It was a Monday morning and Sergeant Smith had just arrived, he was just about to walk into the sergeant's office when he heard a voice.

"Oi, get in here." It was his inspector Gina Gold he liked her but she was very harsh and treated him like he was stupid. Smithy sighed and walked into the inspector's office.

"You're late." Gina shouted

"Yeh, sorry bout that, I got stuck in traffic." Was smithys only reply he had nothing else to say.

"Well I want you to puppy walk our new probationer Emma Hoppton and you missed the ma'am bit there smithy."

"Do I have to? Ma'am"

"Oh stop whining you sound like a kid and yes you do have to. You have a briefing to take so run along smithy."

"Funny I'm not a kid but you still treat me like one. Ma'am," and with that smithy walked off towards the briefing room.

When smithy entered the briefing room a beautiful blonde in the front row instantly caught his eye. It must be the new probationer. Maybe puppy walking her wouldn't be so bad after all.

"Alright, be quiet we have a job to do." Smithy shouted over the noise which instantly died out when they heard the young sergeant speak. He was well liked and well respected by most of his colleagues. "We are here to do a job so lets do it. First I would like to introduce our new probationer Emma Hoppton. Duties for today Tony and Lance in sierra one, me and Emma are in SO 85, Steve in CAD, Honey and Amber in the Panda and Yvonne is on Custody so lets get out there and nick scum. Dismissed." With that final word everyone got up and filed out of the room until only Emma and smithy were left.

"I'm Sergeant Smith but everyone calls me smithy."

"Hi, I'm Emma." She was smitten he was so lush all the way through the briefing she couldn't stop starring at him and although she didn't know he felt exactly the same way about her.

There first call was to a disturbance at a pub which wasn't actually open so the shouldn't be anyone about.

"You look scared out of your wits." Smithy said to Emma from the driving seat of the car.

"Yeh well it's my first call."

"Don't worry it's probably just a drunk wanting more. Anyway you better control your nerves because we're here."

They both got out of the car to find more than just a drunken man. There was a man with a knife threatening what looked like the pub manager. When the man noticed the police he pointed the knife at them.

"Okay mate calm down and don't do anything stupid." Smithy said with out a trace of fear in his voice.

"No shut it copper and I'm ain't your mate." He lifted the knife up to smithy's face a scratched it and then in one swift movement moved it to under smithys neck.

"Stop it." shouted Emma. The knife man walked over and was about to stab Emma when smithy jumped across the room and threw himself in front of the knife and slumped to the ground with the knife in his abdomen. The knife man legged it out of the pub and out of sight.

"Why did he do that? He is a good copper" Said the bar manager.

"Just call an ambulance." Emma said by now frantically trying to stop the blood that was pouring out of the brave sergeant's stomach. Emma radioed through and with in minutes Gina and Adam walked through the door and tried to help but they couldn't.

Later that day Emma was sitting by smithys bedside stroking his head and wondering if he would ever wake up again. All this for her.

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