Christy laughed lightly, as she held Angie’s hand, and walked around the table, "Alice, Shane, and Dana told me you and Bette are turning into bores."

Tina laughed, " Wha-a-a-tt?  They said that?"

"Yeah … and that you need an intervention of some sort.  Maybe that’s what tonight’s thing in Helena’s about," Christy answered, laughing as she picked Angie up, and handed her to Tina.

"Mommy’s friends say your mommies are boring, pumpkin," Tina said, nuzzling into Angie’s tummy.  "Are we boring?  Are your mommies boring?," she asked as Angie giggled, enjoying the ticklish feeling of being nuzzled.

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Tina banged her hands down in frustration on the conference table.  

"Are you saying that there’s even a sliver of a chance that this information has something to it?!" she asked Mila, her cheeks beginning to redden.

The day after the meeting during which it was announced that Mila and her agents had selected Film Features as the studio with which the treatment Mila had written was going to be developed, Mila and her agents called Tina to say they had gotten an anonymous call that indicated the treatment was stolen from someone else, and that a third party owned the rights to that treatment.

Tina asked them to meet her in the conference room of the LA office of Film Features immediately, in order that they could re-group, given the new information.

Mila nodded in response to Tina’s question, and her eyes began to water.

Tina eyed her agents, "And didn’t you guys do any kind of due diligence on this treatment at all before you started shopping it around?!"

"Tina, there are so many different scripts and treatments floating around that sometimes there are some that look like they overlap.  Especially in action-film type treatments!," one of them began to say, then nervously began to sip her water bottle as Tina continued to pace around the table.

"Alright, alright," the blonde said finally as she stopped pacing, and then leaned on the table to stare at Mila and her agents, "Let’s try to figure this out.  What part or parts of what your anonymous caller said is in the other person’s treatment that someone could plausibly say were stolen and put into this treatment that we just purchased?"

"A young gallery owner represents an Asian woman, who turns out to have ties to the underground," one agent started.

"Who is trying to obtain an Expressionist painting rarely seen, from a respectable English gentleman type who turns out to be part of a global criminal network…," another agent continued.