What are friends for? 1/?
Disclaimer:- Don't own them just borrowing!
Episode:- Season 2 Episode 4 (Kitty Campbell)
Pairing:- Sandra/Gerry
Rating:- M
Achieve:- . /group/new_tricksff/
Summary:- Kitty Campbell gives the who team something to think about and night celebrating with Esther gives Sandra something to think about.
Author's Note:- This is my absolute favourite episode ever and I could write a dozen stories based around different scenes in it but I'll start with this one. It's sort of an ensemble piece with lots of all four of our fav characters and Esther too but ultimately it's a Sandra Gerry relationship fic so I hope you all enjoy and review if that's your thing!
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'"Well I don't think men know what they want half times." Sandra said looking to Esther for back up as they all slouched in chairs around the bed again celebrating their success in getting some minor victory over Kitty Campbell.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Jack asked his words slightly slurred as he took another slug of the fresh whiskey Gerry had just poured for him.
"We'll you lot can't decide if you want a Stepford wife, a mother..."
"A nurse maid or a hooker." Esther interrupted causing Brian to choke on the mouthful of orange juice he'd just taken.
"Esther!" He said loudly as Gerry and Jack exchanged amused glances.
"No she's right!" Sandra continued waving the glass of wine in her hand in the direction of the pile of Kitty Campbell books and video still at the end of the bed. "I mean you were all set to 'give her one' the other day Jack, according to you she was amazing and..."
"Yeah well that was before I knew the truth" jack interrupted shaking his head sadly. "I was just pointing out she's an attractive woman."
"We'll she certainly played you." Sandra laughed "you should have seen him practically eating pesto out of her hand the other day 'oooo what can you taste Mr Halford' and he's practically fawning over her basil and limes."
"Jack I'm disappointed in you." Esther sighed mock disappointment dripping from his words as she winked at Sandra. "Jack Halford's head turned by someone like her; you'd not have fallen for her charms would you Brian?"
"No love of course I wouldn't." Brian replied glancing I'm Gerry to Jack nervously to see if they were as uncomfortable at the way his wife and their boss were ganging up on them as he was.
"Anyway." Gerry interrupted leaning back precariously on his chair. "Just cause Jack let his brains slip below his waist band doesn't mean you can tar us all with the same brush, if you remember I had her down as an evil bitch from day one, besides I think most of us know what we're looking for in a woman."
"A pulse in your case Gerry." Sandra smiled nodding enthusiastically as Esther laughed.
"That's not fair I am..."
"Now Sandra I agree with Gerry that's not fair he needs more than a pulse in a woman." Esther agreed getting into the teasing mood in the room. "I'd say he looks for lots of things in his ideal woman just none of those things go on inside her head."
"Brian can't you control you wife?" Gerry snapped his anger as amused and fake as Esther's teasing.
"I gave up trying years ago." Brian replied smiling as he saw the glow return to his wife's cheeks and thanked his friends again internally for their support.
"Well the bottom line is that according to her ladyship women like me have sacrificed all femininity to get ahead and that's why I hate her and want to ruin her life because she's perfect and I'm on the shelf and frigid." Sandra continued feeling anger raise again in her chest at the recollection of the conversation she'd had the day before.
"Bitch!" Jack muttered sleepily as his head slouched back on the chair the effects of the alcohol clearly getting to him.
"Exactly!" Gerry agreed "what's she know anyway? Fucking ice queen she couldn't even keep old Bertie happy she was so much of a woman she put him off completely and he started batting for the other side! You ignore her guv, you're all woman and we don't think you're on the shelf do we boys."
"No not on the shelf, maybe a little..." Brian began before he was silenced but simultaneous 'don't go there' glares from Sandra and Esther.
"She's jealous." Esther said with conviction laughing as Sandra stared at her in surprise.
"Of me?" Sandra asked "I don't think so Esther but nice of you to say so."
"Of course she is." Esther continued "she might think, or rather like other people to think, she has it all but she's the one who has nothing. She looks at you, you're young, beautiful, sexy, successful and have the loyalty and respect of the men around you and she is jealous. I remember women like her in the sixties and I'm telling you there isn't a single one of them that wouldn't change things now if they had their time again."
"Damn right!" Gerry agreed sleepily as she looked around realising that jack and Brian had already passed out in their chairs and knowing Gerry wouldn't be far behind. "Bloody woman would kill you be you, she did kill to be you or what you are anyway and look how she ended up. You ignore her guv she'd got nothin' on you and she never would have."
"Thanks Gerry!" Sandra smiled, as she glanced at Esther who raised an amused eyebrow and they realised that all three men in the room had given in to sleep.
"Well, well." Esther smiled "maybe we do actually know what sort of woman Gerry really wants after all. He's smitten with you you know."
"Don't be ridiculous." Sandra laughed refilling both her and Esther's wine glasses shaking her head in disbelief. "I couldn't be any less Gerry's type and as for smitten as you put it he doesn't do smitten he does all out lust and for women a lot younger and more glamorous than me!"
"Rubbish!" Esther continued resting her head back on the pillow and smiling at the three sleeping men in the room, "they all love you you know, even Brian not that he'd say so he finds it hard enough to say that he loves me, but he does. Gerry though is in love with you. I can see it from the outside Sandra I see you when you're together, I listen to Brian when he comes home and talks about how you are together in the office and I think you know how he feels and you might even feel the same you're just not ready to admit it yet!"
"Esther lane that wine is going to your head." Sandra laughed glancing at the clock and realising it was almost 1am. "And I should get Jack and Gerry home and let you and Brian get to bed."
"Leave Jack here." Esther smiled "he's had way too much he'll need nursing in the morning, I'll get Brian to put I'm in the spare room. You just get a cab for you and Gerry and think about what I said Sandra, he's a good man, an idiot at times, but a good man you could do a lot worse than to admit how you feel and see if things might go somewhere."
"Goodnight Esther." Sandra replied smiling before giving the other woman a gentle hug and shaking Gerry awake, determined to get him home and get herself to bed before she thought too much about what Esther had said and started asking herself questions she didn't want to know the answer to.