<strong>Name:</strong>Ryan Mercer<br/><strong>Title:</strong>Detective's Partner<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Bobby's Garage<br/><br/>Ryan saw Tania visibly relax a bit out of the corner of his eye as he drove down the street.<br/><br/><strong>"Yeah well, that's good then. I can't stand morons who think only about their.... but nevermind, I shouldn't bother you with this."</strong><br/><br/><em>That was interesting</em>he thought<em>Does she think she shouldn't bother me with this because I don't want to hear it or because she doesn't want to talk about it? Well she must since she started to say it right?</em>Shaking his head to clear the thought for the moment he turned to look at her.<br/><br/>"Hey we're partners right? If you want to talk I'll listen." he said before turning his attention to the road, only speaking again when Tania suggested he do the talking as the car guy, which made sense, although he had to speak up when she mentioned the good cop bad cop routine.<br/><br/>"I don't think that will be necessary." he chuckled "Remember some of these garage owners and legit, not to mention the fact that the upgrades for the cars are all legal as well. I mean take a look at this car for example, it's highly modified and tuned and it even looks like a street racing car but everything inside and on it are legal, only racing it on the streets is illegal, upgrading, modifying and driving normally isn't."<br/><br/>It took them 10 minutes to arrive at the first garage Tania directed them too, one called Bobby's. Ryan grabbed the briefcase from the back seat before getting out of the car and headed inside. His car loving inner child, automatically taking over as he started look at all the cool new upgrades and parts...and to sell his cover of course.<br/><br/>To no surprise it didn't take long for a middle aged man, with slightly greying black hair, wearing a garage uniform to walk over to him, although his eyes did give Tania a once over and Ryan could practically see him undressing her in his mind...then again the way she was dressed you couldn't really blame him.<br/><br/>Before he turned his attention to Ryan and smiled, extending his hand "Hey there, welcome to Bobby's Garage, I'm Bobby, is there anything I can do to help you?" he asked cheerfully.<br/><br/>Slipping easily into his character Ryan returned the smile with one of his own "Well I certainly hope so Bobby. I need to get some more horses out of my Skyline." he replied as he pointed out of the window at his car.<br/><br/>Bobby whistled "Impressive." he said "Nice body work too." Although since Tania was in his view too, he could have been talking about either the car or her, Ryan decided to go with him commenting on the car, preferably before Tania decked the guy.<br/><br/>"Thanks, I think the blue flames go well with the black carbon fibre."<br/><br/>Bobby nodded "So what model is it and what are you running?"<br/><br/>"It's a 2002 GT-R V-Spec II, one of the last model GT-R's built under the Skyline name." Ryan answered "Engine wise it's running the Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 Litre twin-turbo with an aftermarket oil pump extension, running at 440 BHP and I'm looking to get that up to 550HP if I can. I know Nissan claim that it's possible to get it up to 600 without any aftermarket mods but I've never been able to do it."<br/><br/>Bobby turned to look at him "You know your stuff, I'm impressed."<br/><br/>Ryan grinned "Thank you." Although he noticed Bobby glance back over at Tania, although this time it was probably becasue, no surprise to him she looked a mixture of bored and annoyed at the conversation.<em>Oh yeah, we deal with drugs and street racers and I'm with a chick who hates cars...this is going to be fun.</em>he thought.<br/><br/>"If you don't mind me saying so Miss, you don't exactly look like a car girl..." Bobby said.<br/><br/><em>No shit</em>Ryan thought.<br/><br/>"...So what are you doing with this guy?" Bobby added.<br/><br/>Ryan had to smile at this, since they hadn't discussed their boyfriend/girlfriend back story. Ryan couldn't help but have a little fun with his new partner and see how good she was at improvising "I lucked out." Ryan answered, before waiting a moment "But the man has a point honey, why are you with me?" Sure he might get an earful from her when they were back in the car but for right now it was totally worth it...or team building, as Ryan was calling it.<br/><br/>