THE DOMINO EFFECT CHAPTER SEVEN

Gene Hunt looked visibly shaken when he saw Evan Whites body on the table, he removed the cigar he was smoking from his mouth and put it out in the sink.

"Forced Entry?" he asked Chris, looking around the body,

"No Guv front door was just open, like the killer was expected."

"Where's the girl?" he asked, Chris shrugged

"What girl guv?" he asked, Gene snapped

"The little girl who's daddy blew himself and her mummy up cus hole in the head ova there couldn't keep his todger in his trousers!! Alex Price you prat!" he was angry and very scared if something happened to Alex Price, he would lose Alex Drake, Annie rushed in panicked

"Guv there's a child's bedroom upstairs the beds still warm but no sign of the child."

Gene couldn't hold his anger, and punched a hole through the door he started to turn he wanted to throttle Evan White all of this was his fault.

"It's Layton, he made the bomb that Tim Price used to kill himself and his wife with, Alex said that Layton would blackmail him, but it has gone one step further, Chris get back to the nick ring the other stations I want Layton before he gets a chance to hurt a hair on bol-Alex Prices little head."

"Roger that." Chris left the kitchen Annie turned to Gene,

"You were going to say Bolly weren't you? Alex Price, she's?"

"Yep Tyler one in the bloody same, she's Drake my Bols." He looked at what Layton had written on the fridge 'Hope your happy Hunt!'

"He has picked the wrong copper piss off, Annie Fire up the Quattro!"

Leaving plod at the scene until forensics showed up the Quattro raced across Fenchurch.

"where are we going Guv?" Annie asked

"Layton's lock up." He said as he took a corner at full speed the almost tail ended, Gene corrected it and changed gear, he lent over Tyler and opened the glove box and pulled a long shiny colt pistol, he put it in his lap, Annie was concerned,

"Gene?" she looked at the gun "What are you doing Gene?"

"It's simple Annie it's him or me the bastard is going down!"

Arriving at the warehouse, they found it ablaze smoke billowing out, fire men were fighting the blaze, Gene smacked the top of the Quattro

"Bastard Nancy boy shitting sodimite little bastard!" he couldn't believe what he was seeing the warehouse was all most raised to the ground, a fireman walked over

"DCI Hunt." He said half smiling,

"It's Superintendent now, what can ya tell me?"

"It was started with an accelerant in the office."

"Any body's at all maybe a young girls?" Gene asked

"No no body's yet, but we will let you know." As he walked away Annie lent on the car

"What's next?" she asked Gene thought hard, it was all about Alex, then he remembered where he first met her where she said that she would be shot in the future

"Get in I have a hunch." Annie had barley shut the passenger door as the Quattro reversed, spun round and dashed off own the road.

"Where are we going Guv?" Annie asked

"Where I first met Alex the Docklands a ship called the lady di."

"You wouldn't have done this for Sam." She snapped

"For your information DCI Plod, I did I saved him when kid Sam had the coach accident in '83!"

"Sorry Guv." She shrugged

"Forget it." He said concentrating on the road, he didn't know why he was so sure that Layton would be near the princess Di, but his gut told him that's where he was.

"Guv it's Chris." squawked over the radio

"Yes chris what is it, better not be to ask to go to the toilet!"

"N0 NO Guv, the drug ring it's Layton, we have one of his lot in and they have told us a load of stuff."

The Guv gripped the radio,

"Right Christopher get every officer you can and raid the main operation."

"Right Guv on it." Gene put the handset down and concentrated on the road , he slammed on the brakes as a lorry backed out infront of them.

"Shit!" the car came to a halt, Gene glanced at Annie.

"You ok?" he asked, she nodded, he nodded put the car in gear released the hand brake and drove round the lorry carrying on down the road.

It was almost dusk when the Quattro skidded to a stop by the gang way leading to the Princess Di, Gene got out of the Quattro colt in hand, he turned to Annie.

"Call back up an ambulance and wait here I will send the girl out to you." Before Annie could protest Gene was halfway down the gangway.

The Princess Di was disused and run down, the metal was starting to rust and the paint was peeling off the walls, Gene made sure that he kept very quiet, he could hear Layton talking from a deck or two lower.

"It's your fault, well it will be soon, you, your Dad, Evan you all force my hand make me do what I do in 2008, see when I came face to face with you I realized you had to be the same copper from 1981 yet you hadn't aged a day! But they got me they got me good a fatality out come is the term I believe and I woke up in 1980, determined to stop you and Hunt." Gene was closer now but he listened it was all starting to make sense.

"I found my younger self and helped him, told him what he had to do next, then I started looking for you, but you weren't there some guy called Tyler was his DI, I needed it to be you so when I heard they were transferring down here I arranged a bank job in Manchester, then I fixed the brakes on his car he went into the canal, but disappeared, Hunt was meant to die to someone called Summers asked me to take care of him, but I needed him alive to get you." Gene cursed Sam had died just so Layton could get another chance at killing Alex?, he was furious, Layton was still talking.

