"Well I would like to know what countries you're willing to ship from."
"We ship from where ever the clients want us too. At present we back shipping from Indonesia, New Zealand and Malaysia, bringing in whatever the clients want us to bring in. We handle everything from dock to dock we also handle the freight side of it all from the wholesaler to you. We prefer to have as less people involved as possible."
"In what way do you do this."
"Well when you purchase your items say your got a supplier in Indonesia, you purchase your items off them, you contact us and you tell us what it is you've ordered how much from who then we go collect the items, bring them back to the port and load them on to our ship, which then brings them to the port here and we unload it all and freight it out to you. We deal with customs as needed and the fright companies all you've got to worry about is finding the right item at the right price."
"Sounds all too good to be true"
"It may sound like that but it's how we work we find if we deal with all of that we are able to keep a far better track of everything plus we then get a far better service from the freight company we use because we are regulars, and like most companies they love regulars. Plus you only have to pay us and the company you purchased the items off, we charge the freight to you and then pay the freight company."
They go and talk some more about business and things in general. Pete invites him to the club later that night. Tells him where it is. Not long later Jimmy enters after finishing off the lawns. They have a few cold ones before heading off.
God this is damn slow progress. I just hope Jen waits for me, and doesn't think I upped and left her. God she is going to be fuming when she sees me again when ever that is. Nick thinks to himself after Pete leaves the house.
Jen is at Nick's place watering the few plants he has and just sitting around enjoying being in his house with the things that remind her of him. She is sitting on the couch with a blanket when there is a knock on the door, for Jen this gets her wondering who would be turning up. She heads to the door and opens it.
"Detective Smith what are you doing here?"
"I could be asking you the same thing?"
"I have a key for Nick's place was just watering his plants and that for him while he's away."
"Are so he's not home yet then?"
"No not yet."
"So you must know where he is then if he has you coming here to do his plants?"
"No sorry I don't." Jen says as they stand there on the door step.
"Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No was just hoping to see Nick to catch up on old times maybe rekindle things, can I leave a note for him?"
"I'll let him know when he decides to return back to work, which we will all find out at the same time." I got this funny feeling SIS have him Jen thinks to herself.
"Ok thanks Jennifer, see you at work on Monday." Says Lucy, before walking off to leave Jen to do what she was doing. Jen decides not to stay for much longer before leaving to head to her own place. She sets the house alarm before leaving.
Mid Monday morning Jen is at work working on paperwork, she is sitting at her desk when a uniformed police officer brings something for her. She passes it to Jen.
"Hey Jen who's the fella?" asks Duncan with a grin on his face, as they all look at the bunch of yellow lilies that have been delivered to her. Lucy is looking at her in surprise and wonderment.
"I have no idea who they from yet Duncan." She replies. But whoever sent them knows these are my all-time favourite, she thinks to herself as she grabs the note to read it. As she opens it she recognises the hand writing straight away and smiles, a true smile in close to three weeks which does not go unnoticed by the rest of the crew.
Missing you my beautiful darling wife,
Hope your stay at your sisters is going well,
See you in a few days
Love from your wonderful husband.
Wesley C. XO XO
She reads it a few times before she clicks on to the message. Oh god no he's not why the hell aren't I there with him, sisters, Oh shit no, he must be warning me, the SIS must be coming to get me soon then, thank god your alive Nick, but why the hell wasn't I taken at the same time, and what is going on. Why take him and not me. God Nick what are we getting mixed up with this time.
"Jen what's wrong?" Duncan sees her face turn to worry, everyone sees the look on her face. Her face has gone from happy to worry just as quick.
"Jen?" Duncan asks again. She snaps out of it.
"Nothing for you lot to worry about." She gets up takes the flowers and goes put them in a vase with some water, the note she puts in her pocket.
"Jen are you really alright?" asks Matt when he finds her.
"Why the hell didn't you tell me where Nick really is, I have a right to know." She yells at him.
"Jen I have no idea where he is."
"Don't bull shit me Matt, you must have known where he is?"
"No Jen all I know is he's on leave for an unknown period of time that is all Waverley told me." Jen just shakes her head.
"So Jen the flowers who sent them? I saw them being given to you."
"Um I can't say right now Matt, sorry." A smile returning back to her face at the thought of Nick going to all this trouble just for her.
For the rest of the day Jen was jumpy, but she did have a smile on her face, no one could figure it out, she had gone from being semi withdrawn and not her normal self to now being jumpy as if she is waiting for someone or something to pounce on her.
The team knew it was due to the flowers, but for Lucy all she wanted to know if they were from Nick or not, she was not happy to know that Jen had a key to his place, she was hoping she could get him for herself but if not she knew she had a way to solve the problem if Nick was interested in Miss Jennifer Mapplethorpe, she would have to find a way to make him see her as the better one..
Over the next three days Jen is still on edge but not as bad as before. She knows they will come and get her when they need her, but what does she do she can't tell anyone where she is going or where Nick is, she has now figured it out, Nick is with SIS as Wesley Claybourne, and that the flowers were a warning that she will be with him soon one way or another. And it was his way of letting her know he was ok and thinking of her.
