The rest of the day was quite a slow, boring one with only a small handful of officers patrolling the streets. Smithy used the rest of his day to try and work through the huge pile of paperwork he had filling up most of his desk while Rebecca had her first experience of working in CAD, supervised by Honey. Inspector Gold had asked them to cover for Dean McVerry as he'd left to go to an important doctor's appointment. Before long, Rebecca got the hang of it and, even though being out on the streets was more exciting, at least she was out of Smithy's way in CAD. Between calls, Rebecca even had a chance for a few giggles as she listened to Honey Harman explaining about her disastrous past relationships with men. A few hours later, home time finally arrived and most of the officers were getting ready to go home. Rebecca and Honey were waiting in CAD for the evening staff to arrive and take over when Cameron entered the room.

"Hey Bec, are you ready to go home? I wanna talk to you"

Raising an eyebrow Honey asked

"What's wrong Cam? Oh, I know. Your worried Bec won't be able to find her house so, you're gonna show the way. That right?" before turning to Rebecca and smirking.

Rebecca grinning back but, seeing Cameron blush bright red, she turned to him and replied

"We're just waiting for Caroline and Pete to come in and take over. They shouldn't be long. I'll meet you out back in 5?"

Nodding and smiling, Cameron turned and walked back out of the door. As soon as he left, Honey burst into giggles.
"Aww Bec, I think he's got a thing for you. Love him, did you see how red he went?"

Rebecca just smiled and before she could reply, the two CAD night operators, Caroline and Pete walked through the door, relieving the two female PC's of their duties. Both girls headed for the locker rooms, changed into normal clothes, hung up their uniforms, said their goodnights to each other and as Honey skipped off to find Dan, Rebecca made her way towards the back yard where she knew Cameron was waiting for her.

Spotting Rebecca walking towards him, Cameron got up from his position on the brick wall and smiled at her. Rebecca smiled back at her Aussie friend before questioning him

"So, is there anything in particular you wanted to talk about?"

Cameron looked around before giving his answer

"Yeah there is but, not here. Can we go to yours?"

Rebecca smiled and linked her arm onto his. At that moment, Smithy walked out of the station doors and watched as both Rebecca and Cameron walked out of the yard together, arm in arm. A pang of jealousy flooded over Smithy but he couldn't understand why. Rebecca was just another ordinary young girl who had worked hard to become a PC. Or was she?

Cameron twirled the pink handled spoon around in the mug of tea he'd just finished making, before rinsing it then moving onto the second mug which contained coffee. Placing the spoon in the sink, he carefully took the two hot mugs by their handles and carried them into the living area. After putting them on top of coasters, Cameron watched Rebecca move some items around before hooking a large photo onto the wall. Turning to look at Cameron and his confused face, she explained

"Me and Smithy got called here this morning yeah so while Smithy checked the bathroom and kitchen, I ran in here to hide all these photos. I was so focused on hiding the...five photos in here that I totally forgot about the one in the bedroom, so I wasted my time hiding them really"

Cameron laughed and while Rebecca took a trip to the toilet, he glanced at the photos which had now been put back in their original places. There were five altogether. There were two photos on top of a black coloured bookcase; one was of him and Rebecca, while the other one was of Rebecca and her boyfriend, who sadly died in a car crash just a month after it was taken. On the window sill were two more photos, one of Rebecca with a group of girls and the other one was of Rebecca and Kerry, similar to the one in the bedroom. Cameron's eyes switched to the blown-up photo in a black leather frame hanging on the wall and for a moment, he wondered how Smithy hadn't noticed the fact that there was a large photo frame hook on the wall but no photo frame hanging from it. As Cameron gazed deeply at the photo, a small smile spread across his face as he remembered the night it was taken. It would always be one of his favourite and most memorable nights.

