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She climbed into the car as she looked over at her brother. "How's the face?" He asked starting the car.

"It hurts."

"I see you are still limping, is that from last night or from the wreck?"

"Dom…" Gabriella whispered. His face was hard as he drove down the road. He refused to look at her as she turned her body towards him. "I'm so sorry."

"Where did you get the money from?"

"Dads insurance that ya'll gave me. It's how it started…ask me anything Dom. I will tell you the truth I promise."

"So you win the first race, how much did you have then?"

"I won six. Then I kept doing it and I kept winning. I had about twenty thousand before the last race. It was ten to enter…"

"You lost ten thousand dollars."

She nodded her head. "Leon said that the car just barely tapped you."

"Yeah and the next thing I know I am spinning in circles. My head hit the window and then I woke up in the hospital."

"Have you seen your car?"

"No." The car came to a stop. They were in front of an impound lot. He opened the door and climbed out expecting her to follow him. He had his hand on his hips as she walked up next to him. She didn't speak. She knew he was angry with her. She knew this was his time.

"Your car is in here. Walk with me…" He started walking into the lot as Gabriella followed. She stayed behind him as they passed cars until they came upon her Nissan. It was mangled. There wasn't a car left. She bowed her head as he turned to her. "So while I am sitting in prison, my little sister decides that she wants to go racing. I kept hearing about how you have been causing so much bullshit with Mia and Vince, but I knew it was because of me. I left you, I understand that. Why racing? Why did it have to be the one thing that killed our father?"

"I was good at it." She whispered.

"You were good at it? Are you looking at this car right now?"

She didn't speak. "You see this, these burn marks right here? That's the NOS…the—"He stopped. "The NOS should have blown up that night Gab and I have no idea why it didn't. You were going a hundred miles per hour, you should have died."

"I know."

"Do you?" He yelled. "Do you know that? I am sitting in a room when Vince came walking in. He looked as if he had lost his best friend. I just thought he was stressed. He got to see what I had to put up with for sixteen years. He sits down and he tells me he has something he needed to tell me. It wasn't a regular visit I knew right then, he looked horrible. He told me what happened, I could have killed him for letting it happen. Then he told me how bad—"

"Dom…" Gabriella whispered.

"You almost died and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't leave, I couldn't do anything but sit there and wait for someone to tell me that you were gone."

"I was so upset Dom. I was on sixteen years old and I lost everything. I felt like my world was being torn from me. Then you leave Mia and Vince in charge of me. I could have killed you. Everything just seemed to stop working for me. I had them down my back about everything. Everyone hated Johnny and I loved him. It was graduation day and Brianna came over to tell me that her and Johnny kissed. My world crashed again. I hated him for it. But I gave him a benefit of a doubt and went to a party that night to talk to Johnny and I saw him with her. I just flipped out. I had known about the racing world since I could remember. Dad would talk about it all the time. So I went to where I know they would have been. You should have seen the looks I was getting. How I won that race I don't know, it just happened. I don't think I have ever been so scared in my life. I won though. I won and it felt good. I felt free. I knew that I couldn't do it around here, so I went to other cities…"

Dom sighed. "I won those, I became known as the seventeen year old girl to beat. Then Hector comes by. He said that he saw me Harry's day and was wondering what I was doing there. Then he knew what I was doing when he saw me at a race. He was pissed, he threatened to tell Vince. So I told him I would stop…then something happened to my car so I asked Leon to look at it. He knew I was racing as well. I was angry Dom, okay. I just found something that I was good at and something that let me be free from all the bullshit of the world and it was being taken away from me. Franko called, told me about this race. Ten thousand dollars, I couldn't pass it up. I thought it would be like all the other races but it wasn't. There were a ton of people everywhere. It was four people instead of the normal three. I felt weird about it, I knew I shouldn't have done it, but I did. I am so sorry okay. I have to live with what happened to me for the rest of my life. I have no other excuse for you, I just wanted my life to go away."

Dom nodded his head. "I got a chance to call for the first time since I was in there, so I knew I had to be quick at the hospital. I didn't even know if you were awake or not. Mia told me what happened after I called you…"

"It wasn't your fault Dom, I just was overexcited that's all. I got worked up and had a panic attack."

"But you are fine now?"

"I still have a little pain in my leg. Therapy was good. I got a lot of anger out there."

"And racing?"

"I am scared to death to even go near the driver's seat of car right now."

He nodded his head. "I will deal with Jake and Johnny, you don't have to worry about that."

"Look at my face Dom, we can't keep going back and forth."

"He doesn't get away with this. Vince might have taken care of it the first time but I am here now. I will end this."

"Johnny's father recruited them into Yakuza. Jake, Johnny, and Brianna. They are all a part of it now. Just let it go please…"

Dom shook his head. She knew it was no use arguing with him. He walked over to her wrapping his arms around her body and lifting her in the air. "I really thought that I was never going to see you again." She whispered.

