Title: Will our cover not be blown.
Author: me
Rating: M mature people please there will be use of bad words at times so may not be suited to children
Disclaimer: I do not own City Homicide or its characters,
Summary: Set 6 months after the final episode of City Homicide
Author's Notes: At times it may seem OC but that is how I write my stories some IC and some OC a nice mixture

Nick was at home in a foul mood after his disagreement with Jen the night before, when he got a visitor and not long later he was being whizzed off.

Back at Homicide everyone was busy working on a case that had come up, but they all noticed that Nick had not came to the crime scene or arrived at work at all that day. Jen has decided to go talk to Matt, as she does Matt comes out of his office and Jen starts to talk to him.

"Matt where's Nick?" Jen asks
"He's on leave." replies Waverley from behind, Jen spins around
"For how long?" asks Jen.
"Unknown length of time, Matt I have a new detective coming in to help you out while Nick is away. They will arrive shortly." Waverley replies before walking away. Jen goes and sits down at her desk steering at her computer screen

Jen stays sitting at her desk. He's gone away why didn't he say anything to me. Did I really upset him when I refuse to allow him to transfer? Or has he done the transfer and not told anyone, we normally don't get another detective in when one is on leave as we can normally handle it.

I know I'm sick of seeming like we're still undercover. He loves homicide just as much as me, why can't he understand what I'm trying to do for us.

Jen is so away with her thoughts that she doesn't notice Allie trying to get her attention.

"Sorry Allie." Jen says shaking her head
"You ok?"
"Yea was just thinking."
"Matt wants us for a meeting" she says to Jen and Jen follows Allie.

Matt explains to the team about the case, Jen listens but doesn't take much in. They start working on the case.

Nick is taken to a private location.

"Byrnes why am I not surprised to see you again" replies Nick once he is inside the building.
"Sorry to have to pull you out like I did Nick but I need your help."
"And what help is that Byrnes?"
"We need to put you back undercover as Wesley Claybourne."
"What for?"
"We've been tracking another cell, they using a cover and shipping in drugs, weapons and other items into the country, we got Intel stating that the guy running it wants to start using another firm to do the shipping he's got wind that the company he has been using is feeding info."
"Ok and what has this got to do with me?"
"We hoping that one of our moles can convince him to use Claybourne shipping, we have the company up and running already, he does most of his meetings with his new clients via this night club." Burns shows him pictures of the outside of the club.
"Well it is going to look bad without Jen around to play the oh so doting wife." Nick says with sarcasm
"Yea I'm trying to keep her out of this as much as I can, due to what happened last time. What I'm hoping to do Nick is to get you reading up on the Intel I have here for you, then insert you in within the next two to three days, and bring Jen in later, right now she is away visiting relatives without you, as you will see in this file you decided to stay behind and work at getting more shipping contracts. Everything you need to know is in this file."
"How long is this assignment for Burns?"
"Open ended but you will have weapons, I'm not McAllister Nick, what I am hoping for is that our mole that is working in the group will hopefully convince him to at least talk to you, and then we get him to start using Claybourne Shipping, where we can have more of our own involved."
"What about my job, work colleges what are they going to be told?"

"They're being told you're on leave for an unknown period of time."

"Great, Jen is going to go nuts over that one." Nick says rubbing his hand over the back of his head.

"Sometimes I wished I never signed that dam contract."

"Sorry Nick but you did and now you're at our call whenever we need you. The real Trish and Wesley Claybourne are still in witness protection overseas."

"Nick I know you most likely not at all happy to do this but we need you guys to do this again for us. My superiors recommended I get you guys back in to help with this."

"I have a job Byrnes, a life one I prefer to be doing than this."

"I know you do but the sooner we get you in the sooner you get back out."

"I don't know, I lost far too much last time around, when both Jen and I were under cover for over a year, it's a lot to ask of us, both of us. And personally I can't see Jen going for it at all she went through hell."

"She like you Nick has no say in the matter. When the time is right she will be brought in to join you, I hoping to get you to do the ground work then get her in and go from there."

"Now take this stuff and start reading, you've got two days to remember everything that is here." Nick takes the folders and heads off to an area that Byrnes has aside for Nick.

It has been two days since Nick left; Jen has left messages for him and has had no reply from him. They are just close to closing their homicide from the other day.

The new detective was ok, but she seemed odd to Jen. She seemed to know a bit about Nick and was not afraid to tell Jen and the others that she had been more than a friend to Nick.

