Sorry for the long update! I've been really busy to post it. Here's the second part, hope you like it, thank you so much for the reviews so far!

'How early do you get into work?' Alex asked as she climbed out of the taxi and walked towards her DCI.

'What?'

'How early do you get into work? It's only half seven now.' She said looking at her retro digital watch.

They were standing at the north side of Tower Bridge, uniformed officers milling around attempting to disperse the slowly growing crowd and calm angry motorists who were airing their views on the amount of congestion caused by a section of the bridge being sectioned off.

DC Skelton and DS Carling were standing behind the police cordon by a blue sheet laid on the ground, which, as Alex supposed, was covering the body that had been pulled out of the river. Gene shrugged and moved his way forward towards them, ducking under the police tape, inviting Alex to do the same. She trailed behind him, and, after Gene gave a nod of the head, watched as Chris bent down to uncover the face of the victim.

Alex gasped, staggering slightly, holding her head as pain seared through it. The image of Layton, cocking his gun flashed before her mind's eye, the bullet racing towards her in slow motion, spinning as it came closer and closer…

'Careful, Bols, have one too many last night did we?' Gene asked her steadying her as he gently held her arm. He sensed Alex's discomfort as she looked upon the face of the victim, but did nothing, she was a DI, she'd have seen worse.

It was a woman, of about Alex's age, with brown shoulder-length and murky-green eyes that stared up towards the heavens, unseeing.

'We'd have thought it'd be a suicide if it wasn't for the bloody great shot wound in her head.'

Alex's sight blurred slightly as she bent down, but cleared as she tentatively touched the wound on the woman's high forehead.

'Bullet probably killed her instantly.'

'No!' Alex jumped up and turned to face Gene, who was looking at her with an odd expression.

'Sorry, Miss. Nightingale, but that's what a shot in the head tends do to.'

Alex shook her head slowly and she looked down to the victim. No, it was possible live through a shot in the head. It had to be, it needed to be, she was alive, she was going to wake up and see Molly…

Gene motioned to Chris to cover the body, as Ray started to rifle through the purse that was found on the woman.

'Who was she?'

'Dunno, don't say. There's just notes and change in here.'

'They didn't want her money, so it wasn't a random attack.' Alex turned towards Gene, 'She knew her killer.'

Gene nodded slightly, 'I'll get Granger to do a missing person's scan, try and see who she is.' With that they all swept away to the Quattro.

There you go! Hopefully the next chapter will be up quicker than this one!