I hope you guys like this chapter.
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Satiana sat on her couch with the lights off. She could hear the party going on next door but she didn't care. As far as she was concerned there was a party in here. She sat back and opened her seventh "neutral grain spirits" (yes it is a drink and it is the strongest one out there people) sat back and started to drink it.
"OH fuck it", she made a dismissing motion with her hand and almost fell off the couch. "Why did that traitorous bastard have to show up? I don't care if Dom looks at other women I…I really don't. I mean look at me"- she spoke to the darkness as if it were a friend- look at me- who would want someone else? I have brains and…and I can race…and…I…I…shit…my head hurts." Satiana dropped her drink and it fell on her lap as she wiped her eyes. It took her a moment to register the cold but when she did she shot shakily from her seat.
"Damn it you stupid bottle…why do you have to be so…damn con…trary?" Satiana heard a soft whine. She turned slowly around and was met by her little sister. She was crying. Satiana stumbled back as she saw this. She hit the ground hard and just stayed there.
"No don't act like mommy Sati please." Satiana stared in horror at her sister. Then she felt it. The drinks started to come up and she wretched.
"God, go away Abre, damn it, go away!" Satiana stumbled back she didn't want her sister to see her like this and she didn't want to be compared to their mother. 'But that's what she sees Oh God, that's what she sees!'
Abre followed her and started crying. She held up her hands to her sister demanding to be held- wanting to be loved- hoping that it wasn't to late- to save the only real mother she had known.
"Sati, don't leave me too!" Satiana fled upstairs to the bathroom and locked it before she started to throw-up again. She cried and threw-up in the bathroom as Abre cried from outside of it. Abre banged on the door as she remembered her mother dying her little mind picturing her sister in a casket too.
"Don't leave me Sati, don't leave me!" Abre stopped banging and ran to the door. Satiana had left it open so she ran out. All she knew was she had to get help. Her sister was dying and she needed help.
She ran to Dom's house and banged on the front door. It was so loud that Abre was afraid no one would answer but a drunken man opened the door and looked around until he finally looked down at her.
"What ya doin kid, ya lost." He slurred his words badly but Abre ran inside forgetting about the man. He turned around and grabbed her Abre screamed effectively making him drop her. The music stopped and everyone stared at them. Abre was on the ground crying and the man was just standing there.
Eric came out of the crowd and looked at the man evilly before he went to go pick up his sister. She shied away from his hands until she looked up and saw it was him. Abre launched herself in her brother's arms and cried.
"What the hells going on here?" Dom said as he came from the kitchen. Eric turned to Dom and hitched his thumb at the man in the doorway.
"That bastard was messin with my sister." Mia came from downstairs and tried to take Abre from Eric but the girl's frightened scream stopped her dead. Eric looked at his sister's terror stricken eyes and patted her on the back.
"What's wrong with the kid did she have a bad dream?" Someone in the crowd asked as they laughed. If looks could kill Eric would be doing time for murdering all of the people in the crowd. Dom noticed this and took action.
"Get the hell out." He didn't yell he just said it but everyone knew not to push their luck with Dom so they ran for the door. Monica stopped in front of Dom and smiled.
"Maybe next time when you leave the kids at home we could have a little fun Dom." She smiled at him and turned to leave only to run into Mia.
"You can also leave your sister at home too she always seems to be in the way." Monica pushed past Mia and walked out the door closing it. Everyone, which only included Dom's crew and Eric and his little sister were quiet until they heard Abre start to cry again.
"Shouldn't she be at home asleep?" Mia asked the obvious question and then felt like a fool for asking it.
"What's wrong Abre you can tell me?" Eric soothed although it didn't work she just got more upset.
"She's dying just like mommy died you've got to help her." She looked up frightened at her brother. She grabbed his black wife-beater.
"Sati's dying just like mommy and I can't save her!" Abre said hysterically. Dom was out the door and running in their house before he even realized it. He heard Satiana crying and throwing-up while he ran upstairs.
The door was closed so he banged on it. The noise inside stopped and a few seconds later he heard the toilette flush.
"Satiana open the door." No answer. "Satiana open the damn door." He said louder but got no answer still. Instead the water ran and he heard a splashing sound.
"Damn it woman, open the fucking door or I'll break it down!" Still no answer. Dom didn't like being ignored. He was pissed. 'How can she do this to her family? Didn't she fuckin know her sister was here?' He retch for the door handle just as it opened.
Satiana looked up at Dom as Dom looked down at her. She could tell Dom was angry but she didn't give a damn. 'What happened to your twenty-five-cent hooker you bastard?' Her head hurt something awful but she resigned herself not to show it in front of him. 'Just leave me alone damn it.'
Dom looked down at Satiana she was a wreck. She smelled like the bottles of beer he had seen littered around her door. Her always artistically arranged clothes were wrinkled and wet. Her red dress was stained and dirty. Her hair was in disarray all around her.
