*Chapter 5*: Pt. 1 - Introductions

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Original Writer: YoungTruthLP (Tumblr: Shinodafan94)

Co-Author: Mechawolfx

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This story full rights belong to the credited people above, I just wanted to put a few edits (points of view, change some time stamps) to this story so I myself and maybe others could enjoy it a bit differently with a better understanding of what is happening. If you want the original story, please check out YoungTruthLP's version.

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June 3rd, 2019

11:09 pm

Kitty's Bar

20 Minutes later Santana found herself entering a bar named 'Kitty's' at the insistence of her new crew and their leader. Holly walked up to the bar, dragging Santana with her.

"Santana, this is Kitty." Holly introduced.

The woman behind the bar was a petite blonde with her hair up in a tight flawless ponytail dressed in a pair of skin- tight jeans and a blue shirt with the bar's logo on the left breast pocket, 'Owner' embroidered over top the logo.

"Hi, and you are?"

"Oh, um, I'm Santana"

"She won tonight's race and is officially a part-time crew member." Holly jumped in.

Kitty eyed her suspiciously before putting the glass down she had been cleaning. "Well, I'm Kitty and I'm the owner of this bar. I'm essentially in the ranks of Letty's crew too since they come here so often." She said, offering her hand to Santana.

The Latina shook it back. "Cool, it's nice to meet you."

"You too. All I need to know is who's buying?"

"A round of drinks on me." Holly grinned.

"I'll put it on your tab. Plus I'll get you some ice for your face Santana, it looks like you need it."

Santana nodded and watched as Kitty started retrieving bottles of beer from the nearby fridge for the crew, then handing her one along with a bag of ice. "Keep that on your bruise and when the pack melts, come back and we will get you a new one."

After that, Holly led Santana up to where the crew was sitting, in seats surrounding a pool table. As soon as the Latina had sat down Letty stood up. "I know we wanted to wait to add her as a crew member, but tonight I would like to make a toast to Santana. She proved tonight she could pull off a miracle on a tough track. Something that we said she couldn't handle but she did anyway. Here's to Santana, to picking the right crew!"

"To Santana!" Everybody replied, the woman in question blushing as she thanked them.

She sat back as she watched the crew interact with each other, and when she felt the ice pack more or less melted she stood up painfully, the fight from earlier finally catching up to her. Taking a deep breath to try and help numb the pain, Santana started to walk towards the bar, taking a look at her surroundings along the way.

It was small place but had a rustic and cozy feeling to it. There weren't many people there other than them and it felt a little like a biker bar, probably because it looked like one from outside, but it was for street racers instead. Pictures of Letty and Mia along with the others adorned the wall behind the bar as Santana rested up against it, waiting to be served. She was broken out of her thoughts by a voice calling her name.

"Santana?"

When she looked up, Brittany stood in front of her, wearing a similar shirt to Kitty's from earlier. "You work here?"

The blonde nodded. "Part-time"

"Nice"

"Can I get you something?"

"Oh, yeah. My ice pack melted." She grinned stupidly, holding up the mentioned item.

"Want me to replace it?"

"Please"

Brittany took the bag and tried to ignore the sharp tingle that ran up her entire arm when their hands brushed. She disappeared into the back and returned a minute later with a fresh bag, smiling as she handed it over to the other woman.

"Thanks" Santana replied, immediately holding it up to her eyebrow.

"Why did you do that tonight?"

"What? Defend you?"

"Yeah"

"No woman deserves to be harassed, especially by a tool like Rory. I don't really know what came over me but you seemed really uncomfortable."

"I didn't get a chance to say thank you for that by the way. I wanted to but when we arrived at the canyon you were already on your way up."

"Sorry"

Brittany waved her hand dismissively. "Don't worry about it, but thank you for what you did. No one's ever done something for me like that before."

"No problem"

"So, are you gonna be hanging with the crew now?" She asked, deciding to change the subject.

"It looks like it."

"Mmh, it will be nice to see someone else around other than the crew. I think we needed someone to shake things up"

"What about you?"

"Me?"

"Yeah, how do you fit into all of this?"

"You really wanna know?" Santana nodded as Brittany handed her a fresh beer. "Well, I'm not an official member of the crew but I hang around with them all the time."

