Chapter 29 - Anthony and Brendon

With everyone safe for the moment, the team was feeling OK, but still a little cautious about everything. It was Friday, once again, and it was time for street racing. Dom, and the others went to the garage and started to work on the cars. They wanted to make sure that the cars were ready for the night. They all were going to race, and they wanted to make sure that they would win. They knew they would, if their cars had NOS and were ready to go. This was the last race before race wars. Sabrina and Liz's last day of school was today, so they went to school in a very good mood. The team went to the garage and by about 4 PM when Sabrina and Liz arrived home, they were done with the cars.
The night was about to begin, and so was the drama. They all got ready at their house, and by about 9 PM they were ready to go race. Dom, and the rest of the team arrived in their regular "V" formation. Sabrina rode with Jesse, and Liz with Leon. Dom got out of his car, and scanned the crowd. He heard a voice that sounded familiar. He looked over to the people standing around, and saw him. Tran. He walked over to Dom.
"Thought I would come and race you.. thirty grand right here, if you win, that is." Tran told Dom.
Dom immediately had a plan. "Aiight." He said, as he slapped down thirty grand on the hood of his car. Tran slapped down thirty grand, too.
Hector walked in the middle of the two guys and picked the money up. He counted it, made sure that it was all right, then stuffed it in his pocket. "Alright, let's get it started." Hector said.
Tran and Dom pulled up to the line five minutes later. Letty decided she would tell the drivers when to go. She stood at the front of their cars, and put her arms up.
"Ready?" She pointed to Tran's car, and Tran revved up the engine.
"Ready?" She pointed to Dom's car, and he revved up the engine.
"GO!" Letty shouted, as she put her arms down and the Honda S2000 and the Mazda RX-7 zoomed past her. She turned around, as Leon, Vince, and Mia came up to her.
"Dom's gotta win. He's gonna win. I know it." Leon told the other two.
"Yeah, he'll win." Letty said, grinning. She had faith in her man, she knew he could win if he wanted to, and he did.
A couple minutes later the two cars came back around, and Dom's car was an inch ahead of Tran's car. Hector walked up to Dom getting out of his car, and slapped the sixty grand in his hand. "Alright, bro, that's what ya get." Hector told Dom, grinning widely.
Tran looked over at Dom and pointed. "Don't you think I'm finish with you, Toretto. I'm not." Tran said, as he got into his car, and started It up. He rolled his tinted black windows up, and drove off, as two motorcycles followed him.
"Ha. I'll be he's finished." Dom said rolling his eyes. "He'll never learn"
Right after Dom said this, cops rolled up, as everyone was scrambling to get to their cars, Dom yelled out, "Party at my house"
He got into his car, and started to speed off, and he noticed two cops behind him. He radioed Leon.
"Leon! How we gonna get these cops off our tail?" Dom asked him, seriously. He had three cops on his tail.
"I don't know, I got five cops. Wait, you got NOS?" Leon asked him.
"Yeah, I got a little bit left ova. I know what you're thinking. See ya at home." Dom said, as he put his radio down.
"See ya." Leon said.
Dom pushed his NOS button, and got at least 20 feet ahead of the cops. He pulled into a side street, sat there for a minute, and turned his lights off and waited for the cops to go. They kept looking for him, but eventually they backed off his tail.
Leon pressed his NOS button as well, and went into a parking garage on the side street. He sat in his car in the garage for about fifteen minutes, until he thought everything was safe.
When Dom got home, Leon wasn't there. He walked inside of the house, and checked out everything. Finally, he walked up to Jesse. "Where's Leon?" "I don't know. I haven't seen him since the races, he said he was on his way home last time I talked to him. So, either the cops got him or…" Jesse was cut off.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Dom told him. The beer he had grabbed that was unopened, he handed it to Jesse. "Here." He told Jesse. "I'm going to look for him"
Dom found Letty and Mia, plus Leon, who all three weren't drinking yet. He got them and they all went out looking for Leon. Dom knew where Leon was when he had last talked to him, so he decided to check out the parking garage. He parked his car by the garage, and walked inside. There were lights in the garage, so you could see inside of it.
