Summery: How will the run in with Johnny Tran be different with Bri? How will Mia react when she finds out how much Dom making Harry fire her screwed with her life? More importantly, how will Dom react? As a bonus I've added a deleted scene from the DVD.
Fast and The Furious AU Ties That Bind Chapter Two Revealing Revelations
She counted a half a dozen or more bikes surrounding her car from behind. They were ridding aggressively and from Dom's reaction at the first sight of them she didn't think this was going to be a friendly altercation. Hell of a god damned night, she thought to herself crossly, I'm not sure it could get any fuller and here you go what do you know…it does. She really didn't like it when one of the Asian bikers rode up beside her and tapped her door with a semi-automatic.
"Follow us." He told her. They were led into a parking lot with big ornate Chine's architecture and statues. There looked to be about a little over half a dozen bikers some of them carrying two riders. She and Dom got out of the car as they all dismounted and pulled off their helmets.
"I thought we had an agreement. You stay away. I stay away. Everybody stays happy." Said the man who was apparently the leader while he checked out her car.
"We got lost Johnny. What do you want me to tell you?" Dom asked him.
"Who's 'we'?" Johnny asked him.
"Uh, my new mechanic. Brianne, meet Johnny Tran. That guy in the snake skin pants, that's his cousin, Lance." Dom said, Brianne finding her new 'job' to be very interesting. "So when are you going to give me a shot at that Honda 2000 of yours?" Dom asked him.
"This your ride, beautiful?" Johnny asked walking towards her and ignoring Dom's question.
"It was. It's his now." Brianne said, almost telling him it was till she remembered the events of earlier.
"No, it's not. I haven't taken delivery." Dom replied.
Okay I am seriously lost, she thought to herself, what the fuck? Why wouldn't he lay claim on the car that was his but he would lay claim on her…who wasn't? She wondered if this was making sense to anyone here because it sure wasn't to her
"Then it's nobody's car." Johnny stated Bri feeling suddenly very uneasy about her car being 'unclaimed'.
Still she followed Dom's lead and didn't claim it herself. "Somebody put in the wrench time." Johnny commented. Yeah, you bet asshole, she thought to herself angrily, me! Hell the only time someone else worked on it was when Harry installed the NOZ system for her, and had that really only been today? "What do you think Lance?"
"It's an amazing machine. Amazing woman." Lance replied a creepy look on his face as he stepped toward her gun still leveled at them.
She didn't back down matching his gaze and holding her ground despite the urges to both back the fuck up and/or kick his ass.
"Yes, indeed. They are." Johnny agreed. Okay yeah she was starting to understand why she had been claimed instead of the car. There eyes had been undressing her the whole time something she usually started fights for, guns were a good detourant though. Now they were practically fucking her with their eyes and she was beginning to feel very dirty.
"Lets go." Johnny finally said patting Dom on the arm.
She stared down Lance who acted like he was going to approach her before turning and mounting his bike. The others followed suit Johnny talking to Dom while he got ready to leave. "I'll see you in the desert next month. Be ready to have your ass handed to you." He warned Dom.
"Yeah, you're gonna need more then that crotch rocket." Dom teased him mockingly.
"I got something for you." Johnny told him before putting his helmet on. She and Dom stood by her car and watched as they mounted up and drove away Bri looking over at Dom.
"What the hell was that all about?" She asked him.
"Long story. I'll tell you later. Lets get outta here." Dom told her, opening the passenger side door and getting in.
She moved to follow suit when they heard two bikes returning Johnny and his cousin returning. They came to a stop in front of her car lifting their guns and starting to shoot it full of holes. She and Dom backed off quickly trying not to get rained on by the bullets or glass. Rage filled her as she listened to them shooting up every inch of the car before driving away.
She looked over at her car now full of holes and on fire now, unbelieving of her luck.
"NOS!" Dom screamed in warning. They both went running right before it blue Bri hitting the pavement hard when it went up. It was completely totaled entirely junk now just useless scraps of metal. Bri decided that this was definitely one of the top ten worst days of her life, also one of the top ten of the longest days of her life.
"So, what the hell was that all about?" She asked Dom again as they began to walk away.
"It's a long story." Dom repeated.
"Well, we got a twenty-mile hike. Humor me." She told him.
"A business deal that went sour." Dom replied. "Plus I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister." Of course you did, she thought to herself, what is it with men?
