Chapter 8 - Who is Nyssa Williams?
Dom looked at the others. Mia had gone to bed and Spilner went home. It was just the team minus Vince. "What's up with V and this girl?" He asked the team in general. Without waiting for an answer he went on. "What do we know about her? She is staying over all of a sudden two nights in a row. And he has never brought a girl home during the daylight hours before."
"Well, she is Manda Williams' cousin, she doesn't race, and she had a brother named Danny who raced on the NIRA circuit. Danny left her a sweet Skyline. She has a step dad who beats her and who kicked her out of the house. Thus she is staying with Vince. He has known her for two days. I overheard all that I need to know more info about her before I can confirm any of that on the net." That was what Jesse had overheard and picked up on over the two days.
"Oh god, she's related to Manda?" Dom was not thrilled. "And wait she's living with us now? Last time I checked this was my house."
"Well, when I heard her and Vince talking she said she didn't want to because it felt like she was imposing and Vince told her it was no imposition if she stayed in his room."
"Jesus, Vince knows we don't need strangers around right now and he tells her she can live here without asking me?" Dom was pissed off. The fact that he brought Spilner around didn't seem to register. Leon reminded him.
"She's just a kid Dom; she's 19 years old for Christ sake, Dawg. Still in high school cause she failed a grade. You brought Brian Earl Spilner the serial killer around. He's much more likely to be dangerous then a female kid." Letty punched him in the shoulder.
"The fact that she is female doesn't make her stupid or weak Leon."
"No but Vince thinks Spilner is a cop." Leon stuck up for his friend.
"Ya, but Jesse ran a profile on him and nothing like that turned up. And Brian doesn't live here." Dom was confident in Jesse's computer skills. They found lots of dirt on Brian. But nothing that lead to him being a cop.
"I know Dom but the girl is not likely to be much more then a wannabe racer who sees Vince as a way into the scene and maybe into the team." This was Jesse's opinion.
"Well if that car of hers raced on the NIRA circuit she might just have a shot at it but she doesn't really seem to have it in her." Dom didn't see the girl as a racer at all. She didn't seem edgy enough. He could see Vince driving her car and winning though. There was lots of edge to Vince. He decided to just leave it alone for now. After all the team was right she was just a kid, he didn't even know what Vince saw in her. They were 24, kind of old for a 19 year old. But it had always seemed that Vince wanted the domestic type female, like Mia. Cook and clean, etc. Not a racer girl like Letty. You had to pry Letty out of the garage and make her clean up her own self let alone the house.
Vince shook Nyssa awake, they were both oblivious to the fact they were the center of the discussion upstairs. She came too with a sleepy little moan. "Why'd ya wake me for? I was having the best dream." Vince sat down beside her on the bed.
"Ya, bout what?"
"Nothing." She said and turned bright red.
"Oh, it was one of 'those' dreams was it? Was I in it?"
"Vince, what kind of a question is that?"
"The kind you should answer, because just maybe I could help you recreate it if I was in it."
"Well maybe you were in it and maybe it belongs to stay a dream till you are sure about what you want."
"Girl you're killing me. I'm sure of what I want right now."
"And till you are sure you will be sure of what you want tomorrow it stays a dream."
"Fine, you're no fun. You should get ready for bed if you want a ride to school tomorrow."
"V, baby?"
"Yes Nyssa?" He said, thinking she was going to tell him she changed her mind, cause of the tone of her voice.
"Tomorrow is Saturday. I don't know how it worked when you went to school but in this century we don't go to school on Saturday."
"You got a smart mouth on you. I'm not that old you know."
"I got a mouth that is more then smart and I still wanna go to bed. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in. If you wake me I will kill you."
"You sure you don't want to show me how that dream went?"
"I'm sure I do want to show you all about it but I don't see that as a smart move."
"How bout a hint?"
"No, let me get ready for bed."
"Go ahead, nothing stopping you."
"Go watch TV or something for 3 minutes."