'Damn what did you do to yourself?' Her eyes were the worst- hazy distant- but he also could see that they bore into him with a jealous woman's accusation. He felt his anger boil- but at himself.
"What the hell happened to you Satiana? She shook her head as she slowly walked past him.
"Leave me alone Dom." Satiana rasped. He grabbed her arm and spun her around where she almost fell. Satiana closed her eyes to steady herself then opened cold blue eyes.
"Let go of me you bastard." Dom stared in disbelief as a total stranger looked at him. He couldn't let go even if he wanted to.
"Sati, don't look at me like that. I know you- you know me. Were the same. You're not as tainted as you like to portray yourself." Satiana laughed an empty laugh that didn't reach her eyes, until her head started to hurt again.
"You don't know a damn thing about me Dominic Torreto. I have a past that will always keep me 'tainted' as you say. When it comes down to it your just someone who quit- couldn't carry out your vengeance. I killed the man responsible for my pain you just stopped because your arm wouldn't move anymore. That night the woman you think you know was born. We didn't even have a future back then my grandfather saw to that. You're a cheap imitation of the man that I imagined you were while I was in prison. They gave me three years in that hellhole and every day they reminded me that I could have more because I was a murderer. They said I got off easy because the courts felt sorry for me and it was self-defense. The truth is I wanted to kill that bastard and I did. So don't say were the same." Satiana pulled her arm out of his grasp and turned around to go to her room. Even drunk she could feel Dom's eyes burning the back of her skull.
"You're a lousy drunk. You didn't even know your sister was here. Do you know what the fuck you put her through? She thought you were dying! I don't know why your fuckin family cares so much about you when you don't deserve it!" Satiana stopped dead in her tracks. She put her hand to her head but then pulled it quickly away. Without turning around she just nodded.
"Your right, I don't deserve it. I don't know why Eric loves me when I failed him and Abre. It's a mystery to me. I'm not worth it." Her voice was tight and small. Dom could tell she was crying. 'Damn I didn't mean that.' Dom thought. He stepped forward.
"Sati, I'm sorry." Dom said as he tried to hug her. She flinched away and turned to him so he could see the tracks the tears made on her face.
"Don't you dare judge me and then presume to think that I'd let you fuckin touch me." She swayed a little but then forced herself upright. Sheer pride held her and it was sheer pride that had sustained her this long.
"Satiana, you need to sit down somewhere." Dom said as he stepped forward. She held up a hand, which contacted with his chest.
"I don't need anything from you, you prick I can take care of myself I have been taking care of myself for…" Satiana fell against him. Dom picked her up and took her to her room. He pulled the covers back and placed her in. Eric came in the room and stared at him.
"She drunk seven of those damn things. She knows she's not a drinker she's not even supposed to have more than one drink or she'll get sick. Its like she was trying to kill herself. Why-" Eric looked at Dom- "everything was going great. What would make her do that?" Dom clenched his fist but didn't answer Eric.
"Good night." Eric huffed and walked out of the room leaving Satiana in Dom's care.
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Satiana put a hand to her eyes to shield them from the sun and tried to sit up. She lay back down quickly. 'Bad idea Sati.' She sneered at herself and whispered, "No shit Sherlock." Her mind shot back automatically 'Keep digging Watson.' She shook her head in disgust and stopped when it started to hurt. Then she remembered.
"Oh God, you didn't Satiana." She lifted the covers and looked down at her red dress and sighed.
"Shit, I did. Well at least I didn't wind up in bed with somebody." She slowly sat up and squinted hoping the pain would go away by force of will. No such luck but still she had things to do people to apologize to. 'First namely Dom and Abre. Abre I can barley face but I don't know what I'm gonna do with Dom.' She stood and walked slowly to her drawers. She picked up some shorts and a tank then walked out of her room. She went to the towel rack and picked up a washcloth and a dry towel and went into the bathroom.
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Satiana walked down stairs after her shower. No one was home. The place was a mess. "Thank you Dom for not bringing them back here." Satiana said as she started to pick up the beer bottles and clean up her mess. She thought about what she had said to Dom and what she had done to her sister.
"Shit, I am a lousy fuckin drunk. What was I trying to do? I never drink and especially not with Abre around. I never would have told Dom that kind of shit…even if it was true. Where did all my brains go last night?" But as she said it Satiana knew. Jealously had overridden all other functions and had clouded her judgment. She shook her head.
"That's what happens when you only find one guy appealing to you Sati old girl you get territorial and with you it gets deadly." She through the last of the trash away and looked out the window to Dom's house where her sister and brother were.
"I can't face them now but I need to. Damn if I ever fucked up this one." She winced as her hang over slapped her again.
