Never is a Long Time

Jesse made his way out of racers edge and lent against his car, his hands curled around his body as he attempted to stop the shaking, sweat had formed on his head and was making its way down the side. He closed his eyes only to have them snap open again, the sound of bullets, the feel of them tearing through flesh.

"Jesse" Jesse's eyes snapped to the side to see CJ making her way over to him, she smiled and settled herself at the side of him. She kept her gaze fixed in front of her, but every now and then her eyes wondered over to him. This was far from the go happy person that she had first met; he looked scared out of his mind.

"You ok?" Jesse's gaze fell onto her and after a while he nodded his head slowly.

"Look Leon filled me in on what happened, I know what's its like to be afraid, trust me and im gonna kick Trans ass, for both of us"

A small smile formed on his face and he nodded his head in agreement, CJ smiled and placed her hand around his waist and pulled him towards her.

"Now what do you say you go back home get ready for the races, and then me and you will have a little one on one, I always found that adrenaline is the cure for anything………..what ya say"

Jesse turned his body to fully face her and nodded his head a smile reaching from ear to ear.

"I say it sounds like a plan" CJ nodded her head and made her way back to racers edge.

Letty was the first one to see her making her way into the room and she made her way over to her, grabbing her by the arm she pulled her into the garage.

"What the hell is your problem?" CJ shouted ripping her arm from Letty's grip; Letty closed the door behind her.

"Ok I do not have the hots for Dom" Letty shook her head and turned to face her, CJ stopped the next comment, when she saw just how pale and afraid Letty looked.

"What's going on?" Letty sighed and ran her hand through her hair before turning to face CJ.

"I made a mistake" CJ nodded her head

"What sort of mistake and why are you telling me and not Mia?" Letty began to fevishly pace the room

"Cause Mia would go straight to Dom" Letty turned to face CJ and ran her hand through her hair.

"I erm slept with Leon, and Tran found out, he's threatening to tell Dom, saying he wants 5 mill or he's telling him"

CJ's mouth fell open, as she stared at Letty with shock.

"You slept with Leon?" Letty nodded her head and leant herself against the wall.

"It was right after the heists we were drunk scared we didn't know if Jesse was gonna live, of if Vince would we didn't know were Dom was, we just needed to know someone was there, we just needed to fell ya know?"

CJ nodded her head and walked over to Letty and placed her hands onto her arms forcing her to look at her she moved some of her hair out of her face so she see her proparly

"5 mill?" Letty nodded her head.

"Ok….ill get the money" Letty shook her head

"I can't pay that sort of money back" CJ shook her head

"Im not asking you to…………..what I am asking is you tell Dom yourself……………and then after this race is over you don't have anything to worry about"

Letty nodded her head, and CJ let go of her shoulders, and turned to leave, pulling open the door she only stopped when Letty called her back.

"Tell him Letty, if he loves you and you love him then it will work no matter what"

CJ walked out of the room, and her eyes caught Brian's she smiled slightly before lowering her eyes she made her way over to him.

"You ok?" CJ nodded her head and turned to see Letty making her way out of the room, they locked eyes and Letty gave her a look that clearly said, if you love him, and he loves you then it will work out. CJ shook her head and laughed slightly before turning to face Brian.

"I spoke to Jesse earlier, this thing with Trans really shook him up" Brian looked over to were Jesse was standing next to Vince and Leon and could tell by the way he was standing, the way his gaze was shifting, that he was less then okay, the thing with Tran had more then shook him up.

"Yea docs said he might not have woken up, it was pretty touch and go for a while…………….you sure this thing with Tran is a good idea, I mean he's already shown he's not good a playing by the rules, you sure you willing to take the risk"

CJ ran her hand through her hair before crossing her arms over her chest in a defensive manner; she lowered her gaze before looking up at Brian, and saw the underlining concern.

"If this is the only way to get rid of him then yea, im gonna do it" Brian nodded his head in understanding, her attitude of putting others before herself had been what attracted him to her in the first place, she didn't care who her father was, she didn't follow in his footsteps, the only illegal thing that she had done was street racing, and yet he still couldn't get over who her father was, and ultimately that had been what broke them up.

"Me and Jesse are gonna race tonight, so im gonna head back home……….you wanna come?" CJ looked up at him with expectant eyes, and something else Brian couldn't quite pin point, he smiled and nodded his head slowly.

"Yea ok" CJ smiled before linking her arm through his, she looked over at him and smiled before lowering her head, and followed him out of the shop.