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A/N: So here's chapter 2. I hope it's better than the 1st, but I did it kinda fast. Please R&R!

Chapter 2

Explanations

"I lost her!" Roman cried out in frustration. The heavy flow of traffic did not yield and Jess' car became lost in the sea. Rome gripped his steering wheel tighter and grunted as he sped by the slow moving vehicles.

"No man you must have past her," Brian reassured when the feeling returned to his face. It didn't hurt to talk anymore, and he was surprised Jess didn't actually break his jaw. The girl was strong he could give her that. Bold and strong… what was next? The car turned off the freeway onto an exit. The scenery turned to large expensive houses. One house stood out from the rest. It was all fenced off in a space bigger than two foot ball fields. Rome pulled up to the gates of the house and the gates swung open automatically.

"I knew she was all talk!" Rome huffed when they pulled into the private driveway of the huge house they were staying at. The house had a sleek design that resembled a classy business building in New York. The exterior was lined with dark, tinted windows and the whole shape of the building was cut into different blocks that gave it a very modern look.

"Talk about living," Brian said leaning out the window to see the top of the house. It was the type of house only a person with a lot of money could afford. Nothing about the house seemed cheap or not exceeding over the top.

"She's not even here," Rome went on. Dom's car was parked in the driveway as they passed it on their way into the house. Everything inside was clean and crisp, and it was all modern. Walking through the white and chrome kitchen, they made it to the living room, which had, white walls with dark colored accents on everything. Dom sat in an over sized armchair with his arms crossed over his chest. He looked half asleep, but the second they were totally in the room he opened his eyes studying them with a careful eye.

"Hey man," Rome greeted Dom casually. "That girl," he made a wave off motion with his hands, "she's all talk. We passed her up the second we got on the road." Roman's smile was the most amusing thing Dom had ever seen. It was nothing but shinning white teeth contrasting with his dark skin. His smile almost made it all the way to his ears it was so large.

"I hate to burst your bubble, but she was here before me," Dom threw in his face with a calm voice "you never passed her. She left a couple minutes ago." Roman's smile slid off his face. Dom finally looked over at Brian with a look of utmost disgust. Brian was still the same, maybe a little cleaner. He still looked like such a punk kid. Dom had to fight the urge to get up and kill him. But the guy wasn't all bad, he let him get away, but that couldn't excuse everything else he did.

"Why are you giving my bud the evil eye?" Rome questioned, looking back at Brian and saw the look of fear all over his face. "Wait, this is that guy? You just screwed your whole life with that cop crap," Rome chuckled despite himself.

"Yeah Brian, what brings a cop like you to a place like this?" Dom asked with a half smile that was more warning than friendly. Brian shifted the wait off his feet nervously.

"I'm not a cop anymore," he stated plainly with a shrug. He played it cool to the best of his abilities. Now all he had to worry about was whether or not Dom was going to kick the shit out of him right there. But he still wanted to know something and he was just gathering his courage. He needed it bad.

"We got a crooked cop in the gang man." Roman padded Brian hard on the back. "Now I'll go show you your room," he turned to leave but Brian didn't follow. Dom and Brian both stared at each other trying to break the other.

"If you don't mind me asking, why are you here Dom?" Brian asked daring to take a step closer. Dom raised a little in his chair to look Brian straight in the eye.

"You wanna know what I've been doing with my life?"

"Yeah, I mean hell we ain't got nothing else to do," he sat on the couch farthest away from Dom. Roman came to sit next to him.

"I had to run from the cops and change my last name," his voice was cold and monotone. Brian sighed at how much he'd messed up Dom's life, but he was just doing his job. Right? What else was he supposed to do? He let him get away after all. His life wasn't all flowers and picnics after what happened in L.A.

"Hey man, I never meant for it to turn out like this. I had to do my job, it's not like I had a choice," Brian scratched the back of his head nervously.

