The Twelfth Of Never

Chapter 4- Armed Robbery

Sam and Phil were in the car on the way to the supermarket in Canley High Street. 'So how did he take it then?' Phil asked, obviously referring to Stuart.

'I think he knew it was coming. He did try to change my mind though,'

'The crafty sod!! After his reaction about your miscarriage he expects you to just forget about it, he's more stupid than I first thought. He doesn't suspect anything about us does he?'

'He hasn't got a clue, I just want things to blow over first and then we'll go public. I love you Phil but I want things to be right, if I tell him now, he'll suspect that me & you were at it when we were together,' Sam reasoned.

'True, so are you free tonight. I was just wondering, do you fancy dinner?' Phil asked.

'That'll be nice,' Sam replied as they approached the supermarket. The paramedics were already there. PC's Honey Harman and Yvonne Hemmingway were already on the scene. 'Right, Sarge, the shop assistant says that the owner was attacked by a couple of teenagers wearing hoodies came in and started threatening the shop owner. We're going to the hospital to see if we can get anything out of the owner,'

'OK, then let us know if you can get anything,' Sam said.

'Sure Sarge,' Honey said.

Sam & Phil entered to find a few spots of blood lying on the floor. One of the workers, a red-headed female called Louise came out to speak to them. 'I called you nearly half an hour ago!'

'I know, just calm down, we got here as quickly as we could.' Phil replied.

'Can you tell us what happened?' Sam asked.

'OK then. A couple of teenagers wearing black hoodies came in and started threatening the shop owner with knifes and guns. They asked Harry to empty out the till, he refused. Harry went through to the back room to pick up some stock and one of the criminals followed him through and shot him in the leg,'

'Is there anything else you can tell us?' Phil asked.

'The one who shot Harry looked a bit older than the other boy. They drove off in a green Vauxhall. I've wrote down the registration number,' Louise said as she pulled out a piece of paper out of her jeans pocket.

'OK, I think we'll leave it there for now,' Sam said. 'But if you remember anything else, can you let us know' She handed Louise a card.

'OK then,' Louise said as Sam and Phil left.

'Trust us to get landed with a case like this' Phil moaned.

'I think its good it means we get to spend some…quality time together,' Sam grinned.

'On an armed robbery though? It's madness,' Phil remarked.

'I'll just ring the DI and let him know where we are' Sam said as she stepped outside the shop.

'OK then,' Phil said as Sam dialled Neil's office number.

'Hi Guv it's Sam. The shop owner's gone off to St Hugh's with a bullet to the leg; he looks in a bad way. Anyway it looks like we're looking for two teenagers driving a green Vauxhall registration number VC03 JNT. It could be stolen, we don't know yet. We're on our way back now. OK, then bye,' Sam hung up.

'You do know we're probably never gonna find that car, don't you?' Phil asked.

'What makes you think that?' Sam replied.

'They'll probably have the common sense to rid of anything that connects them with the robbery,'

'On the other hand, they might not, we'll just wait and see shall we?' Sam said.