February

New York:

A woman with strawberry blond hair is sitting at a dining table nervously bouncing her knee and drumming her fingers in the table. Approaching the table with two steaming mugs is a tall man. He sits a cup down in front of the woman then takes a seat beside her. He places his hand over hers to still her restless finger and squeezes gently. The woman breathes deeply and is slightly calmer. The doorbell rings startling them both, the man gets up to answer the door. When he walks back to the table he isn't alone there is another gentlemen, he's older early to mid-fifties. Both men take a seat at the table before greetings are exchanged.

"Hello Dani, how've you been?" The older gentleman says his voice rough and raspy. Dani breathes deeply again.

"Well that really depends on what you have for us Tony". Tony chuckles and places a folder on the table and slides it towards Dani. Dani looks at the folder then slides it beside her. "Hunter you look first, I can't do it" Hunter slides the folder back in front of her.

"You can and you will". Holding on to Hunters hand tightly Dani flips open the folder and freezes. Dani is staring at the contents of the folder. "It's him Dani" Tony says. Dani looks up with tears in her eyes and smiles brightly. Releasing his hand from Dani's grip, Hunter begins to take the papers and pictures out from the folder and examines them.

"All his contact information is in there, I know how important is was to you that you contact him yourself so I'll just leave you two to it" Tony explains as he starts to stand. Hunter go's to do the same to show Tony out but Tony stops him insisting he finish looking at the pictures. Dani dashes the tears that have run down her face "Thank you so much Tony"

"It was a pleasure doing business with you" Tony shows himself out as Dani and Hunter continue to go through the contents of the folder. Hunter reads through the information sheet, finds his business number and asks, "Should I call?" Dani snaps out of her state of awe and snatches Hunters phone off the table.

"No! I wanna do it" Hunter had already dialed the number all Dani had to do is press send. Dani gets up and walks into the other room. The phone rings once, twice, three times then someone answers.

"Grey House, How may I help you?" The voice is younger and clearly a women's.

"Hello, I would like to speak with Christian Grey"

"One moment please, I'll transfer you to his personal assistant"

"Thank you" There's a click then beautiful classical music begins to play. A few seconds later another female answers the phone.

"Mr. Grey's office, how may I help you?"

"Yes, I would like to make an appointment to see Mr. Grey as soon as possible"

"And your name"

"Calloway, Daniela Calloway"

"Okay thank you and what is this concerning?"

"It's a personal matter"

"Okay his next available opening is March 23rd, will that work for you?"

Dani's mouth falls a gape. "March?! I'm afraid that's not going to work the matter at hand is time sensitive."

"My apologies but that is the earliest Mr. Grey is available, if anything in Mr. Grey's schedule opens up any sooner I will let you know"

"Okay thank you so much um…."

"Andrea"

"Ah yes thank you Andrea"

"Not a problem may I have your telephone number to contact you if anything opens up sooner?"

"Sure its 212-555-4071"

"Thank you I'll be in touch"

"Thank you again Andrea, goodbye"

Dani walks back into the dining room to a pacing Hunter.

"So how did it go" Hunter inquires stopping mid pace.

"His next opening is in March" Hunter eyes widen in disbelief.

"Well what are we going to do this can't wait that long, time is against us"

"I know…. I know, let me think"

Dani begins to pace, on one of her paces something on the table catches her eye. A photo and an idea pops into her head, she stops whirls around to where Hunter has taken a seat.

"Can you get time off like tomorrow?"

"Yea I have a few sick days I haven't used yet, why what are you plotting over there"

"A surprise visit to his wife"

"Is that a wise move Dani? I mean you can't just pop up on their door step and be like, hey I have some earth shattering news to tell you may I come in!?"

"I know Hunter, let's see if we can call her and talk then if she believes us we can meet in person"

Hunter runs his hand through his hair and blows out a deep breathe. He walks over to the table and hands Dani on of the papers; Dani sits back at the table and dials the number. She puts the phone on speakerphone, it rings a few times before a woman answers.

"Thank you for calling Grey Publishing this is Hannah, how may I assist you?"

"Hello Hannah, I was wondering if I could speak with Mrs. Grey."

"One moment I'll see if she's available. May I ask whose calling?"

"Daniela Calloway"

"And what is the nature of this call may I ask?"

"It's a personal matter concerning her husband"

"One moment Ms. Calloway"

The phone clicks and classical music begins to play as she waits. Ana is curled up on the love seat in her office engrossed in one of her best-selling authors manuscripts when her intercom buzzes and she jumps at the noise.

"Ana you have a call from a Ms. Calloway, it's concerning Christian" At the mention of Christian, Ana begins to worry as she searches her memory and tries to recall a Calloway. She makes her way to her desk, buzzing back Ana tells Hannah to put the call through.

"Ana Grey" Dani and Hunter exchange a look.

"Hello Mrs. Grey my name is Daniela Calloway"

"Hello Ms. Calloway you said this was concerning my husband?"

"Yes…."

"Has something happened to him"

"No…. well not to my knowledge, I was wondering if I could ask you a question; she pauses to take a breath, about your husband" Ana breathes a sigh of relief.

"Are you a reporter?"

"No… no I just have one question, was your husbands biological mothers name Ella Matthews by chance?" The line goes silent for what seems like forever, Dani looks at Hunter worry and desperation etched on her face.

"Mrs. Grey?" Ana snaps out of her frozen state at the mention of Christian's biological mothers' name.

"I'm sorry but why is that information of importance?"

"Because if that was her name there is a strong likelihood that your husband is….."

"Is what?!"

"My long lost brother."

Ana gasps at the information and silent fills the line once again. Ana clears her throat

"Well surely this isn't a conversation one can have on the phone is there any way you can come to my office to discuss this further?"

