Chapter 2: Getting the case

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Chapter 2: Getting the case

Max woke up the following morning, got dressed and found Millie in the kitchen eating a piece of toast for breakfast. He gave her a kiss on the forehead and reached past her for a mug and poured himself some coffee, snatching the other piece of buttered toast from Millie's plate.

"Hey" she laughed "that's mine".

Max just winked and grinned cheekily, biting the piece of toast. "You ready to go?" he asked her swallowing.

"Yeah" she replied, getting up and putting her plate and mug into the sink, "let me just go put on a sweater, pretty chilly today". Millie went into the bedroom and return wearing a thick black sweater. They walked out to the car together and Max sat down in the driver's seat.

When they arrived at Sun Hill police station, Max gave Millie a quick kiss and walked up the stair to CID, while Millie continued straight into Uniform. Yes, they were married, but at work, everything was professional. Millie went into the change rooms and found Nate, putting on his utility belt.

"Morning Mill's" he said cheerfully as she opened the door of her locker.

"Morning to you to Nate, you are you so chirpy this today?" she asked him smirking.

"Oh, nothing much, just happy, that's all" replied Nate, winking and walking out of the change rooms.

Millie just laughed and shook her head before also putting her belt on and closed her locker. As Millie walked out the door she nearly ran into Rodger who just smiled warmly at her.

"Ah Millie, just the person I was looking for, you and me are in the area car today".

Millie rolled her eyes and returned the smile. "Great!" she added sarcastically before following Rodger out to the car.


Max was sitting at his desk with his feet up on the table, reading through some old case files when DI Manson walked up to him. He dumped a file containing some papers on Max's desk.

"You and Grace are going to be working on this one" he told Max indicating to the file. "Briefing in 5" he added before walking back to his office.

"Right, thanks Guv" he grumbled to himself rolling his eyes.


"This is Kyra Milson and her three year old daughter Sophie" explained Neil pointing to the photos stuck on the whiteboard behind him.

"Last night, Kyra and her daughter were driving along Lawson Road at about 20:45, when they were hit pretty hard from behind by another vehicle which then took off at high speeds. Now normally this wouldn't be a big deal for CID, but this isn't the first time this has happened to this particular woman. In fact she has had threats made against her and her daughter numerous times before. There have been anonymous phone calls and emails threatening to kill or hurt both Kyra and Sophie. We have looking into this but haven't found much to work with".

"So what do you want us to do?" asked Max.

"We are going to monitor both Kyra and Sophie and see if any more threats are made. Max I want you to look at Kyra's previous partners and also Sophie's father and see if you can find any reason as to why someone, anyone, would hurt them. Grace I want you to go grab someone from Uniform and go and talk to Kyra and ask her why she thinks someone would hurt her".

Neil finished the briefing and everyone dispersed to go do the tasks they were assigned.


Grace walked down the stairs and knocked on the door of Inspector Smith's office. He greeted her with a surprised smile and beckoned her inside.

"Morning Grace, what brings you down to Uniform today?"

"Smithy, I need to borrow a PC to help me out and possibly act as FLO on a case I'm working on, can you spare us anyone?"

"Right" he answered, "well let me just who isn't busy at the moment, give me a sec". Just as Smithy finished his sentence, Millie walked passed his door and down the hallway.

"Millie!" he shouted running up to his door and sticking his head out. Millie turned at the sound of her name and walked up to Smithy curiously. "Why aren't you out in the area car with Rodger?" he asked frowning.

"Oh yeah we were, but we were called back because Rodger is FLO on a case with Jo and Stuart and there was some emergency. I was just on my way to go do some leftover paperwork".

"Ok well you can forget about that because Grace needs you to help her out with a case" he said indicating to a smiling Grace who was standing behind him.

"Ok sounds good" Millie replied with a polite smile.

Grace just nodded her head and walked out the door with Millie in tow.