(I put the club scene a little earlier in the story than it is in the movie just because I wanted Marley to be with her kids)
"Mama?" I hear Mia call out, waking me up, I sit up from where I was asleep in my chair and I look over at my daughter who is lying in a hospital bed.
"Mi rosa," I say and I quickly leave the chair to sit next to my baby girl on the bed, holding her hand in mine.
"What happened?" She asks and I sigh.
"Nala messaged me, saying that you collapsed, she called 911 and I met you at the hospital, your sick baby... very sick but, your papa and I want you to get better quickly.
"What do you mean? about Papa?" She asks me and I smile.
"I was able to call your Auntie Mia and she was able to get in touch with your Papa, he wants you to know that he loves you and wishes that he could be here with the both of you," I explain to my daughter and she nods with a sad smile on her face as Luka jumps up onto the other side of her bed and snuggles into his little sister's side to comfort her.
"But, I do have a small surprise for the both of you, Come on in!" I call out and in walks Mia, which gives my daughter a giant smile on her face.
"Hi Mi-Mi, your papa wanted me to give this to you, I already gave Luka his," Mia says and hands her a miniature version of Jack's Charger.
"I love it, Gracias Auntie," Mia smiles and I watch as Little Mia plays with her car, I pull Mia off to the side and sigh.
"How is she?" Mia asks me and I run a hand through my hair.
"She has an infection, it's getting better, but they want to try and fix her heart soon, which means they have got to go do it at some time today," I explain and she nods and pulls me in for a hug.
"He wanted me to give you this," Mia whispers in my ear and I feel something enter my pocket, we pull apart and we nod and walk back over to my kids.
~~~~~ 10 hours later ~~~~~~
"Okay, so... we re-paired her heart defect and she's doing good, very good, she will be in the ICU overnight just as a precaution, in case she gets an infection as she heals, but other than that... she is looking to be on the road of recovery," the Doctor says and I smile.
"Thank you, thank you so much," I say and we shake hands, I then walk over to Mia and explain what is going on.
"She's doing good, she's going to be in the ICU overnight, but other than that... she's good," I tell her and she smiles in happiness.
"Call Dom, you tell him yourself," Mia says and I look at her in shock.
"Me? Call Dom. I haven't talked to him in a long time, I don't even know if he still wants to be with me, I'm pretty sure he's with Letty," I tell her and she sighs.
"Marley... Dom loves you, he has always loved you, Letty has tried to get his attention but he doesn't bite, since he has you and the twins, call him Marley," Mia smiles before she hands me a phone number, I sigh and walk out of the hospital room and then out of the hospital main doors.
I walk over to a bench that is outside and I sigh as I sit down, I pull out my phone and I type in the number but I don't press the dial button.
"Come on Marley, just call him," I mutter to myself and press the button, holding the phone to my ear as it rings.
"¿Hola?" An unfamiliar man answers the phone and I sigh.
"Hola, estoy buscando a Dominic Toretto?" I ask and wait for a response.
"Dame un segundo," he says and I nod to myself, waiting for a couple of minutes.
"Mia, te dije que no me llamaras aquí a menos que se trate de Marley y los gemelos," Dom's voice come through the phone and I smile.
"¿Y si es la madre de tus hijos la que te ha llamado?" I say and Dom is silent.
"Marley?" He asks and I laugh as tears start to fall on my face.
"Hi Dom," I say and I hear a laugh come through.
"Oh god, I've missed your voice," Dom says and I shake my head.
"I've missed your voice, I tell the twins about you, every day, Luka loves to hear stories about his papa, and Rosa. She loves to share the same name as her Auntie Mia, and she also loves to hear my stories on how you taught her Mama to race, they love being in the car, they love helping me out with fixing the car, they love everything about it," I explain to him and I hear him sniffle a little bit.
"Are you okay?" I ask as I hear him take a breath.
"I've missed so much," Dom says and I sigh.
"It's okay, once we are together again, then you can spend however much time that you want with them, they are your twins Dom, your children," I tell him.
"I have some news though, about Rosa," I tell him and I hear him take a deep breath.
"What's going on? All Mia said was that she was in the hospital," Dom asks and I sigh, running a hand through my hair.
"Um, well... Rosa collapsed, turns out she had a pretty bad infection and had to get it cleared, they also fixed her heart and now she has to spend the night in the ICU just as a precaution," I explain to him before going silent.
