From: Katrinka Title: Before He Was Steele (1/1) Author: Katrinka Archiving: Sure, just tell me first! Authors Note: This story is a crossover with the British TV show the Professionals. Pierce Brosnan played a character listed as "radio man" on the Professionals. Murphy and Cowley are characters on the Professionals. Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. They belong to their creators. Feedback: Hug a fanfic writer give feedback! All feedback will be answered. At the time was going by the name Harry Penhaligon. He had been nicked. Caught in the middle of a heist. After a very speedy trial, he had been thrown into a nameless cell, in a nameless prison. So he would stay here, serving his time. A guard came to the cell, unlocking the door, opening it. "Some old bloke is here to see you." "Old bloke, must be Charmers" Harry said out loud. It was probably his mentor. Here to tell him how much a fool he had been. Harry was taken to the visiting area. A man was there, not his mentor, but dressed just as distinguished. Harry sat down at the table. "You wanted to talk to me." "Yes, I did." The man had a thick Scottish brogue. "How would you like to get out of jail?" ***************************** He was a necessary evil. A top secret British organization needed a thief of his caliber. At least that is what his commander Cowley always told him. Harry had thought that when Cowley had gotten him out of jail, that he would be put back as soon as the assignment was finished, but instead he had been given his papers as full fledged agent of CI5. Albeit a not very trusted agent. Usually stuck doing surveillance when he wasn't breaking into things. Then he fell in love, and had gotten married. His wife was a fellow agent, who had a past just as checkered as him. The marriage was going well, until Cowley got word that Harry's wife was pregnant. Then Harry was shipped off to the Welsh branch. "You shouldn't worry so much Harry," Liam Murphy teased his partner. "Wouldn't you be worried too mate?" Harry asked, he was looking out the window of the car that Murphy was driving, he was fingering the pinkie ring that he wore on his right hand. "Me wife's eight month's pregnant and I'm posted in bloody Cardiff!" "You should be glad to be in Wales, after all your wife's Welsh." "What does that matter!" Harry exploded. "My wife's in London." "Perhaps the Cow will let you have some time off once the babies born," Murphy said trying to calm his partner. "Once the babies born!" Harry said. "I'm Jayda's labor coach." "Jayda has a new coach now." Murphy said as he was trying hard to suppress a grin, when Harry found out what he was up to, he knew everything would be forgiven. "I'm sure he'll do quite nicely, though I can't understand why Bodie would volunteer to be the coach." "It's a personal thing, you wouldn't understand." Harry's twisting of his ring got faster. "How long do you think it will take for Cowley to catch on about that ring?" Murphy asked. "I don't understand." Harry said. "It's just a ring." "Just a ring." Murphy snorted. "A ring that just happened to show up the day you got married." "It was a coincidence" "Yeah right." Murphy couldn't hide his mirth. "I know it's a wedding ring, and you know what the Cow will say once he sees it, it's against regulations for an officer to wear a wedding ring." Harry finally looked at Murphy, his sky blue eyes wary. "What are you up too Murph?" "Why do you think I'm up to something?" "You always get a stupid grin on your face when you have some kind of information your just dying to reveal." "I just think it serves you right to marry a CI5 agent," Murphy told him. "You should have known that Cowley wouldn't keep you posted in the same place." "Come in 6.2 and 2.8," Control said over the R/T. Harry brought his R/T to his mouth. "2.8 here." "A.2 wants you back to base immediately." Control told them. "We're on assignment." "A.2's given that assignment to 8.3, you have been ordered to return to base." "We're on our way." Harry said, he put his R/T up. * * * "I wonder what's so important that we had to rush back to H.Q.?" Harry asked Murphy as they entered the building. An operative passed them as they entered. "Your to go to room 17." "Thank you." Murphy grinned at Harry. "Now I know your up to something." Harry told him. They went to room 17, it was pitch black, Harry reached for the lights, but they where snapped on, a room full of people yelled "Surprise!" Harry's sister-in-law Joyce went up to Harry and kissed him on the cheek. "Happy birthday Harry." "Thank you." Harry said numbly, Murphy's grin grew even wider, he couldn't believe how astonished Harry was, it was almost like he had never had a birthday party before in his life. Soon everyone was singing happy birthday, Joyce and another agent brought a decorated cake into the room, there where candles on top of the cake. Harry just stood there, as if he didn't know what to do. "Make a wish me boy." Murphy told him. Harry did, then he blew out the candles. Murphy went to the closet door, and put his hand on it, it was time to give Harry the present that he knew would probably make his year. He opened the door, and Harry's wife came out. She was a beautiful statuesque dark haired woman, that was beautiful even though she was eight months pregnant. "Jayda!" Harry took his wife in his arms and kissed her passionately. "What are you doing here?" "I'm your present," She told him. "Do you like it?" "I love it." He kissed her. *********************** "Finally I've got you alone," Harry told his wife Jayda, it was several hours after the surprise birthday party had started, he shut the door of his small quarters and locked it, he then turned to her. He couldn't take his eyes off her it had been four months since he had saw her, her stomach had been flat compared to what it was now, but it just made her more lovely to him. "It's me isn't it?" Jayda asked, misunderstanding his look. "I use to be the most beautiful call girl in London, and now I looked like a beached whale!" "Your not a whale, your still the most beautiful call girl in Europe, Lady Jayda." Harry took her into his arms and kissed her, as the kiss became more passionate, the kiss was answered by a swift kick in the stomach, he pulled away from her and looked into her emerald eyes. "What was that?" "Our daughter," Jayda said in her