Chapter 50 – Grudge Match
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"Can we talk over here, alone?" Dom asked in a tone Kat was sure made his team jump to do what he wanted. Kat hated to break it to Dom but she wasn't on his team, she never would be, and he didn't scare her. If he was smart, he'd be the one scared. Of Connor. But he likely didn't know who Connor was. She didn't want to make a scene so she followed Dom a short distance away from her team.
"What is it Dom?" Kat asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I thought you told me you didn't get back with Leon just to get to drop him."
"I didn't. Not that it's any of your business."
"I'm sick of you playing with his mind and his heart. I told you not to do it." He saw her start to speak and cut her off. "You told me you really liked him but yet here you are the day you break up with him dressed like a...and all over some other guy." Dom was as mad or more so then Vince had been but he was smart enough even then not to finish the sentence dressed like a whore.
Kat knew it was what he had been going to say. She was sick of the lot of them being up in her business.
"I told you I didn't drop him just to drop him and that's all the explanation you're getting. I don't owe you or Leon shit." Kat stood about a foot away from Dom with her hands on her hips, staring him down, even though he was almost a foot taller then her. It was just her attitude.
"Do you know who you're talking to?" Dom asked Kat with an incredulous look on his face. No one around races talked to him like that. He wasn't use to it at all. He was use to people being scared of his temper and letting him do what he wanted because they knew he ran the racing scene. He knew Kat wanted to go to the top of that scene so he didn't know where she got off talking down to him and pissing him off. She wasn't going to get her shot if she pissed him off. Kat answered his question.
"The more important question is, do you?" Kat sneered with her answer.
"What's that supposed to mean? I'm not scared of you. Stay away from Leon and the rest of my team. And keep your team away from us too." Dom stated and made a dismissive hand gesture.
"Fuck you Dominic. I don't owe you shit and I'll do what I want. You bother me once more and I'll stop telling Sean to leave ya'll alone. And since Connor is around tonight...Well, let's just say that Connor isn't good at controlling his temper. So if I call him over here, you'll have something to be scared of." Kat was being the biggest bitch and she didn't care. They had her so mad. And she never could control her acid tongue when people pissed her off. She knew it wasn't nice of her to threaten Dom with a man like Connor. They rolled in two totally different ways. But if Dom wanted to fuck with her she'd oblige him.
"Yeah, you do that, sic your 'big gangsta' on me. You can't fight your own battles you need them to do it for you. You're scared to race me so you get someone else to drive you here so you won't have to. You're scared of everything." Dom sneered back at Kat.
"Scared? To race you? Not likely." Kat laughed derisively. "You wanna go baby?" She purred at Dom, going toe to toe with him. "We'll go now." She finished in a mockingly sweet tone.
"You have no ride sweetheart." Dom retorted in a sarcastically sweet way.
"I have a 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra R. Or are you scared to race me and you're using the car issue as an excuse not to?" Kat asked, grinning at the thought of the great Dom Toretto being scared to race her.
"Your boyfriend" Dom put a sarcastic tone on boyfriend, "will let you drive his car?"
"Of course." Kat didn't bother to correct Dom's assumption Connor was her boyfriend.
Letty had heard Dom call Kat sweetheart and even though it was obvious that they were fighting Letty was still pissed to hear Dom use an endearment on another girl.
"Go back to your own man ho, and leave mine alone." Letty broke into the conversation.
"Fuck this shit! You wanna run Toretto you come get me and we'll run. You betta put a leash on your bitch though, for somethin happens to her." Dom turned red under his dark skin at Kat's implication that she'd harm Letty, and Letty sputtered about being called a bitch. Kat spun on her heel and found Letty in her face. Kat moved to go around her and Letty countered her. No one called Letty a bitch and got away with it.
"Who you callen a bitch ho? Look how you're dressed. I want you to stay the hell away from my man Skank."
"Your man came to get me! As if I want him around me! Oh and I'm the skank? That's rich coming from a girl who's man makes sailors look like saints! Move bitch! Get out my way." Kat said in a deceptively calm voice and went to move around Letty again. And again Letty countered the movement and stopped Kat from getting around her. Both Letty and Dom were reeling from Kat's implication that Dom was a man whore and Letty was one of his skanks. Kat knew she'd gone too far for decency but she was too pissed off to care at that point.
