I shook my head, now he decides call me. And he doesn't have the decency to do it himself. "Any chance I say no and you all leave me alone." Not even a hint of acknowledge to my joke. "Fine, but Athena comes with me." They nodded and escorted me to a black Tahoe.
We arrived to a huge half cylinder looking building. As we pulled up to the main gate, the men were greeting by another man at the gate.
"Who do we have?" The guard asked.
Cute guy, who happened to be the one that was driving lowered her window. "Elizabeth Toretto."
The guard gave her a small nod. "Very well. The other have arrived as well." He turned and made a circle with his hand.
The gate opened slowly to let the vehicle in. I glanced around and saw nothing but military men and black suited men everywhere. A bunch of questions flew into my head. What was going on? Who were these people? Why me? Dom? Why was I here? Was shaw okay? What if he comes and doesn't find me? What others? Feeling the vehicle stop I, opened the car door and stepped out. Athena stepped down, standing beside me. I was so drawn into my surroundings, that I didn't see the group behind me.
"Well she doesn't write, call or text."
I jumped around to see the crew. "Holy shit! Mia!" I rushed to her, pulling her into a tight hug. "I missed you is much!"
"I am really hoping this meant all of us." Tej mumbled.
Giving him a thoughtful look, I shrugged. "Keep hoping." With a laugh I hugged him. "How have you been?" I noticed that out of all the crew it was only Tej, Roman, Brian, Mia and Dom who was in an office above us. "Where are the Santos brothers?"
Mia lowered her head and grabbed my hands. "They were killed a few days ago."
"What?!" I took a step back and glanced at the others, getting nods from all of them. "Who?!"
"You will know in a moment." Some old guy with Dom answered.
Giving him a once over I narrowed my eyes at him. "And who the hell are you?"
"Again no time for that." The man smiled. "Come with me and I will explain every thing."
As we followed the man, Mia grabbed my shoulder. "What?"
She gestured with her head behind me. "Look."
Turning back I tripped with my feet. Johnny was here and he looked good. He kept his eyes on me and I couldn't help, but feel nice. tearing my eyes off him, I took a deep breath trying to calm my nerves and breathing heart. Haven't seen him in two years. What am I supposed to do? Say?
We all gathered in the garage area, listening to the weird old guy talk about the job.
"Our intelligence suggest that Ramsey, will be transported by an armed motorcade through the caucasus mountain range. If they clear this range and reach their destination, Ramsey is as good as gone."
"So let me get this straight." Roman began. "Theres only one road that leads in our out, sheers drops on every side, a motorcade from hell protected by a small army, from on mile in either direction?"
Old guy, shrugged and nodded. "Yeah, thats about it."
"You done?" a soldier looking guy asked.
Roman glared and the guy. "No, I'm not done. So you all wanted me to break into a police station. Fine." I glanced around with a tired look. Tej was playing a video game on his phone. Brian and Dom were trying not to laugh. Johnny was simply standing next to Dom, not really doing anything. "Then you asked me to stop a tank. I wasn't happy about it, but I did it. Then you came up with this brilliant idea to shoot down one of the largest airplanes ever. I shot that shit out of the sky." He made a gun shot gestured, I was just about to lose my control. "Mmm. It was nothing." Tej finally looked away from his phone, is only to scoff. "But this right here my friends, happened to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard of in my life."
Tej jumped in. "I forgot that you were the only to bring the plane down."
I leaned into dom. "What plane?"
Dom chuckled. "I'll tell you about it later."
Brian shook his head. "No, no. the only thing I've ever seen him take down was "no knees" Denise. Remember at prom."
We all looked between Brian to Roman.
Roman did this weird look between a scowl and glare. "Really, Brian? You're gonna do that right here?" I hide my face into the side of my brother, hiding my laugh. "See y'all trying to get mer off my point. All I'm saying is, I'm tired of everybody around me making all the decisions. This time, lead. Seriously. If I don't start making decisions, I'm out." Everyone was quiet, we looked from Dom to Roman. I nudged Dom on the side, giving him a small smirk and nod.
Dom placed his palms on the table and leaned forward. "Alright Roman. What do you got?"
Roman was taken by surprise, looking from side to side. "I meant, I wasn't trying to get into the whole leadership thing, like, now. You know what I'm saying? Im just talking about like at some point, like, like you know when we..whatever..I think, I think." He turned to the solder man and suddenly tapped on the screen. It was a touch screen on the table infant of us. It showed the route we were to take. "We hit it here."
Solder man stepped in ready to break this down. "I don't think that, that's..."
"No, no, no, don't think." Roman snapped. "Thats my job." He tapped his finger to his lips. "Shh. Shh."
