Well, I'm surprised you haven't made your move before now.

"John. You need to choose. You can't have both." Rex stood up to leave. "I gotta get home to Saph." He pointed a finger at John. "Choose. I'm serious." He walked towards the door.

"How can I?" John asked. "If I choose Shayera, I'm destiny's puppet, if I don't, I'll never be truly happy."

With his hand on the door Rex simply replied. "Choose the one you can't live without. The one you need. The one you love the most. Destiny is what you make it." Then he left. Outside the door in the halls, he ran into someone. Someone with wings.

"Rex." Shayera greeted him. "What are you doing here?"

He looked at her with a smile. "I came to see John. I take it that you're doing the same?"

She looked away and mumbled "Maybe."

He laughed and started to walk away. "Go on in. He has beer."

Shayera watched him go. Once he was out of her sight, she went to John's door. Upon reaching the door, she stopped and took a deep breath, and then she knocked.

Inside, John was cleaning up when he heard the knock. "Rex?" He questioned. "What did you forget this time?" As he walked to the door he heard the soft reply.

"It's not Rex."

He stopped. "Shayera?" He practically ran to the door and threw it open. And right there in front of him was the Thanagarian beauty that he was in love with.

"Hello John." She greeted him politely as she stepped past him to come into the apartment that she had come to know every inch of. "I think we need to talk." She said walking over to the couch. "About choices." She sat down on the couch and leaned back, crossing her legs. John looked at her before joining.

"Shayera, I think it's time I made my choice." He took her hands in his. She met his gaze evenly. Then, she took her hands back and looked away. "Whatever choice you make, Mari should know before me. Or at the same time."

John sighed. "Isn't this why you came here? Don't you want to know?"

She stood up angry. "Of course I want to know! I'm tired of waiting! But I'm also tired of doing things behind people's backs!" She calmed down a little. "It's not fair to Mari." John sat for a few moments before standing up. He got close to Shayera and looked down into her jade eyes. She looked up and met brown ones.

"Shayera." He grabbed her hand and put it over his heart. "I think we both know who I'm going to choose." He closed the distance between them and gently kissed her. When he was sure she wouldn't pull away, he wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned back onto the couch with her on top.

"John." She said against his lips. "Stop." He only kissed her more and said no. Finally she pulled away. She grasped his face in her hands. "John. Please. Tell me who you choose."

Mari was walking through Detroit. She decided to leave Paris and see John. Something was bothering him. Being the good person that she was, she decided to go see him and lift his spirits. If he did have company. Oh well. But by the way he seemed in Paris, she didn't think that he was having company. He seemed so down. 'I'll make him feel better.' She thought. She walked into the building and up to his apartment. As she was about to knock, she heard voices.

"Whatever choice you made, Mari should know before me." Shayera? Mari thought.

"Isn't this why you came here? Don't you want to know?" She heard John.

"Of course I want to know! I'm tired of waiting! But I'm also tired of doing things behind people's backs! It's not fair to Mari."

Mari held her breath and leaned her ear closer to the door.

"Shayera. I think we both know who I'm going to choose." Mari gasped. "John. Stop."

'Are they kissing? That slut!' Mari thought angrily.

"John." She heard Shayera. "Please. Tell me who you choose."

She grabbed her keys to John's apartment and stormed in the room.