Authors Note: Hey thanks for the reviews especially from AJ's Charmed One. And your right, the drama level IS about to get sky high! Keep the reviews coming! Oh and I forgot to put a disclaimer but here it is now!
Disclaimer: I do not own the story or any of the characters from The Fast and the Furious. The only character and character traits I own are Gracie's. Please do not use her. You may use her name but please do not use the same character without permission from me! If you want to put her into one of your stories please say so in a review and I will get back to you in an authors note. Thank you.
~Shay
Chapter 10. _____This chapter takes place 6 months later_____
Dominic woke up and Gracie was gone. He went inside the house where the team was eating breakfast at the kitchen table. All of them but Gracie.
"Hey where's Gracie?" he asked them.
They took their turns shrugging their shoulders and shaking their heads.
"Didn't she go to sleep with you last night in the hammock?" Jesse asked him.
"Yeah she did...and I woke up and she wasn't there." Dominic said.
There was silence for a moment and they heard whimpering coming from upstairs.
The whole team looked at each other and got up and ran up the stairs. Gracie was in the bathroom with the door shut. She was crying. Dominic turned around and signaled for the team to leave. He knocked on the door and Gracie stopped whimpering.
"Who is it?" she asked trying to sound cheerful.
"It's Dom. Open up Gracie." He said. He was really worried about her.
She started to cry again. He didn't understand. She had been so happy the past six months, was she having another breakdown?
Gracie finally got up and opened the door for him. She immediately got into the tub and crouched into a ball.
"What's wrong sweetie?" he asked her coming over and stroking her back.
"What the hell do you think is wrong with me?" she said through sobs.
Dominic's smile faded as he began to think. He didn't know.
He shook his head and shrugged to show her he had no idea of what was wrong with her. Gracie held up a box for him to see. It was a pregnancy test box. This couldn't be happening. His smile immediately faded.
"Umm...are you?" he asked her
She nodded her head. This was bad. This was really really bad.
"Are you absolutely POSITIVE Gracie?" he asked her getting nervous.
"I'm so sure it's not even funny. I'm always right on schedule. I'm 3 months late and the test came out positive!" she said starting to sob again.
He couldn't believe this. This was his fault. He should have been more careful but sometimes in the heat of the moment Dominic just didn't care. He sat down on the closed seat of the toilet and put his face in his hands. What the hell was he going to do now?
"What do you want to do?" he asked her. He just wanted her to be happy.
"I'm not going to have an abortion if that's what you're asking." Gracie said to him. She wouldn't look at him.
"I'm not saying that at all. I just want you to be happy Gracie." He said crouching down beside the tub and putting his face in her shoulder.
"Can I keep it?" she asked him looking at him straight in the eye. It was like she was asking him if she could keep a puppy that had followed her from school one day. He felt terrible, she actually thought that she needed his approval to keep the baby.
"Of course you can. I love you Gracie and I'm going to love this baby." He said putting his hand on her stomach.
"I already love this baby." She said smiling to herself.
"Then why were you crying?" he asked her confusedly.
"I was afraid you wouldn't love me anymore or you wouldn't want the baby, or you would say it wasn't yours. I don't know why I thought that though Dom! I don't! I was so scared!" she said starting to sob again. He took her into his arms and held her.
But he was really thinking: I fucked up bad this time. Of course you did Dom. Your 25 and you just got a 15 year old pregnant. Sure you love her. But what is everyone else around you going to do? If the state finds out this is bad Dominic.
In his mind he talked to himself. He had to share what he was thinking with Gracie.
"Gracie? When you have this baby, the hospital is probably going to ask about the father. When they see me and find out I'm the father they'll probably call the cops or something..." he trailed off.
"I know I've been thinking about that since I found out for sure that I'm pregnant." She said to him looking to the bottom of the tub.
"I'm going to tell them I don't know who the father is." She said. He could tell by her tone of voice that she was hurt that she was going to have to deny Dominic the right to tell the hospital that he was the baby's father and that his name couldn't go on the birth certificate. But if this baby was going to have a father at all, it had to be done. And Dominic understood.
"Alright." He replied to her. Dominic knew that this was best, but he just wished that it didn't have to be this way.
"Now, what are we going to do about telling the team?" He asked her. She was going to be a good mom; she already to initiative to make sure everything was going to turn out ok.
