Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight and the characters, I just own a copy of the books and the stories in my head.

*APOV*

I could not believe what or rather who I was seeing. The nerve of him to waltz in here and be cocky in regards to Bella. I was going to let Max know that he was in trouble for this as well.

He followed me into my office and I closed the door. I took a deep breath and then turned on him. "Edward Anthony Masen Cullen, what the hell are you doing here?! Why did you have to turn up now? When she was finally getting over things? Do you realize how hurt she was when you left and didn't come back? Not to mention you never called or wrote ever?" It all came out in a rush. I needed to let him know that this wasn't cool and that neither Bella nor I had forgotten how he had treated her.

He looked at me like I was insane. Then there was his reply "Well it is nice to see you again Alice. Let's see the answers would be; I am the new agent assigned to the Pin-Up murders. Again I was assigned here, not much of a choice in things. No, I didn't, I have my reasons for things, and it has been just as hard for me so let's not go there. Did I miss anything?" He wore a cocky grin.

"Edward, I don't think you understand." I began to say

"Alice, I don't think you get it. I'm not here to make Isabella's life hard I am here to catch a murderer, and your lab is the best in the country." He stalked closer to me, his voice lower, so that no one outside of my office could hear him now, "Just so you know, I have spent the last few years trying to find a reason other than her to get up in the morning. I was too much of a coward to track her down when I came back from my tour overseas; I was too ashamed of the things I did while away to sully her doorstep. I knew she would do better than me, so I have lived day to day trying to make myself a better man on the off chance that I ever saw her again. I let go of the best thing that ever happened to me because I thought she wouldn't want me anymore. So please don't try to lecture me about what she has been through, because I traveled my own personal hell without her."

A voice called out from in the lab "Agent Cullen. Hey Ed where are you?" He turned and walked out of my office and as I watched him I realized what he hadn't said.

"Damn it all to hell!" I yelled and Jasper stuck his in the open door and knocked at the same time.

"Everything okay?" He asked as he walked in and sat down on the small sofa in my office. He looked worried, and I was so glad he was here. I sat down next to him and put my head on his shoulder.

"He loves her. Damn it she has spent the last ten years getting over him and now he shows up and he loves her." Then I got an idea, and Jasper must have sensed the change in my mood.

"Alice, my dear, I can see the wheels turning in your beautiful head. What are you planning? And do I need to take a vacation to Texas so that I can safely say that I was not involved?" Jasper asked with a chuckle at the end.

"Jasper if you help me out on this, I will let you buy me that dinner you asked about the other day." I said with a smile. Suddenly he wasn't so sure about running away to protect him from Bella's wrath.

"Promise?" He asked just before hugging me and then helping me stand up to exit my office. The other agent had arrived while Edward and I were having our talk.

*BPOV*

Alice had requested to talk to Edward in her office. Rose pulled me aside and demanded to know what was going on. So I gave her the annotated version of things.

"Damn, Bella. I think we better let that man know that you still have it bad for him. Because when he walked out of this office you could cut the tension with a knife. Sweet you aren't over him and I doubt that he is over you. The sexual tension has been on the rise with Alice and Jasper, but my dear Mr. Tie-me-up-Tie-me-down in Alice's office looked at you like you were sex on a stick.

I was about to argue with her about it when we heard another new voice call out from inside the lab. "Agent Cullen, Hey Ed where are you?" We looked out the window and saw what looked like a grizzly in a suite carrying take out bags.

"Who is that?" Rose asked. We watched Edward walk out of Alice's office and Jasper walk in. We looked at each other and both rolled our eyes. Then Rose said something I didn't expect "Yum" If I hadn't been right next to her, I might not have heard her. I looked back out at the two agents in the lab, looking for a place to eat.

Rose and I walked out of my office to the middle of the lab. I figured I needed to be polite since it was obvious that they weren't going away anytime soon.

"You can use the conference room to eat in. Do you mind if we look over the case files while you eat?" I was forcing a smile on my face and it was very hard. All I could think about were the days of waiting for a letter, anything to tell me he was okay. Hoping for the call saying "I'm back, I'm home, I missed you", that too never came. There he stood my personal reminder of how stupid I could be.

"Well hello! I am Agent McCarthy, you can call me Emmett. And you are?" The giant grizzly spoke, extending a hand to me but only having eyes for Rose. Ugh this was going to be ridiculous.

"How about you eat, and then we will do the full round of introductions okay?" I stated more than asked getting annoyed by the constant sexual tension that seemed to follow my colleagues around but totally missed me. I showed them the way to the conference room.

"Isabella, why don't you sit down and join us?" Edward asked trying to be polite, I assumed. It could have just been a ploy or reverse psychology to make sure that I was uncomfortable and left them alone.

"We already ate before you got here, that's where we were coming from when I found you sitting at my desk. But thank you for the offer." I said and walked out to the lab, I went up to the work station that contained photos that Max had sent yesterday, we wouldn't have anything more until Edward let us take a look at the files.

"Dude, when this is over I got dibs on the blonde!" I heard Agent McCarthy say, and then he added "So, Isabella? That's not the same, hey wait a minute! That is the chick you have the picture of in your drawer! You sly dog. Getting sent to work with your own naughty lab rat!" I thought I was going to die right there. They must not have realized that I could hear him at all. He had a picture of me in his drawer? That didn't make sense.

"Shut it McCarthy! It's been 10 years since she has been my anything. And don't call her a lab rat!" Edward's voice came out almost as a growl. I began to hope that we caught the Pin-Up murderer, as the FBI was calling him, very soon. I didn't know how much of Edward I could take. And having him fill my work shape was almost as bad as having him play the starring role in my dreams and fantasies.

So? How is it, tell me honestly.