Leon was the first to wake up for a change, he quietly krept to the bathroom and took a shower brushed his teeth and took his bottle out of the mirror cabinet. Seven of them left, the Doctor wasn't going to give him another refill it said on the bottle that it was the last refill. Damn. He thought as he popped another one. He wished he hadn't started craving them, but he needed something to take away the pain. True he wasn't physically hurting anymore, but mentally and emotionally was a different story. He was snapped out of his thoughts with Vince knocking on the door.

"Come on Leon, it's my turn"

"One second V." Shit. He put the cap on his pills and tossed them back in the mirror cabinet. He gathered up his clothes and towel and opened the door.

"It's about time,"

"Shut up V," He was getting short quick. It'd stop when the pills kicked in,It had too.

"Good Morning to you too princess," Vince said sarcastically. He knew Leon wasn't a morning person but damn.

"You guys it's too early." Mia said sleepiness in her voice.

"Sorry Mia."

"Our bad Mi,"

"Don't cook for me Mia, I'm a go see Jes early"

"Okay Le,just ,make sure you get somethin' to eat."

"I will Mi," He ran down the stairs and out walked out the door. He grabbed his keys out of his pockets and started fiddling with the key ring while walking out to his skyline. He went down to the hospital and went into Jes's room.

"Hey bro,"

"Hey Le,"

"How you feelin' this mornin'?"

" I feel like shit, I look like shit, it's just a shitty day."

" I know bro,."

"Hey Leon can I ask you a stupid question?" Leon shrugged.

"What's your last name?"

"Strong."

" Before that,"

" Oh umm it's D'mato."

"Leon D'mato?"

" No, my name is Leon Strong. That's the person I am now,have been."

" I know bro, I told you it was a stupid question."

"That's alright. We all need to ask stupid questions, it saves us sometimes."

"That was deep."

" Shut-up."

"You've changed Le,"

"I know, I'm trying to decide if it was for the better."

"Wanna talk about it?" He didn't want to,but he had to he had to tell someone who he didn't have to stay strong for. Someone who had seen him cry before, he decided that someone was Jesse.

" When you ran off Dom wanted to do another high-jacking, we all said it was a bad idea without all five of us but he said it was a huge cash cow and this last one we were done. That we'd be set for life and after that."

"It didn't go so well?"

"No, Jes it didn't. It started out like normal where we all surrounded it and V jumped outta Dom's car and when he did the trucker had a shotgun."

"Oh god."

"Yeah, and Dom said he yelled at Vince to get back in the car, but I guess V didn't hear him. So Vince didn't make it on top of the motor before he started shooting, Vince got his arm caught in the cable and when he went and dodged the second bullet he hit his head and went to the side of the truck."

"Shit!" Leon had tears in his eyes and his voice started showing it, he wanted to see Jesse's expression but he knew if he looked at his 'little brother' he wouldn't be able to finish. "You okay Le? You want some water or somethin'?"

" No, I'm okay." He cleared his throat. " So the wire cut into V's arm,real deep. And Dominic was yelling at him to undo his arm so he could pull him back over. But he couldn't and he went to get up to untie his arm and the trucker shot him in the side."

"It's a wonder he ain't dead."

"He would be had it not been for Brian."

"How'd he help?"

" Dom's tire got shot and Letty tried her hand at gettin' him loose. She pulled up to distract him and he shot her engine, didn't get anything major though, When she was pulling up behind Dom she flipped her car. He sent me back to get her and that's when Brian and Mia flew by, he jumped over untied him and brought him back over to his car. He had Mia pull over, he was trying to keep what was left of V together and he blew his cover and called reinforcment in to take Vince to the hospital. And Dom went to go get our shit because we were goin' down to Mexico,and I guess that's when you showed up and after that Dominic came to the state line and told us that you and V were in the hospital safe and sound and he had left Mia behind to take care of you guys. That's when I decided you guys needed me more than he did." He was crying about half way through. Just about to the point where it started racking his body.

"Let didn't decide the same?"

"No, she hugged me told me to be careful and to wait for her call. Said that one of us had to take care of Dominic."

" So we're really over? Is Team Toretto over Le?"

"I don't know Jes,what I do know is that if we're ever all together again it'll never be the same"

" We're still the same ain't we Le? I mean as far as our brotherhood goes right?"

"Yeah,I just feel like an ass for tellin' you to visiualize your win instead of no Jes don't race Tran for slips."

"Do you honestly think I woulda listened?"

"Prolly not, I guess we're all paying the price."

" Yeah.But don't punish yourself over things you don't have control over."

"Aiight Jes."

"Is there anything else you need to talk about bro?"

" Nah man,it's all cool." They both could tell he was lying.

"You sure?"

"Yeah,"

"Okay" He said unsure of himself.

One of the nurses came in. " Good Morning Mr. Strong." She said in a happy-go-lucky voice. He recognized her voice from earlier. He finally peiced together that she was the nurse that called him.

"Good Morning Alicia. How are you today?" Jesse said in a happy voice. He always was a people person.

" I'm just fine,but I'm here to take you to therapy,"

"Now there couldn't be a happier reason?"

" Sorry Jesse,promise I'll stop in tomorrow other than to take you to physical therapy."

"It's a date"

"Good."

" Le, is there something that you wanna get done? Physical Therapy lasts for three hours at this point."

" I'll stop in later then Jes,"

"Cool,"

Jesse went with Alicia and Leon went to go get something to eat. He finally decided on fatburger. It'd been awhile since he'd had somethin' there. He went through drive through.

"Welcome to fatburger how may I help you?"

" yeah gimme a double chese with large fries and a coke."

" 5.13 at the window sir"

He drove up and got his food and paid for it. He ate it while going down the road headed back to the fort. Maybe if he ate something he would feel better. Always seemed to work for Vince. He had to deal with this problem before it got too serious and he landed himself in rehab. Then there was nothing he could do for Vince,Jesse or Mia if that happened. damn it Leon. It was a simple pain killer. He screwed up something as simple as when you're done hurting you stop taking them. And now he was paying the price.