A/N: I am strange. That is all that needs said here.

Sarah x

"Jesus Christ!" Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman exclaimed. "It's like I'm that boy from The Jungle Book!"

They'd been bickering about Sandra while she drove the car: Gerry wanted to take her to an outdoor adventure - quadbiking and gorge walking - place for a birthday day out. Jack was convinced it was a terrible idea and Sandra might get hurt. Brian just wanted to know how she still looked good at fifty-one years of age.

"How'd you work that one out?" Gerry demanded petulantly. He could be so childish sometimes.

"Well," began Sandra with a smirk playing on her lips. "You're Baloo the bear, always trying to lead me astray. Jack is Bagheera the panther trying to stop you and trying to keep me from letting your ideas catch. And Brian is just like King Louis. He just wants to know this, that and the next thing, and lets you two get on with it."

Jack burst out laughing at her idea. "That's the best one you've come up with yet!" he exclaimed through his amusement. Brian was chuckling behind her, and even Gerry was smiling despite his sulk.

"It's true!" she insisted. "You lot squabble over me like the idiots in The Jungle Book." She looked around at them, and grinned. "Doesn't mean I don't love seeing you every day."

Now that was a rare moment of honesty.

Before long, they were in hysterics. The funniest thing about it was that it was quite an accurate comparison. Sandra was even laughing at it, and it had been her who pointed it out. They were also, though they didn't let on, laughing even harder to disguise the shock of her actually saying she loved the way they acted.

Gerry managed to ask through his laughter, "So are you up for that outdoorsy thing?"

That had been what had started it, after all, and it still needed answered. Sandra was not one to shy away from a challenge, so of course she would not decline such an offer.

"Yeah, why not?" she grinned into the rear-view mirror at him. "Seeing you on a quadbike would be worth it just to watch your face when you drive into a bush."

The image of Gerry Standing stuck in a bush made her laugh at him. His face went into a stroppy pout at the sound of her giggles, which just made it all the more entertaining for her.

As she parked the car and got out onto the street, she looked at the three of them.

Jack, Gerry and Brian. Bagheera, Baloo and King Louis. She realised they made her job bearable at times: fatherly Jack, louder than life Gerry and curious Brian.

This job was her little Jungle Book.

Hope this is alright!

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Sarah x