Chapter 49 – The Mystic Mustang
Kat was lying in her room, thinking. She didn't want to go to races anymore. She wasn't in the mood at all. She knew she'd see Leon there. Since he was always around Dom, and the crowd was always around Dom too he'd be hard to miss. But she also felt that if she stayed home, if she let Leon drive her away from something she honestly loved then she'd have let him win. Not only would he have broken her heart, he'd have taken away the one thing she'd been striving for over the last many years of her life.
But she also felt like she'd been waiting all her life to know Leon. And if she was right and she had then she'd just lost something she'd been striving for just as hard as she had to be the best on the racing scene in LA. But she felt like Leon was the guy that she'd always been wondering if existed. Sure, for most of the last 4 years she hadn't thought about boys too much but before she'd left NYC she'd wanted a boyfriend.
And ok, her fantasy guy at the time had been 6'10", played ball for the Knicks, drove a Mercedes, and simply hadn't lived with her brothers. That alone had been enough to recommend most guys. The fact they weren't her brothers. Even before her mother had died her brothers had taken great pride in their ability to drive her nuts. But when her mom was gone her brothers had gotten even worse. Well, to be fair her oldest brother had gotten terrible. Her middle brother had just followed Josef with hero worship in his eyes. So if any guy had been tall, dark, handsome, and rich, and didn't live with or like her brothers he would have been 'the guy' for her. Reality brought home that such a guy didn't exist and even if he did he wasn't going for a 14 year old stick thin ballet dancer who looked 12 even then.
Ok, if Mr. Right was no where to be found, and she dumped Mr. Right Now at dinner then what was she going to do? What if Mr. Right Now had simply been Mr. Right on a bad day? She laughed at her convoluted logic to spite herself and stood up off her bed. She got in the shower and thought the whole time. When she was clean she had a plan.
She got dressed in a black leather skirt, knee high black boots with a platform sole, white thigh high stockings, and black top with front that looked like a halter top and the back was just to diamante straps across her back, crossing in the middle. The front was sparkly with red, blue, silver and purple sparkles. It had little silver tigers running along the bottom. It had been made for her by Nikki to match her car. Every time Kat looked at it since Nikki had given it to her it made her smile. Nikki was the best friend she ever could have asked for.
Dressed and hair done Kat took a second to look in the mirror. She had two plans and she didn't know which one to enact. She made her decision and picked up the phone.
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Leon stood up off his bed with a sigh. He was no closer to knowing what he wanted or what to do then he had been when he'd slunk off to his room. He was mad at himself all of a sudden. Why was he slinking off with his tail between his legs over some girl? She was just a girl. There were lots of them out there. Lots of them that would give anything to be with him for that matter. Never mind that most of them would be using him to get in close to Dom or just because they thought they'd be cool if they could say they'd been with him. Never mind that Kat had honestly wanted him. Never mind that she was everything he could ever want. Never mind he couldn't get her off his mind. Never mind he was already missing her.
Never mind that Kat had been the first girl in a long time he felt wasn't using him for some other reason. He'd felt that Kat really liked and respected him. She'd had a point when she said that he was still mad at her for what she'd done. He was. He'd found out the hard way that he held grudges. Hell, if Nyssa was his girl and she'd believed the stuff about him that she'd believed about Vince he didn't know if he'd have forgiven her yet either. But Vince was seemingly happy just to have Nyssa back; he didn't seem overly concerned about what she'd done. Why couldn't he just be like that? Just be happy that a great girl wanted to be with him. And he'd done some really mean things to Kat, but she'd honestly forgiven him already.
Well, the answer wasn't forthcoming so he was just wasting time standing in his room feeling sorry for himself. He wandered up the stairs and found the rest of the team standing in the foyer getting ready to head out.
"We were wondering if you were coming." Vince smirked. "You sure you feeling up to it pumpkin? You don't look so good."
"Vince!" Nyssa shot him a quelling look. "Seriously, are you ok Leon? You look tired."
"I'll be fine. Let's role." Leon said and started to try and get his team out of their house. Dom shot him a look. One of those 'Dom' looks that he didn't get the meaning behind and didn't want to.
He realized that he was parked at the end of the driveway so he got in his car and fired it up. He couldn't help the glance at Kat's house. The lights were all off and there were no cars in the drive. Since they only had a two car garage and three cars that meant at least one of their cars was gone. He backed carefully onto the street and then peeled off down the road. The team followed him and then right before the warehouse the got into formation.
*~*
Kat dialled the number that would connect her to the man she had to speak to.
"Yo." Her call was answered in the typical fashion.
"God Connor, when you gonna learn how to answer the god damn phone?" Kat asked with a sigh.
"Baby Girl! Haven't heard from you in so long I forgot how to do it." Kat could literally hear Connor's grin over the phone line by the tone of his voice. She put her sweetest, most desperate tone in her voice.
"Whatcha doin tonight baby?"
