Heya guys, here's another new fic from me.

This fic is quite different from everything else I've written (I think!) but I hope you'll love it all the same.

This is for Laura AKA SaMaNdPhIl4eVeR who helped me come up with the title. Thanks huni!

For the purposes of this fic, Sam and Stuart have been married for the last sixteen years (been together eighteen years) but Sam uses her maiden name for work, Stuart is a DCI, Sam is DI and Phil is DS (as in actual TB), Phil hasn't had Alfie and Madison and Abi is at university.

Please R&R, luv ya all Gemz xxxxxx

Long Lost Love Revisited

Summary: Secrets are like ghosts, some stay hidden for years and then come back to haunt you. When Sam unwittingly walks back into her ex-lovers life, will her deepest, darkest secret be exposed? CHARACTER DEATH!

Chapter 1- Face From The Past

The double doors of Sun Hill CID swung open as DCI Stuart Turner walked through them with the latest addition to the team, DI Samantha Nixon. Not only this, Sam was also his wife; they had been married for the past sixteen years and had two children together: 17-year-old Marcus and 15-year-old Adele. Sam also had a 20-year-old daughter called Abi, the product of a relationship she had had before Stuart came along. Stuart stopped just outside the briefing room door and turned to face Sam, 'you ready for this?' he asked.

Sam looked up at him and smiled, 'of course I am,' she replied. 'I don't think I'd have been given the job if I wasn't up to the challenge.'

'I know,'

'And I don't think you'd have told me about the job if you didn't think I'd be up for it,'

'Well…with Jack retiring, I was promoted and there was a vacant position, I thought you'd be great in the role,'

Stuart's predecessor in the role of DCI, Jack Meadows, had been forced to retire due to health problems. Three months ago, he had suffered another heart attack and after this, he had been advised that it would be better for his long-term health if he retired. This he did, but not before appointing Stuart as his successor, much to fellow DI Neil Manson's fury. Before his departure, Jack had also held interviews for Stuart's replacement DI and Sam had been given the job.

'You know what I realised this morning?' Stuart asked, breaking the silence that had descended between them.

'What?' Sam replied.

'How great it is to be working with you again,'

'Speak for yourself!' Sam joked, 'I've got to put up with you 24-7.'

'Don't tell me you don't love it really,'

Stuart leant across and kissed Sam softly on the lips. They were unaware that they were being watched…

'Wow!' DC Jo Masters exclaimed from the briefing room, 'he's got in there quick.'

'What are you talking about?' DS Phil Hunter asked as he turned to face her.

Jo gestured towards Stuart and Sam, who were still kissing outside in the main office; Phil followed Jo's movements and saw them. Phil instantly recognised the woman was kissing, all the feelings he had once felt for her came flooding back. He would never be able to forget the face of that woman. He felt his blood boil as he watched, she had moved on, forgotten about him, that was something he'd never been able to do. Phil had never got over losing her, he was engaged to Cindy but deep down, he knew he was simply settling for second best. The woman of his dreams was married, already taken and couldn't possibly be his, no matter how much he wished things could've been different.

Sam pulled away from Stuart and smiled, 'come on, 'lets do this,' she said.

Stuart nodded as he pushed the door to the briefing room open. He and Sam walked in, Phil looked up at Sam and his heart did a somersault, she was pretty much the same woman he had met nearly sixteen years ago, the same woman he had fallen in love with, the same woman who had dumped him all those years ago to go back to her husband.

Stuart stood in front of his CID colleagues and cleared his throat, the chatter died down almost immediately. 'As you all know,' he started. 'Since Jack's retirement and my promotion, we have been looking for a new DI to work alongside DI Manson. DI Nixon has agreed to take the position as of today…'

This was met was a few murmurs from some members of CID, 'no prizes for guessing how come we've been landed with her,' Jo whispered, leaning towards Phil.

'I don't know what you mean,' Phil replied.

'Oh come on sarge, you saw them. If that's his girlfriend, then he probably put in a good word for her with Jack,'

'That's not his girlfriend,' Phil said. 'She's married.'

'To him?!' Jo exclaimed.

Stuart coughed loudly, 'thank you DC Masters, DS Hunter. Yes, Sam is indeed my wife but that has absolutely no bearing on why she was given the job…'

'Yeah right,' Jo muttered.

'…I'll leave you with DI Manson, he'll show you the ropes,' Stuart said, turning to Sam.

She nodded, 'that's it, back to work,' he finished.

Everyone began to get up and move towards the door, 'be gentle with her,' Stuart whispered to Neil before leaving the briefing room to go back to his office.

Sam smiled at her new colleagues as they all began to file out. Her eyes swept past Phil as he walked past her, she went back and looked again. She recognised this man, her stomach gave an unpleasant lurch as she remembered, remembered the last time she'd seen Phil Hunter. Sixteen years was a long time and the years hadn't changed him at all. Sam couldn't believe what she was seeing, Phil worked here and now she was faced with a very difficult task. She had to prevent her deepest, darkest secret from being exposed, Stuart couldn't know, Sam knew how much it would hurt him if he found out the truth, that most of their marriage had potentially been based on a lie.

'Come on sarge,' Jo said to Phil later that morning, 'how did you know that DI Nixon was married?'

Phil looked at her, 'I don't want to talk about it,' he replied stiffly.

'Oooh, like that is it?'

Phil stood up and took his coat off the back of his chair. 'Where are you going?' Jo called as he began to walk towards the double doors.

'Out!' Phil vaguely called back before leaving as Sam came out of her office.

Sam walked towards Jo's desk, 'was it something I said?' she asked.

Jo shrugged her shoulders, 'I don't know guv, he's been acting weirdly since the briefing,' she replied.

Sam sighed to herself, 'can you tell him when he gets back that I want to see him, in my office,'

'Will do guv,' Jo said.

Sam smiled at her as she walked back towards her office, she bit her bottom lip, she knew what was up with him, but she wasn't sure of how to act on it. Sam knew she had to do this, it was best for everyone.

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