CHAPTER 1

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The annoying sound of the sink leaking. But, I couldn't do anything about it seeing as I was chained to my bed by my ankle. It was long enough to where I could walk around freely in my room and lie comfortably on my bed, but I was locked in here. I can`t remember anything before I was 5 years old. My dad, Chris Rodriguez, said it's because I was in a car crash when I was younger and suffer memory problems. I get small flashbacks but I've never mentioned them to anyone besides my best friend, Letty. The weirdest part of it all is what I remember the most is being little and being in this small two story white house. I look about 3 and there's this girl who also looks 3, and a boy who looks about 7. There's even a man and a women who keep calling me Isabella. These people look way more like me than my own dad. I asked my dad why I don't look like him. He says I look nearly identical to my mom. But, I wouldn't know. She died when I was 4 according to my dad. That's hardly even the weird part. Oh excuse my rudeness. My name is Liliana Rodriguez.

My dad's boss is the one who keeps me in this room like this. He's afraid I'll run into trouble, especially as of late, but I think it's something else. He lets me go on jobs, but only if I wear a mask, and protective gear, of course. If we're not on a mission, I'm stuck chained to this bed and locked in my room. He's even threatened to put a shock collar on me if I do anything wrong. I'm cutting it real close to getting that shock collar. Obviously I don't want to wear a shock collar, but it's just so hard for me to "obey" him. He makes it so hard for me to listen to him. Everyone knows he attacks me sometimes. Sometimes he hits me because he claims to see me look at other guys. I've never looked at anyone of Owen's guys. He even forced me to get a tattoo on my lower back that says 'Property of Owen Shaw.' He had strapped me down so I couldn't move and did the tattoo himself. Your probably thinking why my dad doesn't help me. He tried to once but Owen and the other guys from the team beat him really badly. Owen even threatened to kick my dad out and he'd never see me again. Owen would move the team somewhere my dad would never find us. I hope that never happens. I love my dad way too much to never see him again. I've been wanting to get a tattoo that says `Family is Everything` on my upper arm. I don't know why but something has been telling me to get this tattoo.

My dad's boss, Owen Shaw, said our next mission is to take out a guy named Dominic Toretto and his team. Apparently he was trying to build some kind of device, and Toretto and his team, accompanied by some DSS Agent, Hobbs, are getting too close to stopping us. Back to the weird part of my flashbacks, the boy and girl I remember seeing resemble Toretto and his sister, Mia. It must be coincidence. I know there's no way my dad isn't my dad. I know he'd never lie to me about something like that. But then again, what parent would?

We've recently acquired a new member to our team, Letty. She's my best friend out of the whole team. But, I feel bad because Shaw tricked her into joining our team. She had been driving and one of Shaw's men, Fenix, had intentionally run into her car. She had crawled out of the damaged car, but he shot the gas tank causing it to explode and sending her flying off a cliff, causing her to lose her memory. Shaw had found her in the hospital and had taken advantage of her memory loss, tricking her into believing we were basically her family. What hurts me the most is the fact that her real family believes she's dead. Nobody but me knows that Letty used to know Toretto and his team. They were her real family. But, now their mourning her death when she isn't even dead. I can't even begin to fathom how much pain losing Letty has brought them. Owen has ruined so many lives, but I refuse to let him ruin my best friend's too. I hope we can still be friends after everything, especially if she was to gain her memory back.

Back to the mission, Owen just came and unlocked my door. He walked towards me as I glared at him. I was loyal to him because of my dad, but it doesn't mean I like him. That doesn't stop him from liking me. Apparently he likes me because "I'm feisty." Sometimes he stays with me, which annoys me to no end.

Back to the point, Shaw unchained me and I went into my bathroom to get ready. I put on a pair of stretchy leather pants and a black tank top. Next, I threw on a tactical vest that protected my entire upper body. After that, I slid on black and white striped socks, followed by my black combat boots.

Once I was done, I went back into the bedroom, looked at Owen in disgust and rolled my eyes. He held something in his hand.

"Don't forget this." He held out my black lace mask he'd gotten me and I grabbed it from him. He grabbed my arm before I could put it on and kissed me. "I own you. Don't you forget that."