I decided to take a seat on the steps of some stairs, Athena sat by my side. This was going to take a while and I needed to check my phone. Deckard had yet to text of email me, what was he not contacting me! I droned out part of the conversation at the moment. I was wondering if he was okay. Looking up I caught the next part of Romans plan.
"See, that what makes it so sweet. Because its the place that they least expect us to hit them from." Roman argued. Apparently solder man said it was impossible.
Johnny jumped in. "As much as I hate to admit it, he's onto something there." He turned to Dom. "What do you think, Dom?"
Dom leaned over touching the same spot roman did before. "Here?"
I stood back beside Dom, gaping at the spot they were talking about. 'Roman has finally lost his nut of a mind'. Looking up at I once more met eyes with Johnny. He would look, but when ever I caught him he looked away.
"Yeah." Roman asked.
Dom smirked. "I think we have a plan."
Old guy cleared his throat. "Completely wrong thinking and I like it." Solder man gave his boss a 'what the hell' look.
"You see? I'm good at this." Roman looked so proud of himself.
"Good? Okay." Solder man nodded, before he leaned forward and increased the imagine on the screen. "How are you planning on getting on that road?"
I looked up at roman "yeah Roman, how?"
Roman glanced at all of us, before landing eyes on Tej. "Well, Tej?"
"I think I may actually have a plan for that." Tej stated.
Seriously?
"What?" Roman asked solder man. "I delegated. Thats what good leaders do. leader!"
Old guy leaned closer into dom. "You know when I was reading you file, I was impressed with what you've accomplished with you team. But meeting them now, I've gotta say, Dom, you've truly got a gift."
I pooped my head to the side and looked at him. "I recent that. Without me he would be in the loony bin." Dom cocked an eyebrow at me.
Old guy laughed, slapping Dom on the shoulder. "Yeah sure." He continue to walk away. "Considering my workshop your new playhouse. I think you'll find our cars extremely appealing. And your team is not complete."
I turned to look and I swear I someone punched me in the gut. She was dead! They told me she was dead! how the fuck is she standing there?! I glanced at Mia and Dom, they looked from her to me. I even glanced at Johnny and the jerk looked away. He knew! I am going to kill them! I refused to make a move towards her. Something was off and I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean there had to be a reasonable reason. Dom walked up to her and appeared to be talking. A few seconds and they walked back. She saw me, but she didn't seem to care. What the fuck?
"Brian! We are going to need long-travel suspension, limited-slip differentials on all of them." Dom ordered as he walked by. Brian and Mia went to hug Letty. Hell even Roman went up to her. I stayed back, looking from the outside. I felt really weird. "Tej! I want to demon child between that..." Dom pointed to the challenger. "And that." And to a military jeep.
"Thats a lot of armor." Johnny warned.
Tej nodded. "Its gonna add more weight. Slow you down."
Dom turned to look at us. "This time, it ain't just about being fast."
We sat in the cars waiting for the moment of our deaths. I would look at my phone every few seconds. I was really beging to get worried. This wasn't like him.
"You okay?" Johnny asked.
I completely forgot he was sitting next to me. Dom insisted he ride with me since we needed to shortage the number of vehicles. Athena was left behind with the old guy. Of course I got the pick of car, but because Dom wasn't really liking the idea of getting shot. "Yeah, I'm just worried about a friend."
"Girl or guy?" Johnny asked.
I raised a brow at him. "Guy."
"Oh."
I put my phone away and leaned back against my seat. "So how is Akin?"
Johnny pulled his phone out. "He's gotten big and pretty handsome." He handed me his phone. Akin had grown up so much. He was looking so much like dom.
"He is so big." I ran my finger over the picture and handed it back to Johnny.
"He misses you Eli. Not a day goes by where he doesn't ask for you."
I ran my hand through my hair. "I'll call him later, I promise. I have been busy these past..."
"Two years?" Johnny scoffed. "Look you don't have to if you don't want to Eli. He is fine and happy."
I was really ready to snap back at him, but I seriously didn't want to fight with him. "So what have you been doing?"
Johnny shrugged. "After you left, I started working with Dom and the others. I have a car shop and I bought a house. You?"
"I have been working on bikes, living in London and I me-" I stopped myself. I don't think I was ready to tell him of that section of my life. "Met some new friends."
"Thats good."
We went back to silent. This was really awkward. the plane moved horribly, causing me to stiff to my seat. Grabbing my seatbelt I strapped myself into the seat.
'Hey, roman, you're freaking out, ain't you?' Tej's voice sounded through the talkie.
'No.' Roman mumbled.
'Yeah you are.'
'I said no.'
'Listen, man. It takes a grown man to embrace his feelings. If you need to cry, just go ahead and cry. As your friend, you know Im concerned about your well-being, which is why I took the precaution of putting some adult diapers in your glove department.'
