Chapter 13 : The Garage
It was breakfast time, flavoured scents of bacon and sausages drifted around the Toretto household. Dominic Torreto sat at the kitchen table fiddling with the tomato ketchup bottle. Mia stood by the cooker with a frying pan in her hand.
"I'm gonna go open the garage today," he told her, "I'll bring the others with me. That ok?"
"Mmm" she mumbled back.
"You sure?"
"Yes Dom I'm sure," she snapped back.
"Okay Mia no need to snap I was just asking," he growled back at her.
"Oh whatever Dom, you know what I've better things to do than cook you lot breakfast, so cook it yourself," she shouted at him. She stormed out of the kitchen and grabbed her jacket of the coat hook.
"Mia!" Dom called after her, "Mia!" he shouted a bit louder, but Mia didn't care she slammed shut the front door behind her. Dom shook his head, and smelt something burning. The sausages began to hiss loudly, Dom pushed himself up and took the frying pan. "Vince, Jesse, Brian, breakfast!" he shouted, he felt like a father calling his children.
One by one each of them sat at the table, Dom tossed blackened sausages and burnt bacon onto their plates. "You know what Dom, I think we should leave the cooking to Mia. No offence man but she just adds that women's touch to it, then again I'm sure Brian's touch would come quite close," Vince said with a mouthful of food.
"Shut up Vince," Dom growled back, "Hurry up and eat guys we're gonna open up the garage this morning."
"Um is Leon or Letty home?" asked Jesse between chewing.
"No, neither came home last night" Dom got up from the table, "I'll be waiting outside." He walked out of the room and left the house. As soon as he left Vince stopped eating and just stared at Brian. Brian tried to ignore him and kept eating, but Vince kept staring and began tapping his fingers on the table.
"What?" Brian shouted at him losing his temper.
"Guess," Vince quietly answered to him, still staring and tapping.
"You know what Vince, just fucking tell me exactly what you're problem is," Brian spat back at him.
"You mean I have to tell you, what Brian to thick to remember what you did." Vince stood up.
"Yeah 'cause we both no that this ain't got shit all to do with me being a cop, its about the fact that Mia choose me over you," Brian shouted back also standing up, Jesse sat at the table watching amusedly as they both traded insults across at each other.
"Yeah well, who you think she trusts more now Brian, me or you?" Vince shouted back. Vince had hit a sore spot; Brian couldn't say anything in return. He shoved his chair back and walked out of the front door to Dom, letting it slam behind him.
Vince sat back down at the table and carried on eating, he looked up to see Jesse grinning at him. "What are you grinning at, pass me the ketchup."
*
All four travelled in Dom's car to the garage. He was the only one with a car, and that could drive. All of them remembered the journey perfectly, which houses went where, what traffic lights took the longest. As they pulled up to the garage, an empty silence filled them, emotions ran high. None of them had been to the garage in a long time, it brought back memories of the good and bad. Dom cut the engine, nobody moved from the car but instead just sat staring.
Dom let out a sigh, "Come on guys." Dom walked up to he shutters and undid the padlock. He pushed them open revealing the inside of the garage.
"Welcome home boys!" Dom sad with a grin, it looked the exact same even after all this time, after all that had happened, as though it had been frozen in time. Everything still lay as it had two months ago, spanners lay on the floor where someone had left them while working on a car, an empty crisp packet lay on the side desk as if someone had just ate them.
One by one they walked slowly into the garage. Jesse limped in and sat down on a chair. Vince crossed his arms and just peered around. Brian leant on a table and fiddled with some loose bolts. Dom walked around, checking that everything was still where it should be. It all was there in the same places, although dust had accumulated on most things. He paused for a moment wondering whether Jesse should be in a place with all this dust, but then decided if he saw Jesse cough he'd take him home.
"Come on guys plenty of stuff to be getting on with, Jesse you wanna use the computer and do that search I asked you about a couple of days ago?" Jesse nodded on response to Dom, "Good. Vince, do me a favour give my car a run through, then we'll do yours and Jesse's. Brian you can tidy up a bit and help Vince."
Brian expected nothing less than getting dumped with all the bad jobs, the team weren't exactly welcoming him back with open arms, but he knew it was nothing more than he deserved. Vince waited expecting Brian to argue back but instead Brian turned around and started sorting out some boxes.
