Putting out old Flames
"Thank you for the flowers," Tia said sweetly, as she wrapped her arms around Dominic's neck, "and the new prettiness on my car. You didn't look under the hood did you?"
"You're welcome, and no I didn't," Dominic grinned lightly, other girls had begun to gather around his car and him. He could hear them whispering and clamoring about the attention he was giving to Tia. He didn't care, his hands slid down to her waist, and one went a little father to tug at the shortest part of the skirt she wore, "You know, for someone who doesn't know she's beautiful, you certainly know how to accent your charms. Personally I think I'd rather peek under this, than the hood of your car."
Tianna laughed and scrunched her nose up childishly, "You want to know what's under my skirt Toretto?" She waited for him to nod before she continued, "Well I'll tell you, pair of Care Bear panties, white ones with blue stripes."
"There a Care Bear on the back?"
"He's on the front actually. Grumpy Bear. He's one of the blue ones."
"Now, I like blue..." He grinned letting his hand come up to rest again on her hip.
"I know you do."
A feminine, yet not very attractive, growl was issued forth before a small, hard looking woman walked forth and spoke, "Why don't you skanks pack it up before I leave tread marks on your face?" The woman's hair was pulled back into a low pony tail, and she was clad in a short leather skirt, and white tank top over a red bra. All the girls left, grumbling and glaring meanly at the new woman, except for one. Tia hadn't gone anywhere. "That means you too, rosada."
Vince and Jesse, who had been flirting mercilessly with a group of girls had glanced over to see the new woman standing in front of Dominic and Tia, and they both abandoned the women to find Leon. They pushed through the crowds quickly, and when they found him he had his hands on a woman's rear, and his mouth teasing at her lip ring.
"Dude, Leon, you will not believe who just showed up."
Leon growled a bit and pulled away from Mystic, "Vince man this better be good, or I'm going to kick your ass."
"Well I wouldn't say good exactly, as worth knowing." Then he added absently, "Hey Mystic."
"Hey V," Mystic said wrapping her arms around Leon's waist and looking curiously at the two men who had so rudely interrupted. "Who's shown up."
Leon was the one who answered, having glanced over toward Dominic and seen the newest arrival, "Oh shit... It's Letty."
"Back off, or your face is going to match your little get up, hoe." Letty stepped closer to Tia eyes narrowed, body tensed and ready to attack. "This man belongs to me."
"Yeah a long time ago, Letty. I'm not yours anymore." Dominic noticed Tianna's body tensed and she had begun to step away from him, but he kept a hand at her waist so she wouldn't stray too far.
"Yeah? Guess you made sure of that didn't you?" Letty stared angrily for a long moment at Dominic until the Vince, Jesse and Leon showed up and stood around Dominic and Tianna, "Lookie here. The old team's back together again."
Tianna was remaining silent, but those crystal eyes were shooting daggers at this new woman. Dominic was not hers, Tia didn't want to believe that he had ever, at any time handed his heart over to this woman. He was hers now. He was the prince she'd made up a long time ago during her stays in the attic. He was rescuing her, and he was her angel watching over. Tia was letting anyone try and take him away.
Letty's head canted to the side, and she looked directly at Tianna, before suddenly smacking her in the face, "Wipe that nasty look off your face before you get the beating of your life."
The team went silent as Tia's head was smacked to the side, and the stinging hand print began to show. Dominic's hand went up to graze his fingers lightly over the reddened flesh. Tianna's hand grabbed his and pulled Dominic's down as she slowly turned her gaze back to Letty. "The beating of my life? You expect me to believe that you're even remotely capable of that, when you just bitch slapped me like the street corner whore, you are?" Dominic looked up and met the gazes of his team mates. Simultaneously they all took a couple steps back for the impending cat fight that was about to go on.
"You, skank!" Letty lunged at Tia, scratching five red trails along her neck, and shoving her to the ground. As soon as she'd knocked the pink haired woman down she pinned her to the ground, and smacked her in the face again. The crowd was cheering on this match. Everyone loves to watch a good girl fight.
"Oh for god's sake," Tia's hand balled into a fist and slammed into the side of Letty's face, knocking the girls body off of her own. She stood immediately, and kicked the woman hard in the gut, knocking the wind out of her. "You threaten me with the beating of my life, and you fight like a high school girl. Pathetic." That should've been the end of it, and the onlookers thought it was, many of them booing because they wanted more.
