Miracles
Louise Hogg knew that it was her duty to look after the team. Janine Lewis was a self opinionated pain in the rear at times but she was a bloody good DCI. Her and Richard Maine were a good team. Now one was half way through discharging himself against medical advice while the other was potentially laying on a mortuary slab.
"I've come regarding the female unidentified body brought in earlier." She stated as the young man at the desk pushed the relevant paperwork towards her.
"Sign that."
Hogg did as she was told before following the sullen mortuary attendant to the small viewing room steeling herself for the sight of her colleague's corpse.
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"No." Richard stared ahead as Shapps drove.
"Janine will freak. You just ad a bloody brain scan! They don't do them for nowt!"
"You just told me she's dead. I am not sitting in there with the kids at home wondering what the Hell happened to her." Shapps nodded. He knew how much Richard loved the kids. It was obviously they thought the world of him, having been a constant feature in their lives since before Tom had been born.
"It's not her." Richard stated defiantly. "Not my Janine."
"Then who?"
"Dunno."
"Kat is going through missing person's just incase any fit the description. Av to be honest not many runaways on the books that are female, in their 40s."
"It's not her." Shapps nodded once before pushing his foot to the accelerator. There had been enough fireworks already. While he desperately hoped his Guv wasn't dead he knew there'd be a family somewhere that would be grieving.
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Hogg stared at the body, currently covered with a green drape. She swallowed hard.
"Cause of death?"
"Waiting on toxicology and radiography but judging by her throat Id hazard a guess at asphyxiation by strangulation." Hogg nodded.
"In your preliminary, was there anything to suggest injury constant with an RTC?"
"Like seatbelt marks?"
"Yes."
"No. Are you ready to do the id?" Hogg nodded as the sheet was drawn back. The marble white skin of the dead woman against jet black hair confused her.
"I don't know who that woman is."
"Eh? It's not your officer?"
"No." Hogg snapped. "No she is not Janine Lewis." Hogg turned on her heels and marched out of the mortuary wondering where the Hell Janine Lewis was.
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