It's Gonna Be Fun

Chapter 2 - Preparations & Reunions

"So, Berlin is the next stop?" I asked him.

"Berlin it is. When I get home I'll call Dom and have him call the rest of the team." He answered.

"Do I even want to know how you received the intel on this? I mean, you called me for some stuff while I was globetrotting but an EMP? With the Libertad people, that's big and that's dirty and that's . . . so not your style." I smiled.

"Nope, you don't want to know and even if you did I wasn't going to tell you."

"It's gonna be weird." I said, letting out a sigh.

"What is?"

"Doing a job, going out to work without Brian. It'll be the first one in a long time." I said in a soft tone.

"That's right, he's done with this. He's a family man, it's good for him. How's he doing in the family settled down life?" He asked.

"Really, really good, it all suits him very well honestly. It suits both of them down to the bone, Mia's in her element. They're really happy and the kids are growing like weeds." I smiled, thinking about my godchildren.

"How about you?"

"What about me?"

"How are you? Are you happy?" he asked.

"That's irrelevant to the topic at hand."

"No it's not, are you happy, Kaylee?" He insisted.

"Hobbs . . ."

"No, just answer the damn question."

"I'm . . . as happy as I can be, I guess."

"You guess? That's not enough." he argued.

"I'm happy."

"Liar, you haven't been really happy since everything that happened with . . ."

"Don't say his name. Don't mention him. Don't say it, I don't want to hear it." I said, fighting back the tears.

Deckard Shaw. I haven't been able to get the man off my mind or out of my heart for the past year-plus. Every time I think I've started to move on I see something, I hear something that reminds me of him. There were a few times where I swear I saw him but I know I was just projecting. He's still in my heart and he always will be. No matter what Brian and Dom say, he's not getting out. I'm never going to see him again.

"Kaylee . . ."

"No Hobbs, I don't want to think about it or him. I've been keeping myself busy and that makes me happy. My godchildren make me happy and being with Sam makes me happy." I told him, the biggest lie I've ever told him.

"Those are fleeting moments, they don't last. You need to take care of you and your happy."

"I am . . . by keeping busy. Don't . . . please don't push." I pleaded. "Please just leave this alone."

"I just want to see you happy and I know that you're not."

"Easier said than done but I'm working on it." I admitted.

"Dating?"

"Right, haha, yeah right. No, I can't bring myself to do it. My heart has been claimed by another and no matter how hard I fight and I try to remove that, I can't pull him out." I whispered the last part.

"Don't hurt yourself trying, let time do its thing, Kaylee. Everything happens for a reason." he said.

"That sounds like something you'd read in a fortune cookie."