A story about the relationship between Alex Drake and Gene Hunt.

Summary: When DI Alex Drake is found beaten unconscious in an alley way the officers in CID make it their own personal mission to find the people that did it. There's a race to find the attackers, who will find them first? Gene? Ray? Chris? Shaz?

DI Alex Drake

We had cracked the case! There had been an armed blag at a post office where the worker had been shot in the shoulder. We had no leads because there was no witnesses, the victim didn't see anything as he was shot straight away and he passed out, there were no forensics so we knew from the start that it was a professional job and the robbers meant business. We looked in the victim some more and found out that his wife pretty much hated him and she had previous for armed robbery… turns out that the armed robbers was the victims wife and her three brothers.

The case had taken all day and it was my turn to sort out all the paperwork so everyone had gone home and it was just me left here with the two of the cleaners. They worked around me and emptied my bin for me and even made me a cup of coffee which was very sweet of them. I definitely needed it after this day, I had been up since 6:30 this morning and it was now 9:00 at night. All I wanted to do was go home, have a (large) glass of wine, have a bath and go to sleep.

Eventually I finished the paperwork and I looked at the clock to see it was nearly 10:30 at night, with a large yawn I grabbed my white leather jacket and left the CID office. As I left the station I looked up and down the road to see everything was silent and there was no one out and about… they were probably all in bed… where I want to be. I started walking down the road towards my flat when I heard three men talking behind me, I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were speaking in hushed voices. I took a sneaky look back at them but I couldn't get a decent enough look at them so I decided to speed up my walking.

I was a police officer and I could kick someone arses if I needed to but not three of them, I needed Gene Hunt or even Chris Skelton if they wanted to attack me. I turned a corner and waited there for the three men to walk past but they didn't, in fact they also turned the corner. They were about to walk past me when one of them turned back, he looked me square in the face but looking at the other two and nodding at them. He turned me round to face the wall and he brought my hands behind my back so I couldn't fight them back.

The other two were searching my pockets for money or anything that they can steal "She's a copper!" One of the shouted obviously finding my warrant card.

"Shit" One of them said.

"You know what we gotta do" The one holding my arms said.

I was turned around so my back was against the wall now and then I was punched in the stomach, it made me double over in pain and one moved in for another hit but I got him his private area making his fall to the floor in pain. The other two came at me together so I didn't have a chance to defend myself and they started punching me until I was laying on the floor. Once on the floor they continued to punch, kick and stamp on me. I could feel myself losing consciousness and knew that they wouldn't be happy until they thought I was dead.

"Let's go before someone sees" A voice said and then there was three sets of feet running away from me.

I tried to get up so I could get some help from a passer by or something but I just couldn't get up off the floor. My whole body hurt with every breath I took so I knew walking somewhere was out of the question. The pain was beginning to take over and I could feel my eyes closing but I wouldn't let them close until I had help "You alright love?" A mans voice asked.

"Call… Gene… Gene Hunt… Fenchurch CID" I told the man before the pain over took me completely and I fell into the darkness.

DCI Gene Hunt

I pulled up to the station and walked inside, I passed Viv at the front desk giving him a brief nod "Sir" He called as I was about to open the doors to CID.

"What?" I asked as I turned around.

"Come with me" He said.

We ended up in one of the interview rooms "Wanna tell me what this is all about?" I asked.

"I've been trying to call you. A man came in saying he found a woman found beaten up in the Alley off Fenton Street, she told him to call Gene Hunt of Fenchurch CID. The woman passed out before giving him her name" He explained.

"Right… so we got no idea who it is?" I asked.

"Actually sir… he said the woman was wearing jeans, a blue one shoulder jumper and a white leather coat… like DI Drake was yesterday" He told me.

I didn't let him speak another word. I stormed out the station and got into my car before driving off to the hospital at speed, it didn't take long for me to get there and once there I found a helpful nurse who took me to the woman in question. The sight I met wasn't a bloody good one.

Alex was laying in the hospital bed with her eyes closed but she had cuts, scratches and bruises all over her face, neck and arms that I could see. The nurse explained that she had woken up a couple times but she was pretty out of it and didn't want to speak to anyone until I got here. Smart girl "Alex wake up" I demanded in my usual calm voice but it had no effect "Stop pissing around and wake up" I demanded again.

