Corinne walked into the crowded marque. There were lots of people in there, and lots of laughter, and tales of missions being swapped around. She spied (heh) a familiar face, and waded over to it.
"John!" She yelled
"Corinne! So you did make it!" He yelled back.
"Just! Came back yesterday, drove all the way from London this morning! It's very loud in here isn't it?"
"Yeah. James and the rest are outside. Want to go look?" The pair wandered outside. John spotted James and Kerry walking towards the trees, and jogged over to them.
"Hey." John said. James turned round. A grin split his face.
"Hey! How's MI6 treating you? Better or worse than CHERUB?" Corinne laughed.
"It's harder. Much harder. How's life for you?" (was Kerry there? She is now.) held up her left hand. On it sat a simple gold ring.
"It only took 3 years for James to propose!" she said happily. Corinne and John congratulated the couple. The four carried on chatting for a while, before Lauren and Rat turned up. They were integrated quickly into the conversation. At one point James mentioned that he was on his way to the graves.
"Why?" Corinne asked. James just looked at him.
"To pay my respects. Do you not remember Alex?" he snapped, and quickly looked apologetic. A look of confusion, then realisation passed across her face.
"Oh. I forgot he died." Working with him every day doesn't help either she thought to herself. She could see John was thinking the same thing.
The group of six arrived at Alex Cub's gravestone to see someone in a black trench-coat was already there. The mysterious person looked up at the new arrivals. James, Kerry, Lauren and Rat froze. They looked as if they'd seen a ghost. They looked at one another, and looked back at where the stranger was. They had disappeared. Lauren finally got a word out.
"Alex..." Corinne saw one of the nearby tree's branches bend and dip slightly. She smiled to herself.
"What on earth... Was that a ghost?" James said. Rat was unaccustomedly silent. Kerry shook her head in disbelief.
"It can't be. Ghosts don't exist."
"I'm starting to believe." Rat said. At this point a pair of people they weren't expecting to see walked out of the trees, chatting amicably. They stopped at the sight of the group.
"You look as if you've seen a ghost." Dave said.
"I think we might have." James said quietly. Dave and Josh looked confused. James nodded at the gravestone. Josh went over to look at it. He looked massively confused.
"But..." he said. He shared a looked with Dave that said 'I saw him after this date. It was him. I know it.' Dave looked as confused.
"I can swear I've seen him after this date." he said slowly. "It was only ever a glimpse though." He thought something over for a second. "Is anyone else starting to believe in ghosts?"
In a nearby tree, Alex had heard all this exchange and smiled. Undoubtedly, he would meet Josh and Dave on missions later on, and have to explain how he wasn't dead, and worked for MI6, but that would come later. Much later, hopefully.
Yes, Alex meeting Josh and Dave is coming. I'm also working on a TWEWY thing. I need ideas for missions though...
