An: Big Hugs to those who took the time to review me, I really appreciate it! Hope I can pull off this chapter in description, lol. It's one of the more vivid things I want you all to be able to picture. LOL. Anyways, thanks for even reading! Catch you all later. Welcome back Ringles! And Penny, girl, thanks a trillion!
"Ok, so you doin ok?" Brian asked his sister as the dawn of the sunset popped up on the blue California sky, sending shimmering rays of gold through the white clouds as it began to set. There was something to be said about California sunsets.
"Yeah, I am." Jordan smiled, loving her brother and giving him a hug. He had let her grow up in some sorts of ways and had quit babying her, thanks in large part to Tiffany. Just then, three semi's rolled up and out jumped Tempest out of one and Leon and Vince out of another. They were all dressed in dark clothes.
"Ok, so we got about thirty minute s before the sun goes down. Is everyone clear on what they need to be doin?" Dominic asked, his face a frown.
"We're good. J and I are heading out if you guys are all set." Tiffany said, grabbing her keys.
"You got the two way?" Brian asked, studying his wife's eyes. She smiled and kissed him.
"Yes, I do and it'll go down in history as better than anything anyone has tired so stop the worrying." She held his face, looking into his intense blue eyes.
"Yeah, I will once we see it through." Brian kissed her, putting his arms around her and making the group moan simultaneously.
"None of the lovey stuff, now, come on." Leon joked, pushing Jordan to her car and tapping his foot impatiently as he waited for Tiffany.
"When did you become a valet?" Jordan joked, making Leon roll his eyes.
"Funny, smart girl. When did you become so evil?" He winked at her, making her laugh.
"I'll be trailing them, Bri. Relax." Diego said, patting Brian on the shoulder and heading off towards her own car.
"I feel so much better." Brian called, grinning boyishly.
"You should, they don't call me the scorpion for anything." She yelled back, smirking.
"That's your name in the…" Roman trailed off, leaving it unspoken and hiding behind the building he was close to as to not get a daggering look from Diego.
"Man, just be in the air that you guys keep getting on our bad sides." Tempest remarked, as she put on some black gloves to get ready to take off in the semi.
"Ha. Ha. Not funny." Roman shook his head.
"Wasn't tryin to be. You would know if I was goin for humor." Tempest laughed, shaking her hair out and then grouping it to hide it in the helmet she had beside her.
"Ok, so once Tiff and J distract a few of the owners of the cars of the import club, you three are gonna surround the ones we find the loners. Or the ones who can't keep up. There are eighteen cars in total so each one of your semi's can hold six." Dominic said, looking at his makeshift amp he had made. Vince peeked over his shoulder.
"So, me, you and Brian are the ones overtaking the drivers, right? After Tej and Ice shoots them with the tranqs?" Roman asked, rubbing his hands together, making Dominic nod.
"Tej and me, thank you. Seems like you guys forgot all about me:" Letty walked up, making them all almost jump as though they had been caught.
"No, we didn't." Vince grinned, giving her a hug and checking out her frame in the black jeans. "So all the semi's are gonna be split up, right?" Vince asked, making sure he was onto Ice and Dominic's plan.
"Yeah, teams of three. Jordan and Tiff will hopefully be able to get them to split up and Di will keep us radioed on the scanners, traffic and stuff after she passes them at the rest stop." Ice replied, his tone still menacing. They were high in the desert hills in the caves and in between the long stretch of sandy desert was only one convenience store and more than likely the traveling car club was going to have to stop, making it better for the group, especially if Tiffany and Jordan could deter some and let some go, making the car club weaker.
"Yeah." Dominic answered his cell, hearing Tiffany talk.
"Don't split up Ice and Tempest." She said, then waited for his reaction.
"You gotta be outta your mind, Tiff." Dominic said, obviously disagreeing.
"They work better together when pissed at each other. Send their truck this way first we're almost to the stop and I got one,two, three, .." She kept on counting the cars that were obviously with the car club. "I got ten cars here so that means that eight are ahead since we didn't pass not one. So get the first group going and get it over with." She said, putting her radio down as one of the guys standing by his car looked towards their way.
"Okay. Leon, V, and Letty, you are up. You guys sure you can do this?" Dominic asked, looking at each of them.
"Yeah, we got it okay. You know, if it weren't for the adrenaline.." Letty tried to stay serious faced to her ex-boyfriend ad couldn't, breaking into a grin.
"Shut up. You know you love this just as much as the rest of us." Dominic playfully smiled at her. Then his thoughts reverted back to Jesse and he was again quiet.
"All right, brotha, we out." Vince said, his equipment in hand and shook Dominic's hand.
"I know he is not making me go with Blondie and Ice." Tempest muttered, more to herself than anyone. She looked at Dominic, Roman, Ice, Brian and Tej, wondering who was going to be the easiest to work with. The six left were waiting on another call, be it from Diego or Tiffany and Jordan.
"How am I gonna get their attention?" Jordan asked, putting on more lip gloss. Tiffany took the lip gloss form her, as it was the fourteenth time she had applied it.
