Ok everyone, I know can you believe it?! Three update in a row! WOW! I can't help it I love this story and am having so much fun writing it I had to update again. Things are getting intense for our favorite pair. Hope this chapter keeps you guessing. Enjoy!

Chapter 12

She sat at a small table in the back with Tobias, the last man she thought she would ever be spending the evening with, and actually enjoying herself. All memory of her earlier fatigue and headache gone, she looked over at him as he shoveled yet another piece of pizza in his mouth.

"I still can't believe that you ate that whole pizza!"

"I still can't believe that you have never heard of Sal's!" He exclaimed through a mouth full of pizza. She couldn't help it she laughed. It wasn't the first time she had done it tonight. She kept telling herself not to enjoy herself it was work. The 9-1-1 from Joe not forgotten and she hadn't missed Tobias' glances out the window of the restaurant to the car parked out front. Her phone cell rang. She picked it up on the third ring after wiping greasy hands on her napkin.

"Hello? Yea, hey Joe." She answered between chewing. "Yea we're at Sal's." She paused, a confused look on her face.

"How do you know about Sal's?" She shook her head and decided it was better not to know.

"Never mind. What do you want us to do from here?" She glanced out the window. "Ya, it looks like their still there." She started playing with the string on the knee of her jeans.

Tobias watched her and decided she liked Tris Prior, and that she was going to have to deal with him sticking around, but not before that familiar knot in his stomach grew forcing him to put down his last piece of pizza. Family, girlfriends, friends, they all ended up doing one thing… being used against him. He didn't become a UC for nothing. The fewer ties you had the better. He took a long drink of his soda trying to remove the sour taste left in his mouth, thinking of what he would do should she ever be used against him. He listened to her finishing up the conversation.

"Ok, yes, I don't like it but I guess given the circumstances what choice do we have. Ok, goodnight Joe." She hung up and closed her eyes, phone still in her hand resting on her lap.

"So what did he say?"

"He said if they are still sticking around at this point they're not going anywhere, and I am to invite you back to my place since they already know that's where I live anyway."

'Great.' He thought to himself. That was the last thing he needed was to spend any more time with her. Not that he didn't want to but he didn't need whoever was tailing them to somehow slip that he had a girlfriend to the Eruidites. All it took was some digging to find out she was a cop, and a well-known one at that. UGH! This was going from bad to worse.

"What's wrong?" She could tell something was off.

"Something doesn't feel right about this…any of it." He dropped his voice as to not be overheard. "You end a negotiation only hours ago, by putting a witness into protective services, and I get a big hit of intel about the Eruidites next target the same night, and then to have a tail follow me just as I'm about to fill you all in about it?" He shook his head.

She could see it now everything falling into place. Why didn't she see it before? It all makes sense. Her hands turned clammy and her heart rate picked up, adrenaline starting to be released. She looked over to him and knew he was thinking it too.

"It's a set up." Her mind started racing.

"Yea, but for who?" He asked.

She couldn't believe that she hadn't seen it sooner. 'Shit, shit shit!' she mentally berated herself. He reached for her hand seeing her inner turmoil and because he didn't want the guys watching in the car to get wind that they had caught on.

"We will figure it out on the fly, we can't keep sitting here. I'm going to go pay the bill. Why don't you go freshen up and call Joe and let him know of the turn of events. Then we can go from there." She nodded. She walked to the restroom passing a family eating pizza and a few kids playing the pin ball machine in the corner. She opened the door to the restroom; the flickering florescent light didn't do much to comfort her. She pulled out her phone and dialed Joe. It rang twice, then three times.

"Come one Joe pick up!" It rang again then went to voicemail. She hung up angrily, and dialed again. He picked up on the second ring.

"Hey Tris, sorry I dropped my phone in the car and had to wait till I got a red light to find it. What's up?" He asked.

"Ok, Joe I need you to go back to the station and look at all my old cases I've worked in the last month or so. We may be walking into a set up here. If it's not Erudite then it has to be someone out for me…right?" She rushed the words out trying to make sense of it. All her old cases flying through her mind, she needed him as a sounding board right now. She could hear car horns in the background of the phone call.

"I'm almost back to the office I ran out for some coffee, well, good coffee not that crap they call coffee they make at the station." She chuckled. She liked that about Joe, serious about his job but still able to make jokes under pressure.

"Ok, were going to head back to my place while you comb through the files. Look for anyone with a score to settle with me or a robbery gone bad… something. Maybe gang related?"

"You got it. I'm in my office now. Be safe Tris, I'll call as soon as I know something." She said her thanks and hung up. She decided to use the restroom after all seeing as you never know what will happen and she drank like 3 glasses of water. She finished washing her hands and was about to open the door when the phone rang. It was Joe.

"Joe, got something already?" She was surprised at his quick response.

"Yea, I had some uniforms combing through the files while I checked with some local UC's to see if they had heard anything on the streets. I got something from and informant who is undercover with the street gang called The Allegiant, said that there was a scuffle a few weeks back that you ended between one of their members and another local gang. You ended it and sent both parties to jail."

"OK, I don't see how that would piss anyone off."

"Stick with me. As it turns out that guy was her right hand man, and cousin. She wants revenge for putting him behind bars, and she wants it bad."

"OK, so we have a who now we need a plan of action."

"My advice, they have you to linked together now. All it takes is for the Erudites to catch wind and his loyalty is called into question, and possibly two years' worth of undercover intel is put at risk."

"What are you saying Joe?" She could read between the lines but wanted to be clear. "Are you ordering us to take these guys in?"

"Yes, but you need to do it by the book. No, mistakes if these guys walk, it could mean bad news for both of you."