Brian pulled up in The Racers Edge work truck, hitting the curb with his bumper. As Brian enters he sees Harry one the phone and can hear the conversation.

"Hey Dominic. I appreciate what you did, in a big way." He said putting his palm down on the counter as he watched Brian walk in and walk by. "Dominic, I owe you." He says and hangs up the phone to follow Brian.

"Brian, you're messing with my business." His voice lowered, "When Dominic drives he is golden. Kids pour in. They want everything he has. Every performance part. And they pay cash!" He explains as they enter the back room where Brian was staying.

Brian walked over to the sink and turned on the water to wash his face, "What did Dom say?" he asked as he washed off the sweat.

"You don't want to know."

"What did Dom say?" Brian asked more forcefully.

Harry rubs a hand over his face with a sigh, "He wants you out of here."

Brian turns off the tap and turns to Harry, "He wants me out of here?"

"Yes!" Harry said exasperated.

"And what did you say to Dom?" he asked as he took of his soiled shirt and searched for another.

"What do you think I said. I told him, "Good help is hard to find"." He explained to Brian as he pulled on a clean shirt.

"Hey."

Harry runs a hand through his hair in frustration, "Shit!"

Brian puts a hand on Harry's shoulder, "Relax." He said and stared at the walls of his room, "I need NOS." he mumbled and heads out of his room, "I need NOS." he said with more power and headed over to the NOS tank display.

Harry followed him quickly, "No!"

"My car topped out at 140 miles per hour this morning." He explained, harry moved in front of Brian to stop him from walking.

"Amateurs don't use nitrous oxide. I've seen how you drive. You've got a heavy foot." Brian looks over the NOS tanks, "You'll blow yourself to pieces."

"I need one of these." Brian tapped one of the tanks, " One of the big ones. Actually, lets make it two." Harry shakes his head, giving up trying to talk Brian out of it, "And Harry, I need it by tonight." He told Harry and walked back into his room.

Skye waited out the front of the restaurant with Leon. They were both waiting for the others to arrive. Just as the clock started to chime 7 the 4 high performance cars pulled up to the valet parking where they each got out of the cars.

Skye stifled a laugh as Dom threatened the valet if anything happened to his car. The valet looked very nervous and quickly nodded his head and carefully drove the car into a free parking space that was besides Leon's Skyline.

"I just want to know how he hell we're going to pay for this." Vince grumbled as they all entered the restaurant and waited to be shown to their table.

"Skye darling, how wonderful to see you again." An elderly man said as he came up to them and engulfed Skye in a giant hug.

"Hey Uncle Chuck. How have things been with you?" she asked as they separated from each other.

"Elisa is pregnant again. Dominic is turning 2, Nathan is turning 16, Ashlea is getting married in 3 months, Sarah has just finished her law degree, Stacey has joined the FBI, Steven has opened a furniture store, makes all his own stuff too. Toni is trying to put a stop to street racing," here Uncle Chuck looked right at her, "Torie is racing down at the track, Travis is about to graduate from medical school and I have opened another restaurant across town. So life is good."

Skye listened in shock as her Uncle rattled off what the family had been up to, "Pregnant again, damn Aunt Elisa is a sucker for punishment."

Uncle Chuck let out a hearty chuckle, "Now what have you been up to my dear?" he asked throwing an arm around her shoulder and led her to the back rooms. DT followed behind her.

"I'm at school, not really going for much of anything. Just studying until I can find my thing. I haven't raced for sooo long its not funny I'm getting itchy. I have a stalker from school but hopefully that has been taken care of. As for the street racing, I have no idea what you are talking about." She smiled as she took the seat that Uncle Chuck held out for her, which he then did for Mia and Letty.

"Take your time in choosing what you would like off of the menu, I already know what Sprite here wants. And a waiter will be with you soon to take your order for drinks." Chuck said to the group and headed off to the kitchen.

"What the hell was that?" Leon asked once he was seated comfortably.

"That was my Uncle Chuck. The owner of this fine establishment and he was telling me about my 9 cousins and the one on the way. Now look at the menu and decide what you want, there is no limit to it even if you want lobster I don't care, have it ok. Don't be stingy."

"What are you having?" Jesse asked.

"I am having marinated porterhouse steak with chips and a hot fudge sinday for dessert."

"Hot fudge SINday?" Dom question.

"Yep, a Sinday. Uncle Chuck makes the best desserts, but the sinday is the best, you'll have to see it to believe it. It's big enough for all of us to have a decent amount. So don't order dessert." She explained as they picked up the menus in front of them.

