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Eight

Juliette walked up to the bullpen pretending to get coffee but really watching Ivchenkov, Peggy, Jack and Dooley all talk in Dooley's office.

Dooley drags her out into the bullpen and Jules listens to them argue from the coffee station. But she isn't really listening. She finds herself staring at Jack through the window of the office.

Chief paused when he went to return to his office "Johnson? Why aren't you in the lab?"

"Thought I'd get you some coffee" She answered a little too quickly but he shrugged it off and let her come into the office.

She handed Dooley a mug of coffee and one to Agent Thompson. "Would you like one Doctor?" She asked Ivchenkov who shook his head "Alright then, back to the lab" She gave Dooley a nod and a smile to Jack and left for the lab.

Her and Jack had been getting on better since Russia. The two found some level of mutual respect after the mission, the two got each other coffee, got drinks together and got lunch together sometimes. It was as if they'd never resented each other in the first place.

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Later on that day, Juliette made her way up to the bullpen again. She saw Agent Yauch looking annoyed as he walked away from Thompson's desk.

Jules went over to him, sitting on the desk next to where he sat "What did you do to annoy Yauch?"

"Nothing" He smiled up at her only to meet her frown.

She watched as Sousa went over to Chief's office and came out, calling Jack over.

"Seems you're needed Agent"

"Seems so" he pats her back and leaves with Dooley and Sousa, leaving Juliette confused at Jack's desk.

She picks up some pens from his desk, putting them in the pot but she spots a picture frame in the corner face down. She picks it up only to see herself staring back. She couldn't remember when it was taken or when he'd of had the chance to take it. But he had it none the less.

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"Listen up" Jules heard Dooley's voice so she listened from the bullpen doorway "I need agents at New York Municipal, Newark Metropolitan and Grand Central Station" He barked to the room "I want every bus stop, train station, Dock, airport,every last trolley wallpapered with pictures of Peggy Carter. She is now a fugitive and will be brought to justice or else every last one of you will be demoted to grade-school Hall moniter. Is that clear?"

A chorus of yes,sir's were the response. Jules just stood their, dumbfounded by the revelation. She stopped Yauch as he followed Ivchenkov and Dooley into the briefing room,catching his arm.

"What's going on?"

"Peggy was helping Howard the whole time" He mumbled "I take it you didn't know?"

She shook her head "I didn't"

Yauch offered her a pat on the arm and a half smile before following Dooley into the briefing room.

No one really saw Yauch. They said his name wrong or disregarded him alot. But Jules liked him. He was nice to her. Never openly disrespectful towards her. He was sweet.

She watched as Dooley spoke to him condescendingly before storming out.

Jules followed after him but he stopped her before she could speak.

"Johnson, before you go arguing with me, how about you take a long lunch break?" He said, scowling slightly. Something seemed off but she figured she could find Peggy with this, so she nodded and hastily left.

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She didn't think Peggy would be so stupid as to go to the Griffith but Juliette wanted to check there incase.

And to her dismay, Peggy waltzed right in.

"Peg!" She got close but Peggy sped up "Carter? Margret Carter don't you ignore me!" She stopped. Peggy turned and came to her "Peggy, you helped him? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Juliette, I promise I'll explain but I need to get something important"

"Like what?"

Peggy hesitated, but she knew she should've trusted Jules in the first place "Steve's blood" her voice broke as she spoke.

Juliette felt her whole body tense to a freeze. But Peggy rushed off again.

She slowly sat down at a nearby seat in the lobby and stayed their for God knows how long until she heard a voice.

"What apartment is Peggy Carter in?" Sousa said, making Jules stand up and go over to them.

"Johnson?" Jack looked at her confused "You live here too?"

Juliette simply nodded in response.

"Officer, if I gave every girl's information out to every Tom, Dick, and Gary who came in here-" Miriam was cut off when Thompson took her list of names from her arms.

"What are you doing?" Miriam continued but Daniel blocked her with his hand "Get out if there. That's confidential."

He slapped it shut "She's in 3E" put it down and started walking, Juliette followed behind.

Sousa walked next to Jack"Let's go"

They all trailed behind and Miriam kept nagging at them to stop, not that Jack listened.

"Did you know?" He looked to Jules who shook her head.

"I didn't"

"She here?"

"I may have saw her briefly but I'm not sure anymore" she said, a little dazed from knowing about Steve's  blood.

"You alright, Juliette?" Thompson but a hand on her shoulder as they walked.

"Yeah, just...tired"

They walked up to Peggy's room with Miriam yelping at them.

"There boys, right around the corner" Jack was about to knock the door down but Jules stopped him with her hand.