Technically he did own me. His only condition to allowing my dad to continue working for him is that he'd own me. My dad, loving his job, obviously said yes and signed the "documents" that state I officially "belong" to Owen. Owen is the most arrogant SOB ever. He's overly possessive of me and it really irks me.

Jerking my arm from his grasp, I walked pass him, and put my mask on, so the only thing you could see was my eyes, which are grey-ish, and a little bit of my hair. I have black hair that reaches down to my lower back and I'm 5'9. That's all that's really relevant for you to know about me, so...

Walking out of my room, Owen followed me out and were about to meet with the team. I turned around, nearly bumping into Owen, when I realized I forgot my favourite lucky gloves. Owen followed me back as I grabbed my black fingerless studded fighting gloves. After putting them on, we met up with the rest of the team to plan our attack.

Dom's POV

We've been squatting in an empty warehouse Hobbs had found for us. A ding from the elevator made Brian and I look up. Hobbs and Riley were walking towards us.

As usual Roman was running his mouth.

"So we're working with the Incredible Hulk." He said, imitating how I guess he saw Hobbs. Taking two whiffs of the air, he asked, "Why do I smell baby oil?"

"If you keep running your mouth, you're gonna smell an ass whoopin'." Hobbs said, walking up to all of us with Riley.

"Alright Hobbs. You've got the best team in the world. Give them a reason to stay." I said.

"Our target is Owen Shaw. Former major in the S.A.S, Spec Ops Soldier. He ran the UK's mobile division in Kabul and Basra." Hobbs said.

"Ah damn. That mobile unit's the truth." Tej said. "We're talking vehicular warfare. Best in the world."

Suddenly Roman asked Han, "You got some chips. Don't mess around." Han showed that his bag of chips was empty.

"For years, they've been running jobs in Europe, but its there most recent jobs that graduated them to a whole new level. Three targets, highly specific. The program terminal from an ICBM missile..." Hobbs said.

"Got a little change?" Roman asked Tej, interrupting Hobbs.

Tej looked at him like 'Seriously?' and said, " Seriously? You're a millionaire and you're still trying to ask for money?"

Tej reluctantly slapped a few coins in Roman's palm.

"That's how you stay a millionaire." Roman walked over the vending machine.

"So what does this all mean?" Brian asked.

"Well our best guess is that Shaw's team is building a Nightshade device." Hobbs said.

"Which is?" Giselle asked.

"A tech bomb." Riley answered. "Designed to block an entire military base's communications unit for 24 hours."

"If you blind a soldier for a single second in the middle of a fight, he dies. If you blind a country for 24 hours, the loss of life is unthinkable. This could be worth billions to the right buyer."

"Billions?" Tej asked. "Why don't we just steal that shit?"

"Hey man. Which one of these things is a dollar?" Roman said out of nowhere causing everyone to look at him. "If you say something about..." He was cut off by Hobbs pulling out his gun and shooting the glass of the vending machine.

"It's on the house." Hobbs said.

Roman picked something up from the rubble, while looking back at Hobbs.

"I want you to help me catch Shaw. He's only got one piece left and I intend to stop him before he gets it. Now, I know you guys are a family... So I'm giving you a chance right now to make that family whole again." He dropped a photo of Letty dated one week ago on the table and everyone stared at the picture in shock.

"You want to make this family whole again?" Brian asked Hobbs. "Get us to Letty, we'll get you Shaw. Full pardons all around" Everyone from the team looked at Hobbs, wondering if he'd agree.

"I can't promise you that." Hobbs said.

"Yes you can." Brian said.

"That's the deal." I said. "Take it or leave it."

Hobbs looked at all of us before saying, "You get me Shaw, and I'll get you pardons."

"You heard him." Brian said to all of us. "And this is different. We're not dealing with cops. We're not dealing with drug dealers. It's a whole different level." Everyone looked around at one another.

Of course Roman opened his mouth and asked Brian, "We're getting paid right?" Nobody answered him. They just stared at him. After everything, we headed to where we were tipped off Shaw was going.