"It's been a rough two years."

She nodded her head as he sat her back down on the ground. "Let's go home and get something to eat." She smiled as she let go of his hand and began walking back to the car. She limped as Dom stayed behind her watching her. He shook his head. It made his blood boil every time he thought about it. He could have lost and there wasn't anything he could have done about it. He made a vow right then and there, he would protect with his life even if it cost his

.

Gabriella sat down on the couch watching TV when Vince plopped down beside her. "How's the face?" he asked grabbing her hand.

"Could be better, I think I am going to start taking kick boxing classes."

He began to laugh. "Yeah that would be good."

"Screw you, I was blindsided."

"You never turn your back on a fight Gab. Everyone knows that."

"Oh I'm sorry that I was trying to be the bigger person and walk away."

"No. you don't do that either."

"I'm glad I am taking advice from you."

"Look I am just looking out for you, you never turn your back on a fight. Always have someone there to help you, and never never try to calm things down."

"You are so weird some times."

"Look the next time…"

"Whoa! The next time, no there will be no next time."

"Stand up, I will teach you." Vince shot up from the couch. Gabriella began to laugh as she stood up. "Okay, put your fists in the air like this." He held his hands in the air and began bouncing back and forth. "This intimidates them. They don't know what you are going to do because you are all over the place."

"Right." Gabriella laughed. She put her fists in the air and began bouncing back and forth.

"Okay, so they come at you, you throw your left fist out at them. They block and you come up with the right. They won't see that coming."

Gabriella nodded her head. "Or you can do this…" He rushed towards her grabbing her arm throwing her body over his and throwing her on the couch. She let out a scream as she hit the couch.

"See you didn't see that coming did you?" He laughed.

"Vince!" She yelled jumping off the couch and running towards him. She ran into his stomach knocking him backwards as he began to laugh. She started punching him in the stomach. It wasn't causing anything, just making him laugh harder at her. She didn't see Dom standing in the door way as they continued to play fight. Gabriella screamed as Vince picked her up again.

"Dom!" Gabriella yelled. "Dom help me!"

Dom smiled as he shook his head at her before walking back into the kitchen. She heard the door slam behind him as he went onto the porch. She punched Vince in the stomach one last time before running outside. "Dom…" She looked around and saw him standing at the door of the warehouse. "Oh Dom." She whispered. She slowly made her way down the steps and over to him.

"She still in here?" He asked.

"Yeah." Gabriella replied as she put her hand on his shoulder. "No one has touched her."

"It's late Gab, you should go inside."

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to stay out here for a little bit. I will see you inside."

Letty looked out the window as she watched Dom and Gabriella interact. She smiled to herself. She never thought she would see the day that he would get to come home early. She lifted herself off the chair and walked to the door and stood there staring at him as he stayed in one spot with his hand on the door of the warehouse. She sighed as she walked over to him laying her hand on his shoulder. He smiled down at her bringing her into his arms and kissing her softly on the head.

"It's good to have you home." She replied softly. "You going to come to bed tonight?"

He chuckled. "I couldn't sleep last night. I was worried about Gabby."

"She is a tough girl Dom. She really is."

"She had to be I guess."

"Why are you out here? Let's go inside."

"I'm trying to bring myself to open this door."

"No one has touched her Dom. She is just the way you left her."

"Was I wrong Let? Was I a bad brother?"

"Dom, she is a teenager. She was bound to get into some trouble especially with all the shit that has happened to her. She was trying to live her life without you and her father. It was hard. It was hard on all of us."

"She just doesn't know…"

"How much she means to you? Yes she does Dom…" Letty smiled. "She means the world to us all. And so do you. Her face when she saw you Dom, I saw it. I was standing in the house and nothing in this world mattered to her anymore. She just got the shit kicked out of her and that disappeared. Her world is coming back together again. You can be mad at her, I'm sure she expects it. We were all mad at her, but don't blame this on yourself. It's not your fault at all."

Dom brought her towards him again squeezing her tight. "I sure have missed you."

"Well you can make it up by giving me a massage tonight." She smirked.

"And so it begans."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"DOM!" Vince yelled as the door swung open. Dom's head shot up to his friend. "Jake Hou is on the phone asking for you."

"What the hell does he want?" Letty snarled.

"Lets go find out." Dom let go of Letty and moved towards the house. His fists were clenched as her jerked the phone from Vince's hand. "Yes." He turned his face towards Vince. "You will pay for what happened to my sister, I can promise you that…I'll meet you tomorrow at noon."

"Dom!" Letty yelled.

Dom hangs up the phone and hands it back to Vince. "He has something he wants to discuss with me. I'm going to pay him a visit. He doesn't get away with what happened."

"Dom it's a trap, you know it is." Vince chimed in.

"Then I guess we should get ready."