It certainly didn't take Leo long to find Evelyn Saunders, either. She was exactly where Max had predicted she would be: married in Kentucky with kids. However, Evelyn was widowed and she had three boys, the eldest being seventeen and the youngest being nine. And her widowhood was what made her so easy to find, because she went back to her maiden name of Saunders. No, Evelyn had not learned that Leo Bloom was Max Bialystock's business partner, so Leo had the advantage. He brought her to the office, having blocked the sign on the door, and closed the door behind them. The office looked very, very familiar, yet, it had changed a lot in the past eighteen years. It had changed so much that Evelyn Saunders didn't recognize it from the night she had left Max Bialystock. The last time she had seen Max, she was in New York with her husband, and she happened to see him strolling by in the park. He had gotten a lot fatter since 1944, he had shaved off his moustache and he was a failure at producing Broadway shows. She was in for quite the surprise when Max Bialystock, much thinner now and a pencil-thin moustache on his upper lip, walked into the office about ten minutes after Leo had said he was going to get her a drink from downstairs.

"Hey, Leo, I have wonderful news!" Max exclaimed, taking off his coat and hat, placing them on the nightstand and turning around. The person he saw on his couch was not Leo Bloom, but instead, was Evelyn Saunders. Evelyn had aged quite as much as Max did in the past eighteen years. Her hair was greying at the roots and she had a few lines on her forehead and around her eyes. But to Max, she had never looked more beautiful. Evelyn stood and cautiously took a step back. "Evie… Evelyn, what are you doing here?" Max approached her rather quickly, and Evelyn backed away and stopped behind the desk.

"No, Max… No…" she told him, her hands held out in front of her. Max looked down at her hands, which had also aged since he had last seen them, and then back up at her face. She was in her forties now, most likely, as she was only a few years younger than Max when they were in love.

"No? How dare you say no to me and stand here in my office?" Max demanded from her, trying to hide the love that he still felt for her.

"First of all, I had no idea that this was your office. It's changed since the last time I saw it… And second, a man by the name of Leo Bloom brought me here," Evelyn told him, and Max's face changed expressions. He went to the couch and sat down, staring at the coffee table, and then stood up and made for the door.

"BLOOM!" he shouted in anger, and Evelyn ran to him and grabbed his arm.

"Don't you dare harm that man! He's too nervous!" she shouted at him.

"I've known the man for three years! Do you think I don't know this?" Max demanded, pulling his arm from her grip and grabbing her shoulders. "He stooped through my drawers! He invaded my privacy! That's the only way he could have gotten the idea to bring you here!" Evelyn stepped from his grip.

"Well, that certainly doesn't mean that you have to hunt him down and hurt him! He was trying to help you, I'm sure. I guess that means he read that last letter that I sent you…" she said, turning and walking towards the couch. It was the same couch that she had caught Max and that woman on eighteen years ago, and it was also the same couch where she and Max had done some naughty things as well. How she didn't notice that before escaped her mind.

"Well, maybe he should have left things alone!" Max exclaimed, standing next to her now.

"He can now… I'll just go, then," Evelyn told him, moving past him and towards the door.

"Evie, wait!" Max called, and she stopped, her hand on the door knob. Max walked towards her and grabbed her shoulders, turning her to face him. "You look beautiful, still…"

"Don't lie to me, Max. I've aged. I know I'm not the beautiful young woman that I once was," Evelyn told him. In her eyes, Max looked more handsome than he did eighteen years ago. He looked nothing like the fat walrus that he was that one time she had seen him in New York.

"And? I've aged about as much as you have! And I still think I'm fairly handsome!" Max exclaimed.

"Well, that statement is true, but yours is not. You're just saying that to try and win me back," Evelyn told him.

"No… No, I'm not. I'm saying that because it's true," Max told her, and he slid an arm across her shoulders and led her to the couch. "I've seen beautiful women, but none of them can possess the beauty that you hold in your face…" Evelyn looked at him for a moment, clearly seeing the love that he still held for her in his eyes. And then, to Max's surprise, she began to sing a song in the same tune that Leo had sung to Ulla three years ago, only to different words. Of course, Max wouldn't have known this because he wasn't there for it.

