Elena saw the car pulling up and frowned. She walked up to the passenger side. "What do you want this time?" she snapped.

"You should know that by now." Reno replied.

"I do, but I don't want or need your damned help."

"Ellie…"

"Don't Ellie me. The only thing I wanted from you was to find my brother's killer. It's been three years. If that's what being his best friend meant to you, I don't want friends like you." Elena stormed off.

Reno sighed and gestured for Rude to drive on as Elena rejoined the other hookers working that street.

"So who is that Elena to you?" Rude asked.

"I grew up with her older brother. After their parents were killed in a car accident, she disappeared for a while, and after Cloud and I went through the academy together, he found out she had been busted in a prostitution sting. He tried to help her, but she couldn't stay clean. He had made me promise I'd look after her if anything ever happened to him, and it did. When she didn't show up at his funeral, I found her in the hospital recovering from an OD. It's been downhill since then." Reno said as he fidgeted with his fingernails.

Elena tried to control herself. Damn Reno! Every time she saw him, she saw her brother's face again, and remembered finding his body in the middle of their driveway, shot multiple times. Another car pulled up and Elena hurried to it ahead of the other girls.

"You lookin' for some fun?" she asked the driver when he rolled down the window, then got in his car when he unlocked the passenger door.

Reno and Rude drove back to the station, and when they sat down at their desks, Reno pulled out a folder that looked empty.

"What's that?" Rude asked.

"The file on Cloud's murder. This is the whole case, not counting the autopsy findings and photographs of the crime scene." Reno pulled out two pages of paper. "I've tried to get Elena to tell me what she remembers about when she found the body, but she never talked about it to anyone. It was a neighbor who called 911. She was hysterical by the time I got there."

"Can I look at it? Fresh pair of eyes might help."

"If you want, but there's not much to help. The bullets were unidentifiable and of course no one saw anything, or if they did, they're not talking."

A week later, Elena was getting out of a different john's car, slightly puzzled. Reno had been stopping by every couple days, trying to talk to her, and she couldn't understand why she only saw her brother's face when she looked at him, but every john looked like Reno to her. It was ridiculous…he was the only man who never touched her, not even when they were kids and she had the biggest crush on him. Even his new partner Rude, Elena remembered having sex with him during that damned sting where Cloud found out what she had been up to. Another familiar car pulled up and the window rolled down, the driver gesturing for Elena to get in.

"What's up?" she asked, not happy with another demand on her. She needed a fix, and soon.

"Boss wants to see you."

Elena went into the hotel room where a man was sitting on the bed watching TV. "You wanted to see me?" she asked, trying not to fidget.

"I understand you've been getting a lot of attention from the police, Elena." the man said.

"Just one, he grew up with my brother."

"Is that all?" The man opened the nightstand drawer and took out a familiar syringe.

Elena lunged for it, but the man caught her easily and held her firmly as he put the syringe back in the drawer.

"Please give it to me!" Elena pleaded.

"Just tell me what you and he talked about and it's all yours."

"I told him that he's not a friend because he hasn't solved my brother's murder yet. Three years and that bastard has nothing! Please let me have it!" Elena tried to squirm out of his grasp.

"That's all?"

"He thinks I might remember something just because I found the body. I don't even want to remember him! Can I have it now?" Elena collapsed against him, exhausted by her struggling.

"So you don't want to see him anymore?"

"No!"

"That's a good girl." He took out the syringe again from the drawer and injected her.

"Oh God…" Elena sighed and her body trembled with relief as the drug spread through her system. "Thank you." she mumbled.

The man left her on the bed and went out to the car that had brought Elena there, telling the driver to take him home. Once there, he picked up his phone and made a call.

"Nothing to worry about." he said when the other person answered.

"Are you sure about that?" the other person asked.

"Yes, she doesn't want anything to do with him, so I'm gonna keep her out of circulation for a while."

"Just remember, it'll all be on your head if anything gets out, Captain Tseng." The other person hung up.