Jubal had just walked in to the JOC when he heard his phone alert him to a text, he took his phone off its holder and smiled reading his sister's text, he typed out a quick reply.

'Thank you Jen for taking Mags and for reminding her to be safe, I'm sure she's sick of hearing it from me. I will keep you posted on how things are."

Jubal had slid his phone back on to it's holder as he walked along the top of the JOC as he made his way to Isobel's office to get caught up on what they knew so far. When Isobel had caught him up on everything he made his way back out to the JOC and updated the analysts on the little information that they knew so far and sent them to work with their different tasks.

Kristen was sitting at the top of the JOC near Jubal's computer, Ian was siting beside her and she raised her eyebrow seeing Jubal "Did we interrupt a hot date for you Jubal?".

Jubal was looking at the large screens when he heard Kristen's question and he turned around facing her and Ian "I was out for dinner with my girlfriend and sister" Jubal realised how close he came to saying Maggie's name, he furrowed his brows looking at Kristen "Wait, how did you know that I was on a date?".

Ian was trying to hide the smirk on his face as he knew exactly who he was on a date with, he was curious how Maggie had gotten to the crime scene from their dinner date. Kristen lay back in her chair looking at Jubal "That is not a work shirt that you are wearing".

Ian couldn't help but laugh when he heard Kristen as he looked at Jubal "That's the joy of working with observant women boss."

Jubal could tell that Ian was trying hard to hide the smirk on his face, he had to admit that Ian had been really good at hiding that he knew who Jubal's girlfriend was as none of the team knew that Ian knew the truth. Jubal shook his head laughing looking at them.

"Thankfully I wasn't trying to hide the fact that I was on a date or I guess I would have really failed. Now that you have confirmation that I was indeed on a date how about we get to work so that I can pick up where it left off."

The team were working as hard as they could, following every lead that they had come across or that the analysts had sent their way. Maggie had been true to her word and had contacted Jubal to let him know what they had gotten so far, which wasn't a lot. Stuart and Tiffany had gone to question a suspect that they had come across thanks to CCTV footage, he had a reason for being there that was confirmed by his now ex girlfriend, but he had given them another lead. Isobel had just gotten a call and came out from her office walking over to Jubal.

"Counter Terrorism have sent over an agent with a team to work with us on this case, they are waiting for us in one of the conference rooms. You ready to join me to talk to them?"

"Yeah the analysts are working hard with what we have so far, maybe Counter Terrorism have something that can help us, so lead the way."

Isobel walked ahead of Jubal walking into the conference room that they were waiting in, he had heard a message alert on his phone so he was checking that as he entered the conference room, but he froze on the spot when he heard the voice that was speaking,

"So where we at?"

Jubal was convinced that he was hearing things, there was no way that this could be happening, not right now. He lifted his head from his phone and was faced with Rina standing across from him smiling so sweetly at him, why the hell did Isobel not give him a heads up, but when he glanced at Isobel he realised that she too had been caught off guard.

Isobel glanced at Jubal who had just froze standing holding his phone so she knew that it was going to be up to her to talk "We have a witness who saw a Middle Eastern looking man exit a black Chrysler, hang about for a little bit and then take off a few seconds before that same black Chrysler detonated."

Isobel looked at Jubal as she really couldn't give anymore information as he hadn't caught her up yet on where the analysts where. He seemed to realise that Isobel was telling him to take over where she left off, he gripped his phone a little tighter as he looked at Rina and her team.

"We've been looking for more surveillance video but so far we've been striking out."

"Well were striking out over here too, no chatter, no intel, but we're reaching out to our various assets to see what they know" Rina focused on Jubal as she spoke, still smiling at him.

"Well the deputy director has suggested that we work this together." Isobel didn't have to glance at Jubal while speaking to know what his reaction would be.

"My team and I are happy to work closely with you on this, I'm looking forward to working with you again Jubal". Rina had a slight smirk on her face as she looked at Jubal.

Jubal looked at Isobel thankful that the other agent's from Counter Terrorism had left the conference room so it was only him, Isobel and Rina left. "I need to go and find Maggie and tell her about this before someone else does."

Rina had heard Jubal and was speaking before Isobel could "So that little fling is still happening huh? I thought you would have been bored of her by now."

Jubal closed his eyes taking a deep breath, this could not be happening, not after the incident of his ex wife trying to kiss him last weekend. He turned his head to look at Rina "My relationship really is none of your business Rina and has nothing to do with this case."

"So still too ashamed of it to have told the other's?" Rina had a permanent smirk on her face now.

Jubal looked at Rina and just shook his head looking at Isobel "You mind if I go find Mag's?"

Isobel could tell that Jubal was nervous about how Maggie was going to react when he let the 'Mags' slip out, he had been careful even around her to make sure he always referred to her as Maggie when talking about work. Isobel shook her head gently "No go ahead, do what you need to, I can hold down things here."

Jubal left the conference room still gripping his phone as he went in search of Maggie, Isobel turned looking at Rina "Unless you want him to never speak to you again I suggest that you don't let slip about his relationship to any of our agents while working this case with us. I would hate to have to tell the deputy director that we weren't happy with the work from Counter Terrorism." Isobel left the conference room before Rina could say anything else to her.

