Disclaimer: I do not own and TFATF/2F2F characters; however I do own characters you do not recognise.

Okay guys..i'ma fast foward two years later. This is where the story gets interesting. Sorry I just keep randomly skipping years n stuff. But I'm trying to speed up to the parts I already have written. It's taking me a while to get there though. Stay with me please LOL. well here's number 33...

--Kita--

Chapter 33 - Painful Thoughts

No POV

-2 years later-

"Hurry up Sasha and Diana, the Uhaul is already leaving and I'm about to leave you too!" Dominic screamed from the truck.

Sasha was just turning 20, Diana 21. They were finalizing their move into the Toretto household. Diana's father, Rico, wasn't too happy about his little girl moving in while a home full of guys. But Dom and Mia convinced him that she would be happily taken care of. Sasha decided to wait another year before she moved out, seeing as Maria grew really ill. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in November of last year. Because she found out too long into the disease, doctors gave her 8 months to live. Sasha stays with her mother every weekend and visits her everyday to help her out. Ever since Maria was diagnosed, Sasha lost her loving side and became depressed and unbearable.

Vince, 26, got his own apartment a few blocks down, but still sleeps on the Toretto couch. The apartments really nice; spacey one bedroom condo. But as he says "nothing's better the fort". Vince also wanted to stay close because of Sasha. They finally considered themselves an item and were very much in love. But Vince wanted to take things really slow, for Sasha's sake. He had been there for Sasha ever since her mother got sick and backed off when he knew she wanted to be alone.

Leon, 25, moved in an apartment under Vince's. Leon is still living the player lifestyle, not yet ready to settle down. Besides racing and working in the garage, Leon got a career as a volunteer firefighter; a career he always wanted as a job. Even though he loves racing, he wanted to accomplish something on his own, without Dominic's help.

Jesse, 22, was going back to school to get his GED, with Diana's encouragement. He had tutors come by the house during the day to help him control his ADD as much as he could. When he was finished with working on his GED, he wanted to go to a community college.

Brian and Lily were getting along finally. Mia helped him realise that Lily wasn't as bad as he thought she was. She really cared for her brother, which is why she stayed out of trouble since her arrival to L.A. The judge pulled her probation and allowed her to move to Miami with Brian's good friend, Rome.

Dom and Letty's relationship has finally taken off. Letty forgave Dom that night at the Jumpoff and finally met the love of her life; Dominic Anthony Toretto. He became more sensitive, but yet still tough. He was now sweet, but yet still dominate. Letty was happy that she didn't have to wonder about Dom's fidelity. He was a changed man, but still the big lug she fell in love with.

The team was finally growing up. They've all matured into the adults they are today by taking care of each other. Team Toretto was still a force to be reckoned with. And proving it, steady dominating the racing scene all over California.

"Alright Dominic chill out, we're coming." Sasha yelled to Dominic. "Bye Ma. I'll be here to visit. Tell Marcus I said bye." She kissed her mother and gave her a love-felt hug.

She finally insisted on telling her mother what her father did to her. She tried to file a report at the police station, but since Sasha waited so long, there wasn't any proof. So instead, Sasha's mother threw Marcus out on the streets.

"Aye bro c'mere. You are the man of the house now. Take care of mom. I'ma be getting a lot of money now, so when I come and visit, it's me and you. Anywhere you wanna go aight?" Sasha said, hugging her brother.

"Yeah yeah. I'm not a little kid anymore Sasha, I'm 15. I will take care of mom and you better come back with a car for me." Anthony replied smiling.

Jesse and Vince first taught Tony how to drive, then how to race. Sasha didn't like the idea of her younger brother racing, but she understood how it felt to be behind the wheel.

"Yeah okay I'll work on that. Bye papi. Love you." Sasha said, kissing his forehead.

"Girl if you don't hurry up, we are leaving you!" Diana yelled from the truck his dad once owned. Sasha hoped in the back with their stuff as Dominic sped off back towards home.

XXX

Dominic's POV

When we pulled up to the house, the boys were already unloading things off the Uhaul.

"Does she have to live here Dom?" Leon whined to Dom about Di. Him and Di had the brothely bond too, but they loved to annoy the hell out of each other.

"Yep. Get used to it, pencil dick." Di replied, overhearing what he said to me.

I laughed. This was my family. I loved this girls like they were my children.

"Brian where's Mia?" I asked him. I hadn't seen her around the house since we arrived home.

"Her and Letty went to get groceries for the barbecue tonight." He answered, pulling a big box from the truck and carrying it into the house.

Ah, the barbecue. A tradtion, started by my father, where the team gets together and talk cars and life. Which were basically the same things to us. Cars were life.

After we finished unloading everything off the Uhaul, I went inside and cleaned up. I went in the kitchen to get the meat when I glanced at a picture that hung on the fridge. It was a picture of me, Mia, and my dad.

Flashback

Dom's POV

"Daddy tell Dominic to leave me alone. He keeps throwing shit at me!" Mia whined from the backseat. My dad smacked me on the back of the head. I hated when he did that.

"Leave her alone Dominic. Mia watch your mouth. If you two are gonna fight the whole way to the race, you are staying in the trailer, hereme?" He yelled at us.

"Yes sir." We said in unison.

We were on our way to my dad's last race. The stock circuit. It took four days to complete it. Each day a race was held. The winners of each race would race on day 4 for the gold; the Stock Circuit Championship. He said after this race, if he won, he'd retire and hand the keys to me. As if in a way of saying "It's your turn to continue the legacy." I knew he would win. He always did.

