Chapter 3
I didn't have to wait long, his disbelief quickly turned to anger and before I knew it he was yelling at everyone to leave. I turned to leave myself when he grabbed my arm "you are not leaving, not until you tell me what the hell you think you were doing playing me like that."
"Dom, please let go of my arm, your hurting me" I pleaded. See the pain in my face he let go of his grip. "Fine, know sit down here and spill it girl, I want to know what your plan has been, start from the beginning and don't leave anything out." Looking up I took in the looks of the rest of the team. I could see the shock in their faces, especially Mia's. "Brian's your brother, why didn't you tell me and why is he in prison" she asked.
Taking a deep breath and began "Please all I ask is that you let me get through this without interruption and then I will do what you want, I will leave and never come back."
"Fine we won't interrupt, will we" Mia told the guys. They all shook their heads in agreement.
I could tell that Mia, Jesse and Leon would probable believe me, but I knew from what Brian had said that Vince and never liked him and then there was Dom. It would take a miracle for him to believe anything that I would say.
"I didn't mean to lie to ya'll that was not my intention, hell I didn't even plan on getting involved with you guys. In fact I hated each and every one of you. If it wasn't for you Brian wouldn't have thrown his life away not when he was just getting it together. All his life he was bounced from one foster family to another, never staying in one place long enough to call home. For awhile I was bounced right along with him, until a couple decided to adopt one of us, the couldn't afford both of us, Brian knew this so to insure that I would be the one the chose he acted uncontrollable. He made the choice pretty easy."
"That don't tell us anything" Dom shot off.
"Dom, we promised. Go on Joilee."
"Thanks Mia, anyway I was adopted out and he stayed in the system. Look I won't go into all the horrible details that he went through, that's not my story to tell. We didn't see each other again, I moved with my new family to Texas and Brian stayed in Phoenix. We wrote to each other for awhile but Brian's letters became fewer and fewer until they stopped all together. Two years ago, I decided to start looking for him. It took awhile but I finally found him out here in LA. He had just joined the force when we met and I could tell that he was excited about being a cop. We had built our relationship back and things were going good, until the tuck heist started happening."
Looking up I could see the shocks in their faces when I mentioned that.
"I know all about it, I knew that Brian was going undercover and I didn't like it but he promised me that it would be alright, that he was going to get this done and then he would be promoted to detective. He had dreamed of becoming a detective for so long who was I to get into the way of his dreams. Then he met you Mia, and everything started to change. instead of talking about the job, he would talk about you."
"He would" she whispered.
"Yeah he would, then the race with Dom happened and for the first time in his life Brian felt like he was part of a family. The guilt of being a cop and knowing that he would have to turn on his only family was eating him up. I could see the change coming over him and I was scared, scared that he was throwing everything away for a gang of thugs." Getting up I walked over to the window, without turning around I continued "God I hated all of you, you all had taken my brother away from me. That day he let you go Dom, he walked into his captain's office and threw down his gun and badge. He quit for you all, but that wasn't enough, when the captain and the FBI wanted him to turn you all in he refused, he knew they had no proof and that they couldn't arrest you without his testimony. The FBI was furious; they threw all sorts of charges at him, anything that they could think of. He went to prison for you Dom."
I didn't have to wait long, his disbelief quickly turned to anger and before I knew it he was yelling at everyone to leave. I turned to leave myself when he grabbed my arm "you are not leaving, not until you tell me what the hell you think you were doing playing me like that."
"Dom, please let go of my arm, your hurting me" I pleaded. See the pain in my face he let go of his grip. "Fine, know sit down here and spill it girl, I want to know what your plan has been, start from the beginning and don't leave anything out." Looking up I took in the looks of the rest of the team. I could see the shock in their faces, especially Mia's. "Brian's your brother, why didn't you tell me and why is he in prison" she asked.
Taking a deep breath and began "Please all I ask is that you let me get through this without interruption and then I will do what you want, I will leave and never come back."
"Fine we won't interrupt, will we" Mia told the guys. They all shook their heads in agreement.
I could tell that Mia, Jesse and Leon would probable believe me, but I knew from what Brian had said that Vince and never liked him and then there was Dom. It would take a miracle for him to believe anything that I would say.
"I didn't mean to lie to ya'll that was not my intention, hell I didn't even plan on getting involved with you guys. In fact I hated each and every one of you. If it wasn't for you Brian wouldn't have thrown his life away not when he was just getting it together. All his life he was bounced from one foster family to another, never staying in one place long enough to call home. For awhile I was bounced right along with him, until a couple decided to adopt one of us, the couldn't afford both of us, Brian knew this so to insure that I would be the one the chose he acted uncontrollable. He made the choice pretty easy."
"That don't tell us anything" Dom shot off.
"Dom, we promised. Go on Joilee."
"Thanks Mia, anyway I was adopted out and he stayed in the system. Look I won't go into all the horrible details that he went through, that's not my story to tell. We didn't see each other again, I moved with my new family to Texas and Brian stayed in Phoenix. We wrote to each other for awhile but Brian's letters became fewer and fewer until they stopped all together. Two years ago, I decided to start looking for him. It took awhile but I finally found him out here in LA. He had just joined the force when we met and I could tell that he was excited about being a cop. We had built our relationship back and things were going good, until the tuck heist started happening."
Looking up I could see the shocks in their faces when I mentioned that.
"I know all about it, I knew that Brian was going undercover and I didn't like it but he promised me that it would be alright, that he was going to get this done and then he would be promoted to detective. He had dreamed of becoming a detective for so long who was I to get into the way of his dreams. Then he met you Mia, and everything started to change. instead of talking about the job, he would talk about you."
"He would" she whispered.
"Yeah he would, then the race with Dom happened and for the first time in his life Brian felt like he was part of a family. The guilt of being a cop and knowing that he would have to turn on his only family was eating him up. I could see the change coming over him and I was scared, scared that he was throwing everything away for a gang of thugs." Getting up I walked over to the window, without turning around I continued "God I hated all of you, you all had taken my brother away from me. That day he let you go Dom, he walked into his captain's office and threw down his gun and badge. He quit for you all, but that wasn't enough, when the captain and the FBI wanted him to turn you all in he refused, he knew they had no proof and that they couldn't arrest you without his testimony. The FBI was furious; they threw all sorts of charges at him, anything that they could think of. He went to prison for you Dom."