Rica nodded to the team members she had on the hospital floor as she got off the elevator. She found everyone including Flea just outside Urs’ room, everyone except Tam. “Morin’ again all.” She looked at David. “Dang sweet thing, you just get better look’n every time I see you.”
David knew she was teasing him but he couldn’t help it. He was speechless yet again.
The others all smiled. It certainly was a sight to behold. David Miller speechless. Now that was an act of God.

“Gather around boys and girls. I have something I want to show ya’ll” Rica got out the composite picture that Danny had done and showed it to them all. “Anyone you know?”
Flea spoke up. “That’s him. That’s the guy that was pitching rocks at them. I’d swear on a stack of bibles that was the idiot.”
Rica saw the shadow come across Lea’s face. “You want to say something Hendo?”
The others all looked at her. “I know that face. I know I have seen him somewhere.”
David piped up. “Well that is just too much of a coincidence that you both have seen him.”
“Oh Hun this just gets better,” Rica patted David on the back. “This is the picture of the guy that Danny had a word with when you and Tam went to the bakery.”

They all just looked at her in silence. “Seems like we have made a connection. Now we just have to put the pieces together is all.”
Lea was a little astonished that Flea had been able to identify the man. “So do we know who he is?”
Rica smiled. “No, but considering where he was found we kinda narrowed down who he is after.” She looked at David and then everyone’s eyes fell on him as well.
David felt a shiver go down his spine. “Oh Man why me. I don’t even know who he is.”
“Well Sweet thing give me a couple of hours and I will find out who he is. Until then. Keep an eye out. My boys are all over this but it wouldn’t hurt to keep a low profile for the rest of the day.”
Rica was about to leave when David asked if he could have the picture. “Anything for you sweet thing.”
Lea looked at the others. “So how low profile are we supposed to be?”
Sebastien smiled and hugged her. “How about undercover?”
The others laughed but Carlos had much the same idea and Flea knew it. “Hold on there my Spanish stallion. I have to work this afternoon. But I would be glad to give you a re match later.”
Lea could feel David’s uneasiness with the conversation even if the others did not. She smiled at him. “David, would you mind terribly if I asked you to keep and eye on Tam. I know she said she wanted to stay but it could be a long day.”
David nodded. “Yeah, that’s a good idea.”

So as the others left David took up a position in a chair across from Urs’ room. He read the magazines, all old and out of date, he tried to do any of the crossword puzzles that had not been mutilated, then he began to pace up and down the corridor, then he got the fidgets. He decided he needed to see Urs.

