"I don't know about this Leon."
"Relax Cori. We go in, I race then we get big bucks." Leon smiled pushing me forward.
"Jesse talk some sense into him." I demanded looking to my older brother.
"I-I dunno Cori he's right and we n-need money. We're penny-less." I threw my hands up and let Leon push me to his car. Jesse climbed in his beat up blue 1995 Volkswagen Jetta as I climbed into Leon's white 1993 Nissan Skyline 240sx.
"Stop worrying."
"I can't help it Leon. Sure me and Jesse souped it up as best we could, but we haven't had time to test the nitrous injection. What if you get hurt? What if you don't win? If you don't we're done for all our money has gone into this car." Leon leaned over and tapped my chin with his knuckles.
"Cori have a little faith. Our luck is changing, I promise, I said I'd watch out for you and Jesse I'm hardly going to let my little bro and sis down." I smiled. Leon would look after us, he'd taken us in when we left home together after our dad got sent down and then he lost his job followed shortly by his apartment. We scrimped and saved to soup-up this car. Leon was the best driver out of us, I preferred a motorbike, but we couldn't afford one and Toretto didn't race bikes. We could have gone to Tran's – I'd never seen them and I really didn't want to-, but they was dangerous and I refused point-blank to let Leon race them and I definitely wouldn't race them. So we had managed to get in on a race against Toretto. Question was could Leon beat him?
We drove to down town LA and already a crowd was building. We climbed out and I took Leon's offered arm and grabbed Jesse's wrist pulling him with us so he didn't disappear to go look under someone's hood. We weaved through the through the crowd and Leon soon found the man we needed Dominic Toretto. He was a big guy tall and muscular and bald. He was kind of intimidating and the Latino woman by him seemed almost as intimidating but even more aggressive as she glared at me as we approached.
"Leon…"
"Torreto, this is Jesse and Cori Callan, my mechanics." I smiled trying the best I could to hide my nervousness.
"Nice to meet you Jesse," Dominic began.
"Erm he's Jesse, I'm Cori." I said pointing to Jesse the woman with him laughed.
"I'm Letty, you racing? You look a little wet behind the ears for this." She smirked. Leon answered before I could.
"No she ain't just me, like I said they're my mechanics." I really didn't like this. As my gaze wandered around I was taking in the cars. I didn't think we could win this. They were packing way more under their hoods than we were.
"Leon," I pulled him back a little. "I think we need to leave, we can't win and we can't afford to lose that car."
"Have I ever let you down? I can do this, we can do this Cori. We'll put our name on the map." He smiled and gave me a quick hug before heading back to his car. Jesse put his arm around my shoulders.
"L-Leon will come through Cori, he's always come through for us." I nodded and watched as they lined up. I looked over to the Letty woman and she had now been joined by another woman around my age, maybe 20 and a guy built like Dominic Torreto only he wasn't bald maybe a few years older same age as Leon I'd guess so 22. Letty whispered something he looked our way and laughed. The flag came down and off they went we stayed put waiting for them to come back round. I had my fingers crossed and could only pray that Leon won.
"Cori here they come!" I looked in the direction Jesse pointed and saw to car head lights as they got closer I could see one was Dominic's and one was Leon's. But Leon wasn't winning he was behind by less than a car length and he had no chance of getting ahead unless he hadn't used his NOS. Just as he hit his NOS so too did Dominic and he won. "Oh no."
"We're fucked." I ducked under the arm of a guy keeping the crowd back and ran to Leon's car. He slammed his hands on the wheel over and over. "Leon…"
"Damn it! I screwed up, I screwed up bad! Cori I'm sorry." He climbed out and his shoulders slumped. I'd never seen Leon so defeated. I hugged him tight.
"It's ok bro, we'll survive somehow. I got that interview for waitress on Monday."
"Yeah but Cori we can't survive on just that." Jesse said having been allowed past.
"I know that Jesse, but it will have to do…for now at least." I heard the unmistakable thrum of a motorbike engine the crowd parted and several motorbikes came forward. Dominic and the guy built like him stepped up Letty behind them.
"Whoa what's going on with them?" Leon asked moving towards them.
"Leon it's not our problem!" He ignored me and I exchanged a look with Jesse, I was glad I'd decided to take my gun with me. It had been my dad's it was the only thing I had taken from him when we left home Jesse had taken his car. My hand reached to it closing round it. I stepped up with Jesse, most of the others had all backed up and we were left in a big open circle. The guys on the bike's on one side and Torreto's gang on the other with me, Jesse and Leon behind them.
