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Everyone has their secrets
"I don't like that he hit Chris." Brian whispered under his breath as Dom and Vince went to the living room.
"Neither do I Brian but it was an accident." Mia reassured cleaning up the last of the dishes.
"Yeah an accident this time…" Brian paced behind Mia and was stilled by Mia grabbing him on the upper arms.
"Dom would never…never hurt Chris or any other woman. I can't even believe you'd think that." Mia whispered in a rush with clenched teeth her anger at Brian's insinuation radiating from her eyes.
"I know. I just don't like seeing her like that." Brian faintly smiled; cupping Mia's face he kissed her softly and turned to help dry the dishes. "She's come a long way since Miami." The words left Brian's mouth under his breath not remembering that Chris' past was private and she only shared it when she wanted.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Mia asked casually not knowing that there was definitely more to the story.
"Nothing." Brian corrected himself only to dig himself a hole; Mia knew that tone and it meant he wasn't meant to talk.
"Spill Brian." Mia stood with her hands on her hips imitating that of a mother only for Brian to avoid eye contact. "Or you won't be getting any of this…" Mia smirked raising Brian's hand to her breast, her attempt at being seductive making her giggle. The subtle attempt not so innocent to Brian who couldn't resist. "Brian."
Meanwhile, Dom ushered Vince to the living room and stood out of earshot, away from Mia and Brian.
"I gotta go pick up some parts from Harry; I need you to watch Chris." Dom whispered; he wasn't normally one to ask for help.
"Why what's up with her?" Vince questioned looking at Dom trying to find the words.
"She passed out last night." Dom said rubbing a hand over his face and licking his lips.
"What?" Vince tensed. "Let's take her to hospital." Vince started walking away from Dom to go get his keys only to be stopped by Dom.
"She wouldn't go. Look, just take care of her while I'm gone." Vince nodded in a reluctant agreement as they walked upstairs Dom turning to enter his room and Vince going to the attic to join Lana and the baby.
"Brian?" Mia insisted Brian answer her. Brian looked through to the living room and saw that both Dom and Vince had gone upstairs, turning back to Mia he took her hands and pulled her down to sit at the table with him. "What are you doing? What happened in Miami?"
"I don't know much but I heard that her boyfriend beat her." Brian's revelation was met with a gasp from Mia. "Little did he know he was beating on the wrong person." Brian chuckled at the stories he heard about the guy getting what was coming to him. "Look I know from experience Chris can take care of herself, I just wanna make sure she's alright."
Dom entered his bedroom and started dressing to go pick up some parts from Harry. He sighed still trying to figure out what had happened to Chris the night before. Finished dressing Dom made his way to the bathroom thinking Chris was taking a shower, which she wasn't, hearing noises from her room he was about to enter when he heard Chris talking to herself. Unable to make out what she was saying Dom entered.
"Hey you gonna…" Dom paused when he saw her on her bed fidgeting with her hands. "…have a shower?"
"Uh…yeah." Chris' head snapped up from fidgeting.
"There something wrong with my bed?" Dom grinned playfully striding towards the bed earning a laugh from Chris, which was stifled as soon as she realised she was showing happiness – happiness shouldn't be shown on this day.
"Just shut up!" Vince heard Lana yell before he entered their bedroom to find Michaela in her crib crying and Lana near tears in the bathroom.
"You okay?" Vince asked irritated by Lana, she hasn't made much effort with their daughter and it had only been roughly two days. He picked up the baby and hushed her, sticking his pinkie in front of her mouth she started sucking at it.
"I'm fine." Lana stalked out of the bathroom and made a bee line for Vince and the baby. "Give her here." Lana literally grabbed the baby from Vince's arms. "You can't just stick your fingers in her mouth."
"You better stop this attitude. I don't see you trying to be mother of the fuckin' year!" Vince roared grabbing his jacket and jogged downstairs.
Brian dropped Mia off at the store with Lana and made his way to the garage. Entering he saw Rome and Letty working, Vince and Leon playing around and Chris sat staring into space, the latter disturbing him. Shrugging it off as a moment of self reflection he walked into the office and saw Dom working.
