Jackie left with Meesh, and Jack was driven back to Kingston Police station by two unhappy uniforms who felt Jack had hijacked their patrol car from the hospital entrance. He had, of course, but nicely, he thought.
Barney manned the station desk, ‘Barney, your family they are well?’ Jack made his entrance.
‘Tolerably well, thank you, Jane.’
‘Have you got some atom bomb Paracetamol, I’ve got a blinder.’
‘I’m not surprised, great bandage,’ Barney laughed.
‘I think the nurse was having a tin-barf, Barney.’
‘She won then.’
‘Atom bombs?’
‘I’ll bring them up, but it’s not exactly serene up there.’
Jack plodded the staircase, and as he approached the top he saw Mandy’s legs, eyed the length of her body through the last few steps, ‘Blimey, darlin’, d’you live on this landing?’
She opened
