(Sorry it took this long for this chapter but I had to rewrite it. I didn't like how it was going. It's a little better but I could be better still.)

Two hours later

Shortly after the mission had ended Linna was standing in the already long line to get into Legs still not feeling right about crushing Amanda's camera. And thinking about it now she simply could have opened it and destroyed the film. And what made her feel even worse was that she made Amanda cry.

'She's really not a bad person.' She thought. 'She just chose the wrong story to report.'

She stood in line for almost an hour before she was allowed in. As always she ignored the howls of some of the less sober girls in the joint and headed right for the bar. A young woman was working the bar that night and was wearing a large smile as she walked up to Linna.

"What can I get you started with?" She asked while whipping down the bar.

"A beer would be wonderful." Linna said resting her elbows on the hardwood edge of the bar.

"You got it." The bartender said with a little wink as she reached for a beer that was in a cabinet cooler right behind her.

Linna chuckled when the woman bent down to get the beer, offering a clear shot of her pink under where under her ridiculously short skirt. At the same time several whistles went out from the girls sitting around the bar and several others called for beers. One girl sitting off to Linna's left even called for a beer off the bottom shelf all the way to the back so it would be "ice cold", yeah right. The bartender knew all to well what all of the girls wanted, another peek. And seeing as she was an exhibitionist she gladly got down on her hands and knees to get a beer from the bottom shelf of the cooler. Howls and whistles went up from all of the girls that were sitting at the bar, especially when she raised her rear high into the air as if she was having trouble getting the beer. Linna was laughing at the spectacle along with most of the others when she noticed there was one woman at the bar who wasn't even looking.

Her head was hung low and she was stirring a large mixed drink that looked like it had hardly been touched. Most of the ice had melted away making the drink look more like a Pepsi than an alcoholic drink.

"Hey what's with her?" Linna asked once the bartender had finished teasing the on-lookers.

"I don't know." The bartender said. "She's been her for over an hour and hasn't even taken a sip from her drink."

"What is she drinking?"

"Rum and coke."

"Can you make me two drinks?"

"What kind?"

Two minutes later

Amanda was just sitting in her seat at the bar thinking about her destroyed camera when a new drink was placed in front of her.

"I didn't order this." She said looking at the bartender.

"From the woman in green three stools down." The bartender said and walked away.

She looked down the bar and saw Linna sitting with the same drink in her hands. Linna lifted the glass as if in a toast wail looking at Amanda with a smile. Without a word Amanda reached down and pulled out the empty stool that was beside her for Linna to sit in.

"You ok?" Linna asked as she took the offered stool.

"Not really."

"Want to talk about it."

"Why? You hate me."

"I never said that I hated you. I just didn't like what you were reporting on."

"Why? All I was trying to do was inform the world that the Knight Sabers were real. But I now I am going to expose them for what the really are."

"What do you mean?"

A look flashed over Amanda's face that was a cross between anger and sadness.

"They are not hero's at all, their thugs that's all they are!"

"Why do you say that?" Linna asked pretending not to know.

"One of those fuckers destroyed the camera that my mother gave me after graduating collage. It was the last thing she ever got me, she died three weeks later."

Now Linna felt really bad, it was one thing to destroy something someone bought with their own money but it was a completely different thing to destroy a gift.

"Well there must have been a reason."

"Yeah I took a fucking picture." Amanda said as tears rushed to her eyes. "She simply took it out of my hands and crushed it right in front of me. I mean, why? It was only a picture; she could have taken the film and left the camera alone."

With that she broke out crying and laid her head on the bar. Linna hesitated for a second before putting her hand on the sobbing girls back trying to comfort her for the very same thing that she did to make her cry. She could feel the young woman shaking under her fingertips as she sobbed and couldn't do anything to help. A few of the other girls at the bar stopped watching the show the bartender was putting on and were looking at Linna and Amanda sitting in the corner of the bar. One of the drunkest of the women stood up and walked up behind Linna and spun her around in her chair.

"Why did you go and do something like that?" She asked swaying side to side.

"I just sat down." Linna said shaking hers shoulder free. "She was already upset I was only trying to help."

The woman looked from Linna to Amanda then back at Linna again before heading back to her seat and ordering another beer. Linna just shook her head and spun back around and put her hand on Amanda's back again.

"I don't really know why she did it. But I'm sure she never meant to hurt you."

"Then why did she do that?" She sobbed. "I never meant to do anything wrong to them."

Once again some of the women including the bartender looked over at them and Linna stood up.

"Let's get away from all of these prying ears." She said hooking her arm under Amanda's and pulling her to her feet.

Amanda somewhat reluctantly got to her feet clearing her eyes with her free hand and leaned against Linna's shoulder as if she was drunk as they headed for the exit.

"Where do you want to go?" She asked.

"Let's go to my place."

"Wow you buy me one drink and already you want to take me home." Amanda said with a smile.

"Yeah well don't go getting your hops up. This is social only." Linna snickered.

"Dang." Amanda laughed as they headed out of the bar.