Maverick pulled over to the side when he saw the one they were searching for. He parked it but kept the engine idling. Rolling down the window and frowned at him. "Did you get the evidence?"

"Of course I got it. It's right here, but what I don't get is why did Tobias send you two as back up?"

Maverick reached out and grabbed onto his shirt and pulled him closer to the window, "Listen here punk! My brother and I are at the top with Tobias in this combined crew. So watch how you come off to us. In other words, don't question us got it?"

"Yes...Yes of course. I'm used to getting orders from Tobias. I didn't mean any disrespect."

Maverick sighed, "Forget it. Anyway, where is the evidence you were supposed to retrieve from the detective's home?"

"I have it right here, but I was instructed to give it to Tobias himself, no one else."

Reno was still annoyed from the street fight, 'I can't believe I was taken down by a girl! Man, it's embarrassing! Top it off she broke my nose! Well, at least I blew up her and golden boy's car. So it wasn't all a waste.' He glanced at his brother from the corner of his eye still not too happy with him either with what he found out about what happened back then. "Just let him in the car. We have to get going before the cops figure out where we are."

"You heard my brother, get in," Maverick said as he let go of the guy's shirt. He waited until the crew member hurried into the back of his car and took off towards the garage. 'Damn it! I was hoping Reno wouldn't have found out about the plan Tobias and I had back then when he sabotaged my car. I'm going to have to let Tobias know unless Reno gets it out first. I'm not sure how he'll react to Reno finding out, but I guess I'll see soon enough since we're going to meet up with him.' Maverick kept his focus on the road, "Hey Reno, how are you feeling? Did you need me to stop anywhere?"

"Oh, now you become all brotherly concerned about how I'm doing? I'll be fine, I don't need you to stop anywhere for pain meds, I can take something when we reach the garage." Reno grumbled as he kept looking out the passenger window. 'I still can't believe him. After all these years, he had me believing golden boy was the one who caused his accident. Why? He mentioned about having revenge against the prescient who arrested us for street racing, but I'm starting to wonder if there was some other reason, or am I reading too much into it?'

"Look Reno, we both did our homework, and we found out Date and his friends were trained in the martial arts. So we should have been ready for them. There's no need for you to get angry with me." Maverick replied as he took the next turn.

Reno turned his full attention upon his brother with a raised brow. "Seriously! Not get angry with you? Are you kidding me right now! Of course, I'm angry! Why shouldn't I be?"

Maverick glanced at him from the corner of his eye, "Look, I can pull over and you can walk the rest of the way! So unless you feel like walking then I suggest we save this conversation for after we meet up with Tobias!"

Raising his hand, he waved off his brother, "Yeah, yeah whatever," Returning his gaze out towards the passenger window.

Maverick sighed internally, he knew this was going to be a hard conversation to have with his brother. But now since it was all out in the open, it was unavoidable. Driving about twenty minutes he arrived at the entrance of the garage on the outskirts of the city. Pulling into the private entrance he gave the guard at the door a nod and drove through. Maverick pulled his car into the garage and shut it off. The three of them exited his car and walked over towards Tobias who was waiting for their arrival.

Tobias glanced at his watch and then at the three of them as they approached, "Took a bit didn't it?" Narrowing his eyes at the crew member as he waited for his explanation. "Well?"

Pulling out the evidence from his hiding place, he handed it over to him, "Sorry Tobias, there were complications. But it's all there, I swear it."

Tobias grabbed the evidence from him and leafed through it. "Fine," Walking over towards a garbage can he reached into his pocket and pulled out a lighter. Bringing the two together he lit the evidence on fire. He watched the evidence as it was encased in flames and then dropped it into the garbage can. Waiting a bit for the lighter to cool, he then put it back into his pocket. "Remember what I told you about what I do to those who fail me?"

"But I didn't fail you, Tobias, I got the evidence just like you ordered."

