Yay! No virus! Although my brother got the middle finger on my left hand all cut up so I type slower then normal. VERY NICE, SEAN, VERY NICE. And now my wrist is bleeding and my other hand has a cut finger as well. And you opened up the cut on my other wrist that never seems to heal. I thank you oh so much.

Also, I MAY have an idea for the sequel to this, if there is one. If there is a sequel and I use my current idea, it'll be a crossover with NCIS, House M.D., and Law and Order; S.V.U. I would probably post it twice, once as a crossover with NCIS and House, and again as a crossover with SVU and Kaleido Star. But, once again, nothing's certain

Chapter 10

"This is my surprise," Sora said with a grin as she got out her cell phone and very forcefully pressed the off button. "There. No possible distractions, and I took the night off work, so they can't call me in. According to Layla, she and Yuri are still 'celebrating their anniversary', Sarah and Kalos are doing wedding planning, Mia's on a date with this new guy, Rosetta's staying with mother for a few more days, May and Ken are on a date, and Anna... Anna... damn. I knew I had at least one loose end."

Leon laughed, shaking his head. "Sora, I'm sure your friends can survive without you for at least one night. And since I'm back to work tomorrow, it's high time for us to finally have an uninterrupted date."

"I don't know," she said, biting her lip. "Anna had her meeting with Derek at the police station today, and she might-"

"Sora," Leon said, silencing her with a quick kiss on the mouth. "Anna has to be able to deal with her problems on her own, and besides, for once, I want you all to myself." Leon kissed her again, and again, and again...

"All right, all right!" Sora finally exclaimed, pulling back as she chuckled. "Okay, I'm convinced, but if you keep doing that we're not going to ever leave the apartment."

"I see no problem with that," he started, but Sora pushed him back and shook her head.

"No, Leon!" Sora laughed, smiling as she got off the couch and pulled Leon to his feet as well. "No! I'm hungry today, and I want to eat. Plus, if we do it now, then we'll both be too tired for work tomorrow. So, no sex. Not tonight, anyway."

Leon sighed in fake disappointment, but still headed to the door, Sora's hand in his. "Hmm... well, I suppose I could live with that. But you know, since we'll be at work tomorrow, now IS a good time to get rid of all this unresolved sexual tension that everybody keeps talking about..." He trailed off hopefully, but Sora still laughed and shook her head.

"I already told you, Leon, not tonight. First off, I'm hungry and sex would just make me hungrier, and second of all, I don't to fall asleep on a trapeze tomorrow and end up falling to my death."

Chuckling under his breath, Leon said, "All right, point taken. In fact, we haven't had a real date that didn't get interrupted in... god, at least a few weeks. So you win. Dinner only. No sex."

Sora smiled and kissed him before getting into the car. "Don't worry, I'm sure dessert will be satisfying enough."

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When Rosetta heard someone knocking on the door, she jumped at the chance to do something besides remain under her mother's watchful glare and said, "I'll get it." God, I am not going to survive three more days of doing absolutely nothing... When she opened the door, Rosetta was treated to a very surprising sight- Anna, shifting her weight awkwardly from side to side and staring at her feet. "Anna?" she exclaimed in shock. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Anna did not look up from her feet but mumbled abashedly, "Hi. I, um, came to apologize. For what I did earlier. You know, about my brother..."

Rosetta's mother had gotten up to see who was at the door, but when she saw who it was, she frowned and immediately moved to stand in front of Rosetta. "You! What the hell do you think you're doing here? I thought I told you to stay away from here!"

"I know, and I'm sorry, but I thought she way lying about Derek, so I-"

"You thought she was LYING about that abusive son of a bitch? What the-"

"Wait!" Rosetta shouted before the two nearly came to blows again. "Wait. Let me talk to her, Mama. At least let me see what she has to say. It's not like she's gonna go ballistic and kill me or something."

Rose looked Anna over for a second, then said coldly, "You've got ten minutes. And I mean that quite literally."

When she was gone, Rosetta just sighed and took a few steps back, letting Anna in. "Don't worry about her, she only sounds like a prison guard. Her bark's a hell of alot worse than her bite." The two stared at each other for a few seconds, Anna fidgeting with her sleeve, until Rosetta snapped coldly, "You know, you've got a hell of alot of nerve, coming back here."