"Nick why did you send those flowers you were seen enter that flower shop and when we checked, you had some flowers delivered to Jen." Burns asks him in the office.
"She had to be told one way or another that I was ok, she would have been stressing out not knowing what the hell is going on, I had to do something, the both of us have worked close to each other for too long, we hide nothing from each other. And anyway I wrote the note, sealed it myself before I went there, the shop had no idea what was in the note, and if you like I didn't use my real name at all. I made it sound like any normal husband sending flowers to their wife while the wife is away I'm not stupid Byrnes, I'm not going to blow my cover but she needed to know, I was ok and where I was and since I am Wesley Claybourne and she is soon to be back as Trish I knew it would be ok to send them, I'm not breaking any rules I'm not telling anyone, and I know Jen she would not let anyone see that note. Plus it gives her a few days to cool down before you pick her up." Nick says to him angrily. There is silence in the room.
"When is she coming into all of this, Pete is starting to wonder about her, he asked me last night if she has left me and I've been to scared to say my wife has left me."
"We are planning on bringing her in at the end of the week, putting her in the field on Sunday with you."
"Good, but you better be careful Burns she is going to be piss when you bring her in, more so since I've been gone close to a month."
"You have some real trust issues don't you?"
"Well if you had any idea of what we were put through on the job and personally when we first did this job you would understand why both of us were not impressed last time we had to do it."
"Ok I will collect her for you and bring her in and up to date."
"Good, now I must go I have a lunch meeting with Pete to go over his first shipment. At least I can tell him my wife will be back arriving back on Sunday." He replies before walking out of the office and a driver returning him back to his place of work.
Thank god I get to see Jen on Sunday, she's not going to be happy that she's been kept out of the dark, but when she finds out that it was to see if we could get this guy on board before bringing her in she should understand. I hope. I just hope she understood my note. She should've had though. At least she knows that I'm undercover and who as and that she'll soon be with me but not in the way she would like. I just hope we're not undercover for too long. As I don't know how long I can keep my hands to myself when it comes to Jen and being in the same bed as her. Nick thinks to himself on his way back to work as Wesley Claybourne.
Friday morning everyone gets a call to a crime scene, everyone arrives par Jennifer
"Anyone seen or heard from Jennifer today?" asks Matt once they are back at Homicide
"No Sarg we haven't" replies Duncan, Rhys and Allie all at the same time.
"Lucy have you?" asks Matt
"No sorry" she replies. Ok Nick goes away and now Jen is nowhere to be found. Something is up wonder what it is.
"Ok let's just get on with things I will track her down what do we have so far…." Matt goes on and the team give him the details they have so far about the case.
Towards the end of the briefing Waverley enters.
"Ok guys as of today Detective Mapplethorpe is on leave, length of time unknown. I know it does not help having both her and Buchanan off the team Matt, but it is the way things are."
"Ma'am has she given any reason for this unexplained leave and why she never came to me?"
"Sorry Matt. Now get to it you've got a homicide to solve." She says as she leaves.
"What's the bet, those two are undercover again." Allie quietly says.
"What makes you say that Allie?" asks Matt
"Matt they refusing to tell you what is going on and you're our Sarg, they just both disappear without warning or telling anyone, what else could it be."
"They could just be dealing with family stuff Allie."
"Yes they could, anyway no sitting around gossiping about where the two of them are, now get to work we have a case to solve." Matt says before leaving he heads off to Waverley's office to find out what he can.
"Ok where are Nick and Jen?" he says when he enters
"Sorry Matt I can't tell you."
"Well what about the team they starting to wonder what is going on, you and I both know that they been undercover before, even together are they back undercover?"
"Sorry Matt I can't tell you anything because I don't know anything. All I know is they're both on leave for an unknown length of time. Sorry Matt but that is all I have for now." Matt storms out of the office not at all impressed.
The night before, Waverley is in her office when she receives a phone call informing her that Mapplethorpe is working the SIS till further notice.
"What Mapplethorpe and Buchanan are working for the SIS again, after what happened last time I thought they be no use to them, their cover would have been bloody blown wide open." Says Jarvis.
"Well I thought the same but I have been informed that their cover was never blown last time around. And this assignment I have been told is totally different and not related to the last case they worked on."
"Well I hope that pomp's prick McAllister is not running it."
"No Jeremy Byrnes is running it this time, he promise me that this operation is far better organised than the last one they worked on, and he said they are armed also."
"Some relief then, but still two dam good detectives down for an unknown length of time." Says Wolfe
"I know it's not good for the team or us, we do have what's her name Detective Lucy Smith to help out." Waverley says to the two guys in her office.
"Yea but she's not like Buchanan or Mapplethorpe, let's just hope we get no high profile case while the two of them are away." Replies Jarvis.
"Look we just have to do our best with what we have. If we need overtime then let me know I will authorise it for the big cases."
