Loose lips might sink ships but loose kisses take trips
To San Francisco, double dutch disco,
Tech. TV hottie, do it for scottie
Do it for the living and do it for the dead
Do it for the monsters under your bed
Do it for the teenagers and do it for your mom
Broken hearts hurt but they make us strong and

We won't stop until somebody calls the cops
And even then we'll start again and just pretend that
Nothing ever happened.
-Loose Lips by Kimya Dawson-

"Who the hell are you?!"

Beth's blue eyes sent the stranger a cold glance. "I could ask you the same thing."

The strange girl seemed to ignore Beth for a moment, staring over her shoulder. "Mick!"

She pushed her way into the apartment and ran to him, throwing her arms around his neck. He was shocked for a moment, but he soon hugged her back. The girl pulled back, now looking up at him with her arms crossed.

"Sanura, what are you doing here?"

She smiled at him, showing a row of near perfect teeth. "I missed you! I've been away for so long."

"Will someone please fill me in here!" Sanura and Mick both looked at Beth, confusion showed clear on her pretty face.

Mick smiled. "Sanura Daniels, this is Beth Turner, my girlfriend."

"No fucking way! Girlfriend? Now I feel like a total bitch!" She walked over to Beth giving her a smile and sticking her hand out.

Beth shook it slowly, taking it as a chance to look the young girl over. Her long black hair fell in loose curls way past her shoulders, even though she had the face of a teen ager, the look in her blue eyes told you she'd not been a teenager for quite some time.

Sanura stopped, a small smirk spreading on her pretty face. "Wait...Beth Turner? As in 'Coraline's little present' Beth?"

He just nodded, knowing the exact words that would be coming from her next.. "Yes..."

Sanura giggle. "You're my almost sister!"

Mick shook his head like a father would when his daughter did something embarrassing, Beth

gave him another confused look. "What?"

"Coraline turned Sanura when she was barely 17..." He said, rubbing his temples at the slight migraine he was beginning to have.

Sanura shook her head. "Yea, that lady is a whole can of crazy, I swear, I always told Mick he could do better…"

Beth smiled. "I never liked her much either."

Mick sighed. "Can we change the subject please…Sanura what are you doing here, seriously?"

Sanura gave Mick her trademark devilish smile. "What's wrong Mick, subject making you uncomfortable?"

He glared at her. "Actually it's giving me a migraine…"

She sighed. "You're no fun anymore…" He glared at her and she shrugged. "Europe gets boring after a while, so I figured I'd come back home and see everyone."

He nodded. "That makes sense..."

She was quiet for a moment, then perked up again. "You mind if I use your freezer for a few hours? I'm exhausted."

"You know where it is."

She smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks Mick."

She gave Beth one last smile then ran up the stairs.

-2 Hours Later-

Sanura stepped off the last step listening carefully, it was unusually quiet, she heard a faint heart beat coming from the office. She leaned against the open door way, watching the blonde sitting behind the desk, typing away on the laptop.

"He must really have a thing for you, most people aren't allowed behind that desk."

Beth's small frame jumped nearly an inch out of the chair, Sanura giggled. "It's either this or going to the office…I don't feel like going in today so he'll have to get over it."

Sanura laughed again, coming in and falling into one of the cushioned chairs. "Where's he at anyways?"

"He had a meeting with a client."

She nodded and silence fallowed, Sanura knew Beth was just burning to ask her question, but was waiting to build up the nerve, finally Beth just could help herself.

"Why would she turn someone so young?"

Sanura's blue eyes looked up to face Beth. "You mean besides the fact that she's insane? Coraline is a very compulsive person, she doesn't think twice, if she see's something she wants she takes it."

"So, she wanted you?"

Sanura giggled. "Don't make it sound so taboo, she thought I was beautiful and she believes beautiful things shouldn't die, shouldn't fade."

"You were so young though…"

"It didn't matter to her, she thought it was a gift, sticking me in this body for eternity, teenage years are supposed to be the best."

"And do you agree?"

Sanura looked wistful for a moment, playing with the tiny gold crucifix that hung around her neck. "I used to be a good Catholic girl, the poster child for innocence you could say. The suddenly it was pulled from my grasp, like a rug being pulled from beneath me. I was thrown into a world totally opposite of my own, like night and day, for the first ten years I hated myself."

"And now?"

She sighed. "I've accepted it, it could have been worse..."

"How?"

"Think of how you would have been if Mick hadn't gotten there in time? You would still be stuck in the body of a four year old, never to grow, never to develop, you'd have adult feelings, but would never be able to act on them because you're stuck as a four year old."

Beth nodded. "Yea, that would have been hell..."

"Exactly."

After several minutes of strained silence, the phone on the desk rang, Beth grabbed it quickly. "Oh, hey, yea…right I'll tell her." Once she hung up she looked at Sanura. "Mick was wondering if you could come see him."

"What's the address?"

Beth scribbled it on a piece of paper quickly then handed it to her. Sanura stood up, taking it from her. "Did he say what he needed me for?"

Beth shook her head. "Nope, afraid not."

"Mr. St. John, always the mysterious one."

-30 Minute's Later-

She knocked on the large apartment door, hoping to God she was wrong in thinking who the owner was. As soon as the door opened she grimaced.

"I'm shutting the door now."

Sanura sighed. "Josef, I promise I wouldn't be here if Mick didn't ask me to come down."

Josef didn't even comment back, he just yelled over his shoulder. "Mick! Your stray is here!"

She rolled her eyes. "Twenty years and still an arrogant prick."

He smirked. "Twenty years and still an annoying child."

She crossed her arms and glared. "I am not a child."

Josef laughed. "I could argue that."

"Is there much you can't argue?"

Before Josef could respond, Mick stepped up behind him. "Do you always feel the need to be an ass?"

"Only when she's around."

Mick sighed as he stepped out into the hall, Josef and Sanura had never gotten along, Josef always said Sanura was a child and Sanura said he was a prick.

"You'd think the prick would eventually grow up." She glared at the shut door.

Mick just smiled, he had dealt with it for as long as he'd known her, but he could never tell them how alike they actually were.