Lets face it. The last chapter was a bit 'eah.' *wobbles hand*

Thanks to andrewleepotts and H0315699 for adding Bounty Hunter to faves and/or alerts. I should hope you like it ALP ;)

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Enjoy a bit of interrupted Jecker. I'm thinking I may need to make up a paring name for Becker/Bounty! ;)

Without warning Bounty gave a tug and jumped up at what Becker had decided was the ADD, especially from the hum it was producing. After hearing a small whine, he bent his knees, resting a hand on his girl's head, trying to figure out what she wanted.

"This draw here?" He gently pulled it open, being sure not to hit the dog.

Becker felt her jump up and start to search. As Jess gasped in surprise, Bounty returned her nose to Becker's hand, a treat between her teeth.

"What the…?"

Jess watched in amazement as Becker's eyes flickered from side to side showing his internal thoughts, fingers running over the object in his hands. Suddenly, he chuckled.

"Cadburys, Jess?"

"How did you…?"

"One of Bounty's favourites."

"You're not supposed to give dogs chocolate."

"Bounty's not any old dog. Which reminds me." He straightened, putting a hand into his pockets. "This is for you. I- I wanted to apologise for the way I spoke to you when you came to my house. It was uncalled for."

He produced a bar of chocolate and pressed it into her hands.

"Umm- Becker? The thought is really sweet and everything… But- It has orange in."

"Oh."

There was a pause during which Jess worried she may have gone too far. The man was blind after all.

"Oh."

Damn! He said it again! She had gone too far and had upset him. Why did she do such stupid things around him? Couldn't she have just smiled and said thanks? Would it really have been that hard? Tears started to well up in her eyes. Why did she have to ruin it?

"Yeah… That must have been the one I got for Bounty." His face fixed itself in a sheepish expression. "It's her second favourite flavour… Um, I must've left your one in Matt's car."

He back paced quickly, telling Bounty that they needed to find Matt and calling to a perplexed Jess that he'd be back in a few minutes.

-/-

"Matt? Are we alone?"

"It's just you, me and the dog. Comms are shut too."

"The dog has a name."

Matt smiled, Becker was just so damn attached to her it was actually cute.

"I need you to do me a favour."

"Sure, what is it?"

"I- I bought Jess some chocolate." He paused wondering how far he should go. "I- the last time I saw her, she had come to my house and… well… I said something that was uncalled for and pretty harsh and…" He sighed, struggling.

Matt took pity on him, the expression on the younger man's face speaking louder of his regret than any words could possibly manage.

"I know. She told me. And you believe me, if I didn't understand what you were going through I would have beaten you to a pulp for that, blind or not."

Becker hung his head. He had been cruel to Jess. But it wasn't that which had him brimming with shame. It was his treatment of Matt. That first day he had screamed and shouted, the good Lord knew that if he had been close enough, Becker would have thrown a number of punches too. Yet, Matt had understood what he was going through all along and had never once mentioned the weak moment to him, never had he brought the subject up.

"Matt, I-"

The other man interrupted. "At least you've acknowledged it was wrong."

"I was wrong to-"

"Now, what about the chocolate?" He wasn't going to allow Becker to apologise.

"Well, I left it in your car. I could go and get it but… I bought ten bars today and, you see, all but one of them are for Bounty…"

"I've told you to stop letting her have that chocolate. If Abby knew she would freak out."

"I don't give her that much I promise. Just a couple of squares every so often. When she is very good. I do eat most of it, you know I bulk buy."

Matt frowned at him for a moment before accepting Becker's words as fact. "The chocolates are orange aren't they?"

Becker pulled a face then nodded.

"Let me get this straight. You bought nine bars of orange chocolate for your dog. And one bar for Jess as an apology?"

He nodded again. "Bounty ate all the Bounty. I thought orange would last longer."

"You're lucky Jess likes you, mate." His voice shone with laughter. "No-one else will."

-/-

Matt returned and gave Becker the chocolate bar, being sure to keep it out of Bounty's reach.

"Go get her, mate."

Becker frowned at the words, unable to register the joke as he couldn't see the cheeky wink which accompanied it.

"Teasing you. Now go."

He did as told. He listened to Jess speak happily, rambling. He was glad of it, it seemed as if she harboured him no ill will for the way he had acted.

"Hey!" Abby appeared at the ADD, kissed Becker on the cheek as a welcome and spoke. "If we're giving stuff, I made this for you Becker."

"What's that, Abby?"

"Here." She held out the object before remembering that he couldn't see it. "Sorry. It's a CD I made." Abby pressed it into his free hand.

"Oh, thanks."

"You could sound a bit more enthusiastic, Becker."

"No. Really. Thank you, Abby. Um, what's on it?"

"Well, with everything that's been happening lately, I thought I'd give you some songs that I listen to whenever I'm feeling down."

Becker smiled. Sure, he was 'Action Man' but he was still human! It was good of Abby to see that just because he'd managed to get back on his feet didn't mean that he wasn't going to be prone to relapses.

"Thank you, Abby."

That time no-one could doubt his sincerity.

I have been asked again and again to stop letting Becker feed Bounty chocolate. I'd like to say that I do NOT encourage it.

Chocolate contains Theobromine, C7H8N4O2 (The chemists among you will note it doesn't actually contain Bromine as the name may suggest,) which is toxic to dogs. It lasts in the system for a long time and very little is required to make a dog ill.
The Theobromine is found in cocoa, the concentration is reduced as it is turned into chocolate but that can still be lethal. As little as 130mg/kg is lethal to a dog depending on breed.
Let's use a Border Collie as an example. A Border Collie weighs roughly 20kg. So about 2600mg could kill it. The concentration of Theobromine in different chocolates differ. But if we say it's about 16mg/g for dark chocolate then 162.5g of chocolate could kill a dog. That's the just opened bar you left on your kitchen counter and your dog devoured.
- Prizes if you guess who did a presentation on this a few years ago! So yeah. Dogs+ Chocolate = bad.

Let me know what you think!

Thank you my lovelies!