It's Not What You Think
Summary: Ever wondered what Rome meant when he said, "It means, you always gettin' in trouble over a female, Brian." There are a million reasons why Brian became a cop. But there was none more influential that this one. A look into Brian's past. Characters from TFATF and 2F2F. This is not an Original Character Romance!
Disclaimer: I own no real characters so far. I guess that I own names. So if you haven't heard of them in any of the two movies, they belong to me. Everyone else belongs to the people who came up with the characters for this movie.
Bold is thoughts
Italic is flashback
Brian laid in his bed staring at the ceiling. His hands behind his head, his shirt off, and his eyes as wide as they could get. Time was boundless every time he did that. Ever since he was a kid he would stare at the ceiling until the sun came up. He thought about anything and everything without anything disrupting his train of thought.
Tonight was one of those nights where he knew that he wasn't going to get any sleep at all. He sat up and swung his legs over the edge of his bed. He combed his fingers through his wavy, blonde hair and stood up.
It had been nearly a year since the heist fallout, but Brian thought about it every day. Jesse miraculously survived all of the gunshot wounds, Vince was able to keep his arm, and the rest of the Team fled, probably to Mexico. He stuck around Los Angeles long enough to see Jesse and Vince get better. As soon as he saw they were on their way to meeting up with the Team, Brian made his way out of LA. He drove, and somehow he ended up in Miami.
The cops wanted to know where the Team was, and Brian refused to tell them. He quit the police force and ran because he wouldn't betray Dom and his Family twice in a lifetime. Down in Miami he began working for a man named, Tej. Tej was the man to know down in Miami. He was the only person that could give Brian the satisfaction of working on cars. Tej had a lot of people around him, but none more important than his girl, Suki, and Miami's equivalent to LA's Jesse, Jimmy. Jimmy was the best mechanic in town. He isn't as good as Jesse Brian thought.
He knew that it was wrong to compare the two, but he knew that it was true. But he also knew that if they two somehow had the chance to meet, they would be an unstoppable team. Not that Jesse wasn't already a part of an unstoppable team. And Brian knew that Jesse wouldn't leave that group for anything. And Brian couldn't blame him. The Team wouldn't let Jesse go either. They almost lost him once, and they wouldn't risk it again. Brian could guarantee it.
Brian grabbed a shirt on the ground and threw it on. He grabbed his keys off of his dresser and walked off the boat where he was staying. He needed to get into a car and just drive. He couldn't stare at the ceiling tonight. There was too much on his mind and driving was the only thing that would sort it out.
Brian got into his Mitsubishi Evo 7 that Customs had given him. He thought that he had gotten away from working on a force, but he was wrong. So wrong. A few months after he made his way down to Miami, Bilkins messed up his Skyline that he had worked on for hours. All to pull him back into another case where he would pose as a driver for a guy named Carter Verone. His incentive was that his record would be wiped clean.
Brian agreed to the case on only one condition, that he got to choose his partner. He chose an old friend that he grew up with. Roman Pearce. He case was close to being solved, but Rome had said something that had really gotten under his skin. It was during a conversation they were having about Monica Fuentes, an undercover agent who was working on the same case they were.
Flashback
"What is that supposed to mean!" Brian asked him.
"It means, that you always getting in trouble over a female, Brian!" Rome replied, as they walked out Verone's mansion.
End Flashback
That one line kept replaying itself in the back of his head ever since Rome had said it. Who else had he gotten in trouble over? Rome couldn't have known about Mia. It must be from their past. It had to have been. He tried to think about all of the females from his past. Elizabeth? Marty? Ka— his thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of his cell phone.
"O'Conner," he said answering his phone.
"Brian, you okay?" said the person on the other line.
"Yeah, Rome. Just needed to get out for awhile. I needed to think about something."
"This ain't gonna affect tomorrow is it?"
Tomorrow they were going to get the money that they were being paid to track down. They were to work with two of Verone's men and get the drug money from somewhere and drop it off. Then Verone would run away. Well, at least that is what was supposed to happen if Brian and Rome didn't get involved. But they were going to get involved, so obviously the plan wasn't going to go according to plan. "No way, bro. No way," Brian said with a smile on his face.
"Brian, don't do anything stupid tomorrow," Rome said in an uneasy voice.
"What do you mean?"
"I know you, Brian. If anything happens, I don't want you to have to think that you have to play the hero, because one day, it will get you killed."
"Rome, I can't guarantee that I won't play the hero tomorrow, but I know that if I do, it won't get me killed. I'm a superhero, remember."
"Yeah, clown. We both coming out of this one, aight," Rome said.
"Yeah."
"Brian, don't bullshit me. If you are thinking about doing something tomorrow, you better tell me."
"I don't know, Rome. Hey look, I went driving to clear my head, and you aren't really helping. So I'll see you bright and early tomorrow. Call up Tej for me and make sure everything is all copasetic."
"Yeah, copasetic," Rome said and hung up the phone.
"God, Roman, you know just what to say to get into my head, don't you?" Brian said to himself before speeding off.
Please review. This is my first fanfiction for the Fast and the Furious, and I hope it turned our all right. Please no flames. Thanks a lot. Lil-Rock