It was the morning after Peter and Sam's 'date' and although Ava had fallen asleep before the pair had arrived back she had a feeling that their night had ended well. Stretching she tried to banish her sleep with little results. She lazily forced herself out of bed and started to get changed.

"Hey Ava-" Luke started barging into her room in the middle of her putting on her top.

"Jesus Luke! Knock will ya!" She yelled at him quickly shoving her top down as her team mate flushed deep red as he averted his eyes.

"Awww man I'm sorry Ava I thought you were ready" He apologised still looking away.

"You can look now" She spat "Why would I be ready now any ways it's before 8″

"You know it's nearly 10?" Luke said turning to face her.

Ava looked toward her alarm in confusion and was surprised to find that her friend was right. Apparently all her matchmaking efforts had worn her out.

"So what do you want?" She asked as they both came to sit down on her bed.

"Well…" He began, awkwardly rubbing her neck "I've known for while that I really like this person and I figured you could help me"

Ava felt a little bit taken back. Obviously she was flattered but couldn't see why Luke would come to her for help.

"Why me?" She asked "Why not one of the others?"

He shrugged "Sam would probably laugh and go tell everyone. Pete's cool but he doesn't know the first thing about romance"

"And what about Danny?" Ava inquired nudging closer to her friend.

Luke seemed a little bit startled by her question as he unconsciously avoided her gaze.

"Well you know Danny's Danny. He'd probably sprout some fortune cookie crap that would end up making me even more confused then before. Besides the dude lived for 10 years away from civilisation surrounded by monks. I doubt that let him have much experience with romance."

As true as that was Ava was well aware of why he didnt want to speak with teir resident king of K'un l'un.

"It's just that …. I'm the strongest guy on this team. I can punch threw walls and lift a car but I'm too scared to ask a guy out -girl I meant girl" He stuttered quickly.

Ava sighed "Listen Luke I get that for a tough guy like you it's hard to admit you like someone, let alone a guy -don' try to deny it" She added as he tried to protest.

"You just don't get it" He argued leaning forward "Just how hard it is for you to admit to yourself that you like someone, especially someone you know will never like you back"

"Actually I do" Ava said making Luke look at her in confusion. "I'm bi you idiot" She said elbowing him, trying not to cringe as her funny bone started to hurt like hell.

"Sorry" He said looking away in embarrassment.

"It's Ok" She said putting an arm around her friend giving him a reassuring squeeze. "It's true Luke what you said. You are the strongest person on this team and one of the bravest guys I've ever met. So be brave and just ask the guy out already. You'll never know what could happen if you don't try."

She waited as her words sunk in and a determined look crosses her friend's face. He then turned to her giving her a thankful smile.

"Thanks" He said patting her shoulder in thanks before heading out of her room.

"No problem" She replied through gritted teeth as she rolled her shoulder to make sure it wasn't dislocated.

She yawned then lay back down on her bed. It was far too early for her to be dealing with her friends personal problems and she uncharacteristically went straight back to sleep.