Chapter 1

Working in the office early on a Monday morning, Lieutenant John Stillman had been the first in he couldn't sleep the previous night as he had a nightmare about George Marks standing over his bed mocking him and swearing at him. He hid himself in his work. As the door swung open, Detective Scotty Valens entered carrying two plastic cups of coffee.

"Here you go, Sir, looks like you need it." said Scotty. John didn't say anything to his friend as he accepted the cup of coffee.

In the busy car park, Detective Will Jeffries was carrying his bike with his hand as he looked around looking up at the CCTV zooming. He waited for Detective Lilly Rush as she arrived in her car getting out as she greeted him with her usual smile and said "Morinign, Will."

Will just nodded wearing his bike helmet.

Nick Vera was sitting on the chair in his office waiting for Lilly to arrive he had wanted to give them a twenty year old murder case. Will entered the office putting his bike in the corner of the room. As he looked at Scotty miming "What does Nick want I thought he was busy preparing for the police annual ball."

Scotty shook his head not knowing.

"Good morning, Lilly," said Nick as Lilly took her jacket off listening as the guys sat around on their chairs. "I'm glad that you are all here as I've got a case for you to solve. I'm giving you the murder case of Mark Hopkins to solve, here are the original documents from the investigation from 1989, he was a famous musician, he was apparently big in the eighties but he had a lot of enemies."

Will seemed to know who he was he explained that his late wife Mary had taken him to see one of his gigs in the dance halls and that he had nodded off half way through Hopkins's performance and said "Mary enjoyed it but I didn't, it wasn't mind kind of scene."

Nick handed the rest of the documents to Lilly as he quickly left the office. She asked John to check who was the investigating officer at the time of the investigation. He typed up the name on the computer as a list of long names came up she leaned over to look at one "Detective Graham", Scotty recognised the name and said "I know him, he was a right pain in the ass. Never liked any of his items been touched on his desk."

"Right jerk, was he?" Will asked as Scotty nodded agreeing.

Scotty and Will headed out to question Mark's fiancée Jenette Crosby where she was at the time of his death. They knocked on her front door answering it, she looked about mid 40s with shoulder length red hair and asked "Can I help you, Gentlemen?"

Scotty showed her his badge and said "I'm Detective Scotty Valens and this is Detective Will Jeffries, we're from the Philadelphia Police Department investigating the murder of your former fiancée Mark Hopkins."

The smile from her face dropped as she let them in the house. Will was sitting down on the sofa noticing it was very soft and cushy as he bounced a few times and Scotty told him "Not now, Will."

She stood in the middle of the room listening as they asked her a few questions about Mark "Where were you at the time of his death?" as she thought back wiping a tear away from her eye.

"I was at my parents house and then, his pal John rang up from the tour bus that they shared he said Mark had collapsed and John thought he might have collapsed from a heart attack." said Jenette.

She apologised as she stopped talking for a moment. Scotty leaned forward and asked if she knew if Mark had taken any medication and could it have been swapped with a powerful medication dose and she said "He was epileptic, he took his medication about twice a day morning and night time he was okay with the medication that he had, no problems with it."

Will asked her if she knew if he had any enemies, she nodded in disagreement and said "He never had any at all that I knew of."

Lilly felt concerned for John watching him through the glass door as she noticed that he didn't look himself this morning, he was rubbing his head looking worried and asked "Sir, you sure you'll be able to work today?"

John smiled slightly acknowledging her concern and said "Lilly, I'll be okay, it was just a bad night I had." He sat back down at his desk clicking for name of suspects on the computer.

Scotty and Will arrived back as Will sat down in his chair looking completely shattered and said "Oh my God, it's a hard job getting up them stairs. We should've taken the elevator instead, Scotty."

Gerry laughed at his friend and said "It's always good for exercise."

Detective knocked on the door and handed her files of names of suspects that were questioned twenty years ago over the murder, she examined the names as Scotty came into help look through them and asked "What about this name John Ryan? He was Mark Hopkins's buddy, Jenette mentioned him, looks like he might have been telling a few lies better go and pay him a visit."

Lilly grabbed her jacket following Scotty as Will done a search on his computer and said "Got it. John, come and have a look at this."

"What is it, Will?" asked John as he leaned in to look.

