Author's Note: I don't own Fast and the Furious or any of its characters. I only own the plot to the story.
Summary: Semi Au of 2 Fast 2 Furious and Au for the rest of the series. Instead of picking just one driver. Brain picks two. His childhood buddy Roman Pierce and a member of the team now serving 10-15 in Lompoc Federal Correction Facility. In exchange for the teams records to be cleared. This story his written in memory of Paul Walker who was tragically killed last month.
Chapter 3.
Tej's Garage
We pulled into Tej's Garage. O'Connor pulled up first then Rome and I was last. I got out of the GTO taking in what was Miami. I just wanted this dame undercover op to be over with so I could go home to LA.
"Tej's garage is ridicules. He has the best of everything. Snap on tools. These lifts are new. They'd only be a couple of months old" O'Connor explained the lay out of the garage. If only DTs had all this fancy equipment. I could only imagine how much money we'd be making.
"Hey Jimmy. What's up man" O'Connor greeted a short Asian guy about maybe 5'8- 5'9.
"What's up Bullitt" The guy Jimmy said in response to O'Connor. 'Bullitt' must have been O'Connor's street name here in Miami.
"That's Rome and AJ right there. Do me a favour. When you get a second, I want you to check out the EVO, Spyder and GTO and make sure everything's copasetic." O'Connor asked, the mechanic Jimmy had a surprise look on his face at the mention of an EVO and the GTO.
"EVO and GTO. Where'd you get a GTO and an EVO from?" Jimmy asked wanting to know the details.
"It's a long story," O'Connor said before walking back over to Rome and me.
"Man. It's so hot and humid here. I can't even wear no draws." Rome said referring to the heat or was that the woman.
"Yea tell me about it" O'Connor answer was very much the same as Rome's had been.
"Man. Look at all this potential out here." Rome commented most defiantly on the women. I licked my lips looking over the eye candy of woman out the back of Tej's garage.
"Damn" Rome commented again about sexy as hell women here in Miami. LA women be dammed they where nothing in comparison to the woman here on the East Coast.
It had been too dame long since I had gotten laid. And I sure as hell wasn't interested in the Trannies in Lompoc or the males ever. We walked up onto the deck. Two dame good-looking women walked passed Rome and Me.
"Mm Girl. You know your boy can help that fire out." Rome commented like horn dog I thought him to be. I just shook my head. O' Connor grabbed Rome before he could go after them.
"Check out the bubble on that" Rome said to O'Connor
"Let's go" O'Connor replied leading Rome away over to where people where sitting watching where a couple of jet skies where racing each other.
"That is serious man" Rome commented to no one in particular. We walked over to where announcer of the race was talking about a guy Ray who was costing him money or something.
"Hey Tej Parker this is Roman Pierce and AJ Ortiz." O'Connor introduced us to the owner of the garage most likely. "Basically he's the man to know in Miami. He's got his finger in everything. It's just the way it is " O'Connor continued to explain to Rome and I.
"What's going on Suki?" O'Connor asked the girl sitting next to Parker sketching something on her sketchpad.
"What's up baby." She responded as O'Connor kissed her check. 'Baby' now that could have meant anything really
"How you doing" O'Connor asked.
"I'm good"
"What's this? What's the latest?" O'Connor asked referring to the sketch she was working on.
"It's a working progress. It's not finished yet," Suki explained showing off the not yet finished sketch of a Nissan 350z perhaps.
"That's some artistic shit. You got talent" Rome complementing her work. He was right. I turned out of the conversation after that. I reached into my jeans pocket and pulled out my wallet.
I pulled out the worn picture of my little boy who had only been two years old when shit had hit the fan two years ago.
"Not Too Bad" O'Connor exclaimed. I slip the photo back into the wallet and placed the wallet back into my jeans pocket.
"I'll see you about your money homey. You race too" Rome asked Parker wether or not he raced as well.
"Nah, man. I hit a wall doing a buck twenty a couple of years ago. Ever since then I've been organising and collecting." Tej responded counting the money he had collected from the Jet Ski race.
"Hey Tej. Check it out. Rome and AJ are going to be in town for a while. Can the use that cot" O'Connor asked Parker if we-Rome and I could use his houseboat until this uncover op was over.
" What's wrong with your place man" Tej questioned.
"I don't want to stay with him. He's got bad habits" Rome counter-responded.
"And I don't want to stay with him Tej. Because I might end up killing him," I responded in a deadpan tone of voice.
"Alright. Just show them around. I'll be up there in a minute." Tej responded walking away.
After throwing my gear into the room I had dubbed as my room on the boathouse. I walked outside. Rome and O'Connor where talking to each other at the edge of the garage.
"What's going on?" I asked O'Connor as he unlocked the EVO. I got in the passenger seat.
"Verone's got a couple of his boys following us since we left his place. "O'Connor explained as he pulled out and then into a side street. We watched as Rome was cleaning the windscreen of the Cadillac where Verone's two goons Roberto and Enrique where in.
O'Connor gunned the engine pulling up so Rome could jump in the back seat behind me. We drove to meet with Bilkins and Markham.
