In the heart of the cold, cold city

"Excuse me Officer O'Connor?" "Yes?" Brian asked, turning around to look at the doctor who had just come out of the operating rooms. "Your sister is going to be just fine, she is being moved into recovery then into a room. I can have a nurse show you where it is." "No that's okay, I don't want to overwhelm her, there should be some contacts in her phone, she lives with some friends. And they will come down." He wanted to see her but there was no way that he was going to do it after she got shot and had emergency surgery. The last time they had talked there had been a huge fight and she went to Roman's to get away from him. He was pretty sure that she told him she hated him too. She was a strong willed individual then and she probably still was. The doctor looked at him in disbelief before walking away, the girl was going to need her brother and all he was doing was running from the problems.

Mia came into the garage in a rush, a panicked look on her face. "Mia what's wrong?" Letty asked seeing her first. "That was the hospital, Sophie was shot at the club during a police raid." The tool that was in Leon's hand clattered to the ground as Jesse turned his chair around to look at her. "Is she okay?" Vince demanded. "I don't know V." "I am going down there. We are all she's got." "Go, call us when you know something." Dom ordered, he would have sent Mia instead but Vince would have been useless the rest of the day in worry. Something he never rarely showed about anyone.

"I need to know what room Sophie O'Connor is in." Vince barked once he got into the hospital lobby. He had to run every single red light that he had come to and was getting more and more aggravated as the seconds passed and now the nurse was taking her sweet time looking her up on the computer.

"I need to know your relationship to the patient." The nurse said in a bored tone as she popped a bubble with her gum. She had seen the good looking older brother come down 10 minutes prior talking on his phone rapidly and she was pretty sure that this dark haired man was related to her.

"I am her boyfriend." He spat out the words that surprised him, he never once referred to himself as anyone's boyfriend.

Lover, yes.

Maybe Sophie was changing him more than he had thought, hell since he had met her, he hadn't thought much about Mia, in fact she only came to his attention when she was in front of him. And he found that odd, he had always wanted Mia. Thought they would end up together and he would be a part of the Torretto Family for real. But things changed and he didn't know if it was a good or bad change.

"She is in room 1101." Vince nodded his head curtly and started towards the elevator bank. "You're welcome." She called towards his back. "Jerk."

Sophie woke up and looked around the room in shock, "Why am I in the hospital? And why does this hurt so bad." This was the first time she had been in the hospital and she was scared to death, she desperately wished that her brother was with her or Rome. But she didn't have either one of them, Brian was off doing whatever he wanted and Rome was behind bars. "Shit where's my phone? I need to call Mia, she will come." Sophie muttered, her panic causing her blood pressure to rise and the monitor to start beeping.

The nurse came into the room and offered her a smile, " I am glad you are awake Miss O'Conner, we were wondering when you were going to join us again." "What happened?" She asked, skipping over the pleasantries. "The club you worked at was raided by the police and you were shot.' "By a police officer?" "No, I believe it was one of the men who owned the club." SOphie laid her head back on the pillow, "God, I should have listened to Mia and worked at the shop. No guns." The nurse laughed as she left the room to get her more pain medication and let the doctor know she was okay

While she was doing that, Vince stuck his head in the room before giving her a smirk. "Hey Soph. You good?" "They have me on pretty good pain meds. So yeah I am good." She said, offering him a tired smile. He stepped fully into the room and shut the door behind him, "What happened?" "It's a long story V." She returned. "We got time, I don't think they are going to let you out of here anytime soon." He said eyeing the wires and tubes that she was hooked up too. She lifted her shoulder and dropped it down again. "The club got raided, Janice and I were the only two there. I remember telling them to go away because we weren't open. And then they broke down the door.

The door to Sophie's room opened a while later and the rest of the team stepped into the room and smiled seeing the blonde awake and talking to Vince, her hand that didn't have the heart monitor on it was waving around as she talked. "Hey Soph." Mia greeted going over to the bed and took ahold of her hand.

"Hey guys." She returned with a sleepy smile.

"You good girl?" Letty asked following Mia into the room, careful not to over rush anything, she knew how she was in pain and she wondered if Sophie would be a bear too or if she would be in the opposite direction.

"With as much pain medication they have me on. Yes. I can't even feel the pain from the wound right now."

"What happened?" Jesse asked as he closed the door again

Vince shook his head, he didn't need to hear the story again and he really didn't want to hear Sophie repeating it. It made him so much more angry. "The police raided the club." He said shortly, "that asshole Roger held her at gunpoint."

All eyes were on Sophie now, and the blonde lifted her shoulder up and dropped it down, she still wasn't quite sure how she ended up being held at gunpoint. "I guess they were running stuff out of the back. And I guess he thought holding girls hostage was a good idea."

"You should have come and worked with us Soph." Mia muttered, after she found out where the girl was working she tried to pressure Dom into letting her work with them at either the garage or the store but both he and Sophie refused to do so.

Sophie liked being independent and she got that. If she could be independent she would be.

But she relied too much on her brother to be independent and she worried if she never had to be without Dom.

"I know but I liked the club." She muttered relaxing against the pillows, sleep threatening to over take her. "Sleep." Vince ordered, "We will be here when you wake up." It would take a hoard of wild animals to get him to leave at that point and time. Her eyes went to Dom who nodded his head once and folded his arms across his chest. Sophie was family, and nothing, got in the way of family.