Code Number: 305 (Miss Congeniality AU)

A year and a half ago, Gracie Hart kissed Eric Matthews.

They never talked about it again.

Not because it didn't matter-because everything after worked better when they pretended it didn't.

Since the pageant case, they've become the FBI's most effective undercover duo: the team you send when improvisation is a requirement and failure isn't an option. They also happen to push each other exactly far enough to make things complicated... then act like they didn't.

So when a classified investigation-Code Number: 305-resurfaces, they're the obvious choice.

Even if neither of them wants it.

The case drags them into an international network of luxury retreats, political power, and people who vanish without a trace. Their assignment: go undercover as a married couple through Aspen, Lake Como, Monaco, and Santorini, where every smile is monitored and every lie is tested.

Perfect job for two people who lie for a living.

Except this time, the act doesn't feel like an act.

It feels familiar.

Too familiar.

Because Gracie and Eric don't just have to sell love to strangers-they have to ignore the version of themselves that already exists when no one else is watching. And the deeper they go into 305, the harder it becomes to tell what's part of the mission...

...and what's just them, finally running out of excuses.