A/N - First of all I want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed/favorited/alerted this story - it doesn't make me feel nervous that I could disappoint at all *chews nails. Anyway, I forgot to mention that this story is totally AU to series 2 and 3, so anything could happen. So here's the second chapter. Enjoy.

Alex woke feeling groggy and with a pain so bad in her head it was like a bullet was slowly piercing its way through. Huh that's not ironic at all she thought. She decided not to even consider eating breakfast and just took two paracetamol with a cup of strong coffee and headed for a nice hot shower.

By the time she entered CID everyone was in, including Gene who was sat at his desk with a glass of whisky on his desk and a cigarette in between his fingers, obviously waiting for the visiting officers to appear. Alex sighed and sat at her desk, does he ever get a hangover? She thought to herself as she sat down at her desk to endure the wait.

Two hours had passed when Viv walked in announcing that they were here and showing them into CID. Everyone looked up to see who was walking in and what they looked like.

Gene stepped out of his office to greet the new comers, first a man about Alex's height with jet black hair and bright green eyes stepped forward.

Looks a bit young for bolly, mind you if that thatcherite wanker is anything to go by then this kid's gonna need to keep his wits about him and his hands to himself. He thought as he strode out of his office.

'DCI Gene Hunt' he held out his hand and waited.

'PC Steve Middleton Sir, sorry about being late the traffic was terrible…'

'Yeah and it didn't help that you was driving like a woman either Ste!' He was interrupted by a woman about two inches smaller then him with deep brown eyes and her auburn hair tied up in a pony tail. He stepped back to allow her to introduce herself but to also ensure that nobody noticed he was blushing.

'WPC Victoria Lewis sir. But everyone calls me Vicky.'

He nodded in acknowledgement and introduced the rest of the team, then showed them to the desk that they had brought out for them. As they sat down at their borrowed desk, Gene asked

'So when will you be ready to listen to what we've got then share your findings? Will an hour be ok?'

'That should be more then enough time sir.' Vicky replied

Gene nodded and walked back to his office, leaving them to their own devices.

'Ey Chris' Ray whispered while prodding Chris to get his attention.

'What?' he replied

'What do you think of that Vicky bird then?'

'I dunno cant really say owt about her figure cuz of the uniform, but she's a feisty one that's for sure!'

'I know you can tell who's the boss between them two! I bet he's a right poof.'

Ray and Chris sniggered as they turned back to the magazines they were reading before.

'Right' Alex said wheeling out the white board and getting everybody's attention 'we have a male, early 40s kidnapped three days ago in the middle of the day with no witnesses and no ransom note.' She wrote down every relevant point as she spoke for a visual aid to the group that had gathered around her.

'What else do we have? Chris?'

'Erm… well he's married with a daughter. Works as delivery driver for a local firm, boss says he had no problems with him and he was liked by his fellow workers.'

'Right' Alex quickly jotted down what he said before continuing 'Ray you took the witness statements what did they say?'

'Nothing much, as it wasn't a main road there wasn't many people around to see anything. Just that one woman said she saw a black car pulling up beside his van and two people got out.' He said nonchalantly as he flicked ash from his cigarette into the nearby ashtray.

'Did she say what the people looked like?'

'She thought that it was a man and a woman, both wearing black.'

'What about the van?'

'Report came back from forensics, the van was clean.' Shaz explained

After finishing writing up the notes, Alex turned to Steve and Vicky.

'Does any of this sound familiar to you?'

'Yes ma'am, just one question. What was his relationship with his daughter?' Steve replied

'You mean was he shagging her?' Gene interrupted with a face like he'd just licked a lemon.

'No sir, I mean was he overprotective of her at all?'

Everyone directed their sights at Ray now waiting for the answer whilst he double checked a witness statement.

'Yeah, his neighbour says he was severely overprotective of her. Said that she'd hear arguments at all hours, he'd want to know where she'd been and with who and if she was late he'd hit the roof.'

Gene turned to Vicky and Ste.

'Care to share your all important wisdom now or are you going to continue to sit there like a pair of poofters in a free-for-all brothel?'

They hesitantly got up carrying their notes and Vicky looked at Steve expectantly but rolled her eyes when he wouldn't speak.

'Last year we had three men disappear in the middle of the day, what connected them was that they all had low skilled working class jobs, all taken by a supposed man and woman who were both wearing black, driving a black car. They were all severely overprotective of their daughters and two of the fathers were abusive to their believe they picked their victims by trial and error' their confused faces spurred her on. 'The male would go around and make a pass at girls, in front of who they assumed was their father. If they get a severe reaction from him then they stalk the family; gaining information on them, their routine, where he goes, who with and when. How overprotective he is of his daughter; where she goes; who she's allowed to talk to and hang around with and what she's not allowed to do.'

'What happened to the fathers?'

'Their bodies were found a few days later, severely cut and bruised almost to the point of disfigurement.'

'So why weren't they caught?' Gene asked impatiently.

'Unfortunately, there was a leak within our department and so they fled before we could catch them.' Steve said finally gaining the courage.

Gene grunted but said nothing further.

'Well, as far as I can see it' Alex chirped up 'there's only one way we are going to catch these guys.'

'And what's that miss high-and-mighty?' Gene almost barked

'Someone going undercover.'