Chapter 4 - Help
#ForPaul
Brian's POV
"Brian I'm fine, seriously" Mia climbed out of the car and ignored Brian's awaiting hand. "The doctor said you need to take it easy, for you and the baby" Brian replied, whilst snaking his hand around her waist. "Please I'm pregnant not elderly," Mia replied. "Yeah, but most pregnant women, aren't shot 8 months in to their pregnancies." Dom said as he appeared in the doorway. "It's good to see you Mi" Dom skipped down the steps to his sister. It had been 6 days since the crash, Dom and Roman had both been in hospital, and amazingly both had escaped after only 2 days, with minor injuries. Although that didn't stop Roman from using everyone in the house as his slave. He was constantly yelling at Letty to get him more food, because his ankle was too swollen to get up, to which usually Letty responded by hitting him on the back of his massive forehead. Mia was finally home. But Brian and Dom, were uneasy about letting her out of the well-protected hospital, they were both stressing about her safety and it was driving Mia up the wall.
Mia sat down on the couch, and rolled her eyes, when Dom asked her if she was warm enough, or if she needed and extra blanket, or an extra pillow. She flicked on the TV and ignored, Dom and Brian's constant bickering about, which food was better for the baby. About a quarter of the way through her show, she felt Brian, as he sat behind her, she lay back on him and used his chest as a pillow. "You know we're only stressing about you because we love you right." Brian said as he kissed her forehead. "I know," she replied snuggling closer in to his chest. When she was seconds away from falling asleep, when Tej slamming the door awaked her. "Dom, your phones ringing" yelled Tej, "And it's the same number from last time," continued Ramsey. Dom took the phone and stared at it before finally putting it to his ear. "Hello?" He asked, "glad to hear you're alive and well, Dominic," Braga spoke through the phone. "What do you want?" Dom questioned, "The same thing I've always wanted… Revenge" replied Braga "Why are you calling Braga?" replied Dom "I was wondering if you wanted to meet." asked Braga "Why? What's in it for me?" Asked Dom "the chance to meet me face to face, plus last week, after our…. encounter I noticed a picture in your pocket, of dear Mia, you and your father, and I would hate too see it burned" replied Braga, although Dom couldn't see him, he knew he was smirking through the phone. Dom had noticed the picture was gone, and was devastated when he realised it must have gotten lost in the crash, he always kept the picture in his pocket, that way it would always be close to him, finding out that Braga had that picture, the picture that was so closed to his heart, the last one ever taken before his death, made his blood boil. "Where do you want to meet?!" asked Dom, loosing his patience "Meet me at the warehouse where the feds showed up last time. And bring your whole team. 5pm, don't be late" Braga replied before the line went dead. "What did HE want?" Asked Letty. "He wants to meet," replied Dom, "You telling, me you wanna walk right in to the enemy camp, man that's crazy" inputted Roman. "Won't you shut your ass up." said Tej. "All I'm saying is, as soon as we walk in there, they gonna shoot our asses." replied Roman. "We're going." Brian cut off Roman and Tej's bickering. "If Dom wants us to go. We go" Letty chimed in. "It's your call Dom" Letty turned to Dom. "We ride" Dom responded.
"This is stupid," said Roman as he got out of his car. "Will you. Shut, up." replied Letty. Slamming the car door. "Naa man we shouldn't be here right now!" yelled Roman. Tej got out of his car and rolled his eyes, Roman, Tej and Letty walked inside the warehouse, Roman looked at his watch and sighed, only half an hour until they showed up. Dom and Brian got out of their cars, and walked in behind them. They laid their cars out so that if there were any issues, they would be able to get out at any time, after checking for all exits, it was 4:59 and the team gathered in front of their cars and awaited Braga and his crew, when the clock struck 5, an alarm went off on Brian's watch and the team's eyes became glued on the entrance. The team stiffened at the sight of 3 Honda Civics entering the warehouse. The cars came to a stop, and 2 men stepped out of the first, followed by 2 in the second and Braga stepped out of the last car by himself, he came to the front and stood 5 meters away from Dom and his crew. "I'm glad that you came." exclaimed Braga, "I came for the photo, now hand it over" said Dom calmly. Braga motioned with his hand, and one of his crewmembers stepped forward, and handed Dom the photo. "You got your photo, now listen to me," said Braga. "I'm listening," answered Dom. "Everything, that's happened to you, everything I've done, I've been trying to warn you, prepare you. Trying to get you to understand, that I can break you." exclaimed Braga "you claim that your family and your loyalty is your strength, but it's also your weakness. At this moment in time, after my men shot Mia, after I drew you away from her, last time and you left her unprotected in the hospital, I warned you, I told you of your mistakes, and still you didn't listen, right from the start I said that all I wanted was Mia," Dom watched as Brian stiffened, Tej noticed too, and put a protective arm in front of him, to keep him from taking Braga out right then and there. "Mia was my only goal, and I told you! I warned you! You claim that you love your family Dominic, but you left her at the house, with only Ramsey and Jack to look after her…" Dom stiffened at his words, and finally realised why Braga wanted them here, why he wanted them away from the house. They had left Mia, with nothing but a 5 year old and a 26 year old hacker to protect her. "She tried to run you know" Braga laughed "Even though she was pregnant, she got 5 paces from the door, whilst carrying Jack, don't worry we left Jack, I'm not cruel. You know she's very strong for a pregnant woman; it took 2 men to get her in the van. Don't worry, she's still alive" he smiled "for now."
At this point Brian lost it breaking away from Tej and punching Braga right in the face "You son of a bitch, I swear to god if you touch her!" Brian screamed before Dom tackled him off of Braga. Braga laughed at the sight and got back up. At this point Dom pulled out his gun and pointed it at Braga's head. Braga laughed, "You're never going to see her again," laughed Braga, "you can kill me… But that wont change that fact" Braga smiled. Dom lifted his gun and shot, Braga's 4 accomplices. Braga laughed and said "I never liked the anyway, besides it wont make a differences, I unlike you am keeping Mia safe, she's currently being watched by 6 other guards, those 4 don't matter" Dom lifted Braga up by his shirt and slammed him in to the ground, rendering Braga unconscious. "What the hell did you do that for he knew where Mia was!" Yelled Brian. "Calm down Brian!" Yelled Letty. Dom walked over to Braga's car "every car has an automated navigation system, Braga said he was there, which means he would have had you drive Mia back to oversee the operations." said Dom, Tej caught on, "Which means that if we can hack in to the cars mainframe, we can figure out the last place Braga was." Said Tej getting excited. Roman and Dom lifted up the car, and Brian climbed underneath, "Ok Brian you're gonna see a lot of sectors down there, in the middle of the car there should be a grey, hard drive plugged in with a blue wire" said Tej "Got it" replied Brian, "Now cut the Blue wire and remove the hard drive." continued Tej. Brian slid out from under the car with the hard drive in his hand. "I can't access this without a computer, we're gonna have to swing by the house." said Tej, "There isn't time!" said Brian, "It's ok, they wont move her without Braga's command and I doubt he'll be giving that any time soon" said Dom gesturing to the unconscious Braga. "Besides chances are Jack is by himself, with Ramsey unconscious, we're going to need to see him." continued Letty. At the mention of Jack Brian's face softened. They all gathered in to their cars and chucked Braga in the boot. They sped away from the warehouse and headed home, Brian looked out the window and said, "I'm coming for you Mia" before shedding a silent tear.
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