Courtney couldn't believe what Scott had done. After making her hair brown he had decided while she was sleeping to cut her hair. Who does that? This was a new low even for him. Scott had cut her hair to her neck but at all funny angles so it looked like a two year old had done it. As she studied herself in the mirror she knew it was take a lot to fix the mess he made.

"Can I have the scissors?" she asked Stan, who was her current babysitter.

He eyed her cautiously. He had seen the way she had been acting and knew that she could probably seriously damage, she would do damage if possible.

"I'm not going to stab you, I just want to fix up my hair," she told him though the thought had crossed her mind but realised that would get her nowhere.

"Just like a girl," he smirked as he handed over the scissors.

She chose not to make a remark as she focussed on fixing her hair. She cut and trimmed till it looked decent, well half decent, finding that it now sat just below her ears but because it was so short, her curls bounced everywhere. Never had she had such curly hair before.

Though she would never be a beauty queen or even the prettiest girl in Scott's 'possession', she felt pretty.

Scott came in a few minutes later and dismissed Stan. He looked her up and down appreciably then grabbed her. She fought him all the way to the bed and continued to fight him. Pretty much an hour later Courtney was dragged back to the car, her bruised everywhere and Scott had a nasty black eye and his family jewels very sore. He forced her into the back seat. She was always exhausted after certain activities but fighting Scott and doing it left her weak – especially when it was against her will. She sat as close to the window she could and rested her eyes…


Finding Home


They crowded around Hayley's living room after the fire. No one had been hurt thanks to Mia's phone call that had come just in time. Dom looked out over the gardens with a sigh. He got the message they had sent and knew it would be dangerous and probably completely insane to go after her, but he was hatching a plan.

"Hayls worrin' about ya," Vince said joining him at the window.

"I'll apologize to her later, can't have her health failing because of me,"

Hayley despite everything was a very strong girl and cared for Vince. That's all that matter with Dom. Family mattered to Dom and that was why he was going to do everything possible to get Courtney back. Not only was Courtney his girl but she was family; the girls were her sisters, the boys were her brothers.

"She knows you're under a lot of stress and I'm looking out for her," Vince said with a shrug. "Have you thought up a plan to get our girl back?"

"Not really, I don't even know where to start. Every plan I come up with has too much danger for us and for Court."

"It's a good thing I do then," Letty announced walking into the room.

Dom turned to her. It was good to see that she was feeling better. Letty, Jesse and Leon had caught the most damage out of the team and it was only because they had been closest. Jesse had small burns on his arms, Leon had singed eyebrows and hair, and Letty had been affected by the smoke. She hadn't been able to stop coughing since they got to the safe house – Hayley's parents' house.

"We go to Mexico,"

"Mexico?" Vince asked. "Why Mexico?"

"There's a safe house where Leroy does all his dealings; it's near the border of Mexico. It's where I met Courtney so it's a good start. It's two days way from the compound and the only place we can get Courtney out without her or us getting killed. It's where Leroy would take her to break her in. He'd need to get her back under his thumb before taking her to the compound."

Dom nodded, not liking what Letty was implying. He knew that it was a good chance that she had been "broken in" numerous times by the time they got there.

"What else do we need to know?"

"There is less guys at the safe house then at the compound and only Scott's and Leroy's closest guys will be there. Hardly any external security, you know cameras, hearing bugs, that sort of stuff. And how we get in, well that's the easy part,"

Dom nodded again and looked between the two.

"I'll leave tonight,"

"You're not going by yourself," Letty told him, as she came closer to them. "You haven't seen how this guy works. He has hundreds of people on his payroll and he will kill you in an instant if you stuff up. He'll hunt you back down and kill you after mouths of torture. You need a team behind you to do this,"

"Everyone can't come," Dom objected.

"I never said everyone, I said team," Letty explained. "You need only a couple of us,"

"Who do you suggest?"

"Me, Leon, you of course, and Buster," Letty said after a minute's thought.

"What about me?" Vince objected. "Or Jesse or Rome or Mia?"

"No offence V, but your arm and Jess has pretty bad burns while Mia doesn't like guns and Rome needs to look after the girls," Letty explained, before Dom could say anything.

Dom looked to each other and nodded to himself.

"And Han," Dom said, firmly.

That makes five, five should be enough, Dom thought to himself not voicing his thoughts.

"So what are the rest of us meant to do?" Vince demanded, his temper rising. "Sit and do nothing?"

"No, you won't do nothing," Dom said, cutting in before Letty could say anything.

He then walked out of the room and into the dining room. They followed him not quite sure what was going on. As the rest of the team entered the room, everyone could tell Dom was planning something.

"Hayley I don't suppose you have a house in Mexico?" Dom asked.

"Ah no; my family wasn't that rich that we had a house on every country. Dom what are you planning?" Hayley asked as Vince came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her.

Hayley could feel the tension radiating off Vince so she knew Dom had done something; something that Vince didn't agree with. She just hoped that it wasn't too bad like running off without anyone. Hayley secretly hoped that Vince wouldn't go, after the bomb they both were a little shaken.

"We're going on a holiday," he stated. "Can you, Summer and Jenni find us somewhere to stay? We need to get everyone out of here."

The girls nodded as Dom turned to the rest.

"Mia can you get a hold of Han? Tell him we have a job. V, can you organise some cars for us?"

Vince was the best at rounding up cars for the team. Always had and probably always would be. But this was asking a lot from him, seeing that he wouldn't be joining them.

"And the rest of us?" Brian asked.

"We're going to Mexico,"

"All of us?"

"No, just Letty, Brian, Leon, Han and me. Everyone else will go on holidays,"

"And what are you going to do in Mexico?" Leon asked.

"Get Courtney and bring her home…"


Finding Home