"Yes, I can be there tomorrow. Does that work for you?"

"Yes that works, shall we say 10 am?"

"Sounds great, see you tomorrow "

"Until then Ms. Calloway, Goodbye" Dani ends the call.

"This is really it Hunter, we're going to meet our brother."

The next morning Dani runs around their Seattle motel room like a chicken with its head chopped off. "Hunter which one looks better?" Dani holds up two dresses, Hunter shrugs and Dani groans in frustration at her brothers unhelping response. "Dani will you pick something already or we'll be late"

"Right… right" Dani dashes back into the bedroom and a few moments later reappears dressed and ready to go. They are about to walk out the door when Hunter stops Dani "What?" Dani asks as she turns toward him. Hunter pulls the clip and roller out of Dani's hair then sets in on the table. "Thanks" Dani chuckles as she rakes her fingers through her hair as the head out the door.

The ride to Grey Publishing is a short one, Dani fidgets as Hunter drives. When they pull into the parking lot Dani looks at Hunter. "Hunt, I'm scared… What if she doesn't believe me" Hunter squeezes her hand, "It's gonna be ok baby girl" and with that they exit the car, walk across the parking lot to the door.

They do a last minutes hair, breathe and teeth check before opening the door. Hunter holds the door open for Dani then follows her in. The reception area is warm and cozy with a love seat and a few chairs, flowers adorn each table along with magazines. At the reception desk sits a young dark haired woman with soulful brown eyes and beautiful mocha skin, as they walk further in she smiles and greets them. "Hello welcome to Grey Publishing, how can I help you?"

"Hi, we're here to see Mrs. Grey"

"Do you have an appointment?"

"Yes, my last name is Calloway"

"Ahh yes here you are but I'm only seeing clearance for one, not two."

"Clearance?!"

"It's not a problem, if you would like to go up we'll have security do a quick search." Dani and Hunter look shocked at the need for a body search. Hunter shakes his head "That's ok, Dani you go I'll wait out here."

"You sure?"

"Yea you have everything you need just go and talk to her." Dani nods then turns back to the receptionist and accepts her visitor's badge. "It's going to be through this door on the fifth floor, her assistant will let her know you're here." Dani smiles and thanks the young girl. With a final hug from Hunter, Dani walks through the door and follows the directions she was given.

Once the elevator doors open on the fifth floor she walks down a long hallway passing a number of doors with plaques on them verifying who they belong to, at the end of hallway is another reception area that has been decorated differently. Posters of book covers; some old and some new hang on ocean blue walls.

"Hello Ms. Calloway; I'm Hannah we spoke in the phone briefly." The women shake hands. "Mrs. Grey will be with you shortly, would you like something to drink?"

"No I'm fine thank you"

"May I take your coat?" Dani hands over her coat and scarf. As Hannah goes to put away Dani coat Ana enters the reception area. "Hi you must be Daniela" Ana says as she reaches to shake her hand. "Call me Dani" They shake hands then Ana leads her into her office. Dani takes the seat in the chair Ana gestures to in front of her desk. Ana walks around her desk and sits.

"So where should I begin?" Both women chuckle nervously at the comment. Ana takes the lead, "Let's start with what makes you believe that my husband is your brother?"

Dani clears her throat "Well it's a bit of a long story"

"I've got time" Ana replies cooly.

"Okay, my father's name is Jason O'conner, and he was born and raised in Detroit. When he was about nineteen he meet this girl Ella Matthews who was sixteen at the time. A few months into them dating Ella got pregnant, my dad dropped out of college to work so they could get an apartment together and they could start their family. Everything was going great they were both working, had an apartment and was happy. When Ella got further into her pregnancy she had to stop working so my father picked up a side job off the books as a driver. He got the job through a friend of his, but little did my dad know that it was a rues for trafficking drugs. One day something went wrong and they got busted, his so called 'friend' put all the blame on my dad. My dad couldn't afford a lawyer so one was appointed to him and you know that saying you get what you pay for, yeah it's very true. The lawyer was fresh out of law school and that was his first case, needless to say that my dad lost the trial and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was in for a while but got out earlier with good behavior and probation. But when he got out he couldn't find Ella or the baby, he went back to where they lived but there was no sign of her. He searched for years but couldn't find them. He tried to ask the hospital where she planned on giving birth but because he wasn't family or spouse they couldn't give him any information. Through his searching to find them he met our mom, who at the time worked for social services. When….."

Dani pauses to swallow the lump in her throat. "But when he found out that she died and how she died he lost it. He went on a drinking binge for months; he left for a while but came back after sobering up and started dating our mom. They moved to New York because Detroit was too painful to live in with all the memories for him. They we were born and everything for my dad was back on track until he got sick, its cancer and his last wishes are to find his son. We've been searching for a couple of years, our first attempt was to try and do it on our own but that got us nowhere fast so we decided to hire a private investigator but that fell through because he was a fraud, took all our money and skipped town. It took us a while to save up again to hire a proper investigator and after a few tries he lead us to your husband" Dani finishes, Ana sits quietly absorbing it all. Still quite a moment later Dani breaks the silence. "Please say something…"

"This is a lot to take in"

"I understand that, I bought this picture of Ella and our dad" Dani hands Ana the picture, Ana gasps as she recognizes the woman from a photo she seen years ago. "Can I show you something else? But I left it downstairs" Dani asks, Ana agrees then follows Dani out of her office and down stairs to reception. When they exit the elevator Dani is leading Hunter stands to greet his sister and that's when Ana get her first good look at the man.

"Oh my god, he looks just like Christian" she whispers. "Hunter this is Ana Grey, Ana my brother Hunter".