Thayer Hospital -10:00 P.M.

"Hey. How are you holding up?" Littleton asked, as he sat next a silent and pale Max, "Do you need anything? Coffee? Water?"

She just shook her head, and tried to block the image of her blood covered, husband, being rushed out of the station, "I just need to be alone."

"People care about you. Both of you."

"Please."

"Max."

She just shook her head, and pulled her legs up to her chest silently. Why Kenny, she thought, why Nik? It should have been me.

"Maxine Stewart?" a voice said, entering the room, "I'm Dr. Joey Diamond."

Max leapt to her feet, "Is my husband okay?"

Husband, Littleton thought, they got married? Or is that all part of their ruse? She looks like a concerned wife though.

"He lost a lot of blood, but he pulled through the surgery," Joey said, "He is in recovery."

"Can I see him?"

"He should be up soon, and then it should be fine."

"Joey? What about Matthew?" Littleton asked.

"He is with his parents, and is doing fine. It was just a flesh wound, although the burns on his feet will take time to heal."

"Burns?"

"Zachary said that Skeeter burned Matt with a lighter."

"Bastards," Max said quietly, "Are they . . ."

"All were DOA," Joey confirmed, "I have to check on some patients. I'll let you know when your husband comes up."

"See, some good news," Littleton offered, as he looked over at the disheveled woman, "You know there are a lot of people waiting to ask the both of you a lot of questions."

"Are you one of them?"

"Yeah. I'll start with this one. Are you and Kenny really married?"

Thayer Hospital 10:30 P.M

"He's alive, and will be awake in the morning," Jimmy said, as he held Jill close to him.

"He's just a kid. How could anyone do this to him?"

"People are cruel. These people were insane."

"Why did they have to come here? Why couldn't they have found Kenny and Max on their own, and did what they wanted to them? Why like this?"

"We'd be dead if Kenny hadn't coming rushing in," Jimmy offered, "They couldn't find them, neither could the FBI. It was like they fell off the planet. Look at them, Jill, they look like completely different people. They are different people."

"I want answers. To all of this."

Thayer Hospital Midnight

Max took Kenny's limp hand in hers, and squeezed gently. Thank you, she thought, as she watched his chest rise and fall.

"You dumbass," she whispered, "You just had to go and play hero. Oh, Honey, you scared me tonight. I love you, and I'm not going anywhere."

"Maxine? We have some questions for you," Baker said, "Now that your friend is out of surgery. If you could come with us?"

Max sat rooted to the chair, "I'm not going anywhere while he is in here."

"He didn't seem to feel the same way when he decided to charge into that building."

Max gritted her teeth, "He did it before I could. I'll answer your questions, but not tonight."

"You don't get a choice in the matter," Baker said, "We've waited a long time for answers."

"I don't even know you. Why should I tell you anything about my life?"

"Because I'm FBI."

Max glared at him, as she thought of Morell, "The last FBI agent I saw shot a whole bunch of people on a beach, so forgive me if your credentials don't impress me."

"And who would that be?"

Max bit her tongue, as she let that day play through her mind, "Does it matter? Does any of this?"

"Of course it does! I want answers tonight!"

"Agent Baker?" Jimmy said from the doorway, "May I have word alone with Maxine?"

"Good luck," Baker muttered, as he turned back to Max, "We will be talking."

Max merely nodded, as she felt Jimmy studying her. What do I even say, she thought, sorry isn't going to cut it.

"Hello, Maxine," he said quietly.

"Hi. Um, I heard Matt was going to fine. That is great, uh, really great."

"I knew you both would show up again. I wish it was sooner than today though. You've been missed."

"I'm sorry . . . what happened today shouldn't have. It isn't your problem to deal with."

"Littleton tells us that you and Kenny got married. Any truth to that?"

"It's the one true thing over the past two years."

"Where have you two been?"

Max shook her head, and her dark hair fell in her face, "Everywhere. Life was good for a while. We were happy most days. He makes me happy."

"You're not getting out of here without answering a lot of questions."

"I know. I can't tonight," she trailed off, as she turned back to Kenny, "It's late . . . I just want to wait here. I'm not going anywhere, neither of us are. We came to finish this, and that is what we're sticking too."

Jimmy nodded, "I better get back to Matt and Jill. Welcome home, Maxine."

She nodded, as she watched the clock flip to midnight.

Thayer Hospital - 8:00 A.M.

"Bella?" Kenny groaned, as he fought his way out of his haze, "Bella?"

Max cracked her eyes open, at the sound of his raspy voice, "Hi."

He met her worried expression, and felt her take his hand in hers, "Where am I? Sweetheart?"

"Ssh," she whispered, wanting to weep, at the sound of his voice, "Just rest. And you're at Thayer."

"Why?"

"You had to go and play hero," Max replied in a choked whisper, not wanting to burst into tears, "You scared the shit out of me. Don't ever do that again."

"Had to do it before you did," he groaned, as the night came rushing back to him, "I didn't think I would see you again."

Max leaned in closer, "I love you. Just rest."

