Well, what can I say I'm back. I don't really know how to get from there to here so here it is. I hope it flows and doesn't sound too much like a fake world. But lets face it this is all fake and for enjoyment. So I guess if it sounds fake then ohh well. Here is the next chapter. This one deals mainly with Brain and BJ.
(Brian and BJ's conversation in the car)
(3rd person point of view)
"So, what did you want to do?" Brian asked BJ once they had started out.
"I don't know what ever you need to do we can go do." BJ said not sure what to do with a man he barely knows.
"How about we go get something to eat and then go from there?" Brain questioned hoping food would give them a chance to talk and lighten the mood.
"Can we go to Cha Cha Cha's, that's my favorite?" BJ asked excited about going there.
"That place still in business? They had really good food last time I was there. You know that's the first place I took your mom on a real date?" Brain stated softly.
"I know she won't ever take me there." BJ stated softly.
"Really why not?" Brian asked curious.
"Cause of you." BJ stated bluntly.
"I'm sorry. If she wont take you there then how it is that it's your favorite?" Brian questioned softly.
"Uncle Vince takes me all the time. That's his favorite too." BJ said smiling. He liked Vince and always bragged about him.
"O' coyote going soft now?" Brain said lightly not meaning to say it out loud.
"Uncle Vince has done a lot for me and Mami. He has always helped out in anyway we needed him." BJ said a little mad that he was talking about Vince like that.
"Hey, chill out, I didn't mean it that way. Vince and I never really did get along so well. I'm just surprised that he took to you like that is all. I am going to have to thank him." Brian said honestly.
"Uncle Vince didn't like you because you were a COP. That and because you won Mami's heart." BJ stated bluntly.
"Ouch, I deserved that, I'm sorry that my job was to do what I didn't do, however I never regret taking the assignment. How much of what happened did they tell you?" Brian asked wondering how much he knew.
"I know they were poppin' trucks, that you came in to take them down, that Uncle Jesse got shot by Tran, you killed Tran, that Uncle Vince's arm is hurt from hanging on that truck and if you were there he wouldn't be here now. I also know that the team ended up in Mexico and you were nowhere to be found. That's why Uncle Vince took good care of us."
"So they told you everything?" Brain questioned more him self then BJ.
"Everything, but why you didn't turn them in. They say that it's because you felt like part of the team. I think it's because of that but mainly because of Mami."
"Well you are right. I did feel like part of the team. However my main reason was because I love your mom." Brian answered looking over at him briefly before turning his eyes back on the road.
"This is a nice car." BJ stated looking around it.
"Thanks, Courtesy of the United States Government. I of course took out all of there tracking crap and made some improvements." Brian said smiling.
"Who are they?" BJ asked holding up a picture he found in Brian's CD case.
"They would be Amy and Azandrial." Brian said talking the picture from him.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten into your stuff with out asking." BJ said hopping he didn't just upset the man he hoped to call dad.
"Anything you want to snoop in is cool. I know you are probably interested to find out more about me. All I ask is that if I tell you not to mess with something not to and if your not sure just ask me. I might show you but tell you not to mess with it. Ok?" Brian said softly.
"All right I can respect that. Thanks." BJ said softly.
"While we are on that. Don't mess with the silver case on the back seat. I'm sure you will see it a lot and I will open it for you later if you want it just has my guns in it." Brian said pointing to the case.
"Ok, if you want to show me that's fine, I know what guns look like and know not to mess with them." BJ said remembering when he was younger and found Vince gun in his nightstand. Needless to say all of their guns are now put away properly.
"BJ, now would be as good as time as any to tell you that Ria is your sister. She will be coming out here to live once I get settled in." Brian said handing him back the photo.
"What about her mom?" BJ asked hoping that he wasn't going to tell him that there was another woman. He knew that would break his Mami's heart more.
"She died."
"How?"
"Heart complications after giving birth to Ria."
After a few minutes of silence BJ spoke again.
"I don't know what to say. I'm sorry just doesn't seem right."
"It's ok. I mainly wanted to tell you that you had a sister and about her coming out her so it wasn't a surprise to you." Brian said softly.
"Cool, when is she coming?"
"Probably a week or so. Depending on when I get settled and if you want more alone time with me or not." Brian said honestly knowing his daughter was in good hands and missing her was a small price to pay to get to know his son.
"She can come out when ever you want her to. I'm sure with the team some one will watch her so we can do things, that and I want to do things with her too. I finally get to be older then some one." BJ said with a smile looking at the photo.
"You and Miracle doesn't look like your that much in difference."
"She's 4 month older then me. Wouldn't have been if her mom didn't get into the accident during the trucks."
"At least she takes care of you."
"Yeah, but I would rather be older then she might let me take care of her while we are at school."
"There something going on at school?"
