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So he hears her.

It's not that strange, actually. You could easily pin it on the fact that her steps are always a bit… well, kind of happier than everyone else's. Almost as if she's dancing rather than walking. She doesn't "click-clack and swish" her way through the corridor the same way all the other CIA women do. (The ones with heels, that is.) It's more of a soft whispering sound (from her clothes moving when she walks) and then the rapid clicks, in perfect harmony. Like castanets. It's musical, really!
The fact that he recognizes her scent is also very easily explained. He knows everyone's scent. He's always been finely tuned to scents, even back in the days. Before it happened.
Much more so, nowadays. It kind of goes with the territory, he figures.
Now, the day she comes to work wearing no perfume at all, he still knows it's her. Not just from the sound of her movements, but from her personal scent.
It actually throws him off, a little.

So when her hair sweeps against his shoulder, as she tosses it back when she leans in with his coffee, he gets a bit startled. She thinks it's because she surprised him. He goes with it, because he doesn't really want to get into the real reason why.
He doesn't want to consider that maybe, just maybe, she's gotten under his skin.

But in reality, he already knows.

(He just doesn't want to face it.)

So he swirls his chair towards her and grins, that lazy, big grin that lights up his face and makes his unseeing eyes sparkle with mischief.
"Annie! Didn't see you there…"
She laughs, and the sound makes his stomach sink and flip at the same time. He can hear her smiling. (She always makes this little "hmmmpfh" noise through her nose in the land between smiling and laughing. He's never heard anyone else lure it out of her. To be honest, he's actually quite proud of that fact.)
"Admit it! You couldn't tell it was me!"
She sounds triumphant and he can't help thinking "If only she knew!"…
But he takes a sip of his coffee to hide his tiny, private smile, and then sends another wide grin in her general direction.
"Tricking the blind man, Annie? Not sure that's very nice!"
"I'll make it up to you. Buy you a beer at Allen's after work?"
"You're forgiven."

And he knows:
He's in big trouble.