"Yo Dom, we gotta sort out the papers on the…" Brian was interrupted by a casual sounding Dom.
"Due the 16th." Dom mumbled without a care.
"It is the 16th Dom." Brian exclaimed and Dom whipped around cussing under his breath.
"Where's Chris goin'?" Letty asked interrupting the two men, nodding to Chris driving off. "She was actin' all weird and drove off, she ain't talked all day."
"Shit!" Brian yelled hitting the wall surprising both Letty and Dom at the sudden change of demeanour. "It's the fucking 16th!" Brian yelled at himself as he headed towards his car, an obvious unknown reason to the team.
"Brian! What's up?" Dom was alarmed at Chris departure and the fact that the 16th held such importance. He got in the car with Brian and they headed in the direction Chris drove in leaving the team to look at each other questioningly. Not living in the same house definitely made it difficult to know what was going on.
Dom kept questioning an unresponsive Brian who kept cursing himself. Dom was about to make Brian talk when they entered the cemetery, they saw Chris' car and Brian parked behind it. They exited the car and stared at Chris sitting in front of a headstone, clutching her knees to her chest. Dom's confusion was etched on his face and Brian made an attempt at explaining.
"It's her brother." Brian answered Dom's unasked question. Dom's brow furrowed.
"What?" Dom's head spun, here he stood, he knew Chris as well as he could, but he never knew she had a brother.
"He died before we came here." Brian looked uncomfortable as he remembered the details of Kyle's death. "I'll let her tell you." Brian walked off towards Chris leaving Dom to absorb the information; the fact that he didn't know Chris as well as Brian did irked him because he wanted to be the man in her life who knew everything and anything.
Brian walked up to Chris and mentally kicked himself for forgetting it was Kyle's birthday. Chris had convinced him to return for the reason of attending Kyle's funeral in LA. Chris was silent as she stared at the headstone. Bending down behind her he hugged her to him and she knew the difference in bodies, it wasn't Dom.
"Chris." Brian tried getting Chris' attention to no avail. "I'm sorry I completely forgot." Chris kept staring straight ahead as she spoke.
"So did I, being with Dom and everyone made me forget until I went back to Miami…and then yesterday with Nick." Chris reluctantly let tears stream down her face. "I don't wanna forget him Bri."
"Chris, you won't forget your brother." Brian hugged Chris and raised her from the ground turning her to him and hugging her tightly. "He won't let you." Chris clutched onto Brian's shirt crying, her only comfort coming from Brian until she felt familiar arms encircling her waist, pulling her away from Brian and found Dom looking at her, hugging her, holding her trembling body to him. The fact that he had never seen Chris crying to such an extent tugged at his heart.
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You were pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here?
"I'm gonna take her home." Dom said to Brian as Chris' grasp on him became longing, she longed for him to be with her, for him to take away her pain. Brian nodded, walked off to his car and made his way back to the garage. Both stood stationary as the wind blew; the gentle sound washing over Chris' pained sobs. Dom pulled Chris away from him and looked at her distraught face. He had a quiet moment of selfish love of her vulnerable state.
I don't know why why
But I love to see you cry
I don't know why why
It just makes me feel alive.
Chris' sobs turned into hiccups as she tried to choke back her tears, her red eyes and puffy cheeks making Dom fall for her all over again. He kissed her and to the dismay of Chris pulled back sooner than she had wanted. Picking her up he made his way to her car and put her in the passenger seat, buckling her in he ran a palm over her cheek and breathed deep. The ride was silent, Chris staring lazily through the window, a million emotions still present.
He didn't know how he was going to make her feel better but he knew he had to try. Chris' tears were silent; wiping them away with his thumb he carried her into the house and straight to bed. Sitting upright, Dom removed her boots and jeans and felt Chris staring at him, as he looked up to her she grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him into a wanting kiss. He kissed her softly but felt her biting, aching for him.