"Just forget that I said anything, and why are you going the speed limit. If anyone else would have been driving we would have been there by now." BJ said quickly trying to change the subject.
"I am going the speed limit cause we have had a cop on us since I left the house. I don't need your mom on my ass cause I got you arrested, or because I was driving reckless with you in the car." Brian said checking his rear view mirror again. They were stopped at a red light.
"Like mom hasn't ran from the cops." BJ said with a huge smile.
"That so. Then you up for some fun?" Brian questioned with a hint of amusement for what he was about to do.
"Sure." BJ said making sure his harness was properly attached.
"All right here we go. And we will talk about school once we get to the restaurant." Brian said with a smile looking over at BJ who was smiling also.
Once the light turned green Brian gunned it, creating his tires to squeal and smoke. This made the cop behind him quickly turn his lights and siren and start to follow them. Brian made a last minute turn down a street quickly wanting to lose the cop. The cop was holding his own, following pretty closely behind them. After making a few more turns Brian was on the highway, with no sign of the cop.
"That was fun. What are we doing now?" BJ asked laughing.
"Well I think we are going to drive out to the county line and then drive back, then we can go eat. How does that sound?"
"What ever you want to do you are the driver and all."
"Hang tight, I'm going to show you what this thing can do." Brian said changing into the fast lane and shifting into 5th. He then started gunning it harder. Quickly bringing the car up to 110MPH.
Brian was surprised but happy that there weren't more cars out. He didn't know if anyone has hit NOS with the kids in the car but he was going to do it and hope Mia didn't chew his ass to bad.
"Has anyone let you race with them?"
"Uncle Dom took me once but he never did use his NOS."
"So you haven't ever been in the car with NOS?" Brain asked hopping he could show him something fun.
"Nope, Uncle Dom said he would take me once I got older, Mami yelled at him for about 3 hours after that, I never bring it up and neither does he why?" BJ asked hopping he would get to feel the rush that all the racers talk about.
"I'm about to hit it. You strapped in tight?"
"Yeah, and I promise I wont tell Mami."
With that Brian hit the NOS and they went flying down the highway. Everything turned into a blur. Brian just let the car slow down on it's own. Once it got down to a manageable speed he slowly decreased it more and started to look for an exit to turn around.
"What you think?" Brian questioned BJ.
"Can we do it again?" BJ questioned smiling from ear to ear.
"Maybe another day, I'll take you to the track and let you feel it in a quarter mile."
"Ok."
"We do need to talk about telling your mom."
"I promise I wont."
"That's not what I want to hear. When it comes to your mom. I will never lie to here again. I expect you to be honest with her and me. I will tell her what we did when she asks. I promise you will not get into trouble."
"You do know that she is going to be pissed at you right?"
"I would rather he be mad at me then her find out I lied. He's how it works ok. If you tell me the truth with anything, you might get punished in some way or another, however if you lie to me about it then you will be in more trouble OK?"
"All right."
"I don't want you to answer me because you know that's what I want. I want you to say that you agree with that. Cause no matter what's going on I will always be honest with you. I expect the same back."
"That's fair. So if I was to have not known what happened with the team and you and asked you, you would tell me the truth?" BJ asked.
"Yes, I might have talked with your mom first, but yes I would have told you the truth and answered all of your questions." Brain said pulling into a parking space at the restaurant. When his cell phone rang. "You mind if I answer this?"
"It's fine."
"Hello?" Brain questioned answering the phone. He never looked at the caller ID.
"Hi daddy." Ria said happily into the phone.
"Hey sweetie, what's up?" Brian asked.
"I just wanted to say hi and see if you are ok." Ria asked in her three year old talk. She was well advanced and talked like a six year old.
"Things are good. I am out with your brother right now can I call you back later?" Brian asked looking at BJ as they had gotten out of the car.
"Brother? You never said anything about a brother." Ria said getting mad that he dad went out there for some one other then who he told her about.
"I'm sorry. Are things going ok there?" Brian asked.
"Hey B, what did you say to her. She is pissed." It was Tej that was on the phone now.
"I told her I was out with her brother and I asked to call her back later."
"Brother? You have another kid you didn't tell us about?"
"I'll talk about that later. Can you deal with her until I call later?" Brian asked hating to ask him to deal with his daughter when she was pissed. She may only be three but she was like a grown woman when she was pissed.
"Sure little one can't stay to mad when it's just me. Suki went on a last minute road trip to her moms." Tej explained before Brian could ask any questions.
"Is she alright?" Brian asked with some concern for his friend.
"She wanted me to go but I didn't want to take Ria with me and didn't know who else to leave her with." Tej said honestly.
"Why don't you give me a few minutes to make a few calls and then ill get back to you all right?" Brian asked think of who could take his daughter so his friend could go support his girl.
"Sure, I'll talk with you laters." With that they hung up.
