"You hear that?" Roma asked, turning back around in her seat. "It seems the boys are finally here. God, we've harassed half the city, I am surprised it took this long for us to get out here."

"Oh happy day." He whined, wondering to himself somewhere inside if things could possibly get any worse right now. The options were closing in and his cards not quite being dealt his way. He could either allow the cops to find him and be taken in, getting the help he needed but meeting the chair for his final performance, or keep driving and handle his enemies as they came and patch himself up along the way, which was obviously the more sensible of the two because it left so much up to his talents and not his enemies... However, the final option would leave more than one person in danger.

Don's eyes narrowed slightly as he sped along, a sharp stab similar to guilt piercing him, thinking of how badly Roma could be hurt if he decided to stay the course for his own safety. She could be shot, tortured by Vardhaan along with him... If he hadn't already ruined her life bad enough, even two days of humiliation and starvation surely would be the last straw. Vardhaan knew that Don nursed a soft spot for her and would exploit it at her expense. The thought of that sick man's hands on her made Don's blood boil in sheer rage. He'd already been the cause of her suffering enough... He didn't want to again. Not if he could avoid it.

Using the time he'd bought by crashing the vans into each other, he made another harsh turn and traveled down a closed in, but equally deserted street, driving until he spotted a small open garage with an overhang, just big enough to fit Roma's compact car. He waited until he was right along side it before veering over and pulling up in.

"Don? What are you doing?" Roma questioned.

"What's best." He replied before he reached over and opened her door, shoving her out onto the floor and switching gears, backing the car out of the overhang. She leaped to her feet and ran after him.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?! Stop this car right now!" She demanded, pounding against what was left of the window on the passenger's side, he just rolled the window up farther and looked away. The Garage was too small for her to get around the other side of the vehicle and even if she could, it didn't seem she was thinking much of blazing another path so much as burning through this one. All she could see was him.

"Roma..." He said quietly, stopping the car for a moment, but she yelled over him, making more empty threats. "Roma." He tried again but she wouldn't hear any of it.

He looked away and bit his lip partly, his mind racing over what to say and how to say it. There was so much he wanted her to know, but the sirens were getting louder and his enemies closing in, that eery desire to run creeping through every nerve and fiber of his being.

How could he explain to her that she was in danger with him and he wanted her...Safe? That it was a shame she didn't get revenge today, but if she ever wanted him all for herself, she needed to let him go before Vardhaan's men found him and she lost all opportunity. That he was sor-...

Unable to hear her curse him and scream anymore in desperation, he lowered the window. "ROMA! SHUT UP AND LISTEN." He barked. She fell into a silence, seeming pleased that they were back on speaking terms, but gave him a pleading look regardless.

"This isn't about you... This is about me and Vardhaan. You cannot get mixed up between us again in Berlin. I will not allow you to." He explained, trying to remove as much emotion from his voice as he could.

"I can take care of myself Don, and you are in my custody. You are my responsibility now." She said back.

"No. I am my responsibility and you almost got killed last time you forgot that. You'll never own me, you cannot keep me, and if you want to catch me, you need to let me leave now." He returned, hoping she'd understand him, looking over his shoulder to continue backing the car out.

"I can't do that!" She yelled, grabbing onto the car. "You will not take this away from me too!" Her eyes were filling with tears now as she tried to unlock the door.

"Roma! ROMA! You can hear them coming just the same as I can! This will all be over if they catch me! You understand that? OVER. No more chasing, no more running! No more cops and gangsters! I'll be dead and gone at the hands of Vardhaan!" He tried to reason, stopping the car once more.

She yanked at the door before pulling back and kicking it in frustration. "You bastard! Why did you come back then?!" She challenged. "If you want to be free from me so much, why the hell did you come back to my apartment last night?!"

Don sat there, taking his turn in silence now. He searched for a way to describe why he had broken into her apartment to see her without making it sound so cliché or premature. He knew what she thought he'd been there for... But she was wrong.

"TELL ME!" She demanded, kicking the door again.

"I wanted to tell you that-." He stopped himself from speaking such nonsense. This didn't make any sense in the schemes of logic. If his intent was to keep her from harm, how would expressing such matters reduce her chances of that or convince her to release him? The problem was, he couldn't seem to keep it in any longer.

In most cases he couldn't find it within himself to worry about what people thought of him, Roma included. If she wanted to believe he was green and had four arms, that was within her rights to do so. He was well aware that she thought of him the way many think of the devil, and somehow... He nearly liked that. But given everything they'd been through and how close he came before to possibly changing that perspective, he found it harder to remain silent than he could have ever imagined it being.

As the sirens blared louder and the sound of gunfire closed in, he opened his mouth and explained himself. "I came back because I wanted to tell you, I am sorry... For everything I've ever put you through. For Ramesh, for Berlin... For coming back into your life every time you just start a new one..." His voice was breaking by the end and he lowered his head, unable to produce anything else, feeling weak and sick after admitting even that.

Roma stared at him, her mouth hanging open slightly, tears building in her eyes. "What?" She breathed out the question, the words he'd spoken catching up to her repeatedly.

"That's what I came to say..." He said, looking up at her with a sincere apologetic smile that dropped off his face quickly after, he returned to backing the car out and avoided eye contact with her. He'd already said too much.

"Don!" She hurried after the car. "Wait, Don. Stop, please! What are you saying this for?" She said, tears running down her face. "Please, Don!"

He backed the car out and spun it around with ease, looking back at her over his shoulder with a expression she'd never seen him mask before. It was almost terrifying. Without another word he shifted gears and pulled back out onto the road, soaring down the street and as far from her as possible. Within seconds, Vardhaan's van followed after him along with a few police cars.

As one of the police vehicles rolled into the lot where she stood, utterly frozen and in shock, Roma realized that he had just done the one thing she thought he'd never do...

Arjun jumped out of the car and ran over to her, taking a hold of either of her shoulders and shaking her lightly. "Roma?" He said, his voice filled with worry. He brushed her messy hair away from her face and examined her for wounds when he saw the blood, satisfied that she was in good condition he looked back into her eyes and placed a hand on either side of her face. "Roma?"

She turned her eyes to meet his and suddenly was released from the spell, breaking down and collapsing into his arms. He yelped shortly in surprise but picked her up swiftly and laid her on the hood of the car gently, looking over at his partner. "Get a medic down here now."

The man shouted a quick "yes, sir" and climbed back inside the car, calling in their location and requesting aid. All the while the frequency was being consumed with information on the chase and Don's whereabouts.

"Don..." Roma muttered, staring up at Arjun. "Where is Don?" She asked, tears streaming down the sides of her face.

"I don't know. Last I heard over the radio was they almost had him." Arjun answered. "Are you alright, Roma?"

She nodded, sitting up with a hand on her head for support and partly to wipe the tears away "I'm fine." She replied, getting her tough girl attitude back on. "Let me know all the updates on what's happening, got it?" She added, looking over at Arjun with her usual commanding authoritative nature.

He nodded once, his face still clearly displaying his concern for her, and moved closer to the drivers side.

The radio suddenly flared up with voices yelling and screaming for a retreat before off in the distance there was a loud explosion. Roma gasped lowly and whipped her head over in the direction of it... The same way Don had just gone.

Arjun must have thought the same thing for he grabbed the walky from his partner and called into it, "Where is Don at this time? I repeat, where is Don?"

There was static before a voice on the other line replied "His car was just destroyed."