Letty was two seconds away from throwing punches.
"I said fuck this shit, get out my way bitch." Kat raised her voice as she made that statement and then pushed Letty backwards and walked around her, hips swishing, while Letty was still struggling for her balance. Letty came at Kat from behind but before she could take the other girl by surprise she was staring into the suddenly very cold eyes of Connor as he went for his Glock. Letty reared back in surprise from the look on Connor's face. The absolute lack of compassion or fear in his black gaze shook her like nothing had in a long time.
"Is there a problem?" Connor asked in a deceptively calm voice, staring at Dom and Letty in turn as he pulled Kat against his side. "These people hassling you Kitten?"
"Nothing I can't handle baby. Let's go back to Sean." Kat started to lead Connor away by the hand and with one last glare at Letty. Connor allowed himself to be led away, ever mindful of their act, staring at Kat's swaying hips in her tight, short leather skirt.
"Oh, and you're on for that race Kat. I'll see you at the line." Dom shouted, mad on Leon's behalf for the show Kat was putting on with another man in front of all the people who knew Leon and knew that he and Kat had just broken up. It had to be humiliating for Leon to have the whole scene know that his girl had gone out and gotten with another guy so soon after they'd broken up. Kat spun around and flipped Dom off then turned around and walked with Connor. Kat and Connor arrived back by their cars.
"What race?" Connor asked, suspicion he knew what race already evident on his face.
"Connor, you'll let me drive your car to race Dom right? I mean I didn't know he was going to challenge me or I would have driven us here in the Skyline but I mean you won't make me back down right?" Kat asked in her best little girl, give me what I want voice.
Connor groaned.
"Kat, I had that car for like three months now. I haven't even really raced it unless you count stop light races." Connor whined back at her.
"You know you don't drive like I do C. Let me show you what she can really do. I'll beat his Italian ass then we can go have a party."
"You sure you can beat him?"
"As sure as I am that the guy in the yellow skyline never took his eyes off us yet tonight." Kat purred.
"Well, you got that part right. I guess you can take my car to race the asshole. But you better bring it back in one piece."
"I will. You get the spray installed in the 'Stang yet?"
"Yeah. But if you don't have to use it, don't."
"I'll have to with this guy." Kat said, but she smiled while she said it. She was going to get to race. Adrenaline was flowing from her near fight with Letty and her argument with Dom. She knew if it came down to it Letty would leave her in a very hurt state but Kat figured it would never come to that because the guys would send her packing all without hitting her if she ever started shit.
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"Did you hear what she said to me?" Letty asked Dom, still shaken about what she'd seen in Connor's eyes.
"I can't believe how she talked to me." Dom answered back to Letty as they walked back up to the rest of their team.
"What happened man?" Vince asked the couple as they walked back up.
"Kat just called Letty a bitch and threatened that something might happen to her." Dom answered, still livid.
"Then she implied that Dom is a male slut and I'm one of his bitches." Letty snarled out.
"No, you must have misunderstood her." Vince couldn't believe that the Kat he knew would act like that. Nyssa also looked like she couldn't believe that would happen.
"Those are her exact words man, I don't think I could have misunderstood that." Dom replied. "And that Connor guy is scary."
"You got that right." Brian broke in. "Her buddy Sean is bad enough, but I really wouldn't want to mess with Connor."
"She must be more upset over recent events then she'd letting on then." Vince tried to stand up for Kat. Even though he was mad at her he also knew that essentially Kat was not like how she was acting that evening.
"Why do you say that?" Nyssa asked.
"She's a good hearted person. She's not mean. But she will lash out if she's cornered and she might have felt like all of us tracking her down to say something to her about Leon was backing her into a corner. Vince looked around to make sure Leon was still in his car, too far away to hear them speaking about him.
"She's always been a wildcat when it came to getting in fights with Dom." Jesse reminded them. "Something about him just brings out the worst in her. You know what they say about like charged particles, they repel each other. And Dom and Kat are just too much alike."
"She and I really never have gotten along, we always seem to end up in a war." Dom added. "I don't know why it is or how that came to be."
"The fact you made a snap judgement about her the second you found out where she was from and who she rolled with maybe?" Brian stated rhetorically.
"She seemed so nice." Nyssa interjected, and then looked up in shock, realizing no one had known for sure it was Kat she'd been speaking to that afternoon.
