"Colin? Do you think you can help me here?" The question came from under one of Wolf's many cars.
"Uh, sure. Which car are you under, Luna?" Colin asked as he stopped what he was doing to see if he could help.
A sigh sounded, "Erm, I'm under the DB9."
Colin frowned. Luna was not supposed to be near that car unless Allan was around. "Luna-"
Sliding from underneath the car, "don't berate me, Allan told me the car was mine just an hour ago. So, I decided to start working on it to get my mind off of today..."
"Today? What's today?" Colin asked looking at Luna's pained face.
"My Daddy's... My Daddy's birthday," Luna stared at Colin. "I'll be the only one out of his six children not wishing him 'happy birthday'. All my brothers will be there, while I'm here scared to show my face to them."
Colin walked up to Luna and hugged her. He didn't know she had such a meaningful family that she seemed to not be a part of. She hugged him back and laid her head on his shoulder. She needed comfort and he was the only one, besides Allan that she truly trusted.
"Colin! What are you doing?" Allan shouted from his vantage point at the garage door.
Luna and Colin quickly separated and turned away from each other. Allan walked up and got between Colin and his lover.
"Back off! She doesn't need you," Allan raised his voice after each word.
Luna tugged on Allan's shirt softly, "stop it. He was only being there for me, I was being emotional."
Allan's eyes flashed in betrayal, "Luna... You know I'm here."
"Well, you weren't there when I asked Colin!" Luna wailed at Allan before trying to retreat to Allan's room in the garage they lived in.
Allan glared one last time at Colin before leaving him alone in the garage in pursuit of Luna. Colin sighed softly and left towards his room after he put Luna's tools away and locking her or rather Wolf's old DB9.
Allan grabbed Luna's arm as they entered his room. He shut the door and spun her to face him.
"Look at me" Allan softly and forcefully said to Luna.
Shaking her head she kept her eyes downcast, "it's not worth it."
She bit her bottom lip, she didn't exactly want to tell Allan about her father and brothers. Only Colin knew, and that's because he was the quiet one of her friends. She was still dealing with having to betray Wolf.
"I just want to rest, Allan," Luna murmured softly. "I'm exhausted."
Allan leaned forward and kissed her softly on her lips, "alright, but you are telling what was wrong later."
Shifting to fourth gear, the car's engine roared like thunder in her ears. Licking the sweat from her lips and salty tang filled her mouth. It was not a pleasant taste at all. But the race was at stake, she needed to beat Angie down this canyon duel.
Luna tried to cut Angie off during one of the tight corners, but instead lost points for running into Angie's new muscle car. The Aston she was driving scraped the road barrier on the right after her failed attempt at passing Angie. Quickly she shifted to a higher gear causing the engine to roar louder and accelerate quickly after exiting the tight turn. Angie laughed in her car, or so Luna thought from seeing the shadow in the driver's seat of the Muscle tap her steering wheel several times. Luna growled in annoyance and decided that she was on Angie's tail and racking up points she might as well damage Angie's new ride after she mocked Wolf.
Luna shifted gears again and slammed into the back of Angie's car and laughed loudly. Oh, but Luna was still trying her best to get passed the other woman. However, after trying to pass her several times; Luna managed to get the DB9 in front of the American vehicle for ten seconds and win the race.
Angie drove up alongside her and they both rolled their windows down. Angie spoke first, "Allan is using you, Wolf care for you. Maybe one day you'll see that…"
Luna screamed as she sat up. Panting she looked around frantically but then a sudden flash of dizziness caused her to lay back down. Wondering why her head pounded like she had been hit by a car and then ran over several times she tried remembering what she was doing before. However, the more she thought the more pain that flooded her senses. Groaning she clutched at the coat that was covering her.
Luna licked her dry lips and tried to sit up again, this time to be met with Wolf holding a glass of water and two aspirin pills, "you drank a little too much vodka."
"Oh…" Luna winced at her own raspy voice. "I was trying to guess what I did before I woke up. Did I do anything interesting?"
Wolf smirked, "you did ask if I cared about you or not. And I said I did then you fell asleep and I left you in here to rest."
Luna nodded her head softly as to not empty whatever was in her growling stomach. Wolf wouldn't lie about that to her, no reason to.
"I came over as well," Luna turned her head slowly to the speaker. "Colin, it's good to see you? I really can't see you that well everything is blurry…"
"I can understand that, you did drink five glasses of vodka," Colin sighed. "You know, you promised."
Luna reached for the aspirin and water and downed the pills in a headache inducing flash. She quickly laid down and watched Wolf with dull eyes.
"Well things tend to happen," Luna muttered. "I'm having a hangover, hard questions… are well, hard."
Wolf chuckled at Luna and sat at the edge of the couch and rubbed her leg softly. She sat up and moved to curl against Wolf. Right now he was the warmest thing on the couch and Colin needed a spot to sit, which he sat down on after Luna had moved. Wolf intertwined his fingers with Luna's and held her close. Closing her eyes Luna relaxed in Wolf's hold, it may remind her of when she had betrayed him; he didn't seem to remember that as he held her firmly. Luna wondered why, usually Wolf would hold that against someone, however, he made an exception with Luna.
Wolf press his lips against the back of Luna's head before clearing his throat, "while you were sleeping, Colin and I started planning your rise..."
