A Tale Of Two Families Chapter 11
Author's Note: It's taken me a bit too long for this update, as I was extremely busy with planning a school event. So Here's Chapter 11! Please Read and Review!
"What the bloody hell was that for?" Gene immediately fired the shots as Alex entered the office.
"Well, I think you need to get help, Gene." Alex was more at a bitchy mode than she intended to now, but a confrontation was somehow going to burst anytime soon.
"What help, not some bloody psychic bollocks here!"
"Well you do need some psychatric help, you're just not merging with your new team." Gene was surprised that Alex could reach a diagnosis within minutes.
"I think you're getting too quick about this?"
"Too quick, you yourself know this Gene, that at this rate you're going to…."
"Oi!" Gene shouted immediately, he didn't want any talk of souls in the bloody office, not within hearing distance for some of the buggers out there.
"Right now, we need to solve this case, Bolls. That's the thing we need to do now."
"Well you have to do something, Gene." Alex was now more agreeable and less irritable than she was, after getting the point that Gene knows what he's doing.
"I know." Gene took a phone call from the office, and got himself seated back as Alex went out of the office.
"Ma'am, the Caldwell youth seems to have more connections than they have with the Stewarts." Alex was now seated right in front of Gene's office, taking over Shaz's desk as Drew started to brief Alex over the newly-found details.
"How so?"
"Well the Caldwells are studying at Fairmont High School, and the Stewarts are studying at Fairway High School?" Alex didn't seem to get the connection until Benito draws out a map, while Katherine circles the school compounds neatly.
"Close distance." Alex quipped as Gene got out of his office to get his caffeine fix himself.
"Yes, which means close interactions I would say."
"Katherine, I want you to go check out the school activities, see if there could have been any point of interaction between both families then."
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Drew, Benito, let's go keep watch of those teenagers, they might be up to something once again."
"Bolly, you don't have a car!" Gene stomps back after getting his coffee and slamming it on Katherine's desk.
"Well I'll go get one." Alex quipped as Drew continues to smile alongside Benito over this.
"Where?"
"Your Mercedes, I'll drive…" Gene was about to give a huge smirk.
"You don't have the…." Just as Gene was about to finish the word keys, Alex raised her eyebrows chirpily and showing the keys right in front of Gene's face.
"Oh bloody…." Gene immediately gave chase as Alex and the two other fellows ran to get the Mercedes. Katherine meanwhile took a sneak sip of the coffee, and immediately spit it out. Coffee, 10 sugars, recipe for diabetes.
"Oi! Bolly! You don't get that Mercedes' driving seat there!" Gene's running speed didn't seem much promising as Alex grabbed the driving seat, and Drew takes the second seat. Benito at the back and Gene woefully has to settle too with the back.
"What's the matter with you, Ben!" Benito's face was quite ash-grey as he sits down with Gene at the back seat.
"Well it's weird, Guv, to sit in the car with you, I mean at the back of the car." Drew immediately smiled while Gene decided to look outside.
"And why are you driving so fast!" Gene immediately roared as Alex increased the speed to Gene's neck-breaking mode.
"You're eating your own medicine, Guv." Drew cheekily notes as Alex seems to ignore Gene's roars.
"You know Bolly, another….." The car goes to a screeching halt and soon they found themselves at the junction of Fairmill street, which lies at the back entrances of the Fairmont and Fairway Schools.
"Another what, Gene?"
"Another time you're sitting in this car, I'm going to call the bloody insurance company!" Gene barks as he exits out of the car alongside Alex and the gang, signalling to change seats.
"So Bolly, what's the mission of this bloody surveillance?"
"Well the aim is to observe the Caldwells and the Stewart youths, find for evidence we need."
"Bolly, don't you think we're wasting time over this!" Gene was left grumbling though he was slightly happier after retaining the driver's seat.
"Well Guv, if you want to fall into another Caldwell trap, then I suggest we continue to observe."
"Ma'am." Benito signalled as Alex took out the binoculars and looked out.
