I always forget this. Disclaimer: They aren't mine.
Authors Note: Hi everyone!
Please note my apology on Chap. 6 - it may also apply to this chap.
Thanks for the reviews everyone!
-FoxyLatina:
hi girl, listen I believe you owe me...2 reviews plus one for this chap = three. :) Just kidding. As long as you pop in once in a while to tell me you like, I'm good.
ok here's the thing with this story. I have a lot of it done already. So when I tell you and other people things, they may be things that I've just written which would be a few post ahead. Letty and Dom are together and you'll see it later... promise.
As for Leon and Vince hooking up with who... where would the fun be if I told you that? ;)
- SpanishGoddess86:
Naw, lets not punish Dom. I like Dom. ALOT. =) He, like Tej, gets better later. I'm a happy ending kinda person. So no matter how horrible I make things they'll end happily.
- Wolfshifter2001:
Thanks for the compliment. And I hope to drive you out of your laziness at least once every few chapters. =)
- Hiya17735:
Here's your answer, hun, -Brian's place, is Beth's place and Beth doesn't like the Team. For a clearer understanding please continue reading. ;)
- VinsBaby1989:
Here's more girl....
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The house was quiet and still as they entered, the Team was really starting to think nobody lived here.
Brian led them to a large room, full of couches and armchairs that were worn and comfy looking, the room had a soft carpet and a pool table sat to the side, a huge television with three game systems connected to it dominated an entire wall. It was basically a living room but obviously not the living room, not with the way the rest of this house looked. This room was way too lived in to be the living room.
Mia sat next to Brian and started turning his face towards her, "Dammit Dom, what the hell is your problem?" she said obviously furious.
Dom shrugged, "you got beer in this house, O'Connor."
Brian nodded, "yeah in that wooden thing over there." He pointed to a large cupboard looking thing and when Dom opened it he found a small fridge in it.
He smiled, opened that and pulled out two coronas. He went over and handed one to Brian.
Brian looked up, nodded, and took the beer. The room was silent, Mia had stopped her inspection of his face.
Both men opened the beers and started to drink. After a minute Dom tilted his beer toward Brian and said in that deep voice of his, "How's life treatin you?"
Brian smiled, slightly, "Pretty good." he said as he looked at Mia.
She sighed at him, looked at her brother, and back to him, "Did I miss something here."
"Naw, girl, that's just Dom's way of saying... sorry for bashin your face in - I couldn't help myself but we're cool now right?" Vince said laughingly as he stood and went to the fridge.
"And Brian basically said yeah 'cause I'm in love with your sister." Leon added taking the beer Vince handed him.
"So now they're all good." Jesse said also getting a beer.
Mia looked from Brian to Dom and back to Brian. "oh" she said, a smile beginning to form on her face. She glanced at Letty, who was sitting next to Dom, "Did you get that?"
"Are you kidding, that might as well have been in Japanese... I can't understand macho, for shit."
Mia laughed, leaning back against the sofa.
"So your a PI, Brian?" Leon asked.
He nodded, "yeah, kind of. I only work on three cases at a time though, and right now I've got two. So I'm alright."
"why only three?" Jesse asked.
"That way I have time for other stuff."
"Like life" Letty said smiling
"ahhh, yes, you've met Luke...Speaking of which." He got up and opened the door.
"LUKE!!!", he yelled out into the hall. There was no answer.
He sighed and sat back down. "oh well."
"So, like who lives here?" Letty asked.
"My sister and her kids, my little brother, Casey and her sister."
"What about you?" Mia asked.
"I eat and play here but technically I live in the shed out back."
"Are you serious, bro?" Vince asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah... I turned it into a room when I back moved here."
"why?"
"cause it was easier that way. Livin with Beth again was... hard at first." He said hesitantly, obviously not wanting to talk about it.
"Is your sister a bitch or something. Cause the way you all talk about her it's like she's Hitler reincarnated." Letty said, smiling as Dom wrapped his arms around her pulling her against him.
"Beth..." Brian began thoughtfully "...she started out like us, but then changed, inside she's still like us but you just gotta remind her sometimes."
"...which means." Dom asked.