It was picture image of who was at Hopkins's last concert he was giving a v sign with his fingers on the picture. John was there in the background but there was also Stephen Frederick, Gary Jones and Mick Bell. They were three suspects that had been questioned in 1989 and had previously denied being at the concert.

John got back up from looking at the computer and said "You don't think they all planned it together, do you, Will?"

Looking confusingly at a smiling Will who had thrown his arms behind his head, John said "I think we should wait til Lilly gets back at let her know."

Scotty and Lilly knocked on the door of John Ryan's house as he slumped against the door.

God, he looks sick. thought Scotty Ryan was ill, he had been ill for a few years. He let them in to his house which looked a right tip. Lilly looked around noticing old pictures of Hopkins and Ryan in the good old days at Rock concerts and them playing the guitar and the drums.

"You must have been a right rebel with Hopkins." said Lilly as he sat down ready to here what question they were going to ask.

"You know where here to ask you about really happened to Mark on the night he died in 1989," John poured himself a glass of wine as he listened to what Lilly was saying. "I thought the case was solved."

"I'm, afraid not, Pal," said Scotty. "We've gotta ask you again."

Remembering back, John said "We were excited becuase EMI was going to offer Mark a three year deal. I was happy for him and he was about to marry Jenette in a few weeks after that. He was also on medication. I know he had no problems with it I still struggle to get my head round how he died."

Lilly had asked a few more questions which John answered taking his time.

They eventually left his house and Will phoned Lilly letting her know that they were bringing in one of the suspects from the investigation from 20 years ago. Gary Jones. Apparently, his jacket was found on the tour bus he had travelled with them but failed to mention that when he was originally bought in for questioning.

Chapter 2- Too Many Questions

"Has he said anything yet?" asked Lilly as she looked through the window of the interview at Gary Jones was sat perfectly still in his chair waiting for the detectives to question him. Will opened the door first as he and Lilly both sat down to face him.

"Right then, Gary, you were originally bought in for questioning in 1989, can you tell us again where you were the night Mark Hopkins died?" asked Lilly as Gary sat back in his chair as it rocked forwards and backwards. Taking his time to answer for a few minutes.

Finally, he decided to answer Lilly's question "I was in the bar with my buddies in Pittsburgh. I was there for about 3 hours after that, I went home feeling sick and dizzy."

Will showed him the picture that had been taken at the concert which placed Jones's in the background and said "This was taken three days before Hopkins died, can you tell us why you were there?" As the picture was put in front of him on the table, he looked down to examine it noticing the other people that where there as well.

"John invited me, he's an old school friend of mine," said Gary. "He was blagging about how he turned Mark in to a big star."

Lilly rested her hands on the corner of the table as she looked up to ask him "So did you have a motive to kill Mark then?"

Gary shook his head he hadn't met Mark Hopkins before that was the only night he had met him in the backstage area.

As he told them "I think you question John for answers I saw him threatening Mark when everyone left, I think he said he would put a broken glass to Mark's neck and cut him with it."

The interview concluded as Lilly and Will debated whether to bring John Ryan in. It was near the end of the day. 6pm it had been a long day for all them as they headed to the bar.

Although htere was no sing of Scotty, Lilly asked "Where's Scotty tonight?"

"He's on a date with that woman he met last week, I think we should spy on him." said Will.

"No way." said John.

They sat round talking about Nick's big do at the police annual ball at the weekend.

"He’ll have one of them long speeches to read out if he wins," said Will. "I'm glad I'm not going. My sister Carol's got me to go to one of these book reading classes in the local activity centres."

As Lilly and Will walked down the busy street together, they came to walk past a restaurant as Will spotted Scotty through the window with his date Kim. He was holding her hands as Will put his face to the window of the restaurant. His friend then spotted him as he froze with embarrassment, Will had only just put his thumbs to Scotty.

"What's wrong, Scotty?" asked Kim as she was looking puzzled by Scotty's sudden strange behaviour. As he struggled to come with an answer, a smiling Will and Lilly were gone. He shrugged his shoulders.

"Nothing, Kim." said Scotty still feeling a bit red faced.

An hour later, Scotty was walking Kim home up to her house and she said "I had a great time tonight, Scotty. I didn't know you liked Ugly Kid Joe that much."

Scotty smiled at Kim as she walked in though her front garden entrance to her apartment. She leaned in to kiss him on the side of his right cheek as he waved goodnight to her.

