Ok this is my first attempt at a new tricks fanfiction. I am kind of dipping into uncharted territory here so feed back would be much appreciated. This is going to be a case file with some Sandra/Gerry thrown in for good measure, nothing explicit. Enjoy I hope.

Tomorrow is yesterday

Sandra was sitting at her desk, the day was just like any other her team were working quietly on finishing up the last case. It had been a relatively simple one, Brian was just finishing up with the forensic report and Jack was typing up the witness statement. The new witness had come forward about the death of her step mother after almost twenty years of being to frightened to stand up to her father and feeling that she owed the evil man something. Sandra had managed to get the woman to tell her everything about what had happened that fateful day. Then they hand managed to gather together vital clues which all pointed to Steven Richmond and blood found under his wife fingernails finally got the man to confess.

Sandra took in a deep breath and inhaled the unmistakable sent of Gerry's cigarette.

"Gerry close that door, your fag is stinking up my new suite." Sandra called thinking she could probably just close her office door, but why she wasn't the one stinking up the office.

"Yeah, yeah." She heard back as the door shut and Jack looked up from his desk at her though the open doorway.

"What?" She questioned with raised eyebrows, but Jack just went back to typing and the moment was forgotten.

Getting up Sandra moved into the main part of the office and looked over Brian's shoulder, not really interested in what he was doing but she was bored and wanted to at least look like she was doing something useful.

Brian turned to look at her for a second without comment before going back to entering the details of the forensic report in to his own report for the use of it in court at a later date.

Before Sandra could offer any comment Gerry walked back in and cleared his throat.

"Hey I'm done guys any one fancy the pub." He said as he pulled his car keys out of his pocket giving the room a sweep with his eyes until they finally found Sandra's.

"Thought you would never ask." Jack said breaking the brief moment as he shut down his computer and grabbed his coat of the back of the chair.

"Oh all right it's nothing I can't do in the morning." Brian said with a small smile as he too stood up and collected his things from his desk.

"Ok twist my arm." Sandra replied last trying to make it sound like she was quite prepared to have continued working, but in reality she couldn't wait to leave the office. Gerry gave her a small wink of acknowledgement as she came back in coat on and hat in hand and she chose to ignore the look and checked her phone.

"Anyone we know?" Gerry asked as he opened the door for her and Sandra gave him a withering look but continued down the corridor followed by her three ever present companions.

"No and even if it was I wouldn't tell you any way." She replied replacing her phone in her bag and stepping out in to the brisk evening.

Gerry made a face which made Brian and Jack smile behind Sandra's back but the look and reaction went unnoticed by the blonde as she climbed into her car alone.

She was not on Brian duty tonight that honour feel to Jack so she could at least get home when she wanted instead of carting Brian here there and everywhere as usually he had to pick something up for Ester or needed something from the office. No tonight they were going to have a nice quite drink, in the knowledge that they didn't have a pressing case pending or someone breathing down their necks about budgets or barging in on their case.

Sandra turned over the engine and followed Gerry out of the car park followed by Jack as they headed off towards their favourite watering hole.

It had been nice a quite, just what Sandra wanted, they had laughed and joked about old cases and things they had done. It was nice just to be here without something work related to talk about and just relax.

Gerry knew that this could not last forever, it was nice to see Sandra let her hair down so to speak but he knew the kind of pressure she was under not only to deliver results but also to keep within a tight budget and keep everyone sweet at the same time.

It was no secret that Strickland often used his most attractive head of department to smooth over issues with the press, putting a pretty face on bad news was always a good tactic but it wasn't him coming out looking like a Pratt. Gerry grimaced when the object of his thoughts appeared at their table.

"Thought I might find you here." Strickland said not taking a seat but standing between Jack and Brian facing Sandra and Gerry.

"What can we do for you sir, the Richmond case is pretty much sown up we thought.." Strickland held up his hand to silence Sandra and Gerry watched as her jaw slammed closed with a slight grinding of her teeth.

