Maggie and Jubal didn't even make it back up to their bedroom, they made it as far as their couch. Jubal had opened his shirt on Maggie but had told her to keep it on, he wanted to have these memories later on when he was wearing this shirt at work. They had finally disentangled from each other long enough for Jubal to bring them over some food, but even when eating they still had their arms around each other neither wanting to let go.

Jubal showed Maggie the picture that the kids had drew for her and she recorded a quick video with Jubal watching her as she smiled thanking the kids for the picture, she reminded the kids of how much she was missing them and how much she loved them and their dad. They recorded it on his phone and he told her he would show it to them when he was with them in a couple of days and that they would love it. Maggie had shook her head laughing when Jubal took a photo of her laying on the couch in his shirt.

They had finally made their way back up the stairs and had showered together, wanting to spend every possible second they could together. Neither of them enjoyed leaving the apartment together as they knew that they would be parting ways soon. They travelled in a comfortable silence with Maggie holding Jubal's free hand in her hands all the way to her apartment that she hadn't even slept in since that first night. Jubal parked exactly where he had fifteen days ago when he first dropped her off here.

Maggie leaned over kissing Jubal slowly but with so much love "I love you so much babe, don't forget that for even a second okay?"

Jubal cupped Maggie's cheek as he kissed her back with love "I could never forget that baby. I love you so much. Please be careful when you go back there, take good care of those ribs they still have a lot of healing to do."

"I will make sure to look after them and myself. I'll be able to make contact with you a little easier now babe, I have gotten a phone hidden in the house that we stay in. It can't be tracked, the team in charge of this case have made sure of that, I just have to be very careful with it and use it as little as possible. The longest it will be is three days, any longer than that and check in with the team in charge okay?". Maggie had learned the routine now of how the operation worked so she knew the most she would be out of reach would be three days, any longer and it was likely that something had gone wrong or was about to go wrong.

"I know that you will be, but please be really careful with that phone. I don't even want to think about what they would do if they caught you with it." Jubal swallowed hard and nodded hearing Maggie "If longer than three days I will reach out to the team in charge, I'll make sure they are checking it out straight away baby."

Maggie looked over her shoulder to see Nestor standing at the side of the building, he had obviously come out for fresh air, or they had to leave to head back to the house. She turned to face Jubal and leaned in kissing him again with all the emotions that she could put in to one kiss before laying her forehead against his not caring that Nestor was watching them.

"I love you so much babe."

"I love you too baby, be safe, miss you."

Maggie smiled squeezing his hand gently as she finally got out of his SUV, she looked back at him over her shoulder waving at him as she went to the car that Nestor had as they had to head straight to the house.

Nestor got in to the drivers seat pulling out of the apartment parking lot when Maggie got in to the car.

"I didn't know that you were sleeping with your contact agent."

"I didn't know that was information that you needed to know."

"I mean we are all we have in here, you know that Drake and his men think that we are sleeping together, it's why his men haven't tried anything that way."

"This is undercover, my relationship with my contact agent doesn't change that, he's not just my contact agent. He's my ASAC. Our boss got him assigned as my contact agent so that he and I could still see each other."

"So more than just sleeping with him then if you have disclosed to the bosses."

"Our team don't know about us and I really don't think my relationship with him has anything to do with this case, it doesn't change anything just because you caught us kissing."

"Just be nice to know that's what I was covering for last night."

Maggie raised an eyebrow looking at Nestor "You do know that you and I aren't actually sleeping together? So my private life really isn't of any concern to you."

"I'm guessing he's not happy with me when he saw your ribs, I mean you've been gone for over fourteen hours so I'm guessing he saw your ribs."

Maggie really was not comfortable with this conversation but she knew that Nestor was the reason so far that Drake's men hadn't tried sleeping with her. Didn't mean that she liked any of this, especially not since he seemed to think that gave him a reason to know about her actual personal life.

"I had fourteen hours with him for the first time in two weeks, sorry to disappoint you but you really didn't come up in our conversation much."

Maggie was thankful when that made Nestor drop the conversation as she really did not want to discuss her relationship with Jubal with him. On this case she had to trust him, they had to trust each other but that didn't give him a right to know everything about her life.

Jubal had gone back to the office after watching Maggie drive off with Nestor, who he still didn't really like, there was just something about him that rubbed Jubal the wrong way. He was trying to figure out what it was about Nestor that felt so off as he walked in to the JOC but he was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard OA's voice.

"Oh boss nice of you to join us." He joked with Jubal playfully pretending to check his watch.

"Well I think we now know why he was late." Kristen smirked playfully.

Jubal looked at Kristen so confused so Emily decided to help him out "Erm your neck, you might want to fix your shirt to cover it."

Hearing Emily made Jubal realise that he had left a button too many open, he really couldn't complain as it was thanks to Maggie's hands being on his chest that he hadn't buttoned it properly. Her hand had obviously moved his collar too before she left the SUV, he couldn't help as he smiled fixing the button and collar as it now covered the red bite mark that Maggie had left on his collarbone. He was getting images back in his head of Maggie laying in his shirt this morning which was just keeping the smile on his face. He hadn't even noticed that OA, Kristen, Emily, Stuart and Tiffany were staring at him but he was pulled from his memories when he heard Isobel.

