Authors Notes: Okay first off I know it's been a little while since I
updated but I was having troubles with my asthma, yes I have asthma the big
geek that I am. And I have been pretty much medicating myself and trying
not to lie down a whole lot. But here is the next chapter be brutally
honest.
Feedback Replies: Okay trying to answer all the Feedback is going to kill me hehe so thanks to everyone who replied, and even gave me the oppurtunity to SAY that phrase 'all the feedback' hehe. I'll reply to the questions and maybe next chapter I'll replly to everyone again
Chikita: Thank you for the compliement this is really the first angsty kinda ff I've done mostly I'm with the happily ever after, romantic, sweetness crew. But I thought I'd try the darker more emotional draining stories. Lets hope Dom and Letty DO get together though!
Tempest: I like Vince too! I have a fanlisting for him at ~~~ Shameless plug right there! Hehe, but yeah I think I answered that part of your reveiw in the next chapter. As for the Mia/Dom element that came from a lot of Rping with my best friend. As much of the story did. Plus you could just kinda tell that Dom was possessive and protective and comfortable with Mia, from the movie. As for the Jesse angle... I don't know where that came from... I guess inspiration comes in all forms!
Amanda: You are soooo right! Leon is da bomb! He is my favourite character. Always has been. Well except for a short foray into Dom droolage. And you are exactly spot on about Dom he DOESN'T deserve Letty after a comment like that! Little jerk head.
~*Mel*~: Well I guess you've read Faded Roses hehe. Thank you so much. That was a favourite of mine but I seem to have lost all inspiration on it. So if you have any idea's or suggestions on where I could take it... E-mail me at Kelmoyourinnerevil@yahoo.com.au, maybe I'll start writing it again hehe.
China: Viva la revolution. Bad Dom. He needs a spanking. He is a bad man and hopefully he'll get his come-uppances but he is Dom, 'the golden child' so who knows.
Greenglowchassis: You went to my site? Thanks so much! hehe I had to revamp it I just realized that it wasn't tabled properly. For those who don't know what I'm talking about I have a 'The Fast And The Furious' Fan Fiction Central website at ~~~ ANOTHER shameless plug! Back to the story, yeah I know the jealousy's intense but considering that's the name of the story I am kinda milking it for all it's worth. Hehe! Ohh and thanks for your Betaing offer! I definately except! I'll get around to e-mail you about it! I promise hehe!
Greenglowchassis 2: Hehe I had to split you up or you would have gotten about 4 paragraphs hehe. Okay Leon know's Dom's jealous because he's one of those sit silently and watch kind of peoples, he's a people watcher and he's taking a stab in the dark to try and under-stand his feelings, like when you say to someone, Ohh your just jealous... sorta like that. And Dom has never denied or agreed with him because he know's that Leon doesn't REALLY know that he's jealous and if he was to confirm it then Leon may be intuitive enough to put it together and figure out it's about Letty.
On the Jesse thing... that's just a habit. I don't know how or why, but through RP my Jesse has just kinda become that way inclined, at least in the early stages of his relationship with Dom. As in now. I mean he still doesn't really KNOW Dom, doesn't know htat Dom wouldn't hurt a fly, considering he went to jail for destroying linder's face, and also my Jesse's always kinda been overly sensitive and like Mia in the next chapter had some major issues from other people about his dad in jail. So that's kinda where it stems from. Jui-Jitsu thing... all I'll say is Johnny rocks my socks! hehe! *Hugs her Johnny doll*
Babygrl AA: Thank you very much for taking the time to reveiw my ff then. I'm glad your enjoying it and that I'm staying realatively true to the movie character's personalities or perceived personalities. I spend many MANY long hours discuss the FATF characters and cast with my best friend, Lani, so I think we have all the details kinda worked out between us hehe.
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Chapter 3
"You don't have to help."
It was the first phrase she'd uttered to me since this afternoon.
"I want to." It was a lie but not a big one. I hated washing up and had managed the task a total of perhaps 10 times in my life. Mom and Mia had always done the dishes. They'd always cooked, and did all that other house stuff.
"Liar." Mia grumbled at me lightly stacking the dishes on the other side of the sink and running the hot water.
"Okay I just wanna spend some time with my little sister that so wrong?" I said with my patented, I'm-an-annoying-older-brother-who-really-just-wanted- a-big-hug-then-I'll-stop-annoying-you look.
"Whatever." Mia mumbled not falling into my trap. She could rarely resist my big brown eye's and the lip, that quivered just slightly, it was the most pitiful display and usually succeeded in pitying a hug out of her. I guess I didn't deserve one tonight.
We stood in silence for the next 5 minutes washing and drying the dishes. Until I could no longer stand my guilty silence and claimed, "Mia, today at the garage. You know I didn't mean it like it came out."
