<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #80FF80">Carlos Delgado</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/75418b36-82bd-4b2f-bdff-d44eb7e2deaf_zpsb78abdde.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlos looked astonished at Lea when she asked about Maria. The question left some sour taste in his mouth, remembering how he left a nearly crying Maria today. She had not deserved this situation, but he had only one heart to give and it belonged to Lea. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I don't know, she had been short of tears when I told her that I still love you. I know she had hoped all the time that we would start a relationship, but to me she had always been more like a sister. And probably she calls herself an idiot in the moment, for not trying to win me over more aggressively in the past. She had given me all the time to get over you, now she probably wishes she wouldn't have been so passive. But I like Maria as a friend, I could never see a lover in her. I wished she would have felt the same. But what shall you do as a man, if a woman loves you against your will?"</span><br/><br/>Honestly Carlos felt like shit now. Maria had gone out of her ways to warn him of Starsky and Hutch, if she wouldn't have done, he would have not been able to hunt after Lea and she would be back with her drugs now. As reward Carlos was in love again with Lea and Maria was destroyed at the ground. He had no idea if she would be still his friend tomorrow. On the other hand he was leaving the force anyway, so it didn't matter. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Luckily I will be leaving the force. Because seeing Maria there would always make me feel bad. She had warned me of your neighbor and worried about me. But ok, that's life I guess."</span><br/><br/>Carlos was careful to dig into Lea's memories. He would be interested to know what had happened to her drug addicted cop, but it would probably only open up old wounds. And he was happy that for once they were not talking about her work and drugs.</div>