'Yo, can you just chill out, man?'
'Hey, roman?' I called on the radio.
'What?'
'Weren't you the one to tell me you were afraid of heights?'
"God damit Eli!" Roman shouted.
"Now, I have seen some crazy shit, Dom, but this really could make some waves. So lets just try to keep it as low-key as possible, huh?" Old guy's voice sounded through our mikes.
"Don't I always?" Dom said.
"Right, thats why we are never caught, shot at or hunted down." I replied. Dom gave me a smile from across.
"I'll tell you what you knock it down a couple of notched this time and Ill swap out my Belgian for a keg of corona." Old guy offered.
Dom laughed. "You'd be doing yourself a favor there."
"I don't know Dom, Belgian is pretty good." I added. "Smooth and soft."
"Old guy laughed through the radio. "You sure you two related?"
I shrugged. "I always had a feeling Dom was adopted.
"Can somebody just walked me through what we're supposed to be doing?" Roman butted in.
"Come on, Rom, this in your plan. You gotta embrace it." Brian said.
"No, this was not my plan."
Alarms began to flash and sound. That was our cue to get ready. Planes back door began to open. Yup you heard it right a plane door. In case you weren't sure on what we were doing, let me elaborate. We are jumping out of a moving plane, in our cars in hopes that we make it alive and get this damn hacker. Why didn't I shoot Roman the first chance I could. We all buckled up and turned out engines on. I was riding a modified mustang/tank. Lets see if this beast can hold his own.
"Roman you need some fresh air?" Tej asked. "Because you're about to get a whole lot of it."
"Okay here we go!" Dom yelled. We watched him fly out the cargo platform. I swear I had to hold back a scream as I watched him drop.
"Just when you didn't think it could get any better, huh?" Brian mumbled as he followed.
We had to wait for everyone to get out. Roman was behind us, so that left us last. Letty followed and then Tej. I frowned as Roman didn't move. I looked back and frowned at Roman talking to himself. This man is nuts. We have to get a move on. I honked a few times, trying to get him to move. Instead the idiot simply kept talking. Lowering the window I stuck my head out.
"Roman! Move you prick!" Nothing.
"Hey, Rom? Hey, whats up, man? Talk to me, come on!" Brian called.
Roman shook his head. "I can't do it."
"The hell you can't! Come on, man! You throw that thing in reverse and get your ass out here now!" Brian shouted. I had to pull my ear piece out in order to not get a blown ear.
"Look, I can't do it, okay? Listen to what I'm saying."
"Now isn't the time!" I shouted, having finally been able to get my radio.
"Im going to stay up here with the pilot. We are gonna circle around and make sure we holding it down from up here!" Roman shouted back.
"Your frighten ass is blocking us!" I yelled. "Get your grown ass out now, Roman!"
"Your running out of time!" Letty finally decided to lend a helping voice. "The chute is guided by GPS! You don't have to do anything!"
"Eli!" Dom called. "Tej!"
"On it!" We both shouted.
"Tej?" I called.
"On my signal." He replied.
"Hey, listen, I'm sorry to let y'all down, okay?" Roman said. "I'm gonna go ahead and stay up here."
"No, brother. I'm sorry to let you down." Tej replied.
"You not going to leave me stuck here Roman." I added.
"What?"
"Eli!" Tej shouted.
I placed my car in reverse and slammed on the pedal. My car flew back and into Roman's car. Just as I hit his and was pushing it out, Tej activated the chute causing it to pull the car even more. Roman pressed on the brakes, stopping the car.
"God dammit Roman! Let the pedal go!" I growled, trying to push him off.
"No!" Roman shouted. Even at this altitude and level of noice, I can still hear his cry. "No! What are you doing?!" His car was thrown out of the plane, which then cause mine to follow.
We spun out of control, having left the plane in circles. All I saw was the car falling fast, ground coming in fast, and a feeling I was going to die. Ironic I was going to die with my ex in the car with me. Luckily I felt the chute open up as we got closer to the ground. I loved it! One by one we began to fall onto the road, I fell behind Letty.
"Car check, call it in." Dom said.
"Check."
"Check."
"Check."
"I am going to kill Roman!" I shouted.
"Easy Eli, we might need him later on." Dom teased.
We raced on the road, always keeping a tight line.
"Alright you have one chance to hit them Dom." Old guy spoke again. "You miss, they'll make it to their black site and they'll squeeze whatever information they need out of Ramsey. The device and your chance of ever getting Shaw will be gone."
"That aint gonna happened."
"Ill see you at the pick up."
I faltered a bit on my speed. Did they just say Shaw? Please no. don't let me think what I am thinking. Please god no.
