Chapter 59 – Fear and Loathing in L.A.
"She's asleep. Who is this and what do you want?" Leon asked, none too happy at someone knowing Kat was at his house when it was the first time she'd ever been there at night and it was the dead of night to boot.
"You can just tell her for me then, that I also have her little friend and if she doesn't comply with my terms they both die."
Leon got a knot of cold dread in his gut. Kat's little friend? That wasn't Sean. Sean was huge. Kat's little friend...And Jesse was missing.
"Who's her 'little friend'?" Leon asked, figuring he didn't want to know the answer.
"He's a slim boy. Black nail polish. You tell Kat if she ever wants to see the quiet boy or the loudmouth man again she'll do as I asked."
With that the caller hung up, all without giving him a chance to reply. Not that Leon had a clue what he would have said had there been time. Leon sat on the edge of his bed in total shock. The person who'd taken Kat's friend Sean had Jesse too.
He knew that maybe it wasn't right but he blamed Kat for the whole situation. If she'd never come around then Jesse would still be safe. But because of Kat some crazy Russian mob boss had his little brother. Leon got up and walked around to Kat's side of the bed to wake her. He thought better of it for the moment and got dressed instead.
Then he called Dom and told him there was no need to search any more, that Dom should come home so Leon could explain. Dom informed Leon he was on his way back and they ended the call.
On that note Leon collected a shirt and pair of pants of his that Kat could put on and threw them at her.
"Get up." He growled.
Kat woke up and stretched.
"What time is it?" She asked sleepily with a very feminine smile his way.
"About 4 am. Time for you to get the hell up and tell me what the fuck you brought to this team." Leon snarled.
Kat sat up in shock and looked at Leon.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
She could tell Leon was mad but she didn't understand about what or at whom.
"You came around here and you brought the kind of trouble with you that doesn't just go away. And I was so stupid that I didn't listen to Dom and all the people who told me to leave you alone and you just wouldn't go away. And now some crazy man has Jesse. And you better know how to get him back."
"Who has Jesse?" Kat zeroed in on the fact that Jesse was missing and tried not to let the rest of what Leon had said hurt her.
"The same person who has Sean."
"Oh no." Kat started to cry softly.
Then she realized it didn't really matter because he'd give him back anyway when he released Sean.
"What did he say when he called?" Kat asked in a voice scratchy from crying.
"That if you didn't go through with his plan he was going to kill Jesse."
"And if I do what he asks?"
"Then he'll let Jesse go."
"Then it's going to be fine." Kat answered with a resigned tone and stood up, modesty forgotten as she started to dress in Leon's clothes, the ones he'd tossed at her.
"What do you mean it's going to be fine?" Leon roared. "Some asshole has my little brother and you say it's going to be fine?"
"It'll be fine. You'll just have to trust me. I gotta go home. I have some things to do before 9pm and the guys have no idea I'm ok. Thanks for everything Leon. Thanks for not letting me fall over the bridge and for everything else." Kat sniffled and almost cried at the thought that she'd just spent her first and only night in Leon's arms and that it had to end with him hating her at 4am.
"You're not going anywhere till you explain this whole thing to my team and how Jesse fits into the whole thing." Leon answered in the nastiest tone Kat had ever heard him use on her to that day.
A second later when they were still staring each other down there was a knock at the door and again Dom just walked in.
"Well, what's up Leon? Where's the kid?"
"That is something that Madame bitch is going to explain to the whole team. Right Kat?"
Kat got a mutinous look on her face. Dom looked shocked.
"Now you just wait a god damn minute. You have no call to call me names. It's terrible that he dragged Jesse into this but it's hardly my fault." Kat yelled back.
"Not your fault? If you hadn't come around here then Jesse'd be home right now!"
"Yeah, and if the guys hadn't taken me in then Sean would be too but it's not like I ever could have dreamed that Sergei would find me let alone do something like this. Besides I already said I was going to fix it."
"Enough!" Dom yelled. "This will all be explained to everyone at once. The whole place is worried about Jess and they all deserve to know."
Dom looked from Leon to Kat, seeing one very angry man and one of the most resigned women he'd ever seen in his life.
"Fine." Kat sighed and moved to follow Dom. "I'll tell all of you the whole story than I have to go home. No one's seen me since 9pm yesterday." Kat followed Dom out of the room and up the stairs and Leon trailed after her.
The rest of team Toretto was in the living room.
"Kat knows where Jesse is." Dom started.
"Where?" Letty asked angrily.