"Dom…" Chris said breaking from the kiss. "I want…I need you to make me feel good…" Dom gazed at her loving what she was saying to him, what she was asking him, he was the one she needed. "I need you to make me feel…anything but this." Dom smiled, his heart skipping a beat at the desperation in her voice.
"Whatever you need baby." Dom stated matter of factly; at this moment she could ask him the world and he would find a way to give it to her.
He hesitated for a second wondering how to treat her, deciding on gently he remained kneeling in front of her and placed soft kisses on her thighs making her fall back onto the bed out of pure crippling pleasure. Her breathing quickened as Dom ran his hands up her thighs gripping her hips, his tongue languorously drawing circles on her thighs up to her stomach ending with a kiss on her navel.
Chris' eyes were closed but Dom knew he was doing what she had asked, making her feel. He slowly removed her panties taking care to stroke her skin and avoid being rough. The unusually slow strokes of Dom's coarse hands made Chris dizzy with desire; his tongue returned to her thighs and left a wet trail to her heated sex, dipping his tongue between her folds made Chris take a deep breath of air shocked at the sudden sensation. Dom's eyes never left hers, they were closed but he knew she was seeing him do these things to her.
As quickly as the sensation of his tongue was there it was gone when Dom raised himself onto the bed and nudged her legs apart, Chris' eyes still firmly shut and revelling in each sensation Dom gave her. He took his time licking and kissing every inch of skin once he removed her wife beater and bra; with his arousal pressing against her stomach he lowered himself and slowly entered her; the feeling making Chris gasp, it was slow and torturous, a feeling she loved at that moment.
Are you coming…to the moment
When you know your heart can break?
I'm inside you, I'm around you
I just wanna hear you cry again
His leisurely thrusts were joined by upward thrusts from Chris as they became perfectly unified. This was more than sex and as Chris' orgasm hit she felt alive again.
"I love you Chris." Dom's words were music to Chris' ears. Dom's mind reeled at the fact that he could feel so much yet so little in way of his release.
"I…" Chris swallowed hard. "…love you." Chris finally raised her arms from their passive position on the bed and reached for Dom's ass latching her nails into him he knew something had changed. "Harder. Make me feel pain." Chris demanded and Dom knew what she wanted. Without hesitation, obeying her every word he lift one leg over his shoulder and slammed into her making her scream out, her screams an addicting drug to Dom.
His rapid drive into her soon became worth while when Chris' body convulsed as her quake was followed by aftershocks and Dom erupted groaning in reverence of what he was feeling. Spent of emotion and energy Dom rolled over but quickly shot up remembering this wasn't about him. He lay down and pulled her to him, their bodies layered with sweat; as he watched her body mould to his Chris spoke.
"Thank you." Chris stared at the wall but felt Dom's smile on her neck as he kissed her. She started shivering and Dom covered them, rubbing her arms to warm her.
"I aim to please baby." Dom chuckled against Chris' neck evoking a laugh from her throat, raw from crying.
Minutes passed; Dom wanted to ask so many questions. "His name was Kyle." Chris said quietly stroking Dom's hand on her stomach; he listened. "He died almost a year ago just before…before me and Bri came here." She tries to swallow the growing lump in her throat. "He came to visit me for the weekend and I was racing…" Chris's breathing became shallow as she recalled that night. "I asked him if he wanted to join me and he did, he trusted me…" Dom knew how this story was going to end and by the sound of it Chris blamed herself for Kyle's death. "I was winning; going 250 when a rookie racer clipped my right side…we were spinning and smashed into a wall." Dom felt Chris' stomach contract as revulsion of the memory hit her. "I got out with a cut on my hip and a few bruises and Kyle…" Chris choked back tears again. "He died and left me all alone." Chris broke down as she told Dom; she hadn't spoken of it to anyone.
Copyright © JL69
Tun Tun Tun! Everyone indeed has their own secrets and although many may seem rock steady mentally and emotionally – everyone's just as fucked up as anyone else. A bit cheesy but hey, haven't had one of those chapters for a while!
Hope you liked it! What do you think of some of the revelations? R&R please!
The end is very near…
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