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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2014 18:32:00 GMT 2
"Yeah, and that's my fault. A lot of things happened and It's getting harder to deal with it. I keep thinking to myself," he set the tools down and whirled his hand next to his head, almost like he was tying to motion his brain turning as if it was thinking. ",...who's gonna be next." he leaned on the front of the car with both arms and just stared at the engine of the Camaro. "I keep wondering to myself, what if I could have stopped it all. Jesse, Letty,....... Brian. What if I had chose things different. Hell, Even Vince almost died because of the choices I made. Now he's off in Rio and he doesn't want a damn thing to do with me. Walter disappeared on us and half the crew split. We're dealing with a new crew, Mia.I don't think I can lead them like I could with Han, Santos, and the others. I don't think I want to. Every time someone follows me, they eventually end up dead. Maybe it's time to start thinking of a better life, away from all the fast cars, dangerous stunts, and law abiding cops. Maybe its time to step back from it all and think about what we should be doing rather than living life like its only a quarter mile."
He picked up the tools again and tried to focus on the car again. HE'd never gotten that deep with anyone, not even Mia. Letty was the only one he'd ever been that sincere with, but with her gone, it made things ten times harder to talk to anyone because he really didn't have that kind of relationship with anyone else. For two years now since she's been gone, he's bottled everything up and kept shit to himself and with Brian being the final straw, he couldn't deal with life anymore and shut himself out from everyone.
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Post by Mia Toretto on Jul 6, 2014 0:07:24 GMT 2
She followed his action and placed both of her hands on the car leaning. Mia took a moment to process his words. He was wrong... So wrong blaming himself thinking like that about because of his choices their family was no longer with them. "You are so wrong. Jesse...he made a choice..." She paused for a second.
"I know how much you loved Letty and I also know how hard it was to accept her death... Because I loved Brian the same way...but each of them made their choices. Not because of you, your action or words but because of them," her grip tighten, she could feel her hands shaking and didn't dare to look up at her brother.
'We're dealing with a new crew, Mia.I don't think I can lead them like I could with Han, Santos, and the others. I don't think I want to. ' She couldn't find her voice for a moment. "Then don't," she said her voice cracking.
He was tired of running, of the cops, of all of this. She was too but it wasn't that easy to just shut down something that you knew from so long. "But... Even if we tried. Will we ever have a normal life? Can you do that? Can you turn your back on all of this..." She raised her arm. "Craziness. This is what we've known all of our lives."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 19:15:27 GMT 2
Dom listened while his sister spoke and he pulled the remaining five spark plugs from the L-72 Yenko engine he had dumped into it to make it look like a typical SS, but under the hood, it'd snap a speedo in Five flat. Dom knew his engines, his cars, and how to use them and since the Camaro was all the same, The Yenko motor bolted right up without any issues. His sister had a point. Everyone here had the choice to join the crew and it wasn't like he twisted arms of held guns to their heads, telling them they had to be here. It was by choice and everyone knew the dangers of getting in with Dom before they even signed up. But that didn't mean he had to lead them. It didn't mean that it wasn't time for some changes. Which is why he told Mia that he didn't want to do this anymore. Let someone else take the reigns for a while and ride that bronco. Maybe Shawn or Jack. Seemed like trouble was attracted to Jack as of lately which is why they were even in Monaco. Let him be there leader.....
Another good point.They lived for this shit and rethinking his own thoughts about Jack leading, more people would die if that happened. The crew would be gone in less than months if Jack took control. And Shawn, well, Shawn was still inexperienced and although he was reckless, he still had a solid head on his shoulders to know not to put anyone in danger. It was the inexperience that he would get people killed though. Shawn may have been a good racer, but when it came to behind the wheel, he was too stubborn to know when to back off. It kinda reminded him of himself but with less control and again experience.