Jen could not help but play with the necklace around her neck that Nick had gotten her while under cover five years ago. The only item that she was able to keep. The more she thought of Nick the more she worried. She knew she'd upset him but she thought he would at least ring her and let her know he was ok, even if he didn't want to talk to her about anything else.

Before long two weeks had passed by for Jen without word from Nick. Duncan, Allie and Rhys had all noticed Jen was slowly withdrawing from them. She didn't want to go out after word for a drink. She just did her work and went home. Even Matt noticed it one day and asked her. She just brushed it off saying everything was fine. But for Jen everything wasn't fine something was wrong she knew it, her gut was telling her Nick was off doing something and for some unknown reason she felt she should be with him. It was the same feeling she had when they were under cover. They tell you not to get to close to your partner, but she knew the longer they were together playing husband and wife the more she fell in love with him. She hated doing the undercover work, she had trouble sleeping but the only good thing out of it all was she had him beside her every night to curl up next too, to dream of what could have been if it wasn't for the him she wouldn't have gotten through it as well as she did. By day professionals, husband and wife running a business by night the socialized with friends, where it was expect that they touch, kiss do things that husbands and wife's do.

The long Nick was away the more she dreamed of the times they had together then, and before they had the fight. The third time things had gone wrong for them. 1st being SIS splitting them due to busting the cell wide open, second when she called it off after going back under as Trish and Wesley, and then that night where he told her he was going to apply for a transfer and they had an argument over it. She went over to his house a few times and found nothing his mail was being cleared and so was his paper if it was being left there of course. She used the key she had and entered and found nothing to tell her where he had gone, or who with. His safe still had his gun in it, which was a relief to her. She spend a few nights staying there hoping he would return and they could sort it out. Unknown to Jen she was being watched and photographed entering and leaving Nicks house, and also at other locations around town.

Nick spent the next two days reading up on what he had been given, he thought of Jennifer a few times.

Got she's going to be thinking I left her after our fight the other night. I can't even get word to her that I'm ok. Get your mind back on the job Nick tomorrow you became Wesley Claybourne again. Why did they have to bring me back involved with this? Why couldn't they ask someone else to do it.

Nick gets back to going over the files.

The following morning he is taken to his new home, and for a change it is more upmarket compared to the last one they were in. He even has his own vehicle in the garage for him to use, this lets him know this is going to be a long assignment. I would not be surprised if it's fitted out with dam camera and mics as well. Well a few weeks without Jen, on my own is going to be fun. Time to go inside and check out the house. See what crappy bed and furniture they have for us.

Once he was inside and got himself sorted he headed off in the car that was provided to go to work. His job as Wesley Claybourne was in full swing.

For the two weeks he would get up go to work came home, have a few of the work guys over for drinks. On Saturday morning just over two weeks since starting his cover there is a knock on the door.

"Jimmy nice to see you this morning, came to mow my lawns have you" replies Wesley

"You bet I have. I brought a friend with me, Pete this is Wesley Claybourne of Claybourne shipping."

"Nice to meet you." They shack hands

"So Wesley when is that totally gorgeous wife of yours due home from her sisters?"

"Not sure I'm hoping not too soon, I forgot how much she does around the house for me."

"Where is your wife Mr Claybourne?" asks Pete, as he looks around the lounge where they are standing.

"Please call me Wesley; Mr Claybourne is far too formal for a Saturday morning and my wife is at her sisters in Sydney, she had a car accident and she went to help her out. Jimmy there is more petrol for the lawn mower in the garden shed if you need it I filled it up on my way home last night for you." Jimmy nods his head.

"Right off to do these lawns." Jimmy says as he head off to start on the lawns.

Wesley offers, Pete a drink which he accepts.

"So Jimmy told me you two have known each other for a long time."

"Yes we have."

"He also said you own a shipping business"

"Yes my wife and I do, we just in the process of getting it back up and running again, I've ask Jimmy to came back and head up our security team, he ran it last time. But he's yet to accept my offer, says he likes spending his nights out clubbing, which doesn't surprise me." He says with a smile on his face.

"Well I did some research on your company, I know you got arrested for shipping guns and weapons in, was he involved?"

"Oh no he was stuck in dam hospital was involved in a car accident the night before, which I still believe to this day was no accident."

"Why do you say that?"

"Have you been with him when he drives, he is so dam careful, a bloody excellent driver and his understudy I'm sure was working as a mole, and with Jimmy not being around he knew the police could get in, he said he fall asleep in front of the monitors, Trish was not impressed she used some interesting words when she saw him next. Why do you ask?"

"I'm looking for a new shipping company to ship in my goods for the business I run."

"Well if you want to talk business go ahead ask away."