Disclaimer:always the same. Note: sorry if it's not as long as usual, but I tried to do a "stand alone" chapter with date love and jealousy part 1, and it was a bit too long, so i decided to make two chapters... hope you'll like it.


----------------------OF DATE,LOVE AND JEALOUSY (2) ----------------

(Meanwhile, at Luciano's)

"So, you and my little sister are working together from a while." Elle was having dinner with Mike at Luciano's, a nice Italian restaurant not too far from Toni's place, and she wasn't very comfortable, for two reasons. The first one was that he wasn't speaking from the beginning of their "date", the second one, was that Toni clearly liked him, and vice versa.

"Yes, it's something like 3 months and an half, but it's just temporary. When my partner will be back from Europe, she will return to the CSI unit." He continued to eat his Fiorentina steak, without looking at the brown haired woman in front of him, who had already finished her salad. Elle looked at him, curios, trying to see what her sister was seeing in him; he was older than Toni, much older, and she had to admit that, among Toni's preys, there were better and sexier men. He didn't look so special; truly, Mike Logan seemed to her an ordinary man, but she knew Toni very well, and if Toni told he was special, she could bet he truly was.

"And how's work with her? I mean, I lived with her for years, and I know she could be not very easy, sometimes."

"Your sister is great, really. She always gives the 110, and never gives up. She is intelligent, smart, clever, and sometimes she is so funny…"

"It seems that you liked her a lot."

"yes,- he answered after a while, trying to think about what he had to say- I like work with her. She is a great partner."

"I didn't mean in that way." Elle looked at him, in his dark eyes, cold and fiercely.

"Yes, I know. In was trying to avoid your question, that's all."

"Well, try to avoid better and next times you are with her and someone else, try to let your eyes shine a little less, and stop to flirt with her so openly, or all the world will understand that you have a crush on my little sister. Although I don't think it's so bad."

"It's not so simple"

"She isn't seeing anyone"

"It's not that, the problem. And besides, I can't date a coworker.-Elle didn't answer; it's her look that did it in her place. - is it really so simple for you?"

"in the Iliad, king Menelaus was married with Helen, the most beautiful and angelic living woman. But one day, Prince Paris of Troy, thanks to Aphrodite's intervention, met her. They felt in love at first sight, and they escaped together at Troy. And you know what happened later? The entire Greece went at war with Troy, for more than 10 years. As you see, Logan – she paused a little – loved was able to move empire, to cause wars. And you, what would you do for love?"

"You know, you are strange, in a funny way, but still strange. More or less like your sister."

"I'll take it as a compliment – seeing that he wanted to add something, she stopped him, as she left her chair to leave once and for all – Logan, I don't want to know what you want to say. Just remember that my sister is different from all the other women you had met and you will ever meet. And, over all, remember that she has a lot of people who cares about her, and we will go after you if you'll make her suffer."

(Back at Toni's)

"If you like him, what's the problem?"

"I don't want to screw things up, especially now that we still have to work together."

"I exactly understand what you mean, it's the reason I never told Bobby about… about my feelings. I don't want to loose my best friend, but neither my partner. We two, we work too well together, I can't imagine to work with someone else."

"Everybody knows how complementary you are."

"I envy you. In less than two months, you will leave us, and will be able to give a try to… to you and Logan."

"I don't know. Do you think that, if I asked him out…"

"The day you'll ask him out, he will say yes and he will take you in his arms, taking you straight to the altar. And if he asked you out, you'd say yes as well."

"Yeah, sure, whatever you want. But, what about you and Bobby?"

"I'll figure something out – she said taking a glass of red wine, and giving one to Toni as well – but now that I know the truth, I have to do something."

"Well, we could do the most simple, yet difficult, thing…"

"I don't know you, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to confess Bobby how I feel"

"I don't know you, but I had to do something. I can't continue to be lost in his eyes every time I have a conversation with him."


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