"I'm baby now am I?" Connor asked with a laugh. "Whatcha need?" Kat laughed. Connor knew her almost as well as Sean.
"I need a ride."
"What's wrong with that damn expensive car of yours now?" Connor asked with worry in his tone.
"Nothing. I just need to make a statement and around this crowd nothing's gonna make a statement like your car."
"It's pretty sweet huh?" Connor asked with almost paternal pride in his voice.
"Yeah, and I need an 'old flame' to be driving it if you catch me." Kat grinned with thoughts of what she was going to pull tonight at the warehouse.
"How could I turn you down when you put it like that Baby Girl. I'll pull by for you shortly."
"See ya then babe." Kat said and hung up. She walked downstairs to where her guys were sitting. "I'm getting a ride to races with Connor tonight. You guys can take the eclipse or the skyline. It's up to you."
"Why's Connor coming to races?" Sean asked.
"I need him for something." Kat answered enigmatically and sat down.
"Aiight." Sean answered with a frown. A plan evil enough to put a grin like the one he was seeing on Kat's face was evil indeed and he was scared. If Kat was now this happy after the terrible day she'd had then she had a whopper on the way. Plus the way she was dressed was slutty, even for Kat. They all knew she wasn't a slut. She'd learned not to be self conscious about how she looked in tight cloths at a young age because of her dance so she felt at home in cloths most girls would never be caught dead in. But the school girl outfit with the very naughty, leather flair was very over the top sexy.
Connor rolled up and honked out front. Kat climbed into his Mustang and fastened her harness. She saw Nikki in the back and said hello to her friend before turning back to Connor. Nikki was wearing almost as little as Kat was. They were going to make quite a splash.
"Thanks for coming. You didn't have other plans did you?" Kat asked with a smile as they waited for the guys to pile into the Eclipse so they could head out.
"Naw. Nothing more important then seeing my baby girl and helping her out with some evil scheme. Are you trying to ruin some guy with that outfit Kitten?"
"No. Who? Me?" Kat asked with a pseudo innocent smile.
"Yeah, you. You need me to pretend we was a couple and we got back together?"
"Yeah. Make it look good too. I want the guy to be pissed off." Kat's grin got bigger.
"Ok Kitten. But remember you asked for it."
"I wouldn't have called you if I didn't want it to be over the top C." Kat watched the road as Connor fired up the Mustang and took off with a squeal. The other guys followed in their car.
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They were just standing around waiting to see who was racing and what Dom was going to do when Kat's convertible with her three friends pulled up along with a car that no one had ever seen before. It wasn't Kat's skyline. It was one of about 1000 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra R's made and it was even more rare because it was the limited addition Mystichrome model and as such had the Mystichrome paint. It was a beautiful chameleon color paint, mostly blue but looking like someone spilled oil on it and the multicolour effect stayed. As the viewing angle changed, the car's color morphed from topaz green to cobalt blue to royal purple to deep onyx black. It rolled on 20 inch chrome rims that were an exact replica of the 18 inch chrome rims the car had come equipped with from the factory, and they were shod in g-force racing tires that were definitely not stock.
It was a beautiful car but it didn't really belong on the scene. Well, the 390 horsepower and 12.3 second quarter mile the Mustang had come with from the factory certainly put it up in a tuning category with the best import cars around. But the chrome mustang on the grill seemed to bespeak of a different era of cars. Of an age when Steve McQueen was playing Frank Bullit, hunting down the bad guys and racing through the streets of another California town. Not when people were tuning mom's Honda to run street races. If Frank had known who was driving his car he'd have had a fit.
All eyes were on the unique Cobra R, as was likely planned by the girl in the passenger seat for one of the few times in her life. A black man in his late 20's got out of the driver's seat and went around to the passenger and opened the door. Everyone wanted to know who was in the mystic car with the blacked out windows.
Leon thought he had a clue. If Kat's guys had rolled up behind the Mustang then he'd bet money Kat was in the Mustang. As his suspicions were confirmed and the girl inside took the man's offered hand and stood up out of the Mustang with her nothing less then her usual grace and wrapped her arms around the man's neck as she smiled up at him. The other man leaned down toward Kat and as he wrapped his arms around her waist kissed her where her neck met her bare shoulder. Then he stood up more and as he said something to Kat right in her ear Leon thought he might have to hit something hard. Kat laughed back at the black man and smiled up at him.
He watched as Kat turned and helped her friend Nikki out of the back seat. He watched as the driver of the Mustang wrapped his arm around Kat's waist and looked around with a huge grin on his face. He'd gotten the prize, only it seemed he knew it. Nyssa shot Leon a sympathetic glance, then shot Kat a speculative one.
