California Desert

June 2013

"It has been six years" Vince mused as he looked around among the people under the tarp. Six years since the hiest, six years since Jesse died, and six years since Kris...left. Vince knew that she wasn't gone anymore and so did Leon. They had spent a month and a half trying to tell her to tell them that she was back, but she kept telling them that she wasn't going to not until the right time. Mia in Brian's lap, Letty in Dom's lap, Leon and him sitting in chairs and watching the people walk by. It had always been a adrenline rush with them while they were here, and with a rumor flying around lately.
"So what have you guys heard about the competition?" Dom asked,

"I heard that Cobra was back in town" Brian said, immediatly regretting it. Mia had told him that Kris was Cobra, and that Dom knew right along with everyone else.

"I heard that too" Letty said, looking at Dom.
"Funny me too" Dom said, "But that is impossible isn't it?"
At the look that crossed Letty, Dom regretted saying it. Letty got up and Dom was going to go after her, but Mia held him back.
"Let her go, Dom. She needs sometime for some air"
Dom sighed and collasped backwards, putting his head in his hands. Everyone else was silent until Vince and Leon finally decided they should go and see if they could find Kris.

"We are going to go for a walk, you guys okay?" Vince said

"Yeah, we are fine, go on" Dom waved at them carelessly and they walked off.

Kris was standing in the background, she had changed her car around. She still drove a Mustang GT, same year but it was black with dark red stripes, two down the middle with one on either side near the bottom of the car that read mustang. On the right side near the hood was a cobra decal that was flared up. She was leaning against the driver's door, wearing a black mini skirt and red tank and black vinyl jacket over it with a pocket on the right sleeve and a red stripe down either side. Her brunette hair down and moving with the wind that blew by and her green eyes skanning the people that walked by. Jake, Andre, Melanie, and Scott close by talking with her about the races.

"You know it has spread that you are back" Jake told her

"Yeah, I know, but the only people that know about me as who I am, are DT." Kris told him

"She has a point Jakey" Andre said, looking at him smirking.

"Funny, but still...you know DT has heard about it and know now that you are back." Jake said, looking at Kris.
"If they believe it. You never know with Dom and Letty." Kris was staring out in front of her, watching the people that passed by. Most of them not recognizing her, and looking at the car instead of her. When Hector walked by,

"What are you doing here?" Hector sneered

'If you only knew who I was' Kris thought, "Hoping to race" Kris said coldly, when Vince and Leon walked over.

"Just watch your back." Hector growled back to her, then turning to Vince and Leon. "Is Dom here?"
"Yeah, he is by the trailer, the last time I saw him" Leon told him

"Thanks" Hector walked off and Kris looked at Leon and Vince.

"What is his problem?" Kris said

"Who knows, he is been like that since you left" Leon said

"mmmm, anyways what's up?"
"The rest of the team know that you are back. Brian said it first, only to have Dom and Letty say they heard the same thing. Dom isn't really believing it, and Letty walked off." Leon told her

"You have to tell them" Vince said

"I dont' know" Kris said

"They are right, Kris you need to tell them before something else goes wrong. They have a right to know."

"We will be beside you the whole way" Leon told her, when a guy walked up.

"I'm looking for Cobra" he said, looking among the group standing there. Everyone was looking at him, with Leon and Vince nearby and standing the way they were. Both of them in there protective mode over her.

"'He's' busy" Kris said

"mmm, well I wanted to challenge him to a race. I was wonder if he would consider it" the guy said

"And who would 'he' be racing"

"A friend of mine, he said that he could beat him easily and wanted to see if he was able to"
"mmmm, tell your friend that he will meet you at the track at 3pm and don't be late" she told him, he smiled and nodded. Walking off,

"You are actually going to race" Andre asked
"I came here to do that, why not? In less you guys are saying I shouldn't" Kris said, turning to Leon and Vince.

"No, just be careful" Vince said, kissing her on the cheek, "We better go see if we can find Letty and see how Dom is. We will be there to cheer you on along with the rest of DT"

"Thanks you guys" Kris told them and watched them run off.

Three o'clock seemed to come fast, sure enough it had spread through the place that Cobra was racing. Leon, Vince, Mia, Brian, Dom, and Letty gathered at the edge watching the cars pull up and get ready. It was going to be a simple drag race, nothing hardcore. Both cars revved thier engines and Kris was warming up her tires as she pulled forward and then backed up again. When the guy pulled his hands up and looked at each of the cars, the windows on the mustang tinted so no one could see her. The arms dropped and both cars spun dirt getting off of the line. Kris getting the lead, when the guy hit his NOS pulling ahead, she smiled to herself when she hit her own and drove over the line first. Turning the car around making more dirt fly and come back to the people. She stopped and stepped out, looking toward the guy that she just beat,
"Money" she said, he handed it over,

"Wait you were driving" He said, looking at her

"Yes, why?"
"I thought I was going to get to beat the famous Cobra" DT walking up and standing behind her,

"You are looking at Cobra."

"You are..." Kris smiled and nodded, watching him go white. Everyone else watching her, when Leon walked up and picked her up and twirled her around in the air.

"You were great" He said, setting her down and kissing her on the forehead.

She laughed and looked past him as Vince came through the crowd, "KRIS!" He said, picking her up as well and twirling her around. She laughed even more, seeing that Vince was still Vince when it came to her and racing. When she looked over his shoulder her smile dropped. Behind stood the rest of the DT team, Mia was curled up in Brain's arms and Letty and Dom were standing together holding hands. Hector had even come through the crowd and heard the conservation, he was turning white. Realizing that the girl he kept sneering at in front Dom was his daughter.

"Come on, we better go" Kris said wiggling free of Vince's grip.

"Meet us our trailer" Vince whispered in her ear and nudged everyone off and they headed for the trailer. When Kris pulled up and stepped out, Letty was off of Dom's lap and pulling her into a death grip. When they let go, Kris saw that Letty had tears in her eyes. Dom was smiling a watery smile right along with Mia. Brian was watching the action among them, Kris seeing him sitting there. Mia soon followed Letty's action and then sitting down on Brian's lap again. Dom standing up and pulling Kris close to his side,
"I'm never letting you go again, Kris" Dom whispered into her ear and then looking down at her. Kris moved over to Leon and sat down on his lap,

"They filled us in on what happened. Why the secrets?" Letty said

"Why didn't you guys try to contact me?" Kris shot back, she felt a between her shoulder blades and knew that it was Leon trying to get her calm down.

"We tried to get a hold of you, but we couldn't"
"Yeah, right" Kris scoffed, "Then you guys didn't try hard enough"

"We tried for months, and then..."
Kris looked at them, Letty was staring at her. No one moved, no one said anything as Kris and Letty stared at each other. Kris knew what she wanted to do, she knew what she needed to do. But she couldn't do it here and she wasn't going to make a fool out of herself.

"I have another race, in a few minutes" Kris said standing up and heading for her car. She was finally back and finally the DT team knew, but something didn't feel right.

As the dust flew and she pulled away, and the team staring after her. Leon and Vince exchanging looks between each other. There was something there, something they had never seen before. Could telling them that she was back ruin something else inside her? Was there something she didn't tell them? What was happening and what was going on? She should be happy that she was back, and the team knew, then what was it?