More gifts came over the span of the next week and finally at the end of the seven days Throttle, Vinny and Modo finally got pissed enough to call Joey when the sick bastard fixating on Shay started to send toys.

Vibrators, beads, eatable body paint, and other things.

It was disgusting.

And the notes that the bastard sent along with the toys were stomach churning. They had only made the mistake of reading one and had gotten so sick by what they had read that they had destroyed the note.

But since they couldn't destroy every note or toy (because they needed evidence) they instead put the brightly colored boxes and their contents into their bedroom closet when Shay wasn't around to see them doing so. And waited for the week to end so that Joey would come to them, since none of them now felt it would be safe for Shay if even one of them left the garage.

Joey showed up early Saturday morning at nine forty five. Just twenty minutes after the guys had managed to crawl out of bed and leave Shay, sleeping soundly after a particularly exhausting night. The three had been standing in the kitchen staring at the coffee maker as the machine finished making the coffee when they heard the faint sound of someone knocking on the back door.

"Shit. That's Joey."

"Man, couldn't he come a little later? Like after I've had my breakfast and my coffee-" Vinny whined a little bit as Modo chuckled and said as he walked by the younger man.

"After you've had your weekly bath."

"Dude!"

Throttle chuckled in amusement and shook his head as he grabbed a mug and poured himself some of the scalding dark liquid then fixed it the way that he liked it and moved back out of the way so that Vinny could fix his cup before Modo came back into the room with Joey who was holding a big cardboard box with Dunkin Donuts written on the lid. "Hey guys-" Joey said cheerfully as he set the box down on the counter and then looked around. "I figured since I would be imposing on you all so early that I should bring something for us all to eat while we filed that complaint and talked a bit."

"Do you want some coffee?" Vinny asked as Modo not so subtly pushed him out of the way so that he could fix himself a cup before it was gone. Joey smiled and shook his head and politely turned the offer down.

"No man. I had a granola bar earlier so I"m good."

"Hn. Suit yourself, man." Modo said as he poured what was left of the coffee into his mug then turned to face the human as he took a sip of the scalding liquid.

"So...what was it exactly you wanted to file a complaint about?" Joey asked awkwardly.

The guys exchanged a look as they set their coffee mugs down and moved to leave the kitchen. "Modo, go make sure that Shay's still asleep. I don't want her seeing this shit for any reason."

"Right." Modo said as he slipped by the three men and all but ran down the hall to Shay's room and disappeared inside.

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Shay was still sound asleep among the small sea of pillows and cushions on the bed. Her body curled up in the spot that Vinny had been laying in earlier. The comforter was tangled around her hips and the thin cotton sheet under it was the only thing covering her slender shoulders from the slight coolness of the air.

Modo crept silently around the bed and grasped the comforter and carefully pulled it up over Shay's shoulders before starting to inch his way back away from the bed when Shay moaned softly and turned her head and rubbed her face against the pillow for a second. Modo stopped moving and held his breath, silently praying that Shay would stay asleep.

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Joey stared at the contents from each of the boxes that Throttle and Vinny had pulled out of their closet and made a strained hissing sound. This looked like the sort of stuff that would be sent to someone out of affection and as a joke.

And if not for the stomach churningly graphic notes, two of which mentioned the pipe that was used on Shay as a child- Then he might have told the guys to either grow up and stop being embarrassed over toys. But as it turned out this- Was a whole new ball game of sick.

Joey examined the stuff, the notes, and then asked some questions and used a small note pad that Vinny found for him to write down the information and once he was done asked if he could take the notes and one or two of the toys back to the station to be dusted for prints. Once the guys agreed to that, Joey told them to destroy the rest then grabbed two or three of the boxes and with their help loaded them into his car in the back of the building.