The waiter had come and gone taking their orders and bringing their drinks. Each of the boys had a couple of Coronas each while Mia, Letty and Skye shared a bottle of rum and a bottle of coke.

"You were going to tell us some things about you because we came?" Vince asked starting up the conversation.

"Yeah sure, what do you want to know?" she asked.

"Tell us about yourself from when you left your home."

"So you want to known about what I did before I met you huh. Ok I can do that, but try to keep an open mind please. I did some things that I am not proud of. It was 3 days before my 16th birthday when I ditched, I took all of the money mum had in the house and that was about 1 million in a wall safe and I grabbed her jewellery and bankbooks.

I hopped my bike and came here to where dad was living and told him everything that had or was going to happen and he let me stay and got me back into school where I met my first boyfriend, Anthony.

Bad idea to get involved with him. He was into heroin and I ended up drifting in with him eventually. Though I didn't do it myself the first time. He did it for me when I was drunk at one of his bashes. So from there I became a heroin addict for 3 years. When I met you I had been clean for a year." Here Skye stopped talking so she could look into the faces of her friends to try and gauge a reaction.

Mia quickly got up from her chair and threw herself in to Skye, sobbing dryly into her stomach. Skyes' expression then became blank as she continued, "I'm not one who's big on the whole concept of sex. I wanted to get a good career first before settling sort of thing you know. Anthony didn't like it that I wouldn't put out.

One night he came home drunk and stabbed me 36 times with a modified pocket knife." She looked at Leon and Jesse, "That's what those scars on my back are from that you saw when I freaked in the shower." She told them, both nodded their heads in understanding. "He then tried to rape me but I fought him off like a woman possessed. Good thing dad said that he was going to come over for dinner that night other wise I would have been raped and dead. He saved my life by taking Anthonys'."

"After that I had to clean up, I was slowly weaning off of the heroine when I met Daniel. Sweetest guy you could ever meet, he was an alcoholic who had been off the bottle for 3 years but still went to meetings just to have a grip you know. I met him out the front of the building the meetings were being held in.

We fell into a relationship pretty fast, he was easy to talk to and I just loved being with him. I probably would have married him if he ever asked but that ended a few short months later when we had the motorcycle accident.

"There was a storm the night before, the roads were wet and some of the power lines were down but Danny and I didn't know that and so we went for a ride. Some where along the way we hit a water puddle with a power line down in it. The power hadn't been cut at that time in that area yet and so we went up. Danny flew from behind me and landed on his head breaking his neck killing him instantly. I flew into a tree with the bike following after me and shattered my hipbone on impact. I was out as soon as the pain flared.

"Next thing I knew I was waking up in the hospital scared shitless. I found out that I had to have my hip replaced and that Danny was dead. One good thing that came out of it was that I no longer had the urge to use anymore."

"That's a horrible thing to say." Letty spoke up.

Skye shrugged, "I didn't say it, my doctor did. Broke the bastards nose for saying that. Once I left the hospital I was at home for a few more months when I felt the need to find myself I suppose and started looking for some where to stay and I found Leon and Jesse and then you guys." By the end of her tale Skye had a trail of tears running down her cheeks.

There was a light knock at the door, "Come in Uncle Chuck."

Chuck popped his head around the corner of the open door, "You ready for dinner kiddo?"

"Yes please. Sorry for backing you up in the kitchen."

"It's no problem, your family. You could close the entire restaurant if you wanted." He laughed opening the door wider so that the trolley with the food could be rolled into the room and plates placed in front of their owners.

"Do you think that we could get some vodka or something?" Dom asked Chuck.

"Sure thing. I'll be right back with that."

"That is some bad luck shit right there." Vince muttered as he started cutting into his roast chicken dinner.

Skye rubbed a hand over Mia's shoulder, "You ok girl?"

"I can't believe that you went through all that."

"Meh, gotta have tough skin after being through all that shit. But I haven't forgotten any of the emotions that went with the experience." Skye explained as she started on her steak and hummed happily.

Mia giggled and sat back in her chair and started on her own dinner, her eyes rolling back in delight, "Oh this is so good."

"Good thing I get a family discount then huh." She smirked at the team.

"No shit." Dom grunted as he brought a fork full of spaghetti bolognaise to his mouth.

"Thanks for dinner Squee." Jesse said happily sucking the oysters from their shells.

"You're welcome."