Gabriella lifted herself off the floor and walked to the opening of the garage putting her hand over her eyes shielding her from the lights of the car. "Who are you? Do you need something?" She asked trying to look beyond the light. The lights went out as she sighed putting her hand down. The figure stepped out of the car? "Harrison, what are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry if I scared you!" He yelled still holding his hands in the air.
Gabriella gave a sigh of relief as she walked further into the opening of the garage wrapping her arms around Harrison's neck.
"What are you doing here?"
"I just couldn't…" He stopped kissing her softly on the lips. "I couldn't let you come back here alone."
"Harrison, I have to tell you something."
"I have to tell you something too." Harrison grabbed her hands bringing her into the garage. "Oh wow, who is this?" He pointed out the Charger. Gabriella smiled at him.
"It's my brothers. It was my dad's but it's his now. Letty had been working on it while he was gone."
"She's beautiful."
Gabriella wiped her face from the tears. "Hard day?" He asked walking over to her. She nodded her head leaning her head into his chest.
"It's really hard right now." She cried. "Too many demons coming back into my life."
"Like who?"
Gabriella pulled away from him covering her face. "Dom's home Harrison. He is here. He wants to find out what happened with Letty. Someone killed her. They just killed her."
Harrison stared at her. "And Brian is back. I don't know what he wants but he is back and I can't do this. I can't go through this again." She took a deep breath and looked up at him. "Why is he back? He was just at the funeral standing there. What does he want?"
"Gabriella, I need you to sit down okay. I need to tell you something and you aren't going to like it."
Her head shot up to him. "I don't want to sit down."
"Please." He begged.
"Is something going on with the garage?"
"I haven't been completely honest with you. I mean I have, everything I have told you has been the truth except…" He turned away.
"Except what?" Her hands began to tremble.
"My brother and I….I grew up in Los Angeles until my mom remarried another man who had a son. When I was fourteen we moved to Arizona where I met my new brother. He came to Los Angeles to be a cop…"
Gabriella jerked her arm away from him. "No." He grabbed her. "Stop please. I have just been looking out for you. I haven't wanted…"
"I told you things!" She yelled. "I told you everything!"
"It doesn't matter, I am not here for him. I just knew who you were when I started working at the garage. Brian told me about you. Gab you have to believe me…"
"My brother is here." She sobbed. "You need to leave. You can't be here anymore."
"I would never tell anyone about your brother and what he is doing. I swear on my life. I know that Brian is back in town and I know that he is here to bring Dom in. That is all that I know. That's why I came back."
Gabriella took a deep breath as her chest jumped. "Your brother is Brian O'Connor?"
"Yes."
"Get the fuck the away from me!"
Gabriella sat in the chair as Harrison sat across from her. She couldn't wrap her head that Brian's brother was standing right in front of her. "Why did you ask me out? Why did you even try anything?" Her voice was hoarse from all the screaming. She had finally calmed down after he refused to leave her. They sat across from each other right now.
"It had nothing to do with him. I swear on my life. I told him that I would keep an eye on you that is all." Harrison explained.
"Keep an eye out? Like what tell him if Dom called, tell him if Dom told me where he was? That kind of keeping an eye out?"
He shook his head. "No."
"I don't believe you." She shook her head. "I trusted you. I trusted you more than I should have and I knew…I knew that it was wrong but I did it anyways. "
"I wanted you to trust me Gab. You shouldn't be ashamed of that."
"You are just like him." She wiped the tears from her eyes. "He led me to believe that he was honest…"
"Gabriella don't do that." He shook his head. "Do not do that."
She heard a sound at the door and looked up. Mia was standing there.
He nodded his head. "I need you to believe me when I say that I asked you out for you not anything else. I wanted to get to know you for me. I fell…"
"Don't you say it." She spat.
"Gab?" Mia walked in.
Gabriella didn't move as she looked over at Harrison then at Mia. "Harrison?" Mia looked confused. "What are you doing here?"
Gabriella shook her head as she burst into tears. "I'm so sorry, Mia."
"No." Harrison moved forward.
Mia rushed over to her sister wrapping her arms around her neck. "He's Brian's brother." Gabriella sobbed. Mia tightened her grip on her body.
"Why are you here?" Mia asked. "What is Brian up to?"
"It has nothing to do with Brian. He asked me to look out for Gab while we were in San Diego. That is all. I would never tell him…"
"Mia he knows everything. I just thought-" She covered her face. "I am so sorry."
"You need to go Harrison, you are supposed to be watching the garage for her and you can't do that from here. Dom isn't here anymore. He left. That is the truth. You can tell your brother what you want, I don't care but you don't need to be here anymore."
"My brother is not who I am worried about right now." Harrison stated.
"Well, you don't need to worry about her anymore."
