"My goodness Maggi, you and your questions, can the boy play with your daughter or not?"
"No, she's sleeping"
As if on cue to prove her mother wrong, Zoe lifted her head from the couch to look over at what was happening, "Mama Mia, mi sono svegliata" [silly mama, I awake]
I began to laugh as Maggi turned to her daughter and started to talk to her, "Zoe, ti ho detto di fare silenzio quando abbiiamo visitatori, a meno che non te lo dicessi altrimenti" [Zoe,I told you to be quiet when we have visitors, unless I tell you otherwise]
"Well, well, well, would you look at who up from her imaginary nap" I say to her and smirk
"Get in" she says "Zoe is 2 1/2, and if I remember correctly, Roman is 3ish?"
"Yes he is" I turn to Roman "Lei è Zoe , parla Italiano" [this is Migan, she speaks Italian]
"Va bene" [okay] he says and walks over to Zoe who is sitting patiently for him, "Roman only knows small phrases and random words in Italian, so he should be around the same knowledge level as your daughter" I tell Maggi once I follow her to the kitchen and leave Roman with Zoe
"Zoe is a very smart girl, I pride myself in getting knowledge into her head early"
"Cool cool cool" I say (Brooklyn nine-nine, Jake Peralta vibes :)
"So, why are you really here Silas" Maggi says and begins to start on what I assume is lunch
"I'm here to give Roman a friend" I say confidently
"Silas, I work on killing men weekly, I know when one is lying" sh*t, I forgot
"Well what do you think I am doing here?" I ask her
"You want something, I don't know what it is, but you want something" dam strait I do, and I only have 1 month and 3 more weeks to get it
"Well, what if that thing was you?"
"Excuse me?!" She says turning around in a quick spin
"I, am not a 'thing' to be wanted Silas" she says while waving tongs in the air and pointing at me with them
"I didn't mean it that way Maggi, I meant that I want to take you out, like on a date"
"No" is all she says and turns back around
"No?" I repeat
"No, would you like me to say it again? In Spanish, Italian, French even?"
"Why not?" I ask her, now leaning on the counter she was once cleaning
"I know how you are Silas, always with a new girl, different bed every other night, I don't want that."
"So you are admitting that you want commitment" I say
"Yes, who doesn't" me, I don't. I just want Vincent's money
"Look Maggi, one date, I will pay and you can chose the place. I will pick you up and do all the typical date stuff, it will be fun, come on. Plus, you will get a night away from Zoe- not that you might want one- but it will be relaxing."
She looks at me pondering
"Look, it doesn't even have to be a date, it can just be 2 people getting food, free food, that's great. Right?"
"Fine, but we don't tell anyone, and we are not sleeping together. I don't want my name to get written onto your fling list"
"Oh please Margret, you know I have all the woman's names on a computer, I'm not that old" I say with a laugh
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