"Brrt Brrt Brrt"... Susie pressed the snooze button on her alarm clock. She rolled over and saw the pile of tissues lying next to her on her bed, a constant reminder of the past few days. She pushed them off the bed and onto the floor, why should she care what her room looked like. She was going to be at work all day so wouldn't have to look at the mess.
The clock read 7:02am. Time for work. Unfortunately. Susie sighed and made her way to the shower.

"Morning Constable" Mark said smiling. Susie hardly grinned back and made her way to her desk. Jonesy, who's desk was on the other side of the room (facing hers) looked up briefly. Their eyes met for a minute and then he looked away. He was still to disappointed in her to care that she'd been crying.

"Jones and Raynor I need you out on Patrol" Mark said.
"But..." both Susie and Jonesy said at the same time.
"But nothing, your assigned on the roster together and there is no way your changing it" he said sternly. They both knew there was no way they were getting out of patrol together. Susie stood up first and made her way to the key hook, she grabbed the keys.
"I can drive" Jonesy said looking away.
"So can I" Susie replied.
"Fine, have it your way" Jonesy said as he slammed the door to the car.

Mt. Thomas' streets were particularly busy this morning. As it was Thrusday (pay day) and it was the start of the school holidays. Jonesy looked around at the bustling streets of the small town.
"Uh, I um... maybe you, or we should check some of the, ah, back streets" Jonesy suggested.
"Right" Susie said, turning off the main street. She took a deep breath trying to hold back tears, it didn't work. She puleld over quickly, turned off the car and hopped out.
"Your drive" she said, throwing the keys over to Jonesy who had by now got out of the car.
"Suse..." Jonesy started
"Just drive Jones" Susie got into the passenger seat of the car, Jonesy felt a lump in his throat, 'Jones?', he thought... she never called him Jones.

"Mount Thomas 900 to Mount Thomas 208" Alex's voice said across the two-way. Susie gulped, she didn't particularly want to talk to him, even if it was only work related.
"Mount Thomas..." she stopped, then quickly gathered herself "208 recieving"
"Susie, you and Jonesy are required to go to the Pharmacy, apparently some of his stock has been stolen" Alex said.
Susie looked over at Jonesy, he didn't look back.

"Mr. Briggs are you sure that nothing else was stolen?" Jonesy asked.
"No It was only two boxes from the storeroom out the back" he replied.
"And what was in those boxes?" Susie asked
"They were two mixed boxes, with lots of different things in them" he smiled.
"Such as?" Susie asked again.
"Hair brushes, hair bands, creams, hair dyes... alot of that sort of stuff"
"Can you show us where these boxes were?" Jonesy asked, Mr Briggs led them out the back to the storeroom.
"They were just there on the floor" he pointed. There was an open door.
"Was the door open all morning?" Susie asked.
"Yes, it was"
"OK, well we'll take this information as well as your details and we'll get the detectives down here to have a look" Jonesy said.
"Thank you constables" he smiled.

"So what was the deal down there Jones?" asked Mark.
"Well basically just two boxed of mixed good stolen, there was a door open to the storeroom so that is most likely the way that whoever stole the good got in. But we'll jsut send Amy down to have a look" Jonesy answered.
"OK, get onto that right away".

Jonesy looked down at his watch it was 3.30pm, the end of his shift. He walked into the "mess room" and hung his leather jacket in his locker. Susie had opened the door at this point. Sh tried to step back but Jonesy had already seen her.
"Suse, we need to..." her started again
"I have to go home, I have a really messy room to clean" Susie hurried out of the station noticing the rain clouds in the sky, 'Maybe I'll walk home' she thought.

It was 4pm when Susie arrived back at the Imperial. She looked at the mess on the floor, she had no intention of picking it up. She just didn't want to face Jonesy, not yet anyway.