On the run

Chapter 29

Ellie went back to her desk, wondering what he was going on about while Alec went to the chief's office.

"Alec, I had expected you earlier," Elaine told him as he sat opposite.

"Someone placed a large pile of folders on my desk," he replied dryly.

"You weren't expected to go through them all in one morning Alec. Was everything okay?"

"Fine, though fours hours sitting at my desk is not me. Can't I go out if DS Miller comes with me?"

"It may be okay with me but getting her to drive you around may prove difficult. I noticed you'd asked about a car?"

"No need, I rented one when my girlfriend arrived, she's paying for half of it."

"I see then. Well if you can get Ellie to agree, you can follow up on the still open cases. Still no chasing potential suspects though, understood?"

"Yes, I get it, Miller has been fussin' over me all morning, did you tell her not to let me die on her?"

"She may have taken it seriously, I'm sure you've made it clear for her to back off?"

"You could say that. Anything else?"

"Just one thing. Did you see the memo we got from Torchwood? Seems they've had a change of regime."

"What has that got to do with us?"

"The chief constable wants us to be more vigilant, if we suspect there are any aliens living amongst us, that we should co-operate with Torchwood and pass any information onto them. It seems in return, they will more than grateful."

"You mean financially? How do we know if someone has not been registered?"

"He says they are prepared to send us a list of those in each area we can check against."

"So, it's not just our area?" Alec asked, thinking Ellie would be more than annoyed if he found out before she did.

"He never said but why would it be only our area?"

Alec had a feeling he knew why – because Yvonne suspected something. Either she thought Rose was hiding here with him or worse, she suspected he didn't belong here any more than Rose did. He had to warn Tess she might get a phone call about it.

Pete got home and told Jackie they would set off in the morning, see Rose and stay overnight at the nearby pub.

"Why can't we stay with Rose?" Jackie asked him.

"Because she doesn't have the room, she's staying in a caravan."

"What for? Couldn't you put her in decent hotel?"

"Don't be daft love, that's the first place Yvonne would look. I think she's about to guess where Rose is so I'll have to move her."

"How did she find out Pete?"

"Because of who I left her with."

"What do ya mean? Who did you leave her with?"

"You'll find out tomorrow love. Now, how about some lunch eh? I missed out today then I'll go collect Tony and tell him we're going away tomorrow and I'll get Mickey to stay with him."

Yvonne had decided to get to work right away so after she'd sent that memo to the Wessex police as a warning to Alec that she was looking for him, if as she had suspected he was like Rose and not from around here, she called her close supporters for a meeting.

"What have you got for me? Anyone?"

"Sorry Yvonne, I mean Director, nothing new has come in, only what we had for you earlier," one of them told her.