Authors Note: So I'm not even going to try and make an excuse for not writing over the past week. I just send you my apologies! I give up. Robbie and Jackie were not supposed to be the central topic of this fic but they now seem to be *hits head off desk* Next chapter should be up quicker and next Monday (8th February) you'll be getting a one-shot in celebration of my fifteenth birthday - which I still have to write, I should really get on with that actually!

Disclaimer: *runs up to check bedroom for Robbie and Jackie* No! They found a way to escape! *sobs* Emma, they didn't want to stay even though they were together :( :L Unsurprisingly with this amount of obsession with the show I do not own the characters, only the OCs like Dave whom is giving me a lot of entertainment with the team's hate towards him.

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Attempting Survival

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"Jackie?!" Robbie screwed his eyes up against the harsh morning light coming in through the open curtains as he remembered that he was currently sharing a room with his Sergeant.

"Oh it awakens. What do you want?"

"Where are you and what are you doing?"

"In the bathroom, making sure my hair looks okay." She came out of the bathroom with a hairbrush in her hand and leant against the door frame, gazing over at the large mound of duvet covers that was over his body.

"How long have you been awake?"

"An hour, an hour and half maybe, I don't really know."

"Why?" He was stunned that someone would actually choose to wake up early.

"So that I could make sure at least once of us was ready and looking good for breakfast." Robbie sat up in his bed, running a hand over his face and through his hair. He stood up and moved towards her wearing only a t-shirt and boxer shorts. When he got to the point that he could feel her breath on his body he stuck his tongue out at her in a playful way. Jackie rolled her eyes and moved to the mirror that they had in the living area of the lodge to give Robbie a bit of room to do whatever he normally did after waking up.

"Morning Jackie." She looked in the mirror and saw Stuart standing in the kitchen.

"Morning Stuart. Have you been given the job of coffee maker? If so then I'll have one please, waking up in the same room as Robbie isn't all that great."

Stuart tried to restrain himself from laughing. In his mind it was a genius idea to put Robbie and Jackie in the same room. Everyone could see the sparks of sexual tension flying between them and Stuart was beginning to think that they might be seeing them themselves now.

"So he walked in on you while you were in the showers?"

"No."

"Hide your clothes?"

"No."

"Well what did he do?"

"Err..." she realised at that moment that he hadn't done anything annoying, "walked around in a top and boxers, got far too close and stuck his tongue out." Jackie glared at her younger friend, hating the fact Stuart knew every feeling she had ever possessed, especially when it came to ones involving Robbie.

"You loved it really Jackie, we all know it." She could have cried or screamed or both when she heard Robbie's voice from the doorway to their room.

She decided it would be easier to ignore Robbie's statement so turned back to Stuart,

"Where's the boss?" Robbie shook his head at her diversion and went back so he could get his hair styled in a mirror without being distracted by Jackie.

"He got up earlier, I think, and went to look around. I don't think he trusts the happy-go-lucky atmosphere of this place so went to find out some secrets."

"Oh right." Jackie wasn't really interested in Burke, and she proved that to herself and Stuart by staring at Robbie as he walked away. She hated being so easily drawn in by him, it was the one thing she would never forgive herself for.

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After breakfast Dave found the four of them sitting at a table and told them that they were to meet at the main entrance in one hour so they could get a brief on their morning task.

Stuart looked up at their guide with a puzzled look on his face, "But how can it be a task if it's walking?"

"Oh did I not tell you that you'll be split up into pairs and have to navigate your way through the forest?"

"No," the team said bluntly.

"It must have slipped my mind." Jackie had to grab hold of Robbie's wrist to stop him from standing up and hitting the man.

As Dave went out of the canteen Robbie sent a few curses to the empty space in front of him. Jackie decided she would speak to him when they went back up to the lodge after their walk, hopefully he would calm down after being with one of either Burke or Stuart – she had already ruled out the possibility of Dave forcing Robbie and Jackie on each other because of how they were "bonding" by sharing a room...

