ANGELS WILL FALL CHAPTER 7
Ten days had passed and Juliet was now well and truly fed up, she missed Smithy, Phil was doing her head in and Gary was following her around like a lap dog!! She picked up her mobile
"Honey? How are you?" she said when Honey answered
"Not too bad, although now I'm stuck in CAD at work it's sooo boring' worse than sitting in the area car all day with Reg!" replied Honey
Juliet laughed, "Do you fancy going to the pub? I'll shout you a coke"
"Oh, you're all heart you are!" said Honey "Now?"
"About half an hour, my last night of freedom, Smithy's back tomorrow," said Juliet
"Meet you there" said Honey.
Juliet started to pack up her files at her desk, it was after 7 but the DCI still had her working on this Cathy Bradford thing, the sailor Gary Kemp was back, so on Monday she had to go down and interview him, both Phil and Gary were making noises about coming with her, with her luck she'd end up with both! She was also trying to trace the stuffed animal the mystery man had left Cathy, but whoever he was he'd cut half the tag away, so it was not an easy task. On her way out she called into the DCI's office "Guv?"
"Yes Juliet?" he asked
"I'm going down to speak to Mr.Kemp on Monday, and I'm still trying to locate the store the badger was sold from, but with the average description the nurse gave me, it's not easy" she informed him
"Right, I think this one will have to go on the back burner for a while" He said, "It's really only a hunch of mine anyway, but I'm impressed with your progress"
"Thanks Guv!" she smiled "I'll see you Monday"
"Goodnight Juliet" said Jack, burying his nose in the ever-growing mountain of paperwork that seemed to reside permanently on his desk.
Juliet downed her fourth vodka and lemonade
"Blimey!" said Honey "That was a double!"
"I know" spluttered Juliet "Or at least I do now" she wiped her mouth and lit a cigarette, blowing the smoke away from Honey "So how's things with Steve then?"
"Oh you know Steve, fussing like an old woman, he wants us to go to his parents on Sunday, give them the 'big news'" Honey said
"Oooh, that'll be fun, has he told Phil yet?"
"No, he wants Phil to go on Sunday" Honey replied
"So I'll have him jabbering on about being an uncle all day then on Monday" moaned Juliet
Honey laughed "Yeah probably, how's it been with Darren then?"
"Oh, he's lovely, they've had it rough, him and Smithy but they've got really close again, it's good to see, sometimes I was convinced we were only going out because he fancies me so much, nothing to do with love at all, nice to know he does have some feelings" replied Juliet
"Very cynical aren't you?" frowned Honey "For what it's worth I think he really cares about you, he's softened up a bit in the last year"
"You might jut be right" smiled Juliet, jangling her keys "He's asked me to move in!"
Honey's eyes widened "Really?"
Juliet nodded "You don't mind do you?"
"No!" said Honey "I've really enjoyed us living together and I didn't want you to go just because I'm pregnant, but if you're going to move in with Smithy that's great!"
"I've enjoyed it too, you've been a good mate Honey, and I'll really miss you we've had some laughs haven't we?" Juliet grinned
"Woah!" Honey laughed "That's the voddy talking darlin'!"
Juliet laughed "Well, it's got a bit more to say yet!" she declared, going to the bar again.
Juliet giggled as she all but fell out of Honey's car "Thanksh babe!" she slurred slamming the door, Honey watched her stagger up the steps and fight with the key and finally open the door, she returned Juliet's wave and drove off smiling to herself.
Juliet closed the door and walked through the hall in the darkness, holding her balance on the wall, then fell flat on her face. Struggling to stand up, she blinked as the light blazed above her; she looked up and saw a very familiar pair of legs attached to an equally familiar pair of boxer shorts "Smiffy!" she hiccupped
"So this is what you do when I'm away!" he said helping her up
"I thought you were home tomorrow morning?" she said as she leaned on him
"I wanted to come home tonight, god you smell like a brewery!" he said as she giggled at him "I missed you!" she said, throwing her arms around his neck
He laughed, "Daz said you'd gone to the pub"
"I was stressed" she said, staggering through to the lounge, sitting down and kicking her shoes off, she lolled across him as he sat next to her "You're not cross with me are you?" She pouted
"No" he said kissing her "Not if you're going to come to bed"
Juliet laughed, "Your wish is my command" and giggled louder as he picked her up and carried her towards the bedroom.
Smithy shook Juliet awake from her nap on the sofa the next day "Come on, we're going out tonight"
"No more alcohol!" groaned Juliet
He laughed at her "Go on, I've run you a bath"
He sat on the edge of the bath, whilst she soaked in the bubbles "So what stressed you out so much you had to get drunk?" he asked
"Oh everything! Phil, Gary, the DCI, you!" she said
"Me? I wasn't even here!" he joked
"I know, that's why, I'm used to talking to you about work, everything and well, I couldn't. The DCI's got a bee in his bonnet about that Cathy Bradford, he's got me running all over the country trying to track down some random guy who bought a teddy" she said
"What?" he asked
She updated him on Jack's theory and the work Phil and she had done so far.
"It sounds plausible to me," he said
"I know" she frowned "There's something there, the badger toy, there were dead badgers all over that flat we found Polly in"
"So what about Phil and Gary?" he said a twinge of jealousy in his voice
"Oh, Phil's just Phil, running round trying to get Sam's attention and Gary's my little protégé" she laughed "We had a disagreement and the DCI told him that he could do worse than listen to my advice, ever since he's been asking my advice on everything, it's really got on everyone's nerves, 'Juliet says this' is all he ever says now"
Smithy laughed, "He's not a bad bloke, as long as he knows what's what"
"Oh don't worry, he's got it bad for Suzi, it was flattering at first but now it's even doing my head in" she laughed
"That's better, you seemed really down earlier," he said
"I'm OK" she smiled "Smithy, Daz told me some stuff about you and your Dad, I won't break his confidence but I think you need to speak to him, he's really worried about what will happen if your Dad comes looking for him"
Smithy got that closed look about him "What about me and Dad?"
"Please, don't go off at him, he needed to talk, I'm not going to push you to talk about it, I just thought you should know" she tried to smooth it over
"I'll talk to him tomorrow, come on out that bath you, I want a shower and it takes you three hours to do your hair!" he stood up
"Cheeky Sod!" she grinned at him as he handed her a towel, he kissed the top of her head "I love you" he said, "I really missed you"
"I love you too," she said.