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Chapter Twenty-Three;
Faison

"That's a very serious accusation DC Spark."

Hayleigh frowned and crossed her arms. "In all due respects guv, if you knew him, you wouldn't be too surprised by it."

Heaton frowned at Neil. "Isn't he the officer coming down from Manchester in two days?" Neil nodded a curt reply. "Then you best stall him Neil."

Hayleigh smiled. "That's the best news I've heard all day."

Heaton looked back at her. "I'm not saying I'm ready to start digging into his financials DC Spark but this investigation team has endured enough drama so far," Heaton made a point of looking at Max who just returned a very bored expression, "and we really don't need any more." Max just glanced away wordlessly. "So do what you can." Neil nodded at his superior and started back to his office. Heaton just glanced at the others. "Okay, back to work." He left and the others moved back to their respective jobs.

Hayleigh took a seat again, turning her chair towards Max, who was typing another text message into his phone. "Well, that's a start isn't it…"

Max cut her off. "What's the real story between you and Faison?" He asked, not looking up from his phone.

The DC frowned. "I told you."

"No, you told me about him, not about 'why you?'." He stood, repocketing his phone. "You can tell me whatever you like but I strongly suspect you know full well why." Then, not giving her another look, he left the room.

…

Neil glanced up from the phone as Roger knocked on his door. Giving the PC a brief nod he finished up and came to the door after putting the phone down, seeing Roger waiting patiently near Millie's desk. He took the piece of paper Roger held out and instantly recognised what Roger was trying to say. "Craig Bolt?"

PC Valentine nodded. "Lurking around St. Hugh's about the time we found Samuel."

Neil frowned a little. "Hmmm, waiting for us to bring the body in I suspect." The thought disgusted him a little, that Craig seemed to be holding out for a sight of what he'd achieved, despite the fact he was on the run from the police for skipping bail and therefore could be pulled in at any moment. It was a sign of his true arrogance and showed that no matter what anyone said or tried to do with him, in his mind he was above that, above trivial matters such as his own arrest. It was an attitude that made him unpredictable and very, very dangerous. "What inspired you to get St. Hugh's footage?" He also wasn't surprised by Roger's initiative. He hadn't worked with the older PC a lot but when he did he was yet to be disappointed with his work ethic.

"The note at the Roxon safe house guv. It got me thinking – someone knew about Samuel and the situation with the family so maybe they were following them?" He shrugged. "I haven't watched all the footage yet, haven't got to the times when the family arrived at the hospital, because when I saw this." He motioned to the picture. "He's slipped out of the woodwork just to show up in a high CCTV area so he can watch his family come to cry over the nephew he may or may not have murdered?" Roger failed to hide his disgust.

"I think so." Neil frowned at the picture. "But where has he been hiding all this time? We had all his usual spots covered, eyes everywhere, but he goes from 'The Invisible Man' to the star of hospital CCTV in a matter of days." Neil tapped the picture against his other hand and looked up at Roger. "How much CCTV footage have you got?"

"Two cameras. They were the front and side entrances. Hospital wouldn't let us take the others with us but said we could watch them at the hospital."

Neil nodded. "Take two people with you and," he glanced around the CID room and spotted Hayleigh sitting alone. "DC Spark." Hayleigh glanced up and started towards them with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. "DC Spark, help Roger go through some CCTV footage down at St. Hugh's. Craig Bolt was there earlier."

Hayleigh frowned. "It's not his style to risk such a public place. He never even went to the hospital when he wasn't on the run; he had a GP on call, made the doctor come to him."

Roger glanced at her with a smile. "Not that anyone at St. Hugh's would have treated him." Hayleigh gave a light laugh but her heart wasn't in it, that was obvious. Neil brushed off his thoughts on how she'd so quickly turned from a DC happy a previous co-worker was being looked into to someone who looked like they'd just been told their dog had been hit by a car. That wasn't important now.

"Well get down there. Any footage you can get of him, anything you can hear from the hospital staff, gossip will suffice. I want to know if he found the Roxons, anyone," he frowned harder. "And someone find PC Brown. I know she's with Eleanor but if they saw Bolt, anything, we need to know." Roger nodded and pulled out his phone to call his friend as Neil looked at Hayleigh. "I spoke to Faison. He stated that he 'knew you'd stop him from coming'. I told him it was a matter of peace in a confusing time for the investigation but he'd have none of it. I have his superior's word he won't be sent down but something about him makes me think he…"

"He'll come down anyway?" Hayleigh muttered. Neil nodded. "Oh, yeah, he will. He's determined to be in on this, has been since the start, it's bizarre."

"I'll make sure to inform the team if he turns up and get everyone to keep an eye out." Neil shrugged. "I do understand dedication to an job but obsession? No, we have Max for unstable and obsessive, we don't need anyone else." Then, with a brief nod, he returned to his office. Hayleigh just let out a held-in sigh and started for the CID doors.