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Tears.

Janine sat in the car as Kat drove towards the address she had been given. It seemed a long shot but there was no way Kat was going to tell her boss that. She could almost feel the tension radiating off Janine in waves. Kat clicked the indicator on and turned the car left knowing the boys were just behind her.

"Kat?"

"Yes Guv." Kat checked her wing mirror.

"You think I'm being stupid." She stated rather than asked. "I know you all gossip about me and Richard."

"Well." Kat sighed. "I."

"It's just if anything." She paused. "If anything happened to him because of me."

"It's not your fault some nutter psychopathic killer has kidnapped Richard." Kat started as Janine stared out of the passenger side window. A tear slipped down her check as she shook her head.

"It is." She sighed. "If I hadn't been so stupid all those years ago."

"Ma'am?" Kat had no idea what she was talking about but she knew there was something bothering her more than Richard's disappearance.

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"Bloody Hell." Richard grabbed his ribs as he staggered out of the room. The older man had been able to land one or two good punches and he knew he had at least two broken bones. His ribs burned and his jaw ached. The blood from his split lip dripped along his shirt as he leant against the wall and tried to catch his breath. He heard the man he now knew was Jacob Grovers yell out in frustration. Half of him wanted to go back into the cellar and try to arrest him while the other half wanted to run. He knew he had to get away but something kept him against the wall. The blinding pain in his ribs made him feel sick while the head wound made him dizzy. He swallowed hard before staggering out towards the door at the end of the corridor. Grovers slammed the door causing Richard to flinch. He knew if the former boxer caught up with him there was no way he was going to be able to fight back.

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"What the?" Shapps threw the car towards the wasteland behind the old factory as Butchers pushed his glasses further up his nose. The rain had started again and his small car was no match for the mud and sludge the wasteland had turned into.

"There's Kat and the Guv." Butchers nodded.

"I know." Shapps glared as he saw Kat step out the car. "Look, mate. This Grovers the Guv told us about has already killed three people in the last couple of months. He ain't going to be bothered about killing a forth. Be prepared for it. Ok?"

"You think Richard is dead?" Butchers was shocked to the core. He hadn't imagined for one moment they weren't going to see their friend again.

"I bloody hope not. For her sake as much as anything." He nodded to where Janine was stood in the rain.

"Her sake?" Butchers asked.

"Oh for God's sake you are a detective." Shapps rolled his eyes. "There has been something between those two for years."

"Has there?" Butchers turned to him. "They're mates I know. But? Really The Guv and the Boss?"

"Oh for pity's sake." Shapps half laughed and got out of the car.

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"Shit." Kat ran a hand through her rain soaked hair. She felt sick knowing that the man that had killed three young women could be anywhere near by. She glanced across at an abandoned van and swallowed hard. She had been there before, she knew she had. Janine frowned as she turned to her.

"I was sure."

"Do you recognise this place?" Kat asked as the rain soaked them both.

"The first body was found about a mile from here." Janine was back in work mode. She knew that the younger woman had seen something she hadn't.

"Yeah, but."

"What? This is where the industrial estate was going to be put before the council vetoed it about five years back. Something to do with the cellars in one of those buildings and sewage." She looked over at the abandoned factory and felt her blood run cold. "I should know it. But..." She tuned back to Kat.

"It's where we found you. When you had that bang on the head."

"Oh. Well, I don't remember much of that and anyway it doesn't matter now." She turned to her left as Shapps aging Clio pulled into the sodden ground of the wasteland. He said something to Butchers before opening the car door. Seconds later the sound of thunder drowned out any other sound. Butchers swore while Shapps ducked behind the car as the second thunder-clap hit.

"Shit."

"What?" Janine looked around as the rain stung her eyes. Her hair plastered to her face she squinted as a figure emerged from a doorway. "Oh my God." She was suddenly moving as Kat realised what was going on.

"Shapps!" She yelled as she began running after Janine. "Get an ambulance. NOW! Oh shit." She reached Janine's side just as the man collapsed on her.

"Richard." Janine half sobbed as she saw the extent of his injuries. He tried to smile before his eyes closed and his full weight fell on the two women.

"Oh shit." Shapps grabbed his friend around the waist and began to help Janine drag him towards the car. "Butchers called the ambulance but by the looks of things they better get a move on."

"Hey!" Butchers yelled as they staggered along with a semi conscious Richard between them. Kat turned and saw what Butchers had. She stepped back and yelled but the man in the doorway skulked back into the building.

"Police!" Kat yelled but the man stayed in the shadows. Butchers ran towards them, slipping in the mud as he went. Kat turned on her heel and ran while Shapps and Janine called after her. The storm drowned out the yells of her colleagues and senior officer. Suddenly she was alone with the man who had killed three women and tried to kill her friend.

"Grovers?" Kat breathed heavily as the man stepped forward. One eye swollen closed proved Richard hadn't been the only one to get a lucky punch in.

"Hiya. Thought your boss would come after me, finish what we started twelve years back."

"I have no idea what you are talking about." She stepped forward but stopped. The knife in his left hand already dripped with blood. Kat felt sick, she knew the others would be concentrating on Richard. She knew time was running out.

"You should have asked her." Grovers laughed. "I'll tell you what I told your boy. I have no qualms with you, or the boys on your team. Not with the kids either but her. My wife sold me out years back to that bitch but I didn't do the time I was sentenced to. Been a good boy see? Released early for good behaviour. Tracey and Sarah were practice. Knew you'd all be looking for a pattern but I wouldn't be that obvious. Nah, Hannah had it coming. Now Janine does too."

"Is that right?" Kat kept her eyes on the knife.

"Yeah." He nodded. "But you had tobe the one who followed me in 'ere."

"Yeah. Sorry to disappoint you."

"I'm not." Kat flinched as she heard Janine. The kick to the back of his leg took him by surprise. Kat lunged forward as he stumbled. She grabbed his hand as he fell forward allowing the knife to fall to the floor. "It's over Jacob. "Janine held him on the ground as Kat cuffed him. The sounds of ambulance sirens cut through the air as Janine fought the urge to cry.

"You are under arrest."

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A/N More soon x Please reivew if you are reading this.