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Morning Coffee
Sandra marched into the UCOS office, not surprised to see she was the first to arrive. It was a little after 8 am and she knew the others couldn't be expected for at least another half hour. Enjoying the peace and quiet she began making teas.
"How do I tell them?" She sighed, knowing that her team were all going to know if she was hiding something. Jack and Gerry could read her like a book. Brian usually just flew into a blind panic and Sasha was having a hard enough time with her divorce to see what was going on.
"Tell us what?" Jack asked as he shrugged his jacket off.
"Hi. Tea?"
"Please." He watched her Steve, Danny and Gerry arrived. She knew Sasha and Brian would be in shortly. "What's going on? Are you alright? Sandra?"
"I'm ok. Honestly Jack, it's nothing to do with my health. Not this time."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive. I promise." Jack took the mug as Gerry rubbed his hands together.
"Tea. Lovely."
"Make it yourself."
"You made one for Jack!"
"How old are you? Grow up Gerry." She looks around the room, satisfied that everyone was there. She nodded for them to go over to the small sofas near the large whiteboard. Steve and Brian discussed the football, Sasha asked Danny about something Sandra couldn't make out as Gerry and Jack sat waiting for her.
"Strickland dumped this on me an hour ago so don't moan to me." She clicked the computer screen on.
"New case?"
"No, Brian e's sending us all on oliday." Gerry answered sarcastically. Sandra nodded once.
"New case. December 18th 1976 an armed robbery resulted in the deaths of a middle aged woman, Rae Thomas and a jewellery shop in Camden losing a diamond worth £20,000 in predecimalisation."
"1976?!" Sasha raised an eyebrow.
"We've taken cases from the 1950's before now." Jack explained.
"Yeah, well that's what I thought. Apparently the diamond has turned up."
"Now?" Gerry coughed.
"Last week. It turned up in the property of a homeless man who was found dead in Victoria Park."
"So? It's an active crime."
"The murder of the homeless man is, yeah but the robbery isn't. It's one for UCOS. So, come on. Let's get started." Sandra started handing out jobs wondering why Strickland had insisted on them taking the case. What exactly was he scared of?
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A/n please review. Should I go on?