"God, I hope Jessie at least didn't fuck up tonight too." She resigned herself to check up on Jessie first knowing that that would be the easiest. She laughed bitterly.
"Chicken shit." She said to herself as she dialed his number.
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Dom sat at the table and stared at his breakfast. Leon, Vince, and Mia were trying to keep conversation alive but Dom, Eric, and Abre just didn't feel like talking. It didn't help that Mia was throwing Dom evil looks every so often as the kids silently ate. Dom knew what the looks were about but that didn't mean he had to like them.
"What he hells your problem Mia?" Dom finally asked making everyone stop what they were doing and look at him.
"I don't have a problem Dom. Why should I have one?" Mia asked with underlying steel in her voice. Dom just shrugged and stood up.
"Come on guys we have to go to work." Abre looked up at him pleadingly.
"You can't leave yet Sati's not up." Dom looked down and met the hazel pleading eyes of the two year old. Then he looked away and out the window of his house that looked straight to their house. Eric followed his gaze.
"Can we come with you guys? She probably won't be up for a while yet." Eric stopped before he said why, which would have upset Abre. Mia glared at her brother but turned away when he looked back at her.
"Sure, come on we have to go open up the shop." Vince and Leon stood up and followed Dom and Eric. Mia picked up Abre and walked out to the garage tailing the guys.
The garage door was open. Their cars had tools scattered all around them. The guys gasped and rushed to their cars. Mia just stood their holding Abre.
"What the hell happened here?" Eric asked.
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Jessie yawned. It had been a long night for him but it had been a successful one. Satiana had just called to ask him how it went but she didn't have to. He owed her big for helping him out all the times she had when he had gotten caught.
He stood and stretched scratching his back as he did. Now it was time to go meet the natives so to speak. Satiana wanted him to meet the guys she hung with.
"She better not tell them it was me who did it. Well, unless they like it that is." There was one car in there- a red one- that Satiana had said she wanted the works on. 'That guy must be pretty special to her for her to want to upgrade his car that much.'
"Shit, I don't care just as long as I don't get caught."
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"Who the fuck was in here messin with my car?" Dom said to himself. The guys were frantically checking their cars to see if anything was missing. You just didn't mess with Dom's car not even to sit in it. He only let his crew in and even that was rare. Mia was getting inpatient. She shifted her weight as she looked at her brother.
"I know." Everyone turned to her. She just yawned as she looked over her car and smiled. They were dumb if they hadn't figured it out yet.
"Who the hell was it Mia? No one messes with my car and gets away with it." Dom who a minute ago had been calm- was now opposing- a remnant of the dragons of old. He looked at his sister- his stare- menacing- evil in a way no other mans stare on earth could be but Mia had grown up with that look and she didn't mind. But it was out of the mouth of a babe that his answer came. Abre squirmed on Mia's hip and looked up at him.
"My sister spent all week on you guys presents. Don't you like them? She always has good presents for me. Your present is the biggest though." She looked at Dom and smiled.
"I kept a secret, I kept a secret." Abre chanted happily. Dom just stared at her. He could feel Mia's accusing gaze. Dom didn't know what to say. He felt bad enough already without finding out she had given him a present.
"Well, present or no we still have to go." Dom opened his car door and got in. Taped to the dashboard was a note. It simply said,
'A sweet car for a sweet man. Love Sati.'
"Shit." Was all Dom could say.
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Satiana walked through the house and picked up clothes and whatever else was on the floor. They weren't really messy but this was busy work and she needed it. She still couldn't face them and knew it would be hard to even look at Dom after what she had said to him. She wandered into her sister's room and set her toys down. She fixed her bed and picked up her clothes.
"Innocence is what makes you so beautiful Abre and I won't let anything take that away not even me." Satiana hugged her sister's bear to her and smiled. She had work to do so she stood and went to her brother's wreck of a room.
"Eric you're just as bad as I was." She laughed as she started to pick up his clothes. Satiana picked up his backpack and was about to hang it on the wall when it fell open spilling its contents.
"Oh great you fool just what you need." She left the room and put the armload of dirty clothes in the laundry room then came back. She made her way over to the bag and stopped.
'No it can't be.' She walked closer and bent down over the bag. There were three big clear packages of white powdery stuff. Satiana gasped and picked them up. She stuffed them in her brother's bag and zipped it up.
"Fuck how could you Eric? Not you two little brother. We're going to have to have a talk." She set the bag on her shoulders and walked to her room to pick up the keys to her car. "A serious fuckin talk if this is what I think it is." She ran down the stairs and opened the door only to run straight into Johnny. She fell back on her ass and looked up to see his amused face. He walked forward as she crawled back. Johnny closed the door behind him then looked back to the now standing Satiana.
"Well, well we meet again Satiana." She glared at him.
"Get the hell out of my house Johnny. I'm in a hurry and I don't have time to waste on you." He shook his head.
