I apologize for this inconvenience but I uploaded wrong file. Thanks to Maja (aka MrAprilfoolsWatanuki) for catching that horrible mistake. I hope you guys don't mind. I am also uploading Chap 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything! I just got thoughts and wrote them down.

Its half written with Maja (aka MrAprilfoolsWatanuki) for helping me and being my BETA! I owe you a lot of fruit baskets!!

We hope you will enjoy the story...

Stella was relaxing on her couch after a very long day of work, when she heard a knock on the door. She frowned wondering "Who can it possibly be at this hour?". It was already past 10 pm and she knew that all the people with a little more sense in their heads would be doing something by better now.

Pulling her blanket off her body that kept her warm, Stella rose from her couch and slowly made her to the door. She looked into the peephole and saw surprised her boss and best friend Mac standing there outside her apartment, in his turquoise dress shirt standing and waiting for her to open the door.
"Stella open up, its me, Mac" Mac said and she could tell by listening his voice that he was a bit anxious.

"Just hold on one sec Mac."Stella said as she pulled the door open, smiling at Mac. "Hey! What brought you here so late?" She could tell that something was wrong with him as his eyebrows were raised when she looked over to him.
"Can I come in?"Mac said clenching his jaw shut. Stella could sense that something was wrong, she could tell any day, any moment, day or night. When you have worked with a person day in and day out, you know how to read them, read every expression or vocal pitch they had - and Stella knew how to read him, when he wasn't talking, simply - she just knew him too well.
"Sure, everything ok?" Stella asked as she moved from the door opening to let him into her small apartment hall. She closed the door and she looked at Mac. He was pissed; she could tell that he was like a boiling pot of water ready to burst with fury any time from now.

Mac looked at her clenched his teeth a little bit harder, and let it up for finally say something to her. "Stella I need to know if you were there." Mac asked looked at Stella, she couldn't really figure out what his eyes said, most of the time he let his eyes do the talking instead of his vocal chords, but now, she couldn't classify them. Maybe it was too much emotions in there, anger? Hurt? Anxiety?
His words took Stella aback and she arched a brow at his sentence.
"Wha…Mac what do you mean…where was I when?" Stella didn't understand Mac's what he meant by that.
"Stella, I need to know if you were at Sebastian Diakos' apartment two nights ago." Macs patience with her was nearing an end.

Stella's eyes widened. She suddenly felt a punch in her stomach and she could tell that this won't end well. The room around her started to spin and it felt like she couldn't breathe. She tried to control her feelings.

"Hhmm. Mac how did…" she stammered.

"His neighbor across the street gave us your description, she said that she saw you and Angell in Diako's apartment at 3am, Stella I'm done playing games with you! I need to know the truth."Mac was on the edge. He knew that she was lying to him, and that pissed him off extremely, being lied to directly in the face was something he never liked, though he was sure no one really enjoyed that feeling.

"Yes I was there. Feeling better now?" she sighed and looked at him."Besides what was I supposed to do Mac? Sit and wait for someone else to be killed? Or get another threat from him?"Stella nearly screamed at Mac.

"You disobeyed a direct order! Stella you were in that apartment when you knew better than that. I -..." he muttered. "I can't believe you Stella! You out of all people?!" Mac yelled at Stella."How do we know that you didn't shoot him? Stella are you aware of the consequences?"
Stella shrugged, she was shocked by Mac's sudden outburst. She wanted to help, put Diakos down, but what Mac was telling her made sense, it's like she woke up from some kind of dream.
Before she could react Mac walked right past her.

"I will talk to you tomorrow. And it will be consequences."Stella grabbed Macs hand.

"Mac...hold on...listen to me…" she tried to stop him from walking away

"Stella you obviously didn't wanted to listen to me, why should I?" Stella froze at the place, it felt like his words had cut her heart into two pieces, there's nothing more that she could do now to make it all right again.
"I will talk to you tomorrow." With that said Mac left. Stella walked to her door and watched as the man kept walking through her long corridor without looking back at her.

Stella closed the door and just slumped against the door frame. She wasn't mad at Mac, she just couldn't stand the fact that she was so ignorant, that she had disappointed Mac.

In the past couple of weeks they had became closer but this, this just tore them apart, again.