Hi! It's me, again, and now I have chapter seven. So to all of my reviewers:

leslienicolespeaks: Sorry bout the cliffhanger! I need to keep my readers coming back somehow don't I?

VincesAngelGirl: Well here's the next chapter with what Carman tells Leon. Glad you like it!

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ENJOY!

Chapter 7 Surprise

Wednesday September 4, 2002

It had been a week since Leon had woken up from his coma, and he was making a speedy recovery. The doctor even decided that he was healthy enough to go home. But even there he would have to continue resting. And especially no work, so that meant staying out of the garage.

"Leon? You ready?" asked Carman as her and Jesse walked into his hospital room.

"Am I ready?" asked Leon, "hell yeah, I've been ready since I woke up two hours ago."

"Told you we shouldn't have stopped for breakfast." Said Jesse looking toward his sister.

"Hey," she started defensively. "I was hungry, and you never mess with a hungry woman."

Leon chuckled, "ain't that the truth."

"If you weren't getting out of the hospital right now then I'd hurt you myself." Said Carman.

"Can we get out of here then?" asked Leon, "all my papers are signed and everything."

Carman nodded while Jesse grabbed Leon's duffel bag.

"Oh, no." said Leon when a nurse came in with a wheel chair.

"Want to go home?" asked Carman.

Leon let out a huff as he plopped down in the wheelchair looking like a little kid who'd lost his lollypop.

The walked out of the hospital wasn't that bad, it was quick and Jesse's Jetta was parked right at the entrance. Jesse threw Leon's bag in the trunk while Carman climbed in the back seat and Leon, and Jesse in the front.

"Ah, I can't wait to get home."

"Yeah, it's been really weird without you." Said Jesse. "And the fact that all of Carman's clothes are in your room is slightly weird."

Leon just nodded listening to the radio.

Pulling up in front of the house the group got out, grabbed Leon's bag and headed inside.

"SURPRISE!" was shouted as soon as Leon walked in the front door. All the lights flicked on and a banner was revealed. "Welcome Home."

"Ah, guys," said Leon.

"Welcome home," said Mia hugging Leon tightly.

Each teammate said welcome home to Leon.

"So we know that it's a Wednesday but we decided to have a BBQ to celebrate you getting home." Said Dom.

"What about work?" asked Leon.

"There's always tomorrow." Said Dom.

"Alright then, let me take my bag downstairs and we'll heat up the grill."

The team minus Leon headed outside. Not even five seconds later Leon came running from the house. "My room! It looks like a girls room, and there's bags and shit, and OMG!" he screamed. The team started laughing. It was great having Leon home.

"Leon hunny, you said that I could put make myself at home in your room."

"But I didn't think that you would do that." He shouted.

Carman grinned, "I'll clean it up Le."

"Thank-you." Said Leon dropping into a chair next to Carman.

"Wow, you took that worse than I thought you would," said Jesse.

Leon just let out a growl.

Carman hadn't really thought it was all that bad, she'd just went out and bought a lot of pink and purple things. Some throw rugs included.

"Alright who's ready for some grub?" asked Letty as she and Dom carried the chicken over.

The team sat there for about five minutes before Carman growled and grabbed a piece of chicken. Before Dom could say that she had to say grace she said, "I'm hungry."

Dom grinned.

"Alright so, heavenly spirit, thank-you for keeping me alive, and Leon can't forget him. Help me clean his room," Carman paused and looked at Leon who grinned, "and thank-you for the baby, amen."

Both her quickly grabbed the food while the team let it sink in.

"Holy crap!" shouted Mia throwing her arms around Carman.

"When did you find out?" asked Letty.

"A couple weeks ago." Carman replied with a shrug.

"And you didn't say anything sooner because?" asked Mia.

"I wanted to tell Leon first, and we wanted to wait until he was out of the hospital to tell you."

Mia nodded, "how far along are you?"

"Almost eight weeks."

"Eight weeks?" asked Dom.

Carman nodded, "I know how to keep a secret."

Everybody was still trying to process the information.

"Anybody else going to eat?" asked Leon.

That did it, everyone seemed to remember that they had food in front of them.

The team made small talk over dinner about the baby and wondered if Leon and Carman were going to get married or not, and if they were going to buy a house of their own.

Truthfully Carman and Leon had never thought of any of that.

Saturday September 7, 2005

It had been three days since Leon had come home from the hospital and it seemed like Leon had never been gone.

"I can't wait." Said Leon as he got dressed. He and Carman were prepping for the races. Leon hadn't been there since the night of the accident. Carman had been there once.

Carman grinned, "glad your excited."

"Yup. Still wish that I could drive my skyline."

"In a couple of weeks you'll be able to." Said Carman.

Dom had decided that they should wait until Leon came back to work to start fixing the skyline since it was his car.

"Ready?" he asked and Carman nodded. The two headed upstairs and after waiting 20 minutes for Letty and Mia they were headed outside.

Mia was riding with Letty, as always. Carman was driving while Leon was with Carman.

Since the accident Jesse had been running the scanners but tonight Leon would be.

Pulling up in their v formation Leon couldn't help but grin at the feeling in the air when most of the racers clapped upon seeing him.

He quickly walked over the Carman's side and they headed to where Dom and Hector were.

"So how we doin' this man?" asked Hector.

"2 races, 2 g buy in." explained Dom and Hector nodded.

"I'm in," said Edwin.

"Me to," said a rookie.

"Anybody else?" asked Hector looking around.

"I'll race him." Said a voice that sent chills up Carman's spin.

"I thought we agreed to stay out of each others way," said Dom not liking the fact that his enemy was in his territory.

"Yeah well I'm hear on business…so I figured I'd race you." Explained Tran.

"Business?" asked Vince.

"Yeah and it has to do with your lovely little Carman here." Said Tran.

Carman gulped, she did not like where this was going.

And that's a rap for Chapter 7. Hope ya liked it. I'll update again soon. Review please! And I don't own anybody except for Carman.

Aimee