"I don't know where he is. I know why he's where ever he is."
And with that Kat told them a very abbreviated version of who Sergei was.
"So he found me and he's taken Sean, and it seems Jesse to get what he wants." Kat finished and a tear ran down her cheek.
"Well, what's he want?" Vince asked. He couldn't be mad at Kat. He saw the rest of the guys were but he could tell she was mad enough at herself plus it there hadn't been much she could have done.
"Me. He wants me." Kat answered.
"Why?" Vince asked as Nyssa covered her face in her hands and Mia sobbed.
Mia seemed to know what Kat meant by the fact Sergei wanted her when it had gone over the heads of all the rest of the team. All but Nyssa, who also already knew what nasty men wanted with young pretty women.
"And what do you mean wants you?" Vince continued. Leon hadn't said a word since Dom had interrupted their fight. He'd just looked at Kat with anger and another unreadable emotion shining in his eyes.
"He wants me to give myself to him because I ran away. He was going to give me to one of his business partners just before I ran and now he has the chance to do it again. He wants me to turn myself over to him and then Jesse and Sean go free." Kat was pacing the floor in front of the mostly seated team.
"How does Jesse fit into the whole thing?" Brian asked.
"I figure that Sergei wasn't sure I'd turn myself over for Sean. Sean wouldn't really want me too. I think he took Jesse as insurance."
"What do you mean as insurance?" Brian still wasn't clear.
"Well, he wasn't sure that I'd turn myself over to him for Sean. He must be pretty sure I will turn myself over to him for Jesse. So he took Jesse too. He wanted to hedge his bets."
"So how are we going to get Jesse back?" Letty asked snidely, not seeing how they had any sort of plan. "I thought you said this was going to be ok?"
"It's going to be just fine, come 9pm tonight." Kat replied, sounding so much older then her 19 years.
"What happens at 9pm tonight?" Leon spoke for the first time.
"I make plans to turn myself over to him so he lets Sean and now Jesse go safely. I'll let him give me to whoever if he can promise that he'll let my friends go." The tear she'd been holding in check escaped her and rolled down her cheek.
"You're going to allow someone to give you away so that Jesse can be safe?" Letty asked, shocked.
"There's no other way." Kat continued to pace. "Connor would try to help, he'd try till his dying breath, but still he'd die. The Tigers are some of the most powerful men in LA but they're nothing compared to Sergei. He'd kill them all and then kill Sean because I messed with him."
"You can't do that to yourself Kat!" Vince roared. "I won't have it!"
"I guess then, thankfully for Sean and Jesse's sake, it's not your decision to make V. My mind's been made up since he told me he had Sean yesterday. I'm just even more convinced of it now. It's sad that every good thing comes to an end but it was bound to happen sometime. I should have known that I couldn't run away from him forever. He was bound to find me. For what it's worth, I'm sorry that you all had to be involved in the whole situation. But I'm glad to have met you all." Kat turned on her heel to walk to the door.
Dom coughed, trying to cover his upset. He couldn't believe the courage that a 19 year old slip of a girl who often acted like she was about 14 had just shown. He'd figured she was selfish but yet she'd just told them she was giving her life to save that of her friend and Jesse, a boy she hardly knew.
"Kat. Wait!" he called after her. She stopped, back stiffening. It was clear she expected him to yell at her. "There must be another way. I mean, maybe Brian can help."
Brian nodded.
"Yeah, I still have contacts at the FBI and at LAPD. There must be something they can do to help."
"Thank you, both of you. But I just don't think so. I mean, this is the Russian mob we're dealing with. It's best for all concerned if I just do as Sergei wants and let Sean and Jesse be safe." Kat smiled softly at both men.
"I had a great run. I've had one hell of a 5 years here in L.A. It's not fair to let two innocent people pay for it so that I can run away from a mess I created. And no matter where I go he'll just find me again. Then Sean's dead and Sergei will catch me anyway. Only then he'll be really mad. I'm gonna be ok."
"How can it be ok for you to just give yourself to someone without trying to do something about it?" Dom asked.
"How can it be ok to let someone hurt Jesse so that I don't have to?" Kat countered.
"There must be a way around. Let Brian see what he can do." Dom didn't want it on his conscious if Kat did let herself be turned over to her stepfather. He had to do all he could to prevent it.
"Without an inside contact we'd never find Sergei. Let alone where he's keeping Sean and Jesse. Even with your team and all of Connor's guys we wouldn't have enough manpower. Not even if Brian got SWAT on his side. It's not like there's a map to where he's keeping Sean and Jesse. And he'd have them under guard. And likely in two different places."
