Hope?

Beth sat up in the hospital bed frustrated that she had to stay in hospital overnight. Her head wound had been cleaned and stitches applied. Now she waited for the verdict on her ankle injury.

"You and Ruth are going to be a nightmare. Both of you stuck on the Grid." Dimitri smiled slightly. Beth narrowed her eyes. "At least you can keep each other company."

"At this rate I may just go back to the private sector."

Dimitri raised an eyebrow. "You wouldn't?"

"Don't be daft." She sighed. "Told you. You're stuck with me."

Dimitri ran a hand over his eyes as they filled with tears. Beth raised an eyebrow. "Hey."

"I thought you were dead."

"Well, you know what thought did."

"My gran used to say that." Dimitri swallowed hard. "I thought you were dead and you take the piss!"

Beth frowned, not used to the profanity from her partner. Dimitri rarely swore or showed emotion. She'd put it down to his navy service . SBS were tough. Tears got you no where. By joining Section D he had essentially traded one elite unit for another.

"I dunno what else to do. I'm alive." She held his hand. "I was sodding terrified but it's over. You're ok. So am I. This time they didn't win." She pulled him into her arms as he buried his face in her neck.

"I love you."

"Glad someone does." She sighed as she held him tighter.

Xxxxxxx

Harry stared at Erin as she explained the situation with Rana and her errant ex boyfriend. He had believed the man was the key to the case, but believing Rana was the gullible lover was a bit too far fetched for him.

"Did she say what she had disclosed?" Will asked as he gingerly sat at the Briefing Room table. Erin shook her head.

"She claimed to be the innocent caught up in this." Calum frowned. "And if you believe that you'll believe anything."

"She may be gullible but I'm not." Erin frowned. "She knows what she's doing. She knows whatever she told Loverboy has led to all this. People have died because she couldn't keep her mouth or her legs shut."

"But we don't have any actual evidence of her leaking anything. It's All circumstantial." Ruth added as Ros leant against the wall.

"So." Ros glared straight ahead. "We let her go and follow her."

"They're dragging our history back to us. Hotel bombs, poisoning, kidnapping me, even the attack on Tariq. It stinks of things that have happened to us before. The only way they could know that is if they have the files." Ruth looked more angry than Ros had ever remembered her.

"I've checked. The files haven't been booked out or touched at all. They're all marked Eyes Only." Catherine explained. "If they really do know us then they know we are likely to release and follow her."

"What do you suggest?" Harry paused. Catherine and Calum exchanged glances. Malcolm shook his head. "Out with it."

"We make a show of bugging her apartment. Let them know we've been in there." Catherine paused as Adam raised his eyebrows. "Then we really go after them." Ros smirked; knowing that Catherine had been going through the history of Section D just as Rana appeared to be.

"And?" Ros asked as Catherine looked her directly into her eyes.

"As Tariq would say. We go ninja on their asses."

Xxxxxxxx