Disclaimer not mine I do not own Spooks. Added a second chapter because I really can't seem to write one shots. What did Ruth think after she spoke to Jo in 8.2?

Tomorrow?

"We all missed you Ruth. But no one more than Harry." Jo Series 8.

Ruth was sat on the steps near the Albert Hall trying to digest everything Jo had said to her. She smiled slightly wondering when Joanna Portman had become so wise. When she had left Jo had been the baby of the team. Now there was some boy called Tariq that was the youngest. She picked at the material on her skirt and began wondering what had happened to Jo to turn the bumbling but well meaning journalist into the woman that had sat beside her and told her that Harry had missed her. For a moment her thoughts turned to the rest of her former colleagues and friends as well as the newer team members she had met. She stood and found herself walking back towards the building she had ran to less than a week earlier. Can I go back? Can I pick up where I left off. No, Harry wouldn't want that. Would he? Would he want me back, as an analyst at least? What about Ros? Would it make things awkward for her? Zaf and Adam. Where are they? How did Lucas arrive in the team? The questions seemed to circle in her mind as she reached the doors of Thames House. Relieved that at least Stan the Jamacian security guard seemed pleased to see her.

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"You spoke to her then?" Ros picked up her glass of white wine as Jo nodded.

"I told you I would."

"Yeah." Tariq nodded. "Why is this Ruth so important?"

"Tariq." Ros smiled slightly. Once she had thought the same thing. "I'll explain it all when you are a little older."

"I'm 26." Tariq looked into his drink as Lucas and Jo exchanged glances.

"She's the best bloody analyst we had." Ros sipped her drink as Jo nodded. "Until."

"Until what?" Lucas held the blonde's gaze. He had been back just over a year and was still adjusting to life back in the UK.

"Until she had to go away." Jo answered diplomatically.

"So, is she coming back to Section D?" Malcolm asked as he joined the group. Ros smiled. She knew Malcolm should be having nothing to do with any of them since he had retired but since he had learnt Ruth had stayed in the UK he had found ways of accidentally bumping into Ros and the team on a semi regular basis. Ros knew it was because he worried about them. About Harry especially. Despite being invited to the pub the Section Head had found ways of avoiding the team after hours. Malcolm and Ros exchanged glances as Ros tried to bury the feelings of guilt everytime Ruth was mentioned.

"I think she will." Jo smiled slightly. She was happy to have her friend back. She had missed her.

"Why?"

"Call it female intuition Tariq." Jo winked.

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Harry signed yet another report that Jo had left on his desk. He was glad for the excuse to bury his head in paperwork and forget the world. The argument on the bridge and the talk on the bench still plauging his mind. He closed the file as he ignored the pods whoosing open. He thought Jo or Tariq had forgotten something and decided to ignore them as he opened the next file in the pile. Then there was the paperwork needed for the meeting at Whitehall the next day. He shut the whole world out as he read the inane report from Section C in front of him.

"I hope you fed the cats."

His head snapped up to see Ruth smiling slightly.

"My cats. Fidget and Muggles. You did adopt them? Scarlett didn't make it difficult?" She folded her arms to stop herself from fidgeting .

"Yes. I promised." He stood up and walked around the desk towards her. "Scarlett seems quite taken with them."

"Good." Ruth smiled slightly. "I meant to ask you earlier."

"About?"

"The cats."

"Oh." Harry looked away, suddenly ashamed for hoping she had wanted to ask him anything else.

"What you said. On the bridge. About my status?" Ruth was suddenly unsure of herself.

"What about it?" Harry darent hope. He daren't let himself hope she meant anything other than getting herself back from the technically dead.

"Can it be rectified? Can I really come back? Here I mean."

"When do you want to start?" Harry smiled as Ruth blushed.

"Tomorrow?" Ruth bit her bottom lip as her eyes met Harry's.

"Ok Ruth, tomorrow."

A/N not sure about this chapter. If no one likes it I'll delete it and leave Status as a one shot.