So, I am all settled in the US now- so I thought it was time to update this! I will update "A Nine Month Bug" as soon as possible, I am having some issues with my Ashes to Ashes muse- but I am trying my hardest!

Also- I know this is short, but I think the chapter ends in the right place.

Chapter Two

The next time Molly woke up, she was yet again disappointed to find herself somewhere that wasn't home. She was in a small room, that smelt very strongly of smoke, and the decor definitely left something to be desired. As she stood up her hand flew to her head, I suppose passing out twice will do that to you. "And don't forget hallucinating." She murmured to herself. Molly left the room and walked down the corridors, she followed the noise that seemed to be coming from an office, and she noted the smell of smoke was definitely getting stronger.

She opened the door of the office, to be yet again confronted by a certain figment of her imagination.

"Well you took your bloody time." Gene Hunt turned to the room full of men, "Everyone, this is our latest typist WPC Jenkins." Outraged at the way he had addressed her, Molly opened her mouth to argue with the man, but someone else got there first.

"Guv, what have I told you about being rude to new employees?" A very familiar voice questioned. A chillingly familiar voice. Molly hadn't heard it since her eleventh birthday, but she knew it so well. She turned and gasped as her eyes fell on the one woman she never thought she would see again.

"Well, Bolls, she is my new officer. I can speak to her however sees me fit." He looked towards Molly, who was still staring at Alex. "Jenkins," Molly jumped and turned to face him. "This is Alex Hunt, my annoying know-it-all DI." Everyone else in the room went back to their work, as if they were used to the two of them griping at each other.

"And wife." Alex said sweetly.

"Wife?" Molly stuttered. This was impossible, and a very cruel trick from her subconscious. Why, of all people would her mother be here? And why did she look older? Most of all- why an earth was she married to the dinosaur Gene Hunt?

"Yes, unfortunately luv, I am taken." Gene retorted, despite her shock Molly didn't miss the sharp look that her mother shot him.

"Yes, the women of Fenchurch are simply heart-broken." Alex replied sarcastically. Before the conversation could continue the phone in Gene's office rang. He went to his office, slamming the door behind him, and answered the phone. "Don't let him get to you." Alex said, slightly worried about how the girl opposite her was staring. She moved to lean on her desk. "He's like that with everyone, you get used to it."

"Yeah... right." Molly said, trying to sound like she was listening, but not able to form a coherent sentence. This was her mother, who had died when she was a child, talking to her! Breathing next to her. Why doesn't she recognise me? This can't be real...my mother would recognise me. Molly's eyes fell to the desk and she saw a photo of Alex and Gene, with a little girl. Alex looked up and saw Molly studying the picture.

"That's Grace, she's four." Alex explained, smiling.

"You have a daughter?" Molly blurted out. None of this made sense, her mother was here, in this strange place in her head, married and with a daughter. If her subconscious had to involve Alex Drake at all, why would it be like this?

"Yeah, although she was a surprise to say the least." Alex was still smiling, like she had whenever she had spoken about Molly, a lifetime ago.

"Do you have any other children?" Molly asked, hopeful.

"No." Alex answered simply. "One is enough for me and Gene." Molly was sure she could hear her heart break. She doesn't remember.

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