A:N/ so you guys know, I don't know shit about cars…so I gave Dom a Honda CRX because on Pimp My Ride, Xzibit said that they were the king of the Racing import scene….I mean, I'm gonna change the car now, but that's why he had a CRX. Now he's gonna have an RX-7. Buh-bye!
It had been about three weeks since the fight. Brian was okay with the Team, even if he was still afraid to talk to Mia. He was working in the garage with Jesse, Leon, and Rome, who had showed up along with Tej, Suki, Jimmy and his niece Kelly three days earlier.
"I'll be back with those parts in about an hour Jess," Jimmy said, pulling out in the black Mazda.
"Fill the NOS tanks too, will ya?" Jess yelled from under the hood of a Blue 73 Charger.
"No prob," he yelled back, turning on the car.
"Ay man, ya'll got anything else to drink besides these nasty ass Coronas?" Rome said, wiping his face.
"Nope. That's all we drink, dog." Leo said, smirking at Rome's face.
"No Hinnies?"
"We don't drink Heineken, Just CORONA!" Jesse said slowly, like Rome didn't speak English.
"I do understand English man…I'm just sick of these nasty beers ya'll drink."
"Coronas are NOT beers. They're brews." A voice said. They all turned around to see Brian come into the shop with Kelly in his arms. "And Rome, NEVER let Dom hear you say beer, and be referring to a corona. He'll snap," he added, grabbing himself one, smirking at his best friend.
"Whatever man; How was your day at school Kel-Kel?" Rome said, to his niece.
"Great Uncle Romie. We went to the zoo today!" she said, excitedly.
"That's great. Now go change into some play clothes and out of your uniform."
"Okay," she chirped, and skipped through the shop to the office where all four of the kids had play clothes in. She changed into a pink t-shirt that said I'm the Princess and there's nothing you can do about it and some denim Capri's. She brushed her hair down around her shoulders and put a headband on, and then put on her white tennis shoes. She hated sports and being dirty; the complete opposite of Danny. Brian, Rome, Tej, Suki, or Jimmy had to pick her up from school because she didn't want to get sweaty riding her bike to and from school. She went out to the back carrying a pink case. She sat on the back porch and opened the case. She took out nail polish, a fingernail file, and napkins. She carefully painted each of her fingers a bright pink color, using the napkins to fix smudges. Rome, who was walking around back with Jesse to check inventory, laughed to himself as he saw the look of concentration on his niece's face. Definitely not a tomboy he thought. The cheerful yells a certain Torretto child signaled that the others had arrived.
"HEY UNCLE LEON! HEY UNCLE JESSE! HEY UNCLE BRIAN! HI UNCLE ROMIE-ROME! WHERE'S MY DADDY? IS SUKI AND TEJ COMING OVER TODAY? I LIKE THEM, WHAT IS YOU GUYS WORKING ON? IS THAT 73 CHARGER STILL HERE? I LIKE THAT CAR-"
"Danny, slow down."
"Sorry Uncle Leon, but today was the best day ever! We went to the zoo, and the teachers let us play football in the courtyard before we went, and I scored four touchdowns! Our team was great. It was me, Jason, Mike, James, and Jordan against Bill, Dave, Cory, Eddie and Mark. They thought I couldn't play because I was a girl…I showed them huh?" Danny said, taking off her rollerblades.
Jesse laughed to himself. This little seven-year old was Letty reincarnated. She was tough, smart, and absolutely beautiful. They always would underestimate her, and even at seven…it pissed Danny off. Rome came back into the garage carrying a big ass sandwich.
"Hey Uncle Jesse, Hey Uncle Leon, What's up Uncle Rome? Hi Uncle Brian" Mike said, jumping off of his skateboard.
Jordan came in on his bike, laughing. "Hey Uncle Jesse, Hey Uncle Leon, What's up Uncle Rome? Hey Dad."
"What's up munchkin squad? How was school today?" Rome said, swallowing the last of his sandwich.
"Great. We played football, and of course I pick Danny, Mike, James, and Jordan for our team, because they're the best in the class. They all thought that Danny couldn't play good cause she's a girl, so I put her at Wide Out, Mike at Running Back, and James and Jordan blocked for us. We won 45-21, and Danny scored most of our touchdowns!"
