Boss's Daughter

I don't own anything apart from the storyline. All characters belong to Impossible Pictures.

I do however Own Bertie, Walters, Kirkby, Patterson Crabtree, and Generals White and Miller. (I wish I owned the Bartender in the previous chapter, but I don't!)

Becker whimpered quietly.

"Yes... I'm looking forward to that one!" Becker smiled falsely, dripping with sarcasm. His smile dropped.

"Lester... I've got to ask you this...? Have I still got a Job? Will I still have one at the end of all of this?"

"I stand by what I say Captain... I wouldn't have re-opened to ARC without you, and I still stand by what I say. You're the best man for the job and you'll remain that way." Lester began to stare at the young man. "That is unless you're hiding something?"

"God No! I'm not hiding anything. I'm INNOCENT!" He shouted. Suddenly aware that everyone in close vicinity had stopped to stare, he gazed into his own drink. Lowering his voice he repeated quietly. "I. Am. Innocent. I swear on my life!"

"I believe you." Lester paused to sip at his drink. "You know when she wakes Jess will want to see you. Make sure you are sober and presentable!"

"Are you sure that's a good idea considering that she's got Rohypnol in her system?"

"If I didn't trust you I wouldn't be telling you." Lester looked at Becker took in his haunted state. "I'd trust you with my own life as well as my daughter's."

Becker paused. Had Lester just said what he thought he'd said? That he trusted him? That he trusted him with Jess? Did this mean he DID stand a chance with Jess? He gulped, and prepared to go and see Jess.

Lester finished his drink. "And by the way... If you so much as breathe a word of this conversation to anyone... You're fired!" Lester walked away nonchalantly.

Becker wanted to go and see Jess, he really DID. Something stopped him. He wasn't sure what or why he had stayed away but he did.

Jess, when she came round, was extremely hurt by his behaviour. Did he not love her anymore? Had she become, in his eyes, unreachable, just because she was Lester's daughter? Had he changed so much in these last few days that nothing mattered to him anymore? Didn't SHE matter anymore to him?

Jess was so deeply distressed that she begged Lester for some time off. She sat at home all day feeling miserable until Bertie went to visit her to make sure she was OK.

Bertie was surprised when Jess said that Becker had not been to visit.

She frowned... She was going to give her little brother a Good Slapping!

That night Becker stood outside Jess's flat with a bunch of beautiful flowers in his hand. He raised his hand to knock on the door. He heard laughter from upstairs. He hung his head, would Jess really want to be with him?
It sounded as if she was having fun with Connor and Abby. He dropped the flowers on her doorstep, turned, and walked away. She didn't need him. Why would she hang around with someone who had a criminal record?

As far as he was concerned he was just someone she worked with!
Hah! For how much longer? How long before Lester fired him?
How long before Bertie came across evidence that would have her slapping handcuffs on his wrist? He stared at his wrists as he gripped the steering wheel. He gulped and turned the key to start the engine.

Bertie sat down at her desk and poured over all the information she had gathered.

1) Lisa had traces of Rohypnol in her system.
2) She had traces of foreign DNA in her vagina.
3) One DNA matched that of Kirkby and the other matched Patterson's.
4) Both Kirkby and Patterson had tried to drug girls they had come into contact with.

5) She had evidence proving that Burnside had overlooked cases concerning Kirkby and Patterson before.
6) Jess had provided proof that Kirkby had raped four other women and that Patterson had raped three using the same procedure.

Abby stood next to Becker outside the courtroom, trying very hard to make him feel better. He was dressed in his smart ARC uniform. Becker felt as awful as he looked. He was very pale, sleepless nights had led to the huge bags under his eyes, making him look haunted.

The last few weeks had been very stressful and all he could think about was Lisa Miller.

He looked around him.

Where was Bertie? Why wasn't she here yet? She had promised that she wouldn't let him down!
He tuned to look down the corridor, the fifth time in ten minutes.
His heart sank even further than before, down the corridor strutted a very smug looking General Miller.
"Good day Captain Becker," he paused, looking down his nose at Becker he continued. "Hopefully your last as a free man!"

Becker seethed. He was about to say something back when...

"Oh I don't think so General Miller!" Bertie strode behind him looking magnificent in her official uniform. She was dressed in her own army uniform. She wore very little make up and had tied her hair back into a sleek ponytail.
"You see I've built an airtight case clearly showing Captain Becker is innocent!" she smiled at the General. "You see I'm here to prove the good Captains innocence, and prove it I will!" Bertie smiled again, infuriating the general. He scowled.

"Good Day. Major Becker, Captain." he waited for a response from Bertie.

"Good day General Miller!" she said sarcastically.

"Good day General." Becker tried to smile, but found that he couldn't.

Becker and his sister seethed whilst they watched the General walk away.

"Why Hel-lo Major Becker!" Bertie screwed up her face, wincing. She could recognise that sickly sweet voice anywhere. She planted a smile on her face before turning around. Secretly she hated this man. He had come on to her in a big way. Even asked her out on several occasions. Only for her to push him away.

"Hello Major Walters. How nice to meet you again." she smiled falsely as she lied.

"Very long time... Too long!" he replied, his clipped tone raising the hairs on her neck.

Bertie retorted "Not long enough! If you'll excuse me, I wish to have a few words with the Captain here."

"Talk as much as you like, the next time you see him, he'll be behind bars!" he laughed before strutting away.

Bertie glowered at him.

"God I hate that man!" She frowned. "He's the one trying to convict you!"