"Yes, you did, but you forced my hand and had me get Maverick and Reno involved to bail you out. I thought you were better than your predecessor, but I guess I was wrong." Tobias replied as he turned his full attention upon him now.

"No sir, you weren't wrong about me. I've done everything you've asked of me."

Tobias raised a brow towards him as he came within arms distance. "Everything? Really? Let's review. I told you to take care of Detective Date, but she survived her car accident and is now in hiding. Then I asked you to get me the evidence she had on me. You retrieved it, yes, but Maverick and Reno had to come to your aid. I don't see how either of those situations was called successful do you?" Reaching up towards the crew member's head he secured his hands to either side. "You know I don't give a third chance. Two chances are all anyone is allowed to have, so now your service to me is terminated." Within a blink of an eye, a gruesome snap was heard and then his head rolled at a crazy angle as his body dropped to the floor. Tobias stared at the broken body laying on the floor. He then looked up towards Maverick and Reno. "It was going to happen sooner or later. I was just doing what was necessary. I'll have someone take care of disposing of the body later. Now then, the evidence against me is gone and one less failure has been taken care of, we can get along with our business."

Maverick and Reno glanced at one another from the corner of their eyes. "Tobias..."

Looking up towards them when he heard his name, "Oh, sorry, I guess I should have finished with him in private. Oh well. It's done. So, going by how the both of you look, things didn't go well when you ran across them."

"It could have gone better. But we still ended up with the upper hand. Reno blew up their cars with his drone as payback. So they'll be taking a while recovering from our street fight." Maverick replied as the three of them started walking towards the center of the garage.

Tobias raised a brow towards Reno and gave a nod, "I'm impressed your brother said you were good, I just didn't know how good until now."

"Yeah, well why did I have to find out you and my brother planned to sabotage his car all those years ago from golden boy and his friends? Don't deny it, Maverick already confirmed his part of the story." Reno shot back in slight annoyance.

Tobias gave a small chuckle, "Direct and to the point. I like a man who knows what he wants. You don't waste time. Yes, your brother and I did plan to sabotage his car before the race with golden boy all those years ago. The reason you weren't told about it then was because you were too young to handle it. I wasn't sure if you'd be trustworthy enough to keep such an important secret. Would you have been able to live with the secret for all these years?"

"It doesn't matter, Maverick is my brother! I deserved to know."

"Alright, in hindsight, I guess it was wrong of us to keep such a plan from you but we were short on time. We needed you to be convincing enough to have golden boy feel guilty about the accident so he would be shamed from street racing once and for all. He wasn't supposed to join your crew to start with anyway." Tobias explained as they made it to the work area at the center of the garage.

Reno looked over at his brother, "Then if he wasn't supposed to be in our crew, why did you allow him to join?"

"Because little brother, we needed a patsy. An in to get at the prescient, and someone to be the scapegoat for the race. It worked out perfectly considering golden boy's father runs the very prescient we were trying to bring down in the first place." Maverick explained as he leaned back against a half pile of tires.

Tobias studied Reno, "Now you know the whole story. Can we count on you to be loyal to the crew?"

Reno crossed his arms and glared at Tobias, "You're being rather daring questioning my loyalty. Considering I'm one of the top three in this crew, plus I would never abandon my brother for any reason. No matter what he did or didn't do. But question me again about my loyalty, you'll find out how much of a mistake you made but not before it's too late."

A deep laugh erupted from Tobias' throat, "I like you! You're gutsy! You dare talk to me like you did even after I killed someone from the crew right before your eyes with my bare hands."

Reno walked over to the fridge and opened it. Reaching inside he pulled out an ice pack and then a beer. He shut the door and turned around as he leaned against the fridge. "Yeah well, I didn't ask for your approval."

Maverick shook his head at them, "Ok are you two done with your bonding? We have a major problem we need to take care of if you two don't mind?"

"Of course, you're always about business Maverick. Alright, well since Detective Date is in the wind, we can't do anything about her. She isn't a threat anymore since her evidence went up in flames. But her brother and his friends, they are our new focus." Tobias pointed out as he sat down on the nearest chair.

