The thunder and rain had been gradually getting worse over the last few hours, everyone was deep In their own thoughts, Sawyer pulled into a gas station while Taylor filled up and Ana and Barney went to wash up and get supplies, he was leaning on the side of the car, he had only worked for Grey for a year and that had only ever really been to watch his sister, when he started working for him he thought he was an arrogant asshole with major anger issues, it didn't take him long to see him as he knew Taylor and Gail did, he laughs to himself thinking that not even the respect and friendship he had with Grey was enough to stop him from sleeping with his sister. After driving for over 28 hours and stopping 11 times the car pulled up at an old stone cottage with white shutters, a man and woman in their mid-thirties were sitting on the stone wall awaiting their arrival. After everyone had unloaded the car and freshened up they all re-joined in the living room where Taylor introduced Ana to the couple "Ana this is Samantha Prescott and Casey Ryan" Ana shook hands with them "nice to meet you Miss Prescott, Mr Ryan". Ana sat with Barney while the others went to the office to discuss their next move, "so Barney what does your job entail?" Barney was sat at the wet bar nursing a whiskey "I'm the IT guy really, I make sure no one can hack into our servers and I sometimes end up being the hacker" Barney looks at Ana with a cheeky smirk and laughed "isn't that illegal though?" Ana shifted in her seat "technically yes but I only do it when it is really needed, times like this" Barney stood up and reached into his pocket for his phone "hey baby, yeah were in Juneau now, how are the kids? Uh huh good kiss them goodnight for me. Goodnight baby" Ana looked at Barney thinking to herself Barney didn't look the type to be married with children when she noticed the gold band on his left hand "you have children?" Barney returned to his seat opposite her "yeah twin girls, their 2" Ana looked at him in awe seeing the clear love he had for his children. It was a long night of thunder and pouring rain everyone had gone to bed other than Taylor, who was recalling the conversation in the study;

Flashback

"We have new information on the boss, T" "what do you have for me" Ryan handed Taylor a manila file "Ella Romanov known to you as Ella Stewart" Ryan was interrupted by Taylors sudden inhale "WHAT?!" Ryan shrunk back into his seat "she is a Russian citizen who was in America under a false name, illegally, sir" by now Taylor had been pacing "how is it we are just finding this out? What else do you have?" "T, this was only found because we are looking into Elena Rusnak, turns out she used her old maiden name 6 times in just over a year, 2 years before being arrested, she would go back to her hometown and persuade young girls to go to America where she umm.." Taylor was becoming impatient "where she what?" "She would train them up and force them to become subs for her club Esclava" "how did she force them surely they could just leave?" "They were illegal immigrants, she used it to her advantage, holy fuck, do you think the boss knew T?" "If we have only just found out I don't fucking think he knew"

Taylor shook his head of his thoughts and went to bed.

Everyone was seated in the kitchen dining table while Ana prepared breakfast "Miss Steele you really don't need to be cooking for us" Ana chuckled "uhmm, Taylor you really need to inform your people that I am not Miss Steele I am simply Ana, and Miss Prescott nonsense I love cooking and if I am to get you all to warm up to me and stop with all this Miss Steele and Ma'am crap I thought I'd do it through pancakes and waffles" everyone laughed "sorry Ana it's just we have protocol to follow, your practically our boss right now" Ana let out a loud belly laugh " I don't know who you're getting your information from but I am not close to being anyone's boss" "well you're his girlfriend, and we have all been informed what you say goes" Ana turned on her heal to stare at the table "WHAT By who? And I am his friend" Taylor stood and coughed "that would be me Ana" Taylor walked into the open plan kitchen "you may not know it yet, but you meant a lot more to the boss then you give credit for, even in those short weeks, you and you alone are the reason we are all here, you didn't give up and you had hope and dare I say love, I thought it only right you be showed the respect you deserved" Ana was left taken aback at Taylors words "but…but I am no one just his friend, I only knew him a matter of weeks, and the reason he is gone is…is cause of me" Ana felt the tears fall as she had voiced her innermost thought, something she had been thinking and feeling guilty for since she discovered he was missing, she crumpled to the floor sobbing "Ana, knowing him he would of disappeared anyway, he used this guy as an excuse for him to not see you, he's not the tough cold man he portrays, he was scared, he pushes everyone he loves and who love him away" Ana rested her head on Taylors shoulder as her tears stopped "for someone whose only an employee you know an awful lot about his mind, are you his therapist too?" Ana joked making Taylor chuckle "I may be an employee but after 5 years, I am like his shadow it hasn't been hard to see how he sees himself and how he is around his family" Taylor put a hand out to help Ana up which she took, she pulled him into a hug "your more than an employee Taylor, you're his friend, even if you and him don't see it, I do" "thank you, we need to go, the jet and Stephen are waiting on us".