*Chapter 5*: Pt. 2 - Introductions

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Original Writer: YoungTruthLP (Tumblr: Shinodafan94)

Co-Author: Mechawolfx

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June 5th, 2019

7:05 am

Burt's Garage

"Santana?"

"Cassandra, hi."

"What are you doing this early in the morning?" Cassandra asked, fully expecting to leave a voicemail since the Latina usually wouldn't answer her this early in the day.

"I'm on my way out."

"To where?"

"Burt gave me a job at his garage. It's my first day working and also it is where the crew do all the work on their cars."

"Wow, good work. I know we haven't talked since the other night when you won, but I'm happy to say police chief Washington is satisfied with our progress so far. We advanced much quicker than she thought we would. Keep up the good work and make sure you check in regularly. I'm going to be watching."

"Noted. Is there anything else?"

"Nope, just get closer so we can get mission done quick and easy."

Santana raised an eyebrow as the blonde hung up. Shaking her head, she pulled on her new garage shirt over a black Sparco t-shirt and headed out the door of her motel room.

When Letty came into the garage at 7:45am that morning she found Santana already at work. Smiling, she took a sip of her coffee and headed straight for the office.

"When did she get in?" She asked as placed her bag down on Burt's small worn out couch.

The mechanic scratched his head. "Fifteen minutes ago. She showed up with her bag of tools, ready to work on anything I gave her. I heard she's into precision tuning, so I asked her to take a look at the suspension of our current project. She's a keeper, the rest of your crew never turn up this early to work, not even my own son." He chuckled from behind his desk.

"What are you saying?"

He shrugged. "Nothing, I just think we're going to finish this project quicker with her on-board now."

Letty grinned as she watched Santana from the doorway of the office before making her way across the small room to sit in the chair opposite of Burt. "Yeah, just remember she's not a full crew member yet. She still has a way to go before she's a permanent addition."

"Yeah, yeah. Just lighten up a little Ortiz, I think she's a good one."

When the crew finally made it to the garage that morning at 8:30am usual time they found Santana already hard at work.

"Hey new girl, that desperate to get us to work on your car?" Quinn smiled, placing her backpack down near the main door.

Santana rolled out from under the car to see everybody looking at her. "Not quite. I got here around seven thirty this morning and Burt told me to work on the suspension since I specialize in precision tuning."

"Works for me, I hate doing suspension." Tina said, walking past her and over to a nearby toolbox.

Quinn just shook her head and pulled her garage shirt on, Rachel following her lead. Mia smiled down at Santana as she made her way past to meet her girlfriend in the office. As soon as the other members walked pass her, Brittany was the only one left still looking at her. Santana sat up and saw that she had a work shirt on like the rest of the crew.

"You work here too?"

Brittany nodded. "Yeah, I work here during the day and at Kitty's in the evening. Enough about me, why are you here so early?"

The Latina shrugged. "I'm always up this early working on my car. Otherwise it wouldn't be the best."

Brittany chuckled at the other woman's goofy smile. "'The best'?"

"Yep, nothing less."

"Well then, you better get to work so we can start working on that amazing car of yours."

They both laughed before Brittany moved towards the back of the garage where the rest of the crew were getting ready. The last thing Brittany saw as she glanced back was Santana sliding back under the car.

Each day Santana turned up to work at 7:30 am on the dot. It wasn't like she minded, it was normal for her, but to everybody else they were impressed that she could pull herself out of bed to go to work early every morning.

It was on her third day of working at Burt's that the crew finished the car, several days earlier than expected. As the customer drove his car out of the front gate Burt turned to Santana. "You ready?"

"For what?"

"To start on your car?"

"Really!?"

"Yeah! Your car was next on the list, so let's start right now."

"Thanks Burt."

"No problem. Good work on that last car guys, Santana included, so let's get started on our next one! Go and get your car kid, you're moving it in here."

Santana nodded and pulled her keys out of her pocket just as Letty tapped her on the shoulder. "Take Quinn and Dani with you. They both need to get out and Dani needs to get off her ass."

Santana smiled. "You sure?"

The older Latina nodded. "Yeah. They're not working right now so go and get everything you need from wherever it is you've been working. And let's get started!"

After watching Letty walk away, Santana started to make her way out of the garage, passing by Brittany who smiled at her on the way. Trying to hide her blush, she moved over to her car and waited for Quinn to make her way over to her own. As she clipped her harness on, she saw Letty hand Dani a set of keys and a few moments later she was pulling herself up into a black Dodge Ram SRT-10, exactly the same as Holly's, but in black with Burt's logo on the side.

Quinn pulled up next to her car, leaning out the window of her own. "Lead the way and we'll follow" Santana nodded and started up her car, pulling out the front gate with Quinn and then Dani in tow. 10 Minutes later, the three women pulled up outside of Santana's little makeshift garage.

"Have you been working here all this time?" Quinn asked as the Latina opened the garage door.

"Yep. I've been doing everything here all by myself."

"That's cool. This place is tiny though, I'm amazed you got anything done in this space."

"So am I, but I did, and it got me to where I am now."

"True, so where do you want to start?"

"Uh, let's load up the main parts I still haven't installed into their boxes and then gather up everything else."

"Then let's get started. Come on D."

Half an hour later they had everything packed up and loaded the parts into the three cars, Dani fitting the big stuff into the back of the truck whilst Quinn and Santana took the smaller items. When they arrived back at the garage, the rest of the crew were there waiting to get started.

"Is that everything?" Letty asked.

Santana nodded. "Yep."

"Ok then. Unload your car and drive it into the center of the garage and then we can start seriously upgrading your ride."

Quinn helped her unload the items and boxes she had put into her car and then everybody watched as she reversed it into the center of the garage. When she got out Letty grinned.

"Where do you wanna start?"

"Let's strip the engine."