"You call that a long story?" She asked him jokingly.
"Well it was shorter then I thought." Dom replied.
"Yeah." She replied, not knowing what else to say.
"So, what brings you to Los Angeles Miss Arizona?" Dom asked her playfully.
"Miss Arizona? Lovely. I came for a fresh start. Seemed as good a place as any, what with the line I had for some legit work." She replied, rolling her eyes at herself, look how that panned out, she thought sourly.
Oh, yeah, that's right, bring up the job you lost thanks to him, she thought to herself mockingly. Just great tactics, bringing up the one thing you don't want to talk about, she thought to herself harshly, stupid fucking worthless bitch! "What about you? Lived here all your life?" She asked him, hoping he ignored or didn't notice the job comment.
"More or less, accept for those two years." He told her not needing to mention what two years.
"I can't believe you even gave me a hard time about the juvie thing when you did hard time." She told him, for want of anything else to talk about. Better to talk about the uncomfortable stuff then have the long uncomfortable silences, she thought to herself.
"I wasn't givin' you a hard time over the juvie thing. I was givin' you a hard time for not coming clean about it." Dom replied with a glance.
"It's not exactly the type of thing I like to advertise. You should understand that. You get one of two people, those who think you're a useless waist of space because of it or those that think you'll be down for anything illegal because of it." She told him.
"Yeah, I know. I've had my fill of both." Dom replied.
Not too much longer Dom spotted a cab he hailed down and directed towards his place. After getting out and paying she wished Dom goodnight and prepared to walk to her motel.
"Yo, Spilner." Dom called out to her from the porch. "You want a beer?"
"Yeah, sure." She replied. She turned and began to make her way towards the house as Dom stepped inside.
She felt like she was walking into the loins den as she let herself inside, knowing Letty was probably back in there somewhere. Dom was saying something to Letty as she stepped inside, two beers in his hands. She watched a couple walk by her and out the door before she turned and was noticed by the others.
"Yo, Dom! Why'd you bring the buster here?" Letty called out hostilely.
"'Cause the buster kept me outta handcuffs!" Dom yelled rounding on her angrily. "She didn't just run back to the fort. The buster brought me back."
Dom turned and walked over to her beers in hand most of the party watching what was going down. Apparently his temper was pretty common, as no one seemed too shocked about his actions. It was just like they were taking in the afternoon show or something.
"You can have any brew you want--as long as it's Corona." Dom told her offering her the two beers in his hands she took the one closest to her.
"Thanks, man." She told him.
"That's Letty's so enjoy." Dom told her. She wiped off the bottle top with her shirt while staring said girl down before taking a drink.
"Hey, Dom. Can I use your bathroom?" She asked him.
"Yeah, upstairs. First door on the right." Dom told her.
Bri headed upstairs downing half the beer as she closed the bathroom door behind herself. She put the beer on the counter and splashed some cold water on her face. She was trying to remember why she was in a house full of mostly strangers and a girl who wanted to chew her face off. After using the restroom and washing up she stepped out heading downstairs just as Dom was heading up.
"Yo." Dom called stopping her after they passed each other. "You know you owe me a ten second car right?" He asked her with a cocky smirk before heading up stairs.
As soon as she turned she was faced with Letty Vince Leon and Jesse none of whom looked too happy to see her.
"Did you wipe the seat?" Letty asked her. Something on the coffee table caught her eye and she glanced over to see a handgun. She was suddenly very ready to leave no beer was worth getting shot over.
"Oh, Jesus Christ." Mia cried coming out of nowhere to save her. "Would you cut this shit already? Come on!" She cried pushing Letty and Vince away from her. "Come on, let's go get me a drink." Mia told her taking her hand and leading her towards the kitchen.
There were only a few people in the dinning room so after Mia grabbed herself a Snapple they chilled there to talk. "You know my brother likes you. He usually doesn't like anybody." Mia told her.
"Yeah right. Likes me, please. I just had one of the longest shittiest days of my life and it was all mostly courtesy of Dominic." She told Mia.
"He's got a funny way of showing it." Mia told her.
"Yeah, he's a complicated guy." She told her.
"What about you?" Mia asked her.
"I'm simpler." She told her cheekily.
"You're a shitty liar." Mia told her with a chuckle. "But there is a problem." Mia informed her.
"What's that?" She asked after draining her beer.
