I still haven't thought of a new title and summary. MIST!

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Family Reunion

Checking the hood of Jack's '93 Toyota Supra, Lilly's thoughts drifted back to the night this car had been damaged. The night in which her brother had been caught by the cops, the FBI………whatever, it didn't change the facts all that much. She had smoked three cigarettes since yesterday morning, her personal best since they had settled in Miami five months ago.

Opening the hood to take a look at the engine, the girl sighed. She had tried to distract herself with almost everything: developing new designs which she had given to Suki not even half an hour ago, going to "The Club", going to "C.T.O.", short for "Check this out", a great shop which met the demand of every artist in town………..nothing had worked for more than 30 minutes. Every single time Lilly saw something familiar, she had to think and worry about her brother…………at first. By now, she was kind of angry with him for disappearing and giving her the strangest call ever. What had he been thinking? I don't want you to worry. Sure! If she ever did the same to him, he would go insane with worry and ground her until she was 21!

"Yo, honey",Jimmy walked over to her,"the car okay?"

"Yeah",she shut the hood with one hand and regarded the young mechanic,"got anything else to do?"

Lilly hated wasting her time by waiting for something or somebody, she was a person who liked to be rather busy than bored and because of her not having to spray a car, she had asked Jimmy, if he would need her help.

"Sure",he pointed at a car that was on a lift in the far back of the garage,"could you install the neons? Jeremy says it's urgent and I don't have any time."

The first time Jimmy had met the young blond girl had been five months ago, he hadn't exatcly known what to think of her. She had looked like some ordinary pretty 15-year-old to him, nothing special. While Brian had been talking to Tej, she had walked around and taken a look at everything and nothing in particular until she had stood under one of the lifts with a car on it.

"Brake leads",she had whispered and attracted Jimmy's attention. He had stood merely a few yards away from her.

"They've just been exchanged",he had told her, already thinking that the girl knew next to nothing about cars.

"Of course, they've just been exchanged",Lilly had answered him sarcastically without taking her eyes off the car,"and that's why they're going to fail the next time someone slams on the brakes."

"What are you talking, girl?"Jimmy hadn't been able to believe what she had said. One of his best had repaired the car.

"Well, look at this, if you think that I'm lying",the blond had pointed at the bottom of the car and made Jimmy come over. The mechanic hadn't trusted his eyes the moment he had seen the leads: there had been a slight cut through them, not enough to make two pieces out of one, but nevertheless, the cut had been deep enough to tear the leads completely apart once somebody would have slammed the brakes really hard.

"So?"Lilly had folded her arms in front of her belly, regarding him curiously. He had apologized to her and had immediatley searched for Miguel, the guy who had repaired the car. Eventually, he had found out that Miguel had been to race against the owner that night and Miguel had lost his job.

By now, Jimmy trusted the girl and her skills. She was nice to have around because she wasn't just some ordinary girly-girl. Lilly could tell him every single detail of a car and knew at the same time what it actually meant.

"Urgent, as in really urgent, or urgent, as in I can still drink a Coke before I start?"

"The latter",Jimmy laughed, seeing the teenager walk away,"but one for each of us, too!"

"Kay",Lilly called over her shoulder. Each of us were Alex, Diego, Marco and Jimmy himself aka the whole male crew, although the girl didn't have any problems with the guys. They were all nice and she could cope with their sometimes rather crude humour. She went into the small office, bent down in front of the mini-fridge and took out five bottles of Coke and two of Corona. Leaving the office, she put the Coke on the floor next to the door and went outside to where Tej and Suki were.

Tej was yelling something into his megaphone and Suki's chair was empty except for the few sheets of paper showing Lilly's latest designs. The girl greeted the people she knew and gave the bottles in her left hand to a grinning Tej.

"That's my sprayer",he put the bottles on the ground in front of him while eyeing Lilly,"looking very hot today."

"Whatever",she shrugged, though it was true: she had dressed up today only to annoy Brian. She wore tight light blue jeans which were ripped and clung low under her hips, revealing her navel and her slightly muscular belly, while the top was white cotton, also very tight, sleeveless and ended just a few inches, not more than three, under her breasts. Due to the outfit's coulours being rather light, her skin appeared even more bronze. Brian would have a heart failure when seeing her outfit and he deserved it.