Tam had pulled the chair up near Urs’ bed and had fallen asleep with her head on his bed holding his hand. David crept in silently, took off his jacket and put it over her shoulders. Tam stirred a little but did not wake. David sat in the other chair and watched them both for a long time wondering how they had got to this point. A few months ago their lives although very busy had been relatively simple. The most danger they had been in had been when a hotel bathroom flooded. But this: watching his friend recover from a gun shot. It was all too surreal; it belonged in one of fan fics on the forum not smack in the middle of their lives.
Urs stirred and David sat up a little straighter. Urs opened his eyes and they fell on Tam, he smiled and then drifted back to sleep. Tam must have sensed something as she woke. So as not to scare her, David cleared his throat quietly. “He’s just gone back to sleep. Was only awake for a moment.”
Tam smiled at him and felt his jacket over her shoulders. “The others have gone?”
David nodded.
“You didn’t have to stay.
“Well Rica said keep a low profile and I can’t think of a better place to do that than in here.”
“Has something happened?”
“They think they know who it was that was throwing the rocks and it looks like the rat bag is after me. Seems he followed us to the bakery.”
David could see the worry in her eyes. “It’s okay. So, see what I mean about keeping a low profile.”
“Does this person have a name?”
“No.
And David began to pull the picture out of his pocket. “But he has a face.” David handed Tam the picture.
She looked t it for a few moments then the look on her face changed and there was a shudder in her voice as she spoke. “I know this face David.”
David was thunder struck. “No way. How come all you females think you know this man.”
Tam looked at him. “I don’t just think I know him David. I know him. I have seen him, he looks a little different but I know him.”
David’s stomach had just turned into one big knot. “I think we better get a hold of Rica so you two can have a chat.”
David went to have a talk to the guard at the elevator, told him what he knew and then went back to Urs’ room. Tam was still looking at the picture. She knew this face but just couldn’t place it. It was so frustrating. And if she knew who this was, why were they after David? That meant that Urs had been a mistake and David was still in danger. She got up from her chair and hugged David. He was a little surprised. “Hey what’s all this about?”
“He’s still out there David, you are still in danger.”
He pulled Tam away and looked into her eyes. “I’m fine. I think we have the best damn security team on the planet looking after us. I have never felt safer. So don’t worry okay.”
The guard stuck his head in through the door. “The Boss wants you all back at the apartments pronto.”
“Then I guess we better go.” David held Tam’s hand as they walked out of Urs’ room just as Urs woke up. He tried to call out but he only croaked. They were gone before he got his voice back. He pushed the button for the nurse who soon arrived.
“What is it Mr Buhler? “
“Where did they go?”
The nurse was a little confused. She had not seen anyone. “Where did who go?”
“My friends.”
She smiled at him. “There is no one here. You go back to sleep now.”
Urs did just that. He found it hard to keep himself awake. But he was sure he had seen Tam and David. As the morphine took hold he said. “Who is Rica?”
The nurse smiled at Urs. “Sweet dreams my Swiss Prince.”
David and Tam found themselves back in Carlos’ room, the others all waiting including Rica and a few of her team. It seemed that out of their extended family Flea was the only one missing.
David ushered Tam to a spare seat next to Lea, they all made eye contact but no one said anything. David could tell by the atmosphere that they all had heard Tams news.
Rica got up and began to walk the floor passing David she gently brushed her hand across his shoulders as she walked behind him.
She was at a loss as to why this man unnerved her so. He had done nothing but be a gentleman, cheeky but still a gentleman. She had watched him with the others, with Tam and he was indeed a gentle man. Rica had done her homework once she had taken on the assignment which meant finding out everything there was to know about her clients. Lea she knew, but she was somewhat amazed at the Intel she had gathered on Il Divo. Lea had suggested that if she wanted to REALLY know them to check out the website. Rica had decided after reading several threads that all she needed to do to get this guy was post his picture and let the New York divas take it from there. But that did not explain how she felt every time she saw David. She teased him because her heart had opened. Somehow he had pried it open. Something she thought almost impossible. And if her feelings were real than she had another problem. She definitely did not date clients. But just because she had let her guard down did not mean that David had any feelings for her at all. He had not given any of the usual signs and it was not as if she was in a position to ask. Something that she would normally do., none of this waiting and wondering stuff.
So as she walked passed David it was as much a shock to her as it was to him to feel her squeeze his shoulders.
David felt every inch of his body heat up, he shuffled a little in his seat and hoped that no one else noticed. To cover what she thought was very unprofessional Rica teased him and started her briefing. “So Sweet thing. The nurses let you out of the hospital?”
Normally David would have a pretty good come back but he was again speechless, still tingling. It was then he noticed Lea looking at him in a peculiar way. But she covered for him.
“Nurses must have all been Ubers or he’d still be fighting his way out.”
The others laughed.
“Well boys and girls ya’ll know why we are here. Miss Tam here thinks she knows this rock throw’n gun tote’n piece of garbage. Hendo thinks she’s seen him and Miss Felicity is almost sure he is the one from the park.”
Rica took some documents off one of the other guards. “Well we’ve been doing our own digging. “Seems you have every right to know who he is Miss Tam.” Rica handed her a photo and then passed the same one around to the others. It was a group photo of Tams’ time as a concert pianist. “See any familiar faces?”
David couldn’t help himself. “I see Tam.” That got him a slap on the back of the head from Rica as she passed by.
“Hey! Are all you navy types trained to smack a fella on the back of the head or what?”
Rica back tracked and bent over so she could whisper in his ear. For a second David thought he was going to get hit again and flinched. “It’s the, or what you should be worried about Sweet thing.”
Again David’s whole body rippled.
Rica continued. “So Miss Tam. See anyone?” Rica handed the composite copy to Tam and it was then that she made the connection. She pointed to Vaga in the photo. Rica smiled. “Dang if it isn’t the same person.”
Everyone seemed to sit at attention and Lea lent over to look at both photos. She was right. Lea spoke for the rest of them. “Who is it Rica?”
“That piece of alligator food is Aaron Vaga. Apparently his career took off just as Tam here was crashing onto an Island. Seems he kinda stepped into your light when you never came back baby. You two ever had words?”
Tam remembered Vaga as a whiney kinda person, who was never happy with what he had. She never had much to do with him but they had been in a lot of the same classes and done a lot for the same concerts.
Tam shook her head and Rica smiled handing them all several pieces of paper. There were photo copies of concert posters, photos. The past ten years of Vaga’s life laid out for them to see, including a copy of a police file of an arrest for disorderly conduct at Tams’ very last concert appearance. This shocked them all but it was the realisation as to where Rica was headed with all this that stunned them the most. No one said it but the penny dropped and the responding shocked registered in their eyes. Rica saw it and knelt down in front of Tam. “He’s after you Honey, Not Urs, not David, not Il Divo. You.”
David got up and started to pace. “That’s crazy, she been stuck on and island for the past ten years for God sake. Why would he be after her?”
Sebastien swore in French and Carlos did the same in Spanish, Lea put her arm around Tam, she was shaking. All she could think was this was all her fault. Urs was in hospital because of her. She had brought this on them all.
Rica got hold of David’s’ hand and guided him back to his seat winking at him as she pushed him gently back down.
“We all got heaps of Intel about this fella and it seems he’s not very nice but plays a pretty damn good piano. From what we have pieced together, Tam if you had stayed around he would never have got the chance to be were he is today. He might play pretty good but according to everyone we talked to You, Honey were outstanding. My guess is he doesn’t want you around to spoil his fun.”

Everyone just looked at Rica. Then at Tam, the room was silent. Lea could feel Tam as she began to shake again and tears rolled down her face. David jumped from his chair and knelt next to Rica. He took one of Tams hands in his good one. “You’ll be okay Tam. We won’t let any thing happen to you, you know that don’t you? Just as we all promised. This doesn’t change anything. You’re one of us. Please don’t cry.”
Tam tried to smile at him. He was so sweet. Sebastien and Carlos came to stand next to her and Rica moved over to one of her guards watching the interaction between them all. They were indeed a family.
Tam wished she could tell them she was not crying because Vaga was after her but because she was the reason that Urs had been shot. Right now all she wanted was to be back on her island away from it all.
Lea spoke up. “Fellas. I think us girls need some time on our own okay.” She pulled Tam to her feet and left Carlos’ place for Urs’.