A/n: haha! I couldn't wait to update, sorry. only a couple more chapters to go! I love summer, I get to write so much more. I'll try and make the last few chapters very detailed and such. I promise there will be a part 2! Wit the way this is gonna end, how can there not be? I think I'll call it My Immortal. I dunno. but yeah, the song in this chapter is called 'with You' by Linkin Park. I luff them. Ok, here ya go!
Leon took his time going back to the house, he was hoping J would have followed him, but she didn't. Leon listened to all of the CD, taking his precious little time to get back. He drove up and down the Ocean, and then he drove around great LA, just listening to the CD. He finally went back to the house after around 2 hours, it was almost 6 o'clock, which meant dinnertime, and Leon was hungry. By the time he pulled in the drive way behind Vince's Maxima, he had thought everything over. He was going to get J back and he would do whatever it took.
Leon walked in the house through the back door and saw Letty and Mia finishing up dinner. He sniffed the air and smelt Ziti, corn on the cob, and garlic bread. A delicacy in the Toretto household. Yes, Corn on the cob with Ziti. Leon smiled. Letty loved Ziti with corn on the cob. The rest of the team thought green beans went better with it, but you really don't argue with Letty about that.
"Mmmm. Smells delicious ladies." Leon said, sitting down at his seat. Letty turned to look at him. Leon quickly noticed a knife in her hand. He gulped.
"Where's Jez you pathetic excuse for a man." Letty asked, gripping the knife hard.
"I don't know." Leon replied, trying to keep his cool, but failing miserably. Letty leaned on the table, scaring the shit out of Leon.
"What do you mean you don't know? She went to find you. Now...WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE LEON?" Letty screamed. Leon stood up.
"I don't fucking know Letty. We talked and then she left ok. Get off my fucking back. I don't have to know where she is every fucking minute. She ain't my girl." Leon turned and walked into the living room and then up the stairs.
"LETICIA!" Dom yelled from the living room.
"Fuck off Dom, just looking out for mah girl." Letty turned back to the food and helped Mia finished.
"Letty...why'd ya have to do that?" Mia whispered, Letty noticed she seemed close to crying. Letty put the knife down.
"Nu uh, don't start that again girl. Come one, no more crying, aight? I'm sorry; my emotions just got the better of me. I just don't know what to do. I want them to be together again, they worked so good together, but...I dunno." Letty ran her fingers through her hair and sighed. "It just seems like they ain't doing enough, like they're just giving up." Letty picked up the plate of corn and put it on the table.
"Let, you gotta let them work it out. Maybe they want to give it time." Mia said. Letty turned and looked at her.
"Maybe, but I guess I'm just impatient with this kinda stuff." Letty forced a smile and shrugged. Mia smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, and the rest of us are impatient with waiting for food. Could ya hurry it up?" Dom said from behind Letty. Letty flipped Dom off and helped Mia put the rest of the food on the table. Soon all of the guys and the two girls were sitting around the table, the seat next to Leon remained empty. Before Silvia it had been Jezzie's spot, when she left Silvia took it and since she was gone, there was no one to occupy the spot.
The team was piling the food on their plates when the front door opened and then shut. Everyone turned to look as J came through the living room and stood in the kitchen door.
"Jez! What are you doing here?" Vince asked. J sat in her seat and smiled at Vince.
"I was invited to dinner. Ya'll didn't think I wouldn't come did ya?" Letty smiled and everyone laughed. "Besides, I would never miss Mi's cooking, too good. The one thing I missed while I was gone. Dem foo's down in Miami don't know how to cook." Everyone laughed again.
"Well, didn't chu live wit a bunch of guys?" Letty asked. J nodded and took a bite of her food. "Well then, nuff said." J rolled her eyes. During dinner the team talked again, just like old times.
After dinner the guys settled down in the living room to watch a movie, while the girls cleaned up and sat at the table with Coronas, except for Mia who had a Snapple.
"What's with Brian and that one girl Monica?" Mia asked casually. J laughed.
"They went out for like 2 weeks and then he decided she was too much for him. She is such a girly girl, oh my god, she's worse than you Mia!" J and Letty laughed while Mia frowned. J patted Mia's hand after she stopped laughing. "I'm sorry Mi, I didn't mean it like that. But, like, she's a bitch. It's horrible. I can hardly stand her. But when we go back to Miami she'll be moving out of Tej's place. She's got some job with Customs now, they are after some drug guy." J rolled her eyes and smiled, but Letty and Mia weren't smiling. "What?" J said, confused.
"You're going back to Miami?" Mia asked in a small voice. J made an 'oh' face and shrugged.
"They are, fo sho, but I may stick around longer, it depends on me an Leon. I dunno for sure." J shrugged again and took a sip of her corona. It got quiet, extremely quiet. All three girls felt awkward after that revelation. It was a while before Leon got up to get some more popcorn. He walked into the kitchen.
"Hey." He said, grabbing a bag of popcorn and putting it in the microwave. They had gotten a new one after the Truck Heists. The girls muttered a 'hey' and went back to staring at their drinks and the silence. Leon turned around and stared at them.
"What's up wit you three? Usually you're chatting away like there's no tomorrow. Talking all night, leaving me all...never mind." Leon turned back around and watched the popcorn pop. Letty looked at J and saw tears running down her cheek. Letty opened her mouth to say something but J wiped the tars away and stood up. She put her bottle in the sink and turned to Letty, Mia, and Leon.
"Thanks for dinner. I gotta be getting back though, those guys will be hungry with only Suki's cooking. Especially Rome, that boy sure does love to eat." J laughed nervously as Leon stared at her.