"Going to make your bro all crazy",Tej was still grinning. It amused him to see the usually relaxed and completely cool Bullitt as some kind of nervous wreck only because his little sister was wearing something really sexy. Tej himself didn't mind how the girl dressed, as long as the men around here treated her with the respect that she deserved. He knew exactly that if he ever found out about somebody touching Lilly against her consent, this person would have to suffer. Having Tej Parker against one was the worst thing that could happen to somebody in Miami because Tej had connections…………and he would use them, if necessary.

"By the way, where's Bullitt? Haven't seen him since Saturday night."

"You better ask him to explain this to you, Lord knows, I won't!"Eyeing the jet-skis, she suddenly questioned,"who's up next?"

"Donna, Thomas, Charly 'n Ray, but what's up with your bro? He cool?"Tej started wondering why Lilly didn't want to talk about her brother. Was it possible that they had had an argument?

"Three large on Ray",the blond grabbed into her pocket and took out several bills. Counting them, she continued,"Brian's going to come round anytime soon, I think. If you got any questions, you'll have to ask him. All I kow is that he's better thought of a good excuse for his actions before facing me."She gave Tej the money and walked back into the garage. The young man shook his head while Suki came back and sat down on the chair next to him. Turning over to her, she shrugged and he went back to his work.

Picking up the five bottles of Coke from where she had placed them, Lilly approached the mechanics and gave each of them one.

"Caderas monas",Diego whistled.

"Cómo encantador",the girl smiled, while opening the bottle in her hand with her teeth for what she gained some more whistles and compliments before she went to start with Jeremy's car.

It was a Toyota Celica GTR – not bad, but no serious competition for the Skyline.

And there we go. Let's just think about Brian's attitude again. Man, I didn't know my bro had such bad habits.

She opened the carton with the wanted neons and took the item out, when she realized that she had forgotten to ask Jimmy something.

"Hey, Jimmy! Does Jeremy want his neons three-sixty, sides or merely front 'n back?"

"Three-sixty!"The young man called back, his face hidden behind an opened hood.

Taking another sip from her Coke, Lilly looked over to the drive of the parking lot in front of the garage and she almost choked: Brian was just driving onto the lot, but he wasn't sitting behind the steering wheel of the Skyline, instead, he drove a 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 7! This car wouldn't be on the American market till February……….next year, of course. Behind her brother, a black man whose face was somehow familiar to Lilly drove a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder, with a spraying Lilly would have to check out soon because it made her fingers itch. Frowning, she stayed in the back of the garage, making sure that her brother wouldn't and hadn't seen her. Why did she seem to know the guy in the Spyder? He was about Brian's age, rather tall, muscular, no hair, vivid eyes…………..this couldn't be! Roman Pearce? Was it possible? The last time, she had seen her surrogate brother, had been about six or maybe even seven years ago. Nevertheless, as she heard the deep voice, this somehow raspy laughter, she couldn't suppress a tear leaving her right eye. Rome was back! Rome was in Miami! He wasn't………… wasn't he supposed to be in jail?

Lilly sat down on a small pile of tires, feeling totally confused………….again. While thinking, she started to move her small silver earring which was pierced into the upper quarter of her left ear.

Rome had been sent to jail for owning eight cars which had been hot! How was it possible that he was actually here? This was Roman Pearce, Brian had just introduced him to Jimmy!

She needed a smoke! But she couldn't do this in here, because if her brother found out……………was it legal to ground someone till his, or her, 25th birthday?

Oh, well, this would be my fourth one within less than 48 hours. I better do without!

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"Hey, Tej Parker? This is Roman Pearce",Brian introduced the men to each other, before he told Rome why knowing Tej was such important a thing. He then bent down to get his "hello-kiss" from Suki.

"What's going on, Suki?"

""What's up, baby?"

"How you doing?"

"I'm good."

"What's this? What's the latest?" Seeing the papers in Suki's hands, Brian felt himself getting somehow nervous and excited due to them reminding him of Lilly. On the one hand, he hoped that she wasn't mad at him - that's what made him nervous – but on the other hand, he wanted to see the sparkling in her beautiful eyes once she saw the Evo.

Suki turned the paper she had just been regarding around to show it to Brian and Roman.

"Chica gave them to me because she just wanted me to be absolutely sure that I really want the dragon-design. But now",she shrugged, pointing her index-finger at the paper she held in her hand,"I'm not so sure anymore. Although she says it's a work in progress, that it's not finished yet, I can see this is gonna be great. The girl got talent, Bullitt."

