Opposite's Attract - Chapter 1 / The Body
Millie's POV
Working the night shift on a Saturday night/Sunday morning was such a drag it was when all of the stupid people wanted to pick fights with the bouncers at kicking out time and when guys fight each other over a barley dressed slapper, of course no regrets! Me and Mel jumped into one of the cars and started driving around all of the usual trouble hotspots but everything seemed quiet so we moved on to the high street to make sure everyone was getting home OK and there was no trouble.
"So if you had to kiss Ben or Nate who would you chose?" Mel asked obviously getting bored of just sitting in the car doing nothing.
"I don't know… am I kissing them as a boyfriend or am I kissing them as a one off thing?" I questioned.
"Just a one time thing" She answered.
"Nate" I answered simply "Nate is the guy you go to for a one time thing and Ben is someone you'd chose if you wanted a loving relationship" I told her and she seemed to agree with me "OK if you had to chose between Smithy and Leon?" I asked her.
"Smithy" She answered very quickly "He's good looking" She said and shrugged and I just laughed at her.
I liked working with Mel there was always something to talk about or she would make up games and you could always have a laugh with her and I also like the way she deals with suspects because she lets them have their say and she tries to understand them and get in their heads which makes you understand them more and their motive for their crime, she wasn't given as much credit as she should get, people think she's silly but in fact she's very clever and everything she does is very thought out.
We were getting bored sitting in the car so we radioed in to Smithy and asked him if we could go and have a walk around and once he had given us the OK we got out of the car and locked it before walking around the street where we had many drunk people come up to us and ask if they could wear our hats, see the asp or the CS spray, asked if they could have a couple of photos with us and we were both more then happy to take a couple photos, let them wear the hat whilst they got a photo and show them the CS spray and asp but they wasn't to touch them. If you just told them no and got arsey with them they just make your life and job harder when you need them as witnesses or something. But me and Mel did get irritated when we had alcohol and drug fuelled kids asking for our numbers, I'm sure most of them were under 18 and should probably be tucked up in bed by now or doing some homework.
We got to a local trouble hotspot club called 'Club 24' and I seen a young guy outside kicking off with the bouncer so me and Mel went over to them and seen the young guy shouting at the bouncer to let him back in but the bouncer was having none of it, Mel spoke to the bouncer whilst I spoke to the young guy "OK do you want to tell me your name please?" I questioned.
"Craig North" He answered.
"Craig do you want to tell me what happened?" I asked.
"I was at the bar getting a drink for me and my girlfriend when the bouncer comes over to me and tells me that I need to leave so I asked him why and he said that I was dealing drugs, I have never even seen an illegal drug in my life! I told him to search me because I didn't have any drugs on me but he didn't listen he called for back up and three more of them showed up, they picked me up and took me outside. My girlfriend is in there looking for me and she has no idea what is going on, she's probably worried. We're not from London we're from Manchester and only here for a few days" He explained.
"OK Craig what's your girlfriends name? I'll go inside the club and go to the DJ booth and get him to do a call out for her" I said.
"Her name's Karen James. She's wearing a red dress that goes to her knees and black wedges, she's got brown hair and it's done up in a bun" He explained.
I told him to wait with Mel whilst I went inside and got her to come out. I went straight to the DJ booth and to say he was shocked when he saw me was an understatement "Look I need you to do a call out for me. Can you ask a girl called Karen James to come outside that her boyfriend Craig is out there looking for her?" I asked him and he nodded.
"Can Karen James go outside your man Craig is out there looking for you" He said into the mic and I thanked him before leaving.
A couple of minutes later a girl matching Karen's description came out and rushed over to Craig and began asking him what happened and once he explained she kicked off too shouting at the bouncer so I took the two of them away and called Mel over "What's he saying?" I asked her, referring to the bouncer.
"He's saying that he saw him greet someone coming out of he bathroom and he seen an exchange of some kind and tracked him to the bar where he paid for drinks without reaching into his pocket to take money out" She explained.
"OK Craig is it OK if I search you?" He just nodded and I put my gloves on before we walked over to the wall and he put his hands on the wall and spread his legs, I searched in his mouth, pockets, his socks, felt the leg of each trouser and Mel searched Karen but there was nothing on them but the bouncer wasn't going to let them back in "Why don't you two move onto another place? There's a club called Space just at the other end of the road, I've been there a few times myself it's good and open until seven am" I said, they thanked me before walking off towards the other club.
Once all of that was cleared up me and Mel went on another walk of the street and there was no more trouble so we made our way back to the car and decided that because it was nearly kicking out time we would go and have a drive around and make sure that everyone was behaving themselves then out of nowhere this woman came running out in front of the car screaming, Mel slammed on the breaks and rushed both rushed out to her "What's the matter?" Mel asked.
"There's a woman in that alley way! She's covered in blood and she's not moving or waking up!" She shouted and we followed her to the woman.
"Sierra Oscar 4-2 to Sierra Oscar 1" I called over the radio.
"Go ahead Millie" Smithy's voice said back.
I looked over at Mel who said she was going to check the woman's pulse and she shook her head to indicate the woman was dead "Sarge we have a dead body" I said.
"OK I'm on my way, I'll call for an ambulance, secure the area and start taking witness statements" He said.
"Did anyone see what happened?" Mel called out but everyone who had been crowding shook her head, Mel took the woman who found her away and took her statement as I started pushing everyone back.
Smithy showed up with an ambulance and back up and he asked me and Mel what we knew which wasn't much, I had searched her bag and seen that her name was Claire Goodings and she was 19 years old, she was covered in blood and it was difficult to tell what injury's she had sustained but she had a ripped skirt so the motive could be sexual and maybe it went wrong. Smithy told Ben and Leon that they had to go and deliver the news to her family that she was dead and they were to ask them if she had any enemies, if she was into drugs, gangs, if she had been worried about something…. All the normal stuff.
Eddie showed up and started doing his work and Smithy told me and Mel to go back to the nick and have our refs, the cafeteria would just be opening now as it was nearly 6am so we should get first pickings on the food but I knew Mel wasn't hungry and neither was I to be honest.
Once back at the nick we got ourselves something to eat and drink and we discussed what had happened and announced our suspicions "I reckon maybe someone wanted to have sex with her, she said no so he killed her knowing she could give us his description and he didn't want that so he silenced her… what do you think happened?" Mel asked.
"I don't know, all I know is that she was a young girl on a night out and she ended up brutally murdered. I hope whoever ends up leading the case up in CID works out who did it and gets them and throws the book at them, she's a nineteen year old girl who has had her life stolen from her" I explained.
We finished our breakfast but sat in our chairs as we still had around 15 minutes left of our refs before we would be called into Smithy's office for a de-brief. The door to the cafeteria opened and Max came in and walked over to our table "Millie, Mel I need you upstairs please to discuss the murdered woman, I am going to be in charge of the case and need to know what you know" He said and we both nodded and followed him upstairs.
I love The Bill and I love Millie and Max. Hope you enjoy! Happy Halloween!