"Look Brian, if it weren't for you I could be on an island somewhere without a care in the world, but I'm not. I'm here trying to make money. You, you're probably here to have fun. You disgust me Brian because here you are asking about how I've been doing, but don't even care to ask how Vince or Jesse managed!" Dom's rage was now bubbling to the surface. Not long now till I get sent to the hospital, Brian thought.

"I know what happened to Vince," Brian said putting his head down. Vince had died on the way to the hospital in the helicopter. There was nothing that could have been done for him. Brian found out about Vince the day after he gave Dom his car and never saw Dom again… till now. It was only right if he asked how Jesse managed.

"So how did Jesse weather?" he tried to look Dom in the eye, but he was too afraid he'd say Jesse didn't make it either.

"He made it," Brian gave out a mental sigh of relief.

"He's living with Leon somewhere in California," Dom went back to having his arms folded across his chest and leaning against the soft back of the chair.

"And what about… Letty and Mia?" Brian asked swallowing the lump in his throat. They were still on rocky waters and asking about Mia was a big step. He had just started dating Dom's sister and then his true identity was blown and his trust blown out the window.

"They're living in Orlando," Dom said reluctantly. Brian nodded not realizing how close they were. Just then Eben and the rest of the guys walked in. Eben noticed the serious atmosphere of the room. He clapped his hands together and put on a smile.

"Here I leave you gentlemen," he noticed Jess wasn't there. "You are free to do as you please. I have left you with cell phones, and I'll call you when I need you. As for now, have fun and enjoy my hospitality," he took his leave and all the guys scattered into the house. Dom, Brian, and Rome stayed sitting in the living room.

"This house is kick ass!" Brian turned to see one of the boys, Tyler admiring the house with his mouth wide open. He had shaggy brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin, and looked to be about 22. When Brian turned back to Dom, he had left.

"Lets go check out your room now," Roman said standing up from the couch and giving Brian a manly pat on the back. Brian ran his hands over his face and got to his feet after a good sigh. This day was defiantly taking a toll on him.

"Sure thing Rome," Brian followed Rome.

They made their way to a spiral staircase that led to the second floor. At the top of the stairs, there were two hallways, one going to their left and one to their right. Roman headed left and went to the door at the end of the hall. Brian noticed his name was on a sticky note on the door. Rome pealed it off and opened the door. The far wall of the room was nothing but a large window with a sliding glass door that led out to a balcony. He had the view of the large practice racecourse out back. On the other walls hung various pictures of cars and such. There was a large king sized bed with plain, dark, blue bedding with a black headboard against the right wall. Brian noticed his bag on the bed and knew Rome must have brought it up. That's when he found the large walk-in closet already filled with bran new clothes. As he flipped through the garments, he realized everything was in his style.

"I got all knew clothes too," Roman pointed out as Brian looked back at him in shock. He made it back to the bathroom when he was done admiring the clothes.

"I have to share my bathroom with that Nate kid." Roman pointed out from behind Brian as they looked around the bathroom. It was plain and narrow. Twin sinks and medicine cabinets with a large lighted mirror in the middle on one side and a shower and tub on the other. There was a little more space on one side of the sinks that had a toilet.

"I wonder who I have to share mine with?" Brian wondered out loud. Roman walked out in the hall and came back a second later. He shook his head with a laugh before he talked.

"Looks like you're sharing with that Jess girl. Have fun in the morning. Don't take too long, or she just might beat you up." Roman was finding it hard to contain his laughter. Brian rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Oh yeah it's real funny. If I were her I would have punched me too." Brian defended. He wasn't exactly sure way he was defending the girl, but it felt right.

"Whatever bud. I'm going to take a shower."

He walked out of the room with tears of laughter. Brian went back to his room over to his bags and started sorting his stuff. As he pulled out one of his car manuals, two pictures fell out. The first was of Dom, Mia, Jesse, Letty, Leon, and himself; Vince had taken the picture. He remembered that day when they had the barbecue. The other one was Tej, Suki, Jimmy and Roman, his new life and friends.