"You gotta meet her to understand."
They all nodded, Letty smiled, "For real though you've got some hot rides in that garage."
Brian smiled knowingly, "I know."
"Which one was yours." Vince asked
"Mine wasn't out there. I keep mine somewhere else."
Dom looked at him oddly for a moment, before asking, "How come?"
He shrugged, "I don't know I just do."
"How come most were all being worked on?" Letty asked, making herself more comfortable on the couch, which meant snuggling against Dom and putting her feet up.
"On Thursday's we all usually work on one of our own cars. This week, though we're tuning them all up. Making them better."
"Whose Supra was that... I like the color." Mia said from her place next to Brian.
"Suki's..."
They talked like that for about an hour, basically just catching up. They didn't go near the really hard topics... anything having to do with the heist and the events surrounding it. But stuck with childhood stories and recent adventures. They talked engines and body work, car shows and hot colors, they drank beer and played a little pool, they just relaxed.
In a moment of silence Mia asked, "Whose Casey?"
Everyone looked up from what they were doing and Brian smiled wryly from where he'd been playing pool with Leon, "you met Casey?" he asked.
"we didn't meet her but we saw her." Jesse said from his place on the floor playing PS2.
"did she see you?" Brian asked after a moment.
"yeah, but she was in rush and didn't pay us any attention" Vince said also from the floor with Jesse.
"why you askin", Letty said her voice interested.
He shrugged, still with that ironic looking smile on his face, "no reason"
"who is she?" Mia repeated, not liking the way he was beating around the bush.
"My... uh... in the family she's referred to as my twin... basically though she's a close friend. I've known her since I was about 3."
"wow" Vince said, his hand pausing on the way to bringing the beer to his lips.
Brian shrugged, "yeah, she was the first person I told about you guys,"
"so basically she hates us..." Dom asked smiling.
"Naw...Casey's not like that. You'll see when you meet her. She might give you a hard time at first but she gives everybody a hard time at first. Usually, she's a nice person. You'll probably like her."
"You'll definitely like her a whole lot better than you'll like Beth." Luke said jovially as he entered the room and plopped himself down on a sofa.
"Where've you been?" Brian asked, slightly irritated.
"out..."
Brian glared at him, deciding if he wanted to be the adult or the big brother, he chose the latter and nodded, "illegal count" he asked.
"one, minor A" Luke answered and Brian nodded understandingly.
Glancing at the puzzled faces of the team, he laughed, "Minor A would be two or less beers. I believe you've met my little brother Luke." He said to the Team.
They all nodded, moving back to the sofa and smiling at the youth.
"Suki's gonna freak when she sees your face." he said sitting up straight and staring into his brothers face.
"She already did"
He shook his head, sitting back, "no she didn't not like that. I stopped by to see if you were still there and they told me what happened. It was kinda funny, Rome's ready to come over here guns blazing, Suki's tearing the females apart, Jimmy said he wants to work on something with Jesse and Tej said he doesn't give a shit as long as its out of his garage."
"Tearing the females apart?" Letty asked her eyes narrowing.
Luke laughed, "It's nothing personal." he said "She does it with every girl that walks in on her territory.." then looking at Mia he added "and hangs onto her possessions.... which we all are. Tej likes to think he runs the place but it's really Suki who does."
Letty sat back and smiled to herself a little, she was like that. Didn't care if the girl was a client or a girlfriend she had to pick her pieces just because she was there, on her territory. Mia told her she was just a little too possessive but she couldn't help it. That's just the way it had to be, guys were a little dense when it came to the nuances of a female, so Letty had to clue in and act accordingly. I mean she couldn't let one of her boys fall into the claws of a dirty, whorey, slut just cause they couldn't think with the right head when they saw her assets. She had to watch out for her boys.
"Anyway B..." Luke stated but he never finished
The front door slammed open and voices were heard.
Suki sashayed into the room and stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Brian, "you didn't put ice on it." she stated walking in slowly.
"I forgot." he said shrugging.
"Shit Brian," she said standing in front of him and peering down into his face, "double shit... you can't race like that.. SHIT!!!!" with each word her voice went higher.