"Fine"
He went and watched Leon play his game for 3 minutes. Was Leon ever not playing a video game? Then he went back to his room which was now dark as pitch. He walked in and kicked one of her boxes because he was not expecting anything to be there. He swore softly. He found his dresser and took a clean pair of boxers out. He stripped off. Now that his eyes had adjusted there was lots of light from the full moon outside. He pulled on his clean shorts and headed for his side of the bed. He realized that Nyssa had watched him change. He crawled in bed and asked her if she like the show.
"Very much so. Thank you."
"Good."
"V?"
"Yes Nyssa?" He said with an exasperated sigh.
She came up on her elbow and looked down at him. She laid her top half over his chest and kissed him. His hands came up and rubbed her back. As he went to flip her over under him she pulled away and lay on her side facing him.
"That was your hint about my dream. Goodnight Vince."
"You can't do this to me Nyssa. I'll never sleep now. How can you kiss me like that and then say goodnight?"
"You wanted a hint." She told him coyly.
"Can I have another hint?" She kissed him again but she would not let him take it any farther. She was not going to sleep with the guy just because she was there. But he felt good, half on top of her. His weight was comfortable while he held most of it on his elbows. He tried to push it and almost made her cave in with nibbling kisses down her neck. She was going to give in to him when he stopped with a groan and told her to go to sleep. He rolled off her and pulled her with him to come up against his side, her head on his bare chest.
They slept in till 1pm again the next day. Vince woke up first and looked a Nyssa. She said she didn't want to be woken up but he wanted to go to Harry's and get her NOS tanks filled and then take the car for a real run. Aw hell, he would have to find out how long the thing had been just sitting in a garage. It had to be all tuned up before he could use a NOS shot if it had hardly been driven in years. He decided to risk his life and wake her.
He couldn't decide how to wake her. Shake her or kiss her. She looked really good in his bed. He had to admit having a steady girlfriend who was not Mia sounded good for the first time ever. No more brushing off the girls who called wanting a repeat performance when his show was a one night engagement. Plus if he got with Mia and ever hurt her Dom would have his head. What a hypocrite. He hurt Letty all the time but if a guy ever hurt Mia Dom would give him a new face. Nyssa however had no one to cry to and besides that he liked her. She was funny, smart and not a bit of skank in her. She and Mia had a lot in common after all.
He decided to go with a kiss and see where it went. Why was he putting so much thought into this? It was not like him. He leaned in and kissed her softly on the mouth. She moaned low in her chest and kissed him back, so he deepened his kiss. She arched into him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He kissed her till he had to breathe or pass out. She blinked up at him with a stunned look on her face.
"Morning sunshine."
"I told you not to wake me."
"Well I was nice about how I did it. It's 1pm girl. I want to go drive."
"You woke me up for that? The keys are in my pants from yesterday. Knock yourself out."
"That's not the attitude of a champ!"
"It's the attitude of a girl, in a bed, who wanted to sleep all day." She rolled over away from him and pulled the covers up over her head.
Vince took the blankets off her and picked her up. She was yelling at him to put her down and trying to get free but he threw her over his shoulder and went in the bathroom. He turned the cold water on and stepped in the shower with her over his shoulder. The cold spray hit her right in the butt because of the way he was carrying her. "Oh Vince you are so dead. Set me down." She yelled, more indignant then a cat in a rainstorm. He complied, slowly lowering her to her feet, making sure each inch of her rubbed each inch of him on the way down. Now they were both soaking wet, and cold and their clothes were clinging wetly to both of them. And suddenly killing him was not the first thing on her mind.
Man Vince has a hard body, she thought. He was a thug likely as not she reminded her self, and muscles were no doubt a plus in his line of work. Vince was thinking this was better then a wet tee shirt contest. She followed his gaze and turned red. She crossed her arms and told him to get out. She would have to take a shower for real now.
"Why don't we just share since we are both already wet?" Vince asked with a suggestive look.
"Or not, get out and I'll get ready and we can go drive my car."
