This sort of begins as an alternative episode to the one after Rachel s discovers she's pregnant. Enjoy!

As she and Rachel walked into work that morning Janet knew that something wasn't right with her friend. She was quiet, dazed and just not the quick witted DC she knew, it was almost as though she was preoccupied with something more pressing. She didn't even look like Rachel. Her hair was messy and uncared for, her face was plain and without her usual makeup, perhaps this was the reason she looked paler than usual. But most of all she could see a look in her eyes almost resembling that of fear.

Last week Rachel had found out that her loving and devoted boyfriend Nick was actually already married. Since then she had not been the same, she was obviously upset but this wasn't the first time she'd had man trouble, she almost always bounces back.

This time was different but Janet just couldn't put her finger on what it was that was troubling her best friend.

As Rachel wandered over to her desk she found another bunch of cheap petrol station flowers on the corner. As she came closer she saw a note which read 'Sorry. Nick x'

Janet looked at her sympathetically and Rachel smiled wearily back.

She took no guilt in relocating the flowers from her desk to the typical workplace rubbish bin at the side of her. She leant her elbows on the desk in front of her and rested her head in her hands.

Kevin then skipped up behind her taunting

"Oooh got another secret admirer have we Bailey?" After noticing the flowers.

She replied with "piss off knob head!"

"Maybe check his ring finger this time eh?" He continued.

Janet waded in softly but firmly

"Leave it out Kevin"

Ignoring her advice he carried on teasing Rachel,

"I'm sorry Janet but I just find her luck with Men hilarious."

Janet could see the anger building up in her friend, one more remark and he would regret getting on the wrong side of her.

"The only thing that could make this situation more cliched is if she was up the duff!"

That was it, Rachel looked up at Janet and she could see are tear sparkling in the corner of her eye. Something really wasn't right, what had happened to the light hearted Rachel Bailey that would take anything with a pinch of salt? Rachel stormed out of the office, pushing past Kevin and straight by Gill.

"What the fuck was that?" Gill exclaimed.

Everyone was staring at the door doe eyed and shocked. They then all turned to look at Kevin. The guilty officer rolled his eyes at his colleagues and rudely came out with "oh my god, what?"

"as if he doesn't know" Janet scoffed under her breath.

"My office Kevin...now!" Gill bellowed as she strolled into her lair. As she walked past she threw Janet a look and she knew exactly what she was being instructed to do.

Janet gave her ten minutes and then made her way towards the toilets to find her friend. She quietly poked her head round the door but to her surprise it was empty. Just as she was about to leave she heard what sounding like someone throwing up.

Rachel had been stood in the bathroom trying to decide what to do next to regain some dignity when all of a sudden she felt slightly odd. She decided to sit down for five minutes but if anything she just felt worse. She stood back up slowly but as she did she felt her stomach flip and the blood rush to her head. It then clicked. She rushed into a cubicle and found herself unwillingly emptying the contents of her stomach into the chipped toilet bowl of Manchester metropolitan police station. Delightful.

Janet crept into the toilets and silently closed the door. She stood by the sink for a while pondering how best to approach this. Finally she stood outside the cubicle door and calmly said "Rach? Are you ok?"

There was no reply.

"Rach?" She said again louder.

"Rachel!?" She shouted, her voice sounding panicked and wobbly now. She rushed into the next cubicle and stood on the toilet seat so to see over the partition between the two. When she did she saw her best friend unconscious and slumped down the side of the toilet.

"Rach!" She exclaimed once again.

She almost sprinted back to the office and ordered her colleagues in a military fashion.

"Andy! Phone an ambulance, Gill I need your help." Gill saw a hint of fear and worry in Janet's eyes and immediately sprang to action. "Kevin you come too, we need some muscle."

The women hurry back to the toilets as Janet explains what's going on. They burst in and Janet points out the cubicle in which the DC lies unconscious and alone. Kevin threw his entire weight at the door to open it but by the third attempt began to get angry with himself.

"Hurry up!" Janet begged

"I'm trying" he shouted back impatiently.

He took a few steps back, closed his eyes and ran at the door. With an almighty bang the lock broke and it flew open to reveal a barely conscious shell of DC Bailey. Janet knelt on the floor next to brunette inspector and softly called her name while gently stroking her dark brown curls. Her eyelashes fluttered and she began to wake up. Janet cradled her in her arms and calmly cooed

"Hey Rach, it's okay, I'm here."

Rachel looked puzzled and confused

"What happened?" She questioned, her voice groggy and barely a whisper.

"Don't you remember?" Janet queried with a worried tone in her voice "we just found you like this."

Rachel attempted to sit up but she felt hazy and her arms were weak.

Janet placed her hand carefully on her friends shoulder and reassured her "don't worry, well get to the bottom of this."

Gill crept round the door and smiled at the two women

"Hey kid" she greeted Rachel "hang in there, ambulance is on it's way"

Suddenly Rachel panicked. Janet noticed her expression change and gave her a worried and confused look. She looked down and for a while there was nothing but silence, then Janet heard a deep breath and a small terrified voice say

"I'm pregnant."