Chapter number 16. Love me the same again

"Aha" Lara called out pulling out a file from one of the cabinet's in the back room of the police station. "Peter I found it!" she yelled.

"Really?" Peter asked getting excited rushing down to the back room.

"Yeap, it's here. I just don't know how it got from your desk to all the way out here" she told him when he came in and grabbed the file off her to see for himself, "I mean, it's not like the stupid thing walked it's self all the way out here".

"Yeah, your right, I think were going to have to keep a closer eye on some of the juniors, there the only ones that would of made a mistake as big as that" he agreed still with his nose in the document reading through it as he talked.

"Peter!" Lara demanded his attention, pushing the top edge of the yellow folder down so that his face wasn't covered.

"What?" he asked looking up at her.

"I don't think the juniors did this".

"What do you mean?"

"You even said yourself that it's a pretty big mistake, everyone in here knows that these cabinets aren't something anyone looks through without permission form you, me or Tracey, let alone use it to hide files in, and the juniors know that more than anyone cause it's one of the things there told everyday of there lives in here!"

"Are you trying to tell me that someone put this here on purpose?" Peter raised his voice.

"No, but I guess that's always a possibility" she raised her tone to match his to make him get the point that she was serious. "Peter, all I'm trying to say is that this place isn't exactly top security, it's quite possible that someone's been sneaking in here trying to play mind games with this file and who knows what else. You of all people should see it Peter, stuff has been going missing since this file first came into our hands... you were right the other day when you said there was more to this case" she lowered her voice down, dead seriousness was in her eyes. "There's something fishy going on, for all we know it could be another Zoe on the lose".

"Ok, look we've got work to do, I want a list of all the files that went missing, what they were about and any other information you can get you hands on, there's got to be some link to this" Peter told her closing the file and leaving to go and take another look at it in his office.

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At the Yabbie creek hospital, the place was in it's busiest hour of the day and yet another ambulance pulled in to be emptied. The driver got out of the car and opened the back doors for the nurses to get the patient out. The wheeled her inside, being as quick as possible. "Serena Holden, twenty eight" one of them called out to doctor Simpson.

"Ok, get her into a room, and quickly" she ordered.

"Doc, is she going to be ok?" Tony asked concerned.

"I don't know. Were you there when it happened?"

"No, I just came home to her struggling for life on the kitchen floor, and there were some pretty serious bruises up her arm" he explained. Doctor Simpson's face looked more serious now, and Tony got more worried. "Look be honest with me..." he started, "the cancer's back isn't it?"

"Nothing's certain yet" she simply said before walking off to attend to Serena.

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"So what do we do now?" Martha asked breaking the silence in the room. A few minutes ago they'd both pulled away, and now they both sat in their chairs looking at each other, not knowing what to think or do. But yet they still smiled at each other, there gaze fixed at meeting point, they knew what they'd done was wrong, Jack was a married man, but yet nether regretted a single moment of it, and they didn't even feel the slightest bit bad about it, which made Jack start to wonder if anything in his brain was actually wired properly.

"Well..." Jack started, "I guess we have to start with what we both want, what we honestly want. Last time I rejected you when I honestly wanted you, I lost you".

"What are you trying to say?" she asked softly.

"I'm saying that I... I, um, I-"

Martha had an amused smile on her face, the look of confusion on Jack's face was priceless. "You what?"

"I, um, I lo-" Jack blabbered, "What the hell, I'm just going to say it! I love you".

All Martha's amusement on her face suddenly disappeared, 'he loves me?' she thought to herself, then lips began to smile, 'he loves me!'.

Jack was itching to know what she thought, and her not saying anything wasn't helping one single bit. "What's that smile for?" he asked soothingly.

"I love you too" she whispered, "I love you too".

Jack was delighted by hearing those words, 'she loves me!' he could hear his mind screaming. He looked into her eyes for a moment, "you've got doubts haven't you?"

"Just a few" she said honestly.

"Martha talk to me, tell me what your thinking" he pleaded with her.

"I hate to be to one to bring you back to reality Jack, but... you have a wife, a wife who loves you very much. And also happens to be one of my best friends".

"Yeah I know that, that's the only reason I've held back for so long" he told her looking at the girl of his dreams sitting in front of him stairing at her hands.

Martha looked up at him, giving him a curious look, "what?"

"Martha we're ment to be together, you are the most amazing, strongest, most loving girl I know, and getting to know you again, it's... it's made me realize what an idiot I was to you all those years ago-"

"Jack".

"Martha, just hear me out please" he begged her. "What I'm trying to say is, being in here, I've had a lot of time to think about what is really important to me, and I've had a lot of time to think about all the things I would of done different in my life" he told her getting off his chair and getting down on his knees, placing his hands through the bars and holding Martha's hands in his that were neatly placed on her lap. "Remember what things were like... there was just us... our dreams ...our love" he whispered, looking her dead in the eye. "I know things are different now, and I know, I know I'm asking a lot, especially when I'm in prison, but we can make it work can't we?" he asked, pouring his heart out to her right before her, a twinkly in his eyes, promising he would love her forever.

Martha nodded quickly, she was crying, crying with all the happiness in her heart, "yes" she cried, sliding off the edge of her seat like she was falling, "yes, yes, we can. I love you so much" she continued getting down on the floor so she was level with Jack. He reached his hand out and stroked her cheek, wiping away her tears, wrapping his strong steady arm around her, holding her as close as he could, gazing into her eyes, where they both huddled together on the floor.

"Baby please don't cry" she told her lovingly.

"I'm just so happy" she whispered, not even noticing how orquad there position on the floor was with them both tangled around the bars to stay together.

"Me too, me too" she said in a hushed voice in the last few seconds before he was silenced by a kiss, that was so tender and sweet, one that could only come from Martha. Only she could make him feel the way he was feeling right now.

I'll continue soon, please review, there won't be an update until I've got at least 2.