"J, you got the looks, come on." Tiffany laughed at her indignant look of the kidnapping of the lip gloss, Jordan acting as if it contained her confidence
"What am I supposed to say? Hi, I'm here and you're hot and I'm helping jack yo car?" Jordan asked in a deep voice with a guyish sounding voice.
"Something like hat minus the jacking the car part." Tiffany laughed, annoying Jordan and making her give a growl.
"You are impossible." She responded, as she went to get out at the gesture Tiffany had made towards the small store.
"You think? I think it might be the other way around." Tiffany laughed, making Jordan turn and walk backwards and sticking out her tongue.
"Hey, there, hot stuff. Where you headed?" The guy that had been eyeing the girls asked after she bumped into him on true accident. Her cheeks turned red and she looked down shyly.
"Sorry, I …my friend was being impossible." Jordan shook her head, then put a strand of her golden blonde hair behind her ear as she smiled in embarrassment.
"Saw that friend of yours. You two out here and single?" He asked, following Jordan as she walked to the cold coolers that held the drinks.
"Maybe, why?" Jordan knelt down to get a drink on the bottom, her blue eyes flashing at him as she looked up.
"Just not so safe." The guy said, his friend yelling at him to come on.
"Yeah, but we have to go this way." Jordan said, dusting off her knees as she stood up. "Too bad you couldn't take a look at my car for me." Jordan said, now laying her charm on, knowing that his friends leaving him would be a good thing, a very good thing.
"I can do that. Just let me tell the group. Mind if I have a friend stayed and helped me? I'm not all that great at cars so two opinions are better than one." He said, smiling slyly.
"Sure, why not." Jordan smiled, twirling her hair. She was all bubbly and smiling, making his friend check her out as she walked by. She flashed him her 'million dollar' smile and was loving the response.
"Hey babe. You still trying to decide?" Tiffany walked in, her clothes changed into a very short skirt that Jordan had no clue she even so much as owned.
"Hey Tiff." Jordan looked a little confused then went back to her mission. Tiffany put an arm around her shoulder and smiled.
"Who's this?" She asked, nodding at the guy, whose face was a look of awe or something. Jordan wasn't sure what it was.
:"The guy that is gonna help us fix the car." Jordan batted her eyes and looked at Tiffany.
"Yeah, really sad that car of mine can't figure out how to run. I might need to sell it. Get me bout a thou out of it." Tiffany said, looking at the two guys.
"A thousand? You would sell that car for a thousand?" The guy asked, his mouth dropping and his friend kicking him.
"Oh, you're right. Probably not worth that much." Tiffany said, dropping her credit card and bending down to pick it up.
"Let's go have a look at this car." The second guys said, his other friend, making a third friend walked over.
"Are you sure? I don't want to trouble you." Tiffany said, throwing the cashier some money to pay for their drinks.
"Not a problem. So, Blondie, what is your name?" The guys he had been talking to asked.
"J. Yours? Ohh, nice
car." Jordan said as he held open the door for her and she looked
at his car. He smiled proudly at this. Then her phone went off,
shooting Tiffany a look. Jordan walked to the car they were all
hunched over and looking in that Tiffany had lied about and grabbed
her phone.
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"Dom, are you kidding me? You want me to ride with those two and you are putting those two together? You want us all to go to jail?" Brian whispered furiously as he looked at the second semi warming up to get going.
"Hey, it was your wife' brilliant idea." Dominic shot back, sounding exasperated and yet found himself glad he wasn't stuck whit them.
"Are you two lovebirds done over there?" Roman asked, making a gesture to get moving.
"I got money on Temp, what you thinking?" Tej asked, looking at Ice and Tempest storm around in silence, getting last minute things in check. No words had been exchanged and it was almost like a storm was brewing.
"I don't know… I say fifty fifty, can I go that route?" Roman asked, watching Ice getting in the driver's seat of the semi Tempest was supposed to be driving.
"I'm driving, push over." Tempest said, standing and looking up at Ice.
"Were. You are the one taking over the car." Ice said, not looking at her, his words tightly controlled.
"We gotta go." Brian said, getting in and sitting in the middle off the front seat, though he hated to. He had tried calling Tiffany to no avail but she didn't pick up and he knew it was more than likely on purpose.
"Can I talk to Leon?" Tempest asked, as the three drove down the barren highway. Ice tried to fight his urge to look at her.
"Hey, boy. You got some tools I can check out later? MY tools are old, gray, and well, they just don't work anymore." Tempest said, making Brian spit out his drink he had been carrying around and had finally gotten to take a drink. Ice swerved he tired to swipe at the phone, making them all fall to one side.
"That was low, even for you." Ice growled, making Tempest just smile proudly.
"And your point? You are always telling me you are older and more experience, no?" Tempest shot back. Brian knew he was going to get slapped at some point or another and he made a mental note to remind himself that he was going to have to have a talk with Tiffany about the hell she had subjected him to.
