Smithy and Stevie spent most of that morning play fighting until their infectious energy seemed to slip away... Moments later they were both lay on the floor beside each other. They looked into each other's eyes and then Stevie leant into Smithy's body and kissed him slowly and passionately. "What was that?" Smithy asked looking puzzled but satisfied. "That was your morning kiss... Now come on we need to get to work." Stevie stood up and grabbed her clothes, and headed off to the bathroom to get dressed. When she came out, Smithy was already dressed and in the kitchen, tucking into a bacon butty. He called it the 'heavenly sandwich'.
Up in the CID briefing room, officers had gathered to discuss an assault that happened a few hours before. Neil stuck pictures of the victim up on the board; everyone turned to look at the serious dark bruising around her face. Everyone's facial expressions slowly turned to concern for the young victim. Neil took a big sigh and began talking...
"Right, ok. A young girl was assaulted last night; at approx 1:00AM, her name is Holly Berkshire. The suspect is as yet unidentified until uniform finish door to door. The parents have been informed and are on their way down to St Hugh's now. Terry, Jo can you get down there and get the victims statem-"Neil was interrupted as Smithy entered the room, with Stevie slowly wandering in behind him.
"Ah Neil, uniform are finished with the door to door and are gathering CCTV footage from the Larkmeade estate." Smithy said smirking.
Whilst Neil continued to explain the situation to the officers in the room; Smithy and Stevie sat down beside each other, they seemed to block out Neil's voice like they were the only two people in the room. Smithy gently stroked his hand up and down Stevie's leg, and she couldn't help but giggle with laughter. "Something funny Stevie!?" Neil snapped. "No guv." She said with embarrassment.
"Right that's it thanks everyone let's get on." Everyone stood up, and raced out of the briefing room; all except for Smithy and Stevie of course. "Stevie just hang on a minute please." Neil asked politely. "Was there something funny about that debrief DS Moss?" He was quite angry at her now; he couldn't believe that she'd laugh when he was discussing an assault victim- it wasn't like Stevie to do that in his eyes.
"It won't happen again guv, sorry." Stevie said as apologetically as possible. Neil arose a suspicious look on his face to both her and Smithy. "Is there something going on here?"
"We're not emotionally involved if that's what your insinuating Neil." Smithy said in hope that it would put him off the scent. "Ok... Stevie can you er... meet Ben and Tony down in the control room to go over the CCTV with them?"
"Yes guv." As both Neil and Smithy watched Stevie walk away and out of CID, Smithy began speaking in a sarcastic tone to Neil; anyway he was in top brass now there was no need to call him guv anymore, he was now guv as well.
"Why would there be anything going on between me and Stevie; especially after all that stuff with the gun running case and the Devlin court case. I mean we only just managed just get our friendship back on track because of all that!" Smithy was lying to protect his relationship with Stevie. He knew she wasn't quite ready to tell anyone yet, to be honest neither was he.
"You'll do anything to care for her won't you Smithy?" Neil knew he was right to say that, but he didn't expect a response from him. Smithy just looked at him and stormed out of the briefing room.
Meanwhile out on the beat... Nate and Mel had just finished talking to a VERY nosy neighbour, who seemed to know a lot about Holly Berkshire. "You don't think it's weird in the slightest then do you Mel?" Nate and his usual daft questions which always caught a response he never wanted in the first place. "What the fact that a neighbour of the victim, knows her quite well; to be honest Nate I don't." Mel said quite slowly and sarcastically to Nate to ensure he understood the point she was making. "NO. Mel I just... think that there's more to that than meets the eye!" They both headed back to the patrol car, and went on back to Sun Hill Nate had some questions that needed answering.