Sandra arrived back to find her little office in use, with the doors and blinds closed. Looking around the room she noticed Gerry in the corner making coffee.

"Want one guv?" Gerry asked her as he came closer.

"Erm no thanks. What's going on?" she asked referring to why the office was sealed off to the outside world.

"Brian and Strickland are in there. But don't worry about that; first we need to calm you down."

"Gerry I am perfectly calm." She told him as she didn't like the worried tone to his voice.

"No you're claiming to be fine, that's different to actually being fine." He told her as he took her arm and guided her towards her favourite chair.

Sandra had no idea what had happened, but in the blink of an eye his arms were around her and her head was on his shoulder. "Okay, I miss Jack. I can't believe he lied to me." She opened up to him before changing her mind, "lied to all of us."

"Sandra, its okay we all miss him and we're going to get to the bottom of this, I promise. Do you wanna tell me why this is getting to you so much? Because there is no way all your mood swings are just because you miss him."

"Okay then but promise you won't laugh?" he nodded "he was the closest thing I've had to a dad since I was 14. I thought he'd never do anything like my saint of a dad." She told him the last bit sarcastically. "Now it turns out he's just as bad." She finally got out as a small tear rolled down her face.

"Sandra, to be fair to Jack, he didn't have an affair with a prostitute, he didn't have a child with them, he didn't cover up a murder and I'm pretty sure he hasn't killed 'imself." She half heartedly laughed.

"Okay no he didn't, but it's the same principle. He lied to me.'

"Maybe he had no choice?" Gerry told her trying to put something in to her head to try make her see a little sense.

"No, you always have a choice Gerry."

At this moment Brian, Strickland and someone Sandra didn't recognise walked out of her office. Silently she set about untangling herself from Gerry's arms before anyone noticed and asked any awkward questions. When she'd managed to, she spoke, now allowing the attention to fall upon her.

"Anyone like to tell me what's going on?"

"I think you'd better ask Brian and DI Jones." Strickland said to her before leaving.

She turned back around to the other two. "Okay, so tell me what's going on and I want the complete truth."

"Sandra he's in witness protection." Brian told her.

"Why?" she whispered not really wanting to hear the answer but needing to know the truth. Now it was DI Jones' turn to speak.

"He witnessed a murder. The murderer spotted him and has been threatening him ever since. We decided the best thing to do was to place him into witness protection."

Hope this is okay, I'm kind of just going with it now as I lost the plan I'd written while cleaning out my room. Feel free to review, they make my day.

Beth xxx