Funny Detectives
A funny, angst and heart warming Ashes to Ashes fanfic about Alex discovering that she needs the team more than she could ever know, Gene struggling to cope and he sees his DI dating a fellow officer, wishing it was him
After a hard day of busy work for most of that Friday in mid June, The team had organised to go out on the town to see a comedy stand up show later that evening, wanting and hoping to forget all about their daily stress, troubles and arguments they currently shared with each other, Chris and Ray looked both excited and full of joy as they would be seeing one of Manchester's finest comedians Eddie King, a well known actor who also did stand up in his spare time, his main fans were blokes, he's normally anger the female audience with ruder jokes, Gene meanwhile hated any comedians making skits of people's accents. Alex laughed at his discomfort as he listened to Chris and Ray trying to be like Morecambe and Wise doing good attempts at impersonating.
Ray donned the Eric Morecambe famous glasses as they started singing along. As the famous song on the stereo played out loudly echoing around the office.
"Bring Me Sunshine, in your smile
Bring me laughter all the while"
"Oh Ray i wanted to be Eric Morecambe with the glasses"
"Chris yer look like right div with glasses no offence mate"
Judging by the current mood on Gene's face he didn't look like he wanted to be cheered up as he sat back in the chair looking deepily troubled, something was weighing heavily on his mind. Walking back into his office, he opened the cabinet drawer, finding the last of the bottle of scotch which he poured into a glass. Alex followed on behind, knocking on the door.
"You know Gene sometimes once in a while everyone always needs a good laugh at different things to cheer themselves up"
"Well I don't" taking a gulp as he swallowed it down his throat. His eyes darted up and down at Alex's dress.
"Gene come with us all tonight please..."
"Yeah alright then but i know i won't feel any better soon after "
She looked back out through the office glass window to see Chris and Ray doing the famous Morecambe and Wise skip. It made her chuckle happily , "well at least they look really happy Gene"
A few hours later as the team were finishing off the last of their drinks and food, Gene sat alone at the bar, staring at his glass eyes looking focused and blanking out any voices he heard coming from across the restaurant room, the light above reflected on his sad face which Luigi noted as he kept an eye on his favourite customer for the last 40 minutes.
"Signor Hunt why do look so sad tonight?" Luigi didn't like to see his favourite customer looking too sad.
"Dunno Luigi... just not into all this stand up molarchy"
"You look like you need cheering up though the sadness in your eyes tells a different story perhaps, is it a certain lady that you are quite tken by" Luigi attempted to hint, give the DCI a little push in Alex's direction.
"Maybe Luigi.. maybe i do need good smile but my eyes and thoughts tell me i'm feeling more lonely than ever"
"Has Alex been in yet, thought she'd be 'ere' by now" he also asked looking round to try and spot her but she still hadn't arrived just yet.
"No but she mentioned this morning and that she wants to look ravishing tonight"
"Like a tart"
"Don't say like that Mr Hunt"
The doors of the restaurant opened widely as everyone looked up to see beautfiul woman's figure approaching in Gene's direction at the bar even Luigi looked surprised. Gene swung round on his chair to see it was Alex looking a thousand times much better than she usually would be, his jaw nearly hitting the floor in amazement at her beauty, she was wearing a dress that was long and flowing, bright milky blue colour ,it also nearly caused him to fall of the chair as his knees felt extremely weak. The lyrics in the song that was being played on the jukebox reflected in Gene's feelings at that very moment.
"When your world is full of strange arrangements
And gravity won't pull you through
You know you're missing out on something
Well that something depends on you
All I'm saying
It takes a lot to love you
All I'm doing
You know it's true
All I mean now
There's one thing, yes one thing, that turns this gray sky to blue
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love"
She sat next to him at the bar seeing the twitch in his leg, his mouth still wide open in surprise. She smiled seeing the instant effect she left on him.
"Earth to Gene hello" she snapped her fingers near to his glowing smouldering brown eyes.
