Authors Note: Thank you everyone for reviewing and reading. It means a lot to me, so thank you.

Here is a new chapter, this might be my last chapter for a while. I'm going on vacation and i plan to sun tan. Though i will be writing, and i'll update as soon as i come back! There is a small warning for this chapter, it has a lot of swearing and sexual references in it.

In this chapter Collins part is in Italics and Anastasia is in plain old font. Hope you enjoy it.

Anastasia looked in the mirror beside her bed. Her long black hair was loosely hanging onto her back and her clothing hugged her figure perfectly.

She looked at herself and nodded her head, taking a deep breath in.

"Here it goes." She said to her reflection.

She picked up her jacket and walked out of her apartment, and started walking to the Cat Scratch Club.

The walk was cold and lonely, but Anastasia had many years of experience of loneliness and she didn't notice it. She walked not looking at anyone, as she walked past her old corner and without a second glance she kept on walking.

Finally reaching the Club, she fixed her hair and walked in. Telling the guard who she was, she was in. The place was filled with men in suits and men from the street. So this is where both world could collide. It was like a place where your status in the world could be left behind at the door and picked up when you left. Or if you left with a woman then it could be picked up the next day when you returned to work.

Anastasia walked to the bar, and sat down at a stool. She looked at the stage and saw the girls dancing, Anastasia wondered if they enjoyed their jobs, or if it was like being a hooker, it was just a job and that was it. It payed the bills that was all that mattered. Anastasia knew what it was like to have men stare at you, she knew all to well from experience and from years of being a prostitute. This was a job that could get her away from that world. All she'd do is dance and that would be the end of her night.

"You must be the new girl." A girl said.

Anastasia nodded, she looked at the girl. She had long red hair, and she was dressed in a red bra and red skin tight shorts. She had black high heeled boots that came to her knees.

"Yeah, I'm Anastasia." Anastasia introduced herself

"Baby. My names Baby. Welcome to the Cat Scratch Club. Here let me show you around, introduce you to the girls when they come off stage."

Baby took Anastasia's hand and led her down a hallway on the side of the stage and through a door that read Personnel Only, Through the door was mirror after mirror after mirror. The girls each had their own station and had decorated it the way they wanted to. The costumes were on many different racks lined on the walls and there were many girls running back and forth to the costumes, looking through them and then back to their stations.

Baby led Anastasia to a mirror. There sat a girl, that had to be younger then Anastasia. She looked to be 14 or 15, only a child and Anastasia got that stab that she felt when she met a new hooker and learned that the girl should still be in elementary school.

"Hey Jules, this is the new girl Anastasia." Baby said

Jules turned around in her chair and looked at Anastasia.

"Hi, nice to meet you. I hope you enjoy your first night here. I'm sure Gerry's not making you dance yet."

"No, he said I'd have to wait a while to dance." Anastasia said

"Yeah, He does that with all the girls." Baby said

Anastasia smiled at Jules and Baby. She was sure she would like this place.

"So what did you do before this?" Jules asked

"I was a prostitute on Tompkins Road." Anastasia said

"Yeah, I was one downtown." Baby said

"Not me. I was born and raised in the Cat Scratch Club." Jules said smiling

A voice yelled from near the stage door "JULES YOUR ON!"

Jules looked quickly in the mirror, then she got up, looked at Anastasia

"It was nice to meet you. I'll see you when I'm done my part." Jules said

"Yeah, nice to meet you too." Anastasia said

Jules rushed to the stage door and again it was just Baby and Anastasia.

"She's Gerry's kid. " Baby explained to Anastasia

"How old is she?" Anastasia asked

"The youngest out of all of us. She's fourteen. Poor girl, she deserves better then this life. She deserves better then Gerry as a father." Baby said when she saw the confused look on Anastasia's face she said "You'll see when your get to know Gerry better."

Anastasia nodded. Baby took Anastasia to a empty mirror and station. It had pictures glued on the corners of the mirror. A beautiful girl standing beside a drag queen, a black guy and two women who were kissing each other.

"Her name was Mimi. She left to go to rehab. Well you can set up. I have to go on stage in a little while." Baby said and before Anastasia could say anything Baby was running to her mirror

Anastasia looked back at the mirror. There were 6 pictures glued to the mirror and in each picture the drag queen was in the centre.

Anastasia couldn't take her eyes off the drag queen. She didn't know who he was, or why she couldn't take her eyes off him but she knew that she had to do with something with him.

"Angel." She said to herself

Two Weeks later

Collins looked at himself in the store window. It was late out, and Collins was drunk. He had never been this drunk for a long time. And he decided to go to a bar and while he was there he got drunk and finally was kicked out.

He staggered back to his apartment and collapsed on the bed, asleep within seconds and had a dreamless sleep.

When Collins woke up, it was still dark outside and he had a headache the size of New York. He groaned and got up, he walked to the kitchen, holding his head the entire time. He started the coffee maker and sat down in one of the chairs.

