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Letty pulled into a beach restaurant.

"Trust me babe, this place has the BEST crab legs and ribs." Letty informed her as they got out of her car.

"GREAT! I am starving." Channa said laughing as she shut the door.

Letty and Channa grabbed a table for two on the deck, in front of the beach. Loose sand drifted onto the deck while the sound of crashing waves filled the environment. The waitress gave them their menus as the waitress stood waiting for their drink orders. Letty bit her bottom lip as she looked in the into the menu then shot her head up and smiled.

"And just to be a responsible adult …I'm not even going to drink! Ha!" Letty replied grinning at Channa who smiled back at her.

"Well you could…just don't get drunk." Channa pointed out finding a loophole.

"Honey…don't tempt me, I'll have a Pepsi." Letty replied.

"Pepsi as well please." Channa agreed.

The waitress wrote it down and then walked off leaving the two girls to chat.

"So Chan, how old are ya girl?" Letty asked leaning back in her chair.

"I turn 16 next Friday." Channa responded, thinking that made her sound older.

"WHOA! Heck YEAH girl! We need to have a huge bumpin party for that! That's awesome! So what are you doing here in LA? Visiting older bro? Lookin at colleges?" Letty asked.

"Nahh, I'm living with him. Our dad got thrown in jail." She admitted.

"Oh wow, that's crazy, are you ya know…ok?" Letty asked.

"Now…yea, I am away from him and away from the memories." Channa answered softly.

The waitress then returned with their drinks and sat them down on the table in front of the girls.

"We would like the dinner size order of crab legs and ribs with potato skins." Letty ordered and then watched the woman smile at them, take up their menus and leave.

"So I mean…that's cool. But does it suck moving into a different place? And leaving your friends and boyfriend?" Letty asked very interested in her feelings, she had never had it be taken away from her home or anyone she cared about.

Channa busted out laughing causing Letty to giggle slightly too.

"I didn't have a boyfriend at the time, GOSH I haven't had a boyfriend in like a year." Channa replied liking having a girl talk for once.

"And what was the downfall to THAT ordeal?" Letty asked.

"He kept pushing me, and I already had a guy in my life who did that…I didn't need another one." Channa replied.

"YOU GO girl!" Letty replied holding out her fist, which Channa bumped.

"But no, there is nothing I miss in San Diego. I did have a couple close friends, but nothing big enough to hold me back. I feel safe and free here, free to rebuild myself. And I have a new nice cozy home with my brother. GOSH living with just my brother…like JUST him, and me it's like a dream come true to me. I remember there were many nights when he talked about it, like when he was 14 and I was like six and he would always say how we would run away and live together and be there for each other. So it's like the best thing that has happened to me…ever—in my life." Channa said looking over at Letty.

Letty smiled sweetly at her.

"Wow, that's really great you can feel like that towards someone." Letty admitted.

"What about you?" Channa asked scooting closer to the table and placing her hands on it, wanting to switch the subject around.

"What about Dom?" Channa asked.

Letty laughed.

"Dom…he's complicated, we have been dating it seems like ages. But I love him, despite that fact that he can be pushy, annoying, ill minded. But I love the guy non-the-less." Letty answered.

Channa smiled.

Brian stood up from the glass table grabbing his plate and Mia's plate at the end of dinner. He turned around and walked into the kitchen and sat them in the sink, Mia followed in with the glasses and salad bowels.

"Dinner was excellent sweetie. A guy who is built, races cars, pretty blue eyes AND a master chef, jeeze what can't you do O' Connor?" Mia replied setting the glasses and bowls into the sink as well.

Brian shrugged.

"Well… I-" Brian was stopped by Mia's finger.

"That was…a rhetorical question." Mia said chuckling.

Brian laughed as well as he then walked into the living room, Mia following him as he sat down on the couch. Mia turned around and sat on the floor, her body in between his legs, hinting at something. Brian sighed as he knew what he was because she only sits there for two reasons 1- there are no other seats left or 2- she wants him to rub her shoulders.

Brian allowed his hands to fall on her shoulders and then started to dig the soul of his thumbs into her flesh and used his hands and the rest of his fingers to knead her skin.

"Hmm, wonder what Letty and Channa are up too?" Mia asked aloud.

Brian smirked.

"Must you remind me that they're out together?" Brian asked.

"Of course, cause it's driving you crazy." Mia tormented.

A long silence fell as Mia closer her eyes enjoying the massage.

"Brian…" she murmured softly.

"Hmm?" Brian answered.

"I have been thinking…" Mia began.

"Thinking? About what?" Brian asked.

"Us…" she added.

Brian frowned slightly.

"Us? What about us?" Brian asked.

"I think we're ready to move up on the relationship latter. I think we should live together." Mia replied.

Brian's face panicked.

"Really?" Brian replied.

"Mhmm." Mia replied letting her head fall back on the couch.

