Dreaming Dickens 1/3 – Christmas past
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Episode:-None
Pairing:-Sandra/Gerry
Rating:-M
Achieve:- . /group/new_tricksff/
Summary:- Gerry is feeling very un-festive can three "ghostly" visits change his mind about how he spends the Christmas holidays?
Author's Note:- OK I'm not sure how to explain this other than to say if you've ever seen any version of a Christmas carol you've pretty much got the gist. Any text inside ** / ** and in italics is happening at a different time to the main story I hope that is clear enough but I think it'll be easy enough to follow once you get started.
"Merry Christmas Gerry." Sandra smiled handing him a perfectly wrapped gift as he glanced from his computer and smiled grudgingly.
"Thanks not sure I can be bothered with Christmas this year all my exes and my kids have plans that don't include me." He replied refusing to meet her eyes as he continued to stare at the email he'd already read three times.
"Well you could come for a drink with me now then come over tomorrow and we could be lonely together." Sandra laughed hating the fact he'd been so miserable for weeks. "Apart from a quick visit to Whitemead in the morning to see my mother I'm on my own tomorrow too she's decided she doesn't want to leave her friends to come spend the day with me."
"Nah thanks anyway but I think I'm just going to go home, get plastered and sleep through Christmas."
"Fine well don't say you weren't asked." Sandra sighed leaving the room sulkily as he stared after her then lifted the present off his desk running his fingers over the paper before ripping it open and laughing at the Copy of "A Muppet Christmas Carol" with a pink post-it attached to it saying "Since you've been such a scrooge this year I thought this was appropriate! Luv Sandra xxx"
Smiling he set the DVD on the desk and sat back in his chair sighing heavily. She always noticed when something was up with one of them and she always did what she could to help, sometimes he wondered if they really deserved it. He knew he definitely didn't he loved her so much he should have jumped at that chance to spend Christmas with her and still he'd said no he couldn't work himself out at times.
"Brian what the hell are you doing her aren't you supposed to be at Mark's already with Esther?" Gerry signed opening his eyes and seeing Brian lift the DVD off the table and turn it over in his hand.
"I am." Brian replied smiling as Gerry looked back at him sceptically. "Look mate this is your dream so don't look at me like I'm the one who's nuts. Well if this DVD is anything to go by I think I must be your ghost of Christmas past and we're going to walk out the door and be somewhere back in time."
"Brian don't be so stupid you can't be the ghost of anything you're not dead!"
"Sorry to repeat myself but your dream your rules." Brian laughed and the office dissolved around them and they were transported to the MET canteen were a Christmas party was in full swing. "So where are we what year I mean do you know?"
"Yeah." Gerry sighed knowing exactly which year and which event they were revisiting and hoping he woke up before Brian saw more than he needed to! "It's 2010 MET Christmas party, you and Jack wouldn't come you said you'd had enough of it when you were serving officers so me and Sandra were the only ones here from our office."
** "God I think Jack and Brian had the right idea this is awful." Sandra laughed looking around the room at the drunken antics of the people around them.
"Yeah I know and we have better booze than this downstairs in our office," Gerry agreed looking at the luke warm wine in the plastic cup in his hand. "Let's get out of here and get a descent drink do you think we can get out without Strickland noticing?"
"Yeah he's too busy smoozing the commissioner to notice." Sandra laughed as they walked quickly toward the door giggling quietly.**
"See we were the sensible ones!" Brian laughed as the canteen dissolved around them and they were back in their office again looking at a slightly drunk Gerry and Sandra laughing on the sofa in the centre of the room.
"Look Brian I don't think we need to see anymore we should just….you know….go or whatever." Gerry said quietly shaking his head as Brian raised an eyebrow in his direction. "Yeah, yeah I know my dream Jesus this is going to get uncomfortable."
**"You know it's madness that you don't have a fella at the minute Sandra I mean take a look at yourself you're gorgeous." Gerry slurred as Sandra laughed and shook her head "It's true you're a real stunner and you're damn sexy you could have any guy you wanted."
"Yeah I'm so sexy we're here alone and drunk and you haven't even tried your luck." Sandra laughed glancing into the empty glass in her hand.
"Only because I am adverse to pain and if I tried anything you'd make sure pain was the only thing I was feeling." Gerry replied as she moved across the sofa pulling him toward her and kissing him hungrily.
In seconds nothing else was important as they moved around the office, walls and desks providing the only support as they tore at each other's clothes eventually tumbling back onto the sofa.
"Oh god you feel good!" Gerry gasped as he thrust into her revelling in the way she ached toward him moaning his name as they moved together low gasps and strangled cries the only sounds in the room.
"Gerry harder please so good, do close, don't stop." Sandra moaned as she felt herself give up her body trembling in his arms as he filled her a final time falling against her chest gasping for air.**
"Oh my god!" Brian snapped staring at Gerry in disbelief.
"I did say you didn't want to see what was going to happen next," Gerry replied feeling him flush as Brian shook his head.
"My desk? I knew something wasn't right that next day and you two blamed the cleaners!" He continued making Gerry laugh at the priorities his friend picked. He'd just witnessed him make love to their boss and all he could comment on was the fact that they'd messed up his desk in the process. He was about to point this out when the room changed again and he knew what was coming next.
** "Morning" Gerry said quietly stepping into Sandra's office and closing the door. "So; quite a party last night."
"Yeah you could say that." Sandra replied a soft flush coming to her cheeks as Gerry shuffled nervously from foot to foot.
"About what happened…..I mean what we did….well I just wanted to say…"
"Look don't worry about it, it doesn't have to change anything, we were drunk it was a Christmas party things like that happen in millions of offices all over the world at this time of year." Sandra sighed refusing to meet his eyes as he nodded.
"Yeah that's what I was going to say too." Gerry replied reaching for the door handle again and sighing as he left the office.**
"Are you mad man?" Brian laughed staring at Gerry "You two dance around each other for years and something finally happens and you decide to ignore it? God I thought I was the mad one!"
"You heard her she didn't want it to mean anything what was I supposed to do?" Gerry replied sulkily shaking his head.
"Yeah I heard her but did you SEE her? She was waiting for you to say you didn't want to forget about it, Jesus I'm clueless where women are concerned but even I could see that."
"I…..well I didn't think she was interested." Gerry repeated as Steve appeared beside Brian and he looked from one to the other.
"Over to you." Brian sighing shaking Steve's hand as he walked across the room and disappeared but not before throwing back a final comment. "And good luck you're going to need it Casanova here really screwed up this time!"
