Ahh yes...another chapter in my ever depressing fanfic. I hope you're all enjoying it :). Thanks for those who have reviewed it's greatly appreciated. Okay I have good news and bad news. The bad news is i won't be able to update for a whille cause i'm moving house and it'll take forever before we set up the whole broadband internet thing but the goodnews is i will keep writing so i'll probably end up innundating you with TJness. :P

To Brindabella: Aw..Thanks for the review, umm I was reading through chapters one and two the other night and the random bits seem a bit confusing. They basically are Jonesy's memories, reflections etc. on a particular thing whether that be Tess being depressed or him and Susie fighting. The main reason i added them in is becausei don't start the story from the actual day Susie calls off the wedding instead i start a couple of months after Tess arrives. So thatyou know what went on before and after Tess arrived I added in the whole Jones' reflection thing. Sorry that it confused you thought :( I've made those bits in Italics now so it can be more distinguishable.

To Emsta:I know Jonesy wouldn't hurt a fly! It's all a conspiracy:) he he anyway I'm not part of the TJ yahoo group..how doI join?

Disclaimer: No, sorry I don't own any of these people..oh actually i do! Well the nurses and crims anyway. :)

Wednesday: Guilty until proven innocent

"What!" I exclaimed, "Are you mad? I'd never do anything to hurt her, I..." I stopped before I could say what I wanted to; my mind cursed me for almost saying that I loved her to an enraged Inspector who was almost sure that it was I that hurt her.

"You what...?" she asked carelessly sitting back down in her chair, her arms tightly crossed over her chest.

"I...I...wouldn't do anything so stupid, she's my sergeant, I admire her." I sighed a sigh of relief, maybe she believed me?

"Well the fact is Jones, that according to Jerry Thorn, Mr. X was with him the entire night, so that leaves you and Sergeant Gallagher alone in an alleyway, with Sergeant Gallagher's head smashed in and you with a very weak story!" The inspector raised her voice, unamused at the anger radiating from me. With a sudden gush of energy I leapt up, carelessly flicking her notebook off her desk.

"He's lying! He was there! Ask Tess if you want to!" I yelled at her, she scoffed and looked at the Boss unimpressed with my little standoff.

"Sit down Jones!" said the Boss in a stern voice, making the atmosphere even more tense. I helplessly plunged back into my seat greeting the Inspector's eyes that looked at me pitilessly.

"We will Constable, but the evidence against you is piling up." the Inspector looked through her notebook flicking through the faxed pages from Forensics and detailed notes that PJ made at the scene.

"What evidence?" I spat enraged at this whole ordeal, how could I, Evan Jones hurt Tess? I love her for crying out loud!

"The fingerprints on the bar, the shoeprints, witness statements..."

"Fingerprints...?" I queried cutting her off

"Yes, your fingerprints found on the weapon." the Inspector explained giving me a weird sort of look.

"Just mine...?" I asked my hand reached my chin

"Yours and a pair of unidentified ones" the Inspector explained "...but they could be anybody's Constable...a builder's, a beggars... and this means that you, Constable Jones are now our prime suspect..."

My heart sank as the Inspector said those words, as if reading off a script, her words so emotionless and cold.

"...that means you are to have no contact with the victim and you are suspended from duty of any kind until further notice."

"How do you tell someone you don't love them?" was the question Susie asked Tess a week before I was to marry her. Tess knew Susie didn't love me, so why didn't she tell me? Was that why she wouldn't talk to me for months on end? Was that the reason why whenever I mentioned Suse around Tess she'd walk away?

The next morning the Boss walked me to his office sitting me opposite him. PJ walked in after me shutting the door to avert everyone else's attention away from the office.

"Jones..." The Boss started. I sat there like a stunned mullet the Inspector's words still going round and round in my head. I didn't look up at the Boss' eyes even though I knew he sympathised with me.

"You do know that those questions had to be asked..." The Boss was stalling for time, he couldn't think of anything that could possibly lift my spirits.

"Do you seriously think I'd hurt her?" I asked turning to PJ who sat there silently

"No mate, but we need you to tell us everything you know..." PJ replied "Do you remember anything about this Mr. X guy? What he looked like? How he dressed? How he smelt?"

"No...Look, he had a gun pointed to my head..." I reasoned my voice about as calm as it could get, I felt sick, I was still in shock.

"Well, Thank you Jones, you can leave now." The Boss gestured towards the door, so I left closing the door behind me. I could still hear their voices, talking about me.

"Do you think he did it?" The Boss' voice was a dull whisper behind the thick door

"Nah! Jones? He loves that girl to bits, why would he bash her?"

As soon as I found out that Tess knew that Susie didn't love me I confronted her. I asked her why she didn't tell me, she told me it was none of her business that whatever it was that was going on between Suse and I had to be resolved between Suse and I and that she wasn't going to meddle with it. I told her that she was my friend, that she should have told me; that it would've saved me so much heartache if I knew. Then she told me I was a "self centred bastard". That was the last thing she said to me.

I headed to the hospital caring less about what the Inspector said, she wasn't going to stop me seeing Tessy, she couldn't; I wasn't going to let her. I walked up to Tessy's room stopping just centimetres before

the window that lead into her room, she could talk now, what was she going to say? Would she hate me? I walked past briskly not making eye contact with Tessy; I headed towards the door nervously picturing in my mind the things she might say.