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Unfortunately luck dealt Jackie a cruel hand. When they had got themselves ready with casual, warm, comfortable clothing and bottles of water thanks to Stuart's forward thinking, they assembled at the front building and waited for the person whom had awakened a ferocious hatred in each of the four detectives.

The stupid bag/folder thing was pulled out again when Dave finally arrived and this time he let Stuart choose his partner for the hour or so that they would spend in the fresh air. Stuart grimaced as he thought about Jackie's reaction to this. He had pulled out Matt's name which would mean Jackie would have to manage a considerable length of time in the wilderness with Robbie.

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An hour and a half later and they should have already been out of the woods but Robbie and Jackie were still only a third of the way round the trail marked on the map. "Robbie we've spent half an hour going round the same bloody patch of forest!"

"No we haven't."

"Okay do you want to have a bet? I'll carve my initials in that tree and in five minutes time we'll be staring right back at it."

"Go for it." He passed her the penknife that he had found the previous week in his block of flats where Jackie had warned him that he shouldn't pick it up since he had no idea where it had came from.

Five minutes of walking later and he wanted to die on the spot. As usual Jackie was spot on so he muttered some curses and handed her the directions although he had no intention of actually following where she went because he wanted to explore the place for himself and didn't care about the task in hand.

"Say it."

"Say what?" Jackie asked as she turned to look at his annoyed pout. She chastised herself when she noticed how attractive he was when he acted like a petulant child.

He tried to mimic her voice but failed miserably, "I told you so."

"You know what, I'm not going to say that because at least it taught you that you need to trust me more." She couldn't help but smirk as she said this though.

"I trust you! In fact do you want proof of how much you mean to me?!" He took a step closer to her and in a matter of seconds placed both his hands on either side of her face and pulled her nearer.

Their lips crashed together and they could both feel how angry the other one was. Robbie's hand had went to the nape of her neck whilst Jackie's went to the back of his head, pulling his face impossibly closer to her own. They broke apart when they realised they still needed to breathe.

"I'm going this way," Jackie said while pointing to the left. Robbie nodded and replied, "Well I'm going that way," pointing the opposite direction.

As they walked out of the other's line of sight they leant against different trees, breathing deeply, trying to fathom a response to what just happened.

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"Where's Ross?" Matt asked when Jackie appeared back at the reception on her own.

"I don't know."

"This was supposed to be a bonding exercise, what happened to split you up?" Dave had to ask the questions that she wasn't comfortable with, didn't he?!

"He chose to go a different way."

"Why didn't you go after him or persuade him to follow you?"

"I had... other things on my mind." She mentally prayed they wouldn't ask for details because she was in one of those moods where she would end up blurting out everything if she was given an excuse.

Jackie decided to go and get herself changed because her back was covered in muck from leaning against the tree and she wanted to have a little breakdown on the bed. Before going she found the timetable that was still lying in the kitchen and looked to see what they were doing after their break for lunch. Raft building. Her mind came to the conclusion that they couldn't force her and Robbie to go together again on the assumption that the whole team would have to pull together to build it. She couldn't cope being alone with Robbie any longer or she would, more than likely, end up pulling him in for another kiss.

She shouldn't have let her mind wander down the thought of that kiss because now she was replaying it over and over again. The touch of his lips on hers had momentarily broken down every defence she had built around herself for this sort of situation.

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Robbie, meanwhile, had finally found the tree with their initials and wandered down the path he had watched Jackie go down earlier. He sighed deeply thinking about what he had done. He wanted to tell Jackie he loved her but that would be committing himself to a fate worse than death, he would be showing a weakness which would ultimately lead to him losing all his credibility as a playboy who never got attached to anyone.

He took the bottle of water which he had hardly drank anything from out of his jacket pocket, and dropped it down to his foot and kicked it hard as he could. He decided if the kiss was mentioned sometime in the future he would put it down to their anger getting too much for them – nothing to do with his pent-up feelings for her.

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To Be Continued.