I DO (CHERISH YOU)

A TBAA/Pretty woman crossover

This is an idea that has been in my mind ever since the first fanfic I wrote. I just happen to love Pretty woman (I know, quite a silly story but I like it! I have the right to be a sap sometimes, don't I?) and I've always wondered about a second part (different to Runaway bride, a real one…) So, I think Vivian and Edward didn't live "happily ever after" as that is not how life works, and don't you think they may sometimes have used an angel… or two or three? winks

Please, don't suit me! Of course neither Pretty woman nor TBAA or 98 degrees' song belong to me! This is just for fun! That's why I'm writing this! And please, don't think I'm a sinner because I'm writing two angels in romantic situations! Monica and Andrew are over all characters of a TV show and that's how I'm writing them!

Finally, this story is dedicated to my three beloved sisters. Deyse, Kim and Wendy, you're the best sisters I could have ever gotten!

I DO

PROLOGUE

Inside Edward Lewis' private plane…

"Yes, call him and set lunch with him so we can talk before we meet Morse… Yes, in the hotel it's ok… Is he staying at the Regent Beverly too? Ok… Yes, that's all… see you in… 20 minutes. Thanks, Rafael… Bye" Vivian heard her husband talking by the phone and she sighed. She turned to look through the window and recognized the line of houses by the beach as Santa Barbara's suburbs. They would be arriving to Los Angeles in no time, and this would be the first time she went back to the city where her whole life had changed four years ago. She had met Edward in one of the darkest days of her life when she hadn't found another way of living but in the streets, and in a week they had fallen in love with each other, making her childhood dream come true.

A hand on her leg made her turn. "You ok?" Edward's face was just inches away from her and her heart skip a bit with his closeness.

"I'm fine…" she said and leaned to peck him on the lips. "Just remembering…" she rested her head on his shoulder.

"Wondering how it would have been like…" he tried to guess kissing the top of her head, "… if I had decided to go?"

She chuckled and looked at him. "No. How it would have been like if you had had cash!" she said referring to how they had met. Edward had been lost in Los Angels and ended up in Hollywood boulevard, where Vivian had offered to give him directions to arrive to his hotel for ten bucks. When he had said he didn't have but a 20 dollars bill, she had climbed up to his car and guided him to the hotel in person.

Edward laughed a little remembering that night. "I would have gotten lost again…" he said and then getting serious he turned to face Vivian. "I do wonder about that sometimes too, you know?… And I know I would have never regretted enough not to have gone back to find you".

It still amazed Vivian how she shivered at the mere touch of Edward's hands. It had been four years and she still found him as handsome as the first night… even if she had noticed his car first. "Really?" she asked innocently in the childlike way that made Edward feel weak.

"Really…" he assured her taking her hand and kissing it lovingly. Then, meeting her brown eyes, he inched his face closer to hers and kissed her long, savoring her lips like the first time she had allowed him to kiss her.

When they broke apart, she rested her head on his shoulder again. "So, this new partner of yours… who is him?"

"I don't know… But according to Morse, his lawyer contacted him and he's interested on what we are doing here. He's young and very rich and powerful for what Rafael has found out…"

"Intriguing…" Vivian commented and looked through the window again to the high hills that would reveal the Hollywood advertisement any minute now.

In the Regent Beverly Wilshire restaurant…

"Tell me again… Who is this guy?" a blond tall angel was telling a younger Latin-type one.

"Edward Lewis…"

"And I'm supposed to be his partner in business?"

"You want to be… You are interested in his enterprises…"

"He builds ships with this other man…"

"James Morse, yes…" Rafael said helping Andrew to fix his tie. "Sam is your lawyer and he contacted Mr. Morse…"

"Sam?" Andrew said once more fixing his tie. "You mean… Sam…?"

"Your supervisor, yes… If you are not sure about something, he will help you…" It was now time for Andrew's handkerchief. The blond angel felt just like a doll being dressed. He had been called barely ten minutes before and he had been fill in details in such a hurry he wasn't sure of what he had to say. "Your personal assistant is Tess, I'm Edward's…"

"Okay…"

"Here he comes…" Rafael said spotting Edward coming into the restaurant. "Oh, by the way… I almost forgot…" the younger angel reached his inner pocket to handle Andrew something more. "Get this on! You're married!"