"He'll blow our cover before we even get started" Rome commented as we walked through the doors to the meeting place with the Feds.
"Hey Bilkins can you tell me what when wrong" O'Connor asked Bilkins directly.
"That's what I want to know" Bilkins responded.
"Show me your hands. Keep em Up" Markham demanded pointing his gun at Rome. While his lapdog Dunn patted down Rome for any weapons
"Hey what's this about man" Rome asked. I didn't say anything.
"Hey. What's going on here" O'Connor asked relatively at the same time as Rome did.
"Hold This. You think you can shoot at me." Markham said tossing his gun to Dunn before heading straight for Rome." I'm a god-dame Federal Agent." Markham continued to yell shoving Rome backwards.
"What are you talking about" Rome asked oblivious confused as I was." Get your damn hands off of me. Get him away from me dawg." Rome said as O'Connor, Bilkins, Dunn and myself moved forward to break the two of them apart.
" Just Cause you wear a badge doesn't mean you can mess shit up for us." Rome continued to yell at Markham as it took Bilkins, Dunn and myself to hold him back.
"Get your hand off of me" Markham demanded as O'Connor shoved him back away from Rome.
"Your lucky I didn't shoot your ass" Rome yelled.
"Shut up Rome" O'Connor responded
"Don't tell me to shut up Brain" Rome snarled in O'Connor's direction. "You almost blew cover old man" Rome pointed out to Markham.
"You shouldn't have shown up like you did. You didn't know Verone was testing us" O'Connor asked.
"No I though you punks where running" Markham spat, looking in Rome direction.
"Running" Rome, said oblivious pissed and about ready to deck Markham
"That's Great. That's just great. Oh and Rome really wanted to shoot you. You wouldn't be here right now" O'Connor said slamming Markham's gun on the table.
"Alright we need to get this under control." Bilkins commented picking up Markham's gun that O'Connor had placed on the table only a moment ago.
Rome was passing back and forth. He grabbed a bag full of food.
"Hey that's mine" Markham commented as Rome looked in the bag to see what food there was.
"So" Rome snapped at him. I took a seat next to Rome. He handed me a burger. I nodded my thanks to him
"So tell me what you know" Bilkins asked as soon as we had all been seated.
"Rome, AJ and I. Will be making a run for Verone. I'm not sure when or where. But he did say he brought us a window. I assume from the local cops. " O'Connor explained to Bilkins.
"I can talk to some guys at the local P.D." Dunn offered.
"No. No good. If Verone has some of them on the payroll. Then we can't let them know our operation." Bilkins dismissed Dunn's offer.
"Exactly" O'Connor said agreeing with Bilkins.
"In addition. Verone told us that he himself would be there at the drop" O'Connor finished.
"That's good news." Bilkins commented to Markham and Dunn who where standing behind him. "If you're going to be delivering drug money to him. We can get him for laundering." Bilkins continued.
"Nah. There's only one problem." Rome spoke up with a mouth full of food.
"What's that" Bilkins asked curious as to what this problem was.
"Fuentes" Rome explained. Bilkins nodded for him to continue. " Verone's tapping her" Rome explained casually. Now that I thought about I had also noticed that something seemed to be going on between her and Verone.
'Tapping her" Bilkins asked confuted as to what that actually meant." Taping her how" he asked.
'That is crap" Markham scoffed.
"What you talking about homeboy. We know what we seen" Rome snarled back at him.
"So what do you think O'Connor? She compromised. You should know" Markham said using a low blow.
" What's that supposed to mean" Rome questioned not knowing the whole story as to what had gone down in LA two years ago.
"Your pal O'Connor didn't tell you. He flipped on Bilkins in LA. He gave his mark his car keys and let him disappear. That's why he's not a cop anymore" Markham said not so charmingly.
" So what do you think expert." Markham continued obviously not finished digging the spurs in.
"I don't know" O'Connor calmly responded.
"Alright we'll keep an eye on her" Bilkins intervened between O'Connor and Markham
"Alright we're out of here" O'Connor said getting up. Rome and I followed him outside.
"Let your man go" Rome asked trying to pry any information out of O'Connor about what happened in LA two years ago.
"Drop it. I don't want to talk about it." O'Connor asked nicely.
"Drop it. Hell. I want to hear about this homey." Rome tried to pry information out of him again.
"Rome just fucking drop it." I said pushing passed him and continued on to the EVO to wait for them.
"We got Fuentes in with Verone. Markham trying to blow our cover. And three wired cars that are not better then that dame ankle bracelet mine. I'll tell you bruh. You let your boy Markham do that shit again in front of Verone. That's going to be our ass" Rome explained as we got into the EVO.
" I know man. I know. Shit is just getting real thick real fast. We need a way out. We got to come up with some sort of exit strategy," O'Connor explained.
"Exit Strategy" Rome asked. Like Rome I was interest to here O'Connor plan
"Yeah" O'Connor answered.
" I like the way that sounds. What you got in mind" Rome asked O'Connor what his plan for this exit strategy was.
"I don't know man. But we need three more cars" O'Connor stated before starting up the EVO and heading back to Tej's garage.
