"Are you just going to stand there staring at me or are you going to let me in?" her sister demanded. When Cameron didn't answer she pushed past her and said,

"Like your hair by the way." She walked into the living room and let out a low whistle.

"Nice digs. Definitely beats New York." Cameron still hadn't said anything until that dig about New York.

"There's no booze here. Now what do you want Sandy?" Sandy looked at her in shock.

"What makes you think I want anything?" Cameron just have her a look.

"Alright. So maybe I do but I thought I would come and see my twin sister to make sure she's ok first." Cameron folded her arms and started tapping her foot. Sandy looked at her and then sighed,

"I need a place to stay for a little while." Cameron started to move into the living room as she replied,

"No!"

"Please?" Sandy begged. Cameron seemed to think about it before replying,

"How about I think about? Ok thought about it. Hell No!"

"Just one night?" Cameron eyed up her sister and relented.

"Fine. One night and then you can go into a hotel or the gutter for all I care." Sandy smiled at her headed straight for her bedroom before Cameron could even tell her she was getting the couch.
"Never mind." She muttered as she opened up an airing cupboard and took out a spare quilt and pillows. Next she went to her door and undone all of the locks except for the main one. Knowing that Callen would just let himself in, in the morning. She walked over to her couch and got herself comfortable thinking about Callen and finally falling asleep.

Saturday morning:

Callen woke up from one of his many naps with a smile. He looked at his watch and saw that it was around 9am. He quickly showered and dressed and headed up to the little coffee shop on the corner. The least he could do before he would rudely wake up Cameron was at least buy her coffee. Coffee cups in hand he walked back to the apartment building and proceeded up the stairs. He knocked on her door a couple of times and when he didn't get an answer the placed the cups down and picked the lock. This is getting to be an ugly habit he thought to himself. Putting the cups on the little table by the door he walked straight towards her bedroom. He tapped on the door and entered calling,

"Cameron time to get up! Come on we have work to do."

"Go away!" came the muffled reply. Cameron opened up her eyes and headed for the kitchen. She had heard Callen come in but didn't think anything of it when he didn't walk past her.

"Cameron! Come on you invited me. Now get up!" Callen called as he pulled the quilt off her. As Cameron heard the screech she remembered that her sister was in her room. Running around the corner and skidding to a stop at her bedroom door she smiled as she saw Sandy scowling at Callen and Callen trying to dig himself out of the hole he had dug himself into.

"I'm really sorry Cameron. I didn't realise…" Callen stuttered.

"Well you shouldn't even be in here!" Sandy screeched at him. Cameron chucked from the doorway and Callen turned around. His face registered shock but his eyes were suspicious.

"Who are you and what are you doing in this apartment?"

"Relax Callen its me. You've just done me a big favour in waking her up." She looked around Callen and said nastily,

"You get the Hell up! The quicker you get up the quicker you can leave and find that rock you've crawled out from under." Callen looked between the pair and smiled at Cameron.

"I like your hair. It's different. So who is this?" he asked pointing over his shoulder towards the bed. Cameron's hand immediately flew to her short red hair and she blushed.

"Thank you. That's no one important." Callen just looked at her, she rolled her eyes and sighed,

"Fine that's my twin sister Cassandra. She prefers Sandy. She's a drunk. The only difference between us is the fact that she has blue eyes and mine are brown." She walked away from Callen so she didn't see his expression.

"Could I ask you a question?" Cameron was sitting on her couch with her legs curled up underneath her. She raised an eyebrow,

"You mean another one? Course." Callen sighed and walked over to the couch to join her.

"Have we met before?" he asked her hurriedly. Cameron thought about this for a second.

"I don't think so. Why?" Callen looked at the floor and took a deep breath.

"If I explain will you wait until I'm done before you say anything?" Cameron nodded and waited for him to speak.

"Well when I was a kid I moved around a lot of foster homes and when I was about fourteen I lived with this Russian family. Well I enrolled in the local high school but I told them that I was actually Russian and didn't speak a word of English so on my first day of school they paired me with this girl who was deaf. We became good friends. I ask this because she had a similar reaction to clowns as to what you did. Was that you?" he asked her hesitantly. She thought about it and then without warning she slapped him hard across the face.

"What the Hell was that for?" he demanded. Holding his hand to his face.

"I always swore that if I ever saw the boy that had left me in that rat hole of a high school without saying goodbye I would slap him." She smiled at him,

"Yeah that was me. You sat next to me and wrote on a piece of paper; Hi I'm Callen. What's your name?"

"Cassie you?" Callen was smiling he could see the writing as if it was right in front of him.

"Callen. Are you really deaf?"

"Are you really Russian?

"No."

"No I'm not. You called yourself Cassie back then. Why did you change your name?" Callen asked her. Cameron blushed.

"Well the drunk next door had always been a bit of a problem child. So in the end the foster families wouldn't keep us together. You know how one twin is usually outgoing?" Callen nodded,

"Well that was her in our family. So in the end they split us up. My social worker couldn't tell the difference between us so I lied and said that I was her. The family that took me, the deaf family, just assumed that my name was Cassie. They taught me sign language and I convinced them to tell the school that I was deaf, as I didn't really want to make any friends and just wanted to be by myself. I don't know why they did it but they did. Maybe they felt sorry for me. Until you came along and no sooner had you come you left again. Without saying goodbye. Then I went into a rebellious teenage streak that lasted until I moved to New York. That's when she decided to look me up and I was a giant disaster from the day she moved in." Cameron trailed off and waited for Callen to say something.

"Wow it seems like you've always been able to think on your feet and change who you are on a whim. Maybe your more cut out for undercover work than you thought." Callen smiled at her and she burst out laughing. Callen soon joined her until her bedroom door opened.

A/N: Well there is a bit more background. All reviews are more than welcome any and all lol.