Next morning back in HQ, John was making phone calls trying to track down Detective Graham. Scotty arrived for work with a bit of a headache wearing glass to hide his tired eyes, everyone looked at him grinning as he stood in the mddle of the office trying to ignore their looks.

"Have a nice date last night, did ya, Scotty?" asked Will as he grinned at Scotty as his friend tried to change the subject.

"So, have you decided to bring John Ryan in for questioning?" asked Scotty.

"We're expecting him in at 11am." replied Will.

John had managed to track down Detective Graham as he knocked on Lilly's office door and said "He left the force 8 years ago lives in Barnaby Close he wants to go through a few things with us about the case."

Lilly grabbed her coat as she and John left the office.

At around 11am, John Ryan had arrived for questioning and Scotty and Will entered the interview room, first asking him if everything he said the day before was true.

He replied telling them "Jones is lying because Mark was like my little kid brother, yeah, we did have the occasional minor argument but he understood and we made up, I'm telling you this Jones is trying to blame me."

Will then asked him about the medication "So are you saying that Jones might have swapped Hopkins's medication, John because apparently he said he only met the once at the concert three days before Mark died?"

John shook his head unsure of himself and pleaded "I didn't kill him, I swear."

A few minutes later, Lilly and John arrived at the retired Detective Graham's home, he was busy doing his garden work as John approached him showing his badge and said "I'm Lieutenant John Stillman, we spoke on the phone, this is Lilly Rush and we're from Sandra Pullman we’re from the Philadelphia Police Department."

The retired detective put his garden pliers down as he allowed John and Lilly in to his house and said "I remember Johnny Stillman, Lilly. He's one dedicated man who he loved his job, so you became a copper like him."

Lilly nodded at him as both she and John sat down.

"So you we were in charge of the original investigation," asked John. "How come none of the 3 suspects Gary Jones, Mick Bell or Stephen Frederick weren't charged?"

"We had no proper evidence to charge any of them," replied Graham. "They all claimed Mark was well liked, Stephen went to school with him stuck for him when Mark got bullied."

The case was becoming a bit of a mystery as John and Lilly wondered who was telling the truth and who wasn't.

Chapter 3 - Hard to Understand

Lilly and John stood studying the pictures of Gary Jones. Stephen Frederick and Mick Bell on the board in the office.

"So what do you think, Lilly?" asked John as Lilly shook her head with her arms folded as she was unsure. "Well, it can't be Gary Jones, he had only met him the once three nights before he died so we can rule him out then. Also, I'm really sure that it's not Stephen Frederick either so that leaves us with Mick."

"Have we found out where Mick Bell lives yet?" asked Lilly.

"Oh, we'll try and get Will to check on any criminal records if that the man might have any, anyway where are they those two they'd better be back here for before I have my lunch." said John as he looked at his Rolex watch. Lilly was right, he hoped Scotty and Will would be back soon as well.

"Ow, that really hurts, don't stand on it, ow," Scotty squealed out in the busy Philadelphia street as some idiot had gone and accidentally dropped a heavy object on his foot while he was stood outside the shop waiting for Will who had just popped into ask for a few name of books within the shop for the book club tonight. He was in agony hobbling as Will managed to guide him to the car. "Well, I can't drive now with one foot, can I? You'll have to drive, Will, please."

His friend was surprised because it had been a long time since he drove a car he loved his bike instead.

Half an hour later when they had arrived back in work greeted by Nick waiting outside the door entrance who wanted to know how they were getting on with the Mark Hopkins murder case.

"Scotty, you should get that foot seeing too." Nick pointed out.

Scotty complained as he managed to hobble in to sit on his chair collapsing in relief.

"What happened to him?" Lilly wondered as she was about to have a chat with Nick.

"He hurt his foot, he might have to be on crutches for the next few weeks!" replied Will.

"Shut up, Will." said Scotty as John let a silent chuckle at his desk trying to avoid an annoyed looked from his friend who suspected his colleagues would love to see him in the office all day from now on.

Lilly and Nick entered her office as she closed the door.

Wonder what he wants, they seem to be very secretive. thought John, Will and Scotty. Lilly noticed Will sneaking over to office door and quickly confronted him with a unimpressed stare.

They had been discussing the whereabouts of Mick Bell as they had been struggling to find an address for him. He had moved away in 1990 after a failed marriage and after there had been no trace of where he was now living.

