A/N – Exams are looming but this story has been calling to me and I just had to update it. One more chapter to go and it's finished, hope you like this one. Please review, and thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far! I don't own any of it.

The night of penultimate episode of the show all the team went to Matt's house to watch it. After the show was over and they had digested their own performances the conversation turned, as usual, to their latest case. It was a nasty one, bombs destroying factories. Three factories had been hit in the past two weeks, killing the night managers in the last two the first having a lucky escape having gone out for a cigarette when the bomb occurred. Only one other factory in the area made the same product, however the team couldn't decide whether that was the next target, or whether some one there was behind the attacks.

"It makes perfect sense," Matt said, "what if the factory is in debt or their profits are down, getting rid of all their competition in the area is a perfect way to boost things up."

"But why bomb them all, I mean surely it would be obvious that the only ones not being bombed were behind it!" Jackie replied,

"They know we can't prove it?" Stuart suggested, "Maybe they paid someone to do it for them and thinks that we're not going to be able to link it back to them."

"Hhmm; well maybe," Jackie said, she wasn't convinced.

They continued to debate the subject for a while until Matt said,

"Robbie?"

Robbie looked up, "yeah?" he said

"You've been surprisingly quite, what do you think?" They all turned to look at him realising that he had said hardly anything all evening.

"I agree with Jackie, it's too obvious that it's them, someone could be trying to frame them."

"Could be" Matt said and turned to Stuart to discuss another point, Jackie made a mental note to ask Robbie about his silence when they went back to hers later.

Back at Jackie's Robbie was sat on the sofa with his arm around Jackie staring into space,

"Rob?" Jackie said,

"Yeah?" He asked, her voice bringing him back down to Earth,

"Is everything ok?"

"Of course, why?" He said, looking at her,

"You've been quite," she smiled, "it's not like you!"

"I'm fine, just thinking about the last show next week."

"Ah yes, our fairytale ending." Jackie laughed and Robbie laugher along with her.

"Maybe we should tell Matt and Robbie about us then." He suggested

Jackie nodded smiling but she had mixed emotions; she looked forward to not having to hide their relationship from her friends but dreaded being told that they couldn't work on the same team while seeing each other.

"It'll be fine." Robbie smiled seeing she was a little apprehensive. He kissed her and all her worries, and thoughts of anything but Robbie, went out the window.

That night as he lay next to Jackie, Robbie watched her sleep. A million thoughts were going through his mind, wondering what to do. He couldn't sleep so got up and went to get a glass of water. As he stood in the darkened kitchen sipping his water he realised how much time he had been spending with Jackie lately, after work they would go out for a meal, a drink or just back to hers or his and hang out. And then of course there were all the nights like this one that they'd stay over. He crept back into the bedroom and looked at her as he stood in the doorway to her room, she moved a little in her sleep, obviously dreaming looking so sweet. At that moment he was make his decision. He climbed back into the bed and kissed her forehead, then lay down to sleep.

In briefing the next morning Matt told the team the next course of action. The plan was to question all the top bosses at the fourth factory while placing security in the form of some uniformed officers around the place, particularly in the early evening when the other bombs had been set off. Matt concluded briefing by saying

"Jackie, your with me, were going to interview the manager, Robbie, Stuart interview the Deputy. Find out where they were when the bombs were set off and whether they know anything about explosives."

"Yes boss." Stuart said,

"Oh and find out how the business is going, possible motive!"

"Got it." Robbie replied, "Matt." He said, as his boss was about to turn and follow Jackie down to the interview room."

"Yes?" Matt asked,

"Could I take a bit of a long lunch today?" He asked, "I need to clear a few things up."

"Why don't you juts take the afternoon off?" Matt said sarcastically, "this is an important case Robbie; you can't just come in when you feel like it."

"I know, but look this is important, I only need an hour."

"Ok, but this is a one off mind."

"Ok, thanks." Robbie said and went down to the interview room before Matt could change his mind.