He didn't answer Mia though. He kept his thoughts to himself on the matter as if he was starting to shut himself out again and instead looked to a box of plugs laying in the tool box. "You wanna hand me those plugs?" he asked nicely. He gathered up all the old ones and tossed them in the big metal barrel not too far from them along the left wall. He returned to the hood of the car and took the plugs that Mia handed him but didn't do anything right away. He set them down and again, stared under the hood at the engine. "Maybe I can't do that......but you deserve better." he said knowing that even if Mia could go live the normal life, it would never really be normal without her brother. She'd always worry, and somehow, it would always be brought to her doorstep. So it really wouldn't be normal, just less chaotic. "You're all I got left Mia and if something happens to you, I'm done." he said with a solemn tone in his voice that meant only one thing. He'd purposely go meet that big ass garage in the sky. He lost Letty, Jesse, Vince and Walter as a friend, and the rest of the crew. His parents were gone so that only left Mia. This new crew could do without him and move on and they'd probably be better off, but if something happened to his sister, he'd die killing everyone single one of them that were responsible. "What would you say to moving somewhere else where I know you'd be safe?" Now he looked to her looking for an answer.
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Post by Mia Toretto on Jul 9, 2014 2:24:51 GMT 2
Mia handed him the plugs he asked for and waited for him to answer her questions, which he didn’t do right away. "What would you say to moving somewhere else where I know you'd be safe?" That was the answer she was definitely not looking for, he wanted her to try to live a normal life away from her brother without worrying so much, but in the end it was not going to work, because she would always worry about him. How can she live or try to have a life if all the people she loved were no longer with her? “As much as I want to get away from all of this, it would be impossible. I would still worry specially now that Brian is no longer with us and after knowing who´s the person responsible of his death,” Her eyes met his.
“If I deserve better, then that includes you too. Don’t you think it´ll be worse if I go to that safe place? We´re family after all and stronger together, we always were and always will be. If I went away, do you really think I´ll be safe and away from danger?” she tried to reason and maybe convinced him but deep down knew her brother so well, and he was going to not accept leaving this life behind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 6:08:56 GMT 2
Dom looked away when she said that. He should have known that she would play the Family card on him like that, but she was right. They were stronger together than apart. Just because she would be away from him, didn't mean that she would necessarily be safe and it didn't mean that it would really be any less chaotic now that he thought about it. It just meant he'd be farther away from protecting her. He picked up the spark plugs and started putting them one by one into the cylinders and hand tightening them first. Cranking down too hard could crack the ceramic and then the plug would be useless. In the process, he took the time to answer Mia.
"I don't normally admit this, so don't go getting a big head or sharing this. I still have a reputation to uphold." he smiled to her with an honest laugh. "But you're right and for once I agree with you. Hopefully Monaco will be easier for us since we don't have to deal with Dieselli anymore. But let me assure you one thing....." he spoke on an honest note and more serious one at that. "...I promise you that when I figure out away to get that son of a bitch, we'll get him and we'll get him good for what he did to this family and Brian."
They still had the issue of the crooked cops and agents on Dieselli's side if they ever stepped on American soil. Not to mention the Dieselli's connections with all the right people. If word got out where they were Dieselli would not stop which is why it was so important to leave the States behind them and never return. Dom never ran from anything, but with Mia being the only thing he had left and having a somewhat inexperienced crew on his hands that he wasn't sure he could fully trust yet, he wasn't leaving it to Chance for something to happen to Mia. It was the whole reason why he picked Monaco or across seas for the matter.
"And you know me....When have I ever not kept my promises?"
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Post by Mia Toretto on Jul 18, 2014 22:40:19 GMT 2
Mia waited for him to say something. He knew she was right, she leaned on the car looking down as her brother kept working. She chuckled when he mention about a reputation to uphold. "I won't say a thing, Dom" of course he had to agree with her, she was always right.
She still had to adjust to Monaco. It was a beautiful place, with time she was sure it was going to be easy. Although, somedays she just wanted to run away and go back , even if it meant reliving all the memories that happen in that house back in LA she kept calling home and even if there was no Brian...
"...I promise you that when I figure out away to get that son of a bitch, we'll get him and we'll get him good for what he did to this family and Brian. And you know me....When have I ever not kept my promises?"
"You have no idea how bad I'm looking forward to see Dieseli once again," her eyes turned darker and the playfulness her voice once had was gone. She wanted revenge for what he did to Brian. THAT was something she wanted to do as soon as he learned he was responsible for Brian, and she was not going to be able to live happy until Dieseli was dead.
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