"I'm not here for you although now that you mention it we have a score to settle. Back in Japan you screwed me over. Our families were supposed to merge but you told your grandfather that I had no honor. My family even believed you. Now I wonder what Dom thought last night when you knew who I was without an introduction? But I'm here to tell your brother that his turf is now mine and to stop now before I have to hurt him. It's the least I could do for the families back home."
"What the fuck are you talking about Johnny? I have things to do and your riddles aren't helping." Satiana shook- she knew what he meant but not her baby brother. 'God not him.'
"You know what I'm talking about bitch." Johnny stepped forward and slapped her. Her head snapped to one side but she stood up again her lip bleeding. Johnny got worked up when he saw the blood and smiled.
"Do you even know who you're messing with? Your brothers just a little fish in a big pond and even with you protecting him his time will come but yours has already come." Johnny threw a left hook but she blocked it with her right. He threw a right and the same thing happened. He stared to get angry.
"That's just about the only useful thing our dad taught us how to protect ourselves. You should ask him when you meet, how good I was in the sword technique." Satiana hit him as hard as she could with her right and connected with his face. Johnny stumbled back and wiped right above his eye. He pulled his hand down and expected it- it was blood. Satiana smiled at him.
"You think that's funny bitch. I'll cut that smile off your face."
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"Hey Dom, I left somethin at home. I'll be right back." Eric said as he walked up to the older man and smiled down at him. Dom looked up from working on the customer's car and shook his head.
"Naw man wait I'll be done in a sec your sister would kill me if I let you go on your own." Dom handed him a wrench.
"But while we wait you can help me with this car k?" Eric smiled and nodded. Dom looked up and at he office where Abre was playing. 'Baby sittin ain't all that bad.' He smiled to himself as he started working again.
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Satiana pushed as hard as she could but he knife didn't go anywhere it stayed suspended in mid-air right above her chest. She had let him get to close and now she was paying for it. Her leg and her arm hurt like hell from the knife wounds. She was still sluggish from the beer last night and that wasn't helping either.
"Get off me you bastard." Satiana grunted as he pushed down harder. He was straddling her and he just smiled down at her blood and sweat soaked face.
"What's the matter I thought you liked knives?" He ground his hips into hers. Satiana screamed.
"Dom won't mind if I take you, it will probably be good for you anyway. You seem a bit uptight." Satiana spit in his face.
"You'll never have anything that's his." Johnny smiled down at her.
"But word is, you're not his anymore. Monica finally got her man. And you were mine first by right. So…" His smile brightened.
"Your free." He pushed the knife down into her stomach and as she was about to scream he kissed her taking her breath. Satiana struggled against the pain and Johnny but it was becoming too much for her.
She couldn't move anymore. Johnny kissed her lips hungrily and pushed the knife down harder. He let go of her lips and moved off her.
"I want you to know this before for you sleep bitch. All that Eric has is mine and all that Dom had is mine. Your brother is going to die and there's' nothing you can do." He pulled his knife out of her and wiped it on her shirt as she blacked out.
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"Hey Dom! Where's Eric?" Mia asked as she walked in with lunch. She looked around and saw everyone but Eric.
"He's not here. I told him earlier to wait till I was done with the car and I would take him home but I guess he couldn't wait.
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Satiana sat up and crawled to the phone. 'God please let Eric be all right. Please if there was ever a time when he really needed you it is now.' She dialed the phone number to Dom's garage. Her hands shook as she willed them to dial faster. Finally it rang and Leon picked up.
"Yeah…hello…anyone there?" Satiana almost cried in relief.
"Leon", Satiana said as she clutched her stomach, "God Leon please tell me my brother is there."
"Hang on let me get Dom I think yall should talk about…"
"Damn it Leon, Satiana clenched her teeth, my brother is he there?"
"No he's not Sati but…" He stopped talking when he heard her scream in pain.
"Hey, are you alright?" She pressed her hand against the growing swell of blood on her stomach.
"Don't worry about me, just find my brother. Tell Dom he has to find my brother." Satiana hung up the phone and crawled over to her keys. 'Damn it take me God. Take me not my little brother.'
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"Dom, Sati says we gotta find Eric he's in danger." She sounds like she's the one in danger thought." Leon picked up his car keys and went over to his car.
"What do you mean she sounds like she's in danger?"
"Just that. She didn't tell me but our first priority is to find that kid. She sounded desperate."
Dom got up and picked up his car keys. He looked at his sister and knew she knew to stay with Abre. He jumped in his car and turned it on. It started to beep like Satiana's did the night they met.
"Hang on Eric I'm comin little man.
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Is Dom out of the dog house?……. Will Satiana make it to her brother in time?…….. Or will Vince still loose in a race against Mia?
You'll find out in the next exciting episode of……..(music plays) Its your neighborhood.
