All Hallows Lockdown 1/3

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Episode:- None

Pairing:- Jean/James

Rating:- M

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Summary:- He had absolutely no idea what was going on but he knew one thing he needed to keep her talking and distract her or he was pretty sure he was seconds away from seeing his ever controlled boss have a complete meltdown.

Author's Note:- Written for the Halloween challenge to "Write a spooky Halloween fic". Really a little Halloween based scares and smut enjoy and reviews would be lovely!

"Why are we meeting them here?" Jean sighed as James pulled the car up outside the back entrance of the University Hospital used by the morgue. She couldn't believe that he had persuaded her to go anywhere near the building on Halloween night. In almost 30 years on the force she'd never quite got used to being in the morgue and so closed to death and the idea of being there on Halloween was not one she liked at all. In truth she couldn't understand why Robbie had insisted that James take personal responsibility for getting her to the party and why he'd insisted that they pick him and Laura up there. It wasn't a secret that she hated the building so she couldn't understand why he thought it would put her in the mood for a party to have to detour there before she could go home and change.

"All I know is that they wanted us to pick them up then I'm to drop you three home to change into costume for the party, I don't even know where the party is have they told you?" James replied as they got out of the car and he could feel her reluctance to move closer to the door. He had no idea what sort of game Robbie was playing but he never turned down a chance to spend a little more time with the woman now walking beside him so he was prepared to wait and see, he just hoped that his friend knew what he was doing. He'd been looking forward to the party for weeks, the fact that they had convinced Jean to go and that he would be able to spend an evening in her company, had made the idea of a costume party bearable even if Robbie was being very secretive about it.

"No they haven't and frankly I'm not liking any of this, you remember last Halloween I swore after that I would never going to anything Laura organised again." Jean sighed glancing around as they reached the morgue and James held the door open waiting for her to enter. "James there's no one here look around the place is in darkness everyone has gone home. Let's go we can call them when we're back in the car and find out where they are."

"Yeah ok, you're right it looks…." James began stopping in his tracks and turning toward the door as he heard the sound of the deadbolt closing on the door and ran toward it pulling at the handle in vein.

"James what the hell is going on? Open the door and let's go this isn't funny!"

"Do I look like I'm finding it amusing?" James replied rushing to the other side of the small room and trying the second door only to find that the night security locks had been activated on it too. "They are both locked, I remember Laura telling me they'd introduced a new security system along with a new "green" lighting system so that at night the morgue was secure from wandering medical students and the hospital could meet it's energy efficiency targets. She was complaining because she was in her office last week and when she went to come in here to get a file she couldn't get it and the central hub told her they couldn't override the system until 6am unless there was an emergency. The doors are locked and any minute now the lights will…."

"No way! Get us out of here James I mean it I am not spending the night here and….." Jean shouted her words failing as the strip lighting in the room went out and was replaced by a low red glow from a row of low wattage lights on one side of the room.

"Ma'am calm down it's going to be fine I'll call Laura, I think the two of us stuck down here constitutes an emergency don't you? She'll come back and get them to open the doors then we'll be out." James replied moving a little closer to her as she paced back and forward in front of one of the steal autopsy tables. "Please don't panic I promise I'll sort it out. They must be close by I mean we were only ten minutes late they probably assumed we'd decided not to come here they both know you hate this place so all they'll have to do is turn around and get us out then we can enjoy the party and forget we were ever here."

"Just make the call James then I'll decide about the party, right now all I want is a glass of wine and a hot bath." She muttered leaning against the table for a second before realising what it was and jumping away like it had scalded her. The room was so small and she was convinced that she could feel death all around her even though they were nowhere near the cold storage room where the bodies were stored before and after autopsy. Everything about the cold sterile steal surfaces around her and the jars and bottles of liquids, the trays of medical instruments and the filing cabinets full of details of the dead was making her heart race and all she needed was to get out and get home as far away from all of it as possible.

"Shit, voice mail, maybe she's in the shower or something I'll try Robbie." James muttered trying not to look her in the eye as Laura's mobile number rang and rang unanswered until voice mail kicked in and he quickly dialled Robbie's.

"James tell me he's answered." Jean said quietly as he shook his head and took a step closer toward her.

"Look they will notice we haven't turned up and then they'll see that I've been calling them and they'll come looking for us or they'll ring back."

"This isn't happening, I can't believe this."

"It'll be ok look at me, focus on me and not where we are all we have to do it wait it out, look there are a couple of chairs over there in the corner we'll sit in those away from all of this and wait it won't be long before they come looking for us I promise." James said quietly resting his hand gently on her elbow and guiding her across the room. He had no idea what was going on or what Laura and Robbie thought they were doing, or why they had suddenly decided to disappear off the face of the earth and ignore their phones. He couldn't honestly tell her how long they were going to be stuck in that room or even if they would be missed or their friends would just assume that they had decided to bow out of the party. If he was honest with himself, even though he wasn't being with her, he had absolutely no idea what was going on but he knew one thing he needed to keep her talking and distract her or he was pretty sure he was seconds away from seeing his ever controlled boss have a complete meltdown.