Chapter Two: Break In.
Sasha Devon waltzed around the kitchen happily, humming and singing along with Charlotte Church's Crazy Chick. She was preparing a meal for her and Jo for that evening. They didn't live together, but spent plenty of time at each other's houses. Sasha lived in a lovely semi-detached house that she brought out of the inheritance she received from her late grandfather.
Sasha was cutting up the vegetables when the front door got forced open. She didn't hear a thing though, as the music was turned up. She heard the kitchen door open and she swung round with the vegetable knife in her hand. She barely had time to register what was going on when a masked figure turned the knife in her hand and stabbed her directly in the abdomen. She gasped in pain before falling onto the floor.
'Don't try and call out for any help, no-one's around.' The masked figure said. Sasha gasped again as she recognised the voice. 'Don't die too quickly.' He said, then ran off and out of the house.
Sasha took deep breaths, trying to calm herself down so she could think rationally. Ambulance. Moving her arms slowly, trying to ignore the pain in her abdomen, Sasha reached for her pocket in her jeans where she kept her mobile.
While this was happening, Jo was sat in the CID office at Sun Hill Police Station. She had been tackling her paperwork with unusual happiness. Most people had noticed, and Samantha Nixon couldn't stand it much longer.
'Jo, why are you so happy about paperwork?' she asked after a few hours of it.
'Why not?' Jo answered. She looked up at Sam and sighed. 'I'm going round to Sasha's tonight for dinner.' She explained.
Just then Dean McVerry got a call about a stabbing through CAD. He put a call out to deal with it, whilst trying to rack his brains as to where he had heard the name Sasha Devon before. Sheelagh Murphy was the next person to come into the CAD room, so he asked her.
'It's Jo's girlfriend isn't it?' she said.
'Oh yeah!' Dean said, 'I've just got a call in about a stabbing, she's the victim, could you tell Jo for me please?'
'Yeah, course.'
Sheelagh walked up to Jo's desk in CID.
'Jo, umm, we've just had a stabbing called in. We think it's your girlfriend who's the victim.' Sheelagh said quietly. Jo looked panic-stricken.
'What.. ummm, .. where has she gone? Hospital?' Jo's panic was heard all the way through CID and it all went quiet to hear what was going on.
'St. Hughes. The paramedics are confident that they got to her in time.'
'Okay, thanks Sheelagh.' Jo was visibly shaken.
'Do you want me to drive you there?' Sheelagh offered. Jo nodded mutely.