'What's wrong?' Smithy looked up from his paper.
'Er nothing, just junk mail,' Cienna put the photos back into the envelope and took the post into her bedroom. She sat on the bed and went through the photos.
They had been taken outside the cinema. They'd only been there once last Friday when they saw the Riddick movie. The photos showed her and Smithy outside the cinema, in the car park, on the back seat! Damn how much had this guy seen?
There was another envelope with another set of photos just of Cienna this time coming out of the gym, going to her car, getting home. What the hell was going on?!
Cienna put all the photos back into the envelope, slid them under the bed and went out to talk to Smithy.
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They drove to work in silence. Smithy was still in a foul mood about Gabriel, Cienna hadn't told him about the photos, one problem at a time.
'Smithy will you cut it out, you promised me you wouldn't say anything.' Cienna said as Smithy parked up.
'I won't, but I don't have to like it,' he replied.
'OK, OK but please cheer up,' she leant over and kissed him on the cheek, Smithy turned his head and kissed her squarely on the lips. As the kiss became more heated Cienna glanced up to see Gary walk past with a smirk on his face.
'C'mon we'll be late,' she backed off, Smithy grinned at her as he got out of the car and followed her inside.
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'Cienna,' Gary yelled as she walked down the ramp to where Tony was waiting for her.
'What's up?' she turned and asked.
'Do you ever go to the gym?' he asked.
Cienna froze at the question, 'Yes, why?' was about all she could say.
'Great,' he replied not noticing her discomfort. 'I've been meaning to join one but can't decide, it's so boring working out alone. Where do you go? Would you mind if I joined? We could work out together.'
Cienna couldn't help but laugh, 'Sure Gary it'd be nice to have some company, Smithy's idea of going to the gym is sitting in the bar!'
Cienna looked at Gary he was too sweet and definatley too innocent to be involved with the photos.
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The rest of the day passed quickly. That was the great thing about the area car not enough time to think too much.
Smithy had agreed to 2 hours overtime so Cienna accepted a lift home from Tony, who declined her invitation to join her for a cup of coffee (probably because she doesn't drink it and has been told she makes worse coffee than Nick Klein).
As she opened the door to her flat she looked down at the floor more mail including an A4 envelope marked 'Private and Confidential'.
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Cienna sat on the sofa and opened the envelope. More photos, these must have been taken only a few days ago when the two of them had washed their cars. Smithy thought it'd be funny to soak her, thank god she never wore white those pictures would be pornographic if she did. The last photo was of the two of them kissing, just before Cienna stuck the hose down Smithy's back, if the photos wasn't so damn worrying she would have laughed at the memory of Smithy screaming at her!
Cienna got up and went to get the other photos. She spread them out on the bed 3 sets of photos from 3 different days. This was more than a prank. She grabbed a large envelope and put all of the photos and envelopes into it and slid them all under the bed.
She spent the rest of the afternoon debating whether to tell Smithy. When he finally got home he took the decision out of her hands, he'd bought a take away and then decided on an early night. Cienna made an excuse about something Gina Gold had asked her to do so she didn't have to join him. She needed to think, Smithy always managed to make that difficult.
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Smithy was surprised that Cienna had offered to drive in next morning. Cienna hated driving and avoided it whenever possible. Cienna told him that if he had to do overtime again she wanted to be able to get to the gym, not rely on a lift from someone else. It was partly true, but she had also put the photos in the boot when Smithy was asleep. She had made a decision which didn't include Smithy. He didn't need to know about them.
'What's that for?' he asked as she took the envelope out of the boot.
'What I was doing last night for Insp Gold.' she kissed him to stop him asking any further questions.
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Cienna went straight from parade to Insp Gold's office via her locker to get the envelope. She still didn't know what to say though.
'Ma'am, can I have a word?' she asked as she knocked on the open door.
'Of course'. Gina replied as Cienna walked in and closed the door behind her.
'Sit down, is something wrong?' Gina asked.
'I've recieved these over the last few days.' Cienna said as she handed the envelope over to Gina, the photos were self explanatory.
Gina opened the envelope and stated to look thru the photos, 'What has Smithy said?'
'He doesn't know.' Cienna replied to which Gina raised an eyebrow. If it hadn't been for the photos Cienna would have laughed, Gina had been spending too much time with Smithy and now had the eyebrow raise down to a fine art.
'Any idea who sent them?' Gina asked knowing it was a stupid question but one that had to be asked.
'None, I can't think of any reason someone would want to watch us either.' Cienna didn't know what else to say.
'You should tell Smithy.' Gina said, hell Cienna already knew that.
'Why worry him? They're only photos, I know how he'll react, if he sees anyone talking to me he'll interrogate them!'
'Maybe,' Gina didn't want to agree with her, 'but he'd want to know.'
Cienna promised to think about it as she left the office, leaving the photos with Gina who said she would speak to Jack Meadows and get the pictures sent to forensics.
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As she sat in the canteen, she was glad that Yvonne was chatting to Kerry and leaving her alone until Gabriel sat down with her.
'I wanted to apologize,' he started, 'I shouldn't have said what I did.'
'No you shouldn't,' what else could she say.
'Just tell me he treats you OK. He never seems to pay you any attention.'
Cienna stared at Gabriel, 'For gods sake, this is work, here he treats me the same as any other PC, don't assume that what you see here is how we are at home, he treats me great.'
Cienna got up and walked out wondering what the hell Gabriel's problem was.