It's the fragments that build a relationship; the little pieces of love, attention, desire, mirth; the moments that have no beginning and no end, the laughter, the sorrow, the jealousy, that all twine together to make a whole.

He's not sick. At least, in the conventional sense. 'It' happens on the following day, a regular Thursday in March, at eight thirty in the morning as the rain fell. **Thank you for all the lovely reviews! Chapter 12 is added**

"I know what you did, Harry."

She sighed. "You never bore me, Dempsey, although you sometimes drive me up the wall. You frequently make me laugh, I like the way you smell and I find you quite easy on the eyes." A light hearted (hopefully) feel good piece with copious amounts of fluff.

**New chapter - Honey** This began as a series of outsider perspectives but it's become a repository for small stories. Thank you in advance for reviews.

James Dempsey, the very bane of her existence, obviously bored and trying to wind her up, seemed to have a death wish. *Warning* Fluff ahead!

Maybe they weren't so screwed up after all. Companion piece and conclusion to Need and Care.

Last chapter *sob* "You need a hand?" He takes all opportunities, he's still Dempsey, not a saint.

Harry gets promoted but her senior officer is rather attracted to her so she needs a significant other and the best choice is her old partner James Dempsey.

Four Drink Harry was going to turn into Hungover Harry in the morning if she wasn't careful, and Hungover Harry spelled all kinds of trouble for him. A one-shot idea that came to me yesterday, not related to Care and Need.

I don't know if I'm strong enough to walk away again, but I don't think I'm strong enough to stay. Harry's POV, companion piece to Need.

"Some people would say that I regaled you with my debonair and rapier wit." Just a bit of D & M fluff to see if I still can.

He didn't *need* need her.

It's Christmas and Harry doesn't want Dempsey to spend the festive season alone and invites him to be her plus one at Winfield Hall. The evening doesn't quite go as she planned!

She's resigned. She's gone! Doesn't she know how much he needs her? How the only reason he hasn't done something extremely stupid before now is because he had her to come back to? Dempsey has to persuade her come back to the police, to him. But how?

"Jeez!" He hisses...about to embarrass himself in front of the gorgeous and enthusiastic woman he has pinned to his couch...

Another one from the archives which I've dragged out and added the final bit. Dempsey tackles a bomb and this time it doesn't go his way and Harry finds it difficult to cope with the visit to Intensive Care.

*Second chapter added* For some reason I was thinking about when I first moved to London and how looking for places to live by circling the ads in the Standard was just how it was pre-internet. How this led to a second chapter for this one, I'm not really sure! Anyway, hope everyone is well :)

"Are you married, Mr Dempsey? Girlfriend?" Short thing that popped into my head. Hope everyone is keeping well - Added a second chapter to distract CocoBacon!

Just a little one-shot from me, bit of fluff, really! I'm starting a new job this week so I needed some distraction from overthinking myself into a state of nerves :D Hope everyone is well!

AU (alternative universe) Harriet Makepeace is divorced but she can barely afford her mortgage. James Dempsey is thrown out of New York and needs a place to stay. What could possibly go wrong? *chapter 9 posted*

Alrighty, this one is finally complete! Last chapter here for you, and I can't thank you enough if you stuck with this one and the many months it dragged on! :)

I was having a little rewatch of The Jericho Scam and there was one little scene that sparked something...and this little one-shot was born. I have no control of the random scenes that leap out at me! Hope everyone is well :)

Another story that could be in series 4 if there ever had been one. Dempsey is honest at last, and they discover what they really have, if they both 'care' care.

I really wanted a series 4 all those years ago. I grieved this show! This is my recent: maybe that's what happened next...