"If the government can't find Alex, what makes you think we can?" Amber asked in exasperation. She stood at the window of her apartment, looking down at the busy streets of Boston, "especially since you said he told them not to watch him." She sighed and blew a straying strand of hair from her face. Paulo coughed pointedly and she turned to her three friends that were sat on the sofa, for some reason Hex looked slightly upset.

"Because we have Hex." Li said after a moment. Amber bit her lip.

"Right, sorry, I forgot!" She said to Hex who shook his head. There was a click from the kitchen which meant the kettle had finished boiling the water. She walked into the kitchen and turned as she heard footsteps behind her, Li had followed her. Neither said anything, there was nothing much to say. It was strange how although they had been apart for six years and then together for six hours, it was like nothing had changed. Amber made their tea while Li helped wherever she could, they took it back to the boys in the living room. Paulo, who had evidently grown bored of Hex's musings, was sat in an armchair nearby.

"Hey, look at this!" Hex exclaimed and they all jumped to his side in an instant. "It's a document from the MOD: Special Ops. Executive Alex Craig transferred today from MI5 to MI6-"

"What the heck is the difference?" Li asked.

"MI5; Military intelligence five, deals with national security within the UK where as MI6 is foreign intelligence. Mi5 report to the Home Office and MI6 report to the foreign office." Hex explained as though everyone should know such a thing.

"So basically," Amber said, trying to work it out, "MI5 are spies trying to catch spies where as MI6 are spies trying not to be caught?" Hex thought for a moment before nodding, "oooh." Amber nodded her head as well. "Why was he transferred?" Amber looked over Hex's shoulder to read whatever he was reading.

"…MI5 to MI6 regarding his recent affliction with the Home Office; Craig administrated a recent Operation that was seen as unorthodox by his former colleague Brad Amnias. Further conflictions developing from this meant that either Craig or Amnias were to be displaced; Amnias was dropped and to prevent further questioning at his station Craig was transferred." It didn't seem like much information on Alex but each of them seemed concerned.

"I wonder what the operation was," Paulo said under his breath, "to get Alex into so much trouble." Everyone nodded, thinking hard about what their friend could have done. "The other guy…Amnias…was probably wrong." Paulo said confidently and again everyone nodded, a little more at ease.

"Hey," Hex said quietly and they all turned to him again.

"What?" Amber said and sat down next to him.

"Alex's credit card just showed up on the grid." He said nonchalantly, ignoring the how-the-heck-did-you-get-that-information looks from his friends. "I still remembered he was with HSBC," he explained, "get the information from there system and put a sort of invisible tracker on it so whenever it's used it'll alert me." Amber ruffled Hex's hair which was the equivalent of a pat on the back.

"Well, where is he?" Li asked, looking at the mass of numbers on Hex's screen and not understanding any of it.

"Granada, Spain." Hex replied and looked around as Paulo walked up to another computer in the room and grabbed some device from there.

"Well that's not an exact location." Amber said but Hex wasn't listening, he was looking at the gadget in Paulo's hands.

"That's not going to work," Hex told him but Paulo said nothing, he turned the device on. "It's too great a distance…" but he stopped speaking. As Paulo had turned the device on Hex's screen on his laptop changed to show a map of the world; four red dots appeared on the place where Boston was and, to his surprise, another dot appeared in Spain. He raised an eyebrow and clicked the red dot. An exact location came up. "Oh," Hex smiled, "I forgot how amazing I was." He said.

"Yes," Paulo came back to them and threw Hex's palmtop into his hands, "but you seem to be forgetting I'm the one who thought to use that." He said indignantly.

"Well then," Amber stood up, "let's go to Spain!"

"Gracias," Paulo said as he paid the driver. It had been a nine hour flight from Boston to Granada airport which meant they had arrived at 10 pm local time, the sun had just set but there were streaks of purple in the sky that made the stars stand out. The trip had been comfortable seeing as the MOD was paying for everything. The group noticed Paulo and Hex had some contempt when it came to authority and resenting slightly the fact that they were under their control. Nonetheless they had made it to the airport, called a taxi and made their way to Alex's address. The property was hidden away by a tall wall covered in ivy, the entrance was a small gate and they all peered inside. It was a pretty villa with a terracotta roof, whitewashed walls and a green door. Amber pushed the gate open and smiled at the red, pink, orange and white flowers that lined the immaculate garden's path to the house.

The four of them approached the villa cautiously, aware that although lights were on the house seemed still. They made their way stealthily up the red brick pathway and once they were at the green doorway they waited for Paulo to step forwards and knock; he extended a hand, held it in mid air for a moment as though teasing the others to create tension and then knocked.

"I hope he's up." Amber whispered into the darkness, she felt Hex shuffle closer to her as the night breeze made cold air come around them.

"I hope this is the right place." He muttered under his breath, still concerned as to why the tracking device he had made when they were teenagers was still working. As he did the door opened slowly and all of them looked into a pretty hallway where soft jazz music hummed throughout the house. And then they looked down. In front of them stood a little girl, she must have been about 2 years old, looking at them through sleepy but happy eyes. She had long, wavy hair that was the lightest shade of brown possible and big blue eyes that made them all "awww" in unison. She smiled at them mischievously.

"I want one of those!" Amber whispered excitedly and felt Hex shuffle away from her, she hit him playfully in the ribs. The child looked around at them all; she had on a pink nightdress and was holding a yellow blanket with teddy bears on it. She roughly brushed hair away from her face in an irritated manner, something children did when tired.