I was standing with Brian, Giselle and Hobbs keeping look out from a higher vantage point. Tej was using a voice conformation software and talking on the walkie-talkie and said he just got conformation on Shaw. All police cars started filing out to apprehend him. That was when we found out that this was a distraction so Shaw could attack Interpol.

"Wait! Wait, wait, wait. Hold up. Hold up. Police scanners are saying alarms are going off at Interpol. "

"Shit!" said Brian. "He brought us here so he could take down Interpol. This whole thing's a setup."

"Brian, take the team. " I said.

"What about you?" He asked.

"I'll wait for Shaw. Shaw leads to Letty." He looked at me, agreeing with me before leading the team. Hobbs came and stood next to me.

"Come on you son of a bit*h." He said talking to himself aloud.

Brian, Tej, Roman, Han and Giselle were following police and heading to Interpol. Some of the policeman set off a bomb in hopes of stopping Shaw once they saw his car. But, Shaw just kept on driving like it was nothing. Then they started shooting at his car, but again it seemed to have no effect. Looking at all the chaos he was creating in such a short amount of time, Hobbs and I decided to join in on the fun and hopped in our cars. We quickly joined the pursuit.

Police were on his tail, but so was I.

"Toretto, it's on you. Straight ahead. Don't lose him." Hobbs told me.

"Ain't gonna happen." I replied.

I was right behind him when he sent one of the police cars flying for trying to stop him. The police kept shooting at him, but still there was no effect. He collided into another police car, and flipped, and kept on driving. I swerved out of the way of the oncoming totalled police car and kept right on Shaw. There's no way I'd ever let him get away with all the pain he's caused this family. We're going to find Letty and bring her home, no matter what.

Brian radioed me that he and the team just arrived at Interpol, and were being ambushed. I knew helping Brian could cost us losing Shaw, but it was a chance I'd have to make if necessary. I promised Mia before we left, that I'd watch out for Brian and he'd do the same for me. I lost one sister after promising her something, but I can't lose Mia too. Mia had a twin sister but she was kidnapped when they were 4 and I was 7. I had just promised them I'd never let anyone hurt them. That was 3 days before Isabella was kidnapped. We created a headstone for her about a year and a half after she went missing. The police said she was probably dead by then. But our family never truly believed she was dead, so we kept looking on our own. When both of our parents died, Mia and I promised them we'd never stop looking. Whether she turned up dead or not, we needed closure. I know both Mia and I intend to keep that promise.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Brian told me they were fine. It's a wonder how I didn't crash or lose Shaw when I thought of Isabella. Brian and the team were chasing after Shaw's team members. Chips had been placed on some of their cars.. Roman and Tej crashed. Out of the three of them, Brian is the only one who managed to get the chip off his car.

"Tej and Roman are out. Where are you?" Brian asked, radioing me.

"I'm right behind you." I replied. We met up at a circle intersection type road. Now, we were all following the team through a tunnel.

"Boys, I got eyes on Shaw, just made a left." Hobbs said.

"I got right." Brian said.

"Toretto, make that left." Hobbs told me and I did, him following behind me.

"Oh shit!" I heard Brian say. His car had just been flipped. I asked if he was okay, he said yes and told us to keep going. Hobbs and I kept behind Shaw. He made a dramatic crossover just before the divider. I made the same move, as did Hobbs. I managed to pull up beside Shaw and tried to keep up.

I kept driving and said "Letty" when I swore I saw her. She's my motivation in all of this. But, she's not only my motivation, she's the whole team's family and motivation in all of this.

I followed a car into a warehouse, Hobbs and Riley not far behind. Hobbs had Riley take the wheel before he climbed out his window and jumped on Shaw's car. Once Hobbs landed on Shaw's hood, Shaw began swerving, trying to do anything he could to knock Hobbs off. Hobbs was forced off when Owen made a hard turn nearly hiting a divider that prevented cars from entering. But, while on the ground, he pulled out his gun, aim, and shot a couple rounds at Shaw's retreating car.

I followed the car I swear I saw Letty in. When I got her to stop, I got out of my car and began walking towards her. I froze when she pulled out a gun. All of a sudden, she shot me hitting me in my shoulder. She stared at me for a quick moment before hopping in her car and driving off. I was left in shock, but had no choice but to return to the building we were operating from.