A/N Okay so I have been wanting to do a fanfic on Ronnie D for some time now, and my BFF inspired me today to finally sit down and just do it so this is for my BFF who had become like a sister to me!

Claire Walsh, special prosecutor brought in from Washington to take down Sonny Corinthos, but in the mist of all this she meets detective Ronnie Dimestico determined to do the same thing.

'Ah, here she is, glad you could make it here on such short notice, Claire,' Mac said as they were in the conference room discussing the case against Sonny, major mob boss on the eastern seaboard.

'Everyone this is Claire Walsh, I brought her in to work on Sonny's case, if anyone could get him behind bars it will be her.'

She went around the room and everyone introduced themselves, among the people were, Lucky, Dante, and Ronnie. When she got to Ronnie and shook his hand she couldn't help but think to herself, 'this man knows how to dress well, and his hair looks great!' she stared him down a bit while Mac continued to talked.

Ronnie was wearing a plain red shirt with a light grey trouser over it, and plain jeans, he was 'lookin good' in her terms. She quickly regained her senses and joined back in the conversation.

'Nice to meet everyone, I do have to get this off my chest before I come on to this case, Detective Falconeri, I need to know that you being Sonny's son isn't going to compromise this case against him,' she was firm in what she said, and started at him wanting a serious answer.

'Listen, Miss Walsh, I can promise you that me being Sonny's son isn't going to compromise anything, he may share the same genes as me but I still sworn to do my rightful duty as a officer of the law.'

'Alright then, so tell me what you guys have so far,'

They talked about the case against Sonny and her ideas on it, it was a pretty clear case, to her anyways, but the other detectives questioned her motives,

'That would never work,'

'You can't really be serious you think that if you try to seduce Sonny you can get a recording of him admitting to doing this crime,'

'Im sure of it, how dangerous could it be?'

'Claire you don't know Sonny, he could be dangerous if crossed wrong, look at me I ended up with a bullet in my chest for deceiving him,'

'That's not my problem now is it detective,'

'Okay, okay, listen here's what we can do, Claire you are going to have to have a wire or something on you at all times,' Ronnie immediately chimed in.

He was standing back just listening in to the conversation but when she mention the fact of trying to seduce him to get info it was like something got a hold of him and told him to protect her at all costs.

'why the hell would I care?' he thought. He couldn't understand it at all why did he feel the need to protect this woman he just met not even an hour ago. That question is going to be burning on his mind all night.

She looked at him in total shock, here was this quite man, standing in the back of the room, and all of a sudden he jumps when she mentions her plan. Then she seen that look in his face, total protective mode, she blushed at the fact that a man like Ronnie would want to protect her.

'Detective I can take care of myself, but thank you for the offer,'

'Claire he has a point, if Sonny even catches on to what you are doing then he will have you permanently removed,' Mac interjected.

Claire crossed her arms around her chest and gave in, she didn't like it but she had no other choice besides they were somewhat right, she didn't know Sonny that well and quite frankly she was terrified of him.

Everyone started to clear the room, Ronnie was the last one about to head out when she stopped him.

'Detective may I speak with you for a minute?'

'Sure, what's up?' 'god she looked sexy with that serious look on her face, 'shit, shit, shit, get it together Dimestico!' he scolded himself he should not be having these thoughts about a women he just met.

'Listen, Im flattered that you want to have a wire on me, but can I ask why your so determined to protect me?'

He scratched his head thinking if he could confide in her about that awful event that happened, and it finally clicked, no wonder why he had that sense to just protect her, she reminded him of her, the same dark shoulder length hair, her smile, that body! It was like he was staring at her, his late wife, all over again.

After a few seconds he answered her,

'How bout I tell you over coffee, or dinner sometime?'

'Did you just ask me on a date detective?'

'Well, no…umm I mean..yes..no….shit! I don't know.' he didn't know what to say, he got all tongue tied and tried to act all cool,

'Yes, I will have dinner with you, how bout tonight say around 7 pick me up, Im staying at the metro court hotel,' she stuck her hand out to shake his.

'It's a date then, Miss. Walsh,' as he shook her hand they both smiled, she turned and went to turn the knob, then stopped and turned back and said,

'Don't be late.'

'I wouldn't dream of it!'

She left on that and he sat down in the chair and thought about just how he was going to tell Claire about his late wife, and the tragic event that cost her, her life a few years ago. He couldn't deny the fact that she was beautiful, but he wanted to know just why he was so damn attractive to her, he knew some of it was because she looked just like her, but there was something else that was drawing him to her, he didn't know what it was but he decided to take a chance on it. He got up and left the precinct to get ready for his date.