"No no that's fine, this isn't an inspection of your time keeping." He said a smile on his face as Sandra lessened her death grip with her jaw.

"I see sir may I ask what it is about?" Sandra replied and Gerry had to admire her ability to go from hopping mad to diplomatic that quickly.

"You may, I have a new case for you, when I say new I think you will be suitably interested." Strickland said pulling over a chair and now sitting next to Sandra as Gerry fought the urge to throw his drink at his boss's boss. Glancing at Jack who was giving him the evil eye Gerry relaxed back in his chair and listened to what Strickland had to say.

"I don't know if you remember by eight years ago a small time criminal by the name of Danny Lloyd was beaten to death. He was found dumped in a creek not far from Epping forest and had been there for about two days before his body was discovered." Strickland said and all four members of UCOS sat forward now intrigued with what he had to say.

"Yeah sir no one could make any head way with who done it, the team thought I believe at the time one of his partners did it for an extra share of the bank job they were supposed to have pulled." Sandra interjected, this being more her era than any of the others for once she was culled up on the details.

"Indeed, however it now seems that is unlikely as George Drivers body has been found wedged inside a drainage pipe in Epping, they think he has been there for quite some time. Only able to identify the skeleton by dental records, so with this new turn of events I want you guys to re examine the Danny Lloyd case to see if you can come up with anything new." Strickland said getting up obviously finished what he had come to say and Sandra stood up to.

"Can I walk you out sir?" She said and Gerry wondered what it was she wanted to talk to him about that she didn't want them to here. It wasn't normally like that usually it was the other way around.

"Wonder what that was about?" Brian said before Gerry got the chance to voice his thoughts and Jack shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm sure she will tell us if it's something we need to know." He said knowing he would cajole it out of her if necessary.

"Sir this case is a little more modern than we are used to, are we going to be running along side a new investigation in to George Drivers murder?" Sandra said as Strickland moved to open the doors.

"No at the moment there is no new investigation, we have not found cause of death and the body is eight years old so it would fall more under your jurisdiction anyway." He said smiling at her as he walked into the car park and pulled his coat up around his ears.

"You know that original murder had gangland beating all over it, no one was talking and no new evidence was found, what do you think has changed now sir?" Sandra asked putting her hands into her pockets to keep her fingers from falling of in the bitter December cold.

"Time Sandra, people were obviously protecting someone back then, now with another body maybe someone will be willing to talk." He said as he climbed into his car and Sandra turned to walk back inside, only to see three faces pushed up against the glass suddenly shoot backwards.

"Can't take them anywhere." Sandra said as she opened the door to see Brian sprawled on top of Gerry and Jack holding her handbag out of the way of the spilled beer.

"Cheers." She said taking the bag out of Jacks hand and looking down at her two cohorts wiggling around on the carpet.

"Come on you two looks like we could use an early night." She said as Gerry pulled himself to his feet and helped up Brian.

"Next time mate look behind you before moving backwards." Gerry said as Brian shrugged his shoulders and picked up his coat and grabbed the case file from Sandra's hand.

"I will look over these tonight see if I can spot anything." He said already excited by the prospect of a new case he didn't even realise that Sandra had already got into her car and Jack was waiting for him.

"Oh sorry." He said getting in and not taking his eyes off the page.

"One day Brian you are going to be the death of me." Jack said pulling out of the car park as the night drew ever darker.

Sandra felt invigorated as she entered the office that morning, it was apparent the rest of her team did also as they were already there.

"Gerry!" Sandra said but was only met with the reply of the door closing and she turned to Jack who had started to put up a layout of the old and new case.

Brian was poring over files and she decided that she could get the tea.

"Tea, Coffee any one?" She said flicking on the kettle and discarding her coat. Both boys replied in the affirmative but did not look up from their tasks as Gerry re-entered the office.

"Oh you read my mind coffee please." He said and Sandra decided to smile at him for once instead of frown. After all she wasn't getting any younger she didn't want to add to her wrinkles.