Vince left her alone and she pulled off her wet cloths and took a shower. She used what she hoped was Vince's soap and shampoo. It smelled like him at least. Then she blow dried her hair strait and wrapped a towel around herself and headed to his room. She told him he could feel free to shower now if he wanted. He went to do so and she got dressed. She figured she may as well be comfortable if she was spending the day jumping in and out of a car. She put on a pair of velour track pants that had smallish flairs and rode low on her hips and a white tank that came down to just above her belly button. The top said superstar in little rhinestones. It was nice to just dress like she wanted. Not dress in a way that would keep Ed off her back and change later. She was just putting on her sketchers when Vince came back into the room with nothing but a towel low on his hips dripping wet still.
She asked him if he knew he was supposed to dry off before he left the bathroom. He told her no and grabbed her and pulled her to him. He was all wet but he smelled good. She tried to get free. He just wanted to get her wet and riled up. He liked the way her eyes flashed when she was pissed. She got revenge on him by licking a drop of water off his chest. She told him he smelled so good. Then told him it was too bad he woke her up to take her car for a run and left the room. Vince groaned. What had he gotten himself into?
He got dressed and found her out playing PS2 with Leon. She was kicking his ass. He told her he was ready. She asked him if he owned any clothes that did not look like all his other clothes. He told her she was funny. Leon laughed at them, he enjoyed the dynamic the two had already and hoped that Nyssa was going to be as good for Vince as he thought she would be. They headed upstairs. But everyone hooking up with nice girls made him wonder if he was ready to give up the skanks.
Mia, Dom and Letty were all in the kitchen. Mia looked from Vince to Nyssa and if Nyssa was not mistaken the other girl looked pissed. So she hadn't wanted Vince but no one else should have him either eh? Well that was too bad. She liked Mia but it was downright mean to play with anyone's feelings like that. Dom took in Vince's wet hair and Nyssa's wet shirt and put two and two together and came up with 5. Dom smirked. *Just friends hun.* he though. Mia asked if they wanted anything to eat. Nyssa looked at Vince for a queue of if they did or not. Vince told Mia no, they were taking off to get some stuff done and would grab something while they were out.
Dom asked Vince where in the hell his Maxima was. Vince told him stashed in Nyssa's garage. Dom had to know all about it. Nyssa filled him in and told him she was going to build a house there someday. She didn't know she was giving Dom all the info she needed to dig into her identity and her past. He thought her garage sounded as well set up as DT but on the scale of one car, not 5 like his. And of course he took in cars too. He ran a business; she just had a nice place to work on her own car. He told them he would like to see it someday. Nyssa told him no problem then she and Vince took off.
She let Vince drive the car and they hit McDonald's for a burger then they hit Harry's. There was Mr. Serial Killer, Spilner. Vince couldn't believe the guy still worked here after Dom called and told Harry what he did. Vince bypassed Brian and went right to Harry. They talked, Harry asked Vince when Dom was racing again and how things were going. Then he asked what Vince needed that day. Vince told him to fill up the NOS tanks. It was then that Harry noticed the girl browsing the rims. Harry asked who it was. Vince told him her name.
"So you need NOS for her car?" Harry asked. "What she drive?"
"Well I just need the tanks filled, the system is all set up, and she drives a Skyline."
"What version?"
"It is the GT-R, V-spec, '99 R-34 and Dom says it sounds like it is running at around 1000 horse."
"Sweet and you say she has no idea what she has?"
"She does now because I was so interested but she can hardly drive it. She wants to learn and I get to drive it while she does. But it has been sitting pretty well unused for a couple years so I need to get the tanks filled then get Jesse to help me tune it up."
"Well let's bring the tanks in and have them filled." The two men went and brought the NOS tanks into the store. Harry had one of the other guys fill them, not Spilner. Vince didn't think that Spilner seemed to be doing much of anything. Nyssa walked over to them. Harry shook her hand and told her what a nice car she had. She thanked him and told him that all she knew about it was it was fast and a pretty color but that she hoped Vince was going to change that for her. Harry laughed and asked her if she had seen anything she liked in the rims. She told him sure but the rims on the car were nice already. Harry asked what they were and Nyssa looked to Vince to answer that. Vince told Harry he thought they came from Veilside but he wasn't quite sure. However they were 18 inch and chrome.
