A/N: Thank you for the reviews!
Chapter X - 'Til tomorrow
The Fast and the Furious
Euphoria, Furious Six
Berlin, Germany
The black Honda drove in 220 km/h on its' way back to Berlin with Letty in it. Team 3 had arrived to the truck to erase all fingerprints and evidences that Letty herself and her team might had left. She had waited for the helicopter and informed them about what was inside of every single box while Diane had handed them some paperwork Axel Pettersson had printed.
Her team had chosen to drive all of the cars to the private jet and take the flight back to Berlin while Letty had chosen to drive. With her in the driver seat, she would arrive sooner than the team. They would have to take the illegal way underground the airport and enter the plane from below it instead of crossing the whole airport.
It was way easier to drive the car back to the capital anyhow.
It was midnight and she watched the lights of Berlin grew larger as she approached her current hometown. After heading towards an ausfahrt, it took barely fifteen minutes until she was in the neighbourhood Leon lived in. A typical family territory by the houses with bigger gardens. He had chosen the area because it reminded him a lot of the old Toretto-house back in L.A.
Pulling up to the driveway as always, caused her nerves to relax after the adrenaline that recently had streamed inside her. She got out of the car and inhaled deeply, taking in the fresh night air. The street was empty and most lights from the houses were switched off.
She walked up to the porch, longing for the bed in his guest room. She opened the front door and entered the dark hallway. After turning on the lights and taking off her shoes, she locked the door behind her.
"Hello?" she called out in a hushed voice to not wake up Elaine, who was asleep. She passed the hallway and expected the TV to be on with a tired Leon, surrounded by a blanket, resting on the couch. He'd either watch an action movie or sleep on the furniture. But the livingroom was dark and no Leon was in sight.
Frowning at what she saw, she walked upstairs to the second floor and strolled down to the guest room where she found Elaine asleep in the bed she usually to slept in. The bed was placed in the corner of the room under a window with a view over the street. Leon had put pillows along the bed's side so Elaine wouldn't fall down since he had no crib in the house.
Letty smiled and opened her backpack and changed into a baggy t-shirt before lying down next to her tiny daughter. The motherly mood she had received since she had given birth had surprised Leon highly. She used to be annoyed by little kids. Her opinion had always been; "They ask these stupid, embarrassing questions without even feel ashamed," "They just turn normal cool people into corny parents," "They gain all people's attention, Just like tiny drama-queens," and she simply just used to avoid children. But as soon as Elaine had squirmed in her arms that day almost a year ago, she had changed drastically.
Leaning slightly over Elaine, she kissed her cheek and slowly lay down next to her. Never in a million years would she want to let go of Ellie. She actually thought it was kind of funny. How she never could see herself with a child, but once she had Elaine; it didn't even take a second before she knew she wouldn't be able to live without the little girl.
Dom sat in front of the general-man who had brought him to the compound.
"So, if I got this right. You're not sending me to the US, and so on into jail?" Dom asked confused.
The general pushed a file over to Dom. "There is a man called George Stevens. He is from England and cooperates with a half English-half German, Jerry Hamilton. Hamilton has magnificent teams that are almost indestructible. They have been carefully chosen and picked from all places of the world," the general informed Dom. "Stevens gives orders to Hamilton about what he pleases to possess and Hamilton fixes it with the help of his business. Unfortunately, they have managed to gain a mount of weapons with new techniques the military would like to keep hidden. As a secret,"
"And why are you informing me about this?" Dom questioned and looked at the general suspiciously.
The general smirked contentedly at Dom. "If you somehow get rid of George Stevens and Hamilton, your name will be clear in all countries that participate in EU, the European Union. And that case includes all people you'd like to have free as well. You will all be free to live normal lives in EU. An offer can't get better than that,"
Dom who had listened intensively decided to ask another question even though he already was into this operation. Anything that was a profit for Mia and Alessandra was something he absolutely would do. "What if I disoblige?"
The general chuckled. "I knew you'd ask," he said and leaned forward towards Dom to let him hear the words clearly. "You will be sent straight back to Lompoc and so will Mia and Brian," Dom's jaw clenched of the mentioning of people laying their hands on Mia. "And you don't want to know what happens to orphanages like your niece then becomes,"
Slight astonished the German military knew about Mia and Brian, left a scowl on Dom's forehead.
