Salud, Mi Familia // Brian O'Conner [2] EDITING

Chapter Seven*

Today the team - minus Alex and Gisele - were going to hit Reyes's first cash house. Once the first house is hit, Reyes will panic and want to move all of his money to one secure location. Their plan was to stake out the other cash houses and follow Reyes's men to wherever the secure location will be. Once they find that place, the real heist begins.

Gisele originally wanted to go with the rest of the team, but per Dom's request, she was staying behind just in case. Dom knew that Alex was perfectly capable of taking care of herself, but he didn't want to take any chances with her being pregnant. He wanted her to have that extra protection since they had already been attacked once. Gisele was the perfect person to do that. Plus, Gisele had a soft spot for the girl so it made it much easier to say yes.

"I'm sorry they made you stay behind with me," Alex said to Gisele, who was busy cleaning out one of her many guns. Gisele looked up from the handgun and at the dark haired girl.

"They didn't make me do anything," Gisele replied. She set the gun on the table and grabbed a clean rag to wipe her hands. "I am curious as to why you didn't tag along too." She added, raising an eyebrow at the dark haired girl.

Gisele had her suspicions, but she wouldn't pry if Alex wasn't interested in talking. Alex smiled a shy smile. They were going to have to tell everyone eventually, she figured it wouldn't hurt for Gisele to know. She took a deep breath, having to hype herself up to tell the truth.

"I would've but I'm, uh.. I'm pregnant," Alex admitted. It still felt weird for her to say, this revelation still new to her. Gisele's jaw dropped.

"Congratulations!" Gisele exclaimed, a large grin spreading across her face. She walked over to Alex and pulled her into a quick hug.

"Thank you," Alex replied, smiling. When they pulled away, she spoke again, "I'm not sure when Brian wants to tell everyone else, so if you could keep it lowkey for right now that would be great."

"Your secret is safe with me," Gisele said, pretending to zip her mouth closed and throw away the key. "I'm so happy for you guys."

"Thank you. It was really unexpected," Alex said honestly. She could hear static coming through on the walkie-talkie the team was using to communicate. She immediately grabbed it, knowing that someone was about to say something.

"Alex, Gisele, you there?" Brian's voice came through the walkie-talkie.

"We're here, what's wrong?" Alex spoke into the walkie-talkie, looking at Gisele.

"There's been some complications. The plan just got a hell of a lot harder. Can you meet us?" Brian asked. He gave them the address to their location. Within minutes, Gisele and Alex had met up with the rest of the team. They were standing on a rooftop that was directly across from a police station. That was the complication. The police station is where Reyes's men had moved his money following the attack on the first cash house.

"What the fuck," Alex mumbled, running a hand down her face. Brian was right, this did make the plan a lot harder. They were going to have to break into a goddamn police station.

"If he's moving them into a police station, he's got some serious brass in his pocket," Roman said.

"Looks like this is going to be a shorter trip than I thought," Rico said to Tego.

"Hell yeah, we can't do this," Tego agreed, shaking his head.

"Can't? You mean shouldn't," Han said. Dom folded his arms over his chest, continuing to stare straight ahead.

"I think this doesn't change a thing," Dom announced. "I say we stick to the plan." Roman looked around as if he was waiting for Dom to say 'just kidding'.

"You said what?" Roman asked, his brows knitted in confusion. "This just went from Mission: Impossible to Mission In-frickin-sanity! Whatever man, I ain't scared. I'm just letting y'all know, going in that building is crazy!" Roman started to walk away. Brian looked at Dom. He knew that he would be able to convince Roman to stay.

"I got this," Brian said. He planted a quick kiss atop Alex's head then ran off after his friend.

"The beauty of public offices," Alex paused, holding up the blueprint of the police station in her hand. She laid out the map on the table, the team gathering around to look at it. "Public records," She finished, a small smile on her lips.

"This is where he's keeping the money," Brian said, pointing to an area on the map. He retracted his hand. "The vault in the evidence room." Tej looked around at everyone, a concerned expression on his face.

"Um, uh, yeah.. Can I get everyone's attention right here for a second?" Tej asked. All eyes were on him. "We're talking about breaking into a pol-ice stat-tion," He started to say, breaking up the words to add emphasis to his point. "Is anyone listening to those words? Anybody? Po-Po, Five-O, One-Time, Pigs, people we don't like?"

"You know, police stations are designed to keep people in, not out," Han pointed out.

"That's why it's a stealth mission," Brian replied, looking up from the blueprint. "We'll be in and out before they even know we were there." Alex smiled. She knew they would be able to come up with something to still pull off this job successfully.

"Well, we'll need to get eyes in there. At least to find the make and model of the vault," Dom added. Everyone's gears were turning as they all thought about how to improve the plan to make everything go as seamless as possible.

"So the vault and then, so.." Roman mumbled to himself as he intently inspected the blueprint in front of him. He rested his chin in his palm. "So who's supposed to do all this?" Roman asked, looking up from the map. Dom, Brian, and Alex all shared a look. They were all thinking the same thing. All eyes were now turned on Roman. Confused, Roman raised his eyebrows.

"What-Whatdaya mean?" Roman asked, sitting up straighter in his seat. He looked around at everyone, wondering why he had been picked instead of them. "Why me?"

"Cause you got the biggest mouth," Brian said nonchalantly. Alex fought back a laugh. Roman shot his friend a dirty look.

"That's the damn truth," Tej agreed.