I ONLY OWN TESS. BLAKE IS OWNED BY SOMEONE ELSE. THEY WERE KIND ENOUGH TO LET ME BORROW HER. AND NO, THE STORY ISN'T FINISHED. I'M NOT DONE WITH THESE TWO YET.
SIX WEEKS LATER
Everything was going great with Tess and Dom. These past few days though, she had been pulling away. Dom was at the garage working on a car, waiting for Tess to show up. She still knew nothing about cars, but they had lunch together everyday. She was over an hour late. Dom washed the oil off his hands and pulled out his cell phone and called her. She didn't pick up. Rome came walking in. "You seen Tess today?" Dom asked him. Rome looked at him like he was the stupidest person he had ever met. "What's the date?" Rome asked him. Dom looked confused. "The thirteenth?" Dom said slowly. Rome hit him upside the head. "Of what?" He asked. Dom looked even more confused until he realized that it was September 13th. "Shit." Dom swore throwing down his rag and jumping in his car. A few minutes later, he slammed his car to a stop in front of her house. He didn't bother knocking.
Tess was sitting on the kitchen floor with a bottle of Jack Daniels. She looked up and Dom sat down next to her. She laid her head on his shoulder. "The first time I met Johnny was a few weeks after I lost the baby. I met him at the races. We hit it off right away. He's saved my life three times since then. A few days after I met him I was supposed to go meet him. I didn't show. He felt like something was off so he came here. He found me floating face down in the pool. I had gotten drunk and high and slipped and fell. I cracked my head open and rolled into the pool. He fished me out. The second time he saved my life, we were at his house. I went into the bathroom and did a bump of coke. Turned out to be a hot dose. He found me on the bathroom floor having a seizure. Got me to his doctor just in time. The last time was when I saw you at the races after you got out. I went to his house high and he gave me a detox drug. I had been using again for two weeks. That's why you didn't see me for two weeks after that." Tess took a long swig of Jack as Dom let everything she said sink in. He knew deep down it was his fault she had started using. If he had never left her off the visitor's list she wouldn't have lost the baby and started doing coke. He had no idea he had hurt her that badly. He was just trying to protect her.
He stood up and picked her up off the floor and carried her to the car. He knew where to take her to make her feel better. It always worked in the past so he decided to give it a try. He stopped and got her coffee to sober her up on the way. Tess fell asleep on the way. When she woke up they were at Disney Land. Dom had checked them into the hotel and was now taking her shopping for clothes. They were going to be there for a few days. They both needed to get away for a little while and just have some fun. They didn't need to worry about racing, about the store or the Garage. They just needed to be themselves. While Tess was trying on clothes, Dom was looking at jewelry. He had everything all planned out. All he needed was the ring. There was no way they were leaving without being engaged. Dom wanted to start his life with her. He was tired of waiting. If he hadn't been in prison, they would be married by now.