They finished the interviews about half past one and met in the office to discuss them.

"All got alibis" Matt said, "and they all seem to know nothing about any of this."

"Yeah same." Stuart said, "They seem concerned about their stock, apparently they've got some big order coming up."

"The business is doing alright then"? Jackie asked, "Manager said it was."

"Yeah our guy said the same," Robbie said, "Apparently they've beaten all the others for a big deal coming up later this week."

"So they don't need to get rid of the competition they're beating them anyway." Matt said,

"It seems so." Jackie said,

"So do you think there the next hit?" Stuart asked,

"But what's the motive?" Matt asked, "They're not making anything controversial, nothing to protest against. Why would someone want to bomb them?"

"Angry ex-employees maybe? Or something personal?" Robbie suggested.

"Too many hits. Bombing three, maybe four factories to get at one person?"

"Maybe they were trying to frame someone at the other one," Stuart said

"Well if they are they're not doing a good job, we've got nothing on anyone there, and this isn't going to do their business any harm."

"What about the guys who were killed?" Jackie wondered

"What about them?"

"Any links between them?"

"Nothing," Matt sighed, and if there was it doesn't explain the first hit. Right Jackie get over to the factory, check out their paperwork, two people said they were there when the first bombing occurred, check that out, and look into this deal, see if it's legit."

Jackie nodded and collected her coat and bag,

"Stuart, check out their backgrounds, anything concerning explosives I want to know, and check out whether bomb squad's experienced anything like this recently."

"Ok."

"When you've finished your outing Robbie go over to the factories that have been hit, ask about the businesses and how they are dong, plus see if they know anything about this big deal."

About twenty minutes later while Matt, Jackie and Stuart were all busy with their own tasks Robbie was looking at the goods in the window of a shop in Glasgow's main shopping centre. A little nervous about going in, he stood there for a minute or two then pushed open the door. A pretty blonde girl stood behind the counter,

"Hi, can I help you?" She asked,

"Err, no its ok thanks." Robbie said looking around. He walked over to a display and studied it, nothing, the next one had much the same things and he sighed, this was difficult. He had no idea what to pick. What kind? What colour? Then he saw it, the perfect ring for Jackie. It was silver and the band, which was set with two sapphires, twisted around a central diamond. He could almost see her saying yes when he looked at the ring. He looked up and caught the shop assistant's eye, she came over.

"This one please." He said pointing at the ring.

The assistant smiled, "for you fiancée?" she asked,

"I hope so," he grinned, "I haven't asked her yet."

"Well it's a gorgeous ring," she said, "What girl wouldn't say yes to that? Which box would you like with it?"

Robbie stepped out of the shop with the ring in his jacket pocket, he couldn't believe he'd just bought an engagement ring to propose to Jackie Reid, but the credit card receipt reminding him of the small fortune he'd just spend was proof of the fact. He was lost in thoughts of proposing for a moment until he realised that he'd been shopping well over an hour. 'Matt's gonna kill me' he thought and jumped in the car.

Meanwhile Jackie was riffling through lots of paperwork. She had found nothing incriminating, the records, if rather disorganised, were all legit. She was halfway through checking the employment records when her mobile beeped, a text message for Robbie showed up on the screen.

Fancy dressing up and going out for a meal tonight? Pick you up at eight? Love you x

She smiled, and text back, then got back to the detective work. About half past four she heard the workers leave, of course they finish early on Wednesdays she sighed, and was about to go back to the office and tell Matt that there was nothing here when she remembered that she hadn't seen any record of the deal that both managers had mentioned earlier. She frowned and found out the set of papers that she had been looking through. There it was, the details of the deal and Jackie saw that it was very big indeed, the company obviously were doing very well. She was about to put it down went something caught her eye, the contract they had signed for the deal had apparently been originally intended for another factory, the first one to be hit. She couldn't fathom as to why they had changed supplies, there was no record of it in the documents. However she supposed that there wouldn't be, the managers wouldn't care why they had switched, particularly with this large a deal. Still it intrigued her so she got out her mobile and rang the number given for the clients to inquire as to the reasons behind the switch.

