Author's Note: This was written for the prompt of a Modern AU Mara and Leliana visiting Las Vegas. This was originally going to be a one-shot, but I had too much fun filling it, so it'll be three parts.

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Mara looked down at her cards, and realized what was happening.

She was in the Poker room of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. She and her girlfriend Leliana had taken a vacation to the The Silver City in celebration of Mara's recent promotion to Governor of the city of Amaranthine.

And she didn't quite know how she had wound up gambling like this. She'd woken up at 3 in the morning, and hadn't been able to sleep at all. Eventually, she had gone for a walk and had somehow wound up in the gambling hall. She disliked the idea of Slots in general, too much chance for her tastes, and the only other game she knew the rules too was Poker.

"I raise you a thousand." Her voice was calm, with a face of moulded stone. Her luck had been awful all morning, and she had lost almost twenty-five thousand in an hour, never having won a single hand.

"Cute." One of the two other players remarked. There had been an astounding fifteen of them to start, and now it was down to Mara and two other men at the table, and the stakes were huge. "I'll put mine at four thousand."

"Five." The last man challenged.

"Eight." Mara said coldly.

"Ten." One of them dared with a twinkle in his eye.

"Twenty thousand dollars." The other challenged.

Mara broke down crying at that, laying her cards face down, and began sobbing.

"Oh god." She cried. "What am I going to tell my girlfriend? I'm going to be so broke."

One of the men laughed. "So, are you out?"

She shook her head, her whole body shaking. "Oh, what the hell? She's going to kill me anyways. Twenty."

"Twenty." The last man confirmed.

And that did it. With every bet made in this round, that put it at one million, thirty-five thousand and eighty-seven dollars.

The two men flipped their cards. The first had an ace and a two. Adding that to the faceup cards gave him two pairs, aces and jacks. The spectators made a murmur of approval. That was a very good hand, and would be difficult to beat.

Mara should have been the next to show her cards, but the other man went over her, showing his next. The first card was a jack. Three of a kind. That would easily beat the first, and the crowd murmured again.

But then came his real triumph. He turned over the other second card to reveal another Jack, and the entire audience gasped. The odds of getting four of a kind were more than four-thousand to one. Incredibly luck, almost a miracle.

The winning man began to pull the chips towards him. The man roared in delight.

"E-excuse me." Mara stammered quietly, her eyes wet. "W-what about my cards? Can I at least play them?"

"Your cards?" The man blinked, having forgotten about the petite woman. He glanced at the table to reassure himself. Four Jacks. "Oh, of course."

"Yeah, come on sweet cheeks!" The other man chuckled. "You at least deserve that since you made yourself bankrupt."

Mara waited for a dreadfully silent moment, and turned her hand.

She turned the Eight and Ten of Hearts.

The whole room was silent. The Seven, Nine and Jack of Hearts were already on the table, faceup. Together with the Eight and Ten...

Mara had won.

Everything was quiet for the briefest moment that stretched itself into eternity, and then the room exploded in shrieks and whoops, and Mara smiled widely, her eyes mischievous. The innocent little girl act had worked perfectly.

She piled her chips in, and then it hit her.

She was a millionaire.

At Mara and Leliana's Hotel Room

It was Seven in the morning when Mara opened the door to their room, and saw Leliana posed on their bed, wearing a filmy scarlet babydoll négligée that made Mara's heart thunder in her chest and dry her mouth.

"Hey pretty girl." Mara's voice was light and happy, with a slight sultry edge to it. "How're you?"

"Mmm." Leliana giggled, running a finger on the top of their bedsheets. "I am absolutely lovely." She rolled on her back, and stretched her legs out, arching them elegantly. "I was ever so lonely when I woke up alone." She made that come hither motion that she was a master of. "Why don't you come over here and ravish me, mon amour?"

"That sounds absolutely amazing." She smiled, and walked slowly over to the bed, sitting beside her French girlfriend. "But first I have some amazing news."

"Oh?" Leliana turned a little, meeting the midnight blue eyes of her British lover. "And what is that?"

"We're millionaires!" She exclaimed, and Leliana's eyes widened, sitting up a little.

"What?"

Mara picked up her lover, and hugged Leliana tightly, kissing her on the lips. "When I couldn't sleep, I went off to the Gambling hall. I was playing Poker, back in the professional room, and I won over a million!"

Leliana pulled back a little, meeting Mara's gaze. "Mon cœur, you're serious, aren't you?" Mara nodded. "Oh my god." They kissed again. "W-what do we do now?"

Mara had a smile that was threatening to break her face. "Whatever we want. We're rich!"

Leliana spluttered in disbelief. "Well... let's go hit the town!"

Mara nodded. "That sounds lovely. But first, I think I'll take up that offer to ravish the sexiest French girl in the world..."

Leliana giggled, and met her girlfriend in a loving kiss, feeling herself being pinned against the bed by surprisingly strong arms, and soft, warm lips caressing her throat.

"Mmm, someone's having a good morning..." Leliana murmured.

"A very good morning."