Authors Note: So I'm sorry for abandoning this story for the past month but I had lost all the ideas I had so restarted it and this was the outcome. Sorry it's quite short, next part should be a lot longer, hopefully. Enjoy anyway.

Disclaimer: Even after the break from this I only own the plot and Dave :)

In The Dark

Dave stood in front of the four police officers with the same grin as usual. They were in the middle of a field that Stuart had thought wasn't part of the centre's grounds but he had been mistaken. This was apparently where the orienteering was going to commence. The four of them were in jumpers because this region - or any other for that matter - of Scotland was freezing cold at the best of times, but at nine o'clock at night in almost winter conditions was not the most attractive way to spend the evening that they could think up.

"There are sheets of paper with a number from 1 to 10 printed on them, dotted all over the grounds. You may think it would be easy to cheat but each spot has a different style of coloured ink stamp beside it that you have to show all of to me after you return. We've decided you can do it as a full team or split into pairs, your decision."

Jackie looked at the males in her team, excluding Robbie because she knew it would end up being a mistake if she did, "Can we go in pairs and can I go with Stuart please?" She had spent hardly any time with her best friend since they arrived in the centre and he had no idea what had happened between herself and Robbie in the past couple of days. She didn't particularly want to share the information but she knew it would make her brain focus more if she didn't have to keep everything bottled up inside her.

Matt was the one to reply, "Yeah of course," Robbie apparently didn't hve anything to say on the matter because he just stood kicking a rock about on the ground.

"Jackie and Stuart you can start at number 1 and work your way from there, Matt and Robbie start at 10 and go backwards through the points." Dave handed them two maps and a torch each and then walked away, leaving the team to split up and start the task.

Stuart and Jackie looked at the map and worked out exactly where they were heading to, whereas it took the other two another five minutes to work out just what way to hold the map up.

"So how has your past twenty-four hours been?"

"They've not been as bad as they could have been, it's good to see the boss in a more casual environment, yours?"

"Awful. Never allow me to go anywhere alone with Robbie ever again."

"What happened?"

"We kissed on the walk because we let our anger show through and in the heat of the moment we kissed, and I'm scared because I think we both want to do it again."

"Jackie?!" He had to stop mid-step because he was close to collapsing in shock.

"Don't you take the high ground! You know how I feel about him!"

"Jackie, this is utterly beyond everything. How could you let this happen?!"

"I didn't stragetically plan it out minute by minute, it wasn't supposed to end that way!" Just as Stuart was about to chastise her more they heard shouting coming from the other side of the field. Jackie knew Robbie wouldn't be stupid and mention what she had told Stuart so he must have done something else to annoy Matt and she and Stuart could only imagine.

"I think we should go and see what all the noise is about."

A few moments later they had found Robbie and Matt bickering over which way they were supposed to go which reminded Jackie of the walk earlier in the day. She knew she would regret saying this later but she could see how annoyed the two men were at each other and guessed they would never be able to work it out in the time they had available for this.

"Sir, let me take him. Stuart, I know we would have had fun but I think one of these two would end up killing the other if I left them together."

"Are you sure you know what you're doing Jackie," he looked pointedly at her, not sure if she was just doing this to spend more time with Robbie.

"Yes Stuart, thanks for your concern," she half glared/half smiled at her younger friend.

She dragged Robbie by the lower arm away from the others, intent on making the next couple of hours a living hell from him.

"Oh Jackie, are you going to seduce me in the dark?"

At that she turned round and began to glare at him, speaking only loud enough to convey how angry she was but not enough to let the others hear.

"Robbie do you have some sort of compulsion to be an idiot around everyone else?!"

"I must if you slip through." Robbie didn't mean to sound nasty; he was just scared of his feelings towards the brunette in front of him.

"Why do you have to act so bloody egotistical all the time? I don't get it."

"Why are you so self righteous?! You've probably done more stupid things than most people!" He was trying to deflect the question but guessed it wouldn't pass her by,

"You can't even answer a question for God's sake! Let's just get on with this activity and we can discuss this later."

"Fine."

They both knew they were far too irritated to even begin to think about a repeat kiss. Jackie was annoyed at having to more or less babysit Robbie instead of talking to Stuart, and Robbie was irked becasue it seemed she was the only one who he could rely on to be there when he screwed up anything in his life which felt as though it was happening more often now, and he hated her - okay so he didn't actually hate her, he hated being so shut off from people that the only person who he had allowed to get this deep into him since he was younger was the one person he would never win over because he thought she had gave up on him long ago.

Robbie allowed Jackie to find and retrieve all the stamps because he knew she was better at this kind of navigation than he was. He was usually at least five steps behind so that he wouldn't 'get in her way' as she put it and becuase it gave him a sligght opportunity to admire her figure without her realizing because of the darkness that encased them and she hadn't looked at him for more than a minute because he was still able to exasperate her whilst they walked along in silence.

Stuart and Matt were at the finish point first because of how many times Robbie had stopped to complain about silly little things or make snide remarks to Jackie. She had told him to piss off at least three times during a half hour period. Matt and Stuart had just laughed when they saw the couple's faces when they arrived at the lodge,

"Did you have fun then Jackie?" asked Stuart trying to wipe the grin off his face.

"Oh yeah it was just a bundle of laughs!" She said as she and Robbie continued their glaring at each other.

To Be Continued.
Next Chapter: Robbie and Jackie try to spend the night in the same room after the kiss and this argument then wall climbing in the morning of the last day of activities (the four days include the Monday when they are going back to Glasgow)