"Oh did she?" Dom asked. "So it was her you were speaking to then?"
"Um...Yeah." Nyssa admitted. Vince had already known but the rest of the team had not.
"Then why didn't she just tell Leon that?" Brian asked in confusion. He really liked Kat and he couldn't understand why she was acting like she was. Plus he was going to have to work with her again come Monday and he didn't know how to keep his work relationship with Kat separate from her strained relationship with his team.
"I think it had something to do with how he tried to sort of con the info out of her. If he'd asked her point blank she likely would have but he tried to trick her into admitting it and Kat doesn't take well to that kind of thing." Vince explained.
"Yeah, she's a firecracker, but she's compassionate too. I mean look how she made sure that nothing happened to Leon the first time the shit hit the fan." Brian threw out. "And you should see her and Harry together. It's downright comical the way they go on and you'd never dream she could act like this when you watch her around work. And the way she interacts with her guys. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone who's so caring of most people in her life."
"Well, she better watch her back the next time I see her alone." Letty growled. "She's not gonna get away with talking to me like she did."
"Let it go Letty." Vince told her.
"Why are you standing up for her Vince?"
"Because I don't want to see anything happen to you." Letty went to protest. "And I'm not saying that Kat could beat you in a fight." Vince cut Letty's protest off before it started. "But I don't know if we could protect you should the rest of her friends decide to take exception to you beating her in a fight. Even if it was a fair one." Letty looked mutinous but she nodded that she understood.
"It's time to race. Maybe putting her in her place on the street will knock her down a peg or two." Dom told his team and motioned Hector over to him.
"How's it goin Bro?" Hector asked as he shook Dom's hand.
"Good. Me'n Kat are gonna race, and I'm ready to roll." Dom smiled as he made his statement.
"Just you two?" At Dom's nod, Hector continued. "What's she gonna drive?"
"Her man's car." Dom sneered his statement out with a low growl.
"Alright then. I take it you want me to go tell her it's time." Hector asked, puzzlement over why Dom and Kat seemed to be having some sort of grudge match evident.
"You got it." Dom told Hector and watched the Latin man walk over to the other main group of people clustered at the warehouse.
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"Can we talk over here, alone?" Dom asked in a tone Kat was sure made his team jump to do what he wanted. Kat hated to break it to Dom but she wasn't on his team, she never would be, and he didn't scare her. If he was smart, he'd be the one scared. Of Connor. But he likely didn't know who Connor was. She didn't want to make a scene so she followed Dom a short distance away from her team.
"What is it Dom?" Kat asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I thought you told me you didn't get back with Leon just to get to drop him."
"I didn't. Not that it's any of your business."
"I'm sick of you playing with his mind and his heart. I told you not to do it." He saw her start to speak and cut her off. "You told me you really liked him but yet here you are the day you break up with him dressed like a...and all over some other guy." Dom was as mad or more so then Vince had been but he was smart enough even then not to finish the sentence dressed like a whore.
Kat knew it was what he had been going to say. She was sick of the lot of them being up in her business.
"I told you I didn't drop him just to drop him and that's all the explanation you're getting. I don't owe you or Leon shit." Kat stood about a foot away from Dom with her hands on her hips, staring him down, even though he was almost a foot taller then her. It was just her attitude.
"Do you know who you're talking to?" Dom asked Kat with an incredulous look on his face. No one around races talked to him like that. He wasn't use to it at all. He was use to people being scared of his temper and letting him do what he wanted because they knew he ran the racing scene. He knew Kat wanted to go to the top of that scene so he didn't know where she got off talking down to him and pissing him off. She wasn't going to get her shot if she pissed him off. Kat answered his question.
"The more important question is, do you?" Kat sneered with her answer.
"What's that supposed to mean? I'm not scared of you. Stay away from Leon and the rest of my team. And keep your team away from us too." Dom stated and made a dismissive hand gesture.
"Fuck you Dominic. I don't owe you shit and I'll do what I want. You bother me once more and I'll stop telling Sean to leave ya'll alone. And since Connor is around tonight...Well, let's just say that Connor isn't good at controlling his temper. So if I call him over here, you'll have something to be scared of." Kat was being the biggest bitch and she didn't care. They had her so mad. And she never could control her acid tongue when people pissed her off. She knew it wasn't nice of her to threaten Dom with a man like Connor. They rolled in two totally different ways. But if Dom wanted to fuck with her she'd oblige him.