The guy came out with their NOS and they headed out. Vince paid for it; he insisted that he was going to be the only one using it for awhile so he should pay for it. They headed back to DT. She asked him why they were not going to the track and he told her he had to tune the car first. She didn't know why so he explained about how a NOS shot stresses an engine but a well tuned engine set up for it can absorb the stress. But an engine not set up for NOS or one that is not tuned well can end up fried or blown up from the NOS and since her car had barely been driven in a couple years, it had to be tuned and adjusted and no one could do that better then Jesse. Vince was surprised she picked it all up and seemed to understand.
They got to the garage and Dom, Jesse and Leon were there. Dom asked what was wrong with the car and Jesse had the hood open before Nyssa was out of the car. He loved engines. They opened the hood and looked at her engine. It was nicely equipped. Vince had known that from the way it drove but it was really nice. Vince answered Dom's question and told him and Jesse it needed a full tune up so they could use the NOS they just picked up.
Jesse and Vince started in on it and Nyssa stood off to the side and watched and listened to the music Dom had playing. Dom started to ask her questions about her family. He asked her where her dad was and she told him Lompoc. Wrong answer she knew right after she said it because of the look on his face. He told her he had done two years there about 4 years ago and asked her how long her dad had been in. She told him 4 years and at least 3 more to go before he was up for parole. He asked for her dad's name and she couldn't not tell him. She told him Mark Williams. Dom knew the guy.
Dom was like oh, the transporter. She told him that that was what he was in for. He asked about her brother. She told him Danny had been a racer and that her dad's lawless life had driven Danny to a career in law enforcement. Dom seemed to care more then Vince had and asked her want kind of law enforcement. She told him he had been a cop, LAPD. She could somehow tell you didn't lie to Dom. She knew instinctively what would happen if he caught her in a lie would be much worse then what he would do now that he knew her dead brother was a cop. He asked her if she ever thought of law enforcement. She told him no. She wanted to race her car but Vince told her she had a lot of work to do first.
Dom nodded. He filed away the info that her last name was Williams and asked her if Nyssa was short for anything. She said yes it was and then clammed up. He pushed her. She hated her full first name. She gave in and told him it was Nyssandre and she got Nyssa from her brother because of the Nyssa-Nissan thing. Dom laughed.
Dom wanted to know how she met Vince. She didn't really know what to tell him. She decided to give an abbreviated version of the truth a try. She told him Vince had picked her up last race night when he saw her walking away from the race when the cops showed up. And that she had thought that she might be better off getting picked up by the cops then get in the car with a strange guy who called her baby right out the gate but she was glad she changed her mind.
Dom liked the look in her eyes when she looked at Vince. She genuinely liked him. He didn't like the fact her bother had been a cop but at least she was honest about it and the guy wasn't around to come after them. If the cops were looking out for her Vince wouldn't have had to rescue her from her step dad.
Dom remembered Mark from the jail. The guy was tough but fair. He took care of himself and his friends. No worries there either. The guy knew when to keep his mouth shut and was not going to nark them out even if Nyssa should ever find stuff out and tell him. Besides that Dom was fairly sure that Vince was not stupid enough to tell the girl anything at this point. He hardly knew her after all. But Vince had a tendency to act first, think later. He was hot headed and hot tempered.
Nyssa walked away from Dom and walked over to Vince and Jesse and peered into her car's engine. She asked the guys how it was going. Jesse told her good, everything looked like it was still in good shape and after a couple more adjustments it would be good to go. Jesse asked her if she wanted to learn to work on her car too or just to drive it. She told him she would learn to work on it too. She enjoyed cars and really had no other career plans. Dom thought maybe if things worked out she could come work for him and Jesse could teach her how to work on engines. They started it up and Jesse listened to it for a second and then sniffed the exhaust.
"Still running a bit lean. Shut it off for a second." Jesse could tell all that from listening to the car and smelling the exhaust? Nyssa wondered about that. He sure knew cars. He opened the hood again and adjusted a couple other things and had Vince start it up again. "There you go, purring like a kitten." Jesse said this time.
