Author's Note: I think I prefer the old version of 'The Hills Have Eyes' compared to the new one. THE POOR DOGGIE!

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" You took my hand you showed me how,

You promised me you'd be around.

Uh huh,

That's right.

I took your words and I believed,

In everything you said to me.

Yeah huh.

That's right…."
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Pink- Who Knew.

Max found that he couldn't sleep that night.
The TV showed some forgin black and white movie that he couldn't understand. A sandwich lay abandoned on the oak coffee table; one that he made when he was hungry—which was a few hours ago—at the least.
He found that his mind kept on drifting to the twenty-four year old woman whom he worked with; no matter how hard he tried to focus on the movie, or, a more likely option, the case, he found that Ashley kept popping up.

Tiredly, he looked over at the digital clock which read '12:47 pm'. Picking up his phone, he decided to call his partner and see if she was still awake.
After a few moments, a tired sounding Ashley picked up "You selfish asshole" Her voice scorned as Max secretly smiled to himself.
"Well morning to you too" He laughed as he leaned back into the couch and placed one foot on his table.

On the other end, Ashley looked over at the sleeping form of her boyfriend of three years Harvey "Do you have any idea what time it is? Or how much sleep I actually need to function properly?" She said, carefully sliding out of bed and walking into the sitting room.

"Well, there's a coffee and a sandwich in it for you"

Ashley narrowed her eyes as she lazily flopped onto her worn sofa, her black silk night dress riding up her leg "What do I have to do?" She yawned as she rubbed her eyes.

"I think I have a theory about the Monroe case"

"I thought we dealt with that already. She didn't want to press charges and we still went thorough her bin" Ashley pulled a face at the memory as she cleaned under her clear painted nails.

"Money problems"

Ashley rolled her eyes and began to stand up "Okay. I'll meet you at the office then. I hate you, you know that right" She mumbled as she slowly walked into the bedroom and began to find her jeans and a shirt to wear.

"See you in half an hour"

Hanging up her phone; Ashley swore to herself. He was a selfish, self-absorbent, pain in her ass. How they ever get along while working on cases is something which will always remain a mystery to her.
"You have to go?" Harvey mumbled as he rolled over to look at her.

Ashley nodded and pulled off her pyjamas "Sorry. Boss called. He has a 'theory'. Note the quote marks" She smiled as she dressed and pulled her boots on.
"Have fun" He yawned as he rolled back over and went to sleep.

Ashley rolled her eyes and walked out of the house, making a special effort to slam the door behind her.

Max knew he could always count on Ashley to wake up when he wanted her too. He suspected it was most likely because she wanted to make a good impression for her superiors that she was eager about the job; she didn't need to know that they already thought highly of her though.
He walked outside into the cool winter air and walked over to his car. Smiling over the thought of Ashley's face when he gets there.

"I know its crazy and all. But people generally like sleeping. Not like you're people or anything" Ashley growled as she pulled her hooded jumper further around her already freezing body as she waited out the front of the police station.
Max smirked "I thought you like staying up past your bed time" He retorted as he swiftly moved past her and into the reception where they were greeted with the confused faces of PC's Mel Ryder and Nate Roberts.

"Cute" Ashley snidely remarked as Max pressed in the code to walk up into CID "So what is so important that you decide to wake me up at this ungodly hour?" She let out a long and tired yawn as she pushed open the doors which led to the office and, surprise surprise, no one was in.

Max walked over to his desk and pulled the witness statements over to him "I was thinking about what could make a woman scared enough not to make a statement about her assault. And then I thought about abusive boyfriends…." He looked at Ashley to try and get her thinking on the same wavelength.

Ashley thought about this for a moment before looking up at him with a look of realization "or abusive children" She smiled as Max nodded and clicked his fingers at her; "Doesn't really mean this couldn't have waited until the morning" She dryly stated as she fell into her desk chair.

"Check him out on crimmit. I'm going to go see if there's some CCTV around the flats and if there is. We're having a movie night" Max said as he began to walk out of the office.

Ashley let out a long groan and turned to face Max's back "I still demand my coffee or some sort of energy drink!" She called out after him, earning a thumbs up from Max.

She turned to her computer and began to type in Jason's name into the database.
"Hey eggshell" Ashley turned around to see Nate walking over to her with a smile on his face "What are you and serge doing here? I thought you went home"

Ashley shook her head "I thought I had too. But serge had other ideas" She said exasperatedly as she turned back to the computer and smiled as crimmit came back with a result "Well, well, well. Look who's been a bad boy then. Assaulting his girlfriend in '06, GBH in '04, handling of stolen goods in '09…." She turned to Nate "The list goes on. But, on the bright side, he's got prior; make serge's night at least" She rubbed her eyes and leaned back in her chair, reading over the charge sheet. She leaned forward on her seat as she read something else "He was also a suspect in the Charlie Roberts abduction"

"Charlie Roberts?" Nate quizzed as he pulled a seat over and sat next to the other woman.

"A five year old girl who was abducted from her home a few years ago. King was the main suspect. He was seen around the house for days before Charlie vanished and he was seen around the premises around the time she was kidnapped. Nothing could ever been proven though. He was let off much to the media's outcry. She's never been found either. That was five years ago" Max explained as he walked back into CID carrying many DVD cases and a two cups of coffee.

Nate turned to face him, and, upon seeing the CCTV, he abruptly stood up "Best I get back down to Mel. Have fun up here" He couldn't leave fast enough.

Ashley eyed half the pile which was left on her desk, and the half that was left on Max's "I swear mine's bigger then yours" She stated as she opened the first DVD case and placed the disc into her CD drive.
"Let's not go there" Max said, placing the coffee in front of her "So what did you find on crimmit?"

"He has prior for violence. Beating his missus up and all" Ashley remarked, turning to the screen.

Max looked at her "Had a chat with our local councilor who very kindly gave us the CCTV we are watching tonight…"
"You're not going to run are you?" Ashley interrupted.

Ignoring her comment, Max continued "…And he said that Jason had been hanging out with the local gangs. The local chauvinistic pigs of the area"
"Oh he'd fit right in there" Ashley smirked as she continued to stare at the footage playing.

"And he'd been harassing some of the girls in the area…" Max still continued.

Ashley paused the tape and looked up "How come we hadn't heard of it?"

"Because he's throwing his weight around and intimidating the women who were going to press charges" Max clarified.

Ashley nodded "So I'm assuming that when day breaks, we go and pay him a visit?"

Max smiled and pointed at her "Now you're catching on"

Ashley resumed the tape and traced her bottom lip with her thumb, wondering why his praise means so much to her now after all this time.