A/N: This chapter has been EDITED. I repeat, this chapter has been EDITED. And hopefully it's better this time around…

Disclaimer: …Wow. Amazing how I still have to put this here.

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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Mrs. Jones:

1. Her real name wasn't actually Tulip. When Alex asked, she told him the first name she could think of. Her parents had been gardeners, and their favorite plants were tulips. It's just; did Alex really believe she was going to give him her real name? She was in the intelligence business, and you couldn't just go off giving someone your real first name.

2. Her real name was Daisy. But you don't know that.

3. Mrs. Jones was never seen without sucking on a peppermint. The only reason she sucked on them was because she knew. She knew almost everything there was to know. She knew how to tell what missions were suicide missions before Blunt told her. She knew how to predict when an attack would come. She even knew something that Blunt didn't.

Mrs. Jones knew how to feel. What emotions were like. Mr. Blunt may have known at one point in his life, but he had forgotten.

So, really, when your only colleague is devoid of emotion and you know too much, sucking on a peppermint does help.

4. She cared about Alex. More than he knew. More than anyone knew, actually.

5. Her favorite color was purple.

6. Mrs. Jones never got asked out much in high school. It always confused her. She was thoroughly attractive enough (really, if you looked through her bad haircut, her face was pretty!). She had plenty of friends, very smart, athletic, a whole lot of things. The one boy she ever truly liked turned out to be the biggest jerk she ever knew.

Jerry Stuart was one of the most attractive losers of the student population at Mrs. Jones' high school. She once asked him out, and he turned her down. Upon asking why, he answered back, "You're too normal. I want someone that, y'know, spices things up."

7. When he was 36, Jerry Stuart fell off a roof.

8. Mrs. Jones had learned the hard way that once you're in the Intelligence business, you can't get out. She had hope for Alex, that he wouldn't find ordinary life too boring. That because his case was different, that he had been blackmailed into the business, he would get out of it. He had absolutely no reason to ever come back to the bank.

9. Crawley really turned her on. Come to think of it, so did Joe Byrne…

10. When Alex came into the picture, her life was affected…not dramatically, but it was affected. He reminded Mrs. Jones so much of her own sons, her own dead sons, she wanted to just hug him and never let go, tell him to get out of the business while he could. But Mr. Blunt was her boss. There are always other ways, she would say. But he would always give some simple, blunt, answer, always living up to his name. She never wanted to use Alex. It was wrong to use children.



Somehow, she found that she could use him anyway.

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I'm still very unhappy with this chapter. Very, very unhappy. And has anyone noticed that whenever someone from MI6 uses an exclamation point, it doesn't seem real? Maybe it's just me.