"Kat, let us try. Please. Things won't ever be the same without you. Do you know how ballistic Harry's gonna go when he hears all this? Harry won't let you do it." Brian tried to plead with Kat.
"Bri, this is why I ran away from Stacy and Kale. I couldn't stand to see people I loved planning to save me when I know it'll never happen. It's a hopeless cause. Just let me go and try to be happy that I had a good life up till now. Ok?"
"How can I be happy you think you had it so good? You're only 19! You're just a baby for crying out loud. There's so much you haven't done yet. And you didn't exactly have the easiest 19 years either Kat. Please, try to fight back. It's not like you to give up so easy. Where's the fighter I know?"
Kat didn't know how to explain to Brian that if Leon hated her again she didn't really have any will to live anyway but even if she did she wouldn't let it be at the expense of two lives.
"I been fighting fate for so long Bri. Maybe I just ran out of steam for fighting it. It's my own stupid fault that Sergei got this chance. I never should have stayed in one place so long. When you stay in one place you start to care about people and then you make yourself vulnerable. If I'd stayed on the move and made sure that I stayed out of the public eye then no one would be in trouble and I never would have been found."
But I never would have learned what love truly was either, she told herself. But she didn't know if finally knowing about love was worth all the other hardships she'd gone through and was inadvertently putting the Toretto's through.
"But you never would have gotten to have relationships or put down roots either." Dom reminded her. He was finding affection for Kat he never thought he would. And it all came about 19 hours before if she had her way she'd be gone from all their lives forever.
"Katherine Leone! I will not let you do this to yourself." Vince got up and paced her way. No matter how irate he'd been with her at times he still remembered that he cared about her and he wasn't going let her do what she was planning without a fight.
"Oh for crying out loud it's not even her real name. Just let her go home." Leon said, sounding mean and upset all at once.
"What do you mean it's not her real name?" Vince asked, eyes narrowed for how Leon was talking to Kat after what she'd just revealed she was willing to do for Jesse.
"She's been lying about her name all along too." Leon growled.
Everyone looked at Kat.
"He's not lying but if it makes anyone feel better about it I never told anyone my real name till I told Leon tonight. Not even my guys know. It was to try and protect me and everyone from this very situation. I knew it would make me harder to find." Kat tried to explain.
"What is your real name then?" Vince asked gently. He didn't know why Leon was being such an ass but he wasn't going to follow suit.
"It doesn't matter." Kat replied. "The Leone part is still all me."
"What your real name is matters to me." Vince said softly. "What is it?"
"Ekaterina Ninochka Leone." Kat answered and blushed.
"So you're still Kat?" Dom asked.
"That's me." She smiled sadly at the whole room. "And I'm gonna be fine guys. I mean, we won't know each other anymore but you don't need to worry about me. I still have at least 5 of my lives left." She forced a laugh. "I'll get away from this guy someday and I'll run. And then you'll get a post card with no return address from somewhere in Mexico that just says 'wish you were here' and you'll know I'm fine. It'll be fine."
Dom thought it was really sad that the girl who was about to lose everything was the one trying to reassure them that it was all going to be fine. He knew it should be the other way around, and since he knew full well what she and Leon had been doing in Leon's room he wondered why Leon wasn't telling her it would be fine and he'd find a way to keep her safe. But Leon was still sitting on the couch shooting Kat nasty looks.
Dom walked Kat closer to the door, where Leon couldn't see them. He wanted to speak to her in semiprivately and he knew she really did have to go tell her guys she was fine.
"Why is Leon mad this time?" He asked softly.
"He's just the only sane one in the whole house. He blames me for the fact that Jesse got involved and he's right to do it. It is my fault. But I'm going to make it right. Thanks for everything Dom. Even though we didn't always see eye to eye you're a good person. You love your team very much and I appreciate that. Take care of him for me ok?"
"I'm gonna see what I can do Kat." She went to protest. He held up his hand. "No, don't tell me not to bother. I can't take this lying down. Brian has a friend named Bilkens in the bureau. He can talk to Bilkens on the QT and just see what could be done."
"I can't stop you Dom, but it's really futile. As long as you know that." Kat put her hand on the door knob.
Something occurred to Leon at that moment. Kat had been innocent when she'd come to him. Did she know enough to protect herself from being pregnant? In the heat of the moment he'd never thought of it and it was a first for him. He jumped up.
