Whilst Jack set-up a non-uniformed set of Officers to go out and watch Wallace, Stevie remained in the café with a very impatient Smithy.
"Why can't we just go and arrest him now? Why do we have to watch him?" Smithy asked Stevie slightly angrily.
"Because, people like Wallace don't learn, we need to know if he's had people working for him whilst he's been inside. I mean, we got most of the crew last-time…..But these type of criminals have people everywhere working for them. If there's gonna be another rush of gun-crime through Sun-Hill, then we need to know about-it." Stevie told Smithy seriously.
"Yeah, but I don't see why I can't just arrest him and then we can solve the gun-crime later-on. Once he's off the streets." Smithy paused as Stevie sighed at him and gave him 'the glance' which meant 'leave-it.' After a couple of silent glances at Stevie, Smithy stood-up in frustration.
"Right, that's it. I'm going to find Wallace." Smithy said to Stevie, before trying to walk-out of the café, but Stevie soon caught-up with him and grabbed his arm to stop him from doing so.
"Are you deaf aswell as stupid? We were told to stay here." Stevie told Smithy firmly, but it had no effect.
"Yeah well, Jack's gotta another thing coming if he thinks that I'm just gonna sit-around here with you whilst they track-down Wallace. No way am I letting that happen Stevie. NO WAY!" Smithy shouted.
"Look just calm-down will you." Stevie ordered-him before she then took his hand and led-him to just outside of the café.
"Listen, we don't know what state Wallace is in, OR whether he has got his hands on some more fire-arms since he's escaped from prison. YOU are that guy's worst enemy. He hates your guts. If you go playing kiss-chase with him now, you're only gonna end-up getting hurt. And it's my job as your undercover 'girlfriend' to make sure that-that doesn't happen to you Smithy." She told Smithy before pausing for a couple of seconds as a sweet-smile grew across her cheeks. "And anyway…..I don't think I could handle it if you were to get hurt….." Stevie said sweetly, cheekily and quickly squeezing Smithy's hand a few-times.
"Oh well aren't you cute." Smithy flirted, instantly calmed-down by Stevie's cheeky nature. The pair had feelings for each-other whether they wanted to admit-it to each-other or not.
"Oh well I try darlin'. It's just difficult sometimes when I've got an angry copper on my hands." Stevie joked, but Smithy's smile had dropped as he stared down the street at something that had obviously caught his attention.
"Smithy what's wrong?" Stevie asked-him, concerned at Smithy's facial-expression as she followed his sight-line behind her and was horrified to see that Smithy was infact staring at Wallace, who was returning the stare right-back at Smithy as he approached them both.
"Fancy seeing you here." Wallace stated, smugly, as he stopped next to Smithy and Stevie.
"Half the coppers in Sun-Hill are looking for you right-now Wallace." Smithy told-him bluntly as he came face-to-face with Kieran Wallace for the first-time in months.
"I'm not thick." Kieran replied threateningly.
"Kieran Wallace, I'm arresting you….." Stevie began, but she was interrupted by Kieran grabbing her by the throat.
"Don't you dare!" He told Stevie menacingly. He was twice as nasty as before, and that was dangerous.
"Kieran get-off of her." Smithy ordered-him, and he moved his hands away from Stevie, holding them in the air.
"Oh, I'm sorry…..Officer." Kieran said sarcastically to Smithy as he drew-in closer to him, literally inches away from each-other's faces as it looked-like a fight was about to break-out between the pair. But it was more complicated than that. As Smithy distracted Wallace, Stevie was texting Jack.
Stevie: Wallace ere. Bet back-up. NOW.
Jack: On it's way.
Back at the station, Jack had got CID involved in capturing Kieran Wallace again. "Jo, Mickey, word please." Jack ordered and the 2 Coppers followed Jack into his Office.
"What is it Guvna?" Mickey asked in his strong Cockney Accent.
"We've got non-uniformed Officers out and about on the look-out for Kieran Wallace. But there's just one-problem. Wallace has found Smithy and Stevie." Jack told them both.
"Right….." Jo trailed-off, unsure as to what this had to do with herself and Mickey.
