All week, Annie had been both nervous and excited. Auggie had seemed absolutely normal, if a bit amused at her anxiety. Wednesday night, she they were sharing a bottle of wine after dinner at his house when he sat his glass down and looked toward her very seriously.

"Since you are going to Glencoe with me this weekend, I need to fill you in on one little detail."

Annie sat down her wine, a little surprised at his serious tone. "Okay."

Auggie was almost fidgeting. "It's kinda more than a little detail." He said, biting his lip a little before continuing. "Of course you can keep a secret, but consider this highly classified information."

"Okay," Annie replied, confusion in her voice.

"Seriously. You can't utter anything about this to anybody at work. Not even to Arthur and Joan."

"What is it, Auggie?" Annie asked with concern.

"The people you are going to meet in Illinios, they are for all intents and purposes my parents and brothers. They raised me, I have their name, and there is nothing but love between us."

"They aren't your real family?" Annie asked.

Auggie took a deep breath and leaned back. "My mother died just after having me. My father wasn't the single-dad type, so he leaned on his sister and her husband who already had four boys. What's another, you know?"

Annie was silent.

"They formally adopted me, gave me the Anderson name, and totally raised me as their own. Of course, the older boys weren't so happy about having yet another little brother around, so they gave me hell. Pete - hell, Pete and I are practically the same age, so he and I grew up as best friends. But it was a rough childhood, to say the least."

Annie reached and took his hand in hers. "Go on." She stated, not sure why she couldn't say anything to Joan and Arthur. Surely they already knew all of this.

"Annie," Auggie said as he brought his other hand to hers, holding it tight. She could feel his palms, slightly sweaty. "My real father is Arthur Campbell."

The hand Auggie was holding, and the leg beneath it, were perfectly still. After an indefinite pause, Annie started breathing again. She was staring at him, searching for a sign that he was kidding.

His expression told her that he was dead serious.

"I... You..."

"Yeah." Auggie replied. "He was around, sometimes, as I was growing up. Enough that I knew he was my dad and stuff. He encouraged me to go into the Army, even though mom and dad were against it. He had his own plans for his super-spy of a son."

"And nobody suspected it, because of the last names?"

"Like hell if I was going to be like Jai Wilcox, riding on my father's coat-tails." Auggie replied.

"But Joan..."

"Joan knows." Auggie replied.

Annie was still looking intensely at Auggie, trying to find out if he was serious.

"I know it's hard to take in. It's probably the best kept secret of the CIA, and it has to stay that way."

Annie swallowed. "Yes. Of course."

Auggie let go of her hand as he stood up. "Come on. It's getting late. Let's take care of these dishes and get to bed."

Silently, Annie followed him and went through her bedtime routine. She was in a bit of shock. They climbed between the covers, and he reached for her. "Hey," he said.

"Hey." She replied in a soft tone.

"I'm still me, you know. The person you know. I never let this detail change who I was."

"Yeah. It's just... Arthur?"

"He had a lot of women in his youth. He wasn't married to my mom."

"Wow." Annie replied.

"Are you ok?" Auggie asked.

"Yeah. I will be." She cuddled close to him and tried to sleep.

The next day at work was the most awkward day of her life. Arthur came to Joan's office that afternoon, and they pulled Auggie in to go over some information. Through the thick blinds, Annie couldn't help but stare at the two men standing together. How had she never noticed the resemblance? It took all of her spy skills to act normal when she was pulled into the office with them. Luckily it was a quick meeting, they only wanted to ask her about some details from her last mission. She was able to get away quickly and regroup. The end of the day couldn't come fast enough.

Annie didn't give Auggie a choice after work, and drove them straight to Allen's. "You know if we go in there, you won't be able to talk about what you want to talk about."

"What is there left to talk about?" Annie asked, still sitting in her seat, buckled.

"How about how you could hardly breathe in the room with Arthur this afternoon."

"I just don't know how I never noticed it before." She said.

Auggie nodded. "Yeah. Kind of amazing that we've kept it under wraps all this time. Also, darling, and I say this with lots of love, but your spycraft sucks."

"What?!"

"As soon as you walked out of the room, Arthur and Joan asked what was wrong with you. I made something up, of course, but you totally were acting strange."

"I was not!" She replied. "My breathing was steady, I was making normal eye contact, I was perfectly composed."

"Uh huh. I even noticed you subconsciously holding your breath."

Annie huffed and started the car again, foregoing Allen's to get back to Auggie's apartment.

"Okay, no more talking about daddy Campbell." Auggie said as he pulled the door closed and turned the lock.

Annie got two beers from the fridge and tapped the back of Auggie's hand with one. "One other thing that you need to know before we go to Glencoe."

"I don't know if I want to know anymore." Annie said.

Auggie pulled her toward him and stole the beer from her hand. He sat both of their beers on the counter and placed his hands on both sides of her face, making perfect eye contact. "This is important."

"Okay," She responded. It was all she could say anymore.

He spoke emphatically. "I am a fabulous liar."

He could feel her jaw drop, and her fist land on his shoulder. "You are horrible!"

"Oh no," He replied with a laugh as he moved further away. "I had you completely fooled."

"I never believed you." She replied off-handedly.

"Hah. Keep telling yourself that." He said with a grin as he re-took his beer but still kept his distance from her possible fury.

"What on earth possessed you to tell me that story?" Annie said. Her voice was almost laughing, so Auggie felt it was safe to let his guard down.

"Do you remember that time that you convinced Jai that Liza Hearn had a baby bump?"

Annie couldn't help but laugh at the memory. It was a few months after Auggie had broken his relationship with Liza, and she was on one of the TVs in the DPD. Annie had been standing with Jai and Auggie when she asked Jai if he thought that outfit Liza was wearing was hiding a pregnancy. Thinking back on it, Jai had seemed a little sick at the idea, as well, but she was totally able to convince both men that the reporter looked pregnant. "That was awesome."

"You think so. You realize you scared the shit out of Jai that day, as well?"

"Well, I didn't know it at the time."

"And you waited hours before filling me in that it was a joke. I didn't get any work done that day."

"So you came up with this little prank to get back at me."

Auggie gave her a grin and directed his eyes right at her. "Don't you ever doubt that I am still a ridiculously good spy."

Annie came close and surprised him with an enthusiastic kiss. She grabbed his hair with her hands and kept it there as she pulled back. "And don't you ever doubt that if you lie to me like that again, I will make you suffer."

Auggie stepped back and smirked. "Well, it got your mind off of meeting my parents for almost a full day."


A/N - Yeah. I went there. This all started as an idea I said I would never write on Tumblr. Then I had to defend that it would be believable... and the next thing I knew, I had it all worked out in my head. What do you think?!