Title:No Angel
Author: Jackiegirl5485
Chapters: (7?)
Email: PG-13/R, The rating is only for the language and slight mature content.
Summary: For now your Just going to have to wait for the plot to thicken and simmer. Ha, ha.
Disclaimers: For legal purposes, I don't own the characters of Dom, Letty, Mia, Brian, Vince, Leon, and Jesse or any other characters that are mentioned in the story. Right now, the only character I own is Ella. And don't try suing me because all I got in my pocket is lent and one penny. You can have the penny if you want. !
Pairing: Letty and Dom, Mia and Brian, V is gonna stay the lone coyot' (spelt it without the e on purpose), Leon is still gonna be the ladies man and Jesse, well as much as it pains me to say Jesse is dead in this ficcie. I love ya Jess!
Achieve: Sure, just ask.
Feedback: Loved, as always.
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Chapter 7
The next morning I stopped by the garage bright and early. All the guys were there, minus Mia, who was at the diner. I looked over and saw Dom's shaved head behind the gate of his makeshift office'. Vince and Letty were trading insults about something or another; while Brian was hunkered under the hood of his vintage mustang. I spotted Leon's work boots underneath of his yellow skyline.
"Wassup, guys." I called out as I passed by them. Brian gave a little half-assed wave, and Letty and Vince were too engrossed in their conversation to even notice. Rolling my eyes I walked over to Leon and kicked him on the foot. He slid from under the car and sat up.
"Hey," I whispered, smiling down at him.
"Hey, babe." He took hold of my arm and pulled me down until I was straddling him.
"You know, you never did tell me what time when you wanted to take me out." I said leaning my forehead against his. "And you don't know where I live." I moved a little closer.
"How about Friday? I'll pick you up at around 8:00, and I already know where you live." Leon smirked moving his hands around my waist.
I bit down lightly on my bottom lip and grinned, "oh, you do, do you? Well, in that--" I stopped, noticing Dom stand and lean against the gate that separated his office' from the rest of the garage.
He motioned me over, "I need to talk to you for a minute." He rumbled in that gravelly voice of his, laced with tightness.
I turned back to Leon, puzzled. Leon shook his head and planted a quick kiss on my lips before I rose and strolled over to Dom.
He moved aside to let me pass by.
"If this is what I can expect from my future employer, maybe I'd rather work in the diner with Mia." I joked mock glaring at him.
He didn't even crack a smile, as he raised a brow and stared my way. Something was definitely not right here, I though as my heart sped up. I stepped back and plopped down in the nearest chair, waiting for him to speech.
"I ran a check on you," he declared coolly sitting on the desk in front of me.
My eyes widened in disbelief, "You ran a check on me?" I asked heatedly.
"I had to, Ella."
"Why?" Agitation crept into my voice.
"Because we have pretty much accepted you as a part of the team. You're, damn near, Leons girlfriend and since Jess died..." Dom trailed off, a sad note entered his voice.
He stared of into the distance, as if remembering some tragic event. I hadn't heard anything about this Jess-guy before, but I made a mental note to find out about it later. Dom looked so miserable just then that I almost forgot about his invasion of my privacy, almost.
"Dom!" I called out, voice raised.
He shook his head as if clearing it and turned back to me. But he still had that far away look in his eyes.
"Dom." I said a littler more quietly, rousing him out of his daze. "Look, I get that you had to check me out. But it isn't a big deal, really."
"Impressive wrap sheet you got here." He said opening a manila folder that he had been holding, ignoring my earlier words.
"Like I said, It ain't no big deal." I repeated coldly. I didn't want to go into the particulars' of my wrap sheet, and certainly not with him.
I glanced down as he flipped through page after page, "Car theft?"
I shrugged looking away, "It was two cars, and so what, it ain't like y'all didn't do the same shit." I resorted flippantly.
He leaned over and put the folder in my lap, pointing. "I'm not worried bout that. This is what worries me." I looked down dread filling me.
I stared at the page as Dom taped is finger on the words he wanted me to see. Two words gleamed back at me, attempted manslaughter'. I was hoping that he couldn't have gotten a hold of that piece of information. My blood turned to ice as the words rolled around in my mind. I knew the shit was going to come back and bite me on the ass one of these days.
I looked from Dom, to the crisp piece of white paper that held my whole sordid criminal record.
"We don't have to go into this, nobody died, and I was totally in the right, end of story." I pleaded. He sighed but made no indication of letting the matter be.
I climbed to my feet and fled from Dom's office. I didn't get very far before I heard him calling after me.
"Ella, wait!" He bellowed as he jogged to catch up with me.
I stopped and stole a quick glance around the garage. Brian, Vince, Letty and Leon, had abandoned there days work to gawk at the two of us. I had a sinking feeling that they had heard our whole conversation. I mean after all there weren't any walls separating us from the rest of the garage.
I huffed, "If you're going to put my business out there can we at least go somewhere more private?"
He nodded and I followed him to the back of the garage; it wasn't much better but it would have to do. When I passed Leon he had the strangest expression on his face. I'd have to talk to him about it later, but now it was the farthest thing from my mind.
I leaned against the nearest wall and peered up at Dom from underneath dark lashes, "Forget it, Dom." I tried one last time, it hadn't worked the other times I didn't know why I thought this time would be different.
"I need to know. There's no way around it."
I shrugged. "Fine, you want the long version or the short and sweet one?"
"Whichever one gives me the most information." He resorted, sarcasm dripping from his voice.
I rolled my eyes and began, "A few years back, I met this guy at the races. At first I thought he was a complete asshole, but then, I guess he grew on me. Once you got past the asshole factor' he was kind of nice." I laughed at the irony. "We hooked up. He got wasted. He raped me. I got a gun and shot him."
I stopped for a moment and cleared my throat, then continued. "But like I said I didn't kill anybody. I shot him but I only ended up shooting him in the shoulder. To make a long story short, I was tried for attempted manslaughter. I would have gone to prison but lover boy dropped the charges. Since I didn't kill him and all." I added sardonically.
"Is he in jail?" Dom stated. "Look, I'm sor--"
I cut him off, "You needed to know about it, so I told you. I don't want this to be some kind of big thing, okay. I got over it, you should too." I reassured him. In reality I hadn't forgotten, but what I told Dom was true, I didn't was it to be a big issue. I had dealt with enough major dramas, and I didn't want this to turn into one, too.
"Anything else you need to know."
Dom looked at me a moment before answering, "I needed to know." He said faintly running a hand over his head.
"Yeah, I know, " I sighed, shoving my hands in my pockets. Dom turned to go back to his office.
"Dom," I called after him. "Do me a favor, don't tell Leon or any of the other guys about this."
He nodded solemnly, "yeah, sure."
I ran a hand through my hair and grinned weakly, "don't you need me to fill out an application or something'."
He stared at me, puzzled, then grinned, "oh, yeah but you can do that later. For now get one of the guys to show you the ropes, I'll be going over the books if you need me."
"Okay." I watched as he walked back to his office. It was the first time that I had told anybody about what happened. I just hoped that Leon would never find out about it.
Author's Note: Okay guys that was the seventh chapter. What'd y'all think? Tell me if ya hated it, loved it, found something that could use improvement, so forth and so one. The next chapter is coming soon. Read and review, please.