Next to the team photograph was one she had always loved, it was of four friends taken on her second Christmas with the FBI it was of her, Lucy, Charlie and Troy.

They spent the day talking about everything and nothing in particular and singing Christmas Carols around Charlie's old piano before enjoying a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings which Charlie agreed was better than Sue's world famous meatloaf.

However, just like her parents, Miles, Tara and Bobby; Lucy and Troy were unavailable this Christmas, Lucy was spending an overdue Christmas Vacation with her mum and sister in Atlanta and Troy was in Chicago visiting his brother Ben.

Sue felt her eyes form tiny tears as she thought of Charlie and how the garage seemed empty now he was gone. She looked over at the picture of the two of them on her fireplace and smiled; as she did she whispered "sleep tight Charlie, take care of Thelma." She sighed and thought of how lucky Charlie and Thelma were to have found each other; she only wished that she could find her 'Charlie' someone who loved her unconditionally and who she loved more than life itself. She had found this someone but knew in her heart there was no way he could love her back and that was something she had to get both her head and her heart around.

As her eyes glanced over another picture this time on the wall of herself and her three brothers she remembered the last Christmas she spent at home two years ago, she really couldn't believe it had been that long since so much had happened in her family since then, babies had been born, aunties had passed away, her brother Matt had finally proposed and got married to his pre-school girlfriend Juliet

Tommy had once again caused the biggest shock in the family by announcing that he was leaving his job as an architect to join the army, something that had given her so much pride but also a lot of laughs considering Tommy had always fainted or panicked at the slightest drop of blood.

Her brother Kyle was stood next to her, he was two years older than her but she always felt like the an older sister not a younger one due to the amount of times during her childhood she 'protected' him or covered for one of his latest schemes.

She chuckled to herself as she remembered the drama that seemed to follow Kyle around ever since he was a child and this Christmas was no different. Kyle and his wife Lisa were expecting their second child, a baby brother for their daughter Hannah early in the new year but just like his father baby Lucas was impatient, determined to cause trouble so decided not to wait that long. Lisa went into labour early right in the middle of dinner, she would never forget the look on her mother face as a contraction suddenly hit Lisa sending the potatoes she was carrying flying into the air like giant snowballs before landing in several areas of the dining room including the gravy pot that Kyle was carrying splashing him with the hot liquid, in shock he dropped the pot, covering the tablecloth, floor and everyone's clothes in the hot brown liquid.

Sue chuckled to herself at this memory but this was nothing compared to the look on the doctors face when they arrived on the maternity ward all covered in gravy splashes and bits of potatoes. The doctor looked at them all and before she could say anything her father simply signed and said

"Don't ask, it's just another ordinary Christmas in the Thomas household, especially when Kyle and Lisa are around."

As Sue remembered this Christmas memory she suddenly thought maybe it is a good idea that I'm not spending Christmas with Kyle, Lisa, Hannah and Lucas this year considering Lisa is expecting another baby. She thought of Tommy, and how much she missed him, he would never let her spend Christmas alone he would have been there in a flash, arms full of presents for her, but being on the front line in Iraq he couldn't exactly drop everything and rush to his baby sister.

Matt and Juliet had their own problems this year, Twins, both girls and both double trouble, mainly due to the fact that they had, had their father wrapped around their little finger the second they were born, but also dealing with the severe case of anxieties about being a mother that Juliet was suffering from. Sue loved her new nieces and missed them terribly she knew that since Juliet's family were coming for Christmas so she declined their invitation saying that once again she would be spending Christmas with her FBI family. It wasn't a lie, OK maybe a small one, but she was with her FBI family, Levi was a member of the FBI, therefore part of her FBI family.

Sue thought of how lucky her brothers were to have found the loves of their lives and jealous that they got to spend Christmas with them, she would love nothing better than to spend Christmas with the man she loved but even he had deserted her this year.

Sue got up off the sofa and looked at her watch it was ten thirty at night, she gasped at the fact that she had spent four hours re-living past Christmas'

"Come on Levi, Lets go for a walk around the park before bed" to which he looked at her in satisfaction, after a rather rapid stroll around the park both Sue and Levi were glad to be back home. It was freezing outside, after a long hot bath and a cup of hot chocolate, Sue grabbed her freshly, washed, warm hockey jersey from the drier and drifted off to sleep dreaming of the man who gave it her.