Sam oblivious to his DCIs feelings watched Alex carefully all the time glancing around the room making sure that there were no visions that could distress Alex right about now. He still rubbed her back gently and she eventually sat up her face flushed with embarrassment as she realised how this must look. Sam smiled as she glanced around the room hurriedly. "Nothing's here" he reassured her. "It's only CID who are a little confused about why you just fainted. What do you want to tell them?"
"Ah, have any ideas?"
"We could say that you are physically exhausted from travelling for two days?" Alex nodded and stood up.
"Let's go!" She announced and turned around to face the door and stood dead in her tracks what little colour her face had quickly drained. "SAM!" She screamed causing most of CID to run in to the corridor and look around for the cause of the scream. In the doorway stood a man in a tall dark coat he was smoking a cigarette in one hand with the other he waved to Alex. Alex screamed again in pure terror as the grey haired man took one finally drag on the cigarette and vanished as Gene Hunt burst through the door.
"Bolly!" Gene shouted as she stared in horror at the doorway
"Alex? Who was that?" Sam asked.
"Martin" She said quietly Sam nodded silently and put his arms around her pulling her close to him. Gene scowled. There it was again that jealousy. And now there was something new something Alex had said all those months ago on November 12th. The other Summers. And that man who stood in the courtyard. Alex had seemed to know him but she hadn't said anything when he had been shot.
Gene turned round seeing that Alex clearly didn't need him that thought really bothered him. He walked through the door and out into the corridor. "She's ok." He told CID, "Sam's looking after her." It made him feel physically sick to say it out loud. Alex didn't need the Gene Genie. He had pushed her away and unlike last time she hadn't come back.
Just above Alex's head was the front desk of CID. And right now while Alex sat on a couch down stairs, Gene was getting moderately drunk in his office and Sam was walking up the stairs, there was a problem. Hands on her hips hair falling down her back in a blond cascade, eyes set in a glare and her mouth pressed into a thin line was the problem. The girl was dressed in a short skirt with fishnet stockings a blue V-neck top and high heeled knee-high white boots.
"Look love," Chris was trying and pretty much failing to calm the girl down. "We want to help you find your mother but she's not here."
"Of course she's here. She works here. And who are you? I've never met you and I've been here loads." She spoke in a commanding and knowledgeable voice.
"I'm DC Chris-"
"Chris Skelton?" The girl interrupted her authoritative voice gone to be replaced by a mere whisper. When Chris nodded her eyes went huge. She shook her head in surprise.
"No way," the girl breathed she ran away from him and into the main office just as Sam entered from the other side. "SAM?"She yelled and DI Tyler found himself tackled by the child. The girl had her arms around his waist and her head was buried in his chest. He gently pulled her away so he could see her face and seeing it his mouth fell open in a comic o.
The girl looked up at him taking in his appearance it was then that a thought dawned on her. "I thought you died? A long, long time ago." She said loudly causing everyone to turn their attention to DI Tyler and the strange girl that was hugging him. Ray and Chris walked into the room.
"Yeah love so did we." Ray told the girl. She turned to him and took in his perm and moustache.
"Ray?" She asked curious this was getting ridiculous. "Sam seriously you died. There was no maybe about it you were dead. I mean jumping off a building generally does that to people.
"He did what?" The assembled crowds of CID gasped as their DCI walked into the room.
"Let me guess. Gene Hunt?" The girl turned to Sam who nodded still in shock at her sudden appearance.
"Molly, that never happened." Sam told her his eyes conveying the severity of the situation to the little girl. She dumbly nodded and stood as close as she could to Sam. All the while glancing around the room watching the figures of Chris, Ray and Gene carefully.
"Bolly!" Gene shouted over a police radio. Sam had left one with Alex so she could talk to him. "Get up here there is some daft bird that needs your help." Molly rolled her eyes at his treatment of this unknown woman. There was a sigh from the other end of the radio and a familiar "yes Guv."
Alex walked up the stairs wondering what on Earth was so strange about this girl that the whole of CID couldn't handle. She reached the corridor outside the office and was about to walk in when she glanced through one of the windows into the office. Who she saw was enough to make her almost faint again. Gene saw her through the glass and walked out to talk to her.
"Well Bolly, this girl seems to know more than half of CID by name she also claims Sam jumped off a building." Gene looked at her face and was surprise to see that Alex had a faint smile and a rather dazed look on her face. "Bolly?" She snapped out of her trance looking through the window one last time she turned to face Gene.
"And what do you want be to do about it Guv?" She asked absentmindedly. A thought came to her mind. "Wait a second you can see her?" That thought was now causing her some confusion.
"Of course I can see her Bols. Are you drunk?" When she shook her head Gene scowled again. "I want you to go in there and use your psychiatry on her find out how she knows what she does. And before you say it I know its psychology."
"I will not" Alex seemed astonished that Gene could even think of such a thing. "I will not profile her."
"Why not? Give me one good reason why not." Gene told her. Alex ignored him and walked into the office. The girl payed her to attention and continued to cling to Sam. It was then that Alex realised that she looked completely different to what Molly was used to.
"Mols!" Alex said warmly causing every head to turn to her. But most importantly the girl looked up and ran to her mother.
"Mum!" CID's mouths fell open simultaneously. Gene walked into the office to see CID staring in complete shock at their DI and the girl that was clinging to her.
"Bolly! Explain!"
