Nick went down to the front office to collect the two MIT officers who were going to help with the investigation. There was a serial killer on the other side of London who for some unknown reason had neglected to use Sun Hill for target practice, so most of MIT's resources were tied up with that. MIT had however sent two officers on the understanding that they would have overall say in whether a full MIT investigation was required.
'Nick,' came a familiar voice.
'Mickey,' Nick shook his friends hand as he realised who he was with, 'Eva!'
'Nick,' she said, 'I didn't know you had come back. It's good to see you.'
'You to,' Nick couldn't believe it, ' Manson's going to love having two more DC's to boss around. What's so funny?' he asked as he saw the smiles on their faces.
'That's DS Mickey Webb to Manson,' Eva said proudly.
'DS, wow.... I mean congratulations Mickey,' he said as he shook Mickeys hand again.
'Thanks, oh and you've met DS Eva Sharpe,' Mickey smirked back.
'Eva, congratulations to you too, Manson's gonna love this!' He laughed as he led the pair up the stairs. He couldn't wait to see the look on Mansons face.
'But she'll be OK?' Mickey asked as Nick finished bringing the pair up to speed on Cienna and Lukes condition.
'Yeah, she was in surgery for a few hours but they say she'll be fine, not that you'd know it looking at Smithy.' Nick knew when he was finished in CID he was going to be spending the day with Smithy, he wasn't looking forward to it.
'Guv,' Mickey said as he saw DI Manson standing by Phil's desk.
'DC Webb can I help you?' Manson glared at him.
'We're from MIT,' Eva stepped out behind Mickey, 'We've been asked to help with the investigation.'
Manson rolled his eyes, 'I was expecting two DS's,' he said.
'That's what you've got,' Mickey replied trying to keep the grin off his face.
'Oh, right,' Manson didn't know what to say, 'Phil bring them up to speed will you?' he told Phil as he walked to his office and closed his door.
'Um, congratulations,' Phil said as both Mickey and Eva turned to him.
'Thanks,' Eva said, 'was it something we said?' she asked looking back at Mansons office.
'Probably,' Phil replied with a grin on his face.
'Right,' Mickey said, 'we've got a body and some cash, I'll take the body, Eva will take the cash.'
'Sam's working on the cash,' Phil told Eva trying to hide the smile on his face at Mickey telling Eva what to do.
'I can't believe you let him order you around like that!' Sam said quietly to Eva as she approached her desk.
'He didn't,' Eva looked back at Mickey, 'we made the decision in the car.'
'Oh right, well here's what we've got so far,' Sam started to show Eva thru the paperwork.
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As they got up to the ward Cienna was being kept on the nurse saw Smithy and walked over to him, Smithy could already see from where he was standing that her bed was empty. The look on the nurses face was serious Smithy stiffened preparing himself for the worst.
'What's happened?' he asked before she had even opened her mouth. He had only left her hours ago, she'd only come out of surgery about 10 hours ago.
'Her blood pressure dropped, they ran another scan..... a full body scan, I'm sorry... but you should've mentioned she was pregnant.' the nurse looked at him as he sat down.
'Pregnant,' Smithy couldn't believe it, 'she can't be.....she doesn't want kids, doesn't like kids,'
'I'm sorry, we thought you knew, she was about 2 months gone,' the nurse told him.
'Was,' Nick said.
'Yes, I'm sorry, she...she lost the baby,' the nurse took Smithy's hand, 'I'm so sorry. She's been in surgery for a few hours, she'll be back soon.'
'Smithy,' Nick kneeled down to face the stunned Sgt.
'She didn't even go to see her best friend when she had a kid, she said she didn't want kids, neither did... neither do I.'
'You're both young, plenty of time for kids,' Nick said whilst not believing he was saying it.
'No you don't understand,' Smithy focused on Nick, 'we don't want kids, not fair on them, can't look after them and work, can't protect them. Couldn't protect Cienna.'
Nick sat beside him wondering what had happened to him in the last few months he was... acting human, Nick said a quick prayer that Cienna would be OK, Nick hadn't met her yet and he despretley wanted to meet the person who could make Smithy act like this.
'Smithy,' Jenny Newman came over to him, 'I'm so sorry I didn't realize.'
'It's OK,' he told her, 'she probably didn't know. She's probably not going to lose any sleep over it either.'
'What about you,' Jenny put an arm around him, 'are you going to lose sleep over it.'
'Could you see us two with a kid?' he turned to her. 'It's probably for the best.'
'Maybe, maybe not,' Jenny knew how her daughter felt about kids. 'Doesn't mean you can't think about it later.'
Before Smithy could answer Cienna was wheeled back into he room, an older doctor came over to them, 'Mrs Newman?' he asked.
'Yes, and this is Cienna's partner, Dale,' she answered making sure Smithy was going to be part of this conversation.
'Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize,' the doctor now looked very uncomfortable.
'Will she be OK?' Smithy asked.
'Yes, she'll be fine. But... I'm afraid we couldn't stop the bleeding.' he looked at Smithy waiting his next question.
'Meaning?' Jenny asked, she'd been a nurse too long she knew it was bad news from his reactions.
'Meaning we've had to remove Cienna's womb, I'm afraid she won't be able to have kids.' he told them.
'But, she'll be OK?' Smithy asked.
'Yes, apart from that she'll be fine.'
'Thank you doctor,' Jenny said as she put her head on Smithy's shoulder.
As the doctor turned away Smithy got up, 'I need to see her,' he said as he walked towards her room.
Nick was standing in the doorway waching her, 'you alright mate?' he asked as Smithy walked in and took her hand.
'We'll be OK, won't we babe?' he looked down at her waiting for her to yell at him for calling her 'babe' but there was no reaction from her.