Will checked on the computer for the records on Mr Bell, a list of 50 Mick Bells appeared on the computer as he clicked on a few in the list. Not having any luck and getting a bit frustrated and then after a while, he managed to find a Mick Bell former location Croft West Close where he use to live.

It was eventually decided that they would bring in Hopkins's fiancé Jenette Crosby for further questioning. That they would ask her if Mark had ever met Mick and could he have had a possible motive to wanting the young star dead.

"What was all that about, Lilly?" asked Will.

"Butt out," said Lilly. "So what do you think, John. Was it Mick that killed Mark?"

"I think it could be Mick but we have to find the proof of evidence to nail him." said John.

Later, Scotty had to go to an appointment to see how bad his foot was damaged.

"I'm sorry to say, Detective Valens but your foot has two broken metatarsals in the second and third toe," said the doctor. "It might take you six to eight weeks for it to heal after surgery."

The news didn't look good as Scotty would have to be having plenty of rest from work for quite some time. His sister Maria would probably come round to look after him every afternoon he reckoned bring some load of magazines to read.

Lilly picked him up from the hospital telling her the bad news she ordered him to have some rest. He refused wanting to help solve the case.

"Okay but you can mind the office be the receptionist while we're all out interviewing witnesses." said Lilly as she smiled back at his sad face which was looking downwards.

"Okay then, Jenette," said Lilly as she had been sitting in the interview room for 30 minutes as Will and John sat facing her. "Hope you don't mind us asking you some of the same questions and a few new ones."

Jenette didn't mind she was willing to help them.

Will pressed the record tape as the interview started and said "We interviewed Gary Jones and he said that John had threatened Mark a few times threatened to cut with his glass in his neck, did you ever witness him happen to mention anything similar while you were backstage?"

"That John is a jerk," said Jenette. "He somehow manages to twist anything that someone might say about him I think I saw him threaten Mark once. He threatened me because I slept with him the night Mark was busy in the studio."

The shock revelation took John and Will by surprise.

"Why didn't you tell us this earlier, Jenette?" asked Lilly.

"He had told me to keep quiet or he'd threaten my sister." said Jenette.

"So your daughter's his daughter then, not Mark's?" asked Lilly.

It had looked suspicious that Jenette would reveal this now but it gave Will and John some of sort of clue maybe Mick Bell and John both had the same motive to kill Mark by switching his pills or giving him too many as a way of getting rid of him forever.

Later that evening, the guys were sat in the bar sharing a few conversations about Lilly and Nick. They weren't gonna be too noisy. He had asked her to go with him to the Police Ball as she stepped down of his car in a shiny red dress smiling happily taking most of the detectives by surprise at her presence. It was an event that had been organised by Captain Goodman and was to award the bravest and dedicated police officers in the Philadelphia Police Department.

Will, Scotty and John had caught a quick glimpse from over the road of their boss walking into the big hall arm wrapped around Nick's.

"What the.. Are those two.. They couldn't be, could they?" asked Scotty while he held on hard to John's shoulder. Was he jealous? He'd hope not, she was his boss after all and a good friend.

Will had left them early as he had the book club to go to with Caroline.

The others wanted to have a more closer look in the see through glass window. There was no security hanging around but a CCTV camera above them as they tried to avoid being seen on camera.

"Scotty, this is stupid," said John. "I'm sure she's just accompanying him as a date, Nick could be married."

Someone came to window having a glance out as Scotty dived on the wet grass hurting himself again as John said "We should be taking you home."

He gave in as John helped him into the passenger seat of his car. Driving off into the dark light and driving under lit up street lamps further down the busy road.

"We're so gonna quiz her tomorrow." laughed Scotty.

"Scotty!" scolded John as he was annoying his friend in the passenger's seat.

Chapter 4- You Can't Tell a Lie

"Lilly!" ylled Will as he ran into the office the next day waving a printed sheet of paper from the printer which caused Lilly came out of her office to see what he had found on the computer. "I've managed to get an address for Mick Bell but the only problem is he moved up to New York City about 5 years ago and he's working as a teacher."

Lilly paused for a moment before decided what the team would do next and said "Well, me and John'll go to New York to question him, if he confesses about any new information will bring him back down to Philly within 2 days for further questioning."

