After twenty minutes at the restaurant Daniel still hasn't arrived. Wilhelmina taps her fake nails on the table. Her phone begins to ring.

"Hello?"

"I'm so sorry. There's been a debacle in layout. I know I said I'd be there, but I can't make it."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I need you to come back and help me sort it out."

"Ok."

"I'll talk to you later," he hangs up.

"Daniel?" Claire questions.

"He can't make it," she answers.

"Of course not."

"I've got to go. He needs me to come sort out some confusion in layout."

"Go," Claire releases her.

Wilhelmina gets up from the table. She waves goodbye to Claire on her way out. She jumps in the car and makes her way back to Mode.

When she gets to Mode she makes her way to Daniel's office. "Did you eat?" he questions.

"No. We were waiting. Why?"

"We're going to be here all night."

"What do you mean?"

"I had to fire over half of layout."

"Why?"

"Take a look," he hands her the book.

She flips through the pages. "This is horrendous."

"I know."

"Get everyone together and have them meet me in the conference room."

"Who? No one else has an eye for layout."

"Get Marc, and Betty."

"You really think that the four of us can get this done? The book is due at the printer's by 6 A.M. tomorrow."

"We don't have a choice."

"Great."

"What about Amanda?"

"What about her Wilhelmina?"

"She reads magazines all day everyday. She's got to know something about layout right?"

"I guess we can ask."

Ten minutes later Daniel meets Wilhelmina in the conference room with Marc, Betty and Amanda.

"We have to re-do the whole thing?" Betty asks.

"Not the whole thing, just everything between the front, and back cover," Wilhelmina clarifies.

"How reassuring," Marc remarks.

"How much time do we have?" Amanda questions.

"It's due at the printer's at six tomorrow morning," Daniel reveals.

"So let's get to work," Wilhelmina demands.

Four hours later Mode is nearly completely empty, as everyone leaves the office as the clock strikes five.

"What if we changed things up a bit?" Amanda quizzes.

"What do you mean?" Daniel responds.

She holds up a page, "White page, wow, exciting. Why don't we put it on a different color? This would be great if it were on black."

"Let me see," Wilhelmina insists.

Amanda hands it to her, "You're absolutely right."

"Really?"

"Yes," Wilhelmina confirms.

11 P.M.

"Coffee?"

"I can't drink anymore coffee," Daniel replies.

"Are we done yet?" Marc groans.

"No," Daniel shakes his head.

1 A.M.

"Look what I found," Amanda smiles as she holds up a bottle of alcohol.

"I'll have some of that," Marc holds out his coffee cup.

Amanda pours him some. She moves onto Betty. Betty says nothing, she just holds out her cup. She stops in front of Daniel.

"No. I'm good," he answers.

"Willie?"

"No."

"Right, don't want to harm the alien spawn," Amanda reminds herself.

"It's not an alien spawn," Wilhelmina corrects.

"Are you sure? That article was pretty convincing."

"I'm not having an alien spawn."

"You're certainly having something," Amanda says under her breath.

"But it's not an alien spawn," Wilhelmina repeats.

2:30 A.M.

Everyone is barely hanging on by a thread.

"So tired. Are we done yet?" Amanda questions.

"Almost," Daniel responds.

"Ugh," Amanda groans.

"Wilhelmina go home."

"I'm fine," she argues.

"Wilhelmina it wasn't a request."

Instinctively Marc, Betty, and Amanda all back away from the table.

"So what was it?"

"A demand. Go home. Now," he insists.

"Fine," she agrees. She collects her things, and leaves the room.

"Why did you let her go home for?" Amanda whines.

"She's pregnant Amanda," Marc points out.

"Right," Amanda acknowledges.

They finally finish the just after three. They leave mode, and Daniel drops the book off to the printer. He heads home, and takes a quiet shower. He slips into the guest bedroom, and falls asleep.

At six thirty sharp Wilhelmina wakes up. After working at Mode for so long she had an internal alarm clock. She woke up the same time every morning. Sometimes she could go back to sleep, and sometimes she couldn't. She rolls over and realizes that her bed is empty. With a big yawn she crawls out of bed. She wanders out of her room and into the hallway. She stops and listens carefully. She heads down the hall, stopping at the guest bedroom. She pushes the door open and finds the source of the snoring. She tiptoes over to the bed and climbs into it next to her husband. She snuggles up to him, and suddenly the snoring stops. Daniel rolls over and looks at her.

"What are you doing up? It's early."

"I always wake up this early. Why are you in here?"

"I didn't want to wake you up," he admits, "You need your rest."

"I'm fine, go back to sleep."

"No, I should get up, and go to work."

"I don't think so."

"Why not?"

"What time did you get home?"

"Four thirty."

"Go back to sleep."

"Are you going to go to work?"

"No I'll be here when you wake up."

"Are you sure?"

"There's no where else I'd rather be," she reveals.

"Love you," he reminds her.

She kisses him, and closes her eyes.