"Marley?" Dom speaks up after a few minutes of silence.
"Dom?" I ask him.
"I love you, I always have, and I'm very lucky to have Rosa and Luka with you," Dom says and I smile, holding back more tears.
"I love you too Papi, the twins love you so much, would you like to talk to them?" I ask him and I hear an intake of breath.
"Can I?" He asks and I smile.
"Yeah, I'm going back up to her room now," I walk back into the hospital, and I finally make it back to Mia's room, I smile at both of my children who are drawing as I walk inside.
"Mia? Luka?" Papa would like to talk to you two," I say and their heads snap up, I put my phone on loudspeaker and I place it between them.
"Papa?" Luka calls out.
"Yes Luka, I'm your papa," Dom answers and I see the excitement on Luka's face as he turns to face his little sister.
"Is Rosa there?" Dom wonders and I watch as Mia leans closer to the phone to hear her father.
"Papa?" Mia calls out and I hear Does laugh.
"Hello, my Rosa," Dom says and a giant smile appears on her face once she hears her dad say her name.
"Papa!" Mia calls out and I smile, going to sit back down in my seat.
~~~~~~ 1 hour later ~~~~~~
"Okay kids, papa's got to go, but I'll call back again soon, okay?" Dom says and I see my twins nod like crazy.
"Okay papa, we love you," Mia says and I smile.
"Love you too, put your Mama back on the phone," Dom requests and that's what they do.
"Okay, I've got to go, I've hit gold," Dom says and I smile.
"Alright, have fun collecting, I gotta get going, I love you Dominic Toretto," I say.
"And I love you, Marley O'Conner," he says and we hang up, I go to put my phone away but I get a message so I quickly look at it and see that it's Brian.
'Verone tortured a cop to get us a window, meet us at Tej's garage,' - Brian.
I sigh and shake my head, putting my phone away.
"Okay, Uncle Brian needs Mama's help, if you want Luka, you can stay here with your Auntie and sister or you can come to Uncle Tej's garage with me?" I ask him and I see him perk up in excitement.
"Can I come with you?" Luka asks me and I nod.
"Of course baby, I love you Mi-Mi, okay?" I tell her and she nods.
"Love you too Mama," Mia says and I smile, kissing her on the forehead, I then look over at the older Mia who does not look happy.
"You are in contact with him?" She asks me and I sigh.
"Yeah, we got back in contact with each other a few nights ago at a race, we are now working on a job together, we're working to take down Carter Verone, that's it," I explain to Mia who nods.
"You miss him, don't you?" I ask and she nods as the tears start to form in her eyes.
"Yeah, but I don't want to," she says and I pull her in for a hug.
"I gotta go, watch over each other, okay?" I tell both Mia's who nod, I then take Luka's hand and we walk out to my car.
~~~~~ a few minutes later ~~~~~
"Okay, ready to meet your Uncle Brian and Uncle Roman?" I ask Luka who nods from his seat in the back.
"Let's go then," I say and I climb out of my car.
"Hey, sis! You're here!" Brian says and walks over to me as I open the back door, helping Luka out of his seat.
"Of course, but there is someone that wants to meet you and Roman," I say and Luka climbs out of the car and looks up at his Uncle.
"Tío?" He asks and Brian smiles and crouches down in front of him.
"Tío," Brian Confirms and I watch as Luka wraps his arms around Brian's neck in a hug, Brian then stands up while holding my son and I smile.
"Come on little man," Brian says and we walk over to Roman.
"Roman, meet my Nephew Luka, Luka, this is your uncle Roman," Brian introduces them.
"Hi," Luka says shyly and I laugh a little bit.
"Hey, it's okay my man, just call me Rome," Roman says and I smile as Luka nods, we then start walking towards Tej's garage.
"Man, Tej's Garage is ridiculous, He's got the best of everything, snap-on tools, all of these lifts are brand new, they're only maybe a couple of months old," Brian says as we walk into the garage that is like a second home to us.
"Hey, yo! Jimmy, what's up man?" Brian says as Jimmy walks out of the office.
"Hey, what up, Bullitt? Marley?" Jimmy says and he does the Bro hug with Brian, being careful of Luka in his arms, and then pulls me in for a hug.
"That's Rome right there, do me a favour, when you get a second, I want you to check out the Evo and Spider," Brian says and Jimmy nods.
