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What's Gordon got to do with it?

"Pardon me?" Harry snapped as the woman folded her arms.

"I've nothing to say to you. Like I said. No offence but I have two kids to consider."

"I understand that." Dempsey smiled at her. "Where are they?"

"Gone to tea at a friends' house." Julie explained. "Now, for the moment they are safe and I intend to keep it that way."

"So do we." Harry approached her as the woman in the grey batwing jumper sat down and lit a cigarette. For a moment Dempsey was reminded of the ceiling back at the B&B. He looked away to collect his thoughts as Harry sat opposite her. Julie, you are aware that William Jones is out of prison?"

"Yeah. I guessed that was why I was here."

"We need to know what is happening. You remember the day he was sentenced?"

"Oh course I bleedin' well remember it? The man threatened to find me and butcher me. Not kill me. Not make me pay. Butcher me. Bit specific."

"Yeah." Dempsey frowned. "Yeah it was."

"He was a butcher by trade." Harry explained. "Or at least that was what he wanted people to think."

"Yeah. But I aint gonna end up on the end of a meat 'ook for him."

"What I don't understand." Dempsey paused, staring at the small plume of smoke that escaped her mouth. "Is why you only want to talk to our boss. Spikings knows we are here. You know? He sent us."

"And I want to know what happened with your husband. We all know he was attacked, left for dead by Jones but he survived another two years before dying."

"I know." Julie snapped. "I bloody know all this. I drove him to it. My children's dad and I pushed him into a deal with William Jones. I told him we needed the money." She buried her face in her hands. "Then when things got too deep. When it looked like people were gonna get hurt he freaked out. So I went to Gordon."

"You were an informant?" Harry's eyes widened. "That's why you want to talk to him."

"I don't like that word."

"But you told him things, stopped crimes, gave Spikings a tip off."

"Yeah." Julie sighed. "Only I got this one wrong, didn't I? Yeah William Jones was caught. Yeah he went down. And 'e deserved to but not at the cost of my family. I was pregnant. Carly was barely in nursery school. I was scared and I was alone. My husband didn't care, never wanted another baby. But Gordon was helpful. He understood. I am not going to tell you anything else."

"Then there is only one thing for it." Harry snapped as Dempsey nodded.

"You'll have to come up to London, with us."

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A/N MOre soon x