She’d gotten to thinking lately that maybe life had shown her all it had to offer and she would just have to learn to live with it. Now, well, maybe this was proof that that wasn’t true after all?

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When Dominique woke and she looked at the digital clock under the window, she saw it was almost ten in the morning. It surprised her that she’d slept so long. And, she considered, it was also a surprise how well rested she felt. When she tried to stretch out her body a little though, she quickly realized she was still quite sore in many places, so she only did a few more (more gentle) stretches before she lay back down and relaxed on the bed and considered her situation anew.

That nothing had happened to her overnight of course was somewhat reassuring, not that she’d expected anything to happen. Or, truthfully, a part of her always seemed to have thoughts like that when it came to humans. Putting that aside though, what she was going to do next, that was the question. She’d made vague plans last night, both to stay close to Detective Maza until she could find out more about her, find out if she could really trust her to keep her secret or not, and then there was the matter of David Xanatos to contend with – She would be a fool to let matters with him rest over long. To do so would only be to invite further attacks such as what had happened last night. And Xanatos was a man with many resources to spend and the cunning to use them in the most… effective of ways. True, she couldn’t afford to be hasty about this, but also true was that the longer she waited, the more dangerous the situation would become.

She had a number of options she could choose from for the how of it, but, whatever she decided, she knew she would have to be creative about it in order to catch her enemy at anything like a vulnerable moment, and she knew also that she had responsibilities now and that it would be best to bring the matter up with her clan first… and, she considered, she would have to speak to Elisa of this a little as well. She needed to know where things stood between them first before she made any plans – Like it or not, Elisa Maza was a factor to be considered in her life now, and might be for quite some time to come. Not that she found that prospect entirely unappealing, because somehow, she didn’t. Somehow, she was… looking forward to seeing the detective who’d come to her rescue last night again.