"She's right, man",Roman had never seen anything like these designs before,"that's some hot artistic shit there."

After having collected the money he had just won, Tej stood up and while talking to Rome, he also noticed that Brian was looking around as though he was searching for somebody.

"Hey, Tej. Check this out",the blond man tried to sound relaxed, although innerly, he was wondering where his sister was,"Rome's gonna be in town a while. Can he use that boat?"

"What's wrong with your place, hm?"Tej thought to understand and nodded while grinning."Fraid cause of Chica? I tell you, man, right now, she's on bad terms with you, so you better be careful."

"Nah",Roman couldn't believe that Brian had a girlfriend. He had just flirted with that Customs-babe,"I don't wanna stay with him. He's got bad habits, man."

"All right, man, whatever. Show him around. I'll be up there in a minute",Tej waited until the men had gone and then walked into the garage, looking for Lilly. He found her somewhere in the back, installing a neon.

"Hey, baby",he put his hands into his pockets and regarded the girl curiously.

"Hey, boss",she answered without taking her eyes off her task,"Ray been a good boy?"

"You bet",Tej smiled brightly as he gave her six thousand dollar which she put into her pocket without actually looking.

"Your bro's here",Tej finally said and was astonished that the girl didn't react at all.

"Really? And there I thought it was just the two of us",Lilly replied rather sarcastically, taking her hands slowly away from the neon light to check, if it really held.

"You know what I mean, girl. He's outside",moving his head into the direction from where Suki's voice came.

"Tej",Lilly sighed, thinking about how to explain the situation to her friend,"have you ever been sick with worry? Did it ever happen to you that you couldn't eat, or sleep, or do anything, just because you were worried about someone?"She looked him straight into the eye:"I was Tej. For the last two days. Since I came home on Saturday night, I haven't slept for more than a couple of hours, I haven't eaten anything except for some fruit and candy and even then, I wanted to throw up. I was sick with worry, Tej. Brian is everything I have left, everything, do you understand that? It has always been the two of us, he was………still is my dad, my mom, my brother, my friend. Just imagine that something is wrong with a person who means so much to you and you don't know what it is. All you can do is to wait and to wait and to wait some more. I smoked three cigarettes since yesterday morning Tej, three. And now, he comes back with some new car and expects me to be okay? This………I don't work that way, Tej, and I won't pretend otherwise. Can you understand me?"

"Three cigarettes?"The black man moved a little forward and hugged the younger girl. He was the only one who knew about Lilly smoking and he would never trait her trust in him. What she had just told him made him realize even more how different Brian and Lilly were from all the other siblings he knew.

"But you can't just not talk to him",he told her while letting go,"check this out. I'll go out there right now to meet up with your bro and his guest, kay? If you are not outside within five minutes, I'll send him inside."

"Organising 'n collecting, huh?"Lilly cracked a smile. "Okay, just tell him not to grin like an idiot, otherwise m gonna yell at him."

"He won't be grinning, least not after having seen how hot this outfit is",the man left the garage and left Lilly the five minutes to think about coming out or staying inside. It was only fair that she got to choose the battlefield. Stepping outside, Tej saw Jimmy, Suki, Brian and Roman all standing in front of the Spyder, talking about GPS.

"Yo, Bullitt",he finally said when he stood next to Suki,"tell me something, man, cos Chica won't. Do I even wanna know, where the Skyline is, dawg? Or where you've been for the last couple of days or where the hell you got these rides from?

"They're hot",Suki smiled.

"Yeah, they hot",Jimmy shook his head,"wired so hot, anyone tracking these things will know every time, if you wear your seat belt."

"All right, Jimmy",Brian sighed,"just do what you can do, bro."

"I got you",shutting the hood of the Spyder, the mechanic took a good look at the spraying,"Lilly's gonna flip when she sees this."He then walked back into the garage.

"Lilly?"Roman looked confused at Brian who grinned. Was it really Lilly? The cute little girl Roman had often told bed-time stories? She had to be around 16 by now.

"Thought I left her in L.A.? Nah, she's here, man",the blond man said convincingly.

"You have to see this",the group heard Jimmy's voice when he stepped out into the sunlight, followed by a certain 16-year-old who was shaking her hips a little more to drive her older brother crazy………… punishment à la petite soeur.