Bertie now turned to Becker. She took in his deathlike state.

"Are you ok?" Becker smiled weakly. "Don't worry I get you out of this!" Bertie smiled properly. She turned and glanced at the people arrived to watch the Court room drama. Her smile widened as she watched Matt, Emily, Lester and finally Jess walk in. "They will not be able to lay a finger on you...! Trust Me!"

She winked at Jess who smiled sweetly.

Becker's heart stopped. Here was the woman he loved. This woman would be watching him before he lost everything. Would he ever see her again? Was he doomed to see her from behind bars? Would she even visit him? Would Lester even allow it? He could not even dare to contemplate the answers.

Becker sat at a desk next to his sister, Major Alberta Becker. Together they looked over to the table opposite.
Sergeant Kirkby and LC Patterson sat alongside Major Walters. In this army courtroom they were being represented by Major Walters.

Matt, Emily, Connor, Abby, Lester and Jess all sat behind Becker. They all smiled reassuringly as they took their seats.

General Miller took a seat behind Kirkby and Patterson.

The day could NOT get any worse for Becker, and then it did, for when the door opened a gentleman came in.

Becker gaped as the door opened and a smart older man came in. He stared at the medals that decorated the man's breast pocket. Becker could have named each and every one and when they had been given. He was as tall as Becker, looked just like him, but had grey hair and was balding on top.

"Bertie," he whispered. And pointed out the older man.

She smiled. "He's here for you."

"He's not spoken to me for six years... Even he thinks I'm guilty!" Becker continued whispering and looked away from the man who looked over to him.

"Don't be silly... He cares, in an unusual way, that's all." Bertie sighed.

"Look when this is all over, maybe you can go over and make your peace?" Bertie gazed into her brother's haunted eyes.

"Trust me Haitch... Just Trust Me!" She turned to look at Commander Jeremy Becker, as he shook hands with General Miller, and sat down behind Sergeant Kirkby and LC Patterson.

They all stood for the courtroom judge who came in. Judge Myers was a tall, slim woman in her late thirties, She wore very little make up and her blonde hair had been pulled back into a bun at the nape of her neck.
Bertie looked over to her brother and smiled briefly; trying to encourage him that everything would fall into place and be ok.

Major Becker took the floor first.

"Captain Becker is Innocent M'Lord and I intended to prove it!" Bertie smiled as she stood.

"I have obtained permission from General Miller to have the FCO's body exhumed; I have conducted my own forensic tests. These tests prove that Captain Becker's semen was NOT found on FCO Lisa Miller's body."

"First of all I would like to call to the stand a Miss Abigail Maitland." she looked over to Sergeant Kirkby and asked him to stand as Abby took her place in the witness stand.

"Are Miss Abigail Maitland?" Abby nodded.

"Do you recognise Sergeant Kirkby?"

"Yes I do,"

"Could you tell the courtroom of how you met."

Abby began her story if how she was sat in a bar waiting for her friend when Sergeant Kirkby had walked in and had bought her a drink. She told the courtroom of how he had doctored her drink whilst she was in the ladies. Of how he had taken her to an alleyway and tried to rape her.

"Please note Your Honour that FCO Miller also had traces of Rohypnol in her blood stream." She turned to Abby "Thank you". Abby smiled at Becker as she left the stand.

"Next I would like to call Miss Jessica Parker."

This time Bertie asked LC Patterson to stand as Jess sat in the witness stand.
Smiling Jess recounted her story of how Patterson had tried to drug her.

"I would like to call Mr Connor Temple to the stand." Bertie asked for Connor to take his seat in the witness box. He recounted his story of how he had seen Kirkby put something in Abby's drink, and how Patterson had slipped something in Jess's drink too.

"Objection Your Honour, these are all friends of Captain Becker's. They have concocted this story from nowhere!" Major Walters voiced his objection.

"My evidence will prove that this has been the case in several occasions, and the most damning evidence is yet to come! Milord!" Bertie retorted.

"You may continue, Major Becker!"

"Thank you M'Lord."

Bertie called her forensic technician, a Doctor Crabtree, to the stand. Becker had never seen him in his entire life. He cringed inwardly; His whole life lay in this total stranger's hands.

"May I ask you how you discovered that Lisa had not been raped by Captain Becker?"

"Simple the semen residue found in Lisa's body did not match Captain Becker's DNA."

"And who did it belong to?"

"Sergeant Kirkby and Lance Corporal Patterson, Sir" The tech replied.

"What else did you find whilst conducting forensic analysis?"

"Lisa Miller had been drugged... with Rohypnol."

"This is the same substance that was found in the two glasses of orange juice that were given to Miss Parker and Miss Maitland to drink?"

"Yes, that's right sir."

"Thank you, you may step down."

General Miller started to frown; it seemed as if the two people Major Walters was trying to protect were the guilty ones.

Connor rolled out a DVD player.
"This is a recording if the scene outside the restaurant where FCO Miller was raped." Bertie picked up the remote in front of her and pressed play.

Becker looked at Matt, Emily, Lester, Connor and Abby who sat behind him. His eyes questioning... Where had this evidence come from? Everyone smiled looking directly at Jess who sat next to Lester. Jess pursed her lips and tried to hide the smile that was beginning to spread across her face.

I hope you enjoyed that little courtroom scene. Judge Myers is based on Miss Myers from SJA, and Walters is just a creep who likes to annoy Bertie.

There is More to come...

What other evidence does Bertie have?

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