"Jones!" Susie yelled coffee in hand running towards the door. She pulled my hand off the door handle.

"Look, you can't go in there, you're not even meant to be in here!" Susie protested

"No! Not you too!" I complained trying to fight my way through to the door handle but Susie blocked the door.

"Jonesy...I can't let you in, what if you hurt her?" Susie said gently

I fumed, my blood started to boil.

"I didn't bloody touch her!" I yelled scaring Susie like I never had before. The nursing staff stopped and turned to look at us, like little kids in a playground. Susie stood there stunned almost scared for her life.

"I think you should leave, Jones" Her tone was tense her hand rest against her handcuff pouch ready to arrest me if she had too. I took deep breaths in hope of calming myself down but I wasn't angry I was just disappointed.

"You think I did it!" I spat at her my voice calmer then before. The nursing staff got back to work once they saw Susie had it under control.

"Well, you have been quite...aggressive lately"

"So I bashed her head in, right?" I spat.

Leaving Susie at the door I sat down waiting for Tessy's nurse to appear. She sat down next to me noticing the angry expression in my face.

"Mr. Jones, Is there anything I can help you with?" she asked her calm voice slowly eating away at my anger.

"Yeah, can you get me in there?" I pointed to Tessy's room, the nurse glanced around at the door noticing Susie blocking the door way.

"Sorry, no can do. That lovely constable over there said I wasn't to let anybody in..." she paused for a moment to think of the "right" way to say it "...especially you."

I sighed.

"I would let you in, I know how much you care about the girl but it's not for me to decide. I asked what all the commotion was about but Constable... sorry… Senior Constable Raynor said she couldn't talk about it." The nurse looked at me genuinely puzzled at the fact that they wouldn't let me see Tessy.

"They think I hurt her." I whispered looking down at my hands which I was wringing with anxiety.

"You!" the nurse chuckled in disbelief.

"Lillie, Mrs. Henderson is going psycho with the buzzer" Another nurse called out cutting our conversation short.

"Sorry Mr. Jones I must go." she left. At least the nurse believed me.

I walked past Tess' window this time taking a peak into the room but as soon as Tessy saw me she ducked under the paper.

"Oh what am I meant to do Jonesy? Pretend I love you?" Susie screamed

"You could have told me! Why didn't you just tell me you loved him?" I screamed back, Susie said nothing. "Why!" I screamed louder

"Because I didn't want to hurt you..." Susie whispered

"Yeah, well too late for that! That bloody bastard..." I started but Susie cut me off defensively protecting Alex, the man she "loved".

"Don't! I love him!"

"Yeah, look I'm sick of this! Go play happy families with lover boy I don't want to talk to you." I yelled, keeping my composure but inside I was breaking down.

"I tried you know...I waited for you to say something, do something. It isn't my fault!" she protested but I was sick of her excuses, sick of everything being my fault.

"So I forced you to sleep with him did I?" I yelled to Susie who long decided it wasn't worth it talking to me. She left.

I headed to the pub, somewhere familiar so I could cool down, take everything in.

"Hey Jonesy...Is it lunch time already?" asked an overworked Chris who was frantically looking for the station lunches.

"I'm not here for the lunches" I said. Chris looked up at me again finally noticing that I wasn't in uniform.

"You're not on duty?" Chris asked puzzled knowing that I was rostered on for today even though both she and I knew I that I'd rather be with Tess.

"I've been suspended. I'm the prime suspect in the assault on Tess." I muttered

"You're what! Oh Jonesy! Look I'll complain to Tom he'll do something about it!" said a shocked Chris.

"It won't do any good...the investigation has to go ahead." I slumped on the pub stool hopelessly.

"Here, have a beer...on the house" smiled Chris who really had no time to console me but did anyway.

"Thanks...I smiled

"I don't suppose you'd know how Tess is doing?" asked a concerned Chris as she leant against the bar.

"Yeah, she's fine I think... they won't let me see her."

"She's a fighter she is and don't worry Jones you'll be out of this mess before you know it." Chris smiled as she turned her attention to the complaining Timsy and Keith Pervis who hadn't yet had a drink.

"Alright men! The pub hasn't gone dry yet!" Chris yelled over the top of them.

I stared at my beer; I didn't have the appetite to drink it. I just wanted this all to be over, if Tessy hadn't come back none of this would have happened.

"Morning Chrissie!" chimed a very happy Alex, whose tone almost made me physically sick. He turned to look at me and my beer sitting there on the bench.

"Drinking beer are we Jonesy?" Alex pointed out gazing at my untouched glass. I didn't reply.

"How's Blondie?" Alex asked. He always calls her "Blondie", it drives me insane.

"Fine" I mumbled looking up at a very smitten Alex.

"Here you go Alex" Chris passed him the box with the stations lunches packed neatly inside.

"Thanks Chrissie, Jonesy..." Alex remarked "...don't worry you'll soon forget about her, she'll just move on to dissect her victim. I don't know why you bother with her, she's such a bitch."

A breeze of anger flew through my body; I stormed up to Alex, picked up by the collar. He grimaced in pain as I pushed him up against the wall.

"That's my sergeant you're talking about!" I yelled my face only a few centimetres from his.

"Jonesy! Let go of him!" Chris yelled as those in the pub watched. But I wouldn't let Alex get away with it. I pushed him up against the wall again before I punched him in the face. Then I let him slide down the wall before I walked upstairs and locked myself in my room.