"Yeah, you do that, sic your 'big gangsta' on me. You can't fight your own battles you need them to do it for you. You're scared to race me so you get someone else to drive you here so you won't have to. You're scared of everything." Dom sneered back at Kat.
"Scared? To race you? Not likely." Kat laughed derisively. "You wanna go baby?" She purred at Dom, going toe to toe with him. "We'll go now." She finished in a mockingly sweet tone.
"You have no ride sweetheart." Dom retorted in a sarcastically sweet way.
"I have a 2004 SVT Mustang Cobra R. Or are you scared to race me and you're using the car issue as an excuse not to?" Kat asked, grinning at the thought of the great Dom Toretto being scared to race her.
"Your boyfriend" Dom put a sarcastic tone on boyfriend, "will let you drive his car?"
"Of course." Kat didn't bother to correct Dom's assumption Connor was her boyfriend.
Letty had heard Dom call Kat sweetheart and even though it was obvious that they were fighting Letty was still pissed to hear Dom use an endearment on another girl.
"Go back to your own man ho, and leave mine alone." Letty broke into the conversation.
"Fuck this shit! You wanna run Toretto you come get me and we'll run. You betta put a leash on your bitch though, for somethin happens to her." Dom turned red under his dark skin at Kat's implication that she'd harm Letty, and Letty sputtered about being called a bitch. Kat spun on her heel and found Letty in her face. Kat moved to go around her and Letty countered her. No one called Letty a bitch and got away with it.
"Who you callen a bitch ho? Look how you're dressed. I want you to stay the hell away from my man Skank."
"Your man came to get me! As if I want him around me! Oh and I'm the skank? That's rich coming from a girl who's man makes sailors look like saints! Move bitch! Get out my way." Kat said in a deceptively calm voice and went to move around Letty again. And again Letty countered the movement and stopped Kat from getting around her. Both Letty and Dom were reeling from Kat's implication that Dom was a man whore and Letty was one of his skanks. Kat knew she'd gone too far for decency but she was too pissed off to care at that point.
Letty was two seconds away from throwing punches.
"I said fuck this shit, get out my way bitch." Kat raised her voice as she made that statement and then pushed Letty backwards and walked around her, hips swishing, while Letty was still struggling for her balance. Letty came at Kat from behind but before she could take the other girl by surprise she was staring into the suddenly very cold eyes of Connor as he went for his Glock. Letty reared back in surprise from the look on Connor's face. The absolute lack of compassion or fear in his black gaze shook her like nothing had in a long time.
"Is there a problem?" Connor asked in a deceptively calm voice, staring at Dom and Letty in turn as he pulled Kat against his side. "These people hassling you Kitten?"
"Nothing I can't handle baby. Let's go back to Sean." Kat started to lead Connor away by the hand and with one last glare at Letty. Connor allowed himself to be led away, ever mindful of their act, staring at Kat's swaying hips in her tight, short leather skirt.
"Oh, and you're on for that race Kat. I'll see you at the line." Dom shouted, mad on Leon's behalf for the show Kat was putting on with another man in front of all the people who knew Leon and knew that he and Kat had just broken up. It had to be humiliating for Leon to have the whole scene know that his girl had gone out and gotten with another guy so soon after they'd broken up. Kat spun around and flipped Dom off then turned around and walked with Connor. Kat and Connor arrived back by their cars.
"What race?" Connor asked, suspicion he knew what race already evident on his face.
"Connor, you'll let me drive your car to race Dom right? I mean I didn't know he was going to challenge me or I would have driven us here in the Skyline but I mean you won't make me back down right?" Kat asked in her best little girl, give me what I want voice.
Connor groaned.
"Kat, I had that car for like three months now. I haven't even really raced it unless you count stop light races." Connor whined back at her.
"You know you don't drive like I do C. Let me show you what she can really do. I'll beat his Italian ass then we can go have a party."
"You sure you can beat him?"
"As sure as I am that the guy in the yellow skyline never took his eyes off us yet tonight." Kat purred.
"Well, you got that part right. I guess you can take my car to race the asshole. But you better bring it back in one piece."
"I will. You get the spray installed in the 'Stang yet?"
"Yeah. But if you don't have to use it, don't."
