*Chapter 3*: Pt. 1 - Upping the Game

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Original Writer: YoungTruthLP (Tumblr: Shinodafan94)

Co-Author: Mechawolfx

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May 18th, 2019

After the race, time unknown

Letty's Crew House

The crew all had smiles on their faces as they exited their cars, Quinn's Skyline pulling up onto the last part of the driveway behind Tina's 350Z.

"That was one hell of a race!" Tina grinned, shutting the door of her car as Marley walked around and wrapped an arm around the brunette's waist.

Her girlfriend grinned. "Damn right, it was amazing"

"I've never seen someone cross the finish line that way" Mia smiled, wrapping an arm around Letty's waist as the Latina wrapped her arm around her shoulders.

"It was cool, I'll admit" Quinn said as she followed Letty and Mia into the house, Rachel close behind.

"Pfft, I could do that" Dani said with a wave of her hand as she entered the house.

"Really? I'd like to see you try" Quinn responded as they entered the kitchen.

"I could!"

"Yeah, really?"

Dani was about to bite back when Letty cut in from her place leaning up against the counter. "Enough you two. I'm sure Dani could do it, but Santana did it in the middle of a race, around a corner, and reversed over the line."

Quinn smirked over at the shorter blonde who just huffed and leaned up against the wall next to Brittany. "What about Puck?" Marley asked.

Letty shrugged as Mia handed her a beer. "What about him?"

"Isn't he going to be a problem? We both need new racers" Marely replied.

"I'm very aware of that"

"What about Santana? Surely with that stunt she pulled at tonight's race, Puck's gonna be on her case. It's not every day we get racers who do that in their first race" Rachel said.

"I know but I'm not one of those people who recruit after one race."

"Yes, which is exactly why you need to break that bad habit just this once." Mia said as she moved to stand in between Letty's legs, the Latina's free arm wrapping around her waist.

"Why's that? Give me one reason why she's worth me going back to watch her again?"

"For once I think you should just trust our instincts as a crew" The woman in her arms replied as she took a sip of her drink.

"Yeah, not to offend you, but you kind of avoid picking up new racers these days." Rachel said, looking over at her adoptive older sister.

"That's true." Quinn agree from beside the brunette, taking a gulp of beer in the process.

"I have to agree, you seem to have this thing against expanding our crew" Marley added.

Tina nodded. "Yeah, we're good as we are now, probably one of the best, but we really need someone new to shake things up."

Letty glanced over at Dani and Brittany who nodded and then back at the woman who was resting in her arms. "I just like keeping people close. We're like family and I don't want somebody new coming in, we've been this way for years. I like it the way it is." She shrugged.

Mia sighed. "But babe, maybe this is an exception"

"Why?"

"Because she drove good. Who knows, she might pull something just like that in her next race. We must take some chances or we're never gonna win in a few months' time against Puck's crew at Race Wars. I guarantee he will be there the next time she races and if she ends up with him who knows what that girl could do to us. Puck will be unstoppable. We could end up not needing her, but we won't know until we see her race again."

The crew leader took a few moments to think about her girlfriend's reasons for why she should pay attention to Santana. Sighing she took another gulp of her drink. "Fine. We'll go to the next race but don't expect me to go back after that if she's nothing special."

The crew cheered as she agreed to take a risk. Mia smiled as she turned her head to glance up at her girlfriend. "Thank you"

"This had better be worth it"

The shorter woman's grin grew even wider. "It will be" She whispered before craning her head up for a kiss which Letty happily returned.

"The things you make me do." She whispered against her lips as she rolled her eyes, her arm tightening around her waist.

"Now we have decided that, who wants to play against me on the PlayStation?" Quinn asked.

"You're so on!" Dani replied, the others laughing as they followed behind the competitive pair towards the living room.

Letty rolled her eyes once more as Mia pulled away and gripped her hand in her own before dragging her into the living room after them.

A few days had passed since her first win and Cassandra had shown Santana a place where she could work on her car, a small garage, just big enough for only her and the car to fit inside with a few parts along the sides. It wasn't ideal but it was enough to be able to work on her ride when it needed it.

Hip-hop music pumped out of Santana's iPod dock as she worked under the Supra making tweaks, the Latina not able to hear someone pull up outside. Cassandra got out of her car and stood at the open entrance of the small garage and saw a pair of overall-clad legs sticking out from under the front of the propped-up car.

"Santana?"

Moments later said woman rolled out from under the car on a beat-up roller board that had been in the garage prior to her arriving.

"Hey" She greeted, sitting up and pulling out a rag from her pocket where the top half of her overalls were pulled down to and wrapped around her waist.

"Hello, working hard I see."

She glanced behind herself at the car and then back up at the tall blonde. "Yeah...or at least I'm trying too"

"Why, what's wrong?"

Santana stood up and finished wiping off her hands, stuffing the dirty rag back into her back pocket. "This car is good, and I've always wanted a Supra, but the thing is the driver before me only had basic mods on it and even then they weren't put in very well. They barely worked well enough to win me the race, but if I'm gonna keep winning I'm going to need better mods and a better garage."

"I'm sure if you keep up the good work you'll be on a crew in no time. You impressed both Letty and Puck the other night and it was pure luck that they both showed up to the same race. Even though Puck's our target, keep impressing Letty. I have a feeling she might let you join. Back to the car, are your winnings not enough to improve it yet?"

"No. They can buy me basic stuff like a new pair of seats and a new set of rims, maybe even a whole new body kit, but it's useless for performance parts, they're expensive and right now 15k isn't getting me anywhere."

"What can you do in the meantime?" Cassandra asked as she walked around the car, her 5-inch heels clicking on the dirty concrete the entire time.

Santana shrugged in response to her question. "Not much. The only thing I can do is tweak the current modifications up to the proper potential in the hopes that it will give me a small boost in the next race. If there's one thing I know how to do is tweak and I guess that's what I'll be doing until I can afford some better parts."

The blonde nodded. "Yes, when I did my research, I heard you were one of the best fine tuners out of everybody. Maybe you could work your magic here and win the next race, which brings me to why I am here."

"Yeah, well let's hope it works. What did you want to talk about?" The Latina asked, walking over to her dock and pressing pause on her iPod.

"I have the details on your next race. A couple more races and hopefully you will move up a level. The race is starting from a similar location as last time. Here's the details." She handed her a piece of paper with the address on it. "Head over to this location and you know the rest. Just make sure you win or else the crew leaders will lose interest in you and we can't have that. Good luck Santana"

"Yeah, thanks." Santana replied, watching the blonde walk out of the garage and towards her car, a matte black Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series with a red interior.

Shaking her head at the fancy car Santana turned back to her own car and smiled as she heard the loud roar of an engine and Cassandra speeding away. "Don't worry, I'm gonna make you the best damn tuner in the city of Lima, even if it kills me"

Car's in order of appearance:

Cassandra = Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series, Matte Black with Red Interior