"Make sure everything is Copasetic," I tell him and he smiles.
"Evo? Where'd you get an Evo from?" He asks us and we laugh.
"It's a long story," Brian says with a smile on his face.
"I got you man," Jimmy says and I smile.
"Thanks, Jimmy," Brian says and we walk out the back, leaving Jimmy to his devices.
"Man, it's so hot and humid, I can't even wear draws," Roman says and I cringe as I take Luka back into my arms.
"Man, tell me about it," Brian says and I gag.
"Oh god, I don't need to see that in my mind," I say and my brother and Roman laugh.
"Look at all this potential out here," Roman says and we can hear Tej doing his normal announcing.
"Ray, don't do that, man, you're making me lose money. Come on, stop that, I know you better than that, come on, damn," Tej cheers and I smile and shake my head, crossing my arms as Roman and Brian stare at the women that pass us.
"Girl, you know your boy and help you put that fire out! Look at the bubble on that," Roman says with a shit-eating grin on his face, Brian then wraps his arms around Roman's body, pulling him over towards Tej who has Suki sitting next to him.
"Let's go," Brian says with a laugh in tone of voice and Roman nods, Brian then lets go of him and we stand side by side, watching the jets racing.
"This is serious," Roman says and I nod.
"Come on, Ray, you making me lose money, don't do that, don't do that to me right now, come on Ray, do it!" Tej commentates.
"Tej Parker? This is Roman Pearce," I introduce and they bump fists, Tej focusing back on the race.
"He's the man to know in Miami, he's got his finger in absolutely everything, that's just the way it is," I explain and Roman nods.
"Come home to daddy, come on now," Tej cheers as he watches Ray get into first.
"What's going on, Suki?" Brian asks her and he leans down to kiss her cheek and hug her as I put Luka down next to me.
"What's up, baby?" Suki says and I smile at the happiness that is in her voice.
"How are you doing?" Brian asks her and she smiles.
"I'm good, how are you doing?" She asks him and he smiles and I look down at her sketchbook.
"What's this? What's the latest and greatest?" I ask her.
"It's a work in progress, it's not finished yet," Suki explains and I nod.
"That's some artistic shit, you got talent girl," Roman praises her and she smiles.
"Maybe you would like Mia to help once she's home? You know she loves to help you design for her cars," I say and Suki nods.
"Of course, I'd love that little one's help, Hi Luka!" she says and I laugh, turning back to the race as Luka sits down next to Suki.
"Ray, It's do or die right now! Bring it home, Ray! Bring it home, Ray!" Tej cheers as Ray crosses the finish line.
"Yeah, baby! Pay up! Pay up! Pay up! Pay up everybody," Tej says into his megaphone as he walks around collecting his money.
"That's how they do it out here, man?" Roman asks us and we nod.
"Everyday," I say and they nod.
"That's crazy," Roman says and I laugh.
"Right here, right now, what's up, man? You don't look too happy, expeditiously, man. I need it quick, what's up thank you, thank you. How are you feeling man? You alright, thank you," Tej walks around the group of people and collects all the money that he has won.
"Not too bad," I say as I see how much he has made.
"I see you're about your money, homey, you race, too?" Roman asks Tej who shakes his head while counting.
Nah, man. I hit a wall doing like a buck 20 a couple of years ago, ever since I've just been organising and collecting, man," Tej explains and Roman nods in understanding.
"Hey, Tej, check it out, he's gonna be in town for a while, is there any way he can use the cot?" Brain asks him and Tej just looks at him.
"What's wrong with your place, man?" Tej asks him and Roman shakes his head.
"No, I don't want to stay with him, he's got bad habits," Roman tells him and Tej just shakes his head.
"what about you Marley?" Tej asks and I shrug.
"I've got Mia coming home tomorrow," I say, Roman and Tej nod in understanding.
"All right guys, whatever, show him around, I'll be up there in a minute," Tej says and we nod.
"Thanks, Tej," I say and I pull him into a hug.
"Sure, alright, who wants a chance to win their money back?" Tej asks the crowd.
"Come on Luka, let's go and see Jimmy," I say and he nods, grabbing my hand, we walk out to the front of the garage and we see Jimmy looking at the Evo's engine.
"Okay Jimmy, so what's up, you ever seen anything like this before?" I ask him and he shakes his head.
