Chapter 3

hey:) sorry this has taken soo long i hope your all enjoying the story so far, due to the lack of a laptop charger i havent been able to update:/ . Any way here's your next update :):) hope you enjoy x

Entering the house nothing felt the same. She knew this was her house and she knew everything in it was her own. However, after the evening's events everything felt strange and weird.

Gene had carried her into her flat due to the fact she had managed to fall into a restless and tearful sleep. Placing her on the sofa in her flat had disrupted her and made her stir, she began to cry intensely and Gene didn't know what to do to stop it.

" come on bolly, you're safe now." gene was hovering over the sofa looking at he r , she looked completely broken, how could he have done this to her? he knew what he was doing but he was more obssessed with catchign the bastards than protecting alex.

"How can you say that? they might have been caught Gene but you heard what he said , there is loads of them not just the ones we have just caught."

Gene looked down at her .

" listen to me bolly, no body is going to hurt you , not while im here."

Alex began to settle at that thought, she knew Gene wouldn't let any one hurt her, well not intentionally anyway. what happened tonight was a complete accident , well, not an accident as she knew what was going to happen , but she what she meant.

The night begane to move into mornign and Gene and Alex was sat on the sofa, her head reasting on Gene's shoulder and his head was resting on top of hers. every now and again she would begin to stir but with a few strokes of the cheeks and a gently " shhh im here" from Gene she settled back down again.

The sun began to streem through the red blinds in alex's flat drawing gentle lines of sun on Alex and Gene's face making them stir. she shot up from her dream; it was happening again the whole ngiht was happening again , in her mind, but strangely she knew Gene was with her, even when she was asleep , she knew he was there and nothing would happen to her.

"how you feeling to day bolly?"

Gene's voice brought alex out of her thoughts. she turned and looked at him and nodded and rose from the sofa made her way into the bathroom and took a shower.

The feel of the water felt like a big refleif had been lifted off her shoulders. the feeling of that mans dirty hands all over her body made her feel sick but the water was washing all of this away. she was dealing with this a lot worse than she thought she would. she knew it was her job and she knew what was going to happen to her so she couldnt understand as to why she was taking it so badly.

stepping out of the shower the cool air met her warm body sending a chill down her spine.

"Right! no more moping around" alex thought to herself ," sort yourself out girl! it is your bloody job, get a grip of yourself."

once Alex was dressed and made up she left her bedroom to see Gene sitting on her sofa staring at her.

" are you ok bolly?"

" i'm fine Gene, right are you ready to go ?"

"Alex why don't you take the day off work today ay? have a rest ?"

" why would i want to do that ? im a police officer Gene, so let me do my job yes? so come on no time for sitting around we have work to do."

" no Bolly, im telling you, your staying here."

Alex looked at him deffiantly.

" No Gene im not, i am going to work and i am going to do my job i refuse to sit around all day moping, yes something bad happened but it was part of my job, i didn't take on this job not knowing i would be dangerous. Right that is the end of the matter, come on , work."

with that Alex turned on her heel and made for the door there was no way that gene was going to make her stay at home.

Walking into CID alex felt like all eyes was on her. it was so obvious Gene had told everyone what had happened and shaz coming over to her offering her a cup of tea and asking how she was clarrified it.

" thanks shaz" alex took the tea from shaz and smiled. sitting down she pulled out a folder from her deak draw. all she wanted to do was get on with work that was all, she was fed up of thinking about last night now she just wanted to move on.

After 15 minutes of hearing whispering and the occasional stares alex couldn't take it no more.

" for got sake, i am fine,i am a police officer and it is part of the job to go undercover now can you all please just stop going on about it or whispering about it behind my back and just get on with your job like i am."

half way through alex's little speach gene had quietly opened the door and started listening to alex's rant. when she had finally finished he let outa big breath.

" bolly, in my office please."

groaning she got up from her chair and made her way into Gene's office . shutting the door behind her she stood with her back to the door staring at Gene.

