A/N - Just a short one this time, I'll make it up to you with a longer chap next time.

Everyone waited to see what the Guv's reaction would be, they could suddenly feel a whole amount of tension build; even Steve and Vicky felt awkward and they didn't know about the Guv's explosive arguments with his DI.

Gene silently stood up and walked into his office shutting his door behind him. Alex sighed and followed him in, everyone suddenly found something to do to make it look like they weren't listening in.

'Gene' she sighed 'I know you don't want to consider it an option but I think it's the only way we're going to …..'

'I know bolls, I was thinking the same myself. Great minds eh?'

His interruption had totally wrong footed her and it took her a few seconds to form a coherent sentence.

'So who do you think would be best for the job?'

'As the father? I think there's only one man for the job.' She smirked trying to gain eye contact to put her point across.

He sighed and rubbed his face.

'What about the daughter?'

'Well, what about Lewis?'

'PC Lewis Jones?' he shrieked 'Bolls he's a 30 something skinny runt of a man, I doubt even the stupidest of criminals would think he could pass as a convincing girl. And I don't know what kinky stuff your into, but I don't wanna see him dressed up like a woman!' he shuddered

'Not him!' she hissed 'WPC Lewis, I've only known her for a few hours but from what I've seen she does have a few of your personal characteristics. She also does look a tiny bit like you, even more so if she dyed her hair blonde.'

He studied Vicky for a moment while her words sank in. It was true she did look a bit like him; hell, if he had been in Birmingham he would have suspicions that she was his daughter.

He moved over to the door and pulled it open.

'WPC Lewis' he grunted and nodded for her to come into the office when she looked at him. All eyes were on her now as she walked from one end of the room to his office.

She silently closed the door as she walked in and stood in front of the two senior officers. She reminded Gene of a child being called into the head teacher's office, and he resisted the urge to smile at the thought.

'The bastards that are doing this … have you seen them?'

'Only from profile but I'm sure I could recognise them sir.' She answered grasping her hands behind her back, feeling more comfortable after realising she wasn't in trouble.

'Have they seen your face?' Alex queried, feeling that they could fall at the last hurdle if they have seen her.

'No ma'am, they ran past me and was too busy checking behind themselves to notice a group of us come from the side.' Alex smiled, reassured that they could still go ahead with the plan.

'Right…well how would you feel about going undercover?'

Vicky stared wide eyed for a moment, before realising she was doing a pretty good impression of a fish and snapped out of it.

'Err… yeah sir that would - well that would be great sir.' She beamed at them. 'So who'll be my 'dad'?'

She flicked her gaze between the two officers and noticed that Gene was getting uncomfortable.

'Err that'll be me.' Gene spoke whilst rubbing the back of his neck.

Vicky looked at him then, really looked at him, analysing if he could pass as her father. She was really making Gene uncomfortable with how hard she was staring at him.

'Yeah ok sir' she smiled and nodded at him.

He nodded in return and moved passed them to open the door, ushering them out.

'Right you lazy arseholes! It's time to do some work. My very good self and this here WPC are going undercover – as father and daughter.' At the end of this sentence the whole of CID went silent; the only noise heard was Ray spluttering out cigarette smoke.

'What? You're gonna pretend that you have a daughter? And make it realistic?' Ray sneered

'Yeah we are DS Carling! There are criminals out there abducting and murdering people. Would you prefer us to do nothing and let it continue?' if Ray's face was anything to go by, then he obviously had changed his mind about the two of them.

'Right now that your all on side; Shaz I want you to go with WPC Lewis, get her some new clothes - the kind that'll make her look like a nun, and get her a place in college or something.' He said walking over, taking out his wallet and handing her a wad of cash. 'Ray and Chris we're gonna need a flat or a house – make sure it has two bedrooms you halfwits. PC Middleton, I want you to work with bolls here; I need a plan of action, I need meeting places and times saying who's coming. Information must be passed between us to make sure this works out.' And don't you dare even consider hitting on her! He silently threatened.

'What about you Guv?' Chris asked

'Me? I'm going job hunting.' He looked around the room at everyone. 'Well, what are you waiting for? The sooner we sort everything out, the sooner we can go undercover and catch these bastards! So come one, SHIFT YOUR ARSES!'

He walked back into his office to read the job pages in his newspaper; leaving a mass of work related chaos behind him.