Hello! I think this is the fastest I've updated a story ever! Here's the latest chapter. Mistakes are my own. Enjoy:)
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Janet knocked quietly on the door to Gill's office. "Can I come in?"
"Sure, cock. What's up?" Gill replies, her gaze not moving from her computer screen. Only when she hears the click of the door shutting does she look up, realising it must be important. She gestures for Janet to sit down. She does so, shuffling uncomfortably.
"I um, we - me and Rachel - we have this thing at eleven. An appointment with someone. And we really can't miss it because there isn't another one for a couple of months. We only got in today because there was a cancellation. Do you mind if we both nip out for an hour?"
"Don't tell me the daft mare's gone and got herself up the spout again. She just can't keep her knickers up can she?"
"No," Janet interrupts. "It's nothing anywhere near that." She holds up her hands to stop Gill asking anymore questions. "Look - all will be revealed later. We just need to know for definite what's happening first, ok?" Janet smiles at her friend.
Gill raises an eyebrow. "Ok. Go. But I'm expecting to be filled in as soon as you get back."
"You'll be the first to what happens," Janet stands up, smoothing down her skirt and goes back out to Rachel.
"Sorted," she says as she sits down.
Rachel grins. "Great. I still can't believe this is happening."
"And I still can't believe what I'm getting myself into," Janet replies with a smirk.
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"Where are they going to ma'am?" Kevin asks, watching as they both leave the room.
"Damned if I know. But, as always Kevin, it's none of your bloody business," Gill replies with a tired sarcastic smile.
"Off for a shag I bet," he mutters to Pete.
"I beg your pardon, DC Lumb!" Gill raises her voice, putting emphasis on his rank knowing he was still sensitive about failing his Sargent exams.
"Sorry ma'am," he looks at the floor guiltily. Gill sighs and continues on her way to the evidence room.
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"So how long have you been together?" The lady, Ms Dylan, that they were meeting at the registry office asks.
They look at each other, panicked. "Oh, ages. A year or so," Janet says in her smoothest voice possible.
"Yeah. And we decided that we'd been together long enough and we love," Rachel almost choked out the word. "Each other very much so there was no time like the present to get married."
Ms Dylan smiles. "I've just a few more questions to ask and then we'll talk about approximate dates, venues, stuff like that. Has either one of you been married before?"
"Yes," Janet grimaces. "I have."
"Divorced now though, I assume."
"Yes," Janet replies.
"Kids?"
"Two girls."
"Any between you?"
Rachel looks at Ms Dylan like she's just dropped out of a tree and Janet gives a a kick under the table.
"No," Janet answers, giving Rachel a look. Rachel rolls her eyes.
Ms Dylan asks them a few more questions then closes her notepad.
"Right, now all the boring stuff's over we can talk about the good stuff. How many people do you plan on inviting?"
Rachel and Janet look at each other. "Um, well there'll be your family, and possibly Alison and her's," Rachel starts.
"Yeah and people from work. Anyone else?" Janet looks at Rachel.
"I don't think so. Unless you want to invite any friends?"
"No I don't think so, do you?"
"Not a chance. There all tossers," Rachel looks back as Ms Dylan. "So probably about thirty, forty people."
"Ok, would you like an exact date now or just an idea of what month or week you want it to be?"
Rachel looks at Janet. "I have my diary if you want to set an exact date."
"If you want to, yeah," Janet says breathily, catching Rachel's eye and her stomach filling up with butterflies. This was actually happening.
Rachel keeps eye contact for a few second longer then reaches into her bag for her diary, smiling to herself. Janet rolls her eyes as she sees the battered, graffitied diary that she'd bought her for Christmas only 10 weeks ago. Janet pulls out her own, smirking as she notices how pristine and well kept her's looked compared to Rach's.
"So what month were you thinking of?"
"Soon," Rachel says.
"What about June?" Janet asks. "We've got a good bit of time to prepare then."
"We've got times on the 6th, 13th, 14th and 28th?"
"What day's the 28th?" Janet questions.
"A Saturday."
"Perfect," they both smile.
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"Are you being serious?" Gill's eyes were so wide they looked as if they would drop out.
They look at each other and grin. "Yeah."
"Wow," Gill sits back in her chair. "Well, I'd never have guessed. How long has it been going on for!"
Rachel giggles, looking at the floor. "Oh, absolutely ages ma'am. I'm very surprised you didn't notice, being a DCI and that," Janet smirks at her friend who just laughs and shakes her head.
"I'm sorry to say that Kevin might have had a lucky guess."
"What!" Rachel and Janet both exclaimed.
"Oh, he made some stupid comment this morning about you shagging each other. Well, I now realise it wasn't such a stupid suggestion after all. Are you sure you're not winding me up?"
"Not a windup at all ma'am," Rachel says. "We've got a date and everything. Saturday June 28th."
"Oh my god," Gill says, realisation setting in. "Well you'd better bugger off and tell everyone then, they seem interested." She nods out the window and they turn around just in time to see everyone pretend to get back to work. Rachel and Janet smile at each other and go out to sit back at their desks.
"What was all that about?" Kevin was the first to ask. Everyone else in the room was quiet, listening.
"Break it to him Rach," Janet smirks.
Rachel laughs and looks straight at Kevin. She could see every possibility running through his head.
"We're getting married."
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