" Who trips over a bannister." Gene asks raising his eyebrow as he moves his gloved hands to the bannister rail, waiting for Alex to make sense of the scenario but instead she had kept quiet. He had remembered the argument they had earlier, in which he said he could solve a case easily without her however now he was doubting himself due to injuries sustained off this particular case.

" There's no way a little girl could trip over it, the bannister is taller than she is. Unless she jumped over." Chris turns to the team before getting shoved by Shaz and Ray rolling his eyes.

" You absolute puff. There is no way she would have been able to run and jump, the door is less than half a metre away you need more space to jump higher than that and for her height and age." Ray retorts back, which causes Alex to nod slightly as she moves her hand to Ray's shoulder.

" Ray's right Guv." Alex speaks up as she caresses Ray's shoulder, seeing the glare Gene gave and his jaw lock, in jealousy? Perhaps. She knew Gene couldn't solve this case without her, and she was needed more than he realised. " The injuries we saw on the little girls arm shows she was grabbed with force, I'd say a male's hand, as part of the bruise had the thickness of a male's wedding band." She looks at Gene before walking to him there noses just touching, " Tell me I am right Guv." Pressing her lips together her eyes fixed on his eyes as he looked down at her plump lips then at her eyes not wanting to give her the satisfaction.

" Well Bolly, I would have found that out without you. Just because your brain works a little bit faster in some departments means were all slow, I work faster in other departments." He grins in amusement, Ray and Chris joining in, both in unison infuritaring Alex more, as she lifts her fist up slowly but punching him hard on gob again. Gene's face moving backwards with the blow, and his nose bleeding from the impact as he brought his head back down, his hand stroking his jaw. Alex stretches her hand out, slightly rubbing it before looking at the rest of the team looking at her in awe and in disappointment.

" Fine, you know where I'll be when you realise you do need me on this case." Alex huffs shoving past him and down the stairs stopping as she looks back up at the team, " Probably drinking some of the best house wine talking to my imaginary friends, as you put it before Gene." She shouts missing out on two steps, as she looks at the young girl one last time before slamming the door of the house.

Alex walked down the road, a hand moves into her hair as she realises she just punched Gene Hunt again, the worse he could do is suspend her or get her transferred but she knew he wouldn't do either.

" Looks like I've caught you at a bad time." Evan smiles aqkwardly at Alex, moving his hands into his suit pockets, Alex moves her hands onto her hips, as she looks at the house then smiles at Evan, this could work to her advantage no doubt Gene would be watching from the windows he always seemed to know what she did.

" Actually, you've caught me at a perfect time." Alex says, seeing Evan laugh like a little school boy before smiling again, she knew every time he did this it meant he was comfortable. Alex walks past him her hands in her jean pockets," Coming?" She questions turning her head, to a dazed Evan.

" Well where are we going I have to go pick up Alex at 6." Evan nodded quickly meeting up to her side, and walking alongside her in the street.

Gene had watched the whole encounter from the window rubbing his jaw, Alex would be the death of him and yet he knew, she knew what she was doing.

" Guv we have a case to do, stop thinking of your revenge and help us find who hurt this little girl. We could have a murderer on our hands." Ray pats Gene's back, turning his head as Shaz makes a floorboard creek.

Gene quickly turns his head moving Shaz's foot of the wooden floor as he pulls it up easily, a birth certificate was scrunched under there, Gene reads it closely passing it to Ray and Chris as he gets up off his knee's wiping any dirt. " So he found out that his Mrs's was doing the dirty and had poor Lily with another fella, he got jealous and ended up killing her." Gene states walking to the door happy to have solved the case without Alex's help.

Shaz looks around the room picking up a wedding band, a males. " Guv, I think whoever pushed her wore this, Alex said about a thicker part of the hand print and this would be the ring. Why was it shoved back here." Shaz mumbles as she moves the draws out of the way seeing a small opening as she gets on her knees her hands trying to feel for anything before screaming as she moves her hand back to be covered in blood, both Gene and Chris rushing to her side. " I think there's a weapon in there." Shaz says as she cries into Chris's arms. Gene grabbing whatever it was, a kitchen knife covered in blood.