"All these years, I've been hiding from your crudeness…" she began. "While at the same time, desiring your rudeness…"

"I must be thinking that I'm only dreaming…" Max sang back, to his surprise. "I look at you, and beg to know the meaning." Evelyn pulled out of his arms and walked towards the desk.

"So, knowing this, I severed all connections," she sang, and then turned to face him, "leading you and I in this direction."

"It seemed to fail, and now we're at the same pace," Max sang back, and he approached her. "And then I stumbled upon that face…" He now stood in front of Evelyn. "That face, that face, that beautiful face! I must be going mad…" Evelyn sidestepped away from him.

"That face, that face, that dangerous face! The face of a crazy cad!" she sang to him.

"Oh, now that isn't friendly," Max said to her. "That voice, those eyes; They'll lead to my demise!" He took Evelyn's hand in his, and she looked away. "And it's worth it for that face!" Evelyn pulled her hand from his and then backed away, using her finger to call him over.

"Those cheeks, that chin will surely do me in! I must be wise in choice," she sang as Max approached her. He took her hand in his, took her waist in his other hand and they ballroom-style danced across the office floor.

"That face, that face, that marvellous face! My mind replays your voice…" Max sang to her, and he let go of her waist and swung her out. "If I don't duck, I'm out of luck if she's within a mile!" He went to swing her back into his arms but she let go of his hand and sat on his desk. "But I don't care. It's what she wears that matches with her smile…" Evelyn was now smiling with a slightly seductive grin on her face.

"That face, that face, that fabulous face! It's clear I must beware…" she sang as Max approached her, and just as he jumped at her with his lips puckered to kiss her, she leapt off of the desk and now stood on the other side of it. "But I can't, I care. I'll go insane… Your face just haunts my mind." Now standing at opposite sides of the table, they both leaned on their hands, which were on the desk, and were face-to-face with each other.

"I'm certain of my decision now. It may just be my end. And it's worth it for that face," they sang together. Max took one of Evelyn's hands and the two of them were dancing once again across the office floor together. Evelyn let go and Max made another quick move to kiss her, but failed as she moved again. Eventually, Max got her back into the ballroom-style dancing, and he swung her out again.

"I'm certain if I fall in love, I'll lose myself again. But I don't care…" he sang as spun her back into his arms. She was now pressed up against his chest, her eyes cautiously looking up into his.

"That face…" she sang, a lot slower now than she had before. "That face… That wonderful face… It keeps me on my feet…" Max sang back to her in an equally slow tone.

"That face… That face… That beautiful face… It haunts my dreams at night…" he sang to her.

"I'm certain if I fall in love, I'm lost without a trace…" Evelyn sang to him as Max's thumb gently caressed her cheek.

"But it's worth it… For that face…" they sang together for the final time, and Max slowly leaned into Evelyn's face and gently pressed his lips to hers.

"Max! Max!" Leo exclaimed, bursting into the room and startling the two. They jumped apart, Evelyn shocked at how low she had let her guard down. "Oh… er…"

"GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT OF HERE! GO!" Max shouted, chasing Leo out of the room and stopping right at the door that Leo had slammed shut. He took a second to calm himself and then looked back at Evelyn.

"Max, I… I have to go…" she said, and she made for the door that Max was now standing away from.

"What? But… But Evie! Don't let him ruin the moment!" Max exclaimed, having thought that he had had Evelyn Saunders back in his arms.

"No, he's not… Max, I have to go. Please," Evelyn said, pulling her hands from Max's and making for the door.

"Evie… You're not going to let eighteen years fall between now and the next time I see you, are you?" Max asked her, and Evelyn sighed.

"Max, listen. I'm married. Well, I was married. I'm widowed now, with three children. One of them is seventeen and-"

"Seventeen? You married that man so soon after you left me?" Max asked her with a look of heartbreak and betrayal in his eyes. Evelyn sighed, not wanting to have to tell him so soon after they were reunited.

"The seventeen-year-old is yours," Evelyn told him with a harsh tone, and she opened the door and stormed out of the room. Max stood there, not even bothering to follow her. He had a child, and he had no idea that that child even existed until now. How could he push Evelyn to say that? Things were better when he had no idea that he even had a child! Well, one can argue that Leo could be considered a child, since Max had to take care of him a lot… But an actual child! An actual biological child! There was someone out there that was a part of him, and yet, he had no idea that the child even existed… Max couldn't even call it a 'child' anymore because the 'child' was a seventeen-year-old young man or woman. Their eighteenth birthday was soon to come, and that 'child' would be an adult.