"So I can expect to see you at their garage when I start upgrading my car?" Brittany smiled as she wiped the bar down.

"Yes, you definitely can."

Santana just smiled as she took another sip of her beer, Quinn walking over. "New girl, game of pool?"

"You're on"

Brittany just smiled as they walked away back to where the crew were still celebrating. Three games later and Santana had just lent her pool cue up against the wall when she decided to lay off the alcohol, not that she'd had many anyway. In her condition she didn't want to push it, so she made her way over to the bar where Brittany and Kitty were still serving drinks.

"Another beer?" Brittany asked as she finished serving another customer.

"Nah. I'm gonna lay off the alcohol for the rest of the night. I don't really want to have a hangover in my condition. Plus, I know how much you and the others drink" Santana said, thinking back to the night she saved Letty from getting caught by the cops.

Brittany laughed. "I know how you feel there. The morning after was crazy. We all missed you after we found out you left early. Anyway, what do you want to drink instead?"

"You got Dr. Pepper?"

"We sure do. Hang on."

Santana nodded and watched as the blonde walked over to the fridge to get her drink. It was then that she turned her head to the left to see Dani and Kitty arguing whilst the rest of the crew just laughed.

"What's with them?" She asked as Brittany came back and handed her the drink, reaching into her pocket to pay for it before Brittany was waving her hand, telling her to stop.

"It's on me" The bartender smiled.

"Really?"

"Yup, for being much more sensible than the others and to answer your question, Dani and Kitty are always like that."

"Always?"

"Yeah, they argue all the time. It's like their way of communicating with each other." Santana nodded as she turned around to watch the two women argue.

"Would you stop drinking already?!"

"Why do you care?" Dani slurred back.

"Who's gonna drive you home again? Me?" Kitty said, ignoring Dani's question.

"You always do."

Kitty sighed. "You're so frustrating!"

Dani shrugged in response, saying again. "Why do you care?"

The owner seemed to growl before storming off, heading towards both Brittany and Santana.

"Are you ok?" The taller blonde asked, a smirk evident on her face.

Kitty sighed. "She's so frustrating!"

"Let me guess, she's being lazy and drinking way more than she should when she needs to drive home?"

"Exactly, every time! One day she's gonna crash her car and it costs way too much for the single mistake of having one more drink than she should have!"

Brittany tried not to smile as Kitty stormed into the back room, both her and Santana giggling as soon as she was out of sight.

"So, they really are like that all the time?"

"Oh yeah, all the time."

The next day Santana drove to Burt's garage, thanks to a call from Letty. Knowing she had pleased Cassandra by winning last night and becoming a part-time member of the crew, she was free to finally get to hang out with them. When she pulled up at the garage, she saw all of the crews cars including a Nissan Silvia. Pulling up by the gate near the Silvia she turned the car off and got out.

Letty smiled when she saw the younger Latina and walked out over to her whilst wiping her dirty hands on a rag she kept in her back pocket. "Santana, hey"

"Hey"

"Now that you're sort of part of our crew, we need to start upgrading your car if you're gonna really race with us. We don't want you losing in another drag race, do we?"

"No, definitely not."

"No, we don't. Now Come on, everybody's inside. I want to introduce you to everyone properly, that way you know who the people behind the scenes are. Also, if you're gonna be working on your car here, there are a few rules."

"Alright?"

"You pay for all of your performance parts, as does everybody else and we all help each other out. We all have our individual talents that helps build the cars we get in here. Once we finish the car currently in the garage, Burt said that the next project would be yours. Now let's meet some people."

"Cool, lead the way."

Letty smiled as they walked into the cool shade of the garage. The crew was dotted around the large room and when she caught Brittany's bright blue eyes, the blonde smiled at her making Santana blush a little.

"Obviously you know who all of those guys are, but this is Burt, the owner of the garage and Kurt's dad."

A stocky man in a pair of dirty navy-blue overalls wiped his forehead with the back of his hand whilst holding his hat, revealing a very bald head underneath before holding out his hand.

"You must be the famous Santana."

"I wouldn't really say famous." She replied laughing, shaking his hand.

