7:00 pm
The gang rolled up to a large modern looking Japanese mansion up on the hill of east Tokyo. Leon was at the front of his driveway holding his three year old in his left arm, as the headlights of the cars highlighted him. As the cars pulled up Leon lifted is son over his head to proudly show him off. The toddler had blonde hair with ocean blue eyes and rosy cheeks. Leon waved with his free hand directions to where everyone can park.
As Roman got out of his car he remarked on how impressive Leon's home was. "Damn, I thought homes in Japan were supposed to be bite sized but your house is massive."
Dom's Charger pulled in. "Wow this place is a mansion." Letty whispered to Dom as they exited their car in unison. Dom chuckled as he grabbed her left hand and entwined his fingers with hers. He kissed her cheek "You look good Letty."
Letty had her hair styled down in beach waves and wore an above the knee long-sleeved dark green cocktail dress. "Thank you and if you behave yourself you might just see me out of it" She whispered seductively into his ear. Dom eyebrows rose in surprise. He chuckled and gently kissed her lips.
"Hey none of that here." Roman remarked at the kissing couple.
Tej got out of the passenger's seat and met up with them "Don't listen to this guy he just hasn't gotten laid in a while" Roman smeared at Tej remark and slapped the back of his head.
As Mia's and Brian's car pulled in Mia exited the car and happily went up to Leon to see his child, and to introduce him to hers. Mia had her hair in a high ponytail and wore an above the knee satin strapless black cocktail dress. Leon greeted everyone with much enthusiasm and a contagious smile on his face. He invited everyone into his home. "Come in side ladies and fellas, please take off your shoes and make yourselves at home."
Roman added, "You should make this guy keep his on," he pointed his right thumb over at Tej "in fact ill pay you to let him keeps his on." Tej rolled his eyes.
Brian was a bit hesitant and waited for everyone to enter first because he knew he was out of socks after staying in Japan for an unexpected allotted time. However he removed his shoes despite the embarrassment.
"No one cares that you're not wearing socks Brian." Mia whispered at him. Brian stood at the doorway for a while and sighed when he finally entered. Mia giggled and grabbed his right hand, entwining her fingers with his. Brian smiled at her as he kissed the back of her hand.
The large crowd followed Leon into a huge dining room. Tej let a low whistle "Damn this place is nice."
Leon headed over to a pregnant Japanese woman with dark eyes and neck length straight smooth black hair. The woman wore an above the knee sleeveless white dress with vertical black strips on each side and had black tights on. Leon wrapped an arm around her lower waist. "Guys this is my wife Suzuki." Everybody in the room greeted and introduced themselves to her.
Letty politely shook her hand "Thank you very much for having us over tonight."
"Oh it's my pleasure. Leon told me all about you folks." Suzuki spoke modestly.
"Oh this ought to be good" Dom teased.
Suzuki giggled "Don't worry; he said you were all the closest to a family he had ever had." Dom, Letty, Mia and Brian turned to Leon and smiled warmly.
Leon broke out a small laugh "Alright, come on guys enough of this or I'll blush like a high school girl."
Leon gestured everyone to take their seats around the dining table. Leon sat at the end of the table as Suzuki took her seat on his right side. Next to Suzuki sat Liam. Mia sat next to Liam with Jack on her lap while Brian sat next to her. Dom sat on Leon's left side of the table with Letty next to him. Tej sat next to Letty while Roman sat next to Tej on his other side.
"What a beautiful baby," Suzuki commented to Mia as she smoothed the baby's soft dirty blonde hair. "how old is he?"
"Thank you. He's just a little over one" Mia kissed Jacks' forehead as she bounced him on her lap. She looked over at Suzuki's belly "Do you know if you're having a boy or a girl?"
Suzuki rubbed her belly and smiled "I'm having a boy."
Mia gasped amusingly "Oh that's great! graduations."
"Thank you."
Leon stood up from his seat and cleared his voice. He clapped his hands together "Alright so who's hungry" Everyone laughed and proceeded to pass plates, some of the fellas rubbed their hands together and licked their lips in anticipation for their warm dinner.
