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Summary: "Do you remember that time I fell out your window and you came jumping out after me?" There was a twinge of humour to her husky voice and Leon smiled for her benefit. For three years he let himself believe that he would always save her from everything, until he was the reason she was in that ambulance, a broken back and their baby was gone.
Mrz Letty Ortiz-Toretto- I'm so glad my story has been inspiring you and am super keen to read yours when you finish it! Woo! Thanks so much for the lovely review and you make me feel so loved! And Doms very lucky that I decided to be nice to him!
Ava – Thanks always for such a fantastic review and I did get around to watching that vid and the girl is super cute. It also made me want to learn the guitar so I could play it on the guitar too! Anyways I apologise for making you sad and I will probably be bawling my eyes out when I finally finish this story. I have never been so motivated in my life! And yes it does hurt to be kicked by a horse. It happens so often though I wonder why it still does. Nothings broken atm thankfully but tomorrow is another day!
Love Ink- I don't know if I've mentioned this but I have been loving your story Diamond in the Rough which probably explains the stalkerish reviews. Anyways thanks for the great review and I didn't really want to make Dom so nasty because I do like Dom but anyways- everything happens for a reason and all that.
Gingermegs- Yep it stuffed up again but I got that you loved the skyline! Ha thanks for the attempted review! Oh and the author alert! Hopefully there will be more stories :S
Enjoy!
Playlist-
Coming Home- Lonestar
Something Pretty- Patrick Park
September 2000 – And In the Sticks we're running free
The Mexican stand-off between Nicola and Dom lasted all of eight days.
On the eighth day after Leon left her in bed alone early as he went to help Harry Nicola decided she couldn't live any longer in a relationship where she hardly got to see her boyfriend.
Throwing back the covers she pulled all the sheets off the bed and took them down to the laundry.
"What are you doing, sweetie?" De-De asked as Nicola scooped detergent into the washer.
"I'm going to go and beg Dom to let us go home." She replied as she shut the lid and turned to face De-De. "I can't live with Leon if he's going to be all depressed like this. He hasn't seen the boys in ages and I know he misses them." She picked up a pile of clean clothes from the floor and walked back upstairs to their room to pack.
By ten o'clock she was walking through the garage doors, her sneakers squeaking slightly on the slippery cement and made her way into the shed. Dom stood with his back to her as he and Mia argued about something, no-one else was in sight.
Mia saw her enter over Doms shoulder and sighed deeply.
"Thank-god you're here!" she rushed forward and pulled Nicola into a tight hug before turning to her brother with her arm still around Nicolas shoulders. "Now don't you have something to say to La, Dom?" She asked as Dom turned around to face them.
Sighing, a look of defeat on his face, Dom finally spoke.
"I was out of line, La. You were right. I'm sorry." He stuck his hands in his pockets and Nicola bit her lip, taken back at his apology.
"See he's sorry- now please come home." Mia looked over at Nicola who shrugged.
"I guess. I mean Leons in a real mood, you really hurt him Dom." She said sternly to Dom who nodded.
"Yeah well he's like my brother, it hurt me too when he walked out." Dom replied, though his voice had no malice.
"Come on Dom, this is Leon. You can't hate him for loving La. Look La, just come home already. I don't know how you managed to keep all these books in order and I am so swamped with the store and I really miss you." Mia squeezed Nicolas shoulders and Nicola nodded slowly.
"I'll talk to Leon, see what he says. Thanks Dom." She nodded to him and Dom smiled finally.
"Yeah well Lettys been a real bitch since you left so I guess I owe you." This made Nicola laugh and walk over, leaving Mia, wrapping her arms around his thick waist.
"Yeah yeah, face it you missed me." He hugged her back quickly before pulling away and coughing.
"Yeah I gotta get back to work." Then he turned and walked back into his office and Nicola turned back to Mia who squealed and wrapped her arms around her friend.
"I'm so glad to have you back Chica!" she hugged Nicola tightly.
"Me too." Nicola said quietly hugging her back.
Not even bothering to go back to De-Des Nicola drove the Mustang around to the Racers Edge and walked through the glass doors looking around for her boyfriend.