"Don't go, Bella," he mumbled as the drugs and drowsiness took over, "Stay."

"I'm not going anywhere," she promised, "We're a team."

Sheriff's Station 8:30 A.M.

"What language is that?" Baker asked, as they listened to the conversation that was being transmitted through the bug they planted, "Who are these people? Why can't they just speak English?"

"I'm going with that they've been hiding out in a country that doesn't," Littleton countered, "It's probably second nature by now. Why did you bug their room?"

"They're going to bolt. I don't care what she says, they've been running for too long not to."

"Kenny is in the hospital, and I don't think Max is going anywhere without him. She was ready to run into the station last night, and she would have if I hadn't held her back."

Thayer Hospital 9:00 A.M

Max fingered the articles of Kenny's that Dr. Diamond had given her. I guess Mikkos is getting his diamonds back, she thought, slipping the bag into her stained jeans pocket.

"Hi," she said again, as she saw Kenny turn his head her way again.

"Hi, yourself," he replied, as he studied his exhausted looking wife, "Sweetheart? You look like you're ready to fall asleep."

"Not yet," she promised, as she sat gingerly on the side of the bed and took his hand in hers again, "How do you feel?"

"Like I got shot. Is everyone all right?"

"All the hostages got out safe."

"Skeeter? Millani? Sardelli?"

Max shook her head, "They're all dead."

"I thought I was too," he said, as he touched her cheek, "As long as I knew you were okay, that was all that mattered. I couldn't live with myself if those assholes touched you."

"There will always be someone else looking for us. This thing goes far past us, and . . ."

"They'll be after us again. How long?"

"We're not going anywhere until you're better. We're not risking your health."

"I'm fine."

"Fine? Try to sit up. No? The FBI wants to ask us both some questions."

"And what do you want to tell them?"

Max shrugged, "Everything, more or less."

"I'd like to still be able to live there."

"Me too," she agreed, as she switched back to English, "Since we're here, we should at least speak the language."

"Didn't even realize that we weren't," Kenny commented, "We've been away a long time."

"Hello again," Baker said, as he breezed into the room, "I see that you are awake. How are you feeling?"

"I've been better," Kenny commented, as he gripped Max's hand in his, "Why are you here?"

"You both have some questions to answer. Your, uh, wife wasn't so forthcoming last night."

"I'm sure she wasn't."

"If you refuse this time, I will have you arrested."

"Go," Kenny said, releasing her hand, "Get it over with."

"Only if you promise me that you'll rest," Max countered, as she leaned down to kiss his cheek, "I'll be back soon."

Sheriff's Station 12:00 P.M.

"Start from the beginning," Baker said, as he flipped his tape recorder on, "From your intial disapearrance with Thomas Millani."

"Just go slowly," Jimmy added, seeing the reluctance on her face.

"Okay," Max said, as she told them about the island, Tom's death, Kenny showing up, their boat ride, cruise, Zurich, and all the way up to when they decided to vanish, "And yeah. I think that about covers it."

"It doesn't even start," Baker said, "What about the last two years? Before we get to that. Marcus Morell wasn't there to kill you, he was tailing Kenny and looking for you. Those men on the boat were local fishermen."

"No . . . they shot everyone on the beach. They weren't," Max argued.

"So you two decided to blow them up without knowing for sure?"

"They were going to kill us!"

"So you killed them first?"

Max glared at him, as Jimmy cut in, "Should we move on?"

"Fine," Baker spat, "Kenny hit Franco Millani in front of the Swiss National Bank, after he shot the security guard?"

"I believe you have tapes that confirm that," Max said evenly, as she got herself back on an even keel.

"The couple on the pier, in Arica. Hope and Kevin Davis."

"They didn't kill them," Jimmy interjected, "That shot came off of the bluffs, it was one of the hitmen that Skeeter ordered. It's been confirmed, and I was there. Did you know that we were there?"

"We saw you," Max said quietly.

"Then why didn't you come over?" Jimmy asked.

"Well considering Skeeter turned out to work for the mafia, it was a good thing that we didn't."

"You didn't answer my question."

"Why do you think?"

"Kenny," Jimmy said, "I was ready to arrest him before he bolted off to find you."

"We weren't just running from the mob, we were running from everyone. We needed to put all the pieces together before we came home."

"Why didn't you before now?" Baker asked.

"I'm going with because I didn't want to die," Max said, "It seemed like the best option. We send you everything we found, Tom's manifesto, and the Varitek formula. It should have been enough."

"Where are the diamonds that they wanted? You said that you had them?" Baker asked.

Max shook her head, "We don't. I don't know where Tom hid them."

"I don't believe you."

"I really don't care. It's the truth. Maybe it's better that they remain missing."

"Why did it take you the full three days to get here?" Jimmy asked, "What were you doing that was so important that you took your sweet time getting here?"

Knowing he was thinking of his son, Max treaded carefully, "We looked for the damn diamonds, and when we realized that we had no clue, we came."

"Kenny went into that building without anything to give them in exchange?" Jimmy asked dumbfounded.

