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CHAPTER TWO

Rome.

Emma stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around her petite body. She went to grab another towel to dry her hair when she heard the door to the safe house open and slam shut. Ethan and his team weren't due back for another 20 minutes. She grabbed her gun from the basin counter. She went to sneak out of the bathroom when she came face to face with two guns. One gun belonged to a tall, tanned woman who looked like she wouldn't hesitate to shoot Emma between the eyes if she had too. The other gun belonged to none other than William Brandt, the agent she let herself fall in love with.

"Who are you and why are you here?" the woman questioned Emma, not taking her eyes off her or lowering her gun.

It was Will who answered her. "She is IMF Agent Emma Malone but I have no clue to why she is here."

"You know her, Brandt?" the woman asked him.

"I use to," he said lowering his gun but never took his eyes of the 5ft 3 agent standing in front of him.

"Trust is an issue for me so I never answer to people I don't know," Emma told the woman who still had her gun pointed at her.

"Jane Carter," the woman said simply. "Now you know who I am."

"Only your name, not whether I like you or not," Emma frowned at her. "Now would you mind lowering your weapon before I do it for you?"

Jane frowned and lowered her gun.

"Why are you here, Emma?" Will asked bringing her attention back to him.

"I'm here to see Ethan," she told him.

"Why do you need to see Ethan?" Jane asked her.

"If it's not too much to ask for, can I get dressed before I have to answer any more questions?" she asked Will ignoring Jane's question.

Will nodded.

Emma turned around and walked back into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. She could hear Jane mumble something to Will. She rolled her eyes and got dressed. She went to walk out of the bathroom but once again came face to face with Will as soon as she opened the door.

"Why are you really here?" he asked, whispering loud enough for only her to hear.

"Like I told Carter, I'm here to see Ethan," she whispered back to him.

"That's bullshit, Emma," he frowned.

"Then you tell me why I am here since seeing Ethan isn't a good enough reason for you," she frowned back at him.

"There is always an ulterior motive with you when you come out of nowhere," he said.

"Maybe there isn't this time. Maybe I just need Ethan's help with something," she said. She was telling him the truth in a way.

"What trouble did you get yourself into this time?" he asked.

"What makes you think I am in some sort of trouble?" she asked him. She hated that she couldn't tell him what was really happening and how she was doing what she was doing to protect him. "I could just need information Ethan might have on someone I am following."

"There's a thing called a phone, you could have used that," Will said. "But lucky for you Ethan just got back with Benji," he added walking towards the small living area.

Emma followed him seeing Ethan talking to the woman and Benji. All three of them looked up when Will and Emma walked into the room.

"Emma?" Ethan asked seeing her. He had to make sure it was her.

She looked different from the last time he saw her. She didn't have the body of the teenager he had trained and mentored eight years ago. She had gotten curvier but the curves were in the right places. Her natural long blonde hair had been cut short and dyed black. She was far from the 17 year old he used to know. She was all woman now.

"I barely recognize you," he added smiling.

"I've grown a little and changed a few things," she smiled back at him.

"You look good," he told her.

"Didn't you say you need to see Ethan about something?" Will spoke up, interrupting the reunion.

"I was about to get to that," Emma said frowning towards Brandt, both their greyish blue eyes meeting each other's.

"Is everything okay, Emma?" Ethan asked her.

Emma turned her attention back to Ethan. "I'd be lying if I said yes. There is something I need to speak to you about... Privately," she told him.

"Let's go for a walk then, Ethan said making his way to the door.

Emma followed him as he walked out of the safe house.

When Emma and Ethan had left the building Jane turned to Will. "How do you know her?" she asked him.

Will could now feel Benji's eyes on him also.

Benji knew Emma through Ethan but he didn't know Will had known her also.

Will sighed as he sat down. "We worked a mission together," he told her.

"There has to be more to it," Jane said. "I saw the way you looked at her."

"Something happened between her and I but it's none of your business," he frowned at her.

He couldn't admit to his fellow agents he had fallen in love an agent he had once worked with especially when that agent had broken his heart by breaking her promise to keep in contact with him when they went their separate ways.