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Gene's Nightmare

Alex was sat in the car next to John who drove towards a part of Fenchurch she wasn't familiar with. She glanced in the passenger side wing mirror relieved to see Gene and Ray were only a few cars behind them. John was chatting away as she continued to nod in all the right places. It seemed that the more he talked the more he fitted the profile. Alex couldn't admit it but she was terrified. She managed to keep him talking long enough that he didn't seem to realise they were beig followed. She sighed, folding her hands in her lap she couldn't help but think Gene and Annie had been right about this op from the start. She just hadn't been able to see it herself.

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Gene was glad he had stopped Ray from driving. He was determined that he would be the one in charge of the car, there was no way he was letting Ray follow the suspect alone. He heard Ray radio Sam and Annie as he pushed the accelerator to the floor, determined that he would stay right behind Alex.

"Just turning in to Saint Andrew's Road" Ray spoke as Gene swung the car to the right

"Fine" Sam answered "Annie and I will meet you there, Chris and Sharon are talking to the bouncers at the club. Apparently this John bloke was barred for a month, started hassling a barmaid there" he broke the connection as Gene swore.

"How did they let the bloke back in?" Gene watched as the car Alex was travelling in approached the waste ground. "Thought these clubs did a lifetime ban on these idiots. St Andrew's is just off that bleeding bit of waste land behind the church yard innit?" he slowed the car briefly as Ray shook his head.

"Dunno Guv" Ray didn't understand it either, the priority now was to find Alex, arrest the suspect and get back to Fenchurch East. He didn't like where the car in front was headed and had a funny feeling that things were not going to go the way CID wanted them to. He unclipped his seatbelt as Gene swung the car to a standstill.

"Where did they go?" Ray swung the car door open. Gene shook his head checking his gun was ready.

"No idea Raymundo, but can't have gone far. The car was only a minute or so ahead of us" He jumped out of the car as he walked towards the now abandoned car in the alleyway. Ray looked around him, it was clear the ford fiesta hadn't long been abandoned but he couldn't for the life of him work out where John may have taken Alex. He felt the panic rise, he daren't look at the Guv, knowing that Gene was already about to explode. He saw Annie and Sam pull their car up just ahead of them.

"Where is she?" Annie yelled across to the two men, she looked worried. She had never wanted Alex to go undercover. She had known it was too soon after the Coma and Leighton. She looked across at Sam who was stood the other side of the car. She could see how upset he looked to.

"Guv?" Sam walked towards Gene "What happened?"

"I don't bloody know do I Ethel?" Gene snapped. "We were behind them all the flammin way!"

He desperately needed a cigarette. The deserted waste land was throwing up a million possibilities as to what may have happened to Alex. All Gene knew was that she was somewhere with a potential psychopath and they had no idea where. The pitch dark and freezing cold conditions were doing nothing to calm Gene's fears. He glared around the deserted piece of wasteland as the old church threw eerie shadows along the floor.

"Right, lets start looking then." Sam nodded towards Annie for her to follow him. Gene ran a hand across his face as he swore under his breath.

"Be ok Bolly. Please be ok" he muttered to himself as he stepped away from his car. The night was closing in on him as he followed Ray across the wasteland. He felt sick, this was the one case where he had wanted to be proven wrong. Being right that it was too dangerous for anyone to go undercover was no colselation when his wife was now missing and he had no real way of finding her.

"We are not going back to the nick without her" he bellowed at Ray. Ray just nodded before holding up a hand to stop him.

"Listen Guv" he saw Gene was about to explode. He stepped slightly away from Gene as he spoke. He was sure he had heard something, just a faint noise in the background.

"What?" Gene was on the verge of panic. He had known he was right to be against this, but he had let himself be railroaded in to this by Alex and Sam. He cursed under his breath. If anything happened to her he knew who he would blame. He sighed. The only person to blame would be himself, he turned towards Ray who was stood still as if waiting for something to happen.

"Listen" he watched as both Annie and Sam waited for Ray to elaborate. Then the whole team heard it, the unmistakable sound of a woman screaming.

Ray was running in a second with Sam just behind. Gene felt his heart lurch for a second before following the others as fast as he could. It was only Annie who had the sense to return to the car and drive after them while radioing in that she needed back up. All Gene could think about was getting to Alex any way he could.

author's note : Just a short chapter. Sorry for the delay in updating. More soon! Please let me know what you think.