A few days later Chris was rostered back on for duties at HQ. Seeing her name on their time sheets made Street smile. He had gone by her place to check on her as much as he could but with Cortez there he hadn't really wanted to linger too much. He was also conscience of not rushing her into a hasty decision. He needed her to choose him for the right reasons, not because she felt pressured.

When his alarm woke him at 4am he grabbed his gear and rode into HQ several hours before shift to squeeze in a workout. He was sorting his clothes in his locker after a hot shower, when the locker room door swung open. He was surprised to see Chris stroll in in her civvies. Damn she looked good, in those tight black jeans with rip in them, white shirt and red leather jacket. Her soft dark hair perfectly cradling her face.

"Ah… Hey" he said, gathering up his clothes. He felt awkward as all he had was a towel around his waist.

She raised her eyebrows slightly and smirked. She really liked what she saw, his chiselled body was on full display.

"Hey" she said back, trying to not be too obvious.

"First day back" he smiled at her "how are you feeling?"

"Yeah …" he could tell she was nervous. She was restricted to light duties in HQ, but even that was daunting after all that had happened. "I ah… I feel good … a bit nervous" she answered. Street walked by her towards the stalls, putting his hand on her shoulder as he passed her,

"remember you got this" …... she patted his hand and smiled.

"Thanks." Before she sneakily stole another look at him as he scurried away to dress himself. He had barely returned when the rest of the team began arriving. As all six of them milled around in the locker room preparing for shift, Hondo banged his locker

"Hey Hey… can I just say" he began as they all stopped talking and turned to him, "I speak for the entire team when I say we are all so damn glad you are back Chris…." he smiled at Chris and she looked embarrassed, "you are amazing and we have missed you and can't wait to get back on the job with you"

She nodded at Hondo and hugged him as he approached her. "thank you, boss"

"I mean it, so damn glad you are back" he said patting her back.

Street smiled. It felt great having his family back together.

Their substitute team member Logan swung the door open in a hurry and clunked his way into the locker room.

"Oh…... Sorry I ah…hope I'm not interrupting" he said trying to be polite as he darted between the team to the locker he was using.

Chris raised her eyebrows, with a little curious smirk and eyed him closely. Street was watching her watch him and felt a wave of jealousy sweep across him. Logan was an attractive dark haired early 30's guy, with chiselled features.

"Logan…. all good…man" Hondo said, "Hey I'd like you to meet Officer Chris Alonso. She is back on light duties for now and we were just saying how glad we all are that she is back on deck"

"Oh, wow, of course" He replied emptying his hands and navigating to Chris to shake her hand. Chris was a little surprised how polite he was. "Officer Alonso, nice to finally meet you, I'm so glad you're doing much better, you left bloody big shoes to fill on your team…." Chris laughed and scoffed a little, embarrassed by his flattery. She was aware her cheeks maybe turning red.

"Please call me Chris" she answered smiling at him. Street glared at Logan and then looked back at Chris, who was clearly avoiding his eyes.

As they all began making their way out to the situation room for debrief, Cortez entered and asked Chris to work in the armoury for a few hours as an officer had had to go home sick. Chris sighed with disappointment but knew this would be her gig until she could resume her full duties. Street had still been watching her, and saw her disappointment.

"Hey…. It's not that bad in there" he said as he followed her out the door.

"We'll see" she said briefly glancing at him with a knowing look as simultaneously their pagers began beeping.

"Go, have fun, be safe" she called to the team as she headed in the opposite direction. Street glanced back at her walking away as they moved off. He felt bad that she was not with them, it still didn't feel quiet right for him.

Assembling around the table Cortez began to explain an unfolding situation. A well organised heavily armed crew had again been stealing high end cars. This time they had shot and killed 2 people whilst carjacking an Aston Martin several hours ago, and had just in the last 15 minutes, injured a city councilman whilst stealing his brand new Porsche 4WD.

"Is this Camille and her crew?" Street asked leaning on the table with a frown,

"We don't know yet….." Cortez answered" too early to tell".

"What do we have?" Hicks asked

"This is the second violent carjacking in the space of 3 hours. They are targeting high end cars and are taking a lot of risk to get them" Cortex answered,

Streets brows furrowed and he glanced at Hondo.

"We only took down 6 members of that crew a week ago, we know more of them all Armenian Power members, including Camille got away with other cars before we got there. Maybe this is them, maybe they have resurfaced, hungry to make up for lost time?" he said,

Cortez raised her eyebrows and shrugged, "Maybe…. But we don't have much to go on yet, why would the Armenian Mob be stealing high end cars anyway? What's the end game?"

"Yeah… I mean it's a lot to risk stealing these cars through violent car jacking's to then try and sell them on the black market, isn't it?" Luca offered. Hondo nodded,

"We might be missing something here"

"Street, are you able to try to locate the cars from here, like Whip?" Hondo asked.

"Um…. I will try… but I am not nearly as tech savvy as someone like Whip" Street answered.

"We should get him here then" Commander said.

