Heartaches

Chapter 65

By Kellyq

Breo followed Jack and the others to his condo. Akiza stayed behind to make sure that Jean and Andore got the best care, and Carly announced that she had taped the race. I just hope that it's enough, Breo thought, parking his motorcycle. He wasn't too eager to watch his teammates crash, but if there was something out of the ordinary he was going to find it.

Breo followed them into the computer room. Carly pulled out her camera and plucked out the chip. She handed it to Yusei as Carly pulled out a card reader and plugged it in the USB port to the computer. Yusei wiggled the mouse, and the screen came on. The curser moved to the c-drive. Once it was open, there were some options to go to the e-drive, the d-drive, and the f-drive.

"You'll want the f-drive," Carly suggested, pointing to the screen. The curser moved and once it was clicked the screen displayed folders that were labeled with weird numbers. "You'll want …" before Carly could finish, Yusei clicked on the folder that was labeled 'camera'. "You'll want to …" once again, Yusei had already went to the bottom the screen and clicked on the video that they needed to see.

Window's Media Player came up, and the video started. The first was Jean's race against Hurmman. The race only lasted until Jean lost control of his motorcycle. He swerved out of control, and he was bucked off. Andore's race with Hans was the same.

"I didn't see anything," Crow said, blinking a few times.

"I know. That's what baffles me. Jean and Andore aren't that careless just to do something like that," Breo said.

"Did you guys have time to know who you were going up against?" Jack asked Breo.

"We did that before we even entered the race," Breo answered, looking away briefly. "But I guess they have improved."

"We won't know that until we recheck their data," Bruno said logically.

"Good thinking!" Yusei pulled the Internet browser up and his hands danced on the keyboard. Soon a whole lot of information about Team Catastrophe came up and some videos clips. Yusei clicked on one and they watched the race. Team Catastrophe's opponents crashed the same way. They desired to watch another video and the same result happened.

"There's definitely a trend," Crow said. "What puzzles me is why no one had inspected them for the countless times that their opponents crashed."

"Before we left," Carly spoke up, "there was something unusual about them. They gave me the creeps. And it was almost like they knew that your teammates were going to crash."

"I thought the some," Breo agreed. "But everything happened so fast, I didn't have time to register what fully happened, and now my teammates are hurt because of that."

Yusei inwardly sighed. He felt bad for Breo, considering that it was obvious that he was lost without Jean and Andore. "Don't worry, we'll figure this out."

"If you guys can get as much data on them - I'll check out on Jean's and Andore's motorcycles," Breo suggested, before turning to walk to the front door.

Yusei decided to follow him. "We'll get what we can. In the meantime, don't feel responsible for what happened. Jean and Andore wouldn't want you to do that."

Breo simply did was nodded his head, turned, and he opened the door walked out and closed the door softly. Yusei sighed.

"I feel sorry for him," came Crow's voice. Yusei turned to see him and the others standing there.

Before Yusei could made a remark, Carly's cell phone beeped. She pulled it out of her bag, to see that it was a text message from Misty.

"I need to get going," Carly said, putting her cell phone back in the bag.

Yusei opened the door for her. "Thanks for your help, Carly," he said politely.

A nervous smile made its way to her lips. "Any time." She turned and walked out.

"I need to get going too," Crow said, making his way out and looked over his shoulder at his friends. "A close acquaintance of mine named Rik is looking after Kiryu."

Yusei's eyes widened for a moment, with Martha and the kids, he almost forgot that Crow was looking after Kiryu. "Oh! How is he doing?"

"He's improving some," Crow shared, looking ahead, "but I don't think that he'll remember anything about himself."

Yusei stepped up and hugged his friend from behind. "Things will get better," Yusei murmured, slowly letting Crow go.

All Crow did was nod his head and made his way to his motorcycle, and road back to his apartment.

When Crow got there, he unlocked the door and was greeted by Rick. He stepped back as Crow entered.

"I hard what happened. Is Team Unicorn okay?"

"Jean and Andore are going to be okay. But how's Kiryu?"

Rick smiled. "He's doing fine. He's sleeping at the moment."

Crow's expression softened. "Thanks for helping me out."

Rick shook his head. "You shouldn't thank me. Bolger was the one who made sure that Kiryu was in your care instead of the state."

Crow's eyes widened and his heart almost stopped. Bolger did that for me? Why? Why would he do something like that for me? I thought he always wanted to make me suffer because of what happened between us.

Rick placed a hand on Crow's shoulder to snap him out of his thoughts. "You didn't do anything wrong." he moved his hand away from Crow's shoulder once Rick got his attention. "Bolger was diagnosed with aspergers and depression a couple of years ago. That's why Robert and Bolger weren't getting along too well when you came into the picture. I put him through counseling after you found out that he killed Robert. When you told him that a 'friend had fallen', he looked into it and he decided to help when he got information ..."

Crow nodded his head. He was touched that Bolger would do that for him. "Will you tell him 'thank you' for me? I would greatly appreciate it."

Rick nodded his head. Crow turned and opened the door for him and he walked out. Crow closed the door, turned and walked into his room. He opened the door and stepped in to see Kiryu sleeping. Crow quietly walked up and reached out to touch Kiryu's face. Crow leaned in and kissed Kiryu's forehead as he sat across from him to watch him sleep.

To Be Continued ...