We pulled up to a packed lot full of trailers. There were people and cars all over the place. It was literally a car-Heaven here. I jumped out and ran over to the fence where the race would be. I can't wait until I race there, I whispered to myself.

"Dominic get over here and help us." My dad yelled from the truck. I ran back over to them and grabbed our bags out the back of the truck. "Let's see, it's only 2:30. The race doesn't start until six so go find something to do until then. And Dominic..." He started.

"Yeah papi." I answered.

"Watch your sister and stay out of trouble. Don't go far." He replied.

I nodded to him and me and Mia ran off to the Stock Circuit gift store. There were all kinds of cool things you could buy.

"Dominic I'm gonna buy you and Daddy these." Mia said, showing me two cross necklaces that had "Real Men Race Real Cars" written in the middle.

"Aww thanks Mia. Let's see. I'm buy you and Daddy..these." I replied, looking around the store. My eyes were on two beautiful '89 Charger toy cars. They were collectors items.

I bought the black one for Daddy and the blue one for Mia, since blue was her favorite color.

"Hey, that one looks like the Priscilla." Mia pointed to the black Charger. She had named the car my dad and I built for this race. It was a beauty. All black and all muscle.

"Yeah it does. Well let's pay for these and get out of here." I said, leading my young sister to the counter.

"Okay your total is $225.35" the cashier said. I hand him two one-hundred dollar bills and a fifty. I always had a lot money cause everytime I helped my dad with building a car, if it raced good, he'd give me some of the money he made.

I payed for the gifts then we left. I walked back down to put our gifts in trailer. I found my dad talking to some guy. His last name was Linder. I could never remember his first name. There was something fishy about this guy. The look in his eye was everything but good. I didn't like him at all.

Three hours later ...

"Dominic hurry out of the the bathroom. I need to piss." My dad yelled from outside the bathroom door. I was shaving my face. I was starting to grow a beard and really fast. I was only seventeen and had the beard of grown man.

"Alright I'm coming." I said as I opened the bathroom door. My dad gasped when he saw my face. "What?" I asked him.

"So there is actually a face under that thing." He joked, pointing to my face. I laughed and nudged him in the side. "Aye, go get your sister and tell her to get ready. The race starts in twenty minutes. We gotta get down there and get you seats." He said, closing the bathroom door.

I ran out the trailer and looked around for Mia. I found her talking to a boy. I hated when guys tried to get with my little sister. I walked up beside her and put my arm over shoulder. The boy looked about 18 years old. Mia was only 14 turning fifteen next month.

"Back off. Mia let's go we gotta go get seats." I growl, pulling her away by her arm.

"I'll be there in a minute Dominic. I'm talking." She spat, yanking her arm out my grip.

"Say how old are you? If you lie, I'll break your neck." I threatned him. I could see his face turn pale white as he stuttered his words.

"I'm..uh..18." He said nervously.

"Get out of here. Mia let's go." I responded, pulling her with me this time.

I always thought it was funny how I was only seventeen and I could intimidate guys much older then me. But then again, I had the physique of an amateur body-builder and the voice of a beast.

"Dom what's your problem? I'm old enough to take care of myself." She whined, pulling her arm away again.

"Mia you're fourteen. He is eighteen. That's called statuatory rape. Let's go get our seats. I'm not gonna tell Dad but don't push it." I growled at her.

We walked over to the trailer just as my dad was exiting.

"You guys ready?" he asked us. We nodded and jumped back into the truck.

We drove down to the track, where my dad and I unloaded the Charger and parked her on the sides. He drove the truck back up near the trailers and ran back down to the stands.

"Now you guys are gonna be sitting in row 3, seats 7 and 8. Stay there until the race is over." He told us. We obeyed and went to our seats. "I love you two. This is the last one; wish me luck." He said, glowing with happiness.

Racing made my father happier then anything. Ever since our Ma passed a few years ago, he was stuck in this hole he couldn't get out of. The only time he came out was to race. But he didn't let me or Mia know that he was grieving, even though we knew he was. He was always tough and always wore a fake smile even in the worst of times.

The race was going good. Dad was in the lead coming up on the last two laps when the unthinkable happened.

Linder had gained a position of second place, behind my dad. His Cheverolet Camaro sped up, approaching my dad's tail closely. He gained speed, clipping the back of Priscilla, sending my dad into a wall at, at least 180 mph. Seconds later, the Charger exploded into a giant gulf of flames against the side while Linder crossed the finish line first, winning the race.

"Papi!!" Mia cried almost immediately. I tossed down my things and ran down the field, pushing past security. No, I have to be dreaming. This didn't just happen, I thought to myself.

One of the bigger security men, Johnson, grabbed me by my arms as I screamed. This was the first time I've ever broke down in sadness. I just lost the biggest part of my life; my Papi. There he was, burning to death, and I couldn't help me. I couldn't save him, for all I could do was cry. Johnson let me go as I fell to the ground in misery. I could fell smaller arms wrap around me; Mia. She was weeping just as hard and painful as I was.

Flashback

"Dominic? You okay? You look a little down." Mia asked me, snapping me out of my daydream. She looked at the picture on the fridge, understanding my sudden depression. "Oh Dom. I know you miss Papi. I miss him too. He'd be damn proud of the way you kept this family together. Let's go have a barbecue with our family." She hugged me. She grabbed the salad out the fridge and walked with me back outside.

Not much there, just showing a lil flashback to the day Dom and Mia's dad was killed.

I didn't intend on it being that long though LOL. well read&review and I'll get chapter

34 up tomorrow. That'll be the spicy one. Excited? I am )

-Kita-