Hondo nodded at Street to go. Street grabbed his gear and the keys to the charger. Streets heart was beating fast as adrenaline flowed. Walking to the carpool he met Chris coming back for the supply store…. "Where you off to in such a hurry?" She asked

"Camille and her crew might be back at it…. I'm going to Whip to help us track these cars again" He asked a bit breathless.

"Be safe…" she said smiling at him, he could see the worry and disappointment that she could not go with him on her face. He smiled back at her "piece of cake" and winked. Damn it was hard watching everyone else go off and face danger. Then the realisation hit her that this is exactly what Street must have felt like when he was off the team. She raised the corner of her mouth and sighed. Must have really sucked for him too she thought.

Whip didn't answer his phone, but Street tried to keep it cool, he drove as quickly as he could. Pulling into the yard where Whips trailer was he saw the bike project Whip was working on the table and few odds and ends of parts scattered around. His senses were heightened, and he had an uneasy felling in his stomach. He dialled Whip again and heard a phone vibrating, searching around he found the phone on the ground. The screen smashed and scuffle marks in the dirt. Street drew his gun from the holster on his leg,

"LAPD… anybody here….. Whip? ….." searching the scene he called for Whip a few more times,

"Shit…." Street cursed "26 David to command…... I need a supervisor and a unit to respond to my location, I have a probable abduction".

"Yo…guys… gather round, we got reports that they have taken 2 more cars in simultaneous attacks just minutes ago. A Ferrari here" Hondo said tapping the map on the screen "while shooting the 21 old year old female driver dead and wounding her 15 year old passenger… she is critical, and a Range Rover here…." Again, tapping the map near an exclusive country club "this time leaving the 26 year old male driver dead and his passenger a 25 year old woman with severe head injuries on the side of the freeway."

Hondo paused, "we also have word from Street that Whip is missing, probable abduction". The team exchanged concerned looks.

Hondo approached the technical analyst "Anything?"

"They are taking the cars off the grid and then shutting them right down somewhere, I am struggling to find anything"

Street returned half an hour later, walking in the team could tell he was beside himself.

"Hey man..." Luca said, "You okay?"

"We gotta find him…... I shoulda been there…... I shoulda known they would go after him…." Street was a little panicked.

"Hey… kid…. If they have him, they need him…. They aren't gunna hurt him" Hondo added.

"yeah" Street replied stroking the back of his head with his hand "until they get what they need and then …"

"We will find him and use every resource we can" Hondo reassured him.

"Ok" Street answered nodding. Hondo patted Streets shoulder,

As the team began to float ideas Street had one, but he knew no one was going to like it. He thought that meeting up with Camille would help. To do that though he would need to reassume his cover as Mr Cooper.

"I ….. ah…... I could try and connect with Camille" Street said.

Hondo spun around and glanced at him "What…. How?"

"She knows me as Cooper, we were pretty close to busting her when I was undercover down in long beach".

Cortez shook her head and he could see she had doubts, the last time he had been in that role they nearly lost him.

"We need to liaise with the gang taskforce, they may have someone with ties to them too that we can put in," Cortez added

"Captain, please" Street stopped her. "I was undercover with Camille for 4 months, she knows me, she trusts me, and I am sure she is our best bet of finding Whip and stopping these car jackings"

"Street, I know your worried about Whip, but I'm not putting you in danger if we other options" Cortez gave him a caring yet stern look and walked off.

"Can't we just find this Camille or the Armenian Mob and take their operation down?" Hicks suggested.

"If we could find them, we could but we don't know anything on where they went after the last raid, it all went underground."

"Ok, Streets right" Cortez said, walking back in. "I just spoke to Detective Vaga at gang taskforce and as much as I hate the idea, Street going in as a trusted ally for this Camille might be our best way of ending this and saving Whip before they drop more bodies".

"How will you even find her?... we don't know where she is operating out of?" Hondo asked.

Street turned to the computer. I'm gunna post a message on a site she will see.

"saying what?" asked Tan

"Hang on… are you sure you are up for this Street?" Hicks asked, patting Streets shoulder.

"Yeah, I want get this crew and save Whip" he said, "times running out."

"Okay, I'll run it up the chain" Hicks said walking away.

"Type this: a dream written down with a date becomes a goal, a goal broken down into steps becomes a plan, a plan backed by action becomes reality'… she will know it's me"

Hondo looked at Street with surprise…... okay Confucius wanna explain that little moment of enlightenment.

"When I was undercover with Camille, I told her this as a way of getting her to right down her plan so I could then use it as evidence to bust her…. But she got away in the raid that took down the crew we were with and …... well I know she will know that came from me".

Hondo and Deacon glanced knowingly at Street. As he went to the locker room to change into his civvies and prepare himself to be Mr Cooper again, Hondo followed him in.

"Hey… you sure about this?" he asked with concern in his voice.

"What other choice do we have, Whip is in danger and every few hours they are killing people for some luxury cars" Street answered.