The photo was taken with Rebecca's pink digital camera on an evening out to celebrate the 50th birthday of Cree Young, Kerry's mum. She had died when Kerry was just a little girl leaving her to grow up without a mum. Every year on his wife's birthday, George Young felt understandably sad and heartbroken but this particular year, Kerry had decided to make it a celebration as it would have been a big birthday. Even though Inspector Gold wasn't happy they wanted the same day off, Kerry and Cameron eventually managed to book it off. Rebecca had persuaded her boss to let her have the day too. Amongst themselves, they arranged a time to meet at George Young's house and as that time approached, they all got dressed up. By the time they arrived, Rebecca and her boyfriend were already there, as was Cree's Brother Eddy. Since Cree passed away, George and Eddy had not only been brothers-in-law but also the best of friends. A short while after arriving at George's house, all six of them headed into town. They started the night off by having a meal at a popular Chinese restaurant in town. It was lucky Kerry had remembered to book as it was packed by the time the group arrived. An hour and a half later, six very full people left the restaurant feeling like they'd already piled on the pounds. As a fun surprise, Rebecca and her boyfriend Ryan had booked three games of bowling for the group at the local indoor bowling alley. The game certainly brought out all their competitive sides as they all tried their hardest to beat each other. Ryan won the first game, Cameron won the second and George won the third. Even though they'd started off competitive, Eddy and the girl's weren't upset about losing because they were having such a great time. Rebecca had been taking photos with her camera since they'd all left the house. Photos had been taken at the restaurant and at bowling but as it was a celebratory evening, she wanted a memorable photo of them all. While everyone returned their clown-like bowling shoes in exchange for their own normal and trendy ones, Rebecca had gone on the search for a suitable person who would be willing to take a photo for her. Just a few minutes later, she returned with a man who turned out to be the manager and he was more than happy to take a photo for them. As it was getting a little late, the bowling alley was more quieter than when they had first came in so the six of them were able to stand in front of the lane they'd played in before huggling together and smiling while the manager took 3 photos. Just before they left, George turned to the group and confessed that he was having such a great evening, thanking each and every one of them. However, the night wasn't quite over yet as the other five led George to a small wine bar just down the road from the bowling alley. Once there, they didn't get drunk but they did drink a few glasses each before deciding to call it a night. They had all jumped into a large taxi together and giggled away at the night's events as the taxi made its way to the first of three stops. Just five minutes later, the taxi stopped outside George Young's house. He thanked everyone for a great evening and handed Kerry some money towards the taxi fair before he jumped out of the taxi, followed by Eddy who had arranged to stay the night at George's. At the second stop, Rebecca and Ryan jumped out, also thanked Kerry and handed her some money towards the fair before saying their goodnights. The last stop was where Kerry and Cameron got out. Kerry paid the taxi fair and walked into her house, accompanied by her lovely boyfriend Cameron. As she shut her front door and leaned against it, Kerry felt emotional. Not because she was sad, but because she'd saw her dad happy for the first time in years. That felt good.

Rebecca walked back into the room and saw that Cameron was staring hard at the photo. She took a seat next to him on the black fabric sofa and touched his arm.
"Do you miss her?"

Cameron came out of his deep thought, turned his head to look at Rebecca and gently smiled.
"Yeah, I do. I wish...I wish I'd never gone back to Australia. I should have stayed here with her. She needed me"

Rebecca knew it was about to come out and she couldn't stop herself as she declared
"Even if you had stayed, it wouldn't have changed anything. It still would have happened"

She bowed her head and sniffled.

Confused, Cameron placed his hand on her knee and whispered

"Bec, you know you can talk to me, don't you?"

Keeping her head bowed, Rebecca replied

"Yeah I know but, everything's fine"

Cameron couldn't help but chuckle lightly

"You sure about that? It doesn't look like. One minute your fine, the next you're breaking down in tears? Plus you still haven't told me what you're doing at the station"

Wiping a tear from her bright blue eyes, Rebecca looked up at her friend and, fighting back the tears she admitted

"Okay Cam, I think there's some things you need to know"