Liar! That's exactly how I had meant it. I just didn't mean to say it in front of all those witness's one that would seconds later bust my head in, another who would avoid my direct gaze all night, and Mia who was disappointed in me. That nearly drove me crazy.
"Sounded like you meant it exactly how it came out. Sounds like you're just upset that Leon took you down." Then she mumbled something I couldn't catch. And there must have been a reason for it, if she couldn't say it to my face.
"What was that?" I questioned focusing all my energy on the plate I was drying trying not to break it.
"I said it sounded like."
"No. after that. what did you mumble?" I demanded looking sideways at her. I saw her blush slightly. but only slightly. so I knew she was aware that I'd heard her mumbling but hadn't thought I'd call her on it.
"I said." She stopped washing the dishes for a second, and frowned as she claimed, "Big prison bad ass, with his prison 'tude got knocked down but an eighteen year old." Mia blushed a little more furiously.
"Mia." I stopped I didn't know how to even beginning to phrase my shock. That's what she actually thought? That I was like ANYONE from Lompoc prison? Of course. she'd never really met any of the prisoners, thank god, but still, to even put me in the same class as them. it hurt.
It hurt that Mia. my baby sister, the one person that I could trust more then life itself, the one person I would do anything for. she actually did see me as nothing more then a buffed up ex-con.
"Mia." I tried again, feeling devastated but refusing to admit it.
"It's true!" Mia mumbled into the sink. Her face coming up flushed her eye's confused and angry. "You haven't been the same since you got back from prison you are always bickering with Vince, and always glowering and now your starting on Letty? When are you planning on starting on me? Just so I can prepare myself?" Mia asked and I could see she was trying not to cry.
"Mia." I put down the plate and made a move towards her.
She pulled back wiping her dish sudded hands across her eye's quickly to stop the tears at the corner of them.
I breathed a sigh, more relieved then I wanted to feel. I didn't know. what it would be like. to hug her. I had hugged her when I got out. hugged everyone. but. I didn't I hadn't hugged since that it was too strange a feeling to re-acquaint with.
We used to hug all the time. Pappi and Mama. Mia and I. Even Vince on occasion. Didn't think twice about it. but. now. it was difficult to remember how easy it had been. How un-vulnerable you could and should feel when putting your arms around someone else to comfort them. I couldn't hug her for fear of breaking down and even crying. I was too much of a man to cry in front of my little sister.
"Mia. I'm not going to start on you ever baby girl. And not on Letty either. This is just about.. Vince and how. how stupid he is. I never realized it before but he is SO stupid!" I grumbled vehemently to Mia.
"He is not! He's not!" I took a step back as Mia exploded in anger.
"Mia I just meant."
"No you don't get to call him stupid! He'd not the stupid one! He was the only one there for me! When you weren't there. I. there was only him. He looked after me! And he defended you! You don't know all the things they were saying about you! You just think they ignored it. That they were so scared of you, that you were so tough. But it's easy to pick on a girl all alone at night! 3 against one! It's easy to say things to 15 year old and make her do things because she is so ashamed of her brother she wants them to think nicely about some part of her family!" Mia said, as my stomach clenched up and I wanted to be sick.
"It's not fair! I shouldn't have to be ashamed of my brother! Ever! I shouldn't have had to feel scared! And you know why I didn't? Because of Vince! Because he would pick me up from school EVERY day! He never went out on dates when I asked him not to! He spent 100 bucks a week on gas so I could go see you. He hocked his mothers diamond ring to buy me school books."
"You don't get to call him stupid Dom! It's not fair and I won't let you! Vince was there for me and looked after me when you weren't! You were supposed to be there when Pappi died but no you had to go and be STUPID, because that's what it was. really really stupid, Dom, you had to go and stupidly attack Linder and get put in a stupid jail, where you got stupid muscles, stupid attitudes, and shaved your stupid head! While Vince was here taking care of business!" Mia shuddered as everything she had been bottling up finally flew from her mouth in a mixture of adrenalin, release and guilt.
"Mia. I didn't know. I'm sorry. Vince never said." I stumbled over myself to apologize.
Mia gave me a look and a kicked myself. Yeah good bring up Vince again. For once. at least recently, I hadn't meant it as an attack on Vince just a statement. Mia's bottom lip trembled as she tried to hold the tears back. My heart thumped in my chest and I literally thought I was having a heart attack.
Suddenly Mia burst into tears and ran from the kitchen up to her room.
"Smooth move Toretto." I growled to myself reefing the fridge door open and grabbing a beer, throwing it back hard. Wiping my mouth I turned to see Vince standing at the back door. Staring at me. now there was rage in his eye's. And what's to bet he'd witnessed the last bit of that scene with Mia crying, and I knew he was going to blame me.
