"Everybody up! Let's get moving! Race Wars await us!"

Dom's voice thundered up the stairs causing people to jolt awake. Vince rolled over, promptly falling out of bed and landing on the floor with a thud. Allana appeared in his line of sight and smiled at him, making everything right with the world. Kittie pulled a pillow over her head and latched onto Jesse, muttering about the ungodly hours of the morning as Jesse laughed. Letty grumbled something and chucked a pillow at the door. Mia rolled over and looked at her clock, a small smile on her face. Reighn sighed, took a deep breath and attempted to get up. A wieght across her legs let her know that Sadie was using her as a pillow.

"Get up! If you miss Race Wars 'cause you're being lazy it's ain't my fault!"

Allana crawled out of bed and helped Vince to his feet and they stumbled around the room, getting their clothes on. Jesse managed to get Kittie out of bed by bribing her with coffee. Letty rolled out of bed and grumbled something about late nights. Mia wandered into the bathroom and turned the shower on. Leon helped Reighn out of bed by lifting Sadie off her legs and kissing her before getting out of bed himself and heading for the closet.

~ * ~

Brian pulled up outside the Toretto household with a nervous look on his face. He stepped out of the car and jammed his hands into his pockets before making his way to the front door. He knocked and something was shouted and the door swung open, revealing Dom standing there. "What?"

"Uh. Hey Dom."

"Brian." Dom said, "You gonna stand there or come in? I got a supra to pick up and eight people to get on the road, I ain't got time to watch ya stand on my doorstep."

"You - You're not gonna kill me?"

"I'm not?" Dom asked, "Not at the moment. But if you do anything to Mia again I swear to all that holy that I will if it makes you feel better?"

Brian laughed and followed Dom into the house. Mia bounded down the stairs, a happy expression on her face. She gave Brian a hug and turned to her brother, "You boys go get the Supra, I'll get the crew outta bed."

Dom kissed the top of her head and led Brian out the door and to his car. They got in and Dom started the engine, pulling out of the driveway and down the street. The ride was silent for nearly five minutes before Dom broke the scilence. "Why'd you leave?"

Biran looked up, "I dunno really. Part of me said to go right back to the house and beg Mia to forgive me for lying to her, another was telling me that you and the guys would kill me, that Jesse was dead and Vince would lose his arm... So I went back to Tucson to stay with my parents for a bit, figure things out. Turned out to be a lot longer than I expected."

"I can tell ya that."

"So... Who is this Kittie?"

"Kittie?" Dom grinned, "She's an extra."

"Huh?"

"Stared about a week, a week and a half before Christmas. Anyways, Reighn shows up at the gorcery 'cause her cars giving her some complaints. She she goes inside and asks for a good mechanic, turned out she was not only a great mechanic but the girl can race. She was runnin' from something, but then again, most of us are at some point in our lives." Dom said, he turned into the garage and they got out, heading for the space that held the Supra.

"Anyways. She shows up in LA with no idea where she is or where she's going with the clothes on her back, a broke down car and four grand. Letty offers her a place to stay and all the shit hits the fan. We're working in the garage one day when this freaky burnt orange 240XL pulls up and sdome freak with butt length white hair walks over lookin' for Ray. We get in this argument, leaving all of us men feeling like overprotective big brothers - or in Leon's case boyfriend. Three days later we go to the races, Puck is there. Ray get's pissed and challenges him. They lay down five grand and a no racing ban in LA and get in their cars. Ray's eccelerating like the devil's on her tail, she's shifted into fourth before the race starts, smoke rising into the air. She wins of course, burning the tread off her tires frying a few small ccar parts and all that shit." Dom stopped talking long enough to sit down next to the Supra.

"Later, at the after party Leon's got some brunette in his lap and he doesn't look happy when Ray walks in. She scans the room and scowls as her eyes land on Leon. The boy was scared shitless. She stomped over, scared the slut away and promptly curls up in Leon's lap, leaving the boy stunned, looking like she's gonna cry. They go upstairs - nothin' happened. Waste of good time. Anyways, they leave the next day when the Puck crisis starts getting to Ray and they take off the San Fran, Leon goes to face his past. They tell his parents they're engaged." Dom laughed slightly as Brian grinned.

"Turns out his Mom knew they weren't and she gives him her engagemet ring with a - a quote about grandkids!" Brian started laughing and Dom continued, "Day after Christmas Kittie and Allana show up on the doorstep lookin' for Ray, she's not there, Kittie starts wailing. Didn't need those eardrums thanks. We let them stay and Kittie screams 'Oooh! Popcorn!!' and jumps into Jesse's lap, using him as a chair while she's eating his popcorn. Meanwhile Allana is yelling at her to stop and we all start laughing. Turned out Kittie has ADHD and flushed her Ritalin down the toilet."