"You need to get some sleep. And you definitely, definitely need a shower." Mia told her and Bri laughed.
"Like I said it's been a long shitty day, and I didn't sleep well the last few nights." She explained.
"Come on, I'll take you home." Mia told her.
The words sounded wrong to Bri but she supposed that was only because she didn't really have a 'home'. Least ways not in the manner Mia meant it when she said the words. She followed behind her as she led them outside climbing into her car tiredly. Mostly she was trying to force herself to stay away on the ride home while she directed her towards the motel. "You only had that one beer right?" Mia asked her after parking the car.
"What? Yeah, why?" She asked in confusion looking over at her friend.
"Bri, this is a motel. You can't really have been stayin' in a motel for the past three weeks?" Mia asked her in obvious shock and distaste.
"Nah, had a little pad in Harry's. Convenient as hell. On the up side it's cheep." She offered moving to open her door.
"No way. I couldn't call myself a friend and let you stay here. You're comin' home with me." Mia said moving to start the car.
"What? No, I don't think so. Sides I've paid it up to the week. Not to mention I'd be a long ass walk from your place to my new job. If I get it and keep it." She told her opening the door.
"This is all cause of Dom isn't it? Cause he had Harry fire you?" Mia asked her.
"More or less. Harry knew of me from a friend who vouched for me so I could get the job. Otherwise I have no résumé or work experience. So I can only get crap jobs like this one at the Bar and Grill, down the street. If I had a résumé or work experience it wouldn't have been such a big deal." She explained.
"I'm tellin' Dom about this. I'm goin' to chew his ear off for gettin' you fired like that! Big bully!" Mia complained.
"No! No, really, don't. I've had enough of Dom's temper. Just leave it Mia, please. I got to go, hopefully I can get a few hours of sleep before I have to work." She told the girl before getting out of the car.
"Fine, but I am at least gettin' him to let you back in the Café. He can't bar my friends." Mia insisted racing off before she could argue.
"Damn stubborn girl. Must run in the family." She commented before heading in the room.
Sleep turned out not to be her friend that night, unable to fall asleep after lying for a few hours. She got the job happily though the pay was low the hours shit and her boss acted like a slave driver. After picking up 'dinner' from a near by sandwich place she went to her room ate and gave Harry a call. It took a little bit of talking but he promised he would have a 'ten second car' for her that would need some work. This one he said was a gift since the job he promised her fell threw, she almost said no but common sense won over.
After eating she slept hard got up and took a long hot shower before hitting a near by diner. Food sucked but was cheep and Harry picked her up there and took her too her car. She drove the truck he got to haul it for her over to the garage, walking around after she backed it in.
"What do you got here?" Dom asked leaning on an arm against the wall.
"This is your car." She told him motioning to the red wreck hauled on the truck.
"My car?" Dom replied sarcastically pointing to his chest with the Red Bull in his hand. "I said a ten-second car not a ten-minute car."
"You could push this across the finish line, or tow it." Jesse told them making Mia Dom and her laugh.
"Couldn't even tow that across the finish line." Dom stated.
"No faith." Bri stated.
"Oh, I have faith in you, but this isn't a junkyard. This is a garage." Dom told her.
"Hey, pop the hood." She told Jesse finally having had enough.
"Pop the hood?" Dom questioned.
"Pop the hood." She reiterated. He actually thinks I would bring him a crap car, she thought to herself incredulously, my how little they think of me.
Once the car was finally down Dom and Jesse had to pry the hood up with crowbars.
"Two J.Z. engine. No shit." Jesse exclaimed in shock.
"And what did I tell you?" She said to Dom.
"I retract my previous statement." Dom told her apologetically.
"You know what? This will decimate all after you put about 15 grand in it. Or more, if we have to overnight the parts from Japan." Jesse told them.
"We'll pit it on my tab at Harry's." Dom told Jesse getting an emphatic 'yes!' from him. "I got to get you racing again so I can make some money off your ass." Dom told her pointing at her with the crowbar. "There's this show down in the desert called Race Wars and that's where you'll do it." He told her walking around behind her as she moved forward to eye the car smile on her face. She couldn't believe after all this, the car was going to be hers and he wanted her racing it for him. "I'll tell you what. When you're not workin' at your new job, you're working here. If you can't find the right tool in this garage, Miss Arizona, you don't belong near a car." Dom told her with a smirk before turning and walking away.