Nyssa didn't know what was up with the blonde girl she'd just met. First she wanted things to work out with Leon, then she'd dumped him and had already gotten a new boyfriend it seemed. But Nyssa looked closer with her heart instead of her eyes and realized that Kat was heart broken and while there was a deep kinship between Kat and her new escort there was no romance. Nyssa didn't know what Kat was playing at but it was clear the other girl was playing some sort of game.
Leon got back in his car and started to check the scanner. He had to do something, anything that would prevent him from seeing Kat hanging over some other guy.
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When they pulled up Kat could tell everyone was staring at the new car. The Mustang was out of place. All the guys with NOS were likely looking at it thinking they could walk away from it in a race. Kat knew better. She and Sean had tuned it after all. It was a very powerful car. Of course most v-8 supercharged cars were. She'd beaten Connor when she'd raced him in her own Skyline but Connor was a better get away driver then a racer. Kat watched as Connor hopped out and came around to her side of the car. She couldn't miss the Glock 9mm in the back of the waistband of his pants. She hoped she hadn't made a big mistake bringing Connor around. He was as hot headed as Stacy. Kat knew he was a violent man with mostly everyone but her. It was too late to second guess herself now. Plus Connor was the biggest ham she'd ever met. If anyone could do over the top lovey dovey it was Connor.
She knew she was right when he helped her out of the car and kissed her neck then grinned down at her in his playful way. She knew most people would see the grin as that of a guy who thought he was getting lucky that night. But Kat knew the grin was because Connor loved to pull pranks and he figured this one was a doozy.
"You are such a clown." Kat laughed up at him and then helped Nikki out of the car. Nikki looked concerned.
"Kat, are you sure this is a good idea? Look where trying to make him jealous got you last time." Nikki voiced her concerns.
"I'm sure. I'm not trying to make anyone jealous this time. This is all about me. This is about showing him that it's not like he's the only guy I can get. Connor's my old boyfriend who came and begged me to take him back and so since I find myself single I told him we'd give it another try. Connor laughed.
"I begged you to take me back?" Connor looked incredulous at that scenario. Of course, he'd never had a girl leave him, let alone begged one to take him back.
"Yeah. You know if we had dated then broken up you'd be beggin me to take yo' ass back. No guy can go without me after he's had a taste." Kat doubled over laughing at the look on Connor's face.
"Hey now. I know we're pretending to be an item but you're like my lil sis. Don't talk like that to me please." Connor had a mock look of disgust on his face.
"C, you were mackin on me seconds ago." Kat laughed.
"That was all in good fun." Connor groaned.
"Well, so was what I said." Kat smirked and Connor grabbed her by the waist and spun her around several times really fast before he stopped. He then staggered up against the side of his car.
"Why aren't you dizzy?" Connor asked. Making Kat dizzy had been his only point.
"I've done one too many p..." Kat caught herself about to admit to doing ballet. She stopped. "I just don't get dizzy." She stuck out her tongue at Connor. Connor just sighed. Sean and Stacy came walking up to them, smiling despite themselves.
"You two deserve each other. Yo' both crazy." Sean told them. "And here comes trouble." Sean said as he moved beside his brother and took a menacing stance.
"What'dya mean trouble?" Kat tossed back as Sean over her shoulder.
"Your boy V's on his way over here." Stacy told Kat. Kat spun around just as Vince reached their sphere.
"Hey Kat." If Kat wasn't mistaken Vince didn't look very happy for a man who just got the long lost love of his life back.
"Hey V. How's it goin'?" She tried to remain neutral since Vince was her friend, even if she did want to hurt one of Vince's best friends and kill one of his other ones, respectively.
"Great. Can we talk for a second?" Vince asked and without waiting for her to answer he took her hand, pulled her away from Connor and led her over to his Maxima. Kat went reluctantly, knowing what was coming her way in some capacity.
"What's on your mind Vince?" Kat asked with a frown on her face. Vince was agitated about something. It was obvious to her.
"What's with you Kat?" Vince asked, or rather almost shouted.
Ok, she'd been wrong. Vince was down right livid. And it seemed it was with her.
"Nothing Vince. Didn't much feel like driving tonight is all." She tried to bluff her way out of explaining. Hoped that Vince wouldn't delve deeper into it then that. She didn't know how to go about explaining Connor's presence to Vince. She really didn't want him to think she was a slut but she didn't want him to run and tell Leon Connor's presence was just a sham.
"Yeah, ok. I don't much care about that. What's up with going so out of your way to get back with Leon and then dropping him such a short while later?" Vince was trying hard to keep his temper in check but Kat, ever sensitive to the moods of others around her picked up on his anger.
"Vince, he doesn't trust me at all. And he's still angry at me. I refuse to live my life any farther trying to make what I did up to him. I can't. I've tried and he's still mad. He's still holdin that grudge. I'm outta stuff to do to make it up to him. So it's his problem now. He's gotta work it out on his own."
"Ok. I can see where you'd be coming from with that but what's up with notorious B.I.G. over there? You replaced Leon that fast?" Vince said contemptuously. His scorn for Connor was very evident. Vince couldn't believe the Kitten he'd gotten to know would do that to Leon.