"Right, more in likely golden boy has talked with his old connection, Dominic. So more likely, they'll work together and try to take us down. So things are going to get a bit dicey." Maverick brought up.

"At the moment, we can't do anything about Dom's crew. If golden boy and his friends teamed up with them, then it's out of our hands. So in the meantime, the best we can do is keep our eyes and ears out while still running our crew all over the city."

"So then, business as usual," Maverick stated as he gave a nod. "Fine by me. Hey Reno, think you can get more of those drones sent out into the city?"

Reno rested the ice pack on his broken nose, he seethed a bit internally from the combination of the cold and the pain. "Yeah, easily. How soon did you need them out there anyway?"

"As soon as possible. The sooner the better. We need to be able to see and hear everything they're doing. It'll be easier keeping tabs on them with the drones instead of using the rest of the crew since they'll be busy." Tobias replied leaning back in his chair. "It shouldn't be a problem for you should it?"

"No, a piece of cake. My brother will have those drones up and operational in no time." Maverick replied as he glanced at him.

Elsewhere in a different part of the city, Detectives Shaw and Date arrived at one of the safe houses and were inside after they ditched the car he drove.

"I better check in with headquarters and let them know we arrived."

"Just make sure you go by secure channels, the last thing we need is to be traced here you know." Yayoi shot back as she sat in a recliner.

Shaw raised a brow towards her as he reached for a burner phone, "Hey this isn't my first time hiding someone in a safe house."

"You could have fooled me. Another thing, who taught you how to drive?"

A deep frown came upon his face, "What's wrong with my driving? I was the best in my class for your information."

"Well you should retake it, you drive worse than an old woman! I mean come on, could you have driven any slower?" Yayoi asked in slight annoyance, "I mean come on, I could have gotten out and run faster."

"Haha, real funny. For your information, I don't drive worse than an old woman. I was only going slow because of your injuries." Shaw replied as he was dialing.

Yayoi waved him off as she smiled at him in a teasing manner. She gave Shaw some peace as he started talking on the burner phone. 'I appreciate him being concerned about my injuries. But I'm more angry with the fact he shanghaied me to a safe house in a random part of the city! More in likely it was my father's idea so I shouldn't be getting so angry with Shaw. I wonder how Sage and his friends are doing? Did they find Tobias? What kind of trouble did they get into? Oh! It's driving me crazy being out of the loop on this case!' Yayoi frowned a bit when she saw him walking away from her so she couldn't hear what he was saying on the phone. Yayoi scowled at him when he walked away from her. She reached for a pillow and winced when she threw it at the back of his head. The pain was worth it because the pillow hit right on target.

Shaw turned around and scowled right back at her. He lowered the phone, "Do you mind?"

Yayoi crossed her arms when she leaned back in the recliner, "Get back over here so I can hear what you're saying on the phone. You're going to have to tell me about the conversation when you're done anyway."

"No I don't have to tell you anything, this is a private conversation."

"Come on! We both know you're talking to someone at headquarters. So come over here so I can hear too, or better yet put it on speaker."

"This burner doesn't have a speaker option."

Yayoi raised a brow at him, "Cheap burner phone. Fine, then if you're not going to come closer I'll kick your sorry ass for not working with me on this case."

"Come on Date, you can't fight me right now, not in your condition."

"Fine Shaw, then I'll fight you when I'm recovered. Then I'll kick your ass back at the prescient in front of everyone!"

"Ok, ok fine. You win! I'll come over and let you listen to the conversation." Shaw walked over towards Yayoi and sat down on the couch next to her. "Happy?"

Yayoi grinned as she gave a small nod, "Yes, thank you."

Shaw grumbled a little under his breath before going back to the person on the other side.

"What did you say? I didn't quite catch it."

Shaw pulled the mouthpiece away a bit, "Nothing Date, just sit back and relax. Concentrate more on healing than my conversation. I'll tell you everything when I'm done. Fair?"

