Falling Down

I don't own any of the characters in the Bill. Only the O.c's are mine.

Mickey had been late getting into the station the traffic had been bad, worse than usual. As he got to CID, he could see the briefing ending and everyone leaving.

"Mickey, you're late,"

"Sorry Guv, traffic was bad," Mickey told his boss DCI Meadows.

He sat down at his desk and started sorting through the paperwork and files that were piled up on it. He never seemed to ever run out of paperwork, God he hated it. Still at least he wouldn't have to worry about it for at least a week after his shift ended today, he was on leave for a week. He planned to spend the week down in Dagenham an old mate and colleague was getting married. Mickey smiled to himself as he thought about his mate Will, they had met at Hendon and had immediately become friends. Quite surprising as they were from totally different backgrounds: Will was from a comfortable middle class background and his family owned a nice big property in Hampshire where as Mickey was from a rough council estate and a dysfunctional family.

"MICKEY," he was brought out of memory lane by DS Moss. She was scowling at him from her desk.

"What's up sarge?" Mickey queried her.

"You with us or are in the land of nod still?"

"Sorry Sarge."

"We've got a lady to go and see about the robbery at the bank yesterday, she's one of the tellers who got to see the face of one of the men holding the bank up."

As they went out the door and down the stairs to get into the car DS Moss couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen, 'huh' she thought, 'I'm just being silly." It was probaly because the weather looked so bleak, the clouds had a real dark look to them.

They got into the car, Mickey driving and started to make thier way to the home of the witness, the roads were still busy as the early morning traffic had still not cleared up and it took them a good 45 minutes to get to the house that was on Morcombe Drive a more well to do area of Canley. Unlike most of the areas that the officers of Sun Hill had to deal with, this one looked really nice. The properties looked neat and tidy and it looked as if most of the residence actually cared what thier street looked like.

They pulled up to a modest sized house with a drive that seem to loop around the entire house. As they got out they could hear a dog barking frenzedly in the back garden. It didn't sound very happy, mind you it sounded like it wanted to do damage to someone and both officers hoped it wouldn't be them.

They rung the door bell and there was no reply, they could hear the dog getting more frenzied in the back garden and reluctantly decided to investigate. When they got there, they felt a bit silly, the dog despite it loud barks was an ankle bitter. A tiny little poodle but got it had one hell of a bark on it.

They both at the same time noticed that the back door was open and it looked as though someone had kicked the door in, Stevie idly wondered why the dog had not entered the house and then noticed that its lead was tethered to the ground. Odd she thought, all of a sudden a crash was heard inside the house.

Both Mickey and Stevie got thier asps out and entered the house, calling out as they entered to identify themselves as police officers to who ever was in the building. They heard nothing and as they edged towards the front of the house they could hear someone in a room ahead of them. Mickey barged through the door and surprised the intruder and Stevie went to follow when she heard a loud BANG and saw Mickey crumple to the floor, the intruder pushed past her, knocking her to the floor when she tried to stop him and she went to give chase. However by the time she had got outside, he or she was no one to be seen.

She returned to the room where Mickey was still lying on the floor.

"Mickey...are you alright?"

She asked as she knelt beside him but there was no reply. She saw with horror that he had been shot and hurriedly got on to CAD.

"I need an ambulance to 122 Morecombe Drive, We have an officer down."

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