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CID hadn't been the same since the Guv was suspended. The new DCI was in a way, fiercer than the Guv ever was. There was no smoking allowed, no drinking either. All the pictures of girls had been taken down. It reminded Ray and Chris of when DCI Morgan had taken over for the brief spell when the Guv was on the run for murder. Only now, it didn't seem likely that he would get out of trouble so easily. If only Alex would wake up…
Ray started out of his reverie when the doors of the office slammed open. The new DCI came through the doors, with some blonde girl in handcuffs. She turned. It was Jenette.
"Ray, Chris," he yelled. "I want you to question her right now! She's been taken in on the attempted murder of Tim Rivens."
"Her own brother?" Ray asked.
"This is a gangster family. You don't know what they're capable of."
They took her into the interrogation room. As hard as they tried, they couldn't get any information out of her. She looked smugly up at them.
"Where's that DCI of yours?"
They didn't say anything. It was too painful to think about the Guv in the cells.
"I bet he's in the cells after what he did to that DI of yours."
"What'd he do?"Chris asked.
"Shot her in the stomach didn't he?"
"How could you know what the Guv did to her?" asked Ray. "It hasn't been released that he did that!"
Jenette stopped. Clearly she had not thought things through.
"Chris did you get that on the tape?"
"Yeah, I did."
"Let's show it to the DCI. We may be able to get the Guv off. It looks like he's telling the truth!"
"Thank God for Sam being a pain in the arse huh?"
Ray and Chris ran to the filling DCI with the tape, but in his cell, the rhythm pounded on. ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT!
**
Had her cheek always been like that? No, it couldn't have been. It was the next day, and Alex was flipping through photos of Molly when she was younger, but the birthmark was gone. She could've sworn that Molly had always had it. What was going on?
She got off the couch and washed her face, being careful around her wound on her forehead. As she pressed the towel to her forehead, she realised she was pressing down on exactly where the wound was. She felt no pain. Alex looked in the mirror, moving her fringe so she could see the bullet hole clearly. It wasn't there. Something was wrong.
Alex decided to go for a walk and clear her head. She walked out of her bathroom to the door of the flat and opened it. There was nothing outside the door. No floor, no wall, just black. Scared, she closed the door, and walked back into her living room. She looked out the window. It was cloudy out, and traffic was flowing like normal. She walked to the door of the flat again. It wasn't there.
"Mum!" Molly was calling out from the living room. She walked towards Molly's voice. Molly was sitting on the couch, birthmark still missing, hair pulled back. "Mum!" she called again.
"Molly what is it? What's wrong?" She sat on the couch next to Molly and put her arm around her. "Molly what's going on?"
Molly didn't respond. She just looked straight ahead. "Mum!"
Alex didn't know what to do. Molly had never acted like this before. "I'll get you a glass of water, love, okay?" She walked to the kitchen and got a glass of water. Alex walked back into the living room. Molly was gone. She dropped the glass of water. It smashed on the floor.
The lights went out and the television flickered on. Molly's face was on the screen. She was crying. There was a voice behind her.
"Molly, it's alright. She's just weak from the infection, and the antibiotics sent her into a deeper coma," the voice said.
A deeper coma? Was this world a figment of her imagination too?
The voice continued. "Alex is in a very deep coma at the moment, almost as if she is in a coma within a coma. This is due to the antibiotics. She should be back at her normal state in a few hours."
A coma within a coma? She had never actually woken up? "No..." Alex started crying. "No...Molly...no. I'm sorry. I thought I was woken up Molls." The screen went black and Alex kept crying.
Wait. If this world was just her coma world from 1982, it meant that the Guv was okay. He hadn't been tried for murder, yet. But what about the messages over the television? Those must have been telling her what was happening in 1982, like when she was in '82 and got messages from the 21st century. If this wasn't real, then there was no need to control her thoughts. She was going to wake up in 1982. She could feel it. Finally, after several weeks of building the wall in her head, she let it down.
Gene...
TBC...
