A/N: So, i totally used creative license with the whole grand jury thing. Just an FYI.

Brian made her sit down on the couch, and she sat down grumpily. "I'd be fine at home." He just stared at her, and Rina had the adolescent urge to stick her tongue out at him. He went into the kitchen and came out with a glass of ice water and one of her pills in his hand. Rina softened slightly. He'd remembered that she loved ice water, instead of just tap water.

"Take this." he said handing her the pill and water glass. She sighed but did what he said to do.

"Is it going to make me drowsy?"

"Probably." he said shortly. "But I'll make sure you either stay awake, or wake up every hour."

Rina looked up at his harsh face and felt like crying. She couldn't remember the last time she'd cried in front of a man. Yes she did. It had been when they'd raped her. Well, she wouldn't cry now either. Her cell phone rang so she answered it quickly despite Brian's frown. Seeing the number on the display she knew it was Detective Cassidy. "Hey Sam…Yeah, I'm fine…Tomorrow, yeah I'm free. I'll see you then." She hung up the phone and felt a sickness in the pit of her stomach.

"Hot date?" he said moodily.

Her head whipped around, which made it hurt more. "It's the Grand Jury hearing against Heath and his friends." she told him quietly.

"Oh."

"Are you going to hate me forever Brian?" she asked in a small voice.

"What are you talking about? Don't be absurd." he told her running his hands through his hair. "You know I don't hate you. Couldn't hate you."

"Really? Because you do a good imitation of hating me. I can't apologize for not telling you who I was, or why I was here Brian."

"You could've had told me you weren't setting out to kill anyone. You could have trusted me that much." he said angrily. "Do you have any idea how I felt hearing him call you. Knowing you'd come. Because I knew Rina, I knew you'd come and I couldn't protect you."

"I didn't need protection!" she yelled.

"Do you have any idea what I felt when you came blazing into that warehouse with your guns? Not knowing if you'd live, and if you did live would I be visiting you in prison for the rest of our lives."

Rina shook her head bitterly. "No Brian. I didn't know how you felt. And I couldn't think of how you felt. If I was going to survive, and get you all out of there, then I had to do my job. My job was to bring them in one way or the other. Perhaps I didn't trust you enough to tell you some, but why should I Brian? Because you're different? I know you're different. I could have never had sex with you if I didn't know that. It doesn't change that I couldn't let anything distract me."

Neither of them noticed that the door had opened and Dom, Mia, Vince, and Letty stood there. "So I was just a distraction?" pain lanced his voice.

"That isn't what I meant!" she cried. "I didn't come here to meet anyone. Damn it Brian! I was doing my job! When I found you, it scared me, you made me feel again, but I still had a job to finish. I'm sorry you can't understand that." Tears were slipping down her cheeks, but she didn't notice them.

Brian turned his back his fists clenched at his sides. Rina sobbed once and pushed past everyone and down the steps towards her home. Brian turned, "She can't be alone. Not for 24 hours." Mia nodded and she and Letty took off after Rina. Vince and Dom entered the house and looked quietly at Brian who stood looking grim and haggard.

"Sit down Brian." Vince said quietly.

When all three men were sitting Dom looked at Brian. His friend was in a lot of pain. Both of his friends were. He knew that it wasn't only that she hadn't shared with him. There were so many things moving in Brian's head right now. But Dom knew that they either needed to fix it, or make a clean break. Neither of them could keep living in this half life. "Brian, you either need to accept that Rina did what she felt was right, or you need to let go and move on. Don't you remember being in her position?" Dom said softly.

"We know what we're talking about here Brian. There was a time that we had to sit down and either accept that you'd lied, or not accept it." Vince told him.

"I know."

"What you need to determine is whether you can live with the fact that she didn't share with you, and she put herself in the line of fire for all of us. She saved us all man. It isn't as hard on me as it is to you, because she saved Letty and Mia." Dom said putting his hand on Brian's shoulder.

Vince realized something. "That's not the only you're having problems with is it Brian? She saved Mia and Letty, but no one saved her."