Jubal had just made it in to the JOC when he saw Maggie coming walking towards him, she was smiling as she spotted him and made her way towards him but she froze a couple of feet from Jubal and her smile had completely disappeared. Jubal didn't have to look behind him to know who Maggie had spotted, he stepped closer to her so that he could talk without anyone else hearing them.

"Mags let me explain it to you."

Maggie was standing with her hands clenched in to fists "If you are about to tell me that we have to work with her I'm not sure that I really want to hear it."

Jubal was struggling to not reach out and take Maggie's hand in his "Can we go home and talk about this, please?."

Maggie nodded as she didn't trust her voice right now, she stepped past Jubal and made her way to towards the elevator with Jubal right behind her. He honestly didn't care who saw them he could come up with an excuse later, right now he needed to get Maggie alone so that they could talk. They were standing at the elevator as Rina walked over to them.

"Really you two are sneaking off together when we have a bomber out there?"

Maggie was clenching her fists even tighter hearing Rina, Jubal looked at Rina "Rina you heard Isobel, she can hold things down here, right now we need to go home and get changed." Jubal had said about going home on purpose as he knew that it would leave Rina a little speechless which gave him and Maggie enough time to step onto the elevator. Rina's eyes didn't leave Jubal's as the elevator doors closed.

"Isobel might want to take my gun from me while Rina is around me." Maggie spoke as she closed her eyes leaning her head back against the elevator.

"I would rather not find out that my sister was serious when she said she would be your lawyer in a murder trial baby." Jubal let his hand brush against Maggie's thankful when she unclenched her fist and let their fingers tangle.

"I think Jen would be surprised if I wasn't up on murder charges if she knew what was going on right now." Maggie glanced at Jubal before having to let go of his hand as the elevator opened and they made their way to Jubal's SUV. The parking lot was really quiet so they didn't have to hide that they were getting in to the same SUV. The journey home to their apartment was travelled in a comfortable silence, both their minds were working over time trying to process everything.

When they got inside the apartment Maggie walked into their living room and almost fell down on to their couch, it had been a long night and she was exhausted, she lay her head back against the back of the couch. Jubal sat his keys down in the bowl on their breakfast bar and came over sitting down beside Maggie. He didn't know how she was feeling about seeing Rina and he really didn't want to do anything to make this worse.

Maggie opened her eyes and titled her head to the side looking at Jubal "So you want to tell me what she was doing in the JOC?"

Jubal ran his hand along Maggie's arm wanting and needing the contact, he was thankful when he didn't feel Maggie pull away. He was actually surprised when he felt Maggie's head land on his shoulder, he lay his cheek gently against the top of her head.

"Isobel came in to the JOC and told me that a team had been sent over from Counter Terrorism to work on this case with us, I had no idea it was Rina. I walked in to that room with my phone in my hand as you had text to say that you were back at the office, I heard her talk and just froze. I was about to lose it at Isobel when I realised that Isobel had no idea either. But unfortunately baby we are going to have to work with them on this case."

"You mean that Rina is going to want to be stuck to your side and follow you around, get you alone and work with you on this case." Maggie was playing with Jubal's fingers as she was talking.

Jubal tensed a little hearing Maggie, as much he was loving the closeness with Maggie he hated not being to see her face. "Baby, I swear to you that I will be doing everything to make sure that I am never alone with Rina in a room. I wish I could ask them to send us another team but it's not how it works."

Maggie was quiet for a minute before she pulled her head back laying it on the back of the couch again facing Jubal so that she could see him, he lay his head back as well so that they were eye to eye. She squeezed his hand gently.

"You know that she probably requested to be put on this case, and especially as she's leading the counter terrorism team. But I saw the look of panic on your face when the smile dropped off my face in the JOC and you knew why it had dropped, I know you didn't know it was her they were sending. She's just the last person that I was expecting to see tonight."

Jubal let out the breath he didn't even realise he was holding when he heard Maggie say that she knew he was genuinely surprised that it was Rina they had to work with. He lifted his free hand and lay it gently on Maggie's cheek caressing her cheek with his thumb "I honestly have no idea if she requested it, I tried to talk to her as little as possible baby. There is only one person that I want following me around, getting me alone and being stuck to my side."

"Yeah? I'm not sure OA knows how much he means to you." Maggie smirked playfully as she leaned in kissing Jubal slowly but with so much love, her free hand moved to his neck caressing his jawline with her thumb.

When they broke the kiss Jubal was placing small kisses to Maggie's lips "I'd hate to disappoint OA but it happens to be his partner that I'm madly in love with, who I share a home with". Jubal whispered the last words as he deepened the last kiss he pressed to Maggie's lips and pulled her as close to him as possible.

Maggie broke the kiss and stood up holding her hand out to Jubal "Let's make the use of the time that we have now before one of our phone's ring because we know it's going to happen."

Jubal didn't hesitate for even a second as he stood up and took Maggie's hand and they made their way upstairs to their bedroom.