21

Everyone gathered in Mac's office.

"So, what's this new evidence Mac? Why call a meeting?" Hawkes asked, as he and Sid were the last to arrive at the lab.

"Someone has been following us," Mac explained. "Well, me."

"What? Who and for how long?" Montana looked at Mac then at Danny.

"I'm not sure who but I think they have been watching me….us since…." Mac took a deep breath. "the accident in the morgue with Sid."

"Wait you don't think…." Hawkes and Sid exchange looks at each other. Mac shrugs his shoulders.

"Could be. Not for certain." Danny knew that Mac had a good idea that it might be one of the members of the Tanglewood gang. He had to find his brother and fast.

"I have to find my brother,"

"No wait Danny," Mac called, "we have to think about this."

"Your brother, what does he have to with this?" Montana asked looking at Danny confused. Danny knew that it was time to tell Montana about his brother. Danny swallowed.

"Louie my older brother was in….well a…..he hung out with the wrong crowds when we were younger." Lindsey shook her head.

"The tanglewood boys…." Danny shut his eyes, sighed and then lowered his head. Montana took that as a yes. "Were you involved?" she gave him a stare that shook him to his core. He blinked then lifted his head up to look at her.

"I drove my brother one time, to meet his friends. He told me to get lost, that this was too much for me, he…" Danny sighed again. "He threatened me, he pushed me down and I ran." He sniffed. "Later on they beat…" he started to cry. "They beat him to a pulp," he blinked again. "He was on his death bed….." he tried to hold back the tears but they kept coming. He sniffed again.

"Oh, Danny," she went up to him and patted him on the shoulder. "I….I didn't know."

He sniffed and he looked over at her. She looked in his eyes. "Now you know why I hate hospitals." He smiled.

"Is he…." Sid asked, who had never heard this story either.

Danny shook his head. "No most of the gang….two are dead and the other one is in prison, and then my brother."

"So that was all of them?" Sid asked.

"I guess there could have been more, I don't know. That's the only ones I saw that night." Danny commented.

"If that's who's following us, is Chantelle one of them?" Asked Stella who was edging closer to Mac.

"That's…" Mac swallowed. "That's what I don't know, I need to talk to her but…."

Mac sat down at his desk. "I have to find away to get to her without being followed."

"Is she safe where she is?" where ever that is. Stella wonder.

"For now she is….but I can't be followed."

"We need a decoy," Hawkes called. Mac rubbed his chin. "Ummmm." He looked down at a file on his desk. It was the old file on Samantha Flack. His eyebrows lit up.

"You have that look Mac." Stella walked around to see what he was looking at. "Flack's sister. What does she have….."

He shut the file, "Nothing, that's another case. An old one… but maybe…"

"Mac, what are you thinking? You can't ask her to be the decoy…." Stella shook her head. "That's not right."

"No, but I need her help. Hawkes, you and Danny go to the police station, use their help in finding your brother. That way the phones can't be traced back to us as easily. Lindsey, you, Adam and Stella come with me I need your help."