"Well we're sure as hell not going to run away to Mexico." She said laughing at him. He laughed back but softly. He was going to be a dad, and he was scared.
"So...do we go downstairs and drop the bomb on them?" he asked her. She nodded and he wasn't going to argue. He was sick of hiding things.
He took her hand and helped her out of the tub. Gracie laced his fingers with hers and they walked down the stairs. The team looked up from the table. Jesse was bouncing around in his seat anxiously. His ADD was bothering him again and he wanted to know what was going on. They were all silent, the look on their faces said "Tell us already you stupid shits!"
Dominic looked at Gracie and she nodded at him. He wanted to tell them and she wanted him to do it.
"Don't tell me, you guys are getting married right?" Leon asked laughing. He killed it. He didn't mean to, but that comment wasn't going to make things easier.
"Actually no. But we do have something else to tell you. Gracie and I are having a baby." He said looking at them. Mia dropped her plate and it broke on the floor. Other than that there was silence.
"Are you serious?" Letty finally said coming out of the silence. Gracie nodded her head.
Jesse looked like he was stoned. He had a dead look in his eye and just stared straight at Dominic and Gracie. Leon looked to the table. Vince looked at Leon. Letty looked at Mia and Mia looked out the window. They knew it wasn't going to go over well but they had to tell them.
"Well congratulations you guys. We'll be here every step of the way." Vince finally said getting up to give Dominic and Gracie a hug.
The rest followed suit. Except for Mia. Sure she understood the two of them loving each other and wanting to be together, but now Gracie was pregnant? This wasn't right and she knew that Dominic hadn't been careful. Mia knew Gracie too well, she knew she would have just expected Dominic to know the routine after a while and be safe about things, and wouldn't have asked. Not necessarily the brightest thing in the world to do, but Gracie trusted Dominic with her whole heart.
"You really fucked things up this time Dom." Mia said getting up from the table and going to her room. He knew it was true. But he loved Gracie, the baby and he was going to make this work, even if that meant that Mia wasn't going to accept things the way they were.
Dominic let go of Gracie's hand and went up to Mia's room. He walked in without knocking.
"Mia, I know this seems pretty bad. But Gracie and I have things figured out and we're gonna make them work.." he was cut off by Mia.
"Your gonna make this work?! She's 15 Dominic! Do you honestly think that girl downstairs doesn't feel terrible about what's going on? She may love that baby inside her and you with all her heart BUT she knows that she's going to have to deny you being the father to anyone else besides the team for a long time! That means that you wont be on that baby's birth certificate, everyone in that hospital will think she's some cheap whore that got knocked up and doesn't know who the father is!" Mia was out of breath when she finished this rant.
Dominic knew she was right though. He really had messed up. He didn't want anyone to think of Gracie like that, but what could he do about it? Nothing. She didn't want an abortion and frankly he didn't want her to have one. He loved her and he loved that baby already. Dominic was excited to be a father. But he knew that this would also have consequences that would be on Gracie's mind for the rest of her life. He would make it up to her someday though, he just didn't know how yet.
Downstairs Gracie was alone in the living room. Everyone else had left for the garage. She was lying on the couch stroking her stomach. She didn't know why she hadn't realized that she was pregnant before. She had been puking almost every morning for a month or two and she didn't have her period. It was like she forgot about it or something until two days before when she thought about what was going on. She had bought the pregnancy test at the drug store but didn't get the guts to use it until that morning.
Dominic was going to be a good father. She wished things didn't have to be the way they were going to be but she knew things would turn out for the best. She fell asleep on the couch and awoke startled and screaming. The dream came back. Dominic and Mia were gone, she had gone to the café and he went to the garage. There was a note from Dominic on the table though.
Gracie,
I love you and the baby so much. I'll see you when I get home, call Mia or me if you need anything.
~Dom
The note comforted her but she was scared out of her mind. For some reason she wanted Jesse's company, but she would have to wait until later for it. Since Jesse had been shot, he got tired easier, so he usually came home from the garage after lunch to rest.
~*~At the Garage~*~
Dominic pulled out a long thin black box out of his jacket pocket. He opened it and showed what was inside to Vince, Leon, Letty and Jesse.
