Chapter 13: [13] The Wreck That Will Become a Princess!
Making my way back to the parts truck, exhausted and sweaty from the long walk on this 100 plus degree fahrenheit humid as fuck day.
I slide into the driver's seat, start the truck's engine and then crank the A/C dial to max cold blast, my phone starts to ring/vibrate in my pocket.
"I found a wrecked Toyota Supra 2JZ twin turbo, Muse tells me that's good…and that the damage is mostly cosmetic…you want it?"
"Fuck yeah, have a flatbed take it to Toretto's shop I'll meet him there."
"Sure thing…and Brian be safe out there…and don't forget who your family is." Tanner says and abruptly hangs up the phone.
I get a call from the driving company and meet up with the driver, "Hey uhh, you Brain Spilner?" The driver asks me, "Yeah that's me." He sighs at me confirming my cover identity, 'That's a relief…Brian I'm not real familiar with this area. Is it alright with you if you lead me to this garage?" The guy in his late teens asks me while waving his clipboard around while I look at the cargo on the flatbed.
"Yeah man that's fine."
~~ — — — — — — — — — — ~~
The Toretto garage mid-morning approaching mid-day. 3rd person.
~~ — — — — — — — — — — ~~
Mia asks Dom while looking over a work order for her car, "What about parts and service?"
"Hold off on it…for now Mia." Dom waves her off; it's not like he's really charging her for the work anyways.
"Dom, I don't know what to do with this!" Letty hollers as she used the pink slip she grabbed out of Brian's jeans this morning to get the burnt out husk on an Eclipse out of the police impound the fact that it's evidence in a criminal investigation be damned.
Everyone turns and looks out the open bay door of the garage as Harry's parts delivery truck passes by and flatbed stops in front of the door with a wreck on its back.
Dom walks outside followed by everyone else as Brian walks over with a massive shit eating grin on his face.
~~ — — — — — — — — — — ~~
The Toretto garage mid-morning approaching mid-day. 3rd person end.
~~ — — — — — — — — — — ~~
MC PoV
~~ — — — — — — — — — — ~~
"All right, what the hell is this?" Dom asks me and gestures towards the wrecked Supra.
"What in God's name do you have there?" Jesse asks no one in particular.
"Well you owe me a car…and I owe Letty a car so this is the car you're going to help me fix so I can give Letty her ten-second car." I say to Dom and smirk as Mia waves at me with a happy little smile on her face as she bats her eyelashes at me and then I turn to Letty and smile/wave at her.
Letty returns the smile with an almost shy smile in return accompanied by a lazy wave, "Is that my car, shouldn't it be in a police impound right now?"
"Yeah…" Letty says trailing off but not explaining how they have it.
"Turn this into a 10-second car, I do owe you Brian but I don't know it'll be a stretch just turning this thing into a 10-minute car." Dom jokes and gets a laugh or two out of everyone and now that Dom has joked muzzles are off of his crew.
"You could push this across the finish line, or tow it." Jesse jokes and then Leon takes Dom's line from the move.
"Tow it…the thing doesn't even have wheels so you couldn't even tow that wreck across the finish line." Leon points out in a joking manner.
"No faith, no faith?" I joke back questioningly while holding my arms out at my sides like I'm making a grand gesture.
"I have faith in you," Mia says and God I know I have it bad when that fills me with so much love and warmth and then she ruins it, "But this isn't a junkyard."
"She's right, this is a garage." Letty piles on with a much more real and at ease smile on her lips.
"You…you, you know what, Pop the hood." I say to them in playful exasperation.
"Pop the hood?" Dom questions and I nod, "Yup, Pop the hood." I say back to him with a smirk on my face.
"I can't believe we're going through this again." Dom mutters and Jesse snickers as he comes over and lifts up the hood with some difficulty, he gasps softly, "2JZ engine. No shit…man no shit…" Jesse expresses in awe.
"See, what did I tell you?" I say jokingly. Mia giggles and takes what should have been Dom's line, "I retract my previous statement…this is a perfect place for that junk heap." Mia teases and comes over to me hugs me around my chest, stands on her toes and plants a kiss against my lips.
"I missed you…" she murmurs against my lips and kisses me again, Jesse interrupts the moment by saying, "You know what? This will decimate all after you put about $15,000k in it…or more, into it we could have it up and running by the end of the week we overnight parts from Japan!" Jesse finishes by putting his hands together and bowing at the waist.
"Alright, Letty you can take the RX-7 to cover the car Brian owes you and Jesse, we'll put the parts we need for this car on my tab at Harry's." Dom says and I might be the only person who notices Letty's scowling at Dom at being told she can have his car to cover my debt to her.
"Don't…I'll talk to her later…" Mia preemptively puts a stop to me trying to be considerate of Letty's feelings. It's kinda cute she already knows me so well she can predict what I'm gonna do.
I vaguely hear Jesse's loud cheer of, "Yes!" As I'm too busy watching Letty march off into a backroom quickly followed by Mia, who spares me one last quick kiss.
"Alright Brian I saw how good you were last night and I gotta get you racing again so I can make some money off your ass.
There's a show down in the desert called Race Wars. That's where you'll do it. When you're not working at Harry's, you're working here.
If you can't find the right tool in this garage, Mr. Arizona...you don't belong near a car." Dom says to me and I shrug, 'Uhh make money off of me…don't you owe me?' I wonder and Vince walks over to and bumps his shoulder into me and leans into my personal space.
"He owns you now, Pig." Vince mutters and I punch him in the gut making him double over and wheeze.
"The only one who gets that close to me is Mia, got it?" I ask Vince and I resist the urge to kick him while he's down as I walk into the garage and grab a jack and four vehicle dollies kicking two to Jesse while jacking up the passenger side as he jacks up the driver's side.