Jealous Eyes
Disclaimer: I do not own most of these characters. They belong to Home and Away.
Chapter 1
"You're totally smitten aren't you?" Tasha laughed.
"What?" Martha asked, innocently.
"So you think he's going to propose?" Tasha asked, a smile grew on Martha's face.
"Well, lately he's kind of been acting strange, you know, cancelling on dates and stuff, because of work. I started to think that maybe he was going off me… But he's stressed to me about how important tonight is, and how he is definitely going to be there." Martha smiled. "He's taking me to this real posh restaurant, he told me to dress up nice." She gleamed. Tasha laughed at her friend.
"Don't get your hopes up Mac." She said, swirling her milkshake with the straw.
"I'm not, I'm just saying that's what I think will happen.." Martha giggled, taking the last sip out of her thick, strawberry milkshake, and then looking at her watch. "Well, I have to go get ready!" She giggled with excitement as she picked up her bag and stood up.
"Tell me how it goes!" Tasha shouted, as the giddy Martha skipped through the diner's kitchen and up the stairs to her apartment.
Jack's shift was dragging by slowly, he constantly had his eyes on his watch, working out every second left until he'd be meeting Martha. He couldn't wipe the smile of his face, even when he was assigned to desk duty. He'd keep happily humming to himself, familiar theme tunes, or just random songs that he'd made up in his head, anything that kept him from not shouting out with happiness. Although he was extremely happy and excited about the evening date that was slowly drawing closer, he was also petrified. He knew that lately he hadn't been the best boyfriend for Martha, he'd cancelled on numerous dates, and actually spent very little time with her for the last few weeks, but he was hoping to make it up to her, tonight. Work had gotten busy, and it had just piled up on him as his new partner, Mia, was being a bit of a pain. She wasn't the most helpful colleague, and left Jack to do most of the paper work by himself, and sadly, the catch-up interrupted his personal hours. But for once, he'd gotten on top of all the work, and could definitely take Martha out for a perfect night. The more he thought about it, the more his excitement grew, and the more nervous he became. He knew how much he loved Martha, and was sure that she felt the same way, but it was still a very big question to ask.
"Okay, just once more." He told himself, opening the draw on the desk. He slowly picked up a black, leather box and opened it up, revealing a beautiful diamond ring. He smiled as it sparkled, thinking about what he was going to do. He heard his sergeant's voice coming closer, so he quickly shut it and returned it to it's home in the draw.
"Constable, we need you now." Sergeant McGrath ordered. Jack shot up.
"Why, what's going on?" He asked, grabbing his jacket and walking hurriedly out of the station with his sergeant.
Jack arrived at a deserted building block, where he was informed of his duties. There was a hostage situation and they needed as many cops as they could around the large abandoned building, and seen as though Jack was one of the best constables they had, and also had two successful undercover missions under his belt, he was the favourite to go in and compromise. Jack, being the eager cop that he is, had no objections and got stuck in straight away, walking steadily into the building. As soon as he passed the doors he could hear the clicking of a gun by his ear, and a hand on his arm.
"Have you got anything?" Someone grumbled. "Legs apart, up against the wall." The voice added. Jack did as he was told, and stood in position as one of the men searched him.
"Nothing." The other man said. "This way." They both escorted him to a room that was filled with 4 frightened civilians, each one trembling with fear on the floor, apart from one lifeless person whose body was lying in a puddle of rich blood. 'These guys are serious' Jack thought to himself.