Anna nodded, still without looking up at Rosetta. "Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's just that I... I went to talk to Derek yesterday, and... well, he tried to lie about why he was back in America and you. He said that you were dating his roommate, not him, but I read the police report and... and I'm sorry, Rosetta. It's just that I'm not on too good terms with my father and my mother passed away, so he's the only family I have left and I didn't want to believe that he was a..." she trailed off nervously, and she still had yet to look up at Rosetta.

After a moment of hesitation, Rosetta stepped forward slowly and murmured, "I... I guess it's okay, Anna... I mean, it's not like you were there and actually saw him. Well, thanks for at least not trusting your brother without a doubt. It's what I would of done."

Anna chuckled, shaking her head darkly. "Don't thank me, thank Sora. She's the one who arranged the meeting at the police station and convinced me to go."

"Ah, Sora," Rosetta said with a small smile. "Of course. If that girl touched mud, I swear, she could turn it into gold... I heard she was out on a date with Leon tonight."

Anna grinned as she turned to leave. "Good. She's been dealing with our problems for long enough now, it's high time she got some time to herself. Well, herself and that man of hers."

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Mia and Andy stared at Sarah and Kalos, the four standing around a table at a fancy French cafe downtown. "What is she doing here?" Kalos and Andy asked in unison.

They both started to talk again, then finally Kalos said, "I know this is a business dinner, but when Sarah found out it was with you, she insisted on coming along because she 'missed you'." He made air quotes around the words 'missed you' and Sarah chuckled, shoving him on the shoulder playfully.

"Yes, I did say that, and Kalos here got jealous. But why is Mia here? I didn't even know she knew you, Andy," Sarah said, smiling down at her.

Mia shifted uncomfortably, looking between the three others. Here she is, hopelessly out of place at a restaurant she probably couldn't afford to eat at, eating with the manager of Kaleido Stage, a famous star, and the CEO of a record company- and she was just a director that no one had ever heard of. Yeah, she belonged here, all right. Andy just squeezed her hand, unaware of how completely out of place his date was as he said, "I brought her because I was already planning to have a date with her here when you called about the business dinner. So, right now, I'm mixing business with personal and hoping to get the business part done quickly."

Kalos hesitated, then nodded. Mia gratefully immersed herself in conversation with Sarah, since Andy and Kalos were doing contract negotiations. One glance at the menu told her she was getting the same thing Sarah was getting- she couldn't pronounce a single thing as wasn't about to make a fool of herself.

And, of course, when the food arrived, she realized she had done just that- Sarah had ordered a salad tossed with... walnuts. And Mia was deadly allergic to walnuts. She couldn't even touch them or the oil or she'd break out in hives, and she couldn't eat them or her throat would swell up and she wouldn't be able to breathe. Mia fumbled with the salad, unable to really eat anything that wasn't at least brushing up against walnuts, and ended up crushing the majority of the salad under her fork to make it look like she'd ate some of it. Note to self: get Rosetta to teach me how to pronounce French words. That is, if I make it out of this dinner alive.

When Kalos and Andy went out to Kalos's car to get the contracts, Mia breathed a sigh of relief and immediately shoved her still mostly untouched food over to Sarah. "Hey Sarah, you look hungry, why don't eat this, I don't want it," she said in a rush, smiling sheepishly.

"What the- huh? What are you doing, Mia?" Sarah asked, looking up at her in confusion.

Mia groaned and hid her head in her hands. "This is the worst first date ever- I couldn't figure out how to say anything on the menu and Andy's so... you know... cultured and everything I just decided to get what you got. And of course, you get the one thing I can't eat- walnuts. I'm allergic and can't breathe if I swallow one," she explained hurriedly- maybe it wouldn't be quite so embarrassing if she said if quickly. Sarah stared at her for a second before just laughing and helping herself to Mia's food. "It's not funny!" Mia exclaimed, still nervously tapping her fingers on the table.

"Oh, yes it is!" Sarah chuckled. "Well, if it makes you feel any better, when I first worked with Andy, he wasn't so high class as he seems now. Trust me, he was once the poor guy who copied off his friends at fancy restaurants... so, if I rubbed this walnut on your skin, would you like die or something?" she exclaimed in excitement.

Mia looked up in horror and jerked back from Sarah, shaking her head. "Sarah! Okay, first of all, I would NOT die, second of all, don't you dare!"

Sarah just laughed and tossed the walnut at her lightly. Mia swore when it landed on the palm of her hand and immediately set about trying to discreetly wash it off with her glass of water without attracting attention to herself.

Guess who is allergic to tree nuts? ME. IT SUCKS! Please review