"As for me I'm going to ring 'round see if I can drum up a bit of business," Dom told them as he went into the back room.
All four worked hard on into the evening, the light from outside got darker and darker. They all kept themselves occupied doing all sorts of odd jobs. Dom rarely left the back room, and Jesse eyes hardly ever left the screen. Jesse searched all sorts of things for any clues about the mystery Ray Hoddle, he searched everything from police files to underground racing websites. He had some success with the registration number, and found it was registered to a Mr Raymond Johnson, Jesse assumed that this was Ray's real name, and focused on doing searches using that name.
As the evening grew later, Dom became ever more impatient. He kept ringing the house phone but there was no reply. He wanted to know where Leon and Letty were, they had been gone for a long time now and he wanted to ask them further about who OJ was. He knew Letty was hiding something back at the hospital and wanted to know what. He glanced through the doorway and saw the others sitting around. Vince and Brian had kept arguing with each other all day but Dom just let them get on with it and hoped they'd soon get tired of it. They now sat at opposite ends of the room in silence, Jesse carried on typing away at the computer.
Dom pushed himself up and walked over to where Jesse was, "How's it going Jesse?"
"Good, I've done some searches using that Raymond Johnson name and ummm the results were good" Jesse told him keeping his voice low so the others couldn't hear.
"Yeah?"
"Well, they have turned up at a couple of places and they have usually won and well also the um," Jesse paused loosing his line of thought, "the um man, well I found out something really interesting 'bout him you see he."
The phone rang from the office cutting Jesse off, "Two sec's Jesse," Dom said to him as he made his way over to the phone.
"Hello," Dom said into the receiver.
"Um Dom, I'm in a bit a trouble and I kinda need your help." Letty's voice spoke quickly into the receiver. Dom heard the panic in her voice.
"What is it Letty?" he asked
"Dom I've been arrested, I'm in jail." The voice replied.
-----Hi people thanks for the reviews of the last chapter they were really encouraging, I should hopefully post the next chapter tomorrow or the day after, depending on some things. Please keep the reviews coming, so I know there are still people interesting in my story!! Thanks bye!---------------
It was breakfast time, flavoured scents of bacon and sausages drifted around the Toretto household. Dominic Torreto sat at the kitchen table fiddling with the tomato ketchup bottle. Mia stood by the cooker with a frying pan in her hand.
"I'm gonna go open the garage today," he told her, "I'll bring the others with me. That ok?"
"Mmm" she mumbled back.
"You sure?"
"Yes Dom I'm sure," she snapped back.
"Okay Mia no need to snap I was just asking," he growled back at her.
"Oh whatever Dom, you know what I've better things to do than cook you lot breakfast, so cook it yourself," she shouted at him. She stormed out of the kitchen and grabbed her jacket of the coat hook.
"Mia!" Dom called after her, "Mia!" he shouted a bit louder, but Mia didn't care she slammed shut the front door behind her. Dom shook his head, and smelt something burning. The sausages began to hiss loudly, Dom pushed himself up and took the frying pan. "Vince, Jesse, Brian, breakfast!" he shouted, he felt like a father calling his children.
One by one each of them sat at the table, Dom tossed blackened sausages and burnt bacon onto their plates. "You know what Dom, I think we should leave the cooking to Mia. No offence man but she just adds that women's touch to it, then again I'm sure Brian's touch would come quite close," Vince said with a mouthful of food.
"Shut up Vince," Dom growled back, "Hurry up and eat guys we're gonna open up the garage this morning."
"Um is Leon or Letty home?" asked Jesse between chewing.
"No, neither came home last night" Dom got up from the table, "I'll be waiting outside." He walked out of the room and left the house. As soon as he left Vince stopped eating and just stared at Brian. Brian tried to ignore him and kept eating, but Vince kept staring and began tapping his fingers on the table.
"What?" Brian shouted at him losing his temper.
"Guess," Vince quietly answered to him, still staring and tapping.
"You know what Vince, just fucking tell me exactly what you're problem is," Brian spat back at him.
"You mean I have to tell you, what Brian to thick to remember what you did." Vince stood up.
"Yeah 'cause we both no that this ain't got shit all to do with me being a cop, its about the fact that Mia choose me over you," Brian shouted back also standing up, Jesse sat at the table watching amusedly as they both traded insults across at each other.