"What?!" Andrew asked looking at the wedding ring Rafael had given him. But as Edward was just a table away, he glided the ring on his finger and kept the questions for later.

"Mr. Lewis!" Rafael walked to meet Edward.

"Rafael…" Edward greeted the angel.

"This is Andrew Parks…" he introduced the new "businessman" shooting him a "just follow me…" look at the intrigued expression he had when he heard his "last name".

"Mr. Parks…"

"Mr. Lewis…" the blond angel shook hands with the man.

"Please, call me Edward… Rafael and my other partner, James Morse, tell me you want to talk to me…" They took a seat in the nearest table.

"Call me Andrew… Yes… I've been following the development of your enterprises and I think we can make some good deals… You build ships, I have a big harbor that remains almost empty…"

"And it is in…?"

"Oregon… New Port city… We managed to save this place from a firm that wanted to buy the land and build a mall not caring about the people, most of them families that lived from the harbor and that had nowhere to go if they lost their houses…"

Edward bite his inner cheek thinking for a moment about Andrew's words. "To be honest I'm relieved… One of the things James and I care about the most is that our employees doesn't pay for our decisions… and you seem to be worried about your own employees… I take you want to take our ships there so you have more activity there…."

"Yes… The port is a place with a lot of projection to the future. We're in a big trade center and our facilities are good even for big cruiser ships or transatlantic…"

"Then I think we may have a deal, Andrew!" Edward exclaimed offering his hand to the angel. "James asked me to come and meet you before to, you know, find out what kind of man you are… Not that I don't trust Rafael, but we wanted to make sure you were not a self-seeking man… I know you're married?"

Andrew turned to look at Rafael briefly who nodded slightly to encourage him to go on. "Ah… I… yes." The angel smiled sheepishly and reached his hand to show him the ring he was wearing.

"Good! My wife is here too… Perhaps we can have dinner tonight all the four together."

"Sure!" Andrew didn't know what else to say.

"Vivian and I went to The Voltaire on our first date ever and we haven't come back to Los Angeles in four years… I'm planning to take her there tonight again…"

"We'll be happy to join you," Andrew smiled feeling he was getting in more and more trouble with every minute. "What time?"

"7.30. We can meet in the lobby if that's ok with you…"

"Fine!"

Rafael and Andrew saw the man going away and the blond angel let himself lean heavily against the chair, sighing in relief. "Okay now, Rafael… you have some serious explanations to give! Honestly, the business man assignment… I have done that before, but married?"

"Yes, married, angel boy…" a female voice they both knew quite well said reaching their table. "There are not two assignments that are just the same…"

"Tess…"

"Hey, this is not my idea, ok? Do I arrange the assignments? Do I decide what angel goes to each assignment? No, I don't! I just follow the orders I'm given… And this time the orders I had been given is that you will be Edward Lewis partner… and that you will make him value some other things more important than business."

"Like what?" the blond angel wanted to know.

"Like love, and friends, and trust, and the blessings the Father sends without His children knowing about them…" Andrew's half scared, half surprised face made Tess' heart melt with tenderness for that angel that was much like her son. "You'll do great, Andrew! If the Father sent you here, it's because He knows you're the right angel for this…"

Andrew sighed and met the supervisor's gaze. "All right… but what about my "wife"?" he asked making the quotation marks sign with his fingers and not helping the hint of irony in his voice.

Tess sighed. "We have to find you one…"

The angel of death looked at her. "So, she hasn't been assigned…"

"Nope…" the dark skinned angel sighed in defeat. "It was such a short time to fix all this that we haven't decided who she will be… It has to be someone who you are comfortable enough with so you can really help Edward and Vivian…"

Andrew gulped and stretched himself to look secure enough for what he was going to say. "Tess… if this is a condition… that I have to look like a real husband…" he cleared his throat, "you know there's just one angel I'd feel comfortable with to do such a thing…"

"I know, baby… Then, we'll have to see her…"