"We have CCTV everywhere Toretto. But we did let them enter our country. You're the one we need. Do you we have a deal or not?"
Throwing the general first a doubtful look, Dom eventually shook hand with the general. If he would have to track down that Hamilton and Stevens to clear their names, then he'd simply do it.
Someone bouncing up and down on Letty's stomach woke her up from the precious dream she had.
"Mom," Elaine nagged as she continued jumping on Letty in attempts of trying to wake her mom up.
Tiredly, Letty opened her eyes with a soft groan. She sat up and grasped Elaine's wrists so she wouldn't fall off of her upper body.
"I'm up Ellie," she assured Ellie whose eyes glistened of energy. She herself yawned largely.
Lifting Elaine up in the air, Letty directly turned her nose away from the smell.
"Ugh," complained and embraced her daughter tighter as she got out of the bed. She opened the door into the hallway, crossed it with the babbling Elaine in her arms and entered the bathroom. She laid the toddler down on the counter and opened the shelf to grab a diaper. When she saw Ellie's arms outstretched in the air, she knew precisely what she longed for. She placed the favourable pacifier in Ellie's mouth and in an instant, the little girl was pleased.
Entangled in the sheets she was surrounded in, her body was as glued to his. She slowly lifted her head, awoken by the sound she had heard in the hallway. Her eyes moved suspiciously at Leon who still slept like a rock.
Smoothly, she tried to get out of the covers and bed but it was impossible without waking him up. Someone was apparently in the house except for her, Leon and the toddler. The little girl could possibly not do all those sounds. Suddenly alerted, she realized what she truly had done. Her eyes went overly wide as she flew out of the bed with her hands searching among the clothes for her cellphone. It was 9 am in the morning and Hobbs would surely wonder why she had been unsupervised gone for 11 hours!
"What's up the hurry?" Leon stirred, rubbed his eyes and sat up. He eyed Monica getting dressed, jumping around the room as she tried to zip her tight dress.
"I have to go back to Crowne Plaza and continue the search for Ms Ortiz,"
Leon froze by that. "No you can't!" he burst out and grabbed her wrist to stop her actions.
"I wasn't supposed to sleep with you," she defended herself and released her arm.
Leon jumped out of the bed and threw a pair of boxers on. All the while Monica opened the door to storm out into the hallway and run downstairs where Letty walked with Elaine.
Always being observant, Letty fortunately heard the steps in the stairs and rolled her eyes, wondering what Leon urged to tell her by the hurrying steps he apparently took.
With fast steps, she strolled into the livingroom and sat down onto the couch, deciding to await Leon to inform her about a job they obviously had to execute. But all she heard was Leon's voice and a female's before the front door was closed, leaving her with a disapproving thought. She didn't exactly like the thought of Leon bringing home women while baby-sitting Elaine.
Mia was walking around in a silk-robe, tied around her waist by a soft belt. She was pacing back and forth in the kitchen, rocking the crying Alessandra in her arms. She tried to hush her but it was quite impossible.
Gisele was sitting on a barstool and drank coffee while browsing a Britain newspaper, her eyes searching for the particular article. "The four people have been identified as Leticia Ortiz, Leon Tyler, Lia Ferrario and Diane Jones," she read out loud to let Mia hear.
The new mother tried to hush Alessandra another time before replying. "I just hope Dom has found out. But the fact that he wasn't yelling and roaring tells me he isn't aware of her existence,"
Gisele shrugged disappointedly. "Apparently," she agreed.
Brian entered the kitchen with outstretched arms, doing some kind of morning gymnastics with a long yawn. His hair was messy but other than that, he looked quite awake.
"'Morning," he said and ruffled Gisele's hair before leaving a peck on Mia's lips.
Immediately, Gisele mirrored herself in the refrigerator from her chair and fixed her hair back, playfully irritated by the gesture.
"What do we got here?" Brian asked and eyed the plate full of sandwiches with a hungry look.
"I made them for you and Han," Gisele told him, never tearing her eyes from the newspaper.