"Yep, we won, all thanks to me, a GIRL." Danny said, eyes shining. She went back into the office and came back out five minutes later wearing a black jumpsuit with the arms tied around her waist along with a blue t-shirt and her hair in a ponytail with a blue hat on backwards. Jason and Mike went in next, and they both came out in jeans and t-shirts.
"I guess you're ready for your lesson today?" Jesse said, smirking at the three kids.
"Yeah!" Jason said
"Definitely," Mike answered at the same time.
"Let's go," Danny said at the same time as her brother and friend. They ran up and jumped up on stools to that they could see into the 73 Charger that Danny liked so much. They were learning the names of different parts of the car, and how to fix the parts as they went along. Jesse smiled to himself as he spoke to the three. He could see the passion for cars in all of them, and he could tell that they would want to race. There was no denying that, especially the way Dom drives.
"Okay, what's that, Danny?" he said, pointing inside the car.
"An alternator."
"Okay, Mike, This is…"
"A Radiator, duh!"
"Okay, Okay, Jase, that's that?"
"Jess, you gave me the easiest one…that's the battery!"
"Right. Now we're gonna learn how to change a battery." Jesse said, wheeling himself over to the tool chest.
"Jess, we're running to the store. You want anything?" Leon yelled.
"Anything but Tuna's fine with me!"
"Alright, we'll be back in twenty."
"Alright!"
Everyone was gone except for Jesse and the kids. Kelly, who liked to draw, was drawing a picture of what looked like a fairy for Suki to use on her next design. Jason and Mike were cleaning the tools that they'd used while Danny put them away. The phone rang in the office, and Danny ran and answered it.
"DT Garage, how may I help you?"
"Yeah, does a Brian O'Connor or a Roman Pierce work there?"
"Yeah, but they're not in right now, may I ask who's calling, or do you want to leave a message and I'll make sure they get it?" she said, grabbing a pen and some paper.
"Just tell them this; Carter's watching them, and he's not happy. That's all they need to know."
"Okay, and who should I say this message is from?"
"An Old Friend." The deep voice said. Then the line went dead.
"UNCLE JESSE!" Danny said, jogging to him.
"What's up sweet pea?" he said, wheeling himself out of the bathroom.
"Uh, there was just a call, some guy looking for Uncle Brian and Uncle Rome. He said something about someone named Carter's watching them or something like that. He didn't leave his name though." She said, showing him the pad of paper that she'd take the message down on. Jesse's face tensed up, and then he pulled his cell phone out of his pocket.
"Dom? It's Jess. I know it's your day off, and you said not to call you, but this is an emergency. The munchkins are fine, but we've got trouble, so get you're ass off of the couch and get to the garage." Jess said as he sent all four kids into the office.
"But JESSE, we don't WANNA stay in here!" Kelly grumbled.
"Tough, Kelly. Now you guys STAY PUT until Dom, Brian or Rome gets here."
"But JESSE…"
"Shut up and stop complaining. Can't you see something's wrong, Barbie? Now stop being a brat and listen to Uncle Jess!" Danny snapped, looking up from the car magazine she'd found on her dad's desk. Kelly rolled her eyes, and folded her arms.
Jesse wheeled himself back into the garage and finished cleaning and putting away the rest of the tools. When he finished, he heard Dom's RX-7 flying down the street. Five seconds later, the screech of tires announced his arrival.
"Jesse! Jess, what's going on?" Dom said, jogging into the garage.
"When I was done giving the kids their lesson today, there was a call. Danny answered, cause I was in the bathroom, ya know? Well, she took a message, because it was some guy for Brian and Rome, and they went to the store to get food with Leon and Vince. Look at what they said," Jess said, grimly, handing Dom the pad of paper.
"Carter's watching you and he's not happy…FUCK! Three fucking weeks, and they've already found 'em. Any thing happened?" Dom said, looking out the garage door.
"Nope. No one suspicious or nothing like that, if that's what you mean," Jesse said, looking at his watch. "Jimmy should be back by now; he was only going to Harry's to get some parts and to refill the NOS tanks on your Mazda. He's been gone for almost two hours."
