Loving the Buster//Brian O'Conner

twenty

Our new safehouse slash control center is an abandoned warehouse. Gisele, Tego, Rico, Tej, Roman, and Han Seoul-Oh are waiting for us.

"I see you all have met," Dom says.

"You know when you called me to come to Rio, I assumed it would be for something more exciting than this," Gisele teases.

I smile as I pull Tej in for a hug. "What's up, girl. I missed you."

Rome smiles as he looks at me. "Looking good, baby."

I hit him in the chest before hugging him. "Don't let Brian hear you say that."

I introduce Dom to Tej, "Dom this is Tej."

Tej shakes Dom's hand. "Yo, what up?"

"Best circuit man on the East Coast," I tell Dom.

Brian points to Rome. "And this is my boy, Roman Pearce. We go way back; I met this guy in juvie. Mari and I pulled that job with him in Miami."

Dom nods his head. "I heard about you."

"Nice digs," Han remarks.

"Yeah, well, the Ritz was sold out," Dom jokes.

"So, what's this all about, Dom?" Han asks.

"Yeah, man, why did you drag us halfway around the world?" Tej asks.

"'Cause we got a job," Dom tells them.

We start to debrief everyone on Reyes and what we know about him so far.

"All right, so our target's name is Hernan Reyes. And he runs the drug scene down here. He's never been busted because he doesn't leave a paper trail," Brian explains.

"No paper trail means no banks. And no banks means cash houses," Gisele reasons.

"That's right." Brian unfolds a map of the city. "Ten of them, to be exact, spread throughout the city."

"And we're going to hit them all," Dom states.

"All of them?" Tej asks.

Dom nods. "All of them."

"That sounds crazy. Bring us to a whole other country so we can rob the dude who runs it?" Rome asks. "I thought this was business. Sounds personal to me. Is that what this is? I got love for y'all, but personal ain't good business. I can't do this, homie." Rome starts to walk away.

"So, what we're talking about is $100 million," I state.

Rome turns back to us. "You say what?"

"A hundred... Hundred... See, sometimes I be over thinking, man, and I know we just met, but you just, kind of, got to..." Rome trails off.

"That's right, $100 million, and everything we take, we split even," Dom explains.

"That's almost $10 million apiece," Tej states. "I am down."

"I'm in," Rico states.

"Ten million. Sounds like a whole lot of vaginal activity to me," Rome remarks.

"You can't pull off 10 heists on the same mark. You just can't," Gisele argues.

"As soon as we hit the first one, they're going to do everything they can to protect the rest," Han reasons.

Dom smiles. "Exactly."

As much as Brian likes to protest, he knows I'm gonna follow him into whatever dangerous situation is in front of us. He isn't the only one that gets to do reckless things. After everything we've been through, he knows I can hold my own. Especially when he lets me have a gun.