When the coffee was done, Collins poured himself a cup to go and grabbed his jacket and walked out of the apartment.

Collins found that he couldn't spend a long amount of time in the apartment, Angel's memory was drilled into the walls and into the furniture, it was to much for Collins to take.

Collins walked down the street, and stopped in Tompkins Square Park. He sat down on one of the benches and took a long sip of his coffee. Taking in the taste and smell of the fresh coffee.

Anastasia walked through her old hangout, Tompkins Square Park was dark, and beautiful in the white glow coming from the moon, that was hanging directly above her.

She looked around her, there was only one guy in the park and he looked like he wanted to keep to himself.

She smiled, in the last couple of weeks, things had finally been going right for her. Her job and the Cat Scratch Club was working out, Gerry was an asshole, but that didn't matter. She had Baby, Jules and the rest of the girls, they all stood up for each other if Gerry got on any of their cases.

She had been making enough money, to pay for her rent and to buy new clothes and things that she needed and couldn't afford when she was a hooker.

Anastasia sat down on a bench and closed her eyes. She was happy, and nothing could change that.

Collins noticed a girl, she walked into the park and Mimi popped into Collins head. Mimi had been missing, she had ran away from her rehab and everyone was looking for her. Benny was worried, and Roger was still in Sante Fe, no one knew how to get ahold of him and they all worried about him.

Collins wondered if the girl was Mimi, she looked like Mimi from a distance. Collins got up and began to walk towards the girl, he saw another figure approach her and Collins stopped to watch what they would do.

Anastasia had her eyes closed but she heard someone approach her, and she opened them.

In front of her, stood one of her old clients.

"Marcus, its just you. You scared me." She said taking a deep breath and thankful that it was only him

"Yeah. I've been worried about you Ana, where have you been?" Marcus asked

"I work at the Cat Scratch Club now. I'm surprised that you haven't come in. You seem like the kind of guy that goes to those kinds of places." She said

"I've been busy. Since you've been gone I've had to screw the younger girls. And I'm not a pedifile, I don't do that kind of things with kids." He said

Anastasia could tell his voice getting angrier and she started to back away.

"Then stop doing it Marcus, It's as simple as that." She said

Marcus ran to her, he grabbed her arm in his hand and squeezed, Anastasia gave a small scream of pain and looked at Marcus with fear in her eyes.

"Thanks to you, I'm not being investigated by the police. They think that I like fucking fourteen year olds!"

Collins saw that the man was causing pain to the girl and Collins dropped his cup of coffee and started to run towards them.

He could hear what they were saying.

"You're going to pay for what you've caused me to do Ana." The man said

"No. Please. Marcus, this is the life I've needed for a long time. You've created what you're doing, it's not my fault." The girl said

Marcus wrapped his hand around Anastasia's throat and she gasped for breath.

"It's you. Your going to pay!" He said

Collins rushed to the man, he raised his hand and hit the guy in the head from the side. The man fell, the mans head connected with the bench and he hit the ground. The girl had fallen to the ground and was gasping for air.

Collins rushed to her side and bent down.

"Are you okay?" Collins asked

The girl nodded "I think so." She said still out of breath.

The girl tried to get up and couldn't.

"Woah, take it easy. Here let me help you." Collins wrapped his arm around the girls waist and she put her arm around his shoulders.

Collins got up and the girl groaned when she was standing.

"Thank you." She said regaining her breath

"Your welcome." Collins said smiling

"My name's Anastasia."

"Tom Collins, but people call me Collins." Collins said "Can I take you anywhere? You need to rest." He said

"My house is just down the block." Anastasia said

"Okay, point in the direction and we'll go there." Collins said

Anastasia pointed and Collins began walking slowly, his arm still around the girls waist and her arm still around his shoulders.

"Who was that guy?" Collins asked "If you don't mind me asking." He added

"No, not at all. His name was Marcus, he's an old client of mine. He doesn't realize that I've left my old life and started a new one. I don't do that kind of thing anymore." She said

Anastasia liked the feel of this guys arm around her waist, it felt right to her. She smiled and felt her face go red. Could she be attracted to this man? She wondered, if he was available.

Anastasia didn't want a man in her life. That was the last thing she wanted. Yet she still found herself acting like she did when she was attracted to a man.

They reached her house and she stopped walking.

"We're here." She said to Collins.

"Can you make it?" He asked

"I think so."

Anastasia took her hand from his shoulders and he slowly took his arm from around her waist. She smiled, and shivered.

She walked to the steps and looked back at Collins.

"I hope we get to see each other soon. Collins." She said smiling

She opened the door and walked into the building.

Collins was about to say that he was gay and wasn't interested in women, but he found that he couldn't say anything. His heart began to race and he felt light headed. She opened the door and walked into the building.

Collins walked away, and he found himself wishing that Anastasia and him would bump into each other again...soon.