day, spoiling the mission." Lenne said exasperatedly.

Lenne was the leader of a group of the police that carried out investigations. The police knew that Spira had someone who was a drug dealer, and their suspicions were placed in the most important businessman of all Spira, Millow Teyw. The problem was that they did not have enough evidence to charge him. For weeks they had shuffled the different options they had to get that evidence. One was that a member of the police works directly for him, but that was not so easy. Mr. Teyw did not hire people so easily. Another option was to watch him over 24 hours until the police caught him with his hands in the dough, but Millow was a very intelligent man and he would not let that happened. Finally, they chose the easier option. They would get to him through his daughter, Paine Teyw. The mission was so easy. One of his younger agents would infiltrate into her circle of friends, earn her trust and come up to Millow Teyw. Once the agent had reached Millow, that person has to look for evidence to charge him with drug trafficking and so do justice.

Lenne first sought among the different police girls, but none gave the paper they were seeking. All were too old to infiltrate the group of friends of a girl of 20 years. Discarded all her female options, Lenne went on to study the profiles of the boys. He must be young, and that was something that the body was missing. Most were elderly people who had completed their careers and were working. They needed someone who could at least pretend to be a guy who was about to finish his studies. The list was reduced to three. Examining more closely the profile of each of the boys, Lenne decided that the most appropriate was Baralai, so she had a meeting with him in which she told him the plan. Baralai happily accepted his role and said he was ready to act at any time.

"You are very unfair Lenne. I can get in one night the same information as Baralai in all those months that he will have to act." Gippal said outraged because they had not chosen him to perform the mission.

"No Gippal, you cannot get all that information in one night." Lenne replied while serving a drink to a customer.

"Okay, okay, okay. You only want me to have something with you, I understand. But what about Tidus?" Gippal inquired, causing Lenne to be more exasperated.

"Tidus." Lenne began to say and turned to look at the guy she was talking about. Tidus was concentrated in a bowl of nuts while looking for more pistachios to eat. Seeing that the bowl was over with pistachios, he gave a pout and grabbed another bowl with more pistachios. "Are you really asking me why I have not chosen to Tidus?"

"Okay, okay. Tidus out for being short of mind. But you are so unfair to me. You cannot put me of the mission because you simply want our relationship to be a close one. Honey" Gippal said sitting up and approaching Lenne. "It's just work." He said with a smile and Lenne shot him a dirty look.

"Gippal. First thing is that you and I have not got any relationship. And the second is that we look for someone who does not establish those ties with the subject, because it could ruin the mission. Although you did not have that intention, you'd end up in bed with her and the mission would be lost because she would not want to see you again in her life." Lenne said trying not to sound angry.

"Why do you say she wouldn't want to see me again? I'm not that bad in bed." Gippal defended himself.

"Gippal ... you load me. Anyway, I've been studying your profiles and Baralai is ideal for this mission. He is educated and knows what he's doing. In addition, he knows how to separate work from feelings, so we shouldn't have to worry about whether or not he established ties with the subject." Added Lenne smiling to Baralai, who had been listening to the conversation between Gippal and Lenne but had his eyes on the subject of mission.

"What do we know about her?" He asked without taking his eyes out of Paine.

"She doesn't like to be taken for a fool. She doesn't like people who lie to her, and it is insecure." Lenne reported to Baralai. Well, we start right, Baralai thought.

"She doesn't seem insecure." Baralai said as he watched as Paine stood up and walked with her friends to the dance floor. Baralai watched every move she made. She isn't an insecure girl, he repeated in his head, looks more like she wants to eat the whole world.

"She doesn't know who to trust. Doesn't know if people are really with her because they are friends or because of interest." Lenne went on saying while also watching Paine.

"She's hot." Gippal commented, which made Lenne let out a snort. Gippal turned completely to her. "What?!" He asked Lenne offended as she merely shook her head.

"How do I do it then?" Baralai asked, not knowing how to act with that girl.

"Just come closer and say, 'Did it hurt?'. When she asks you what you're talking about you just answer 'Did it hurt you to fall from heaven? Because you must be an angel.' And you take the set." Gippal said with a smile.

"No!" Lenne exclaimed. "Firstly Gippal, that is well seen. She'd reject you just looking at you. Secondly is that we don't want her to fall in love with Baralai. We want her to trust him. To consider him as a friend." Lenne said. "I don't want to repeat it."

