Neil knew something was wrong as soon as he walked into CID that morning. He was half an hour early, since he had nothing to do as Jake was now back with his mum. He was expecting the office to be empty. What he wasn't expecting was a sleeping Grace Dasari slumped over her desk. He walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. He knew that if she was still asleep when everybody else came in she would be really embarrassed. Yet as soon as he placed a gentle hand on her shoulder she jolted awake and sat up so fast that Neil had to move back slightly to avoid her head colliding with his chin.

But it appeared that Grace sat up too fast for her own head to handle and she groaned as she put a hand to her head and slumped forward again, willing the room to stop spinning in two different directions simultaneously.

"Grace?" Neil started quietly, "Is everything alright?"

But Grace just shook her head slowly, and muttered, "I don't want to talk about it."

Neil knelt down and spun Grace's chair around slowly until she was facing him, and was shocked to see that her eyes was red and swollen, as if she had been crying all night. He placed his right hand over her left, trying to silently show that he would support her, but Grace refused to look at him, instead focusing on a spot just above his left shoulder.

If I look at him I'll start crying again, she thought.

So, still looking over his shoulder she said, "In my message I asked if I could swap my day off to another day. It will be in three days time, on the 18th October. Is that okay?"

Neil chuckled gently, trying to lighten the atmosphere. "You like the whole 'short notice' thing, don't you Grace? Don't worry, that will be absolutely fine. Are you sure it won't be cancelled this time?"

"It won't," she replied quietly, her tone of voice signalling the end of the conversation, as did the opening of the door to CID as Terry walked in.

So Neil nodded, and squeezed her hand slightly before releasing it, standing up and turning back to his office, reaching there just in time to see Terry silently place a gentle hand on Grace's shoulder, Grace answering an unspoken question with a quick nod, not looking away from her computer screen.

To anybody not paying attention it looked as if Grace, being ignorant, had completely ignored Terry's gesture. What they wouldn't have seen was how it took all of Grace's self control not to run out of the room screaming to try and release the pain that was inside her.

But Neil couldn't help but feel hurt. What did Terry know that he didn't?

And why did Grace feel that he couldn't be trusted?