"She'll love it." Letty said smiling. She knew that Gracie must be going through a lot, but she was going to be there for her. She didn't really agree with that was going on, but she tried her best to be helpful so things would be easier on Dominic.
"What do you think about me getting one but smaller for the baby? And one for me?" he asked looking around at the team. They all nodded in approval, they thought it was a good idea. Dominic would stop and get two more on his lunch break and then take off to see Gracie with Jesse. He wanted to see how she was feeling.
~*~At home~*~
Gracie had started to fall asleep when she heard a bang come from the back of the house. She sat up startled and noticed she was suddenly surrounded by a large group of men. She knew two of them were Johnny and Lance Tran.
"This shit isn't happening to me today..."Gracie trailed off. She knew what was in store. She got up and ran to the front of the house but someone gave her a blow to the back of the head and she was knocked out cold.
Dominic got home with Jesse after lunch and bounded up the stairs with his gifts. Gracie was nowhere. He went downstairs, looked out the backdoor to see if she was in the hammock, but she wasn't.
"Dom man you better come take a look at this!" Jesse yelled from the kitchen.
Dominic ran into the kitchen and read from a sheet of paper that was left next to where he had left Gracie's not that morning.
Dominic,
We meet again. Well maybe not so much you, but me and your "good Grace" should I say? She's a pretty little thing. You know what I want, bring it to the warehouse this after noon or else she's gonna get pumped full of 40 weight...remember Ted?
"SHIT!" Dominic yelled slamming down the note. He ran to the garage where the wrecked charger was and grabbed two guns. One for him and well, another for him. One of them was a handgun that he tucked into his pants and the other was a shotgun. He yelled to Jesse as he was peeling out of the driveway.
"Don't call the cops Jesse! I'm gonna deal with Tran myself this time!" Jesse just nodded his head.
In the trunk of Dominic's car was a suitcase full of cash and an engine Johnny had been wanting for his car. Pretty irrational ransom, but Johnny was a pretty irrational guy. He didn't care; he needed to get to Gracie before anyone hurt her.
It began to rain outside. He drove faster. Dominic just hoped he got to Gracie before something even worse happened to her. He already felt responsible for what was going on, and he couldn't let anything happen to her now. He drove with his teeth clenched through the pouring rain.
Disclaimer: I do not own the story or any of the characters from The Fast and the Furious. The only character and character traits I own are Gracie's. Please do not use her. You may use her name but please do not use the same character without permission from me! If you want to put her into one of your stories please say so in a review and I will get back to you in an authors note. Thank you.
~Shay
Chapter 10. _____This chapter takes place 6 months later_____
Dominic woke up and Gracie was gone. He went inside the house where the team was eating breakfast at the kitchen table. All of them but Gracie.
"Hey where's Gracie?" he asked them.
They took their turns shrugging their shoulders and shaking their heads.
"Didn't she go to sleep with you last night in the hammock?" Jesse asked him.
"Yeah she did...and I woke up and she wasn't there." Dominic said.
There was silence for a moment and they heard whimpering coming from upstairs.
The whole team looked at each other and got up and ran up the stairs. Gracie was in the bathroom with the door shut. She was crying. Dominic turned around and signaled for the team to leave. He knocked on the door and Gracie stopped whimpering.
"Who is it?" she asked trying to sound cheerful.
"It's Dom. Open up Gracie." He said. He was really worried about her.
She started to cry again. He didn't understand. She had been so happy the past six months, was she having another breakdown?
Gracie finally got up and opened the door for him. She immediately got into the tub and crouched into a ball.
"What's wrong sweetie?" he asked her coming over and stroking her back.
"What the hell do you think is wrong with me?" she said through sobs.
Dominic's smile faded as he began to think. He didn't know.
He shook his head and shrugged to show her he had no idea of what was wrong with her. Gracie held up a box for him to see. It was a pregnancy test box. This couldn't be happening. His smile immediately faded.
"Umm...are you?" he asked her
She nodded her head. This was bad. This was really really bad.
"Are you absolutely POSITIVE Gracie?" he asked her getting nervous.
"I'm so sure it's not even funny. I'm always right on schedule. I'm 3 months late and the test came out positive!" she said starting to sob again.