" So whoever this loony is, he has hurt more than Lily." Gene mumbles as he passes Ray the knife to put in the clear bag. " Right we need to take someone in for questioning, the only problem no one has seen him since his wife made the call." Gene talks to his team, at this moment once again wishing Alex was there to say what she made of the situation.

" Well no one's seen or heard of the girl since the call, and Lily hasn't been stabbed. So somewhere either the wife has stabbed him to protect herself, or he's gon' and stabbed her teaching her a lesson' for shagging someone else." Ray says simply, getting cut off by Shaz.

" Ray, that's no way to speak a young girl has been killed because of this, and her poor mother might be dead too. Of course you would think of sex first." Shaz says pushing past Chris and Ray, Shaz missed Alex on this case already she wouldn't let the sexiest comments happen.

Alex giggled into her wine glass, she had slipped into her grey dress and red corset now, she was off the case for the day and so she could relax. Besides she already knew Gene would come crawling back asking for her help.

" Alex I really must be going." Evan mumbled as he took a sip of his whiskey finishing it off, as Alex's hand moved over his.

" But I'm asking you to stay." She says tilting her head and fluttering her eyelashes, Evan looked at the time and did not want to be late for Alex after all she was all he had now.

" I'm sorry Alex is waiting for me." He says standing up as he looks at her slumped over the sticky bar table. " If I was you, I'd go to bed alone." Evan smiles as he gave her the advice before walking to the door's seeing Gene there. " She's more than pissed mate, one more and she'll believe she's from another world." Evan warns Gene before walking out of Luigi's.

Gene watched as he left before staring at Alex as he walks over to her table clapping his hands loudly above her head. " Wakey Wakey Drakey." He sings, causing her to groan and lift her head, her eyes following Gene who sits in front of her, Luigi quickly coming over and giving him a glass as Gene fills the glass with Alex's bottle of wine.

" Here to gloat you solved a case without me?" Alex asks raising her eyebrow and eye as she brings the glass under her nose, taking a sip as he started to speak.

" Well I'm not here to gloat, other than that to drink to my success." Gene grins, as he downs the wine quickly pouring himself another one, there was no way he would drink as much as Alex already had.

" So you are here to gloat then." She mumbles, as she moves her hand to pour herself another glass, but Gene holds the wine bottle down, his hand brushing against Alex's both of them feeling the sparks there bodies gave, as Gene moved his face closer.

" Well I can't gloat when no one is behind bars, and that young girl there lost her life due to some bastard." Gene spits, angrily but his eyes soften again as they eye each other, not one of them daring to blink, as it meant another second of them not being together.

" You really do have a heart Gene, you care about that child." She smiles sweetly, as she moves her hand to hold her chin up.

"I just want to clean the streets up of scum like 'em." He says his eyes looking down at her lips and then her eyes again.

"Have you ever thought of having kids, Gene?" She asks the words rolling off her tongue softly, causing Gene to regain focus again.

"What and have mini Gene Genies around the place, no thank you." He laughs sitting back on the chair, as he moves his fingers around the rim of the glass.

" Well Molly would have loved you!" Alex grinned as she downed the rest of her drink, shaking it in the air so Luigi would get her another outfit.

" Well I'd love to meet the famous Molly one day, maybe she'll love Gene as much her mother does." Gene retorts causing Alex to spit the little bit of the drink she had left in her mouth over Luigi.

"Gesù Cristo" Luigi exclaims throwing his hands up in the air as he puts the wine bottle down, turning his back to them and walking behind the bar wiping his shirt with his towel, "la mia bella maglietta, rovinata dal vino"

Alex laughs at Luigi's statement, " Luigi add it to the bill, I'll get you a new shirt." She winks, understanding his english, " Gene pagherà per ti".

Gene stares at Alex, wishing he knew what the hell she was on about. He saw the 'learn italian' book on her table, but never realised she read it, now he wished he had. He had tried to once but ended up throwing it at Luigi, calling all the words 'bastard.'