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A/N: Review please I hope you guys like it, it took me a while to write so yeah. Give me ideas with what you want to happen I'm always willing to try to get ideas in that the people might want to have happen.
Chapter six: The past
When Jesse and Leon got back to the garage, Jesse was red in the face and Leon was laughing his head off at him. Vince noticed them and walked over, "So Jesse why so red?" he asked obviously knowing or having an idea as to why he was blushing.
"No reason." Jesse said stiffly. Leon nudged Jesse in the side, "Yeah keep on denying it Jesse, you and Kat were flirting like crazy over at Harry's and her outfit just made you appreciate her body even more." he told him with a smirk.
Vince rose an eyebrow in question, "What's this about Kat?" Leon answered him, "Kat works there, and Jesse was flirting with her like there was no tomorrow, as was she. It was a sight to see man seriously. When do you get a chance to see the mad scientist flirt with someone, he never does." Vince and Leon were laughing at that.
Jesse just ignored them and informed Dom that they were back with the parts, "Do you want me and Leon to start working' on the Camero?" he asked Dom. Dom shook his head, "No I want you to run a check on Nate, see what you can find?" Jesse nodded. "Okay but I don't know his full name." he told Dom. "Nathan Spencer Skelly." Dome told him and Jesse ran off to the office to find the information Dom wanted.
A few hours later Jesse called Dom into the office, "You find anything Jesse?" he asked him. Jesse nodded, "Yeah some deep shit. Nate is apparently always in trouble with the law, or some sort of authority; when he was in high school he was always in trouble for fighting with other students." Jesse scrolled down, "He went to rehab for two months when he was fourteen or fifteen, clean as a whistle now. If he fights with a Jake Knowlsen one more time, he will be put into jail for a really long time. He was arrested and put in jail for two years in Minneapolis for attempted manslaughter; he beat a guy up so bad that you couldn't even recognize him with all the bruises and cuts on him. He was in Minnesota state prison. He did some basic Juvie things but other than the attempted man slaughter nothing too serious." Jesse told Dom leaning back in his chair.
Dom sighed and ran a hand over his bald head, he was just surprised that Nate would do that, he doesn't seem the type; then a gain he didn't seem the type either when he did it. Dom stood up and walked out of the office followed by Jesse, it was time to go to the diner and eat. Dom yelled at everyone in the garage, "Yo its time to eat lets go." They drove a block or so to the diner where Mia was.
Dom walked over to Mia and kissed her on the forehead, "Hey Mia, how's it goin'?" he asked her, she shrugged. "Well it's the same as it is every other day, what you expect some change?" she asked him. He laughed at her and sat down as Mia put food in front of them; she looked at Nate and shrugged. "I wasn't sure what you wanted?"
Nate smiled before he answered her. "Turkey on white bread, pepper, pickles and mayo." the others looked at Nate in disgust, Leon voiced what they were thinking. "How can you eat that man, gross, can't you just eat turkey with you know cheese like normal people." Nate shrugged
Mia glared at Leon, "He has a choice in what he eats, leave him be." she went to the back to make Nate's food and came back out with it. "Thanks" she smiled at him. Kat pulled up and walked into the diner where the rest of the team was, "Hey guys how's it goin'" she asked them.
They all shrugged, obviously too into their food to talk. "Hey Mia, can I have Ham on white bread, pepper, pickles and mayo." Mia nodded and went to make that. The guys were staring at her and Nate; those two were most definitely related.
Vince smirked at Jesse and whispered, "Look it's your lover girl." Jesse glared at him. "Just shut up already." he whispered fiercely to him. Vince just laughed at him; Kat looked over at the two of them curiously, they just shook their heads. Kat looked at the both of them as if they had another head attached to them.
Dom looked at Nate, "I need to talk to you in the backroom." Nate gave the others a worried look but continued to the back. "Nate its regulation for me to do a background checks on my employee's and I found some interesting facts about you. Care to explain them?" he asked him.
Nate looked at him in surprise, "Well umm you see I can't tell you." Dom looked at him not backing down from getting an answer from him one way or another. "Why not?" Nate shook his head, "I just cant, it's the past I've forgotten about that and I hoped to keep it in the past. Apparently that wont happen though because you had to see what was in my record." he said a bit peeved that Dom did that.
Dom sighed, "If you would just tell me why you have attempted man slaughter on your record I would be able to trust you more with my family." he told him.
