YAY! I've done another chapter! This one took me forever! But anyway please feel free to review I don't mind if you're comments are negative, negative comments are always good! Enjoy

To Emsta: Thanks for the reply, I really do appreciate it. Sorry about killing Sammy off I would have loved to have Tess bring her little baby along with her but it all adds to the story. About what happened to Tess, well never fear this chapter will hopefully make things a little clearer... sighs Aww don't be depressed, It's okay I'm anti Susie too!

Disclaimer: Nope, none of these people are my except the crims. he he : )

Tuesday: Metal maul and pseudo pot

"You've been sitting here for 9 hours straight! I thought I told you to go home!" The nurse looked at me terrified, terrified at the bags that had formed under my eyes. I clutched onto Tess' hand and I wouldn't let go.

"What time is it?" I asked the nurse who had already began flicking through Tess' records. She looked down at the upside down watch that was clipped onto her shirt.

"It's 8.00am" she said and she smiled as I looked longingly at Tess who still hadn't woken up.

"Is she gonna...?" I asked too nervously too afraid to finish my question, too afraid at what the answer might be.

"She'll wake up when she's ready." The nurse spoke calmly.

I squeezed Tessy's hand and rubbed my fingers against her knuckles. My eyes couldn't bear it any longer, I saw a cloudy mist appear before my eyes and before they could shut I heard something, I couldn't tell what it was at first but I looked over at Tess who with her other hand had a tight grip on the hospital sheets.

"Ev..." Tess murmured the first bit of my name she couldn't say anymore.

Tessy had herself transferred to Melbourne about a month or so after the wedding was off. She didn't tell anyone, most importantly of all she didn't tell me. It was great to see her back, even though things weren't the same, even though we didn't talk for months after she arrived. I was just glad she was there. I could call her "sarge" again and she could reprimand me for every little mistake I did, well...at least then we were talking.
"Jonesy?" her hand touched my shoulder and my eyes burst open, I clutched onto Tessy's hand making sure that she was okay, making sure that that bastard hadn't hurt her.

"Hey, you're gonna cut her circulation off!" Susie smiled sitting down on to the chair beside me. I didn't say anything I was too tired, sitting in a hospital chair for 10 hours really drains you. I rubbed my forehead with my hand and looked up at Susie who looked down at a peacefully sleeping Tess.

"Is she gonna be okay?" Susie asked breaking the tense silence between us. I didn't want to talk, not to Susie. Silently in the back of my mind I begged for a nurse to walk in or for Susie to leave, I didn't want her there.

"Ahh…yeah she just needs a lot of sleep" I made myself spit the words out just to make Susie know that I didn't want to hate her.

"Looks like you could do with some yourself" Susie sighed; she felt the bitterness in my words.

"But no such luck hey?" I smiled a fake smile but I didn't look at her, I never looked at her because it hurt when I did.

"Yeah...the boss needs you to talk to the inspector...she's coming at 2.00...you'll need to change." Susie pointed out looking at the blood that dried onto my collar.

"I'll take over..." Susie got up and waited for me to leave.

I kissed Tessy's forehead gingerly making sure I didn't hurt her. Then I left without a word.

When I told her I loved her she froze, when I told that I always loved her she screamed.

"I hate you! I don't need you! I hate you!" her eyes screamed red with pain, her cheeks wet with tears but she wasn't scared. She wasn't lying either she hated me, hated me because I wanted to help.

When she stood there with her razor blade slicing into the flesh on her wrists, watching the blood drip down to the floor then collapsing with grief onto the hard, cold floor still clutching the sink, her blood smearing onto the brilliant white tiles then I knew she wasn't lying...she hated me and she hated herself.

"Interview commenced on the 24th of September at 2.15pm." Inspector Monika Draper announced loudly to the tape in the interview room she sat down opposite me. I was nervous, I've never been nervous before, I've sat through countless interviews with Inspectors but why was I nervous? A sick feeling came to my stomach.

"Okay, Senior Constable Jones I need you to recount the events that happened on Monday the 23rd of September when you and Sergeant Gallagher participated in Operation Mule." She looked directly at me and that sick feeling came back, I felt exactly the way I felt that Monday night.

"Sergeant Gallagher and I agreed to go undercover as two drug crims and Monday night we meet agreed to meet on Flat Gully rd. before we headed off to meet Mr. X..." I started

"Mr. X?" questioned the inspector she obviously wasn't as well informed as I thought.