"Why don't you offer her pistachios then?" Tidus asked, making everyone swiveled toward him with looks of you-are-joking.

Baralai, sick of hearing useless advice from his friends and his boss, got up from his stool. His friends watched him. Baralai spun around the room trying to avoid Paine gaze. He found the perfect position to walk past her, dedicate a smile, and go back to his stool at the bar.

Baralai launched its plan. He began to move towards the group of girls that were on the dance floor. When he approached them, he looked distracted to the bar, faking he was looking for a seat at the bar. However, his plan had a slight change of plans. He had not thought that one of Paine's friends would move towards him and throw him a drink on his shirt and pants. It was a girl with short blond hair and brown eyes. The other Paine's friends began to apologize to Baralai while Paine was watching him with a funny look while moving to the beat of the music. Baralai looked at his blue shirt and beige trousers, which were completely wet. He looked up and met with Paine's eyes. It was a brief contact, but it lasted long enough for him to smile. After the smile, Paine quickly looked away and kept dancing. Baralai accepted the apology of the girls and said that nothing was wrong. Then he returned to his plan and went to his stool, passing by Paine, who turned at that moment is in front of him. Baralai, reflexively, took her by the shoulders and gave her a friendly smile. Paine also responded with a small smile involuntarily. Baralai's plan had worked out. On the way to his stool, Baralai was planning his next move.


"Woah Paine." Rikku cried laughing as they walked back to the table they had been occupying. "He's so attractive."

"You know him?" Yuna asked with a smile. Paine shook her head in response. She could not help blushing.

"Want to meet him?" LeBlanc laughed as she winked at Yuna and nudged Rikku.

"No, thanks." Paine said while looking away from her friends. She did not know who that guy was. But her friends were right. He was sexy and she really wanted to know him.

The girls kept messing with Paine, who responded giving her back. She was casting her eyes around the room until she found the boy who had smiled at her. She thought about to approach him, introduce herself and have a good night with him. But he was accompanied by some friends and kept talking with the waitress.

The girls were silent watching Paine until finally, they called her. Paine turned bewildered.

"What were you looking at Paine?" Yuna asked.

"Sure you were looking for the guy." Rikku suggested.

"Oh love. You'd better go talk to him before the waitress takes him." LeBlanc said pointing with her head to the waitress.

"I don't want to meet him." Paine lied with a smile. "Although today I want to spoil the night of somebody." She and her friends started laughing.

Paine took her glass and drank it as fast as she could. She rose from her seat and stumbled a bit, but quickly regained her balance. She winked at her friends and headed to the bar where the guy in the blue shirt was.

It took her a while to take off all the guys that came to talk to her, but Paine managed to avoid them and follow her path to the bar.


"Beware, guys, she's coming." Lenne warned and continued to serve drinks to random people that were in the bar.

"Woah Lai'. I don't know what you've done, but it's worked. You have to tell me." Gippal said laughing.

"A magician never reveals his tricks." Baralai joked and sneaking a peek at Paine, who had come to the bar.

"Excuse me." Paine told Lenne, which surprised the group of boys and waitress. "Give me a bloody mary." Paine ordered.

While waiting for her drink, Paine leaned against the bar. She had put down the neckline of her shirt and, at the position in which she was, anyone could see what was underneath it. The boys could not help noticing Paine's chest.

"Oh my Yevon." Gippal muttered without taking off his eye from Paine's chest. Gippal nudged to Baralai, which was more focused on his glass than in the girl next to him. "You're missing the best part of the night." Gippal told him.

Baralai laughed, but could not help looking at the girl beside him. A few minutes later, Lenne handed Paine her drink, and the girl went slowly without saying anything and moving her hips gently. The boys turned to watch her go. Her movements were hypnotic. Lenne, tired of the scene caught the attention of the boys, who returned their attention to their boss. Lenne followed Paine with her gaze and when she turned to look toward the bar, their eyes met. Paine gave her a look of superiority, while Lenne shot her a murderous look.

"Baralai. You have to be just friends."Lenne warned him again.

"I know." Baralai muttered but not before looking carefully at Paine again.


"Well done Paine." Rikku said as she smiles at her friend. "You've made them stop looking at the waitress," Rikku reported while directing her gaze towards the boys. They were handsome and sexy. If only I wasn't engaged... Rikku thought to herself as she continued looking at the guys.

"Well Rikku, how are the preparations for the wedding?" LeBlanc asked.

