Kristina Eloise Montgomery stood in the downstairs bathroom, wedged between the urnel smelling toilet and the sink. She rolled her eyes for the umteenth time, and finally someone picked up the phone.
"Kristina Montgomery, Shield number 86866"
There was the breif noise of keyboard typing and then a voice spoke.
"What can I do for you detective?" the caller on the other end of the phone always sounded callous, but tonight, the person sounded annoyed.
"Krissy rolled her eyes yet again " Checking in, sir"
"What have you found out?"
"Not much more than we already know, tho' I am starting to think that our subject don't know where our suspect is."
Krissy turned and looked at her hair in the mirror, making sure it was perfect.
"She hasn't told anyone about the incident, or about the results of the incident, Sir. that is, no one except her best friend, but we have no worries their, she won't be saying anything."
The voice on the other end sighed deeply annoyed
"Does she know, that she is being followed?"
It was Krissy's turned to be annoyed
"I am almost 100% sure, sir, as I was last time that she does not realize she is being followed by any of Trans men. and as I said, I have yet to find out the location of the suspect, but I am close, should be anytime now"
"So basically you are telling me nothing has changed?"
"Well I wouldn't say that sir, we are close to getting the info we need, I just need a bit longer." Krissy turned around and finally sat down on the closed toilet lid, wrinkling her nose up at it.
"And what information would that be montgomery?"
"the suspects whereabouts, finding her, if we can do that we can get the information we need to take down the Trans operation"
Shifting about, Krissy was becoming upset fast and she cut her boss off before he could speak.
"We know sir, that the Trans are traficking, we know sir that Toretto's kid was a victim of that since she was little. We know sir that the suspect, her mother was involved and is possibly still involved. We also know sir, that the Trans have taken to following her, following her boyfriend and following her best friend. So forgive me sir, if I am a bit impatient, but I have spent the last 3 months in Stillettos, mini skirts and halter tops, and to top it off my throat is killing me from using this damned annoying voice, so I will check in later, I have to go!"
With a growl Krissy slammed her cellphone shut and headed upstairs.
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Dom's eyes never left his daughter, even when she moved to take the child over to the sofa. Vince, Brian, Leon and Hector stood, watching Dom, he was deathly quiet, it was unsettleing.
A challenge had been thrown down, albeit a non-verbal one, but one none-the-less, and by Star of all people. The four men jumped a bit when Dom shifted and turned to follow his kid. All eyes followed his movements.
Mia and Letty looked up, but quickly exited the livingroom, not wanting to get in the line of fire, should one start, and they were pretty sure one was about to start any second now. Abby was the only one who stayed behind, but again Abby was about the only person not actually scared of Dom, she found this all amusing.
Star gently layed the baby on the sofa. Covering her with a Sofa throw and tossing the pillows onto the floor just incase the baby decided to fall off, she would be safe. Dom watched the scene before him with a raised brow, however deep inside he was grateful she was so gentle with this child. The doctor had explained to everyone with the amount of abuse she had been put through for years, she may very well pass that on to her own children, should she have any. He also said she may be the complete opposite, and to Dom's relief it looked like she was the opposite, and the cycle of abuse may just have been stopped with Star.
He smiled, and then quickly lost the smile when she stood up and turned around to leave. Dom grabbed her arm gently but firmly and looked at her.
"what the hell was that display in there?" his voice got deeper if that was at all possible.
Pulling her arm away from him, she crossed them infront of her and narrowed her eyes, trying to stand her ground, which was particularily hard at this point.
"That was me saying, be nice!, don't scare him away!, or I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER talk to you EVER again, I've heard aunt Mia talk about you and her old boyfriends"
Oh boy was she being brave, maybe a little to brave and she faultered a moment, not to sure that she should have said that in the tone she just did. Dom raised a brow, hector headed for the BBQ outback taking Mia and Letty's example and booking it out of the livingroom fast, this may get ugly.
"Ok, listen up little girl, number 1, your attitude is gonna go now or your guest"
He pointed towards the door where Vic had left to go back to the car earlier, and then looked over at the little kid.
"I mean GUESTS will leave, and number 2 he has a kid?!, what the hell is that?!, how damn old is he?!"
Stars arms dropped fast and it was then she regreated, almost, the tone she had just used.. then she waved her hands at her dad.
"SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! no yelling, you'll wake her up daddy!!" she whisper hissed at him and this time it was his turn to cross his arms.
Star sighed deeply
"Its not my story to tell daddy, Vic can tell you, not me, but you gotta let him tell you before forming opinions about him first, please?"
Dom reguarded her a minute or two, it seemed much longer to Star and the others in the room and everyone seemed to let out a much needed breath when he finally spoke.