A deep thinking expression played upon her face, "Fair enough." She replied getting a little more comfortable in the recliner. If Yayoi had to admit it, she was starting to feel a little more tired than she wanted to say. She wasn't going to tell him though, Yayoi had her Date pride to consider. Throughout her life, her pride was the one thing which she did kick herself mentally from time to time because of how much she hurt Shaw when she didn't go along with what he said even though she knew he was right. One of these days she knew she would have to apologize to him. But now wasn't the time, she was more concerned about her brother and his friends than anything else.

Shaw scowled when he heard what was told to him next, "You've got to be kidding me? Any..." He glanced over at Yayoi and then away from her, "Bodies identified?"

Yayoi felt her heart leap into her throat when she heard him ask the question. She looked over towards him with concern in her eyes.

"Alright, thanks I'll make sure to fill her in on everything. Keep us informed. I'll get in contact with you later."

Yayoi watched Shaw put the burner phone away before she asked, "What's going on? Why did you ask if there were any bodies? Was it about my brother and his friends?"

Shaw turned his full attention towards her, "It is about them, but don't worry there were no bodies found. Seems like there was a street fight between Maverick and Reno against Sage and the others. They ran across someone from Tobias' crew breaking into your home and stealing the evidence you had against him. There was also an explosion. Two cars were blown up by a drone. Turns out the cars blown up were owned by your brother and Kaye. No one was in or near them when the drone self-detonated. It was used as a diversion so Maverick and Reno could getaway along with the one who broke into your house. They're all safe as far as we know."

Yayoi frowned, "What do you mean by as far as we know?"

"Turns out they disappeared. Some neighbors saw them getting into different cars and then taking off in the opposite direction of Maverick and Reno. The neighbors could not tell how injured they were, but they must be alright for the most part since they were seen walking to the cars which were waiting for them.."

Yayoi let out a sigh of relief as she relaxed a little from the news, "I'm glad they're safe, but I wonder who they rode off with. I wish Sage would get in contact with us then we can at least talk to him."

"We can't remember, no contact until the case is over, you know just as well as I do it's how cases like these have to be Yayoi."

"I know, it's just hard to be out of the loop when a major case like this is going on and nothing can be done because you're sitting on the sidelines."

"Yayoi, there's something else I need to talk with you about. It isn't related to the case at all, but some clarification is in order."

Looking at Shaw with a confused expression, "What's more important than this case?"

"Be patient with me and I'll tell you. See, when we split up last year, there were some facts you didn't know about when it came to our relationship."

"Shaw, I don't..."

"Yayoi, please, let me tell you what I want to say and then you can make your decision alright?" He waited for a short while then she gave a nod telling him to continue. "Anyway, to the reason why we broke up was mainly because of an undercover case I was working at the time. My mind was going to a dark place and I was having a hard time getting out of it. So I took it out on our relationship. I was in so deep a cover I let it consume me and made me think I wasn't good enough for you no matter how hard I tried. So I just stop trying with us. I know it shouldn't have been an excuse to explain how I acted, but at the time I cared about nothing nor anyone. I almost threw away my career until your brother snapped me out of it."

"Sage? What does he have to do with your story?"

"He helped me see what a good thing I was throwing away. I didn't realize his full meaning until after we broke up. I...I'm sorry for putting you through such hardship. It wasn't right of me to do so. For a long time afterward, I often wondered if breaking up was the right thing to do. After a while, I started to think it was a mistake for us not to be together. I don't know if you want the same as me with a relationship, but if I can start with your forgiveness it'll work for me."

"Shaw..."

"Yayoi...You don't need to tell me right now. Take all the time you need, and once you feel comfortable enough to tell me your answer then I'll be available to listen. In the meantime, I'll stay as your partner and friend until you tell me otherwise. Fair enough?"

Yayoi thought about his words carefully, and then some time passed and she smiled at him as she gave a small nod, "Fair enough."