Sorry for the long wait everyone, hopefully everyone is still with me on this fiction and I'm not just writing it for myself. Anyhow hopefully you'll all enjoy this installment of Not Like The Other Girls… oh and, thanks everyone that has commented on this fic so far.

So the past week has been extremely awkward… Ever since the elevator incident there's been a ton of questions. Mainly the 'are you guys an item' question and to be quite honest, no we weren't. We had just gotten back from shooting the show in Mexico and man it was a bitch… I mean really, most of the time I felt like ripping hair out of my head. I was running here, and there and doing this and that. Oh god why didn't someone just shoot me? Did I also mention the fact that I ended up sharing a room with Criss? Yea, the hotel was supposively booked and everyone just figured it would be cool with me to sleep in the same room with him. How nice of all of them huh? I walked into my room at the Luxor, my bags from the trip had already been brought up, and literally pounced on my bed. I've missed this place so much. I hugged a pillow close to me and smiled some into it.

"Hello my beautiful room and pillows and everything else around me."

I said to myself with a grin on my face. The next two days I have off due to needing a break. Can you blame a girl? I just wanted to relax and enjoy a couple days to myself. Yes, that's right, all by myself. When we boarded the plane in Mexico my brother boarded one back home. He had to get back for some kind of signing thing. In his profession things like that are bound to pop up out of nowhere. So now it was just me, myself and I and it was going to be nice. I rolled over on my bed and faced the ceiling with a smile as I grabbed my TV control. I propped myself up on the headboard of the bed, with a few pillows behind my back and turned the TV on. Let's see here… no, no, no, no, ohhh this will do! I put the TV control down after ordering a movie and started watching it.

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Criss' POV

Well the trip to Mexico was fun, then again I love my job and it's always fun. We all had just gotten back and parted ways to put our stuff up and get everything organized. However, I was already done putting everything away and quite frankly I was bored.

"Wonder what Gabby is doing…"

I smiled a bit and headed out of my room. Getting onto the elevator I pushed the button for the floor Gabby was on and waited patiently for the elevator to stop. I wonder if she is still sour about having to share a room with me while we were away? Most likely, but hey, its not my fault everyone just assumed.

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Gabby's POV

Sighing some I leaned back on the headboard on my bed not amused with the movie in the slightest. It seemed like it would be a good movie but it turned out to be horribly boring… seriously. Someone save me from having to watch this horrible thing. I looked up as I heard a knock on my door and raised an eyebrow, well… maybe there is a god after all, I thought as I got out of my bed and walked to the door, opening it slowly. To my surprise I saw Criss standing there with a smile on his face. Nope this was the work of the devil…

"What do you want?"

"Just was wondering what you were doing, thought maybe we could go out and get some lunch or something."

"I'm sorry to inform you Mr. Angel but I am pretty sure I'm booked up for the day."

Criss raised his eyebrow at me and shook his head.

"What could you possibly have planned for the day?"

"Well see I was thinking of watching some TV, playing on a computer, ordering room service and well… playing some games."

"And that can't possibly wait until after an hour or two lunch?"

"I'm afraid not."

"Well then, seems like your not going to come out for a while so I'm going to come in."

Criss walked past me and into my room, taking a seat on a chair in the room and turning his attention to the TV. I stood at the door for a moment with my mouth hanging open in disbelief of how he just walked in and made himself comfortable and sighed softly as I turned my attention to him.

"Fine I'll go out to lunch with you."

"Wow that was surprisingly easy, here I thought I would have to nag you, bother you and eventually just drive you to the point of insanity."

"Yea yea, whatever, let's just go ok?"

I moved into the room for a quick second and slipped on my shoes then went back to the door as I looked back at Criss.

"Are you coming or what?"

"Well I don't know, I'm pretty comfortable now and I don't know if I want to move."

I sighed and glared at my boss.

"Then I hope you enjoy your alone time in my room."

I walked out the door without another word and headed toward the elevator. Sure enough not long after leaving my room Criss had caught up to me and started talking about work as we made our way down to the buffet in the Luxor. Once there after a long argument of who was paying and Criss winning the argument we finally got in and piled plates with food. We ate lunch mostly in silence and then headed back to my room about an hour later. So now we were walking down the hall to the room with smiles on our faces until, wouldn't you guess it, Criss brought up a bad subject.

"I don't know if you know, but it seems as though the kissing in the elevator incident got out… From what I've seen there's a picture of the ordeal in some tabloids."

