Before Sam knew what was happening, the doors burst open and armed police raided the room. Some of the suspects gave themselves up but most tried to run. Sam got up and saw Zain running with them. She chased after him, ignoring the pain in her face. She jumped over boxes and barrels to find him trapped. He had run into a small room with no escape apart from the door that Samantha was stood in front of. They watched each other before she pinned him against the wall and arrested him as if he were one of the suspects. She pulled him along, back into the now virtually empty room.
"Sam are you ok?" Jack asked her.
"I'm fine. Can you take him for me?" Handing Zain over.
"Sure."
Sam slowly walked back to the station on her own. Jo had offered to join her but she preferred to be alone. She felt extremly confused. Had Zain hit her, wanting to hurt her or had it just been for show? She haad initially thought that it had been for show but now she wasn't so sure. He hadn't apologised or even acknowledged her since. She looked up to find the SunHill building looming ahead of her.
Zain saw her sit on the bench outside of the station. He quickly made his way down and approached her, wondering if it was a good idea to or not. She looked up as she saw a figure in front of her. She recognised him but didn't acknowledge him, just stared at the floor again. She felt him sit down next to her ad place his coat around her shoulders.
"I really didn't mean to hurt you!" He said suddenly. Samantha looked up at him, watching to see if he was telling the truth or not.
"Then why have you ignored me?"
"I don't know. I hur you more than I intended to and I guess I thought that you'd think that I'd meant it."
"I only thought that because you didn't say anything!" Samantha protested.
"Do you believe me now?" He asked gently. She nodded, placing her arms around his neck. He sat still for a moment, that hadn't been something that he was expecting. She pulled away from him, he saw tears in her eyes before she quickly looked away.
"What's wrong?" He asked, looking concerned.
"It's nothing. It's just you're so kind and lovely and I that wish that Marc could be more like you sometimes."
"If he isn't kind and lovely ... Why are you still with him?"
"I don't know!" She said after a moment's silence.
"Do you love him?" He asked.
"I did to begin with ..."
"But not anymore?" She shook her head. "Sam it's bad enough to stay with him when you don't love him but you're supposed to be marrying him!"
"I know. As soon as I said yes he began to plan everything and now I can't get out of it!"
"But you can't marry him!"
"I'm not allowed to choose anything. His sister chose a dress ... He's chosen the date, venue, church!"
"I didn't realise you had already set a date. When is it?"
"April."
"April? That's only 2 months away!" Zain said in surprise. Samantha nodded.
"I have to marry him." She said, trying to convince herself more than anything.
"So you're willing to spend the rest of your life with him, are you? Share everything with him ... Have his children?"
"He's already told me that he wants 3 children and for me to stay at home and look after them!"
"Sam that isn't you. Doesn't he know that?"
"He doesn't know me at all!"
"You can't marry him!" He said again.
"And what else am I supposed to do with my life? Throw myself into my work and have no life oustide the job? I don't want to be on my own again! Life with him is better than being alone!"
"But what if you find someone who you really love and who loves you back?"
"I won't!"
"But you don't know that if you don't try!"
"I haven't found anyone yet and so I won't find anyone after we're married!" She said defiantly.
"What about Phil?" He asked, knowing that she would hate him for saying his name.
"Apart from him!" She said quietly.
Fine! If that's you decision? I hope you'll be very happy together!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked.
"It means that I don't want anything to do with him. I've heard a lot about him. People know more then you think Samantha! He's a very dangerous man from what I've heard and I don't know how much you know about his dodgy dealings but you should watch out. If he falls, you will be right there beside him!" He said.
Sam sat there completely shocked. She watched Zain walk away from her, into the distance.