"I want you and Mickey to go to the Sunny Café Coffee Shop. That's where you should find Smithy, Stevie, and Wallace. I want you to keep-watch. Chances are Kieran will take-them somewhere, but we can't afford anyone to get-hurt here, so if he does take-them anywhere, you follow-them, but alert Myself and SO19. Do you understand?" Jack told-them before the Officers headed-out to find their fellow-colleagues and Kieran Wallace.
Mickey and Jo had soon arrived and had sight-lines of Smithy, Stevie and Kieran Wallace.
"Act Normal Smithy." Jo muttered to himself as she noticed Smithy catch their attention.
"What you staring at boy?" Kieran asked viciously.
"Nothing." Smithy said, still slightly distracted by what Mickey and Jo were upto.
"Right. Nothing you say? Well why should I trust you when you say that you're staring at 'Nothing?' After-all, last-time I thought you were some dodgy-guy after some-guns, but it turned-out that you were a Copper. You little piece of Filth." Kieran's word for the Police. "What's stopping me from thinking that you aren't on the look-out for some of your precious colleagues to come and save you from-me…..Ey?" He said, which was worrying for Smithy and Stevie.
"Both you, round that corner now." Wallace ordered-them, the corner led to a dark-alleyway round the back of the shop.
"Don't go thinking that I don't know what you're upto." Wallace began. "You're after-this aren't ya?" He questioned-them, releasing a gun from his belt as he prepared-it to be shot. Kieran pushed the gun against Smithy's head as he turned to look at Stevie, who was next to them.
"Now, unless you do what I say, then he's a gonner. Do you understand?" Stevie nodded at Kieran. "Now I want you to go and get-rid of any of your Copper Friends who I know will be hanging about." Wallace ordered, still holding the gun firmly against Smithy's head.
"Kieran I can't do that!" Stevie panicked, but Kieran whacked the gun against Smithy's head and then kneed him in the stomach, causing him to keel-over, which allowed Kieran to get Smithy into a head-lock.
"I'm not messing about here!" Kieran threatened. Stevie looked at Smithy to make-sure that he was okay, his head was bleeding, but it was nothing serious, she could push Kieran a little-further.
"And who's to say that I won't blab to my 'Copper Friends' as you put-it?" Stevie questioned and Smithy sighed.
"Because if you do then Smithy isn't gonna be the only one that's dead-meat, do you get-me?" Kieran threatened, still holding Smithy in the head-lock.
"Then I'm not going-anywhere." Stevie told-him firmly.
"Fine. Right then, well you've left-me no-choice." Wallace confirmed before he then began to beat-up Smithy, gripping his clothes and dragging him into the wall head-first before dropping-him to the ground and kicking him violently in the stomach repeatedly.
"STOP!" Stevie shouted in a panic and Kieran stopped-immediately.
"What? So you're gonna do it then?" He asked-her.
"No….." She trailed-off, and Kieran let-off a gun-shot, which hit Stevie in the shoulder, closely missing her chest. Stevie screamed in pain as Wallace walked-off smugly, hiding the gun in his belt again as he left the injured-coppers alone.
First Mistake. – Mickey and Jo had heard the gun-shot and whilst Mickey called for back-up as he followed Wallace, Jo headed-around the corner and into the dark-alleyway to make sure that Smithy and Stevie were alright.
"Smithy can you hear-me?" A tearful-Stevie asked.
"Yeah…..OW." He winced in pain as he tried to sit-himself-up as he gently took a-hold of Stevie's arm. "Here. Let's have a look at that." He told-her as Jo arrived.
"Are you two alright?" Jo asked them worriedly. "I heard a gun-shot."
"Yeah…..You Did…..And no we're not. Smithy's in a bad-way, and I've been shot…..Only in the shoulder though….." Stevie trailed-off as he tried to hold-back the tears from the pain she was in and the state that Smithy seemed to be in.
"Alright Guys." Jo tried to re-assure them as she pulled her phone-out. "Yeah…..Ambulance Please…..Just outside the Sunny Café Coffee Shop." Jo told the guy on the end of the phone before she then turned her attention back to Smithy and Stevie.