Just a little one-shot that jumped into my head after watching last night's episode of Covert Affairs. What a tear jerker!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Covert Affairs, Annie or Auggie.

Annie just got back to her house when her phone started to ring. She looked at the screen, a withheld number. For a second she considered not picking it up but something told her to.

"Hello…"

"Annie, it's Augge. I need your help." He sounded terrible, almost like he'd been crying.

"Auggie, what's wrong? What's going on?"

"I've been arrested. I'm being released now. Could you please come pick me up and take me home? I really don't feel like dealing with a cabdriver."

All thoughts of Simon, Danielle, Lena's dismissal or anything else was wiped from Annie's head. This was Auggie, her best friend, and he obviously needed her. She grabbed her bag and headed for her car.

An hour later they were both in Annie's car, on their way to Auggie's place. Auggie was slumped in the passenger seat with his head hanging.

"Auggie, are you going to tell me what happened? Why you got arrested?"

Auggie sighed. He was tired, heartbroken, a hangover was starting to pound in the back of his head and he was hungry. In one way spilling his guts to Annie was the last thing he felt like doing, in another way he desperately needed to talk with someone.

"Long story," he sighed. "Can we talk about it over food at my place? I'm starving. Binge drinking on an empty stomach wasn't the best idea I've ever had."

"Okay, I'll call for a pizza delivery right now. It should arrive not long after we get there. Is that okay with you?"

"Sounds good to me," Auggie agreed. They rode the rest of the way to his apartment in silence.

"I guess I owe you an explanation," Auggie said after a couple of slices of pizza. He felt somewhat better.

"You don't owe me anything, but I can't help but wonder why you got arrested Auggie."

"Long story short is that Parker dumped me this morning, well last night really. I decided it was a good idea to drown my sorrows in beer and Patron and this asshole at Allen's pissed me off. I smashed a bottle on his head," Auggie stated flatly.

"You did what?" Annie's voice was laced with shock.

"It was a fucking stupid thing to do, I was just so damn emotional at the moment and this guy really pushed all the wrong buttons. I let my temper get away with me." Auggie raked a hand through his hair. He didn't look forward to facing Arthur in the morning. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"What happened with Parker?" Annie asked quietly. "You proposed, right?"

That question opened the floodgates and the full story tumbled out of Auggie. He couldn't keep it in any longer.

"Yeah, on the beach in Eritrea. She accepted, happily actually. Surprised me by going on about how many kids we'd have, a boy first and two girls. She was excited. She'd obviously been thinking about a future with me. Then we were taken hostage. My training just kicked in as soon as those Somali pirates boarded our boat. I knew what to do, how to keep us safe and hopefully get us out of that clusterfuck. I stayed cool, managed to convince the pirates that Parker and Wade were a couple. I knew they weren't likely to separate them since Wade was the money source and I was fairly certain they wouldn't separate me from the others because I'm blind. After a few hours they came to take us, one at a time, to the bathroom. They took Wade first, leaving Parker and me alone. She started questioning me about how I knew what to do and managed to stay so calm. My initial thought was to use my army training as an excuse, but since I'd planned on reading her in anyway I opted for the truth. Figured lying to her then would make the read in even harder. I told her I was CIA. She didn't take it well, she said she didn't trust me, didn't know who she was marrying. Under the circumstances we didn't have much time to talk and Wade was back not long after. After we were rescued I proposed to her again, on the airfield the chopper took us to. She accepted for the second time." Auggie paused to have a drink of his water. "We got back here the day before yesterday and yesterday morning I had a feeling something was wrong. She was watching me get ready for work and she asked me what I'd be working on. I didn't answer and she asked if she couldn't ask about that. I told her that she was free to ask, but I'd have to either lie or just ignore the question. It was obviously not the right answer. She said she just wouldn't ask, with a catch in her voice. I promised her we'd work it out. I ended up working beyond late yesterday. Arthur demanded that I had this big report on his desk by this morning and it was almost midnight when I got home. I bumped into what turned out to be Parker's suitcase. She broke up with me, said she didn't think that we didn't know each other well enough to get married. That we'd just been floating around in a bubble since we met. I pleaded with her, said we should talk about things. Got her to stay the night. When I woke up this morning she was already dressed and had a cab waiting for her. I heard it honking She left. For obvious reasons I couldn't go after her…." Auggie's voice trailed off, the tears that had been building in his eyes started pouring down his cheeks. Annie instantly scooted closer to him and wrapped her arms around him. He reciprocated the embrace and held on to her like his life depended on it.

After a few minutes he loosened his grip on her and pulled away.

"Could you do me a favor?" he asked, feeling slightly embarrassed about what he was about to ask Annie to do for him.

"Anything. What do you need?"

"Change the sheets on my bed? They probably smell like Parker's perfume and I can't bear to sleep in them. Clean sheets are on the left side of the walk in closet."

"No problem. I can't do military corners like you though." Annie said as she got up and headed for Auggie's closet.

"I think I'll live," Auggie said with a small, grateful smile. He might just have lost the woman he was madly in love with, but at least he still had Annie. He knew he could count on his best friend.

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