SECRETS – Season
One, Episode Eight Prologue
It was Heaven....and it was Hell. Jaime and Steve had eloped nearly a month ago and had managed to keep that secret all to themselves. No one knew – not even Oscar, Rudy or Callahan. While it wouldn't have been forbidden, Steve and Jaime both felt their careers – and the OSI as a whole - were decidedly not marriage friendly.
It was a delicious secret – more so the longer they managed to keep it hidden. Still (as had become a pattern), they had precious little time to actually be together. Steve was sent off to Thailand within hours of consummating their marriage and the day before he was due back, Jaime went off on a mission of her own.
No one had questioned her sudden decision to move to DC. It was so much more convenient when Oscar called on her as frequently as he did. If anyone noticed that her apartment in downtown DC was pretty much unoccupied, they assumed it was due to the amount time she spent out of the country. No one realized that even when she was in town, she seldom slept there.
The possibility that they had married never crossed anyone's mind. It would've seemed too sudden, like it had come out of nowhere...unless their past history was taken into account. The groove had already been formed and Steve and Jaime had easily fallen right back into it.
No, their friends had absolutely no clue what was going on with Jaime and Steve. What was increasingly obvious, though, was that on the rare occasions that they were together, they glowed with happiness. When they were apart (which was most of the time) Jaime was growing more and more wistful....and Steve was growing angry.
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