Sorry for the suckieness of this update. I wen t swimming in Civic today and ate waaayy to much! *Dies* Anyway it's a short one for now but I hope to get another bit up for you later tonight when the parents are out at the movies :)

Thanks for all the reviews and the encouraging words, it means a lot to a beginner like myself!

Steph


"Y-yes?" Shannon stumbled on her words as she stood up trying to look natural and calm while trying to figure out what she was going to do about Lawson.

"Do you know who this picture belongs to? I found it in the change room and the kid looks kind of familiar but I just can't place him..." Unfolding the picture and holding it out to Shannon to look at.

"Ah... yeah it's mine..." Shannon guiltily took the photo from Lawson quickly folding it back up and putting it in her jeans pocket, pushing it down as far as it would go to make sure it wouldn't fall out this time.

Lawson looked at her with a questioning look on his face. "So... You gonna tell me where I've seen this kid before? And why do you have a picture of a little boy? He your nephew?"

"Ah no... It's better you don't know anything about Danny." Giving Lawson a look that said don't-ask-again-becuase-I'm-not-going-to-tell-you Shannon brushed past him quickly before hopping in her car and racing off.


"Kerry, why didn't I know about Shannon having to stay at base for two weeks? I am the team leader if you'd forgotten, I should be notified instead of finding out from Josh and Christian." Feed up from being brushed off by Shannon earlier and not getting any helpful answers from the rest of the team Lawson was ready to hit something.

"Well Lawson... It might have something to do with me finding out only minutes before I sent you off this morning that Shannon's doctor had told her she's not to be on patrol for the next two weeks at least. The reason I didn't tell you is because I simply ran out of time." Pointing to the book she had been filling in the whole morning Kerry continued. "I was re-orgainising the whole teams for the next two weeks and trying to figure out if we needed to get someone in while Shannon's out."

"Why's Shannon off? She seems fine to me! I didn't even know she'd gone to a doctor." Lawson was pissed. Not only had he been brushed off by Shannon, she hadn't even told him that something was wrong enough to warrant going to see a doctor! His own girlfriend didn't trust him enough!

That's it. Lawson thought. I'm finding out why Shannon was seeing a doctor, who the hell that kid is and why Shannon didn't bother telling me about any of it! Storming out of TR Lawson ignored the strange looks he got from Leon and Kerry. He didn't care that he nearly slammed Josh's hand in his locker door when Josh went over to him to find out what was going on. He broke about twenty different traffic rules on his drive to nowhere in particular. And when he eventually got to Shannon's house he felt more angry then before. The thinking time he had had made him realise some things that he should have noticed before. Things like the fact Shannon had never once invited him over to her place. After long shifts they would always go back to his place, Lawson had always thought is was because it was closer to base then Shannon's but now it just didn't seem right. But the thing that made Lawson the most angry was the fact that he had realised why the Danny kid looked familiar. He looked like Shannon. Not only Shannon but the dickhead Senior Constable that had put her through hell during her training. Lawson couldn't believe that Shannon could have slept with him after that!

Pulling out the key to Shannon's house from his pocket Lawson unlocked the door and swung it wide... Nothing could have prepared him for who and what he saw just inside the hallway...


Oh I'm mean! No not really since I promise to give you guys some more later tonight! :) Just a heads up by the way, I'm a teen and I know all about abuse and stuff like that and this story is currently rated T but I think I might change the rating to M for the next chapter just to be safe... I'm fairly sure younger people wouldn't be watching Rush anyway but yeah...

Thanks again! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Steph