"Family?" a voice asked from the doorway. He looked up to see Jess. She had changed and looked totally different, but nice. She wore a black RacerX tee shirt, baggy, kaki cargo pants and a pair of black and green vans skater shoes. Her hair was pulled back in loose ponytail and he noticed she didn't wear make up. She looked cute all dressed like one of the guys. It was refreshing to see a girl like that.

"No," Brian said vaguely after looking her over and lingering on parts that made her not look like a guy. She smiled slightly and came to sit next to him.

"Well who are they?" she asked curiously tucking a stray strand of blonde hair behind her ear. She leaned towards him on the bed and looked down at the pictures in his hand. He gulped nervously at her closeness. She didn't smell like a guy either…

"That's Tej, Suki, Jimmy and you know Rome." She nodded her head as he pointed everyone out.

"I know who Tej is too. And I'm sure I've seen Jimmy around and I mighta even racer Suki," she went off. She looked over at the other picture. "That looks like that one guy… Dom is his name?" she asked quickly.

"Yeah, and that's Leon, Letty, Jesse, and Mia," Brian seemed to linger on Mia's name a little longer.

"She's pretty," Jess pointed to Mia. Brian smiled and nodded in a daze as he thought of his old life. When he came back, he looked down to see Jess was looking up at him with a knowing look that made her appear older than how young she already looked.

"Uh, so where are all these people now?" she asked, breaking the light silence.

"I still see these people everyday," held up the picture with Tej and everyone in it. "But the others, well it's been some time…" he lost himself again as he said it.

Brian looked up at Jess who was still studying the pictures. God she looked young, but how could she be in racing longer than he has?

"Jess? How old are you?" he asked seriously. She kept her head down as she shifted her eyes away from the pictures. She finally looked up at him with the eyes of a child unable to tell the truth.

"Whatever my driver's license says," it sounded like she had said this a lot. Her smile was cheesy and her head tilted in a childish way.

"What about your birth certificate?" Brian threw her off guard. Her eyebrows narrowed, no one had ever asked her that before.

"Why are you so concerned with my age?" she inquired going into a defensive mode.

"You just look super young, like 18," he shrugged. Her eyes shifted slightly under his gaze.

"Here Mr. Ex-cop," she pulled her wallet from one of her pockets and took out two of her licenses. "There's my driver's license and my racing license," she handed them to him. He looked at her driver's license. It said she was 21, but he still had his doubts.

"Now you wanna see my family?" she changed the subject fast and pulled out a folded picture from her pocket and put her licenses' back in her wallet. He looked at the picture closely. He saw Brandon, Jess and 7 other people.

"Ok, That's Brandon or B. I'm holding my littlest brother Jack. There's Jeff on the right and then Jake. That's Jim and Jessica. As you can tell, my mom had a thing for names that begin with J, but Brandon was named after my dad. Those are my half sisters Melanie and Ellie; they have a different mom, but she's a crack addict."

"All these people are your siblings?" Brian asked amazed.

"Uh-huh, My mom died giving birth to Jack. The doctor told her she shouldn't have anymore kids after Jeff, but Jack was actually a miracle baby. He was born one month prematurely. My father had left us after leaving Melanie and Ellie with us, but he came back and my mom let him," Jess scowled slightly. "Then the boys came and after my mom died he committed suicide."

Brian stared at her in awe as she told him her story in about 3 minutes. He looked back at the picture and saw they were all standing in front of a small house that looked like it was in need of repairs.

"That's all so sad," Brian sympathized looking deep in her eyes. She looked back at him and seemed happy.

"I love my brothers and sisters, so it's not that bad. Even though we have our moments when we piss each other off," she ended her story there and stood up.

"What happened after all that?" Brian asked.

"I'll save that for a rainy day," she put the picture back in her pocket and stood up. She left and Brian missed her heat and presence next to him on the bed.

A/N: Ok, I hope it answered some questions or started some new ones. I know I'm an awful person for killing Vince from the 1st Fast and the Furious, so please no flames!

::New AN:: I finished the revisions for this chapter! I'm so proud of myself!