Brian heaved one of the many sandwiches that were put on the giant plate into his mouth as Mia kept pacing and rocking Alessandra. "Sweetheart…," she tried to sooth her daughter and she had partly managed to silence her. Mia lifted a pacifier and placed it in Alessandra's mouth, which finally silenced her completely.
Gisele browsed another page and sighed. "Look at this," she held up the newspaper to let Brian and Mia study the many pictures of who was wanted.
"Dominic Toretto, Mia Toretto and Han Seoul-Oh have not been seen, but potential witnesses need to contact the German Police immediately," Brian read. "Brian O'Conner, Gisele Yasher, Lia Ferrario, Leon Tyler, Diane Jones and Leticia Ortiz are all in the area around Berlin. Policemen are placed at the borders to check the cars that pass to keep the wanted criminals caught in the country,"
"What? So does that mean they do know you two are in Germany?" Mia asked confused.
"This is what media knows. Not like the government which always knows more. They must have seen you from a CCTV and assumed Mia and I also were here," Han said and folded his arms.
Their minds weren't working well in the morning so they decided to at least dig in the breakfast before seriously coming up with a genius plan, but the lovely quiet feeling was broken when Han's laptop beeped.
He opened it and turned it in an instant towards Brian. "Letty's face has shown up in Grunewald. A kid named Simon Adler has uploaded a photo of him on Facebook and she is in the background,"
"Why do I have feeling I've heard of that place before?" Brian questioned more to himself than the rest of the gang.
"Because Konrad Löwenberg does live in the same area," Han declared. "Come on, hurry!"
Mia kissed Brian's lips as Gisele lip locked with Han. "Be careful,"
When their men had run out through the front door with the whole plate of sandwiches, Gisele opened the freezer and pulled out two Ben and Jerry's.
"Ice cream and Corona?" Mia smiled at Gisele who had her foot placed against the door to keep it open until Mia replied.
"Problem?"
"No, no! Sounds great!" Mia called out over her shoulder on her way into the livingroom with the baby whilst Gisele strolled behind her with two jars of ice cream and beers.
"This is the address?" Han asked after passing many exclusive houses. They stopped outside a big wicket where the gigantic mansion was hidden further behind. Brian backed the car a bit and then pressed the accelerator button down. They crashed through the wicket and drove to the front door. Han put his laptop into his backpack which he threw over his shoulder. They took a run towards the front door of the house. It didn't take long after knocking on it until a young brown short-haired teenage boy opened the door.
"Guten Tag," he greeted the two men, slight annoyed by the time of day people visited him.
"Cut the crap," Brian pulled out a gun and aimed it at the boy's face. He knew it wouldn't take long until Fuentes and Hobbs would be there and join them if they didn't act fast.
The boy held his hands up in surrender and backed backwards into the big hallway. The roof was high and the floor shined of being cleaned so amazingly. There was even a fountain in the middle of the room.
"Are you Simon Adler?" Brian demanded as Han typed on his laptop.
"Yes," Simon, the rich child answered sceptically.
Han showed Simon the picture where Letty was in the background. "That woman in the background," he introduced and pointed at the Latina on the screen. "You know her?"
Remaining quiet for too long revealed that she was familiar. It caused Brian to push him down to the fountain and press his head under the surface, bringing him up right before he was about to drown.
"I've just become a dad. Don't make me kill a kid," he warned Simon. He knew he never would kill the boy but he was soon out of time.
"I don't know who she is," Simon's words caused him to get under the surface once again.
He gasped for air as he was brought up again. "Fine! I do know her a bit!"
"Where is she?" Han inquired.
"All I know is that she visits my neighbour Konrad Löwenberg down the road at some points, but he is rarely home anyhow," Simon answered while panting wildly.
"Where did you take this photo?" Brian demanded.
"Here in my parents' garden. It was an autumn party for the neighbourhood and she attending. I didn't speak much to her though, except for when we discussed my car,"
"More information?" Han demanded decidedly.
"Her name is Leticia Overbeck and she has a daughter called Elaine. That is truly all I know. I can't help you more," Simon acknowledged.
