Sorry I know you have been waiting for this, I have been at work for days and have had no time to write, thanks for your patients the wait is over.

Kiss and tell

Gerry was still standing stock still in the shower, he didn't know why but he swore he could here someone moving about. Of course he knew it was Sandra right? No one else was in the horse, nor could they get in. It was just his imagination, everything was fine?

His muscles however decided not to cooperate, they had frozen him in the warm spot under the shower, deciding that they liked it right here just fine.

Gerry took in a shaky breath and shook his head. He was being silly, he was a trained cop for Christ's sake, plus Sandra was also in the house, she could kick pretty much anyone's butt when she put her mind to it. Leaning forward slightly and listening for any more sounds Gerry heard only silence in return.

Sandra's feet made no noise on the plush carpet as she padded down the dark hallway. She looked at the door in front of her and let out a sigh, again she felt like her feet had turned to led weights and they didn't want to keep carrying her forward. She stopped and wondered if she had made the right decision.

Turning on her heel she started to walk back across the hallway but she felt no better in this direction either. The feelings of doubt were different, but there none the less.

Pulling her shoulders back Sandra turned around once more. She had made the decision when she reached the tops of those stairs, and by god she was going too stick to it.

Heart thudding in her chest Sandra approached the door once more. Reaching out Sandra noticed that her hand was shaking slightly. Clutching it in her other hand she tried to stop the fingers from wobbling. 'Why is this so hard?' she thought to herself as she relaxed her arms by her side once more. Looking over her shoulder briefly thinking she could here something, Sandra saw nothing by the empty space behind her.

Reaching out once more Sandra did not hesitate this time she turned the handle and walked in, consequences be dammed.

Gerry almost fell over as the door to the bathroom opened. Holding his breath he backed up against the rear of the shower until his back was flush against the tiles and he tried not to make a sound.

There was no way it was Sandra, she would not walk into the bathroom, knowing he was in there. 'she must know it's me?' he thought as though the shower curtain he could see a silhouette of someone approaching his position. 'she would have knocked surely, you can here the shower when it's on from outside' Gerry's mind continued to race as he looked around for anything to use as a weapon.

The only thing he had was a bar of slightly fury soap, which might have been a bio hazard, but not particularly use full right at this moment. That and a loofer which was probably about as lethal as a rubber glove. Gerry picked up the loofer anyway. He felt better just having something in his hands. 'at least I can use it to cover the essentials, if push comes to shove' he thought in a kind of macabre way as the figure was now right outside the shower curtain. What struck Gerry as the strangest thing was they had yet to say anything. He was sure if it was Sandra, either looking for something or wanting to talk she would have called out to him. But no this person was silent and standing right outside and not moving.

Gerry thought that they were waiting for something, but what? Clutching hold of the loofer tightly Gerry watched as a hand came up and reached out for the shower curtain.

Sandra walked into the room, she was quite, thinking about just what she was going to say to Gerry. They had left things kind of awkward and she just didn't know where to start the conversation. "Umm hi Gerry sorry about making you look like a fool but my gob froze up." Sandra shook her head knowing that that was no way to start this one.

"Het Gerry mind if we have a chat about my inability to let someone in?" No that wouldn't do either. Taking a deep breath and standing still she paused for a moment. Perhaps she should think about this some more. Maybe there was a better way to approach this?

Sandra did not do well when she was dwelling on a problem though. she briefly glanced in the mirror and saw her drawn face looking back at her. It seemed totally at odds with her pretty dress.

Sandra pulled the dress over her head and let it drop on to the floor, sighing slightly she turned from the mirror and bent down and also removed her tights. Pulling them of one leg after another. Standing back up right she knew what she had to do now.

She briefly wondered why Gerry hadn't heard her. It wasn't like she was trying to be quite. But she guessed the sound of the shower was covering up any noise she might have made, pacing up and down the hallway.

Reaching forward once more she tried to stop the thumping of her heart before she went ahead and opened herself up to the possibility of love once more.

Gerry let out a scream that any woman would have been proud of. He used the loofer to cover himself as Sandra looked at him in amazement as she stepped into the shower and let the water cascade down her face.