"Have you told the team the news yet?"

Jubal shook his head, to answer Isobel and to shake the images briefly from his mind "Eh no, I just got here. I wasn't actually late for the reason that you all think." Isobel looked at Jubal confused but didn't ask so he continued "I was late because I was actually with Maggie this …"

That was all he got out as OA was jumping in "You were? Is she okay? Where has she been?."

"She is okay, I can't really go in to details with you all, but she did ask me to tell you all that she is really missing you guys. She is safe, a little banged up right now which is why we haven't heard from her until now."

OA went to ask a question but Jubal was talking before he could "She's okay OA I promise, I made sure she was checked out before letting her go back in there. She has been able to get a way to make communication so I should be hearing from her more often now. I will keep letting you guys know that she is safe when I hear from her."

"Okay guys you know what your tasks are on this case" Isobel looked at the team as she spoke to them "Jubal can I talk to you in my office."

Jubal nodded and followed Isobel to her office sitting down on the chair opposite her desk, Isobel looked at him as her elbows came to rest on her desk.

"So how is Maggie really doing?"

"She's doing okay, her ribs are very badly bruised, but she got them checked out to make sure nothing was broken. Drake's right hand man took a beating on her ribs when one of the girls tried to escape. The temporary apartment that was set up for her isn't being used, she stayed there the first night and has been staying at the house with the girls since. They let her go back to the apartment last night with Nestor to let her ribs heal, but she came home. She was there when I got home from here last night."

Isobel sighed hearing Jubal "Maggie's strong you know that right? She will get through this Jubal. Those girls couldn't ask for a better agent to be in there trying to help them out. You said that she can make communication, is she sure it's safe?"

Jubal appreciated that Isobel was trying to help his nerves but truth was he was going to worry no matter what until Maggie came home for good. "Yeah the phone Drake's men gave her has a chip on the SIM card so they are tracking everything, thankfully Ian showed her what to look for. The team in charge has given her a phone that she has hidden in the house, if it goes more than three days without contact then we are to get involved."

Isobel nodded hearing Jubal "Sounds like she has learnt their routine already, hopefully they can get what they need on this case quickly so that we can get her and Nestor out of there and back to their everyday jobs."

"Yeah I'm not Nestor's biggest fan right now, you should see how bad her ribs are bruised, he stood watching the guy do that to her. Yeah I know Maggie already told me that Nestor didn't have a choice still doesn't mean that I'm happy about it."

"From what I've been told about Nestor he's a good agent, I checked all that before bringing the assignment to Maggie. I know you don't want to see her hurt, but he does seem to be good at his job. So do you want to tell me what the team thought really kept you late?"

Jubal shook his head laughing "Technically they were kinda right in a way, they just don't know that it meant Maggie. They think that I was with my girlfriend." When Isobel looked at him confused he moved his shirt collar showing the mark "My fault for not checking my shirt before coming in to the JOC."

Isobel couldn't help the unexpected laugh that escaped "Yeah next time you get to see Maggie maybe check your shirt before coming in."

"Lesson learned don't worry." Jubal shook his head laughing, today felt a little less daunting after getting time with Maggie.

Jubal got a text and he was expecting it to be either the case or Sam about the kids but he smiled reading the message,

'Hey babe, this is the number that I will be contacting you from. It was so good to see you, I really did miss you. I love you so much.'

Jubal typed out a quick reply hoping that Maggie had time to read it 'It was a great surprise to come home to, minus the bruised ribs. The team know I was having fun this morning, I forgot to fix my shirt and they saw the mark you left. Miss you and Love you so much baby.'

Maggie had been in what was now her room in the house getting dressed to go and talk to the girls as the majority of them were going to work tonight. She lifted the phone when she saw Jubal had replied so quickly and she laughed softly reading about the mark as she replied.

'I would apologise but I'm not sorry. I'm sure Kristen and OA will tell me all about it when I get back. I have to go babe, we're about to go out on a job. Talk soon, love you so much.'

Even though he knew she might not be able to read it he replied straight away 'Please be safe baby, I love you more than you know. Can't wait to see you again.'

Jubal slid his phone back on to his holder and looked at Isobel having briefly forgotten that he was in company "Sorry, that was…."

"Maggie? Yeah I could tell from the smile on your face." Isobel was talking before Jubal could finish and she was smiling softly "Maybe don't smile that much and then tell the team that it was Maggie texting they might just figure it out."

"I will be more careful when out in the JOC don't worry"

Jubal got up from his seat and headed back in to the JOC and he stopped Ian who was about to walk past him "Hey, Maggie wants me to thank you and I want to thank you as well."

"For what?" Ian raised an eyebrow confused.

"She told me that you told her what to look for on the SIM card to see if it was being tracked so she knew not to make contact with me because of that. You saved her another beating, so thank you for that Ian really, I appreciate it."

"I was trying to think of things to give her to look out for as tracking devices or bugs so that she could know where and when she was safe to talk. I'm glad that it helped her."