Letty wasn't finished though, she stood when Tia turned her back, ran up behind her and wrapped an arm around her neck and one around her shoulder, "I'm not done with you yet, trash."
"Yes," Tia's hand shot up and smacked Letty hard in the nose, "you," then her foot slammed down onto the other woman's, "are!" followed by an elbow connecting hard into her attackers abdomen. "Now get the fuck off of me!" She growled out while one hand grabbed a fist full of the woman's black hair and the other clutching the woman's arm. Tianna kicked her feet off the ground then threw all of her weight forward, pulling Letty's body over hers and throwing her to the ground. As soon as she regained her footing, a booted foot pressed Letty's face into the dirt, refusing her the ability to move. "I learned that from Miss Congeniality. Now why don't you stop fighting, little girl, and put your money where your mouth is. You think you can beat me? Then you get thirty-five large in your hand and you meet me at the red line."
Dominic was stunned. He couldn't believe Letty was back. He couldn't believe Tianna knocked her overgrown ego down a few notches in just a matter of minutes. He really couldn't believe that they were about to race for thirty-five-thousand dollars. Well Tia was racing for the money, Letty was racing for Tia's car. "You sure about this, Princess?"
"So sure, in fact, that I'm going to bet you a brand new set of tires that I can do it with out NOS." Tia poked Dom in the chest for a bit of added emphasis, then wiped some dust from her skirt.
"Now Tia, being confident is one thing. Being arrogant is something totally different. Romeo was standing near by. He'd finished his race just in time to see his sister challenge Dominic's former lover.
"Damn it Romeo! Start acting like a brother and have a little faith in me." Tia smacked Romeo hard in the shoulder, "I beat Dominic didn't I?"
"Yeah, but Princess you used NOS."
Blue eyes narrowed venomously at Toretto and her brother, "I can do this. I will win this with out NOS. I'm not arrogant. I have faith in myself, and in my abilities. Someone has to."
"I have faith in you," Dominic said quietly, his fingers lightly touching the line of her jaw. He didn't like the look he'd gotten and was quickly acting to fix it.
"Does that meant you accept my bet?" Tia offered Dominic a sly little smile, and looked up at him impishly.
"If you win you get a new set of tires. Fine. But, what do I get if you don't win?" Tia whispered something in his ear and he grinned broadly then laughed, "Oh really? Well then I accept."
"Great!" Tia was grinning in a way that made her shirt seem to be true.
"Are we going to race or what, girlie?" Letty spoke up when she began to feel nauseated at the blatant and disgusting display of flirting her ex and the girl were showing.
"You must be in a hurry to lose your money," Mystic was standing behind Leon, with her hands tucked into his front pockets. She'd been listening and watching passively, but couldn't resist the taunting comment.
"She's going to need more than that Civic, if she wants to win," Letty said as Tia climbed into her car.
Tia smirked, "Oh I've got something for you," then drove up to the red line.
All the racers had crowded around, this was turning out to be the main event of the evening. First the cat fight, then the challenge, now the race. Letty was preparing, turning the NOS valves, so that she would get a strong spray of the gas. Tia was just laid back. She'd just flipped her CD track to an upbeat Techno song, that sounded like it should be the background music for a Japanimation, and was, when Hector motioned to the two female driver's, absently twirling a daisy in her fingers.
Dom watched Tia with an unwavering stare. When Hector raised his hands above his head, signaling the racers to get ready, Dominic knew why Tia had bet him new tires if she won. He'd listened to the sound of her engine, she may have had her foot pressed down on to the brake, but she also had her car, in fourth gear when Hector's hands dropped. Tia's tires spun against the road, burning off the traction, in a smoky mess. It had given Letty a millisecond of a lead, but soon she was right up next to the maroon Nissan. His body tensed when he heard her car shift into fifth gear, and she moved ahead of Letty.
Dominic thought for sure, that Tia was going to lose her car, when Letty pressed the little red button, on her steering wheel. The spray of NOS into the Nissan's engine sent it speeding fast ahead of the Civic. Just like Dom was in tune with all of Tia's emotions and moods, he was in tune with the roar of her engine. So he was shocked when she'd put the car in sixth gear and pressed hard down on the gas. More shocked when the car didn't tear off the track from all the torque. Toretto was floored completely though, when the Civic slipped over the red line, just inches ahead of Letty's vehicle. "I can't believe it. She did it. She really did it."