"We had a back-up plan," Max replied, "What are the odds that Skeeter would have examined the diamonds then and there? He just needed to be distracted by something shiny."

""Unbelievable," Jimmy said, as he tossed his hands in the air, "Do you have any idea how stupid that was?"

"Yeah. It worked, although I wouldn't do it again."

"Where have you been for the past two years?" Baker asked again.

"We traveled a lot," Max said, thinking of their first six months, "And saw the world."

"And?"

"And? What do you want? We were hiding from the mob, the FBI, everyone, it didn't exactly inspire a life filled with picket fences, dinner parties, and 2.5 kids," Max lied, as she thought of their little house in Santorini, "Try living on the run. I promise you that it isn't easy. Can I go now?"

"For now. Don't even think of leaving town."

Thayer Hospital 2:00 P.M.

"Hey! How are your feeling?" Carter asked, as he paused at the door with Littleton.

"Been better," Kenny replied.

"Glad to hear it," Littleton replied.

"You can come in."

"Where is Max?" Littleton asked.

"Talking to tht Baker guy," Kenny said, as he tried to ignore the aching in his right side, "She'll be back. It's been, wow, three hours."

"I hear you two got married," Carter blurted out, "Congratulations."

"Thanks."

Thayer Hospital 2:30 P.M.

"Max?" Jill called, "Wait."

"Hi, Jill," Max said, as she paused in hospital corridor, "Uh, how is Matthew?"

"He's awake. The morphine is keeping most of pain away," Jill said flatly, as she watched the younger women carefully, "You look like a completely different person. I wouldn't know you on the street."

Max pushed her dark hair off of her face, "I know."

"Are you a different person?"

"Huh?"

"My son is in the hospital because some mafia wants to kill you and Kenny. Don't you feel responsible at all?"

"Of course I do," Max said quietly, "We stayed away because we didn't want anyone to get hurt."

"Yeah, well it didn't work. Everyone else may be glad to have you both back, but I'm not."

Thayer Hospital 3:00 P.M.

"I thought she was going to claw my eyes out," Littleton said, as he described what happened after Kenny ran into the station.

"I'm surprised she didn't. I'm sure she is going to have some choice words for me soon enough."

"She's your wife. Kenny and Max got married," Carter said, "That shouldn't be the weirdest part of this, but . . . wow."

Kenny and Max didn't get married, he thought, Nikoali and Isabella did. That's the difference, "It just happened."

"So where the hell have you been?" Littleton asked, "People don't just vanish."

"We managed to. We moved around a lot," Kenny offered, not wanting to give up their Santorini paradise quite yet.

"So did you have aliases and stuff?" Carter asked, "How does someone even do that?"

"It's really not important," Kenny said vaguely, and he wished he was any where but where he was.

"Of course it is," Littleton argued, as Max came back in, "Hi. We heard you were talking to Baker."

Max nodded, and caught Kenny's look before responding, "Yeah. It took awhile."

"He had a lot of questions?"

"That he did. I'm not surprised by that."

"You vanish for over two years, so neither am I," Littleton added, "How could you two not call? Or write? Just to let us know that you were alive? Was that too much to ask of you? Or were you just busy playing house?"

"Playing house? Do you think that this is a game?" Max retorted, "That it's fun? You really don't have a clue!"

"What? You two run around the world, let everyone think that you're dead, criminals, whatever, end up married, and living out a totally new existence? A new life?"

"A life away from our families, friends, and everyone we care about," Kenny argued, "You honestily think we would have chose that?"

"So why did you do it?" Carter asked.

"I'm still going with not wanting to die," Max said flatly, "And the less anyone knew about us, the better. That's why there wasn't any contact."

"We could have helped!" Littleton insisted.

"How?" Kenny asked.

"I don't know! There had to be a better way."

"You're back now," Carter interjected, "Isn't that enough?"

Sheriff's Station 5:00 P.M.

"I want a guard on them the whole time," Baker said, "I have a feeling that they're going to bolt. It was like pulling teeth to get that information out of her."

Jimmy nodded, "They've been through a lot, and they don't have much faith in the system anymore."

"There is still a lot we don't know," he said, as the bug began to pick up more, "I'm not letting the Millanis slip away again."

Thayer Hospital 7:00 P.M.

"Don't go," Kenny whispered.

"I don't have anyplace to go," Max countered, as he pulled her down next to him, "I don't want to be anywhere else."

He wrapped his arm around her, and pulled her next to his good side. Slipping back into speaking Greek, "What do you bet they have this room bugged?"

"I'd count on it," she replied in their adopted tongue, "We need to make some decisions. I got our stuff out of the car."

"The map."

Max nodded, "Yeah. We have to return the stuff too. And . . ."

"We can't stay."

"I know."

"How easy would it be? To go back?"

"This was the first place that ever felt like home to me. These people were like my family. They may hate me, but they still were. I don't want to hurt them."

"Me either."

Max nodded, "The guard?"

"Tomorrow?" Kenny whispered, "I'll give my statement, and then . . . we'll finish this."