He couldn't believe this. This was his fault. He should have been more careful but sometimes in the heat of the moment Dominic just didn't care. He sat down on the closed seat of the toilet and put his face in his hands. What the hell was he going to do now?
"What do you want to do?" he asked her. He just wanted her to be happy.
"I'm not going to have an abortion if that's what you're asking." Gracie said to him. She wouldn't look at him.
"I'm not saying that at all. I just want you to be happy Gracie." He said crouching down beside the tub and putting his face in her shoulder.
"Can I keep it?" she asked him looking at him straight in the eye. It was like she was asking him if she could keep a puppy that had followed her from school one day. He felt terrible, she actually thought that she needed his approval to keep the baby.
"Of course you can. I love you Gracie and I'm going to love this baby." He said putting his hand on her stomach.
"I already love this baby." She said smiling to herself.
"Then why were you crying?" he asked her confusedly.
"I was afraid you wouldn't love me anymore or you wouldn't want the baby, or you would say it wasn't yours. I don't know why I thought that though Dom! I don't! I was so scared!" she said starting to sob again. He took her into his arms and held her.
But he was really thinking: I fucked up bad this time. Of course you did Dom. Your 25 and you just got a 15 year old pregnant. Sure you love her. But what is everyone else around you going to do? If the state finds out this is bad Dominic.
In his mind he talked to himself. He had to share what he was thinking with Gracie.
"Gracie? When you have this baby, the hospital is probably going to ask about the father. When they see me and find out I'm the father they'll probably call the cops or something..." he trailed off.
"I know I've been thinking about that since I found out for sure that I'm pregnant." She said to him looking to the bottom of the tub.
"I'm going to tell them I don't know who the father is." She said. He could tell by her tone of voice that she was hurt that she was going to have to deny Dominic the right to tell the hospital that he was the baby's father and that his name couldn't go on the birth certificate. But if this baby was going to have a father at all, it had to be done. And Dominic understood.
"Alright." He replied to her. Dominic knew that this was best, but he just wished that it didn't have to be this way.
"Now, what are we going to do about telling the team?" He asked her. She was going to be a good mom; she already to initiative to make sure everything was going to turn out ok.
"Well we're sure as hell not going to run away to Mexico." She said laughing at him. He laughed back but softly. He was going to be a dad, and he was scared.
"So...do we go downstairs and drop the bomb on them?" he asked her. She nodded and he wasn't going to argue. He was sick of hiding things.
He took her hand and helped her out of the tub. Gracie laced his fingers with hers and they walked down the stairs. The team looked up from the table. Jesse was bouncing around in his seat anxiously. His ADD was bothering him again and he wanted to know what was going on. They were all silent, the look on their faces said "Tell us already you stupid shits!"
Dominic looked at Gracie and she nodded at him. He wanted to tell them and she wanted him to do it.
"Don't tell me, you guys are getting married right?" Leon asked laughing. He killed it. He didn't mean to, but that comment wasn't going to make things easier.
"Actually no. But we do have something else to tell you. Gracie and I are having a baby." He said looking at them. Mia dropped her plate and it broke on the floor. Other than that there was silence.
"Are you serious?" Letty finally said coming out of the silence. Gracie nodded her head.
Jesse looked like he was stoned. He had a dead look in his eye and just stared straight at Dominic and Gracie. Leon looked to the table. Vince looked at Leon. Letty looked at Mia and Mia looked out the window. They knew it wasn't going to go over well but they had to tell them.
"Well congratulations you guys. We'll be here every step of the way." Vince finally said getting up to give Dominic and Gracie a hug.
The rest followed suit. Except for Mia. Sure she understood the two of them loving each other and wanting to be together, but now Gracie was pregnant? This wasn't right and she knew that Dominic hadn't been careful. Mia knew Gracie too well, she knew she would have just expected Dominic to know the routine after a while and be safe about things, and wouldn't have asked. Not necessarily the brightest thing in the world to do, but Gracie trusted Dominic with her whole heart.
"You really fucked things up this time Dom." Mia said getting up from the table and going to her room. He knew it was true. But he loved Gracie, the baby and he was going to make this work, even if that meant that Mia wasn't going to accept things the way they were.
Dominic let go of Gracie's hand and went up to Mia's room. He walked in without knocking.
"Mia, I know this seems pretty bad. But Gracie and I have things figured out and we're gonna make them work.." he was cut off by Mia.
