Divided
A fanfic about the events after Series 2 Episode 8 and how it effects Gene and the team. it's a bit of an emotional fanfic throughout but I hope to add some humour into it in later chapters.
As Gene realised what he had accidentally just done, he stared in shock as he saw Bolly on the floor her face was pale. She never moved, Chris, Ray and Shaz ran up from behind him after hearing two gunshots. Ray looked down at Alex in deep shock he couldn't believe it his DI was badly hurt.
Chris went to phone Viv on his walkie talkie "Viv call two ambulances we've got a dead body, male early fifties and DI Drake's been shot", Chris wiped a tear from his eye Viv himself felt instant shock in his face as well. "I will do Chris do we know who shot her?", taking his walkie talkie away from his mouth for a second before speaking into it again.
Chris couldn't bring himself to tell him it was DCI Hunt who shot DI Drake.
As they waited for the ambulance, Shaz checked on Alex to see if she was still breathing, she was. Gene hadn't moved still stood looking down at Alex on the floor, guilt and fear took over his mind. He felt like a utter complete bastard for the way he had treated her over the last few days. He hated and blamed himself for letting Jenette distract him away from Alex, he also hated Jenette . This looked bad for him as there were no witnesses, Jenette had run off.
"Its all my fault all an accident", he quietly said to himself as he got to his knees looking at Alex . Ray looked at him feeling very suspicious as Gene tried to tell him the truth. He looked angry with the Guv thinking back to when everyone witnessed the end of Gene and Alex's massive argument in the police station the night before.
Shaz cried as Chris came back to hug her in his arms. "Shaz she'll be ok I promise", he secretly wasn't sure himself.
The ambulance arrived, the paramedics put Alex onto a stretcher and put her in the back of the ambulance. Shaz wanted to go with her to the hospital, she got in the back of the ambulance with Chris who still held her in his arms.
"I'll get the Quattro", Gene said. "Guv I don't think you should be coming to the hospital, you'll probably have to be questioned about what happened", I'll go myself in my car, you go home".
The team looked very much divided, Ray drove off his own car following on behind the ambulance took off.
Gene stood by his Quattro emotion took over his thoughts and mind. He got in the driver's seat and drove off following where Ray's car was going.
The ambulance had arrived at East London General Hospital, he parked the car away from the entrance so he wouldn't be noticed by Chris or Ray. He wanted her to be ok in the end, he needed her more than ever to save him for and tell them her version of events.
Ray talked with the Doctor who had told him Alex would need surgery to have the bullet from her stomach it would have to be an immediate operation as her life hung in the balance. He sat with Chris and Shaz and told them what the Doctor had said. Tears fell from Shaz's eyes, Chris hugged her.
"What about the Guv if Drake dies he could be facing a murder charge, well we did witness him threatening to shoot her if she got in his way, looks bloody bad for him". Ray couldn't make any sense of it, how did it come to this between the Guv and Alex. He knew Gene cared about Alex a lot, he could see the Guv had met his match in DI Drake but why after all they had been through over the past year would he threaten to shoot her. Chris and Ray felt that they were being kept in the dark by the Guv and they didn't like it at all.
Shaz wanted to stay in the hospital, Ray told them he was off home but to phone him if anything happens.
Ray exited the hospital, as Gene watched him from the Quattro. Ray hung his head low as his emotions got the better of him and he cried against the wall of the entrance.
Gene panicked and felt sick in his stomach when he saw Ray cry he had never seen him like this before , "was Bolly dead if she was he'd never forgive himself."
Alex came out of surgery a few hours later, the Doctor told Chris that the operation was a success but it would take a few weeks for Alex to recover from. She was in a coma.
Shaz was asleep in the waiting room as Chris sat up staring at the window into the night sky outside.
The next morning, Chris had to go into work the Guv would have to be questioned by other detectives from Fenchurch East, Shaz stayed in the hospital. As Chris left the hospital.
Gene who had slept in the Quattro all night made his way into the hospital intent on seeing Alex, he asked at reception explaining he was a colleague of Alex Drake's.
The woman pointed to the direction of the patient rooms.
He walked on, as he got up to the patient rooms he was greeted by Shaz who told him "Guv you shouldn't be here Chris and Ray would go mad if they found out you were here".
"I have to see her Shaz to tell how sorry I am", he told Shaz about what had happened. How Jenette had fired her gun first causing his gun to be shot off by accident. He was surprised by Shaz's response she believed him "even though I didn't see what happened I believe you Guv because you two have always been close to each other"
"Shaz I'm glad you believe me", he hugged her "you're the best bloody WPC we have in Fenchurch East". "Yeah all right Guv", she turned to tell him what room Alex was in.
He went in his heart beat dropped as he saw her connected up to a machine. She looked so pale, he sat down next to the bed and whispered in her ear "Bolly its me Gene please I need you to wake up, they think I shot you well I mean I did shoot you but it was an accident". Shaz stood by the door watching.
"Bolly I'm sorry about all them things I said to you i feel like the biggest bastard ever , look at me I'm bearing me bloody soul out to you here please wake up for me I'm gonna have to go but I'll come back to visit you at every opportunity I have ". He lifted her hand to kiss it and he left the room.
Two detectives had come to question Shaz about the accident as Gene approached them "I suppose you'll wanna question me detectives", they nodded as they walked with Shaz and Gene to the hospital waiting room. Sitting down with a notepad DS Young asked Gene about "what happened in the moments after Summers had been in shot".
Clearing his throat before speaking Gene told them "I heard this police officer shouting so I followed to where the shouting came from, I saw DI Drake who looked scared of what he was saying to her, saying he knew she couldn't be corrupt I mean I couldn't get me head around it at first"
"Then he pointed his gun at DI Drake and I had to stop him before what he was about to do, that's what we do as police officers, he most have been corrupted himself because I told him stop or I would shoot he said I know I shot him and he fell to the floor."
Gene breathed out slightly as he paused rubbing over his forehead with hands. DS Young asked him if he would like to continue, "Give me a minute will ya"
He continued "I checked on him, he was dead then DI Drake panicked looking around next thing I knew this woman Jenette had Alex had gun point shouting where was her money"
DS Young stopped him "I'm sorry Mr Hunt did you know this woman". "Yes I did I arrested her brother a few days earlier and I kissed her in the police station but now I fully regret it meeting her the Irish bitch" he paused looking at Shaz and the other detective DC Armstrong. "I told her to let DI Drake go I was trying to protect Alex in all this, but Jenette shot her gun upwards first, through the impact of the noise I accidentally shot mine off as well, I thought I had shot Jenette but the next thing I knew she was running away, I turned to Alex who was clutching her stomach"
Shaz wiped a tear from her eye as she listened to Gene's account of events. "I'm telling you both it was an accident "
"Would never hurt her in anyway possible, i care about her and we have a good working relationship"
He finished waiting for their reply. "DCI Hunt from we've heard DS Carling said you had threatened to shoot DI Drake if she got in your way and he says this was an argument that everyone witnessed in the police station can you explain that".
He felt uneasy explaining it because of what she had told him about her being from the future which was something he knew he had trouble getting his head round.
"It was a disagreement about the case we're investigating you'd have to ask DI Drake if and when she wakes up"
"Thank you DCI Hunt you've answered most of the questions"
"WPC Granger could we ask you a few questions about the events after the shooting" Gene walked off from them as he stood by the entrance lighting up his cigarette. Worried deep down in his heart.
I'm looking to make things a bit easy for Gene in the next chapter. Him hopefully getting to spend time with Alex in the hospital.