"He can race," Tej said firmly from the door. "he has to fucking race."
"He can't race if he can't see, and he can't see if his eye is swollen shut, therefore he can't race." she said glaring at Tej.
"He can use his other eye to see. He can race. Right, B" Tej said defending himself.
"Yeah, it's alright." he said
"No it's not" Suki said firmly. Both men opened there mouths to argue but she cut them. "I said no. I like Brian in one piece but more importantly l like my baby in one piece. And it would be my baby you'd be drivin tonight, wouldn't it, B. Since you idiots took everything else apart, yesterday."
"we're makin'm better." Brian said firmly
"Fuckin shit up is what your doing." Then she turned to Dom and her eyes narrowed. She walked over to him, fury in each step. The beer was nearly to his lips when she reached out and yanked it from him.
"hey.." he said, frowning
Letty tensed. Ready for attack. Dom wouldn't hit her, he didn't usually hit women. But she sure as hell would if this girl harassed her man.
"This is your fucking fault..." and with that she tipped the beer and poured what was left of it on his shirt.
"Suki!..." Brian said surprised.
"You bitch..." Letty growled, standing.
Suki dropped the bottle on the carpet and turned to her, eyes blazing, "what did you call me"
"you heard me" Letty said taking a step forward
Brian stood between them, and Vince reached and yanked Letty back down. Brian took Suki by the forearms and said seriously, "Suki stop it".
She shrugged out of his hands, and turned back to Dom. Glaring holes through him.
"What the hell is he doing here Brian!!?" she asked belligerently. Then turning to Brian continued "You can't race Brian!!!!! Do you understand what this mean!!! You CAN'T RACE!!! WE'RE LOSING AN ENTIRE NIGHT!!!!!!!"
"Its not that big of a deal" he said, taking her and leading her away from Dom and Letty.
"why are they here." she asked gravely
"they're friends." he said simply
"No, Brian why are they here." she said motioning to the room.
"oh" he said sheepishly and Luke made a choking sound and took a dramatic step back.
"This is our room." she said quietly.
"I know but I knew they'd want beer and they'd want somethin to do and if they hadn't been in this room you wouldn't have been able to poor beer on him 'caus Beth woulda freaked and..."
She pushed him away slightly and sighed, deeply, "Just shut up and sit down." she said and left the room. It was silent. Luke was about to speak when she reentered as abruptly as she had left. Walking directly to Brian she handed him a pack of ice.
Then sitting down she took a deep breath "lets start over. I'm Suki. You are..." she said looking at Dom.
"Dom" he said and she nodded, then looked at Letty. One by one they gave their names and she nodded.
"Greattt." she said with emphasis when they were finished. Then turning to Dom with fire in her eyes she said threateningly.
"You have one minute to give me one hell of a good reason why you've incapacitated my best tonight. Go."
Dom stared at her, then looked at Brian, Brian looked away smiling slightly, Tej was grinning, and Luke was quietly laughing. He did however get himself under control and tell Dom, "She's serious. If you don't, she'll do more than just pour beer on you. And an army of Amazons couldn't stop her." He said glancing at Letty.
Dom shrugged and looked back at Suki who was still staring at him, "He lied to me and he fell in love with my sister.
Suki blinked. Not expecting that one. "Which one is your sister?" she asked after a moment
"Mia." he said seriously.
Suki looked at her, then examined her from top to bottom. She opened her mouth to speak but Brian cut her off softly, seriously "Don't."
She glared at him and lifted her chin, intent on proclaiming judgment. "She's better than the last one."
He glared at her. And she glared back
Tej laughed, "Monica was aigh't"
"She was a bitch." Suki said firmly. "And not like I'm a bitch, or she's a bitch..." she said motioning towards Letty. "she was a real one."
"Did you just call me a..."
"it was a compliment sugar." She said smiling
"I think I like you people, you all seem very likable. Except you..." looking at Dom "you who made me lose 5 grand tonight."
The room silent. Not much you could say to that.
"Dom can race in my spot." Brian said after a second.
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Authors Note #2: This chapter is ridiculously long. I know. So I want a ridiculous amount of reviews. (in a good way) (As in a lot of them) =)