Welsh accent. "I hope you don't mind, I know that men always want boys." "Not me, I've always wanted a girl," He confessed, he took her by the hand and they sat down on the bed. "Do you remember when we first started dating?" "How could I forget? The call girl and the art thief, Cowley said we where meant for each other." "How long will you be here for?" "For as long as you'll take me," She smiled "Cowley's transferred me to this department." "I thought he said he would never do that," "Well I am Welsh," She said with a smile. "Their always needing people who are fluent in Welsh to volunteer to come into this hole in the wall, plus I think father pulled some strings." "Sometimes it's good to have a father who is in the house of lords." He agreed. "The only bad thing is that I'm assigned to be in radio control until I have the baby." "Yech," He thought remembering his year as a radio controller he had spent most of his time in what was called the buggy boo, he thought he was going to go mad, he decided to change the subject. "How long has Murph known you where coming?" "A week." Jayda told him. "A whole week and he didn't tell me?" The agent sighed. "No wonder he was acting like the cat that ate the canary." "Don't be too hard on Liam, he wanted to tell you, I thought it might be fun to surprise you, I mean what if the cow decided to change his mind?" Jayda groaned and rubbed her stomach. "I think the babies excited too." "Can I touch your stomach?" "I think she' 9 ready to introduce herself to you." Jayda took Steele's hand and put it on her stomach. He was surprised how hard it was, he always thought a pregnant woman's stomach would be soft. Something kicked his hand. "Does the baby always move?" "Sometimes she takes naps, thank god." Jayda said. "But she does like to stay up all night kicking." "How does it feel to be this pregnant?" He could feel the baby moving under his hand. "I feel huge " She admitted. "But there is one good thing, I'm never alone, the babies always with me." "That must have been wonderful, I've been so lonely since I left you." Harry admitted. "You mean you never cheated on me once?" "You know I've never, I love you," He reached up and touched her cheek. "Is there anything the doctor said you couldn't do? Can you have sex?' "I asked right before I left, and he said that I could." She told him, "There's just one thing." "What's that?" "I'm too big to do it the normal way," "We both where hookers, we both know how to do more then one position, and I like trying new position," Harry touched her breast. "Your very sexy Jayda." "No I'm not." " You are." He pulled her close to him and kissed her passionately. "Besides, my family has a tradition, that the birthday boy gets one wish that must be fulfilled." "What's your wish?" She asked. "You." Harry pulled his wife close to him and kissed her. * * * "Come on Harry, wakey, wakey," someone said shaking the sleeping agent. Harry who had been curled up against Jayda, turned over, and found himself facing Murphy. "What are you doing here?" "Waking you up." Murphy said matter of factly. "Do you know what time it is?" he asked. "Four AM, I know it's early, but we have night watch remember?" "How could I ever forget?" He groaned, "I thought we had been taken off the schedule since Jayda was here." "I did too, but Joyce showed me the schedule," Murphy said. "There was our names in big bold letters." "Can I at least tell Jayda good bye?" "Go right ahead Harry." Murphy stood watching, there was a twinkle in his eye. "I'll be a few minutes," "Take your time," Murphy smiled. "Will you get out of here!" Harry almost yelled. "Yes sir," Murphy saluted and left. Harry turned to his wife, whom much to his surprise was awake. "I'm sorry I woke you," "You didn't, the baby did," She smiled. "I told you she was a night owl." "I must go," "You'll be back," "I don't want to go," He confessed. "We've been apart for four months, now we're going to be apart again." "You'll come back, when you do, I'll be waiting," Jayda pulled her husband to her and kissed him, for a moment she almost convinced him to stay, then she pulled away from him, her dark eyes danced. "The cow will have a cow if you don't go." "Your right," Harry kissed Jayda again. "I want you to know that I love you very much." "I love you too Harry," He got out of bed and quickly put on his clothes, "Keep the bed warm," Jayda took a ring off the bedside table, "Don't forget your wedding ring," "Thanks," He took it from her, kissed her one last time, he started to leave the room, he stopped at the doorway, turned back to her and gave her once last look, then his slipped his wedding ring on his pinkie, and left. * * * The investigation Harry and Murphy had been sent on was a wild goose chase, no one at the house they had been called to had called CI5. They got into the car, Murphy turned to his partner. "You see, that didn't take very long," "It'll be good to get back to Jayda," "I don't know, there isn't much you can do with a woman that is as pregnant as she is," Murphy teased. "Fat lot you know about pregnant woman," Harry stared out to the night sky. Suddenly an explosion rocked Cardiff, "What was that?" "I don't know," Murphy tried to call the H.Q., but there was no answer, he started the car. "I'm going back to base." As Murphy drove to the H.Q. a thick black smoke filled the air, making it almost impossible to see anything, the closer they got to CI5 house, the thicker it was. "Perhaps we should wait until the smoke clears," "No, if this is coming from CI5 house, there might be survivors," Harry said firmly, his mind racing. //Is Jayda alive or dead?// Then they came upon it, there was just a stack of rubble that once had been the CI5 house, there was a crater where the parking basement had been, it looked as if some of the house had fallen into the hole. "Jayda, oh my god Jayda," He gasped. "How could anyone survive that?" He felt numb all over, as soon as Murphy had parked, he got out of the car, and started walking towards the ruins, he was stopped by a police officer, he tried to go past him, but was stopped. "Let me through," "We're CI5,~ Murphy said coming up from behind Harry, he showed the officer his pass. "I'm sorry sir, I can't let you in, it's too dangerous." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Info link from the menu bar on the left.