Defeating the enemies: Chapter 5 - Dreams of the Gene Genie
Big thanks to AshtrayHeart-x for taking time to beta read this chapter. She deserves some credit for it because it has a very much improved feel to this chapter.
An obvious title above as Alex dreams about Gene again and the detectives attend Ricky's funeral .
After working into the early hours of the morning, Alex finally managed to get home around 2:00am, settling into bed straight away. After a few minutes, she dropped off in to a nice and comfy sleep. Her dream was of Gene, again. They were watching television in her flat, neither speaking as Gene gently rubbed Alex's shoulders it was a long, stressful day and they were ending it by watching the nine o'clock news. Turning to face one another, there seemed to be a mutual need.
The passion was there, raw as they locked eyes neither daring to speak nor move. After what seemed like hours, Gene broke the spell."Blimey Bolls you didn't half give that suspect a right kick in the balls yer even left Chris and Ray shell shocked when they got back in the car." chuckling while telling her, she smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder. Instinctively, he lowered his head placing light kisses across her bare shoulder, moving up towards her neck. She turned her head away, ultimately giving him better access. It seemed out of nowhere, one moment she was silently enjoyed the sensation of his lips on her skin, the next she was fighting with the material of his shirt, the urgency to touch him, to tease him becoming too much for Alex. Gene, with his own urgency, pushed her gently but firmly back onto the settee, the passion evident in his eyes.
Seconds later her shirt was thrown in a heap on the red carpet floor. His hands moved up and down the curves of her hips and waist, gently smoothing with the palm of his hands as he marvelled in her beauty, lust blazed through Alex, tugging hard at his trousers pulling him closer to the warmth of her body feeling his strong breath upon her neck was enough to send her head spinning in a daze. She just about managed to unbuckle the belt pulling it away. She reached her hand down to feel within Gene's boxer shorts feeling his long length in the grip of her hand as he let out silent moan from his lips. Alex's hands journeyed upwards to within Gene's shirt as she wanted to feel his soft skin that was hidden underneath the clothed material. As he kissed along her neck once again, he stopped on her pulse feeling it beat faster. "Gene" she gasped as their lips eventually met, his tongue slid across her bottom lip gaining entrance quickly.
They both moaned into the kiss, as it went from gently and slow, to frenzied and passionate. It amazed Alex, that Gene somehow left this effect on her, causing her heart to beat twice as fast. She rose from the settee, pushing Gene back whilst she did so, signalling with her eyes where she intended to go.
Gently Alex grabbed Gene's hand, leading him steadily to the bedroom. Once there, her clothes were discarded quickly, at that precise moment she was standing naked in front of the bed her beauty managed to astound him, perfect breasts, the longest legs he's probably ever seen and a fair cop of an arse. He moved past her, lying on the bed first.
She turned and looked at him removing his trousers quickly, lying in only his boxers and sighed climbing onto the bed. Laying on top of him running her hands down from the top of his chest, to his stomach, legs and thighs before finally leaning down to leave the gentlest of kisses up and down Gene' left leg seeing from the corner of her eye that he was clawing at the sheets on the bed, sweating quite a lot and struggling to keep control of himself. The steamy dream however was to be short lived as she woke and sighed realising it had been, "Only a dream." She was confused to why he kept cropping up into her dream, especially the fact she nearly had sex with him. She knew though, it was because the feelings she had were growing.
She smiled to herself, trying to regain comfort hoping to finish the dream where she left the next morning. Gene and Alex were attending the funeral of Ricky Stevens as his mother wanted them to be there. As they sat at the back of the church, she looked at Gene who himself had only been to one funeral in his life, his father Pete Hunt. He had always been unsure of opening up to anyone else about his troubled young life in Manchester but with Alex having Psychology skills, he knew she would understand the pain he must have been put through by his violent father.
"How did you feel, did you still feel the anger and emotion towards him before he died?" Alex asked, not unkindly. "I made peace with me dad the night before he died, told me to look after me Ma' take good care of her. Nowadays I can't help but still feel some hate towards him, Bolls for what he did while he was still alive," lowering his head away sadly from her view. She placed her hand at the side of his cheek."Gene you're a brave man and I'm sure your mum will proud of you seeing you doing the job you love the most," He turned and looked at her for a moment, before silently mouthing, 'Thanks, Bolls.'Gloria approached them by the entrance to the church as the coffin was being carried to the cemetery.
"Thank you coming Mr Hunt and Miss Drake I really appreciate it," she looked up at both of them, a sad smile on her lips. She led the two detectives outside as they watched the burial in front of them. "A Young life taken away, life is so cruel in London now the gun crime, the violence and the war in Iraq" she spoke out what she was thinking, Confusing Gene slightly as he had no idea what she had said."I don't think Iraq will be going to war with anyone at all Bolls," She nodded agreement, forgetting for that moment exactly where she was. As they watched the coffin being lowered in to the ground, the emotional DI wiped a tear away from her eye, sighing sadly to afterwards the funeral had finished and mourners made their own way to Gloria's house which wasn't far away from the church.
The Quattro took off not long after, as Alex thought back to the dream she had last night, thinking it might help to lighten the mood."I had a dream about last night...about us," she added quickly, surprising her DCI who turned facing wanting to know what happened in this particular she had."So what I was doing in ya dreams then Bolls. Ripping your clothes off?" He asked grinning to himself as he turned back to road, glancing slyly at her out of the corner of his eyebrow had raised but she secretly laughed in thought, maybe he did see through her sometimes, maybe he was a mind reader, this current thought made Alex feel uneasy. She tried to make something up quickly, feeling nervous suddenly.