"So the final test Alex, Summers shot himself in the past and nothing changed but let's see what happens when I shoot you, will Alex Drake cease to be?" Gene could hear a gun being cocked,

"Let's see how the domino's fall shall we?" Layton chuckled, Gene burst into the room.

"LAYTON! LET THE GIRL GO!"

"NO! YOU AND HER TOOK IT ALL AWAY FROM ME NOW IT'S MY TURN!"

Gene moved over to Alex, she wasn't tied up she was just to scared to move

"Ello love you remember me the Gene genie? Well you need me and here I am ,when i say run you head of this thing there is a plod out side called Tyler, you go and see her ok?" he whispered, she nodded, tears running down her cheeks

"oi no tears I am the guv and thats an order." Gene stood and looked Layton in the face, Layton looked away

"I don't like people looking at me!" he was momentarily distracted, Gene didn't moved he motioned to the door with his hand,

"Now Alex go quickly!" he said, he glanced to make sure she was out, Layton noticed this and levelled his gun, aiming it at Alex, he pulled the trigger

"NOOO!" screamed Gene as he jumped infront of the bullet, it hit him in the stomach, he went down like a bag of spud's Alex was gone, Layton was cursing.

"Damm you Hunt! You blew it!" as he was talking he noticed a figure in the background almost appearing from nowhere, Layton fired his gun again into Gene's abdomen

"Your gonna die here Hunt, but you will live long enough to see me kill Alex!" shakily Gene raised his gun, he was in excruciating pain, he spat out some blood.

"Bollocks!" he said Horsley, pulling the trigger on the colt, the bullet ripped through Laytons Chest and heart killing him instantly, he dropped to the floor, Gene changed where his gun was aiming

"Out of the bloody shadows or unlike him I won't miss and blow your balls off like I wanted to do to him!"

The figure stepped out of the shadows it was a man who couldn't shouldn't have been there it was Sam Tyler.

"Hello Guv." Sam said sitting down next to Gene, taking his hand, he waited for Gene to pull it away, he chuckled

"So this isn't nancy then?"

"Tyler have you noticed I am dying?"

Sam went to put pressure on the wounds, Gene stopped him

"No Dorothy don't it's time I hung up my badge, ok it's not Alicante, but I imagine hells hot." Sam shook his head

"There is a place for you in heaven, Gene always has been, but you don't need it yet."

Gene was bleeding out, he knew he didn't have much time left.

"It's good to see you Sammy boy, Annie's here."

"I know, just lie still it's almost over."

"where will I go?"

"Home to 2069, where like Alex, you will wake up from your coma."

"I am in a coma? This is a fantasy?"

"No the coma just brings you here, in the world we are from Evan will still be alive when your born in 2018."

"I Know I saw him." Gene coughed "Molly, she was here for hours.."

"She wasn't meant to come here, that's why you had to pick her up so to speak."

"Did you die Sam?" Gene asked

"Yes. In both worlds, but my return was predicted in 82."

The gypsy woman 'You will give your power to a Tyler.'

"Where will you say you have been?"

"undercover for special branch flushing out operation Rose." Gene's head hurt he couldn't remember things properly, he was confused

"Pint at the railway Arms?" he asked Sam, who nodded

"I will get you a bottle of single malt, Guv." A tear ran down Sam's cheek,

"I am sorry I didn't want this."

"it....,it's alrite S...sam not y,y,your fault." He coughed up some blood then he smiled

"my accommodation at police college it was Sam Tyler house, they named you after a house!" he could separate past present and future anymore he knew what was coming he felt cold he was slipping away it was all getting dark, with his last ounce of strength he grabbed Sam's Head and pulled him close,

"Look after Alex, make sure she grows up to be Bolly........................................" Gene's eyes closed his chest stopped moving, he was dead, the Gene Genie had gone home.

Sam knelt next to gene's lifeless body still holding the Guv's hand he was numb Gene Hunt was dead so he could return it was wrong his stomach was in knots the Manc lion couldn't be dead he was unbreakable, he didn't hear Annie or Chris come in behind him

"Sam? But your dead? how?" Annie was in tears at seeing Sam, her husband who she thought had died six years earlier yet here he was right as rain holding Gene Hunts cold dead hand, Chris was checking Gene's Pulse, there wasn't one he started to panic trying to choke back the tears,

"he can't be dead he can't, Guv Guv! DCI Hunt! Wake up! Gene please?" Sam Hugged Chris, as he pulled him away.

"C'mon Chris he's gone, he died a hero's death saving that little girl." He pulled Chris up, at that moment, Shaz Ray and Viv all ran in, seeing how upset chris was Shaz ran straight over, Ray was staring at Sam,

"but your dead?"

"No." Lied Sam "I was I undercover, police corruption the Guv knew all about it I had to walk away from my life I am sorry." He was speaking to Ray but talking to Annie she walked over and slapped him hard

"Friggin bastard!" then she hugged him tighter than she ever had, Ray was staring at the Guv

"No but the Guv is he ok? Is he breathing?" Chris and Sam shook there heads, Ray welled up Viv put his hand on Ray's shoulder but rather than shrug it off took it in his own hand

"Sorry Ray." Viv was choked he couldn't speak properly, Ray nodded, then he whispered to himself

"I loved you, you were like a brother, I would have taken the bullet Guv."