"You're kidding?!"

"Nope. Anyways, Leon and Ray come home with a dog. A dog for hells sake! Cute little runt though. Kittie sees her, takcles her and Letty yells that Edwin said her little pink bug couldn't race in order to get her to let go of the traumatized dog. She gets to the races that night and Edwin actually says something! She wins and it's all good. Then Leon takes Reighn on a date to this fancy resuraunt. He proposes and welcome to the brides magazines. Then Allana goes for a drive and Puck sidlines her with a charger at 140 on a cliffside road. She breaks a leg, splits her lip open and nearly bleeds to death internally and the first person she calls in Vince. The big teddy bear freaks and they're suddenly attached at the hip. THis is when Relec comes into the picture. He's the girls' big brother, literally except to Reighn, she's kinda adopted - figuratively. He walks in and that friday at the races Tran shows up - oh, by the way, whatever you did to him made him have a permanent limp."

"Gunned him down. slid across the road with the 'cycle over his leg."

"Ah." Dom nodded. "Kay. Relec dissapears to do some sould searching. The boy has unresloved issues, reclusive tendencies, the whole nine yards. And here we are."

"Here we are." Brian replied, then looked around, "Where are we?"

Dom looked over at the purple supra. Purple? "Shit."

Brian stood and looked around the lot for a minute before pointing off in one direction, "There it is!"

"Aight." Dom replied, "Go get the peice o' shit and let's go to Race Wars!"

~ * ~

"Do we have everything?"

Reighn looked around and started counting - Mia, Letty, Allana, Vince, Leon, Sadie - Dom and Brian went to get the Supra - Jesse. "Where's Kittie?"

"Kittie's a thing?"

"Shut up Letty." Reighn replied, then screamed up the stairs, "Kittie! There's a tow truck takin' the Kittie-mobile away!!!"

A screech sounded from somewhere upstairs and Kittie flashed past, yanking the front door open and looking out. She turned and glared at Reighn, "Not funny."

"I thought it was."

"Is it just me, or does Kittie love her car more than she loves me?" Jesse asked with a pout.

Everyone laughed as Kittie walked over to him and threw her arms around him, "The car's a close second."

"Oh? What'd you do for me then?"

"Uhm..." Kittie looked thoughtful for a minute, "If someone yelled that the cops were taking you away and claw my way to you and smuggle you out of the country?"

Jesse laughed, "Ditto to that babe!"

Kittie grinned then bounded out the door, "Last one there's a rotten egg!"

~ * ~

"V?"

"Yeah babe?" VInce asked looking over at Allana. She was watching him.

"Why do you always scowl?"

"I don't."

She raised and eyebrow. He continued, "I smile when I'm with you don't I."

"Yeah." she replied, reching for his hand. He interlaced their fingers, "Why'd you tell the doctor that we were engaged?"

Vince turned red, "Uhhh... The nurse wouldn't tell me how you were?"

"Why?"

"I love you girl. I did then, I had to know. I'm a freak that way." Vince said.

"Why didn't you tell them I was your girlfriend or something?"

"What's with the twenty questions?" VInce asked looking over at Allana.

She blushed scarlet and muttered something. "What was that Ally?"

"Nothing V."

Yeah right nothing. Was she trying to tell him something? Vince sighed lifted her hand to his lips, placing a kiss on it. He loved her right? Of course he did, stupid question. He'd actually been thinking about that too. Did he say it because he wasn't thinking rationally or did something inside him really want to spend the rest of his life with the girl next to him?

~ * ~

"I spy with my little eye... Something green."

They'd been playing 'I Spy' between them for nearly an hour now. The steady stream of banter going back and forth between the Jetta and the Bug kept their drivers from going insane. Jesse smiled and spoke, "Lemme guess... A bush?"

"Nope."

Okay. So it wasn't a bush. They'd done that one nearly a dozen times. They'd come up with dirt, pavement, hubcaps, skyline (yellow and purple) and so forth. Jesse narrowed his eyes in thought, "Uhm... that burger king sign?"

"Try again."

Okay, billboard - bush. "You tell me."

"Relec's car."

"Huh? Where?" Jesse looked over his shoulder to look at the pink Beetle behind him and looked past the purple Skyline playing tail to see a green RX-7 heading straight for them along with the red RX-7 and the Supra. "Okay. Well, I spy with my little eye... Something orange."

"The Supra!" Kittie exclaimed into her walkie talkie. "Uhm. I spy something red."

"Dom's Mazda." Jesse replied immediately. "Uhhhh... I spy with my little eye..."

Jesse looked at the road for a moment, thinking hard and then he noticed something coming toward them. "Oh shit."

"Shit? I don't see shit?" Kittie sounded rather confused.

