"Beth, you're needed in CID." Smithy poked his head round the door of the office Beth and Will were sitting at. Beth loved being "needed" in CID- action, thrill, responsibility and most of all, she got to see her gorgeous husband, Max. Ever since they got married 5 months ago, Beth was "needed" in CID more and more...Though of course Max denied the fact that it was because he wanted to see her.

"PC Carter! Morning!" Beth loved the way that Max pretended that Beth was just another uniform officer.

"Morning, DC Carter." Beth said with a slight smile in her voice.

"Beth. What do you know about the drug's trade?" Neil was straight in with it, no beating around the bush.

"Umm... A bit, though not much about anything major, just local junkies passing over money for their fix, Guv." Beth was embarrassed about her lack of knowledge on the big scale subject.

"Mmm. That's what I thought. Well, anyway, this man," Neil pointed to a picture of a thuggish looking man that was blu-tac-ed to the white board. "Dwaine Parker, is importing drugs from foreign countries, mostly Eastern Europe, then paying skint bar maids to hand them out to customers then give him the money. Though we don't know how he gets the drugs in. That's where you come in. We want you to pose as the type of bar maid he would "employ" and find out as much as you can. We're guessing there are several ways. This may take a while because he has a reputation for only letting people who he really trusts know how things work. You up for it?"

This sounded complicated to Beth but she just had to look at the pleading look on Max's face to know that if she didn't agree, then she would be in trouble- and she wanted to earn herself some brownie points.

"Yes, Guv."

"Well done. Get changed into plain clothes and come back here for us to wire you up and to give you more info."

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"Max, I'm scared. What if he sees right through me?" Beth handed Max a glass of wine and joined him on the sofa.

"Then we'll pull you out. You mean too much to me to let anything happen. I wouldn't have suggested you to Neil for the job if I knew that you could easily get hurt."

"Easily?" Beth's eyes widened.

"Well, the job is never going to be 100% safe, especially undercover. Even patrolling the beat is never safe. Remember that officer who got shot on his first day? Billy?"

"Yeah...I guess you're right... I love you, Max Carter."

"I love you too, Beth Carter. You do realise that tonight will be our last night together for a while? Months maybe?!"

Beth giggled while Max lead her upstairs by the hand.