Sgt. Tanner had ended his meeting with Mia on a positive note so he decided to see if there was any word on Vince and Jesse at the hospital. He parked his unmarked car in the parking lot and went in through the emergency room as ICU was next door. The nurse at the nurses' station saw the sergeant and asked, "May I help you?"

Tanner walked over to the desk and said, "I'm looking for Mr. Vince Logan. He was airlifted this afternoon."

"His nurse is with him right now. Follow the line back and he's the fourth bed on the left. If he's awake he can have a visitor for a few minutes before he needs to rest again."

"Thanks. This will only take a few minutes." Tanner followed the path back to the beds and found a nurse closing Vince's curtain. "Is Mr. Logan awake?"

"For a few minutes yes. He's eating right now."

"If I could see him please? It won't take long and I won't upset him hopefully."

"Quickly." She opened the curtain up and Tanner slipped past her into the small bed area.

Vince glanced at him and asked gruffly, "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Sgt. Tanner. I used to be Brian's boss..."

"Used to be? I thought he was pig just like you." Vince asked with a surprised looked at his face.

"That's why I'm here." Tanner said as he looked over Vince's injuries and the oxygen tube - it was quite a sight to see. Logan seemed like such a strong and active person and now through his antics - he would need relearn how to use his arm and may never have the full strength back with the damage done. "Brian saved your friend Jesse from Johnny Tran. Jesse was shot but he'll make it. Brian and Dominic are on the run and the other two, Leon and Letty, are in the wind..."

"Dom ran with the buster?" Vince didn't know if he could handle anymore surprises that night.

"That's what it looks like. No one's heard from either since this afternoon."

"Shit. Dom should've listened to me."

"What are you talking about?" Tanner asked intrigued.

Vince looked up at Tanner and snarled, "I kept telling Dom that he was a pig but he wouldn't listen. He had a shiny new toy to look at and talk to. I stopped mattering to him."

Tanner thought about his conversation with Mia a couple of hours previous and how she said that Dom was fond of Brian. He could see Brian's appeal to Dom as a part of the group - Brian didn't need Dom, technically, but also wasn't going to put up with Toretto's usual bullshit either. Dom would see Brian as someone who would need his help on the occasion but really just someone to have fun with as Brian kept his independent streak about himself.

"Brian is definitely Brian." Tanner said by way of explaining Brian's shininess and newness to Dom.

"Brian is a son of a bitch who should've never showed his face." Vince said as he got aggravated.

Tanner could see that streak of a temper but knew how to cool it, "And yet if it wasn't for the pig you wouldn't be alive."

Vince looked at his plate and took a deep breath. He continued a little calmer, "So the buster is running with Dom?"

"It looks that way. No one's had contact with either since Dominic flipped the Charger."

"Shit."

"Do you know if Dominic had a plan if all of this were to go sideways, like it did?" Tanner asked shoving his hands in his pants pockets.

"He always wanted to go to Mexico. Other than that I don't even know. Like I said he quit listening to me when the pig got into our ranks." Vince wanted to spit but kept an even tone.

"Neither have been recorded going into Mexico." Tanner replied.

Vince looked back up at him and said, "Then I don't know where the hell he went off to. Maybe you need to think where the pig had in mind."

"That's the thing, Brian was a lonewolf. What I know about him felt like pulling teeth trying to get it out of him." Tanner said in way of an apology he wouldn't quite gift to Vince.

"Then I don't see why you're still standing here because I don't know anything else." Vince said.

"I'll be seeing you around Mr. Logan. I'll also see what I can do about getting you and your friend into the same room as long as you don't try and plan a hospital break."

"Don't plan on it just yet." Vince answered honestly.

Tanner tapped his temple and said, "But it's right there getting ready."

He left the room on that note and Vince looked at curtains a 'what-the-fuck' look trying to digest everything Tanner had told him. Brian had saved Jesse and himself but decided to run with Dom. It was too much for him to take in so he pressed his morphine button and pushed his food tray to the side as he wasn't hungry anyways and decided sleep might do him some good.

Brian had dried off as well as he could with a stiff, itchy towel and pulled on a pair of boxers before he looked at himself in the mirror again. He sighed and decided to just face Dom head on - he hoped he was sleeping by now but he also knew his luck currently. He gathered the bag and his hat up and opened the door. He saw Dom lying on the bed that the bathroom door opened up onto and Dom sat up suddenly seeing Brian's hair shorn off and the mottled bruises all over his chest.

Dom yelled as surprise took over, "What the hell did you do?" He waved at Brian's head. He'd also sorta been dreaming about Brian's curls tangled between his fingers, whether they were kissing or fucking, he didn't care - now they were gone and he was pissed about that.

"It was time for a haircut. Need to keep with the times especially since we're going inland. You'll be fine especially when you're done with the sling. Have you taken your meds?" Brian asked as he looked over at the table.

"Yes honey. Anything else you want me to do before I try and get some sleep?"

Brian could hear the sarcasm drip off Dom's tongue like he standing right next to him and said, "As long as you didn't go outside without me then you're fine."

"I didn't even crack the curtains." Dom said as he crossed his good arm over his sling.

"Good. Lights out then. We have an early day." Brian said as he gathered up Dom's meds and cleaned as he made his way to his bed and shut the lamp off that rested between the beds.

"Not so fast." Dom growled. He turned the lamp back on and looked at Brian as he repacked the bag before he turned in for the night. Dom couldn't believe Brian's preciseness and that was his first question. "Did you flip a damn switch inside when I asked you to come along? You're being a bigger bastard than Vince would even think to be in this situation."

Brian turned around and glared down at Dom and said, "We've had this conversation before. Do you want to survive? If you do, then stop what you're trying to do."

"Yeah but you're not surviving." Dom stood up carefully and came face to face with Brian. "You can't be a cold, calculating bastard the whole time." Then he used his good hand and gripped the back of Brian's neck not able to get a good grip in his hair and pressed his mouth to Brian's.

The kiss was harsh but Brian returned it nonetheless, losing himself for a short moment, before his brain caught up. He had savored Dom's lips and tongue but couldn't give into any of these feelings yet so he jerked away from Dom and said trying to catch his breath, "We can't right now."

Dom shook his head and pulled his covers back so he could get as comfortable as he could with his injuries. He glanced at Brian who had moved to the farthest side of his bed and sat the bag on his side of the bed. He figured straightforward wouldn't work for his seduction so he would have to figure out how to get Brian to trust him - it always came back to trust. He hoped to earn it soon if they were leaving the country together.