A/N: As you already know Helen, I am incredibly bored, so I offer everyone another new chapter fic of mine. This will probably 3 or 4 chapters long. I've nearly finished the next part of this as well! I don't own Taggart. All I own is the plot, Keith and Craig (who will be in the next part) and lots of DVDs that have the word Taggart written on them, strange I wonder what is on them *laughs*. Enjoy and review!

"Get lost Keith. I can't be bothered with you when you're like this."

"Jackie listen to me for once, I don't think I can do this anymore."

Jackie had been happily going out with Keith for three months but now they were standing outside her workplace, arguing. This was becoming common for them, Keith was becoming less interested in spending the little free time they both had with Jackie, and Jackie knew that they would never have a long future together but she didn't want to be single again so she was making do with this guy. She also knew that this was another of her relationship's endings as soon as he said those words.

"Jackie you deserve a guy who loves you for everything you do, including all the things that I hate."

"Like what?!" She could hear her own anger emmiting from herself but she couldn't control it.

"Like how you are never at home with me, you're always in the pub with other guys."

"Wait you're jealous of Matt: my boss, Stuart: my gay best friend and Robbie?"

"Not all three of them, just Robbie."

"Why?"

"He's everything I want to be. He's charming, handsome and funny. He knows how to cheer you up when you feel down, even if it means getting himself into trouble. I couldn't do that for you Jackie. But Robbie can and does, he adores you and everything that comes with it."

"Robbie doesn't adore me!"

"Jackie you must be blind not to have noticed! You are his girl and I would hate to stay and get on his wrong side if I do something bad to you." He must have heard about what Robbie had almost done to Sean Murray after he lied to Jackie or he wouldn't be this scared. Robbie was a softie really!

"So you're breaking up with me because of Robbie Ross?!"

"Well yeah, that and the fact that I've met someone new."

"What?! Have you slept with her while we've been dating?"

"It wasn't supposed to happen." She could not believe this was happening. Jackie thought Keith was an honest guy, that he didn't cheat on girls and that their break-up could have been done a bit more privately.

"How many times?"

"Only four or five-"

"Right I'm going. And please don't try using the mundane 'I hope we can still be friends' line because it never works and I have enough friends without you." It might not have been the truth but he would never know that.

She walked back into the station and saw Robbie standing waiting for her, with her black jacket over his shoulder.

"You alright Jackie?"

"Yeah. Yeah I am actually. Keith dumped me but I'm feeling fine. Strange."

"Do you want me to go and talk to him?"

"Robbie, I know that you mean 'Can I run after him and beat him unconcious' but no, he's not worth it."

"Why did he break up with you?"

"He's been fucking another girl while we've been going out." Robbie went towards her and wrapped his arms around her. Surprisingly she didn't push him away, she snuggled into him and breathed in the familiar scent of everything that was connected to him; cigarettes, aftershave, generic washing powder and a unique smell that she had never noticed before. Robbie was softly kissing her hair. It smelt like raspberry shampoo and if he was right, a hint of freesia scented conditioner. God knows how he knew the freesias smelled of but Jackie's dark brown hair certainly made him think of them!

Then he had a sudden idea which he didn't think she would agree to but it was worth a shot,

"Fancy going out on Saturday to the new nightclub round the corner from my place? It'll help you get over Keith."

"Hey why not, I might meet someone who will eventually fall in love with me."

"How do you know that someone doesn't already feel that strongly about you?" Keith's little speech about Robbie's feelings for her came back into her head as he said that.

She didn't think that Robbie adored her. Yeah she knew he cared for her, but on a strictly platonic level. And as for her feelings for Robbie, they were non-existent...weren't they? In the past few years she had started to see him in a different light. Not in a head over heels way but she knew deep down she was slowly falling in love with Robbie and that was partially the reason that she was agreeing to go with him on Saturday.

But she needed to keep the fact, at the front of her brain, that Robbie Ross was not in love with her and never would be, even if she had to break her own heart in the process, she really had to make it clear to herself.

To Be Continued...