The Quarter Mile (Fast and Furious)

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"Dom! I'm sorry man I didn't know what I was thinking." Jesse car skirted up to the house where everyone had reunited after the scuffle at Race Wars. Jesse had been gone for about two hours and we were all getting deeply worried. Brian tried to be a comfort to my anxiety especially after what I spilled about Trans. He kept persistently touching me. The small of my back or the side of my waist. I didn't know how much more I could bare before I exploded at him.
"Not now Charlie." I repeated to my head as Jesse pulled up in front of the house. My eyes widened as I flew off the porch where I was sitting. Mia sat close beside me and Brian stood behind the both of us. I could feel different levels of anxiety radiating off of him.
"Jesse man what were you thinking." Dom countered in a semi relieved tone. I rushed over to Jesse and threw my arms around his neck, "Dont scare me like that!"
"I'm sorry." He replied back in a shaky voice.
"Dom, I'm sorry will you help me, please?"
Before Dom reply the sounds of screeching tires and gun shots echoed through the street.
"GET DOWN!" Dom shouted and everything suddenly fell into slow motion. Mia's eyes bulged as Johnny and his gang began shooting directly at Jesse. Brian shoved Mia backwards behind one of the large columns before taking off towards Jesse and I. Dom tried running towards us but quickly slid behind one of the cars as bullets flew his direction. I had instinctively grabbed Jesses arm to pull him away but he shook me off and pushed me backwards and on to the ground.
"Noo!" I shouted as the bullets fires into Jesses abdomen and chest, "Jesse!" I screamed out his names as tears built in my eyes. Suddenly Brian was at my side he slid onto the ground beside me and pulled me up and underneath him.
"Jesse!" I called out again as time took its normal pace. Dom was cradling his body as Jesse bled profusely. I shoved Brian off and away from me. Skinning my knees as I ran and slid down on the concrete beside Dominic.
This meant war! Tran was going to die for this!
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Dom immediately took off after them as me guided my crying self back inside. I wanted to go after them too but I knew Dom wouldn't let me and I was to broken to fight with him right now.
"I cant believe he's gone." Mia sniffled as we gripped ahold of each other tightly.
"Charlie." Brians voice rose up from behind Mia and she gave me a concerned look. I nodded at her reassuringly. She tried producing a soft smile before leaving Brian and me alone in the house.
"Are you alright?" He immediately rushed towards me and captured my face in his hands.
"Don't touch me!" I snapped back moving away from him.
"Charlie, what's going on?"
"Oh would you give it a rest already!" I was beyond enraged and grieved. I wasn't holding anything back, "I know okay!"
He gave me a puzzled expression.
"I know that you're a cop Brian! I know that you've been lying to us every damn day since you got here! You're fraud! You lied to us! To me!"
His face fell serious, then solemn.
"How'd you find out?"
"Let's just say it's not the first time I've retraced a cell number."
He looked puzzled again for a moment.
"The phone call Brian. You really think I was going to let go? I knew something was off with you from the beginning but I ignored my intuition. I can't believe you. Manipulating me the way you did."
"Charlie,"
"Save it! The only reason why I haven't thrown your ass to the and told Dom is because I've been in your place!"
He tilted his head curiously, "What do you-"
"I was apart of the FBI when I first came here."
"What? How?"
"It's not important or any of your business but I know how hard it is to hide the truth from people but unlike you I eventually fessed up."
"You have to understand-" he began calmly but I held up a hand as I cut him off.
"I understand that you need to make a choice!" I pointed at him firmly, "This is your one opportunity to leave this town and never bother us again."
"Charlie you got to understand, I have a job to do."
"Thats quite apparent Brian. You're really great at making people believe your one of good guys. I had to make a choice in my division! I chose family back then and I am choosing my family right now. I won't let you break us apart any further."
"I just."
"Jesses dead Brian! Okay, what else do you want?!"
He went silent immediately his jaw hardening at my words as tears began to stream from my eyes and down my cheeks. I waited for an answer but he gave none. He looked away from me a look of pain flashing through his ocean blue eyes.
"Thats what I thought." I turned around walked towards the kitchen door. What I really wished is that I'd died instead of Jesse or at least along side him. Or that Tran would have been axed years ago. This mess was my fault. I should have taken Vince's side in the hold thing. Instead I acted blind and stupid. Flighty. I should have been skeptical. Analytical. "You don't trust people who aren't your family." Dom had told me one time long ago. Damn how I hated myself!
"Charlie." He called to me. I immediately whipped around, "What! What do you want from me Brian?" Tears streamed down my cheeks. I clenched my hands into fists in order to hide my shaking body. I didn't want to be crying in front of him. I didn't want to look vulnerable.
He didn't say anything else but only strode forward towards me, encasing his lips firmly onto mine as he held my face in his hands. A wave of warmth surged through. I pushed back on his chest hard in order to break the current . My left hand made contact with his cheek as I slapped him hard across the face.
Another look of pain flashed over his eyes; longing followed close behind it. I shut out the voices it my head that wanted to analyze his expression and intentions. Nothing was going to make me feel anything for him again.
"How dare you touch me! You have no fucking right to touch me! EVER!" I screeched immediately and smacked his arm away as he tried to touch me again.
"Charlie I never lied to you!" He insisted back his eyes looking intently into mine.
"Bullshit! You lied about everything!" Tears were pouring from my eyes even more so. My vision became slightly blurred as I continued to yell and fight.
"Not about you! I never lied about anything I said when it came to you. The way I felt about you."
"I don't want to hear it! You really expect me to believe anything you say after everything you've done. I slept with you, you fucking bastard! I trusted you and so did Dom. I thought you were different Brian that you gave a damn but you don't!"
"I do give a damn Charlie! I'm not lying to you please. Please." He voice became sweetly soothing but it held no influence over me anymore. I was done.
"Bull shit. Everything you did was just to get closer to Dom not me. Closer to him and closer to the team so that one of us would squeal. Right? Just hear this though, I'm not telling you shit." My chest heaved up and down a spat out each hardened word. I wanted to hurt him. To have blades pierce his heart, "You're like every other dog on the street. Anything for sex!"
"It was never like that!"
I shoved him in the chest hard making him step backwards, "Like shit it wasn't Brian!"
He came back forwards and gripped ahold my forearms, "Listen to me!"
"No!"
"Damnit Charlie!"
"Get off me!"
"Look at me! Just look at me." I reluctantly shifted my gaze to him as I prepared to jerk my body out of his grasp once more.
"I love you."
The lies! All freaking lies! My jaw hardened as a scowl formed across my face. He never gave a shit about us! About anything but himself.
"What do you want me to do Charlie?" He asked after a few moments of silence as he processed my expression, letting ago of my arms in the process."
"To Get the FUCk OUT."
He didn't say anything else to me after that but left quietly, slamming the front as he sped away. I stormed upstairs to Mia's room and threw myself onto her bed. It wasn't long before she was up there holding me while I cried. Eventually we both began crying....about everything.
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