Dom looked at the others. Mia had gone to bed and Spilner went home. It was just the team minus Vince. "What's up with V and this girl?" He asked the team in general. Without waiting for an answer he went on. "What do we know about her? She is staying over all of a sudden two nights in a row. And he has never brought a girl home during the daylight hours before."
"Well, she is Manda Williams' cousin, she doesn't race, and she had a brother named Danny who raced on the NIRA circuit. Danny left her a sweet Skyline. She has a step dad who beats her and who kicked her out of the house. Thus she is staying with Vince. He has known her for two days. I overheard all that I need to know more info about her before I can confirm any of that on the net." That was what Jesse had overheard and picked up on over the two days.
"Oh god, she's related to Manda?" Dom was not thrilled. "And wait she's living with us now? Last time I checked this was my house."
"Well, when I heard her and Vince talking she said she didn't want to because it felt like she was imposing and Vince told her it was no imposition if she stayed in his room."
"Jesus, Vince knows we don't need strangers around right now and he tells her she can live here without asking me?" Dom was pissed off. The fact that he brought Spilner around didn't seem to register. Leon reminded him.
"She's just a kid Dom; she's 19 years old for Christ sake, Dawg. Still in high school cause she failed a grade. You brought Brian Earl Spilner the serial killer around. He's much more likely to be dangerous then a female kid." Letty punched him in the shoulder.
"The fact that she is female doesn't make her stupid or weak Leon."
"No but Vince thinks Spilner is a cop." Leon stuck up for his friend.
"Ya, but Jesse ran a profile on him and nothing like that turned up. And Brian doesn't live here." Dom was confident in Jesse's computer skills. They found lots of dirt on Brian. But nothing that lead to him being a cop.
"I know Dom but the girl is not likely to be much more then a wannabe racer who sees Vince as a way into the scene and maybe into the team." This was Jesse's opinion.
"Well if that car of hers raced on the NIRA circuit she might just have a shot at it but she doesn't really seem to have it in her." Dom didn't see the girl as a racer at all. She didn't seem edgy enough. He could see Vince driving her car and winning though. There was lots of edge to Vince. He decided to just leave it alone for now. After all the team was right she was just a kid, he didn't even know what Vince saw in her. They were 24, kind of old for a 19 year old. But it had always seemed that Vince wanted the domestic type female, like Mia. Cook and clean, etc. Not a racer girl like Letty. You had to pry Letty out of the garage and make her clean up her own self let alone the house.
Vince shook Nyssa awake, they were both oblivious to the fact they were the center of the discussion upstairs. She came too with a sleepy little moan. "Why'd ya wake me for? I was having the best dream." Vince sat down beside her on the bed.
"Ya, bout what?"
"Nothing." She said and turned bright red.
"Oh, it was one of 'those' dreams was it? Was I in it?"
"Vince, what kind of a question is that?"
"The kind you should answer, because just maybe I could help you recreate it if I was in it."
"Well maybe you were in it and maybe it belongs to stay a dream till you are sure about what you want."
"Girl you're killing me. I'm sure of what I want right now."
"And till you are sure you will be sure of what you want tomorrow it stays a dream."
"Fine, you're no fun. You should get ready for bed if you want a ride to school tomorrow."
"V, baby?"
"Yes Nyssa?" He said, thinking she was going to tell him she changed her mind, cause of the tone of her voice.
"Tomorrow is Saturday. I don't know how it worked when you went to school but in this century we don't go to school on Saturday."
"You got a smart mouth on you. I'm not that old you know."
"I got a mouth that is more then smart and I still wanna go to bed. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in. If you wake me I will kill you."
"You sure you don't want to show me how that dream went?"
"I'm sure I do want to show you all about it but I don't see that as a smart move."
"How bout a hint?"
"No, let me get ready for bed."
"Go ahead, nothing stopping you."
"Go watch TV or something for 3 minutes."
