"The End…"

Day: 1, 10:26 a.m.

Eve "Miss" Riley

Weaver Inn

Alaska

I felt the cool breeze brush over me as I looked at the letter in my hand. I smiled at the letter, and looked over to see David chopping wood with Logan behind him in tow. I settled myself at the base of a big tree in the back yard as I watched to two bicker back and forth about who could cut wood fast. Well, David bickered, Logan just silently listened, which only infuriated his brother. I glanced down at letter, and opened it quickly to read its contents, while the two men were distracted.

I was about to read when I heard a twig snap and the shuffling of feet come over. I sighed as the two men noticed my disappearance rather quickly, and came to investigate. I looked over to see David nudge me with his finger. "Watcha doing Evie?" He asked me and I turned back to the letter as Logan plopped down beside me.

I sighed at him, but smiled all the same as he squatted down next to see the letter. "I got a letter from my brother, and Gary."

"Oh? How are they? The last time we went to visit things where pretty crazy." David said rather happily, and then he turned to Logan. "Eve's brother says he's going to kick your ass if you touch his sister."

Logan rolled his green eyes, and ran his hand through his messy blonde hair. They were both sweaty from working, and I almost felt bad for asking them to cut the wood in the first place. I say almost because David was the one who ruined the central heating, and was more or less responsible for keeping us all from freezing. Though right now the winter winds weren't so bad.

I thought for a long moment about the trip to see Simon and Gary. It had only been a year ago and yet it seemed like everything was fairly okay. I knew Logan was a little sore about the whole thing. He'd wanted to meet my brother and tell him in person, but as it turns out I needed him here to run the Inn. I couldn't trust David to not destroy it so I'd pulled David along with me as a way of helping Logan out. The more I thought about it the more I decided that it had been a good idea to take David with me. He might have sold his brother out to Simon, but he had managed to make the whole three days they'd stayed the most entertaining.

Logan seemed less annoyed by it now than he had, but whenever the thought came up he got an almost scary look graced upon his face, like he did right now. He glanced at the letter and gestured for me to read it to them. I turned to him rather confused at his sudden interest in the subject of my brother and best friend. He gave a small smile and said softly. "If they are important to you, they are important to me."

I turned my eyes back to the forgotten letter and smiled at this. "Alright. Let's see. It says; Dear Eve, I want to start out by saying that it is Gary who is writing this. Simon keeps sticking me with the letters. He claims he has no spare time, but I know better than that. It takes about five minutes to write a simple 'hey! We are alive.', but he never listens to me, so I guess nothing has changed there. I think I'm going to strangle him if he does it one more time. That aside I wanted to tell you that everything is good here. We've both been really busy. Your brother is trying his best, and he's pretty good at his job. I'm proud to say that I've managed to get him to at least sleep for five minutes before pulling another all-nighter. So add another minute to our last time. We are making some pretty good progress, and before you can even worry about it, we spend at least one day a week together. So don't worry about your brother not getting to annoy me. He somehow finds a way even when he's not hear. For instance, right now as I'm trying to write this letter, your brother is trying to find new ways to test my patience. He's got one of those stupid sticky hands and keeps hitting my ass with it. Has he always been this annoying, or is it because I view him now as my boyfriend instead of a friend? Either way call him and scold him. He's driving me crazy. I still love him though... crap. I'm rambling again. Sorry.

We got a new member to the task force! His name is Joseph Allen, and he is from New York City. He's not nearly as funny as Wing's, but he as his moments. He's a bit strange and he has a funny accent, but he's okay. I think he is playing on our team, but Simon seems to think that I'm wrong. I think Simon is dumb, but in the end it doesn't really matter. Maybe it's because he's American, it's kind of hard to tell. We only got to see him for a month though, and I can't really go into too much detail, but let's just say he was sent out on a mission. I hope he's okay. I'm sure he will be fine. What's the worst that could happen, yeah?

I went to see Wing's the other day as it was his birthday. Simon went with me, and to be honest it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I was able to go this time without a single tear. Pretty cool right? Simon was really happy about it, but I'm not sure why. Maybe he is happy that I wasn't sad, or maybe he's happy because he feels like he's competing with him? Can't really tell with the enigma that is your brother. He took me out for ice cream, which in hindsight was probably a bad idea because- eh... never mind. That was almost bad. Sorry again. Did you know Wing's sister is a Sniper? She sent in a request to join the Task Force, but with all the stuff that has been going on around here she will probably be waiting a while.

Oh hey! While I'm thinking about it, MacTavish told me to say hi. He stopped me in the hall and asked if we are all still going to the Inn for Christmas. He looked kind of excited, but when I asked him, he said he just needed a break. I think secretly he wants alone time with Jacquelyn. Do you remember her? She was my doctor a while back. Well she still is. I have to go to her every once in a while. I guess the government wants to make sure I don't snap. It's okay though. She's a lot nicer than I expected her to be. Though I fully see now why MacTavish likes her so much. She is fiery, and can handle her own in a fist fight. She reminds me a lot of you a lot, but I think you're a little nicer. Eh... I hope she never sees this. She might send MacTavish to kill me in my sleep. Oh man... They are quiet the power couple, those too. I watched Scarecrow make the mistake of hitting on Jacquelyn, while MacTavish was around. I didn't know MacTavish could brawl like that. They of course made up and everything is fine, but the men are really cautious around her now.

How's everything on your end? Are you and Logan doing okay? Did David ever find out where Riley hid the remote? I guess you'll tell me when you write back. Well I got to go! Ghost is breathing down my neck again.

Yours Truly,

Gary Sanderson

Simon Riley

P.s Ghost was here -

I chuckled at the letter and Logan glanced up at me curiously. "They are happy." He said confirming this out loud as if he couldn't quite believe it.

I nodded my head at him and with the letter out of my mind. I glanced around the yard as something was missing from this scene. David noticed this and poked my face again. "What's wrong?"

"I'm not really sure. Are we missing someone...?" I asked him and then a sense of dread came over me. "David. Where is Riley?"

David smiled at him, but with each word he said to quickly faded. "I left him inside so he wouldn't... get... in the way... Oh shit!"

David rushed inside and I called after him. "I swear! If he ate dinner I'm going to stick you on kitchen duty!"

Logan chuckled at this, and as soon as his brother disappeared into the house, he placed a soft kiss to my lips. He stood up and went back over to his wood pile and began cutting more wood. I smiled after him, and watched as Riley darted out of the house with David chasing after him.

)-FIN-(