Disclaimer: Jo, Sam, Abi and June aren't mine. Johnny Hayes is mine, nasty man!
Chapter 17:
The brunette reluctantly turned back to face the DI, not wanting to hear what was coming next.
"Jo. I love you. I want to live with you. I want to…" The blonde paused, thinking that what she was going to say next might be going a step too far.
"You want to what? Sam?"
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you." She admitted, knowing now there was no going back.
Jo took a deep breath in, thinking that after that revelation, what she was planning on asking wasn't taking it a step too far, too fast. Deciding that now was a good a time as ever to ask if she was going to. The brunette slowly, painfully and very uneasily, given the fact that she still had one crutch, lowered herself onto one knee.
Sam froze, wondering if what came next was what she thought was gonna come next.
"Samantha Lee Nixon, I love you, more than life itself. I would give my life for one more look from you, one more smile. Will you do me the honour of marrying me? Maybe not this year, maybe not even next year, but sometime."
"Yes Jo, I would love to."
Jo grinned, completely ecstatic. "Well wait a while though, yeah? Get to know each other properly?"
"Yeah."
Jo grimaced as she tried to get up. "Oh, would you be able to help me up, I think my knee has locked."
Sam giggled before helping her to her feet. "How about we tell them?"
"How about we tell Abi first, Sam. Then think about the rest of the station."
"Okay. Can we call her up to tell her?"
"Sam, you're acting like a giddy school child, don't you think she'd prefer us to tell her when we're actually in the same room as her?"
"Yeah, you're right. Come on, let's go now."
"Sam, we're at work."
"Yeah, well, we can go on the way to pick up that suspect you and Phil have got to arrest, give him the paperwork."
"Okay, yeah why not?"
"Then, can we come back and tell the guys?"
"Yes."
"Good. I'll brake the news to Phil that I'll be taking over from him on the arrest. You know what, we can tell Abi about you becoming the new Sergeant aswell."
"Sam, number one, I've still got to pass the exam before I can even apply for the job."
"And number two?"
"Number two, Abi won't care."
"Yeah she will, she like's you Jo, she thinks you're good for me. She'll care."
Jo smiled, Sam was right, the younger Nixon had made her feel very welcome.
"Come on then." Sam was starting to get restless, she had to tell someone, she couldn't wait any longer.
The blonde virtually flew across the car park on the way to her car. The pair got in and Sam drove them back home, Jo having to grab the wheel on many occasions when Sam had got so wrapped up in her thoughts that she stopped paying attention to the road.
The pair arrived home in one piece, just, and went into the house, only to find Abi in the middle of a phone call.
Sam took the phone out of Abi's hand, told the person on the other end that Abi would call them back and hung up.
"Mum!"
"Abi, sweetie, we have something to tell you."
"Oh, God, you're not getting a dog are you." Abi said completely seriously.
Sam sighed, "No Abi, we're not getting a dog, we're… go on, you tell her."
"No Sam, you do it. I'm afraid you might explode if you don't tell someone soon."
"Alright. Abi; me and Jo, we're, well, we're getting married."
"Christ. Mum are you sure about this?"
"More sure than I've ever been about anything in my entire life."
"Well congratulations then I suppose."
"Abi, what's up?" Sam knew her daughter too well to accept that she meant that half-hearted congratulation.
"Well, it's just. I dunno, it all seems a bit soon. How long have you actually, y'know, been going out?"
"The day before we told you."
"Mum! That's only…" Abi quickly did the maths, "Five days!"
"Look, Abi, I can't explain how I feel for Jo. I care for her more than I've ever cared for anyone else other than you and Jack, and, like you said; I've only been with her five days. Btu it's been the best five days of my life, I've had you, Jack and Jo, like a complete family. I understand if you don't fell that way yet, even if you never fell that way, but I love Jo."
Abi was quite shocked, it was the first time she had ever heard her mother say that about anyone other than herself and Jack, although she should have expected it by how close her and Jo had been over the past four days. And this shock announcement should have given her some clue.
"I love her, and I can't take those feelings away. I've not just suddenly developed feelings for her overnight; I've had them for months. And I've tried ignoring them and they didn't go away. And I don't think they'll ever go away. I don't want them to ever go away. I want to spend the rest of my life with her, you and Jack. If you'd like that?" the question as directed towards both Abi and Jo.
Jo nodded at Sam whilst Abi chose to add words, "Yes, I'd like that."
Sam grinned, unsure of how her life could get any better.
Sam walked back into the station, virtually wrestling with a young lad. "Johnny Hayes. We arrested him on suspicion of dealing in Class-A drugs, and have also had to add resisting arrest and assaulting a police officers to that." Sam said whilst pushing her hair out of her face to reveal a hefty looking bruise just beginning to form on her right cheek bone."
"Christ that looks nasty Guv." June remarked, concerned at how purple the mark already was.
"Yeah, and he's not even left handed, so I suppose I'm lucky I had a hold of his right arm when he took a swing for me."
"You should get the FME to take a look at that."
"Yeah, I will do June, we've just got to go and make an announcement to CID first." Sam said, almost unable to control her grin.