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Chapter 7

Tony's POV

Trudging down the high street never seemed so pointless, I wanted to be back at the station in the thick of the action, not out here with Amber Johansson. She was saying something incredibly inane, as always, when I spotted someone running out of a store with an armful of goods. "What d'you bet he didn't pay for them?" I asked her and started running towards him. He took a left and disappeared down a laneway, I pointed for Amber to follow him then I took off right, heading him off. Amber and I cornered him in the laneway and I grabbed his shoulder grinning cheerfully. "You're nicked mate"

"Wait" he cried, he seemed scared and he couldn't have been more than fifteen. "Please…don't nick me"

"Why not?" Amber asked wrinkling her nose at him.

"Because—because I know who's in with that mad bitch, the one on telly" he said, his voice jittery, like a jitterbug.

I raised my eyebrow at Amber and she looked back at me, I think we were both thinking the same thing but it was best to make sure. I pulled out my cuffs and snapped on around the boy's wrist and the other to the pole of the fence. There was no way he was getting out of that one. "Let me talk to my colleague for a minute"

We stepped away so he couldn't hear us. "It's petty theft, probably first offence if he's that scared" Amber muttered.

"Yeah, and we can say we just lost him" I muttered back. Best to get his details though, in case he tells a fib."

Amber grinned up at me, "A fib, you're such a fuddy-duddy" I shook my head at her and tuned back to the boy.

"Ok. What do you know, and speak fast before someone comes round the corner and sees we've caught you."

"It's my brother. That Dan-something girl came into the pub last night, we have a flat over the top and we know the landlord so he lets me hangout there when mums not home, she don't trust me with a key." He started. I smiled at him to keep him talking. "She came up to him and said she heard he didn't like fags. My bro's got a gang and they have a thing against them. Then she told him she knew where he could find two dykes who were coppers and they had been drugged so it would be easy to grab 'em and take 'em out to the woods." He swallowed looking down at the ground.

"What happened then?" Amber asked him, she smiled at him flirtatiously and he grinned back. God what that girl wouldn't stoop to.

"My brother and two of his mates agreed to do this thing, get them pigs—erm sorry. Coppers and take them down to the woods near Mary's pool in their van. I don't think they were gonna kill 'em, just scare a bit." He protested but I knew he knew that wasn't true.

I smiled at him gratefully. "Ok, I'm gonna need your name though, and don't worry we wont let your brother know you told us anything."

"It's Darren, Darren Summers. And my brother's called Will. The van's in his name" he mumbled, I think he was relieved to get it off his chest. I undid the handcuffs and nodded, he ran off and Amber and I picked up the stuff and carried it back to the shop before we headed back to the station. I wanted to tell them this in person, make sure I didn't miss anything out.

Mickey's POV

Tony came back today with some information and I was just checking it out. I found that Will Summers did own a white van and now I was checking CCTV. So far most of the information had checked out, I had traced his route from Sam's at about twelve thirty along to the M5 and I was just checking to see if he did turn off at Mary's pool like the kid had said. The only thing that didn't make sense was the kid had said that Theresa had told Summers about two, dykes as far as I knew Sam wasn't gay but Theresa could have lied about that. Jack was watching over my shoulder, he was incredibly tense but he was happier now that Chris and Abi seemed to be coming round, they were still really sleepy. Probably the best thing for them in my opinion. I grinned as I saw the van on the screen, it slowed, indicated, and turned left. Towards Mary's pool. Jack smiled in satisfaction and we headed off to let MIT know, this was going to be an easy result for them, we were doing all the leg work. But it was a lucky break that Tony had caught up with that kid. But when I think back to what he said I think maybe it wasn't so lucky, I think the kid was trying to get caught. He wanted to do the right thing but he was too scared to. Ten minutes later we were on the road towards Mary's Pool. I was in the front of Jack's blue sedan and we were second in the convoy. I only hoped we could get there in time.

Jo's POV

We huddled there for God knows how long, I think I must have drifted of because the next thing I knew the air was being split by a scream and I could feel my hair being tugged out of my head. It took me a moment to realise that the scream was actually me and as soon as I gathered that I shut up. I looked around with blurry eyes and saw Sam being hauled up too. She was putting less of a fight though, her nightie was thinner and she must have been freezing, I was wearing an old T-shirt and some shorts that come down to mid-thigh, but they were completely soaked through and my legs looked blue. I stared up at the guy who seemed to be the leader, "What did you do with Tess?" I asked, my voice trembling partly from fear, mostly from how cold I was.

"We dealt with her, we don't like liars" he snarled. He turned from me to Sam and struck her across the head. She whimpered slightly then sagged in her captor's arms unconscious.

"Leave her alone" I screamed and he turned back to me.

"Shut up bitch" he spat and he gobbed in my face. I turned away for a moment and he chuckled so he didn't see what was coming. I spat a gob right back in his face. I had to distract him from Sam, she couldn't take much more of this and if that meant he was going to take it out on me I didn't care. The guy flew into a rage and he ordered the guy who was holding me to drop me. He obeyed and I fell onto my hands and knees. The leader stepped forward and punched me in the stomach. I tried to stumble to my feet but I was freezing and my muscles were slow, my head was pounding and my vision blurry. He punched me again and this time I retaliated. I smacked him right in the jaw, he glared at me a bit of blood on the side of his mouth. He lunged forward grabbing my shoulders and he shoved his tongue down my throat. I bit it as hard as i could, at the same time as clawing at his neck. He shoved me backwards, up against a tree and I felt fear paralyse me. He was going to rape me. And there was nothing I could do to stop him. I saw him grin malevolently but then there was a thunk, followed by a thud and he turned around to see what the noise was. I saw Sam standing there looking like the avenging angel…or ghost. All pale and blueish. She had a large tree branch in her hands and she was breathing hard, her eyes slightly unfocused and the other two guys were lying on the ground, unconscious. The burly guy who was pinning me to a tree lurched himself off with a roar and charged at Sam. His fist collided with the side of her head and his other fist rammed into her side. Sam crumpled to the ground and lay there as he laid into her. I stumbled to my feet, my head swimming and I used the last of my strength the throw myself on top of him and locked my arms around his neck. Then I slipped into unconsciousness.