Yay Its my birthday today!! Im 18 now. I feel old!

When Sam woke up the follwing morning, it took her a minute to work out why she was on the sofa or why an unconcious Phils arms were round her. A huge smile slowly spread across her face as she remebered the previous night and she snuggled back into Phil who automatically put his arms around her.

She awoke again a few hours later and immediately realised she was alone. Phil had left, presumably to go to work. She felt panicky and scared. She didn't want to be left alone here where Cooper had broken in and abducted her. She sat up and brought her knees up to her chest, hugging them close to her, breathing deeply to calm herself, feeling extremely vulnerable.

She heard a floorboard creak out in the hall and froze. Unable to move, she stared at the door in horror as it slowly creaked open.

Suddenly Sam regained the movement in her limbs and stood up, looking for something to defend herself with. Seeing nothing that would be of any use against Cooper, she resigned hersef to the worst...again.

A man entered the room and Sams eyes slowly travelled up to meet his. She stared up at him in shock, still breathing deeply and sharply.

"Phil" she whispered, barely audibly, as her voice broke with relief.

The smile that had been on Phils face as he entered vanished and was replaced with a look of concern. He put down the cups of tea he was holding and moved towards her, pulling her into a hug.

"Phil" she said again. "I thought...I thought..."

"Its ok" Phil said soothingly. "i know what you thought buts he's locked away now and he can't get to you." He could feel her trembling and felt exceedingly guilty that he had had that effect on her.

Without letting go of her, he walked her over to the sofa, sat her down, handed her the tea he had made then sat next to her with his arm round her shoulders.

"I th-thought you'd g-gone to work." Sam said, still shaking.

"You don't honestly think I'd leave you in this state, especially without saying goodbye do you?"

"No I don't. I'm sorry, I just panicked, thinking you were him. Why aren't you at work?"

"Jack gave me time off to look after you."

Phil stayed with Sam at her house every day for two weeks before they came to the agreement that Phil should just move in permanently because they were basically living together anyway but Phil had to keep going back to his house to change.

Sam went back to work not long after and was warmly greeted by everyone. They were all glad to see her back safe and well. Phil bent over backwards to make everything easy for her and went out of his way to protect her. Sam thought to herself she could never have coped had it not been for Phil...her hero.

Sixteen months had passed since Sam's abduction and her Phil were still very much in love. Everyone had congratulated them when they had told them they were an item.

"About time too" Jo had said. "Those two have been needing their heads banged together for a while now."

"Oi! Terry! In here a minute" Phil said one morning, pointing into the empty interview room.

"What do you think of this?" Phil asked pulling a ring out of his pocket.

"Wow its nice mate! You gonna ask Sam to marry you then?"

"Yeah. Today. In front of everyone"

"Bit risky" Terry laughed.

"Do you think she'll say no?" Phil asked anxiously.

"No I was joking. She'll definitely say yes. Congratulations!"

Phil put the ring back into his pocket and felt his heart leap as he spied Sam walking into CID with Jo. It was time.

He walked nervously towards her. She looked up, saw his pale face and was worried about him.

"You Ok?" she asked in a concerned tone as he approached her.

"Yeah I've never been better" he said with a smile. "Actually honey I've got something I need to ask you." He looked round at Terry for moral support and saw him watching them. He winked at Phil who turned back round to Sam. He took a deep breath and got down on one knee.

Sam's face immediately paled.

"Sam I love you so much it hurts me inside. I never thought I could love anyone as much as I love you. Sam I would do anything for you if you asked me to. I would even die for you."

He paused and looked around. Neil had come out of his office to watch, Jack was stood by the door smiling and the rest of CID were staring at them gob smacked. He looked back at Sam whose smile was growing wider by the second.

"I thought I knew what love was until I met you. You showed me the true meaning of the word. You're my world Sam and I can't live without you. Samantha Nixon, would you do me the very great honour of becoming my wife?"

The whole of CID stood waiting for her answer with baited breath.

"I….y-yes of course I will!"

The room erupted, with everyone on their feet, cheering and whistling. Phil put the ring on Sam's finger, stood up and threw his arms around her, tears streaming down both their faces.

The cheering grew louder as more people entered the room to see what was going on and joined in.

Phil stood in the middle of them with his arms wrapped tight round his wife-to-be. The only woman he had truly loved and who had just agreed to become Mrs Hunter. He couldn't stop the tears coming as he thought how lucky he was. He looked down into Sam's tear stained face and kissed her gently. In that moment he knew what he had previously only thought…

He was the luckiest man alive.