Opposite's Attract - Chapter 10 / Suicidal

Max's POV

Millie was taken to hospital from the scene via ambulance and I stayed at the nick to face Robert when he came back and Stone knew why I was hanging around the custody area so he told me that I had to leave and if I wanted a minute alone with Robert later he would do that but not now, everyone knew that Stone was a bit harsh on some people that were brought in especially those who attack fellow officers we don't take to kindly to that. I was about to walk off when the door opened and in came Robert handcuffed, he looked so miserable it was worth waiting around just to see his face "Hello Robert" I said to him and felt Stone's eyes piercing the back of my head "I've got it from here" I told the uniformed officers who just nodded and handed him over to me before leaving "Process him and we'll get him straight into interview" I told Stone who looked like he was going to argue with me but started booking him in.

Just as I was about to take him into interview my phone started ringing and Millie's name popped up on the screen "Hello, you feeling alright?" I asked her.

"Yeah just a bit a of a headache, the doctor said that I can go home now and I was wondering if I could go to your place?" She asked.

"Yeah course you can, if you stop by here I'll give you the key" I told her.

"It's OK I know where you keep your spare one" She said and I told her I'd be home soon before hanging up.

I know that I should have probably taken the rest of the day off to go and see her and make sure that she was OK but I wanted to see to this Robert character myself and after all this was my murder investigation and he has hurt one of the officers in my investigation, I was going to scare the crap out of him. Terry was going to sit in on the interview with me and I trusted Terry for this interview.

"OK Robert where do you want to start, the murder or the assault of a police officer?" I asked him.

"I have a prepared statement that I would like to read first please" He said and his brief gave him a piece of paper "Today two police officers came to see me to talk to me about the murder of my girlfriend Stephanie, when they told me that they were going to arrest me I admit that I did hit the police officer because I panicked and I was going to run. I send my deepest apologies to the officer that I hit and I take full responsibility for my actions but I did not kill my girlfriend Stephanie, we were planning to move away, get married and start a family of my own and everything was going fine for us I have no motive to kill her and I will fully co-operate with the police during this investigation" He said and gave the statement back to his brief.

"You say that you hit PC Brown because you panicked and you wanted to run. Why did you want to run if you had nothing to hide? That seems a bit suspicious don't you think?" I questioned.

"Is the police officer going to be OK?" He asked.

"I don't know I haven't heard anything from the hospital yet" He panicked and I knew I would get my answers if he sweats is out a little.

The questions went on for another half an hour and then it was the end of my shift and I wanted to go home quickly so I could see Millie and I nearly made it towards my car when I heard the alarms in custody going off so I ran back and seen Robert's cell door open and heard Stone shouting out orders to people so I rushed over to him to give him a hand "What happened?" I asked.

"I went to give him his dinner and seen him laying on the floor, there's blood on the wall and he has a deep cut on the head so I'm thinking he's rammed the wall to either seriously injure himself or kill himself" He explained "Where's my ambulance?!" He shouted.

I phoned Millie and told her that I wouldn't be home till late but when she asked why I didn't want to tell her over the phone so I just told her that I was going to explain later as it was a long story, she told me she was probably just go to sleep if I was going to be late and we said our goodbye's. I went to my desk and grabbed the tape of the interview I had with Robert earlier and found an empty interview room to listen back to it.

"You killed Stephanie didn't you? You knew she was never going to leave Kane didn't you so you thought 'if I can't have her then no one could' that's what you think isn't it? You killed Stephanie admit it" I told him.

"No I didn't! I loved her!" He shouted.

"I know you killed her, your car was seen driving around the area her body was dumped on the same day she was dumped" I stated.

"She wouldn't shut up" He said quietly

"What?" I asked.

"We were arguing, she wouldn't shut up she just kept going on and on and on" He said louder looking down at the table crying.

Maybe I pushed him to much. When he was being taken back to his cell he cried more and said how much he loved her and he wanted to be with her once again, maybe that was what he meant by he was going to be with her once again he was going to kill himself. If he dies there is going to be an investigation and they will review his interview and maybe they might think that I am at fault for it

"Max?" I looked up at Stone "Hospital phoned said Robert's going to be fine" He said and walked back out.

Millie's POV

I woke up and seen Max still fast asleep in bed, God knows what time he got home last night I didn't even hear him come in but I woke up to go to the bathroom at 2:30am and he still wasn't here. He phone and said he would be home late and would explain to me today what was wrong but I knew he wasn't going to have time this morning, the clock read 6:45am and his alarm will go off soon and he would have to get up to get ready for work. Something bad must have happened because when he phoned me there was an alarm going off in the background and an alarm is never a good thing.

The alarm rang out loudly and Max shifted in bed turning it off then turned to face me "Morning" I said and he kissed me "What time did you get home?" I asked.

"Three, Robert tried to kill himself in custody" He stated "Meadows said that I could have a half day today so I don't have to go in till lunchtime and I'll be there till about seven probably" He explained.

"Is he OK?" I asked.

"Yeah hospital said he is going to be fine" He said.

"Go back to sleep and I'll wake you up later you look knackered" I told him and climbed out of bed and went downstairs to make myself something to eat and maybe go to the shop and get the paper or something.

I sat down in the living room after getting back from the shop with the paper and flicked through it sipping my cup of coffee but I don't know why I read the newspaper for the fact that it's full of depressing news about murders, child molesters and old people who die alone it never puts me in a good mood. I closed the paper and put the TV on and seen an advert for the Jeremy Kyle Show, what a load of idiots on that show. Most of them need to be locked up because they're all on drugs and beat each other up it's stupid and they get paid for going on this show! See the newspaper has put me in a bad mood now.

At 10:30am I decided to wake Max up so he had a chance to get a shower, have something to eat and make his way to work on time "How are you feeling?" He asked me pointing to my head.

"I have a headache but I'm OK, I don't see why I can't go back to work I am fully capable of doing my job with a headache, if I can do it with a hangover I can do it with anything" I told him and he just chuckled and I sat down in bed next to him "I don't want to go to work" I told him.

"I don't want to go either, I'll phone them and just tell them that I'm looking after you today" He said like it was nothing.

"Don't do that" I said.

"I deserve a day off anyway" He said and reached for his phone.

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