Tianna climbed out of the drivers side of her car when she got back to the starting line. "Dominic!" She practically skipped up to the bouncer- built man, and threw her arms around his neck. She was grinning and laughing, "I told you! I told you I'd do it!"
"Yes, yes you did. You won, both the race, and our little side bet."
"You owe me tires," she smiled up at Dominic victoriously, then turned to glared mildly at her surrogate brother, "you owe me an apology."
"I'm sorry. Tia, I promise, I will start having more faith in you. I guess I just needed to see true proof of you skills."
"Same here," Letty walked up she was smiling warmly at Tia, "Sorry about the fight and all, I guess I just needed to see if you were worthy of the guy here. I hope we can wipe the slate clean and start all over again..." she glanced around at her former team mates, "all of us."
"Apology accepted, but you, girlie, owe me thirty-five big ones." Tia placed a hand on her hip and held the other one palm up toward Letty. Once the cash was in hand, she stuffed it in her glove box.
"Your not going to count it?" Letty asked.
"You saying that I should count it? Are you trying to tell me it's not all there?"
"No, nothing like that."
"Good, because it wouldn't be real intelligent to cheat me out of my money." Tia looked angrily upon Letty. Despite the fact that the woman had apologized she still felt something was wrong. It's like a puzzle piece that just didn't fit, not matter how hard you tried to get it to work. Tia shrugged it off. Maybe it was just her suspicious nature creeping up on her. Tianna yawned, "God, the adrenaline buzz died awful fast. I'm beat, I want to go home now." She tugged on her brother's shirt, and he nodded affirmatively. Then Tia turned to look up at Dominic, "Eight-thirty Saturday?"
"Eight-thirty," Dom said with a confirming smile.
Tia squealed lightly, and giggled, "I'm so excited, Yay! See you then Toretto." After checking to make sure she knew what time Dominic was picking her up on Saturday, she climbed back into her car, and raced home after Romeo, who was already on his way back to the privacy of his apartment.
"Thank you for the flowers," Tia said sweetly, as she wrapped her arms around Dominic's neck, "and the new prettiness on my car. You didn't look under the hood did you?"
"You're welcome, and no I didn't," Dominic grinned lightly, other girls had begun to gather around his car and him. He could hear them whispering and clamoring about the attention he was giving to Tia. He didn't care, his hands slid down to her waist, and one went a little father to tug at the shortest part of the skirt she wore, "You know, for someone who doesn't know she's beautiful, you certainly know how to accent your charms. Personally I think I'd rather peek under this, than the hood of your car."
Tianna laughed and scrunched her nose up childishly, "You want to know what's under my skirt Toretto?" She waited for him to nod before she continued, "Well I'll tell you, pair of Care Bear panties, white ones with blue stripes."
"There a Care Bear on the back?"
"He's on the front actually. Grumpy Bear. He's one of the blue ones."
"Now, I like blue..." He grinned letting his hand come up to rest again on her hip.
"I know you do."
A feminine, yet not very attractive, growl was issued forth before a small, hard looking woman walked forth and spoke, "Why don't you skanks pack it up before I leave tread marks on your face?" The woman's hair was pulled back into a low pony tail, and she was clad in a short leather skirt, and white tank top over a red bra. All the girls left, grumbling and glaring meanly at the new woman, except for one. Tia hadn't gone anywhere. "That means you too, rosada."
Vince and Jesse, who had been flirting mercilessly with a group of girls had glanced over to see the new woman standing in front of Dominic and Tia, and they both abandoned the women to find Leon. They pushed through the crowds quickly, and when they found him he had his hands on a woman's rear, and his mouth teasing at her lip ring.
"Dude, Leon, you will not believe who just showed up."
Leon growled a bit and pulled away from Mystic, "Vince man this better be good, or I'm going to kick your ass."
"Well I wouldn't say good exactly, as worth knowing." Then he added absently, "Hey Mystic."
"Hey V," Mystic said wrapping her arms around Leon's waist and looking curiously at the two men who had so rudely interrupted. "Who's shown up."
Leon was the one who answered, having glanced over toward Dominic and seen the newest arrival, "Oh shit... It's Letty."
