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"Leon?" Letty asked. The team was standing in the same spots, as they were when J left five minutes ago. Nobody could think of what to do or what to say. Mia was once again crying.
"God I'm so fucking sick of this." Mia said, wiping away her tears. Dom, Vince, Jesse, and Letty looked at her in shock.
"Say what baby girl?" Letty asked. Mia looked at her, strong determination on her face.
"I'm tired of crying over the same old shit. I'm tired of wondering what the last four months would have been like if Jez was here. I'm tired of wondering what she's like now, who she's been with, what's she done. I'm tired of all this shit. I'm tired of wondering if I should go back to Brian or not. I'm just tired of crying. Period." Mia said emotionally.
"Aww...Mia, you'll be ok." Letty said, rubbing Mia's shoulders. Mia shook her head.
"No. I won't. I won't be until Brian and Jez come back...for good." Mia crossed her arms across her chest and stuck her chin up. Letty smiled. Letty knew that Mia wasn't ok. She could see her battling with all the emotions running through her head. At night, Letty could hear her crying herself to sleep. Years ago Mia gave herself the position of Mom. She may have been the youngest, but the whole team knew they couldn't have done half the things they did without Mia. Mia knew she wouldn't be ok until Jez and Brian came home for good, but she'd have to be as strong as she could until then. Mia let her arms drop and she looked at Leon. Leon turned around and looked at the rest of the team. He seemed to have
"So she's just going to leave. She told me to yell at her and I did and now she's just going to leave." Leon said blankly. He had no emotion in his voice, no emotion on his face. He stared blankly at the wall, wishing he could disappear or take back the last 5 months.
"You don't know that Lee. She might stay." Jesse said. Leon looked at him and frowned.
"Why would she stay? I've treated her worse than that asshole Jeff has. I'm not any better than he is." Leon said sadly. He hung his head and stared at the floor.
"No. You're so much better than he is. He raped her and ruined her life. You made it better." Mia said. Leon just shook his head.
"Mia's right dawg. J even told me that before she met you, she wasn't ever going to date. She said she had no reason to and that she felt guys were just using her. She was so messed up before you came along. Sure, we gave her a family. We gave her love, but nothing like you gave her. She was lost before you came. You changed that man, don't let her go." Dom said. Leon looked up at Dom, a confused look on his face. He had never heard Dom speak so...passionately about someone. But that wasn't what confused Leon.
"Don't let her go? Dom, man, she's gonna go on her own terms. She ain't going to stick around for me. She knows that he's still here. Why would she stay where he can get her? She's smarter than that. Sure, she may love me and I may have saved her, but she's got a new team. Face it, there ain't no more room for us." Leon shook his head again and looked away from them. He felt uncomfortable standing in front of them like this. His every emotion on show for them.
"There's always room for us. We grew up with her Lee; we're the only real family she's got. That team, hell, they were just somebody to watch over her while she thought things out. She's gonna realize that and she's gonna come back. Don't give up on her." Letty said. Leon looked back at Letty and she could see tears in his eyes.
"I gave up on her when she took off in her car at Race Wars." Leon's voice quivered with emotions. He was angry with himself for saying these things, but he couldn't stop himself. He turned and pushed past Dom, Jesse, and Vince and walked through the living room, pausing to pick his keys up from the end table near the door.
"Where you going Lee?" Dom's rough voice ringed out through the house. Leon opened the door and turned back to look at Dom.
"Out Dom." Leon opened the screen door and walked out of the house. Dom sighed and ran his hand over his head. Jesse stared at Dom. Everything seemed to be going wrong with this team and Jesse figured they were gonna get a lot worse before they got better. Jesse walked into the living room and sat on the couch, staring at the black screen on the TV. Letty looked at Mia.
"So, do you think she'll stay?" Letty asked Mia. Mia looked at her and shrugged.
"I don't honestly know. There are too many things going on. I think Leon may be partially right. I mean, why is she going to stick around when she knows that Jeff is still here? She might just wait until things blow over with him. You never know." Mia said wisely. Dom looked over at Mia.
"Hey...guys ever notice how, for the last couple of weeks, Sil hasn't been here much?" Dom asked. Mia and Letty looked at dom. Vince grabbed a corona from the fridge and looked up at the clock. 8:13 p.m. Vince looked at Dom.
"What?" Letty asked. Vince nodded his head and took the top of his drink.
"Dom's right. My room is right across from Lee's and you know how I keep my door open at night. I saw her sneaking out a whole bunch. Ya'll have no idea." Vince said, backing up Dom's remark. Mia frowned.
"What are you guys saying?" Mia asked. Mia had always had mixed feelings about Silvia, ever since she first showed up, but she didn't think Silvia would go low enough to be sneaking off. Vince and Dom shrugged.