After the long weekend, Scotty had the operation on his broken foot and was recuperating at home, he still felt that he wanted to be apart of the investigation. As he sat in the front living room on the couch, looking fed up with his nephew who was watching the Simpsons on the television. He cheered him up a lot when he went "D'OH!" like Homer Simpson making his nephew laugh.

Lilly and John were busy driving up to NYC in her car. Will had agreed to stay behind to mind the office and making an excuse up if Nick got wind of where Lilly and John had disappeared to.

I can imagne Scotty would've wanted a good drive up to the motorway. Lilly thought to herself as she glanced over John who had been looking at the other cars driving past theirs.

"What's up, John?" asked Lilly noticing her mentor glancing over at her but remaining silently postured and quiet.

"Oh, nothing!" replied John.

"Must be something up, you haven't said a word since we drove out of Philly." said Lilly.

"Me and Scotty saw you with Nick the other night and he started getting nosy as usual," said John. "I think he might be jealous of Nick in a way."

Lilly chucked to herself immediately trying to dismiss John's suspicions of Scotty's feelings.

"John, listen," said Lilly. "It's just Scotty being Scotty mostly when I sometimes don't tell all of you what I'm doing at night time."

Finishing their conversation as the car pulled up in a traffic jam on the motorway, it looked like they would be there for quite a while. She beeped the car slightly losing her temper a bit.

Back at HQ, Will was busy looking on his computer at websites for building model sets for WWII aeroplanes. It was an interest of his as he’d love his railway model sets and solider toys.

The Friday before the weekend, he had gone with Caroline to her local book club listening to some great reviews of the latest books remaining quiet but as one of the women Kareen had asked him what books he was currently reading.

"Erm, I like Hugh Laurie's book the Gun Seller." replied Will.

"Reasons for liking this book?" asked Kareen.

Will wasn't sure but just made a few things up as he went along and said "Because it's adventurous, tense and that Hugh's a great writer."

Later, Nick had entered looking for Lilly as Will jumped up from his chair and said "Ah, Nick what can I do for you?"

"Will, where's Lilly this morning?" asked Nick as he stood staring directly at Will who felt that he was trying to grab an answer from his eyes.

"I think she's gone to question Mr Ryan again and took John with her!" replied Will.

"Tell her I need to speak to her immediately," replied Will. "It's regarding this case and about something else."

Nick closed the door as he left leaving Will puzzled by his reason for wanting to speak Lilly.

When they arrived in New York City driving the car past the New York Yankees baseball stadium, John asked "So where about this Mick Bell live then?"

"14 First Avenue," replied Lilly glancing a look through the wet car window as it was currently raining. "It should be around here somewhere."

She drived in to First Avenue looking at the house number as eventually the car stopped outside of House number 14. They both got out and head to the front door and gave it a gentle knock.

A woman in her late forties answered "Yes, can I help you?"

"Yes, you can," said Lilly. "I'm Lilly Rush and this is John Stillman. We're from the Philldephia Police Department. We'd like to speak Mick Bell if that's okay?"

She let them in as Mick was cooking in the kitchen, he heard the loud voices from the main living room with a tea towel over his arm.

"Are you here to question me about Mark?" asked Mick as he guessed right away as 20 years previously, he had been questioned more times than the other 2 suspects.

"Yes, we are," replied Lilly. "Can you tell us have you met Mark Hopkins and did you ever fall out with him?"

He sat down on the couch facing the television looking at the two detectives rubbing his chin in thought and said "I met him in 1986 about three years before, he was a good kid had a lot of potential in becoming a huge rock star. it's a shame some bastard decided to ruin that. I didn't fall out with him he had more arguments with his manager than anyone else, I think they argued about Mark's fiancee once."

"Yes, we know about that." John replied.

"Would you like a cup of tea, Lieutenant Stillman?" asked Mrs Bell as she headed into the kitchen.

"No, I'm fine!" replied John.

It had turned just after 1:00pm as Lilly and John had no luck with Mick Bell. He seemed to much like a genuine guy dismissing the fact and ruling him out.

Now, the two detectives felt stumped they had no clear suspect in the muder reinvestigation as Lilly climbed into her car followed by John, she noticed there had been 8 missed phone calls on her mobile from HQ. She checked the messages it was Will telling her to get back to the office as Nick was becoming very suspicious. When she got down to listening to the last phone message, it was Will again as he phoned to tell her that he had found some very important evidence.

