A/N: A new chapter fic from me?! Been a while since I did one of those (excluding More Than Just Lyrics) so here goes. It's going to be fluff-filled Robbie/Jackie but this isn't as fluffy as the next one should be. Merry Christmas, my loves!
Disclaimer: Nope I don't own them, as is shown in tonight's episode it is Glenn Chandler and STV's.
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Robbie turned to Burke, "Where's Jackie?" It was half past nine which meant Jackie was over an hour late for work.
"She phoned in sick."
"Yeah right, she comes in whatever is wrong with her!" Even when they had advised her to take sickies she never did.
"Not this time Robbie. She won't be coming in today."
As soon as he was out of sight of Matt, Robbie took out his mobile and found Jackie's familiar home number and called it. It took a while for her to answer because she had been asleep and when she did Robbie noticed how bad she did sound.
"Reid, where the hell are you?" He said with a fake annoyance in his voice.
"Hi Robbie. Why? Do you miss me?"
"Yeah obviously. It's weird not having you around complaining about something or other."
"Are you supposed to be working just now?"
"Just getting into my car to go and interview some prick that I can't remember the name of." Robbie could sense that she was rolling her eyes down the phone at him so decided to try and sweeten her up.
"So am I permitted to come round after work to try and make you better?"
"Robbie I'm all ill and yuck, I don't want you to catch anything."
"I don't care I want to make you happy."
She gave a theatrical sigh, "Fine, I could do with the company. Now go and chat to the 'prick'" They both laughed as he agreed and hung up.
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A few hours later when Robbie was in the station with Stuart he looked down at his desk, trying to find a folder he needed but was blocked by a wall of empty mugs, chocolate wrappers and scrunched up bits of paper.
"Why does my desk look as though a bomb has hit it?"
"That's what it looks like every day until Jackie decides to tidy it up!"
"Jackie clears up for me?"
"Yes Robbie. She does it whenever you're not around because she can't handle looking at the mess any longer."
"You're going to end up taking the day off tomorrow so you can go round to Jackie's and have your slave back!"
"Now there's a good idea. Why do you not come up with that kind of thing more often," he said while slapping Stuart once on his shoulder.
"Stuart how much sugar and milk does Jackie normally put in my coffee?" He shouted from the kitchen area.
"How come you don't know?"
"Stuart just tell me."
"Okay, 3 sugars and just a drop of milk." It was actually only two sugars and lots of milk but he felt like annoying Robbie. Robbie took a sip and had to spit it into the sink before going up behind Stuart and stealing the pen that he was writing with.
As he sat back down at his own desk, Robbie smiled whilst thinking about Jackie. He knew that he shouldn't but his instincts were telling him that he may just love his sergeant more than he had ever allowed himself to admit.
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At Jackie's house she had just woke up from a sleep that she had been in since hanging up on Robbie and couldn't be bothered doing anything strenuous so decided to put on an episode of the X Files. She grabbed the boxset, that she bought a couple of years previous, from her top shelf and found the episode that she wanted, put it in the DVD player and settled down in her duvet again. She had spent endless days marvelling at the relationship between Mulder and Sclly and felt like spending her sick day doing the same.
By the end of the episode she had given up trying to make her brain focus on the screen and began thinking about what her friends were getting up to without her at work.
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Robbie was standing at the reception with DI James Spencer. Robbie didn't particularly like the guy but was polite enough to make some small talk while he finished filling in a few forms. "You know your Sergeant, Jackie, don't you think that she is probably slightly slutty when she's with a guy? It's the fact that she never seems to show her emotions to anyone and always has that teasing glint in her eye."
"Do you want to repeat that?!"
"Calm down Robbie. I was just airing my beliefs."
"Well don't ever say another word like that about Jackie Reid again or you'll get a lot more than this!" He knew he would regret this in the future but he cherished Jackie far too much to let this guy get away with the comment, so his fist connected with the man's nose and if he had actually cared then he would have heard the bone break but instead he just walked away.
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An hour or so later Robbie got a text from Jackie asking what he was doing so texted back with "Waiting outside ACC's office. Might be getting suspended." As soon as she had read it over at least five times she went into her contact list and phoned Stuart. Stuart didn't even get to say a greeting before Jackie was shouting,
"What the hell has he done?!"
"I'm guessing you're talking about Robbie. DI Spencer said something crude about you in the presence of Robbie so Robbie got angry and broke his nose."
"You're kidding me aren't you?"
"Nope. He was defending you."
"God Stuart, you shouldn't have told me that! It's just making all the feelings I've had for him in the past resurface!" It was true, Jackie had spent years hiding away her feelings and although she knew they still existed they didn't bother her as much. But now she was falling straight back in love with him. She hated how he had felt the need to punch the man after saying something about her but then had to chastise herself for thinking he was like her knight. She screamed into the nearest cushion and found the TV remote and flicked through the movies that were on. She eventually settled on the Rocky Horror Picture Show because she used to love it and hadn't saw it in a while.
She didn't move until she noticed that it was after Robbie's work hours. She had a horrible feeling that he was still in the ACC's office, arguing with her more than likely and would definitely be told to take a few days off.
Robbie meanwhile was walking over to Jackie's house. He could have been there about an hour earlier but he had got changed into a t-shirt and jeans and had went into the chip shop and bought a pizza for them because he knew Jackie wouldn't have ate anything all day. As he strolled along he accepted that it wasn't that big a surprise that he had got a little irked in the top floor confrontation and had ended up being suspended indefinitely.
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To Be Continued.
Next chapter: Robbie arrives at Jackie's house and tries to make up a new story for the reason behind the suspension, unaware that Stuart has told her the real reason.