"Nothing, just that she would sneak out at like 11 and not come back until 5 in the morning. Tha girls sneaky, gotta hand her that." Vince took a swig of beer and looked in the living room when the phone rang. Jesse answered it. Vince turned back to Mia and Letty.
"Wait, did ya'll hear about that burglary that went on at Cisco's Gas station a few nights ago? It was like two nights before we found out J and Bri was back." Letty said. Vince nodded.
"Yeah. That foo tore that place up. They took a shitload of food, shampoo, soap, drinks, money, cig's, whatever they could get. They robbed that store empty." Vince took another swig of his beer.
"Yeah, and they also put two bullet holes in Cisco." Letty replied, looking at the ground.
"Sure, but he lived. He was lucky." Mia said sadly. "Wait...Let, you're not saying she had something to do with that...are you?" Mia asked. Letty looked at her and shrugged.
"It's suspicious...put it that way." Letty replied.
"But where would she put all that junk?" Mia asked. Dom looked at her.
"There were two people." Dom said blankly.
"Did Lee go out that night?" Mia asked sadly.
"Hell no!" Vince shouted. Mia looked at him. "Sorry, but our boy Lee would not do something like that. And he didn't leave. Trust me. That boy was sound asleep. That was the day we worked our asses off in the garage, we had a shit load of cars. 'Member Dom?" Vince asked. Dom thought for a minute.
"Yeah, I remember. Leon wanted to keep busy so he was working on the majority of the cars. He seemed kind of depressed." Dom replied.
"Hey guys." Jesse said quietly as he walked into the living room.
"What's up Jess?" Dom asked. Jesse looked up at him.
"That was the cops." Jesse swallowed hard. "They were looking for Sil." He said.
"What they want?" Letty asked.
"They said she was involved in that robbery over at Cisco's last week. But you'll never guess who the other person was." Jesse shook his head sadly.
"Who was it Jess?" Dom asked.
"Jeff." Jesse replied. Dom hit the wall.
"I let her live in my fucking house!! She fucking knew we all hated him and she runs off and robs a FUCKING STORE WITH HIM? THEY ALMOST FUCKING KILLED CISCO! God fucking dammit." Dom hit the wall again and then pointed his index finger at the team, they all had looks on their faces that were a mixture of anger and fright.
"If that b-girl ever comes back here I will turn her in my fucking self! You don't do that in my house. Cisco was our friend. She had no fucking right!" Dom turned and left the team sitting in the kitchen. He stomped his way up to his room and slammed the door.
"You think he's mad?" Vince asked, taking another swig of his beer. He smiled whenever Letty, Mia, and Jesse glared at him. "What? Somebody's got to have a sense of humor around here." Vince shrugged and left to go to his room.
"What else did the cops ask Jess?" Letty asked Jesse. Jesse sighed and looked at her.
"They asked me if she was home and I told them she moved out. So then they asked me if I knew where she was and I told them that I didn't. I told them that Leon was the only person that might know where she was, so I gave them his cell phone number. Why is everything so fucked up guys? Where did we go wrong?" Jesse asked. Mia and Letty stared at Jesse. He was by far the sweetest member of the team; he didn't need this crap.
"It was the trucks. It was the trucks." Letty said sadly. Letty stood up and stretched, but stopped when she heard loud music coming from somewhere down the street. Letty could faintly make out the words to the song.
Closer To Me, I hope Our Love Will Find A Way, Closer To Me, Tell Me Why Can't We Try, Is It So Hard To Come Closer
Letty jumped and screamed. Mia and Jesse looked at her in shock, confusion, and fight. Letty ran past them and out the front door. She bounded down the steps as a dark green Mitsubishi Lancer with a middle finger painted on it came speeding down the road. It squealed to a stop in front of the house. The driver turned off the car and stepped out.
"JEZ!" Letty screamed. J looked at her and laughed.
"Why you so happy to see me?" J asked and she walked across the lawn.
"I dunno." Letty shrugged and hugged J. "It was just so nice to finally hear some Milk Inc." They pulled away from each other. "That was Milk, right?" Letty asked. J nodded.
"Yeah. They released a new CD. I'll let ya borrow it sometime." J told her. Letty smiled and they walked inside the house. J walked into the living room and saw Mia, Jesse and Vince sitting on the couch.
"Hey ya'll." J said, waving.
"Jez, what are you doing here?" Mia asked. Vince stood up and gave J a big hug. Vince pulled away and kissed her forehead.
"Ok. What is with you guys? You act like I've been gone forever. When in reality, it's only been like half an hour. Settle it down mi familia." J said. Vince smiled and sat back down on the couch.
"Sorry. You just don't know. But, why are you here?" Mia asked again. J shrugged.
"I just wanted to talk to Leon." J said, looking at the TV. They were watching MTV. J turned to them. "Don't you guys know this is bad for your brains, not to mention your health? I mean; you don't even get a proper dosage of Rock on this channel. It's pure crap." Everybody laughed while Mia threw a pillow at J. J had closed her eyes so she fell back a few steps when the pillow hit her in her head.