"We don't have a date for the wedding yet." Rikku said faking a smile.

"Haven't you searched a date?" Yuna asked a little worried. For almost six months Rikku was engaged and there wasn't any progress in the wedding.

"Auron has been busy and we haven't had time to talk about it." Rikku said. It was not an excuse.

Auron had proposed Rikku a few months ago. Rikku was delighted because she was so in love with him, but seeing as he was behaving at that time, Rikku began to doubt whether her response was well or not. After Auron asked Rikku, he changed his attitude towards her. He did not stop in the house they both had. They neither ate together nor went for a walk. That was not the life Rikku wanted. Rikku wanted a partner.

"Sure you don't talk to him about it at the best time." LeBlanc suggested.

"Is there a specific time to talk about a wedding?" Paine asked sarcastically, who intervened for the first time in the conversation.

"Well, when you are in bed wouldn't be a bad time." LeBlanc suggested. Sure ... in bed ..., Rikku said to herself thinking about how long she had not been in bed with Auron. "It worked for me." LeBlanc added.

"Eww. Too much-unwanted information." Paine said as she rose from her seat. "Girls, it's late. We should go."

"True, I have to work tomorrow in the shop." Yuna said as she stood up and began to gather her things.

"I see you girls out, I'm drowning a bit." Paine said. She was dazed by alcohol and the club lights.


Paine came to the door of the club. The queue had decreased. Maybe people were tired of waiting. She was walking on the sidewalk while thinking about what happened that night. Thinking about the time she had with her friends, the laughter that they had, and the guy in the blue shirt. Stop it, Paine. That guy interested you for a night, but nothing else, Paine told herself.

She continued circling the sidewalk and felt like two guys could not stop looking at her. At first, it did not matter to Paine, but when the guys started to go after her it did. Paine turned to them and the guys pushed her into an alley.

"Let me go!" Paine exclaimed, waving her legs.

"We cannot let someone as pretty as you go home alone." One of the guys said.

Paine was very pissed off. She took a slip of one of the guys to release her arm and throw a punch to the other guy who was holding her. Although she did not boast about it, Paine could fight very well. She had no trouble with getting rid of a guy, but when there were two, Paine had it more complicated. One of the guys punched Paine, who fell to the ground. The guys were approaching her as they laughed together. Just when the boys were about to catch Paine again, someone hit them from behind. Paine did not stop to see who was the person who had helped her. She got up and continued beating the guys next to that other person.

After a few strokes, the boys fell to the ground, unconscious. Paine's hair had fallen into her eyes. She looked at the person who had helped her. Paine was surprised to see the boy with the blue shirt, who was getting well the sleeves of his shirt.

"You shouldn't do that." Baralai told Paine as he held a hand to her to get up from the floor.

Paine knew she shouldn't fight in a public place. It was illegal. But she had done it in self-defense and, given her privileges, she would not have any problem with the police.

"It was in self-defense. Nobody can say anything about it." Paine said ignoring the hand that the man in front of her handed him.

"What?" He asked with an amused tone in his voice. "I meant that you could get hurt." He said pointing Paine's fist, which was red and swollen.

Paine looked at her fist. She was about to say something when she heard Yuna and the others' voices. Paine rose from the ground, shook her skirt and left the alley, throwing a last look at the man who had helped her. Baralai remained standing there, watching her. When Paine turned to him, she gave her a similar smile than the one on the dance floor.

When Paine disappeared, Baralai bent down and picked something up. It was a bracelet with several pendants and a 'P'. He smiled. With that bracelet, he had the perfect excuse to talk to Paine the next time he saw her. Baralai grabbed his phone and dialed Lenne.

"Our mission has just begun. The result of the first day: the subject doesn't suspect anything." He said and hung up with a smile.


"Paine, where were you?" LeBlanc asked while Yuna and Rikku were laughing together.

"I was walking to reassure me." Paine lied. She did not want to tell her friends that she had been fighting in an alley with the guy in the blue shirt.

"You just lost as Rikku ate a guy in the club." Yuna said, laughing.

"It was by accident." Rikku blushed. "But the guy wasn't bad. He was very mysterious with that patch over his right eye." Rikku muttered. Luckily no one heard it.

After a long farewell, the girls were each home. Rikku was with LeBlanc to the left, and Paine and Yuna were to the right.

As they went to their respective homes, Paine and Rikku could not stop thinking about those brief encounters they had had with those guys.