It was Mark's fiancee, she'd lied about where she had been on the day of Mark's death.

Chapter 5 - Not Giving up hope

When John and Lilly arrived back, they were greeted by Nick who had been in and out of the office for most of the afternoon.

"Lilly, could you please explain where you and John have actually been, you've been out of the office for quite a few hours," said Nick. "If you've been to question Mick Bell in New York, I'm giving the case to the other police department."

Lilly knew she couldn't lie seeing the unhappy and quite angry face of Nick who was standing in front of her with his arms folded, body posture remaining still. A few times in the past, they had gone behind Nick's back which had infuriated him.

"We went to New York to question Bell." said John shifting his shoulders trying not to make eye contact as he eventually sat down feeling tired.

Will had fled out of the office behind Nick's back before anyone could notice, he couldn't take the possiblity of shouting.

As he took off on his mountain bike in the car park cycling down the busy road. He thought about going to see Jenette, Mark's fiancée as he had found out that she had been lying about her whereabouts on the night Hopkins died. Instead, he was heading off to pick up something from a city centre shop, a railway set collection that he'd bought online.

As their discussion continued in Lilly's office, Nick said "Lilly, I should take this case off the team but I won’t seeing as Mick Bell couldn't give any evidence."

Scotty had arrived early afternoon hobbling in on his crutches just about to sit down in his chair and asked "Hi, John, where's Will gone?"

Turning towards Lilly's office, he noticed Nick talking to her in there and said "Oh, what the hell does he want now? Date number 2, maybe."

The blinds had been closed a few minutes later. John was getting fed up with Scotty for interrupting him while he was making a few phone calls.

"Go home, Scotty." stated John as he shook his head in frustration getting back to typing up on the computer.

Giggling and laughter could be heard coming from inside, it was obviously Lilly's famous laughter which the team had always gotten use to.

"Screw this, I'm having a listen." said Scotty getting up off the chair, he hobbled while standing to the left hand side of the door.

Silence fell soon after, the door handle turned as Nick was exiting only to be met by Scotty's smirk. He was surprised to see him and said "What is it, Scotty and why are you here working, you should be at home resting your foot."

Suddenly, Nick started walking past Scotty as he turn back to face Lilly, they both smiled back at each other confusing her two colleagues even further.

"What the hell was that about?" asked Scotty raising his eyebrow in suspicion leaning against the desk.

"I'm going on a double date with Nick and his girlfriend," replied Lilly. "No more questions about my personal life got it and now get on with some work you two we have a case to solve remember?"

Lilly had been feeling a bit stressed out after the long journey back from New York.

Will had gone to collect a big box of railway collection merchandise from a shop in the town centre. Carrying it to his bike as he strapped a thin piece of wire over the box.

"Thank you, God." he said as he rubbed his hands together with excitement.

Jenette had been called in for questioning at the police station. Sitting nervously as she waited for the two detectives to question her.

"So do you think she'll tell us where she was on that night?" asked Lilly as she and John had been watching her through the pained glass of the room.

"Don't know but she must know that she can’t tell any more lies," replied John as they entered the interview room sitting down to face the redhead. "Hey there, Jenette, do you know why we've asked you for further questioning?"

Jenette shook her head.

"We've got some evidence to suggest that you weren't where you say you was on the night Mark died!" replied Lilly.

"I don't know what you mean." said Jenette as she tried not to look directly straight at Lilly.

"Oh, I think you do know," said John. "We've had a few people that have come forward to say that you had been spotted following the tour bus that John and Mark were on."

Lilly then preceded to show Jenette two photographs that had been taken on the night. It was of Mark and John stood standing by a famous monument statue in London. Earlier in the day, Will had found this picture on the Internet and had a closer look immediately spotting her in the background.

"Yes, it's me, he told me to lie said we'd run away together once Mark was dead." said Jenette not mentioning the name of this person.

"Who did, Jenette?" asked Lilly.

"It was Stephen," said Jenette. "He said he'd been in love with me since Elementary school, he had this sick twisted idea that we'd be together once Mark was out the way."

Revealing that it had all been Stephen's plan and that Jenette felt he'd used her. Both John and Lilly told her she was free to go.

Lilly pulled back in her chair as she remembered that Stephen had said that he'd only met Mark only the one time since they had seen each other in a long time and said "John, when Will gets back in the office, get him to check on the office phone or computer where Stephen Frederick's current location is."