"That's one of the Caldwell girls…" Drew quipped.
"That's Norma!" Alex nearly shouted out, though she kept the tone as quiet as possible, they were watching obviously.
"Norma Caldwell and who's the boy over there?"
"I recognize him, one of the Stewarts here."
"Robin Stewart, second eldest son of the Stewarts, seems to be also another bright kid."
"I can't believe it, those two clans are sworn rivals."
"Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet." Alex made a clever inference as Drew immediately gives a wide grin.
"Bolly, I didn't go for bloody Literature !" Gene protested as he snatched the binoculars and continued to look very closely at Norma Caldwell and Robin Stewart, the new couple on the block.
"They're more than good friends, Guv." Benito was stating the obvious.
"Aye, Aye, So what the bloody heaven do we do now, Bolls?" Gene was now having his hands on the driver's wheel, ready to leave.
"We continue to observe." Alex was about to preach patience at this particular point of time. Gene to her surprise nodded, he didn't want to hear Alex preach patience now, definitely not now.
"You know, Bolly! I'm not going to sit here waiting all bloody day!" Gene protested.
"Guv's right, Ma'am, We're starving out here!" Chris joined in the protests.
"We're just looking at a couple of twats and bitches who are about to make love as quick as a bloody bird will!" Ray might seem to have protested but apparently he was enjoying the eye candy.
"We need more evidence."
"What evidence now is it, Bolls, it's not as if bloody Joe Whitley would end up getting out of the street club with a thick wad of cash to spend on some poshy little bird like you." Gene was obviously upset, the fact that he's skipped lunch just to have a stakeout against Joe Whitley, and his favourite cousins have not been very appetising either.
"First a bloody little church, Second a wool factory, thirdly a bank, and now we're at the street club at Soho!" Ray continued as he continues to enjoy the eye candy while Alex simply looked elsewhere.
"I think you should have more patience, Gene! You know patience is a virtue, especially when you're having stakeouts!"
"I only know I've skipped lunch and I'm not going to skip Dinner." Gene grumbled.
"Guv, some chips?"
"Good one, Raymondo." Ray always had the wisdom to bring some chips in the car when it's a stakeout, and Gene immediately took his hand into the chips.
"Joe Whitley's out!" Alex declares, Gene was just about to finish the chips, and along with Ray and Chris bolted out of the car to arrest Joe Whitley, and the criminal did have cash.
"Guv, some chips?"
"Guv some chips?" Ray's familiar voice was getting more and more distant to Gene's ears
"Guv! Some Chips!" It was Benito holding the Tudor Crisps, not Raymondo.
Gene reacted weirdly this time, he just simply shrugged and turned elsewhere, and didn't accept the chips.
"I thought you would have the chips, Guv." Alex had taken notice of Gene's weird behaviour.
"Don't call me that, Bolly!" Gene immediately snapped back, after all Alex was now the same rank with him.
"Hold on for a second." As Gene drove the car stealthily forward, she observed that the Caldwells and the Stewart youths were gathering together, not all of them, but definitely quite a few of them were around.
"New excursion." Drew quips as he saw the more energetic faces in the Stewarts and Caldwells. Norma however felt slightly uneasy, as if she knew that they were being watched.
"But where?" Alex asked, she was now trying to read the lips of the youths but their Scottish accents and how they move their lips made it quite impossible to decipher, especially for Alex who isn't proficient in lip-reading.
"God bloody knows." Gene declares,though he wasn't ready to arrest anybody.
"Guv, we've got news."
"Guv, we've got news."
"What is it, Granger."
"Well apparently we have a police officer trapped in the boat."
"May I know who the bloody hell is he!"
"Any more details, Granger?"
"No!"
"ANY More details, Granger?"
"I have no idea, Guv, but information from the branches are saying that we have one agent trapped there as undercover, you might want to be…"Gene shut the radio immediately though he could faintly hear the words, "It's a she, Guv!"
"What news is it, Dobbs!" Gene snapped again, it was as if he just had a knee-jerk reaction.
"There's a body found at 6 Green Street."