Nate glared at him, "NO, IT'S NOT MY PAST TO TELL." he yelled at him, he knew by now that all the others were listening in on what they were saying and talking about. It wasn't Nate's past to talk about, it was Kat's her past and her problems; he protected her when she needed it and he went to jail for it but in the end it was all worth it.
Kat walked in and laid a hand on Nate's shoulder, "Nathan its okay, we need to tell them." he looked at her confused, wondering why she was willing to do that, she's been trying so long to forget what happened and now she's going to remember it and relieve the pain that it brought.
Kat nodded at him, "Its fine, I think in order to forget the past we need to remember the past first. Come on we should tell everyone so they know what's going on exactly." She nodded at Dom to lead them out to where all of the others were. Dom motioned for everyone to be quiet as Kat and Nate came out and sat down looking at everyone.
Kat exhaled before she started to say anything. "You all probably want to know what that was about and why Nate has attempted man slaughter on his records right." the team nodded and Kat started to explain. "Well you see, a few years back, like maybe four I met someone. Jake, he was nice and everything in the beginning, but about six months later he was beginning to get on my nerves. Wanting to go everywhere I went and calling like fifty times within an hour." she shook her head remembering how Jake always acted when she went out and when she hung up on him if he called too many times.
"Well one time I got home around three in the morning, I was with friends, we went to a late movie and then went out to eat and talked awhile; when I got home there he was sitting on the couch looking calm and collected. Anyone who knew him knew that if he was calm it was a bad sign, it means that he was beyond pissed and that whoever was at the end of his rage would be in deep shit." Kat was in a daze, she was looking at the team but not really seeing them, the memories were replaying in her mind.
"When I started explaining what was going on, he wouldn't hear of it, said I was with some guy; I was with a guy but not in the way he thinks. I was about to try and explain again when he hit me, and I mean hit me he was a boxer and he packs a mean punch. He swung at me again but I ducked in time and I started to fight him off so that I could get away to someplace safe. After a few punches I finally kicked him in the stomach so hard that I knocked the wind out of him and I ran for it and went to my car and drove to Nate's." she paused a moment before beginning again.
"Nate and I used to live together but it was beginning to get serious between me and Jake so I moved in with him, but if anyone hits me I won't stay there so I went to Nate and told him what happened." Kat looked at Nate and nodded, he took off from where she left off.
"I was pissed, beyond pissed even; why would anyone want to mess with my family like that; me and Jake have gotten into fights many times before, he even called the police on some accounts or his people did. At first, I thought he was cool because he was a street racer like I was and Kat was into the whole street racing thing, she barely ever raced for money. Only if she was in the mood to do so, otherwise it was all for fun to her." Nate shook his head in anger.
"I knew that Jake had something against me when he said to stay away from his people and Kat. Kat who was my cousin, he never did that before. That just made me curious and more protective of her than I was before. After Kat came to my house and I saw her bruises I had someone come over and make sure she's safe and I headed over to Jake's house and barged in. I was on a rampage, I was seeing red. I just hit him with anything I could get my hands on; the next day the police came to my house and arrested me attempted man slaughter, I was in for two years, not being able to protect Kat or anyone in my family really." Nate sighed and looked out at the streets. "So that's the reason, so am I fired now or what?" he asked Dom who laughed at him.
"No man, your not fired, I just needed to know the reason. For protecting your cousin that's a reason to do that." Nate nodded at that. Kat smiled at Nate and shrugged, as if she was saying its over, the past is firmly in the past. At least it is to Nate, he doesn't know about the letter she got from Jake, threatening her and her new life and family.
"Nate I gotta go back, Harry is probably gonna be pissed that I took a longer lunch break than I needed." Nate nodded and watched her leave. Leon was just surprised by the story, he wouldn't figure that Nate would nearly kill someone, even though they have only known him for a few days he just doesn't seem the type.
Vince sighed, "So those girls are like your sisters?" he asked him, Nate nodded. "They always will be, sure Kat technically is related to me, but she's more of a sister to me than a cousin. We've always been close, ever since we were little kids." he glanced at the group, "Most likely because we were the only ones who were the same age on her mothers side of the family." he explained, they soon headed back to the garage to work.
A few hours later the closed the garage for the day and headed home, well all but Dom and Nate, Dom wanted to ask Nate something. "So where is this Jake guy now?" Dom sat on the hood of his car waiting for Nate to answer.