Brian was so taken aback he almost fell backwards. "Elaine? You're saying she has a kid! Overbeck?" he asked confused and shared a wondering look with Han.
Suddenly they heard cars pull up in the driveway. Han gathered the few surroundings quickly.
"If someone asks; her name is Ortiz. You hear that? Leticia Ortiz. Otherwise you'll wish you never were born, got that?" Brian pressed the tip of his gun into Simon's cheek and caused him to nod scared to death.
"Is there a way out of here?" Han asked.
"The backdoor," Simon replied. In an instant, they ran into the direction he was pointing into.
They passed the livingroom which was just as exquisite as the hallway had been. Exclusively decorated with leather couches and mahogany tables with great paintings hanging on the walls.
Just as they slipped out through the back door, they heard the front door burst in with roars.
"We can't go back to our car! They know we're here!" Han burst out, panicking to find a plan B.
"This way!" Brian shouted and climbed up on a mound with Han right behind him.
"Now what?" Han asked, spinning around, looking for a possible escape.
"O'Conner!" Hobbs along with his agents ran towards Brian and Han while shooting at them from the grass they ran on.
Frightened of getting caught, Brian and Han ran along the mound towards the mansion and climbed upwards the walls of it to the roof.
"Okay, there must be some way," Brian tried to figure out a plan while Han stared at the transporter parked on the roof.
"You're thinking what I'm thinking?" Han spoke.
Brian was still viewing over the large garden, watching Hobbs and the rest of the FBI team run around down on the ground. "Depends on what you mean,"
"You know how to fly a helicopter?" Han asked Brian who immediately spun around by the statement and faced what had caught Han's attention.
"Don't know how much I remember from the pilot classes," Brian replied a bit insecurely.
Not hesitating, Han pulled Brian towards the object in a fast pace.
"Then we are about to find out," he called out and opened the door on the helicopter. He placed himself in the front seat and Brian sat down in the pilot seat, travelling with his eyes over all of the buttons before pressing a few of them down.
"Woah!" Han yelled as the helicopter lifted a few feet from the ground, swaying in the air unstable. The agents had now climbed up to the roof and tried to shot the glass windows as Brian tried to avoid them. He moved the handspike and the helicopter increased speed away from the mansion.
"We're flying too low!" Han shouted.
Brian turned to Han. "What?" he yelled, not hearing anything but the propellers. Han had to read his lips after sensing how the voice got drowned by the noise.
"WE'RE FLYING TOO LOW!" Han yelled in Brian's ear. He nodded in agreement and lifted the helicopter just in time to not crash into another neighbour house.
Soon as it lifted, they left Grunewald and crossed a forest until they saw an open field where they possibly could land.
Han who normally wasn't scared, cramped his hands around Brian's arm. Experiencing how he flew the helicopter made Han consider jumping out of it. Either die in the helicopter, burn to death in pieces, or die by jumping, body still complete. There was no way they would land safely! The transporter would probably crash by the swaying.
"WE'RE GOING TO DIE! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" Han screamed his lungs out as his door flew open and Brian pushed him out.
After falling for a brief second, he felt cold substance surrounding him before he swam up to cross the surface. He took a deep inhale by the lack of oxygen and saw Brian swimming next to him.
"That was the first and last time I was in a helicopter with you," Han breathed, trying to calm his shaking nerves.
"Hey, we are alive, aren't we?" Brian defended.
They climbed up to the side of the river and sat down under the trees. Han opened his wet backpack and lifted the laptop out.
Water was dripping from the electronic item and the screen was pitch dark. "Seems this is broken," Han said a bit disappointed.
"Look at that," Brian then told Han and pointed across the river where it burned somewhere far in the forest. "We better get out of here before they track us down,"
Han sighed of the view. "You don't happen to have a parked car somewhere around? Mine is obviously seized by now," Han commented.
Brian stood up and so did Han. "Afraid I don't," he said and whirled around as he tried to figure out where they had landed.
"You see the bridge over there?" he asked Han, who nodded. "I saw a bus station not far,"
A/N: Any opinion? :) I promise Dom will find out quite soooon. Especially now when he works to track Letty's boss and whole organization down...