TO MY REVIEWERS- The brackets are there to help me seperate description from the actual talking and I just forgot to take them down, I'll be better about it in the future and no english is not my second languge but I'm not a college student either. Just keep that in mind, now lets get on with the story shall we?

It had been 3 weeks since they brought Vince home and they were going to the old garage, originally Leon didn't wanna go but Vince perstering him about it 50 times a day was rather convincing.

"wow"

" I told ya V I couldn't bring myself to shut everything up, so it's just kinda laid out here"

"for seven months?"

" yeah"

"damn Le" He was walking around looking at all the rusted tools and came up on the charger. "you didn't even cover up the charger?"

"I told you Vince I couldn't!"

" that's Tony's charger Leon. It's our history, you take care of history!"

" well V, you try taking care of Mia the way that she is and try to hold your own self together and put up peices of your past,and live with the fac that past that killed your brother!"

"Jesse ain't dead Le, don't you talk like that now."

" he ain't come outta that coma yet V, the doc said that there's a chance he'd go brain dead!"

" he won't Le, Jes is stronger than that,"

"just don't sit here and ride my ass over meaningless shit like the charger okay?'

"alright I won't yell at ya anymore, just so long as you don't call the charger 'meaningless shit' again."

He now knew why Leon hadn't wanted to come here. It'd killed him with the way things ended up. He'd of had to do alot of growing up in a short amount of time. No one should've had to go through what Leon had. He was brought from his musing when Leon's cell phone rang.

"hello, seriously? yes ma'am, I'll be right there" That had to have been that happiest tone Vince had heard Leon use since he had gotten out of the hospital.

"what's goin on Le?"

"Jesse's awake!"

" you're kiddin'"

" I betta not be, get in the car"

Leon literally ran to the skyline and Vince had to make an effort to keep up.

" when?"

"when what?"

"when did he wake up?"

" a few minutes ago, one of his nurses called me."

" that's great Leon,"

They were back at the house in two minutes thanks to Leon's driving, Vince on the other hand lost about 3 or 4 years of his life.

" thought we were goin' to the hospital," He said out of breath from yelling at Leon to slow down before they crashed.

" gotta get Mia, stay here"

Leon darted into the fort, grabbed Mia and was dragging her out of the house by her arm.

"Leon where are we goin!"

"Jesse's awake in the car"

Mia climbed in the backseat behind Leon.

"oh my god when?"

" a few minutes ago, one the nuses called him." Vince recited. They were headed down the highway, going way to fast and swerving through cars.

" Leon I swear to god if you don't slow down!"

" I ain't gonna crash Mia!"

" Leon seriously listen to her, you're goin' 105 in a 80 mile!"

" I can read my spedometer thank you!"

" well then slow down before you kill all of us!"

"fine," He slowed down to 95m.p.h. " happy?"

" yes,"

" geez for people who used to go to races every other night you got speed issues," He muttered.

" yeah but here's the thing Leon, we are not racing!"

" yeah, you lucky you didn't get pulled over."

" That's because I have a cop detector, it woulda told me if a cop was around,"

" you still have that thing?"

" yes, if I take it out theres gonna be a huge whole in my stereo system!"

" awww, poor Leon attatched to his cop detector?" Vince teased.

" NO!"

"Leon you missed your turn"

" what!"

" you missed your turn," Mia repeated.

" damn it V, you made me miss my turn" He said as he turned around and pulled into the hospital parking lot.

" well is it my fault you're attatched to a cop detector?"

" would you stop that!"

"would you guys stop acting like 4 year olds!"

"yes ma'am"

" sorry Mia,"

They walked up to the nurses's station. And got one of the residents to look up Jesse's room number.

" He's in room 2202 ma'am, take the elevator to surgery, down the hall to the left on your right."

" thank you"

" you're welcome"

After an eternity in the elevator they got to the surgery floor and followed their instructions to Jesse's room.

" Now be careful in here he's probably had ... Mia had already walked in. "20 surgeries"

"It'll be alright brotha," Vince said as he walked in after Mia.

"hey guys," His voice was weak and raspy.

" how ya livin' brotha?"

" I've been better" Mia gave him a hug.

" be careful Mia, let's not put him back on the resperators,"

" Well I'm sorry Le, I haven't seen him in forever," she said half matter-of-factly and half joyful.

"It's okay Le, I needed a hug."

"I'm glad you're okay Jes,"

" me too, of course I wouldn't be here had it not been for Mia"

" How you figure?" Mia rembered trying to stop the bleeding and at the same time keep his heart going but she was almost certain he would die in the ambulance.

" you kept me alive long enough for the EMT's to revive me, that's what the doc. said"

"ah, well in that case, you're welcome."

" hey Le?"

"yeah Jes?"

" why you look so down?"

" it's been hell since you been out bro, I'm just glad to see you alive"

" it's good to be seen,hey wait a minute"

" what Jes?"

" where's Dominic and Letty?"

" Not again" Leon thought to himself. Everybody froze so Leon just recited what he had told Vince.

" We don't know where they are Jesse. They bailed the last I caught them was at the fort when they grabbed their bags and I told them I wasn't going. I told 'em I was gonna and keep Mia company and see what happened with you and V."

" Are we in trouble with the cops or somethin'?"

" Not anymore, Brian cleared all of us" Mia said in Leon's absence of words.

" Where's he?"

" We don't know that either" Vince told him in an angry tone.

" sorry sensitive subject, so you haven't seen 'em at all?"

" no Jes, we haven't"

" we've heard from them twice and the last one wasn't so pretty."

"Are we just gonna let them crawl back in their own time or go looking for them,what's gonna happen Le?"

" Once Mia has the baby, we'll go look for 'em"

" wait once Mia what!"

" Oh crap, yeah, Mia's pregnant."

"by who!"

" Brian of course, Jes who'd you think I'd..nevermind" Everybody busted out laughing and Jesse started coughing and Mia got him some water.

"can't say I'm suprised"

" What's that supposed to mean?"

" umm nothing?"

"sure Jes"

"whatever you say kid"

The nurse came in and chased them out, so they said their goodbyes and went back to the fort with a new sense of hope.