"You were my bodyguard...protecting me from horrible young men, mostly." He smiled at the thought of being a bodyguard it had always been a second option for him, if he hadn't become a police officer.
As they arrived at Gloria's house and entered he reached for two sandwiches off the p-late as he had been starving for most of the day. Gene couldn't help but think about how he had left Ray and Chris in charge. The feeling unnerved him, but he willed himself to remember there were more important things right now, than whether or not they were working, or destroying CID, although he silently prayed it wasn't the they watched other members of the Stevens family and friends of the family embrace one another in the garden. The sadness was evident, even in eachother as the stood offside. Gloria told them that Kate had been banned from the funeral and paying her respects to her dead boyfriend.
As the family members and friends were chatting amongst themselves , the young girl herself was hiding behind a tree in the garden as Alex looked over spotting her looking at most of the guests attending. She rushed over and snuck her in the house."Gloria told me and my colleague that you'd been banned from attending the funeral" Alex said evenly, noticing the girl glance worryingly at the garden and back at Alex, her bottom lip quivering."I had to come I loved him so much and sometimes I think a part of me died with him on that day," she cried in Alex's arms as they entered the kitchen that they were currently stood in, Gene popped his head in from behind the kitchen door warning her that he noticed, Graham Doherty was standing around in the street, probably looking for her. She pleaded with Gene to get rid of him, or it wouldn't be safe for to an hour later, Gene warned Graham to stay away or he would indeed beat the shit out of him.
They sat Kate down in the living room as Gloria made a coffee for Gene five sugars as requested by him,"How do you cope with him DI Drake" she laughed to herself as Gene questioned the young girl."Did you spot your dad talking to anyone offering money?"
Thinking back she remembered that she heard her dad talking to a tall Irish man about 6ft 3ins in height, Ryan her brother was standing with them."Do you think he might have killed Ricky then". She seemed very positive also telling the DCI that, "she had tried to warn Ricky he was in danger but was no where to be found eventually arriving at the youth club and finding out he'd been battered to death"."I know how you feel Kate" Gloria said, as she gave her a comforting hug on the sofa, "losing the one person you love most in the world in a cruel way.
It made Alex think back to the day she had been shot by Arthur Layton in 2008 and being apart from Molly for all this time. The female detective never gave up hope on finding her way back home to her daughter. Hearing a voice in her ear, "Bolls...Alex you were saying...D.I Drake!" She turned and looked at him, realizing she must have been voicing her thoughts out loud, she shook her head. The emotional Kate asked them if they would give her a lift home possibly around the corner so she wouldn't be spotted talking to they dropped her off later, Gene kept a very close eye on the road behind him in case Alex's stalker was watching, he realised that he was becoming very protective of Alex, caring very deeply for her safety.
There was no sign as they drove off into the dark night. She had realized herself that if this man ever approached her he would definitely become unstuck coming against the tough Gene arrived at Luigi's around half an hour later . Ray had already bought his DCI a drink as the two detectives both entered looking exhausted from their long day out from the office sitting down with the ir fellow detectives ."Cheers Raymondo I could with a fag as well,"
Just then, Ray lit up a cigarette for his DCI. At near closing time everyone had seem to leave but as Luigi was about to lock the door he noticed Gene deep in thought, deciding to leave him for a moment. Gene was thinking back to when Stu his brother turned to drugs to hide his grief at their father's funeral and how he felt angry with him on that day, been torn apart by what would become Stu's downfall in to descent a failed marriage and nearly killing himself in 1970 back in Manchester.
Luigi interrupted him with a tap on shoulder,"Erm Mr Hunt its closing time I must lock up now," Gene nodded his response whilst standing. making his way to the front entrance saying goodnight to his worried little Italian friend. Walking further on he passed a large field of grass he stood to reflect about the days events.
Somehow he knew Alex liked him, in more than a DCI, DI way and more than friends. He just had to think of a way he could prove it. Gene didn't hear the footsteps behind. Alex settled down to watch the late night news the newsreader looked up staring in to the screen. "Tonight's main headline Alex Drake and her DCI, Gene Hunt are in big trouble with three former London criminals. Look out or the lights will finally go out on your days here in 1982 Alex," she crawled up to the television screen, her eyes widening not understanding exactly what he meant, soon the screen fizzed out.
She banged hard on the sides and top of the television, demanding to know what the newsreader meant, receiving no answer as he fizzed back on and went back to reading news about a visit made by the Royal family to she didn't know was Gene had actually placed them both in danger and had just been warned by the two men that had followed him from Luigi's telling him to stay away from any business deals made by Robert Carlton and Jack Finnegan. He tried to recover in shock sitting on the cold floor by the park swings.
They didn't hit him or harm hit at all physically but it angered him that someone was so unnerved by him they could just walk up tell him what to do and walk one was going to tell him - the Gene Genie - to stay out the way of any deadly dealings involving the main suspect in a case. He was a determined man and was remaining strong and focused that he would stick to the promise made to Gloria Stevens to nail this bastard Finnegan.
Next chapter the investigation takes the DCI and his DI to Cardiff in Wales. Also Meet the lovable Rhys Gene's Welsh geeky informant.