Disclaimer I do not own anything related to Ashes to Ashes or Life on Mars. Kudos and BBC television own all. This is set in modern times but is a prequel to my other stories. i.e. Alex hasn't been in a coma yet but Sam has. .
Dynamite.
Chapter 1. Waiting.
Alex yawned as she leant her head on one hand. It had been an awful week. The paperwork from the last few cases was never ending and she still had to work on her paperwork for the CPS. She knew that Gene would be breathing down her neck if she didn't get it all typed up by the end of the working day. All she really wanted to do was go home to Molly and have a very long soak in the bath.
"You alright Ma'am?" Shaz asked as she placed a mug of tea on Alex's desk. Alex nodded absentmindedly as she glanced towards her DCI's empty office. He had been at the meeting he was moaning about for the last hour. She had only been half listening but regretted it. She couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong.
"Yeah." She lied. "Where's Sam?"
"Dunno. I think he was going to interview that pensioner. The one who found the body when she was walking her dog." Chris shrugged as Shaz and Alex simulatenously rolled their eyes. "Annie went with him."
"Ok." Alex sighed as she returned to her paperwork. She still couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. The monthly meeting at Scotland Yard was never this long. She had thought he would be back by now, slaming doors and shouting at the team. She shook her head as Ray stood up and pulled on his jacket.
"It's 5 o clock, I'm going to Luigi's. You up for it?" He announced as Alex stared at her computer screen. She had only been on the team a few months, had only been secretly dating Gene for a few weeks. The last thing she wanted to do was run off to the pub with the others when she hadn't seen him alone all day.
"Not me." She smiled. "Just want to finish this profile on the suspect in those murders and pick Molly up from Evan's."
"I could do with a drink." Shaz smiled. The young PC was clearly loving her secondment to CID. Both Annie and Alex had already decided to try to get Sam and Gene to agree to keep her on. She needed both DI's and the DCI to agree. Alex smiled at the young girl. Shaz Grainger was a born detective. She knew Annie could talk Sam around. Gene would be her problem. Alex turned her attention back to the computer screen as she began writing her profile. The others said their goodbyes and left. Seconds turned into minutes as Alex focused on the profile of the man that had been kidnaping women and leaving them for dead across London.
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"All work and no play Bolls." She jumped as she heard him breath the words in her ear.
"Guv."
"Where are the others?"
"Luigi's." She sighed as she felt his warm breath on her neck. "I was just finishing this."
"Bolls."
"Yeah?"
"My office. Now." She nodded as she watched him walk away from her. He still frustrated the Hell out of her but since that day when Chas Cale had tried to freeze her to death she couldn't help but see him in a different light. The psychologist in her had been trying to analyse it but she couldn't help the fact she had fallen for the gruff DCI and there was very little she could do about it. Silently she pushed her chair away from her desk and followed him.
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"You reckon Alex and the Guv, are you know?" Chris asked as Shaz ordered their drinks.
"Oh give over." Ray pulled a face.
"Why not? I think they'd be lovely together." Shaz smiled as Ray tried not to let any unwanted images into his head.
"Alex is ok." Sam interjected as he helped Shaz with the drinks. Annie merely raised an eyebrow as her best friend was described as merely ok. She knew what was going on between the couple even if the group of so called detectives refused to see it. Gene had fallen for the 'gobby posh bird' that had been brought into the team when they had taken over the failing Fenchurch East CID less than a year ago. She smiled as she picked up her glass of wine, there was no way she was going to betray Alex's confidence but she enjoyed listening to the speculation.
"Well, leave them alone." Annie stated as she sat next to her husband. "Alex is a good girl. You never know Ray, she may even be good for the Guv."
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"Gene?" Alex stood in the doorway as he picked up his darts and began throwing them at the board.
"I've had it Bolls. Never should 'av come to London."
"What happened? Are you drunk?"
"No Bolls. I bloody wish I were." He frowned as the dart missed the board completely. "I just wish I were."
"It's this case." She sighed. "You know how hard everyone has been working. I feel like I've barely seen Molly all week."
"Yeah. Ow is she?"
"She's 9." Alex sighed. "Convinced herself I have a boyfriend." She smiled as he pulled a face. He turned to face her as she leant against the closed office door.
"Yeah? Well, 'av you?"
"Well." She smiled as she watched him walk towards her. "There is this one bloke."
"Just the one?" He paused directly in front of her as she nodded.
"Yeah. You know the type." She met his eye as he smirked. "Get a girl all worked up, promise her the world or in his case a dover sole." She smiled as he rested his hand on her waist. "Even ask her to dance but never actually follows through."
"Oh I follow through Bollykecks."
"Really?"
"Really." He kissed her chastely on the lips as her hands came to tangle in his sandy blonde hair. Her head seemed to hit the wooden door but it didn't occur to her to mind. The kiss rapidly became more intense as she held him to her. His assault on her senses seemed to push all sense of reason out of her mind as she sighed into the kiss. He pulled away when he was convinced he was going to collapse from lack of oxygen. Resting his forehead against hers he sighed as he felt her hands on his chest.
"Gene."
"Alex."
"How can we keep doing this? The others are going to notice. I don't want to be the DI who got where she is because she shagged her boss." He opened his eyes to meet hers.
"Tell the others. If they haven't noticed by now I aint sure they are cut out for the job. Sam knows. I bet you've told Annie an all. And as for being the DI who shagged her boss you soft mare, you are a criminal psychiatrist."
"Psychologist."
"Yeah." He swallowed hard. "And I don't give a stuff what anyone says. I love you." Alex was certain her heart had stopped in her chest. Not even her ex husband had been so forthcoming with his feelings for her. She froze as she felt his hands leave her waist.
"Gene?"
"Yeah." He sounded more dejected than she had ever known.
"Did you mean that?"
"What?"
"You love me." She stepped towards him as he stared at the floor. "You weren't just saying it?"
"What the 'ell do you take me for? Nah forget I asked that. You know me."
"So you meant it?"
"Alexandra Drake I bloody love you. Now is that plain enough for ya?"
"Yeah it is." She smiled as she took his hands in her own. "Good job I love you too in that case. Look, take me home. Meet Molly and then tell me what Jim Keates has done this time."
"Meet Molly."
"She's 9. She doesn't bite." Alex smiled as Gene stood up. "She went through a phase as a toddler but." Alex shrugged as Gene rolled his eyes. One Drake woman drove him crazy at the best of times. Could he really handle two? He pulled Alex in for another kiss. Molly was part of the package. He had known that from the time they had got together.
"I just hope she likes me."
"She will." Alex squeezed his hand as he lead her out of the office.
"'ope so, because Bolls. I've got a good feeling about us. I reckon you and me could be dynamite."
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