This is for Jay again!

This is rather a sickly sweet story for my liking, some of your regular readers will not I don't make things this sweet, so I apologise in advance if there are any bits that amke you feel ill.


I awoke to the sound of the phone ringing, I rubbing my head as I sat up, grabbing the phone I almost yelled into it:

"Yeah?" I yawned

"Did I wake you Claire?" John asked

"You did but it doesn't matter"

"I'm sorry, did you get my note?"

"Note?"

"Yeah I left it under your coffee cup"

"Ah, now I see it" I pulled a piece of paper out from under my cup "Don't worry about having a shower, did you get a phone call this morning?"

"No Kerry came knocking at quarter to eight; I didn't want to wake you. Are you ready to come into work?"

"I guess, I'm too awake now"

"I'll come and pick you up; I'll be there in fifteen minutes"

"O.K. I'll leave he door on the latch, let yourself in" I hung up and headed upstairs to the shower, I decided that a cold shower would wake me up and a hot shower to wash my hair.

I was just blow drying my hair when John cam in

"Hey fancy a coffee?"

"Haven't got the time, Deakin wants me back by ten"

I glanced at the clock, it was ten to ten:

"Put the kettle on" I brushed my hair while watching John fill the kettle

"Left hand cupboard" I directed "No sorry, right hand cupboard, top shelf" I watched as John opened the cupboard, I realised he should be looking at the bottom shelf "Sorry, bottom shelf, polystyrene cups, sorry I'm not used to directing people round my kitchen. It's gotta be better than the stuff Mickey calls coffee"

John smiled:

"You can make the coffee" He said "You make nice coffee"

"You'll have to brush my hair then" I retorted handing John the brush

I laughed as John examined the brush bewildered:

"Like this" I took John's hand and ran the brush through my hair, he soon got the hang of it and was merrily brushing away when his mobile rang.

"Guv?"

I turned round to face John

"Where are you?"

"At..... The traffic lights on Tallow Street"

"Is Claire with you?"

"No she's gone to the moon" John retorted easily

"Give me the phone" I grabbed the phone from John

"Don't get smart with me John" Deakin roared

"Are you all right Chris?" I asked concerned

"Fine! Where are you?"

"Stuck in traffic on the Canley Ring Road"

"What you doing right out there?"

"Road works remember?"

"Ah, of course, just get here as soon as you can" Deakin hung up

I gave John back his phone and turned round

"Hey don't turn round; I want to look at you"

"Why?" I turned back to face John and smiled

"Claire, I have to say this, I think I'm falling in love with you" John said turning a nice shade of red

"I don't know what to say" I spoke quietly giving John a cuddle

"I shouldn't have said anything" John said quietly

"No, I'm glad you told me, we should be in work, come home with me tonight and we'll talk about it yeah?"

John took the coffees and got into the car while I locked up; we drove to the station in silence.

John was first out as soon as he parked the car, as I walked p the ramp into the station I could see John pushing his way through the officers in the corridor

"Where's Claire, John?" Deakin asked

"Right here" I replied entering the office

"I want a word with you"

"What have I done now?" I quipped, prompting a small laugh from Kerry

I followed Deakin into his office and shut the door behind me

"Right, I'm going to need you to work late again tonight"

"You what?"

"I'm sorry Claire but we're really short staffed as you know"

"Guv' I'm not allowed to work more than eighty hours in a week, I get mental burn out, you should have a read of my file, It's all listed in there, even Kerry and John know about it" I could feel myself getting angry

"I'm afraid you're just going to have to deal with it"

"If I burn out, I'll have to take time off then where would that leave the department?!"

"I'm sorry Claire but I've got no choice"

"Well you can stick your extra shift"

"You're treading on thin ice DS Stanton"

"I don't bloody well care; I'm not working the extra shift!" I yelled at Deakin before storming out of the office slamming the door behind me

I noticed the whole office staring at me:

"What?" I snapped

No one dared to answer me, I sat down at my desk, somewhere across the office a phone rang and rang.

I looked at my mug before picking it up and throwing at the wall

"Claire, calm down"

"Argh!" I screamed as I flung my arm across my desk throwing all my case files to the floor

"What the hell is going on out here?" Deakin shouted appearing in the doorway

"Nothing guv'" John and Kerry said at the same time as Kerry bent down to pick up my case files

John wrapped his arms around me and didn't let go not even when I was thumping my fists against his chest, tears streaming down my face.


A/N: I have another two chapters to upload for Coming Round the sequel to Destined To Meet Again, they won't be up today but do keep an eye out for them, I'm hoping to get them up either Monday or Tuesday. As always any feedback is greatly appriciated, even if you just want to say the Fic makes you feel sick :-)