Well why shouldn't he, it was my fault.
Feedback Replies: Okay trying to answer all the Feedback is going to kill me hehe so thanks to everyone who replied, and even gave me the oppurtunity to SAY that phrase 'all the feedback' hehe. I'll reply to the questions and maybe next chapter I'll replly to everyone again
Chikita: Thank you for the compliement this is really the first angsty kinda ff I've done mostly I'm with the happily ever after, romantic, sweetness crew. But I thought I'd try the darker more emotional draining stories. Lets hope Dom and Letty DO get together though!
Tempest: I like Vince too! I have a fanlisting for him at ~~~ Shameless plug right there! Hehe, but yeah I think I answered that part of your reveiw in the next chapter. As for the Mia/Dom element that came from a lot of Rping with my best friend. As much of the story did. Plus you could just kinda tell that Dom was possessive and protective and comfortable with Mia, from the movie. As for the Jesse angle... I don't know where that came from... I guess inspiration comes in all forms!
Amanda: You are soooo right! Leon is da bomb! He is my favourite character. Always has been. Well except for a short foray into Dom droolage. And you are exactly spot on about Dom he DOESN'T deserve Letty after a comment like that! Little jerk head.
~*Mel*~: Well I guess you've read Faded Roses hehe. Thank you so much. That was a favourite of mine but I seem to have lost all inspiration on it. So if you have any idea's or suggestions on where I could take it... E-mail me at Kelmoyourinnerevil@yahoo.com.au, maybe I'll start writing it again hehe.
China: Viva la revolution. Bad Dom. He needs a spanking. He is a bad man and hopefully he'll get his come-uppances but he is Dom, 'the golden child' so who knows.
Greenglowchassis: You went to my site? Thanks so much! hehe I had to revamp it I just realized that it wasn't tabled properly. For those who don't know what I'm talking about I have a 'The Fast And The Furious' Fan Fiction Central website at ~~~ ANOTHER shameless plug! Back to the story, yeah I know the jealousy's intense but considering that's the name of the story I am kinda milking it for all it's worth. Hehe! Ohh and thanks for your Betaing offer! I definately except! I'll get around to e-mail you about it! I promise hehe!
Greenglowchassis 2: Hehe I had to split you up or you would have gotten about 4 paragraphs hehe. Okay Leon know's Dom's jealous because he's one of those sit silently and watch kind of peoples, he's a people watcher and he's taking a stab in the dark to try and under-stand his feelings, like when you say to someone, Ohh your just jealous... sorta like that. And Dom has never denied or agreed with him because he know's that Leon doesn't REALLY know that he's jealous and if he was to confirm it then Leon may be intuitive enough to put it together and figure out it's about Letty.
On the Jesse thing... that's just a habit. I don't know how or why, but through RP my Jesse has just kinda become that way inclined, at least in the early stages of his relationship with Dom. As in now. I mean he still doesn't really KNOW Dom, doesn't know htat Dom wouldn't hurt a fly, considering he went to jail for destroying linder's face, and also my Jesse's always kinda been overly sensitive and like Mia in the next chapter had some major issues from other people about his dad in jail. So that's kinda where it stems from. Jui-Jitsu thing... all I'll say is Johnny rocks my socks! hehe! *Hugs her Johnny doll*
Babygrl AA: Thank you very much for taking the time to reveiw my ff then. I'm glad your enjoying it and that I'm staying realatively true to the movie character's personalities or perceived personalities. I spend many MANY long hours discuss the FATF characters and cast with my best friend, Lani, so I think we have all the details kinda worked out between us hehe.
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Chapter 3
"You don't have to help."
It was the first phrase she'd uttered to me since this afternoon.
"I want to." It was a lie but not a big one. I hated washing up and had managed the task a total of perhaps 10 times in my life. Mom and Mia had always done the dishes. They'd always cooked, and did all that other house stuff.
"Liar." Mia grumbled at me lightly stacking the dishes on the other side of the sink and running the hot water.
"Okay I just wanna spend some time with my little sister that so wrong?" I said with my patented, I'm-an-annoying-older-brother-who-really-just-wanted- a-big-hug-then-I'll-stop-annoying-you look.
"Whatever." Mia mumbled not falling into my trap. She could rarely resist my big brown eye's and the lip, that quivered just slightly, it was the most pitiful display and usually succeeded in pitying a hug out of her. I guess I didn't deserve one tonight.
We stood in silence for the next 5 minutes washing and drying the dishes. Until I could no longer stand my guilty silence and claimed, "Mia, today at the garage. You know I didn't mean it like it came out."