"Not bad",she eyed the Spyder from the side across to the others and opened the hood to look inside. Cocking her head to the side, she raised one eyebrow: "Would be better without all the wires, but, all in all, not bad."

"You're kidding me, right?"Rome laughed. This couldn't be the small girl he remembered. This was a beautiful young woman in front of him, yet, these blue eyes, these high cheekbones, the blond hair that was slightly curled. "Kitten's aaaalll grown up."

Lilly laughed, too. Rome had called her Kitten since the day they had met. She didn't know why, he had just done it and she didn't mind. It was just a nick name like Chica or Baby. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Brian's jaw was still dropped down.

"Hugs me",she pleaded Rome and held her arms out before she was crushed against his chest.

"Oh, man",the man kissed her forehead,"you look so pretty, Kitten, soooo pretty."

"What the………I mean………how……",Brian was totally out of it, he just kept on regarding his younger sister.

"You're not the one to make any demands, bro!"Lilly let go of the embrace and stepped right in front of her brother, her eyes narrowed. "How dare you not telling me what's up? How dare you not calling me? How dare you being so rude? Did it, merely for one single second, ever occur to your mind that I might be worrying?!"

Brian looked away. He couldn't stand it when Lilly was mad at him, she had the right to, though. Lord knows, what he would have done, if she had disappeared for two days without doing more than giving him a call. He felt bad for worrying her.

"M sorry, baby",he bit his lower lip, already knowing that he wouldn't get away this easily.

"Do you really think that m sorry, baby is going to fix this?"Lilly cocked her head to the side, still looking at her brother's face. "I don't. I was worried about you like I never was before. You're always telling me that I shall call even if I'm just an hour or two too late, while you are, like, two days too late without calling or anything. Two days, Brian, this is just…………..why do I have to play after different rules than you do? Because you're older than me, so what? Does this mean that you've got the right to worry the shit outta me whenever you feel like it? I don't think so."

She had called him Brian. She never called him Brian unless she was really mad at him or damn serious about something. In this case, the blond man thought that it was both.

"You're right, but you have to look at this from my point of view, too",he gently grabbed her hips and leaned his forehead against hers, looking her straight into the eyes,"this is my only chance to keep you, baby. If this works out the way it's supposed to, I won't be locked up and my record will be cleared. No more playing hide and seek. We will be able to stay here……….legal. An ordinary life……...well, except for the racing. This is our only chance not to be separated and I'm not going to waste it. I know that I should have told you everything, but the day I called I wasn't sure, if this chance was merely fake or not………I didn't want you to start hoping before I was completely convinced. Now, I'm pretty much sure that this is real and I'll tell you everything I know. If you want me to, that is."Brian laid his cheek against her forehead, caressing her hair. It felt to him as if Lilly was slightly shivering, so he pulled her a little closer to him.

Suki, Tej and Roman had already gone into the small office to drink a beer. Jimmy had returned to his work. They all knew that the siblings needed some time alone to discuss things.

"Promise me never to do anything like again",Lilly could understand her brother and that made it impossible for her to be angry with him any longer. In his place, she would have done the same.

"I promise, baby",Brian kissed her left temple,"I promise."

Leaning her head against the area between his chest and shoulder, Lilly saw that on the other side of the street two older man were sitting in a Cadillac, as if they were surveilling Brian and her.

"Hey, I got an Evo",the man thought that his sister was looking at his new car and he could just as well use it as some kind of peace offer.

"I know",she answered, never taking her eyes off the Cadillac,"you made friends with the guys in the Cadillac over there?"

"No",Brian turned his head slightly into the direction Lilly was looking,"they've been on Rome and me ever since we left Verone's house."Letting go of her waist, Brian was already planning: "Rome and I are going to take care of them while you go back to work. We'll meet at home around six and order in some food, okay?"

"Be careful",she told him while they were walking side by side back into the garage.

"I will."Brian jogged into the office and Lilly went back to Jeremy's car, cursing innerly that she couldn't be mad at her brother anymore.

Well,she sighed, at least, he hates my outfit!

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There are four Spanish words in this chapter and I want to explain what they actually mean – a friend who learns Spanish told me their meaning, so, if you know that the spelling or anything else is wrong with them, just correct me.

Caderas monas – Nice hips

Cómo encantador – How charming