Christmas Eve three days after the previous episode.

It was Christmas eve and everyone was at Mac's house which Cage had so helpfully cleaned Bozer was in the kitchen cooking Pastrami, Riley was chatting with Cage, Russ and Mac were discussing conspiracy theories, Leanna was chatting with Desi when Matty snuck in. The Pastrami was in the oven so Bozer and Leanna came and joined everyone else in the living room Bozer said,

"The pastrami is in the oven hopefully if no one gets arrested, shot in the stomach, hacks into the NSA and disappears, gets their house turned into a gigantic bomb, or we have to go rescue anybody in deep cover, we should have Pastrami."

Russ snapped to attention, "what I have got to hear these."

"Yeah." Desi agreed.

Everyone sat down and got comfortable, and Mac began,

"it was Christmas three years ago, and everything was going good until, Matty came and told me that the bomb I had set off in a warehouse had killed somebody, so a SWAT team showed up at my house and took me to the station for questioning, but I could not say anything, because it could give away the Phoenix. So they got nowhere on me and eventually, my lawyer came. Jack who brought a picture of the crime scene and where the body was in a position to the blast, did not add up. So with that information, they somehow tracked down a drug cartel, who impersonated a police officer and came to kill me. He failed and I ended up getting all charges dropped and taking down a drug cartel. Then we all went back to my house for Christmas, except Cage who went to go grab gifts when Murdoc shot her in the stomach, so we ended up spending the night in the hospital waiting to see if she was okay." Mac paused waiting for people to ask questions.

"Who is Murdoc," Russ questioned.

"a creepy assassin guy who is obsessed with Mac since he was the first person to best him," Bozer said.

"that happened all in one Christmas," Desi questioned.

"There is more after we knew Cage was okay Mac and Jack went back to Mac's house only to find themselves trapped inside of bomb made by Mac's archnemesis the ghost."

"hold up who is the Ghost." Russ interrupted.

"The ghost is the most successful bomber in history back when I was an EoD I would run across his devices weekly, apparently he strived to become better because of me, he wanted to get famous on the day of 1000 IEDs instead of me and Charlie ended up setting a company record that day," Mac said.

"Mac, you want to continue the story?" Riley asked.

"No you can, I hardly remember it except for the random science facts, and Jack singing Metallica." Mac groans.

"I take it he still thinks he is a great singer," Desi questioned while shaking his head.

"Stakeouts with him were the worst you do not think I got noise-canceling headphones for nothing," Riley said.

"After being stuck with him as long as I was you learn to drown it out," Mac said.

"What is the craziest thing you have ever done on a mission," Russ asked.

Everyone got quiet and started thinking.

"Crazy dangerous or crazy crazy," Mac asked.

"Crazy crazy," Russ said.

"Umm, probably that time we were 10000 feet in the air on a trampoline filled with balloons," Riley said as everyone looked at Mac.

"Was not me that time, that was all jack," Mac said.

"Breaking into area 51 was fun Riley wasn't it," Mac said.

"Except that scientist he was annoying," Riley said.

"Well were their aliens," Russ asked curiosity written on his face.

"It is abandoned now," Mac said.

"Well, the craziest thing I ever did was ride in a truck with a jet engine strapped to the back while running away from a terrorist." Cage said.

Everyone turned to look at Mac who just said, "I made a rocket car once and unless you buy your own jet engine I am not making more."

Everyone got a sad look on their face at that statement when Macs phone buzzed with a text message, he took it out and typed a quick reply before putting it back in his pocket.

"who was that," Riley asked.

"Frankie she was just wishing me Merry Christmas." Mac said, "and checking to see if I am still coming."

"Who is Frankie," Russ asked curiously.

"My friend from MIT, I was her intern during my first year at college," Mac said.

"Well, I guess I can finally tell the story of Christmas pastrami," Bozer said.

"No," everyone yelled.

"How about we do anything besides talk about pastrami." Riley offered.

"How about you have to fess up a secret at least three people in this room do not know," Desi said menacingly.

"Oh, well in shop class this one time I paired up with Mac figured it would be an easy A right well, the teacher in front of the entire class wanted me to try and replicate it, but long story short we did not get an A," Bozer said.

"Okay, so Mac and you failed because he was too good and you could not replicate it?" Riley questioned, which caused Mac to rub his neck sheepishly.

"Pretty much." Bozer said, "well who is next?"

Mac and Leanna exchanged a look with each other which, only Russ, Matty, and Cage noticed. Mac kind of nodded his head to Leanna as if to say go ahead tell them.

"Well," Leanna started nervously, "Mac and I met when we were nine years old."

Leanna paused waiting for everyone's reactions.

"What my very own best friend and girlfriend knew each other and did not tell me!" Bozer exclaimed shocked.

"In my defense do you know how awkward that would be to tell your best friend that the girl he is dating, was your first friend," Mac said.

"Hold up this is too funny Bozer's best friend and girlfriend were friends, and Bozer did not know this is great," Riley said while laughing which caused everyone else to start laughing except for Matty and Bozer. (I mean when has Matty ever actually laughed non sarcastically, if you name one time you win a yet to be determined prize)

Once everyone had calmed down, Russ said, "I am in the mood for some childhood stories so how did you guys meet?"

"It was back when my grandfather still lived in LA before he moved to mission city to raise me, I had gone to visit him while my father went on a 'business trip' and I was exploring the park when I saw a blur duck behind a tree, so I ran over there and Leanna was crouched down she saw me and asked if I wanted to pretend spy with her since I saw her and I would obviously make a good spy since she was practically invisible, I said yes and long story short we became friends, I saw her on the weekends after my grandfather moved to mission city before she had to move. We kept in touch though, so imagine my surprise when my childhood friend turned out to be dating my best friend and was also a spy." Mac said, leaving out the part where they met for the second time at therapy.

"That is so ironic, you guys met playing spy as little kids and now you are spies." Riley and Desi said in sync before glaring at each other, which caused everyone else to laugh at their reactions. Before the conversation could continue, Bozers phone started beeping.

"That's the pastrami, I should take that out, and when I get back you guys are going to hear the story of Christmas pastrami," Bozer said as he got up and headed to the kitchen, took the pastrami out, and came back into the living room.

"warning Bozers Christmas pastrami story is heavily exaggerated," Mac said.

"it was Christmas 2002, and we were snowed in…." Bozer started, everyone was happily enjoying a peaceful Christmas without interruptions