"You can come back anytime you want J, we're always here for you." Mia said. J looked at her and smiled.
"Maybe I shouldn't. It was nice to see you guys again. I gotta help them pack and pack my stuff too. Those guys really have issues with packing." J turned to walk to the door.
"So you're leaving?" Leon asked. J turned and looked at him, tears were running freely down her face.
"I think it's for the best. I mean, nothing's happening." J smiled and shrugged.
"For the best? Come on Jez; don't do this. I've known you been back for like 3 days, how the hell can anything happen in three days?" Leon said; he was starting to get angry. He wasn't going to let her just walk away again, he wasn't going to let her run.
"I'm sorry Leon, but I can't." J wiped the tears from her face, but more replaced them.
"You can't just do this Jez!" Leon yelled. Dom, Vince, and Jesse stood in the door of the Kitchen and watched. Mia and Letty looked at Leon with their mouths wide open. "You can't just keep fucking running! That ain't how things work!" Leon continued to yell.
"Well maybe that's how things work in my life Leon!" J yelled back. She had wanted him to be mad and yell at her, but now that he was, she was scared. "Maybe that's how I grew up! Every time something went bad it was 'pack your stuff Jezebeil, we're moving.' This is how I live Leon. I can't live here! Everything's just coming down on me and I can't do it."
"So what? Are you gonna fucking blame this on Jeff? HUH? YOU CAN'T BLAME YOUR PROBLEMS ON OTHER PEOPLE JEZ! You want us to yell and scream at you and put the blame on your shoulders? SO WHY CAN'T YOU PUT THE BLAME ON YOUR OWN SHOULDERS?" Leon yelled.
"Because he won't leave me alone! HE WON'T LET ME LIVE A NORMAL LIFE!" J fell to her knees. "He won't leave me alone." Leon walked over to her and kneeled and wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm sorry Jez, I'm so sorry." Leon said. He kissed the top her head and ran his hands through her hair. "I'm sorry. It's not your fault. I'm so sorry." Leon repeated over and over. The team stood or sat staring at the two on the floor. Letty and Mia's mouths were still hung open.
"Please Jez, forgive me. I never meant to hurt you. Please forgive me. I love you baby, I love you so much. Please don't hate me." Leon kissed the top her head again and held her body closer to him. J stopped crying and wrapped her arms around Leon.
"I'm the one who should be sorry Leon. I screwed everything up." They stood up and J looked at everyone, her eyes stopped on Leon. "I can't keep running. Look, Brian's gonna stick around for another week so I'll stick around with him and we'll see how things go." J turned to Mia. "Talk to him Mia, him and Monica are over and he still loves you. But now I really got to go. You guys have no idea how grouchy Rome gets if he ain't got enough food. I'll talk to ya'll tomorrow." J gave Leon a quick kiss on his cheek and then walked out to her car.
J's head was spinning with emotions again. She knew her place was with the team, but she knew she would miss the Miami team...a lot. Rome in particular. Rome was her rock through everything and leaving him behind wasn't going to be easy.
J climbed in her car and headed off towards her house. She turned on her CD player and let Linkin Park blast out of her speakers.
I woke up in a dream today
To the cold of the static / and put my cold feet on the floor
Forgot all about yesterday
Remembering I'm pretending to be where I'm not anymore
A little taste of hypocrisy
And I'm left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react
Even though you're so close to me
You're still so distant / And I can't bring you back
It's true / the way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you're not with me
I'm with you
You / Now I see/ keeping everything inside
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes
I hit you and you hit me back
We fall to the floor / the rest of the day stands still
Fine line between this and that
When things go wrong I pretend the past isn't real
Now I'm trapped in this memory
And I'm left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react
Even though you're close to me
You're still so distant / And I can't bring you back
no
No matter how far we've come
I can't wait to see tomorrow
With you
J pulled into the driveway and turned off her car. She climbed out and walked into the house.
"Hello?" She called out. No one answered. Strange, she thought to herself as she walked around the house. Their cars are all here. I wonder where they are. J checked the downstairs first, and then checked upstairs. Still no one. She started to get scared. What if Jeff came? Her head was spinning with crazy thoughts. She checked every room upstairs again. What if he hurt them? Oh god, I'll never forgive myself for getting them involved in this. She ran downstairs and looked in the kitchen. Then she heard voices.
And then laughter. She opened the backdoor and sighed a breath of release when she saw the team having dinner in the backyard.
"J!" Suki called out when she saw J standing in the door. J walked over to Suki and hugged her, then sat next to Rom. "Where ya been?" She asked. J took Rome's cheeseburger and took a bite out of it.
"J! Chick I swear!" Rome yelled out as J put his burger back on his plate.
"Chill out Ro, I don't have any diseases. It's cool." J smiled at Rome and turned to Suki. "I had dinner over at Dom's. There I was, enjoying Mia and Letty's wonderful ziti and I was thinking poor Ro wasn't gonna have no good food." Everybody laughed.
"I hope her Ziti isn't anything like her tuna." Brian said; his nose shriveled up in disgust. J threw him a look.
"Hey bra, her tuna happens to be delicious. Besides, Letty helped her make the ziti and the ziti is good." J stuck her tongue out at Brian.
"Ok, coming from someone who likes her tuna, we're not gonna go there." Brian took a bite of her burger. The team laughed.
"Everything good over there J? You gonna stay here or what?" Tej asked, suddenly everyone was watching J.
"Everything's ok over there...but I dunno. I'm not sure I can leave you guys." J replied; she was torn in two.