Suddenly, Max remembered that he had probably scared Leo shitless, and then he raced out of the office hoping to find him.

Max had a hard time finding Leo, as he wasn't in any of the usual places that he'd been at before when Max chased him out of the office, but then he remembered the panicking tone that Leo's voice had when he came bursting in, and raced the apartment complex where Leo's apartment was. He ran up the stairs and to the apartment, not sure if he should use the key given to him for emergencies only or knock on the door. Inside, he heard the sound of sobbing, and then Max's mind was made up for him. He fished out the key to Leo's apartment and stuck it in the lock, unlocking the door and opening it to find Leo in a heap on the floor.

"Leo!" he exclaimed, rushing to his best friend's side. Leo was curled up in the fetal position on the ground with his blue blanket over his face. "Leo, are you all right? Leo!" Max started gently shaking Leo's shoulders, but Leo wasn't moving. He was still sobbing uncontrollably beneath that stupid blue blanket. So Max had no choice but to take the blanket, throw it across the room and grab his best friend before he could dive after it.

"MY BLANKET! MY BLUE BLANKET! GIMME MY BLANKET!" Leo cried, trying to pull himself from Max's grip, but now that Max was thinner, he had more room to hold onto Leo tighter, and he wrestled him until Leo was pinned down on the ground trying to kick Max wherever he could reach.

"Leo! Leo! Calm down!" Max exclaimed, his hands pressing hard on Leo's shoulders.

"GIMME MY BLANKET!" Leo cried.

"All right! All right!" Max exclaimed, and he jumped up, grabbed the blanket in an instant and threw it to Leo, who calmed down a lot when his blanket was in his hands. Another advantage for Max: his new size enabled him to move a lot quicker than he used to be able to. Max sat down next to Leo, who was now leaning against the couch shaking and pressing his blanket to his face, and just kind of stared at the wall. It was a hassle, keeping Leo calm when he was hysteric! After a while, Max felt Leo lean his head on his shoulder and he wrapped an arm around Leo's shoulders tightly. "What happened, Leo? What made you so upset?"

"Th-th-they're… they're… they're evicting me!" Leo exclaimed, throwing himself onto Max's lap and burying his face in his shoulder.

"Okay… Okay, Leo, you're squishing me…" Max told him, trying to push Leo off of him, but Leo wasn't budging. A disadvantage for Max: his new size made it easier for people to squish him. Now that he was smaller, Leo could sit on him and squish him like a bug. After a while, Max gave up on trying to push Leo off of him and eventually just held him there like a frightened child.

"I-I-I have n-n-nowhere t-to go, M-Max…" Leo murmured into Max's shoulder.

"Nonsense, Leo! You have a place to stay!" Max exclaimed cheerfully. Leo picked up his head, his cheeks stained with tears.

"I-I-I do?" he asked, curiosity now seeping into his eyes.

"Why, of course you do! I'm not just your best friend for nothing! I'm able to provide for you and give you a place to live! Now, how about it?" Max asked him. And Leo rolled off of Max's lap and onto the floor again. Max was honestly upset about that move, as he had liked holding Leo on his lap for some odd reason. Not that he was gay or anything… He liked women! He was in love with Evelyn Saunders! He had a child with her, for God's sake!

"Gee, I… I-I don't know…" Leo said. "I-I wouldn't want to… want to mooch off of you, Max!" Leo exclaimed.

"Mooch off of me? Leo, you're not mooching off of me! I'm offering my home to you! You can't mooch off of me if I'm offering my home to you! Come on, Leo, what do you say?" Max asked him.

"Well, er…" Leo replied. He had no where else to go, so why not live with his best friend? They could be roommates! They were already business partners, and living with each other made it easier for them to work on their shows. "All right, I'll… I'll do it."

"Great!" Max exclaimed, standing, grabbing Leo's hands and pulling him to stand as well. "I'll help you move in right away! What do you need moved?"

"Nothing right now, Max… I don't even want to think about the eviction right now…" Leo said.

"That's all right," Max told him. "Say, why don't we go for a walk then? Just the two of us!"

"A-all right…" Leo said, and Max threw an arm around Leo's shoulders and led him out of the apartment.