"As far as I know he's still in Minnesota but he may have moved, so he really could be anywhere." Nate said as he sat on the hood of his own car, Nate hoped to god that the sick bastard doesn't even think about coming around to where they were if he even finds them.
"So you guys wanna come to the races tonight?" Dom asked him, Nate did say he and his cousin were into the racing scene so it wouldn't hurt to invite them to go along that night.
Nate smirked at Dom, "Are you sure you want us to come along; I mean Jazz and I might want to race." he asked Dom, Nate did want to race and he was sure that Jazz most definitely would want to. Kat sometimes tends to just watch a few then she will race, or she will go to a towns races and observe being there for the first time.
Dom shrugged, "We can arrange a race for you guys if you want to, doesn't bother me. But I wouldn't recommend racing against me, you wont win, no one has." Nate nodded.
"Yeah we'll come along; it'd be interesting to see what the racin' scene is like here in LA." Nate jumped in his car and sped off towards home, with Dom right behind him.
Dom walked into the kitchen and saw Mia already getting ready to make dinner, "Mia is that all you ever worry about is feed us big bad men." he asked her. She hit him on the shoulder playfully.
She turned back to what she was doing, "No Dom I have to worry about feeding big bad Letty as well, so you're not the only one." she shooed him out of the kitchen once he grabbed a Corona.
"Hey who's winnin?" he asked referring to the game that Jesse and Vince were playing. Jesse usually lost when he was against Vince, but he seemed to be getting better at the game because it seemed he was tied with him for the time being.
Jesse answered him without turning away from the game, "Who usually wins Dom. I think you've seen us play this game enough to know." he told him.
Dom just shook his head at the two and sat down on the couch. Soon enough the game was over with Vince being in first place, like he normally is. "I invited Nate an the girls to the races tonight." the told them.
Jesse looked downright giddy at the new information, Leon just smirked and Vince actually looked depressed, probably because he doesn't have a girl to go after at the races like Jesse and Leon do. He'll get over it hopefully by that night or before the races. "Cant wait." he said unenthusiastically, the others just ignored that comment.
Letty came down the stairs and smiled at Dom, she's obviously happy. "Why so chipper Letty?" he asked her. "Nothin' just got done talkin' to Kat, she's goin' to the races courtesy of you, and she's brining Kara with." Dom gave her a weird look, she usually isn't this happy about someone going with. She's never been this nice to another girl that she didn't know as well either.
Jesse gave the controller to Dom for him to try the game. Leon smiled at Jesse, "Maybe tonight you can actually ask Kat out instead of beating around the bush and just flirting with her like a little school boy 'eh." Jesse glared at Leon for that comment.
Jesse then looks at Leon and remembers his conversation with Jazz, "Are you ready to be turned down by Jazz again Leon, or are you going to be very persistent as usual?" Jesse asked him with a smirk. Leon looked at him in shock but he then just burst out laughing.
Dom was in deep thought about something or another, Letty seemed to notice and called him on it. "Dom what's in that big thug mind of yours that's got you so locked up?" she asked him.
Dom shook his head, "Nothing Letty, just Kat is hiding something from us and her family I can tell I just don't know what, I could tell when she began talking about her past." Letty sighed an shrugged. "Well there isn't much I can do about it Dom." he knew that but still, he wanted to know what was going on with them exactly.
A few hours later Letty and Mia got ready to go to the races that night; Mia was wearing a skirt that had some sort of design seen in India, then a shirt that had spaghetti straps tying at the neck, the shirt was a dark pink belly shirt, sort of a v shaped shirt. She then put on some strappy shoes, but ones that were comfortable to walk in, she then went to do her hair. She put half her hair up in a pony tail other half down, the half that was down she put tight bottle curls in it and the top half in loose curls. She put on light pink make-up with some lip gloss and she was ready to go.
Letty put on a black leather mini skirt that had a white dragon on the side of it, then for her shirt she had a red mesh shirt over her black bra, she has a thing for mesh shirts. She put one of the many pairs of combat boots on, the ones with the skull at the heel of it. She then put her hair up in a messy bun with her bangs hanging down; she put some red eye shadow on and headed down stairs along with Mia.
Dom looked up as they came down the stairs, "You both look wonderful." he went up to Letty picked her up and kissed her passionately. His hands were going lower then her waist.