"Vince, that is an old friend of mine. It's not like he's a wannabe, that's how he is. It's not some gangster act. He is a gangster. Besides, why do you care?" Kat was pissed off at the whole Toretto team. She liked Vince, but despite that fact, and despite the fact that Vince was clearly very mad with her over the whole Connor thing, she was proud of the act she was putting on. She knew it was wrong, she knew she should feel guilty, and she was sure those feelings would come. But for right now she was pushing them down and enjoying being the center of attention.
"If you don't want Leon back till he's ready then why try to make him jealous? It didn't really work last time." Vince growled at Kat. He was really upset with her. He had to be happy with her for not telling Nyssa what they'd done, but he was still pissed about what she'd done to Leon. But then again Vince could tell Nyssa had an idea they were all keeping something from her anyway and Vince's bad mood had been added to by the thoughts that he was going to have to tell Nyssa what he'd done on his own before she found out from someone else. If he told her he could hope she wouldn't be too mad considering she'd been the one to take off. If she found out from someone else on her own then she'd think he'd been trying to keep it from her because he was ashamed of what he'd done. And he wasn't. He just didn't want to hurt Nyssa. Kat continued to speak just as he realized he'd left Nyssa with Letty. The one person in the world who at that moment wanted to hurt Nyssa. Vince realized he'd have to wrap up his conversation with Kat and get back to Nyssa before Letty made his whole dilemma of when to tell Nyssa moot.
"I'm not trying to make him jealous. I guess I knew that it would be a side effect of doing this but it's more to show him he's not the be all and end all of guys. I could have other guys and I don't have to wait around hoping he forgives me. I want him to know that. It'll help him make up his mind if he wants to get over things or not."
"If you say so. Why'd you fight with him anyway? Why didn't you just tell him that you had been the girl that talked to Nyssa?"
"Cause of how he went about asking. He didn't really ask, he just assumed then waited to see if I'd confirm it for him. He was testing me and I refused to play along." Kat frowned up at Vince. She wanted the conversation over. She wanted to go back to Connor and her team. Like Sean and Connor figured that out they came over to where she and Vince were standing.
"Everything ok Kitten baby?" Connor asked as he wrapped an arm around Kat's waist.
"Yeah, great." Kat answered. "Connor, this is Vince. Vince, this is Connor Black." Kat made the introductions. Vince looked even more upset when he found out who Kat was playing with.
"Well, I gotta get back to Nyssa. See you around?" Vince asked as he turned to walk away. He didn't want Kat to think the conversation was over because in Vince's mind it was far from. He had more to say on the matter of her dropping Leon and then trying to make him feel even worse by coming around with a new man. But he did realize who the other man was and figured if Kat hadn't ended up wanting to be with Sean it was doubtful she'd end up with his older brother.
"You'll still know where I live dude." Kat laughed at Vince.
"Yeah, I guess I will." Vince said with a laugh and walked away.
"What was up wit that Kitten?" Connor asked as he put his arm around her again and they walked back toward the mustang.
"That was my friend Vince, and nothing was up except he is also 'the guys' friend Vince." Kat answered with a little laugh at how that sounded.
"The guy that I'm here to impress huh?"
"Not impress. Just to let him know that it's not like I couldn't go to Voodoo or whatever and have another guy that wanted to date me."
"Glad you finally realized that sugga." Connor told Kat as they reached the side of his car again. Connor leaned against the door of his car, grabbed Kat by the hips and pulled her against him. "Your guy is looking at us."
"He is?" Kat asked, laughed for effect and tossed her hair over one shoulder.
"Yeah. Well, some guy is. And now he's comin over here. Every one of these guys is gonna be over here to find out who I am ain't they?"
"Maybe." Kat sighed. Connor decided that if she wanted over the top he'd give it to her. As the other man approached he leaned down and kissed Kat on the lips. She kissed him back for show and he could feel the giggles racking her slight frame against his chest as she did. She was finding the whole situation hilarious. To play along Kat ran her hands up over Connors chest till they were locked around his neck.
Stacy tried not to laugh. Kale looked scandalized. Sean looked like he definitely did not think this was a great idea. Kat wondered when she was going to hear Leon call her name or feel him grab her shoulder. Connor ended the kiss and nibbled down her neck.
"Connor baby, put on some music." Kat implored in a voice she hoped one might use to sweet talk a boyfriend.
"Sure thing baby girl." He turned on his stereo and it started to blast out 'Outrageous' by Britney Spears, whom Kat hated but the song had some irony in the situation she found herself in.
"Good choice baby." Kat giggled. She'd forgotten about the fact that a member of the Toretto's had been on his way over.
"Kat, can we talk?" Dom asked. When she heard Dom's voice behind her she jumped a mile.
Kat turned around to face him. "Um, sure. What do you want to talk about?"