"Hey, La." Leon said as he stepped out from behind a shelf and she smiled at him, getting a small smile in return making her realise that going to see Dom was the right thing. "What're you doing here?" He asked as he picked up a box of parts and dropped them on the counter.
"Getting you out of that foul mood you've been in." She said sweetly, earning her a glare from him as he ripped open the box.
"I haven't been in a mood." He replied as he placed parts down on the table and Nicola rolled her eyes.
"I've got all our stuff in the car, we're going home." She shrugged, smiling and Leon glanced over at her.
"What?"
"I went and spoke to Dom. He apologised and he asked us to come home. Come on lets go!" She walked over to the counter and Leon shook his head.
"No, La. Look I'm glad you sorted things out, but Dom crossed a line." Leon stopped unpacking the box and looked over at Nicola. "I won't go back there." He added.
"Look, Baby, I know what Dom said was wrong. He admits he was wrong, but its your home, it's your family." She pleaded and Leons eyes dropped to the glass topped counter.
"You're my family, La." He said quietly.
"And I want you to be happy. So please lets just go home." She pleaded and Leon looked up at her, his green eyes searching hers for any sign of doubt.
"Do I really have a choice?" He asked a small twinge of humour in his voice.
"Yes, if you don't want to go home, then we don't have to. I just want you to know that you can." Leon sighed defeated and three hours later they were back in their bedroom at Echo Park.
November 2000
"You're so old!" Nicola teased as she passed Leon a piece of chocolate covered cake and he took it from her gratefully.
"Twenty-three is not old. Just because you're still a baby." He teased and took a bite of the cake.
"Alright cradle snatcher." She looped her arm with his and led him over to the group sitting in the backyard of De-De's house. Leon sat down on a chair and Nicola walked over to where Letty was sitting and sat down beside her watching Leon grin as Jenna walked over with her two week old daughter wrapped up in her arms and Leon extended his arms to his foster sister who gave the baby to him willingly.
"You going to give him one of those soon?" Letty whispered as they watched Leon cooing the tiny little bub. Nicola was silent as she watched the scene and wondered if she was ready to go that far with Leon. It was hard to say no when he looked so happy talking to the tiny little baby. "He loves those kids of Jennas." Letty added and Nicola finally paid attention to her friend.
"Yeah, but you can give them back." She laughed and sipped at her beer.
"Well if you're not giving me a niece or nephew can you please get married so I have something to get excited about?" Letty nudged her and Nicola laughed.
"I'm so glad I can make you happy."
"No, Lala you'd make us all happy. Mia is itching to help you plan a wedding and you just keep delaying it." Nicola groaned, in all honesty the whole idea of a wedding made her stomach churn. She just wanted to click her fingers and be married- no wedding involved.
"Mia can keep waiting. We'll get married when we're ready." Nicola said taking another sip of her beer and glancing over at Leon and the tiny baby and feeling her heart swell at the sight. He was wearing the emerald green button up shirt she'd given him for his birthday and the baby was grabbing at the pockets.
Her fingers played with the sapphire and white gold ring that didn't leave her left hand at all these days as she watched and saw Leon glance up at her, a smile on his face that told her he'd never been happier. Looking around at their family, including De-De and Jenna and her husband Phil, Nicola realised she'd never been better either.
"Lala!" A shrill voice yelled and Nicola saw a little blonde girl barrelling towards her.
"Molly!" Nicola said back just as enthusiastically as the three year old fell into her lap and Nicola wrapped her arms around the little girl.
"I've got uncle Lele's pressie!" she shook a box in her hands and Nicola grinned at the tiny girl who still had chocolate cake smeared all over her face.
"Why don't you give it to him?" Nicola asked and Molly shook the box again.
"Because Danny wants to give it to him." She said defiantly making Nicola laugh at the sibling rivalry.
"Well I saw Danny getting a piece of chocolate cake so if you go now, you can give uncle Le his present." Nicola said and put the little girl on the ground as she got up and walked over with her to Leon.
"Hello Molly, what've you got there gorgeous?" Leon asked as he looked down at his niece.
"Your pressie, but you holdin' da baby." Molly said, glaring at the small bundle in Leons arms. Leon looked up at Nicola and nodded to the baby. Sighing Nicola held her arms out to him as he passed her the small baby.