"Gene?" She questioned and opened her eyes to look at me.

"Yeah I'm here Bolly" I told her "Who did this?" I asked.

"Three men, local accents, white, two with brown eyes the other blue eyes, all had dark hair, one had a gold tooth as his big tooth on the left" She told me.

"Good girl" I said.

"They were robbing me but found my police badge, they started beating me up. They might think I'm dead" She said.

"I'll find the bastards, don't you worry Boll" I told her.

We stayed silent for a moment before she started getting up and taking all the machines off "I'm gonna help" She said getting off the bed and pointing to her clothes on the seat at the end of the bed. I got the clothes and stood there "Well get out" She said and rolled her eyes.

Once she was in the car I drove to her flat "You're not helping this investigation in that state, you look a bloody mess woman! You go inside, take some pain killers, have a bath or whatever it is you women like to do. I'll come by in a bit to get photos of your injuries and leave the clothes out for forensics" I told her.

"I can't sit at home all day" She said.

"Yes you bloody can and yes you bloody will" I told her.

Once back at the station after my fight with the lovely DI Alex Drake about her not being able to work I gathered Ray, Chris and Shaz in my office. I explained the situation to them and they were all disgusted and shocked.

"Laying their hands on a woman… disgusting" Ray commented.

"How is she Guv?" Shaz asked.

"Got any suspects yet?" Chris asked.

"Yes Ray it's bloody disgusting and I won't have boys walking around my town beating up women let alone women police officers. She'll be fine by tomorrow Shaz and back to work as normal. No suspects yet Chris but you can come with me to collect her clothes for forensics to do their tests on" I said answering all of them.

"I'll come too Guv" Shaz said.

"Yeah me too" Ray said.

"Fine all of you bloody come then" I said pouring myself a small (large) scotch and drinking it "One of you go and get the camera to get pictures of the injuries, one of you get some evidence bags for the clothes and whoever's left get yourself your notebook and a pencil to write down the description and anything else she says" I ordered.

DI Alex Drake

I looked in the mirror and was shocked at what was looking back at me. I had a black eye, a split lip, a heavily bruised nose, scrapes on my cheek. The rest of me didn't look much better as I was covered in bruises and cuts everywhere, I was sore and didn't want to move off my sofa but then I heard the door knock and I groaned in annoyance "C'mon Bolly open up!" Gene's voice called out and he knocked louder.

I opened the door to find him standing there with Chris who had a notebook and pencil in his hand, Ray with evidence bags and Shaz with a camera. They came in and I led them through to the living room but Gene went into the kitchen and got himself a large drink before coming back "How you feeling ma'am?" Shaz asked in her angelic voice.

"I'll be fine tomorrow Shaz, just a bit sore today" I told her with a reassuring smile.

"We'll get the bastards boss" Chris said.

"I don't doubt it for a second" I told him.

"Ya still got a great arse" Ray said.

"Thank you Ray… I think" I replied.

"Enough of this shit. Everyone do your jobs" Gene demanded.

"Are these the clothes you were wearing?" Ray asked pointing to the pile of clothes on the arm of the chair, I nodded and he put them in the evidence bag.

"Can you tell me everything that happened?" Chris asked, I told him the whole story and he wrote down key notes in his little book.

It was decided that because of the place of some of my injuries (meaning I was gonna have to take to my top off) that Shaz take the photos on my injuries as evidence. We went into my bedroom where I took my shirt off and although I could tell she was shocked by her face, she didn't utter a word she just did what she needed to do and then I put my shirt back on and then the two of us went back out into the living room "Pour me a large drink" I said to Gene who was helping himself to another.

"That's his third today" Shaz whispered to me.

"Don't you two let him have any more" I told Chris and Ray.

"Yes boss" Chris replied.

"C'mon let's go get these little bastards" Gene said as he handed me the drink I wanted. Chris, Shaz and Ray stood up and after saying their goodbyes they all left with the promise of coming back after work to make sure that I was ok. Part of me knew that I wouldn't see Ray, Chris and Shaz until after work again but something told me that Gene was going to be coming to me door a lot today and I was secretly hoping that he would.