Kat was lying in her room, thinking. She didn't want to go to races anymore. She wasn't in the mood at all. She knew she'd see Leon there. Since he was always around Dom, and the crowd was always around Dom too he'd be hard to miss. But she also felt that if she stayed home, if she let Leon drive her away from something she honestly loved then she'd have let him win. Not only would he have broken her heart, he'd have taken away the one thing she'd been striving for over the last many years of her life.
But she also felt like she'd been waiting all her life to know Leon. And if she was right and she had then she'd just lost something she'd been striving for just as hard as she had to be the best on the racing scene in LA. But she felt like Leon was the guy that she'd always been wondering if existed. Sure, for most of the last 4 years she hadn't thought about boys too much but before she'd left NYC she'd wanted a boyfriend.
And ok, her fantasy guy at the time had been 6'10", played ball for the Knicks, drove a Mercedes, and simply hadn't lived with her brothers. That alone had been enough to recommend most guys. The fact they weren't her brothers. Even before her mother had died her brothers had taken great pride in their ability to drive her nuts. But when her mom was gone her brothers had gotten even worse. Well, to be fair her oldest brother had gotten terrible. Her middle brother had just followed Josef with hero worship in his eyes. So if any guy had been tall, dark, handsome, and rich, and didn't live with or like her brothers he would have been 'the guy' for her. Reality brought home that such a guy didn't exist and even if he did he wasn't going for a 14 year old stick thin ballet dancer who looked 12 even then.
Ok, if Mr. Right was no where to be found, and she dumped Mr. Right Now at dinner then what was she going to do? What if Mr. Right Now had simply been Mr. Right on a bad day? She laughed at her convoluted logic to spite herself and stood up off her bed. She got in the shower and thought the whole time. When she was clean she had a plan.
She got dressed in a black leather skirt, knee high black boots with a platform sole, white thigh high stockings, and black top with front that looked like a halter top and the back was just to diamante straps across her back, crossing in the middle. The front was sparkly with red, blue, silver and purple sparkles. It had little silver tigers running along the bottom. It had been made for her by Nikki to match her car. Every time Kat looked at it since Nikki had given it to her it made her smile. Nikki was the best friend she ever could have asked for.
Dressed and hair done Kat took a second to look in the mirror. She had two plans and she didn't know which one to enact. She made her decision and picked up the phone.
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Leon stood up off his bed with a sigh. He was no closer to knowing what he wanted or what to do then he had been when he'd slunk off to his room. He was mad at himself all of a sudden. Why was he slinking off with his tail between his legs over some girl? She was just a girl. There were lots of them out there. Lots of them that would give anything to be with him for that matter. Never mind that most of them would be using him to get in close to Dom or just because they thought they'd be cool if they could say they'd been with him. Never mind that Kat had honestly wanted him. Never mind that she was everything he could ever want. Never mind he couldn't get her off his mind. Never mind he was already missing her.
Never mind that Kat had been the first girl in a long time he felt wasn't using him for some other reason. He'd felt that Kat really liked and respected him. She'd had a point when she said that he was still mad at her for what she'd done. He was. He'd found out the hard way that he held grudges. Hell, if Nyssa was his girl and she'd believed the stuff about him that she'd believed about Vince he didn't know if he'd have forgiven her yet either. But Vince was seemingly happy just to have Nyssa back; he didn't seem overly concerned about what she'd done. Why couldn't he just be like that? Just be happy that a great girl wanted to be with him. And he'd done some really mean things to Kat, but she'd honestly forgiven him already.
Well, the answer wasn't forthcoming so he was just wasting time standing in his room feeling sorry for himself. He wandered up the stairs and found the rest of the team standing in the foyer getting ready to head out.
"We were wondering if you were coming." Vince smirked. "You sure you feeling up to it pumpkin? You don't look so good."
"Vince!" Nyssa shot him a quelling look. "Seriously, are you ok Leon? You look tired."
"I'll be fine. Let's role." Leon said and started to try and get his team out of their house. Dom shot him a look. One of those 'Dom' looks that he didn't get the meaning behind and didn't want to.
He realized that he was parked at the end of the driveway so he got in his car and fired it up. He couldn't help the glance at Kat's house. The lights were all off and there were no cars in the drive. Since they only had a two car garage and three cars that meant at least one of their cars was gone. He backed carefully onto the street and then peeled off down the road. The team followed him and then right before the warehouse the got into formation.
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Kat dialled the number that would connect her to the man she had to speak to.
"Yo." Her call was answered in the typical fashion.
"God Connor, when you gonna learn how to answer the god damn phone?" Kat asked with a sigh.
"Baby Girl! Haven't heard from you in so long I forgot how to do it." Kat could literally hear Connor's grin over the phone line by the tone of his voice. She put her sweetest, most desperate tone in her voice.
"Whatcha doin tonight baby?"