"Any more details!"
"No!"
"ANY BLOODY MORE DETAILS, WPC DOBBS!" Gene was at his worst temper.
"No details!"
"I think she said No." Alex immediately pointed out to Gene , though he was still unarguably seething with anger.
"We'll be on our way." Alex replied, immediately taking charge of the walkie-talkie lest Gene starts screaming like a crazy old git.
"We'll be on our way." Chris noted as the Quattro was speeding and turning around the various streets of London.
"How the bloody hell did a boat got a name called Princess Di!" Ray asked.
"Raymondo, if I know, I would become the new bloody Doctor Who!" Gene snarled as Chris laughed a bit.
"Lots of pretty tarts around, huh."
"You think our friend in the force is one of those clients?"
"What if it was a tart!" Ray immediately chuckled.
"Right, it seems that the uniforms have taken the front, we'll turn to the back!" Gene swerved his car and went to the back of the port, a new arrival awaits…..
"What are you doing, Guv! You nearly crashed onto his car!" Alex's piercing call immediately woke Gene up from that daydream.
"Shit." Gene could only say, it wasn't a daydream but an awful flashback to the good old days, this time it sounded more positive though.
"Well we're here now, Guv." Benito was empathic as the rest of the gang got out of the car.
"Green Street just got painted Red." Drew's comment now sounded a bit like Ray, politically incorrect but gruesomely true.
"Found the body this morning, apparently was stabbed a lot of times."
"Any identity?" Alex asked the police officer on standby.
"No Ma'am, but I must say he looks pretty familiar."
"Oh bloody hell." Gene uncovered the body soaked in a considerable amount of blood.
"It's one of the Stewarts, Guv." Benito added on as Drew and Alex looked around the surroundings of the crime scene.
"Did the neighbours hear anything?" Alex asked.
"Ma'am, this is a noisy neighbourhood, even a scream is considered perfectly normal." The police officer on standby did seem cheery about that fact though, much to Alex's disgust.
"Which Stewart is that?"
"One of them, Bill, the third son of the Stewarts." Drew had somewhat photographic memory.
"You do have quite a good memory, DI Jensen." Alex refused to call him Drew, which shows the distance between them was still there.
"Well Ma'am, he literally spit at me when we came down to the house." Alex did a silent smirk while Gene looked at the body like as if it knew him.
"The victim must have opened the door, someone then lunged at him with a knife, started stabbing him anywhere." Drew deduced the fact that the door was not forced open.
"So the victim knew the killer." Gene got back to his detective instincts again, finally starting to recover from a flashback.
"Well who could that be?"
"Caldwells, a kill for a kill." Gene's emotionless comment sums up what clan rivalries do best.
"Or it could be?"
"Could be what?" Gene's expressionless tone was in fact more scary than him shouting his lungs out.
"Nothing." Drew knew that the Guv would go into another huge heated debate very soon.
"Say it, Jensen." Alex probed on, she still wasn't in a practical forgiving mood yet.
"It could be….." Drew was hesitant, especially when both Gene and Alex
s tone was not very encouraging this instant.
"So who you think this tart is?" Alex was right at the back of the car obviously still not very awake.
"Don't know, just a tart." Gene obviously knew it was definitely something else fishy going around with this tart. He hadn't read the newcomer's file yet (Old man didn't send it down on time)
"Careful, she might hear you."
"It could be…."
"Could be what!" Ray asked Chris with a tone of slight mockery around.
"Our new DI…" Within a second Gene and Ray looked at Chris over yet another seeming stupid comment.
"Well it really could be." Ray was bursting out laughing very loudly now while Chris seeing Ray thinking it was such a terrible joke also joined the laughter. Gene smirked a bit, it was a silly comment, a tart as a DI?
How wrong is that?
"What!" Alex was losing patience with this DI and made a "You can't talk now even if you're such a bitch just now!" look.
"Sod it, let's go back to Fenchurch and sort the bloody mess out." Gene declares as he leaves the room, things have just gotten much tastier.