"Oh my god! MI!" J shouted. She picked up the pillow. "This means war." J jumped on Mia and started hitting her with it. Vince grabbed J's waist and tried to pull her off of Mia. This gave Mia the opportunity to pick up the other pillow and start hitting J with it. Jesse quickly got off of the couch and stood next to Letty. Letty and Jesse watched as Vince tried to pull the two laughing, pillow-hitting females off of each other.
"For the fort!" J screamed as Mia hit her in her jaw. J fell back across Vince's lap and started laughing. "Ouch Mia." Vince helped J sit back up and J stared at Mia. "You should be a boxer hun. That hurt!" J said smiling. Mia frowned and quickly dropped the pillow. Her hands flew to her mouth.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry J!" Mia said sincerely. J and Vince laughed.
"It's ok Mi. We were just playing. I ain't gonna sue ya." Mia sighed and chuckled then picked the pillow up and hit J one more time. "Unfair." J let out a squeal as Vince pulled her over to the other side of him so that he was in-between Mia and Jez. J smiled and looked up as Dom walked down the stairs.
"Hey Dom." J said as he stopped half way and leaned on the railing.
"Hey Jez. What brings you back here at 9 at night?" Dom asked.
"I wanted to talk to Leon, but instead got in a pillow fight with Mia. Is he even here?" J asked. Dom shook his head.
"Naw, he left a little after you did." Dom replied, looking at the wall.
"Oh. Well then I guess I'll be going..." J started to stand up but Vince pulled her back down. "Hey!" J said. Vince smiled at her.
"It's only 9. You ain't leaving yet. Unless you got something to do?" Vince said, still holding onto her arm. J shook her head and smiled.
"Naw. I guess I can stick around for a little while longer." Dom smiled and came down the stairs and put a movie in. Dom and Letty settled in the chair next to the couch while Jesse sat on the floor in front of the couch. J put her chin on Vince's shoulder.
"Since when did they get all...uhh...together again?" J whispered in his ear.
"They've been off and on for a while. I guess this is one of their on days." Vince whispered back. J smiled and leaned her head on Vince's shoulder. It had been a long day. J had no clue what movie they were watching; she just knew it was not interesting to her. She figured Vince thought the same when he leaned his head on hers and fell asleep. J fell asleep not to long after.
Leon pulled into the driveway of the house and looked at Silvia. She stared at J's car then looked at him.
"Hey, if you don't want to go in, it's cool. I can just take you back to your house." Leon said, squeazing her hand. Silvia smiled.
"Thanks but I really need to get my stuff. I mean, we're just friends right now, so there's no need for me to leave my stuff over here. I gotta face her sooner or later and I rather it be sooner. I'm tired anyways." Leon looked at the clock. 10:05. He nodded and they got out of the car. They walked across the yard and up the stairs. He unlocked the door and opened it and let Silvia in and then shut it behind her. He turned to go up the stairs when he saw Silvia staring at something in the living room.
"Sil." He said. She held up her hands. Leon stood next to her and looked in the living room. Mia and Jez were both leaning on Vince and were sleeping. Vince was leaning on J and had his arm around her. Leon willed himself to not get jealous. He grabbed Silvia's arm gently and pulled her up the stairs. She followed him up the stairs and into his room. He shut the door behind her and leaned back against the door. He shut his eyes and tried to think. Silvia stood in front of him and stared at him.
"You ok Lee?" She asked softly. Leon opened his eyes and stared at her. He tried to see Silvia, but all he saw was J. He couldn't remember ever spending a day with Silvia where she was herself. She was always trying to live up to J and Leon knew it was his fault. Silvia had been trying to learn how to be a mechanic but had quickly given up on it. Then she took to being a sex hound and then...she just stopped. She became distant. They had probably had sex once in a two-week span. She stopped with all the flirting gestures, the feeling him up, anything that would be related to sex. And then J came back.
"I'm fine Sil. I'm just tired." Leon rubbed his forehead and watched as Silvia turned and started packing her stuff.
Downstairs Mia was watching the stairs with a quiet look of determination. She was also confused. She didn't know if she should tell Dom that Silvia's here or just let her go. Good reasoning took over her liking for Silvia. Mia sat up and quietly walked over to Dom. She poked his arm.
"Dom." Mia whispered. He didn't move. She poked him in his head. "Dom!" She said a little louder. He still didn't move. She held his nose shut. "Dominic Toretto!" She half whispered half screamed. He jerked up, causing Letty to fall on the floor with a soft thud. She just curled up and went back to sleep. Dom looked at Mia.
"What the hell?" He asked. Mia frowned.
"Silvia's with Leon up in his room." Mia said. Dom was out of his chair and up the stairs before she got 'up' out of her mouth. Mia sighed and sat down in the chair. She hoped they weren't making a mistake.