Thud, thud, thud, thud. 'I knew I shouldn't have drank so much last night' Alex thought. After rousing around from her slumber properly, she realised somebody was at the door. "Shit! It's 10 o'clock!" She knew at that exact moment, who would be stood on the other side of her door. Quickly, she ran to the door after putting her dressing gown over her underdressed body and opened it to reveal Gene Hunt, a very angry Gene Hunt at that. 'Great, hello bollocking'

"What's up Drake, you got some toffee nosed lawyer in there?" he spat.

She hated when he did this, accused her of sleeping with every posh bloke on the planet. 'Is this what he seriously thinks of me? Bastard. Well fuck him then'. "Er- yes actually, you have distuburbed him giving me a good seeing to, so will you please bugger off!" She, however was not expecting the reaction she got from him. He was stood there with his mouth hanging open slightly with an element of shock on his face.

'Lucky twat' he thought. Clearing his throat he replied "Well, I knew you were a tart even by your standards but you never usually let your sleeping around get in the way of work". This earny him a smack across the face.

"Believe it or not Gene" she emphasised his name by quoting with her fingers, she knew it pissed him off, "I actually do not have somebody here, I over slept! You know, I am only human, it was an accident! You should know I don't have anyone here, I was with you all last night, getting drunk! Which is where I am every night so I have no chance to go sleeping around with every man in London" she slammed the door in his face and went to get ready for work, making sure she did everything slower than usual to make her self later for work.

Gene stomped off, utterly pissed off, however feeling quite smug that she chose to spend every night with him when she could be out enjoying herself.

When Alex got into CID, she noticed Gene's office door was closed and all the blinds were shut. 'Definitely pissed off then' she thought. This sort of thing was routine for the pair of them, aruge and shot at work, by beer o'clock it had all blew over and they were getting pissed together in Luigi's. It wasn't going to happen tonight, she didn't want to be in the company of someone who thought so little of her. She thought they were getting along better than ever, after dealing with Mac and the corruption, the shooting which was surprising as they got back to normal pretty much by the afternoon of her waking up. They'd fought off D&C so they were now able to get on with real policing without some creepy weirdo looking over their shoulder every five minutes.

A while later, Gene came out of his office announcing beer o'clock. Alex looked at her watch noticing it was only 5 o'clock, the others realised it was early but they made themself scarce before he changed his mind. He walked over to her desk but she refused to look up as she tidied her desk up and slung her jacket on. Getting up, Gene finally spoke "See you down at Luigi's Bolly".

She turned back before opening the double doors, "Actually, you won't because I won't be there" and with that she walked out. Gene was left confused and wondering what was different to any other time they argued. She always easy to wind up, this morning wasn't any different. He heard the sound of her heels getting fainter and fainter as she walked away from him.

In Luigi's, Gene was sat on his own in the corner. Usually by now, he'd be thoroughly drunk and he'd be staring at Alex's gorgeous face wittering on about something he didn't understand nor care about. However, tonight he wasn't in the mood for drinking. He felt like an arse sat there on his own and felt like a poof for missing her company. Alex was sat upstairs in her flat, trying to make a point to Gene. She doubted whether it was working though and was sat there flicking through crap channels on the TV feeling very lonely. She knew if she went downstairs and sat with the others, she'd still end up being sat with Gene at the end of the night and din't want that to happen.

She went and put her nighty on to get ready for bed. She thought Gene would turn up banging at the door demanding her to go down and stop being mardy but he didn't.

TBC.

Yes, I have started another story! Thanks to everyone! :D This chapter isn't brilliant and hasn't got much content but stick with it and all will become clear in the next chapter. *She hopes* xx