Well It's a Plan Chapter 1:

Three weeks later at Café Diem

"I still don't think it's a good idea to bring this guy here to GD Jo" Fargo whined plaintively.

"I have to agree with Fargo" Allison chimed in looking at Jo, Carter and Henry.

"Look" Jo responded to the two of them, frustration clearly ringing in her voice. "We've been over this. This guy has been sniffing around trying to get hired on here at GD for weeks. We know thanks to what Carter and I have been able to piece together that he's connected to Beverly. "

"The only way to find out what Beverly is up to now is to get close to him. The only way to do that is to let him get close to us" Carter added, thinking to himself it wasn't the best plan but the only one they had.

"Carter and Jo are right. We can't afford to be blindsided by Beverly and her group, we all know exactly how dangerous she can be" was Henry's calm reply. "She knows about Grant and she knows about us. Beverly is a very real threat and we can't just ignore it and hope she leaves us alone."

Allison sighed but said "You're right Henry, I know that. It's just that I want all of this to be over. We…All of us… need to be able to get on with our lives."

Carter put his arm around Allison "We can't do that if we're constantly living under the threat of being exposed at any moment. I don't like it any more than you Allie but we need to stick with the plan Jo and I came up with. It's all we've got to go on."

The five of them looked at each other and silently nodded in agreement. Each wondering when if ever this was going to be over and they could relax. Jo rose from her chair as Vincent came over to see if they needed anything else. Jo looked at them all with a glint of determination in her eyes telling them "I need to get to GD. Time to meet our newest employee and get this started." Jo walked out the door leaving the other four looking worried and wondering if they'd made the right choice and how they were going to get close enough to this guy to find out what he was really up to. Jo headed to GD thinking "Finally some action, I'm sick to death of waiting around for the ax to fall."

Global Dynamics

Marcus Reynolds sat in Jo's office taking silent inventory of everything there and patiently waiting for the head of GD security to arrive. Jo paused in her doorway trying to take stock of the man sitting there and trying to decide how to play him. Marcus was smart, one of the best computer programmers around. Jo was certain he should have a criminal record longer than Zane's, but Marcus had never been caught at anything just suspected of a lot. Jo walked inside of her office extending her hand out as Marcus stood at the sound of her arrival. "Marcus Reynolds? I'm Jo Lupo welcome to Global Dynamics." Marcus looked at Jo smiling at the sight of the beautiful woman standing before him. "Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. Especially if I get to work with someone as gorgeous as you" Marcus replied. Jo keeping her smile in place did a mental eye roll. Something about just the simple contact of shaking his hand made her skin crawl. Keeping her smile in place Jo turned to leave telling Marcus "Let's get you to the Cryptology Lab so that you can meet the rest of your team and get started."

Sitting at his desk starring at his computer screen Zane slammed his coffee cup down a little harder than he'd intended, but damn it this entire week had frustrated him. Something was wrong with the program he'd written to collect his first set of data. There was simply no way two separate streams of light traveling through time and space could intertwine and merge with each other. The data he was seeing wasn't any more possible than time travel, now he'd have to scrap the whole thing and start over.

He'd already arrived at GD this morning in a bad mood and had hoped to forget about last night by getting lost in his work. He'd hurt Zoe, he hadn't meant to but he had. Zane had assumed that once Zoe went back to Harvard she'd find another guy to crush on and would move Zane safely back into the friends column. Giving him the out of not having to say anything, but that didn't happen and last night he'd had to tell Zoe they would never be anything more than friends. Now the only real friend he had in this town was hurt and angry with him.

It didn't help that after three weeks of trying he wasn't any closer to getting Jo alone to talk to her again or finding out what had happened to the band of five. All Zane had learned was that Jo Lupo was very very good at avoiding someone if she wanted to. He would almost swear she had a tracking device on him so she could know where he was at all times and make sure she was never there.

Frustrated Zane stood up and left his lab. Coming out into the hallway only to see Jo standing there smiling up almost flirtatiously at "What the hell? Marcus Reynolds. What could Jo possibly be thinking letting that scum into Global?" Zane didn't think his day could get any worse at least not until he heard Jo say "Dinner? Sure why not I could use the down time, eight O'clock Café Diem." Zane could barely believe his response, but right now he wanted to strangle someone. Jo was going on a date.