"Fine"
He went and watched Leon play his game for 3 minutes. Was Leon ever not playing a video game? Then he went back to his room which was now dark as pitch. He walked in and kicked one of her boxes because he was not expecting anything to be there. He swore softly. He found his dresser and took a clean pair of boxers out. He stripped off. Now that his eyes had adjusted there was lots of light from the full moon outside. He pulled on his clean shorts and headed for his side of the bed. He realized that Nyssa had watched him change. He crawled in bed and asked her if she like the show.
"Very much so. Thank you."
"Good."
"V?"
"Yes Nyssa?" He said with an exasperated sigh.
She came up on her elbow and looked down at him. She laid her top half over his chest and kissed him. His hands came up and rubbed her back. As he went to flip her over under him she pulled away and lay on her side facing him.
"That was your hint about my dream. Goodnight Vince."
"You can't do this to me Nyssa. I'll never sleep now. How can you kiss me like that and then say goodnight?"
"You wanted a hint." She told him coyly.
"Can I have another hint?" She kissed him again but she would not let him take it any farther. She was not going to sleep with the guy just because she was there. But he felt good, half on top of her. His weight was comfortable while he held most of it on his elbows. He tried to push it and almost made her cave in with nibbling kisses down her neck. She was going to give in to him when he stopped with a groan and told her to go to sleep. He rolled off her and pulled her with him to come up against his side, her head on his bare chest.
They slept in till 1pm again the next day. Vince woke up first and looked a Nyssa. She said she didn't want to be woken up but he wanted to go to Harry's and get her NOS tanks filled and then take the car for a real run. Aw hell, he would have to find out how long the thing had been just sitting in a garage. It had to be all tuned up before he could use a NOS shot if it had hardly been driven in years. He decided to risk his life and wake her.
He couldn't decide how to wake her. Shake her or kiss her. She looked really good in his bed. He had to admit having a steady girlfriend who was not Mia sounded good for the first time ever. No more brushing off the girls who called wanting a repeat performance when his show was a one night engagement. Plus if he got with Mia and ever hurt her Dom would have his head. What a hypocrite. He hurt Letty all the time but if a guy ever hurt Mia Dom would give him a new face. Nyssa however had no one to cry to and besides that he liked her. She was funny, smart and not a bit of skank in her. She and Mia had a lot in common after all.
He decided to go with a kiss and see where it went. Why was he putting so much thought into this? It was not like him. He leaned in and kissed her softly on the mouth. She moaned low in her chest and kissed him back, so he deepened his kiss. She arched into him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He kissed her till he had to breathe or pass out. She blinked up at him with a stunned look on her face.
"Morning sunshine."
"I told you not to wake me."
"Well I was nice about how I did it. It's 1pm girl. I want to go drive."
"You woke me up for that? The keys are in my pants from yesterday. Knock yourself out."
"That's not the attitude of a champ!"
"It's the attitude of a girl, in a bed, who wanted to sleep all day." She rolled over away from him and pulled the covers up over her head.
Vince took the blankets off her and picked her up. She was yelling at him to put her down and trying to get free but he threw her over his shoulder and went in the bathroom. He turned the cold water on and stepped in the shower with her over his shoulder. The cold spray hit her right in the butt because of the way he was carrying her. "Oh Vince you are so dead. Set me down." She yelled, more indignant then a cat in a rainstorm. He complied, slowly lowering her to her feet, making sure each inch of her rubbed each inch of him on the way down. Now they were both soaking wet, and cold and their clothes were clinging wetly to both of them. And suddenly killing him was not the first thing on her mind.
Man Vince has a hard body, she thought. He was a thug likely as not she reminded her self, and muscles were no doubt a plus in his line of work. Vince was thinking this was better then a wet tee shirt contest. She followed his gaze and turned red. She crossed her arms and told him to get out. She would have to take a shower for real now.
"Why don't we just share since we are both already wet?" Vince asked with a suggestive look.
"Or not, get out and I'll get ready and we can go drive my car."