The whole gang were enjoyably eating and drinking their delicious feast with loud laughter's and storytelling filling the elaborate and exquisite dining room. The doorbell rang and Suzuki excused herself to open the door. A few seconds later Suzuki walks in with Hobbs and Elena. Dom stood up from his chair and with a spoon he tapped on his vintage crystal champagne glass, grabbing everyone's full attention in the room.
Silence spread across the room as Dom cleared his voice and began to toast. "Everyone in this room is family; that's what we have become. We have lost some faces over the years but we have also gained new ones," he smiled down at Letty and placed a hand on her left shoulder "we have even recovered some lost ones." He looked back up at everybody and continued "We were each once at the bottom of the barrel coming from nowhere with nothing in our pockets. The goal back then was to get by and ride fast. As time has caught up with us we have broken out of that cycle and now we each stand for something greater. We can't keep finding excuses to run away from the world. We can't keep living like we no longer belong in the world but I won't allow the memories of our lost friends go to vain. If we want this family to go on we each need to promise that we can't ever look back and we can never go back. The only thing the matters is the present because the present is our future. Everything that we have done in the past has led to this day. Our choices has gotten us this far. We're all here because we all live by the same code. We're here to make justice for the friends we lost. Money comes and goes we all know that but the only thing that truly matters are the people right here and right now in this room. This is for our family, this is our future, and this is our life. We ride or die."
"Ride or Die" The whole gang cheered in unison. They all bang their glasses together and continued chatting. Dom walked over to Elena and Hobbs. He firmly shook hands with both "Did you bring it?" he asked.
"Yes, everything I brought you at the bar is here." Elena held a file "It has all we need to know about Shaw's operations; who he's meeting with, where the race will be at, and what time everything will be happening." Dom nodded. He turned his attention back to the dining table and cleared his throat to get everyone's full attention once again. Elena stood in between Dom and Hobbs as she spoke holding the file up in the air "Shaw is hosting a large international race at this secret location off the coast of Spain. The world's most notorious racers will be attending by invitation only."
Hobbs cleared his throat "These are people wanted all over the world. We got hardened criminals with backgrounds that are worse than anyone we've ever met, gun runners, racers with rap sheets mile long." He walked up to the dining table and placed down a map on the center "The goal is to infiltrate the race without them knowing that we are even there. Luckily Shaw won't be expecting our crew there at all, after washing his hands clean of us" Hobbs explained as he pointed in his map the different positions each team member would need to be at.
Roman furrowed his eyebrows "So does that mean we're flying to Spain?"
"Yes we're flying in tomorrow" Hobbs voice was firm. "This race is the only chance you will have to get close to Shaw."
"So what happens when you guys do finally get close enough to Shaw?" Mia asked and her voice sounded a bit nervous. Brian softly squeezed her hand to try to keep her nerves down.
Tej stood up from his chair "That's when we give him a taste of his own medicine," he pulled out a small metal briefcase and unlocked the hinges. He then pulled out a small microchip and directed it to Brian's view "remember this shit Brian?" Tej held up a tiny microchip that looked similar to the one that Owens Shaw crew had used on them in their first encounter in London. "These are the little fuckers that flipped Roman and I over back in London, but modified. The car doesn't have to be electric. If we can manage to get one of these anywhere near the hood of Shaw's car the magnet in it will be enough to mess up any engine. Knock his ass out for a change like what happened to us. I like to call them, Blue Shells"
Letty knew exactly what those chips worked for. "Oh shit, where did you guys get those from?" She chuckled.
"From my connect in NCY" Roman answered grinning and nodding his head.
Dom looked over at Letty "Did you ever use those?" He asked her curiously.
Letty hesitated before answering "Yes... but like once or twice" everybody in the room was thrown back at her response and they all looked at her uneasy. She licked her dry lips and hesitated again before continuing "I remember Owen always packing those things. He personally taught me how to handle that equipment but I never liked using them." Letty felt every one's eyes glued onto her and she felt like sinking down into her seat.
"Dang, you could have been the one who almost bashed my forehead that night" Roman said as he chuckled.
