Dom was the first to rush over to the Jackson who was still staring wide eyed at Brian. Brian couldn't move. He didn't know what to say. He was just as shocked as Jackson was, but for different reasons. He didn't want him to know, not right now. It was too soon.

"Brian…" Mia whispered. Brian shot up from the stool and walked over to Jackson. Dom had him by the shoulders speaking softly to him.

"Jackson…" Brian cleared his throat before speaking. "I do have a son, he lives with his mother in San Diego."

"What?" Jackson whispered. "I thought…"

"No." Brian cut in.

"Lets get you cleaned up, watch where you are stepping there is glass everywhere." Mia walked over to him wrapping her arm around his shoulder.

"I'll get a broom." Brian replied rushing into the room before the counter and retrieving the broom. He looked up at Dom, before shaking his head. "Not now."

Dom nodded his head. Brian knew he agreed with him. Jackson didn't need to find out this way, he didn't need to walk in on a conversation and find out that Brian is truly his father. "Its time for you to go Brian, I will take him back."

"Dom…"

"I'm fine." Jackson appeared in the doorway. "I'm not hurt. I want to go back with Brian."

Dom nodded his head. "Ya'll just be careful please. I will get the rest of this."

Brian looked over at Mia, she turned away from him. "I guess I will see you guys later then?"

"Sure."

They walked back in silence. "I don't know who my father is." Jackson blurted out. Brian stopped walking. "He abandoned my mom when I was born, I haven't even met him."

"I'm sorry."

"Its fine, I don't really care. I mean I do, but it doesn't matter. I have Dom and the rest of the crew. I couldn't ask for a better family."

"Where is your mom?" Brian asked looking straight ahead.

"She died, she was in a car wreck."

Brian nodded his head. "I'm really sorry man, I grew up without a father too. So I know how you feel."

"Its weird you know, you think that you would be a lost cause because you don't have parents. I don't feel that way though, I feel like I need to accomplish things. For my mom, and to prove to my dad that I am worth it. I don't even know his name you know, she didn't like talking about him. I'm going to find him one day though, and I am going to look him in the face and thank him. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have this life right now. I wouldn't be working in a garage learning all about cars, racing, I wouldn't be here in this life. So I thank him before being a bastard and not being around."

"Jackson…" Brian whispered.

"So you dated Mia?" He changed the subject causing Brian to laugh.

"Yeah, yeah I did. It's a long story but we dated for a while."

"What happened?" Jackson stopped and looked up at him. "I see the way she looks at you and you her. So what did you do?"

"I lied."

"About what?"

"A bunch of things." Brian sighed. "Things I really don't want to get in to right now, but I messed up pretty bad. I am trying my hardest to work it out though."

"Well she is pretty hot, so I mean I can help if you want."

Brian laughed before putting his arm around his shoulder. "You are something else, you know that?"

Jackson smiled at him shrugging his shoulders. "Okay, you want to help. You help me with her and I will teach you everything there is to know about cars and racing, but you have to promise me that you will not race anymore. If you want to, you ask me or Dom, we will take you. Deal?"

Jackson didn't speak for a moment, as he thought about it for a moment. "Deal." He shook his hands with Brian before they continued their walk back to the garage. The day had been shitty, but it definitely was ending very well.

Things had began to become perfect for Brian. He spent most of his time at the garage, teaching Jackson and sometimes Roxy all he could about cars. He even tagged along to the races once a while. He itched to get behind a car again. What he would do just to feel that adrenaline again. Things with Dom were becoming tolerable. He was beginning to have a life there again. When they talked, they made sure Jackson wasn't around to hear it. They didn't need another scare like that. It had been months since the last time they did talk about Brian being his father. He was enjoying Jackson's company, there were times he couldn't wait to get to the garage just so he could show him some more things. Leon watched from the office door many times, as they Brian and Jackson laughed together, wiping each other with their towels, acting like they were best friends. Leon could see that Brian was truly happy being there. He had to give him credit for sticking around. Working with your own son without him knowing is hard. That's why Dom did it. He wanted Brian to see what he was missing, so he made sure that Brian and Jackson had the same shift. Of course, Roxy had to come too. She loved working on the cars, but Leon knew she loved being around Jackson. They were clearly another Dom and Letty in the making. It made Leon sick, he was fifteen once and he knew what his fifteen year old mind was thinking. Leon shook his of the though.

"Hey daddy, can me and Jackson go to the movies tonight?" Roxy walked up to him. Leon just stared at her before shaking his head. "Dad!"

"No." Leon walked into the office.

"Why not?" Roxy whined.

"Stop whining, I cant stand it."

"Its just a movie dad, its nothing else."

"I know what he is thinking Rox, this isn't just a movie."

"Ewww daddy, I did not need to know that."

"Have you talked to your mother?" Leon changed the subject.

"She is coming this weekend to pick me up."

"She is actually coming this time?" Leon picked up the water and taking a sip. He ran his hand through his head.

"Yes, so can I go tonight or not?"

"Is this some code for a race?" Leon eyed her.

Roxy rolled her eyes. "No, we haven't done that in months. Jackson promised Brian that he wouldn't race without permission anymore. I don't know what it is about him but Jackson loves him. He talks about him constantly. He likes worships him or something."