"Alright, gorgeous, come here and show your favourite uncle his present." He picked Molly up and put her on his lap and she helped him tear at the paper. Nicola didn't even see what the present was as she looked down at the baby and was instantly entrapped by its huge blue eyes and pudgy face. Instinct told her to rock the baby when it started to make some sound and it didn't take long for the little girl to close her eyes and go to sleep, held close to Nicolas chest.
"She's so beautiful." Nicola said as she sat down beside Letty again and Letty looked over at the baby.
"It looks like a giant jelly bean with arms." Letty said, raising her eyebrows and Nicola rolled her eyes.
"Now I understand why you don't want children."
"Well look at it. It doesn't do anything." Shaking her head Nicola turned her attention back to the baby.
Jenna soon appeared and took the baby and the children, giving Nicola a kiss on the cheek as they said their goodbyes and left the rest of them sitting on the lawn.
"Hey Vince! Did you see that chick again, that one from Saturday night?" Jesse yelled across the group as they all sat there talking quietly, getting everyones attention.
"What girl?" Mia asked glancing over at Vince with interest.
"Nah, dawg, she was into that kinky shit." Vince replied making everyone laugh.
"What a bit of S and M?" Leon asked, nudging Vince with his elbow.
"Yeah, man all kinds of weird shit. I mean I've done some kinky shit, but she was just weird." Vince took a long sip of his beer and everyone started talking at once and Nicola sat back quietly, not really having anything to contribute to the conversation.
"Oh look, Lala's gone all quiet." Vince noticed and pointed to Nicola sitting there quietly making everyone look at her and she blushed.
"What?" She asked.
"What you've never done anything kinky?" Vince asked and Nicolas cheeks got redder and she looked down at her hands.
"No." She muttered.
"Come on- not even some weird one night stand?" Jesse asked and Nicola shook her head,
"Hey hey. Time to stop picking on my girlfriend." Leon interjected knowing that it was a touchy subject for her because she was the only one in the household that hadn't slept with more than one person.
"No, she's got me interested now. Whatya mean girl?"
"It's none of your business." Nicola replied but Vince kept pushing. "I've never had a one night stand!" She finally snapped at Vince.
"But what about that Tyson guy."
"I've never slept with anyone but Leon, okay? Happy?" She said and Vince bit his lip to stifle a laugh before looking over at Leon.
"Oh, baby you are so naïve." The dark haired man said turning back to her and Nicolas eyes narrowed.
"Naïve? I would be more likely to say well satisfied. I don't see any girls coming back for seconds of Vince Catalano." She sniped causing everyone to laugh.
"Ooh hit a nerve did I baby girl?" Vince teased and Nicola rolled her eyes. "Did you always think you would marry the guy you lost your virginity to?" This earned him a softdrink bottle pitched at his head and he ducked, laughing as Nicola glowered at him.
"Leave her alone, man." Leon said shaking his head at his friend. "You're such an ass."
"You're lucky she hasn't realised most blokes are better than you in bed." Vince replied before Leon tackled Vince off the chair and rolled around with him in the grass, play fighting as they laughed and hit at each other.
"Alright children. Shall we take this home?" Mia said glancing over at the two boys who were lying side by side on the grass. They all filed out to their cars after saying goodbye to De-de and made their way home.
Crawling onto the bed when they got home, Nicola watched Leon get changed.
"Did you have a good birthday, baby?" She asked as he pulled the green shirt over his head and looked over at her.
"Nearly as good as my twenty-first." He smiled and shucked off his jeans, crawling onto the bed beside her and sitting up against the wall, looking down at her lying there.
"How can we make it better then?" She lifted her head up and smiled at him.
"Give me one more present?" He asked softly.
"What's that, baby?" She asked as she sat up and climbed onto his lap looping her arms around his neck.
"Can we have a baby?" He asked, his voice barely above a whisper and Nicola sighed knowing that the question had been coming the moment he'd looked up at her when he was holding Jennas daughter. As she stared into his green eyes and smiled slightly knowing that she could never deny him anything.
"Okay." She whispered and Leons eyes shifted as he searched hers for something.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, Leon. Let's have a baby."
A/N: Awww So they're going to have a baby. Let me know what you think! REVIEW x