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"That sounds like Eve, she's going to use that picture you know." Maria laughed as the sound of a tube pulling in and setting off bounced off the tunnels they were making their way down. "She's going to keep that picture and she's going to use it when she wants something. You know, she probably had a side-pool going with Bond, almost definitely Q and it wouldn't surprise me if they forced Tanner into it." Maria told him and in a way it made her feel sorrier for him because the odds were really never stacked in his favour were they?

Everything Maria said wasn’t exactly to his liking. He hated when Moneypenny got together with Bond and Tanner, and even dragged Q into their shenanigans, and when those were against Gareth – and in most cases, they were. That Maria didn’t seem to have a problem with it, did bother him a bit, too. As they waited for the next train, Gareth couldn’t help but just stare at the wall across from them, jaw clenched. There was nothing worse at work than having his own staff stabbing him in his back, and with everything that had happened in Italy, he constantly felt like looking over his shoulder, that the entire world was turned against him. Perhaps it was just paranoia.

She tried to follow his lips back when he stole another kiss but she as too slow. A pout came to her lips but it was clearly playful. "No but I did take a few mountain survival courses and that was part of it. Then there were all the times there was no place to land in those little planes..." She snorted. "And I mean when you're guys found me they had to do that reverse parachute thing where they hauled me up. THAT was way weirder."

The creases in his brow only deepened with his frown as he stared at Alex. “What kind of mountain survival courses include parachuting?” he asked in disbelief. Gareth followed her to the edge of the pool, placing his arms on it. “Have you, by chance, trained with the SAS?” he joked, chuckling. Really, there was barely anything with Alex that could surprise him. For someone so young, she had quite come around in the world. It was one of the reasons he loved her – she was strong and independent, she knew what life was like.