"We want a cut, you were racing through our territory Toretto." It was an oriental man who had spoken tall dark and arrogant. I was betting it was one of the Tran's.
"You ain't getting nothing, get lost." Dominic said in his gravelly voice.
"I beg to differ." Another oriental guy in tight leather pants stepped forward a blade in his hands. Letty and the other guy took a step back while the other woman stayed by Dominic.
"We don't need to do this Johnny." She said, her voice calm trying to cool the situation.
"I think you'll find we do." The first guy, Johnny said pulling a blade out himself. Leon reached for his gun too.
"Well I think you'll find it isn't up for negotiation." I said stepping forward with my gun pointing at the guy with the leather pants, Leon brought his up to point at the guy Johnny.
"It ain't smart to bring a knife to a gun fight." He smirked.
"So why don't you take your rejected rock star selves and leave." I cocked the gun and felt Jesse move up behind me he was nervous.
"And drop the knives while you're at it. We wouldn't want you to stab yourself." Leon added. The two men looked at each other and then dropped the knives.
"This isn't the end of it. You're messing with the wrong people." Johnny said before slipping on his crash helmet and climbing on his bike along with the leather pants guy. They left as quickly as they came and once they were out of sight did Leon and I put our guns away.
"Thanks." Dominic smiled shaking Leon's hand. He went to say something more but the sound of sirens had people running. In the crowd I got separated from Leon and Jesse and couldn't see their cars. I started to panic. I wasn't familiar with the streets of LA and the last thing I needed was to run straight into that Johnny guy or the cops. I ran across the road and a car slammed to a stop almost hitting me. The guy that had been with Dominic stuck his head out the window.
"Damn it girl get in the car!" I didn't need to be asked twice sliding in to his car a 1999 Nissan Maxima. He took off like a bat out of hell driving through side streets narrowly missing oncoming traffic when he swerved through lanes. Only when we hit the suburbs did he slow. I looked back, I couldn't see cops, flashing or hear any sirens. He pulled to the curb.
"I think we're good. I can't see anyone." I said and turned to face him. As I'd seen earlier he was built like Dominic, but with a full head of dark brown hair and a beard to match. He looked fierce, but his hazel eyes betrayed that fierceness showing a gentler side they were warm and inviting. He had a tattoo of a dragon decorating his right bicep and I realised as I was checking him out he was checking me out. My long dark almost black hair, my grey stormy eyes, down my slim toned body to my legs encased in a pair of new rocks.
"So you're Cori right? And your brothers the weedy one Jesse?" He asked his eyes traveling back up my body to my face.
"Yeah that's right Cori Callan and you are?"
"Me? Name's Vincent Schulze, call me Vince though. You got some guts pulling a gun on the Tran's." He smirked.
"Yeah well I haven't much patience for assholes like them. Think they own the damn world." He chuckled finding my comment amusing.
"So Cori, where do you want dropping off? No doubt your friends will be back at your place. We can go there and then you can come back to ours and party. Dom will want you guys there for stepping in against Johnny and Lance." I didn't know what to say. We weren't welcome where we had stayed as we hadn't paid because we couldn't. "You alright? You do know where they're staying." My head hung a little ashamed.
"No, this was kind of our last chance. Me and Jesse never finished high school, Jesse got kicked out because he struggled, I got kicked out for fighting with anyone who dared mock the fact that he didn't finish. Leon lost his job about a year after we started living with him." I sighed it was big mess after another.
"You got no place to go." It wasn't a question it was a statement. "Can you call them?" I pulled out my cell.
"Well if I had power in it I could, though I don't know if they're cells are dead or not."
"Right we'll go to Dom's." He took off then and I felt low, even when Leon took us in I tried to help out, I never once let him do everything for us. I'd got a job at a bar, well a few bars all ended with me getting fired for fighting with patrons, but I ain't about to let some sleaze try it on, try and grope me and get away with it. Plus if Leon or Jesse found out it would be worse than a broken nose or broken fingers that I had given them. But now here I was without Jesse or Leon and I didn't know what to do, so I had to let Vince take me to Dom's because I didn't know where to start looking for the guys.
A/N: I really shouldn't be writing this I have other stories that need finishing, but I was bored, without ideas so here we have my take on The Fast and The Furious. All been well I'll do one for all the films. Please Review tell me what you think :D