"Sorry about that Bols.. you trying to cheer me up by dressing up sexy"
" Could be..we might as well stick together tonight incase i might want to leave early"
As he was collecting the last of the glasses from the tables , Luigi turned around to see that Alex had joined Gene at the bar and that he seemed to be more peakier and talkative. Sometimes Luigi just wished that one day he could be able to bang both of their heads together to point out that he was right all along about Gene's romantic feelings for his DI.
The team made their way towards the exit, as they were leaving Shaz and Chris acknowledged Alex's long flowing dark blue silky dress, together with handbag and coat.
"Ma'am you look amazing in that dress" Shaz said. Chris nodded to agree, Ray was last behind them, hands in jacket pocket standing there with a cigarette on the corner of his lips not saying a word.
Alex jumped slightly after not noticing him there, "Ray you nearly made me jump there"
"Raymondo get a move on will yer.. got a comedy gig to see here", he quickly ushered his DS out through the entrance.
"Well i am going in the Quattro want a lift into Central London Bols?"
"I was actually thinking of getting the bus"
"The bus!!... you'll end up making every man in London shake in their boots with that drop gorgeous dress no you're going in the Quattro i shall hear no protests" tugging on her hand, the heel in her shoe snapped causing her to collapse into Gene's arms.
"Woah careful you'll have me feeling horny later with those legs of yours" he teased
He helped into the Quattro, she sat in the back of the car for a change, trying to adjust the bottom of the dress to cover her long legs. As Gene climbed in he couldn't resist in coping an eyeful glancing up at the mirror in the driver's seat, she was flashing a glimpse of her knickers. The voice in head told him not to be distracted, "well are we going or not then" she moaned realising that they might lose their seats in the concert hall.
"Alright..alright Miss Mouthy posh knickers" he laughed rolling his eyes in amusement as he started the car engine up and then turned the steering wheel oif the car, as the Quattro drove off into the dark night.
The team had already arrived at the small North Hamilton concert hall and had been standing around in the kiosk area with Viv and his new girlfriend, Ray had clearly dressed up in a smart navy blue suit, white blouse and green tie, mumbling to himself, hoping to pick up a few comedy quotes to impress the ladies with.
"Guv and Drake should be here by now" Chris noted as he'd been looking at his watch.
"Eh you don't think they've gone and ditched us have you?" Ray had that feeling that they might have done.
"Don't be so daft Ray" Shaz hated him making a joke out of almost everything.
"Probably late you know the traffic is busy at night in Central London"
"I'll get some drinks while we're wait for them to show up" counting his money as he made his way to replenishment area.
"You know she's probably given him the time of his life in the Quattro"
"Oh Shut up Ray"
One of his favourite comedians Eddie King from Manchester walked past with a bottle of mineral water.
"Top guy he is, only tells jokes about past girlfriends he had" Ray knew everything about his favourite comedian, he was a bigger fan of comedy than Chris was.
"whatever" Shaz replied.
"stupid soddin traffic" Gene moaned eyes looking straight ahead to see the row of traffic along the main central roads of London, they were only a few minutes later, still hoping that Ray would keep their seats warm at the gig.
He sat back slumped in his seat, tapping lightly on the steering wheel, shaking his head seemingly disagreeing about a subject he was hiding from Alex.
"Seriously what's wrong Gene please open up and let me in"
"Joking aren't ya.. we're rushing to a comedy gig and now this has become more a phone in radio show"
"Well I'm hardly no DJ i am, for starters your body posture is displaying hidden feelings about something or someone, i can always tell when the person's shoulders are low" she pointed out.
"Thanks you're cheering me up big time Bols"
Traffic started moving again, how Alex wished she had a mobile phone or Iphone to contact the others with but as it was 1983 they wouldn't be invented for at least anither 20+ years or so.
Sorry about the quick ending hoping to turn this fanfic into a three or four chapters worth. Any reviews/feedback is welcome , as it would help me to improve more on this fanfic