Smithy felt slightly light headed as mist swirled round them. He wasn't sure where he was or where he was going but he felt safe, relaxed and at peace. He knew Kerry wouldn't let anything bad happen to him.
Finally his feet touched firm ground and he blinked repeatedly as he looked round his surroundings, instantly recognising them as the front desk at Sun Hill nic.
"Why are we here?" He asked a little confused.
"I've taken you back to July 2003, your first day as Sergeant and the first time we met. In fact..." Kerry trailed off as she saw Smithy walk through the door to speak to her.
Smithy hadn't noticed at first but stood in front of him, behind the front desk was Kerry alive and well and talking to Robbie Cryer. He found it strange seeing her in front of him and beside him at the same time; but even stranger than that was when he saw himself walk in and talk to her.
"Kerry, I need you to come out on a job with me. 1 minute out the back." Smithy said to Kerry as she looked slightly flirtatiously at him.
"Sarge." She replied with a little smile to herself as he left the room again.
Watching the scene in front of him was strange and made Smithy feel something that he was desperate to keep hidden, pain and longing. He felt her hand on his arm and it brought him round from his thoughts slightly.
"Do you remember this? This was the first time you spoke to me, I had seen you earlier in the day but when you said those simple words to me, I knew there was something different about you." Kerry explained.
Smithy gave a little laugh. "You'd only just met me and you were already flirting with me." He said.
"I'll never forget that first day. You really impressed me with how you cared about that kid in the car accident; but it was the way that you dealt with the situation that really impressed me. When you explained that you thought it was the bar manager who had been driving the car, because it hadn't been broken into or hotwired, I thought you were bright and smart, as well as being fit." Kerry explained with her familiar flirtatious smirk.
"Well I'm glad I did something right. When I first met you I didn't have any particular thoughts or feelings, but it wasn't long into the shift before I realised that there was chemistry between us." He replied as the white mist began to swirl around him once again.
He was transported to another part of the station. This time he found himself in custody, watching as drag queen David Wemmick left the station after making his complaint.
"Blimey, I remember this. I had to do some serious crawling to get that result." Smithy said when he heard the little speech he had spun.
"Mr Wemmick, I think we got off on the wrong foot Sir." Smithy started.
"Do you?" Wemmick replied a little sceptical.
"Yeah, I never meant to offend you and I am certainly not homophobic; and I respect the way you are willing to put yourself on the line to take care of your business problems." Smithy continued, lying through his teeth.
"Has somebody put you up to this?" Wemmick said, dressed in a long sequined red dress, earrings and lots of other over the top jewellery.
"No Sir." Came the innocent reply.
"Well in that case, apology accepted." Wemmick exclaimed as he minced off.
Kerry jumped excitedly once he had left, exclaiming how brilliant Smithy was and how Wemmick thought he had him by the nuts, and yet it really was the other way round. Smithy moved closer to her and explained flirtatiously that everyone has someone by the nuts.
"Erm... there's some new forms in the FMEs' room that I think we should be using. Come on I'll show you." Kerry whispered seductively as she led Smithy away, much to the annoyance of Luke who was watching from behind the custody desk.
Smithy and Kerry smirked at each other as they both remembered what really went on in the FMEs' room. He looked slightly awkwardly at her but smiled.
"Well that was an interesting first day I put in, wasn't it?" He joked.
"Yeah it definitely was. That was obviously the first time we slept with each other and you were the first person since Luke and I had split. In those few hours we had been together, I had felt more relaxed and interesting than anyone had made me feel in months. Granted the FMEs' room wasn't the most romantic place to choose, but I had no regrets then and definitely none now." Kerry explained.
"Yeah I agree, but I did wonder if at the time you were just kinda using me to get back at Luke." Smithy replied earnestly.
"In a way you're right, but I did feel attracted to you and it felt great being able to tell Luke that I'd moved on from him. When I confronted him about it a few days later, I wanted a lot more from you than just no strings sex, but I was scared. I got the impression you were a really nice bloke but I didn't want to give myself to you and find you were an absolute pratt and ruin another relationship." She replied and explained to him exactly how she felt.
"Yeah I sort of figured that at one point. When I asked you for that drink that time, I really wanted you to come out with me but I didn't think you were ready to trust me. So I ended it before it got started to protect you. I was always trying to protect you." He explained solemnly.
"To begin with I just thought that you believed what everyone else did, that I was a slapper." Kerry said as tears filled her eyes.
"Kerry I never thought that of you..."
But before he could finish the sentence, the familiar mist and light headed sense returned to Smithy again.
This time when the scene changed Smithy wasn't so familiar with the surroundings.
"Where the hell are we?" He asked feeling very disorientated.
"We're in an underground car park, over there is your car and sat inside is the two of us." Kerry explained with a different tone to the way she had been earlier. It was a little colder.
She moved Smithy over to be closer to the vehicle so that he could hear the conversation. He saw Kerry unbuttoning her shirt and remembered the situation.
"Kerry stop it, you're behaving like a slapper." He said.
"I love it, you're prepared to treat me like a slapper but don't like me acting like one, is that it?" Kerry replied angrily.
"Kerry when I said that... I didn't mean it the way it came out. By this stage I knew how I felt about you and about us, but I didn't want to take advantage of you or the situation. I wanted you to realise how you felt in your own time but I wanted you to know that I was there for you and that I cared; I was never good at expressing my feelings." He replied as he took hold of Kerrys' hands in his.
"I know that now but I guess in the early days we were very good at winding each other up." Kerry explained.
"All I ever wanted was for us to be together but there always seemed to be something in the way. A few months after this, you got together with Cameron Tait and that was seriously painful to watch. Kerry every time I saw you with him it was like someone was stomping on my heart one more time." He replied a bit more angrily than he had intended.
"I know that now but come on, there's more for you to see." Kerry began to say when Smithy pulled his hand from hers.
"I don't know if I can do this anymore. Being with you now and watching all of this is like rubbing it in, showing me what I was too blind to see before and now I can't have any of it." He said as he broke down.
"Smithy, you need to do this. You can't carry on the way you have been, and this is the only way to make you see sense." Kerry said caringly but firmly.
He looked at her beautiful angel features and couldn't say no to her. They held each other tightly as once again the white mist swirled round them.