"Mr. X was the code name for Mr. Darren Frank one of a huge number of "small fish" so to speak who rolled over and told us where we could meet Jerry Thorn, to stop a $33 million dollar cocaine import into Mt. Thomas."

"So you met with Mr. X in the Imperial and then you headed into Macquarie alley, what happened there?" she questioned, the room was silent I could only hear the clock ticking between the beating of my racing heart.

"Tess...sorry Sergeant Gallagher and I picked him up and started

driving down to Macquarie alley but as soon as I started the engine he pulled a gun to my head and told me to turn around, I looked at Sergeant Gallagher who nodded and then I proceeded back down into the centre of Mt. Thomas. He directed me down a lane past a small alley and told me to park about 10 or so metres from it..." My voice started to shake as my mind filled yet again with those gruesome memories.

"What was the name of the lane?" the inspector made sure she knew everything

"I dunno, it was dark" that was my excuse but the Inspector knew better.

"Mt. Thomas isn't exactly big, are you sure you don't remember the name?" she spat

"He was holding a gun to my head! I wasn't thinking about where I was!" I argued seeing the shock in the Inspector eyes, she knew I was terrified.

"Okay, Jones what happened after you parked the car." the Inspector crossed her arms and lent back in the chair.

"He told me to stay in the car while he grabbed Tess and pulled her out. I got out knowing that we shouldn't split up but as soon as he noticed he shot at me." I continued my shaking hands took refuge under the interview table where my nervousness wouldn't be seen. The Inspector waited for me to continue.

"He missed but I ducked under the car and waited until they walked into the alley..."

"You didn't call for backup?" she was questioning my intelligence and I hated that.

"He said if I squeaked he'd kill her." I reasoned

"And you still didn't call for back up?" the rage was obvious in the Inspector's tone of voice.

"Sergeant Gallagher had the portable." the boss mentioned but the Inspector wasn't interested.

"I snuck into the front part of the alley where Sergeant Gallagher and Mr. X were talking." I continued

"Did you hear what they were saying?" questioned the Inspector her arms still crossed in disagreement.

"Yeah...Sergeant Gallagher mentioned something about marijuana so I guess she must have given him the marijuana that we promised..."

"I don't understand, you promised to give him an illicit drug…What for?"

"We had a deal, he'd tell us about the cocaine and he'd get his dope, about a kilo or so of fake dope was strapped to our calves"

"Fake?" the inspectors eyes light up

"It looked like dope, smelled like dope but it wasn't dope." I explained bluntly, thinking she couldn't possibly be any more stupid.

"Alright, what happened next?"

"Well Sergeant Gallagher must have given him the dope and I guessed he must have wanted to try it out, to check that it was the real thing. I saw a flame spark… from a lighter and then… a couple of minutes later he started abusing Sergeant Gallagher." I spoke calmly making sure everything I was saying was right.

"Abusing...?" the inspector questioned I didn't speak, "Constable I need to know exactly what happened"

"He started swearing at her and slapping her around..."You fucking bitch...you bitch...I'm gonna get you for this!" that's what he said, then..." I couldn't continue my throat was dry and coarse. My heart beat faster and my hands were pouring with sweat.

"Then…what Constable?" the Inspector was intrigued

"Then all I heard was screaming, only for a little while and then it stopped. It was dead silent. I ran up to them gun in hand and when he saw me he froze... I...umm...shot at him but I missed and he got away. When I saw Tess' head I knew she was clubbed with something hard and solid with...umm..." my hands came out from under the table to wave about and give me time to stall "...jagged edges...it had huge jagged edges"

"Like a piece of metal?" the inspector asked picking up the massively thick chunk of metal in an evidence bag. I cringed, it still had Tessy's blood stained on its shiny metal surface and bits of her blonde hair and chucks of her scalp were still stuck on the bar's metal teeth. I felt sick; I never saw a weapon so disgusting, so vicious.

"And you say this Mr. X almost clubbed Sergeant Gallagher to death?" the inspector asked hauling the metal bar onto the interview table making sure that I got a good look.

"Well it must have been him; I mean who else would..." She cut me off shouting at me for not admitting something that I didn't do.

"Are you sure that it wasn't you? That in a fit of rage you picked up this piece of metal and struck Sergeant Gallagher until she was unconscious!" the Inspector spat rising from her chair her head towering over mine looking down at my terrified eyes.