Jesse didn't reply as he got onto the team channel and said, "Uh, Leon, Ray, we got us a wolf pack."

"Shit!" Reighn's voice came over the line as she spotted the group of 'cycles heading for them. "Letty, take tail."

Leon came up, "Vince, you got point. Jesse, call Dom and tell the guys to haul ass, we're gonna take the Trans for a ride."

"You got it bro." Jesse replied.

Suddenly Leon's car swung to the side and stopped, allowing the line of cars and trailers to go ahead of him. Vince's car moved up to take point while Letty pulled out of line and let the Beetle pass before taking Reighn's spot as tail. Reighn spun her car around and sped off down the road, followed closely by Leon. They pulled a turn onto a side road and headed toward the Trans group of motorcycles.

~ * ~

"What the hell? Dom? Why are Leon and Reighn pulling onto that side road? I can't see a damn thing back here." Relec said into the walkie talkie as he watched the two skylines pull a turn, lifting a cloud of dust.

"We're a good half mile away from that turn." Dom replied. "I dunno. Shit."

Dom switched to the channel the team usually used and spoke, "Talk to me boys. What's goin' on?"

Jesse's voice came over the speaker, "Well, nice of you to join us. Leon says to hit the NOS boys, we got a wolf pack."

Dom groaned and Brian spoke, "You're kidding?"

"Nope. Reighn and Leon went to take care of it. They want all of us grouped so we can pull some fancy footwork if we need to." Jesse replied.

"Just what we needed." Relec replied sarcastically." Aight. Let's do it then."

"Okay, I'll take point. Brian get in line behind the Integra. Relec, take tail." Dom ordered as the trio hit the accelerator and moved forward.

~ * ~

Leon cursed and grabbed his headset, hooking it to the walkie talkie and throwing the contraption down so that he had both hands free. "This is gonna be a bumpy ride babe."

"I hear ya. They've seen us. Dirt road, two o'clock."

"Gotcha." Leon replied, pacing his car next to Reighn's as they took the turn and pulled out onto the dirt road. A cloud of dust rose in their wake and Leon shifted into fourth. The pair moved up on the Tran team like it was coordinated and swung to either side, moving out and around the group. They swung back in, crossing each other's paths and switching sides. They paced the group for a few minutes before Reighn spoke.

"I'm gonna try something stupid."

"Be careful girl. I want ya in one peice." Leon replied.

"Gotcha." Reighn replied before she swung up in front of the group and Leon swung behind. "Personal escort baby! Yeah!"

She rolled her window down and sprayed something on the ground behind her. Leon recognized it as antifreeze and laughed as she spread it over the road. The slick layer of dirt caused the clycles in the direct path to sway and fly to the side, ramming into another cycle to drive both it and itself off the road, their drivers cursing. Reighn laughed and threw the empty bottle out the window before rolling it up, "Four down, six to go!"

Leon laughed, "My turn."

Reighn pulled out and switched placed with Leon as he abruptly hit his brakes and came to a stop, causing three cycles to swerve around him and run themselves off the road. Leon leaned out his window and yelled, "Now that's what I call road kill!"

Reighn laughed as he hit the gas and caught up with Reighn and the remaining three cycles. Two of them broke away and Reighn swore, "Well lookie here!" She said in a bad texas accent. "Looks like the varmints 'ave been run outta the pack!"

"I'm on 'em. Get rid of the hotshot." Leon replied as he turned off the road and flipped his car around, speeding off in the direction they came from. He hit the gas and pulled up behind Johnny and Lance before hitting the horn with the base of his palm. Both men looked back and sped up at the sight of the yellow car tailing them. "Tha's right boys! Run away!"

Reighn pulled up next to the hotshot rider and rolled down the passenger window. He looked over at her and she blew him a kiss before moving her car to the side, making him swerve and go head over heels into a thornbush. She swung her car around and rolled the window up before speeding back the way they'd come. She pulled off her headset and grabbed the walkie talkie, switching back to the channel the rest of the team was on. "Wolf pack taken down."

A chorus of shouts came up as she turned onto the main road, joined shortly by Leon. "Our cars need showers, but it's all good. Nice ta see ya lover."

Leon laughed, "You too babe. Nice view from back here."

"You hitting on my car Leonard Thanos?"

"Nope. I'm hitting on Sadie." Leon said sarcastically, "I'm hitting on my girl babe!"

"Oh? And who is she? Tell me so I can go kick her ass." Reighn replied as the team laughed.

Leon grinned, "I'll pay to see you beat yourself up beautiful."

"Naw." she replied "Gotta look good for Race Wars."

"And ya don't for me?" Leon asked, faking a hurt tone.

"Nope."

"Okay you two." Dom said, "Stop flirting and get your asses up here so we can get to Race Wars!"