"Your gonna make this work?! She's 15 Dominic! Do you honestly think that girl downstairs doesn't feel terrible about what's going on? She may love that baby inside her and you with all her heart BUT she knows that she's going to have to deny you being the father to anyone else besides the team for a long time! That means that you wont be on that baby's birth certificate, everyone in that hospital will think she's some cheap whore that got knocked up and doesn't know who the father is!" Mia was out of breath when she finished this rant.
Dominic knew she was right though. He really had messed up. He didn't want anyone to think of Gracie like that, but what could he do about it? Nothing. She didn't want an abortion and frankly he didn't want her to have one. He loved her and he loved that baby already. Dominic was excited to be a father. But he knew that this would also have consequences that would be on Gracie's mind for the rest of her life. He would make it up to her someday though, he just didn't know how yet.
Downstairs Gracie was alone in the living room. Everyone else had left for the garage. She was lying on the couch stroking her stomach. She didn't know why she hadn't realized that she was pregnant before. She had been puking almost every morning for a month or two and she didn't have her period. It was like she forgot about it or something until two days before when she thought about what was going on. She had bought the pregnancy test at the drug store but didn't get the guts to use it until that morning.
Dominic was going to be a good father. She wished things didn't have to be the way they were going to be but she knew things would turn out for the best. She fell asleep on the couch and awoke startled and screaming. The dream came back. Dominic and Mia were gone, she had gone to the café and he went to the garage. There was a note from Dominic on the table though.
Gracie,
I love you and the baby so much. I'll see you when I get home, call Mia or me if you need anything.
~Dom
The note comforted her but she was scared out of her mind. For some reason she wanted Jesse's company, but she would have to wait until later for it. Since Jesse had been shot, he got tired easier, so he usually came home from the garage after lunch to rest.
~*~At the Garage~*~
Dominic pulled out a long thin black box out of his jacket pocket. He opened it and showed what was inside to Vince, Leon, Letty and Jesse.
"She'll love it." Letty said smiling. She knew that Gracie must be going through a lot, but she was going to be there for her. She didn't really agree with that was going on, but she tried her best to be helpful so things would be easier on Dominic.
"What do you think about me getting one but smaller for the baby? And one for me?" he asked looking around at the team. They all nodded in approval, they thought it was a good idea. Dominic would stop and get two more on his lunch break and then take off to see Gracie with Jesse. He wanted to see how she was feeling.
~*~At home~*~
Gracie had started to fall asleep when she heard a bang come from the back of the house. She sat up startled and noticed she was suddenly surrounded by a large group of men. She knew two of them were Johnny and Lance Tran.
"This shit isn't happening to me today..."Gracie trailed off. She knew what was in store. She got up and ran to the front of the house but someone gave her a blow to the back of the head and she was knocked out cold.
Dominic got home with Jesse after lunch and bounded up the stairs with his gifts. Gracie was nowhere. He went downstairs, looked out the backdoor to see if she was in the hammock, but she wasn't.
"Dom man you better come take a look at this!" Jesse yelled from the kitchen.
Dominic ran into the kitchen and read from a sheet of paper that was left next to where he had left Gracie's not that morning.
Dominic,
We meet again. Well maybe not so much you, but me and your "good Grace" should I say? She's a pretty little thing. You know what I want, bring it to the warehouse this after noon or else she's gonna get pumped full of 40 weight...remember Ted?
"SHIT!" Dominic yelled slamming down the note. He ran to the garage where the wrecked charger was and grabbed two guns. One for him and well, another for him. One of them was a handgun that he tucked into his pants and the other was a shotgun. He yelled to Jesse as he was peeling out of the driveway.
"Don't call the cops Jesse! I'm gonna deal with Tran myself this time!" Jesse just nodded his head.
In the trunk of Dominic's car was a suitcase full of cash and an engine Johnny had been wanting for his car. Pretty irrational ransom, but Johnny was a pretty irrational guy. He didn't care; he needed to get to Gracie before anyone hurt her.
It began to rain outside. He drove faster. Dominic just hoped he got to Gracie before something even worse happened to her. He already felt responsible for what was going on, and he couldn't let anything happen to her now. He drove with his teeth clenched through the pouring rain.