I blinked a few times as I approached my door and honestly, did not know how to respond to that. What was I going to do now? Honestly? The last time I was in any kind of tabloids was when my brother agreed to an article for a magazine back home about his family life and then I was just known as the sister of Ville Valo… now in Vegas and the rest of the United States I get to be known as Criss Angel's love interest? I unlocked my door and opened it up deciding just to ignore the matter for the time being.

"You have no opinion on this?"

I shrugged and walked into my room closing the door behind me, but obviously it didn't swing fast enough because Criss was able to slip into the room just before the door closed.

"How funny of me to even start to think a door could keep you out of somewhere."

This is how I deal with problems… I show attitude.

"I'm trying to figure out some kind of battle plan so we can work this whole mess out and you just want to ignore it."

"Tell you what Criss, taking me out to lunch isn't going to help the matter any. If you would have told me about this before we left for food then we would have decided against it or at least I would have. How can you be so stupid Criss?"

"I didn't see a problem with grabbing a bit to eat."

"Well let's see… Vegas probably thinks of us as the hottest couple on the strip, they are going to dig up dirt on me and figure out who I am and lets not forget how many photo opportunities there was when we were eating."

"Oh come on Gabby, the tabloids are from before the Mexico trip."

"Look Criss, you know as well as I do people don't give up that easily… these people dig for anything they can get there hands on they aren't just going to stop."

"You know, why do you always do this with me? Why does there always have to be some kind of fight when things are actually going good? News flash Gabby we slept together, you clearly have feelings for me and vice versa yet you still play this game with me. Let's get to the root of the problem here, what's wrong?"

My eyes widened a little bit not expecting Criss to say something like that and in that moment I realized something. I've done nothing but push this man away when it comes to anything off the professional level. Well more like try to control myself, fail and cover it up by yelling at him or telling him no or that it can't happen again and I suddenly realized why too… even though I do have feelings for the man I can't bring myself to act on them. I looked at Criss with narrowed eyes and felt I should just do what I usually do, why change now?

"Why!? Why Criss!? You want to know why I act the way I do!? It's simple, my last boyfriend cheated on me, he didn't think I knew but he broke my heart into a million pieces when I realized what was going on and sure, I slept with you and in a way did the same thing he did to me to him but you have to realize my trust in men isn't that great and it doesn't help that you are one of the most wanted men in Vegas… and the rest of the world for that matter."

"That doesn't mean I'm like Jack."

"That doesn't mean you aren't like him either. When I first met you, you were a jackass to me. Then later that day you kissed me in my hotel room and acted as though it was fine. You think you are the hottest thing in the world and you know what, at the end of the day you are just an old lonely man that goes back to his room and plays with his cat for a bit, unless of course he actually gets lucky and has someone to call a one night stand. Which really isn't hard for you to find I'm sure."

I looked at Criss and realized something, he didn't have a look of shock or anger on his face… he didn't even look upset in the least and it made me wonder what was going on in that mind of his. Maybe this approach just doesn't work anymore or something because the man seems as though he is un-phased and I was hoping by now he would barge out of the room pissed off.

"You are the only woman that can actually talk to me like that and yet… not piss me off but—"

I cut him off.

"Don't give me any of the you opened my eyes bullshit because that's just not going to fly."

"I was gonna say…"

"Say what?"

"Say that—"

"Wel—"

And that when he cut me off by planting a very passionate and needing kiss on my lips, one that took me by surprise because even with how many times I've kissed this man this time was different and I didn't understand why. Needless to say though I ended up getting lost in the moment and once again found myself in the same position as I was in a few times before with this man… well this time only once before and that was in bed with little to no clothing on and absolutely exhausted. However when the deed was done it wasn't like last time, I laid there looking up at the ceiling fighting with myself about whether to take a chance on this man or not and after the thought about it I came to a conclusion.

"Criss…"

"Mhmm?"

"I think I'm willing to try this out…"

Criss looked over at me with a smile and held me closer to him.

"As in what exactly?"

Oh now he just wants me to say it the bastard.

"As in we've done so much already, you took my shit for a while now and well, I think I can try the couple thing out…"

Criss kissed me on the forehead and we both decided it would be best to get some sleep probably seeing as we were both exhausted, not only from our activity but also from the flight and trip and all that. The morale here would be that when all goes to hell and there's nothing else to go wrong, may as well take a chance, even if you are risking your heart… for if you don't take the chance you'll forever regret it. I smiled slightly to myself before dozing off cuddled up next to Criss.

Well I'm sure everyone has been waiting for them to actually get together and there is it… tune in next time to see what Gabby and Criss end up doing next and whether they make it or not.