"I'm baby now am I?" Connor asked with a laugh. "Whatcha need?" Kat laughed. Connor knew her almost as well as Sean.
"I need a ride."
"What's wrong with that damn expensive car of yours now?" Connor asked with worry in his tone.
"Nothing. I just need to make a statement and around this crowd nothing's gonna make a statement like your car."
"It's pretty sweet huh?" Connor asked with almost paternal pride in his voice.
"Yeah, and I need an 'old flame' to be driving it if you catch me." Kat grinned with thoughts of what she was going to pull tonight at the warehouse.
"How could I turn you down when you put it like that Baby Girl. I'll pull by for you shortly."
"See ya then babe." Kat said and hung up. She walked downstairs to where her guys were sitting. "I'm getting a ride to races with Connor tonight. You guys can take the eclipse or the skyline. It's up to you."
"Why's Connor coming to races?" Sean asked.
"I need him for something." Kat answered enigmatically and sat down.
"Aiight." Sean answered with a frown. A plan evil enough to put a grin like the one he was seeing on Kat's face was evil indeed and he was scared. If Kat was now this happy after the terrible day she'd had then she had a whopper on the way. Plus the way she was dressed was slutty, even for Kat. They all knew she wasn't a slut. She'd learned not to be self conscious about how she looked in tight cloths at a young age because of her dance so she felt at home in cloths most girls would never be caught dead in. But the school girl outfit with the very naughty, leather flair was very over the top sexy.
Connor rolled up and honked out front. Kat climbed into his Mustang and fastened her harness. She saw Nikki in the back and said hello to her friend before turning back to Connor. Nikki was wearing almost as little as Kat was. They were going to make quite a splash.
"Thanks for coming. You didn't have other plans did you?" Kat asked with a smile as they waited for the guys to pile into the Eclipse so they could head out.
"Naw. Nothing more important then seeing my baby girl and helping her out with some evil scheme. Are you trying to ruin some guy with that outfit Kitten?"
"No. Who? Me?" Kat asked with a pseudo innocent smile.
"Yeah, you. You need me to pretend we was a couple and we got back together?"
"Yeah. Make it look good too. I want the guy to be pissed off." Kat's grin got bigger.
"Ok Kitten. But remember you asked for it."
"I wouldn't have called you if I didn't want it to be over the top C." Kat watched the road as Connor fired up the Mustang and took off with a squeal. The other guys followed in their car.
*~*
They were just standing around waiting to see who was racing and what Dom was going to do when Kat's convertible with her three friends pulled up along with a car that no one had ever seen before. It wasn't Kat's skyline. It was one of about 1000 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra R's made and it was even more rare because it was the limited addition Mystichrome model and as such had the Mystichrome paint. It was a beautiful chameleon color paint, mostly blue but looking like someone spilled oil on it and the multicolour effect stayed. As the viewing angle changed, the car's color morphed from topaz green to cobalt blue to royal purple to deep onyx black. It rolled on 20 inch chrome rims that were an exact replica of the 18 inch chrome rims the car had come equipped with from the factory, and they were shod in g-force racing tires that were definitely not stock.
It was a beautiful car but it didn't really belong on the scene. Well, the 390 horsepower and 12.3 second quarter mile the Mustang had come with from the factory certainly put it up in a tuning category with the best import cars around. But the chrome mustang on the grill seemed to bespeak of a different era of cars. Of an age when Steve McQueen was playing Frank Bullit, hunting down the bad guys and racing through the streets of another California town. Not when people were tuning mom's Honda to run street races. If Frank had known who was driving his car he'd have had a fit.
All eyes were on the unique Cobra R, as was likely planned by the girl in the passenger seat for one of the few times in her life. A black man in his late 20's got out of the driver's seat and went around to the passenger and opened the door. Everyone wanted to know who was in the mystic car with the blacked out windows.
Leon thought he had a clue. If Kat's guys had rolled up behind the Mustang then he'd bet money Kat was in the Mustang. As his suspicions were confirmed and the girl inside took the man's offered hand and stood up out of the Mustang with her nothing less then her usual grace and wrapped her arms around the man's neck as she smiled up at him. The other man leaned down toward Kat and as he wrapped his arms around her waist kissed her where her neck met her bare shoulder. Then he stood up more and as he said something to Kat right in her ear Leon thought he might have to hit something hard. Kat laughed back at the black man and smiled up at him.
He watched as Kat turned and helped her friend Nikki out of the back seat. He watched as the driver of the Mustang wrapped his arm around Kat's waist and looked around with a huge grin on his face. He'd gotten the prize, only it seemed he knew it. Nyssa shot Leon a sympathetic glance, then shot Kat a speculative one.
Nyssa didn't know what was up with the blonde girl she'd just met. First she wanted things to work out with Leon, then she'd dumped him and had already gotten a new boyfriend it seemed. But Nyssa looked closer with her heart instead of her eyes and realized that Kat was heart broken and while there was a deep kinship between Kat and her new escort there was no romance. Nyssa didn't know what Kat was playing at but it was clear the other girl was playing some sort of game.