"Guys! Enough!" Brian yelled after tem more minutes of it. They both stopped at the same time and gave him a death glare. "Look, we are about to try to pull off some serious shit here, so can we please forget this until it's over and we are all safe at home?" He asked, his voice a little more than raised, now his nerves were on edge.
"Ain't no trying to it." They both spat then hated the fact they both had replied the same, given the looks on their faces.
"Well, good then. Look, I see cars." Brian said rather sarcastically, his temper beginning to get even the best of him.
"Good, let's get this over wit so we can get to the main event." Tempest sat up, getting her tranquilizer gun ready to aim.
"I gotta get in touch with the other trucks, hold yo horses." Brian muttered, dialing as he spoke. "Hey Letty, how's it goin?" He asked, looking at the mile markers they had just passed.
"We got our six and we're heading to the spot." She replied, a smile detected in her voice.
"Good, any sign of Dom or the other truck? Or you too far ahead?" he asked, looking at the map.
"Nope. I'm thinking we're too far head." She said, then ended their conversation. She looked at Leon, who was covered in sweat from jumping car to truck and so fourth.
"What?" He asked, as though she was accusing him of something.
"You know you are trying to not be all smiley and shit." Letty teased.
"And why would I be like that?" Leon asked, trying to keep his eyes on the road and suppress a grin.
"You like the drama is a good guess." Vince piped up.
"Hush, boy, hush." Leon warned, putting up a playful fist.
"Don't make me get my gun and put yo ass out. Then Temp can take advantage of you." Vince joked and the three broke up into laughter. It almost felt like old times again, mused Vince.
"It wouldn't be called taking advantage, V." Letty shook her head, pulling off to the left and entering the dark cave they had used to pull off their first heists, the heists that had gotten them in the world of criminal activity.
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Inside of team number two's truck….
"I can't get aim on him for shit, homie!" Roman yelled to Dominic as Tej steered the big rig and the car in front of them, an average looking Honda Civic was swerving back and fourth.
"He's onto us." Tej shook his head, a frown on his face as he tried to knock the car on the side of the road.
"You see him reach for a cell, then it's over. We gotta get him before he calls for help." Dominic instructed, his control in his voice not wavering.
"Yeah, that would be all great if I could get my ass close enough." Roman muttered, starting to get frustrated. This was the first car attempt and it was not going well, despite the careful plans they had made.
"I'm trying, man." Tej said to his defense and Roman nodded.
"I know, Brah. I know. I don't know why he's acting a fool." Roman said, then had to laugh at his confusion. He knew if someone was doing that to his car, he would be putting up a fight, too.
"No comment." Dominic said, reloading his tranquilizer gun as he kept his eye on the guy with the gun in hand. The guy threw out some sandy, grain type of stuff, making Tej have to swerve. In the midst of being caught off guard, Dominic accidentally pulled the trigger, shooting Tej in the knee.
"Son of a bitch." Tej yelped, then his head dropped and the semi started to swagger off the road.
"Oh shit." Dominic said, grabbing the wheel and looking at Roman. Roman grabbed Tej and trued to move him over for Dominic to slide into his place.
"Just our luck." Roman growled as Tej lay on the seat, in the middle, now knocked completely unconscious.
"We can still do this." Dominic said, the semi's speed pushing the limit now as they topped a hill.
"Yeah? You sure?" Roman asked, taking over the gun that was new to him and looking at it.
"Yeah. You know how to use a real gun, right?" Dominic asked, almost shouting over the semi's hum of the engine. Roman nodded and Dominic edged closer on the unwilling car. Roman sat perched, ready to shoot when the guy in the car flashed a badge.
"SHIT, Dom." He yelled, as though the badge had hit him or something. It was more the realization that the whole operation and the crew's fate was on the line.
"Shoot his ass." Dominic growled, tired of the cat and mouse game it was becoming now.
"He's a cop." Roman said, trying to get his sureness he could do this back.
"What? Now you a psychic?" Dominic asked so sarcastically that he angered an irritated look from Roman.
"No, Cuz, he just held up his badge." Roman rolled his eyes. "Psycho? That is some funny ass shit and here I didn't think you had a funny bone in yo body." Roman admitted, now being the sarcastic one. Dominic frowned, gunned the engine and pulled around in front of the cop.
"Radio Diego and see if she heard anything on the scanners. We're takin him down." Dominic said, pulling the truck to a halt in front of the massively smaller car in comparison to the semi itself. He grabbed the gun, jumped out and headed for the car.
"Hey man, what's goin on?" The guy asked, seeing a pissed off Dominic Toretto.
"You call the cops?" Dominic asked, pulling the guy out of the car, then pushing him on the ground with his foot resting on the back of his neck.
"No, I swear, I didn't." The guy said, trying to look up at the gun toter.
"Right. My ass." Roman jumped out, having hung up with Diego. He nodded at Dominic and then went to pull the car up into the trailer, leaving Dominic to take car of the guy that had given them the trouble.
An: Again, sorry to have to cut it shorter than I had wanted to, lol. I have so much to put into this whole scene that it might take a few chaps. I have lots in store! Love ya all, cheer
