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Welcome to the action packed chapter 14…

Chapter 14

Gene nearly chocked on his early morning coffee as he heard anxious knocking on his front door. Coughing profusely Gene ambled over to the door in a manner not quite fitting as far as the man on the other side of the door was concerned.

"Tyler." Gene grunted, it wasn't a question, he could tell something was up by the look in Sam's eyes.

"C'mon. We've got trouble." Sam said with frightening energy and Gene, in a blur of motion, grabbed his coat, slipped on his shoes and grabbed his keys faster than Sam though possible for a man like Gene.

"Lead the way Gov." Gene said and both detectives made a b-line for the stairs and Sam's car.

Sam had meant to speak to Gene as soon as he could but thought better of it as they drove off toward Levin's house.

"This is DCI Tyler, Maya, you there?" Sam said into his hand's free set.

"Sir, a neighbour has given us details. A man and woman are causing the disturbance, the man referred to the woman as 'Amy'. Sam, I've done a check on Amy, she has a record of violence, two antisocial behaviour convictions, and a history of mental illness." Maya said.

"And I bet she owns a gun." Gene muttered and Sam looked over at Gene and nodded. "Crime of bloody passion, great." Gene continued and Sam gave a heavy sigh.

Gene was pleased to see that Sam had, for the first time since they'd met, thrown caution to the wind and haired down the road. Swerving to a giddy stop just a few houses down from Levin's the pair where greeted by the grim faces of Maya and Mark.

"We should wait for armed backup." Maya said and both Gene and Sam groaned, clearly for different reasons. Gene nodded as if to indicate that Sam could comment first.

"No, we can't, if Amy has a gun the last thing we need is uniforms with guns scaring the living hell out of her." Sam said.

"And anyway, we can carry firearms, training and all, if it kicks off, well, we'll be ok." Gene put in and the three men nodded in agreement, Maya still looked unsure.

"Here." Sam said to Gene as he presented Gene with a gun totally unlike one Gene had seen before.

"So how do I set it to stun?" Gene joked and Sam raised an eyebrow.

"I thought you said…"

"Yes, I can make it bloody fire!" Gene shot back and Sam shrugged.

"Fair enough." Sam muttered as the pair, almost simultaneously tucked their guns into the back of their trousers and pulled their suit jackets in place to cover the gun.

"All set?" Sam asked and Gene nodded as they approached the front door; this was going to require some acting.

Sam instructed the back up to 'back off' out of sight before heading down the almost non-existent garden path, which ran along a frankly uncared for postage stamp sized patch of lawn. Already from outside the detectives' could hear the arguing.

"Got a playing card?" Gene asked quietly, gesturing to the lock on the door.

"I've got a credit card and luck." Sam said and carefully opening the door the pair slipped inside. They knew that if Levin came to answer the door Amy could be out the back quicker than you could say 'mine's a pint'.

"You're crazy you are!" yelled Levin from the living room and Sam bit his lip as they walked carefully down the corridor.

"Was this really a good idea?!" Sam hissed near Gene's ear and Gene nearly laughed out loud.

Who's the DCI now Tyler?

"But I did it so we'd be together." Amy pleaded and Levin laughed coldly.

"Together?! You're going to jail, or the funny farm!" Levin spat back but gasped. A silence fell in the house and Sam had a guess at what may soon happen.

"I got an idea." Gene said and strolled boldly into the living room as his outraged DCI could do nothing but splutter.

Gene knocked on the living room doorframe in full view of both of the room's occupants and Gene smiled, trying to ignore the gun in Amy's hand.

"Sorry to bother but the door was open, just wanted to ask you a few questions again." Gene said and Sam cringed, the lie was so false he almost expected to hear a gunshot any second.

"Tyler?" Gene said turning to see his apprehensive DCI hovering in the doorway.

"Err, yes." Tyler said moving into the room so he was standing just about next to Amy and the lump of metal in her hand.

Gene calculated his options. He toyed with the notion of pulling his gun and do a 'freeze, you're surrounded by armed bastards' bit, but knew that wouldn't help. Sam tried to gesture to the pair to sit but Levin's manic expression gave it away that he wasn't going anywhere until Amy was dealt with. As Gene looked on he saw Sam doing something very irrational. Amy's eyes where locked onto Levin's like laser sights, she hadn't seemed to have noticed the appearance of two others in the room. The girl either had tunnel vision or was simply bonkers.

"Tyler?!" Gene questioned as Sam tried to peel the gun out of Amy's hand.

"No!" Levin yelled and to both detectives' horror Levin tried to make a grab for the gun as well. As Sam and Gene pulled Levin out of the way several shots where fired randomly.

"Shit!" Sam exclaimed and Gene noticed blood pouring from a wound in Sam's upper arm. At that moment Gene was relieved to here the sound of footsteps and a unit of uniforms stormed in. Gene looked over at Levin, who looked like death but otherwise was alive. Glancing up, Gene saw Amy raise the gun to her temple.

"No!" Sam breathed a millisecond too late.

So sorry this took so long to be published. Sorry. Will Sam be ok, why haven't we heard from Morgan again and will Lisa Simpson return to cause more problems? Find out soon!