Title: Business of lies

Rating: PG-13 (Maybe R in later chapters)

Pairing: NONE!

Author's note: Please review and let me know what you think. This is my second Nip/Tuck fan fic and I want to know if people like it. I really don't know what season I'm setting this in. It might be slightly AU. Christian not very like himself. Tried my best though.

The girl looked up at the building. She nervously clutched the piece of paper in her hands. Anyone could have seen the fear behind her piercing blue eyes. Her dark black hair rustled slightly in the wind. She smoothed down her blue sundress and slowly walked into the building.

The office was filled with the noisy ringing of phones and nurses walking back and forth. A few obvious patients sat in the waiting room. The girls heart was beating rapidly and she tried to swallow the lump in her throat. Slowly she walked up to the receptionist and put on her most polite smile.

"Excuse me?" her voice came out small and meek. The receptionist gave her an odd look. "Can I help you?" The girl could barely get the words to come out of her mouth. "Um, I need to speak with Dr. Christian Troy please." The woman seemed to get a smug look on her face. "Do you have an appointment?"

The girl felt her heart drop. How could she have forgotten? "Um, no I don't. But this is very important." Could the smile on this woman's face get any more smug? "Well, I'm afraid your just going to have to come back when you have an appointment. Dr. Troy is a very busy person." The girl only smiled back. She was not going down without a fight.

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Christian Troy sat comfortably in his office going over paperwork from his last consultation. Another pro bono case in favor of Sean. His partner Sean was well into surgery at this point. It was a surgery that Sean had assured he could do on his own. So here Christian sat in his office going over the same paperwork he had been going over for the last two hours.

God, his job could be so boring sometimes. He thought to himself. As Christian looked down at the paper again one of his nurses walked in the door. "I'm sorry to interrupt you Dr. Troy but we have a walk in problem." Christian gave her a somewhat amusing smile. He loved walk in problems. They gave flavor to his day. He just didn't know what he was in for.

Silently he followed the nurse into the waiting area where his receptionist was arguing with a young girl. "Selene I can take care of the problem from here." Selene looked at him and then back to the girl. She gave a disgusted look as she headed back to her desk.

Christian straighted up and looked at the girl in front of him. He didn't know why but for some reason she made his heart leap into his throat. The girl was flawlessly beautiful with bright blue eyes and long black hair. She couldn't have been any older than twenty.

The girl took a deep breath. "Are you Christian Troy?" she asked almost as if she was out of breath. "The last time I checked. Yes." That came out a bit more arrogant than he had intended. "Than I'm Alex Troy. Your daughter."