Linna flagged down a cab outside the bar and jumped in before it had even come to a full stop. She fastened her seatbelt and looked out the window to see if Amanda was coming after her.

"Where too miss?" The driver asked.

"Take me to 1426 Kindred street."

The cab lurched forward down the street and Linna looked through the back window and saw Amanda walk out of the bar and head the opposite way down the street.

'Damn that was close.' She thought leaning back in the seat. 'Sylia would have my head if she found me talking to a reporter.'

It was a long drive to her apartment she shared with Priss so she settled back in the seat and started drifting to sleep.

'Why out of all the women in Tokyo did I have to meet the one that is looking to expose us?' she thought and fell asleep.

Linna and Priss's 30 minutes later

The cab came to a stop at the curb out side Linna's house and the driver rapped on the glass separating them.

"Miss you are home." He said.

"Thank you." Linna said rubbing her eyes. "How much."

"Forty-five Yen."

Linna paid the driver and got out of the cab and slowly headed up the walkway to the front door. The house was dimly lit by the remains of some candles that Priss had set up trying to make everything romantic. Linna sighed and was a little upset that she didn't catch on to what Priss meant by "Have dinner with you?".

'She wanted to have a romantic dinner with me.' Linna thought.

Priss had her head resting on her arms at the dinner table and was fast asleep with an empty bottle of wine and a glass beside her. Linna walked up to the table and saw the wonderful meal that Priss had made that was now completely cold. Priss's hair was falling around her face covering most of it except her cheek. Linna leaned down and softly kissed her on the cheek before reaching out and lifting the passed out singer out of the chair and carried her into her room and gently laid her in her bed. She brushed the hair away from Priss's face and looked down at her sleeping ex-girlfriend.

"I'm sorry I wasn't here tonight." She whispered and leaned down. "I'll make it up to you."

She softly pressed her lips to Priss's before pulling the covers over Priss's shoulders and walked out of the room and shut off the light. She walked back into the kitchen and warmed up some leftovers from the meal in the microwave and sat at the table across from where Priss had been sleeping when she came home. She silently ate alone thinking about the reporter and how close she had come to making a mistake. She also thought about Priss waiting for her to come home even after she had called her and thought about how she had just might have made a very big mistake.

3 days later

Linna lay on her back on one of the many bench presses in the local Gym trying to put up a new max weight of 190 pounds and was struggling. Sweat was running into her eyes as she used everything she had to lock her arms out.

'That's one.' She thought. 'Only two more and I have it.'

She lowered the bar back to her chest and began another even harder rep. towards her goal. Only this time she couldn't move the bar more than five inches off her chest before it stopped and started coming back down.

'Oh hell this isn't good.' She thought as the bar came down on her chest.

She was just about to yell for help when a pair of hands reached in and helped lift the bar off of her.

"Thanks." Linna said sitting up and putting her hand on her chest.

"You really shouldn't be working out alone." A familiar voice said.

Linna spun around and saw Amanda starting to take the weights off of the bar. She was dressed in a blue and white jogging suit and had a towel around the back of her neck coming down over her chest.

"So are you ok?"

"I'm fine." Linna said and started heading for another part of the Gym.

"Did I do something wrong?" Amanda asked following Linna across the Gym.

"No." Linna said sitting at a curling machine and beginning a set.

"I don't believe you." Amanda said. "I mean first you run out of the bar like I was Jason Voorhees."

"Who?" Linna asked in the middle of a rep.

"A movie monster from the 80's and 90's. "Amanda said. "Anyway what's up why are you being like this?"

"You want to know why?" Linna asked. "I don't like reporters."

"I don't think that's it." Amanda said. "You didn't freak out until I mentioned the Knight Sabers."

Linna dropped the weights and stood up getting right in Amanda's face.

"That's because you are trying to expose the very people that saved the whole fucking world three years ago." Linna said. "I lost a lot of good friends when all of those Boomers went rouge."

"I never said I was trying to expose them." Amanda snapped. "I said I was reporting on the Knight Sabers."

"What's the difference?"

"Umm excuse me." A man said. "You are making too much noise if you continue I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

Linna looked at the man then back at Amanda before storming off to the locker rooms. She went up to her locker and started pulling out her clothes and got dressed. She was about to reach for her gym bag when the locker slammed shut with a hand covering the latch.

"We're not finished." Amanda said.

"Yes we are." Linna said. "Move your hand or I'll move it for you."

Amanda took her hand off of the locker and Linna grabbed her Gym bag and stuffed her workout clothes in and zipped it shut.

"Listen to me for a second." Amanda snapped. "There is a difference in reporting and exposing."

"I don't care." Linna said.

She turned and walked out of the locker room leaving Amanda absolutely shaking with furry.