"Great." Leon replied sarcastically.

"What is with you and him? Why do you hate him so much?"

"Can you leave my office please?" Leon asked.

"Wow, thanks for the talk dad." She replied before walking out of the office. Leon looked up as he heard Jackson begin to laugh. Brian had put his arm around him and was laughing with him. Leon shook his head, before walking over and closing the door.

"Come over tomorrow, okay. We are having a cook out. Its sort of like a Sunday tradition. I don't know they have been doing it for a while now. It will be fun." Jackson walked outside the garage.

"I will try." Brian smiled. "You guys have fun tonight. Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

Jackson laughed. "And what is that exactly?"

"Just behave."

"Its just a movie."

"Yeah, right." Brian waved at him before walking down the driveway. He climbed into the Supra and pulled out of the driveway. It only took him ten minutes to get back to the hotel he was still staying out. He didn't mind it anymore. He was saving his money to get his own place, but right now this was all he could afford. He jumped out of the car, pointed the key at the car turning the alarm on before going up three flights of stairs to his room. He was shocked to see Mia leaning against his door.

"Hey." He replied walking up to her. He had his key ready to unlock the door.

"Hey." She moved over so he could open the door. They didn't speak until they were inside.

"Everything okay?" Brian asked setting his stuff down.

"Yeah, everything is fine. I just wanted to come by and see how you were holding up."

"Is that really why you came by?" Brian asked. "No for real, why are you here?"

Mia sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bed. "Mia what is it?'

"I cant shake this feeling…"

"What feeling?" Brian walked over to her. She slowly stood up with tears in her eyes.

"I want to hate you, and sometimes I do. But then I keep going back to when we were together, we were happy right?"

"Yes." Brian had lost his breath.

"Jackson absolutely loves you Brian, he worships you. He wont stop talking about you, so it doesn't help me at all. I miss you." She whispered the last part as the tears fell down her face. She shook her head closing her eyes. Brian put his hands on her shoulders bringing her into his chest.

"I miss you too." He kissed the top of her head. "We can work this out Mi, we can do it."

"How? Everything is already too far gone?"

"So we start over, we forget everything and just move forward."

"Brian…" Mia started.

"You mean more to me than anything in this world. I cant lose you again."

"What about Jackson?" Mia wiped her face with her hand pulling away from him. "You have a son Brian. You cant keep ignoring that."

"Then we will be a family. Me, you, and Jackson."

"Are you serious?" Mia was shocked.

"I'm fixing everything, starting right now. I am so sorry I messed up, I will never hurt you like that again. I was running from my past and took you with it. Let me fix it."

"Yo!" Leon answered his phone. He looked down the hall. It was ten at night, so Roxy was supposed to be in bed. "Yeah, Jessie called me this morning asking about a race going on this weekend. You want to do it?" Leon went into the kitchen grabbing a beer from the refrigerator. "You know that Jackson invited the buster to the cookout tomorrow right?" Leon chuckled. He was still pissed at Brian, after all the shit went down with the trucks, Leon took off. He left with Letty, they needed to get out of town before the heat really came down on all of them. He didn't even know Dom and Brian had gotten arrested until he saw it was on the news that night. That was also the night he found out he had a daughter. It was a one night stand he should have regretted, but he couldn't when he finally met her. He knew about her when she was born but her mother had moved to Colorado. It wasn't until Roxy's mom decided three was company and let Leon begin to take care of her full time. It had been months since the last Roxy saw her mother. He heard a noise causing him to turn around and pull the phone from his ear. He shook his head knowing he was just hearing things.

"Its been weird here lately though. The way Brian has been interacting with him. Its like you know he wants to tell him he is his father, but he's scared. I don't know man, its just weird to watch. He needs to just grow some balls and tell him. I mean I was kind of in the same situation but I stood up….yeah well he needs a good ass kicking again. Jackson needs his father and Brian needs to be that for him before its too late. He needs to find out from Brian, not from someone else…"

Roxy stood behind her father as she listened to him talk to Dom about Jackson. Brian was his father, Roxy couldn't believe it. Brian had lied to him this whole time, he was pretending to be Jackson's friend. Tears filled Roxy's eyes as she listened. She had known Jackson for a while now, they were best friends. She listened as he cried one night over not knowing who he was father was. How he wished he had one, and this whole time Brian was hiding it from him. Everyone was hiding it from him. She bowed her head as she slowly turned away from the doorway. She walked back to her room and sat down on her bed with phone in her hands. She found his name in her phone and pressed down,

"Rox!" Leon yelled down the hall causing her to drop the phone on the floor. She quickly stood up as he walked into her room. "Why are you still up?" He looked at her noticing tears were streaming down her face. "What is it?"

"Nothing." She quickly shook her head.

"Then why do you have tears streaming down your face?"

"I was just thinking about Jackson that's all, I feel bad for him."

"Rox…" Leon sighed.

"I'm really tired daddy, I just want to go to bed."

"Jackson is going to be fine, he has all of us."

"I know." She whispered with a smile. "Goodnight daddy."

"Goodnight, I love you." He smiled at her before walking to the door and closing it behind him.

AN: uh oh, Roxyy now knows. Will she tell Jackson? REVIEW! All mistakes are mine!