"Back off, or your face is going to match your little get up, hoe." Letty stepped closer to Tia eyes narrowed, body tensed and ready to attack. "This man belongs to me."
"Yeah a long time ago, Letty. I'm not yours anymore." Dominic noticed Tianna's body tensed and she had begun to step away from him, but he kept a hand at her waist so she wouldn't stray too far.
"Yeah? Guess you made sure of that didn't you?" Letty stared angrily for a long moment at Dominic until the Vince, Jesse and Leon showed up and stood around Dominic and Tianna, "Lookie here. The old team's back together again."
Tianna was remaining silent, but those crystal eyes were shooting daggers at this new woman. Dominic was not hers, Tia didn't want to believe that he had ever, at any time handed his heart over to this woman. He was hers now. He was the prince she'd made up a long time ago during her stays in the attic. He was rescuing her, and he was her angel watching over. Tia was letting anyone try and take him away.
Letty's head canted to the side, and she looked directly at Tianna, before suddenly smacking her in the face, "Wipe that nasty look off your face before you get the beating of your life."
The team went silent as Tia's head was smacked to the side, and the stinging hand print began to show. Dominic's hand went up to graze his fingers lightly over the reddened flesh. Tianna's hand grabbed his and pulled Dominic's down as she slowly turned her gaze back to Letty. "The beating of my life? You expect me to believe that you're even remotely capable of that, when you just bitch slapped me like the street corner whore, you are?" Dominic looked up and met the gazes of his team mates. Simultaneously they all took a couple steps back for the impending cat fight that was about to go on.
"You, skank!" Letty lunged at Tia, scratching five red trails along her neck, and shoving her to the ground. As soon as she'd knocked the pink haired woman down she pinned her to the ground, and smacked her in the face again. The crowd was cheering on this match. Everyone loves to watch a good girl fight.
"Oh for god's sake," Tia's hand balled into a fist and slammed into the side of Letty's face, knocking the girls body off of her own. She stood immediately, and kicked the woman hard in the gut, knocking the wind out of her. "You threaten me with the beating of my life, and you fight like a high school girl. Pathetic." That should've been the end of it, and the onlookers thought it was, many of them booing because they wanted more.
Letty wasn't finished though, she stood when Tia turned her back, ran up behind her and wrapped an arm around her neck and one around her shoulder, "I'm not done with you yet, trash."
"Yes," Tia's hand shot up and smacked Letty hard in the nose, "you," then her foot slammed down onto the other woman's, "are!" followed by an elbow connecting hard into her attackers abdomen. "Now get the fuck off of me!" She growled out while one hand grabbed a fist full of the woman's black hair and the other clutching the woman's arm. Tianna kicked her feet off the ground then threw all of her weight forward, pulling Letty's body over hers and throwing her to the ground. As soon as she regained her footing, a booted foot pressed Letty's face into the dirt, refusing her the ability to move. "I learned that from Miss Congeniality. Now why don't you stop fighting, little girl, and put your money where your mouth is. You think you can beat me? Then you get thirty-five large in your hand and you meet me at the red line."
Dominic was stunned. He couldn't believe Letty was back. He couldn't believe Tianna knocked her overgrown ego down a few notches in just a matter of minutes. He really couldn't believe that they were about to race for thirty-five-thousand dollars. Well Tia was racing for the money, Letty was racing for Tia's car. "You sure about this, Princess?"
"So sure, in fact, that I'm going to bet you a brand new set of tires that I can do it with out NOS." Tia poked Dom in the chest for a bit of added emphasis, then wiped some dust from her skirt.
"Now Tia, being confident is one thing. Being arrogant is something totally different. Romeo was standing near by. He'd finished his race just in time to see his sister challenge Dominic's former lover.
"Damn it Romeo! Start acting like a brother and have a little faith in me." Tia smacked Romeo hard in the shoulder, "I beat Dominic didn't I?"
"Yeah, but Princess you used NOS."
Blue eyes narrowed venomously at Toretto and her brother, "I can do this. I will win this with out NOS. I'm not arrogant. I have faith in myself, and in my abilities. Someone has to."
"I have faith in you," Dominic said quietly, his fingers lightly touching the line of her jaw. He didn't like the look he'd gotten and was quickly acting to fix it.
