Well can you believe my surprise when I open my inbox and there are several amounts of feedback for my two new fics! Thanks everyone!
This calls for a second part. Although this part may not be very good because I seem to have lost my creativity. I hope you guys like it.
Dedicated to Elle, Jane and Liz! Thanks for the great feedback.
"Morning." Ray rubbed her eyes and waddled into the kitchen the next morning.
"Morning Ray. Did you sleep well?" PJ asked.
"Yeah. That's a really comfy bed." Ray replied. "What's for brekkie?"
"Toast if you want it. Bread's there margarine and vegemite in the fridge." PJ replied as he sipped his coffee.
"Thanks." She picked up the loaf of bread and pulled out two slices. "Where's Jo?"
"She's gone to work early this morning." PJ replied. "Said something about some case she was working on."
"Oh." Ray replied. "What time do you start work?"
"I've got the day off so Jo's assigned me to babysitting." PJ sighed. "Not that I mind at all." He added quickly.
"Ok." She rubbed her eyes again as she placed the bread in the toaster.
"I take it you're like Jo then." PJ said watching her.
"Huh?" Ray asked.
"You're not a morning person?"
"No. Not really."
"OK. Well Jo's given me a list of things to do today. Would you mind tagging along?"
"Nah. I'm fine."
"Good. Well I'm going to have a shower." He announced.
"Ok. I'll be in here."
"Right." PJ replied and he left the room.
Ray got the toast out of the toaster and buttered it. Then she sat down and began eating. She was halfway through her first piece when she heard her phone start ringing. She threw the toast down on the plate and ran to her room. She picked up the phone.
"Hello?' She asked excitedly.
"Ray." She heard a hoarse voice. "I've missed you."
"Peter." She paused for a minute and her eyes filled with tears."Are you ok? Have they done anything to you? Are you hurt?" Came Ray's flood of questions.
"I'm fine baby. I just miss you that's all."
"I miss you too. I love you so much." She said through her sobbing.
"Shhh. Don't cry. It'll be ok." He tried to comfort her.
"I'm going to come and visit you." She said and she forced herself to smile.
"No!' Peter shouted and Ray nearly dropped the phone. "I mean I really don't want you to see me like this. I want you to remember me as I was."
"I love you so much." She whispered.
"I love you too Ray."
"You don't know how happy I am to hear your voice."
"About as happy as I am to hear yours." He replied. "I've got to go. My time's up."
Ray started crying even more.
"Stay safe." She whispered as he hung up the phone. She held the phone to her ear for a minute before slowly lowering it and placing it onto the cupboard next to her bed. She slowly curled up in the corner of the bed and held her head to her knees. It was there she finally let out her tears.
PJ was walking past when he heard her crying. He slowly pushed the door open and walked in.
"Hey." He said. "Are you ok?"
Ray looked up slightly and shook her head.
"Is there anything I can do?" He asked.
"I'll be fine. I just need a Jo hug." She replied.
"Well I'm not Jo. But I can still give you a hug if you like." He suggested.
"Thanks." She looked up into his eyes.
PJ slowly made his way over and sat on the bed next to her. He put his arm around her and hugged her.
"Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help?" He asked again.
She shook her head. "Not unless you can bring Peter back." She closed her eyes and bit her trembling lip.
"Oh." PJ couldn't think of what to do. "Well I have to get going now. Did you want to stay here or would you like to come with me?"
"I'll go with you."
"Great. You never know it could even help take your mind off things."
"Thanks." She smiled and he stood up.
"I'll leave you to get dressed." He said and he left the room.
Later that night when PJ and Jo were in their bedroom curled up together on the bed PJ decided to tell her about what he had seen earlier that day.
"Joey can I ask you something?"
"Sure." Jo replied with a smile.
"Do you know what's up with Rayleigh?"
"What do you mean?" Jo looked up concerned.
"Well I saw her in her room crying her eyes out. She said something about wanting Peter back. Does that mean anything to you?" Jo was silent. "Jo?" PJ asked staring at her.
"Well you see it's a long story." Jo replied and she explained to PJ what was happening.
"What? Jo you know you cant do that. What if the boss finds out?"
"He's not going to find out PJ!" Jo snapped back. "I have to do this. It's the only way to make her happy."
"You're risking your job you know that don't you..."
"I know Peej but Ray means a lot to me and I cant stand to see her upset."
"Are you going to tell your Dad?"
"He already knows apparently." Jo replied. "Which I find hard to believe. I mean from what Dad says he's very overprotective of her. I don't think he would just agree with her being in love with a 30 year old guy."
"You should call him and find out."
"I think I'll talk to Ray about it first." Jo said. Talking mainly to herself rather than PJ. Then she thought for a minute.
"Can we worry about that in the morning? It's getting late and I really need some sleep."
"Sure." Jo replied. She curled up closer to PJ and he switched off the light.
Two days later Ray was sitting on her bed writing a letter to Peter when Jo walked in.
"Hey." She said and Ray looked up.
