Author's Note: see chapter one for disclaimer. Etc.

I know I said I had more written when I published chapter 1. But I actually didn't have this chapter written yet. I had the next chapter written. But after publishing the first chapter I realized that I was missing the Auggie side of the story. So I wrote this chapter.

Don't' worry if none of that made sense. It barely made sense to me. Anyway, hope you like it.

Auggie sat in his office at the DPD. He knew that Annie and Jai could be walking into a potentially volatile situation. He was almost sure of it. He hadn't gotten a chance to meet Ben himself so he was still unsure of whether to trust him or not. But Annie trusted him.

Was that enough? He couldn't stand the thought that Ben might be playing her. She was Auggie's friend, probably the best friend he'd had in a while. He cared about her. He knew how much this was affecting her. She had told him all about Ben, as much as he had told her about Natasha anyway. He couldn't help but feel like a hypocrite though.

Hadn't he done the same thing to Natasha? He'd loved her, lied to her, and stood her up. Then he'd come back into her life suddenly turning it upside down only to play her again for the CIA. He couldn't help but make comparisons to Ben.

He was sure that something had happened between Ben and Annie on the beach in Sri Lanka. How else would they have swapped bracelets? All this craziness with Ben had to be making her think seriously about her position at the DPD. Would she want to go rogue. If Ben asked her would she leave the agency?

A thought struck Auggie. He would help her, whatever she chose. He quickly did a pass of his office with his laser cane to make sure there was no one in the doorway watching him. He carefully brought up a screen and made a few arrangements in case he needed them. He called in a favor from an old special ops friend who happened to be in Sri-Lanka. He had a plan but he would only put it in play if needed. It never hurts to be prepared.

He had just finished with his secret dealings when he heard heals walking across the bullpen. As the sound got closer, he also heard the telltale necklace that signified that it was Joan.

"No word from Sri-Lanka yet; if that's what you're here to ask." He stated matter-of-factly as she came to a stop in the doorway. He hoped that no one had noticed his actions for the last twenty min.

"Send the extraction team in." She stated. "I don't like the fact that we haven't heard from them yet. " They had put a helicopter crew on standby as soon as they got off the phone with Annie and Jai.

Auggie typed rapidly and spoke into a mike. "Extraction team you have a go." He was so glad to be sending help in. He had tried not to worry so much in the last half hour, but he couldn't help hoping that they were okay. Well. At least that Annie was okay. He had never been a fan of Jai. Not that he wanted the guy dead or anything, but he couldn't quite bring himself to worry about the other man.

It was nearly half an hour later when Jai finally called in.

"We've got Sabine. He's asking that we return him to Hong Kong." Jai said over the phone.

Joan was standing in Auggie's cave already. "What happened?" She asked. Jai described everything that had happened in the last hour. Ben had seemed like he was playing them, but he was actually playing Artigas. He explained that Artigas and his henchmen were all dead and that they had gotten Sabine to the helicopter okay. Then he dropped the bomb on Ben being shot and his death.

"Where's Annie?" Auggie couldn't help but ask.

"She's gone." He said simply. "She smashed her cell-phone and told me to tell Joan that she's taking the week off. I don't know if she's going rogue. I couldn't have stopped her if I wanted to. That woman is scary as hell when she's upset."

With that Joan gave Jai permission to set Sabine up with a flight back to Hong Kong. They would keep an eye on him for the next couple of months and make sure he was okay. With Artigas and his henchmen dead the threat to Sabine was gone. When they were done with the phone call, she looked at Auggie.

"You know Annie better than anyone else here. Do you think she'll come back to us?" She asked him.

"I don't know." He lied. Without Ben, Annie wouldn't go rogue. She would take the week off like she said. She would disappear for a week out of defiance against the agency, but she would return to the DPD; at least if he had anything to say about it.

Joan sent him home. As he waited for his car service, he pulled out his cell-phone. He mentally thanked the eagle scouts for telling him to be prepared. It was time he set his plan in motion. He had a feeling someone was going to owe him a sandwich.

Next chapter you'll find out what Auggie was up to with all his secretiveness. Chapter three will be up soon.