"Where are we boys?" she asked handing around the coffee as Gerry and Brian came and sat in front of the white board as Jack presented the case.

"Eight years ago spring of 1999 Danny Lloyd, George Drivers and one Finn Harris were suspected of robbing the east midlands branch of the alliance and Lester. Nothing stuck though and without any real evidence they were all let go." Jack said as Gerry folded his arms across his chest.

"Why were they in the frame in the first place?" He asked and Sandra answered before Jack had chance to check.

"Eye witnesses said they saw three men matching their descriptions in the area just before the time of the robbing, also they had no credible alibi for the time of the robbery and they had form." Jack nodded at her and then continued.

"That was until four days after the robbery Danny Lloyd's body turned up badly beaten probably tortured in a dried up creek just inside Epping forest. It looked pretty much like a body dump and without any real evidence witnesses or forensics to go on the police at the time put it down to the other two getting greedy and killing Danny for his share of the loot. This was even more likely because of the sudden disappearance of the other two. Regulars at the police station for petty crimes, ABH, breaking and entering ect they suddenly vanished probably off to Spain with their take." Jack said pointing to the faces of the tree men as Brian spoke up.

"That bank job was pretty sweet, they managed to hit just as the tills were at their fullest, must have been watching the place for ages, to know when the best time to strike was. They got just over 200,000 pounds plenty if you only have designs on the Algarve." He said flicking through his own report and pushing his glasses back up on to his nose.

"Now with the appearance of George's body it puts Finn Harris right in the frame for murder." Sandra said as she stood up and pointed to the slightly angular face with the small piggy eyes and turning towards her team.

"The only problem is no one has seen him in eight years and it is also a possibility if we go digging though more of Epping forest we might come up with his body as well." She said contemplating where to start with this case.

"You mean all three after a successful bank job get tortured and topped, that's got they screwed the boss out of his loot written all over it." Gerry said looking more pensive as the blonde sat back down.

"I know the original team suspected Gangland killing at the offset given the condition of the body, it was like a warning for the rest of his mates I suppose." She said looking at Gerry and he saw the sad look on her face.

"Guess it didn't quite work." He replied as Jack broke the moment.

"May I suggest me and Brian go and look at the crime scenes see if we can establish some connection or something." Sandra looked up and nodded her head and then turned back to Gerry.

"I guess we go and see Mrs Drivers." She said getting up and placing her coffee cup on Gerry's desk and grabbing her coat as they all headed off out of the door.

"Creepy place, very isolated down here, not like the rest of the forest, not much foot traffic." Brian said sticking his head inside the pipe where George's skeleton had been found and pulling back at the nasty smell.

"Yeah I bet the killer knew that when he dumped the body here." Jack replied pulling on his gloves and climbing back up the embankment towards the tree line.

"Which suggests the killer knows the area well, which in turn puts Finn Harris right back in the frame." Brian continued joining Jack up on a path way and heading towards the location where Danny's body had been discovered.

"Do you think both bodies were dumped at the same time, only when they dumped Danny someone disturbed them and so his body was left out and found while George's went unnoticed for eight years." Brian asked as they came to the creek where the body had been dumped. It had grown over more now and there was no obvious place to hide the body but that did not mean there wasn't anywhere back then.

"Could be, in fact I would go as far as to say Danny was not even supposed to have gotten out of that pipe, I would say he might have crawled here." Jack said pointing to an obvious line in the foliage which lead back the way they had just come.

"Yes they though Danny was dead dumped him in the pipe next to George and take off, Danny then gets up almost dead but goes in search of help, he can't climb up the ditch so her crawls along it finally dying here where he fell and was found only two days later." Brian said a twinkle in his eye and Jack had to concur at least now they had something the original team did not know. Danny and George were killed at the same time which meant more than one person had to be in on it to move the body's.

