Maggie was thankful when Rina told them that she would take her own car and gave them the address that she had arranged to meet her CI, Vega Assad. They had let Rina do the most of the talking when they got there as she was the one that had been dealing with him, but it was clear that Rina wasn't getting anywhere with him. Vega told them that if they wanted to talk to him they would have to talk to his lawyer first, he handed Rina his lawyer's card and walked away. Rina took the card and looked at Maggie and OA,

"Either of you heard of a lawyer by the name of Mona Nazari"

Maggie looked at OA when she heard Mona's name, it was up to him whether he told Rina who Mona was to him. OA smiled softly at Maggie when she looked at him as he knew that she wasn't going to disclose who Mona was, but he didn't see any reason to hide it.

"Yeah Mona is my girlfriend. She left the US attorneys office two months ago and set up her own legal clinic."

Rina was starting to get pissed off, she had to work with Maggie, her CI wouldn't cooperate and now OA's girlfriend was involved in the case.

"Well I don't know what your girlfriend is trying to do with Vega, we made a deal with him two years ago after he got busted for armed robbery and on top of that he was undocumented which meant he was facing deportation. NYPD reached out to us and we stepped in and made a deal with Vega."

"So he has delivered valuable intel to you?" Maggie looked at Rina as she spoke.

"Nothing that has led to any arrests so he owes us. He doesn't get to just walk away now that we need him." Rina looked at OA as she spoke "Girlfriend or not, if Vega doesn't live up to his side of the deal he'll back on a plane to Damascus real soon."

Rina didn't even give OA a chance to reply she just took off walking towards her car, OA looked at Maggie "Well she is going to be a joy to work with on this case, how did Jubal ever partner with her?".

Maggie shook her head chuckling softly to hide the little bit of anger at the idea of Jubal and Rina together as it was obvious to her that Rina was here to try and get Jubal again "I'm afraid that's something that you are going to have to ask Jubal because I really have no idea. Let's hope after this she at least stays at the office with Isobel. Come on you can drop me off at 26 FED before you go talk to Mona, I know that you want to go talk to her on your own, I don't have an issue with that but I am not travelling back to the office with Rina I would honestly rather walk".

OA laughed as he nudged Maggie's shoulder gently as they made their way towards their SUV "Oh come on Maggie I actually like working with you so I wouldn't even suggest that you go back there with her."

Maggie was smiling as they climbed back in to the SUV, she knew that if OA knew everything that he would dislike Rina even more if that were possible right now because it was clear that he didn't like her. OA dropped Maggie off outside 26 FED and drove to Mona's new office to talk to her about Vega. Maggie stepped off the elevator to head towards the JOC and Jubal almost walked into her, he was looking at his phone until he almost walked in to someone. He lifted his head from his phone to apologise and he smiled softly at Maggie, the one that was reserved for her.

"Mags what are you doing here?"

"Erm I work here, unless that changed and you know it's good to see you Maggie, sorry for almost walking into you" She raised her eyebrow smirking playfully.

Jubal chuckled softly hearing Maggie "It is good to see you, you know it's always really good seeing you" He smirked playfully "I am sorry for almost walking in to you, you'll forgive me when I show you why, but what I meant was aren't you and OA meant to be talking to Mona?"

"Hmm if you are sure I'm going to forgive you that easily then it has to do with the kids and I let OA go talk to Mona on his own thought it was better that way. He dropped me here because there was no way I was sharing a car with Rina."

"Yeah okay that was a really good call, you and Rina in the same car is not something that should ever happen." Jubal shook his head thinking about that, knowing that it would not go well at all. "I need to find a way to thank OA for dropping you off here and not making you go through with the other option."

"Oh trust me I would have walked back here quicker than getting in a car alone with her, no thank you. Don't worry you can thank OA by answering the question he has for you" Maggie chuckled softly seeing Juabl's confusion "He wants to know how you ever partnered with Rina."

"She managed to piss him off in that short space of time?"

"Let's just say she was not impressed when she found out that her CI's lawyer was OA's girlfriend. Which brings me to my question, why hasn't she just told everyone here about us?."

"I'm not sure you are going to like the answer, but saying it out loud to someone else would mean she would have to admit that we are in a relationship and she knows that if she tells anyone here that I wouldn't ever forgive her for that." Jubal knew that it was best to be honest with Maggie about this, he did not want to be keeping any secrets to do with Rina that could damage his relationship with Maggie.