"Just go Harrison." Gabriella whispered. "I don't want you here anymore." Harrison nodded his head before leaving the garage. Gabriella bowed her head into her sisters shoulder.
"I should have never let him in." Gabriella cried.
"Brian never told me he had a brother." Mia replied.
"Brian never told us a lot of things Mia." Gabriella pulled away from her sister wiping her face. "We need to get inside before someone starts snooping around."
"Dom, is on his way to find out what is going on with Letty. We should be hearing from him soon."
Gabriella woke up the next morning with a storming headache. She sat up shielding her eyes from the sun that was blaring through the window. Her eyes were swollen and she felt like someone took a baseball bat to her head. She looked around the room, it was her old room. She hasn't been here in forever. "Morning." Mia was standing at the door with orange juice in one hand and pills in the other. "You look like you might need these."
"Have you talked to Dom?" Gabriella took the pills from her and drank down the juice before throwing her head back down on the pillow.
"No." Mia shook her head. She sat down on the edge of the bed and looked up at her sister.
"What is it?"
"Last night, after you went to bed, I had walked outside. Two cops came up to me and took me to the police station…"
"What?" Gabriella yelled.
"I just got back home."
"What the hell Mia? What did they want?" She sat up and glared. "It was Harrison wasn't it? He told Brian?"
"No." She shook her head. "They already knew Dom was back in town. Brian actually let me go."
"After?"
"He said he was sorry."
Gabriella shook her head. "He should be. We are in this because of him."
"I know that." Mia whispered.
"Does he ever quit? I mean-we lost. He won. He brought down Dom and his whole team-two of us are dead Mia. Jesse died because of that son of a bitch."
"Stop."
"I will not let him come back into our lives. Brian O'Connor is fucking dead to me and he needs to stay that way."
"I don't think its going to be that easy Gab."
"I hate him." She whispered softly. "I hate him so much."
"I hate him too but we can't focus on him. They don't have anything on us. We need to focus on Dom and him finding out what the hell happened."
Gabriella nodded her head laying back down. Brian was not coming back into her life. He was not going to ruin anything else. Hasn't she paid enough already?
"But I don't think you should take this out on Harrison?" Mia replied knocking Gabriella from her thoughts. "He's a good guy who is in love with you. Everyone can see that. Guard your heart Gab, but don't close it to him just yet."
"Its over Mia, I can't trust him."
The next week came in a blink of an eye for Gabriella. She didn't want to leave her sister but she knew she had to. It was time for her to go back to her life. It happened just like she said it would. Dom was gone, and he never called. She didn't cry though. It was no use. He wasn't going to stay no matter if she begged him or not. She struggled real hard with leaving Mia again but she knew she had to. She found herself looking up at the familiar garage as she stepped out of her car. It was the middle of the week, they were a little busy but she knew lunch time was coming around. She was having to force her legs to move as she walked up to the door and turned the handle. "Well look who's back. I was wondering if you were ever going to show back up." Jorge yelled causing everyone to stop what they were doing. She smiled as she slowly walked in.
"Hey girl, where you been all my life?" Blake replied with a smile.
"It's good to see you guys. I'm glad you didn't burn the place down while I was gone." She smiled.
"is everything okay at home? With you sister?" Blake asked.
"Yeah, just taking it day by day right now. Thanks for asking. Is Gavin and Harrison here?"
"Harrison is in the back doing some things and Gavin just left actually." Jorge told her. She nodded her head as she moved towards the back of the garage.
"I will be just a minute." She told them before pushing the door open. Harrison was in the back in a wife beater and his mechanic pants. She gave a soft smile as he lifted his head to her. He moved to say something but she lifted her hand in the air to stop him. "Thank you for not saying anything to anyone about what you saw and what happened. I am grateful to you for that. My brother has this fantasy or whatever you want to call it where he thinks that I am going to grow old her and start a family with someone that I am completely in love with. I don't see what he sees. I can't trust you right now Harrison. As much as I want to, my mind is telling me not to. I loathe Brian. I don't think I have ever hated someone as much as I hate him. He ruined my life. He split my family apart and you asked me to give you a chance. I don't think I can do that. I don't know how to do that."
He nodded his head. "You don't know how happy I am to see you back here."
"I'm happy I am back too." She gave a soft smile. "I need to go find Gavin now." She waited for him to say something but he didn't. She nodded her head at him.
"Gab!" He stopped her as she touched the door handle. "I am so sorry. I never wanted it to be like this. I just wanted to be honest with you. I am..." He stopped. "I will fix this, I promise you I will fix this."
She turned around to him. "I am going to hold you to that."
AN: hope you guys are still enjoying the story! For everyone who thought Harrison was a cop...well now you know! He's Brian's brother. REVIEW! and let me know what you guys think!