"Nah. Both of them are wired up like I've never seen before," he says and I look at him in shock.
"What?" Roman and I say at the same time.
"Yeah man, they got us wired with GPS, that's why Markham knew we were gonna be at that impound lot," Brian explains and I sigh.
"There was a report on the police scanner as we were driving, it was to Markham, giving the coordinates to someone, turns out it was us," I say and my brother just hangs his head.
"Yo, you're the master mechanic, why don't you just yank that shit out of there?" Roman asks him.
"I'll try, but this ain't lo-jack," Jimmy says.
"The DIS box, the engine management system, hell the main harness, the GPS is spidered into all of that," I explain and they nod.
"Hey, tell me something, man, do I even want to know where the skyline is dawg? Or where you've been the past couple of days? Or where the hell you got these rides from?" Tej asks as he and Suki walk over to us from the water.
"They're hot," Suki says.
"Yeah, they hot, they're wired so hot that whoever is tracking these things will know every time you don't wear your seatbelt," Jimmy explains and I sigh.
"Alright Jimmy, just do what you can do, bro," Brain asks him and Jimmy nods with a smirk on his face.
"I got you," Jimmy nods and I smile.
"Thanks, man," Brian says.
"Man, we got to get these on the street, ASAP," Tej says and I nod, smiling.
"Of course, whenever we can," I say and Brian calls out to me.
"Marley!" He calls and I walk over to him and Roman with Luka still holding my hand.
"Hey, check it out, see that Cadillac across the street over there?" Brian points out and we nod.
"Yeah," Roman says and Brian sighs.
"Yeah, well, they've been on us since we left Verone's house yesterday," Brain tells us and I sigh.
"I got an idea, you two get the cars ready," Roman says and smirks at us, he runs off so Brian runs over to Jimmy while I crouch down to Luka's height.
"Okay, Luka? Mama has to go, she's got work to do, okay?" I tell him and he nods.
"You can stay at the garage, or you can come with us?" I say and he thinks for a second.
"You, I want to see what you are doing," he says and I nod.
"There might be some yelling and fighting okay? Stay near Mama if there is," I say and he nods, I point to my car and Luka nods, we then run to my car and he jumps into his seat, quickly strapping in with a smile.
"Go fast Mama!" He squeals in excitement and I laugh.
"That's my boy," I say as I turn on the engine and I watch as Roman quickly jumps into Brian's car after lighting the Cadillac on fire, I peel out of the garage and I speed after Brain and Roman.
~~~~~ Police meeting spot ~~~~~
"He's going to blow our cover before we even get started," Roman says as we walk into the meeting spot.
"Bilkins, tell me what went wrong?" Brian asks him as Luka walks behind me, holding onto the bottom of my jacket.
"That's what I want to know," Bilkins says and that's when Markham storms in with his gun drawn and Dunn following like a little puppy, I then quickly push my son behind me as the yelling starts.
"Show me your hands! Come on, keep them up!" Markham yells and Roman does what he says while Dunn starts searching him.
"What's this about man?" Roman demands.
"What's going on Mama?" Luka whispers and I shrug.
"I don't know baby," I whisper as I continue to watch what is happening in front of me.
"Hold this," Markham says and throws his gun to Bilkins and starts to advance on Roman.
"You think you can shoot at me? I'M A GODDAMN FEDERAL AGENT!" Markham screams.
"What are you talking about?" Roman yells as he starts fighting Markham.
"Get your hands off of me!" Markham yells as Brian and Bilkins separate them.
"Get him away from me, dawg!" Roman says as Bilkins backs him up against a wall.
"Just because you wear a badge doesn't mean you can mess shit up for us, homeboy!" Roman yells and I feel Luka coming closer to my body.
"Get your hands off me!" Markham continues to yell as my brother pushes him away from our friend.
"You lucky I didn't shoot you!" Roman yells.
"Shut up!" Brian tells him and Roman doesn't take that lightly.
"Don't tell me to shut up Brian! You almost blew our cover, old man!" Roman yells and I sigh.
"I'm right here!" Markham continues to fight against my brother.
"You shouldn't have shown up like you did," I point out and Markham just glares at me, not noticing my son.
"What? You didn't know Verone was testing us?" Brian asks him in surprise.
"No, I thought you punks were running!" Markham says, finally calm enough for my brother to let him go, but that set Roman off.