Sandra shook her head when the woman offered them tea as did Gerry. Although Mrs Drivers was only about fifty years old she looked well beyond her years, drinking and smoking and too many times on the sun bed had taken there toll on her now slack and sallow skin and Sandra was very glad her worst vice was the wine.

"We are sorry for your loss Mrs Drivers but we really need to go over what happened the last time you saw your son." Sandra began as the woman lit a cigarette and Gerry offered her a light.

"I know, I have for the last eight years pictured George sitting on some beach somewhere living life with some bird on his arm, now I find out he has been in some kind of dirty pipe rotting away for eight years." The woman became gradually more upset as she spoke and Gerry leaned forward.

"It's ok Mrs Drivers but if we are to catch the person that did this to your son we need to know everything." He said and the woman whipped a tear out of her eye and sniffed back.

"You mean about the bank robbery." She said a rye smile on her face and Sandra leaned forward to copying Gerry position.

"Did he do it, did George, Danny and Finn rob that bank." Sandra asked as the woman's head slowly nodded.

"Yes, they all came back here, I told them to get out, I didn't want to be any part of it, I loved my son, I always will but there was no way I was having all that gold and jewellery stashed in my house." She said and Sandra's shocked face told Gerry everything he needed to know.

"Do you know where they did take it?" He asked and the woman shook her head this time.

"No I think Finn said something about a place he knew but I didn't ask and George didn't tell me, that was the last time I saw him." She said which Sandra knew was not what she had told the police when they had fist come to her door about her son's disappearance.

"Thank you Mrs Driver, if you remember anything else let us know ok, oh and do you know where we might find Finn Harris?" Sandra said handing the woman her card as she turned to leave the house.

"No I have not seen that boy any more than I have seen George." Mrs Drivers said as Gerry and Sandra made their way out and climbed into Sandra's Saab.

"I think she is telling the truth, she would not have told us her son committed armed robbery if he didn't do it, but the jewellery, why wasn't that mentioned in the original police report." Gerry said buckling up his seat belt as Sandra pulled the car from the curb and headed back to the office.

"I don't know, but I hope I am not smelling another conspiracy here because heaven knows I am sick of discovering bent coppers." She said and Gerry glanced at her face, she looked tired again and drawn and he could feel himself going the same way, he hoped that Jack and Brian had managed to come up with something so that they had at least made some form of progress that they could offer Strickland when he inevitably came knocking.

"I guess we need to find Finn Harris above or below ground." Sandra said shocking Gerry out of his thoughts as he saw the police station come into view.

"Yeah but where the hell to start first, the shovel or the family?" He said with a grin as Sandra pulled her car to a stop next to Jack's.

"Looks like the boys are back already." She said climbing out as Gerry followed her back to the office.

Jack and Brian informed Sandra and Gerry of what they had found and all four agreed that the body's were dumped together, probably by more than one person, a person who knew about the stolen jewellery, which had never been reported logged or valued and was now looking like a real motive for the killings.

"I think Finn is alive, I mean why dump two bodies in the same place and keep the third." Gerry said pointing at the pictures of the crime scene.

"True unless Finn gave them the answers they wanted, you know they were tortured for a reason, and I bet it was information." Brian said and Sandra followed his line of thinking.

"Yeah but keeping a torture victim alive is never a good idea, maybe Finn gave them what they wanted so they didn't hurt him so bad, he just took longer to die."

Gerry got a shiver though his spine as he looked at the mangled corps of Danny Lloyd and he turned to look in to his Gov's blue eyes.

"God I hope not."

There I hope that was ok and you enjoyed that. Sorry this chapter is a lot of expiation about their new case but there will be lots of drama and adventure going on believe me, and maybe a little romance thrown in there for good measure. (If you don't like the idea of Sandra/Gerry don't continue) as always feed back is much appreciated especially as this is my first go at New tricks I would love to here your opinions good or bad try not to be too nasty though I do cry easily.

Thank you for reading sorry about the long AN. XxX