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Alex watched Bethany leave and run to her house, to go talk to her mother. She wondered weather or not Bethany's parents were divorced or if her father had died, because Bethany hadn't mentioned anything about him.

This whole plan was crazy, and Alex still questioned why Bethany was helping her, she couldn't help but feel nervous and anxious for Bethany's return.

About 15 minutes later Bethany came running back up the drive and rang the doorbell.

"So." Alex said.

"I told mother that it would be nice to bring someone to the cottage with us, and so she was all like yeah we always bring close friends with us though and we don't have many around here so lets invite Emily." Bethany said quickly.

"Great but um…"

"Oh and I'll pretend to go with you to the museum so you can like escape to NYC for a while you know?" Bethany explained.

"Thank you so much, you have no idea how happy and nervous I am for that matter." Alex said smiling. "Bethany I don't want to bring up any touchy issues but I was wondering, I mean I've noticed you haven't mentioned your dad."

"Father's name was Derek Kalishimo, he got in a car accident when I was a baby so I never met him." Bethany explained.

"W-w-what? Derek kalishimo did you say?" Alex asked astonished.

"Yes why?" Bethany responded.

"I dated some one by the same name for 4 years in university, we would have gotten married but he had work to do else where and I couldn't move, I always wondered what had happened to him…" Alex's mind wandered off remembering him.

"O you knew him? Wow." Bethany said under her breath.

"Bethany how exactly did you figure out who I really am?" Alex asked.

"When I was nine someone I trusted tried to shoot me, later we found out that they were an infamous murderer, I guess I became kinda paranoid and started running background checks on every new person I met."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that." Alex replied.

"Um anyways you better pack, were leaving at 4:00pm 'K?"

"Y-yeah ok, um I'm gonna call witness protection what did you say was the address of your cottage?"

The drive to the cottage was rather dull Bethany's mother (ms.May) rarely spoke. It was pouring rain outside and note exactly ideal weather for a vocation.

Alex slept in the guest bedroom of the cottage. The cottage was a small wooden building located beside a giant pond, it felt odd to look her window and see NYC in the distance. Alex had never been very religious, but she couldn't help but wonder if Bethany had been sent to help her, to give her one last chance to say good-bye.

Alex walked through the streets of NYC everything seemed so familiar. She feared that she would cry when she saw her friends. She knew that she couldn't risk going to the precinct, incase someone told witness protection that they saw her, so instead she decided to go to the bar that they would go to after a tuff days work and see if they were there.

Bethany had gone to visit a friend and give Alex so time to see everyone.

Alex walked into the bar, no one she knew was there, but she decided that she'd have a drink anyways. She had been sitting there for about 15 minutes and then she heard Elliot's voice behind her.

"C'mon 'Liv it was a tuff case, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, we still won after all." Elliot said his voice coming closer to Alex.

"Yeah well anyways Elliot, I say you stop trying to comfort Olivia and buy us all a drink." Munch's voice said.

Out of the corner of her eye Alex saw Olivia, Fin, Munch and Elliot sit down a couple seats away.

"W-what the, Alex?" came Olivia's voice.

Alex her head in time to see, the astonished face of her friends staring at her. "Hi." She said feebly.

"Were you let out of witness protection?"

ok that's it for now, please review and tell me what you think.