So sorry for the delay! I've already started on the next chapter so that will be posted really soon too. Kind of short, but if I added more it wouldn't be progressing the story line as well. Thank you to all who takes the time to read and review!

Don't own a thing. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

~The next Monday~

"How long did it take them to get together before?" Alex asked Gene in his office. Gene had his back turned and was searching for some files in a drawer. Alex sat on his desk peering out into CID.

"Who?" Gene eventually replied.

"Shaz and Chris. I can't believe they aren't a couple, they totally deserve each other. Even Ray deserves that, whoever the hell she is that he's met up with this weekend." Alex said.

Gene pulled out yet another file out of the drawer, glanced at it, sighed and put it back. Alex waited for a response and turned her head when she realised he wasn't listening to her. Gene saw her staring at him out of the corner of his eye.

"Yeah 'nd maybe if Ray sticks with one 'e might shurrup 'bout us." He mumbled.

"What's he been saying now?" Alex asked hotly.

Gene slammed one draw shut and opened another, his patience beginning to wear thin.
"That we're movin' things too fast."

"W... Well I guess we are..." Alex begun saying.

Gene started walking to the other side of the office where more drawers where,
"Bolly, Ray said it not me!" He said with frustration.

Alex turned and positioned herself to be facing towards Gene again. "Yeah I know, I'm just saying. I mean things just fell into place. Molly and Nicole practically acting like sisters, me and you... Being me and you, I had boxes to unpack..."

"...And it was much simpler to unpack everything into my house making our home and we've been living like a happy little family since." Gene interrupted, then turned his attention outside. "Shaz!" He shouted.

Shaz looked up from her computer and cautiously walked into the office where Gene was stood looking very stressed. "Can I help Guv?" She asked kindly.

"Do you know where the damn file for Baily is?" He slammed a file drawer shut.

"Baily? I'll check in the store room it might have been moved there when he was let out." She said and turned to walk out.

"Whose Baily?" Alex asked.

"Oh, you're actually interested in work now are you slack-off knickers?" Gene said sarcastically.

"I wasn't slacking off. I was helping you find out who these men are!" Alex protested.

Gene went to sit down and typed something into his computer. "By moaning?" Alex gave him a cold stare. "If looks could kill." He joked. He turned the computer screen round to Alex to show her a document.

She peered closer to screen. "Aaron Baily." She read out. "Okay," she sat back from the screen. "He was sent down for 5 years for stealing a car. What exactly does this have to do with our case?" She asked.

"Well," Gene began "first of all, I remember him well. Complete idiot. But he had a very broad Birmingham accent..."

"So, you're going on an accent?" Alex interrupted.

"No. I distinctively remember he stole it from a garage."

Alex nodded slowly. "And...?"

"... and it would make sense for it to be Graves's garage." He said, but Alex still looked sceptical.

"It's a long shot..." She began to say.

"It's a start." Gene corrected her. Alex nodded, and walked out of the office to get some serious work done.

About 2 hours after checking through the Baily files and going on the statement from Jacob the team quickly filled in a whiteboard of connections. Gene sat staring at it, not taking any attention of Alex still frantically scribbling down even more information. There was something he was forgetting about it, he knew there was a reason he had automatically thought of Baily, but even with all of the connections made he still wasn't satisfied. He kept trying to think back over the 4 hours it had taken him to catch Baily for the act 5 years ago.

It was a simple operation, gather all the evidence, get uniform to find the car, get a confession, done. He must have had help; but there was never any strong evidence for who that might have been. It was probably that what he was missing, he decided, the partner who was with Baily may have been involved in the car stealing.

Alex turned to Gene and asked, "So, going on this, who do you think the other man is?"

Gene shook his head and replied. "Not a clue."

Thanks for reading. Next chapter will be up really soon!