I made up Sheelagh's maiden name and the name of her brother, as I don't know what they are.

The next morning Sheelagh woke up in Patrick's arms instead of Des's. At first she wondered where she was but then remembered and snuggled happily into Patrick. Her movements woke Patrick up and he looked down at her head, which was lying on his chest.

"You alright?" he asked. Sheelagh moved so she was lying next to him and looked over at him.

"Yeah, I'm okay. And you?" she replied.

"Never better." Patrick rolled onto his side then put his arm over Sheelagh, his other arm propping himself up. Sheelagh watched him then entwined her fingers into his.

"You know……I promised myself I'd only ever sleep willing with one man in my lifetime." Sheelagh confided.

"Oh. Well, I don't mind you breaking that promise." Patrick replied cheekily.

"You wouldn't." Sheelagh said. Patrick leant down and kissed her gently. "I should be going."

"Will you come again?" he asked.

"Do you want me to?"

"Of course."

"Then I will." They smiled at each other and Sheelagh got out of the bed.

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Des Taviner walked into the station that morning and ran into Gina Gold.

"Morning Des." Gina said cheerfully.

"Morning ma'am." Des replied. "Oh, you don't happen to know where Sheelagh was last night do you?"

She wasn't with you at home?" Gina sounded confused.

"No."

"Oh. No I don't. Maybe she was with friends. Try June Ackland."

"Okay. Thanks ma'am." They went their separate ways.

Gina was taking the briefing that morning and nearly all the ways through she watched Sergeant Taviner like a hawk. Sheelagh noticed but decided not to say anything.

After the briefing Des caught up with Sheelagh just as she was about to enter her office. He caught hold of her elbow.

"Hi." He said.

"Hi." Sheelagh replied.

"I was worried about you last night."

"I was at Brian's."

"Oh. Well, you didn't call, so I got worried."

"Well I'm okay."

"Des! Work!" Gina came up and said.

"Ma'am." Des replied and walked off. Gina watched him go the turned to Sheelagh.

'Oh no.' Sheelagh thought.

"Good morning Sheelagh." Gina said pleasantly. Her tone put all Sheelagh's senses on alert.

"Morning ma'am." Sheelagh replied, smiling. She turned to go into her office when Gina started talking to her again.

"Des said that you didn't go home last night." She stated.

Sheelagh turned back. "No. I stayed at Brian's." She tried to keep the annoyed tone out of her voice. 'This woman's way too nosy!'. She thought to herself.

"Who's Brian?" Gina asked immediately.

"My brother."

"Oh, right. Okay. Well, if you have any problems you want to talk about, you know where I am." Gina smiled sweetly at Sheelagh before going into her office. Sheelagh felt ready to strangle her.

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Half-way through his shift he was bored. But he had no time to be bored, he had another customer. So Patrick Murphy took a deep breath and drove away from the curb. This customer was very talkative and it stopped Patrick's wandering off with a certain married woman.

"Have you got a girlfriend?" he was asking.

"Sort of." Patrick replied honestly.

"What's she like?" This guy wasn't annoying, just talkative.

"She's Irish and amazing."

"And married?" he asked slyly.

"How did you know?"

"They always are." They both laughed.

"That's true."

"I'm James Thomas by the way."

"I'm Patrick."

"Why did you leave Ireland?"

"Just wanted to I suppose."

"Oh."

By now they had gotten to the destination. James got out and paid.

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Gina walked into the sergeant's office without knocking just after Patrick dropped Mr Thomas off.

"Hello Sheelagh." she said.

"Hi ma'am." Sheelagh replied.

"What's your maiden name?"

"What?" Sheelagh couldn't hide her surprise. Even June looked up.

"What's your maiden name?" Gina repeated patiently.

"Why do you want to know?"

"I just do."

"O'Neill."

"Thank you." Gina said. She turned round and left. Sheelagh looked at June and they both shrugged then got on with their work.

About two minutes after Gina had gone, Des came in. June saw him first.

"Hello Des." She said, causing Sheelagh to look up.

"Hi Sarge, I just wondered if I could speak to Sheelagh." Des replied.

"Yeah, I'll just go to the toilet." June got up. When she was out the door, Sheelagh said.

"What?"

"I just came to remind you that you are my wife."

"I know."

"Well, you didn't come home last night and you've been avoiding me all day."

"I told you that I was at Brian's last night. And we both have separate jobs to do. So I'm doing mine and you're doing yours, I'm not avoiding you." Sheelagh was annoyed at him.

"Seems like it to me."

"Well, I'm not. It may come as a surprise to you Des, but the world doesn't revolve around you. Now please go and do what you get paid for." Sheelagh shouted. Des left without another word and June came back in.

"Gina heard you, you're in for it." June said quickly.

"Oh not again. She must fancy Des or something the amount of times she sticks up for him!" Sheelagh muttered.