The day progressed fairly uneventfully. Roy made his usual call to his wife in the evening. He pulled his partner aside, "Joanne loved the flowers. Got to hand it to you Junior…that was a great idea."

"You're welcome Pally," smiled John feeling pleased with himself. The paramedics cleaned up after dinner and settled in for the evening. John was going through last minute details for the powwow and Roy was reading through some of the pamphlets his partner had put together. Stanley was in his office going through his endless mountain of paperwork and Stoker, Lopez and Kelly were watching the TV.

An officer entered the station and knocked on Stanley's door. Stanley looked up, a bit surprised, "Can I help you?" They shook hands. "Captain Stanley." He introduced himself.

"Officer Robey," replied the officer. "I am here about your next door neighbour."

"Oh yes." Stanley nodded. He had spoken to his returning neighbour the day before about having been broken into. A stash of money had been stolen from his bedroom, along with some jewellery. "Well, I can't help you much, I work shifts and when I am home I mostly sleep."

"I'm just wondering if you noticed any parked cars that you hadn't seen before in your street." The officer enquired.

"No I can't say I did." Stanley rubbed the back of his neck trying to visualise his street when he came home from shift during the previous week. "Nope not at all."

The officer pulled out his notebook and read from it. "Your neighbour mentioned another male was present when he mentioned to you that he was going away for the week. He said he thought it was someone you were hiring to do some work around the house." He waited expectantly.

Stanley had to think, and then it came to him. "Oh no, not hired help, that was one of my paramedics, John Gage."

"Oh, he said it was a male of Native American Heritage." Stated the officer a little embarrassed. "Does he drive a white Rover?"

"Yes, yes he does." Stanley was wondering where this was going.

"May I speak to Mr Gage please?" Asked the officer.

Stanley nodded, "I'll just get him". He went into the kitchen and called Gage. "Can you come out here please?"

"Sure Cap." He walked towards his Captain wondering what he had done wrong.

"This is Officer Robey he has a few questions for you." John immediately stiffened.

"Mr Gage you're the owner of a white Rover?" asked the officer.

"Y...Y…Yes," answered Gage nervously.

"Was it parked in Hanson Street the 19th of this month around 10.30am?" The Officer looked up expectantly.

Gage thought back, the date was familiar. "Oh yeah, we were picking up the Cap for a meeting at Rampart."

"That's right…we had a committee meeting that day at Rampart Hospital. Dr Brackett and Chief Houts can verify that."

"That's not necessary," said the officer. He faced Gage, "Were you at any time alone while parked there?"

"My partner went to the door to get Cap...he went inside but was back outside no more than five minutes later."

The officer made notes. "That's all the questions I have for now," stated the officer. He thanked them for their time after briefly questioning Roy.

"What was that all about?" asked Roy.

"My neighbour was robbed while he was away. When he told me he was going away it happened to be the morning John came home for breakfast."

"So, I still don't get it." Roy was frowning while John was looking down knowing exactly what it meant.

"I'm sure it's just routine questioning," sheepishly stated Stanley. He had an idea what it was about also, but he didn't want to embarrass John.

Roy left and walked back into the kitchen. Johnny went to follow buthis Captain stopped him. "I'm sorry John…my neighbour was way out of line mentioning you."

John looked up, his eyes reflecting a sadness that unnerved Stanley. "That's ok Cap, when people don't know you they think all kinds of things," he shrugged and walked back to the kitchen. He would speak to chief about this.

"Did Captain Stanley speak to the officer?" Lt Blackcrow was annoyed.

"I think so, I don't know how long he was here before he came and got me."

"What was the officer's name and what was the name of the street?" LT Blackcrow urgently asked.

John gave him all the details. "I haven't done anything. Nothing will happen will it?" He was worried, his chief sounded too concerned to him.

"I'll look into it John, stay calm and keep safe."

That wasn't the answer John was hoping for. Things remained quiet at the station and the crew managed to get a full night's sleep. The youngest crew member had a restless sleep filled with dreams of being thrown in jail, and everyone laughing at him.

He was changing in the locker room. "You ok?" His concerned partner asked. "You tossed and turned a bit last night."

John looked at his partner and quietly answered, "Yeah, just had a few dreams." He shrugged his shoulders and continued to get dressed. He sighed, no use worrying, he thought to himself. He wasn't convinced.

The day was spent fighting a huge fire downtown. Station 51 was called in to relive one of the first responding stations. It was tuff going. They returned to their station late that evening. A line, by rank, was established for the two showers. Roy noticed John rubbing his hip. "Your hip bothering you?" He asked pointing to his partner's hand.

"A little," he shook his head. "Man, all those stairs."

"Yeah, there were a lot of them." Roy agreed with his partner. "You want me to have a look?" He asked pointing to the recently injured hip.

"Yeah thanks." John stood and lowered his trousers. Roy palpitated around the scar.

"It's a little inflamed," he stated.

"I think my SCBA strap irritated it." John said as he twisted and turned trying to get a look at the scar.

"After your shower I'll rub some cream into it." Roy returned to his locker.

"Aaawww...isn't that sweet." Kelly couldn't help himself after seeing the exchange between the paramedics.

"Shut up Kelly my hip is sore and I've got ho…." John quickly stopped himself.

"You've got what Gage?" Kelly wanted to know what the paramedic was about to blurt out.

"Aarrhh...a lot to do over the weekend," replied John hoping that would satisfy Kelly.

"Nope, you were going to say something else." Kelly said suspiciously.

"Honey to do list." Injected Roy, thinking quickly on the spot. "That's what he was going to say. He's going to help me with my honey to do list." Roy smiled casually.

Kelly looked between the paramedics, he was not convinced. He left the locker room to have his turn at showering.

"Thanks Pally," smiled John.

"You should just tell the guys about it. I think you'd be surprised by their reaction." Roy tried to reassure John.

John snorted, "I know what Kelly's reaction would be. I'd never hear the end of it," retorted John.

"Maybe not, but at least we wouldn't have to keep hiding everything and talk about it secretly all the time." Roy tried to make his partner see reason.

"Nope that's just more ammunition for him. Let's just keep it quiet for now." John turned back to his locker.

"John!" Stanley was flanked by two police officers. The paramedic felt his stomach flip. "These officers have a warrant to search your locker."

"We also have a warrant to search your apartment. I need your keys. We'll return them when we're finished." The officer held out his hand expectantly.

John opened his locker and pulled out his keys, he handed them to the officer. He left, and the remaining officer put gloves on and started to search Johnny's locker. Roy led his stunned partner to the kitchen.

"Let's have a cup of coffee while we're waiting. Cap will keep watch." John nodded numbly and allowed himself to be led away.