Hugo winces when he sits down next to his fiancée. "Quit complaining Hugo."

"I took four bullets to the chest," he moans, "It hurts ok."

"Considering how bad it would have been without the vest, you're damn lucky to only have bruising."

Knowing she was just worrying about their sister as they waited for news, he takes her hand. "Joey's going to be fine."

"She stopped breathing Hugo."

"For a minute."

"That bastard beat the shit out of her."

He sighs, "And she was up and about on the boat."

"That was before she fucking drowned."

"Georgie, calm down."

Watson rocks back and forth in her anger, "He'd better not get away."

"Georgie, please, you need to relax."

"I thought you were dead Hugo and then to see Joey like that," she shakes her head. "How the hell can I relax?"

He pulls her to his side, his arm around her shoulders, "Joey is a fighter and I'm sorry I couldn't warn you about the vest beforehand."

"I suppose I should just be happy that you're not at the bottom of the sea," she smiles wryly. "And even gladder that I'm not going to have to raise this baby alone."

He kisses her gently on the lips. "When we find out Joey is going to be ok, we're going out and celebrating being pregnant."

Trying to take her mind of her own worry for Joey, Charlie watches them intently, seeing them both as if for the first time. "So, I'm assuming that with Georgie being pregnant, that you two found some time alone."

Watson smiles as she looks at Hugo, "We met up when we could, usually he'd find a way to sneak over to my place but he'd always have to leave well before dawn and if I was ever out of town, he'd try to join me."

"Like when you took Harley to her gran's," Charlie guesses.

"How did you know that?"

"You were in such a cheerful mood when you returned, much more so than when you'd normally have a few days off work."

Watson grins, "I was well and truly pampered that time, even more when Hugo was able to stay the full night."

"It must have been hard to maintain a relationship like this."

"Hugo and I have been together since our teens and as he was recruited for undercover work straight from the academy, this wasn't the first undercover op that he had been on." She shrugs, "It's hard, especially the times when we've had no contact at all, but we've always managed."

"We put off getting married as I didn't think it was fair to marry her when I'd be away for long periods of time undercover, so I'd decided even before Jack's death, that this was to be my last undercover gig."

"How many people knew you we're a cop?"

"My bosses and my family of course. As soon as I graduated, my record was sealed and it was set up for me to win the boat in a poker game and I started hanging out with the wrong people. Those who knew the truth always acted like I was a failure and even Jack only ever spoke of me as the black sheep of the family. They also made sure they never mentioned that I was with Georgie, she was just the sister of my foster-sister."

"God, no wonder you said things were complicated with the father," Charlie muses. "Why didn't you want him to know you were pregnant?"

"We never planned on starting a family until after the investigation and I nearly did give in and tell him the night he snuck in to see Joey in the hospital."

"But she didn't because she was worried it would distract me and as you can see what happened on the boat, she was right."

"Of course he found out when I ended up in hospital so I had to convince him to keep going as we were."

"It wasn't easy. I hated every second being away from her and it was even worse when I saw her lying there and knowing that we were now risking our baby." He smiles as he places his hand on her belly. "It would have looked too suspicious though, if I suddenly tried to walk away from Martha, so it seemed the safer option to stick with it than have Martha coming after me."

Charlie shakes her head, still finding it all hard to take in. She looks at her friend, "I've known you for nearly two years, yet I never suspected you were in a long term relationship."

"Yeah, sorry we kind of kept that from you."

"You were both undercover, I get that."

"I take it that you want to know the details."

"First though," Charlie says. "I really have to know why Hugo posed as being gay."

"I just kind of blurted it out when Martha made a move on me," he says sheepishly. "And since Shannon had come with me as back up, it wasn't all that hard to pass ourselves off as lovers."

"Hugo, how did you, you know," Charlie blushes, waving her hand suggestively, "I mean, Martha was a beautiful woman coming onto you."

"I just thought of Georgie."

Charlie smiles, thinking it very sweet.

"More likely he thought of what I'd do to him if he showed so much as a physical response to her."

"Oh?"

Watson grins, "I threatened to castrate him."

Charlie coughs.

Hugo nods, "She would have to."

"Hugo always managed to avoid situations like that, but we both had a feeling that this investigation was going to take some time and I guess I was jealous at the thought Martha would see more of him than I would."

He squeezes her hand in understanding. "There was another advantage to being gay. It gave me a legitimate excuse for turning down using the girls."

"God, I can't imagine how hard it was for you," Charlie says with much sympathy.

Hugo swallows hard as he looks away.

"You couldn't help them all Hugo, not without endangering them and yourself," Watson reassures him.

He looks at her, his expression haunted. "It doesn't make it any easier."

Watson glances at Charlie, "Hugo was recruited for his contacts and boat only at first and it took him a long time to get where he was within the organisation," she explains to Charlie. "Until recently, Hugo was never trusted with too much and before today, most of what we had on them was just hearsay and suspicions and we need corroborating evidence."

"If we had gone in too early with an arrest, we may have saved the girls from their suffering, but we never would have gotten all those involved." Hugo's voice catches again as he thinks of the girls.

"Hugo, you know that with undercover work you have to hold off until the most damage can be done to the organisation arrest wise, despite the things you see."