Leon got back in his car and started to check the scanner. He had to do something, anything that would prevent him from seeing Kat hanging over some other guy.
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When they pulled up Kat could tell everyone was staring at the new car. The Mustang was out of place. All the guys with NOS were likely looking at it thinking they could walk away from it in a race. Kat knew better. She and Sean had tuned it after all. It was a very powerful car. Of course most v-8 supercharged cars were. She'd beaten Connor when she'd raced him in her own Skyline but Connor was a better get away driver then a racer. Kat watched as Connor hopped out and came around to her side of the car. She couldn't miss the Glock 9mm in the back of the waistband of his pants. She hoped she hadn't made a big mistake bringing Connor around. He was as hot headed as Stacy. Kat knew he was a violent man with mostly everyone but her. It was too late to second guess herself now. Plus Connor was the biggest ham she'd ever met. If anyone could do over the top lovey dovey it was Connor.
She knew she was right when he helped her out of the car and kissed her neck then grinned down at her in his playful way. She knew most people would see the grin as that of a guy who thought he was getting lucky that night. But Kat knew the grin was because Connor loved to pull pranks and he figured this one was a doozy.
"You are such a clown." Kat laughed up at him and then helped Nikki out of the car. Nikki looked concerned.
"Kat, are you sure this is a good idea? Look where trying to make him jealous got you last time." Nikki voiced her concerns.
"I'm sure. I'm not trying to make anyone jealous this time. This is all about me. This is about showing him that it's not like he's the only guy I can get. Connor's my old boyfriend who came and begged me to take him back and so since I find myself single I told him we'd give it another try. Connor laughed.
"I begged you to take me back?" Connor looked incredulous at that scenario. Of course, he'd never had a girl leave him, let alone begged one to take him back.
"Yeah. You know if we had dated then broken up you'd be beggin me to take yo' ass back. No guy can go without me after he's had a taste." Kat doubled over laughing at the look on Connor's face.
"Hey now. I know we're pretending to be an item but you're like my lil sis. Don't talk like that to me please." Connor had a mock look of disgust on his face.
"C, you were mackin on me seconds ago." Kat laughed.
"That was all in good fun." Connor groaned.
"Well, so was what I said." Kat smirked and Connor grabbed her by the waist and spun her around several times really fast before he stopped. He then staggered up against the side of his car.
"Why aren't you dizzy?" Connor asked. Making Kat dizzy had been his only point.
"I've done one too many p..." Kat caught herself about to admit to doing ballet. She stopped. "I just don't get dizzy." She stuck out her tongue at Connor. Connor just sighed. Sean and Stacy came walking up to them, smiling despite themselves.
"You two deserve each other. Yo' both crazy." Sean told them. "And here comes trouble." Sean said as he moved beside his brother and took a menacing stance.
"What'dya mean trouble?" Kat tossed back as Sean over her shoulder.
"Your boy V's on his way over here." Stacy told Kat. Kat spun around just as Vince reached their sphere.
"Hey Kat." If Kat wasn't mistaken Vince didn't look very happy for a man who just got the long lost love of his life back.
"Hey V. How's it goin'?" She tried to remain neutral since Vince was her friend, even if she did want to hurt one of Vince's best friends and kill one of his other ones, respectively.
"Great. Can we talk for a second?" Vince asked and without waiting for her to answer he took her hand, pulled her away from Connor and led her over to his Maxima. Kat went reluctantly, knowing what was coming her way in some capacity.
"What's on your mind Vince?" Kat asked with a frown on her face. Vince was agitated about something. It was obvious to her.
"What's with you Kat?" Vince asked, or rather almost shouted.
Ok, she'd been wrong. Vince was down right livid. And it seemed it was with her.
"Nothing Vince. Didn't much feel like driving tonight is all." She tried to bluff her way out of explaining. Hoped that Vince wouldn't delve deeper into it then that. She didn't know how to go about explaining Connor's presence to Vince. She really didn't want him to think she was a slut but she didn't want him to run and tell Leon Connor's presence was just a sham.
"Yeah, ok. I don't much care about that. What's up with going so out of your way to get back with Leon and then dropping him such a short while later?" Vince was trying hard to keep his temper in check but Kat, ever sensitive to the moods of others around her picked up on his anger.
"Vince, he doesn't trust me at all. And he's still angry at me. I refuse to live my life any farther trying to make what I did up to him. I can't. I've tried and he's still mad. He's still holdin that grudge. I'm outta stuff to do to make it up to him. So it's his problem now. He's gotta work it out on his own."
"Ok. I can see where you'd be coming from with that but what's up with notorious B.I.G. over there? You replaced Leon that fast?" Vince said contemptuously. His scorn for Connor was very evident. Vince couldn't believe the Kitten he'd gotten to know would do that to Leon.