Liar! That's exactly how I had meant it. I just didn't mean to say it in front of all those witness's one that would seconds later bust my head in, another who would avoid my direct gaze all night, and Mia who was disappointed in me. That nearly drove me crazy.
"Sounded like you meant it exactly how it came out. Sounds like you're just upset that Leon took you down." Then she mumbled something I couldn't catch. And there must have been a reason for it, if she couldn't say it to my face.
"What was that?" I questioned focusing all my energy on the plate I was drying trying not to break it.
"I said it sounded like."
"No. after that. what did you mumble?" I demanded looking sideways at her. I saw her blush slightly. but only slightly. so I knew she was aware that I'd heard her mumbling but hadn't thought I'd call her on it.
"I said." She stopped washing the dishes for a second, and frowned as she claimed, "Big prison bad ass, with his prison 'tude got knocked down but an eighteen year old." Mia blushed a little more furiously.
"Mia." I stopped I didn't know how to even beginning to phrase my shock. That's what she actually thought? That I was like ANYONE from Lompoc prison? Of course. she'd never really met any of the prisoners, thank god, but still, to even put me in the same class as them. it hurt.
It hurt that Mia. my baby sister, the one person that I could trust more then life itself, the one person I would do anything for. she actually did see me as nothing more then a buffed up ex-con.
"Mia." I tried again, feeling devastated but refusing to admit it.
"It's true!" Mia mumbled into the sink. Her face coming up flushed her eye's confused and angry. "You haven't been the same since you got back from prison you are always bickering with Vince, and always glowering and now your starting on Letty? When are you planning on starting on me? Just so I can prepare myself?" Mia asked and I could see she was trying not to cry.
"Mia." I put down the plate and made a move towards her.
She pulled back wiping her dish sudded hands across her eye's quickly to stop the tears at the corner of them.
I breathed a sigh, more relieved then I wanted to feel. I didn't know. what it would be like. to hug her. I had hugged her when I got out. hugged everyone. but. I didn't I hadn't hugged since that it was too strange a feeling to re-acquaint with.
We used to hug all the time. Pappi and Mama. Mia and I. Even Vince on occasion. Didn't think twice about it. but. now. it was difficult to remember how easy it had been. How un-vulnerable you could and should feel when putting your arms around someone else to comfort them. I couldn't hug her for fear of breaking down and even crying. I was too much of a man to cry in front of my little sister.
"Mia. I'm not going to start on you ever baby girl. And not on Letty either. This is just about.. Vince and how. how stupid he is. I never realized it before but he is SO stupid!" I grumbled vehemently to Mia.
"He is not! He's not!" I took a step back as Mia exploded in anger.
"Mia I just meant."
"No you don't get to call him stupid! He'd not the stupid one! He was the only one there for me! When you weren't there. I. there was only him. He looked after me! And he defended you! You don't know all the things they were saying about you! You just think they ignored it. That they were so scared of you, that you were so tough. But it's easy to pick on a girl all alone at night! 3 against one! It's easy to say things to 15 year old and make her do things because she is so ashamed of her brother she wants them to think nicely about some part of her family!" Mia said, as my stomach clenched up and I wanted to be sick.
"It's not fair! I shouldn't have to be ashamed of my brother! Ever! I shouldn't have had to feel scared! And you know why I didn't? Because of Vince! Because he would pick me up from school EVERY day! He never went out on dates when I asked him not to! He spent 100 bucks a week on gas so I could go see you. He hocked his mothers diamond ring to buy me school books."
"You don't get to call him stupid Dom! It's not fair and I won't let you! Vince was there for me and looked after me when you weren't! You were supposed to be there when Pappi died but no you had to go and be STUPID, because that's what it was. really really stupid, Dom, you had to go and stupidly attack Linder and get put in a stupid jail, where you got stupid muscles, stupid attitudes, and shaved your stupid head! While Vince was here taking care of business!" Mia shuddered as everything she had been bottling up finally flew from her mouth in a mixture of adrenalin, release and guilt.
"Mia. I didn't know. I'm sorry. Vince never said." I stumbled over myself to apologize.
Mia gave me a look and a kicked myself. Yeah good bring up Vince again. For once. at least recently, I hadn't meant it as an attack on Vince just a statement. Mia's bottom lip trembled as she tried to hold the tears back. My heart thumped in my chest and I literally thought I was having a heart attack.
Suddenly Mia burst into tears and ran from the kitchen up to her room.
"Smooth move Toretto." I growled to myself reefing the fridge door open and grabbing a beer, throwing it back hard. Wiping my mouth I turned to see Vince standing at the back door. Staring at me. now there was rage in his eye's. And what's to bet he'd witnessed the last bit of that scene with Mia crying, and I knew he was going to blame me.
Well why shouldn't he, it was my fault.