Hondo knew he was right, but he absolutely hated this idea. Hondo moved over to him and patted his shoulder. "Can we send someone in with you? …. Someone who will have your back?"

"You mean Luca or Tan? I dunno, they will be suss of a new face after that raid"

Hondo was deep in thought "ok just you for now" Hondo headed out to talk to Hicks and ready the team.

Street was sitting on the bench looking at Chris's locker, 'Shit…... I should go tell her about this' he thought. He knew he had to go down the armoury and see her before he left. As Street thought about it, he grinned a little. It seemed like their roles had been reversed. He gathered his things and headed down there. She was field stripping a HK when he approached. 'Wow… she is so amazing' he thought 'so beautiful'.

"What are you staring at?" Her voice cut through his little daydream.

"Hey…... I"

"Any news on Whip?" she asked interjecting without realising, honest care filled her voice.

"No.… I …ah just stopped bye to talk to you for a sec." he said, she walked passed him getting equipment out of the locker behind him and gently patted his shoulder,

"I know you're worried about him, but you gotta trust he will be ok, and you guys will find him"

"God, I hope so…... I should have been all over this and known they would go after him" Street answered banging the table in frustration, she could hear the nerves and fear in his voice.

"Why are you down here then, get up there and to find him" Chris said cautiously trying to not sound too harsh.

"No… I um came down here cause I wanted to talk to you…...". Chris hoped he wasn't about to bust out the emotional relationship stuff here at work.

"Okay?" she didn't look up at him, she was trying to keep her distance and keep him at bay. She wanted to focus and do her job well without stuffing it up because he was around. Street noted the way she was giving him the cold shoulder a little. He hated it. He stood on the opposite side of the table to her and just stood looking at her. She briefly glanced up at him, he was nervously fiddling with his hands and chewing his bottom lip. She immediately felt uneasy. This wasn't the relaxed and casual Street she knew here at work. She knew something was up with him. Parts of her wanted to go to him and hold him and ask what was wrong, but she knew she couldn't be near him here at work. She didn't trust herself to hold up her wall to him. She looked back down and continued working on the rifle. A few silent moments passed, and she looked back up through her eyebrows.

"Well…?" she started, "you gunna tell me why you came down here? Or do I gotta guess?"

Street frowned a little and began "oh…...I …. just…I", she put down the bolt in her hand and placed both hands on the table, looking at him. The serious look on his face made her swallow hard. "I …...wanted to be the one to tell you …..." he looked up and locked eyes with her "…. I'm going undercover again as Cooper." Chris heart froze for second and she was sure the look of shock was evident on her face.

"What...why?" the concern in her voice was clear.

"We think an old contact of mine in the Armenian Mob might be involved in these car thefts and taking Whip."

She was expressionless and silent, her eyes danced with his for a second. "I …. Ah…..." she glanced at the floor and back at him "the Armenian Mob? …. shit" she struggled, trying to form her words. She was scared for him and was searching for a way to say no don't do it, it's too dangerous.

"I'll be ok, I just wanted to be the one to tell you" he said.

She looked down at the floor and shook her head. Street could see she was scared and as she stood their trying to find something to say to him, he moved around the table to stand in front of her.

"Hey, …try not to worry. 20 David and 50 David will have my back" he tried to reassure her. "I just wanted you to know and I ah…... also wanted to see you again before I left" he said smiling at her.

She smiled, but terror ran through her veins, "God…. Street…." She closed her eyes "I don't like this at all….This is dangerous and …." She looked down feeling teary.

"Hey…... I'll be fine. I can handle it"

Chris frowned and swallowed hard, trying to mask her upset and worry. Street reached out and touched her arm, "Hey …...Chris…." she looked at him and he saw that tears welled in her eyes.

"It's the Russian Mob Street" her big brown eyes glared at him, "They are killing innocent people with no regard for anything." She shook her head and looked down again. Street pulled her into him. At first, she was stiff and resisted a little, but she then let go and hugged him back.

"Be safe out there…. God! I hate this, I just want to go to"

"I know, I know…..."

Chris's thoughts were going to all the worst case scenarios. She knew that the last time Ritcher had him as Cooper he could have died, if they hadn't shown up when they did. She was terrified of losing him. She didn't want him to go off into danger.

"I got this… I will be back, sooner than you know". Street answered trying his best to calm her as he let her go and moved to the door,

"be safe" she said, clearly worried the fear and emotion in her voice was undisguisable.

Street smiled at her "hey…...please remember what I said" she looked up at him and tilted her head to the side, "I need you" he said lovingly,

Chris felt tears forming in her eyes. She was petrified for him, she couldn't let him go out into danger without telling him that she felt something too. She didn't hesitate or over think it, she replied "I need you too". Street smiled. It was the first time he heard her say that with that much emotion in her voice. "Be safe" she added.

"Piece of cake" he replied smiling at her, she smiled as he walked out. Then closed her eyes and breathed slowly. 'Please come back to me' she whispered to herself as she watched him walk away.