Maria Chavez’s eyes widened a little at that. She smiled a little ruefully and shook her head. ”Didn’t see that one coming.” She remarked a little under her breath. ”How’d that happen?” She asked.

”Met her last week at Lightning.” She named a popular up-scale gay and lesbian dance club she’d gone to sometimes with Margot. ”We, um, we danced a few times. Exchanged phone numbers. We’ve… talked on the phone a few times.” She again lied through her teeth. ”She came by my apartment once… just to talk though. There may have been some making out involved…” She admitted softly. ”This is our first actual date though.”

She met her captain’s eyes again and found a fond, almost relieved smile on her lips. ”I’m happy for you, Elisa, really…” She told her kindly. ”Relieved too, to tell you the truth… How Margot died… It would be hard for anyone to get over something like that.”

Elisa felt something hitch in her throat and she actually felt vaguely like she might cry. She forced herself to hold her emotions in check though and put on another forced smile. ”Life just doesn’t give you much choice though, does it? I just… I keep telling myself: She wouldn’t want me to be miserable and alone for the rest of my life. I wouldn’t want that for her, if the situations were reversed at least…” She trailed off. And she really did believe that Margot would want that for her too. Reluctantly perhaps, because she had been a little possessive, actually (though Elisa had only found it endearing on her somehow), but in the end, she’d want her to be happy. Elisa knew that.

”No, of course you wouldn’t…” Chavez said back softly. ”So, where are you going on this date of yours then?” She asked, trying, apparently, to bring this talk back to a more cheerful, hopeful place.

Elisa smiled a little wryly. ”I don’t know, actually. I’m supposed to meet her where she works. She promised to give me the ten-cent tour. Where we’re going after that though, she hasn’t told me yet.”

”Well, the field’s wide open with someone like that, I guess. She could be planning to take you to Paris on a private jet, for all you know.” Captain Chaves assessed, going back around her desk to sit in her chair again.