Just Two Students.

My second fan fiction, this is a story about the relationship of Rob Walker and Rachel Dawson whilst they are at staff training college. I attempted to research Police training during the 50s/60s but couldn't find out very much so I decided to just write what I felt like. I hope you enjoy, I'm not really sure where this story is going, I'm just going to write and see what happens! I don't own 'Heartbeat' or any of the associated characters.

Chapter One: Sneaking Out.

The bell rung on nineteen year old Rachel Dawson's little silver alarm clock, she leant across and turned it off before it had the chance to wake anyone else, she turned on her bedside lamp and hopped out of bed. She grabbed her purple fluffy dressing gown off the back of her bedroom door and put it on; she stuffed her feet into her white canvas trainers before grabbing her torch which was hidden behind a pile of text books. She turned off her lamp and made her way over to the door of her tiny bedroom. She opened the door and tiptoed out into the silent corridor. The moon light shining through the window was illuminating the old grandfather clock at the end of the hall way, 10.45 pm. She made her way down the various stair cases until she reached the ground floor. She crouched down and felt for the bolt on the bottom of the door she slid it across before standing up and doing the same with the upper bolt. She stepped out into the brisk night and turned on her torch shining it around to make sure that nobody else was lurking about before making her way across the large courtyard to the male officers' dorm building. This was becoming a regular night out for Rachel in the 3 months since she had began her relationship with Robert, she would get into bed at 9pm at the set curfew and then set her alarm for 10.40, she would then sneak out to the men's dorm where she would meet Rob, they would spend the night together, getting up to well... you know what, or depending on what time of the month it was they would just talk and get to know each other. Then at about 4.30 she would sneak back over to her own building and get back into bed ready for the 6.00 am wake up call.

Rachel had never felt this way about a boy before, Rob was twenty one, two years older than her, but with him she felt safe and protected, he seemed to genuinely love her and wasn't just after one thing. She'd slept with other boys before, several in fact, a couple from the boys school that had been situated round the corner from her girls high school and one she had met whilst on a camping trip with her friend Suzanne, at the time she thought that she loved them however each time she soon realised it was nothing more than a teenage crush, a brief infatuation that ended almost as soon as it started. But with Rob she knew that this was different. He made her feel like that there was nobody else in this world but the two of them when they were together.

Rob Walker sat in the porch to the dorm building waiting for Rachel, these nights had quickly become the highlight of his week, partly because he just loved spending time with Rachel and partly because of the adrenaline generated sneaking around trying not to get caught. A couple of weeks ago, Rob had tried to sneak over to the girls dorm unfortunately the combination of Rob's clumsiness and the darkness resulted in him being caught before he'd even left the main corridor after he had knocked down a shelf with training equipment which was stored in there. In a flustered panic Rob had claimed that he had been going out to walk a dog, which just doubled his punishment, extra physical training sessions each afternoon for a week; an hour and a half solid running after the normal college day had ended at 4.30 and an earlier bed time curfew to 8.30 for two weeks for insolence. After that they had decided that it was just easier for Rachel to visit him. Partly because there was far less females at the college, meaning less people in the dorm building that could catch her sneaking out.

Rob spotted Rachel making her way across the court yard, torch light guiding her way. His heart began to beat faster. He loved Rachel he really did. She was the youngest in the first year of the police training college; however she was easily the cleverest. Work that could take him an entire week Rachel could complete in about an hour, when investigating simulated crimes everyone wanted to be paired up with Rachel, she could get to the bottom of things quicker than anyone else he knew with the most solid reasoning. It was obvious that Rachel was going to get far in her career as a police officer. Rob just hoped that he would be able to match her and not get left behind...