What Becomes

After the amazing love and support for my first New Tricks Fanfiction I Don't Need You? I decided to write another. Please be patient as I am not sure where it is going yet and might not be able to update it regularly for a few weeks as I am sitting my A-Levels :/ I hope you enjoy it.

DISCLAIMER: as much as I wish I did I do not own New Tricks or any of the characters.

UCOS wasn't meant to have ended in that way. UCOS wasn't meant to end at all, the famous team known to everyone in the Metropolitan Police made up of the best former officers; Jack Halford, Brian Lane, Gerry Standing and not forgetting their high-flying Guv'nor Detective Superintendant Sandra Pullman was the most successful squad the Met had ever created. Many thought it would have lasted forever seen as the 'dinosaurs' showed no signs of slowing down. After all they did not intend on stopping what it was they did best. It never should have happened. None of it. Sandra should never have been the one who was asked to go to the morgue and identify Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland's body. Sandra shouldn't have been the one who had to break the news to his ex wife. Sandra shouldn't have even been there when the news was broken to his beloved children that their Dad wasn't going to see them again. That he was murdered in cold blood. Robert Strickland shouldn't have died in Sandra's arms. Robert Strickland's perfect team should have been at his funeral, not hiding in different parts of England under different aliases, fearing for their lives. They owed Strickland at least that, to pay him their last respects because without his impulsive, selfless, heroic, police intuition his team would have met a much darker fate than he did.

All four of them wanted to be at St Helen's Church, standing up and telling all those that knew and loved him most just how much they owed their entire existence to a man they once thought of as a bit of a tosser. All four of them wished it had been them who lost the battle instead of him.

Sandra didn't mind the fact that she was restricted to contact with her mother. It was the fact that she could never do the one thing she love more than anything ever again. The one thing that ensured she was keeping her father's memory alive.

Jack hated the fact he had to leave his Mary's resting place. Yes, he took her with him (he would never have left her alone) but he knew she wanted to rest where she and him were most happiest, at their marital home.

Brian strongly disliked the fact that he had forced Esther to leave her home, say goodbye to all her friends and family, the network of people who stopped her going barmy when Brian got obsessive. He hated how he was unable to see his only son, Mark and how their only contact with his was with witness protection officers actin go-between. What hurt more was how he could see what this was doing to Esther. He would have described it as 'killing' her but that would have been to disrespectful to Strickland.

Gerry couldn't bear the thought of a life without the eight women in his life that made it unbearable most of the time, these were his three ex wives, his four daughters and Sandra even though she could be an impossible cow at times he would always have a soft spot for her. Then there was his beautiful grandson; Gerry Junior, it sickened him how now there was no chance at all of buying him a pint on his eighteenth birthday. It sickened him even more that because of all this Emily was all made to give up the job she loved and was brilliant at and leave behind all her friend and only relative (even if it wasn't by blood). She too was transported to another location in the country and given a new name, saying goodbye to her old life.

What hurt the most for all four of the UCOS members was however, the fact that the death of a good, innocent father would be etched on their consciences and live on in their minds for as long as they lived.

I hope it is okay, please let me know what you think and if you would like more I do love hearing from you. Thanks. :) Love Gee x