Mark: Thanks for helping me.
Sheelagh: Well you wouldn't leave me alone, you didn't leave me much of a choice. Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
Mark: Please, I don't have much time. Somebody has to find my body before it's too late.
Whilst Kerry, went back to the nick to right up her statement from the bomb incident, and still in shock. Sheelagh had reluctantly gone with Mark to Chinatown. She had never been to this part of London before, it was like a mini version of China stuck on the ended of London. Everything about it, the shops, restaurants even the street signs. Mark was leading Sheelagh down and alley way.
Sheelagh: Too late for what?
Mark: It's a Chinese myth. At least I always thought it was a myth. It's called Thowhoi, when the gates of hell open. We're almost there.
Sheelagh: The gates of hell? I don't understand.
Mark: If the gatekeeper, Yama, catches my soul before my body's properly buried, hell take my to hell forever.
Sheelagh: But you said you were murdered. How can...?
Mark: Yama doesn't care about good or evil. He just wants souls. I should've listened to my mother.
They reach some bins, and stop. Lying on the ground is the remanding parts of a burnt out body.
Sheelagh: Em ... is that you?
Mark: Yeah.
At the far end of the alley theirs a sudden build up of misty fog, and the gatekeeper Yama appears in the distance. He's on a horse which is galloping straight towards them. Mark looks up and sees him.
Mark: Yama!
Sheelagh: Yama?
She turns to see the horse coming towards them.
Sheelagh: Run! I
Mark: It's too late. You better go. Run!
Sheelagh suddenly sticks up her hands and Yama freezes.
Mark: What happened?
Sheelagh: I'm a good witch, remember?
Mark: But how?
Sheelagh: I don't know. I panic, I put up both hands and bad things tend to freeze.
Mark: For how long?
Sheelagh: Not very, let's go.
They both turn and run out of the alley and Yama unfreezes. Yama's eyes glow bright green before he vanishes. Back at the nick, Honey had just returned form being with Gary at the hospital, she bumped into Becky on her way to the locker.
Becky: Hey Honey, how's Gary?
Honey: Well all his scans were clear and he had come round just before I left so hopefully he should be OK.
Becky: Well that's good, listen fancy garbing a bite to eat.
Honey: I'll give it a miss if that's OK, I'm just going to have a shower, change and go home to bed.
Becky: All right then, see you later.
Becky walks past.
Honey: See you ... oh Bexs?
Becky turns around.
Honey: Did you post the invitations.
Becky: What invitations?
Honey: For Andrea, surprise Birthday party, ring any bells, don't tell my you forgot, the party's Friday.
Becky: Look I'll get onto it, yeah I've got to go.
And she quickly disappeared out of site.
Andrea's phone beeped making her jump. She and Tony were going threw CCTV footage of the bomb, blast in the writing room, they had been threw 2hrs of footage already and they still hadn't found anything. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and looked at the screen telling her she had one new message, from Neil. She looked up to see if Tony wasn't looking then opened the message. ''Meet me in my office''.
Andrea: Hey Tony, fancy a coffee?
Tony: Yeah, bring me back a donut will you?
Andrea: Think on the calories
She said smiling, she got up and left the room, but instead of going to the canteen, she took a detour upstairs, to CID. The room was busing with people, so much so that nobody noticed her enter. She walked quickly towards the DI's office and knocked on the door and walked in.
Andrea: Hey
Neil: Hi
He got up form behind his desk and closed the door behind her, he then sat on his desk looking at her smiling. Andrea looked at him confused.
Andrea: What's going on?
He then pulled out a small box, wrapped in pink paper with a bow on the top, out of his jacket pocket and held it in front of her. She smiled.
Andrea: What's this?
Neil: Early Birthday present.
Andrea: Hang on, I never told you it was my birthday.
Neil: You didn't have to, being a Detective Inspector, I looked it up on your personal file, plus I heard Honey talking about your party.