"Nonsense" He grinned. "I've seen some video clips of your races and if my son's constant rambling about you is anything to go on, you're well worth the time. I can't wait to see what you can do with your car. If you ever need me I'm always out here in the main area of the garage or in the office. Mia handles all the business stuff with me, so you can always find her in the office too. Now, if you ladies will excuse me I have some stuff to look over." With a grin he patted Santana on the back and disappeared into the office located at the back of the main garage area.

"Obviously you know who Kurt is and what he does. Shelby and Holly are currently out back, and I know they wanted to talk to you when you got here."

She was then led towards the back of the garage to find Holly cooking up burgers in a small grill while Shelby and Rachel sat at a small table.

"Santana, this is Shelby Cocoran, me and Rachel's mom."

"Wait, you're sisters?"

Letty smiled and shook her head. "No. Shelby's like an adoptive mom to me."

"Oh" She smiled awkwardly and turned back to Shelby who had stood up. "Hi, I'm Santana." She said, holding out her hand.

Shelby took it and smiled back warmly. "Hi, I'm Shelby. Have a seat, I've heard a lot about you."

"Since my job is done for now, I'm gonna go and find my girlfriend."

Santana watched Letty walk away before sitting down in one of the empty seats at the table, Holly glancing over her shoulder. "Hey Santana!"

"Hey Holly."

"So, Santana. I was at the race last night."

"You were?"

The older brunette nodded. "Yes, and despite your fight with Rory, I though you handled your loss quite well. Quinn told me you guys talked while at the top of the canyon in the car together, waiting for Rory to get down to the bottom. She didn't give me the complete details on what you guys talked about but, she said no one has ever been more focused than you were while driving. She says that being in the car with you whilst you raced was intense."

"I just really wanted to win." Santana said while shrugging.

Shelby laughed and Rachel grinned. "Somehow I don't believe that. I think you were truly focused on nothing else but the task at hand and that's what I like to see in a racer. I only wish I could have seen your face on the way down. Watching through your dashboard camera wasn't as good, but I can see you have skill, you just need to upgrade right?"

"Definitely. I wanna focus on upgrading the internal parts first."

"Smart girl. What first?"

"The engine."

"Even smarter" Shelby grinned back. "Holly was right about you. I'm glad to have met you face to face finally. Hopefully I will see you in the diner a lot more now that you're a part-time member of the crew."

"Sounds good to me."

"How about this. The next time you come in your meals on me."

"Really? I feel like I don't deserve that."

"Yes, you deserve it after everything you did last night."

"Lunch is up!" Holly smiled, turning around and placing a plate of freshly cooked burgers down in the middle of the table. Santana smiled when she saw her apron which read; 'Queen of the Grill'. "You want something to eat Santana?"

"Nah, I'm good. I ate before I arrived."

"More for me!" The blonde grinned, taking one of the burgers as she sat down in the empty chair.

It was then that Mia emerged from the garage and smiled at Santana. "Letty and Burt are dealing with a customer so she said that I could finish your tour. You ready to go?"

"Yeah, sure." Santana replied, standing up and sliding her chair under the table politely. "It was nice meeting you Shelby."

"You too Santana" The brunette grinned back hauntingly like Rachel. "I'll see you at the shop Holly."

"See you later dude."

"I'll see you later Rachel."

"Bye Santana"

When Mia had given her the complete tour of the garage, she said that she could wander whilst she waited for Letty so that's what she did. Glad to be out of the intense heat, Santana walked around taking in every inch of the garage before she found Brittany working in the corner. It was then that she recognized the car as the one that was parked at The Racer's Edge when she had first gone in to get parts just after her second race.

"Brittany?"

The blonde turned around and smiled. "Santana, hi"

Santana gulped as she rubbed at the scar on her arm nervously. "Hey"

"Did Mia finish your tour already?"

"Yeah, she said I could wander while I waited for Letty to finish. Is this your car?"

Brittany glanced at the car in front of her before turning back to Santana. "Yeah. You like?"

"Yeah, I just didn't think you'd be into tuners"

"Why?"

Santana shrugged. "I didn't think you were a serious racer, that's all. No offence"

Brittany smiled as she wiped her hands with a rag. "None taken. I don't compete like the others, which is why I'm not an official member. I just do it for fun."