WHAT was he going to do, he couldn't say no cause if he did what if she thought that was a hint that he didn't like her so much? But how in the WORLD will he cover up the fact that he's a cop?

Mia then opened her eyes finding the silence painful and her heart stopped.

She saw Brian smile down at her.

"I think it will be great for us if we live together. And I would like us to live here, it's a little more…private." Brian said smiling down at her.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." Mia admitted smiling back up at him.

Brian bent down and kissed her on the lips.

"WOW that was SUCH a great dinner! That made me one happy girl!" Letty replied patting her stomach.

"Well…it's nine o'clock. What do you want to do now?" Letty asked.

"Don't know…I have no idea what's around here to do." Channa replied.

"Well…all the FUN things you have to be 21 years or older of age…so how about go cart racing?" Letty asked.

"SURE!" Channa replied in excitement.

"COOL, then maybe we can find some guys and throw rocks at them!" Letty added in a joking tone as they ran off towards the car.

Brian was sitting on the couch, his back rested comfortably in the back of the leather couch, his legs parted slightly in a comfortable position. Mia was lying on the remaining part of the couch, her head rested comfortably in his lap. Brian stared at the TV, watching some late night movie as he bit his thumbnail and the skin around it.

Channa opened the door to see her brother and Mia asleep on him on the couch. Brian grinned at her and placed a finger to his lips giving the 'shh' signal. She giggled quietly and walked in and closed the door.

"Hey Bri!" She said in a loud whisper not wanting to wake Mia up.

Brian smiled widely and nodded his head, saying hi back. Channa smiled and walked down the hallway into her bedroom. Brian stuck his tongue out at the side of his mouth as he gently maneuvered himself out from underneath her head and allowed it to fall softly to the warm cushion on the couch. Brian then walked down the hallway and leaned in the doorway of Channa's room.

"Have a good time out with Letty?" Brian asked.

"Oh yea, she's a great girl. We went out to eat, drove go carts, went goofy golfing AT NIGHT and didn't even try to make it in the hole, we just tried to see if we could hit all the guys with the balls. And then we went to a club that lets high school people in and she about started like 10 different fights, it was HALARIOUS!" Channa explained pulling her hair up in a ponytail.

"Yea…hanging out with Letty…it's uhh…never boring." Brian said grinning.

"All of your friends rock Brian…they are all really cool." Channa replied looking at him with her hands on her hips.

"Yea…they are an interesting bunch of people." Brian admitted. He then looked around and rubbed his chin.

"Come here…" Brian began grabbing Channa's hand and led her into the hallway and into his bedroom, closing it behind them.

"Is everything ok Brian?" Channa asked looking at him in a serious manner.

"Look…uh…Mia is wanting us to live together…" Brian began.

"Uh huh…" Channa replied telling her brother she was listening.

"And we are wanting her to move in here…but I won't let her move in one box unless I know it's cool with you." Brian replied.

"It's not cool with me." Channa said seriously shaking her head no.

Brian's face fell in defeat. Channa then broke, letting out a small giggle.

"I'm just joking Bri! Mia…living here? She is cool heck yeah sure." Channa said truthfully.

"You're sure its cool?" Brian asked looking at her deeply.

"REALLY, truthfully bro, it's fine. I don't have a problem with it…as long as I don't see you two making out all the time." Channa teased hitting his shoulder slightly.

Brian chuckled slightly as well.

"No promises." He shot back.

"You two seem so happy together ya know?" Channa said in an admiring tone.

Brian looked down, smiled wider and looked up at her.

"You're still not going to tell her? Even if she is moving in? Are you?" she said in disappointment.

Brian quickly shook his head no. He saw her sigh.

"Look Chan…" Brian replied taking her hand as he lead her over to bed and they both sat on the edge.

"I can't. No one can know I even hate having you know. If Mia knew, she might be tempted to say something to her brother. Or her brother might intimidate her, they guy knows when your lying to him if you don't have some of the training they gave me down at the station. I can't afford to have anyone know, be mad, and then tip me off to the people that I am trying to bring down undercover, heck Chan, I can't even afford some of these thug racers to know I am undercover…do you understand?" Brian murmured softly.

"Yea…I guess I can see it. I just hate watching you go down this bad road that's only going to screw up for you. I know how much you like her Bri…I can see it! And I don't want you too lose her. What happens if you come home with a bullet wound? Or a cut up face because SOMEONE found out you were a cop and beat your face up with brace knuckles or something OR…OR God forbid, Mia gets taken. What are you going to do Brian? What are you going to tell her?" Channa asked sympathetically, her voice pleading with him to understand her reason as she reached out and touched his hand.

Brian looked seriously into her eyes then cracked a small grin out of the conversation to lighten it up.

"How did you get to be so smart?" He asked as he ruffled her hair, making it messy.