Andrea: What party?
Neil: Your surprise party which I've just blown, sorry.
Andrea: I'm going to kill her she knows I hate surprise parties.
Neil: Why?
Andrea: Long story.
She took the box from his hand.
Andrea: Do I have to wait until Friday?
Neil: Nope, you can open it.
She smiles at him taking of the paper and the bow, to revel and jewelry box, she opens it to fin a silver, sparkling and very expensive looking bracelet, with eh letter ''A'' incrusted in it.
Andrea: Oh Neil.
Neil: Like it?
Andrea: It gorges.
Neil: Well you have something in common then.
Andrea: Em, why are you giving it to me here, thought, Why not tonight when you come round.
Neil suddenly looked away from her, his expression changed.
Neil: I can't make it tonight.
Andrea felt all the happiness she felt when she opened the bracelet, vanish instantly, 'All right what's the latest excuse' she thought.
Andrea: You promised.
Neil: Yeah I no, I'm sorry, Phillippa's planing a big family dinner and -
He stopped when Andrea looked away, she could understand the fact that they had to be careful, and he had responsibilities at home and towards Jake, but this was getting ridiculous, it was the third time in a row he had bailed out.
Andrea: You now Neil, for someone who clams they don't love there wife, you've got a funny way of showing it.
Neil: Look Andrea -
Andrea: You can't keep buying my affection every time you bail out, I now you said we had to be careful and I now you have other responsibilities but this is getting ridiculous.
She snapped the jewelry box shut.
Neil: Look Andrea, your the one I want, your the one I think of all the time.
Andrea: Yeah!
She was angry now and he new it.
Andrea: Well you've got a funny way of showing it, you could try showing me!
She chucked the box onto his desk.
Andrea: Enjoy your dinner.
She turned and walked out. Banging the door shut and walked out of CID ignoring the fact that both Sam and Debbie where watching her. How every back in Neil's office something had happened, the second Andrea had banged the office door shut Neil had made to go after her but, the two sets of files that lay under the bracelet box had some how caught fire. Neil quickly knocked the box out the way ad then made a grab for the fire extinguisher. Andrea walked back into the writing room.
Tony: Where's the coffee's?
Andrea: Dam.
With getting all worked up with Neil, she had total forgot about Refs.
Andrea: Soz's Tony the machine was broke.
Sheelagh walked into the locker room to find Andrea changed sitting on the bench doing up her knee length boots still in a bad mood, Becky pacing in fornt of her and Honey standing in the doorway to the showers draped in a towel watching them.
Becky: Andy, you can't do this Sheelagh's gonna be crushed.
Sheelagh: I'm going to be crushed.
They all turn to look at her, and Andrea stands up.
Andrea: The surprise party is off.
Sheelagh: What party?
Honey: She knows.
Becky: Yeah how do you now anyway?
Andrea: Never mind that the point is, it's not happening.
She walks over to her locker
Becky: Is this why you are in such a bad mood.
Andrea: Lets just say it hasn't been a great day.
She bangs the locker doors shut. Just then Mark walks into the locker room.
Mark: Sheelagh, where did you say the newspaper was -
He stops when he sees Becky, Honey and Andrea
Honey: Hey! I'm practically naked here!
Mark: Whops, sorry.
Mark looks away form Honey.
Andrea: What the drunk form the cinema going here?
Mark: My names Mark and I'm not a drunk.
Sheelagh: He's a ghost
Honey: Excuse me a what?
Sheelagh: A ghost, he was murdered and he obviously needs are help, why else would we be ably to see him?
Becky stars pulling her jumper in front of Honey
Becky: Well he can see us that's for sure.
Honey: Hey!
Mark looks at the celling
Mark: Of all the days to be a dead man
Andrea: Are you sure this guys really a ghost?
Sheelagh picks up one of Andrea's work boots ad chucks it at him and it goes straight threw.
Sheelagh: Positive.
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