They walked out of the interview room heading back to the office as Lilly said "Frederick's been lying to us all along, John."

Chapter 6 - When Love Shines On

Early next morning, Lilly and Scotty were the first ones to arrive in the office, she was busy making an important phone call soon after as she walked out of her office. Scotty glanced a brief smile at her before speaking and said "Sorry for being a jerk yesterday."

He went to pick his coat off the back of his chair about to leave the office.

"Hey, Scotty, why don't you come along on the date then?" asked Lilly since she couldn't think of anyone to ask because most of the other male detectives were either married and had girlfriends.

"What, really, Lilly, you're kidding, right?" asked Scotty not quite believing what she had just asked.

"No, I don't think I am!" replied Lilly folding her arms leaning against her office door smiling.

Someone from the pathology lab knocked on the door to the office and handed Lilly important notes that finally revealed how Hopkins died, a lethal double dosage of Ampethamine to the heart.

John arrived 45 minutes later sitting down in the chair before going through some evidence files for another case that they had been investigating a while ago. She let him know about the lab results that were handed to her.

"No sign of Will then?" asked John looking round the large office.

"Nah, probably playing with those crappy railway trains set he mentioned on the phone to me last night!" replied Scotty.

"Come on, you beauties." said Will in a moment of joy making him remember back to when his mother bought him many old fashioned collectable toy railway trainswhen he was a young boy before he put on his bicycle helmet and taking off a few seconds later.

Back at HQ, Lilly asked Nick "So do we know where Frederick's current address is, I'm afraid I'll have to hand this case to the other crime investigation department on the third floor."

"We don't know at the moment but hopefully Brian can find it on the computer when he arrives." said Nick.

"Oh, Will, what the time do ya call this then," Scotty pointed out as he looked his Gold Rolex watch as Will put his bike at the back of the room, took the bike helmet off and immediately getting straight to work as he typed in his username and password on the computer. "Lilly's been waiting for you to arrive for ages now."

Will was told John to look for any possible addresses for Stephen Frederick. Clicking the mouse, he leaned forwards to look at the names on the computer, e.g. Simon Frederick, Steve Frederick. Shaking his head as he didn't seem to be having any luck and said "No, there's only two names that come up as results."

Lilly suggested going to revisit Detective Graham in a hope that maybe he could help them to find out where Frederick's moved to in the early 1990s and John followed her as they both left the office.

"What's up with you, Scotty?" joked Will. "You've got a smile on your face the size of Snowdonia."

"I promised I wouldn't say anything!" Scotty protested.

"Is this to do with Lilly?" asked Will. "I say go forward it if you feel it's the right thing to do."

"She's not interested in me, Will," said Scotty. "She only sees me as a grumpy...."

"Annoying colleague?" suggested Will. "I'm sure she doesn't, see what happens by the end of the night before you make your move."

At the retired Detective Graham's house, Lilly had asked him if he kept any more files on the previous suspects he'd interviewed back in 1989.

"I'll go and check." said former Detective Graham moving towards his many boxes in the cupboard searching.

John looked around noticing that it was a quite luxurious house the retired cop had, the brown wooden floor in the front room that they were currently sitting in, the widescreen television, the many framed pictures of Detective Graham's son, daughter, grandchildren and wife. He had been told that Tom Graham's wife had been killed in a car crash 8 years earlier realising that both he and Will had lost their wives in tragic circumstances.

"Oh, maybe this is the one, Lilly." said John as he handed a file over to Lilly as she looked down at the address on the paper, it had showed that Frederick could still possibly living not far from the previous house he had lived in.

Lilly and John left soon afterwards thanking Tom for finding the file. The car drove off a couple minutes later heading to that very address.

"Hey, this maybe the address, 45 Goldman Hill Road." said Detective Woods who had been helping Will look through some new files that he’d found in his department on the second floor of the station.

"Good work, kid." said Will as he winked at Detective Woods and phoned Lilly to let her know.

"Damnit, it's the next road, isn't it?" Lilly said on her cell phone suddenly realising that the car was not far from that address Will just told her on the mobile phone. Soon after, the phone was switched off as she reversed the car heading off in the direction it had just come from.

Back at HQ, Scotty was busy talking to Nick in the entrance to the station and said "So Lilly tells me you'll be her date tonight, obviously, she's thinks very much of you."