He was shocked to see what was in there. He couldn't believe that. There was blood in one corner, and tire marks in the other. He quickly ran back to his car, got in, and searched the side streets. Finally, he had found Leon's car, sitting on a side street. He got out of his car, and ran over to Leon's car.
"LEON!" Dom yelled. He opened the door, and he found Leon, with an injury to the head, and he had a bullet wound. He quickly pulled out his cell phone and dialed 911.
"Operator," The woman on the other line said.
"Yeah, I'm downtown by the parking garage, my friend is hurt badly, I need an ambulance." Dom told her.
"Alright, stay calm, an ambulance will be there shortly." The woman said to him.
"Ok, thanks." Dom said as he hung up the phone and slid it back into his pocket. He got Leon out of the car and on the ground. He made sure that Leon was still alive. In a couple of minutes an ambulance arrived, and took Leon to the hospital, Dom following the ambulance every step of the way. He radioed Leon, Letty, and Mia and told them what happened. They quickly were at the hospital when Dom was. All four of them sat in the waiting room, impatiently, asking questions to the nurse at the front desk every five minutes. They wanted to know what was happening with your friend.
Finally, a brown haired doctor walked out of trauma room and up to the four people. He sat down across from them all.
"Your friend has serious injuries. He has a head wound and a bullet wound to the chest, almost in his lung. We lost him once, but we got him back. He'll need some serious recovering, and physical therapy, but after time, he should be back to normal again. He's on IV medication right now, and he's sleeping, but you can come back tomorrow and I'm pretty sure he'll be awake." The doctor told them.
"Ok, thank you." Mia told the doctor with tears in her eyes as she got up. She walked out of the hospital with the other three. Mia was crying the whole way home, and once she got there, she went into her room and shut the door. She didn't come out for the whole night.
Jesse knocked on Dom's door about an hour after they had gotten home.
"Yeah?" Dom asked Jesse. He knew it was Jesse by the way he knocked.
"Where's Leon? What happened?" Jesse asked Dom.
"He's in the hospital. He's hurt, but he'll live. He's gotta go through physical therapy, too. I think Tran did this, but I'm not sure. There were one tire skid marks in the parking garage before I found Leon in his car. I don't know what happened, and I don't want to ask Leon too much." Dom told Jesse.
"Yeah, alright, so, it's good that he's gonna live then, right?" Jesse asked Dom.
"Yeah." Dom told Jesse. "Now I'm gonna get some sleep. Night." "Night." Jesse said as he closed Dom's door and went back to his own room. On his way there, he thought he heard crying from Sabrina's room. Sabrina was at Adam's for the night, Brian finally told her she could spend a night over there, only because Adam's parents were there.
Jesse looked quietly into Sabrina's room, and found Liz on the bed, balling in tears. He liked her a lot, and so he walked in.
"What's wrong?" Jesse said as he sat next to Liz on the bed and scooped her up in his arms.
"Nothing. I'm fine." Liz told Jesse.
"Yeah. I'm really going to believe that." Jesse sarcastically said. "Now, seriously, what's wrong?" "Everything, my life, my friends, my family, everything is so screwed up it's not even funny. And," Liz said, getting up and looking out of her window in the bedroom, "I can't put myself back together. I'm gonna loose it, I know I'm young, but I'm gonna loose it. Who knows? I'll probably end up killing myself"
"No, you can't." Jesse told Liz immediately.
"Why? What's the use of living if no one loves you?" Liz asked him seriously.
"Who doesn't love you? Shane does, I see it in the way he looks at you, his smile when he's with you, and the way he puts his arms around you. You two are a perfect couple. I love you, the team loves you, we all love you. Even Vince," Jesse said, grinning widely at the thought of Vince and love. "Seriously, Liz, we all care about you very much. I know that sometimes some people may not show it. Heck, I don't even show it very often to some people. But, we do. Deep down inside we do. We all love and care for one another. As for your family, you are with us. We are your family. You're part of our family. I know we aren't blood related, but we're better than Dean." Jesse told Liz, sincerely.
Liz walked over and sat down beside him. She quit crying now and was only sniffling. "Really?" She asked him.
"Yeah. I know that I may act all tough and stuff around the guys, but I'm a softie at heart. So, if you ever need anything, you can always come to me"
"Aw, thanks." Liz said, hugging Jesse.