Vince smacked Dom on the head. "Take it to your room and let us go to the races." Dom set Letty down and nodded. "Lets get goin' we got us some races to win." he said and they all headed outside to get in their cars. The saw that Kat, Jazz were already in their cars; Nate was riding with Jazz and Kara with Kat. Kat leaned out her window and smirked at Dom, "And I thought it took Jazz a long time to get ready, you all took forever." Dom laughed at that.
"Blame it on the girls, we were waitin' on them." Kat rolled her eyes and motioned that they were ready to go. Dom and his team pulled out first and then Kat and her people. When they arrived at the races people immediately surrounded the group, like they normally do.
Dom saw Hector and Edwin coming towards the group. "Hey Dom what's up?" hector asked him. "Nothing, hector so who's gonna try and beat me tonight?" he asked the two of them. Hector motioned to a Asian girl, Black man and some other guy, Dom smirked. They're going to be easy.
Hector and Edwin seemed to notice Kat, Jazz and Kara standing around doing nothing. Hector went up to Jazz and smirked at her, "Hey honey what's your name?" he asked, Jazz just glared at him and continued to ignore him.
Kat stepped in front of Hector, "Bekommen Sie Ihren fetten Esel aus meinem Weg, Sie Schwein." he looked utterly lost at that but went over to talk to someone else on the other side of the street. Jazz gave Kat a thankful look, for her getting Hector away from her. Leon came and sauntered over to Jazz and looked her up and down.
Jazz was wearing a dark blue shirt that had a crisscrossing back; it showed off her tattoo's that she has on her lower back and shoulder blade. She has a pair of low rise jeans on that are really baggy where they flare out. She braided some parts of her hair and pulled those back to hold the rest of her hair back and out of her face. Her make-up consisted of some light blue eye shadow on and eye liner, the less it is the more elegant she looked.
Jazz noticed Leon looking at her and she sent him a knowing look, "Leon I know you're staring I'm not blind." she told him, he just smirked at her and stood next to her continuing to talk to her. "So Jazz how's life?" he asked her, Jazz rolled her eyes. "Before you came I was having the time of my life, now that you're here its completely shitty." she told him.
Leon gave her a hurt look but kept on being persistent with her, "Come on Jazz I cant be that bad can I, I mean really." he said looking her in the eyes. Jazz laughed at his hurt look and patted him on the cheek, "no you're not that bad, you're alright Leon. But I'm still not telling you what I think of you, no matter how many times you ask." she told him. She noticed that Kat was talking to Jesse who was sitting atop his car with her next to him.
Leon sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. Jazz sure was a stubborn woman, even more than Letty is and that is saying a lot about someone. Jazz intrigued him, she didn't seem to care that he was apart of team Toretto, she didn't want him because of his car and she doesn't talk to him because of Dom, she talks to him because she want's to. "Can I have a small hint possibly?" he asked her, she turned and looked at him.
At first, he thought she was gonna slap him and walk away in a huff, but he was way off on that one. She did something totally unexpected. She pulled him to her and kissed him and her hands began to run through his hair, he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her back. She pulled away and he was about to kiss her again but she pushed him away and shook her finger at him. "You asked for a hint you didn't ask for the whole thing Leon." she walked away from him and he was in shock, she kissed him like that and then walks away, so not fair to do that to him.
Jesse was sitting on his car watching everyone and waiting for Dom to get ready for the race. Kat came over by him and smiled, "Whatchya doin' Jesse?" she asked him.
He looked over at Kat, "Nothing just waiting for Dom to start the race, I usually have to check everyone's engine and make sure that they aren't cheating in any way." Kat nodded and looked down at her feet finding them terribly interesting since she doesn't know what to say to Jesse.
Jesse decided to be bold for once or a bit more bold at this moment in time, he put his hand out for Kat to take; she looked up at him questioningly. She eventually smiled and took his hand and he pulled her up onto the hood of his car. She looked beautiful, simply beautiful. She was wearing her hair down and you could see that it reached right between her shoulder blades, she had a red spaghetti strap shirt on that had a picture of a dark fairy on the front, she was wearing some green skater pants and her favorite pair of boots.
Jesse looked at Kat, "How do you like LA so far?" he asked her, she smirked at him.
