A couple of weeks later Sam returned to work, she enjoyed getting out of the house and working. She hadn't been out much since the whole deal, they didn't need anyone else. Hugh said so, and Hugh was of course right. He always was.
She walked into work and kept getting held back by people asking her how she'd been, how she was now, how Abi was. She noticed that every since one of the people who approached her avoided talking about Hugh.
She got up to CID and sat at her usual desk. She noticed that she had a big pile of paperwork, probably everyone else's as well as her own. Jack walked in, talking with Phil. Phil seemed much more calm than the last time Sam had seen him. He was joking with Jack, he saw her then carried on joking but wasn't laughing as much. Jack walked over to Sam.
"Eh, welcome back."
"Thanks guv, it's nice to be back working again." Sam replied with a small smile.
"Do you mind if you stay on small duties though?" Jack asked.
"Do the relief need any extra bodies at all? It's just I've been inside for ages and I just want to go out." Sam asked.
"You sure you want to do that?" Jack asked.
"Yeah I don't mind."
"Ok, well I'll go ask Gina. She needed some extra bodies since we're taking some of her relief for a small obbo." Jack said.
"Cheers guv." Sam smiled, she sat down and Phil walked over.
"Hey, it's good to have you back."
"Are you ok now?" Sam asked him. "No more wild accusations?"
"No more wild accusations." He promised. "I just want to look after you Sam."
He expected her to tell him she needed to be looked after by no one but she didn't.
"Thanks, but I have Hugh to look after me now." Sam replied.
"Fine." Phil held his hands up.
Gina Gold walked into CID. "Come on then Sam, you and I are patrolling the mean streets of Sun Hill together. But don't worry, you do not have to be intimidated by the streets because they're all intimidated by me."
Sam laughed, she put her coat on pushed her bag under the desk and followed Gina out to the 'mean streets'.
"So, you been up to much?" Gina asked as they walked down Canely High Street.
"Not really, mainly been indoors getting by." Sam replied.
"Oh right." Gina replied, a little curious about why she'd said indoors. Had she gone out at all? She decided not to mention it to anyone especially Phil, in case she sparked another argument between the two. Sam didn't appear to be in any danger, she looked happy now with Hugh. "So how's Hugh?"
"Trust you." She said with a smile.
"What?" Gina asked.
"Well you're the only one who would be brave and bold enough to bring up a conversation about Hugh. Everyone else makes sure they don't mention him." Sam said.
"Well I don't see the problem, he appears to make you happy." Gina replied, although inside she knew there was a problem.
"Exactly, he does make me happy. Very happy." Sam said smiling, but then her face clouded over.
"What's wrong?" Gina asked.
"Oh nothing, was just thinking that's all." Sam replied, her smile returning. "Actually I have a bit of a headache, d'you mind if I quickly get some paracetemol from the chemist?"
"Sure, it's only over there." Gina gave a small smile, Sam walked over to the chemist. Gina waited outside, keeping an eye on everyone walking up and down the high street. Sam was five to ten minutes before she came out, swallowing a mouthful of water. Gina supposed she'd already taken the tablet.
"You ok now?" Gina asked.
"Yeah, much better." Sam replied.
They started their patrolling again to witness one man punching another in the mouth, surrounded by some people and a woman screaming at them to stop it. They ran over as the older guy hit the younger one again.
"Oi!" Gina shouted at them, she grabbed one of the blokes. While Sam made sure the other didn't get away.
"You want to explain?" Sam asked.
One looked down at the ground so both her and Gina looked at the other bloke.
He sighed. "It's nothing, he's my brother and my girlfriend just admitted to screwing him and leaving me for him. So basically I came to look for him to confront him and we ended up getting more physical."
"Right, what's your names?" Gina asked.
"I'm Liam Hold and this pathetic traitor is Declan Hold." Liam said with a thick irish accent.
"Do you want to take this any further?" Sam asked Declan. He shook his head and she let go of him. He wiped his mouth and walked over to the dark haired woman, she looked pretty capable of having an affair. Not the sweet and innocent type. "We'll be thinking of you tonight." Declan smirked as he began to walk away. Liam pulled against Gina's grip, trying to get to his younger bother.
"Hey! Calm down or we'll have to nick you anyway." Sam warned.
"Ok, ok." Liam replied shrugging Gina off him and calming down. "But you probably don't know what it's like to find out you've been betrayed by the two people you'd trust with your life."
"Doesn't mean you can take the law into your own hands though, look if they hurt you like this then maybe their not worth it after all. Either learn to forgive and forget because after all he is your brother, or hold you're grudge but don't attack him." Sam said comfortingly.
"Yeah alright. I'll see ya later, well hopefully not later but you know what I mean." Liam mumbled before walking away.
"You think he'll really leave it?" Sam asked.
"Who knows? We may get a call out later about them, we may not." Gina replied.
Sam got back to the station, she told Gina she had to sort out some paperwork that other people had dumped on her desk while she'd been away. Then left her and went in her own direction.
When Gina had closed her office door Sam backtracked her steps and walked into the ladies toilets. She closed the cubicle and looked through her bag.
By the time Sam got back to CID everyone was back from their obbo, she sat at her desk and drummed her fingers absent mindly. Her thoughts swimming round and round.
"How was being on patrol?" Phil asked, but got no reply. He repeated his question. "Earth to Samantha. Are you listening?"
"What?" Sam asked, finally realising he was talking to her.
Phil laughed slightly. "I just asked how was being on patrol?"
"Oh fine, we broke up a fight, or a domestic I guess but arrested no one." Sam replied. "How was your obbo?"
"Alright, except one suspect got away. Other than that we got three out of four." Phil said.
"Ah well it's only a matter of time until one of you arrest him." Sam replied encouragingly.
"Yeah." Phil got up to photocopy a sheet of paper. He passed her desk and accidentally knocked off her back which she had put on the desk after shoving her box from the chemist in it. The contents spilt out, Sam got off her chair to pick the stuff up. Phil bent down to help. Everything except the box was now in the bag, they both reached for it and Phil saw what slipped out of the box. It wasn't pills but a pregnancy test with a single blue strip on the stick.
Sam shoved it in the box then in her bag before hurriedly walking out of CID to avoid Phil. She checked the time, it would be time for her to leave now anyway plus she already had her coat on. Nothing she needed at home so she walked extra fast down to her car.
Phil followed but by the time he got to her she was already driving back to Hugh's, he had a lot of unanswered questions. The only problem was asking Sam without a) outright accusing Hugh or rape and b) not scaring her away.