Jesse hugged her back. "Welcome." He told her as he got up, and closed her door. He went back into his own room, and fell fast asleep.
The next morning the whole team was up bright and early. They went downstairs and Mia, being the first one up, was cooking breakfast. Letty started to walk down when she felt deep pains. "DOOOOOOOM!" Letty yelled. "GET YOUR BUTT OVA HERE! AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dom rushed over, grabbed Letty, and took her to the same hospital Leon was at. It was just a block down the road, and so it was the closest one by. Everyone followed, as they got into their cars and drove to the hospital. Four hours later, the team was allowed in the room.
"Awww a lil baby boy!" Sabrina announced happily.
"What'd you name 'em?" Vince asked Letty.
"Anthony. Anthony Toretto." Letty told everyone, as she was smiling widely.
Dom smiled, too. He was really happy. All of the sudden, Mia's eyes got wide, and she grabbed Brian's shoulder tightly. "BRIAN!" Mia screamed.
Brian picked up Mia and rushed her to the front desk. "Can I get a little help here?" Mia was rushed into the delivery room with Brian, and four hours later the team was in her room.
"What'd you name 'em?" Vince asked, again.
"Brendon. Brendon O'Connor." Mia said, smiling happily.
"Awwww Lil Brendon!" Sabrina said, happily.
Part of the team went into Letty's room, and part of the team went into Mia's room. Brian, Vince, and Jesse walked downstairs to go check on Leon. They walked in his room to find him barely awake.
"Hey." Vince said.
Leon looked at him and acknowledged him. "Hi." "How ya feelin?" Jesse asked.
"Good, thanks to morphine." Leon said smiling a little.
"Awesome." Brian said.
"Um, Mia.. And uh.. Letty.. " Jesse started.
"They..? What about them? Oh, wait, crap, they had the babies, didn't they?" Leon asked.
"Yup. Two boys." Vince replied.
Brian smiled widely. "So now I'm a daddy. Wow"
"What's the names?" Leon asked. "Letty and Dom's kid is Anthony Toretto, Mine is Brendon O'Connor." Brian told Leon, still smiling.
"Cool." Leon said.
"Yeah, well hey, I'mma get back to Mia. I'll be back down later." Brian told Leon.
For the next three days, the team practically lived in the hospital, until Mia and Letty were released. A week later, Leon was released and sent home.
"Ah... Feels good to be home." Leon said as he walked in the door. He was still on pain medication for now, so he was feelin' fine.
"Haha, I bet." Letty said, holding Anthony on the couch.
"Yeah." Leon replied. He walked over and sat down. "So, this is lil Anthony"
"Yeah. Anthony Toretto." Letty said, smiling happily.
"Awesome. Where's Mia and whoever her's is?" Leon asked, taking a bite out of a sub sandwich he had picked up on the way home.
Letty rolled her eyes. "The name is Brendon. Brendon O'Connor. Can I have a bite?" Letty asked him, opening her mouth and leaning her head towards his sandwich.
"Yeah, sure." Leon said as he stuffed the sandwich into her mouth.
"Thanks." She mumbled out of a full mouth.
"No problem." Leon said as he walked upstairs. He heard a baby crying and walked in to find Brian and Brendon.
"Awww Lil Brendon!" Leon said.
Brian looked up quickly. "Whoa.. For a minute there you scared me, hahaha, yeah, Brendon O'Connor. Good to have ya back at home." "Feels good to BE back." Leon told Brian, laughing.
"Yeah, I bet it does." Brian told him.
"Alright, I'mma go, catch ya latta." Leon told Brian as he walked out of his room and put everything of his into his room.
The phone rang, and Dom answered. "Hello? Yeah, this is he. No, you can take your products and shove 'em where the sun don't shine." He said as he hung up and started walking away. "Stupid telemarketers! I tell you! Next time they called, tell 'em I moved. Ha." Letty started laughing and rolled her eyes. Sometimes he acted more like a girl PMSing then she could ever imagine.
Dom made dinner, and it was actually pretty good, too. They all sat around and ate, and then watched a movie, while Leon, Jesse, Sabrina, and Liz were in Jesse's room in the basement, playing PS2.