Forgotten Not Forgiven
Chapter 4 – From The Inside

Cameron and Karin lead their sleepy children to the hire car that they had rented. Stefan was asleep as soon as Karin strapped him in and Lauren was tired but excited to be in England. Cameron and Karin exchanged equally tired smiles and Karin decided to let her husband drive not trusting herself to stay awake long enough to drive them to the Smith's house.


PC Nina Gray came off duty late that night. Her shift had finished just in time to fit in with the job she had to do. Nina wasn't all that happy with what she had to do but it had to be done. It was not part of the job that she enjoyed but it was worth it somehow. She got into her car that was parked outside Sun Hill Police Station. Surprisingly no one had noticed the fake number plates on the slightly beaten up red Volkwagen Golf. But then again she had been told that the police at Sun Hill were always too involved with something else to notice something like that. There was always some scandal going on that everyone's attention was diverted. She drove off preparing to put her plan into action.


Whilst Cameron drove Karin fiddled with the radio controls, the volume was turned down low to avoid waking their sleeping children. Suddenly there was a squeal of tyres as Cameron braked to avoid something in the road. Neither he nor Karin knew what it was but fortunately the sound did not wake up Lauren or Stefan. Cameron put his foot down on the acceleration and began driving again. The adrenalin was pumping now and he felt wide-awake.

The crash and splintering of glass as the four passengers were forced forwards against their seatbelts woke up the two children. After the initial impact Karin looked around at her two kids, dreading what she might find.


Nina watched from the roadside, she stayed hidden as the emergency services arrived. She was appalled with herself when she saw a little boy and a slightly older girl being helped out of the car. If Nina had known that children would be involved she would have refused the task. Nobody refused him though, Nina knew people who had learnt that the hard way, her mum's friend for one.


Smithy and Kerry were sat on the sofa in the lounge of their house. The lighting was dimmed atmospherically and four wine glasses stood on the coffee table. A bottle of wine was cooling in a bucket of ice. Amy had already gone to bed, she was bored of waiting for their visitors to arrive. Dale and Kerry were beginning to worry.

"The plane probably got delayed." Smithy reasoned, draping his arm over his wife's shoulder.

Kerry wasn't convinced.


Cameron felt a strange sensation as he and his family were taken to St Hughes hospital by ambulance. In his time as a copper at Sun Hill Cameron had been to the local hospital so many times but coming back like this was just weird.

Kerry and Smithy both jumped as the phone began to ring and Mrs. Smith ran to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Hi Kerry." Cameron said, his Australian accent crackling over the pay phone. "We've had a bit of a delay."

"Oh." Kerry replied, holding the phone so that Smithy could hear. "Is everything okay?"

"Well…put it this way…some idiot drove into our hire car."

The Smith's were shocked even Amy had crept between her parents to listen.

"Are you all alright?"

"Yeah." He paused. "No lasting damage although I doubt Karin will let me anywhere near the steering wheel for a while!"

Kerry cracked a small smile. How could Cameron still stay so positive in such a serious situation?


Sorry I haven't updated this for a while but I know where it's going now so updates should be more often! Thanks for reviewing! V x