"Fine, but you bet you sore little ass that I am gonna damn well ask him"
Star nodded. There was another knock at the door just then and she grinned brightly, hurrying past her father and uncles to answer it.
Abby looked up at Dom and smiled.
"You just loving this ain't ya?" he said to her, more than asked her.
Abby giggled
"Ya bet your big jean covered ass I am!"
she wiggled her brows at him and headed into the kitchen fast.
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Brian watched Star rush to the door, as he pulled Mia into his arms, when she popped her head out of the kitchen to see what was happening.
"Doms head looks like its gonna explode" he spoke, his lips moving from her ear down to her neck, kissing gently.
Mia melted back into him, her head tipping to the side, granting his lips better access.
"noticed that, kinda amusing watching big brother try and make sure he keeps Star happy, while trying to be menacing"
Brian chortled into her neck, holding her tight.
"Baby be nice, he's swimming in uncharted territory"
His hands came up, gently rubbing circles on her tummy, and she again melted, her hands moving up to cover his.
"Bullshit Brian, he practically raised me, he's got extensive experience with being a prick to boyfriends"
Mia smiled tipping her head back, looking up at him.
"As you already know"
Brian kissed her softly
"Be nice baby"
His hands tickled her tummy, she giggled and looked at him again.
"We need to talk later, its important Brian"
She raised up and kissed him again, Brian kissed her back and then she nodded to the doorway
"Holy shit, its a mini version of Dom!" Letty barked out, and started coughing, having swollowed her juice the wrong way.
Brian reluctantly looked up the same time everyone else did to. Dom was left speechless, almost. It occured to him, that he has only seen the back of the guy while at the school. On the front porch minutes before it had been to dark to get a good look at him, which left Dom wishing he had changed the burnt out bulb in the porch light earlier when he had thought about it.
Letty move beside Dom, raising her brow at him in an unspoken question, and Dom nodded to her. Conceeding to her unspoken question, to be nice, although maybe later, after he scared the guy enough.
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Vic stood, smiling at Star infront of him. he wasn't to sure if he wanted to face the rest of them in the light of the house yet.
Star smiled back with a little smirk and his brow cocked at her. snickering she ducked her head a little and moved to him.
"Shoulda, maybe, kinda mentioned how many people would be here huh?"
Vics eyes narrowed, trying to be serious, but it just was not happening, she was just to cute and it was then he realized just how much he was actually wrapped. Wrapped right up tight.
"Shoulda, maybe, kinda, YES!"
Star giggled and Vic laughed at her, kissed her and handed her the extra large take out coffee cup, as he set down the diaper bag and her purse on the hallway floor.
Jesse moved a bit, crossing his arms, he wasn't sure he liked this guy, and this guy was kissing his niece!.
"Uh, Star?, coffee?"
Star turned around and was met by everyone else looking at her as well, and before she could even speak, Vic gently pulled her back against him, his arms wrapped around her carefully. He looked up at everyone finally, challenging anyone of them to yell at her.
Four sets of arms crossed simultanously across chests, three uncles and one father looked at him. Star glared at the four men in her life, then tipped her head back and saw Vic glareing back at them and she glared at him to.
"Extra large, non-fat, no-sugar, decaff mocha lattee with extra whipped cream, baby"
Vic spoke, never taking his eyes off the four men. In the background, Mia and Letty laughed.
"Man Dom, this one ain't gonna be so easy to scare away!!" Mia quipped.
Vince snorted, he wasn't sure he liked anyone holding his little angel like that, he had this disturbing urge to toss him out the front window.
Star shook her head and stepped away from Vic and Looked at him
"Are you done?"
She turned to her uncles and father.
"Huh?, are you?, are you all done with the, I can kick your ass better than you, show of male testosterone??"
Vic looked at her and grinned, she was standing there with her little hands on her hips, tapping her foot, damn she was cute.
"yea baby, done for now, be right back"
Kissing her on her nose he stepped back out the door, Star turned and looked at the others.
"Be nice!!" she fairly screeched at them, huffy now with the display that just took place.
Vic stepped back into the house, Causing Dom to stop what he was just about to say to his kid.
"Soooooo, Star says ya'll like this stuff" He held up a case of Corona and smiled.
Star smiled, looking from her father to her boyfriend
" 'course they like the stuff, its the only beer they drink, some guy got thrown out a couple weeks ago for trying to get in something different, it was a bad scene"
Star giggeld and so did her mom and aunt.
"Daddy this is Victor Del Torro, Vic this is my daddy, Dominic Toretto"
she smiled
"oh and thats my uncles, Jesse, Leon, Vince and Brian, and my mom Letty and my aunt Mia"
Vic smiled and extended his hand to Dom
"Nice to meet you"
Dom returned the handshake
"Del Torro?, you related to Vance Del Torro?"
Dom asked stepping back and closeing the front door.