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He laughed. "No what I meant is, all this has made me realise how much I love you"

He paused and looked down, "and that, I never want to lose you"

He looked up into her eyes. "It's taught me the value of life."

Kerry looked puzzled "I don't understand?"

"I've realised you should live life to the full. If I hadn't told you that I loved you and then if you hadn't have survived… I'd have never known what could have happened and I could never have forgiven myself for being too afraid to show my feelings.

I've seen how precious life is and how it can be taken away by, those, scum, who have no right to meddle in someone's future. I've loved you for a while and then when you made the allegation I thought there's no way you could love me back. And I can't help wondering if I hadn't come to see you…" he paused and bit his lip, tears welled up in his eyes "and hadn't told you…" he took a shaky breath "Then. Maybe. Gabriel would have done it and got a better hit and you would no longer be here with me." The tears burst from his eyes and rolled down his face. He took a deep breath to control his voice.

"So I was wondering if you would… consider moving in with me?"

Kerry's face lit up "I'd love to"

Two weeks later and Kerry is due back at work. They decided Smithy was to move into Kerry's house as it was much bigger than his place.

Smithy rolled over in bed and smiled as he saw Kerry sleeping next to him. He loved waking up next to her everyday. Perhaps she could sense she was being watched because she rolled over and looked at him sleepily.

"Mornin'" whispered Smithy

"Morning" she whispered back leaning up to kiss him. He kissed her back before crawling out of bed and into the shower.

As the water ran over his body he thought about Kerry and how lucky he was to be with her. He stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist. He walked into the bedroom where Kerry had fallen back asleep.

"Come on, you have to get up" he said sitting down on the bed.

She sat up and rubbed her eyes "Doomed to a of work. I wanna watch daytime TV!" She complained.

"Awwwww" he said enveloping her in his arms.

"You're all wet!" she complained but buried her head deeper into his chest. His bare skin was cool against her cheek and she could hear his heart beat. She lay there in his arms for a couple of minutes. The she turned her head slightly and kissed his chest before raising her eyes to his. She then lifted her head to meet his lips. As they pulled away she laid her head on his shoulder. He hugged her tightly before speaking,

"C'mon we better get going we are going to be late." They got up and looked at the clock. "Shit" said Smithy "We are sooooo gonna be late!" Despite their attempts at getting ready fast they left the house 10 minutes late.

Gina Gold was giving the briefings. "Right… Tony, Honey and Yvonne CID want your help with the burglaries as you have a lot of knowledge on the case. I fought to keep you as we are short of people but no luck. So you will-" Smithy and Kerry rushed in late. "Sorry ma'am" apologized Smithy. Gina looked at Kerry expecting an apology but Kerry had frozen. Following Kerry's gaze Gina thought to herself "On her first day back! STUPID Gina, how stupid" Out loud she spoke "Sit down you two. Now before I was interrupted…" Kerry blindly walked and sat down next to Smithy.

Not seeing Kerry's problem Smithy whispered "You okay?"

"Problem Sergeant?"

"No Ma'am" replied Smithy.

"Good so, as I was saying Tony, Honey and Yvonne. You three need to get back into civvies and head up to CID. Now as we are now so short staffed Barton Street have kindly agreed to send a couple of officers over, PC Sutcliffe and PC Ashton." She gestured to the corner of the room. Smithy's head whipped round "ASHTON?"

Sorry I haven't updated sooner I have been on holiday and just got back so I thought I would update as far as I have got so it's quite short. Please review.