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The Rainbow's End.

Chapter 1:Thursday

Sarah smiled as she poured the coffee. Malcolm was unusually reluctant to go into work, which was not something she was used to seeing. Even though Malcolm had cut down on his working hours as far as Sarah could see he loved the job as much as he always had.

"Ok, cariad." Sarah turned to see him staring into space. "Spit it out."

She placed his Star Wars mug on the kitchen table as he met her eyes. He really didn't want to go to work. Sarah smiled slightly, she knew the feeling. It was the day of her Hen Night and the last place she wanted to be was the small travel book shop she was managing.

"Malcolm are you worried about me going out with the girls tonight?"

"No." He looked at the table. "No, of course I am not worried about you going out with Ruth and the others. Ruth is going to be there isn't she?" Malcolm knew that his old friend would look after Sarah if necesary.

"Yes, she will. So will Zoe, Carrie, Ros and young Beth. You know the hospital are letting her have some time at home. It's to make sure she can handle life in the outside world. Dimitri told me the other night." Sarah covered his hand with her considerably smaller hand. "With little Carrie there about to have her baby and Beth on the mend I hardly think it is going to be the drunken night of debauchary you are imagining it to be." She smiled as Malcolm tried to look surprised that she had even thought of it.

"It is good news about Beth." Malcolm conceeded. He had been to see the younger woman in hospital a few times. He knew how worried Ruth and Dimitri had been.

"Look Malcolm. Ros and the other girls have been good to me. Especially when you were in hospital. I don't know what I would have done without Ros and Ruth. So no more of this silly worrying. Go on with you. Get to work." She smiled as Malcolm nodded.

"That's true. And I suppose you are only going to Ros' place. Not exactly wild clubbing in the West End."

"No, not with Carrie the size of a house and Beth just about able to walk." She smiled. "Now go to work."

"Sarah?" Malcolm stood and placed his mug in the sink.

"Yes?"

"I love you."

Sarah couldn't help but smile. Malcolm may not have been the man her family had thought she would end up with and she knew her family had always disapproved of the quiet technical officer but to her they just fitted.

"Good job I'm marrying you on Saturday then." She kissed his cheek before bundling him out of the door.

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The assembled spooks chatted to themselves as Harry waited for the Home Secretary to get to the point. He needed to get the morning meeting underway as soon as possible and get over to Whitehall with Ros. It wasn't a meeting he was looking forward to. After what seemed like a lifetime he hung up the phone and headed towards the Briefing Room.

"Damon Harold has lost his Bail Hearing." Harry announced as he walked towards his seat. Ros raised an eyebrow.

"Hardly a surprise." She stated.

"Quite." Harry sat down as Dimitri yawned.

"The cousins are still trying to get an Extradiction order for Christine Quinn." Ruth interjected. "And Andrew Lawrence has been admitted to a secure psychiatric unit. Apparently he is on suicide watch."

"Aw shame." Ros folded her arms.

"Why can't we just let Christine go back to America?" Zoe asked. She remembered a time when Christine had caused problems for Tom. She still blamed the woman for her friend 'going on the blink' aswell as for the beating her, Tom and Danny had taken in the farm buildings courtesy of Herman Joyce.

"That's what Towers wants to discuss with Ros and I later this morning." Harry looked up from the papers he had been scanning as he answered Zoe.

"Any progress as regards the Israeli delegation?" Harry paused as Lucas and Adam exchanged glances. Malcolm looked at the desk top.

"Well." Adam started.

"Mossad have been operating on our patch." Zaf blurted out.

"That's a given Mr Younis." Harry pinched his nose. "What we want to know is what they are doing this time. There is a royal visit to Ireland to deal with as well as the EU talks in Cardiff next week."

"All the intel has suggested Mossad are just here to keep an eye on Israeli interests in the talks." Ruth sighed. She was exhausted. It had been a busy week, with Nightingale being cleaned up and Nico starting in the same school as Wes and Molly.

"Why Wales? Why are they even having the talks in Cardiff?" Zaf asked.

"That's what they want. Thats what they get." Harry barked. "Speaking of which, be prepared to head down to Cardiff in the next few weeks." Harry watched as the rest of the team fell silent. None of them really wanted to leave the capital. It normally led to trouble. The few times the team had ventured away from London there had been mayhem. Harry smirked slightly as he noticed the general lack of enthusiasm, he understood why.

"Malcolm?" Ruth wandered over to his work station as he looked up.

"Yes Ruth?"

"Do you have that CCTV footage on Mikail Revner?"

"Almost done." He leant back in his chair.

"Good. Thanks." Ruth sighed. "Oh and Malcolm. You do know Sarah is going to be ok tonight. It's just a few drinks and DVDs. Hardly the party of the century. I know you and the others are on call tonight but we are all working tomorrow. And the children will all be home."

"What are you going to do with the children anyway?" Malcolm was suddenly worried about where the children would be spending the night.

"Wes and Nico are going to Graham's with Charlie. Emma is going to Zoe's mum." Ruth sighed. "Stan and Rose are going to look after James and Amy tonight, until Lucas picks them up."

"Stan? Security?" Malcolm asked as Ruth nodded.

"That's right." Ruth nodded. "Everyone is accounted for. And I think Rose is looking forward to having them. Amy adores Stan." She was about to head off back to her work station when Malcolm touched her arm.

"Ruth I."

"Stop worrying. It's just a quiet night in. I even stopped Beth ordering a stripper." She winked as Malcolm visibly paled. She looked up to see Harry watching her. She couldn't help but smile as he raised an eyebrow. She almost felt sorry for Malcolm. If Harry had been a fish out of water when they had got together Malcolm was almost drowning in everything that had happened since Sarah had been brought back into his life. She was happy for her friend but couldn't help but feel guilty. While Sarah was going to have a relatively quiet hen night she knew Malcolm's stag night planned for the next night was not going to be a quiet affair. Not with Adam Carter and Zaf Younis involved. Before anyone could stop her she grabbed an armful of files and headed towards Harry's office.

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"Ruth." Harry looked up as she barged in.

"Look after Malcolm tomorrow. I have a funny feeling the boys will have organised something."

"You do?" Harry smiled slightly.

"Yes." She smiled as he walked across to her. "I have a strange feeling he is going to give himself a heart attack at this rate. Oh I have the intel on the Mossad operative working in London. Sophia Harrington. English father, Israeli mum. Her under a false passport in the name of Janine Ann Green."

"A black op?"

"Could be." Ruth looked at her feet as Harry leant against his desk. "Why now? Why with the wedding on Saturday?"

"I don't think they really intend Sarah and Malcolm's wedding to be disrupted. Probably not top priority on their list of things to infliltrate." He smiled. Ruth shook her head slightly.

"I know. I just want everything to go well for them. I mean look at our wedding. We were almost killed. Someone car bombed Catherine's car. Then Ros was shot at on her wedding day." Ruth smoothed out an invisible crease on Harry's tie.

"They are going to be fine." Harry covered her hand with his own. Ruth nodded. She hoped he was right.

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A/N Should I go in with this? Next chapter is the hen night. Is Malcolm right to be worried?