Someone Like You
Chapter One : Better Together

Summary: Sequel to Accidentally In Love. Sam and Phil are adjusting to the reality of married life whilst Andrea and Neil are having baby blues with Alex. Kerry is scared of telling Smithy that she is pregnant whilst Honey and Dan and Mickey and Suzie have to cope with the pressures of work on their love lives. Will be SamPhil, SmithyKerry, AndreaNeil, HoneyDan, MickeyMia and SuzieZain. Thanks to everyone who reviewed AIL, it really meant a lot to me! Please review this story so I know what you think! Luv, Vikki x

"Andrea!" Gina Gold called out, her voice echoing through the corridor. Andrea stopped in her tracks and turned around slowly to face the Inspector.

"Ma'am?" She asked, rubbing her fingers over the headache that was beginning to form at her temples.

"Don't ma'am me PC Dunbar, the briefing ended twenty minutes ago." There was no mistaking Gina's anger.

"I know, I'm sorry ma'am. It was Alex, he kept waking up in the night and I ended up oversleeping this morning." Andrea explained.

"I don't want to hear it PC Dunbar, not now. Honey is waiting for you."

Andrea nodded and turned around again, heading down the corridor to find PC Harman.

"Hey Andz, you alright?" Honey asked full of concern when Andrea finally caught up with her.

"Hi Honey." She replied with a tired smile. "Yeah just shattered. Alex was up half of the night and now Inspector Gold's on my case."

Honey looked at her sympathetically.

"If there's anything we can do?" She said referring to her and her boyfriend of nearly seven months, PC Dan Casper.

"Thanks Honey but we're doing okay now, as soon as Alex starts sleeping nights everything will be perfect." Andrea assured her friend. Even though she wasn't getting nearly enough sleep to function and she was in trouble with Gina, life was still going unusually well for Andrea. Things were really good at home, she and Neil were more in love than ever and they were so happy with Alex. It seemed that something had to go wrong because of how great things had been going recently.

"That's really good to hear, I'm glad you're all happy." Honey smiled.

"Thanks." Andrea replied with a genuine smile of her own. "How are you and Dan?"

"Pretty good thanks." Honey smiled again. "I think we should get some work done Andrea or Inspector Gold really will be on the warpath!"

Samantha and Phil Hunter were also late for work that day but no one in CID seemed to have noticed because they all seemed to be in uproar about something. The newly married couple asked DC Zain Nadir what was going on.

"Meadows had promoted Stuart to DS instead of Suzie." He explained to the two sergeants.

"What?" Phil exclaimed. "But he can't do that!"

Zain shrugged, he didn't want to get involved, it was safer that way.

"She's with the DI." He said instead.

"I don't see what the problem is." Sam intervened. "Clearly the DCI is going to give the promotion to whoever deserves it. May the best man win and all that."

"Yes I know babe but Stuart's only been here five minutes whereas Suzie is much more experienced and knows everyone here."

"I know honey but..."

"If you're going to have a domestic please don't involve me!" Zain interrupted jokingly.

Ever since Samantha and Phil had married six months ago they had been the butt of most of the jokes in CID. It made Phil smile now when he thought of Stuart Turner. It was so obvious that he fancied Sam from the moment he transferred to Sun Hill and the look on his face had been priceless when Phil told him that they were married.

"Shut up Zain!" They said at the same time as they went to their own desks.

Sam and Phil chatted together for a while before the phone rang, Sam picked it up.

"Hello, Sun Hill CID." She answered.

"Can I speak to DS Hunter." The voice asked.

Samantha grinned across at Phil as she ran her foot up and down his lower leg.

"Mr or Mrs?"

Suzie Sim emerged from DI Neil Manson's office half an hour later fuming with rage. She took a seat at her desk next to her boyfriend and colleague Mickey Webb and began rearranging the items on her desk as loudly and violently as possible.

"Hey Suze." Mickey soothed, taking the hole punch and stapled from her hands and setting them down lightly on the desktop. "It's okay to be upset."

"Upset!" She burst out. "I'm not upset, I'm angry!"

"C'mon let's go for a walk." Mickey suggested.

"Kerry, are you okay?" Yvonne Hemmingway asked PC Young whilst they were on their refs break later that morning.

"Yeah I'm good thanks, really good actually." She smiled, putting down her empty cup of tea.

"How is the ever lovely Sergeant Smith?" Yvonne asked. "I haven't seen him yet today."

"He's got the day off." Kerry explained.

Yvonne nodded. "So what's he like when he's not being 'Sergeant Smith'?"

Kerry laughed. "Wouldn't you like to know! I'll spare you the details."

Yvonne laughed too, she was happy to know that both Kerry and Honey were both happy in love.

"Hey!" Honey grinned, hugging Dan tightly in the corridor after their shift had ended.

"You okay baby?" Dan asked, letting her go.

"Yeah..." Honey was about to say more when she saw someone else beside Dan. "Who's this?"

"Oh sorry Honey, this is PC Beth Jackson, Beth this is Honey Harman."

The two PCs looked at each other. Honey saw that Beth was a little taller than her but not as tall as Dan. She had long wavy brown hair and Honey noticed how strikingly pretty she was.

"I've got to get going, bye Dan." Beth said.

"She likes you." Honey commented when Beth was gone.

Dan ignored the remark. "Are we going out tonight?" He asked.

Honey shrugged. "If you want to."

"Of course I want to. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing!" Honey snapped back, leaving Dan standing open mouthed in the corridor.

Suzie and Mickey went for a walk in the park around the corner from the station. It was late September and summer was beginning to fade into winter. Suzie and Mickey walked hand in hand beside the river watching young mothers and their children feeding the ducks. Suzie tried to smile and relax but she was still bubbling with anger and betrayal. Mickey guided her to a seat beneath a willow tree and they sat in silence for a little while.

"I just feel so betrayed." Suzie said a while later.

Mickey put his arm around her shoulders.

"I know." He soothed. "But it could be for the best."

Suzie pushed Mickey away. "I can't believe you're taking his side! I thought you were different Mickey!" She said angrily before walking away from him.

The next morning Smithy and Honey were assigned to work together in the patrol car. Smithy could sense that there was something wrong with Honey and she barely spoke all morning. Eventually Smithy knew he had to ask her what was up.

"Honey, is everything okay?" He asked as they stopped at a set of traffic lights.

"Yes thank you Serge" Honey replied. Smithy wasn't convinced and looked thoughtful as he put the car into gear and drove away from the lights.

"You seem quiet."

"Hm..." Was PC Harman's non commital response.

"Is it you and Dan?" He asked gently. "You can talk to me about it as a friend as well as your sergeant."

"Thanks Smithy." Honey replied gratefully. "We've hit a bit of a rough patch." She admitted.

Smithy was about to reply when he had to slam on the brakes as an oncoming car crashed into theirs.