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June 28th, 2011

Parking only put her a block away from the restaurant and she idly fanned herself with the flyer someone had just handed to her. Maybe she was getting used to the weather or maybe it's that the summers in NYC were hotter but the heat didn't seem so bad.

Out of the corner of her eye, she catches sight of a man just a little taller than her, average build and dark blond hair and she feels her heart stop. Thrown off course, she cranes her neck and follows him a few steps. Chris is almost about to call out to him when he turns.

It's not him.

And she can't help but feel disappointed even though she's been through the similar several times in the past few days. Ever since that unexpected meeting, she can't help but hope she'll run into Jack again. Or that the door to Milliways would appear.

Sighing, she crosses the street and heads towards the restaurant.

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"Or John Gael, we've not really decided on a middle name yet." She looks into her glass for a moment, "Do you wish we were drinking wine as much as I do?"

Chris looks at her glass, smiling slightly. "We could still order some."

"Do you think that's a good idea?"

"One glass wouldn't hurt," she says with a shrug.

Michelle smiles slightly in return, "I won't tell if you don't."

Chris smiles, raising her hand to flag down the waiter. "Sounds fair to me."

"Do you think I talked about work enough for this to be able to be written off?"

"If we were going to do that I would have suggested a more expensive restaurant."

She laughs, "It's not the food that makes the bill high, it's the alcohol."

"Well, a better restaurant would have better alcohol," Chris say in a conspiratorial tone. "Not that it matters much after the second glass."

"Or third -- "

Chris takes a sip of her drink. "Do you have to be anywhere after this?"

Michelle checks her watch, "Yes, but the world won't be endangered if I reschedule."

"I have 30 minutes till I have to be anywhere," Chris says with a glance to her own watch. She might have to stay a little later to finish up a report but that wasn't a problem.

"Maybe we should schedule the drinking for another time then since from what I remember Division isn't a huge fan of drinking before work."

Chris shrugged. She didn't think one glass would matter and she had only gone along because Michelle suggested it. "Up to you."

Michelle's silent for a moment, "One glass couldn't hurt."

"Hopefully the house specials are good." And the waiter gets to their table sometime soon.

Michelle orders a glass of white wine and waits for Chris to decide.

After deliberating between the red and white wines, Chris compromises and orders a rose wine.

"Want to hear something crazy?" Michelle asks after she's sure that the waiter's gone. "I really miss target practice."

Chris smiles. "That's not so crazy."

Chris might not be the best judge of what's crazy and what isn't.

Possibly no one that ever worked at CTU can make that kind of judgement.

"Are you free Saturday?"

This is true.

"Yeah. Early afternoon is best."

Michelle thinks briefly about her schedule.

"Around 1?"