She took a key Peggy had given her out of her pocket and opened the door "There"

Jack rolled his eyes but smiled a little as they all piled in.

"Search everywhere, bag everything, it all comes with us" Daniel barked out.

Juliette's eyes drifted to the dressing table, more importantly a picture at it.

She went over to the table and picked up the picture of tiny Steve.

Daniel looked over her shoulder, giving her a pitying look, before continuing to search.

Miriam starts to fuss over a hole on the wall, making Juliette go over to her, patting her shoulder in an attempt to be comforting.

"Juliette" She turned to her "You said you worked at the telephone company with Miss Carter. I assume she lied but tell me how do you know these men?" she indicated around the room.

Juliette looked over to Jack, standing by the window, eyes begging for help.

Jack said the first thing that sprung into his head "Girlfriend. She's uh yeah she's my girlfriend"

Miriam scowled at the group even more then to Juliette before going back to overreact to the wall.

Juliette met Jack at the window, elbowing him "Why'd you say that? Weirdo"

He smiled to himself and kept searching the room.

After they started to look in other room, briefly checking Juliette's incase Peggy used her spare key, and then they went over to Angie's.

"Miss Martinelli!" Thompson banged her door "Federal Agents! We have some questions for you."

After a second Jack said to Jules "You her friend too?"

"Yeah, me and Angie get along"

Jack then indicated to the door and Juliette said with a half hearted shrug "Angie? You in there?"

Angie swung the door open and they immediately walked in.

"You don't look like federal agents" She scoffed.

"We're with the strategic scientific reserve" Sousa kept looking around the room.

"Well, I'm with the Queens County 4H. Now take it down the hall"

Miriam went over to her "I suggest you take then seriously, Miss Martinelli. Miss Carter is not who she appears to be"

Angie and Juliette shared a look and they both seemed to understand each other. Jules knew she was in the building, Angie knew where she was.

"Mother hen says you're friends with Peggy Carter" Jack says as he leans against a doorframe.

"Yeah we're friendly" Angie says with a shrug.

"She ever tell you about her work?" Daniel asked.

"At the phone company?" Angue turned to face Sousa "Just the usual stuff. Complained about her fathead male co-workers alot"

Juliette spent all her energy stifling her laugh but she failed, making everyone look up at her in confusion.

"She keeps weird hours, stay out late, bring guys over" Thompson pressed.

"Of course not. Curfew's at 10:00. No guys above the lobby" Angue said while looking between the two.

"Hear, Hear" Miriam nodded.

"When was the last time you saw her?" Sousa asked.

"A little bit ago" Angie said with slight hesitation "She was on her way out, said she wasn't gonna be around for a while."

"She say anything else?" Juliette asked, reminding everyone she's still there.

Jack started to near the window and Jules could sense Angie tensing up.

"No she didn't say" she mumbled, eyes darting to Jack "Uh but I think it had something to do with her sick grandmother" she then started to shake in sobs.

Juliette was taken aback, she was quite good at acting and the look of discomfort on every man's face made it 100x better.

"Oh, gee, um-" Sousa looked around awkwardly.

"Please, don't...do that" Jack looked at her awkwardly.

Angie starts sobbing and talking in hysterics while Juliette (for once) successfully hides her smug laugh.

As Angue goes on about her grandmother and something about acting, Jules wasn't sure, Jack got slowly closer to the group again, visibly uncomfortable.

Angie kept sobbing and pushed herself into Jack's chest. He let out a sort of grunt and half heartedly hugged her back, patting her head "Please stop"

Juliette made a choice to ignore the twisting feeling in her stomach as she saw them kind of hug. It was stupid. The feelings were so stupid.

"Could you do something here?" Daniel asked Miriam and Juliette.

"Oh, actors wear their emotions close to the surface. I could no more stop her than I could Laurence Olivier"

Sousa turned to Juliette and Jack was begging her with his eyes for help.

"I'd help but uh this is way too funny I'm sorry" Juliette smirks making Jack subtlety flip her off.

Angie sniffled and looked up at Jack "What's your grandmother's name?"

A half smile crept onto Jack's lips as he said "Gam-Gam"

This time Juliette failed to hold in her laugh as she snorted and half wailed with laughter, not caring if people where looking at her like she was crazy.

Jack gave her a scowl and his lips tightened in a line as she kept laughing.

"We should go. Talk to some more neighbours" Daniel turned to leave and Jules grabbed Jack's wrist making him follow her out.

"Come on Thompson" She kept pulling him by the arm.

A/N-A bit shorter this time but I hope you enjoyed :) don't forget to vote!!

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