"You're right I don't like the answer but it is good to see that you know that as much as she is here to work, she is also here to try and get back in to your life and into your bed, to her I'm just a small thing that is in the way."

"We are going to come back to you saying that I was right, because I think that's only the second time you have said that in our seven months together. After what happened on the McMay case I know what Rina's feelings are but you know that I've no interest in her baby and you aren't a small thing. You are a huge part of my life, we live together, my future is with you, I have absolutely no interest in anyone else."

"We are going to forget that I ever said you were right, not sure anyone would believe you if you told them I said it" Maggie joked playfully with Jubal and she smiled hearing his words "I do know that you don't have feelings for her, working with her on this case really isn't the easiest thing in the world right now, but I do appreciate you being honest with me babe" Maggie really hated moments like this that people didn't know about them as she wanted to reach up and kiss him or any physical contact.

As if being able to read her mind Jubal put his hand on Maggie's arm and moved them over to the side, to anyone else it just looked like he and Maggie were talking and had stepped to the side to move out of anyone else's way. Did his hand linger a little too long on her arm? Maybe, but the only people that noticed that were Rina and Isobel who could see them from Isobel's office. Maggie couldn't help the smile on her face as she felt Jubal's hand on her arm she knew exactly why he had done it and she loved him for it.

"So how about about you show me those two adorable kids so that I can forgive their Dad for almost walking in to me" Maggie smirked.

"I really do owe them a lot for helping their dad out without even trying." Jubal chuckled softly as he pulled up the video on his phone that Samantha had sent him, It was Tyler practicing soccer in the back garden "Wait for it." Jubal knew that Maggie would really enjoy the next part as it showed Tyler kicking the ball to someone and the camera turned to show Abby kicking the ball best she could back to Tyler and Tyler encouraging her and Abby jumping up and down excited.

"Oh my God that is just the sweetest thing ever, Tyler is so good with Abby. I can't believe Abby is actually playing football with him, they both look so happy." Maggie had a large smile on her face as she looked at the video, hitting play on it again.

Jubal always felt his heart swell with so much love when he saw how much Maggie genuinely cared about his kids, she wasn't pretending for his sake, she really did love his kids and that meant so much to him. He had noticed that she would smile almost as much as him when they would get pictures or videos of them.

"You know you are the reason that Abby has any interest in football? I mean she was all unicorns and dolls until you came along, and you let her see that girls could play sports too. Now her and Tyler get to bond over something else." Jubal was genuine with his words, Samantha and Jenny were not in to sports so in their family the only people that Abby saw playing sports were the males, but when Maggie and Mel came along they showed her that females could play sports too if they wanted.

"Look at you calling it football now instead of soccer." Maggie poked his shoulder playfully laughing "I am just so glad that she seems genuinely interested in it, I didn't think sports were Abby's thing so it's so nice to see her trying new things."

"With you, Tyler and your sister calling it football it was going to rub off on me too" Jubal laughed softly "I love seeing her try new things, I'll never make them do something they don't love but I want them to always feel like they can give things a try."

"They are very lucky to have you as their dad and they know how much you love them and that you would never force them to play sport if that wasn't something they weren't interested in."

Jubal went to speak when he saw OA stepping off the elevator and he looked at Maggie and Jubal "Sorry that took a little longer than I planned."

Jubal shook his head "It's a strange situation for you OA so it's understandable, why don't we go find Isobel and Rina so that you can tell us all at the same time rather than repeating yourself. You two head to the conference room, I think Isobel and Rina are in Isobel's office." Jubal knew that they were in Isobel's office, he could see them in there the whole time that he was with Maggie.

OA thanked Jubal and he and Maggie made their way to the conference room to wait for the others to join them. Jubal walked into Isobel's office "OA is back from speaking with Mona, he and Maggie are waiting in the conference room for us."

Isobel stood up and stepped past Jubal thanking him as she made her way to the conference room, Rina walked close to Jubal as they made their way to the conference room "I see that Agent Bell doesn't trust you, I saw her checking your phone."

Jubal didn't even glance at Rina as he spoke "Not that this is any of your business but I was showing her a video of my kids that was sent for her." Jubal knew that saying it was sent for her would get Rina's attention and he was right as it made her briefly stop walking, which gave Jubal time to step in to the conference room so that he didn't have to wait for a reply from her.