Confirming she knew what Wolf was saying she finished his sentence, "as the Street Queen."
"Exactly," Colin nodded. "Should be fun. We will have to give Allan a taste of his own medicine and show him what he did to us."
Luna nodded slowly, the headache was still there, but due to the aspirin it was just a dull ache. She now knew that they were working together to bring down Allan and that made her happy. She had her Lotus Elise, fiancé, and best friends on her side. As well as, the Blacklist 15 that Wolf managed to get onto his payroll. The silence that came after Colin's words were, peaceful, only their soft breathing was heard and Luna was repositioning herself onto Wolf's lap.
Then the silence was broken when that American man walked in with about four other racers, two male and two female.
The American spoke, "I brought some of the former Blacklist members who hate Allan as much as I do. In order from dude to chick are, Vic, Baron, Izzy, and Kaze they are going to help fuel the storm."
"Fire," Luna smirked at the American. "The saying is "to help fuel the fire" the other you mentioned with it is "the calm before the storm," did you ever graduate English in high school? Stupid American..."
Growling the man replied, "My name is not "Stupid American" it's Razor and secondly, I did graduate English but I didn't realise that I would need it now just to talk to you."
Luna laughed and that caused the other four members of the Blacklist to join in. This man was so dense, he couldn't even see it! Luna had only been messing with him and he overreacted, typical idiots. With the smirk still on her face, despite her due eyes and messy hair, Luna seemed to be like a Wolf staring down and it's prey. Her blue eyes watched their every movement and that unsettled them until she blinked.
"I like them," Luna announced. "Especially the four Razor brought in. So much potential."
Wolf nodded in agreement. He was glad she was happy with his choice of including the Blacklist into their plan to overthrow Allan. That man was going to pay for not only taking Luna away, stealing his territory, but also for breaking the one thing that had made Luna his. Her heart.
"Good," Wolf said softly to Luna, but rose his voice for his next sentence. "You four will be apart of the destruction of Allan Rhodes' lies. He will pay for what he did to us all, physically and mentally."
The group bowed their heads in affirmation and all including Razor left the room and the blissful silence returned. Colin was sure by now Allan knew where he had gone, it had been more than two hours, more like seven hours since he left the Black Heart's garage. Luna knew it too, Colin would be safer just staying with her and Wolf.
Tools clanged on the ground after being thrown in a rage. Allan had suspicions of Colin's treachery and the boy had proven it about four hours ago. The rest of the crew now with Neville and Sal present, watched as he let his anger out.
"I should have know that little rat would betray me, he was always loyal to Wolf!"
Nikki shook her head and yelled at Allan, "No! He was always loyal to Luna, she was his family while they raced together in TFK."
Allan turned to face Nikki her eyes were dull as if she was hiding something. One second thought, he noticed they all shared that look.
"What are all of you hiding?" Allan snarled at the crew while they stood next to their cars all dressed as if they were leaving.
Samson looked at him with a cold stare, "you used all of us to get back at the crews, then threw us away the first chance you got." Pausing Samson breathed deeply to control his anger. "Your stupidity caused Luna to shutdown, to break, and now you want her back? That's not fair to her, she cried herself to sleep on some nights because of you. She died wondering why you left."
"You broke her, her heart, and her soul. We're leaving this crew. You are just using us for your selfish reasons and we want none of it," Samson open his car's door. "You're even worse than Darius, he at least didn't steal a car precious to someone. And he also didn't break everything Luna was."
As Allan processed the information that he had heard, the individual crew members, Nikki, Yumi, Samson, Sal, and even good ol' Neville got into their cars and drove out of the garage leaving him alone. He still didn't realise the pain in his heart right then and there, was the same pain Luna had felt as he drove out of the city and Palmont. He had crushed her and even now didn't seem to care. All Allan cared about was having her again, but Wolf had her and it seemed she had grown to love him again.
He stood there and listened to the painful silence that echoed throughout the garage, he was sure Luna must be in a loud place thinking about him. He was lonely now, he missed her, oh so dearly...
Little did Allan know Luna was listening to Wolf's heartbeat at TFK's garage. She was content with Wolf now that she knew he actually cared for her. She listened as both he and Colin spoke about the grand plan to bring Allan down. They didn't know that the crew had left Allan alone and crushed him as he had done to Luna. However, they knew he could handle it, but they also had know he would do anything to bring Luna back to him.
Oblivious to that fact, Luna, Colin, and Wolf kept to their quiet discussion in the privacy of the back room. It seemed that they had the chance to relax for once and just talk softly about their plans. Luna needed the quiet to get over her hangover from her minor drink problem. She smiled and winced every now and then, but was very active in the discussion. She was relaxed, content, and very much ready to start phase one of their revenge and her rise to ruling the streets.
A/N: So my plan to type during my testing week, which was last week failed. After four hours of sitting in one room I had to stay away from my computer and get out. I did manage to plan this chapter and it led to me writing this. More and more flashbacks from races in Need for Speed Carbon will appear because it will show how much racing has changed in the three years Allan has been gone. Also, if any of you have played Need for Speed Rivals, some of the street racers, Luna included, will have pursuit tech within their vehicles. This includes: ESF, EMP, Shockwave, Turbo, Jammer, and Stun Mines. Next chapter will likely be after the Need for Speed movie, so expect the middle of next week. Until then, Ciao!