"Running?" Roman says and continues to fight against Bilkin's arms.
"That's great, that's real great," Brian says and he pulls out his gun while I keep mine hidden.
"And if Rome wanted to shoot you? You wouldn't be here right now!" I exclaim and I watch as Bilkins quickly scoops up Brian's gun as soon as it hits the table.
"Alright, we got to get this under control," he says and I watch as Roman paces back and forth until he spots a white bag on the table, being his nosey self, opens the bag and gives it a sniff.
"Hey! That's mine!" Markham exclaims but Roman doesn't care.
"So?" He glares at Markham who just glares back.
"Go eat with Uncle Roman," I whisper and gently push Luka towards Roman who helps him to sit on the table and shares the food, which happens to be a sandwich with him.
~~~~ a few minutes later ~~~~
"Tell me what you know," Bilkins demands as we all sit down.
"Rome, Marley, and I will be making a run for Verone, I'm not sure when and where, but he did say that he bought us a window, I'm assuming from the local cops," Brian explains and Bilkins nods.
"I can talk to some of the guys at the local P.D.," Dunn suggests.
"No, no good. If Verone's got some of them on the payroll, then we can't let them know of our operation," Bilkins explains and Brian agrees.
"In addition, Verone told us that he himself would be waiting at the drop," I tell them.
"That's good news, if you're gonna be delivering drug money to him, then we can get him for laundering," Bilkins points and that's when Roman speaks up.
"Now, there's only one problem," Roman says, catching our attention.
"What's that?" Bilkins asks him.
"Fuentes, Verone's tapping her," Roman tells him and I sigh.
"Tapping her? Tapping her how?" Bilkins asks but Markham cuts in.
"That is crap," he exclaims and I laugh.
"What you talking about homeboy, we know what we have seen," Roman defends himself and Markham turns to Brian.
"So what do you think O'Conner? Do you think she's compromised? You should know," Markham says and im just thankful that Luka is occupied with the drawing supplies that I got out of the car.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Roman asks, confused.
"Your old pal O'Conner didn't tell the two of you? He flipped on Bilkins in L.A. HE gave his mark his keys and let him disappear, that's why he's not a cop anymore," Markham says and close my eyes, moving forward to lean my elbows on my legs.
"So, what do you think expert?" Markham asks him and he shrugs.
"Man, I don't know," Brian says resigned, possibly thinking of Mia Toretto.
"Alright, we'll keep an eye on her," Bilkins says and I nod.
"We're out of here, I got to get Luka home," I say and that's when Bilkins, Markham, and Dunn finally notice my son.
"Let your man go huh?" Roman asks Brian as we walk out the door.
"Drop it, I don't want to talk about it," Brian says and I shake my head.
"Drop it, hell, I want to hear about this homie," Roman says.
"I said, forget about it cuz," Brian says as they climb into his car and I lean into Roman's window with Luka by my leg.
"We got Fuentes in Verone, Markham trying to blow our cover, and we got two wired cars that are no better than that damn ankle bracelet of mine, I'm gonna tell you bruh, you let your man Markham do that shit again in front of Verone? That's gonna be our ass," Roman says and I agree.
"I know, man, I know, it's just getting thick real quick, we may need a way out, we got to come up with some kind of exit strategy," Brain tells us.
"Exit strategy?" I ask him and he nods.
"Yeah," Roman smirks and then takes a bit of the sandwich that he took.
"I like the way that sounds, what you got in mind?" Roman asks him.
"I don't know man, but we need 2 more cars," Brian says and I smile and nod.
"It's a good thing I have a spare car that I have in Tej's garage, I'll see you guys tomorrow night," I say and they nod.
"Goodbye Uncle Brian and Uncle Roman, Mia will love you as much as I do," Luka says and I smile down at my son as he grabs my hand, we then walk over to my car and he straps himself in.
"Let's get home, I'm hungry," I say and he nods and laughs.
Spanish Translation:
Mi rosa - Rosa mia
Hola - Hello
Hola, estoy buscando a Dominic Toretto - Hello, i'm looking for Dominic Toretto
Mia, te dije que no me llamaras aquí a menos que se trate de Marley y los gemelos - Mia, I told you not to call me here unless it's about Marley and the twins
¿Y si es la madre de tus hijos la que te ha llamado? - What if it is the mother of your children that has called you?
Tío - Uncle
