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Chapter 9- Good Samaritan
Sam pulled up outside Sun Hill at about 8:15 the next morning. She'd left Phil having his breakfast as she didn't want to give her colleagues anything more to talk about. She looked around and sighed to herself as she saw Stuart's car parked up a few yards away from hers. This would be the first time she had seen him since their bust-up the afternoon before and she was a bit nervous about what he'd say to her. He still had no idea where she was staying and of course, she had no idea how he'd take it. She sighed to herself once more; she knew she'd have to tell him, before he heard it from anyone else.
Sam picked up her belongings off the back seat of her car before locking it up. She looked up at the windows of CID and began to walk towards the entrance of the station.
She walked up to the CID offices and opened the door to the DI's office. She looked around and smiled at Neil as she entered, 'morning Neil,' she said.
'Morning Sam,' Neil replied as she sat down. 'The DCI's looking for you.'
Sam looked up at him and scowled, 'is he now,' she said as turned her attention to the small stack of paperwork on her desk.
'He seemed keen to see you,'
'Yeah well, he would be,'
'Why?'
Sam looked up from her paperwork and smiled at Neil, 'it's complicated but the long and short of it is we had a big bust-up yesterday afternoon and I moved out last night,'
'What was the argument about?'
'He went out with an ex girlfriend for drinks and dinner the other night and then yesterday, she tells him that she's got a plumbing problem at her house and needs somewhere to stay so she's now staying at our place,'
'And let me guess, you've moved out because you're not keen on sharing your house with your house with your husband's ex-girlfriend,'
'Got it in one,' Sam smiled, 'how did you guess?'
'I'm very intuitive Sam, you work with me long enough, you'll soon see that,'
Sam smiled at him as a knock at the door disturbed them from their conversation, 'come in!' Neil called.
The door opened and Stuart stood in the doorway, 'can you give us a minute Neil?' Stuart asked.
'Yeah sure,' Neil replied as he stood up.
He left the office and shut the door behind him. It wasn't until they were sure that Neil had closed the door that either of them spoke, 'what do you want?' Sam asked coldly.
'I was worried about you last night,'
'Yeah, course you were,' Sam said sarcastically.
'I was, where did you get to last night?'
'Did you not listen to a word I said yesterday? I said there was no way I was sharing the house with her so until she's gone, I'm not coming back,'
'Yeah, Adele told me that much. What I meant was where did you stay last night?'
'Do you really care?'
'Of course I care Sam,'
'If you cared about me at all, you would've asked me before you moved your ex-girlfriend into our house,'
'Don't bring Rachel into this,'
'I can bring her into this if I want to; after all, it's her fault we're in this situation,'
Stuart sighed, 'Just tell me where you stayed last night. I am a detective, I'll find out somehow' he said.
Sam looked up at him and a small smirk spread across her face, 'Phil,' she replied.
'Phil Hunter?' he asked incredulously.
Sam nodded, 'why him Sam?' Stuart asked.
'He's my friend, he cares about me,'
'I care about you,'
Sam looked up at him, 'then prove it,' she challenged him.
'How?'
'Tell Rachel to go and then I'll come home,'
Stuart looked at her, 'I wish I could do that Sam, but I can't,'
'Why not?'
'I just can't OK Sam?'
'Until she's gone, I don't want to know,'
'What are you saying Sam?'
'If you can't tell her to go, you'll not only lose me, you'll lose Adele and Marcus too,'
Stuart looked at her, unable to comprehend what she had just told him, 'now…' Sam trailed off, 'I've got nothing more to say to you so can you please get out, I do have work to be getting on with,'
Stuart opened the door and left the office. He closed the door and Sam sighed to herself, she knew was being a bit unfair to Stuart but at this moment in time, she couldn't care less. If threatening to walk out on him with Adele and Marcus was what she had to do to persuade him to chuck Rachel out, then it would be worth it. She desperately wanted to save her marriage, she loved Stuart and she wanted to get things back on track. They had been together for eighteen years and it wasn't worth throwing that away because of one stupid argument.
Stuart walked back into CID later that afternoon. The office was almost empty apart from a few people; Phil was sat at his desk, typing up a report and Jo was perched on the edge of Mickey's desk and they were reading over a statement they'd taken from a woman who was caught up in an armed robbery earlier that day. Stuart strode over to Phil's desk, 'DS Hunter,' he said.
Phil looked up, 'a word please, in my office,' Stuart continued and began to walk away.
Phil sighed to himself as he put down his papers and stood up. 'What have you done this time?' Jo called over to him.
Phil scratched his head, 'nothing as far as I know,' he replied.
'That's what they all say,' Mickey said.
Phil shook his head and walked out of the CID office.
He closed the door to Stuart's office as he entered. 'What did you want to see me about guv?' he asked.
Stuart turned around and faced him, 'did you or did you not invite Sam to stay over at yours?' he asked.
'No, I didn't. Its not what it looks like,'
'OK then, so you put me straight,'
'Sam came to my door last night, told me what happened between you two and asked if she could stay with me, I let her,'
'It might surprise you to learn this DS Hunter but you don't get paid for being a Good Samaritan,'
'I wasn't being a Good Samaritan, Sam's my friend,'
'Yeah, and that's all she ever will be. Sam is mine, and will always be mine,'
'What about Rachel?'
'She means nothing to me; I'm just being a friend to her,'
'In the same way that I'm being a friend to Sam. If you care about Sam as much as you say you do, you'll prove it to her, she loves you, even I know that,' Phil said.
He sighed to himself, it hurt him to say that but deep down, he knew it was true. Sam did love Stuart but at the same time, it didn't stop Phil from hoping that there might still be a small part of her that still loved him, like she had nearly sixteen years ago. In a funny sort of way, he wanted Sam's marriage to stay the way it was, she was living with him now and he quite enjoyed having her around. However, he knew how gutted Sam was that things were going the way they were and wanted her to be happy, even if that did mean her marriage to Stuart getting back on track.
'You're not the first person to have told me that in the past couple of days,' Stuart finally replied.
'I didn't think I was,' Phil said, 'can I go now?' he added
Stuart nodded and Phil made his way back towards the office door and opened it. He closed the door behind him and walked back towards the CID offices. He smiled slightly to himself, that conversation had just confirmed what Sam had told him last night, Stuart was jealous of Phil. Of course, he had reason to be, just like Sam had reason to be jealous of Rachel.
Phil sat himself back down in front of his computer and went back to typing up his report; his thoughts occasionally wandering back the woman who had walked back into his life a little over three weeks ago and unwittingly captured his heart once again.
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