"The beauty of public offices?" Mia asked as she came over with a paper in her hand. We had returned to our home-away from-home about an hour ago and Mia was gone. She'd called Brian to let him know where she was but that was all we got from her. "Public records." She unrolled the paper, revealing a blue print of the police station.
"This is where he's keeping the money. The vault in the evidence room." Brian said as he pointed to the vault on the map.
"Um. Uh, yeah. Can I get everyone's attention, right here, for a second?" Tej said, grabbing all of our attention. "We're talking about breaking into a police station. Is anyone listening to those words? Anybody? Popo. Five-O. One-time. Pigs. People we don't like." The room was silent for a moment before Jesse spoke up.
"You know, police stations are designed to keep people in, not out." I looked at him before looking at Brian. The seemed as though some of the team may have realized this.
"That's why it's a stealth mission. We'll be in and out before they even know we were there." I tilted my head at him, raising an eyebrow.
"So, we're ninjas now?" I asked. Jesse and Brian chuckled while some of the other team smiled at the analogy.
"Pretty much." Brian said as he turned back to the blue print.
"Well, we'll need to get eyes in there." Dom said as he looked down at the map himself. "At least to find out the make and model of the vault."
"Who's supposed to do all this?" Rome asked as he looked down at the map. Mia and Brian looked at each other before turning to Dom. Then everyone turned their attention to the man. Rome looked around, noticing that everyone was looking at him. "What do you mean? Why me?"
"Because you got the biggest mouth." Brian answered.
"That's for damn sure." Tej whispered loud enough that I could hear it. I smiled; this was going to be fun.
~Jesse's POV~
I sat in the van with Tej and Brian; it was weird being around the man again. I hadn't seen him since LA and he had been a cop back then. I had no idea between the time I was shot until now he was an FBI agent and now a criminal. He was still the same Brian he was back in LA. Him being the same actually helped me become more comfortable around the new people, Tej for example. The door opened and Rome hopped in before closing it behind him.
"It's done. See, I think I make a better special agent than you ever did." He laughed at his own joke, causing me to smile. Brian kept a calm face as he turned to look at him.
"Well, that depends on how you define "special."" Tej, Brian, and I laughed at the joke as Brian began to pat Rome on the head. He smacked Brian's hand away before we all turned to Tej's computer.
"Alright, come on." Tej said as he moved the controller around until the mechanical car finally fell to the ground. He began to drive it around, looking for the vault.
"Dawg, you still can't drive." Rome said from beside me. I smiled a little more. Tej turned the mechanical car and it ran into something. "Now I see why you're always getting into accidents. You can't even drive a damn remote control car." I glanced at Brian, who was laughing slightly.
"I'm going to need you to shut up right now." Tej said to Rome as he tried to steer the car around.
"I'm not going to shut up." Rome said in retaliation. Brian turned to him.
"Shut up." Rome watched Brian for a moment before turning back to the computer screen.
"Strap him in his safety belt, man." Tej said, his eyes never leaving the screen. Brian and I chuckled at the comment. It was silent for a moment before Rome opened his mouth again.
"Give me the remote, dawg. Go left. It looks like something right over there to the left. What is that?" He asked.
"What is that?" I asked as I leaned closer to the screen.
"Bingo." Tej said as he leaned back.
"What is that, six-by-six?" Brian asked.
"Eight-by-twelve…" Rome said. I looked at him.
"Seven-by-twelve." He looked at me and stuck his tongue out. I chuckled slightly before looking back at the screen. "It's fitted with 18-inch-thick steel reinforced walls with an insulated copper core to protect against thermal lance. A class-3 electronic lock with a surefire Griffin retumbler and a biometric palm scanner." Brian and Rome looked at each other, clearly not understanding what I was saying. "Ten tons of top-of-the-line security." Brian looked at me.
"Do I want to know how you know all that?" I shook my head and chuckled.
"She is a beauty, man." Tej said as he zoomed in and out to get a look at the whole safe. He knew exactly what I was talking about… at least one of them did.
"A beauty as in good?" Rome asked.
"Beauty as in, she's going to start off playing hard to get. Then, no matter how much I caress her, no matter how much I love her, in the end, she still ain't going to give up that ass." We all laughed. "It's one of the toughest vaults to crack in the business."
"We aren't getting anywhere unless we have a duplicate to practice with." I said as I looked at the screen once more. Things just got a lot more complicated than we'd hoped.