"Hi." Ray replied.
"What are you doing?" Jo asked.
"Writing a letter." Ray replied.
"To who?"
"Peter."
"Ah." Jo nodded. "Speaking of which." She made her way over to the bed. "I've spoken to the guys at St David's."
"And?" Ray looked up with hope in her eyes.
"And you'll be pleased to know they've agreed to let you visit him."
"Thankyou!" Ray cried. She pushed aside the letter she was writing and wrapped her arms around Jo.
"But..."
"But what?" Her face fell.
"You'll be under close guard, there will be no physical contact and I'll have to go with you." There was a silent pause. Then Ray spoke up with a smile.
"I thought you were going to say something worse than that. Thankyou so much for doing this Jo."
"Hey it's not a problem really. Like I said before anything to make you happy. I'm sorry that I couldn't get you in to see him under better circumstances but it was hard just getting you in. you know what the law's like about paedophiles."
"He is NOT a paedophile." She stood up angrily. "He's the love of my life and the sex was consensual. He didn't force me to do it."
"Ok, Ok calm down." Jo placed a hand on Ray's shoulder.
"Sorry. It's just nobody understands. The only person that really understands is Peter." She sank onto the bed.
"I'm trying to help you here Ray. I'm trying to understand you."
"I know. It's just...I really miss him Jo. I do." Jo sat next to her and held her tight.
"I'll tell you what. How about we go out to lunch before I take you over. We can spend the morning together in St David's then we'll go see Peter. How does that sound?" Jo asked.
"It sounds great. I love you Jo."
"I love you to little sis." Jo smiled. "Hey I've got to get back to work. I'm supposed to be picking up the lunches for everyone else." She laughed. "The Boss is probably wondering where I am."
"You'd better go. I don't want you to get into trouble."
"We'll talk tonight hey?" Jo suggested.
"Yeah." Ray replied. "Bye."
"Bye sweetie." Jo kissed her on the cheek then left.
"Where have you been?" Tom asked when Jo walked into the station carrying the box of lunches.
"Sorry. I made a little detour." Jo smiled an apology.
"Where did you go?" Ben asked curiously.
"I went to check on Ray." She replied. "Just to make sure she's ok."
"How is she?" PJ asked.
"She's great." Jo said and she pulled out her lunch.
"Who's Ray?" Jonesy asked.
"She's ah..." Jo started. Then she looked up at Tom nervously. "Well the truth is she's my sister." Jo sighed. She knew she was about to cop a lecture from Tom. Any minute now he was going to call her into his office.
"I didn't know you had a sister." Susie said.
"Me either." Jonesy agreed.
"Not a lot of people do." Jo replied. "I'd rather not talk about her here." She said trying to avoid the subject.
"Parrish a word in my office please." Tom said sternly.
"Yes Boss." Jo gulped and followed him into the office.
"How long has she been here?" Tom asked.
"A couple of days. She needed time away from her family so she came here."
"How long is she staying?"
"A few weeks, maybe months." Jo said and she gritted her teeth.
"I hope there isn't going to be a repeat of last time?" He asked.
"No Boss." Jo replied. "I'll make sure."
"And she's not getting involved in your work in any way?"
"No Boss." Jo replied.
"Very well. That'll be all." He informed her and she left the office with a sigh of relief.
"What was that about?" Jonesy asked.
"Never mind." Jo replied. "Where's PJ?"
"In his office." Ben replied.
"Great. Ben can you come in for a few minutes. There's something we need to discuss."
"Sure." Ben grabbed his lunch and followed Jo into PJ's office.
"So what did you need to talk about?" Ben asked when the door was safely closed and Ben was seated opposite PJ.
Jo walked over to the desk and stood beside them.
"Well you know how Rayleigh is going to be staying with us for a while right?"
"Yeah." PJ and Ben nodded.
"Well I need your help to keep her away from the Boss."
"Why?"
"Well it's a long and complicated story which I cant tell you. I wish I could but it's not my story to tell. I'm not even supposed to know about it." She paused and took a breath. "Anyway I really need your help to do this. I don't want her to find out that Tom is our boss."
"OK." Both PJ and Ben were confused.
"So will you help me?" There was a pause. Then Ben spoke up.
"How exactly do you want me to help?" She smiled then looked at PJ.
"Well I'm not going to get myself into something I wont be able to get out of. So can you at least give us some hint as to what's going on?"
"Well have you noticed that Ray looks nothing like either me or Dad?" Jo hinted.
"Oh." PJ got it. "I get what the problem is. Hat I don't get is what Tom has to do with it."
"Like I said I can't explain anything to you. I just need your help with this please?" Jo asked.
"Well ok." PJ reluctantly agreed.
"Ben are you Ok with this?"
"Sure. Anything I can do to help."
"Thanks guys." Jo breathed another sigh of relief then sat down to eat her lunch.
Well ok so I know this chapter was really bad. But please still give me feedback. I'm a feedback-aholic!!! Next chapter will be up soon if I get good feedback!!!
Jess
