The Lottery

Title: The Lottery

Rated : PG

Synopsis: Diego concocts a scheme that enables him to spend a great deal of time with the woman he loves but when she discovers his secret, a thousand knives through the heart would have been better than her reaction.

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Disclaimer: This story was written solely for the enjoyment of other Zorro fans and is not intended to infringe on any copyrights held by Goodman/Rosen Productions, New World Television, Zorro Productions, the estate of Johnston McCulley or anyone else.

Prologue

Diego leaned over his desk, painstakingly setting the type for the next edition of The Guardian; the pueblo's only newspaper. He chuckled as he remembered the previous nights encounter with Victoria. It was becoming more and more difficult to tear himself away from her sweet embrace, and her soft, passionate kisses.

Sitting at his desk, an idea began to nag the back of his mind and soon he could think of nothing else, but putting it down on paper before he lost it completely. Unfortunately, this persistent muse prevented him from finishing his pressing article on how the alcalde was, yet again, unjustly spending his yearly tax revenue's.

Chasing bandits all over the countryside gave Diego something to do with his time, it made him feel needed, useful. But he also wanted to begin a life with the woman he loved as well. He just had to find a way to meld those two realities. And a little bit of history that he had recently read might provide him with just the way to do that.

Diego rubbed his eyes, careful not to get the ink from the press on his handsome face. It had been a long night. But it hadn't taken him long to write the article that he hoped would give him the chance to spend a bit more time with Victoria, as himself instead of the masked man. Diego set the type for the date, noting with a small smile, that it had been nearly five years since he had donned the mask and became a legend to his people.