"Hola. ¿Qué es su nombre? " Paulo asked, Amber translated for the others.

"Hello, what's your name?" She breathed quietly to Li and Hex. The little girl put her head to one side and smiled as though weighing up how she should answer this stranger. "How do you know she speaks Spanish?" Amber asked Paulo and he shrugged.

"She looks like her mother, I bet she taught her." He said nonchalantly.

"Her mother?" Li asked with an accusatory look at Paulo; how did he know who her mother was? They all looked back to the girl who was ready to answer.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeva." She said happily and blinked at them slowly before yawning and putting her blanket to her mouth.

"Eva." Li squealed, "that's so cute." She almost jumped up and down in excitement and fought down the desire to pick the little girl up.

"¿Es en casa su padre? " Paulo asked another question and the girl had to think about it before answering.

"Is your father at home?" Amber translated. Eva pulled her blanket close to her chest and looked over her shoulder.

"Deddy!" She shouted, sounding ecstatic, suddenly awake and ready to run around.

"Deddy?" Hex asked.

"I think she's saying daddy," Li explained with a giggle and eventually they all found themselves laughing, partially because Eva was so cute and partially because Li had said the word daddy in the most babyish voice she could.

"Eva!" A woman came from behind the door and, with her back to the four, picked the little girl up, her dark brown waves of hair flowing behind her in the wind. "How did you open the door?" She sounded more impressed than angry. Eva, who was looking over the woman's shoulder, smiled and pointed to the door, trying to get her to turn around. "Didn't I just put you in bed?" The woman laughed and turned to the door. "Sorry, can I help…" Her voice trailed away as she looked around at them all. She recognised them. They recognised her. There was a moment of silence.

"Hello Lily." Amber said awkwardly. Lily put a hand to her mouth.

"Oh my…" she looked around at them all, "guys!" She moved forwards and with one arm, for the other one was holding her daughter, embraced them one by one, and kissed them each on the cheek. She laughed when she found Hex still blushed at things like this. "Oh, come in!" She said as though suddenly remembering where she was, she moved aside so they could walk in. "Eva, go call your dad OK?" She asked the little girl in her arms; Eva nodded and silently ran away from them, "¡Cuidadoso!" Careful, Lily called. They watched Eva run off and laughed as she peered around the door a moment later to see if they were still looking. Lily turned back to the group and they could tell she was still shocked. "Have you got bags?" Amber nodded, slightly speechless still, "I'll tell Mercedes to get them for you." She said slightly breathlessly. (A/N: yeah I stole the maid from Pan's labyrinth because I'm SO creative :P). Lily said something in Spanish and a woman about 20 years older than them all came into the room; she nodded at them all and went through the door to get their bags.

"Lily, aren't you wondering why we're here?" Amber asked, just a little concerned that Lily had welcomed them openly without questions. "Or how we knew where you were? Or why we aren't crashing in a hotel?" She asked.

"Why would I?" Lily seemed surprise by Ambers thoughts, "you guys are welcome wherever we are." She said happily.

"But it's been like…six years." Hex said and Lily put her hands on her hips.

"So?" She seemed bored by the conversation suddenly and walked into the kitchen which is down the hall. "Come in here," she called out to them, "I'll fix you something to eat and drink."

"She's like," Li said, trying to think of a word to describe Lily, "such a mum." They walked into Lily's kitchen, looking around the place eagerly, wanting to see what kind of life their old friends led now. Lily was at the counter, pouring cloudy lemonade from a jug into six glasses filled with ice.

"How've you all been?" Lily asked them and looked at them expectantly, they all shrugged in response. "Hmmm…" she laughed and they noticed that she still looked the same; just as pretty, as fragile, as wise as she did at the age of 15. "I guess you're all a bit tired to recap the past six years of your lives." She said and looked to the door, they all turned and could hear Eva giggling happily, screaming in delight. The door to the kitchen opened and Alex walked in with Eva sat upon his shoulders. He looked up at her and laughed as she rocked back and forth too fast and immediately became scared. He took her from his shoulders and held her normally. "I wish you wouldn't do that," Lily said with distaste, Alex looked to her and as he did he caught a glimpse of the four guests sat in his kitchen. He looked exactly the same too; tall, stocky build with blonde hair and blue eyes which his daughter had evidently inherited. Only a few things had changed, firstly he seemed more charismatic than the Alex they once knew, with his shirt sleeves rolled up and first few buttons undone he seemed to be more confident. And he was better looking than before in general; the girls had never noticed as they had been interested in the others and the boys had never noticed seeing as they were not that way inclined. But now they appreciated it after six years of not seeing him. There was an air of ease about him that was the same though. And just like when they had re-met Lily, there was a moment of silence where everyone stared at each other. Lily walked over to Alex and put her hands over Eva's ears.

"Bloody hell." Alex said quietly and Lily took her hands away from her daughter's ears before taking her out of her father's arms.

"It's great to see you too mate." Hex said and stood up.

"I'll put Eva to bed." Lily said pointedly and walked out of the kitchen. After she left, slowly, the group stood up.

"Guys." Alex whispered before moving forwards and embracing them all.

"I haven't had a group hug in ages!" Amber said and once they had all broke away from each other and were stood in a circle she and Li wiped there eyes. Although he tried to hide it Paulo too blinked away tears.

"I don't believe it." Li said, looking around at them all.

"We're all together again." Alex said quietly.

"Alpha Force is complete." Paulo almost shouted and they all smiled.

Awww….it's so sweet they're all together again...but knowing me it'll all probably get ruined. We'll just have to wait and see!