This is my first fan fic after seeing THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS a few weeks ago. I really really love DOM and BRIAN and think they are the best character that have ever been created, but I'm sure you all think that too.

This is my first fan fic so please be gentle with me because I'd love to be a writer and would not like to be put off by nasty spiteful people. If you have anything bad to say then can you please do it in a nice constructive way. PS - I know nothing about cars but my story will have to make do. If there are any other mistakes then I apologise because I have ADD just like Jesse, but I am trying hard.

1.

'Papercut' by Linkin Park was on the CD player, and it would be the last song that Tanner ever heard.

'But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head.'

He was lying on his back, his arms and legs tied down. He had been a successful detective in Los Angeles, but when his investigation into truck robberies had ended up with the best young cop in the city leaving the force, then he had started to hate the job. He had been looking forward to his retirement.

'Like a face that I hold inside.'

Tanner could remember getting into his car when he had been hit from behind, and that was the last of his memory. There was nothing more until he had woken up here. He could see in the darkness of the room that a masked and hooded figure hunched over him, a large metal knife in the hand.

'A face that awakes when I close my eyes.'

"No! Please don't!" Tanner screamed.

'A face that watches ever time I lie.'

Tanner screamed once more and then it was all over.

'A face that laughes ever time I fall.'

The figure turned off the CD player. "And we'll be together forever Dom. Just you wait and see."

-The next day-

It was an incredibly hot summer in Los Angeles.

As he worked on a car engine, Dominic Toretto sweated, but he reminded himself how lucky he was to be free and with friends.

After carrying out daring truck robberies, the police had been out for Dom's team, and had put an undercover cop in to investigate them. But the cop, Brian O'Conner had seen what was the right thing to do, because he was in love with Dom's sister Mia, and became good friends with the crew.

The police had put Dom's rival Johnny Tran's crew in jail for the truck robberies, and they had apologised to the team for hassle they were caused. Brian quit the police to become a racer, and everyone had forgiven him for investigating them, because he saved Vince's life. He was living with Mia in the house across the street from Dom and Letty.

Vince got stitches in his arm and it was fine, and Jesse had been wearing a bulletproof vest when he got shot by Johnny Tran, so he was fine too.

The team all worked on cars at Dom garage, and they were working on a Toyota Evolution 10 with not much luck.

DOM'S POV

"Damn, I just don't get this. It's too hard. I can't get this fuel power flow management system to work properly." Dom laid the big tool down on the side of the car and walked away, his powerful body flexing with raw, unbridled strength. His big chocolate brown eyes were closed right now as he stretched, every muscle in his powerfully toned body working to the max.

"If we don't get this car working, we're not going to win at Desert Race War!" he said to the rest of the team. "There's other teams out there who will beat us if we don't sort this. Hector's crew are driving Mitshubissi Eclipses, and they'll win."

"Maybe, we like, could go see Harry at the Racers' Edge," said Brian, running a hand through his beautiful blonde hair. "He knows a lot about engines."

"No Brian, we need someone better. We need a great mechanic to sort this, or, or ,or we could lose everything."

-Inside Dom and Letty's house-

"What do you mean we would lose everything?" Leticia 'Letty' Villalobos screamed, her voice really high pitched.

God how Dom hated her, he thought to himself. How he just wanted his true love to come along, but he couldn't go and look for her because that would break the team apart. He was the surrogate father for them all, and they needed him there. He did not have the chance to fulfill his heart's desires.

"Answer me Dom!" she screamed, screaming really loud. So loud that Dom was ashamed that the rest of the team would hear her shouting at him.

"Letty do you remember what it was like living when we had all that money from robbing those trucks? We could afford anything we wanted, but's more difficult now. The store doesn't bring in much money, and no-one wants to race me anymore becuase I'm too good and keep winning. Hector was laughing at me the other day and saying we had no money and no class so I challenged him to a race at Desert Race War."

"But losing two thousand dollars isn't that bad if he wins!" screamed Letty.

"No, you don't get it. I bet the whole thing. All our cars, the store, the garage and the two houses. If I lose, it's all gone."