A/N : This is what I came up with. I'm sorry it took so long I do have a reason but it's long and boring and you prolly don't want to hear it. I might be getting slow with the stories here in the next couple of days, but I haven't given up. I'll get it up when I can. On with the story.

They drove to Texas before the sun came up. Leon's eyes were all droopy. Vince shook him a little and Leon jumped clear out of his seat. "Easy brotha. You want me to drive for a little while you look like somethin' outta hell."

"Yeah.." He said sluggishly as he pulled the car over and traded spots with Vince. Vince always wanted to drive the Skyline since Leon had won it. Leon never let him. He never let anyone drive the Skyline. He wasn't sure of what he was afraid of. He was apart of the team, he'd shoot himself before he'd hurt Leon intentionally. But it was Leon's car. If he didn't want anyone else behind the wheel that was his call. He looked over at Leon who was asleep. When he pulled on to the road he looked over at Leon again. He was twitching and cringing. stop. leave... her ...alone. He was talking in his sleep. Her? mama.. Leon's mom? Leon never talked about her. Vince never gave a second thought about it. Leon's dreams were getting the better of him and he decided to wake him up.

"Leon." He shook him gently. "Come on man wake up." He shook him harder. "Come on bro, you're dreamin' " Leon jumped awake and almost hit the dash board. "Easy,"

"What's goin' on Vince?"

"You were dreamin'. Looked like it was getting pretty ugly."

"Yeah it was man," Leon said quietly. He was more shaken than Vince thought.

"Well bro, I know it's not my area of expertise. But do ya wanna talk about it?"

"Nah man. Just you're normal nightmare." He said in more of a calmer tone.

"You were talkin' in your sleep man, that wasn't no normal nightmare."

"You know what?" He stopped mid sentence and took a deep breath. "Vince what do you want me to say!"

"You ain't sleepin' because of them god-damned pills I know but you shouldn't be haunted by your dreams like that. So if you wanna talk about it a long ass road trip would be a good time to do it!"

"I neva messed wit chu about your life V. Pay me the same damn respect and back off." He said full of spite. Leon never talked to him like that and by god he wasn't going to start then.

"Well bro, I always respect you, but you ain't gettin' in my face like 'dat especially when I'm tryin' to help you." He said trying to keep his cool and patience. Leon's expression went from anger to regret.

"I don't want to talk about it Vince,okay?" He said alot calmer and with no spite in his voice.

"Look man, I know what it's like to not have a lot of love from your parents. Alot of shit happened to me through out the years."

"I thought you lived with Tony."

"I did bro, from about the eighth on out. But before that it was me, my mama, and my step-father." He said step father full of hatred.

"I had a step dad too."

"This mutha" He was trying to watch his languge so it wouldn't be so hard not to say "curse words" in front of baby Miguel. "He wasn't no step dad Le. Just the biggest drunk in LA."

"My step dad beat my mama till she couldn't move anymore. Then he would move on to me." Leon said the last part of his sentence full of regret and remorse. Vince knew he wanted to hold onto his secrets but wanted to tell someone more. He knew how that felt.

"My mama ran off with him down to Georgia or something to live happily ever after without any responsiblity or something like that. I ripped up the note and burned it after that. And then after that I cried in an empty living room for hours then Dominic came over with Letty and wanted me to come over for a BBQ. It wasn't long after that I ran out of food and had to tell Tony. He said he wasn't going to leave me there alone and that I could just go live with him for a while."

"And a while turned into 12 years?"

"Yeah, I guess it did,"

"I'm glad you're still around Vince, I'm not sure what I woulda done had it not been for your help with Mia,Jesse and the house."

"You woulda figured out somethin', we really gotta get out of the fort. I think it would do a lot for us to be able to show ourselves that we would be okay."

"We'll get into that when we get back from Brian's."

"Yeah where are we going anyways?"

"You don't know?"

"No idea."

"Shit Vince where did you plan on drivin to?"

"the end of this highway and then I would wake you up."

"We're going to Florida."

"Florida it is then."