AU, Pretty Woman-esque Mondler fic. Monica Geller takes on a new client, Chandler Bing. Will they be satisfied with their arrangement, or will their growing feelings get in the way? Not a songfic like the title suggests.

Discovered in a local Starbucks, she gets a taste of fame. The bright lights, red carpet and even champagne. But did she make the right decision or is someone in her past keeping her tied to her childhood home? Will a short trip back to the place she grew up resurface old flames? Or is the fire already long gone?

Rilke wrote, "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the work for which all other work is but preparation." In flight from a dark and dangerous world, bound together by circumstance, but kept apart by private burdens of pain, regret and sorrow, can Maria and Georg find their way to each other?

"... And he wondered whether he and Maria had been thrown together out of necessity. Him, a grieving widow with everything to gain, and her, an outsider – never quite fitting in with her dress and her ideas – with everything to prove." [Inspired by the TSOM forum Feb 2016 prompt - "write a meet-cute"]

A cliche revisited. Elliot and Olivia play Truth or Dare.