"It's one of the things I never really got used to."

"In an operation like this, if we just pick up the little fish, then those higher up just set up shop elsewhere and even more girls would suffer."

"Little fish?"

"Underlings like Hugo who are only told so much and have no real say in the running of the organisation."

"So you needed the evidence to get Angelo and Martha before you could make a move."

"Exactly. It helped that Joey was going after Angelo, but Martha seemed to be the brains behind it all, so we needed her."

"Seemed to be the brains," Charlie picks up on.

"Hugo discovered, quite by accident, that Martha wasn't the one in charge."

Charlie stares at them in surprise. "Do you know who?"

They both shake their heads. "He or she is still out there," Hugo mutters.

"But with all the arrests that have been made today and with Martha dead and Angelo on the run, the operation is dead and hopefully before the real mastermind can build up a new operation, we'll have discovered who he or she is."

"I hope so."

"If you don't mind me saying," Charlie says, "I'm still surprised that Hugo was assigned to this case, considering it involved your cousin's death."

"Normally I wouldn't have been, but I was already on an undercover op, one which I found out was tied to here when I happened to overhear someone I was watching, mention Summer Bay and how the bitch was on their backs to get their act together."

"Did you know it was Martha?" Charlie asks.

"Not then. Jack called me about a week later with his suspicions about Angelo and what he thought he was involved in and that's when I really started to think that Summer Bay was the centre of the operation."

"So Jack's suspicions are why Joey always seemed so convinced that his death wasn't an accident," Charlie murmurs.

"Yeah. Unfortunately, Jack never suspected his wife and he'd revealed his fears about Angelo to her before he'd called me. By the time I could convince my bosses that our cases were linked, the call came in to say that Jack was dead. I'd never met Martha until the day of Jack's funeral, but she knew of me. Jack had told her about his loser cousin who hung out with the wrong people. She'd also found out what sort of work I'd been getting up to and that I had a boat, so when she offered me a job in Summer Bay, it was then that I realised who she was and that she was most likely involved in Jack's death in some way, so I took the job."

"Then he had to talk his bosses in to giving the go ahead."

"That must have been hard," Charlie comments.

"It was, but then I pointed out that I was the only cop who had ever gotten as close as I had. I also think that being Jack's cousin, gave Martha some perverse pleasure in recruiting me."

"They weren't happy when Jack's death was ruled an accident," Watson says, "So they were only too willing to have someone on the inside."

"And as I had already made contact, they decided that I really was the only option."

"When the spot opened up here for a Snr Constable a couple of months later, I took it so I could provide extra back up."

"Shannon came with me to watch not only them but also to report on my conduct and Georgie's when she arrived. If it ever looked like we were overstepping because of personal conflict, we both would have been yanked out."

"So how did Joey get involved? Was it just chance that she got Trevor's murder investigation?"

"Our bosses arranged that when Moreland was killed," says Hugo. "We'd already reported our suspicions about him and having detectives come in and start asking a lot of questions about possible corruption, could have inadvertently blown Georgie's cover and maybe even mine."

"Another cop coming in blind to what Martha and Angelo were doing, was open to blackmail from them, just like they tried to do with Joey."

"Couldn't the detectives have been filled in on the case?"

"The less people who knew about our investigation, the better and we still weren't sure how many officers were involved. Joey already knew about Angelo and us and as you've experienced, she's very good at keeping things to herself."

"Then you knew about Moreland even before he was killed," Charlie murmurs.

"I saw him with that notebook one day and when he wasn't looking, I swiped it." Watson shrugs, "I don't think he even realised it was missing and then he was dead two days later."

Charlie looks between the two of them, her eyes resting on Watson. "Those tips you got, they were from Hugo, weren't they?"

"Some of them. Hugo found out about the old Simpson farm and that Robbo had been hanging around there, so he told me and I passed it on to you."

"Thank you," she says to Hugo.

"That guy was an animal and I'm glad there was something I could do to help."

"What about the Maru?" asks Charlie.

"Martha called, told me to get the boat ready but that I wasn't going with them."

"So you knew Derrick was dead, even before the DNA came back."

He shakes his head. "I saw Angelo and Martha, but I never saw Derrick so I can only assume he got on while I was getting the petrol. I never knew until you told me that he was dead," he tells her. "After Angelo and Martha returned, I took the boat out, trying to find out where they went, but I didn't find anything, so I headed back in."

"That's when we arrived on the dock, wasn't it?"

Hugo nods.

"So your alibi about being with your mother was obviously a lie."

"If needed, my mum would have provided an alibi, but Georgie kind of made that one up."

"I feel like such an idiot suspecting you and then interviewing you."

"You actually did me a favour Charlie," Hugo assures her. "It would have looked a bit suss if I hadn't been brought in, because Derrick had worked for me and my boat was out that night."

"God, I thought Joey was good at keeping things quiet," she mutters. "I don't know how your mother ever dealt with you lot."

Hugo grins, "Who do you think we take after?"

Charlie chuckles, alleviating some of her tension as she looks down the hallway, her heart starting to race again when she sees the doctor approaching them. Jumping up, she rushes toward him,

"Doctor, how is Joey?"