"Kat!" He called.
"She's asleep. Who is this and what do you want?" Leon asked, none too happy at someone knowing Kat was at his house when it was the first time she'd ever been there at night and it was the dead of night to boot.
"You can just tell her for me then, that I also have her little friend and if she doesn't comply with my terms they both die."
Leon got a knot of cold dread in his gut. Kat's little friend? That wasn't Sean. Sean was huge. Kat's little friend...And Jesse was missing.
"Who's her 'little friend'?" Leon asked, figuring he didn't want to know the answer.
"He's a slim boy. Black nail polish. You tell Kat if she ever wants to see the quiet boy or the loudmouth man again she'll do as I asked."
With that the caller hung up, all without giving him a chance to reply. Not that Leon had a clue what he would have said had there been time. Leon sat on the edge of his bed in total shock. The person who'd taken Kat's friend Sean had Jesse too.
He knew that maybe it wasn't right but he blamed Kat for the whole situation. If she'd never come around then Jesse would still be safe. But because of Kat some crazy Russian mob boss had his little brother. Leon got up and walked around to Kat's side of the bed to wake her. He thought better of it for the moment and got dressed instead.
Then he called Dom and told him there was no need to search any more, that Dom should come home so Leon could explain. Dom informed Leon he was on his way back and they ended the call.
On that note Leon collected a shirt and pair of pants of his that Kat could put on and threw them at her.
"Get up." He growled.
Kat woke up and stretched.
"What time is it?" She asked sleepily with a very feminine smile his way.
"About 4 am. Time for you to get the hell up and tell me what the fuck you brought to this team." Leon snarled.
Kat sat up in shock and looked at Leon.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
She could tell Leon was mad but she didn't understand about what or at whom.
"You came around here and you brought the kind of trouble with you that doesn't just go away. And I was so stupid that I didn't listen to Dom and all the people who told me to leave you alone and you just wouldn't go away. And now some crazy man has Jesse. And you better know how to get him back."
"Who has Jesse?" Kat zeroed in on the fact that Jesse was missing and tried not to let the rest of what Leon had said hurt her.
"The same person who has Sean."
"Oh no." Kat started to cry softly.
Then she realized it didn't really matter because he'd give him back anyway when he released Sean.
"What did he say when he called?" Kat asked in a voice scratchy from crying.
"That if you didn't go through with his plan he was going to kill Jesse."
"And if I do what he asks?"
"Then he'll let Jesse go."
"Then it's going to be fine." Kat answered with a resigned tone and stood up, modesty forgotten as she started to dress in Leon's clothes, the ones he'd tossed at her.
"What do you mean it's going to be fine?" Leon roared. "Some asshole has my little brother and you say it's going to be fine?"
"It'll be fine. You'll just have to trust me. I gotta go home. I have some things to do before 9pm and the guys have no idea I'm ok. Thanks for everything Leon. Thanks for not letting me fall over the bridge and for everything else." Kat sniffled and almost cried at the thought that she'd just spent her first and only night in Leon's arms and that it had to end with him hating her at 4am.
"You're not going anywhere till you explain this whole thing to my team and how Jesse fits into the whole thing." Leon answered in the nastiest tone Kat had ever heard him use on her to that day.
A second later when they were still staring each other down there was a knock at the door and again Dom just walked in.
"Well, what's up Leon? Where's the kid?"
"That is something that Madame bitch is going to explain to the whole team. Right Kat?"
Kat got a mutinous look on her face. Dom looked shocked.
"Now you just wait a god damn minute. You have no call to call me names. It's terrible that he dragged Jesse into this but it's hardly my fault." Kat yelled back.
"Not your fault? If you hadn't come around here then Jesse'd be home right now!"
"Yeah, and if the guys hadn't taken me in then Sean would be too but it's not like I ever could have dreamed that Sergei would find me let alone do something like this. Besides I already said I was going to fix it."
"Enough!" Dom yelled. "This will all be explained to everyone at once. The whole place is worried about Jess and they all deserve to know."
Dom looked from Leon to Kat, seeing one very angry man and one of the most resigned women he'd ever seen in his life.
"Fine." Kat sighed and moved to follow Dom. "I'll tell all of you the whole story than I have to go home. No one's seen me since 9pm yesterday." Kat followed Dom out of the room and up the stairs and Leon trailed after her.
The rest of team Toretto was in the living room.
"Kat knows where Jesse is." Dom started.
"Where?" Letty asked angrily.