Letty bit onto her lower lip and smiled. She snorted out a loud laugh "Yeah, you're right I could of have killed you all. I mean I shot Dom that night" she said teasingly trying to lighten up the tension in the room. Everybody in the room laughed, breaking the ice but except for Dom. In Dom's mind he had images of Owen and Letty together alone as he instructs her on how to use the equipment. Teaching her the ropes, and placing his hands on her. "So you and Owen?" Dom asked while failing at trying to comment as subtlety as possible. Dom felt a rush of jealousy but he knew it wasn't the appropriate time or place to show his true emotions. Dom and Letty stared intensively at each other for a good few long seconds.
Brian sensed the tension between the couple and cleared his throat as he asked Tej "How many do we have?"
"We only have three so we have to make every shot count." Tej answered.
Hobbs added, "The only thing we need to get is the invitation to Shaw's island. Luckily I have a location of someone who's going. His name is Hector Santos; he is a high profile illegal street racer in Spain. He's going to be one of Shaw's racers and that's where I leave it up to you guys to do what you need to do to get that invite from him."
"Mia, you and Jack will stay here. The rest of us got some packing to do. Once we're there we all need to split up into groups to make this happen." Dom asserted. "The goal is to make this swift; we got the advantage that Shaw doesn't know we're still gunning for him." Everyone in the room nodded their heads in agreement with the overall plan and goal.
Leon took a deep breath as he leaned back into his chair. He looked over at Hobbs and Elena "You guys hungry?"
Elena smiled "No thank you we ate already." she assured.
Suzuki stood up from her seat "Okay, well I think it's time to clean up" everyone got up from their seats and started stacking dirty plates with empty plates. "Oh no please don't mind" Suzuki turned to Leon "Leon please show our guests their rooms while I clean up here."
"Oh it's no bother we could help yo-" Mia spoke up before being cut by Suzuki.
"No. Now please go on with Leon he'll show you the place." She assured as she stacked a big pile of dirty plates together.
"Are you sure you don't need our help?" Letty spoke hesitantly.
"I'm sure. Leon show the guys our garage I'm sure they'll like that."
Leon nodded and cleared his throat as he lifted up from his seat "Come on guys I'll show you around." Everybody in the room was a bit hesitant to follow Leon.
Leon chuckled "Come on guys it's okay." Everybody nodded and thank Suzuki before exiting the dining room with Leon. Dom and Letty held hands as they walked out with Leon who held Liam in his arms. Tej, Roman, Hobbs and Elena walked behind them followed by Mia and Brian.
Mia handed Jack over to Brian and kissed his cheek. "I'm going to stay and help Suzuki" she informed him.
"Why? She said she didn't need any help."
"Please Brian she was just trying to be courteous. Of course she needs help cleaning up. But do you think a good host will make their guest wash dishes? Of course not! I know how she feels and I'm gonna stay and help her. Besides it will be a good way to get to know her. After all I'll be staying here for a while so it will be a nice start."
Brian smiled "Babe that's why I love you; you have such a warm heart." Before Mia could speak a word out Brian had placed his lips onto hers and messaged her tongue with his. Mia pulled away and smiled back. She pecked his lips for one last time before returning back to the dining room. As Brian held his gaze at Mia's departure Hobbs cleared his throat. Brian turned around and followed his gaze up to a bulky figure. Brian remembered his last encounter with Hobbs hadn't gone so well.
"Uh…. Hey man.. I uh" Brian started hesitantly.
Hobbs nodded "Yeah… I know…. I'm mean, I'm also…"
"Uh yeah man…Don't worry.. You know I shouldn't have."
"It's okay. It was all my fault…." Hobbs cleared his voice "I'm sorry that night things got out of control"
"No it's cool man, so uh… are we?"
"Yeah we're cool." Hobbs finished. They hive fived and fist bumped one another to make their reconciliation official. Letty and Dom watched them from a far. Letty huffed "Wish it was that easy with girls." Dom let out a loud laugh. He draped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in to place a sweet kiss on her forehead.
Next chapter: Their finally in Spain and more drama
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