"Oh it wasn't much really, just that my supplier didn't like the manager there, snapped a lot, talked down to everyone that kind of thing. And then we found that we could get the same stuff for a slightly lower price somewhere else so we did."

"Ok," Jackie said, "I imagine they were annoyed to lose your custom."

"Yeah, he didn't seem to please, shouting about getting even and stuff, silly really. I can see why he was annoyed though, to offer to purchase that many and then move to a competitor. But then if he hadn't been so rude we wouldn't have."

"Getting even?"

"Yeah, just toys out the pram stuff really, I think he'd already made up half the order or something, kind of silly really as they hadn't signed the contracts yet."

"Right, ok, thanks a lot." Jackie said.

When Jackie had got off the phone her mind began to work overtime, if he had wanted to get even this was the perfect scam. Bombing his own factory first had ensured that he wouldn't be suspected, the other bombings the rest had got rid of the competitors and that left only them to do the deal as they would be the only one recovered enough. Jackie grabbed her mobile and called Matt,

"Sir."

"Jackie where are you?" He asked, sounding a little annoyed,

"I'm still at the factory sir, I've found something."

"I'm listening." Matt said,

"You know that big deal, well it turned out that it was meant for Stephenson's"

"The first factory that as hit?"

"Yes, but the manager was very rude apparently so the switched."
"So?"

"It's going to make the company huge amounts money, and apparently the manager wasn't too happy that he'd screwed it up, they'd make half the stock, and he was shouting about getting even."

"But Jackie they got bombed as well."

"But first, and with not too much damage, and the night manager was conveniently not in the building. It's the perfect way to take the heat off them, and get the deal back."

"You might be right." Matt said, "Let me phone Robbie, he's checking out the other factories now."

"Ok, I'll keep digging." Jackie said.

Almost as soon as Matt hung up, he rang Robbie,

"Robbie, look what's the Stephenson's like?" He asked,

"I'm there now." Robbie said, "seems a little odd, they are doing fine, much better than the other two. And there's loads of stock being made but no record of where it's going."

"How much stock?" Matt asked, "Enough to do that deal they were talking about earlier?"

"Yeah I'd say so." Robbie said, "But…"

"Jackie was right." Matt said,

"Jackie?" Robbie asked

"Yeah look, the manager over there, he's our man ok, they were supposed to get that deal, but he screwed it up so he's getting rid of the competition…"

"And getting rid of suspicion by bombing their own factory first."

"Exactly." Matt said, "When was the deal supposed to happen?" Matt asked,

"Thursday, tomorrow." Robbie replied, "So the bombing must be happening, tonight?"

"Jackie's over there now!" Matt said, "Right phone Jackie, tell her to get out of there now, I'll phone the officers over there, see if there's anything suspicious going on and tell them to watch out but keep clear."

"Ok." And with that Robbie hung up on his boss. He pressed his speed dial and rang Jackie, she picked up after a couple of rings,

"Hi." She said, "I'm looking forward to tonight, you found anything?"

"Yeah, look you were right, Stephenson's have a massive order ready, but no one knows where it's going. And there seemed to be hardly any damage there."

"Right ok, good, have we got enough to charge him."

I'd say so, but look Jackie you have to get out of there, the deals going off tomorrow, so the bomb might be going off tonight!"

"Robbie, look calm down," Jackie said, I'll just get my bag and get back to the station,"

"Jackie it doesn't matter about your handbag! Just get out of there!"

"Rob, calm down, there's no sign of anyone I'm just leaving now ok, I'll see you in a few minutes."

Robbie was about to say ok when he heard a deafening crash,

"Jackie?!?" He yelled, no response came, "JACKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"