"Looking for me?" came a voice in the doorway. Dom and Jesse looked over to see Jimmy coming into the garage carrying a huge box.
"Yeah, Jim, where the fuck ya been?" Dom said, eyeing the Asian mechanic in front of him.
"Well, I was leaving Harry's, when I noticed this Black Escalade with tinted windows fallowing me. It must have had a 4" drop on it, and man, it looked SWEET; I barely noticed it three cars behind me. He fallowed me for about half an hour till I lost him by driving into South Central." He said, laughing at the memory.
"Did you see who was in the car?"
"Nope, the tint was too dark…a lot like yours…I'm guessing whoever was fallowing me must have thought it was you in the car. Then when I was coming back down here, some losers on motorcycles kept circling the car, but drove off pretty fast once I hit the freeway to come back this way."
"The losers on the Crotch Rockets were probably Tran cronies. Them, we can handle…we've got bigger problems than some assholes that want revenge on me. Your boys are in trouble Jimmy, Verone's found 'em and I'm betting that it was either him or some of his homeboys that were fallowing you in the Escalade." Dom said. He looked over at Jesse, who'd gone stark white.
"Trans….Dom," Jess started.
"I know Jess, I know," Dom said. Jesse still worried about the Trans coming to finish him off since he didn't die, and Johnny was killed.
"But what about…"
"Jess, calm down, alright? No one's gonna get to you. Now, where's Danny?" Dom asked.
"She's in the office with the rest of the munchkins. Be careful man, she's in one of those moods again." Jess warned. Danny was in what he liked to call her "Letty" mode, but he never called it that in front of Dom.
"Yeah, alright, I'm going back there to ask her abut the phone call." Dom went back into the office to see Mike and Jason watching Danny punch Kelly then pin her to the wall by her pink shirt.
"I told you to shut your big fat mouth Barbie! I'm NOT a boy, and now you're gonna pay for…" Danny was yelling.
"Danielle Maria Torretto! What the hell are you doing?" Dom roared, grabbing his daughter off of Kelly and half-dragging half-carrying her to the back yard.
"What the hell's the matter with you? You should know better than to put your hands on someone! Now explain to me what the hell was going through your mind."
"She said that I was nothing but a little boy because I didn't want to play with her stupid Barbie's with her. She threw a Barbie at me and hit me in the face with it, so I pulled the head off. Then she pushed me, so I hit her and pushed her against the wall." Danny said simply, not seeing what she'd done wrong.
Dom smirked at his daughter. She was so much like her mother and she didn't even know it.
"Are you mad at me?"
"Not really, but you know you're wrong, right?"
"Yeah," she said sadly.
"You're on tool duty for two weeks. ALONE."
"DAD! That's not fair! Two whole weeks by my self?" she groaned. She hated cleaning the tools as punishment. Usually, the three of them, Mike Jason and Danny, cleaned them together, but Dom always used tool cleaning as punishment.
"Life's not fair, short stuff. Now, you're gonna go in there and apologize, then you're gonna tell me about the weird call you got today. We got a deal, mija?"
"Si, papi." She said reluctantly. She stomped off into the garage, where Kelly was sitting playing with a Barbie doll. "Sorry." She snapped and walked off into the backyard to shoot in the make-shift basketball hoop. Leon, Jesse, Vince, Brian and Dom all chuckled to themselves. They all saw the dirty look that the seven year old shot at Kelly; and at the same time, they all muttered, "Letty". They looked at each other and chuckled out loud. Rome and Jimmy looked confused at the remark, seeing how they didn't know who Letty was.
"I swear, that little girl is so much like Let its scary," Vince said quietly.
"I know, she's already a little hellcat." Jess said
"A regular mini spitfire." Leon chuckled.
"I know I'm probably about to say something wrong here," Rome said, "But who the hell is Letty?"
"I'm going for a ride. I'll be back by diner."
Dom went into his RX-7 and drove off. Only Vince Leon and Jesse knew where he was going.
"So, is anyone going to tell me who Letty is?" Rome asked about five minutes after Dom had left.
"Letty, that's Dom's old girl." Jesse said.
"She was probably the biggest bitch on the planet. She was evil, stubborn, feisty, quick on the comeback and absolutely gorgeous." Vince piped up.