"BJ, I'm sorry about this, the couple that's watching Ria are having some family issues. I need to see if I can find some one to take her so that they can be together. Do you mind if I make a few calls before we go in there. I can wait if that's what you need."
"It's ok. We have all the time in the world to chat right?" BJ said in a tone that was bordering sarcasm and hurt.
"Are you sure you don't mind?"
"As long as you aren't going back there then yeah I don't mind." BJ said while looking at the ground.
"Hey look at me." Brian said and waited to continue till he was looking at him. "This is my home, here with you and your mom. If I end up going out there I will talk your mom into letting you come if you want."
"Ok."
Brian pulled out his cell phone and called Roman, to see if he was willing to take on the terror he called a daughter. She was wonderful for everyone but knew how to play everyone just right to get her way.
"Roman, hey it B."
"Hey how are things going with the lady?"
"Things are good, I have a son."
"Wow that wow."
"Hey did you hear that Suki had to go to her moms for a while?"
"Yeah her mom is pretty sick. I'm kind of pissed that Tej didn't go with her."
"That's cause he didn't want to take Ria with him. I was actually calling to see if you would take her so he could go meet her?"
"You know I would, I don't know why he never asked. I just figured if he wanted to go he would have taken her with him."
"I don't know, so will you?"
"Yeah, I'm on my way there now, I'll take her and get him out of her tonight."
"Thanks I'll call and let him know, but I'm going to call Suki first."
"All right. I'm sure Tej won't have a problem letting her go with me, but you might call him just incase he gets protective of her."
"All right. I'll talk with you soon. Thanks man."
"No problem." With that they hung up.
"Just two more calls if that's ok?" Brian asked BJ.
"Sure."
Brian then called Suki.
"Hello?" Suki answered her phone with out looking at it.
"Hey, how are you dealing?"
"Bullit, hey, things are rough. I meant to call and tell you that Tej is taking care of Ria alone."
"I know I just talked with them. How are you handling things?"
"Ok right now. I wish Tej were here, other then that as good as can be expected. They don't know anything yet."
"I'm sorry. Keep me updated and let me know if there is anything I can do for you."
"In all honesty and I know this is going to sound rude but you could fly back there and get you daughter so I can have my man with me."
"Well I'm not flying back, I am spending time with my son right now and getting settled back in, however Roman is on his way now to go get Tej to pack some stuff and drive up to you tonight. I was going to let him surprise you but this way you don't think I'm a total ass."
"Thanks, you have a son?"
"Yeah."
"That's cool. Did you know?"
"No."
"Well get right with him, and we will come out to meet everyone and bring Ria to you."
"We'll have to see, if things are going bad your way still I will figure something else out and you guys can just take a road trip later to come see me."
"All right, I've got to go, I'll talk with you laters ok?"
"Sure, take care of your self, eat something and get some sleep, you sound like shit."
"Thanks,"
"No problem." With that Suki hung up on him.
"Ok. One more call and then I'll turn off my phone."
"It's ok." BJ said sadly while looking at the ground from sitting on the car.
Brian then called Tej back.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Roman there yet?"
"Yeah he's packing some of her stuff right now. She's still pissed at you."
"Great. Let me talk to her if she will."
"What?" Ria answered the phone.
"That's not a very nice way to talk to me." Brian stated firmly.
"I'm mad at you."
"That doesn't give you the right to be mean."
"Sorry."
"It's ok. Uncle Roman is going to take you for a little while so Uncle Tej and go be with Aunt Suki all right."
"O.K. Daddy when am I going to come out there?"
"Soon."
"Ok. Uncle Roman said I have to hurry or I don't get ice cream."
"You better hurry then. I love you."
"I love you too. Bye daddy. Sorry I was mad at you."
"It's ok to express your emotions, but be nice even though you are mad k?"
"All right. Bye." With that they hung up.
"BJ I am so, so sorry. Everything is all taken care of. Lets go eat." Brian said putting his phone in the car.
"It's ok. Can we drive back there to get her?"
"If that's what you want then yes."
"Thanks."
"For?" Brian questioned not knowing what for.
"Bringing me out, showing an interest in me. Proving Mira wrong."
"How's that?" Brian asked as they sat at a table.
"She said you would never come back and if you did you would leave once you heard about me."
"Well she was wrong and I will talk with her about that. And showing an interest in you, if I would have known your mom was pregnant I would have been there from the beginning."
"When are we going to go get Ria?"
"Umm, we could leave this weekend if you want. I wanted to wait a little longer but it might be better for everyone back there if I brought her home soon."
"If Mami says its ok can we leave this weekend?"
"Yeah, we will leave this weekend." Brian said not really knowing what Mia will say but hoping she would let her keep this promise to him. Brian knew when all else failed he could tell her that he promise and she would let him.