Vince left her alone and she pulled off her wet cloths and took a shower. She used what she hoped was Vince's soap and shampoo. It smelled like him at least. Then she blow dried her hair strait and wrapped a towel around herself and headed to his room. She told him he could feel free to shower now if he wanted. He went to do so and she got dressed. She figured she may as well be comfortable if she was spending the day jumping in and out of a car. She put on a pair of velour track pants that had smallish flairs and rode low on her hips and a white tank that came down to just above her belly button. The top said superstar in little rhinestones. It was nice to just dress like she wanted. Not dress in a way that would keep Ed off her back and change later. She was just putting on her sketchers when Vince came back into the room with nothing but a towel low on his hips dripping wet still.
She asked him if he knew he was supposed to dry off before he left the bathroom. He told her no and grabbed her and pulled her to him. He was all wet but he smelled good. She tried to get free. He just wanted to get her wet and riled up. He liked the way her eyes flashed when she was pissed. She got revenge on him by licking a drop of water off his chest. She told him he smelled so good. Then told him it was too bad he woke her up to take her car for a run and left the room. Vince groaned. What had he gotten himself into?
He got dressed and found her out playing PS2 with Leon. She was kicking his ass. He told her he was ready. She asked him if he owned any clothes that did not look like all his other clothes. He told her she was funny. Leon laughed at them, he enjoyed the dynamic the two had already and hoped that Nyssa was going to be as good for Vince as he thought she would be. They headed upstairs. But everyone hooking up with nice girls made him wonder if he was ready to give up the skanks.
Mia, Dom and Letty were all in the kitchen. Mia looked from Vince to Nyssa and if Nyssa was not mistaken the other girl looked pissed. So she hadn't wanted Vince but no one else should have him either eh? Well that was too bad. She liked Mia but it was downright mean to play with anyone's feelings like that. Dom took in Vince's wet hair and Nyssa's wet shirt and put two and two together and came up with 5. Dom smirked. *Just friends hun.* he though. Mia asked if they wanted anything to eat. Nyssa looked at Vince for a queue of if they did or not. Vince told Mia no, they were taking off to get some stuff done and would grab something while they were out.
Dom asked Vince where in the hell his Maxima was. Vince told him stashed in Nyssa's garage. Dom had to know all about it. Nyssa filled him in and told him she was going to build a house there someday. She didn't know she was giving Dom all the info she needed to dig into her identity and her past. He thought her garage sounded as well set up as DT but on the scale of one car, not 5 like his. And of course he took in cars too. He ran a business; she just had a nice place to work on her own car. He told them he would like to see it someday. Nyssa told him no problem then she and Vince took off.
She let Vince drive the car and they hit McDonald's for a burger then they hit Harry's. There was Mr. Serial Killer, Spilner. Vince couldn't believe the guy still worked here after Dom called and told Harry what he did. Vince bypassed Brian and went right to Harry. They talked, Harry asked Vince when Dom was racing again and how things were going. Then he asked what Vince needed that day. Vince told him to fill up the NOS tanks. It was then that Harry noticed the girl browsing the rims. Harry asked who it was. Vince told him her name.
"So you need NOS for her car?" Harry asked. "What she drive?"
"Well I just need the tanks filled, the system is all set up, and she drives a Skyline."
"What version?"
"It is the GT-R, V-spec, '99 R-34 and Dom says it sounds like it is running at around 1000 horse."
"Sweet and you say she has no idea what she has?"
"She does now because I was so interested but she can hardly drive it. She wants to learn and I get to drive it while she does. But it has been sitting pretty well unused for a couple years so I need to get the tanks filled then get Jesse to help me tune it up."
"Well let's bring the tanks in and have them filled." The two men went and brought the NOS tanks into the store. Harry had one of the other guys fill them, not Spilner. Vince didn't think that Spilner seemed to be doing much of anything. Nyssa walked over to them. Harry shook her hand and told her what a nice car she had. She thanked him and told him that all she knew about it was it was fast and a pretty color but that she hoped Vince was going to change that for her. Harry laughed and asked her if she had seen anything she liked in the rims. She told him sure but the rims on the car were nice already. Harry asked what they were and Nyssa looked to Vince to answer that. Vince told Harry he thought they came from Veilside but he wasn't quite sure. However they were 18 inch and chrome.