"He owns you now." Mia told her and she frowned at the girl when she realized something else.
"You told him, I asked you not to say anythin' but you did it anyways." She told her in an angry voice.
"Bri." Mia started hesitantly.
Brianne was already moving her back turned towards Mia as she moved looking for Dom outside.
"Yo! Dom!" She called running out after him.
"Yeah?" He asked her when she came to a stop before him.
"Why do you want me to work here?" She asked him hands on her hips. "No bullshit!"
"I got Mia to tell me the real reason she was so upset with me the other night after droppin' you off. So I gave Harry a call he said you're a good mechanic."
"If you want me for my skills as a mechanic I'll take the job. But if your only doin' this out of some misguided sense of guilt or of charity then forget it. Hell I'd rather you gave it too me because you didn't want it gettin' back to Tran the I never really was your mechanic." She told him sternly.
"What if it's all three?" He told her and she glared up at him before sighing.
"Then I guess I'll just have to live with it." She told him.
"So, if I offered to talk to Harry? Withdraw my ultimatum with him?" Dom asked her.
"I'd tell you to take the offer and shove it, right along with that big ego of yours, Boss." She told him in a mockingly cheerful voice making him laugh.
"So are we okay?" Mia asked her later as she climbed back in the truck.
"Yeah, I'll just remember next time not to tell you anythin' I don't want your brother to know." She told her coolly before pulling the truck away.
She took her anger out on Harry telling him off for not telling her that Dom had called about her. She apologized for it before she left but Harry understood he knew about her temper. She had been up front with Harry from the beginning about everything in her past.
"Screw it, I want you to come back." Harry told her right before she left.
"What?" She asked stilling and slowly turning back to glance at him.
"Dom can go screw himself. You're too good a mechanic to let go and you're the daughter of a good old friend. I won't leave you out to the wolves like that." Harry told her sincerely.
"Have you been talkin' to Dom before I got here Harry?" She asked him suspiciously.
"No, honest." Harry told her.
"Alright. That would be the only reason I would say no." She told him.
"Scouts honor." He told her saluting her.
"I'll have to see if I can get a return on my money for the room." She said more to herself then him.
"Go on and take the truck. Sooner you do it the better." Harry told her.
Which is how she ended up having use of the truck the next day when they hauled her parts from Harry's to Dom's garage. It was interesting driving the truck with the rest of the gang driving around her truck Dom's car up front. Sometime later she Dom Leon and Jesse were eating lunch outside on the car they had all been working on. They had sandwiches and beers all of them too hungry and dirty to bother cleaning off first before they ate.
The guys were all topless Bri trying not to stare at Dom who was sitting far too close to her. He was rather tempting all sweaty and half naked next to her Jesse sitting on the back behind them while Leon sat on the ground leaning up on the side. She was in jeans and despite her reservations about going around in her skimpy gray tank showing off her scars she'd stripped down to it earlier. The only one she knew noticed the scars was Dom ever the observant but thankfully he didn't say anything.
They were all just sitting around shooting the breeze and bullshitting about nothing important. Then Dom brought up the subject of first time drivers and when they all had driven for the first time.
"I was like five years old. I was sittin' on my fathers lap. And he's got me propped up and both my hands are on the steering wheel. And he kept goin' faster and faster. I remember hearin' him laughing, the faster we went the happier he was." Dom told them.
"How old were you again?" Jesse asked him.
"Five." Dom boasted proudly.
"My moms taught me how to drive." Leon shared with them.
"Your moms?" Dom stated sounding surprised.
"Yeah man. That was right before she left though." Leon explained, which explained why Dom was surprised. "You know, hate her for that but I can't hate her completely. You know?"
"First time I drove. It was on my learners permit. We were on the 40 Freeway, my mother and I. Car in front of me locks up its breaks." She said imitating the sound. "Then boom! Someone blew into me from behind. Five car pill up, first time I drove." She bragged.
"Before my dad went away. He bought me this uh, '71 Malibu classic the first day I got my license it was the greatest day. It was also the first day that I had sex." Jesse bragged, beating them all hands down right there. She laughed with the guys at that one Leon sounding very impressed. "I shit you not." Jesse assured them.
"Somethin' about learning how to drive. Like-it's you're a driver or you're not a driver. So up until the point you start driving is one lifetime and then after you start driving is another lifetime." Dom explained Bri nodding in understanding.
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