Chapter 2

"Rick, as the only one who's yet to meet him, I'd like to introduce you" Vivian said indicating to someone stood behind the other agents "to Special Agent Martin Fitzgerald"

Danny, Elena and Sam all turned around with shock and surprise evident on their faces.

"Martin this is Rick O'Hara" Vivian continued, still smiling.

"Hey, good to meet you" Martin said reaching out his hand to shake Rick's.

"Yeh you too." Rick took Martin's offered hand.

Danny was the first to welcome Martin back "At last! An agent who's going to stay! Man is it good to see you again" He got up and grasped Martin's hand and pulled him in to a manly hug.

"It's good to see you too Danny" Martin said with a grin.

"Come here you, you've been gone too long!" Elena also pulled him in to a hug.

"Yeh well I'm back now." Martin replied, looking over at Sam who was yet to say anything.

"Well, welcome back stranger it's been a while." Sam smiled and also embraced Martin.

Martin looked at her surprised. She's happy to see me? She's not ripping my head off for what I did to her? What the hell's happened to her the last three years!

"Well are you going to introduce your friend Martin" Vivian asked nodding her head in the direction of a woman stood slightly back from Martin.

"Oh yeh right." Martin reached his hand out to the slim brunette to get her to step forward. "Everyone, I'd like you to meet Anna Michaels, my Fiancée." Martin smiled broadly.

"Fiancée? You got engaged? Congratulations Marty that's great!" Danny exclaimed clapping Martin on the back.

"Thanks man"

"It's good to meet you Anna" Danny continued "I'm Danny"

"Other wise known as the wise cracking, annoying one. Hi I'm Elena and congratulations both of you." Elena joked as Danny shot her a mock annoyed look.

"Good to meet you" Rick and Vivian both echoed introducing themselves and congratulating the couple, Vivian shaking hands with her.

"Hi I'm Sam. Nice to meet you" Sam welcomed with a smile "Congratulations" she added.

Both Danny and Martin were watching her closely since Martin announced that he was engaged. Martin was relived to see that she didn't seam bothered and appeared to be happy for him.

Danny however was not so convinced Sam was as ok as she appeared. He'd known her for too long, knew her too well, as well as knowing how much she'd gone through since Martin had left, to be convinced by a smile. However he wasn't going to question her about it now, it could wait till they got home so for now he settled for keeping an eye on her.

"It's good to meet you all and thanks, but I have to go now. I've got to get to work. But I look forward to getting to know you all better soon." She finished with a smile.

"Well we were planning a girls night in for tonight but could change it if you guys wanna come over or maybe go out somewhere for a meal?" Sam spoke up.

"Uhh…" Martin looked at Anna questioningly.

"Sure sounds good to me, if your sure we wouldn't be crashing your plans that is?" Anna finished for him.

"No course you wouldn't" Elena replied "When do you finish work?"

"I get off at 5"

"Okay, if you head back over here when your done we can all head over to Sam's. Okay?"

"Sure. Sounds good to me. I'll see you guys later then. Bye sweetie" Anna added with a quick kiss on Martins cheek as she left.

Martin was feeling a little uneasy at having to have a meal with everyone including Anna. He'd hoped that they'd wait a week at least before suggesting it or something similar.

Sam was surprised with herself for asking in the first place but oddly was actually not dreading it.

"She seems nice" Danny stated hoping to get some more information on her from Martin.

"She is" Was all he said however before turning to Vivian "Do we have a case at the moment or are we on paperwork for now?"

"Paperwork I'm afraid. But it will give you guys a chance to catch up and for you and Rick to get to know each other. I have a meeting upstairs but shouldn't be much more than an hour so I'll see you in a bit" She answered "Oh and its good to have you back Martin" She added as she walked away.

The five agents all looked at each other for a minuet before grabbing piles of paperwork to do and sitting at the conference table. There was little Martin could do as it was his first day so he just did odd bits from each agent that he could.

"So what have you guys been up to for the past three years?" Martin asked. The question he most wanted to ask was what happened to Jack. He'd asked Viv when he'd come to see her about the job but she had been very vague and told him to ask the rest of the team at a later date.

"You mean what happened to Jack? Well…there's a lot to go through. We're going to have to start from when you left, or more precisely the morning after the night you left" Danny stated seeing through his old friend instantly.

Something in the way Danny looked at him as he said that told him that the whole team was well aware of what he'd done and was not going to like what he was going to say.