Here is the next chapter of For The Past! Thanks to Laura, Amy, Gemz, SP-always and Sam for reviewing!

For my Huxon twin as a celebration of her one year on fan fiction! You know who you are!

Chapter 9 – Conversations In The Park

Jo and Zain pushed open the doors to CID, glancing towards Sam's office, they had both watched as she ran out of custody and Phil had followed. Zain had, had his hands full with Derek, who had obviously decided that if he was going to be guilty then he was going to try his best to wreck Sam's life as well. Eventually they had gotten him back into his cell, and had told everyone to ignore what he was saying about the DI, because it wasn't too pleasant. They knocked on the door, expecting Sam to be inside, they hadn't seen her disappear out of the station.

"Where is she?" Jo asked Zain, with a confused look

"Don't know" Zain replied as he turned to leave the room, he looked towards Phil's desk "With him, perhaps?" Zain continued as he pointed towards Phil's empty desk

"Ooh, now that is interesting. Jo said with a laugh

"Where could they have gone?" Zain wondered

"No idea, but we are detectives, we should be able to find them"

"Yeah, but they are an inspector and sergeant" Zain said sarcastically

"Doesn't make them any better than us, you are the one with the undercover experience, I am sure that you can find them, brave one"

"Shut it Jo" Zain said with a laugh

The two of them headed downstairs and towards the yard, they noticed that two of the cars were missing from their usual parking places, Zain noticed Smithy climbing out of one of the area cars and wandered over towards him.

"Have you seen the DI? Or Phil by any chance?" Zain asked casually

"No, not lately, what is going on?" Smithy questioned

Zain bit the bottom of his lip and wondered if he should tell Smithy what was going on, he took a deep breath and began to speak

"The man you arrested at Harvey Wallace this morning, he is the DI's cousin. He is also most definitely guilty of what he has been accused of" Jo said before Zain could get the words out

"Sam accidentally ran into him in custody, we aren't sure why she was there, but he didn't have some nice things to say and she ran off, we assumed back to her office, but we have been up there, and both her and Phil are nowhere to be seen" Zain finished

"And there are two cars missing" Jo said as she pointed to the empty spaces

"Right" Smithy said as he tried to take in this latest information

"Sarge, what about that car we saw speeding down near Canley Park, I said at the time that it looked like one of ours, but you just ignored me, or perhaps didn't hear" Reg said as he climbed out of the passenger seat

"Ignored, most likely" Jo whispered in Zain's ear, as he tried to stifle out his laughter

"Try Canley Park then and if you are right, always know to listen to Reg" Smithy said with a smile and turned towards the doors, "By the way, if the DI, Phil and now you two are not in the station is there anyone who can solve any other crimes in CID?"

Zain and Jo looked at one another and smiled, then at the same time announced "Terry and Mickey are there"

"And Sarge we are investigating a crime" Jo said with a laugh and then lowered her voice so only Zain could hear "The disappearance of the two lovers and we want to know what is going on"

"Too right" Zain said with a laugh as he unlocked the doors and climbed in. He started the car and headed towards the park wondering what they would find and if Reg had been right all along.

Sam looked at Phil, he hadn't said anything, neither had she. She didn't actually know what to say, but she knew that kissing him just then had made her feel much better. Her cousin had slipped to the back of her mind, she leant in again towards him, but he turned his face away from her.

"Wait Sam" he said quietly "You said friendship before, that was much more than a friendly kiss. That was a"

"Romania kiss" Sam said finishing his sentence for him again

"I can finish my own sentences" Phil said as he turned back towards her

"I know that you can, but you weren't exactly telling me anything"

"This is confusing Sam, your cousin is at the nick, you are scared again, I follow you to make sure that you don't do anything stupid and somehow we end up kissing. Right after you tell me that you don't hate me, which is pretty much what I thought that you felt about me lately. Especially with our office conversations lately"

"I like punctuality Phil, you of all people should know that" she replied as she stood up, obviously kissing Phil at that moment had been a mistake, she turned and walked away

Phil watched as Sam started to head away from him, he really didn't get her sometimes, she hadn't walked far away from him, so he reached out and grabbed her hand, pulling her back towards him and back to the bench.

Sam landed back on the bench with a bump, she turned around to face Phil and looked at him again. She had kissed him, and had tried to another time and he hadn't done anything.

"I know that you like punctuality, and I also know that you don't like to be office gossip" he said quietly

"Which is what I will be now thanks to him" Sam replied with a sigh

"No-one is going to believe a word that he says Sam. People at Sun Hill know you, we know that you are nothing like him"

"But Phil I think I am like him" she replied quietly staring down at her shoes

"Sam that is ridiculous. You have nothing in common with him. You care about people, he obviously doesn't"

"That is nice of you to say Phil, but what about us? You tell me that you loved me and the next day I disappear and leave you and never explain why, and recently I cannot even string a sentence together around you that doesn't involve me speaking at the top of my lungs, take the Parker case all those months ago, I have no idea why I reacted like that, you were just being you"

"Well some of that isn't your fault Sam, I did tell you that I loved you, you wanted to take things slowly, you told me that enough and I didn't listen. I just blurted it out anyway"

"Yeah I guess that you did, I never actually expected you of all people to tell me that you loved me" Sam replied as she glanced back upwards towards him

"It wasn't exactly something that I planned on doing either"

"Do you regret saying it Phil?" Sam asked wondering if she really wanted to know the answer

"Hey isn't that Phil's car" Jo said suddenly

"Looks like it. Can you see Sam's?" Zain asked as he pulled over

"Nope, but we are in the street next to the park"

"Looks like Reg was right then"

"Great that is all we need, he will be telling everyone now" Jo said sarcastically "Come on then, let's see what we can find"

"They must be here somewhere"

"Must be, will they be yelling?"

'Not sure, but I am sure that it will be a show" Zain said laughing

"Oh you are so clever" Jo replied poking him in the arm as the two of them headed into the park

Does Phil regret telling Sam that he loved her all those months ago? What will Jo and Zain discover in the park? Review and you will find out, next chapter will be up soon x