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The flight seemed to take forever to take off. Sandra focused her attention on the seat in front of her. Gerry sighed, convinced there was more to Sandra's behaviour than the thought of a twenty four hour flight. He fastened his seatbelt before prompting Sandra to do the same.

"Thousands of people fly to Australia every single year. The pilot knows what's what so don't worry."

Sandra nodded. She knew he was right but it didn't stop her mind from coming up with one awful and improbable scenario after another.

"Plus, you flew to Gibraltar."

"I know." She snapped "Had Brian to look after that time."

Gerry chuckled slightly, knowing that Brian had been an absolute nightmare the entire time they were away. Sandra smiled slightly as he touched her hand. The plane began taxiing along the run way as Sandra gripped his hand as the plane moved.

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"Wonder how Gerry and Sandra are getting on." Sasha smiled as she felt two arms wrap themselves around her waist. She pretended to ignore Strickland as she carried on cooking. He kissed her neck as she wriggled away. "Are you determined to ruin the food? You carry on like that and one of us will get burnt."

"I'm not hungry." He smiled as she rolled her eyes. He reached over, turning the cooker off before leading her towards his bedroom.

"Robert."

"Sasha." He teased as she pushed all thoughts of the case and colleagues out of her mind.

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"Well Mary." Jack sat on the bench in his back garden. "It's been a funny sort of day. We have a very complicated case. I'm not sure what it'll lead to." He sipped his tea as he stared at the monument to his wife. "I don't know how many times we can keep putting Sandra and Gerry together. They've been stuck in this quasi relationship since forever."

He sighed heavily. "He clearly loves her. I mean. Well, if you were here then I know you'd knock their heads together." He looked into his mug. "Gerry is not a bad bloke. He's been an idiot over the years but he's been a good dad and grandad. She could do worse. What am I saying? She has done worse."

He paused as if waiting for Mary to answer him.

"I know, I know. But she's always been like family to us. Grace never bothered. I'd like to see her happy and settled before I come to join you. Anyway, goodnight my love." He stood up, carrying his now empty mug back into the house.

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"It's not going to be easy." Gerry huffed. Sandra turned to him, slightly more settled now the plane was in the air.

"Never is."

"This bloke has been serving time over ere, even if e did kill Lucy and Karen the Aussies aren't going to be falling over themselves to extradite him." Gerry looked at the case file, still finding it hard to believe his old mentor had lied to his face. He knew they had missed something in the original investigation but he had no idea what. Sandra nodded slightly.

"Might not come to that."

"But."

"The authorities might be happy to ship him off to the UK. Less expense and hassle for them. Gerry huffed. He hoped she was right. "Anyway, it won't be long until our stop off in Singapore. We can ring home then, talk to Sasha and Jack."

Gerry nodded, hoping she was right.

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