When they finally arrived, knocking at the red painted door.

Stephen Frederick’s answered the door to be met by Pullman showing her Police ID Badge “remember us Stephen, can you down with us the station as we have further new questions to ask you relating to Mark Hopkins' death”. He sighed sadly as Jack led him to the car and he climbed into the back, head looking downwards, not attempting to make any eye contact with the UCOS detectives.

He knew the game was up for him, assuming Jenette must have told them about that fateful night 20 years ago.

Jenette was invited back in the station as she was questioned by Brian in the interview room. “Just wanted to let you know that Stephen’s being bought in for further questioning”.

When they arrived with Stephen about to take him to Interview room A. He noticed Jenette standing with Brian as they watched on, shouting over at the frightened blond hair female “You bitch how could you tell them about what happened , I had it all planned out for me and you to run away together to escape from all these people ” the door to Interview Room A closed.

“You ok” Brian asked, she nodded glancing a nervous smile back at him.

“ Well How did you do it then Stephen”

He gave in finally telling the truth, “ I was there on the night, I hid on the back of the bus, I had a lethal needle on me, wanted to give him a lethal doses, saw that he was asleep so I jabbed him in the arm with it”

Continuing as he spoke “Jenette and me were always meant to be together but he had to go and steal her away from me, I hated him and I’m glad I was the one who done the deadly deed in the end” leaning forward as he portrayed his anger in his eyes.

Later on Sandra charged him for the murder and he was eventually taken away to the cells.

During the evening, the team reflected on the days’ events.

“Blimey I’m glad that’s all done with” Gerry spoke of his relief .

Brian and Jack had been passing knowing smiles between each other and at Sandra as she wondered what the hell they were smiling for.

“What’s going on?” pulling a serious look.

“Nothing” Jack looked away from her.

“Jack, Brian?”

“Sorry I’ve got go home” Brian quickly rushed off as he waved over to Jack, shying away from Sandra, saying he’d be meeting him in the pub later.

“Gerry” finally realising that he must have gossiped to Brian about their date in a few hours.

His face was flushed with slight embarrassment and a chesty groggy cough.

During the early evening at the Fortunella restaurant, Strickland and his girlfriend had already been there for 20 minutes as they waited for Pullman and Standing.

When they arrived, they felt much nervous around each other, Sandra couldn’t tell but Gerry was making her shy which he hadn’t done before.

“Finally” Strickland thought. He introduced his girlfriend to Gerry who couldn’t help but mention a flirty comment to her.

“Gerry would you please just sit down!!” Sandra raised her voice losing her temper slightly. It made him jump with fright

“Jesus she sounds like she's acting like my soddin girlfriend talking to me like that” thinking to himself.

Then much later on: during the lovely meals they were eating, Sandra’s mood had suddenly changed she felt more comfortable around him. Yes he was always a ladies man , annoying, grumpy, selfish and had sometimes disagreed on most things with her back in work. At that exact moment she felt too happy forgetting about work , placing her hand on his leg as the drink had probably gone to her head.

Around 10pm they waved goodnight to Strickland and his girlfriend as Gerry then offered to walk Sandra home putting up the umbrella with his available hand to cover her.

He couldn’t help but admire the lovely dress she had chosen to wear for the double date, red medium and shiny.

They walked together for about 15 minutes reaching her house “Well this my house”

“yes I know I have been your house a few times” he moaned, as she giggled at his fed up face.

“Goodnight then Gerry, want you having a clear head for work in the morning ” leaning in to place a kiss on his cheekbone.

He secretly thrilled in it, feeling her hot breath upon his neck sending a warmth feeling through his mind and thoughts.

They then looked each other in the eyes, a moment that had never been felt before between the two working detectives. He gently ran his hand down the side of her smooth face, she wanted to pull away but felt she couldn’t as she felt the effect he was having upon her.

He gently moved his head and moved his lips to meet her‘s as they kissed gently and tender. She wrapped her arms round his neck pulling him more closer.

They pulled away after a minute.

“Erm....Jesus I’m sorry... about that Sandra” hand shooting to his coat pocketawkwardly , he tried to apologise and rushed away hobbling on his crutches in a panic. “See ya tomorrow then” the last thing she heard him say as he rushed down the road not looking back .

Giggling to herself maybe this was the start of something more special between them.

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