"He got Layton." Noted Shaz as she walked over to his body kicking the gun away, Sam watched the others watching him, they were in complete shock, the Guv dying and him being back, lots of unexplained questions would need answering, Annie noticed him looking around.

"Sam?" she asked

"Look I have something that I need to do I will meet you back at the station." He started to walk away she called after him.

"Are you coming back?"

"I promise."

2018

"Molly, I am heading home I will be into see you tomorrow." She didn't get an answer she didn't expect one as Molly had been asleep for hours she wheeled herself out into the corridor and came face to face with a man she never thought she would meet.

"SAM TYLER!" she cried "But how your're dead?"

"I am here Alex but in the other world I was resurrected."

"How?" she asked, he went pale and shifted his weight

"It was the Guv he got you to be him here, he was meant to ask you to do it there but he didn't for some reason, he was killed by Layton saving you, he killed Layton." Alex went numb Gene dead? Even though she wasn't there life without him.

"oh I don't know what, oh god no Gene?" she was crying, Sam knelt down so he was at her eye level

"He's gone home Alex, to our future, but he went the way he would have wanted protecting you."

"He was one of us!"

"Yeah we weren't the first. Gene knew all along he just couldn't say, that's why he wanted you to replace him."

"What will you do now?"

"As the Guv gave his life for me, I will take over from him, with Annie and Chris in tow,"

Sam turned and started to walk away, he turned and asked her one question.

"You know your grandson's destiny don't you?" she nodded

"He's the Gene Genie." She smiled.

"It was nice to meet you Sam, finally."

"And you Alex." Sam walked away he headed through a set of double doors and was back in 1985 in Fenchurch East CID in the blink of an eye, as he walked in Ray handed him a file.

"You have been confirmed as the Guv's replacement, congrats Super." Ray was grinning,

"What is it Ray? "

"They have made me acting DCI at Fenchurch West."

"Congratulations Ray." Ray walked over to His desk Chris was standing next to Shaz who was sat down, Sam wandered over.

"And how are the Skelton's?"

"Good boss." Chris paused Shaz elbowed him "Err Boss what do you reckon if we have a boy we want to call it Guv........I mean gene." Sam nodded smiling,

"He would be honoured." Shaz smiled

"But if it's a girl it's Alex after DI Drake." They went back to there conversation, Sam wandered into Annie's office she looked at him

"Hello." She said mutley

"Hi." He replied,

"So your my boss again, what about my husband?"

"If you think you would be ok with it."

"Then tell me the truth about where you have been."

"I will but not here." Suddenly the doors to CID burst open a young man burst in .

"What the hell have you done to my department?"

"Stop being a twonk, who are you?" Ray asked

"DCI Jeremy Davies." He replied, he looked around "Is it april fools? stop pissing about..."

Sam walked out of Annie's office, Jeremy looked him up and down

"Go on who are you?"

"Sam Tyler your Superintendent." He grabbed Jeremy by the collar and winking at Ray began shouting.

"DON'T EVER WALTZ INTO MY KINGDOM ACTING KING OF THE JUNGLE!" Jeremy gulped

"What y,year is it?" he asked Sam couldn't resist.

"It's 1985 almost dinner time I'm avin alphabetti spaghetti." He was the Guv.

2018 three months later

DCI Price wheeled herself to the crime scene, her DS David Fry was waiting for her.

"Ma'am we found her over here, she had this."

he handed her a warrant card, she took it and went over to the young girl.

"I am DCI Alex Price." The girl nodded

"I know who you are."

"My reputation precedes me." She smiled "You Are?"

"DS Jane cooper." Alex opened the warrant card it was Cooper but she was a DI

"Ah my new DI."

"DI?" she asked

"yes, you requested to join my department; DI Hunt!"

Molly walked over

"Yes ma'am?"

"This is DI Cooper replacing you when you head to Manchester, can you run her to the hospital to get the once over."

"Yes Ma'am." As the two girls walked away Alex smiled in that instant she understood, more about Gene Hunt than she ever realized, she watched the two girls, then turned to Fry,

"What have we got?"

"An address for the guy that assaulted her from his mates." She smiled, she looked at the brand new audi she had arrived in , red a remake of a car a certain friend of hers had driven.

"David."

"Yes Ma'am?"

"Fire up the Quattro!" she was the Guv.

2067

Gene Hunt opened his eyes slowly the lights where bright and stung, he tried to sit up but couldn't, a doctor leaned over him.

"Gene I am Doctor Clarkson, do you know where you are?"

"2067." He said "What happened?"

"I don't know, but this young man can, your family are on there way." As the Doctor left a young face loomed over him, it was Charlie Macintosh, Supermac!

"Gene I told you not to go alone ,your lucky to be alive." He nodded his body ached

"Only you DI Hunt could get thrown of the sixth floor of a multi storey car park and live."

Gene nodded,

"I was needed I was there." he winced, Mac patted his shoulder.

"I will leave you to wake up, but one Question?"

"What?"

"Who are Sam and Alex? You kept repeating there names."

The end