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Night terrors

Ruby was still voicing her displeasure loudy as Alex picked her up. The baby was now merely a couple of months old and already taking after Gene. She certainly had her father's temper. Alex smiled as she tried to settle the little girl. Ruby looked up at her through watery eyes.

"Hey sweetheart, it's ok" Alex was unsure who she was lying to, herself or the baby. Probably a combination of both she sighed. "Ruby Hunt you have been bathed, you have been changed and fed less than two hours ago. What are you doing awake?" Ruby paused as if considering her mother's words before begining to calm down. Alex hoped Molly had been able to sleep through the noise. She realised that hadn't happened when Molly pushed the door to the baby's room open.

"Is she ok?" Molly rubbed her eyes as her dark hair fell in her face.

"Yes, just grumpy thats all" Alex smiled

"Takes after Gene" Molly smiled back.

"Yes she does. Are you ok?" Alex relaxed a little as Rube began to drift off to sleep in her arms.

"Yes" Molly yawned. "Mum?"

"Back to bed Molls" Alex watched as the young girl paused.

"Is Gene going to be ok? I heard you and Auntie Annie talking. Sam was here too" Molly held her mother's gaze as Alex nodded.

"Yes they were. It's something to do with work. So no need for you to worry. Gene will be fine, he always is isn't he?" She thought of her big burly, fearless husband knowing that he wasn't really as fearless as he liked everyone else to think.

"I was thinking" Molly leant against the door frame as Alex put the baby back in the crib.

"Go on" Alex knew when her daughter had been thinking seriously about something.

"You, Ruby and Gene have the same surname. I dont see my father anymore. Not since Grandma Drake died. Would Gene mind if I started calling him Dad? Would you mind? I just don't like having a different name to everyone" She bit her bottom lip as she watched her mother. Alex was stunned for a moment before smiling.

"Is that what you want? Really?"

"Yes" Molly nodded solomly. "I want Gene to be my dad. My proper dad"

"You want him to adopt you? We would have to find your dad and ask his permission, that's the law" Alex knew Molly would think twice before looking to contact her biological father. Alex wasn't even sure she knew where to look.

"I know, I asked Uncle Evan." Molly really had done her research, Alex was amazed this was the first she had heard of it.

"Ok, tomorrow when you get back from school we'll talk to him. You can ask him" She watched as Molly stared "He's not going to say no, he loves you just as much as he loves Ruby. The fact you have a different surname means nothing. You are his as far as he is concerned. You know that don't you?" Alex turned Molly by the shoulders and ushered her in to the bedroom. "Now, you have to be up for school in a couple of hours. Get to bed" She kissed the top of her daughter's head as she sent her back to her room.

"Muuum" Molly pretended to whine

"Mollllllllleeeee" Alex mimicked before watching Molly roll her eyes and return to her room.

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Gene wanted to go home. He glared through the windows of his office as he watched Sharon tap away at her computer. The youngest member of the team was one of the most dilligent members. He watched her tap away wondering why Chris didn't take a leaf from her book. He knew there was going to be one all mightly booze up in the new Railway Arms when the case was over, probably preceeded by a meal at Luigi's. He shook his head, the mild mannered Italian really had put up with alot from his team but never ever turned them away.

"RAYMONDO!" He bellowed from his office doors as Ray walked in to the Squad Room. The Detective looked shattered.

"Yeah Guv?"

"Any news on the ID for the poor cow in the Thames?"

"Yes Guv" Ray closed his eyes slightly "She's on the missing person's list. Looks like she was known to us. Ex Tom. Picked up by vice squad at least three times when Alex was working for them. In fact Alex Drake is mentioned as the arresting officer in her file" Ray waited as Gene folded his arms.

"And? Name Raymondo we need a name. I am the poor sod that is going to have to tell her mother"

"She is known by two names. Teresa Ann Lloyd is on her birth certificate. Aged 45"

"45 shit, thats no age" Chris piped up as Gene shot him a glare.

"The other names she went by were Ann Lloyd and Chanise" Ray dropped his note book on his desk as he smirked. Sharon rolled her eyes.

"On the game then. Probably how she met Morgan" Gene leant heavily against his office's doorframe. He missed Alex. She's be coming out with some psychobabble if she was there Gene thought. None of which I would have a hope in hell of understanding. He wondered if Ray knew Sam and Annie were interviewing Mia.

"Yeah. In April 2005 Alex arrested her for running a brothel out of a flat in Bermondsey" Ray sighed.

"I'm guessing Morgan was the senior officer then" Sharon spoke as she finally stopped typing.

"Yeah" Ray sat down. He was exhausted.

"Ok, so that gives us the who and a link between Morgan and her but what is the link between Morgan and Mia? I mean we know he knew Gemma because she worked in Vice. Same way he met Bolly" He watched as the colour on Ray's face began to drain.

"We found her, she's safe" He watched Ray breathe a sigh of relief "She told Morgan where Gemma was"

"She did what? No Guv, she wouldn't" Ray looked at Chris before turning back to Gene.

"She told me and Annie when Sammy boy and I picked her up at my house." Gene knew Ray would be devasted.

"She said he threatened her. Said he's hurt her mother" Gene watched as Ray glared straight ahead. "If its any consollation I dont think she wanted to"

Ray got up and walked out the room. Chris just stared as the phone in Gene's office began to ring. Gene nodded for Chris to go after Ray before walking back to his office. Sharon followed Chris.

"Yes!" Gene barked in to the phone. He glanced at the clock noticing how near midnight it was.

"Guv, problem in cell 1. Morgan just smacked Phyllis round the head and legged it" Gene swore as Viv spoke. "Called an ambulance, she got a nasty cut on her head"

"Shit on a stick I'm on my way" Gene slammed the phone down before making his way out of the office. He hoped Phyllis really was ok. The anger continued to build as he realised George Morgan only seemed to smack around female officers. Well no more Georgy boy. Gene thought as he pulled out his mobile phone. If George Morgan was on the run there was only one place Gene could think he would go.

"Answer the phone Bolls. Come on Alex!" He yelled as her mobile went to answer phone.

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