"Vince, that is an old friend of mine. It's not like he's a wannabe, that's how he is. It's not some gangster act. He is a gangster. Besides, why do you care?" Kat was pissed off at the whole Toretto team. She liked Vince, but despite that fact, and despite the fact that Vince was clearly very mad with her over the whole Connor thing, she was proud of the act she was putting on. She knew it was wrong, she knew she should feel guilty, and she was sure those feelings would come. But for right now she was pushing them down and enjoying being the center of attention.
"If you don't want Leon back till he's ready then why try to make him jealous? It didn't really work last time." Vince growled at Kat. He was really upset with her. He had to be happy with her for not telling Nyssa what they'd done, but he was still pissed about what she'd done to Leon. But then again Vince could tell Nyssa had an idea they were all keeping something from her anyway and Vince's bad mood had been added to by the thoughts that he was going to have to tell Nyssa what he'd done on his own before she found out from someone else. If he told her he could hope she wouldn't be too mad considering she'd been the one to take off. If she found out from someone else on her own then she'd think he'd been trying to keep it from her because he was ashamed of what he'd done. And he wasn't. He just didn't want to hurt Nyssa. Kat continued to speak just as he realized he'd left Nyssa with Letty. The one person in the world who at that moment wanted to hurt Nyssa. Vince realized he'd have to wrap up his conversation with Kat and get back to Nyssa before Letty made his whole dilemma of when to tell Nyssa moot.
"I'm not trying to make him jealous. I guess I knew that it would be a side effect of doing this but it's more to show him he's not the be all and end all of guys. I could have other guys and I don't have to wait around hoping he forgives me. I want him to know that. It'll help him make up his mind if he wants to get over things or not."
"If you say so. Why'd you fight with him anyway? Why didn't you just tell him that you had been the girl that talked to Nyssa?"
"Cause of how he went about asking. He didn't really ask, he just assumed then waited to see if I'd confirm it for him. He was testing me and I refused to play along." Kat frowned up at Vince. She wanted the conversation over. She wanted to go back to Connor and her team. Like Sean and Connor figured that out they came over to where she and Vince were standing.
"Everything ok Kitten baby?" Connor asked as he wrapped an arm around Kat's waist.
"Yeah, great." Kat answered. "Connor, this is Vince. Vince, this is Connor Black." Kat made the introductions. Vince looked even more upset when he found out who Kat was playing with.
"Well, I gotta get back to Nyssa. See you around?" Vince asked as he turned to walk away. He didn't want Kat to think the conversation was over because in Vince's mind it was far from. He had more to say on the matter of her dropping Leon and then trying to make him feel even worse by coming around with a new man. But he did realize who the other man was and figured if Kat hadn't ended up wanting to be with Sean it was doubtful she'd end up with his older brother.
"You'll still know where I live dude." Kat laughed at Vince.
"Yeah, I guess I will." Vince said with a laugh and walked away.
"What was up wit that Kitten?" Connor asked as he put his arm around her again and they walked back toward the mustang.
"That was my friend Vince, and nothing was up except he is also 'the guys' friend Vince." Kat answered with a little laugh at how that sounded.
"The guy that I'm here to impress huh?"
"Not impress. Just to let him know that it's not like I couldn't go to Voodoo or whatever and have another guy that wanted to date me."
"Glad you finally realized that sugga." Connor told Kat as they reached the side of his car again. Connor leaned against the door of his car, grabbed Kat by the hips and pulled her against him. "Your guy is looking at us."
"He is?" Kat asked, laughed for effect and tossed her hair over one shoulder.
"Yeah. Well, some guy is. And now he's comin over here. Every one of these guys is gonna be over here to find out who I am ain't they?"
"Maybe." Kat sighed. Connor decided that if she wanted over the top he'd give it to her. As the other man approached he leaned down and kissed Kat on the lips. She kissed him back for show and he could feel the giggles racking her slight frame against his chest as she did. She was finding the whole situation hilarious. To play along Kat ran her hands up over Connors chest till they were locked around his neck.
Stacy tried not to laugh. Kale looked scandalized. Sean looked like he definitely did not think this was a great idea. Kat wondered when she was going to hear Leon call her name or feel him grab her shoulder. Connor ended the kiss and nibbled down her neck.
"Connor baby, put on some music." Kat implored in a voice she hoped one might use to sweet talk a boyfriend.
"Sure thing baby girl." He turned on his stereo and it started to blast out 'Outrageous' by Britney Spears, whom Kat hated but the song had some irony in the situation she found herself in.
"Good choice baby." Kat giggled. She'd forgotten about the fact that a member of the Toretto's had been on his way over.
"Kat, can we talk?" Dom asked. When she heard Dom's voice behind her she jumped a mile.
Kat turned around to face him. "Um, sure. What do you want to talk about?"