"So far its good, I have these neighbors who live across the street, one of them in particular is really nice, he has blond hair and blue eyes and he's known as the 'mad scientist' to the group. I really like him, but I don't know if he likes me." she told Jesse, Jesse was confused at what she was saying but then he got what she meant.
Jesse watched Jazz and Leon interact and almost laughed but he kept his cool, "Maybe he's afraid you don't like him the way he likes you; he thinks that you may only think of him as a friend." Kat looked over at him and he was looking at her.
Kat was looking at him as she answered, "The girl doesn't think of him as just a friend, the girl wants to become more but is too afraid to take that leap." Jesse smiled at her and Kat smiled back at him, he was about to say something but he was called away by Dom. "Jesse come and look at this car." he sighed and looked at Kat sympathetically. She waved it off, "We'll continue this conversation later." he nodded and hopped off of the car and walked towards Dom who was smirking at him.
Letty had grabbed Kara earlier and was introducing her to the others; she's met everyone but Vince and Leon. Kara sighed, she wasn't in the mood for this, but Kat is forcing her out of the house to get her mind off of Kyle and what he did to her. Kat had forced her into a peasant tank top shirt, and a pair of blue jeans, she put different types of make-up on so to hide the bruises. Letty dragged her over to Leon, who was doing the scanner.
"Leon this is Kara, Kat's friend." he looked over at her and smiled sweetly. "Nice to meet you Kara." Letty saw that he was looking over at Jazz who was with Kat now talking about something or another. Letty shook her head at Leon and dragged Kara by her arm yet again. She took her over to meet Vince, hopefully get his mind off Jazz he really liked her, she was nice and cool.
Letty tapped Vince on his shoulder and he turned around to look at them. Letty motioned over to Kara, "This is Kara, Kara meet Vince." Kara nodded at him.
"Nice to meet you Vince, she then saw some of his tattoo's, she noticed there was one that is unfinished. "Nice tattoo's but why is that one unfinished?" she asked him, he looked down at the dragon that was on his arm that was only half done.
He shrugged, "The guy that was doing it had to leave and he couldn't finish it, I never really bothered to finish it up." Kara smiled at that and took something out of her pocket. "Here, take this." he looked at the card she handed him, it said Kaze's ink shop. "It's a tattoo parlor tell them Kara sent you, I can get you a deal for real cheap to finish that off if ya want." he looked at her and smiled.
"You a regular there or what?" he asked her. She smirked at him, "Or what." she told him and walked away with Letty. He smiled at her retreating back and stuck the card in his pocket.
Letty, Mia, Kara, Kat and Jazz were watching the race; Nate against the wishes of Kat decided to race against Dom. Nate told Dom that he didn't expect to win against him but he just wanted the rush.
Jazz was trying to calm Kat down, "Look Kat he doesn't expect to win, he just wants the rush." Kat still shook her head in anger, she's pissed that Nate would waste two G just to have a rush.
Kat sighed and looked at Mia and Letty for support and they shook their heads that they weren't gonna get in this. Kat looked at Jazz, "Look I know but he's wasting money to just get a rush I think that's just stupid is all." Kara gave Kat a hug and leaned on her watching the race.
The outcome was not a surprise at all, Dom of course won, though Nate only lost by an inch or so. "Good race Nate." Nate shrugged and they were about to arrange another race but Leon shouted, "COPS WE GOT COPS. GO, GO, GO." Everyone scattered away.
Kat was across the street and at her car already and she saw Kara just standing there, "VINCE!" he looked over at Kat who was motioning to Kara. "Take her with you!" he nodded and motioned for Kara to get in with him which she gladly did. On their way to the house Vince made conversation with her, "So where are you from?" he asked her.
Kara looked over at him before answering, "where I was born or where I lived before here." He shrugged, "Either or both I don't care." he told her.
She shook her head at him, typical male answer, "I lived in Boston before LA, but I've travel to Italy every summer for at nearly two months. that's where I met Kat, she was on a field trip with a class and we had fun talking and all so we traded addresses and e-mail." she told him. He nodded at that and pulled up into the driveway.
She got out and was about to go across the street but he stopped her, "We have parties after every race, Kat and all are most likely gonna come here, or Dom with convince them if they don't want to at least." he told her with a laugh, she nodded and followed him into the house.
A/N: Please tell me that you liked it somewhat, I had a few problems with this. I hope you liked some of the interactions that happened with the characters. Here is the translation from earlier. Get your fat ass out of my way, you pig.