"I don't know where he is. I know why he's where ever he is."
And with that Kat told them a very abbreviated version of who Sergei was.
"So he found me and he's taken Sean, and it seems Jesse to get what he wants." Kat finished and a tear ran down her cheek.
"Well, what's he want?" Vince asked. He couldn't be mad at Kat. He saw the rest of the guys were but he could tell she was mad enough at herself plus it there hadn't been much she could have done.
"Me. He wants me." Kat answered.
"Why?" Vince asked as Nyssa covered her face in her hands and Mia sobbed.
Mia seemed to know what Kat meant by the fact Sergei wanted her when it had gone over the heads of all the rest of the team. All but Nyssa, who also already knew what nasty men wanted with young pretty women.
"And what do you mean wants you?" Vince continued. Leon hadn't said a word since Dom had interrupted their fight. He'd just looked at Kat with anger and another unreadable emotion shining in his eyes.
"He wants me to give myself to him because I ran away. He was going to give me to one of his business partners just before I ran and now he has the chance to do it again. He wants me to turn myself over to him and then Jesse and Sean go free." Kat was pacing the floor in front of the mostly seated team.
"How does Jesse fit into the whole thing?" Brian asked.
"I figure that Sergei wasn't sure I'd turn myself over for Sean. Sean wouldn't really want me too. I think he took Jesse as insurance."
"What do you mean as insurance?" Brian still wasn't clear.
"Well, he wasn't sure that I'd turn myself over to him for Sean. He must be pretty sure I will turn myself over to him for Jesse. So he took Jesse too. He wanted to hedge his bets."
"So how are we going to get Jesse back?" Letty asked snidely, not seeing how they had any sort of plan. "I thought you said this was going to be ok?"
"It's going to be just fine, come 9pm tonight." Kat replied, sounding so much older then her 19 years.
"What happens at 9pm tonight?" Leon spoke for the first time.
"I make plans to turn myself over to him so he lets Sean and now Jesse go safely. I'll let him give me to whoever if he can promise that he'll let my friends go." The tear she'd been holding in check escaped her and rolled down her cheek.
"You're going to allow someone to give you away so that Jesse can be safe?" Letty asked, shocked.
"There's no other way." Kat continued to pace. "Connor would try to help, he'd try till his dying breath, but still he'd die. The Tigers are some of the most powerful men in LA but they're nothing compared to Sergei. He'd kill them all and then kill Sean because I messed with him."
"You can't do that to yourself Kat!" Vince roared. "I won't have it!"
"I guess then, thankfully for Sean and Jesse's sake, it's not your decision to make V. My mind's been made up since he told me he had Sean yesterday. I'm just even more convinced of it now. It's sad that every good thing comes to an end but it was bound to happen sometime. I should have known that I couldn't run away from him forever. He was bound to find me. For what it's worth, I'm sorry that you all had to be involved in the whole situation. But I'm glad to have met you all." Kat turned on her heel to walk to the door.
Dom coughed, trying to cover his upset. He couldn't believe the courage that a 19 year old slip of a girl who often acted like she was about 14 had just shown. He'd figured she was selfish but yet she'd just told them she was giving her life to save that of her friend and Jesse, a boy she hardly knew.
"Kat. Wait!" he called after her. She stopped, back stiffening. It was clear she expected him to yell at her. "There must be another way. I mean, maybe Brian can help."
Brian nodded.
"Yeah, I still have contacts at the FBI and at LAPD. There must be something they can do to help."
"Thank you, both of you. But I just don't think so. I mean, this is the Russian mob we're dealing with. It's best for all concerned if I just do as Sergei wants and let Sean and Jesse be safe." Kat smiled softly at both men.
"I had a great run. I've had one hell of a 5 years here in L.A. It's not fair to let two innocent people pay for it so that I can run away from a mess I created. And no matter where I go he'll just find me again. Then Sean's dead and Sergei will catch me anyway. Only then he'll be really mad. I'm gonna be ok."
"How can it be ok for you to just give yourself to someone without trying to do something about it?" Dom asked.
"How can it be ok to let someone hurt Jesse so that I don't have to?" Kat countered.
"There must be a way around. Let Brian see what he can do." Dom didn't want it on his conscious if Kat did let herself be turned over to her stepfather. He had to do all he could to prevent it.
"Without an inside contact we'd never find Sergei. Let alone where he's keeping Sean and Jesse. Even with your team and all of Connor's guys we wouldn't have enough manpower. Not even if Brian got SWAT on his side. It's not like there's a map to where he's keeping Sean and Jesse. And he'd have them under guard. And likely in two different places."