The guy came out with their NOS and they headed out. Vince paid for it; he insisted that he was going to be the only one using it for awhile so he should pay for it. They headed back to DT. She asked him why they were not going to the track and he told her he had to tune the car first. She didn't know why so he explained about how a NOS shot stresses an engine but a well tuned engine set up for it can absorb the stress. But an engine not set up for NOS or one that is not tuned well can end up fried or blown up from the NOS and since her car had barely been driven in a couple years, it had to be tuned and adjusted and no one could do that better then Jesse. Vince was surprised she picked it all up and seemed to understand.
They got to the garage and Dom, Jesse and Leon were there. Dom asked what was wrong with the car and Jesse had the hood open before Nyssa was out of the car. He loved engines. They opened the hood and looked at her engine. It was nicely equipped. Vince had known that from the way it drove but it was really nice. Vince answered Dom's question and told him and Jesse it needed a full tune up so they could use the NOS they just picked up.
Jesse and Vince started in on it and Nyssa stood off to the side and watched and listened to the music Dom had playing. Dom started to ask her questions about her family. He asked her where her dad was and she told him Lompoc. Wrong answer she knew right after she said it because of the look on his face. He told her he had done two years there about 4 years ago and asked her how long her dad had been in. She told him 4 years and at least 3 more to go before he was up for parole. He asked for her dad's name and she couldn't not tell him. She told him Mark Williams. Dom knew the guy.
Dom was like oh, the transporter. She told him that that was what he was in for. He asked about her brother. She told him Danny had been a racer and that her dad's lawless life had driven Danny to a career in law enforcement. Dom seemed to care more then Vince had and asked her want kind of law enforcement. She told him he had been a cop, LAPD. She could somehow tell you didn't lie to Dom. She knew instinctively what would happen if he caught her in a lie would be much worse then what he would do now that he knew her dead brother was a cop. He asked her if she ever thought of law enforcement. She told him no. She wanted to race her car but Vince told her she had a lot of work to do first.
Dom nodded. He filed away the info that her last name was Williams and asked her if Nyssa was short for anything. She said yes it was and then clammed up. He pushed her. She hated her full first name. She gave in and told him it was Nyssandre and she got Nyssa from her brother because of the Nyssa-Nissan thing. Dom laughed.
Dom wanted to know how she met Vince. She didn't really know what to tell him. She decided to give an abbreviated version of the truth a try. She told him Vince had picked her up last race night when he saw her walking away from the race when the cops showed up. And that she had thought that she might be better off getting picked up by the cops then get in the car with a strange guy who called her baby right out the gate but she was glad she changed her mind.
Dom liked the look in her eyes when she looked at Vince. She genuinely liked him. He didn't like the fact her bother had been a cop but at least she was honest about it and the guy wasn't around to come after them. If the cops were looking out for her Vince wouldn't have had to rescue her from her step dad.
Dom remembered Mark from the jail. The guy was tough but fair. He took care of himself and his friends. No worries there either. The guy knew when to keep his mouth shut and was not going to nark them out even if Nyssa should ever find stuff out and tell him. Besides that Dom was fairly sure that Vince was not stupid enough to tell the girl anything at this point. He hardly knew her after all. But Vince had a tendency to act first, think later. He was hot headed and hot tempered.
Nyssa walked away from Dom and walked over to Vince and Jesse and peered into her car's engine. She asked the guys how it was going. Jesse told her good, everything looked like it was still in good shape and after a couple more adjustments it would be good to go. Jesse asked her if she wanted to learn to work on her car too or just to drive it. She told him she would learn to work on it too. She enjoyed cars and really had no other career plans. Dom thought maybe if things worked out she could come work for him and Jesse could teach her how to work on engines. They started it up and Jesse listened to it for a second and then sniffed the exhaust.
"Still running a bit lean. Shut it off for a second." Jesse could tell all that from listening to the car and smelling the exhaust? Nyssa wondered about that. He sure knew cars. He opened the hood again and adjusted a couple other things and had Vince start it up again. "There you go, purring like a kitten." Jesse said this time.