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Seven Days and Counting 16
"Interview with Mr Tom Christie, present in the room P.C. Anderson, Tom Christie and DS Sandra Pullman, Mr Christie can you confirm for the of the tape that you have waved the right to legal representation and you are aware that you can request a solicitor at any stage and the interview will be suspended until the duty solicitor has been called?" He's still smirking at me now as he confirms that he understands and I'm refusing to be the one who breaks eye contact even though the fact that he is even looking at me at all is making my skin crawl.
"After all we've been through together Detective superintendent don't you think we should be on first name terms? I mean it isn't that long ago that you were lying naked in my bed I think….."
"We've established that you didn't gain access to my home by forced entry Mr Christie could you explain how you did get in?" He's laughing now and he's finally looked away. I know what he's trying to do, he's determined to make me as uncomfortable as possible and make sure as many details of the time I spent locked in that room are on tape. It's another way of keeping control and I'm not letting him do it.
"Well you should really be a little more security conscious since this is a police station and all. It was even easier than I'd thought it would be. All I had to do was wait around in reception upstairs pretending to be waiting my turn in line then once the desk sergeant was distracted I slipped through the door and down here in the lift. Once I was down here I already knew you were all busy so I could have walked about for hours if I'd wanted. Your handbag was on the hook in your office all I had to do was take an impression of it. I have a lot of friends from my haulage days and I got one of them to cut me a key from the mould."
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"How the hell did he get to just waltz down here?" Jack asked as he, Gerry, Brian and Strickland watched from the viewing room.
"I don't know but I intend to find out." Strickland replied as they heard Sandra ask Christie how he got past the key code entry to the door leading to the lifts and he replied that he waited until someone was else was coming through it and hold the door open for them then he was able to slip through it once they'd moved on.
"Jesus what sort of idiot lets a civilian just walk through a door in a fucking police station?" Gerry snapped shaking his head and turning his attention back to the interview as Sandra continued.
"So going back a bit you interfered in a police murder investigation and when I refused to see you again you decided that stalking was the best option? How long exactly did you spend observing me and rooting through my bins?" She asked the callas edge to her voice making Gerry smile as he saw a brief flash of the Sandra Pullman he knew and loved.
"I needed to know as much about you as possible and since you weren't prepared to let me do that by spending time with you what else was I supposed to do?" Christie replied his eyes scanning her for a second as the other men watched her tense slightly.
"God he's a smarmy bastard." Brian said quietly his voice dripping with anger. "He's getting to her now her body language is changing come on guvnor you can do this."
"So you followed me, monitored my movements and established that your chances of getting into a relationship with me were non-existent why not just leave it at that? Why take things to such extremes?" Sandra continued as Christie leaned back in his chair lacing his fingers behind his head.
"You knew we were meant to be together Sandra all I needed to do was make you see that, if removing you from all distractions was the only way to do that then so be it. Once I had you if you still chose to ignore the chemistry between us then at least I was in a position to make sure no one else could have you either." He replied staring pointedly through the two way mirror at the four men as Jack finally felt his control snap.
"He's not telling us anything we don't already know other than the security in this building is shit which we could have guessed." He snapped staring angrily at Strickland. "Enough of this he's just trying to mess with her head let's get in there and put this to an end before he succeeds."
"Jack we can't do that you know we can't." Strickland replied "Sandra chose to do this no one forced her."
"I don't care if she agreed or not I'm going in there to get her as far away from that twisted piece of shit as possible." Jack continued reaching for the door handle as Brian grabbed his arm.
"She'll not thank you for that Jack and if you stop and think for a second you know she won't." He said quietly as Jack glanced at Gerry where he stood a short distance from the window clearly finding it hard to watch the woman he loved be put through this.
"What do you think Gerry?"
"I think we have to trust her to stop if she's feeling threatened or finding it hard, Brian's right she'll not thank us for going in there playing the hero no matter how tempting it is." Gerry replied as Jack sighed.
"Ok but if he keeps this up we go in, agreed?" He asked looking at Strickland as he nodded. "Good, she might not like it but she'll thank us in the long run. He's messed with her life enough, we give them ten more minutes and if he's not giving her anything we stop it."