"Shit Sandra you scared the hell out of me." Gerry said and he briefly thought how ridiculous he sounded. Sandra was standing in front of him in just her underwear and he was screaming like a girl and telling her off for her sneaky approach.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to, I thought you would have heard me, but when you didn't say anything, I guess I just didn't think." She replied as her eyes settled on the loofer and she smiled.

"Nice Gerry, I think you were being slightly ambitious though." She smiled at him as Gerry looked down at the long beige implement in his hand and shrugged. Trying to keep his eyes on Sandra's and not her wet and pretty naked body. That he felt would give him a heart attack. 'If not worse' he thought as Sandra shifted forward somewhat so she wasn't getting the spray right in her face.

"Sandra if you wanted a shower you just had to ask, I wasn't going to be much longer." Gerry said finding her silence a little disconcerting, especially given their current situation.

"It wasn't the shower I wanted Gerry." She said a small smile coming to her lips and Gerry raised his eyebrows at her obvious innuendo. That was normally his territory, but she was doing pretty well so far.

"It just took me a while to realise it." she continued as she looked into his eyes she saw a certain amount of uncertainty there and she paused. Maybe she had read this wrong, this was not what he wanted, and now she had literally backed him into a corner.

"So do I need to ask what conclusion you came to?" Gerry said now a slightly cocky grin coming to his face as he saw her turn slightly red. Even in the heat of the shower Gerry could see the blush on her face. He took a chance and raked his eyes down her body. When he looked back up, the blush was no longer there, but something else was.

"I think that one is pretty obvious wouldn't you Mr Standing?" Sandra said a little glint in her eye that had Gerry bit worried and incredibly hot at the same time.

"You would think so, but you are a complicated woman Detective superintendent Pullman, a man could loose more than his dignity." Gerry replied as he took the chance and stepped forward closing the gap between them to mere inches.

Sandra could feel the heat from his body as he was so close now. Being practically the same height made it easy to look him in the eyes and read exactly what lie beneath. Not only did Sandra see her friend there now, but someone she could get close to. Obvious desire aside Gerry was someone she trusted, liked and wanted to spend time with. This was just one last barrier to cross.

His lips were on hers first, as they made contact a small spark of electricity ran through them both. Almost causing them to break the kiss at its intensity.

Gerry however pushed forward wrapping his hands around Sandra's waist and deepening the kiss. Loffer long forgotten and swirling somewhere around the drain hole, Gerry was elated when Sandra pushed back against him and deepened the kiss.

Parting sometime later, slightly breathless Gerry did not move his hands from Sandra's waist. Holding her close he smiled at her.

"Wasn't so bad was it?" He said as she smiled back at him and tilted her head slightly to the side.

"No not so bad at all." She replied as the water started to turn cold around them, protesting at the length with witch it had been used.

"Damm it water's gone cold." Gerry said reluctantly letting go of Sandra and tuning off the faucet.

"Fancy moving this to somewhere a little more comfortable?" Gerry said tuning back around to watch as Sandra climbed out of the tub and stepped dripping on to the bath matt.

"I think I really need to get out of these wet clothes." She smiled wickedly at him as Gerry to stepped out of the tub and stood beside her.

"By all means don't let me stop you." He said a wiggle of the eye brows as he got a face full of towel.

Whipping it off his head he smiled when he saw Sandra removing her wet underwear and cladding herself in another bath towel.

Moving over to her and placing his arms around her waist with no hesitation this time Gerry caught her eyes and said.

"You know we can take this as slow as you like."

"Ha well then you know the word slow is not in my vocabulary." Sandra said as she took his hand and pulled Gerry towards his bedroom.

"You know it's strange to think this all started with a Cockroach falling into my bath. Now look at where I am." She said as she fell backwards on to Gerry's bed his lips locked to hers in a timeless embrace.

THE END

Sorry but this is T rated guys lol. Hope you liked that final chapter and I once again am sorry for the delay. As ever let me know what you thought. Should I do another one like this, or should I do a case file with a bit more bite.

Thanks for reading XxX