"She was a tomboy type too. Think a female version of Dom dude." Brian added in.
"Yeah, her and Dom were always together. Then a couple days after Mikey turned 3, she disappeared. Danny was only a couple of months old. We haven't heard from her since. We don't even know if she's still alive." Leon said, getting a little bitter.
"Once she left," Jesse said, "Dom shut down. He stopped racing, and started being a full-time dad. He spends all of his time either with his munchkins or here at the garage. But that Danielle, she's the spitting image of Letty. Same attitude too, but she has a Torretto temper. That makes her a little bit worse."
"Damn. I know where Dom's coming from on that full time dad shit."
"What you mean Rome?" Jess asked.
"Kelly's dad was never there for her. Bastard ran off as soon as he heard my baby sister was pregnant. My sister, Cleo, died in a car accident when Kelly was 3, and I wasn't letting my niece get in the system. I promised myself if I ever ran into the bastard that knocked my sister up and ran off I would beat him within an inch of his life." Rome said.
"I'm feeling you on that one. You're a good man Romeo." Leon said, smirking.
"I know this, now; can I please get a Heineken to drink?"
Four oily rags hit Roman in his bald head.
"WE ONLY DRINK CORONAS!" every one yelled.
"Sorry dog, can't help you on that one…now where the hell is Tej?" Jimmy said, looking outside the garage.
"Here he comes," Jesse said, not looking up from his computer.
"How do you know?" Jimmy and Rome said at the same time.
"Trust me; you'll hear his music in 3, 2, 1…"
When I move, you move
Just like that
When I move, you move
Just like that
When I move you move
Just like that
Hell yeah, ay DJ, bring that back
"Told you," Jesse laughed. About twenty second's later, Tej's truck pulled into the garage.
"Jesse, how the hell did you do that?" Rome said.
"I can tell the engine that I worked on out of millions. Just a touch I have."
"You're a little scary sometimes, man" Jimmy said as Tej and Suki came out of the truck and into the garage.
"It's about time you guys got here, we got trouble." Jimmy said, hugging Suki.
"What trouble?" He said, along with everyone besides Jimmy.
"Verone's found you guys."
"WHAT?!" Brian said, almost dropping his Corona.
"Yeah, he called the garage, Danny answered the call." Jesse piped up.
"Was she sure it was him?" Rome said, doubting the judgment of a seven year old girl.
"Now, this girl might only be seven, but she's smarter than Vince some times." Leon laughed; dodging the punch he knew was coming from his old scruffy friend.
"Fuck, we gotta keep those kids safe…Where's Dom?" Tej said.
"Went for a drive…I mentioned Letty, and he freaked out." Rome said, looking guilty.
"Well, where's Danny? We gotta ask her about that call." Brian said, looking out side, where Danny was playing basketball by herself, while Jason and Mike were doing skateboard tricks.
"Danny, come here baby girl!" Tej said.
"TEJ!" she screamed, diving into his arms.
"What's up little one? You been good?"
"No." she said, looking down.
"No? What did you do?"
"I punched Kelly in her face and slammed her into the wall."
"Why?"
"Cause she was calling me Dan the Man again. And she hit me with her dumb doll in my face. And now I have tool detail by myself for two weeks, thanks to that dumb walking Barbie doll." Danny said, folding her arms across her chest.
"She what?" Rome said, narrowing his eyes.
"Well, after I answered the phone, Uncle Jesse told all of us to stay in the office until daddy came, and Little miss Tea Party started throwing a tantrum, so I told her to shut up. Then she asked me if I wanted to play Barbie with her, and I said no. Then she threw a Barbie at me, saying I should have been born a boy. So I pulled the head off of the doll she threw at me. She called me Dan the Man, so I got up, punched her and slammed her against the wall. That's when Daddy came in and punished me."
"Well, you shouldn't have hit her, but she shouldn't have said what she said." Tej said, smirking at the girl.
"Danny…about the phone call…What did the person on the phone say EXACTLY?" Brian said.
"That Carter's watching, and he isn't happy."
Sorry about the wait folks…I know, I took forever with this one….reveiw and tell me what you think!