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Chapter 3

NEW YORK CITY
DEC-19

"YOU want to eat HERE?" John asked Gordo looking back and forth between Gordo and the greasy diner they were parked in front of.

"Of course it's perfect." said Gordo smiling and getting a big kick at the shocked look that was on John face at the moment. Gordo knew that sometimes John and many others at the studio sometimes forgot that he wasn't like the other Hollywood directors who liked to only eat at famous and chic up class LA places.

"Why?"

"Well, first off it's cold as hell out there so I'm in the mood for a nice hot chili dog right now." said Gordo while he was rubbing his stomach "But the most important reason I want to eat in there is act one scene fourteen."

John looked at Gordo in complete confusion for a second before understanding finally hit him "Oh yeah the first flashback scene in the movie!" said John slapping his forehead in stupidity over not thinking of that sooner.

"That's correct"said Gordo smiling as he looked back at the old fashion diner. Gordo was already picturing in his mind the shots he was going to do here once filming started. Gordo could start to feel himself slipping into what John liked to call the movie making groove as he looked at the place. He was already picturing in his mind the future shots and camera angles they would film here "If we can I'd like to use the outside of this place in a few shots and maybe the inside if I like what I see. I want this place to be where we film the quick flashback scene showing how Lucas first met Gabriella."

Lucas being the half human half vampire hero in Gordo famous Death At Dawn movie franchise. And Gabriella his beautiful on again off again vampire lover and sometimes mortal enemy.

"Well this place does look like it could have been around during World War II." said John looking at the diner and himself getting into the same movie making groove that Gordo was in "But we will have to CGI out a few of these current buildings that are around it. Than we will have to replace them with older ones of that time period. But that's not anything the special effects crew at Industrial, Light and Magic will have any problems with?"

"Good" said Gordo with a big smile starting to spread across his face "After we film here will go over to that old motel we saw earlier today. That will be the place where we'll film the secret scene that will tell everyone in the world what they've been wanting to know ever since the first Death At Dawn movie came out."

"The soon to be famous scene that will show that it was Gabriella herself that attacked Lucas and tried to turn him into a vampire all those years ago." said John knowing that this revelation in the movie could become as famous as when Darth Vader told Luke Skywalker he was his father "Which motel are we going to use? The one off Interstate Fifteen or the one down at the dock area?"

"The dock area one will be the best. That way we can CGI in some World War II era ships and place them in the harbor. That will give it a more realistic feel to it." said Gordo as he opened the car door and started heading for the diner front door "Now enough with the movie talk I'm starving. Let's go and get us something to eat."

AROUND THE SAME TIME INSIDE THE DINER

"Maxine are you sure her fever is going down?" asked Miranda as she held the phone up to her ear and listened as the baby-sitter told her how her sick daughter was doing.

"SANCHEZ ORDER UP!" came the yell from the kitchen area behind the counter.

"Did you remember to give her those antibiotics the doctor prescribed for her?" Miranda asked twirling the phone cord with her fingers.

"SANCHEZ GET YOUR CUTE LITTLE ASS UP HERE!!" the cook yelled again from behind the wall and rang his little bell again with his spatula.

Now normally someone yelling something like that in an eating establishment would run off many of it's patrons. But being that this diner was mostly patronized by rough construction workers, dock workers and truck drivers not many of them were bothered by the language or the yell. Plus this was New York City anyway so enough said.

"Look Maxine I got to go and get back to work." Miranda said into the phone "Please just make sure she gets plenty of fluids OK. Yes, Maxine I remember that you use to be a nurse. I'm just being a nervous mother OK."

"DAMN IT SANCHEZ WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!?!"

"OK I really got to go now Maxine goodbye." said Miranda and than she hung up the phone and than headed over to the shelf area that separated the kitchen from the dining area and than glared at the cook as she grabbed the plates of food meant for her table "Damn it Carl quit yelling for me like that, I'm here!"

"What the hell took you so long Sanchez?!" the cook who was also owner of this diner asked her "Those damn plates ain't going to serve themselves while you're in the back gabbing on the phone with your boyfriend!"

"I wasn't gabbing with my boyfriend!" fumed Miranda as she felt the anger start to boil inside her "My four year old daughter is home sick with the flu and I was checking up on her!"

"Well, boo hoo that little sad story just breaks my heart." muttered Carl rolling his eyes "Look Sanchez I ain't running a hotline for worried mothers here. This is a diner, my diner! And if you want to keep your job here you better run the next time I yell out your name and ring this little bell here! You got that Sanchez? Or do you need me to get someone to translate that into Spanish for you?"

"Yeah I got it Carl!" Miranda spit out through clenched teeth and than turned and started to take the plates to the table they went to, cursing Carl in Spanish the whole way. After she had placed them down in front of the people who ordered them Miranda went over to clean one of the just emptied tables that was in her area.

"Oh for joy a big three dollar tip!" Miranda muttered as she picked up the small amount that had been left behind by the three cheap asses she had been waiting on at the table. Since her back was to the door Miranda didn't see the new people coming into the diner, but she knew they were there when the bell on the door rang loudly.

"Have a seat anywhere you like and I'll be right with you in just a second." said Miranda without looking up as she worked hurriedly wiping down the table and placing the dirty dishes into the container that she had brought to the table with her.

"Uh excuse me ma'am?" came a voice from behind Miranda.

"Look I said I'll be right with you sir." said Miranda trying to hold in her almost boiled over temper.

"Uh ma'am look all I need to know is where is the......." but that was all he got out as Miranda temper and her worry over her sick daughter finally got the better of her.

"LOOK DAMN IT! I SAID..." Miranda started to say as she whipped around ready to give the impatient man behind her a good chewing out. But when she made it all the way around and was facing him all the anger drained right out of her.Miranda felt her hands instantly go numb and the dirty dish container she was holding suddenly hit the floor.For as soon as Miranda had saw him she had instantly recognized him. With her mouth dropped to the floor Miranda found herself only able to say one word.

"Gordo?"