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Disclaimer: I don't any of the characters from "The Fast and the Furious." I only hold right's over my own character(s) who appear in this fic.

Summary: "...you always said if i needed you, I only had to find you...Right?" When a girl shows up from Vince's teen years, can he help her or will it prove to be the worst decision she could have made?

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A/N. The Fic is set before the first movie.

It'd been a pretty quiet day in the D.T garage and the team were fairly fed up. Jesse had spent the last two hours driving everyone crazy, playing random music but never listening past the chorus. Some of the stuff was getting pretty ridiculous and when he finally flipped it too "Greased Lightning", Vince had had enough.

"Jess, man, you're making my ear's bleed!" he cried over the beat of the "song"

Leon laughed from the other side of the garage, swinging a torque wrench in his hand

"Go greased lightning, your burning up the quarter mile..." He was tone deaf and although even Dominic couldn't hold back a grin, he knew Vince would seriously lose it if Jesse's trip down musical memory lane didn't come to an end. Fast.

"Yo, Jess, Seriously dude, cats are gonna start joining in..."Dom trailed off, and Vince shot a look at him that clearly said "Was that supposed to help?"

"What's happenin'" By Ying Yang and Trick Daddy replaced the soundtrack and although it wasn't Vince's first choice, he rolled his eyes, and went back to flipping through the car magazine in front of him.

Dom watched him from the couch at the back where he was attempting to sort through the crap Mia usually did, mentally cursing himself for pissing both Letty and Mia off that morning. They'd headed to the mall, simply to get one up. He knew it damned well too, because if there was one thing Letty hated, it was the mall. But, off she'd went with Mia, Leaving Dom, and the rest of the boy's, completely speechless that she'd put herself through that, simply to prove a point.

His eyes stared at Vince's back for a good 5 or 6 minutes. Dom knew he was looking at the magazine, but he wasn't really reading it. Something was off, and he couldn't pin-point what it was. Getting up, He casually went to where Vince was standing, careful not to draw attention to the fact he was doing so, as Leon and Jesse mucked about with a basketball.

"You ok, Bro?" Dom asked

"Yea man, why?" Vince asked, but Dom could tell just by the way he replied, that something was up, and he wasn't gonna give easily. Vince wouldn't have with him, he was just returning the favour.

"You suck at lying man" Dom said, keeping his voice low, but catching the basketball Jesse had aimed at him. He threw at the hoop and it dropped through as Vince sighed and let his head drop.

"Out with it V, This suspense thing really isn't working for me..."

"...You remember that chick that used to stay in the crib right at the corner of our street?"

Dom looked at him with a look that said "Dude....What one?". Vince tried hard to hold back a smile, but he quickly regained composure, as he remembered why they were on the topic on the girl who stayed in the house on the corner, way back when.

"Come on D, We're talking back when we were 15 here, Y'know that one Letty didn't hate on cause she was the one girl you couldn't impress?"

"Ellis Carter." Dom said, shaking his head, grinning, "Girl had it for you bad yet you just wouldn't go there."

"Ok, before we start taking a trip down memory lane...Yea, Ellis. She's back man. And she's in shit...Bro....I need some help"

Dom looked round at Vince. He'd never once known Vince to actually utter those words. But, there they were. Hanging in the silence between them, like they'd broken some sort of code. Vince took a second before meeting his eyes and for the first time since Dom could remember, he looked scared. And he didn't like it. Vince was never scared of anyone or anybody. Never had been, not even when things had gotten bad in his own house growing up, not back in high school...Hell not even in the god damned third grade. The look passed quickly and Dom didn't know whether Vince was scared of Ellis or the crap she'd brought with her. Vince stared straight at Dom, impressed. If he was shocked by what he'd just said, he hadn't shown it. His face stayed completely straight, dark eyes peircing straight through his own. "Cutting through the bullshit" Vince thought, almost bitterly.

"V, you don't need to ask for help, not from me, not from the team." Dom replied

"Bro... I made her a promise before she left and I can't let her down...But this... This is way above anything I've ever dealt with"

"Enough drivin' round the issue V, Get to the finish line"

"Don't say I didn't warn you man."

Vince sighed and looked round to the main court yard in front of the garage, to make sure both Jesse and Leon were out of ear-shot. He didn't wanna drag the whole team into this before he had to, but he'd been dealing with Ellis on his own for nearing a week and he was getting un-nerved. He hadn't wanted to involve the team, god knew they had enough going on between then, without adding to the mix. But, the way she was acting was enough to scare the crap out of him, and he knew he had to do something before she hurt herself or something came for her. He couldn't live with that, not knowing he could have done something...anything to help her. She'd come to him for a reason. A reason HE'D given her, albeit nearly eight years prior. Shaking his head, he turned back and looked at Dom, who was staring at him, waiting for the story that was about to come out. He met his eyes and hoped to god Dom had an answer, because he was lost. And he really didn't like the feeling. Girl always did have a way of throwing him, and everything around him, off balance.

"She showed up about a week ago...."