Authors Note: Absolutely huge thank you goes to Helen for helping me think of things for this chapter when I was having trouble, the secrets might be true for all we know and they do fit the characters well. Love you girl. I am kind of really enjoying the idea of this fic. Love to all who read this :)

Disclaimer: *Looks around small cupboard where she's sitting* Nope can't find the main characters, only the OCs.

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The team had already had food so went across and knocked on the room marked with a number 3 since Dave had found them in the canteen and told them where to go. The four friends entered, looking around the small room and sat down in the small circle of chairs which Dave was already part of. It was still causing Jackie to use all of her self-restraint to not try and wipe the smile of his face but after having a rant about him with Robbie she was feeling a little better about having to see those perfectly white teeth grinning up at her.

Dave handed them each a piece of paper that had their weekend planned out on. According to it, over the next couple of days they were going to be going walking, building a raft, orienteering at night, wall climbing and an assault course. Dave let them have a few minutes of looking over the timetable then asked what they were looking forward to most. Jackie was tempted to say "home" but decided against it.

Matt was interested whether the whole weekend was going to be in a small group so asked, "Is the orienteering in pairs or are we able to do it alone?"

"Pairs, it is a team bonding weekend after all." Jackie made a small noise that signed how annoyed she was with the prospect of that task which Dave picked up on,

"So you prefer doing things alone?"

Jackie looked up from her timetable, "Yeah of course it means I don't have to wait for anyone else to do their part and I won't get into any arguments except from with myself, it's just easier."

"What about you other three, do you prefer working in a team or by yourself?"

Robbie was the first to answer, "In a team; it means that I don't have to do all the work and I get to talk to someone without looking like I have mental issues."

"Yeah but Robbie we already know you have mental issues," Jackie muttered with a small grin on her face, Stuart laughed along with Matt at her comment. Robbie turned and glared at her before Dave asked Matt and Stuart the same question.

Matt said he would rather be on a team because it meant he always had people to support his decisions or to tell him when his ideas wouldn't work, and Stuart agreed with Jackie although he did mention that he liked being part of their small team because of how well they got on most of the time.

Dave decided to see what the team was like with discussing their personal lives with their colleagues and friends so turned to face the youngest member of the four detectives.

"Stuart can you tell us a secret about yourself?"

"Like what?"

"One that only you know, one that's buried deep inside you."

Stuart took a deep breath, knowing that there was no way out of it, "Okay. My secret is that when I make new friends I cling on to them because I'm scared that they'll leave me like my biological mother did. I think that if any of my closest friends, Jackie in particular, left me now I wouldn't ever be right again." Jackie looked over at her young friend completely speechless, she knew all about his family problems and how he hated trying to find people to open up to but had never linked the two issues together.

"Matt you can go next."

"I was happily married when I was down in London working for Special Branch, we had a son but when he was seven I got offered the chance to come back to Glasgow to work and I couldn't let it pass me by. Cate didn't want to move back to Scotland since Gavin was settled in school and Cate had her dream job as an advertising executive so she decided that it would be better for us to split up and that's what we did, I haven't saw either of them since although I do get the occasional letter or card with recent photographs." It was the first time that he had went into details about his marriage breakdown with his colleagues but he felt partially relieved that he didn't have to keep it hidden any longer.

"Jackie, your turn."

"Why not choose the lovely Robbie first, I'm begging you to let me hear his secret first?!"

Robbie leant over to her and whispered, "He fancies you and wants to hear your voice." Jackie closed her eyes and grimaced at the thought.

"Fine. I wish I was married again so that I could feel as though someone uncontrollably loves me because I have an unexplainable need to feel wanted by a man. And I know I probably sound pathetic but it's true. I hate being alone in my flat because it's far too quiet and although I like tidiness I would rather have sets of a guy's clothes lying on my bedroom floor than my plain beige carpet."

"Is there a guy in particular that you want to be married to?"

"Isn't that a little personal?"

"Well that's what this weekend is for." Jackie rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Yes. Yes, there is one man that I would give anything to have but I've accepted the fact that it will never happen unless it's in dreams, so can we just leave it there, please?"Jackie bit her lip, she hadn't intended to say that she was in love but she comforted herself with the knowledge that Dave hadn't got the man's name out of her or she would never go out in public again, let alone be able to talk or face the man in question for the rest of her life.

As Jackie came out of her deep thoughts Dave moved on to the last member of the team, "Robbie what's your story then?"

"It's better to hurt than to be hurt." Robbie said simply.

"Care to tell us why you feel that way?"

"I guess I'll have to tell you what happened," he paused as Dave nodded at him, not thinking that this ruggedly handsome guy had ever had anything too bad happen to him, "Err...Here goes. The reason I started sleeping around with the blonde women who are half my age was because when I was twenty I proposed to my perfect girlfriend whom I had been dating for five years and she agreed. The only time I've been happier was when I first held Jamie. My girlfriend was called Marnie, she was three weeks older than me with this beautiful long dark brown hair and she was everything that you would never think I would go for but back then she was the winner in the beauty stakes for me. Then two weeks before the wedding I came back to our flat to find her and my best friend in bed together, they had been having it off for half the time that Marnie and I had been with each other. So I developed the protective barrier that I still have now; thirty years on and only one woman has managed to penetrate it since and the problem is that she doesn't even know it herself. I never wanted to feel as strongly about another woman as I did with Marnie but it happened ten years ago and it still exists." The three others sat staring at Robbie with their jaws hanging open. They had expected a sarcastic story about some blonde who had done him once over and then never called him back but to find out he had had his heart broken by a girl was surprising to say the least. They saw Robbie go back in to his shield as he started to mock their expressions but they could see how much pain he was in after talking about his experience.

Robbie said goodnight to his friends a few moments later and was making his way through the dark, cold night in the direction of the lodge. He wished he could go back and tell them a different secret or make one up because he didn't like knowing that his friends who expected him to be a tough, controlled man saw him breaking apart during a stupid team building course.

He was about halfway across the field that separated the main building from their home for the next three nights when he heard someone catching up with him. He turned round and saw Jackie slowing down her jogging to see what he was feeling like from the look in his eyes.

"I thought you could do with some company." She said while panting for breath.

"Thanks." He gave a small smile because of how she looked after reaching him, "I mean it, I could do with a friend just now."

She grinned and took a few more steps towards him. He put an arm around her shoulder as she she wrapped one of her own around his back. Neither of the two of them knew that the person that they had spoke about loving back in the activity room had been the person standing next to them.

"You know I have a bottle of red wine in my suitcase if we want to have a bit of that without Burke or Stuart knowing about it."

"I knew there was a reason I loved you Jackie Reid." He said with a grin as they unlocked the front door and stepped into the warm hallway. She shook her head while smiling, she got the thought of his comment out of her head surprisingly easily and decided to spend the time, as Robbie had suggested, in the bedroom with them both just sitting on Robbie's bed, chatting and drinking the cheap wine that they didn't much like but drank anyway. Stuart and Burke arrived back after another hour to the lodge in complete darkness except from the one bedroom, they could hear the two of their friends laughing and talking about nothing important and they were glad that Jackie was at least making Robbie feel better after divulging his personal history to them.

Stuart looked down at the timetable that he was planning on pinning up somewhere so they could consult it when needed and saw that after breakfast the next morning they would be doing some sort of walking. He groaned at it and chucked the piece of paper down beside the microwave in the kitchen, not caring if it ended up in the trash even though he was the only one who had remembered to take their timetable back with them.

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To Be Continued.