A/N: Okay, so uber pissed... Only two reviews? Come on people! Though I am glad to say that I got 87 hits on last chapter!
I must say though if I don't get more than that on this chapter then either there won't be a next chapter, or it won't be for a long time!
Flashbacks in this chapter... Some you may not want to see.
Tossing and turning in the hospital bed, Brian slept. There was no one else in the room, and it had been afew hours since he had been sedated. His dreams were giving him the memories that he had lost, and seeing them in his mind made him wonder if he even wanted to remember.
Brian awoke in the same room he had been in for the past week. There was an oxygen tube hooked under his nose, that had been put there the night before, when he had, had trouble breathing again. The pain that had been intense when his breathing had gone bad, was still there, but it was numbed. If he could have, he would have looked at his bruised chest, but his hands were restrained. There was nothing he could do, no way to escape, and he was pretty sure that when they took him back to the prison the next day, Jay was going to kill him, and there was no one that would be able to stop it.
All of the sudden, he heard a commotion outside the door, and a muffled, "Hey, you can't go in there!" There was a couple thumps, and then the door opened. Standing in the doorway was Dom, Leon, and Vince. It was a good thing that he was in scrubs, and not a hospital gown, that would have been really embarrassing.
"Hey Bri, long time no see. Would have broken you out sooner, but well couldn't find yah man." Dom said.
"Why would risk getting caught to come and break me out? I deserve this, for betraying you guys." Brian said, his face, and voce confused.
"Brian, man, no one deserves this, and besides, you made up for it when you saved Vince, and me. Then you just had to take all of the blame for everything, wouldn't even tell on Vince, and you guys hated each other's guts. If that ain't loyalty in a man then I don't know what is. Now maybe we should get you outta here, before someone comes up here, they had to have heard that somewhere." He looked at Brian, who was still confused, but was now smiling. Same old cocky ass white boy. When the straps around his wrists and ankles were undone, the places where they had been were scraped raw, so they wrapped them up.
As they helped him off the bed, Brian winced, the pain in his chest coming back at full force. Dom noticed, and asked, "You alright man?"
"Yeah, just got a bad rib cage at the moment." Brian answered, and despite hisprotests, Dom lifted up his shirt, and gasped, at all of the marks. In the bruises, he could see the distinct imprint of boots, and fists, and that was only the part of his stomach, that wasn't bandaged heavily.
"Ouch, what's the diagnoses?" Dom asked.
"Four broken ribs, and two others cracked." They all gasped, and he added, "Not a big deal, at least I have the use of my arm back from the first time."
"How did you manage to make him this mad?" Vince asked, remembering that even when he and Dom were in Lompoc, Jay had never beat them this bad.
"He wanted a new playmate, in ways that I wasn't willing to commit to." Brian said, his voice harsh. "But lets get out of here, before someone comes looking." They all nodded in response, and Vince and Dom put his arms over their shoulders, helping him to walk, while Leon checked to make sure the coast was clear. They slipped out the back door, and Brian smiled to see Dom's read RX-7 waiting for them. Brian was helped into the passenger seat while Dom got into the driver's seat. Leon and Vince went to a different car, and they pulled out, just as the alarms in the hospital started blaring. Brian leaned his head back, against the head rest, and breathed a sigh of relief that he had been holding for eighteen and a half months.
He was brought back to reality, when Dom put a hand on his shoulder, and said; "Good to have you back man. Andwhat you said about deserving this..." He paused waving his hand at Brian's injuries, "we need to have a long talk later man, but for now, let's just have some fun in this car on the way home."
"Home." Brian muttered, as if it was a word that he never thought he would hear again.
"Yeah, home. You have a home with us now, down in Mexico. You saved our asses and took the rap for us, and as far as I am concerned you have earned my trust, and now I am in your debt; so yeah, home." Dom said, his voice doing all the explaining that his words didn't.
Brian walked down the stairs with the help of Rome. He was wearing a pair of jeans, and a West Coast Choppers shirt. His hair was alot shorter than it was when he had gone to the prison, being only about a half inch long, something that Dom hadn't noticed till he walked into the kitchen his arm around Rome's shoulder.
They sat down at the table, along side everyone else. They all looked at him, and he smiled. "What am I famous now?" He asked, and everyone sighed before laughing. Brian was trying to find his way back, and some of his features were already back.
"Nah man, just never seen a white boy walking like that. Like he owned everythin'." Suki said, and everyone laughed. "How you doin' Bullet?" She asked.
"I'm good, it's great to see you all." Brian said guestering to Rome, Tej and Suki.