"You mind if I take a look?" Santana said, motioning to peek at the car's specs.

"Go ahead"

Brittany watched as Santana slowly made her way around the car. "What model is this?"

"Uh, a 2012 RX8 R3"

"It's nice. I heard this model has a ton of stock extras."

"You are correct there." The blonde replied as she watched Santana look inside.

"Veilside SE3P VSD1-GT body kit?" She asked as she walked around to the front.

Brittany smiled in appreciation of the Latina's specific knowledge. "Yeah, how did you know?"

"It's too sleek to be anything but."

"You know your way around a car don't you?"

"I have to." Santana paused. "I'll make an exception for yours."

"Pardon?"

Santana grinned. "I made a comment not too long ago when I picked out my car that an RX8 was 'too girly' for me."

"You said that?"

"Yeah, it's just not my kind of car."

"Then what about you? You don't strike me as a tuner girl. I see you as more of a muscle girl, having a Dodge Charger like Puck."

"I get that a lot. Just because I'm a Latina they automatically assume that I'm a muscle lover"

"And you're not?"

"Nope. I've been driving tuner cars ever since I got my license."

Brittany regarded her closely, as Santana had taken to leaning up against the side of her car, arms crossed over her chest. Looking over at the Latina so casually resting up against the Japanese car, she realized for the first time that Santana was indeed more suited to that style of car. At first glance to anyone her choice of car would look out of place, but if you really looked and talked to her she seemed to be right at home driving a tuner rather than a typical muscle. Now Brittany really did understand the saying of don't judge a book by its cover.

"So, you don't like girly things?"

Santana laughed and shook her head. "No, definitely not. I've always been a tomboy as long as I can remember. I used to hang with all the local street racers who were all guys. I've never really cared for girly stuff, hence the reason why all I'm wearing right now is a pair jean's, Converses and a Sparco shirt."

Brittany studied her clothes and realized that she really was a tomboy. Shaking her head, deciding to change the subject. "How's your injuries from yesterday?" She asked.

"They're alright."

"What about your eyebrow?"

"It still hurts but the pain is manageable."

Brittany nodded and just as she was about to say something Rachel rushed over to them. "Santana!"

"Rachel?" Santana said confused, looking at Brittany, lent up on the car next to her, for an answer before turning back to the short girl.

"Marley's gonna be back in a minute!"

"Ok?"

"Uh oh...I think I know what's coming" Brittany trailed off, Santana glancing over at the blonde again, waiting for Rachel to explain.

"We can start designing your car!"

"Not just yet little sister!" Letty said as she walked up to the small brunette from behind and placed her hands on both her shoulders.

"But why?!"

"Because she has only just become a part-time crew member!"

Rachel pouted. "You're no fun!"

"No, I'm being smart. I'm sure Santana, if she's as smart as she seems to be, will agree that it's strictly performance upgrades before anything else, right?"

"Definitely. I just want to do performance upgrades for now"

"Don't worry, we can start as soon as the current project is finished." Santana nodded.

"What's Marley got to do with the designing?" Santana asked, remembering Rachel said her name before.

"She's the artist of the group. She helps Kurt out with the painting." Rachel explained just as an orange and black accented Chevrolet Camaro SS pulled up into the large space in front of the garage followed by Tina's Nissan 350Z.

"Hey Santana" Marley greeted as her and Tina walked over to where everybody seemed to be gathered.

Burt then came out of his office to join everyone else, carrying something. "Santana!" He called.

"Yeah?"

Letty moved to the side to make room for Kurt's dad. "Here" He said, throwing her a navy-blue work shirt with the garage's logo and her name embroidered on it.

"What's this for?" She asked, looking back up at him.

"You now work for me. As part of the crew you work here on whatever project it is we're working on. The next project being yours, as you probably have heard multiple times today. I hope to see you here bright and early at eight tomorrow morning."

"Sure thing Burt."

Letty smiled as he walked off, Marley placing a hand on Santana's shoulder and grinning. "Welcome to the team Santana"

Car's in order of appearance:

Brittany = 2012 R3 RX8, Blue