immmm backkkk :) welcome to my new fanfic, please take a seat, but remember to give them back at the end (my joke, funny aren't i?) *silence* ohh :/ but anyway, I am handing over the reins of my story to DCI Gene Hunt, who is now going to tell his story. He asks that you read and review and please, neither of us can take credit for owning any of the characters, objects or vehicles listed in this fic. enjoy :D

My name is Gene Hunt. That's DCI 'unt or the Manc lion to you. Some idiot ran his motor into me and sent me forward to 2012. Am I dead? I 'ope not. All I know is I 'ave to fight and all that rubbish cos' drakey's running the team without me and 'o knows what'll 'appen?!

"I'm really sorry. We're working so hard, you'd be so proud Gene. But it's not enough. We need you, I need you! It's just not the same without you here." Alex sighed and brushed the fingers of her DCI. Right now if he was awake he'd be telling her to 'get her bony arse in gear and stop with the fairy comments' but she didn't care. Normally he'd be drinking himself and his liver into some sort of haze but no, the only fluids he was taking were the various sorts running through far too many tubes attached to him. He was almost as pale as the sheets he lay in, his messy blonde hair flopped to the side as Alex had brushed it away. He looked peaceful, more peaceful than she had ever seen him before but the look of tranquillity masked only that of pain.

"I hope you can hear me." She squeezed his hand gently.

"Ray and Chris, follow that bastard! I want him and I want him now!" Gene barked into the communicator. A mumbled response from his DS was all that Alex could hear as they followed orders. Gene wasted no time in reversing the Quattro and roaring backwards, down the road they came. Confused and angry bystanders had gathered in the road to see what was going on and have a good gossip but they didn't even need the burst of the horn to recognise the sound of an angry DCI moving towards them. The engine was growling louder than Alex had heard before, the Manc lion atop his noble steed.

Once in an open space again Hunt twisted the wheel, sending the car spinning in a flurry of dust. Under normal circumstances anyone sat in the passenger seat would be a slight green colour by now, ready to hurl and grasping pathetically for the seatbelt. Not Alex. Originally, she would have been one of those terrified passengers stating their final goodbyes but now she was comfortable and not fazed in the slightest by the movement of the vehicle. Instead she just gazed out of the window as if on a car journey with her parents.

The world outside was flying past, not quite at such a speed the Quattro would have taken them. Ray and Chris moved down the road at a steady pace, so as to not attract witnesses. They had clear sight of the bastards in front and an even clearer view of the shiny black ford they were sitting in.

"D'you reckon their armed?" Chris asked, looking at Ray. For once in his life Chris was surprised to see Ray looking just as anxious as he was feeling. In fact, looking in the window you'd think Chris was the braver one right now.

"Shu'up you idiot." Ray's defence was kicking in and Chris was not about to question it. Instead he remained quiet, watching as his best friend tried to concentrate.

"Will you slow down!" Alex yelled after the fourth time of unplanned stopping. She had been thrown towards the windscreen each time now and was dangerously close to flying through it.

"Well if these bloody twats get of the fuckin' roads we wouldn't need to stop!" Gene yelled back. They had been yelling back and forth for the past ten minutes now.

"These 'bloody twats' are walking on the pavement Gene. You're the one who is so pissed you can't work out the road from the frickin' pavement!" Alex yelled, waggling her fingers. She watched as he eyebrows lowered and he glared at her.

"Well they should move the pavement! And if you waggle your bloody fingers at me one more time woman, I'll chop 'em off!"

"Move the pavement?" Alex's tone had quietened as she questioned Gene's choice of words. He didn't reply.

Eventually after numerous stops, ranting and raving and swearing they caught up with Ray and Chris's car. The black ford was still rattling away in front but Gene could see movement from the passenger window.

"What's tha' bastard up too?" He pondered, driving slightly to the side to get a better view. As he did so the passenger suddenly leaned out of the window with a pistol and fired random shots behind him. Ray and Chris' car swerved dangerously to the left as Gene climbed out with his own pistol.

"Gene what the hell do you think you are doing?!" He heard Alex scream at him as she was forced to take the wheel of the Quattro for her own safety. He ignored her, firing off a round of shots before ducking behind the door.

"Stop the car Bolly! Nobody drives my Quattro!" He yelled at her before pulling the keys out of the ignition and allowing the engine to die.

"Guv, what'you doin' your gonna get killed!" Ray shouted from his drivers side window of the other car.

"Shooting the bastard that tried to shoot me!" He replied with a serious look on his face. Ray had pulled the car to the side and stopped the engine, but still another could be heard.

"GENE!" Alex's scream pierced the air as the roar of the other engine got louder and Gene was thrown in the air like a puppet, landing on the ground a good distance away, nestled in amongst the grass. As the black ford came to a stop from Ray shooting at the tyres he and Chris leapt out, pointing guns at the windows of the car and arresting the drivers. Alex had run down the ledge to find Gene, begging and pleading that he was okay.

"You nearly gave me a heart attack I thought they'd killed you." She whispered, still brushing the fingers of her DCI, careful not to detach any of the numerous wires leading away from him. She had remained with him for as long as she could, turning up five minutes before visitors and leaving five minutes after she was meant to. Ray, Chris and Shaz had all popped by to see him and Shaz had brought flowers and a 'get well soon' card. She knew the Guv would think it gay but it was the done thing and she wanted to do something.

"They're all complaining at work Guv. I'm always here, you're there, it's like nobody is running the joint. I won't be around much longer I need to go back. Their talking of replacing us both otherwise and I won't let them do that. I keep telling them you'll be back soon, you just need time to recover…get better soon Guv." Alex gave a small smile and stood up to leave.

"Come back to us soon Gene." She whispered as she walked out the door.

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