Channa flipped her hair back into place and shrugged.

"Just common sense to me I suppose." She answered.

Brian nodded as she could barely see him in the dark room.

"But I just want you to know Bri…I would be heartbroken if you wouldn't have told me, I would have felt distant from you. I would rather know and be close to you and close in your life, than not know and live a safe life." Channa admitted.

A smirk formed at the corner of his mouth.

"Thanks, I'm glad you know too. With all the crap I have to deal related to this job, it sure is nice for this undercover agent to talk to someone about it." Brian replied wrapping his arm around her neck.

Channa giggled as she gently slapped her hand down on his thigh.

"Someone has a birthday coming up." Brian replied changing the subject, causing Channa to laugh.

"I really can't believe you will be 16…I remember you when you were six." Brian replied touching her cheek.

Channa grinned softly and touched his hand that was on her cheek.

"I'm really sorry that I missed a large chunk of your life. I am surprised you came out of this such a stable person, like you don't seem to have any psychological problems or post traumatic stress. Ya know?" Channa asked.

"Well not completely…I am not a fan of pure darkness, like when I try to sleep I can't unless I have some sort of lamp on or nightlight. It I am like out walking around with a lot of city lights, I' ok. But pure darkness, I can't stand." Mia admitted.

"We've been in this room for about 5-10 minutes and you haven't freaked out once." Brian confronted.

"Yea…cause I'm with you. If I'm alone I get freaked out. Its just like when we were younger, I wasn't scared if you were in our room with me. But if I got stuck alone I would start crying cause I thought something bad would happen." Channa replied.

"Yea…we spent a lot of time in our rooms huh?" Brian replied, hunching over to rest his elbows on his knees.

"A LOT of time." Channa corrected.

"I swear I can remember every night of my nights as a kid ranging from 5-17 years old. Maybe not EVERY night but I sure as hell remember how I felt." Brian added.

"Scared?" Channa replied shaking her head in understanding.

"Terrified. Terrified he would come up to our room and get mad, cause you could always hear him when he was mad through the floor. I hated getting hit by that man, and I was always SO tempted to just hit him back, one swing right across the face, ESPECIALLY when I got older , just one hit is all I wanted. But I never did…maybe I should have." Brian replied shrugging.

"Jerry did once after you left, and he about killed him so I am glad you didn't." Channa admitted.

"Jerry…man I would like to know what happened to that kid." Brian admitted.

"Me too. But ya know what, I'm surprised you didn't become a wreck. You were the one who was always hit and stuff. But you did the opposite, you became a cop, nice to people, respectful to women, no drinking or drug problem. I think you're the proof of a bigger miracle than I am." Channa said.

"We're both a miracle." Brian replied sitting up straight.

Channa nodded.

"So…how did Letty's car hold up?" Brian asked,

Channa sighed as she looked down at her lap.

"As much as I love Letty…your Skyline can beat no other car." Channa said giggling.

"You like Skylines, don't ya…even if they drive in the right side? That doesn't bother you?" Brian asked.

"Nope." Channa answered.

"Man it bothered me when I first got it and fixed it up. But I love my Skyline too." Brian replied then lifted up his left wrist up to his face, the blue light reflected onto his face, giving his appearance a chilly and gloomy vibe.

"Well, it's late, you should get to bed. I am going over to the garage pretty early so you're going to be here with Mia, so help her out with the things around the kitchen. And I am sure Mia and you will swing by in the noon area." Brian replied.

"Ok." Channa answered smiling

"Ok, sweet dreams sis." He replied and kissed her on the forehead.

"Night Bri." She answered kissing him on the cheek then walked out.

Brian saw a small flicker of a light (probably from a lamp) go on in her room before she closed the door. He shook his head from side to side as he yanked himself up and walked back into the living room. There he found Mia, knocked out like a light which caused him to chuckle slightly.

Very carefully he managed to weave his arms underneath her and pick her up off the couch. He walked down the hallway to his bedroom and gently laid her down on his bed, pulling the covers over her. He stared at her and bent down to kiss her on the cheeks, he closed his eyes as he also kissed her neck and her bicep.

Channa was right, she really was, he hated lying to her. He hated the fact, as far as he was concerned, their life together was fake—it was role-playing. But he couldn't tell her, he just couldn't. But he also didn't want her finding out the hard way or from someone else. He shook it out of his head as he walked back into the living room and turned out the light. He stood there for a second, before making his way to the balcony, pulling back the curtains, he saw the white sand reflecting bright from the moon as he watched the waves crash onto the shores and then sucked back into the sea.

"That's such a great thing for a little girl to hear. Brian, you really have made a great life for yourself. You get to be a hero everyday. Gahh that must ROCK!"

Channa's words rocked against his skull, mixing up emotions in his brain.

"Sometimes is sucks…to be a hero." Brian mumbled before walking back to his bedroom.