'She's a cop, pretty cop though so I may keep her around for a while….' Lupino's swagger and the eyebrow wiggle was spot on.

Harry's blue eyes widened with surprise as her partner hung her out to dry. She grimaced as her hands were tied behind her back and a gag was forced into her mouth and she was thrown into the back of a van, none too gently.

'No need to be selfish Johnny, share and share alike… Alec tried to get in on the act; he admired Lupino's machismo and ideas about recreational activity.

'Johnny Lupino don't share broads, don't tell Mara though don't want her getting jealous of a bit of harmless fun, the dames don't always see these things the way the guys' do.' Dempsey lit a cigarette and cursed Makepeace's tenacity. They'd be lucky to get out of this alive; he pulled the van into the address Mara had given him for the gang to hole up before the major gig.

Harry tried to work on the rope tying her hands with little success and she blinked furiously to clear her gaze as the van doors were opened half an hour later and she was dragged out and pushed into one of the bedrooms. The room was reasonably pleasant and made a nice change from Lupino's lair. She sat on the bed and waited. The vocal exchanges she could hear seemed combative rather than team banter and she would suppose that Lupino and his cohorts hadn't been working together for very long.

Finally, Dempsey entered and she gave a sigh of relief as he undid the gag, 'what are you doing,' she hissed at him, her blue eyes searching his.

'Keeping us both alive angel, and the only reason you're still breathing is cos they think I want to be entertained and since I'm Mara's addition to the team they're all being duly respectful so they should leave you alone.'

'I was calling you in Dempsey, let's get out of here,' she insisted as he put the gag back in her mouth with an apologetic smile.

'Sorry honey, we've still got work to do. I'll get us out; you just gotta trust me…. He left her to it and went back to join the boys waiting for the instruction as to when they'd join Mara at an as yet undisclosed location.

Johnny stayed with the guys' psychologically evaluating how to play them and keep them away from his partner in the bedroom. After playing a few games of cards he picked up a beer and drank it down.'

'You don't seem in any hurry to play with the girl, maybe she's not your type,' Alec smirked at the yank.

'She'll keep,' Lupino responded as he was dealt another hand. 'I suppose I should get her some food and water make her grateful,' he snickered and played his cards. 'Maybe she'll get that Stockholm Syndrome and end up liking me.'

'Maybe Lupino's in league with the cops and that's why she's here,' Danny Johnson suggested with a suspicious look. 'I mean Mara picked him up in that swanky hotel, could be a set up.' He played his hand badly Dempsey smiled at the easy victory.

'Taking candy from a baby,' he drawled as he put his cards down and took the money off the table. 'Thanks gentleman,' he got up and lit a cigar and went into the kitchen to get a glass of water and a bacon roll for Makepeace. Normally she wouldn't eat anything like that but he guessed she probably hadn't eaten today.

'Keep it quiet, some of us will be trying to get some shut eye,' Alec grumbled obviously feeling envious.

Danny leered and made some suggestive comments on how to satisfy the bitch which Dempsey duly ignored. This was gonna be difficult, the guys were resentful that he'd joined the team and a tad suspicious. His jaw squared. One thing was certain they needed to be convinced that he'd had the Sergeant in the biblical sense.

Harry was resentful when Johnny the Wolf turned up. She was desperate to go to the loo and hadn't eaten anything all day. When the gag was removed she asked him to remove the rope from her wrists and headed straight for the en-suite.

Dempsey supposed he should have thought of that as she'd been tied up for hours and her wrists were red raw. When she came out he swaggered over very much still in character. 'Hey baby, got you a bacon roll and some water. Nice of me don't you think.'

Harry glared at him. 'Let's get out of here,' she insisted. 'It's too dangerous, we need back up….

'The game's on Sergeant just leave it to me,' he pulled her close to him. 'The guys need convincing that you're my entertainment honey or this'll all go to hell. Danny, the big guy, is suspicious so we're gonna make some noise,' his mouth descended on Harry's and he felt the shock of his action go right through her body, what was that revulsion or what? It had been kind of shuddery.

'Dempsey,' she hissed at him as he raised his head. 'You're not suggesting that we actually do it?' Her blue eyes were wary as she looked up at him.

'Yeah, as far as those two punks are concerned we're doing it,' he said his breath warm and moist against her ear. 'For once in your life just shut up and do things my way; you're a rookie when it comes to the deep cover stuff and it's you that got us into this situation following me about like that.' His mouth returned to hers, hot and demanding, trying to physically express his need that she got with this; he took the blows that came his way with a patience he really wasn't feeling.

Harry was struggling to keep Dempsey off her and had no problem in playing her role with this side of him, she could cheerfully put a bullet through Johnny the Wolf. She'd had a few physical run ins with her partner before; crashing him into the lockers when she thought he'd been talking about her to the boys; getting into his face when he'd let that pilot seduction piece go on for too long but this was different. She realised that he'd never really shown her his physical superiority before and his ability to block her moves was infuriating.

Danny barged in with a bottle of beer, he laughed. 'She's got some fire in her, a right little cracker…. He quickly took in the scene seemed genuine enough the girl looked like she'd been kissed hard and seemed upset.

'Get the fuck out of it,' Dempsey threw Harry on the bed and shoved Danny out of the room. Harry had sprung up on the opposite side of the bed and was obviously gonna make a fight of it. Okay, so if she wanted to play it that way so be it.

Harry landed flat on her back on the mattress and glared at her partner, 'he's gone,' she hissed at him feeling awkward as she felt the full weight of his body pressing down on her. She shifted awkwardly, 'I can't believe this; you're aroused,' her blue eyes accused him.

'Fighting with you always turns me on,' he growled. 'Danny's suspicious you got that Sergeant,' he whispered urgently. 'You got that Harry; this is crunch time you with me or not,' his dark eyes burnt into hers. Nobody was playing here; they had to be the real deal. He heard a noise behind the door and he could see she'd heard it too.

Harry's expression changed at that moment and her body lost its tension, 'yes I'm with you,' she said quietly as she let Dempsey take the lead on this one after all she wasn't his willing entertainment so he could just get on with it.

The scent of his body hit her senses; masculine, musky and not exactly freshly showered but something about it got to her and her skin coloured slightly as she felt her jumpsuit give he'd obviously worked out how to get her out of it. Suddenly they were skin to skin and she felt the slight abrasion of his body hair that shouldn't be stimulating but somehow it was.

'Harry,' he groaned into her ear as his body shifted into position over hers, 'make some noise,' he hissed into her ear.

'Get off me you bastard,' she pushed at him. 'You'll get ten years for this you pig,' she stuck her nails in his back and he yelled out. That sounded pretty convincing.

'Play nice and you might get to see tomorrow,' he snarled all Lupino, 'can't guarantee the day after maybe if you're nice to the guys they might keep you a bit longer. 'Ow, you bitch,' he glared down at her. That had hurt and he wasn't into pain not on that level anyway.

It was obvious that even though Makepeace saw the need for authenticity she really didn't want any part of it so he decided to improvise and act it out, 'now that's nice ain't it babe, you gotta admit Johnny's got the moves, oh yeah,' he was feeling the heat even if she wasn't and since she kept taking lumps out of him he guessed she was going for payback. Typical Harry, always a fighter, he was gonna lose control of this which was awkward, God she was beautiful, warm skin, beautiful breasts, her thighs and the promise of heaven between them. She moved against him her body cleaving to his and that just sent him over the edge when she did that and the noise he made should've convinced anyone they were kosher.