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Chapter 36

Charlie's Point of View

"Help me! Somebody help me! Tegan…please, someone help me! TEGAN PLEASE WAKE UP!" I woke up to screaming. I turned on the bedside lamp only to find Brax thrashing around in his sleep.

"Brax! Honey…wake up!" I tried to shake him, but his arm flung towards me, hitting me in the face.

"I heard yelling, what's going on?" A shirtless Heath suddenly rushed into the room. He seen Brax before looking at me clutching my cheek. "The nightmares have started again" Heath groaned before grabbing his brother by the shoulders and shaking him. "Brax! Wake the fuck up!" Heath yelled at him before Brax gasped and opened his eyes.

"Oh god…what happened?" He looked around confused.

"Just go back to sleep and stop ya screaming" Heath walked out of the room. Brax turned his head on his pillow and noticed me sitting there.

"Are you ok?" I placed my hands on his cheeks, noticing that he was sweating. He just looked at me in a panic. "Talk to me Brax" I reassured him.

"I hurt you…I'm sorry" He nodded towards my cheek.

"Doesn't matter Brax! You were dreaming about Tegan again weren't you?" I asked, looking him in the eye. He sat up against the bedhead and sighed.

"It's the same dream over and over again. It used to happen a lot when she first died…which is why I used to drink a lot so that I wouldn't dream at all. But it's started happening again. I find her in her car and there is just so much blood and I'm screaming for help but no one comes and she just won't wake up no matter how hard I try!" He explained in frustration.

"Have you thought about talking to a counsellor?" I suggested, holding his hand in mine.

"I'm not into that kind of shit Charlie…it went away last time and it'll go away this time" He pulled away before lying back down. I laid down next to him, watching him stare at the ceiling.

"There is nothing you could have done to save her Brax" I spoke gently.

"I could have stopped her going in the first place" He rolled over and faced the other side of the room.

The next morning

I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing along with Brax mumbling for me to turn it off. I grabbed my mobile off the bedside table and answered it quickly. "Hello?"

"Hey Charlie, Its Watson…we've found a suspicious burnt out fire that must have taken place last night. I think you'll want to come and have a look at this" Watson spoke quickly.

"Yep, I'll be straight in" I hung up on her before sighing. I looked over at Brax who was looking up at me, with a small smile.

"Work?" He asked, rubbing the small of my back.

"Yeah…I have to go in" I looked at his blood and sand tattoo before looking up into his eyes.

"I'm sorry about last night Charlie" His smile soon changed.

"Its fine…just remember you can talk to me about anything" I told him, leaning down and placing a gentle kiss on his lips. "Brax I've got to go…I love you" I broke away from the kiss and told him the truth. He looked at me before giving me a small smile.

"Yeah" He replied, before I got out of bed. Yeah? What was that supposed to mean? Did he not feel the same way about me? Before I had time to even bring it up with him I rushed out of the house, threw on my work gear and headed off to Yabbie Creek.

"So a bushwalker came in early this morning and told us he had found a burnt out fire in the national park that he wanted us to take a look at…turns out it was more than just a little bit of bushland that had been burnt down" Watson told me seriously as we headed into the national park and parked the car along side a forensics team. As soon as I got out of the car I could see the plants that had been burnt down.

"A dope crop" I shook my head and looked around. The smell of the smoke took me back to last night when Brax and Heath walked into the house. Brax had told me they had a fire going while they talked. Could he have lied to me? It seemed like too odd of a coincidence that this crop had been burnt down and Brax had smelt of smoke when he came home. "Any evidence?" I asked, starting to get annoyed at myself for ever believing him.

"Nope, nothing, all we know is it was started by petrol" One of the forensic officers replied to me.

"Either someone has burnt this down for revenge or someone has burnt down their own crop…but why would someone do that?" Watson looked at me baffled.

"No idea, but I plan to find out!" I stormed off back to the car.

Brax's point of view

Heath and I were setting up for the lunch shift when Charlie stormed into the restaurant, police uniform on and all. I smiled at her before Heath and I both realised she wasn't in a good mood. "I'm just going to check out the surf" Heath looked at me before leaving.

"So I get to work this morning only to find out that we're heading out to a fire site in the national park!" She started. "You're never going to believe what we found when we got there!" She was being sarcastic. I didn't like where this was going.

"Whatcha find?" I acted busy.

"Why don't you tell me Brax!" She shouted at me.

"I don't know what ya talking about Charlie!" I shrugged.

"Oh stop with the bull shit Brax! I know it was you and Heath that burnt that crop! Stop lying to me! You really think I wouldn't figure it out when you both came home smelling of smoke!" She continued yelling.

"What do you want me to say Charlie? Yeah it was us!" I started. She shook her head before she started pacing. "I promise you it was the last of it. We got rid of it to start a new life, with you and Bianca!" I tried to reason with her.

"How can I believe you?! You lied to me! I can't believe I told you I loved you…oh and by the way thanks for the reply to that… 'Yeah'…you are absolute scum!" She was trying not to cry.

"See that's the problem right there!" I pointed and got her attention. "Its those 3 little words that make this complicated relationship even more complicated" I spat at her. I was angry that she hadn't let me explain. Yes I had lied to her, but it was because I wanted to be with her. She knew I wasn't good with my feelings or my words, yet she dropt a bomb shell on me when she let that slip this morning!

"Oh our relationship is complicated huh? Well let me uncomplicated it…this, us…we're through!" She yelled before storming out.

"FUUUUCCKKK!" I screamed in anger, throwing cutlery to the floor. I had just let the best thing hat had happened to me, walk out. I was an idiot!