Author's Note: I don't own anything to do with any of The Fast and the Furious movies only Madison belongs to me.

A little short but what's the Fast and Furious without a little more added drama, right? Let me know what you think!

Chapter 4

"Shit, Mads, what are we going to do?" Mia asked nervously as Brian took the box outside.

"Well, I don't know about you but I'm going to go take a shower," I replied as I started for the stairs until Vince grabbed my arm.

"You can't pretend the last five minutes didn't happen, kid."

I yanked my arm out of his grasp, "you're a year old than me, stop calling me, kid."

I climbed the stairs to the bathroom and locked the door behind me before turning on the radio. Limp Bizkit's Rollin' blared through the speakers as I took the hottest shower my skin could handle. Empty threats, that's all James ever gave, I tried to convince myself. I knew him, or at least I thought I did, he wouldn't try anything because he knew the team would retaliate.

By the time I made it back downstairs Letty, Jesse and Vince had left for the garage and Brian had driven Mia to school. I went down in the basement to get ready for the day and saw Leon sitting on our bed just staring at me.

"Like the free show?" I smirked as I threw the towel I had wrapped around myself at his face before pulling on a bright orange thong, my skin tight faded blue jeans and a white tank top, "You going to give me a lift today?"

"Where?" he questioned as I took the towel back to dry my hair a little more.

"Umm…the café," I said as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.

"I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem if you stayed home today."

"It's Saturday, one of our busiest days, I'm not closing there's no reason too," I said pulling on my pair of timberlands.

"Then I'll stay with you today," he offered getting off the bed and wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Babe, I'll be fine," I sighed giving him a quick kiss on the lips but as I went to walk away he pulled me back to him deepening the kiss. I melted into it before pulling away, "if you don't stop that I'll never leave the house."

"So?" he questioned with a wink and groaned in annoyance as I pulled him up the stairs and dropped his car keys into his hand.

He reluctantly drove me to the café but when as I went to get out of the car he stopped me.

"You don't have to act like a hard ass all the time, it's ok to be afraid," he said and I could see the worry behind his eyes, "and it's ok to ask for help."

"Well, I'm going to need some help getting out of these clothes later," I teased but I didn't even get a smile out of that one, "I'll be fine."

He waited until I got the door unlocked and turned the sign to say we were open until he drove away. Usually, the team would come as a group for lunch but today they were doing constant drive-bys checking up on me and were complete idiots if they didn't think that I saw them. They even had it down to a pattern and I knew who the next person would be. It started with Leon, then Vince, then Letty and finally Jesse until Brian showed up.

"Don't you have a job or something," I sighed. He was the last person I wanted to deal with at the moment.

"Actually, I have information on James," he said sitting down on his stool and sliding a folder in my direction, "There's no current address but it says he is known for drug laundering, grand theft and aggravated assault."

"Yeah," I shrugged. I didn't know what I was expecting him to be able to dig up but these were things I already knew. Hell, I was the one that was running the drugs for him.

"He still had a few warrants out for his arrest," Brian continued, "so the local P.D. is going to keep an eye out for him."

I almost laughed in his face, "pigs aren't going to catch him."

A couple of tourist came in and bought a few sandwiches, two sodas and a bag of chips before leaving, the whole time Brian watching me closely like he had something to say but didn't know how to. I noticed that when Brian's car was parked out front the drive-bys from the team had stopped.

"Look, Madison," he started as the tourists left, "about what happened in the car…I didn't know…I mean…"

"Oh shut up," I said throwing the dirty rag I had laying around at him.

"It's just…if there's anything I can do…" he continued stuttering like a complete moron.

That's when the light bulb went off in my head and a plan started to form, "Hey, Brian, when you say anything…you mean anything?"

He paused for a minute trying to decide what he had just gotten himself into, "Uh, sure."

"I want you to find the owner of a car for me."

"That's it?" he asked thinking it would be something much worse.

"But it needs to stay between us," I said seriously."

"Ok."

"I mean not even Mia, Brian."

"Why?" he questioned scrunching his face in confusion.

"You know what, never mind," I said walking away and turning the store computer on to reorder what I needed.

"No, I'll do it," he said getting up from his stool and following me over, "It will stay between us, I promise."

"I promise from a cop, that's rich," I scoffed but had no other option. I'm sure Jesse would have been able to pull something up on the internet but he would run and tell Dom and this was something I wanted to do myself, "I want you to find out who owns a black Mazda, California license plate 8HMM598."

"Can I ask why?"

"No," I shook my head. I wasn't sure how much Mia had told him about my accident but I know I never told anyone that I remembered the license plate.

"Give me until tomorrow," he said taking the napkin he had written everything down on and walking out the door.

The next two hours flew by as the café got overloaded with tourists and a few regulars. After the craziness was over I went into the back and brought out a case of water to restock the cooler when someone came up behind me and grabbed me by the hair shoving me forward so my face was pinned against the cooler door.

"Why is he back?" a voice growled in my ear.

"I don't know what you're talking about," I replied as I struggled to get free.

"Are you working for him?" he yelled pulling me back slightly before slamming me back against the door and that's when I saw Lance's reflection, "tell your boyfriend he has twenty four hours to pay up or we're coming for you."

"I'm not with that piece of shit anymore," I shouted as I broke free and punched him in the jaw.

"Big mistake," he said pulling out a gun and pointing it at my face, he pulled the trigger and the glass behind me shattered, "that's a warning. I don't care who you are fucking, tell James he has twenty three hours and fifty minutes."

I stood frozen in my spot as I watched him get on his motorcycle and drive away. It took me all of two seconds to throw the sign to close and run to the garage which was only a couple of blocks away, mom always said she wanted to keep an eye on daddy.

I panicked at first when I didn't see Leon's Skyline parked out front and knew I had to suck up my pride as I ran into the office where Dom had been doing some paperwork.

"I'm busy," he stated not looking up from the clipboard in front of him probably thinking it was one of the guys.

"Dom," I said with a shaky voice that made him whip his eyes up to meet mine.

"Maddie, what happened?" he asked frantically as he got up and ran his thumb over my eyebrow that had been split open.

"I need help."