"Does that meant you accept my bet?" Tia offered Dominic a sly little smile, and looked up at him impishly.
"If you win you get a new set of tires. Fine. But, what do I get if you don't win?" Tia whispered something in his ear and he grinned broadly then laughed, "Oh really? Well then I accept."
"Great!" Tia was grinning in a way that made her shirt seem to be true.
"Are we going to race or what, girlie?" Letty spoke up when she began to feel nauseated at the blatant and disgusting display of flirting her ex and the girl were showing.
"You must be in a hurry to lose your money," Mystic was standing behind Leon, with her hands tucked into his front pockets. She'd been listening and watching passively, but couldn't resist the taunting comment.
"She's going to need more than that Civic, if she wants to win," Letty said as Tia climbed into her car.
Tia smirked, "Oh I've got something for you," then drove up to the red line.
All the racers had crowded around, this was turning out to be the main event of the evening. First the cat fight, then the challenge, now the race. Letty was preparing, turning the NOS valves, so that she would get a strong spray of the gas. Tia was just laid back. She'd just flipped her CD track to an upbeat Techno song, that sounded like it should be the background music for a Japanimation, and was, when Hector motioned to the two female driver's, absently twirling a daisy in her fingers.
Dom watched Tia with an unwavering stare. When Hector raised his hands above his head, signaling the racers to get ready, Dominic knew why Tia had bet him new tires if she won. He'd listened to the sound of her engine, she may have had her foot pressed down on to the brake, but she also had her car, in fourth gear when Hector's hands dropped. Tia's tires spun against the road, burning off the traction, in a smoky mess. It had given Letty a millisecond of a lead, but soon she was right up next to the maroon Nissan. His body tensed when he heard her car shift into fifth gear, and she moved ahead of Letty.
Dominic thought for sure, that Tia was going to lose her car, when Letty pressed the little red button, on her steering wheel. The spray of NOS into the Nissan's engine sent it speeding fast ahead of the Civic. Just like Dom was in tune with all of Tia's emotions and moods, he was in tune with the roar of her engine. So he was shocked when she'd put the car in sixth gear and pressed hard down on the gas. More shocked when the car didn't tear off the track from all the torque. Toretto was floored completely though, when the Civic slipped over the red line, just inches ahead of Letty's vehicle. "I can't believe it. She did it. She really did it."
Tianna climbed out of the drivers side of her car when she got back to the starting line. "Dominic!" She practically skipped up to the bouncer- built man, and threw her arms around his neck. She was grinning and laughing, "I told you! I told you I'd do it!"
"Yes, yes you did. You won, both the race, and our little side bet."
"You owe me tires," she smiled up at Dominic victoriously, then turned to glared mildly at her surrogate brother, "you owe me an apology."
"I'm sorry. Tia, I promise, I will start having more faith in you. I guess I just needed to see true proof of you skills."
"Same here," Letty walked up she was smiling warmly at Tia, "Sorry about the fight and all, I guess I just needed to see if you were worthy of the guy here. I hope we can wipe the slate clean and start all over again..." she glanced around at her former team mates, "all of us."
"Apology accepted, but you, girlie, owe me thirty-five big ones." Tia placed a hand on her hip and held the other one palm up toward Letty. Once the cash was in hand, she stuffed it in her glove box.
"Your not going to count it?" Letty asked.
"You saying that I should count it? Are you trying to tell me it's not all there?"
"No, nothing like that."
"Good, because it wouldn't be real intelligent to cheat me out of my money." Tia looked angrily upon Letty. Despite the fact that the woman had apologized she still felt something was wrong. It's like a puzzle piece that just didn't fit, not matter how hard you tried to get it to work. Tia shrugged it off. Maybe it was just her suspicious nature creeping up on her. Tianna yawned, "God, the adrenaline buzz died awful fast. I'm beat, I want to go home now." She tugged on her brother's shirt, and he nodded affirmatively. Then Tia turned to look up at Dominic, "Eight-thirty Saturday?"
"Eight-thirty," Dom said with a confirming smile.
Tia squealed lightly, and giggled, "I'm so excited, Yay! See you then Toretto." After checking to make sure she knew what time Dominic was picking her up on Saturday, she climbed back into her car, and raced home after Romeo, who was already on his way back to the privacy of his apartment.