Leon, Dom, and Vince all tried their hardest to put on put out faces, and Vince said, "What we mean nothin'?"
"Nah man, I know you too well, if you meant somethin' you would call me a fruit?" Brian said, and easy laughter filled the room. "But I meant that it's great to have them here, and we're all here now, so-" Brian said, and then a stumped expression came over his face, "So I don't know what I should say."
"Very poetic bro!" Rome and Tej said with straight faces, and then both cracked up, and laughed. Brian picked up a spoon, and chucked it at there hunched forms. It bounced off Rome's head, and the hit Tej's.
"Oh! Double pointer! Killed two birds with one stone." Everyone laughed, and then they settled down, and ate. Rome, and Brian were the last one's at the table taking their fourth helping of everything.
"Damn, you boys keep eatin' like that, I may have to put you to work, before I run out of food." They both laughed with mouth's full of burgers, and fries.
"Nah, only if Rome decides to stay. Doctor says he has a high Mo-tab-ol-lism," Brian said stretching out the word, and Rome hit him brotherly on the shoulder. "What? You were the one who said that, and I was only repeating what you had told me." Brian said.
Brian sat in a pair of khaki cargo shorts and a white wife beater, his arms around Suki who was clad in a purple and blue bikini, a wrap around white skirt strewn around her slanted legs.
"I love you Suki." Brian whispered into her ear, as they sat watching the sunset on a small ocean view beach of the coast of Florida.
" I love you too, Bri!" She whispered back, her words floating to him on the soft ocean breeze. They just sat there on the beach and held each other, watching the sun glide down into the ocean. The colors painting the ocean in different hues of red and orange, the white caps hitting the shore only meters from their feet.
"NO! You can't do this!" Brian yelled as inmates held him down on the floor. He felt his pants being unzipped, and then a scream tore from his lips as the guard entered him fast and hard. "Please?" He said, his voice full of defeat.
The guard pulled out a few minutes later, and bent down to Brian. "That's what you get for being a dirty cop, punk."
He was left on the floor in a puddle of his own blood from a stab wound to his stomach, a gash on his head, and rips in his hole from where the guard had entered him ruthlessly.
"Same old Brian." Juan said, and Brian smiled.
"You know it bro, now let's cut the chat, and start the race." Brian said. Juan nodded, and Brian got into his Skyline, started it up, and pulled up to the line. The flags were dropped, and they were off. Brian took an early lead, and stayed ahead of the others. He was going into the last turn, and when he rounded it, he hit the NOS button on the steering wheel.
He looked in his rearview, and saw a car speed up, but the weird part was, that wasn't one of the people he was racing. He saw as well as felt the car behind him, hit the Skyline. The back end of his car lifted up, and he spun. As he hit a guard-rail, the front end of his car lifted up, and he started rolling.
When it finally stopped rolling, it was wrapped around a tree, and Brian let the darkness consume him.
"Brian." Suki called, shaking his tossing body. "Brian, wake up baby." She called again, tears in her eyes. She shook him harder, and he sat up gasping. He tried to rub his eyes, but he found that his wrists were still restrained.
"Bri, baby, what is it?" She asked, as she laid a hand on his arm. Brian was shaking, and there was sweat running down his body. Whatever had happened in his dream had left his crying out, and saying, 'no,' over and over again. When he didn't answer, just kept shaking, and staring at her as if she were nuts, she sat on his bed, unhooked his arms, and pulled him into a hug.
"I remember." He whispered. He put his arms around her, and silent tears shook him even harder. She just held him, stroking her hand gently over the side of his face, and whispered soothing words to him. Brian stopped shaking after a while, and when she looked down, she saw him half asleep. She laid him back down on the bed, and was about to undo his ankle restraints, when he caught her wrist.
"Don't leave me." He whispered, his blue eyes slit open, and trained on her.
"I won't sweetie. I was just going to undo his ankle restraints." He nodded, and let go of her wrist. She undid his restraints, and went over to him. Sitting on the side of his bed, she gently stroked his hair for a minute, and then laid down beside him, and put her arms around him. He put his arm around her, and she laid her head on his chest.
"I love you." He whispered, closing his eyes.
"I love you too." She whispered back, and closed her eyes as she saw him smile, and fade into sleep.
A few minutes after Brian and Suki had fallen asleep, Dom and Rome walked in. They smiled, seeing Suki in Brian's arms, it seemed that he had at least remembered that they were together. Brian opened his eyes, smiled a little at the site of them, and they smiled back. His look turned to one of horror as he looked past them, seeing...
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