"I'll have to with this guy." Kat said, but she smiled while she said it. She was going to get to race. Adrenaline was flowing from her near fight with Letty and her argument with Dom. She knew if it came down to it Letty would leave her in a very hurt state but Kat figured it would never come to that because the guys would send her packing all without hitting her if she ever started shit.
*~*
"Did you hear what she said to me?" Letty asked Dom, still shaken about what she'd seen in Connor's eyes.
"I can't believe how she talked to me." Dom answered back to Letty as they walked back up to the rest of their team.
"What happened man?" Vince asked the couple as they walked back up.
"Kat just called Letty a bitch and threatened that something might happen to her." Dom answered, still livid.
"Then she implied that Dom is a male slut and I'm one of his bitches." Letty snarled out.
"No, you must have misunderstood her." Vince couldn't believe that the Kat he knew would act like that. Nyssa also looked like she couldn't believe that would happen.
"Those are her exact words man, I don't think I could have misunderstood that." Dom replied. "And that Connor guy is scary."
"You got that right." Brian broke in. "Her buddy Sean is bad enough, but I really wouldn't want to mess with Connor."
"She must be more upset over recent events then she'd letting on then." Vince tried to stand up for Kat. Even though he was mad at her he also knew that essentially Kat was not like how she was acting that evening.
"Why do you say that?" Nyssa asked.
"She's a good hearted person. She's not mean. But she will lash out if she's cornered and she might have felt like all of us tracking her down to say something to her about Leon was backing her into a corner. Vince looked around to make sure Leon was still in his car, too far away to hear them speaking about him.
"She's always been a wildcat when it came to getting in fights with Dom." Jesse reminded them. "Something about him just brings out the worst in her. You know what they say about like charged particles, they repel each other. And Dom and Kat are just too much alike."
"She and I really never have gotten along, we always seem to end up in a war." Dom added. "I don't know why it is or how that came to be."
"The fact you made a snap judgement about her the second you found out where she was from and who she rolled with maybe?" Brian stated rhetorically.
"She seemed so nice." Nyssa interjected, and then looked up in shock, realizing no one had known for sure it was Kat she'd been speaking to that afternoon.
"Oh did she?" Dom asked. "So it was her you were speaking to then?"
"Um...Yeah." Nyssa admitted. Vince had already known but the rest of the team had not.
"Then why didn't she just tell Leon that?" Brian asked in confusion. He really liked Kat and he couldn't understand why she was acting like she was. Plus he was going to have to work with her again come Monday and he didn't know how to keep his work relationship with Kat separate from her strained relationship with his team.
"I think it had something to do with how he tried to sort of con the info out of her. If he'd asked her point blank she likely would have but he tried to trick her into admitting it and Kat doesn't take well to that kind of thing." Vince explained.
"Yeah, she's a firecracker, but she's compassionate too. I mean look how she made sure that nothing happened to Leon the first time the shit hit the fan." Brian threw out. "And you should see her and Harry together. It's downright comical the way they go on and you'd never dream she could act like this when you watch her around work. And the way she interacts with her guys. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone who's so caring of most people in her life."
"Well, she better watch her back the next time I see her alone." Letty growled. "She's not gonna get away with talking to me like she did."
"Let it go Letty." Vince told her.
"Why are you standing up for her Vince?"
"Because I don't want to see anything happen to you." Letty went to protest. "And I'm not saying that Kat could beat you in a fight." Vince cut Letty's protest off before it started. "But I don't know if we could protect you should the rest of her friends decide to take exception to you beating her in a fight. Even if it was a fair one." Letty looked mutinous but she nodded that she understood.
"It's time to race. Maybe putting her in her place on the street will knock her down a peg or two." Dom told his team and motioned Hector over to him.
"How's it goin Bro?" Hector asked as he shook Dom's hand.
"Good. Me'n Kat are gonna race, and I'm ready to roll." Dom smiled as he made his statement.
"Just you two?" At Dom's nod, Hector continued. "What's she gonna drive?"
"Her man's car." Dom sneered his statement out with a low growl.
"Alright then. I take it you want me to go tell her it's time." Hector asked, puzzlement over why Dom and Kat seemed to be having some sort of grudge match evident.
"You got it." Dom told Hector and watched the Latin man walk over to the other main group of people clustered at the warehouse.