"Yeah well, who you think she trusts more now Brian, me or you?" Vince shouted back. Vince had hit a sore spot; Brian couldn't say anything in return. He shoved his chair back and walked out of the front door to Dom, letting it slam behind him.
Vince sat back down at the table and carried on eating, he looked up to see Jesse grinning at him. "What are you grinning at, pass me the ketchup."
*
All four travelled in Dom's car to the garage. He was the only one with a car, and that could drive. All of them remembered the journey perfectly, which houses went where, what traffic lights took the longest. As they pulled up to the garage, an empty silence filled them, emotions ran high. None of them had been to the garage in a long time, it brought back memories of the good and bad. Dom cut the engine, nobody moved from the car but instead just sat staring.
Dom let out a sigh, "Come on guys." Dom walked up to he shutters and undid the padlock. He pushed them open revealing the inside of the garage.
"Welcome home boys!" Dom sad with a grin, it looked the exact same even after all this time, after all that had happened, as though it had been frozen in time. Everything still lay as it had two months ago, spanners lay on the floor where someone had left them while working on a car, an empty crisp packet lay on the side desk as if someone had just ate them.
One by one they walked slowly into the garage. Jesse limped in and sat down on a chair. Vince crossed his arms and just peered around. Brian leant on a table and fiddled with some loose bolts. Dom walked around, checking that everything was still where it should be. It all was there in the same places, although dust had accumulated on most things. He paused for a moment wondering whether Jesse should be in a place with all this dust, but then decided if he saw Jesse cough he'd take him home.
"Come on guys plenty of stuff to be getting on with, Jesse you wanna use the computer and do that search I asked you about a couple of days ago?" Jesse nodded on response to Dom, "Good. Vince, do me a favour give my car a run through, then we'll do yours and Jesse's. Brian you can tidy up a bit and help Vince."
Brian expected nothing less than getting dumped with all the bad jobs, the team weren't exactly welcoming him back with open arms, but he knew it was nothing more than he deserved. Vince waited expecting Brian to argue back but instead Brian turned around and started sorting out some boxes.
"As for me I'm going to ring 'round see if I can drum up a bit of business," Dom told them as he went into the back room.
All four worked hard on into the evening, the light from outside got darker and darker. They all kept themselves occupied doing all sorts of odd jobs. Dom rarely left the back room, and Jesse eyes hardly ever left the screen. Jesse searched all sorts of things for any clues about the mystery Ray Hoddle, he searched everything from police files to underground racing websites. He had some success with the registration number, and found it was registered to a Mr Raymond Johnson, Jesse assumed that this was Ray's real name, and focused on doing searches using that name.
As the evening grew later, Dom became ever more impatient. He kept ringing the house phone but there was no reply. He wanted to know where Leon and Letty were, they had been gone for a long time now and he wanted to ask them further about who OJ was. He knew Letty was hiding something back at the hospital and wanted to know what. He glanced through the doorway and saw the others sitting around. Vince and Brian had kept arguing with each other all day but Dom just let them get on with it and hoped they'd soon get tired of it. They now sat at opposite ends of the room in silence, Jesse carried on typing away at the computer.
Dom pushed himself up and walked over to where Jesse was, "How's it going Jesse?"
"Good, I've done some searches using that Raymond Johnson name and ummm the results were good" Jesse told him keeping his voice low so the others couldn't hear.
"Yeah?"
"Well, they have turned up at a couple of places and they have usually won and well also the um," Jesse paused loosing his line of thought, "the um man, well I found out something really interesting 'bout him you see he."
The phone rang from the office cutting Jesse off, "Two sec's Jesse," Dom said to him as he made his way over to the phone.
"Hello," Dom said into the receiver.
"Um Dom, I'm in a bit a trouble and I kinda need your help." Letty's voice spoke quickly into the receiver. Dom heard the panic in her voice.
"What is it Letty?" he asked
"Dom I've been arrested, I'm in jail." The voice replied.
-----Hi people thanks for the reviews of the last chapter they were really encouraging, I should hopefully post the next chapter tomorrow or the day after, depending on some things. Please keep the reviews coming, so I know there are still people interesting in my story!! Thanks bye!---------------