"Are you ready yet, Rose?" Dimitri yelled at the bathroom door in their hotel suite in Midtown.

"I'll be ready in a minute", Rose yelled back. "Go grab a cab and I'll be right down".

It was 7 o'clock on a Friday night. It would take a few minuted to get a cab. Or so they were told by the concierge. Dimitri haled one down easily enough. He sat in the cab, waiting for Rose to show. He had been ready a while ago and pacing the spacious living room in their suite. Of course when they arrived at the hotel the only room available was the presidential suite. Dimitri had worn his black suit and black button up, opting to leave the two top buttons open and forgo the tie. Now, waiting nervously for Rose, it was a decision he was thankful for. He left his hair down and was running his hands through it as scenarios ran in his head of how he'd be the one blamed (and punished) for their tardiness by the Turkish mobster.

At last Rose sat herself in the back seat of the cab.

"If we're late your father will kill me", Dimitri didn't pay much attention to what Rose was wearing, he just wanted to get to the restaurant as soon as humanly possible.

Rose was jittering in her seat in a way that only meant one thing.

"Rose what are you doing?"

"I have to pee", she answered anxiously.

"I told you not to drink so much of that stuff. Why didn't you relieve yourself before coming down?", Dimitri asked, exasperated. He wondered why she still acted like a child at times.

"I went when we got to the suite. And then I had to go again but I was dressed already and you were downstairs, and we were about to be late", Rose was rambling.

"Please excuse me", as soon as they were at the restaurant, Rose made a mad dash to the restroom before her bladder exploded, abandoning Dimitri in the foyer. Much to her dismay, the restrooms were on another floor. But at least they weren't late.

"I told you not to drink so much", Dimitri muttered again, mostly to himself.

"What has my daughter been drinking?", Abe, who had just arrived at the venue himself, came up behind Dimitri and clapped him on the back.

"A Big gulp". When Abe wasn't following, Dimitri added, "a 30 oz. bright blue caffeinated sugary mess of a drink. She's been hyper and holding it in the entire way here".

"Well, that gives us a chance to talk", Abe smiled.

It was a smile Dimitri knew well. That's how Rose smiled when she had something up her sleeve. "About what?", Dimitri refrained from gulping.

"About a favor I need you to do for me", Abe answered as the hostess lead him and Dimitri to their table. "I believe you own me one of those, don't you?"

Dimitri pinched the bridge of his nose before taking his seat opposite Abe with no argument. There were two seats left at the table, one beside him and on beside Abe. Rose would have to choose who she preferred to sit with.

"Hear me out Belikov", Abe said. "What I have to ask isn't so bad. I think you'll quite like it". He opened his napkin and laid it across his lap. "I want you to convince Rose to stay here with you. Among the humans".