With this Brian broke down. There was no embarrassment. The pain he felt was real, and these were his friends. "No one helped her. They hurt her, and they changed her, and they tried to destroy her. And I meet her after the fact, when I can't help her. When I can't do anything to help her." Vince held Brian like he was a little boy. "She's so beautiful, and smart, and courageous. And I love her so much, but I can't erase it, I can't save her."

"You did save her Brian. You showed her someone could love her, and treat her with respect." Dom told him.

"Do you think that if she hadn't met you she would be here now? She came back here Brian. She didn't stay in Philadelphia, she came back here."

Rina was sworn in for her oath before the Grand Jury. This wasn't as formal as the actual trial would be. She'd found out that they were being tried with the possibility of the death penalty. They would be tried separately in Philadelphia for her rape and attack, but she was asked to speak here today as well. The prosecutor asked her to tell her story.

"My name is Caterina Bella De La Rossi. I was born outside of Naples Italy, and my parents moved us to Philadelphia when I was nine months old. I'm twenty three years old. I began dating Heath Canton my last year of college. His parents came from money, and when my parents died, I was left with money. We met at a charity event and began seeing each other steadily. Besides a few dates before, Heath was the most serious relationship that I'd had up to that point. " Rina saw Team Toretto in the back of the room. Brian was there. Rina looked at the grand jury. "Heath told me he had a surprise for me. I'd decided to make love to him that night. I was a virgin. He picked me up and took me to his condominium. We were in the bedroom, and he started getting rough. I told him to stop, I wasn't enjoying it. He told me that was too bad, he liked it rough." Rina fell into her memories and told them like they'd happened the day before.

"Heath, stop! You're hurting me." Rina told him with wide, frightened eyes.

"That's too bad baby. Cuz I'm gonna fuck you, and then my friends are gonna fuck you." he laughed at her expression and his friends entered the room behind him. Heath ripped her clothes off roughly, piece by piece until she lay naked and tied to the bed with rope. She fought but couldn't fight hard enough to stop the large man from roughly pulling her thighs apart and penetrating her. She screamed in pain. He finished quickly and rolled off so Drew could take him place. They all raped her once, and then Drew decided he wanted to play. He had a pocket knife and all four of them carved their initials into her belly close to her right pelvis bone. Heath and Drew raped her again, and then while he was in the middle of assaulting her Drew took his pocket knife and sliced from her temple to the edge of her mouth. The screams seemed to excite him more, and they all took pleasure in beating her.

Rina came back to herself. Lifting her hand she realized her cheeks were wet. She looked at the jury and saw their compassion. "They left me there. I managed to call the police, and they came for me. I studied for a year with the best and became a certified and licensed Bounty Hunter. I wouldn't let them do to someone else what they did to me. Unfortunately I was not able to save Angelina Johnson." They heard the guilt in her voice, the drop in her shoulders from the weight of that guilt. She went on to describe the call she'd gotten that night. She testified that her badge had been in plain sight the entire time, and that she'd made sure to only shoot to wound feeling that force was necessary as they'd already injured people, and had hostages. Rina finished her testimony and left the stand.

She didn't know where she was going when she left the courtroom. Rina just knew she was almost done. She drove aimlessly and ended up at the beach. Her cell phone rang and she answered it. The prosecutor was calling to tell her that they'd indicted all four men, and to thank her for her testimony.

"See anything interesting?"

Rina turned to find Brian behind her. "How'd you find me?"

"Pure luck. I was driving around, and spotted your car."

She nodded in acceptance.

"So, what now?" he asked.

"I don't know." she told him truthfully. "I don't know if I know how to go on. I don't know if I can survive with the memories."

"Make new memories."

She grinned wryly, "Easier said than done."

"Not if you have help." he told her and stretched out his hand to her. "I'll help you. We can make new memories together. I know it'll never take away your pain, or erase all your fear, but I can hold you when you're scared, and I can soothe you when you're hurt."