A/N: This chapter obviously has quite a bit of swearing in it so if you don't want to read then okay. I could have made this super fluffy but then I went against it and this was the result. Don't own anything! And Helen I may start with a follow up to Sorry thanks to you. I've been thinking about it for a while but gave up, then you start talking about how hot Robbie looks RAR!! My toe still hurts Helen :(

When She Starts Swearing at Him, He Tells Her I love You

"See you Jackie."

"Where are you going?"

"Just somewhere, I'll call you when I'm done."

"No way Robbie! You can't just bloody walk away without telling anyone where you're going!"

"Watch me!" He started to stride off past her car.

"Robbie why do you always do this to me? Why don't you tell me and then if you tell me not to follow then I can decide for myself, instead of you choosing for me! Anyway I don't even care if you are going to some woman's house because I've got used to that, just let me know the whole truth!"

"I'm trying to protect you! And I don't want you to know when I go to a girl's house because I know that deep down it hurts us both!" He wasn't going to a woman's house that afternoon in fact.

"Protect me?! Fuck off! I give up trying to reason with you. Go to wherever you fucking want and do whatever, just don't expect me to stand up for you when you choose to come back to work and you're having a hard time!"

"No! You know what? I'll take you with me but remember that I was trying to protect you from it!"

"Where is it then?"

"Behind the nightclub a couple of streets away. He wants me to inform him of what's happening in the investigation."

"Who's he and what the hell are you playing at?!"

"George Fenshaw, who else would it be? He knows my feelings for you and he's threatening to hurt you if I don't agree to it. And I can't let that happen. I can't let him near you." George Fenshaw was the main suspect in their current case. He made his money by being a low-life gangster and passionately hated DI Ross and DS Reid because of previous meetings.

"Robbie I can fucking handle myself! I don't need you bloody wrecking all our work just because he is making empty threats! If you go through with this I don't think I'll be able to forgive you. So decide: do the right bloody thing and stay here, or piss off and lose everything!" She was beyond angry by this point. Did he not stop to realise how much she cared for him?

"I can't. He'll come after you, you know he doesn't make empty threats!"

"Fine fuck off then. I've tried to believe that you're a good man who just lost his way a bit but this, this is wrong Robbie and I can't stand by and watch you destroy it all. You've now successfully ruined my life so thanks!" Jackie turned her back to him.

"I love you."

"What the fuck did you just say?!" Jackie was praying that she had heard him wrong. She turned around again.

"I love you Jackie Reid!" Nope, she had heard him properly the first time.

"Why are you telling me this now? You're going to go and do something that I will always hate you for! You don't do that to people you love Robbie!"

"That's why I have to do it though. I love you so much that I cannot let him touch you."

"You think that telling him about all the evidence we have against him will make him suddenly forget about his hatred for the both of us? Robbie please do the right thing. I'll be back at the station when you've made your mind up." She had to walk away so that she couldn't see his face anymore or she knew that she would end up crying.

She loved him but what he wanted to go and do was breaking her heart. It wasn't so much the fact that he was going to spill all the team's suspicions, it was that he loved her but was choosing to ignore her feelings. Walking away from him was one of the hardest things she had ever had to do.

Suddenly Jackie felt someone grabbing her arm. It was unsurprisingly Robbie,

"Jackie please don't do this. I hate going to him but I can't let you get hurt, can you not see the issues which I'm having trouble with?"

"Of course I can Robbie but if you want me to tell you I love you too, then you won't go."

"So you do love me?"

"Yeah but not when you're like this! I'm in love with the guy who makes me laugh, who knows when to apologise and who makes stupid mistakes but will always try to fix them. That's the Robbie who I want now, not you!"

"If you get hurt then it's not without my efforts, but okay. I may regret this but I won't go to him today. I'll be the Robbie that you want. I'll be the Robbie who is madly in love with you." He looked desperately into her eyes, making sure she knew it was the truth.

She scanned his eyes, searching for a lie but couldn't find one, "Thank you." She reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, Robbie responded instantly to the kiss and laid his hands on her waist and pulled her as close as he possibly could.

Fourth Short Complete.