" Gene, just don't even go there, can we please just get on with our jobs."

" bolly, shut up for a minute and listen to me , i was going to say that we have a lead ."

"oh."

" yeh, so if you can be quiet for a matter of 10 minutes and you are able to sit at your little desk with out figiting or pacing up and down my nylon tyles i will tell you and the rest of them out there."

Alex stared gene out raising her eyebrown and put her hand on her hip.

" fine". with that alex pulled open the door and walked over to her desk she sat down and looked across at gene who has now took a stand at the flip chart.

" right, as you all know this gang have been raping and murdering woman, however since last night another murder. a young blonde woman, mid 20's, and like the other victims she had been mugged and"

gene looked over at alex then quickly looked away.

" and raped."

it took about half a minute for CID to process this imformation. Ray sighed.

" Guv, how could that possibly happen? we have the bastards locked up."

it was now alex's time to speak.

" because ray, like they said to me last night, there is more ofthem not only the ones we arrested last night."

" exactly" gene conitued. " so that means our work isn't done so we keep working and we keep working untill we find these bastards who are doing this. right A team , with me "

Gene sweeped out of the door his team following closely behind him. the quattro sqreeched round corners nearly taking out people on the way but it came to a clean smooth stop when they reached the murcer scene.

Alex slipped out of the car taking in her surroundings; it was an alley,an alley just like last night, by backstreet clubs and drug dealers standing on the steet corners.

"oh god this is going to be fun" alex though to her self walking over to the scene following Gene with a bit of a jog in her stride trying to keep up with Gene.

She wasn't prepared for the scene infront of her , this young woman was stripped from the waist down there was dried blood around her nose and head and her handbag and its contents had been littered o the floor a small way away from her, obviously her purse was no where to be found and there was very obvious markings on her body wear jewellery had been ripped off her during the mugging.

" right lets get this body covered up and out of here, lets give her some respect yeh."

Gene took charge, he ordered ray and chris to get back to the station and interview the bastards from last night, he radioed shaz to go and get the pathologist to come down and he told alex to have a qick look around to see if any of the young womans belongings had ended up lying around the rest of the ally.

An hour later and the womans bodywas now in the morgue and being assesed by the pathologist. ray and chris were now out questioning the public about last nights incidents and Alex and gene had now taken over from ray and chris with interviews every thing seemed to be going ok.

she was able to take looking at the little leech at first, the look in his dark eyes and the snug smirk onhis face as he answered "no comment" to all of alex and gene's comments. the twitching of his fingers when either asked the him a question that was a little to close for comfort and the looking up left whe he was visibly lying.

yes alex could take all this it was only when he made one comment to alex when she actually flipped, one comment was all it took, one simple comment.

" replay tonight then darling".

and that was it, that was the line, with that alex flew out of her chair closely followed by gene who was ready to jump in if anything more came of this.

" you know what? you might think you are al big and clever now but just you wait, just you watch, you won't be smiling soon will you."

"Alex, stop sweetheart come on" gene stood inront o her trying to block her view and trying to make her concentrate solely on him.

" listen to me alex, there is no need for this , i know your angry and i know you want to kill him , god, so do i ater what he did to you and the other girls, but especially to you , but this is not the way to do it , he will get his dont you worry, just not.. right now, ok?"

she looked up at him , into his bright blue eyes, they made her relax , she nodded and took a step closer.

" im done with this interview gene, im going for a drink."

with that alex took a big intake of breath looked into genes ees again and the turned on her heel making her way to luigis.

" god i can't take it any more, i just want to go home" she spoke quietly to hersel, she had changed her mind on sitting in luigis instead she brought a bottle o wine rom the little italian restraunt and made her way upstairs.

im sorry if this update ws a little rubbish, this update had to be a bit of writing and rambling just to iull ina couple of gaps and make the story line eventually more exiting.

thankyou or reading.

love lauren 3 xx