"Kat, let us try. Please. Things won't ever be the same without you. Do you know how ballistic Harry's gonna go when he hears all this? Harry won't let you do it." Brian tried to plead with Kat.
"Bri, this is why I ran away from Stacy and Kale. I couldn't stand to see people I loved planning to save me when I know it'll never happen. It's a hopeless cause. Just let me go and try to be happy that I had a good life up till now. Ok?"
"How can I be happy you think you had it so good? You're only 19! You're just a baby for crying out loud. There's so much you haven't done yet. And you didn't exactly have the easiest 19 years either Kat. Please, try to fight back. It's not like you to give up so easy. Where's the fighter I know?"
Kat didn't know how to explain to Brian that if Leon hated her again she didn't really have any will to live anyway but even if she did she wouldn't let it be at the expense of two lives.
"I been fighting fate for so long Bri. Maybe I just ran out of steam for fighting it. It's my own stupid fault that Sergei got this chance. I never should have stayed in one place so long. When you stay in one place you start to care about people and then you make yourself vulnerable. If I'd stayed on the move and made sure that I stayed out of the public eye then no one would be in trouble and I never would have been found."
But I never would have learned what love truly was either, she told herself. But she didn't know if finally knowing about love was worth all the other hardships she'd gone through and was inadvertently putting the Toretto's through.
"But you never would have gotten to have relationships or put down roots either." Dom reminded her. He was finding affection for Kat he never thought he would. And it all came about 19 hours before if she had her way she'd be gone from all their lives forever.
"Katherine Leone! I will not let you do this to yourself." Vince got up and paced her way. No matter how irate he'd been with her at times he still remembered that he cared about her and he wasn't going let her do what she was planning without a fight.
"Oh for crying out loud it's not even her real name. Just let her go home." Leon said, sounding mean and upset all at once.
"What do you mean it's not her real name?" Vince asked, eyes narrowed for how Leon was talking to Kat after what she'd just revealed she was willing to do for Jesse.
"She's been lying about her name all along too." Leon growled.
Everyone looked at Kat.
"He's not lying but if it makes anyone feel better about it I never told anyone my real name till I told Leon tonight. Not even my guys know. It was to try and protect me and everyone from this very situation. I knew it would make me harder to find." Kat tried to explain.
"What is your real name then?" Vince asked gently. He didn't know why Leon was being such an ass but he wasn't going to follow suit.
"It doesn't matter." Kat replied. "The Leone part is still all me."
"What your real name is matters to me." Vince said softly. "What is it?"
"Ekaterina Ninochka Leone." Kat answered and blushed.
"So you're still Kat?" Dom asked.
"That's me." She smiled sadly at the whole room. "And I'm gonna be fine guys. I mean, we won't know each other anymore but you don't need to worry about me. I still have at least 5 of my lives left." She forced a laugh. "I'll get away from this guy someday and I'll run. And then you'll get a post card with no return address from somewhere in Mexico that just says 'wish you were here' and you'll know I'm fine. It'll be fine."
Dom thought it was really sad that the girl who was about to lose everything was the one trying to reassure them that it was all going to be fine. He knew it should be the other way around, and since he knew full well what she and Leon had been doing in Leon's room he wondered why Leon wasn't telling her it would be fine and he'd find a way to keep her safe. But Leon was still sitting on the couch shooting Kat nasty looks.
Dom walked Kat closer to the door, where Leon couldn't see them. He wanted to speak to her in semiprivately and he knew she really did have to go tell her guys she was fine.
"Why is Leon mad this time?" He asked softly.
"He's just the only sane one in the whole house. He blames me for the fact that Jesse got involved and he's right to do it. It is my fault. But I'm going to make it right. Thanks for everything Dom. Even though we didn't always see eye to eye you're a good person. You love your team very much and I appreciate that. Take care of him for me ok?"
"I'm gonna see what I can do Kat." She went to protest. He held up his hand. "No, don't tell me not to bother. I can't take this lying down. Brian has a friend named Bilkens in the bureau. He can talk to Bilkens on the QT and just see what could be done."
"I can't stop you Dom, but it's really futile. As long as you know that." Kat put her hand on the door knob.
Something occurred to Leon at that moment. Kat had been innocent when she'd come to him. Did she know enough to protect herself from being pregnant? In the heat of the moment he'd never thought of it and it was a first for him. He jumped up.
"Kat!" He called.